The Sun. — London, England, 1849-06-21 00:00:00

re-4v,, • 6 i__ ...,,Y- , trxi -IzAitzton i. 3 SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock. HOLLAND. TEUI HAGUE, JUNE 19.--AN NIVEBIAUY OF THE BAT TLE or WATERLoo.—The Grand Parade which was held yesterday on the Maliebaan, in celebration of the glorious victory, was a splendid sight. The day was uncommonly fine, and there was a large concourse of spectators, among whom were many strangers. The bearing of the troops, and the precision with which they performed their various military , manceavres was admirable ; the rapidity of the artil lery and cavalry excited universal applause. In the afternoon an entertainment was given to the soldiers in the square in front of the barracks. The place was tastefully decorated with flags, and the bands of the Grenadiers and Jagers, which played throughout the day, added much to the animation of the scene. The Staff and other officers of rank were present at the entertainment, and a very numerous assembly of spectators manifested their satisfaction at the pro ceedings. The 18th of June will long be remem bered with heartfelt gratitude. In the sitting of the Second Chamber a Royal resolution was read, honourably dismissing Mr. G. L. Band from his functions as Colonial Minister, and appointing in his room Rear-Admiral Von den Boscb. —Staats Courant, June 20. According to intelligence from Leyden, his Ma jesty has been graciously pleased to issue an order for the release of a number of prisoners, both military and burghers, now in various parts of the kingdom, from the further term of their imprisonment. The agricultural reports from the various provinces are most satisfactory. The hay is good and abun dant., and vegetables and summer fruits. The pros pect of the harvest is most encouraging. Tun CHOLERA.—In Rotterdam, where the cholera had lately greatly increased, it has for some days past been so decidedly on the decline that the medical officers have pronounced that it is now going off. At the Cholera lloipital at Dordrecht, the total number admitted have been 147, of whom 91 died, 26 recovered, and 30 remain under treatment. TEE HAGUE.-According to intelligence received here from Constantinople, the Turkish Government having been informed that for some time past pirates had .been seen in the Archipelago, and especially in the waters of Samos, Me&lino, Stanchio, and Scio, had adopted measure& for putting a stop to these pirates. A frigate and three men of war are to sail immediately from the h rbour of Constantinople.— Dutch Papers. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. ~r HIS E VEISTING.) HOUSE OF LORDS. Their Lord hips DSi p m tied at Five o'c!ock. GRAND JURY CE'iS (IRELAND) BILL. On the motion of the Matquis of CLANRICARDE, this Bill wai rased thrcugh Committee. 1-lI;JAIWAYS RETURNS BILL. The Earl of S I'. GERMANS rrquest.d the postpone of th,, third readin v . of tnl3 B 11 for a f.YAr days. The Earl of GRA7:.TVILLE consented to postpone it for a week. OATITS AND AFFIRMATIONS. Lord DENMAN presentcd several petitions in favour of the substitution of affirmations fur oaths in judicial proce-dings. Amoog others, was a petition from Mrs. Watson, a MEM'C7 the Church of England, who, having, at the Exeter Assize!, refused, from con,cien tious objection*, to take en oath, had been committed by the jud, S EEP STE XLING (IRELAND) BILL. On th, motion ot ttiv Earl ot GLENG ALL this Bill (with amendments) passed through Committee. ADMINISTRAIION OF JUSTICE (IRELAND) BILL The EIJI of GLENGALL brought in a Bill for the better a , hcainistratiun of justice in Courts of Equity in Ireland. ITALY. The Earl of ABERDEEN asked when the papers re lating to the war in the north of Italy would be pre sented ? Lord EDDISBURY cf , tticl not fix a day. The Earl of ABERDEEN said that the Noble Mar quis had three months ago promised them. There would have been no difficulty in producing them months 11,40. After a few words from the Marquis of LANS DOWNE, the subj Pet dropped. ROMAN CATHOLIC HOLIDAYS. Lord S rANLEY presented a petition from certain guardians of the poor in Ireland, complaining of the ex emption of the Roman Catholic paupers in the work houses from work on the numerous Roman Catholic holidays. PARLIAMENTARY OATHS BILL. The Bishop of EXETER presented several petitions from the clergy and others against this Bill. Their Lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'clock. THIRD READINGS. The following Bills were read a third time and passed: Binbrooke St. Gabriel and Binbrooke St. Mary In closure (Amendment and Extension of Acts, Alteration of Awards, settling Titles to Lands, &c., and defining Parish Boundaries) Bill. East Indian Railway Company (For making and main taining one or more Railways; in the Esst Indies) Incor poration Bill. - Taunton Town and Market Improvement Bill. REPORT. The report upon the Taff Vale Railway (Extension in Merthyr Tydfil) Bill was considered and agreed to. PETITIONS. Mr. HAMILTON presented two petitions, one signed by 1,587 clergymen of the Established Church in Ireland, and the other signed by 64,000 laymen of the same chnnb, praying for some alteration of the present na tional system of education in Ireland. Mr. 11. BROWN presented a petition from Solici tors at Tewkesbury praying for the abolition of the cer tificate duty. Mr. PaIIPTRE presented several petitions from the metropolis and from pieces in the provinces, praying for an alteration in the i ;national system of education iu Ireland. Mr. COWAN presented a petition from Edinburgh against the Public Health Bill for Scotland, and also one against the Marriage Bill. Mr. CARD WELL presented a petition from Liver pool, signed lay 4,500 persons, praying for an uniform system or rating tor the support of the poor. .Sir F. THESIGER presented a petition from the eouns,-1 4nd afie.-rs of the PaLce Court, stating that the Bill before the House twould take away their whole busi ness and MeallS of remu , :eratio,n, without giv 434 them any compensation, and praying that they might be heard by eJ . Lria,-1 st the lasr of the House. Mr. S. CRAWFORD presented a petition from mer chtints and traders at P.)ehdale, in favour of the Bill for the Amendment and Consolidation of the Bankrupt Laws. Lord DUDLEY STUART presented a petition from the letter-preys printers in London, pra)ing for the abolition of the duty upon paper s and the advertisement and starnpduty. _ _ Lord BERNARD presrntrd a petition, signed by 91 Roman Catholic heads of families in four parishes of the county of Cork, praying the House to take means to allow the National Education &ciety in Ireland to ex tend its beneficial operations. VIENNA. Mr. HUME said he would postpone until the 10th July the question respecting Vienna, which btood third on the list. THE PALACE COURT. Sir F. THESIGER said that when the Attorney- General moved the second reading of the Bill relative to the Palace Court he (Sir F. Thesiger) should move that the counsel and attorneys of the court be heard at the bar of the House against the provisions of the Bill. THE IRISH CHURCH. Mr. B. OSBORNE said, on the 10th of July he should renew his motion relative to the Irish Church. STATE OF IRELAND. _ _ Mr. HORSMAN gave notice that on the sth of July he should call the attention of the House to the state of Ireland. SUPPLY. Mr. H. DRUMMOND said he should move the reso lution which stood in his name on the first day of the report of Supply. FRENCH INTERVENTION WITH ROME. Mr. ROEBUCK said on an early day he should put a question to the Noble Lord the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, for the purpose of bringing under the notice of the House the state of our diplomatic relations with France respecting Rome. STATE OF THE NATION. Mr. DISRAELI said he had been requested to give some definite intimation as to the time when he would call the attention of the House to the state of the nation, of which he bad given notice. Inasmuch as the Noble Lord at the head of the Government was equally in- terested in the question with himself, he would be glad if he could induce the Noble Lord to assi s t hi m in the matter. so far as to fix some day for bringing it on. Mr. OSBORNE ”id before the Noble Lord answered that question, he (Mr. Oiborne) begged leave to appeal to the generosity of the Neb!e Lord.—(Laughter) He thought the state of the Irish Church was of infinitely more importance- than V - e state of the nation.--(Ree newed laughter.) He (Mr. Osborne) had a motion to bring forward resp,c,ing the Irish Church, and he would ask the Noble Lord to assist him in fixing a day for that. Lord JOHN RUSSELL said, if the state of the nation was to be brought forward it was desirable that it should no*. be brought f ews,rd eta very late p , riod of the session; if it was to be discussed it oug h t to be discussed forthwith. If the Hen. Geatlernan would take Monday, the 2d of July, he sheuld have no objection to his taking that day. Mr. DISRAELI as?.ontel to that proposal. CAPITAL PUNISFIMENrS. Mr. EWART moved that en hmnble address be pre sented to her Maj,sty, praying that a return may b e Made, showing h ow t nr . cr i m v:btch capital punish menti have 11 en aboli,hed in this country, arestitlewNi tally punishable in the rolciius cliTendeneks of Great Ili - itain.