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Barker; Hermann, AIL Clement White; Bertha, Miss Crisp; Berina, Miss Gould; Un ne, Miss Hughes. To which wit be added the New Burletta, called THE WATER 'WITCHES, in which Mess,s V.uiog, Oxberry, W. H. Bland, Bar Le. Mitr-es Murray, Crisp, Pincott, and Hughes , wil l a pp ear. ime+, 4s. Pit, Gallery, Is. Doors open at t.alf-past Six ; sommence at Seven; Half-price, a Quarter before Nine. Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Groga at the Private Box.othez ; :aid of Messrs. Andrews, Mitchell, Sams, and Baily, at their Libraries ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Last Week of the Equestrian Company. Immense success of the Italian Opcia cets. THIS EVENING, JUNE 16. Will be acted Mr. Leman ilede's SIXTEEN STRING JACK, with New Seenery an/ Appointments.—Kit Clayton, by Mr. George Wild; the Dances by the Corps de wallet of the Opera House. After which, in a more extensive and splendid Arena than ever before witnessed, NEW SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, introducing Mr. BA'ITY'S unrivalled Collection of Animals, consisting of nu. znerous and matchless Cream-coloured Horses, Andalusian Charger., Spotted Coursers, Fairy Palfreys, and Pigmy Peneys, and the most talented Vaulters, Riders, Gym, astics, and Contortionists in the kingdons. Gorgeous Cavalcade, novel acts of Equitation, and unri •sal,ed Acrobatique Feats. To conclude with the grand Military and Tquestrian Spectacle, en. titled MURAT—THE PEASANT, GI..:I4FRAL, PRINCE, AND KING with Battles, Grand Reviews of Horse and Foot , and g or. gems 'Tableaux. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. The Notility, Gentry, Subscribers, and the Public, are respectfully informed that ON MONDAYS, TUESDAYS, AND THURSDAY`, GRAND EVENING FETES will be given, in which will be ern .lso :ied all those popular Entertainments that have given to this favou. rte place of recreation its peculiar celebrity, with additions and in troductions, which render them more generally attractive. The MENAGERIE has been enriched by many valuable and im. portant acquisitions in the classes of both Quadrupeds and Birds. Feeding Time Five o'clock. The Colossal VIEW OF DOME has been repainted, and in some instances remodelled, with a Mechanical Table.o d'action, repre senting the Proce-sion of the Papal Troops, Guards, and Roman Nobles, to the Castle of St. Angelo. Th.: BAN 0 includes somo of the most eminent Performers, con. Ilucted by Mr. Godfrey, and the Programme of the PROMENADES hI OSIC A LES selectedf rom the noblest works of the great Masters. The ILLUMINATIONor ST. PETER'S, the CROSS of FIRE, Oad the GIRANOOLA or ST. ANGELO, with all the gorgeous spectacles and magnificent in: roductioos that have called forth ac cLinmations of delight ands lir ration on each evening of their ex. hibition, terminating with the triumph of pyrotechnic splendour, the CASC kDE of BRILLIANT FIRE, SIX I Y FEET in height. The Gardens are open Daily from Ten till Dusk. The Evening Fetes, with the Promenades Musicales, Illumination of St. Peter's, Girandola of St. Angelo, &c., will be given on Mondays, Tuesdays, aLd Thursdays. Admission One Shilling. LONDON- THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 16. 1842. T.f.)ra ASHLEY'S Bill was read a second time last nigh without remark or opposition. No person can contest its importance, and it is scarcely creditable to the House that it shonid pass a measure affecting the bulk of the • collier population with less discussion than it would be atow on a Turnpike Bill. But if the measure have no interest for the House, it has some for the public, and neither it nor the Report of the Commissioners meet with unanimous approbation. We have, for example, been favoured with an extract from it vet unpublished Report of the South Shields Committee, appointed in 1839, for the investigation o! accidents in mines, in which it i 3 stated, with reference to: 1 - 40ril ASHLEY'S Bill, that to restrict boys going to woi-k in mines until they have reached the age of twelve, which is, however, only ono year under Lord AsuLEy's 3:andard, would tend to restrict the supply of pit-men, ..and would throw such obstructions in the way of freely Working the mines, that some of them would be entirely extinguiihed, and all would be worked at a vastly in creased, expense. Ultimately that would fall on the p u !,llc, and be injurious to our arts and manufactures, &ready exposel to serious foreign competition. Already, too, the fine coal of Belgium, at about 11s. per ton, is varonting with,success the finest British in the markets - of Rouen and Marseilles, and may eventually find its to other ports, to the displacement of this article of British exports. " If pitmen's sons," it says, " are prevented going to their father's employment, partially to relieve him from the charge, they will with his approval seek another, where the restriction does nut spilt'. And if pitmen's sons turn their backs upon the mines. it will be almost impossible to induce the grown-up ebilarrn of other sections of the community to attempt so irk ' to e an emptoyrikent, or even their arm's to sanction it with their popuar terror of its nature and its danger. The instances air' very rare exceptions in which a boy, not originally con nected with the miles, ventures upon such an undertaking. ' Besides after the age of 12, habits are beginning to be formed and tastes acquired, much more in accordance with the ordi nary employments on the surface ; and it is probable that then, 4.1e1l a pitman's son may have grown into a repugnance to • exchange the light of day, and the companionship of his !chows ',thick most other trades afford, for the solitary darkness of the mine and its confined and severe labour." Now that we think is a very serious consideration for thoSe who, 'without being very intimately acquainted With the labour of colliers, undertake to restrict the age at which children • may . begin to acquire the habit of livin,g and working in the bowels of the earth. There :are a great many arts which, being naturally difficult or -titagreeabk., must be acquired young, or the mind and •hotly on never be drilled into liking and skill. Mining is one of these, and humanity will not be promoted by. • preventing the repugnance to it being conquered in very early life. We say nothing of na-• tianal prosperity, but we believe that the well being of the population would not be increased - :'by plaCing impediments in the way of the collier youth. • -- ;aelhiring almost from infancy the habit of that toil which after Efe to be their daily lot. - provincial journals, we see by the Manchester Guardian, are beginning to find out that Lord ASHLEY'S " •Cntictruents " will be very severely felt in districts where a large portion of the female population is so employed ; and, where no other means of employment are in ex i to ice, cases of great hardship will necessarily arise." Those who support Lord ASHLEY'S Bill say that it will only compel the drunken husbands to labour more, -l, wittluut , teaselling the wages of a familv, will make the male gain the whole ; but those who make that as sertion have not studied the Report. We have already quote I the case of MARGARET BAXTER, a widow 50 years old, by whose labour, for 12 years after her hus ban I was unfit for work, her family was maintained, :There are numerous instances in the Report of women who have laboured many years in the pit. Such as BeTTY HARDMAN, 38 years old, went into the pit when --. was 7, has had - eight children ; BETTY WARDLE, —orked in a pit since she was 6 years old, and - hildren ; JANE JOHNS, aged 29, who her unefr:first, yoked her to the carve, her father and mother being dead ; JANE PEA COCK, who is 40 years old, and has wrought 33 years in the bowels of the earth. There are many ',lore who have been accustomed to work in the pit 20, 30, or 40 years, whose habits are formed to that species of labour, whose subsistence depends on it, and to them it will be a great hardship to be at once deprived of this mode of earning their bread. We know that Lord ASHLEY means well, but it is a sad mistake to suppose that he can add to the comfort of such persons. and convert them all at once into neat, thrifty house wives by Act of Parliament. He will do them great injury, even if he can persuade the Legislature to give them pensions equal to the wages of which he will deprive them. The Report of the Commissioners, as well as the Bill funded on it, is beginning to excite contradiction and opposition. The coal trade of Newcastle have answered, and contradicted, seriatim, nearly every paragraph of the Commissioner:: Report. To quote one example, with re,pect to the little trappers being without light and without companions, and almost in solitary confinement of the worst kind, as asserted by the Commissioners, the Coal trade says:— " This is a very erroneous and exaggerated statement. The working trapdoors are all placed in the principal passages, leading from the bottom of the pit to the various works, so that an interval of seldom more than five minutes, but generally much less, passes without some person passing through his door and having a word with the trapper. Neither is the trapper de prived of light by any means general, as the stationary lights (lamps) on the roily and tram ways are frequently placed near to the trapper's seat." This is confirmed incidentally by the Report of the South Shields Committee, above alluded to, in which some dreadful accidents are mentioned, as the results of the trappers having neglected their doors to go and play with other boys. Before the Bill is further proceeded with, we shall, we hope, be able to lay before our readers some further evidence of the mistakes and exaggerations into which the Commissioners, without designing it, have fallen. We must now close by warning the Legislature to be oareful how it brands a useful and necessary occupation )y a hasty enactment. There are difficulties and dangers enough connected with mining to appal the stoutest hearts which are not familiarised with them from infancy; ,ind it would be, as we have already said, a much wiser plan, if the Legislature must of necessity gratify its yearnings after the reputation of