The Sun. — London, England, 1842-07-16 00:00:00

, r and ibt - I 1 ve to se ega le e the e-yeeleg, in • rete, tea jthe House htight'Ve•erive ,he 101 l ter the protection of her s r e stes pers'en • h.ch he underetood was to be sent down by the Loe c K, The Messengri'from he Lords wre then called, and the delivered,' wi s th two - men ments, e whieh, After a few worts front the SOLICITOR-GENERAL *ere agre e d to without eisenssien. SUPI'LY. firmee again went itito Cr mmittee on the vote of fur t M 'fo r the expense of printing, - binding, and stationery • a ro "" - sesieral Government. Departments in Epgland. Scotland, et a nd. and the Colonies, and lor printing for the two Houses , h. ar lianient.—The vote was agreed to. c i ls 'u rg e e4 stim rat 22,000/. was then voted to defray the law th e sum et 102 8751. was voted to defray the expenses o eonviet establishment at home and at Bermuda. rh 2t ue Z it o o/. was voted to d e f ra y the charges and expenses of " A nviet esta b l i s h ments of N ew S out h W a l es . v 'e of 25,000/. for the expenses of captive cegroes and ated i tee icans was then agreed to p er ' s !'he vote of 11,311/. being proposed for the salaries of I,"°s { HIND in the care of public recm ds, e 'r H E called. the attention vi the House to .he ari Lug un fi nished publications of the Record Cornmissiou, an d n hik s "state of the work ent:tledlii,eorians of Britain,' WitS undertaken by the command of his late Majesty h: ' ' r g e IV. The conducting of this wotk was enousted to the ee !ms of the late Mr. Petrie, and one volume of it bad been II An expense of 1 9 ,004. s uss incurred, and he believe•i 4 ,13 °°( ' 1 . more would be sufficient to finish the work. ee ; GRA HMII saiheubject to which bis Hon. -en d called the attentio d n t of s he* House, was one of much enrurO and nationel imeortanee. He understood that one ,„ ume of the Aecient Historians was completed, and that the e Te"nd had been left incomplete when Mr. Petrie &ed. It o Tu t l i d i beethe ditty o f the Go , ernu:ent, acting with the Keeper t Pudic Recce ds, aed Sir Henry Ellis, to censide r Pr 'ether it would not be desirable that the publication shou ld se& With respect to ot h er pu bli ca ti o ns, he should adopt l ' a s e, ueurse porsued by the late Government, and below the ter.riteendati on o f L or d L ang d a l e . After A liort cenvenation, the vote was agreed to. of 30,000/. for the expenses of public education in ~rtat• Br i t a i n, was then proposed. it e l f' E' ART thought that this grant was miserably small; ste appr obrium of our etimtes. He wised to hnow lar ßet ' tha er h it sea, the intention of s the a Government to h move fir a tem. or to apply it on any new principle? s tet the CHANCELI.OR of the EXCHEQUER said it was sr ; tue intenti on o f t h e G overnmen t t o p ro po s e any larger re epr k thi s . ot.r. y ear ; and it would be appropriated in the usual • .ref:ll,. MILNER GIBSON thought that the sum was much t ow Mall. He believed also that the system of education foi l*: aced in the national schools was most unsatisfactory. It ap thered that f ew or no books were read i n these seltools, except st hible and Catt chism. The Hen. Gentleman here quMed 16„"tetnent f the Hon and Rev. Baptist Noel, as to the un tie:me, results of this system in narrowing the melds of the wren would .e was persuaded that the ilan of national edu wnuld never be placed on a impel- basis until the schools Wit c ° P e n , d equally to child , en of all persuasions, and taken ill the the h ands of clergymen o f any part i cu l ar d enom i n ati o n. tUti' s -r r . PROTHERION also thought that the grant was tar n übject 11, when th e y cons dered the paramount importance of o • - '-' O WRING thought that the smallness of the grant in f; , • and powerful country - like this was positively disgrace,te . iteeeee Ted that the time was at hand when it would be grefly ased M s . I 'Q'; • 1110 rliEROE objected to the mode according to which ittertulUsinstructioti was given under the present system of . 