—Avreed to. PALACE COURT. Lard DUDLEY STUART said an order of the House was made on the 25th of May for certain returns re ative to the Pallce Cuurt, ou his motion. Those re urns had not yet been furnished, and be bet ged to ark the Secretary fur the Home Department the cause of the delay. Sir GEORGE GREY was not aware of the cause of the delay; but in consequence of a communication he had received from Lend Dudley Smart, notice had been sent to the parties charged wi.h preparing those returns to furnish them forthwith. Colonel DUNNE roso to ask the Right Honourable the Secretary far Ireland whether, in the cases of 'evic tions in the Kilrush El ctoral Division in Ireland, men tioned in Captain Kennedy's report, the notices pre scribed by law were served, and, if they were, why the vice-guardians did not (as was their duty) provide efficient relief for the persons so ejected ; und, if the notices were not served, whether the vice-guardians have instituted any prosecution against the persons who have neglect :11 to serve these notices previous to eviction. Sir GEORGE GREY said all he could state in tho absence of his Bon. Friend the Secretary fur Ireland was, that to the best of his belief in all the evictions that had recently taken place the law, with respect to giving notice to the guardians, had bean complied with. REWARDS TO MEDICAL OFFICERS. Sir DE LACY EVANS roso to bring under the consideration of the House the claims of the medical officers of the army and navy to military rewards and distinctions. He said, unfortunately, this question was divested of all party interest, nevertheless upwards of two thousand deserving public servants—men of education, and who had rendered essential service to their country—were interested in the matter. He sub mitted to the House that the nature of their services— the great hardships they were constantly celled upon to suff:r, and the great dangers to which they were exposed, the great saving of lives of troops they were enabled to effect by wise precautions, entitled them to be placed in the same class as those who had received rewards. It was said that they were civil officers, and not entitled to these rewards. He did not see the force of the objection. Take, for instance, the case of the engi• neers who had received these rewards; they were seldom called into actual conflict, being engaged in storming • parties, whilst the medical officers were invariably called upon to peril their lives. lie thought the civil and military services should be duly consideted, and that those men who had served their country had a great source of grievance when they saw men wbo had not been half their time in the service promoted over their heads. Complaints of this kind were well deserving the consideration of the House and the Government. Amongst these men he might instance the names of t-FirJohn Macgregor, Mr. Frankes, Mr. Gurney, Mr. Howland, and Mr. Gutherie, who had rendered great service to their country in the medical department of the army. He did not thirst pecuniary compensa tion, but only that they should be entitled to the same dis tinctions that were conferred on otherofiicers of the army. Mr. Guthrie was himself twice wounded during the Peninsular war, and scarcely an important engagement took place at which he was not present. He could men tion many instances in which surgeons had been wounded and killed, hut he was not on that on casion willing to trespass further upon the at tention of the House. The Gallant Member then concluded by moving a resolution to the effect that as the efficiency and Economy of the army and navy de p-nded upon the ability, energy, and zeal of the medical officers; and that as they share d the dangers to which those services were exposed, it was neither expe dient nor just that they should be excluded from a share of honorary distinctions and rewards in pro portion to tin- it relative rank, or the relative importance of their respective duties. Mr. HUME seconded the motion, for the reason asserted by Napoleon, that every man forming a part of the army ought to be considered a public servant, and was entitled to such reward us his services required. In former days, owing to the want of a proper comrnissiariat, a much greater proportion of the army was destroyed by dist me than by the sword or the bayonet. He was prepared to show, if the time would admit, that in consequence of the superior attainments of the medical officers, the mortality of the army had been greatly reduced within the last twenty years. As, therefore, the success of engagements de pended so much upon the skill shown by the commis. siariat and by the medical officers, he thought the House would pass a stigma upon the profession if they were backward in acceding to the motion of his Galicnt Friend. The motion having been read, Lord JOHN RUSSELL said, the Secretary at War being unavoidably absent, he should reply to the Gallant General's question to the best of his ability. In the first place, he entirely concurred with the Gal lant General, as to the merit of the Medical officers of the combany, and the Hon. Member for Mon trose had also borne no more than just testimony to the valuable services of those officers. He had stated most truly that the mortality of late years had been materially lessen ed in consequence of the valuable nature of the information supplied to the medical board,: upon which they had acted ; and therefore he (Lord J. Russell) should be sorry, on that occasion, to say any thing in disparage ment of those services. Though, as the Gallant General had said, they were non.combatants, yet they were every day called upon to exercise steadiness of nerve ; and they were indebted to them fen saving the lives of many gallant men, who would otherwise have died from wounds received on the field of battle.—(hear.) But he could not sgree with him that the officers of the engineers were she non-combatants, fir when they were commanded to mount a breech, they were exposed to the same imminent peril as other officers; but they could hardly say that the medical officers were excluded from all rewards. because it was well known that when medals were dis tributed they received them in common with the other officers. Nor were civil rewards withheld from them since Sir James Macgregor, Sir Charles Forbes, and others, had received the civil honour of knighthood. With respect to admitting them to the Order of the Bath, he did not see that there was any possible objection—(Hear, hear)—but he would not pledge himself that this should be so; be would much rather consult the Commander in-Chief and the Secretary at War before he could state in what manner this should be done.—(Hear, hear.) It was, he thought, rather a matter for the Executive than of the Legislature.—(Hear, hear.) If, therefore, the Gallant Gentleman persisted in his motion, he should move the previous question. Colonel DUNNE considered that the Gallant Ge neral had done a great service by bringing the matter before the House. He saw no reason why these officers should not be rewarded in the same way as other office! F. When Poor-law Inspectors and others had received the honour of knighthood, he saw no reason why these medical officers should not be similarly rewarded. he should not add one word of testimony to the value of the medical officers' services after what fallen from his-Hon. and Gallant Friend. During the Peninsular war there were seven actions for which; by an accident almost, rewards were given. There were men then serving in Spain who had not the good fortune to be in that action, and who had not received the slightest reward.—(Hear, hear.) He was therefore anxious to call the attention of the House to the ser vices of those men, who, though not engaged in those actions, had distinguished themselves in the service of their country in the Peninsula and elsewhere. Sir DE LACY EVANS said, with reference to what had fallen from the Noble Lord at the head of the Government, with reference to engineers, he (Sir De Lacy Evans) had merely adverted to engineers, as they were also a scientific branch, and perhaps the highest scientific branch of the service. He had not the slightest objection to the Noble Lord's suggestion as to that distinguished corps. He (Sir De Lacy Evans) knew engineers in the civil department who had already received Companionships of the Bath for thLir services in India, but the services for which that honour had been conferred upon them were of a civil character. Colonel THOMPSON said the Members on his side of the House with whom he usually acted were so en tirely satisfied with what had fallen from the Noble Lord, that they had hoped he would have dispensed with putting the previous question. Sir C. BURRELL bore testimony to the great improve ment in medical science in the army, and referred to his experience on the coast of Africa in proof of it. After a few words from Captain PECIIELL, Sir DE LACY EVANS thought he had done no in justice to any department of the service, and ho hoped the Noble Lord would not oppose the motion. Lord J. RUSSELL thought injustice had been done, and he hoped his Hon. and Gallant Friend would withdraw his motion. Sir DE LACY EVANS said if injustice had been done he would withdraw his motion. The motion was accordingly withdrawn EQUALIZATION OF POOR-RATES. __ _ Mr. PZCHE and Lord NUGENT presented several pe tions in favour of the equalization of poor-rates. g coam th it e tee t Lord NUGENT then rose, pursuant to notice, to maintenance enquire into the practicability m ot o p y r e o l :i r d providing by ynatranee of the indigent poor of England and Wales, at;dzieral apportion mentthe a ngle of the burthen of not a most i nvitin g the re ua e l . that this was the House, consideration of as it was a question of the utmost importanc e ho time the indulgence of the House while he stated the a w `i e n d . cipal points connected with the subject. lie felt that he should have no right to csk for any favourable consideration of his motion if he contented himself with laying before the House the inequality of the mode of rating, and the grievous hardship upon the rate-payers. He would have no right to ask for an inquiry upon the subject, did he not think he could lay before the House the means of which those hardships might be avoided. The present He need not dwell upon the grievances which result from the present mode of rating, because he believed he should be justified in daaling with those as acknow ledged evils. There could be no doubt that the present system of rating was most unjust and anomalous, its inequalities were universally admitted. He could not go the length of saying that they were increased by the amended law of 1834, but there was no doubt of this that it had had had the effect of placing the guardians in an tagonism to the rate-payers and both to the poor. system of rating was most unequal; it was most in jurious, it not absolute spoliation to many of the rate payers! and, above all, it was most injurious to the ob- jeets of parochial relief.