benevolence by inter fering with the colliers, were it to limit the hours in each day during which boys may be employed in mines, and place no limitation as to the age at which they may begin to learn their dangerous occupation. We are much puzzled, both by the actions and words of Sir ROBERT PEEL. He has, in his tariff, made sun dry abatements in Customs' duties, with a view, as he expressly stated, to encourage trade. He has levied an Income-tax, in order to spare industry, and he has per - mitted the introduction of cattle, to promote cheapness. On Monday night, however, he obstinately clung to the duty on exported coals, which can have no other effect than to check trade and deprive the people of employ .nent. There is no consistency, then, either in his lan -4uage or his conduct, and he puts down one day some thing he has put up the day before. We confess that we are quite at a loss for any clue to his conduct. Ile seems only to adhere to the multifarious )ractices which many Ministers, acting on different principles, at different times, have introduced into our Liws. At one time he protects native industry, at an other he taxes it ; one day he is all for supporting pro perty, and the day after he insists that it shall bear all nis new burdens. If we had not heard him dwell with ;rent emphasis on France taxing coal, on Prussia taxing coal, and on Holland taxing coal, we should have been wholly unable to account fur his taxing coal. When we heard him say those things, however, we knew at once that the spirit of envy and imitation were strong in him, and he resolved to tax the export of coal because they taxed the import. They tax it to encourage coal digging at home, and he taxed it to follow their example. They get a revenue from coal, so will he. Our contempt for this man, and for his shallow shuffling with the national happiness, grows on us daily. We have now come, however, to wonder more at the patience of the people under his quackery than at his undaunted boldness in daily administering remedies which neutralize each other. We are scarcely surprized at the inhabitants of the ' Cape of Good Hope petitioning the Legislature by the hands of Lord JOHN RUSSELL, last night, for a repre sentative government. They have suffered most of the evils which are usually experienced by the inhabitarits of Crown colonies. The administration has been arbi trary, capricious, and extravagant. They have grown rapidly in prosperity, though a large portion of the popu !ation has been driven, by real, or fancied, injuries, out of the colony; and though the colony has been overlooked or neglected by the authorities at home, they even corn plaia that the colony has been depreciated and injured by official misrepresentations. They seek therefore for , representative government, to secure for themselves a regular administration of their affairs, and a protection against official idleness or ignorance. It may serve to justify their demand, if we lay before our readers, an example or two of the progress of the colony : I was in this colony (said a Mr. Prince, at a recent meeting of an agricultural society at the Cape) before the British emi grants arrived, and perfectly well recollect, when the whole business of the Eastern provinces of this colony was carried on with une old ship—the Young Phoenix, belonging to Messrs. fleets and Korsten, the latter of whom was the only person of business there ; and now, gentlemen, permit me to ask you, and I do with pride and exultation, what is the value and ex tent of the agriculture, trade, and commerce of the Eastern provinces of the Cape colony ? I hold in my hand a statement of the colonial produce which was exported from the colony for the year ending the 10th October, 1841, which, with permission, 1 will read and com ment on. The first article is wine, of which about 8,000 pipes were exported, the declared value of which is 65,096/. The next article is that all-important one, wool, of which I perceive 1,060,4481b5. was exported last year—valued at 51,606/. The production cf this article may be increased to an almost unlimited extent. We have land in abundance, and good land too, inviting people to occupy it. We have upwards of 3,000,060 of sheep in the colony, whereof, perhaps, at present about 600,000 are wool-bearing animals. The colony is capable, be)ond doubt, of supporting and maintaining nine millions of sheep, which in a few bears would, with capital to purchase rains and labour to tend them, render each, in wool, 35., or a sum ..f 1,350,000/. Gentlemen, this statement is not an extravagant one. Thirty years ago New South Wales had few or no sheep; she imported the whole of her original stock from abroad ; and the last }ear's value of the wool was 560,0001. Now, gentlemen, if we set heartily about it, and persevere for a few yews, what, I ask you, is to prevent our converting the whole of our long haired, thick-tailed animals, into wool-giving sheep? and who is there, then, who can fix a limit to the quantity and value of wool this colony will produce? It is, we believe, because these colonists feel their growing power, that they are anxious to have legitimate organs to give effect to their own will. We applaud their spirit. Our ancestors made this a great nation, by insisting upon the principle of self-government ; and there is no surer sign of a pure descent and undogenerated race, than to follow their example. We should think meanly of the colonists at the Cape, if they did not de in:old what has boon conceded to Newfoundland. We are exceedingly glad to learn, from the . American papers, that the Cabinet at WashingtOn is sincerely tie ,,irous of maintaining the most . amicable relations with this country. They have given the best proof of this, by ordering the reduction of the army and navy. The former proof of amity .does not . concern us so much as she latter. The army of the United States was, in 1632, and for eleven years previously, only 6,000 strong, horse and foot. When the Florida war broke out, in con t;equence of the Sacs and Foxes tribes having refused to abandon their hunting-grounds in favour of white set tlers, three regiments were added to the army ; one of infantry, and two of dragoons. The Florida war is now over, .and Congress is for reducing the army to the old peace establishment. But, what is of the utmost mo ment, the men employed in the naval depots of the United States have been discharged, and the preparations for fitting out a number of vessels. for sea suddenly aban doned. This of course has excited a great clamour among the discharged workmen and their friends, which has found an echo in the more factious New York prints. Still there is not one word in their columns against this country, or in favour of a nearer approximation to France. They scarcely notice the Right of Search question, now that it has been virtually abandoned by Lord ABERDEEN. Neither do we find in them any vio lence or dogmatism of tone respecting the Boundary question. On the contrary, they allude to it in such terms as lead us to believe that they are most sincere in their desire that no time shall be lost in settling it in the most amicable manner. Lord ASHBURTON'S mission has so far, therefore, been eminently successful. He appears to have entirely removed the panic which filled the public mind on his arrival ; to have convinced the Cabinet and the 'Members of Congress that there was not a syllable of truth in the rumours circulated to our prejudice by the war party in France ; and to have shown then, which it was very easy . for him to do, that there really existed no rational ground tbr a war between England and the United States. We sincerely trust that our Ministers will respond to these proofs of 'amity in a corresponding spirit. They are espe cially valuable on the eve of a general election in France. All the hopes of the war party there were drawn from the hostile disposition of the Yankees, and of these aspirations President TYLER has manfully de prived them. This may teach a useful lesson to the bulk of the French electoral body, who are now called upon to determine whether France shall remain in peace and concord with all her neighbours, or plunge madly into a war for which she has no rational pretext, from which she osn promise herself no specific advantages, and in which she cannot calculate upon the support of a single ally. We have no jealousy of the greatness of France or the United States. The time when we Would have entertained such a feeling is gone, thank Heaven, for ever. We are delighted to hear of their prosperity so long as that is the result of frugality on the part of the Government, a. d industry and peaceful enterprise on the part of the people. A nation of barbarians may be gr at y benefited by being conquered by a civilised pew, le Conquest in such a case may operate as the precursor• and hand Maid of moral and physic 1 improve ment. lint countries such as England, France, and tl.e United States must ever be losers by hos tilities one with another. In fact, among civilised people war should cease altogether. There could be no difficulty in settling all disputes between nations by means of a Court of Arbitration, whose members would compose the independent Sovereigns of Europe. Peace is one of those blessings of GOD of which none but a wicked man, and a short-sighted politician, would desire to rob a civilized people. We have some hopes that common sense, in time, will prevail over the absurd and inveterate practice of Courts of Law, when the very lawyers themselves become ashamed of them. It has long appeared to humane persons extremely cruel to insist upon a priso ner pleading to an indictment, and allow no evidence to be taken till the accused admitted guilt, or, as in nine eases out of ten, solemnly stated a direct falsehood. The absurdity of the practice is the more glaring when it is recollected that in Police Courts, and other Courts also, prisoners are constantly cautioned against criminating themselves, or indeed saying anything that can prove their guilt ; yet when the great trial comes the Judge insists upon them telling a lie, or convicting themselves. JOHN SAtint, a lecturer on education, brought the subject by petition before the House of Lords on Tues dsy, and prayed that