'aps iel l `mr. He was opproed to dividing that instruction into Relieral , an tlgeneral. it • was most desirous that. a system of fee re ligioucinstruction should be given to the children, V -"ededlt t he general truths of Christianity, on which all an e e r ute „ e r. coo -- " s tILDERS thought that the Hou e had reason to A ti e , 1) atn that they w ere no t f urn i s h e d w ith the s ame informa- Rretted eui this subject as the House of Lords had been. He re. fir th t° say that, of the three sister kingdoms, England washy 6,0 00 e worst educated. In the town of Oldham, which contained Gen t ° i ' ',OW inhabitants, and other towns, wag§ but one bo ut , " 'chord for the education of cleldren. fie trusted that Q ov ~ i mproved system o f e d ucat i on wou ld b e a d opte d b y t h e the ;`;ment, and he b egge d t o as k th e Ri g ht H on . G e ntleman. the ,cr etary for the Home Department, whether it was of cr oon of the Gov ernmen t t o pr o po s e any grant the 8 tine Y to promote, i n conjunction with education, s tem of singing now taught at Exeter-hall ? th e J. GRAHAM said tnat he was surprised to hear leh_ t 1 ) "l• • Memb er sa y, t h at ' i n town s o f 6,000 or 7 , 000 ttnnts there were no schools. GP it C IIILDERS—GeneraI schools. . GRAHAM did not know what the Hon. ecnatl meant by general schools. All he could say ‘ l ,, ft that he believed that religious and moral education B,i A B g i ven in almost every town. As to what had been ere:', Oldham, nothing but the Hon. the veraeity . Could induce him to believe the state- Lat- 0 In answer to the Hon. Gentleman's question he t state that Government intended only to ask for tgou n g ( r ant which h a d been given jag year for education, ) f . which w ou ld be applied to those singing schools. It tits be for th..e Government t o cons id er w h et h er , on a future occasion, they would bring forward any specific -`• 'asure tOr that purpose. le e . 1. ORKE said th ere was no way i n w hi c h t h e money Could be bett er expen d e d t h an i n g i v i ng 'Llgious and moral education to the people. Mr. HUME had certainly expec ted that something l vould be done by the Go vertimetitfor the improvement ‘ l .l l national e d ucat i on. The lamentable state in which ts country was i n t hi s respect, was a reproach to the rislature. When the 11' bi" ,e most anx i ous t o esta b lish were in power, they a general and extensive t syst em of education, but they were opposed by the tY now in power. The Government would do better p: x ktid the public money on the education of the bf than on the. building of prisons, upon which sums aq„ 10 "400/. in one place, and 20,0001 in another were Pre,,. nt r cl• If they educated the people they would peisvrlL crim e , and thus do away with the necessity for r 1 ' L1 g,gk , , t „ ° ,....:‘11-orni,:a, whose name we could not leare, ' 1 1 12. 1c the pr o pri e ty o f Govern me nt d ev i s ing Wi ien en , '1 ) remedy in cases of public charities, where, I "euth . " ise „ of di s p u t e arose, the tunds thin were he for the promotion of education were expended in the Courts of Equity. Ale c (objected to what some Hon. Gentlemen t ,, gener a l re •i g i tats instruction being a d opte d it t 1,7 sch oo l s. T he i nstruct i on s h ou ld b e specific. ttirl',!Y ad mitted sectarian as well as orthodox teachers tip N •h oo t s e t , • they would have different interpretations put e v :ber,„ l ." B4 tlle texts of Scripture. and those the most, The true object of education was to train up ' t 44 3 11 so that they might in after life discharge those 4 ' 4 44' 4,2 ;1y, soberly, and honestly. Such an education N I, not, be merely secular, for persons Of the highest trir4:t: e ducation wore ()Len guilty of the 'grossest Mu~iii°lleligioue instruction w a s in s ep a rable from true 4l I tepl y; n, and no kind of mer e ly mor a l instructi o n wou ld li. 48 place r, e wers ' - ' I4I sON said that the clergy had been tried and tl • The I • . • mg e nspector,, who were themselves 11 4ti„;' 1 11) ,ell of the Church of England, regretted that in t ett w a t schools there was no real education. The child- Illi te er e taught nothing but the formularies of the the rri ue and lie hOped the torsoGonment would not allow syeSirrelin.'es to be bound clowne o hopeless and useless ti nts , '`t contended. INGLIS contled that no plan ofl duce ," 0;"411..1d, according to the Constitution, b e supperted 11 ng L s of the p u bli c in ,. vies f rom the House, which hot based upon th e pri nc ipl es of the Established I ' l 0' 1 ,7' He had heard the Noble Lord, the President bite tiCouncil, exp r e ss o pi n i ons w hi c h vier.: inconsistent t he l ise and whi c h h e hoped were also at variance with 9 Pi llion s of the rest of her Majesty's Ministers, who, 'l,'PrePteti Would not all o w that Noble Lard to be their • What he considered education was, that ;Li ' i ‘ v ils commenced in childhood, upon Christian r lti r - , l :j'ese and perfected in adult life in the Christian Owt l -1 ! under Christian ministers. He could not sit . I ,thty expressing. his gratification that her Ma- Able 4iiiist Cr,leis were nt7t following the example of their Ci e J lea. tie at the head of the Council. Rtei i •j t ; GRAHAM could not sit in silence and hear an im- Zee, ii east upon his Noble Friend the President of the . Odi er 's.that he held opinions w hi c h - his colleagues' ought to hieiv ersi e His Iti g h t H on . F r i en d ( t h e M em b er f or O xford ° Use, 1) Professed to be the greatest lover of order in the (greed an - knd yet, in a manner by no means according to order, et' to apt eches that were made in the other House.