—(Hear.) In many instances the rate had been twenty-five shillings in the pound, cr more properly speakirg, five shillings above the pound. From a return it appeared that the annual charge up to Lady•day 1847, for the in door maintenance of the poor in all the unions was 769,6904; and to Lady day 1848, 955,7001.; an:l the establishments and salaries for 1847, were 762,4201.; and for 1848, 970,9851. This shoved that the cost of keeping up the establishments and paying salaries amounted to 15,0004 more than wps required for the maintenance of all the poor. The luta poor rates expended in England and Wales during the year ending 25:h March, 1848, was 3,C47,4851. Ot thir. sum th e r e was ex p en d e d i n law charges, expenses of proceedings before magistrates, payments under the Parochial Assessments Act, and " for other pur posed," no less than 1,856,720/. There was thus nearly 2,000,0001. expended annually in the mere machinery of the poor-laws, and of that sum there was an item of 214,7111. for "other expenses." He thought that even official gentlemen would think that was an enormous sum to be put down wider such a head. It would be found, both in town and country, that the poorer parishes were rated enormously higher, and the richer parishes enormously lower, than they ought to be. (LEFT SPEAKING.) TATTERSALL'S-THIS EVENING. Six o'ClocK. NORTHUMBERLAND PLATE. 4 to 1 agst Executor—taken 7 to 2 agst Malton—taken 12 to 1 agst Legerdemain—taken 15 to 1 agst Distaffina—taken LIVERPOOL CUP. 12 to 1 aot Newcourt—taken GOODWOOD CUP. 9 to 2 agst Tadmor GOODWOOD STAKES. 10 to 1 agst Fernhill—taken 10 to 1 agst Plaudit—taken 12 to 1 agst Tophana—taken 15 to 1 agst Clermont—taken 20 to 1 agst Chanticleer 20 to 1 agst Collingwood 20 to 1 agstGiselle 20 to 1 agst Van Dieman DERBY. 18 to 1 agst The Italian 20 to 1 agst Pitsford 1,000 to 20 agst Brennus—talon to 200. 2,000 to 45 agst Tcrdesillas—taken. 1,000 to 20 agst Paul. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 21, 1849. CRICKET.-(THIS DAY.) KENT V. ENGLAND. This match was commenced at the Bat and Ball Ground, Gravesend, this morning. There were, we should suppose, about two thousand spectators present. England, it will be seen, lost their wickets for 112, when dinner was announced, and our account left. The following is the score : ENGLAND.—FInsT INNINGS. Chatterton—e Felix b Hillyer 16 Dean—b Hillyer 25 Yarr—c Hillyer, b Mynn Wi.sden—c Martin, b Mynn ... 2 Box—c Clifford, b er 4 Guy—c Hir,kly, b Ililiyer 16 Clarke—c Hinkly, b Ilillyer H. W. Linduw, Martingell Hodson—c Hi kly, b Butter—run out ... ... 12 Lilly white—not out b4 ; w3, nb 0 ... 7 Total . . 112 HOP INIELLIGENCE. MAIDSTONE.—SeveraI very severe frosts have been experienced in the mornings of the past week, whi , :h t4ve in some instances turned the tips of ask planks black. Opinions differ as to whether these frosts have been most inimical to the insect vermin or to the p!auts. The effects on the former, if any, must have been transient, as in most gri unds they seem as vigorous, and, perhaps, more numerous than ever, although: in some other grounds, in places, they seem to have diminished. The frosts must have affected the bine, but it cannot yet be known to what extent. ATERINGBURY, TESTON', NETTLESTEAD, AND ME REWORTII.—There has not been a great increase of vermin, except in the low situations, and the bine, not • withstandirg the cold nights, has grown freely, which gives many of the grounds a healthy appearance. The ye' thin attack the weak bine and the young shco!s more than they do the strong bine, NN hich is a bad omen. MALLING.—The bine grows free at places, considaing the cold vsincls, and the foul state they are in, having an increase of fly and lice making their appearance. HORSDIONDEN.-Fly and lice prevail to such en extent in our plantations, that a severe blight is inevitable, un less we are shortly rid of these destructive vermin. Honey-dew is spreading rapidly. Present appearances are exceedingly unfavourable for the growth of a crop of hops. GOIIDHIIRST.—The fly and lice still continue very abundant, which, together with the frosty nights, have retarded the growth of the bine during the past week, they having made little progress; in fact the complica tion of diseases appear too much for them in genera►, unless upon very superior riect a of land, on which, how ever, they have not progressed so favourably as might have been expected. IGHTHA3I AND SEAL.—Since the last report the fly has increased, and now presents a formidable appearance. In many grounds honey-dew is seen. WROTHAM.—The Lops in and about Wrotham appear in the same growing state, but the black fly and lice still very much increasing. BRENCHLEY.—The bines continue very full of fly and lice, and the honeydew is spreading to a great extent. Having had an opportunity of seeing the principal plantations in Sussex during the past week, I cannot report favourably of the hops generally. A blight is anticipated. The late cold ni g hts have retarded their pro g ress, end they are turnin g close to the poles, which indicates disease in the plant. ORPINGTON.—We have as much fly and lice as ever, with honeydew; still the bine looks well. EDENBRIDGE.—The bine is in a growing state; the fly and lice very much decreased. The nigger has made its appearance. Duty, 100,0001. to 120,0004 LINGFIELD.— The well cultivated gardens present a very different appearance to the others; but the fly and lice are numerous everywhere. TICEIIIIRST.—Wo have no decrease in the quantity of vermin, and the bine is not locking so healthy as it did a fortnight since. FARNHAM, ALTON, AND COUNTRY DISTRICTS, JUNE 18.—We have a great deal of fly and vermin, and we believe the plants to be generally in a very precarious state.—Maidstone Gazette. INSTITUTION OF CIVIL EN- GINEE RS. Tuesday, Juno 19.—Joshua Field, Esq., President, in the chair. In the course of the evening, the Earl of Rosse, Pre sident of the Royal Society. was presented by Mr. Ren nie to the President of the Institution, on his election as an Honorary Member. The pap( r read was " On the Employment of High pressure Steam, working expansively, in Marine En gines," by Mr. John Seaward, M. Inst. C.E. This communicaiion was described to be tho substance of a reply, by the author, to some questions addressed to several eminent engineering firms, by the Hon. H. L. Cory, M.P., when Secretary of the Admi raltp. This reply was found to furnish so much useful information, and so completely to open the ques tion of the advantage or disadvantage of using high pressure steam, and of cutting off the steam at various porti,,ns of the stroke, that it was conceived it would be advantageously produced at the institution, in order that the subject should be fully discussed. Unfortunately, the absence of the principal members at the fLating of the first tube of the Britannia Bridge frustrated the lat ter expectation, but the substance of the paper appeared to be fully appreciated. The argument was so continuous that it would be diffi cult to attempt to do more than to give a faint idea of it, as the limits of this account would not suffice for an abstrct of it. It first reviewed the mode of working marine :en gines for some years past, and noticed the gradual change that had occurred, particularly the tendency to use high-pressure steam, instead of that of a pressure of about four pounds above the atmosphere. It then examined the system of cutting off the steam at various parts of the stroke; and as, at the same time, a remarkable augmentation had occurred in the speed of the vessels, which was naturally attributed t o that cause, it inquired minutely into these several causes and effects, as well as the considerable reduction in the consumption of fuel which took place, enabling the ves sels, consequently, to mako longer voyages, or to carry less fuel for given distances. In this examination, all the arguments for and against the use of high steam, and the presumed gain or loss of mechanical power in the use of the expansion principle in the cylinder, were canvassed at length; and the paper wound up with the replies of the author to the three questions from the Admiralty, to this effect:— " The highest pressure of steam that we have, in any case, put upon a marine boiler of our own construction, was about 16 pounds to the square inch; but we are not inclined to repeat the experiment, as we feel assured that we can obtain equally good results