the plea of "not guilty" might be abo lished. Two of the three law Lords who spoke entirely agreed with the petitioner, one saying that he could see no occasion why prisoners should be called on to plead at al!, and the other adding that " no questions should be put ;" but not so Lord WYNFORD, who objected to the inconvenience of continued alterations in the law. The unhappy victims of crime, or rather misery (for men is comfortable circumstances, like Lord W YN FORD, are rarely tried at the Old Bailey), are thus to be subjected to a sort of torture, without one useful purpose, because a change for the better is inconvenient. The ELoo's system, how ever, has now completely broken down; many a peg has been taken out of the thing he called the Constitution, since the good old Tory days ; and of all the improve• ments it has undergone the greatest have been made in that department of it called the criminal statutes. Hanging, in those times, was the general rule ; now, to the credit of the Reformed Parliament, it is the exception. Much, however, remains to be done, and from the general feeling, exhibited on Tuesday night, the next improvement —in Tory language " inconvenience "—will be the abo lition of this wicked practice. Let criminals refuse to plead, for they are now safe from torture, and we shall j hear little more of the pleas " guilty " and " not guilty." The French Journals devote their columns to matters connect, d with the forthcoming elections. Each Journal calls loudly for the triumph of its party. . . The late Chamber was elected in March, 1839, and as article 31 of the charter limits the duration of the post of Deputy to five years, it had one more session to run before its legal ex piration. Tl.e Chamber is composed of 459 Deputies, and each sollege elects but one Deputy. The Seine has 14 colleges (including Paris), and is the largest number ; nnd Corsica has the smallest, two. No person can be eligible as Deputy if he has not attained his 30th year, and if he does not pay 500 f. direct contribution. An elector must be 25 years of age, and pay 200 f. direct taxes, unless he be a member and correspondent of the Institute, and then 100 f. will suffice. Officers of the army and navy having a pension of 1,200 f. are entitled to a vote if they have a three years' residence. No elector can vote in two electoral arrondissemens. No speechifying takes place in the Electoral Colleges. The legal personages preside in them, and provisional scrutineers are named from the two eldest and two youngest electors in each coilege. The college fixes its definitive bureau by majority, and the oath is taken by each elector before voting. If, at the first scrutiny, no can didate has more than a third of the voters comprising the col lege, or wore than half the voters present, another scrutiny takes place. if at the second the requisite number has not. beep illtritilied by the candidates, the bureau declare/ the names of the two who have got the greatest number of votes, and at the third scrutiny these two only are eligible. If there should be even numbers, the candidate who is the eldest is chosen. Last 'night (at midnight) Chevallier's centrigrade thermo meter, marked 23 8-10ths above Zero. To-day, at six in the morning, 22 5-10ths, at noon 31, and at two o'clock 32 5-10ths. It will be recollected that Ben-Aissa, the Kabyle chief, was, after serving France for two years as Kalifa of Sahel, in the province of Constantino, condemned by the Permanent Court martial of the province to hard labour at the hulks for twenty 3 cars for forgery, but that he had his sentence first commuted to twenty years' detention at the island of Saint Marguerite, on the Mediterranean Coast of France, and further, in the course of last month, received the Royal pardon, at the instance of his son Ahmed, who came from Africa, to solicit it, on con dition that he should reside at Verdun, under the surveillance of the police. A Toulon letter informs us that, on having this last act of grace communicated to him, he earnestly requested to be allowed to remain in his prison on the island until the arrival of his family, whom his son Ahmed was gone back to Africa, to bring over to him; this stiange request was complied with. A letter from Toulon, of the 9th, says that the stivadron under Vice-Admiral Hugon, is daily expected at the Hyeres Islands, and that it is believed that it will soon return to Toulon, and that the Prince de Joinville, whose visit to Eng land is said to be put off till next year, was expected very soon at that port.— Constitutionnel. BOURSE—PAL:is, MONDAY, JUNE 13. First Highest Lowest Price 14 7 1ce. Pric.. Prie , . French IS per Cents llO 85 ... +l9 RS ... 119 55 ... 119 5 4% per Cents lO7 70 ... 1 7 75 ... 107 75 ... 107 7.5 3 per Cent 5............. 79 80 _. 79 80 ... 79 80 ... '79 SO Bina of ranee ... ........ .... 3355 ...2.155 ...5352 50 —33.12 50 driaian Kant Belgian 5 per Cents. 5 I,er tents.. 1849 lO5 yi ... 105% ... 10a ... 11.5 Spanish Active 24 ... 24 ... 2.1 i, ... 23% Passive 4% ... 4'• ... 4ici .. 4% Veal ()titan It swan .... 104 ... 114 ... 1031, ... 11'3% HAILWAt SHIANES Vern alts. R. B 112 50 . 112 541 .. 112 511 ... 112 50 !lotion 522 50 ... 5 2 50 ... 5211 t ,rleans ...... 567 50 5b7 f.. 0 561 25 :6i 25 Strasburg to Bale 2►l 23 211 25 ... 2L6 75 210 DR. TURNBULL.—It will be seen by reference to an article which we have copied from the Literary Gazette, that our eminent friend, Dr. TURNBULL, goes on his course rejoicing. The public are already aware of his great, his beneficial discovery in re storing the .deaf and dumb. But .svonderful as that discovery was, we are apt to think his recent success in curing the blind is still more so. It is the divine attribute of true genius, never to rest satisfied in the march of improvement, but to urge still onwards, diffusing knowledge for the benefit of mankind. Such has hitherto been the happy labour of Dr. TuaNnuLL, and we hope he will long live to command the hearty gratitude of his fellow-men. One active man of genius stimulates a hundred others to benefit the world by his example. The Lord Mayor, Sheriffs, Aldermen, and a great number of Members of the Common Council, went up at half-past one yesterday, to present addresses to the Queen and Prince Albert, on her Majesty's.providential escape. The procession looked exceedingly gay, and attracted much.public attention. It %as rather singular to observe so large a body of city police attending on either side of the coaches. THE LAND RECLAIMING AND RIVER IMPROVING COMPANY.—This is a Company formed for reclaiming and improving land periodically overflowed by rivers in different parts of Ireland, and a Bill is now • before Par liament for its incorporation. It proposes .to raise a capital of one million sterling, in 20,000 iilitires of 50/. each, which is to be devoted to the reclamation of waste lands, the profits from which are expected to be very considerable, and will be divided among the shareholders. The object of the Company is laudable, and, if well sup ported, promises to be very remunerative. Complaints were made on Tuesday at the Mansion bonse, against the practice of bathing in the Thames, at places exposed to public observation, when the Lord Mayor annoul.ced his determination to inflict the heaviest penalty on persons offending against the laws of decency. It is all very well to inflict heavy penalties, if no other remedy can be found for nuisances ; but it is the duty of the Chief Conservator of the Thames, to exert himself a little on the side of mercy, and see if he cannot make arrangements, by which the working classes may enjoy the healthful recreation of bathing, without offending public decency. Particular places on the banks of the river, at which steam-boats seldom touch, might be set apart for the purpose, and the bathers be compelled to wear some covering, as in most other countries. We cannot see why the inhabitants should be deterred, by the pe nalties of the Lord Mayor, from using the river for such an object, and for which it was intended by nature. THE NEw TARIFF.—In one of the early discussions on the tariff,'Sir Robert Pe 1 intimated thtit it would not come into operation till the month of October. Cir cum:Aances howev,:r have induced him to c::ang.- his Ilan, as he stated last night ;hat, according to th. general rule, the new duties would cont. into operation from V . .e passing of the Act. In less than a month, therefore tLe public 'yarn see how it works. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. PARIS, JUNE 14. Constantinople letters of the 27th ultimo state, that a meeting of the Envoys on the 19th had been f01i0.% edby an interview of Baron Summer with the Grand Vizier, to remonstrate on the maintenance of Omer Pacha ; but the Vizier remained unmoved. A new Pacha of Tripoli Is to be appointed. Malta news is of the sth. Madrid letters of the 9th mention that three ministers are surely appointed : Rodil, war ; Alniodovar, foreign affairs ; and Landero, home affairs. THUNDER STORM. — After an unusually long period of dry Sultry weather, the metropolis and neighbourhood were visited on Tuesday afternoon, about half-past four o'clock, with a thunder storm, accompanied with a slight fall of rain. The thunder was very loud ; but there was not much lightning. The rain will do incalculable good to the crops generally, al though some injury has been sustained by the fruits in several gardens and orchards. The thunder storm lasted about an Lour, and we have not heard that any accident happened. , . •44, s• 4.1 h, _ 4 PIT,II I ; S) __ . 1 4 ) 7 7,,.; • - • 'r2lll,‘" 4 1 ' l' it • THE WEATHER.- - NOOll, JUNE 15 14. 1 1 A L GALLERY OP SCIENCE, ADV.LAIDE-STREE'r Tisermometer .... 66 ) Highest B4 Lowest 53 Barometer 30.11.