-- Se a th-Yet ]tie was a supporter of the present Government, at es ) e took the best means of sowing distension amongst e: r snd of lessening their influence, by representing them as h ilti ie with each other.— . ( Cheers. ) With respect to essi r e, peen said last evening in the House of Lords by the *te es "rat of the Council, upon a Bill sent up from this Zith be would say that his colleagues agreed entirely i th tie Noble F riend - and when the Bill came down t d tproposed in the House of Lords b u, Barone tt'atmthaid should n a h • his euort —( Cheers. ) The a t ‘ d e to what had . fallen from his r id n e t n e t of the Council, and had said that th e n itttneritst of hi e s s Noble Friend were contrary to those of `Ale ut!tablished Church. He (Sir James Graham) . would th ul. rye that hi. Noble Ft ientt had uttered those sentimeres ha n d„ 4t r e ' e nne ' t he Primate of all England, of the e Bishop of r te r aed of the whole bench of Bishops, and it they could 1 1 0 du o ere 'is" to any passage of that speech which was con -110 ttu:iltthe doetrinys of the Established Church, they would L'i'we er , elute have rei radiated them.—(Cheers.) Perhaps, tr itris e i f * the Hon . Baronet the Member for Oxford, considered ia r ti a_more e ffi cient and better guardian of the Church s:,,eet shops t hemse:ves.—( A laugh.) The Hon.. t h. O h e 1! threugheut his seoec h . dealt . in . vague general»t. 1 :"0r k ,,,1 41 )et to learn as hat specific objection the Honour Ole t. 'he ' l ,_tt to make to that spee ch. — ( Hear.) With regard ' llt ion' llu ieut 01 education, he would say, that it was the in -14, th e Government to adhere on that subject to the 4 ltitit e h '" Council of 1839.—(Cheers.) It was true that been passed by their political opponent!, but it rrl 'ght i ) t , be forgotten thrt it had been passed alter what se 's, th r , "fled a defeat—that it was the result of a compro rt'lete,„ ;t tees a which had been dictated to the late Go rtease,e 9y their politi ca l o pp onen t s —that in fact it was the h tbe Oppositittn which now constituted the Govern ins l , of London"a The Archbishop of Canterbury and t the f Qees„r were parties to it. fo e appointmen o f . Oterh ur was sul•j, et to the veto of the Archbishop o th' v sen Y• To the provisions of that minute, the present s were determined to adhere.—(Cheers.) . Under ot that minute,. o grant could be made to the (1 0 tile Foecter Hall ; and n if her Majesty's Government , ) , 4 :it ez e a ' m a lt exp e di ent to pi opose a grant to those c l asses , a e, eil, talf l icat on w ou ld b e ma d e to uar li ament f or t h a t pur ee subj ect s _UPnlemental estimate would be proposed, when s e Cet ts , , "Quid be brought regularly under discussion, and Je tt the House of Commons would be taken on the h ' - 4 ( r ( i lie- era.) If he were asked his individual opi- Are usi no' e subject of Mr. Hullah's classes, he should "es ation uu saying that he approved of them. uees 44 an in r V', 01 0 ,„ 1 •cent and a moral recreetion, and an amuse isete I,s desirable for the working classes could not be de `lasses('4l44:l(lltlon to the singing classes there were three other tterrit fur arithmetio one for writing . and one for linear e u , nu . l,l" 'rh i\ an "v . ve he couici not imagine a'nth . ini., , less excep lu, Hinese three classes. It was } -aid that this was e said no! The persons attending these classes adults and artisans.—( Hear.) The Hon. Member fel ;tea etrose traiee h arte taunted him w ith speaking as if he were under I,:ezier could assure the Hon. Member that he was 'beay s traint, and that he had endeavoured to speak, as el:4er i Lod eav oured to speak, (rankly.—( He ar , ) Th e H on . se -id that the Government ought t o propose some vedisesi.,etemote general system. Now, he knew nothing s e t c' and uts for a G overnme nt to hold ou t a h ope of souse ofe r si'Otl erki 'hen se: - .erne being carried without having -con tl2eed the details by whirai it was to hn carried into • k trte,vitalise .of the present government. e Lute oirpitcoiticla bz grii?e-dolibstra. tiihtt' art the g the notice part of the 1, or of (llear.) He itifieation :.tely after ininons. 0 11 13111, repr . e' the parties .uld proP" 3 ' vent s tones . vgard to lh , e e Lie pa,singti that at pre' trade. T he Jecasion. - d gitantitie of ,f ration of t he iv move te at of the &O le Low move.:l' s to brin!fi 9 onta Act. Eight go ,-, quer, the sued' by .