with steam of a lower pressure—from 10 to 12 lbs. is the usual pressure we employ in the merchant service for engines and boilers of comparative small power. " The steam pressure at present employed in the ser vice i f e et e pho i i s : aboutapn,tesas pressure ea l n b t t s o a . gb p ee e s r wo s ef q l u a oa r n t c e h d . forW economyt e he consider chi s et t a a nof steam .hm space, s ; v we very believe eminen t i t d c: calculated e s e t o advantages secure all will l e l in some respect be slig e h r tly z i b ncreased by augmenting the stTm ly p e r s e t s r s o u n r g e ly to re l c O okkmencist. s r es pr i e 2 s i tu s re than that the square inch. greater t e the steam employed in latter pressure will the navy should not be of . to the square adequate square i p n e c r h; ary material ineh, or theininecxretaresemetoCa be attended with considerable risk, without any advantage." In the discussion which ensued, these proposition s were to a certain extent concurred with, but with limi tations as to the introduction of other forms of boilers ; and it was explained that the arguments of the paper were only applicable to condensing engines working ex pensively, and therefore left the question of the intro duction of the use of high-pressure non-ccndensing en gines quite untouched and free for discussion at a future period. It W2.S announced that the paper to be read at the meeting the ot S . Ttrueenstdhayof J it u tl n l e s 2a6ntdh,thweasw‘e'iOn ght t a he nd ß s a p t e io be tween ed of Lccomotive Engines," by Al r. G. W. Buck, M. Inst. C. E., when also being the last of the session, the ballot for mem bers would take place. NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE RAILWAY.—Ine principal ev, nt of the past week in connexion with the railway interest in 13irmingharn has been the completion of the main line of the above undertaking. Great importance is very 'reasonably attached to the opening of this line, as it will establish a direct communication between the Lon don and North-Western lines at Macclesfield, and to the Trent Valley. The true estimation of living is not to be taken from age, but action ; some die old at forty, other in puts at fvurscore.—Eliza Cook's Journal. REPORTED LOSS OF THE BULLDOG. MALTA, JUNE 12.—8 y the arrival yesterday of the French steamer ludependente, news reached the island of the lois of her Majesty's steamer Bulldog, en route from Civita Vecchia to Leghorn. Although no cfficial information of the di9aster has been received, the place of her loss, off Point Piombino, near Elba, is given with such precision as to cause considerable anxiety in the minds of the relatives of the officers and men residing in Malta. On the 23, the day on which the last Advices were re ceived from Civita Vecchia', she was lying there, and Captain Key was watching the movements of the French against tho Rimans with much anxiety. Indeed every thing leads to the belief that the Bulldog could not quit her station, except for the Tiber, until Ro me h a d f a ll en, and then rho would be dispatched to Malta with the news. MEMORANDA OF A MUSICIAN. BY GEORGE J. 0. ALLMANN. " Notes, notes, forzooth, and noting !" SIIAKSPERE. No. XIV. ZINGARELLI. On one of Rossini's visits to the Conservatorio at Naples, the seminary of the world's greatest musicians, he is said to have rather abruptly demanded of Zingarelli that master's opinion of his music. "Sir," replied the director, with his accustomed frankness, which did honour to him, "your music may please et the theatre, but it will never du for our sehooli: I have therefore considered it my duty to forbid your scores being placed in the hands of my pupils!" Rossild curled this rebuke off with a laugh, but he was evidently mortified. HANDEL. There are many records extant of Handel's charity and kindness of heart. At the time when thousands flocked to witness the performances of his glorious and immortal work, the Messiah, he determined, with his characteristic benevolence, to have it performed annually for the benefit of the funds of the Foundling Hospital, and this as long as he lived he continued to do. The organ in their chapel was presented by him to their hospital, and he also sent as a gift a manuscript copy of the Messiah. The directors, with either a real misapprehension, or a simulated one, supposing from the nature of the gift that it conveyed to them an exclusive right to the per formance of the work, were so foolish as to resolve to apply to the Houses of Parliament for an Act to confirm it. The first thing, however, to be done previously to taking such a step was to apply to Handel, as being a necessary party to their application, for his concurrence, and a deputation accordingly weited upon him for that purpose. But the moment after they had explained, and Handel comprehended the object of their mission, the latter's rage exeeeiled all bounds, and they were saluted with " Der teufel for vast salt de Foundling put mein oratorio in de Partments? Der dormer! mein moosic sail not go to de Partments." And the discomfited mes sengers were compelled to make a hasty retreat, not the least incitements to which were the dishing (les and brawny arms of cur in ,, dern Timotheus. HENRY PURCELL. - - - - If there be any tame beyond !hat, of all others which merits to be treasured up with the most affectionate remembrance and with the holiest veneration in tie , hearts—in the heart's most sacred shrine—of his country men, as the foremost among English musicians, it is the Mane of HENRY PURCELL! Occupying, conventionally, with other illustrious masters, the first raok in this country, but, in the truest and most extended sense of the term, rising and towering above all, he stands un approachable!—alone! ---to none is the "Divine Art" under so heavy an obligation as to his indirltual exer tions. No musician ever started into life with a larger endowment of the ethereal fire to support and improve that art than Henry Purcell. He was ens whose memory will endure and works exist " for all time!" Belonging to no era, he crested an epoch, which in his own times he raised to the most memorable mention. Notwithstand ing his own profound comprehension of the science, his deep lore of its funda men t a l rules, in quoting the sonorous words of Bacon we may say of him, "Ills understanding beat upon his heart," and there is always to be discovered, amid all its won derful strength and power, and sublimity, and amid his rich and massive colourings and beauty, a simple grandeur of outline, a delicate and exquisitely pathetic refinement, a fanciful and graceful form of idea as inexhaustible and varied as were the subjects on which he exerted his genius. Judge him by the very highest standard, and in every way will lie be found to be more than worthy of his undying fame. His life was like the flash of a meteor, short but dazzling in its brilliancy. Cut off by the Destroying Angel in the flower of his age and in the loftiest vigour of his intellect, he was a man who, if he had been spared a longer life, would alone have possessed suffi cient power to bestow on his country the first rank in the scale of musical nations—a man giited with so mighty a genius that what he might have achieved can only be resolved by futile conjecture. In him we lost one who would have been able to define and charactetiie the English School of Music—now lost—and perhaps fur ever. Well may we exclaim in the language of 27llneas: " Ostendent terris huac tantum fata, nequc ultra Esse sinent CIMAROSA When be wished to compose rapidly would invite a number of friends to pass the evening with him. Con , versing with one, laughing with a second, thinking with a third, and joking with a fourth, he would in one night write the outline of eight or tea charming melodies, in some instances even scoring them, and this surrounded by all the noise which rarely fails to bo attendant on the conviviality of a few "choice spirits" collected together. MOZART. During the period the immortal Mozart was engaged at Vienna superintending the production of his opera which was rendered into the Italian—l a Leila lingua—by Da Ponte from the celebrated Marriage de Figaro of Beaumarchais, two other composers were preparing operas for representation, one named Regini, the other Selieri, whose work was called La Grotta di Trophonio. The struggle between these two inferior composers was that they should complete their scores about the same time as Mozart, in order to obtain a prior representation. They did contrive to complete their respective works a few days before Mozart finished his opera. Each mu sician claimed the right of producing his opera before the others. The contest excited much discord, and a species of partizanship was formed which espoused the cause of one or the other of the rivals. The characters of the three composers were singularly unlike. Mozart, as touchy and dangerous as Pi ofessor Scbisnbein's guncotton, vowed that if his work were not produced first, he would throw the score into the flames—his claim was advocated by a very strong party. But, while Regini who, possessing but little interest, was secretly working to undermine the enemy's strength, Saber', Capellmeister to the Court, and withal a shrewd, clever man, possessed of "crooked wisdom," as Bacon calls it, was backed by three of the principal artists, who formed a cabal, to extinguish which in those days, even as now, was no cosy task. Every one took a id e i n t hi s i mportant teed t ill Majesty put a n en d to the m i g h ty coolest, whose aid h e i nvoked to narrate, by issuing a mandate