—Wind N. - TO CORRESPONDENTS. Till we see the communications to which a " Friend to Fair Dealing " alludes, we cannot give any opinion concerning them. We should be inclined to think, however, that to pablhh them would not be discreet. itirt THII AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. acruing • '0 minutes after 71 Evening 811 -advertisements of a Disgusting Character. or Immoral Tendency, are excluded from the Colutuns of "The Sun." THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY MORNING. JUNE 16, 1842. GERMAN OPERA. COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE, Mademoiselle Lutzer, the prima donna of the Opera at. Vienna, and decidedly the first female singer of Germany, made her first appearance before an English audience las! even ing at this theatre, in the character of Isabela, in Meverbeer's opera of Robert the Deril. In personal appearance this young lady is most prepossessing her figure is perfect sym metry, her features regularly beautiful and most ex pressive, her complexion that clear blonde which may be considered as the characteristic of German beauty, and her eyes of that peculiarly deep blue, which is so admirably adapted for impassioned expression. Her voice is a pure soprano, clear, rich, expressive, and powerful. It has been cultivated to the highest pitch of perfection. These who re collect Mademoiselle Sontag cannot fail to be struck with the great resemblance in person, voice, and acting, which Made moiselle Lutzer bears to her. As a musician, however, Mademoiselle Lutzer is certainly her superior, and is well de serving of the title which the unanimous suffrages of her countrymen have awarded her, " the Nightirgale of Ger many." Her opening scena in the third act was magnificent, and was rapturously applauded. The duet with Robert in the same act was exquisitely given. and her acting in this scare was of the highest order. 1\ othing . could exceed the pathos with which she gave the beautiful cavatina, Robert mein Geliebter ; and when at its conclusion, she throws herself at his feet in an agony of t ears—the tears of het auditors bore silent witness to her tran scentlant histrionic powers. It is needless to say, that she was rapturously applauded throughout, and that at the fall of the curtain she was called for, and greeted with that enthu siasm, which her personation of the character of Isabella could not tail to excite. For science, for expression, for pathos, few can equal her. We look forward to her appearance on Monday in the Huguenots, in anticipation of a great treat, and we trust That she will remain with us until the conclusion of the season. the house was very well attended. MONEY and COMM ERCIAL NEWS CITY, WEDNESDAY EVENING. The prices of Stocks at the close of business were pre cisely as they were last evening, and very little business had been done during the day, Consols 9la 911 for the opening, ex-die. ; Reduced 911 911 ; Bank stock 167 168; Exchequer Bills 47 49 premium. Foreign Securities were, in Belgian, 102 103; Dutch Two and-a-Half per Cents. 521 53 ; the Five per Cents 101 101/ ; Danish 801 811, and Brazilian 67 68. The settlement has produced no alteration. - In Shares some of the principal lines were rather lower, and a meeting of the Northern and Eastern having been held, at which a large number being declared to be forfeited, to be sold by tender early next month, caused a decline to take place in those at present in the market. London and Birmingham lett off at 175 177 ; Great Western 88 89 ; the Half Shares 611 62 ; Birmingham and Gloucester 50 52 ; South Western 611 621; North Midland 65 67 ; the New shares 32 33 ; South Eastern and Dover 25/ 264; the Scrip 6 61; Eastern Coun ties 9 91 ; Northern and Eastern 41 42 ; lilackwad 101 11, and Brighton 351 351 per share. The bonds were thus quoted—Colombian, 253/ 261 ; Peru van, 171 1811 ;'Portuguese Five per Cents., 37 371 ; the Three per Cents., 211 224 ; Spanish Five per Cents., 211 221 ; and the Three per Cents, 231 233. The settlement in these documents passed off without any other mishap than the failure of the party alluded to this morn ing, and the great scarcity of money for which, as much as fifteen per cent. was paid. The advertisement of the payment of the dividend on the Three per Cent. Spanish Stock should have appeared to-day, but has not been published. There are parties still sanguine emugh to hope that it will be duly forth coining, while others are in expectation that every effort will be made to procure the necessary amount, and that, although it may not be announced, yet, it will be punctually forthcoming on the first proximo. Many, on the other hand, contend that the money will not be obtained, and that the bondholders will be, as formerly, left. in the lurch. These conflicting opinions, where the honour of a nation is concerned on a matter of 200,0001., should operate as a caution against braying the bonds. (From The Sun of Last Night.) The Money Market has been exceedingly firm, and prices of the funds well supported. Consols are 913 911 for the open ing ex dividend ; Reduced Three per Cents. 91% 911 ; Do Three-and.a-Half per Cents. 1003 100'4 ; New '1 tiree-and-a- Half per Cents. 101 1011; Bank Stock, 167 1674; India Bonds, 23; and Exchequer Bills, 47 49 prem. Foreign Securities are extremely stea,ly. Belgian, 102* 103; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 523 521; the Five per Cents. 1014 ; Mexican is quoted 363 361. _ . • - The Share Market is without alteration in prices, and although there has been more inquiry, little has been done. London and Birmingham, 176 178 ; Great Western, 89 90 ; the Half Shares, 62i 621; Cheltenham and Great Western, 29 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 26% ; North Midland, 65 ; South Eastern, 26 ; and Brighton, 35i 354. The only Bonds mentioned to-day are Spanish, the Five per Cents. being quoted at 22i, and the Three per Cents., 23i 23i, having been 236. The scarcity of money on bill documents continues, and one defaulter has already been declared. The blockade of Mexico, as announced by Texas, may appear in itself of little moment, but may in reality be pregnant with serious consequence!. The situation of Texas with regard to the United States and to Mexico is of imrrtance, and was, it was expected, likely to embroil the two last named countries, and the determination of our own present. Government to fulfil the treaties entered into with Texas by their predecessors might have added another disputed question to those which unhappily now exist between us and the States. That the blockade can be more that a paper one, nobody believes, but it might still be productive of causing two nations to fight the quarrels of the third. Accounts from Vera Cruz by the Acadia, how ever, set the question at rest as far as the United States and Mexico are concerned. It, appeals that the accredited Minis ter from the Federal Government had had an interview with the President upon the occasion of taking leave on his return to America, and from the expressions used on both sides, as well as the reception given to his successor, no doubt can exist but each country is equally willing to cultivate the friendship of the other. Our own countrymen have too much at stake, in the shape of bonds, nut to be anxious that peace should be preserved ; and tLe trade at present carried on with Mexico, and that likely to be with Texas, render it imperative on our own Go vernment to act with the greatest circumspection in the matter, especially as the Mexicans have ordered that th. prohibitory duties levier! on our manufactures shall, after the next six months be materially relaxed. PRICES' OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, JUNE 13. 3 per Cent. Consols Three and Half Stock 99a 'Grand Canal 5t0ck......... 5t0ck......... Ditto Reduced ...... I Ditto Debs. 6 per cent... Ditto New 1830... 99h Ditto 4 per cent 3h per Cent. Debs. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, JUNE 14.—There was a firm demand for Cotton to-day, but prices remained unvaried, and the quotations of Friday were obtained for 3,000 bales. LIVERPOOL SHARK MARKET, JUNE 14.—The market has undergone no improvement, and the transactions were limited to a few of Edinburgh and Glasgow New, 41. 6s. 3d ; Grand Junction Old Quarters, 47h ; Great Western Fifths, 9h ; London and Birmingham paid up 321. Shares, b 9, Mid land Counties,7o. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JUNE 14.—The market continues very quiet, and without any new feature. The fol lowing are our quotations :—Edinburgh and Glasgow, Quar ters, 4h ; Manchester and Leeds, Quarters, bh ; South-Eastern Scrip, 6h; Not th Midland Thirds, 211. 3s. 4d. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. • Bank Stock 167 India Stock 3 per Cent. Red. .. ...... 911 Ditto Bonds .... 23 pin 3 per Cent. C0n5..... — Ditto Old Annuities ... 3o per Cent. Red.........100k Ditto New Annuities... New 3i per Cent......... Ex. Bills, 1,000/ 2d. 49 pm New 5 per Cent — Ditto 500/..... . pm Long Annuities to expire Ditto small ..... . 49 pm Jan. 1860 . . Pi Bank Stock for Acct....247i Oct. 1859 Jan. 1860 — ICOnsols for Opg. ...... 911 FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent.... Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 per cent lo2} Ditto, New Ditto Brazilian Bonds 67 Prussian, 5 per cent. ... Buenos Ayres6 per cent — Russian, 5 per cent....,. Chilian, 6 per cent — Ditto, Metallic ..... .. .... Colombian, 6 per cent — Spanish, 6 per cent.,.,.. 211 Ditto, 1824 — Ditto, Deferred.... Danish, 3 per cent — French, 5 per cent: --f. —e. Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — , Exchange Mexican, 5 per cent..... 36i French, 3 per cent —l. —c. I)itto, 6 per cent. 1837 Dutch, 2b per cent. 524 Peruvian, 1825, 6 per ct. !Ditto, 5 per cent. .. ... 101 k: SHARES. Birmingham and Derby Railway (100 pd) Ditto Thirds (25 paid) ' 131 Cheltenham and Creat Western (80 paid)... 29 Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) 4€4 Great Western Railway (65 paid) Ditto New Shares (50 paid) London and Birmingham (90) ..... ... . London and South Western (43/ 15s Od pd) 62 Manchester and Birmingham (40 paid) ... North Midland Railway (100) South Eastern and Dover (50 paid) 26 Ditto Scrip. ( 5 paid) York and North Midland (50 paid) . 7 . ..... , 91 NEWCASTLE-WADER-LYME. TRIUMPH OF THE LIBERAL CANDIDATE. FOUR o'CLocx.—As I anticipated, Mr. Harris has been returned by a majority of at least 20. I have not been able to ascertain the precise number, but I am not far from the mark. At the close of the poll the numbers were declared to be (as I IA as informed, for it, was with the utmost difficulty access could be nad to the lacuse)— __ For Mr. Harris ......... .......... ..... 