• 1;-ed LIEN to to .a defer bur rade, 'h: . t. (-tit -;t01) 6 Ii 0; se 413 . make it Prjd stone) vc . ' eady coule- Right pis qtits t rd which P ort d exP 41 discover; )use in Gif t "( Is, and on ec : r Ls now 1 Ireland AP ,neurrenc e r o [man. i e j ntl ii l, l°o l,;(1 bven m s Is rirY s ' t° it IVO ey sho , 11 4 vllje r** eg" tom, ben), e submit tor:. then, t , u-I , ament ; and having done sa, to sus,ain them man ully. With regard to education, it was their intention to ad ere to ti.e minute of 1.539. The nation granted 30,0004 under that minute, for the purposes of educa tion, but that 3009/. secured the expenditure of at least 120,0001. by private individuals. for the purposes of education. He entirely agreed with the Hon Member for Tavistock, in thinking t hat cue attention should be paid to the investigation of the subject of 'he teal-appropriation of :urns which had formerly been devoted to purposes of education. It was the duty and the desire of the Government to pay the most anxious attention to the subject. It was their intention to go fully into the in vestigation, and he believed that it would be found that ample binds existed ; and if it should be necessary to apply t.) the Legislature for power to appropriate those funds to their legiti mate destination, the Government would have no hesitation in applying to Parliament for the necessary powers. Sir ft. INGLIS admitted the ju'tire of the rebuke of his Right Hon. Friend, but he pleaded in his justification the ex aa.ple of the Hoe. Member for Montrose. Mr. VERNON SMITH was rejoiced at the manner in which the Secretary of State for the Home Department had spoken out. The Hon. Member for Oxford wished Go vernment to 'ake the same ground which they had occupied in 1839 as an Opposition. He denied that the minute of 1839 was the result of any compromise. He hoped the present Government would act up to the spirit of the minute, and not suffer themselves to be driven front their purpose by the Right lion. Memb:t for Oxford, who evidently was desirous of creat ing a difference between the Fresidtnt of the Council and the Secretary of State for the Home Department. Sir JAMES GRAHAM explained. He readily retracted the word dictate, for the compromise was the result of the opposi' ion offered to the measures of the Government. Mr. \V YSE was glad to see that there was a disposition on the part of the Government to establish normal schools. They ou,:ht to insist that in all schools for , eachers, there should be established a minimum of instruction, without which no teacher sf,ouid be permitted to be'sent out fr , n) the school. Before he sat doun, he begged to express his satisfaction with the con duct of the representatives of the Government in the other Home of Parliament, and that the differences of party did nut induce a different course of policy upon this impo:tant subject. He was r. jolted to fled that there was a prospect of this country being equal to other cuuntries on the important subject of education. The tore was then agreed to. he next vote was for 4,5161. to defray the expenses of the University of London during the year ending the sth March. In answer to a que , tion from Mr. WOOD, • The CHANCELLOtt of the EXCHEQUER said there was a reduction in the amount of the vote, but that the manner in which that reduction should be made was left entirely to the Senate of the University Sir J. 'GRAHAM stated that it had been the opinion of Mr. Warburton that nothing could be more objectionable than the multiplication of salaries to the Examiners. Mr. HUME thought they ought to have had a Report on the subject before they were called on to vote such an estimate. He objected to the Members of the Senate hay ng the disposal of funds of which many of them were to be the recipients. At the present time they were quite incompetent to form an opinion of the propriety of the vote. He thought the Chan ceilor of the Exchequer would be able considerably to reduce the amount of the vole. The vote was then agreed to.. On the sum of 3,147/. being proposed to defray the expense of the School of Design. Mr. HUME askew if any Report had been drawn up of vi bat had been done in this school during the past year ? Mr. GLADSTONE stated that the l'epoit was in Prepara tion, and wooed be ' , resented in a few days. Mr. HUME thow.ht they had better postpone the vote till after the Heron had been completed,—(oh, oh.) The vote was agreed to. A vote of , 30,01)01. for the expens"s of the Revising Barris ters, for revising the list of voters for England and Wales, was put and agreed to, after a short discu%si•ni, during which . . Sir J. GRAHAM stated that it was his