that Mozart's Le N ozze d i Fi garo .1 otu r or whichh e i the lm ep m igh t e s almLav e mer i te d t h e pen of f ost should take precedence, and it was accordingly put in rehearsal forthwith. At the first dress rehearsal, with complete orchestra, the immortal composer jumped about the stage in an eestacy—or an agony—which of excitement, now giving the tempo to the orchestra and then snatching the book from some singer's hand, en deavouring to sing his part to show the effect he intended. While Benucci, who was the Figaro, was singing the " Non piu andrai farfallona anaoroso," Mozart repeatedly cried out " Bravo, bravo! Benucci," as that singer rendered the world .famous aria with the greatest anima tion and tours de force; but when Benucci arrived at the passage, " Cherubino! alts vittoria! alla gloria militar!" which he sang with all the wonderful power of voice he possessed, the effect was electrical, for the whole of the performers on the stage and in the orchestra, besides the audience admitted to witness the rehearsal, as if actuated by one simultaneous feeling of rapture, vociferated " Bravo, bravo! Maestro! Viva, viva! grando Mozart!" And the little body with the great soul acknowledged, by repeated obeisances, its thanks for these enthusiastic signs of applause with which they distinguished him. At the finale to the first act the same meed of their de light was bestowed on him; and so was it at the ter mination of the first public performance of the opera, for the auditory appeared as if they would never cease applauding and calling for its composer—almost every piece was redemanded, which prolonged it to the length of well nigh two operas, and induced the Emperor to issue a command on the second representation that no part should be encored. Never were success and triumph more complete or more striking than on the occasion of Mozart's opera, and the numerous and overflowing audiences which have since that time hailed its per formance amply prove how greatly they held in estima tion Le Nozze di Figaro. ROSSINI. There is a great deal of waggerfmixed with a strange jumble of good nature and bonhommie pertaining to the character of the gran maestro. In the letters which he wrote to his mother at Bologna (he was a good son and a most punctual correspondent) ho was accustomed to draw a smaller or larger figure of a flask (fiasco) at the side of the account of any of the myriad operas be pro duced, there by to indicate the degree of failure which the work had experienced. The reader should be apprised that fare fiasco is the cant phrase with the Italians for a failure. LEOPOLD MOZART. Of the father of th e " G re at Mozart" very little is known, his nam e h av i ng b een ec lipsed by that of his wondrously-gif te d son. He was born at Augsburg in th© year 1719. It i s supposed his early studies in the art of music were pursued at Salzburg, at which place lie afterwards domesticated, and in 1748 his name appears on the list of musicians of the Archbishop's Court and chapel. He was a very excellent performer on the violin and was considered a contrapuntist of more than ordinary skill. Ho was the author of a work printed in 1758, called " Versuch enter Giiindlichen Violin Schule" (Essay en a Fundamental Violin School), which was much quoted at the time, and which from the testimony of competent judges, possesed very considerable merit, insomuch as to be used throughout Germany towards the middle of the eighteenth century in many schools. Leopold Mozart was also the composer of some oratorios and church music, as well as a number of dramatic pieces. He was appointed Capellmeister to the Arch. bishopric of Sal z b urg i n 1762, an d died universally re gretted and respected. ROYAL MUSICIANS. It is a fact n o l ess s i ngular than true t h a t t h e f avour i te musicians of three Querns tell a sacrifice to their position a nd the vengear ce which the suspicion that attached to it entailed, and this within the space of half a century. Mark Silicate!), lutenist to Anne Boleyn, was executed in 1536; Thomar Abel, musician to Queen Katharine of Arragon, was hanged and quartered in 1540, and David Rizzio, the favorite of Mary, Queen of Scots, was butchered in 1566. The first uamk d entertained a deep but hopeless passion for his Queen, but that was not sufficient to avert the doom which overtook him. Anne was wont to treat him at times so haughtily and at others with such a palpable tenderness of manner, that if it did not prove she suspected his secret, it was the mode by which it was revealed to others. Well had it been for Smeaton had he sung to his lute— Tell her no more, ye fairy-focited airs, Whose pinions oft have swiftly borne away— Like viewless lightning on a summer's day— The sighs that 'scape my bosom unawares! Tell hur no more who heedeth not nor cares For him whose Passion ne'er hath known decay, That still I love her;—Bear not to hur feet Despairing worship that I fain would hide Fri:ion her who its ',Motion would deride, Though 't must endure while my poor heart cloth beat. Wind:! soft and gentle—by these smothered tears, The accents which my depth of love reveal From their fair Cause! oh haply still conceal, Nur waft my secret to my queenly Mistress' ear! (G. J. 0. A.) STATE OF LOINDON. (From Punch.) (Translated from a French Paper.) LEICESTER• tiQUARE, THURSDAY.—CIatters aro fast drawing to a head here. If anything, the aspect of affairs is more threatening. Yesterday the authorities being informed of an intended rising in the Rue de Fleet, the most extraordinary precautions were taken to prepare for, and to crush it. No less than three patrols of gendarmes, numbering at least half•a-dczen men in each, perambulated the Place de Trafalgar, and the Pont Vaterlieu. The " beadles" of the " Arcade Burlington" end the Colonnade d'Opera" wore sup plied with sandwiches to last twenty-four hours. The splendid corps of " Street Orderlies" were furnished with new brooms, and lay under arms all night, ready, at a moment's notice, to sweep the streets. Several serious erneutes took pface. The fint was a desperate engagement between two gamins about a negge-toppe. In this reconnaissance, according to the Poste du Matin, ono received a bloody nose, but this fact is disbelieved in the best informed circles. I applied at the Bureau d'Horne Office upon the subject, bat could obtain no accurate information. Many of the shops in the Rue Regent were illuminated in the evening. The reectionists would have us believe that this was merely for the pur pose of lighting their rooms and selling their wares. Small groups were seen round the sentries at the gates of the Gardes de Horse, in their mairie at " Whitehall," but although many suspicious looking Lursery-ruts lingered about the place, no further attempt appears to hare been made to dismount the sentries. In justice to these noble fellows, I must add that they endured the continued gaze of the populace with ad mirable sang Iroid, although one of them is reported to have b , 7eu detected in winking at a female democrat. Marshal Blazeaaay is charged by the Government to institute a searching inquiry into this mysterious affair. I may mentio❑ that thero is co truth in the report that Sergeant-Major Bushy (lately elected deputy for the department of Lower Plinliceau) intends to impeach Ministers. The clubs were, as usuA frequented throughout the day by many idle loungers—all persons not members were rigidly excluded. Matters assumed a very serious aspect about mid night. B?lnds of young men—many of them dressed ala gent," marched in out es and fours along the streets, surrounding the Cellare Cidere and the Palace cl'Evans, chanting seditious songs, especially that begin ning Ne go home pay till morning." Several of the Condue;eurs d'Orunibus were heard to call out loudly during the day, " Bank! Bank! Cit', ! 13atde!" a sure corroboration of tray information, that an attack on these places has been organized. The Queen is still most pcpuhr, but the Post•ofiice authorities report that the number of Queen's heads (many of a blood-red colour) affixed to the letters is as great as ever. A mutiny in the fleet will no doubt be hastened by the late ender of the Ministre de Marine prohibiting sailors from wearing top-boots NI hen at sea. I myself heard the fifteenth mate of the war-steamer Citizen Z grossly insulted and covered with opprobrious epithets by two 01 the class denominated bargees (they wore red worsted nightcaps). It is too true that London is on the eve of an insur rection. The first symptom of disturbance breaking the peaceful repose of Europe will be the signal for a bloody massacre here. All foreign news is completely excluded by the Go vernment. The condition of Central Europe is known only from fragments of newspapers smuggled in German sauinges. The interest felt in Italian affairs continues unabated, and the numker of Roman candles used at Vauxhall is immense. The foregoing facts are sufficient to show that a crisis is at hand, especially it we keep in mind that Ragged Schools are being establ:ehed everywhere, several model lodging-houses erected, and the baths for democrats thronged daily; that new hospitals are building, and churches endowed, and that every week witnesses a loud demand fur sanitary reform. I have hurried to close my dispatch, I am compelled to * • LATEST INTELLIGENCE.—By ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. —" M. Smith is pronounced out of danger." M. Crispe has notified his ability to remove timid persons to secure quarters. Many have in consequence gone to Paris. HAIN WELL COLLEGE FETE CHAMPETRE. We were highly gratithd en Friday by a visit to this delightful spot, and had certainly no idea that there was a possibility of so ; completely turning a school into a largo family circle as we wiinessed on this occasion. 