499 For Mr. Colquhoun The utmost enthusiasm prevails,and all peaceable, and likely to continue. Mr, Harris has returned thanks to the ele.;tor•, and Mi. Colquhoun is also speaking from his head-quarters. DUTCH MAIL. THE HAGUr, JUNE 12.—Their Royal Highnesses Prince and Prinuss Frederick of the Netherlands, left Berlin en the Bth for Stettin, to embark thence for St. Petertburgh. The Minister of Finance has given notice that the contribu tions for the city of Hamburgh paid into the Receiver of Ex cise, up to the 4th of this month , am ount ed to 21,977 florins. LUXEMBOURG, Junta 10.—The Dukes of Weans and Ne mours, with a numerous suite, arrived yesterday at the Palace of Warieldange (fitted up in a short time for his 'Majesty's resi dence). They are fine young men, and attract general atten tion. After some festivities, they took leave of his Majesty and the Prince of Orange. 1) U Cti j UAL)S.--AMSTRILDArd, JUNE 13. filooey. - Actual Thbt, 2% per Cent Jitto, ditto 5 pet cent. /matt Svndic,4% percent 93 f-,5 Ccrnmercial Company, Ditto, ditto, 3% percent er cent 151% 76;f: X 76 3 Ditto (1435 and 1837) 5 per cent. Loan lEZ, b percent . Lichange on Londtm, (Inc iziont h 4,ti p 12 15 Two months Hamburgh, one month 35 75 Two months 35 37 . 1 Dutch Papers, June 14. The Queen D—oivagerieft the Southampton station yesterday, by a special train, accompanied by her brother, the Reigning Duke of Saxe Meiningen, and a numerous suite, for Southampton, when her Ma jesty would embark on board the Black Eagle, and after an excursion round the Isle of Wight, sleep at Ryde. . • The Queen . received yesteniay, at Buckingham Palace, Addresses, on the Throne in State, from the Corporation of the City of London and from the Uni versities of Oxford and Cambridge. The Lord Mayor and a numerous Deputation of Alderman and Com mon Councilmen presented the City Address ; the Duke of 'Wellington, and a Deputation, presented the Oxford Address ; and the Duke of Northumberland, as Chancellor of the University,.that from Cambridge, congratulating the Queen on her recent providential 'escape. On Thursday last, two of the crew of the Alfred, of Portsmouth, on her way to Rosen, were drowned off Duclair, by the upsetting of a boat, whilst they were carrying out an anchor. • • lj EA V 1: f MI t! S OF 6 AND i3tthitt Optuton. " Inv runs may read." F©y..lrlSTv The Paris Moniteur of Monday contains the Ordonnance for dissolving the Chamber of Deputies, dated at NcuillT, on the 12th inst., of which the following are the articles The Chamber of Deputies is dissolved.-2. The Electoral Colleges are convoked for 9th July next, for the purpose of each electing a Deputy. The two Electoral Colleges of Corsica are convoked for the same purpose for the 12th July next.-3. The Chamber of Peers sud the Chamber of Depu ties are convoked for the 3d August next. This Ordonnance is followed by another of the same date, designating in a table the towns in each department at which the Electoral Colleges ale to assemble. The folio xing letter from Havre respecting the intended visit of the Prince de Joinville to this country is dated the 13th instant :—"1 wrote to you yesterday that the Prince de Join ville had arrived here, and had taken his passage on board the Grand Turk steamer for Southampton to-day, and preparations had been making on board that vessel to receive him. This morning, instead of going on board the Grand 'fork, the Prince quietly stepped on the deck of the beat fur Caen, to proceed to Cherbourg. The commissioner of the Hotel L'Arniranti de clares he received orders from the Prince's valet to secure berths on board the English steamer." Galignani's Messenger of Monday says that the Prince de Joinville left the Tuileries on Saturday evening for Toulon. The Commerce says :—" We have already noticed the state ment of a rupture between Maria-Christina and the persons of a party called M'odere, who were compromised in the move ment of October last This news is positive. It was on the 28th ult. (St. Ferdinand's Day) that the manifestation of the partisans of the Queen• Regent took place. The reply of the Queen was, as we have already stated, in the negative." The same Journal states that on Friday M. Guizot paid the Queen a long visit. The Expectador of Madrid contains a circular from a Radical Committee, exhorting the provinces to proclaim he Constitution of 1812, as being the nearest in its nature to the republican system. The Madrid Gazette, on the other hand, contains an energetic circular from the Minister of Justice, ordering the authorities throw shout the kingdom to display great vigour in putting down attempts of this kind. A letter from Bilboa announces that for some days past the tribunal of that place had been engaged in the trial of persons accused of having been concerned in the movement of October. The trials were still going on. The Borsenhalle of Hamburgh of June 7th, says, " In consequence of recent negotiations with the English Govern ment, the German emigrants in New Zealand are to enjoy the same privileges as English subjects." A letter from Trieste, June 3d, in the Augsburqh Gazette, says, " A quarantine of 21 days for passengers, and 2.3 days merchandise, has just been established here." We have a letter from Constantinople, of the 25th ult. The news from Pet sia is satisfactory. The Shah has formally abandoned all intentions of encouraging the Affghans by a march of troops towards Herat. The Russians have, as re. gards us, behaved well in that quarter, and their present diplomacy in Persia appears t• be open and fair. Intelligence had been received in Constantinople, through Persia, that sia British regiments had reached Candabar, and that the Khyber Pass had been forced. _ The Lords met, apparently only to 'receive some Bills from the Commons. The Commons gave permission to Mr. Bellamy and other officers of the House to attend and give evidence on the trial of Howard v. Sir W. Gossett. Sir A. Leith Hay gave notice of his intention to bring the Kirk of Scotland under the notice of the House on going into a Committee of Supply. Mr. Fox Manic gave notice of a motion on the same subject for Tuesday, July 5, and adverted to Mr. Campbell's Bill, to which there is a technical objection. It appears that the Bill trenches on the prerogative of the Crnwn, and Sir Robert Peel refused to give the consent of the Crown to proceed with it. The Bill therefore was stopped in limine, and to make up for that both Mr. ,Maule and Sir A. L. Hay are to bring the subject of the Scotch Kirk before the House. Sir Robert Peel obstinately refused to give his Hon. Friend Mr. D'lsraeli any information concerning the boundary nego tiations with the United States. Sir J. Graham, in reply to Mr. Vernon, said he should bring in the Ecclesiastical Courts Bill this session, but he did not expect to pass it. Some further proceedings touching the Southampton election were postponed till to-morrow. Several Bills were forwarded a stage, our legislators being now in haste to do business. The Electors Removal Bill, brought in by Mr.Milner Gibson, was opposed by Mr. Hodgson Hirt(le, and though the leading men on both sides admitted the utility of some such Bill, the second reading was, on a division, refused by 120 to 102. On the motion, we believe, that the Bill be put off for six months, some conversation took place about the intentions of Government, as to the registration of electors both in England and Ireland, on which Sir R. Peel would give no satisfactory information ; on which Mr. Maule moved, that the Bill be read a second time in a week, which motion was negatived, and the Bill put off for six months. 1 he tariff was re-committed, and a resolution moved to bring in a Bill to carry the resolution of the House into effect. This was agreed to, and the resolution is to be reported this day. The Bill will then be brought in as a matter of course, and will go through its stages in a few days. In the course of the evening, Lord John Russell asked if there were any foundation for the rumour that the Government meant to pass only so much of the Poor-law Bill as would secure the continuance of the Commission? Sir James Graham said it was unfounded, and that the Government meant to use their best exertions to pass the Bill as it had been introduced. The House adjourned at Half-least Seven o'Clock. PUBLIC OPINION. The Post, speaking on the subject rTf free trade, observes : " There is some satisfaction in observing, by the declaration of the Minister, that the principles of free trade, or of buying in the cheapest market, however enlightened' they may be, are yet nut, in his opinion, such principles as may be acted upon under all circumatances. There are, even in his opinion, some advantages which may be sacrificed by acting upon `those en lightened principles.' We confess, however, that between some of the sentences in the above passage, and the statements attributed to the Right Hon. the Vice-President of the Board of Trade, in the debate upon the importation of foreign cattle, there doe, not seem to us to be that har-. mony which we could wish to find in the statements of different members of the same Government. In the speech on the importation of foreign cattle, it appears to have been taken for granted by the Right Hots. Member for Newark, that the importation of fifty thousand head of cattle from abroad, must necessai4 create an equivalent export trade of halt a million's worth.. This argument of the Right Hon. Gentleman is quoted and lauded by the Whigs as an evidence of very enlightened principles' which the present Government has been taught by them (the Whigs) to adopt. But if it be true that the import of foreign cattle must create an equivalent export trade (the effect of special treaties not having been at all alluded to in the argument of the Right Hon. the Vice- President of the Board of Trade), it is also true that the im portation of French silks,.and wines, and brandy must create an equivalent export trade. And if the thing must be so, accord ing to the ' enlightened principles' of political economy, what need then of waiting for treaties to secure this advantage?" The Times contains the following remarks, on the subject of the law of evidence :—" With the principles of the English and Scotch law we most