3 Most of our readers are probably aware that the vilhge of Lianwell is charmingly situated, about seven miles from the metropolis, and is a station on the Great Western Railway. The first feeling of a stranger on arriving at the station is one of admiration as he surveys the beautiful church. The next feature in the prospect is the Collegiate School, finely situated in its own grounds of fi!ty acres in extent. On our ap proach we were most agreeably struck with the ex• hilirating sounds of music from a band placed upon the lawn, to which a most interesting group of young ladies (sisters and friends of the pupils of the college) were listening, whilst the parents were promanadiog with their children around. Another group were surrounding the natural philo sophy professor, who was just raising a balloon for their amusement, which wens up in the midst of cheers happy schoolooys only know how to give. We were most cordially welcomed by the principal, who conducted us round the establishment; and if we had been gratifie i by the exterior, we were not less so by that which we saw within. There seemed to be:everthing united to infuse a sound literary and scientific education. A series of extensive collections in natural history, tending to lead the mind from a study of the works of nature to that of the great intelligence whence all originates; whilst a large assort ment of philosophical apparatus enables the students to carry out a knowledge ot every bunch of experimental science. But we confess we were most of all interested in the exhibition ot the pupils'own industry which surrounded the walls of the school-rooms. Military plans, archi tectural designs, painting in water colours, proved that this department was under careful superintendence ; whilst the beautiful specimens of writing were highly creditable to all parties interested. The piles of books, in which the mathematical and classical exercises were entered, showed us very clearly that, although there was every desire to make the young people happy, industry was deemed one of the most efficient means of pro ducing this effect. The playground, the gymnasium, &c., &c., are all ex cellently adapted for their purpose; and we were much pleased with the neatness and order of the dormitories, and the domestic arrangements generally. The festivities were kept up by the younger party in music and dancing until a late hour; and we never remem ber to have seen a greater number of happy young faces than were assembled on this occasion. It was the six teenth anniversary of the arrival of the principal at Hanwell; and we can assure him that, whilst we wish him long life, and prosperity and success to his zealous exertions in the cause of the rising generation, the gala day of the glorious Ist of June will long be remembered by us with pleasure.—Lady's Newspaper of June 9. THE WEATHER.—THUNDER-STORM.—FOF the last few days the weather has been extremely changeable in its character, and in this district a eonsiderablo quantity of rain has fallen. On Saturday the atmosphere was very heavily charged with electricity, and in the after noon we had a thunder-storm immediately ovrr the city and neighbourhood. The storm, however, was of brief duration, and was accompanied by very little rain, but flashes of lightning and peals of thunder followed each other in rapid succession, During the storm, the electric fluid struck a largo oak at Edmonstone, a few miles to the south, shattering the trunk to atoms; and so instantaneous does the work of destruction appear to have been, that the bark and parts of the trunk of the tree seem to have been scattered about before the top (which was very large) had time to reach the ground. Large portions of the trunk have been carried to dis tances varying from forty to fifty yards. Mr. Wauchope has given orders to have no part of the shattered wreck removed, and we understand that any one anxious to witness the wonderful effects of the lightning in this in stance may have an opportunity of doing so for a few days, by applying to the gardener at Edmomtone. We observe that, on the same day, thunder, accompanied by vivid lightning, was heard pealing amongst the Ochils, and that rain descended in torrents. In the evening we had several showers, while throughout the night a con siderable quantity of rain fell. Sunday was bright, and warm, but yesterday, although the wind still continued from the south-west, the air was cold, and the sky lower ing. The moisture etas very much needed by the hay crop and the young oats, and, with genial weather, will be productive of much benefit. The other crops gene rally have a promising appearance, though potatoes, especially in the west, have suffered considerably fri:rn the late night-frosts. A succession of warm days is now anxiously looked for by the agriculturists.— Edinburgh Advertiser of Tuesday. UNIVERSITY OF LONDON.—The council of this University have given notice that the annual matricula tion examination will commence on Tuesday, July 3, and terminate on Friday, July 6. For the pass" exa mination the subjects will be mathematics, English his tory, Greek classics and history, chemistry, natural phi losophy, Roman classics and history, the English lan guage. The examination for honours will commence on Tuesday, July 17, and terminate on Thursday, July 26, the subj,cts being the higher branches of mathematics and natural philosophy, chtmhtry, natural history, and classics. Rich men have commonly more need to be taught contentment than the poor.—Eliza Cook's Journal. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. (Before Mr, Wmiam, and a BeLeh of Magistretes.) Yesterday, William Miller, 59, one of those fellows who hang about the County Courts, calling thern,elves agents," was indicted for obtaining 9s. from Eharbath Mills, under false pre tences. The prosecutrix was a poor old woman, who earned a precarious subsistence as a sempstress. Some short time since she was anxious to sue a person named Smith, who was indebted to her for money lent, and the prisoner was introduced to her as an " agent" of the W Intechapel County Court, who would get an execution for her against Smith. The prisoner told her that he had been an officer of the old Court of Requests, in adaorne street, for twenty years. The pro,ocutrix, believing this statement, at once authorised him to proceed again,t Smith, and gave him 3s. to take out the summons. lle subs, querely told her that he must pay 4s. mere for the hearing. To procure this sum she was obliged to pawn her bedding, and shortly after he asked her for ss. to take out an execution against Smith, telling her that she would receive the fuel amount due to her after the execution had issued, and without havirg any occasion to attend the court at all. The prosecutrix was again obliged to pledge the remaining portion of her bedding to obtain the required sum; but instead cf receiving the amount due to her, she discovered that, though the summons hod been taken out against Smith, the cause had been abandoned. There had been no hear ing, and, as a matter of course, no execution could be obtained. The &en to the County Court proved that there were no fees paid for hearing or execution, and that nothing further than taking out the summons had been done. The jury found the prisoner Guilty. Mr. WulfAm said that it ii - El6 a most heartless fraud. It was intok rable that such persons as the prisoner should be allowed to hang about •.hese county courts, and extort money from muse poor persons who were obliged to resort to them. Tile sentence was that he be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for the term of six months. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSIOIV-HOUSE. Lieutenant Lean, the City agent of the Emigration Commissioners, attended for the purpose of bringing a charge, under the sth and 6th Vic., cap. 107, called " An Act for regulating the Carriage of Passengers in Merchant Vessels," against Mr. Sutton, a licensed emi grader' broker, who voluntorily attended to answer the matter of complaint. Alderman Wilson presided. Lieutenant Lean said the subject was one of great importance to persons who intended to emigrate. Two men and a woman bed applied to him, sating that they had paid money to Mr. Sutton for their passage to New York, per the Rose, emigrant vessel. It appeared from their representations, that the emigration broker had violated the Act in two of its important clauses iu dealing with them. In the first piece they had not given them receipts for the money in the form contained in the schedule, and, in the si cond, he had received the money without having received a written authority to act as agent for the party on whose behalf the contract for such pessege was purported to be made. These omissions we re infringements upon the 19th and 21st sections of the Act, and subjected the defendant to two penalties iu each case of lot. a head, the Act having been expressly made for the protection of the passenger from fraud or the conic quences of false pretence. It happened that the emigration ship turned out, upon examination, to be wholly unfit for the voyage, and she was accordingly ordered into dry dock for repairs, and when she would be fit to undi rtake the voyaeas was quite a matter of conjecture. The defendant, although informed of the illegality of the proceedings, had, never theless, refused to return the money to the com plainants, who seriously felt the grievance, and appealed to the Commissioners for assistance in so disagreeable an emergency. Alderman WILSON having examined the receipts given by the defendant for the amount of the passage-money, which receipts _were of the ordinary kind, and by no means such as were required 'by the Act of Parliament, and having been informed that the defendant had no written authority from the owner of the vessel to con tract for the passage of the complainants, asked what answer Mr. Sutton was prepared with? The defendant said he did not mean to deny anything which he had done. He certainly had received the money, and given the receipts produced, and he had no written authority from the owner of the ship to act as agent; but he considered himself perfectly justified in the course he had pursued, and was wholly at a loss to find anything in the Bill at all tending to show any obligation upon his part to return the money. Alderman Wlnsteet-Hove can you be justified in acting in direct violation of the Emigration Act? Mr. Sutton—My licence is my authority. I contend that I have carried out the Act of Parliament, by en tering into a contract as agent for the complainants, and that the section you have quoted has no reference to any person but the passenger. Alderman WILSON—Your construction of the Act of Parliament is so palpably erroneous, as to amount to an imputation of actual stupidity. I advise you to go to some one capable of advising you. Mr. Sutton—l look upon the Act in quite a different light, and I am determined to appeal against your deci sion. I am anxious to have the point settled, and have no idea of shirking the responsibility. To show that I had no intention of doing wrong, when the Rose was found incapable of going the voyage, I entered into con tracts for the passage of the complainants in the Pioneer. Alderman WiLsow—Have you got the written autho rity of the owner to act as agent in that instance? Mr. Sutton—No. Alderman WILSON—Then you are subject to double penalties. Mr. Sutton—l am willing to take the responsibility in all the cases. Lieutenant Lean said he had in vain endeavoured to prevail upon the defendant to come to arrangements, to prevent the inconvenience which must result to the com plainants from the delay. Alderman WensoN—l perceive that the case is out of my jurisdiction, but I hope the defendant will see the necessity of returning the passage money to these poor people, and not render an application to the magistrates of the Thames Police necessary. Mr. Sutton—l don't mean any offence, but I assure you, Sir, that I expect, upon my return home, to find some persons waiting to be suprlied with a passage to New York, and it is my determination to act for them just as I have acted for these people. Alderman WILSON—In dope Lieutenant Lean will at once apply to the Thames police magistrates, who know well how to deal with such a case, and that he will not forget to mention the defendant's expressed determina tion to repeat the offence of which he certainly has been guilty in directly violating the Act. The Act was made tor protection against such conduct as that upon which I have animadverted, and the case most strongly proves how necessary it is to be stringent upon agents. The defendant is liable to penalties to the amount of 801., and if I had authority he should feel the consequence of the threat to continue in an illegal course. Lieutenant Lean said he certainly would act upon the Alderman's suggestion. GUILDHALL. Mr. Robert William Rickard, of Harpur-street, Red Lion-square, surgeon, was brought up before Aldermen Gibbs and Carden, for final examination, on the charge of uttering two forged receipts for rent. Mr. Humphreys attended to prosecute; and Mr. D. W. Wire, of the firm of Wire and Child, defended the prisoner. The first witness called was Mr. Hugh Hughes, of No. 6, Portland-place, Clap• ham-road, who said I am one of the deacons of the Welsh chapel; I took the receipt for the Lady-day quarter to the landlord—he said it was a forgery. I saw it taken off the file which is kept in an iron chest in the cupboard in the Welsh chapel-house. There are three persons who keep the keys of the cupboard, but Mr. Edwards had the one belonging to the chest, and I saw him open it a few nights ago. This is the receipt which was taken off the file, and I marked it. Mr. Wire—How do you know it. Mr, Hughes—l am satisfied about it, as I had it in my possession from Monday evening to the Friday evening, when I marked it. Mr. Wire—The prisoner was connected with your chapel for some time. Mr. Hughes—He was. Mr. Wire—Were there any disputes between him and some other members? Mr. Hughes—There has been a lawsuit between him and Mr. Davis, one of the deacons, but it has no connexion with this transaction. Mr. Morgan Jones, of 2, Union-place, Pimlico, slate merchant, said I am connected with the chapel in Jewin crescent. I was with Hughes when he went to Mr. Lilly. I was in the room when Mr. Hughes got the receipt. It was at a meeting of the elders. This is the receipt of the Lady-day quarter. When we returned I put this mark on it. Mr. Alderman Genns asked Mr. Wife what defence he had to make. Mr. Wire—There is no case against Mr. Rickard. I take it that there ought to be evidence to show that he uttered the documents, knowing them to be forgeries, for the purposes of fraud. There is an utter absence of evi dence to prove that offence, or that he even knew them to be such. Alderman GIBBS—But they are vouchers which turn out to be forgeries. Mr. Wire—But the first document is disposed of, as be paid the Christmas rent. Mr. Humphreys—l must disabuse Mr. Wire's mind on that point, and inform him that they were both for genies. Alderman GIBBS—Mr. Lilly, who paid you the two last quarters' rent? Mr. Lilly—Mr. Rickard paid the last, and his wife the previous one. All the receipts before that time, which are now produced, are in my handwriting. Alderman GIBBS—Upon the evidence before me I shall commit the prisoner for trial. Mr. Wire—Then it is useless to address you; but you have the discretionary power of admittingtr cireum my client to bail, which I hope you will do, as at th stances will come out that will throw a the trial very diffeteut light on the whole transaction. Alderman GIBBS —I don't feel inclined to do sO. Mr wire—lie i s is professional man, and it will be he vz ew un t w o l o 'lli w bg en to w a h r a ld t impression his admitting him his ruin. Alderman Genus said, be have on th e to the severity of the case. wbuats to bail would minds of a jury, namely, that the magistritte had st doubt in the case, and therefore he must decline acceding to Mr. Wire's application. The prisoner was then conveyed to Nevvgate. L.4IIIBETII, ROBBERY FROM THE PERSON. —A you wernan, with an infant in her ar ms , named Louisa Lloyd, was placed at the bar charged with stealing µ purse contain ft lo siding at Peckg ten solereigbacone flow the pe reon et Mr. W.-Buteeer ; , The complainant stated t h at the previous night ho was Rassing along the Kent-road , when he met ( the prisoner, and acc 9 • ' mPanted her into Surrey-square. BIRTHS On the 18th inst., in n ere f or d- z treet, the Viscountesa Villiers, of a son. On the 18th inst., at Orford-terrace, Hyde-park, the lady of G. Hotham, Esq., of a sou. g io i t i n n e fi n e t i d , .o r f oa a d d , On the 18th inst., at Glocester-terrace, On the 17th inst., at the Node, Welwyn, the wife of W. lady of H. W. Eaton, Esq., ofadauhter. Reid, Esq., of a son. At Folkstone, Kent, on the 17th inst., the wife of Captain the wife G e o n r n g e theE J. Robert Kenyon, Esq., of o f O W n . t B. .J l ll a 7 7 l t t tn i i h i t c h ii i s e i n ,: s :E t ts : s:q t da h , t e ß o I i f e l v i a f e s o o n f . a daughter. IRabiitgeaer..ll:lB:ll ark, the On the 7th inst. at Lrechi, Lieutenant William Fraser. 44th Regiment Madras Native n Infantry, to Helen, daughter of Dr. Guthrie, i.reehin. On the 4th inst., at Tywardrenth, Charles Edward, second sKirby, on of the Rev. George itashleigh, M A., vicar of Horton Ke t, to Charlotte Hinxtuan, eldest daughter of W. F- ,of A:enabilly, Cornwall. DIED On the 16th inst, at Woudhill, near Guildford, William Ait:she, Esq., aged 64. On the tith inst., at Wickham-hall, West Wickham, Rent, Henry Gayer', Esq., aged 42. On the 17th inst., the 'lel:. Charles Richard Pritchett, 25 years reader at the Charter-h , use, and 14 years rector of Little Ilallingbury, Essex, aged 63. On the ltqh inst., at Onslow-square, Brompton, Lady C. F. Smith. On the l;qh inst., at Canonbury-square, Islington, Mr. J. N. Warner, pged tB. On tl.e 15th irst., at Cheltenham, John Thomas Evans, late CAptain Ist Dragoon Guards, second and youngest son of J. Evans, Esq., of Hertford-street, .alaytair. PrintkAl and PubliAed YtiUlC(.4, of .N.). 112, :strand, Priuter, at Ike £Sun 0. 112, t , nd, in the Precinct of - the Savoy, in tt o co un t y of Bliddlesex, Thursday, June 21,1848, Ile had not been there more than five minutes before ho missed h:s purse containing the money, which WAS in his !eft hand pocket safe a few mi:aites b&c,re. The pri s ncr, upon b:ing, taxed with the robbery, run away, and whhe b 0 doing fell down and cut the left side of her face. Police-constable M 206, he ring the cries of " Stop thie`," cau:;ht the prisoner, and reftf rwards found the money upon the spot where he stopped her. The prisoner, who had nothing to say in her defence, was committed for trial. W ORSHIP. STREET. Joseph Johnson Coload, alias Smith, and William Hall CUM, alias Clarke, alias hilt, who stood charged with having obtained goods by means of fraudulent repre sentations, to the amount of 1561. 