heartily concur. With it, we are far from wishing to exclude from our courts the evidence of Jew, Alahometan, or Hindoo. Such an exclusion would be most unwise and inconsistent: we must use such evidence as we can get. \'‘' hat we exclude should be the least credible ; and we will boldly say, that taking, not the very good or the very bad—with the former of wham oaths are unnecessary, and with the latter ineffectual—but the man with a low average morality, with a view to whom especiuliy these obligations are imposed—there is far iess difference, in point of honesty and credibility, between the ordinary Christian and the or dinary Jew or Mahometan, than may be found nearer home between one professing Christian and another. The Atheist—the man who disbelieves the existence of any Being above himself, and to whom he is responsible stands on a totally different tooting; and we cordially assent to the caution which refuses any judicial weight to his state ment. To impose an oath on such a man is an obvious farce— that ceremony applied to him is a confessed nullity—the man himself will ( for he cannot help himself) tell us that it is so. And we are certainly slow to think that that sanction which is plainly necessary to insure truth from the mass of professing Christians (a fact which is nut less true because it is humi liating) can be safely dispensed with in the case of others, be cause they have torn themselves free from the authority of those motives which sway the mass of men to follow truth and honesty. They are incapable of fulfilling those conditions which the law exacts as a security for truth ; and they pro claim themselves uninfluenced by those great motives, the ad mission of which, almest alone, makes other men credible." The Chronicle comments as follows on the Church-rate question :—'' Within the last month Church-rates have been refused by the vestries of Maidstone, Greenwich, Portsea, Newport (I. W.), Wirksworth, and Rochdale. At the last named place the division was 1,000 to 50, a strung vote of cen sure en the vicar, who presided, being also carried by the ma jority. There has also been debating and polling, though with a different result, at Brighton and other places. At Leighton Buzzard the rate was, in consequence of the opposition, su perseded by a voluntary subscription. And in Bristol, Here ford, Aston, &c., seizures have taken place (a Bible in one instance), which have occasioned much scandal and bit terness. There are also many cases in which legal pro ceedings are pending; two were reported in our Monday's paper, relative to the l arishes of Foster and Brad ford ; and societies are formed, as at Aston, to main tain the costly strife of law against the authorities, backed by the parish funds. And all the confusion, of which this is a specimen, continues to happen years after Sir Robert Peel and Lord Stanley have described the settlement of the question as quite necessary, on account of the mischief and desecration which it generates. The evil is plainly one which will not wear itself out. It is no temporary fit of Non-conformist pugna city. From year to year it endures, and it spreads. It has raged in seasans of commercial prosperity, and it rages not the less in this season of depression and calamity. It has held on through the storms, and through the calms of the political hori zon. And for this all-sufEeing reason, that it is a question of principle. The opposition to church-rates may include many who join it from their love of cash, or their lack of faith; others may be actuated simply by the spirit of sectarianism : but the body • has a firm, solid, and enduring nucleus of men who act on principle." The Herald says 7—' 6 The House of Commons refused, last night, by a large majority, to issue a writ for the borough of Belfast until an inquiry tiad been made by a Committee into the alleged corrupt compromise by which the last election for that borough was managed to be voided by the Election Corn. mittee, to which was referred the petition against Mr. E. 'Cement and Mr. Johnson, and until an investigation into the state of its constituency had also been made. After the cir cumstantial charges made by Mr. O'Connell, and the corro boration of that portion which referred to the compromise by Sir H. W. Barren, it was not possible for the House to issue the writ without convincing the country of its utter insincerity in the recently -expressed determination to put a stop to eke taral impurity, and representative cot rupt compromises. If and credit is to be given to the allegations of those two gen , 'lenses), a very discreditable compromise in this case has been rritt red into to defeat the ends of justice. and to control the Belfast electors in their choice of representatives at the next election; and the tact that a compromise has been agreed on, subsequently to, and in defiance of the course the House of Commons has recently adopted with respect to other alleged corrupt compromises, shows how inveterate this dangerous habit has become, and how necessary it is to take the most decided steps to suppress it. There is, however, we must in fairness remark, nu charge with respect to the Belfast comproe mine against Mr.Lmerson Tennent or Mr. Johnson. :W. 014 ZYk - C 0 IVi IVi Numerous meetings of Chartists have of late taken place in Lancashire : on Sunday between 2,000 and 3,000 individuals congregated at Pendle-hill, a wild and mountainous spot, and the highest point in the county. Every Sunday also, for the last few weeks, encampments of Chartists have been held on the hills and other pa. ts of the manufacturing districts. One speaker stated, "that if they were resolved to have recourse to hpical force, he would undertake to lead them on, if he could uuly :ee one hundred thousand men, twenty-tine years of age, ready and united." The railroad between St. Petersburgh and Moscow, for which the Russian Government i 3 negotiating a loan of two millions sterling with the house of Stieghtz, will take five years in construction. AGILICULTITRAM. The hop-bines at Maidstone, and the adjacent localities are sadly in want of rain, and are infested with t les. LCCY. TXCII3: Church-rate contests have Ix the last two months taken place in various pasts of the country. Among them are the following results. —On Friday last at Greenw►ch a 'rate pro posed was lost to the Church party by a majority of 47 ; at l'ortsea, last Tuesday, by a majority of 550 ; at hochdale, on Thuisday, the show of hands was only 50 to 1,000 against it ; at sA irkswirth, on the 26th ult., majority against rate, 191 ; at Newport, on the 19th, a majority of 92; at Berwick-on- Tweed, 191 against a rate ; and many others the same. 1.11. W 11.1 V X/ PO At the Mansion-house on Tuesday, a clothes-dealer of the name of lielasco, was charged with the deep offence of inducing a Jew boy of twelve years of age to lob his lather. It appeared that the prisoner and his family were in great poverty, and the boy, who was very kind-hearted, had been induced to steal a great number of articles to relieve their wants. The father of the boy trusted the Lord Mayor would not be severe, as be knew the prisoner was in very great distress. lie was, however, committed for trial. Nicholas Foster, a journeyman painter, was brought to Lmbeth-street, on a charge of attempting to cut his wife's throat. He denied the charge most strenously, said his wile rushed upon him while he had a knife in his hand, and in sti etching out his arm the knife struck ker. He was remanded till the wife could atter.d. LITEE.A.ILY AND SCIENTIFIC. The Chevalier de Chalet delivered his fourth lecture on French literature, at Willis's rooms, on Tuesday. The subject was the Beau Seicle de Louis XI V. the Augustan age of France, when Bossuet, Fenelon, Altniere, Boileau, Ninon, and Alauame de Sevigne, with others, flourished. The Duchess of Cam ht idge, the Princess Augusta, &c., were present. The new method of gilding by means of galvanism has been brought to a high degree of perfection by Professor Bottger, of Germany. He has discovered a salt, on immersion into which metals come out brilliantly gilded, without the usually defacing narks or stains. THEATRICAL. A gentleman named O'Neill, made his first appearance at the Haymarket on Tuesday in Power's favourite character of Dr. 0' 1 oole, in the Irish Tutor. He was favourably received. S.eo.ll.T33v*G. The regatta, at Henley- on-Thames, came off on Tuesday. The first heat for the challenge cup, between the Cambridge Club and King's College, was won easily by the Cantabs : the second heat between the Etonian Boat Club and the Oxford Club, was won by hall a length by the Oxonians. The grand heat between the Cambridge and Oxford Clubs, was won bj the former by a " foot." The Steward challenge cup was rowed for between the St. George's Boat Club, and the Henley Dreadnought, when the latter won by a length. 'l he Hampton races, the merriest and most popular of metro politan meetings, commenced yesterday, and terminate to morrow. Nearly ($OO of the nobility, gentry, and farmers of North. ainptonrhire, have presented an address to the Duke of Grafton, regretting the withdrawal of his hounds from the county, and complimenting him on the manner in which his hunting had been conducted. The ensuing grouse season, according to those who are judges, promises to be the finest experienced in the Perthshire Highlands for many years. CO U'44•l*-112LSFIXONA.111.E. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager left Marlborough House yesterday morning, fur Southampton, whence she embarked tor the Isle of Wight. His Ito3al Highness the Prince. Royal of Hanover will shortly be married to the Princess of bum Altenbourg i , who has lately completed her 24th year. The Duchess of Buccleuch gave a splendid &juns a la fourchette on uesday, at Atontague House, on the banks of the I 'tames. '1 he Marquis and Marchioness of Ely gave a sumptuous banquet, on Tuesday, to the Duchess of Gloucester in Bel grave-square. _ _ 'I he Earl of Cardigan had another dinner-party on Tuesday in Portman-square. lord and Lady Lyndhurst gave a splendid entertainment last evening to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. NI3CS ZUUb. Mendelssohn will try the great organ of Christ-church, New• gate-street, on Thursday, between two and three in the aft3r , noon. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen received Addresses, on the Throne, yesterday afternoon, at Buckingham Palace, from the Universities of oxford and Cambridge, and from the Corporation of the City of London. The Deputations, attended by the usual officers of the Uni versities, aimed shortly before two o'clock, the Lord Mayor in State, attended by his Chaplain, the Rev. H. Thomas, and by the• Sword-bearer, Mace-bearer, and the officers of his household. Her Majesty being seated on the Throne, his Royal Highness rrince Albeit standing by her side, and the Ladies in Waiting, and the Ministers and Officers of State being in attendance, the Oxford Deputation was ushered by Sir William Alartin, the Gentleman Usher in Waiting, from the lower suite of rooms up the grand staircase to the Throne Room, at the entrance of which the Lord Chamberlain received the Members, and conducted them to the presence of her Majesty. His Grace the Duke of Wellington, in his robes as Chan cellor, and wearing the Ensigns of the most Noble Order of the darter, advanced, having near hiin the Earl of Devon, High Steward ; his Grace and the Noble Earl were followed by the Vice-Chancellor, and the other Deputies, and also by the Members of the University of Oxford, accompanying the Address, in the established Order of Precedency. The Duke of Wellington read the Address of Congratulation, on her Majesty's recent providential escape, to which the Queen was pleased to return, a most gracious answer. The Duke of Wellington then presentee: to her Majesty, to kiss hands, the Vice-Chancellor, Dr. Winter, President of St. John's College, and Dr. Hawkins, Provost of Oriel. His Grace also presented to the Queen, the other Members form ing the Deputation from the University„ Plumptre, Master of University • Dr. Jelf, Canon of Christ Church; Dr. Richards, Rector of Exeter Dr. Marcham, Warden of Merton; Dr. Williams, Warden of New College; Dr. Goolden, ot Queen's College ; Mr. Pococke, Senic r Proctor; Mr. Pinker ton, Junior Proctor ; Mr. Johnson, Queen's College ; Mr. Audland, Queen's College ' • Mr. Stodt tart, St. John's College ; Mr. Fleming, St. John's College ; aniei the Rev. Dr. Bliss, Registrar of the University. Among the Members of the University accompanying the presentation of the Address, were the 1:,:a1.1 of Eldon; Dr. Hook, Christ Church; Dr. Saunders, Christ Chuach ; Sir R. H. Inglis, and Mr. Estconrt, Burgesses in Parliament; Dr. Chandler Drew of Chichester; Rev. Fr ancis Litchfield; Mr. Thomas Fletcher Twemlol, Christ Chore h, M.A. ,• Mr. Mid dleton Berry, M.A., ot i;razennose Caere; and Mr. Sergeant Ludlow. _ _ _ The Oxford Address havina been tee eia ed, the Deputies and Members of the University of Cambridgr were conducted with the like ceremony to the presence of the Sovereign, in the fol low ing order of precedency : The Bedells, the Chancellor, the Vi ice-Chancellor, accom panied by the Registrar ; the High Ste , yard, the Commissary, Noblemen, Privy Councillors, Heads of Colleges, Members of the Caput, Public Orator, Proctors, Doctors in Divinity, Doctors in Civil Law, Doctors in Medi ei ne, Assessor to the Vice-Chancellor, Professors, Scrutaturs,, Taxors, Librarian, Bachelors of Divinity, Masters of Arts (Nt Regents), Masters of Arts ( Regents), bachelors of Law, B; ichelors of Medicine, Bachelors of Arts. His Grace the Duke of Northumberland, K.G., wore his robes as Chancellor, and was accompat.l ied by the following Deputation :—The Vice-Chancellor, Res Dr. Archdall, Em manuel College; Hon. end Rev. Neville Greville, Master of Magdalen College; Rev. Dr. French, ;Ivlaster of Jesus Col lege ' • I-tev. Dr. Graham, Master of Ch xist College ; Rev. 1)r. 'Tatham, Master of St. John's; Rev. P Yofessor Hewell, 8.D., Master of lrinity ; Dr. Fisher, M.D.; ) tr - . Blake, LL.D. (De puty for Dr. Gilderi ) ; Rev. R. Biret t. Senior Non Ree- ° e,t ; Rev. J. Smith, Christ's College, Non-1 legent ; Rev. T. Las kin, Jesus College, Senior Proctor; ID. F. Gregory, Esq., Trinity College, Deputy Proctor ; and! 'Rev. J. Romilly, Tri nity College, Registrar; attended by H.. 'Gunning, Esq., Senior Esquire Bedell ; and Messrs. George- Leapingwell and Wm. Hopkins, Esquire Bedells. 'the following Members of the Univet sity also attended at the presentation of the Cambridge eel dress—The Marquis Camden, Earl of Powis; Right Hon. H.. Goulburn, Burgess in Parliament; Hon. Mr. Clive, Colonel Six Juhr, Rowland Eus. tace, St. Peter's College; Rev. G. A. Bs own, Trinity College, Mr. Edmund F. Moore, Rev. T. Halford, Jesus College ; Rev. C. R. Dicken, Corpus ; Rev. W. Webster Queen's ; Mr. John E. Blunt, Trinity College; Rev. Thos. T.aker, St. John's Col lege ; Rev. Lawrence Gwynne, Trinity • College ; and the Rev. Robert Collyer, Trinity College. The Duke of Northumberland read the Address of Congra tulation from the Chancellor, Mast. tr, and Scholars of the University, to which the Queen was pleased to return a most gracious answer. The Cambridge Address having been revived, the Lord Mayor, accompanied by the following Alc iermen, Sir M. Wood, Sir Claudius Hunter, Sir George Cars..oll, Sir James Duke, Sir Peter Laurie, Sir William Heygal..e, Thomas Wood, and Brown ; the Recorder ; the Sheriffs, !. Mr. Alderman Magnay and Mr. Rogers ; and between seventy and eighty Members of the Court of Common Council, was ea aducted and introduced to the Royal presence. The City Remembrancer, the Chi .mberlain, Mr. Stacey, the mover, and Mr. Deputy Steve , the seconder, of the Address, in the Court of Common Cl ,until ; Messrs. F. G. Moon, Edward Eyton, Edward JAR rrison, Clement Harris, Johnson, R. L. Watson, and Cook, !Coalman Councilmen ; Mr. Saunters, Comptroller ; Mr. Bra - pd, B:ridge House Compti ot ter ; Mr. Under Sheriff Pritchar d, Mr. Secondary Potter, the Water Bailiff, and Mr. Tempi e, Keeper of Guildhall, were among those present. The City.. Marshals were in attendance. The Deputation having advarne d near the Throne, the Hon. Charles Law, the Recorder, read the Congratulatory Address from the Corporation of the ijity of London. The Queen re turned amost gracious answer, The Members of the Cowill of Aldermen, and the mover and seconder of the Address irk the Court of Common Council, had then the honour of being presented to her .llajesty, and after wards retired front the presetice a the Soy ereign. The Lord Alayor, Aldermen, an d Commons of the City of London had afterwards an audien, to of his Royal Highness Prince Albert, ar.d presented an At Idress (of Congratulation to his Royal Highness. The Court was attended by the Ai ristress of the Robes ; the Countess of Dunmore, Lady in Waiti .ng ; Ole Lord President, the Lord Privy Seal, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Se cretaries of State for the Hume and ' ,Departments, the First Lord of the Admiralty, the P resident o.f the Board of Contr.!, the Secretary at War, the I ,aymaster .of the Forces, the Lord Steward, the Lord Chambi Wain the Master of the Horse, the Captain of the Honoural Corps t'sf Gentlemen at-Arms; Lord Hill, Gold Stick 'a VVaiting ; the Captain of the Yeoman Guard, the Vic :e-Chamberlain, the Treasurer of the Household, 9re Ciemptre Iler of the Household, Alr. George Philip Lee ' Lieutemant of the Yeomen Guard ; Mr. Henry Robinson, Standa r d Bear er of the Honourable Ccrps of Gentlemen-at-Ar. Loin 1 Charles Wellesley, (Cli rk Marshal) Equerry In w a itintg ; Air. James Bunce Curling, Clerk of the Clyiqu,. of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms; Cao . .aini S. Sather..s:ae , n in Waiting; Sir Benjamin Smith; Captain Green, Gentlemen Ush,r in Wait ing ; Mr. Wilson and Air. Wortley, Pages „ef Honour ; and the Field Officer in Waiting. Lord Rivers and AL. Ormsby Gore wer.• the Lord and Groom in Waiting. Her Majesty's Honourable Co. rps of Gentlei:qen-at-Arms lined the Throne-room during the t ,vception of the Addresses, commanded by their Lieutenant, tl se Hon. Sir Edward Butler. His Royal Highness Prince A ,lbert was attended by the Alarquis of Exeter, K. G., Groom , of the Stole, Lord George Lennox, Lord in W a i t i ng , an d M a j or- G ienera l Sir Edward Bowater, Equerry in Waiting. The Yeomen of the Guard lin ed the .Grand Hall, and the Queen's Guard, with the Band if the R. 4 giment, was on duty on the Palace Lawn. 1 he Duchess of Kent visited the•Queets yesterday morning. The Prince of Wales and the Princess b 'oval, accompanied by the Dowager Lady Lytteltoti,. were tak, an airing }ester day in a carriage and four. The Queen and Prince Albert honourv% 1 the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland with their comm • at dinner last evening, at Stafford House. Her Majest 7a . d the Prince le ft 13uckingham Palace at eight o'clock, act ma, anied by his Er* cellency Count Meusdorf, and the Counts H u gh, Alphon ol Alexander, and Arthur Nlensdorf, and attended by the Collate° of Dunmore, Lady in Waiting; the Marquis of Exeter, Grooo of the Stole to Prince Albert ; Lord Rivers, Lord in Want Lord Charles Wellesley, Equerry in Waiting ; and . Sir 11 ward Bowater, Equerry in Waiting on the Prince. Her Rol'.' I Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Anna ki Dawson, also honoured the Duke and Luchess of Suthem" with her company at dinner last evening. to The State apartmenrs at Windsor Castle are now ePen o the public every day in the week, Friday excepted, from ell ) , till six o'opck ; and during the residence of the Court' apartments will be closed on Tuesdays and Fridays. at , The Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council of City of London, after presenting Addresses to the Queen t 0 Prince Albert yesterday atternoun, attended at Clarence 1 10 " - t ' o St. James's, and presented an Address of C,ongratulatio e ir her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent. Her Royal !lit, ness was attended by Lady Anna Maria Dawson, Lady in "' j o t in g ; and Colonel Sir George Couper, Bart., Comptrolle r her Royal Highness's Household. Her Serene Highness the Duchess Ida of Saxe Weimer , , compenied by Prince Gustavus and the Princesses of S t : Weimar, and attended by her suite, left Marlborough Hem the residence of the Queen Dowager, soon after yeite r t io morning, for the Custom-house, and embarked on board Colombia stes m• packet , for the Continent. Her Majesty the Quren Dowager and their Serene- , t io nesses the Duke and Duchess of Saxe Meiningen, O iro , Hereditary Prince of Saxe Meiningen, attended by countess Barrington, Hon. Miss Anne Gcre, Mdlle. de P' t y Earl of Denbigh, Sir David Davies, and the Preceptor W ei Hereditary Prince, left Marlborough House soon after to , o'clock yesterday morning for the station of the South ro Railway, and left town by a special train for Southawpt ofh embark in the afternoon in a steam packet for Ryde. f ir The Queen Dowager, the Duke and Duchess, and the t o reditary Prince of Saxe Meiningen and Suite, honotire" Italian Opera with their presence on Tuesday evening. „,„I • Oi 'I he Agent fur the Republic of Ecuador. Colonel R. wito had the honour of an interview yesterday, at the Foreign -. t o with the Earl of Aberdeen, to present a despatch, from Government of Quito, together with his credentials al o° General of that State at the British Court. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. HAMPTON RACES. The last of the four meetings to which the Home CiO ss e the Turf is now restricted, commenced yesterday, under pines more than usually favourable. It will extend toFtist and a comparison of the list publish e d on Monday, wi lm , b isl best that can be found of late years, will show that if ant i s , can justify three days' racing after the excitement astd. c •' ; 5 01 deur of Epsom and Ascot, it is the addition of 7 - tlis and Middlesex, and Two.years-old Stakes, and .0 Stewards' Handicap. The racing yesterday, which wag: i more than ordinarily attractive by the appeal -o 'of the winner of the Oaks (Our Nell) as a competitoistfj, Surrey and Middlesex Stakes, commenced about twos 7P Lsf and finished at half-past tive ;it was witnessed by a oaol o r t is average in number and rank, including, besides 'Meg t rot fashionables, Lords Chesterfield, Worcester, Rosslyn, A. Fitzclarence, W. Lennox, G. Btntinck; Count Billir" Sirs W. W. Wynn, C. Kent, J. Shelley, G. Heathet e e 'op Baird, W. M. Stanley, J. Flower ; Honourables L-sW o ebf , H. Forester, G. Ongley ; Messrs. Codriugton, Payaellt J. Stanley, Brand, Errington, Magennis, Sanoileir" William, &c., &c. The Cup by Subscription of 5 Sovs. each, with 40 4141i di Heats, once round and a distance. the winner "to,b ° for 2001., &a. (6 Subs.) t I Mr. C. Hornsby's Revoke, 6 yrs, 9st 41b ...... (OwneF) 5 I Mr. Brooke's Obelisk, aged, 9-t 41b r. G. Ongley's c by Aledora, dam (1827) by Figar!ii 3 aged, 7st 71b ................................................ ..... '1 he lists published on Saturday night stated that•t s "Sd would be run at half-past two, and one of them, would have it, fell into the bands of Tommy Lye, wr'soP ng age d to ride Mr. Dawson's mare The Biddy • it It o at quently arranged that the ,tart should take 1 :;; 0 0', one, but the list did not reach Lye in time to make i se ments for his mare to be on the course ; so that although/ I P fur, the other horses, after waiting for her upwards a hour, started two or three minutes after two, rievoke I' l , B l 'l in a canter. As a matter of course the case came bew , k) Stewards, who decided that the heat was valid. The oi l heat,l,ke the first, was won In a canter. We ought to fr that on Lye's weighing for The Biddy, her number 0 01 hibited, and even, and 5 to 4 laid upon her s and 3 to Ise yoke, upon whom 2 to 1 was laid in running. 6 or of The Surrey and Middlesex Stakes of 20 sous. each, only 5, &c.. with 50 added. Two miles. rS t)4 Lord Chesterfield's Knight of the Whist le, 4 yrs, 7st 711 1 :(,- ; „ Sir. Forth's Vibration, 3 yrs, sst 13th (and 71bs Mr. Dawson's Our Nell, by Bran,3 yrs, sst 1 llb Bettirg-6 and 7 to 4 on Our Nell, and 2 to 1 fie ''''Stsf ° , the others. Vibration made the running to the tegs where Our Nell, who had been pulling hard at her bOC E4 ft IO past her, the Knight of the Whistle taking a close buis eoe )°, rails, following two or three lengths behind. The'll' very good to the straight running, where Vibration her lead ; at the distance the winner of the Oaks co' and half way up it Knight of the Whistle caught r, whom he defeated, after a good race, by half a Nell was beaten three or four lengths. osigdjt The Strawberry Hill Stakes of 3 soya. each, with winner to be sold for 1001. Heats, one toil e . quarter. (8 Subs.) - ". I Mr. D. Cooke's b g Tub Thumper, by Maces 1 I donicus, 4 yrs, (Lye) 7,1 Mr. Bacon's m by Langar, Sister to Portrait, 4 sirs Goodman's Music, 3 yrs s Mr. Smith's Emma, 5 y rs O, s , , Mr. Howick's Lallah Rookh, aged Captain Clarke's Britannia, 4 yrs No betting worth quoting. The first heat was on e , the Langar mare, only the.three placed having run fori Tub Thumper won the other two in a canter, and 103 0.4 The races this day will be three in number, end .. .I'llOJ mence at half-past one ; as each will be " heats" th‘o - _.., r tr tend to " see the end of it " are recommended to. P'' and take their night caps. _ 4 4 V AGED AND DECAYED - -CI MASONS. • ;4 # 7 , 4 The Society established for the relief of w°_,,, e 7o!' aged Decayed Masons, held their Seventh Alle';1, 11 in Freemasons' Hall, last evening, William She''' in the Chair. About a hundred members sat down to dinleAfe, gallery was filled with ladies, and the enrerta„,l4,lyl altogether was well arranged. The dinner . 014 4 , 1 r were excellent ; and Mr. Ransford, Mr. Conley:, 4 , Brezzi, Miss Betts, Miss Fanny Russell, the` Turner, and other well-known singers, lent th e ' tt v o ance on the occasion. 1 3 5 11 On the cloth being removed, and the usu a sung, the CHAIRMAN rose to propose a toast, ;01) was sure every one present would heartily re„ s „ _, ( tl i The toast was, " Her Majesty the Queen 0.3 cheers)—a lady for whom every Englisholsil in ts r o highest regard, and who had raised herselliife, estimation since the atrocious attempt on her vial s was quite sure that he had only to propose th e insure universal approbation.—(Loud cheers.)„„issti " God save the Queen" was' sung in exc el ''''of by Mr. Ransford, and nearly the whole of t hp t ~, f d e performers present. Pe#l The CHAIRMAN then gave the "Queen 01,0 which was responded to with loud cheers. 47 clueing the toast, he said her Majes.y had all alb` a patron of the institution, and had thereby fo.110.:7,- example of her excellent husband. svl49 toast-master then announced the fo. o b --" The Prince and Princess of Wales," wh it 4 o pl much laughter, when he Chairman sass.. th W I / "P. ince Albert, and tits rest of the R o yarFsr ot isl l o ,i! he was sure every one would agree witiff i ijiiiV, he. sta ed that since his Royal Hig m t blifl come into the co - ntry he had been Joy ration of erg: ry one, and had. conduogigki I in a manner n Inch roust endear him to evq 1 341 . 09 man.—(Loud applause.) He would onlY,delt,o - of Wales had been Grand Muster . t . d institution, and he hoped that some (,f thos‘eie would live to see the day when the preser it .,?' s Y Wales would become a mason.—(Loud cheers-18.!9 The CHAIRMAN then gave—" The Duke tenth the Grand Master," which was responded to • ,0 / times three. cot ioa The healths of the Grand Masters ot . s Ireland followed, when Mr. Moran returned.: the two countries in an excellent speech, no ~ ,A ft e having the courage to rise and return thanks of his countrymen. r they P t. O t. The CHAIRMAN then gave the great toas t e d iry ing, "Success to the Asylum for worthy, kg,oll.l) l fr il rayed Freemasons"—(Loud cheers)—and u s ' ss ' tll's • the state of the Institution. He said .to"-, 4 4 .% hich they had formed had been cornpleterlouPs.dolo and that by perseverance and the geld ,b,r 4 r e tte, of all good . masons, the Society wow's, br d er . to grant relief to many of their brethren,‘"TherS7l met them in that festive hall, but whoffroel i. ,. t oe i of fortune, had been reduced to great ar,_l , ' toast was drunk with great applause ; an d-tjhv 1 ' / verses, written for the occasion by hek; s Smith, were then sung by all the musical P: THE THREE TASKS. Slo ..:oWy: Though, Brothers !ne have built our ' And reared the Altar's Cubic Stone, Graved on its front the Mystic Sign, Known to our ancient Craft alone : I N ,h o e t yet s o o t n ir ,s C la ro b w o ' i n ir in i g , nlic:tordkonbeepwl Though Charity bath formed a pile , Where breathes her orphan Children oe, Whose grateful hearts, whose happy sr ° f . Reward our deeds and bless our care Not yet our Crowning Work begun' The Mason's labour is not done. When we have rear'd a home for those, Who of their plenty freely gaye. . Whom Poverty, at lite s last close, Hathleeftnoshelt boast er- a race we butthegraveli' 'Then may we rloo,, Then will our Crowning or Dv .„, then The CHAIRMAN, in a brief speech,- w hoe-44,„,1 health of the Treasurer, Dr. Crucifix, t°, in tertte clay was so much indebted for the gre;l t to efo . 7: he had taken in the Institution, and for the ns . : de) which he had rendered to his brother Ine e f wog, ots',,f Dr. CRUCIFIX returned thanks, and vi!!!_.„, c ,„ ? tr from all parts of the hall. In reading the S_xvcceeZed that the income of the present year ts 007, I n a e s a t rl 3 y . star by l. 4001., and that the r ecelP 0 Pr d in th e e'6o o l 0, 1 1 The evening altogether was passed g we re th o al ear mony, and a number of excellent s "rig Oak enci alle ilo f g b3 r , e2 A t ir a . p i p ia la n u s s fu e rd ; , a i m vh o i n e g h, o b t y he a r e sL n T a h t e i ....w art as y e b , rs:7 ,4, I o'clock tfae r . second time. About LATEST MAN CHES Ay. ,i0 ; 0 0 4 1 MANCHESTER, Tug sp et ; ;. ,1 0 off / NORTHUMBERLAND PLATE.- 9 to ,_ag sw , is g ( 1 1 ) 6, 01 d sto I agst Shadow (t) ;10to 1 agst (t)S - , 8 t o!, agst Galaor (t) ; 13 to 1 agst Jack age Yana (t) ; 0010. The Squire (t); 17 to to 1 agst to lat (O f " ' 6 0 ' Arcatius; 20 to 1 agst Black Beck, tooi 25 to 1 agst Priscilla Tomboy. 6 a sst P' LIVERPOOL JULY CUP.—.IOO rtho daplb i • • 100 to 6 agst Soult ; ICO to 6 . !C ria (s);. f _ - 14 ,.7; 40 apt Gallipot ; 100 to 5 agst . 10 i °l-1 11 0 s C a U m il e ill a a g (t st u ) a ; w o s fr o e n r , s s. to take6Atollea ( ab t ; U : , 64 1:7 1 7 1 6 00 1 ST. LEG ER.-7 to 4 agst ;,, l2 le t t o eo. l r agst Belteeur ; 14 to 1 a g st A ~~, V +. ti~ s 't';