13a., from Mr. Henry Dymond, whdesale gut!a percha boot and shoe manu facturer, in Re,..;ent-street, City-road; and also with hav ing uttered two forged bills of exchange, for 211. 7s. and 221. Bs., in part payment of the same, were placed at the bar, before Mr. Arnold, for further examination. In cunstqtr-rice of the publicity which had been given to the fe,et of their epprehenidon, a large number of tradesmen and other persons, who had had dealings with tho prisoners, were in attendance to prefer charges against them. — Further evidence having been given, Sergeant Dutois said that, since the last examination he had received a letter f.om Mr. Hodge, deputy con stable of Wolverhampton, apprising him that he held a warrant for the apprehension of the prisoner Brown, who had absconded from that place about two years since, after defrauding tradesmen to the extent of nearly 300/ ; and he was also in communication with various other firms in town who bad promised to attend on a future dly and substantiate other charges, embracing both fraud and forgery, against both prisoners. The prisoners, who were advised by Mr. Vann and another solicitor who appeared on their behalf to reserve their defence, were accordingly remanded for a week. THE COUNTRY ARKETS. NEWCASTLE CATTLE MARKET, JUNE 19.—Since this day se'nnight the arrivals of fat cattle from Edinburgh and the counties on the north-east coast of Scotland, into this town by rail and sea, have been about 250 head. Also a good season able supply from the border counties, both of which are of a very superior quality ; and a large supply of sheep and lambs for the time of year. The former is fully an average in point of quality, while the latter is only very indifferent. The supply of beef will comprise about 560 head of beasts, there being a good attendance of both local and distant buyers, together with the cool state of the weather, all breeds are in active request, and a clearance will be effected. The supply of sheep and lambs is 6,000. The mutton trade is tolerably active at former rates, 3et a considerable quantity remains on hand, while lambs are excessively heavy, at a decline from id to Id per lb from last week. Prices—Beasts, prime Scots, 6s 3d to 6s 51 ; middling, 6s; good steers, 6s; middling 5s 6d to 5s 9d ; inferior beasts, 5s per stone of 141 tis Sheep, 5d to sid; lambs, 6d to bid per lb sinking the offal. EDINBURGH MEAL MARKET, JUNE 19.—There were in the market to-day 74 sacks oatmeal, each weighing 2801bs imperial, whereof 63 sold thus: —0 at 11 lOs Od, 25 at 119 s 6d, 21 at 11 9s Od, 6 at It 8s 6d, 11 at 11 Es Od, oat 1/ 7s 0(1. Average price of the whole, 118 s lld 8-I2ths. 8 sacks flour, whereof 2 acid at 31s, 0 at 30s, 3 at 295, and 3at 28s. 6 sacks barleymeal, none sold. 1 sack pea..‘emeal, which was not sold. 24 sacks pot barley, whereof 15 sold thus: —I at IlBs Od, 2 at It 5s Od, latl/ 4s 6d, 3atl/ 3s Od, Batlc is Od. 1 sack brosemral, which sold at 275. EDINBURGH HAY AND STRAW MARKET, JUNE 19. Supplies of ail kinds moderate. Oat straw, from 6s Od to 7s Od per kemple of 16 stones tron ; wheat ditto, 5s 6d to 7s Od ; barley ditto, 5s Od to 7s ed. Hay from 7d to 9d per stone. BELFAST, Julia 18.—The supplies of grain and oatmeal at this day's market are moderate, and prices remain unchanged. Indian corn is in good request, at prices nomi, rally as on Friday. Wheat, 9s Od to lOs 6d ; oats, 6s 90 to 7s 6d ; oatmeal, 12s Od to 12s 10d ; yellow corn, 81 Od to 81 15s Od ; white, 81 12s 6d to 81 15s Od. Oatmeal is also a small supply, and yet prices are 3d lower. turn lower, and a dull sale at 7d to 7,-(1 per lb. Indian corn a slow sale to-day, at a small abatement in value. Potatoes, per stone, 19d to Is; ditto, per cwt, 5s 4d to 6s Od. Fruit—Apples, per dozen, 6d to 9d; pears, per ditto, Od to Od; grapes, per lb., 8d to 10d; lemons, per dozen, Os 9d to Os 10d; nuts, per quart, 6d to 8d; wall-nuts, per hundred, Is to is 3d; chest nuts, per ditto, Is Od to Os ; cocoa nuts, 6d to 8d each; American apples, 10d to ls Od per dozen ; mixed pickles, 10d to Is. Butchers' Meat— beef, per lb, 4d to 7d ; mutton, 5d to 7d; veal, 6d to 7d ; lamb, 5s Od to 6s Od per quarter. Fish—Trout, Os 6d per lb ; brett, 3s Od to 4s Od ; soles, Is to 2s Od per pair. Poultry—Fowls, 2s 6d to 3s a pair ; chickens, is 6d to 2s per pair; ducks, Os to 2s 6d per pair ; turkeys, 03 to Os each ; geese, Os Od to Os Od ; egg's per doz, 5d to 6d. Hay, is 2d to 2s Od; straw, oat, 9d to is 2d ; ditto, wheat, 8d to is Od per cwt. BANBRIDGE, JUNE 18.—Oatmeal, from 12s Od to 12s 64 per cwt ; Indian meal, 9s 6d to 9s 9d per (cwt ; flour, first, per 1121bs, 15s 6d ; second, 14s Od ; third, 12s Od ; fourth, 9 5 6d; bran, 6s Od ; wheatmeal, 12s 6d to 14s Od ; wheat, from Os Od to Its Od per ewe of 1121bs ; oats, from 7s 4d to 73 641 per cwt of 1121bs; barley, 7s 6d to 8s Od per cwt; best butter, firkin, at the scale, 6;14 per lb ; roll, Od to 6id per lb ; beef, 3d t o bd ; mu tt on, 4 d to 6d ; potatoes, for seed, Os Od to Os Od per cwt ; for table, from 6s Od to Os Od per cwt ; hens, 10d to is Od each ; chickens, I° d to Is 2d per pair ; ducks, Is 10d to 2s 4d ; turkeys, 2s 6d to 3s Od each ; geese, 2s 4d to 2s 9d ; eggs, hen, 5d to Od per dozen ; duck, Od to 6d per dozen ; turk e y, 10d to Os per doz w en t t goose, 030 d to is 6d ; hay, upl a nd, f rom i s 8d to 25 Pe ditto, lowland, from Os Od to Is 4d; s traw, from Od - to r d l c O a d; .. turnips, Od to is 8d ; pork, male at market this lamb, from Od to 7d per lb. W e i g ht of bread at Hamiltyern: Moore's bakery, 4lbs for sd. Old grain whiskey , at l‘l Robert Belt's, 6s 3d per gallon, duty paid. BALLYMENA, JUNE IC—Oats, 7s Od to 8s Od; oat meal, 123 Od to 12s 9cl per cwt ; butter, 7d ; beef, 3d to 6d per lb ; mutton, 3d to 6d ; flour, first, per cwt, 18s Od ; second, 175 Od; third, 15s Od inferior third, 13s Od ; fourth, 10s Od ' • bran, Os Od to 6s 8d; I n di an mea l, w hi te , per cwt, 9s 6d to lOs ; yellow, 9s 6d to 10s Od; potatoes, 3s Od to 6s Od per cwt; hay, is 3d to 2s Od per cwt; American flour, 30s ptr barrel; tallow, 4s Od to 5s 4d per stone; flax, 4s to 63 6d ; straw, 8d to lld ; hides, 2s 6d to 6s Pd each ; pork, 35s Od to 41s Od per nvit; turnips, 8d to is per ditto; carrots, Os to is per ditto ; beans, 5s 9d to 6s 6d; grey peas, 6s 6d to 7s 6d. COAL MARKS' Ord's Redheugh 'Canfield Moor 12s Ed Wylain Wall's End, &c Gosforth Eden Main Bell Hetton Morrison l4s 9. llartlepool l7s Od Heugh llail 15s 9d ESTERPAY. South Hartlepool lss 3d Adelaide Tees lss 9d 'Cowndon Tees 143 9d Richardson's Tees 14s Od Seymour Tees south Durham l4s 9cl Tees DerwentwaterHartley 14s 3d Nixon's Merthyr 20s Od Ditto, C, rdiff Ships at market, 28. MILTON A TRUE HERO.—Nincl Milt on approaches nearly to my conception of a true hero. What a picture have wo of that sublime old man, as—sick, poor, blin d, and abandoned of his friends—h e still held fast his heroic integrity ; rebuking with his unbending republicanism the treachery. cowardice, and servility of his old associates I Ho had outlived the hopes and beatific visions of bis youth ; he had seen the loud mouthed advocates of liberty throwing down a nation's freedom at the foot of the shameless, debauched, and perjured Charles the, Second—crouching to the harlot-thronged court of the tyr , nt, and forswearing at once their religion and their republicanism. The executioner's axe bad been. busy among his friends. Vane and Hampden slept tea their bloody graves, Cromwell's ashes had been draggel from their restiag-place ; for, even in death, tbk effeminate monarch hated and feared the conqueror CE Naseby and Marston-moor. He was left alone in age, and penury, and blindness, oppressed with the knowledge that all which his free soul abhorred had returned upon. his beloved country. Yet the spirit of the stern old re publican remained to the last unbroken, realising the: truth of the language of his own Samson 11 gonistes : " Patieuce is the exercise Of saints, the trial of their fortitude, Making them each their own deliverer, Aud victor over all That tyranny or fortune can idEct." c T o r u u n e t , r y . t h e n overwhelming and atheismcurse had n sate go in e t o h v e e r h i h g i t s L places, and the curses of wantons and the jests of buf foons regulated the measures of a Government which. had just ability enough to deceive, just religion enough. to persecute. But while Milton mourned over this' disastrous change, no self-reproach mingled with his, sorrow. To the Jest he had striven against the op- pressor, and when confined to his narrow alley, a pri soner in his own mean dwelling, like another Prome theus on his rock, he still turned upon him an eye Or unsubdu; d de fiance.—People's Journal. RUTLAND TE STIMONIAL .—A mee ti ng wa s held at Leicester, on Saturday, for the purpose ot agreeing t ° aa address to be presented to the Duke of Rutland, on. attaining the fiftieth year of his lieutenancy of Leices tershire; and for the purpose of deciding on the appro priation of upwards of 1,4001., which had been subscribed for a " Rutland Testimonial." A congratulatory ad dress having been agreed to, it was further resolved—, " That a bronze statue of the Duke of Rutland,on es ! granite pedestal, be erected i n th e mar ket-place, iieie ter, provided a site can bo procured for the same." It happens in conversation as in different gamee. One person seems to excel, till another dot a better, and we then think no more of the first.—Eliza Cook's Journal.