intention to intro duce a Keg stration Bill during the present session, which would provide an appellate jurisdiction, and would, he hoped, obviate the d,screpancy of the present Act, which had given rise to such contt aoictory decisions. The vote of 12,300/. to defray the expenses of Sheriffs, for merly charged in the civil contingencies, and to make good the defictene,es in the office of the Hemembrancer of her Majesty's Court of Exchequer, was agreed to without discus-ion. On the vote of 110,0001. to defray the expense of criminal prosecuti , ,ns, formerly taken from the County-rate, being pro posed, Cllr. HUNIE said that it was quite time this vote should be stopped. The country gentlemen had for the last two or three years had a good time of it, and thv public now ought to have their turn. They ought to go back to the good old times when this vote was paid out of the county rates • it was astonishing how easily the sticklers for existing laws and old customs abandoned their principles, when maintaining them touched their pockets. He thought the vote aught ro be postponed. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said this vote bad been fTmerly agreed to by the House on full conside ration. It was thought necessary to the administration pfjus tice that the public should pay a large portion of the expense of bringing offenders to justice. The difficulty of finding the means of prt.setution, had been attended with an increase of crime, and for that reason the Government had to pay one-half of the expense charged upon the county-rate for that purpose. The expense was formerly taken out of the poor-rate, and if the Hon. Member threw it back upon this fund he would not work a very popular change. Mr. HUME said the question was not whether the change would be popular, but whether it would be just. Uhat he complained of was, that the Government had nu check or con trol 0, er this expenditure. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the accounts were properly audited every year by the Government. Alr. HUME said that was not the question ; it was ac power of directing what was to be the expenditure in the first place, not the auditing it afterwards. The vote was then agreed to. 10,9001. for the subsistence of Polish refugees was s ated without discussion or opposition. On the vote of 4,740/. being proposed, to enable the Trustees of the British Museum to purchase certain collections of anti quities and natural objects, Dr. BOW RING asked whether the collections to be pur chased could not be included under one vote, instead of being put down separately ? Lind STANLEY said the vote was for the annual amount of the purchases, and it was impossible to foresee under what Leads the different items would come. After a short conversation the vote was agreed to. A vote of 30,0001. to aefray the expenses of the steam corn. munication with India by the flea sea was agreed to. 3,1101. was voted for the civil establishment of the Bahama Islands. 8,1881. for the civil establishment of the Bermudas. 3,0701. no Prince Edward's Island. 10 : 680/. for the establishment on the western coast of Africa W 33 agreed to. 7,099/. for the establishment of Western Australia was agreed to after a short discussion. On the sum of 13415/. being proposed to defray the charges of the Ecclesiastical Establishments in the British Provinces in America and New Zealand, Mr. V. SMITH trusted that the Government would with draw this vote, in order to bring it before the House in some more subitantive shape,by which the general principle of esta blishing Bishops in the Colonies, to be supported by this coun try, should be fully discussed. Lord STANLEY was surprised at the observations that had beer. made by the Right Hon. Gentleman, because the present vote was proposed in consequence of the suggestion of Lord John Huss it, when Secretary for the Colonies, and when the present Government came into office they thought they were bound to adopt the act of their predecessors, and being of that opinion, hey had proposed the present vote. Mr. HUNIE though , . the House ought not to sanction the outlay of public money in this way ; and if Lord John russell ha , t suggested such an expenditure. he ought to pay the money out of his own pocket.—(Laughter,) He would propose that they should reduce the amount by 874/., but i': they did not do so, he would then move that Lord John Russell should pay it himself.—( Laughter. ) Mr. M'ILLIAMS seconded the proposition of the Hon Mem ber for Montrose. _ _ — Theorigitial question and amendment having been put, Mr. WILLIAMS did not see why the starving people of this country should pay the salaries of Bisho; s of rich colonies. Nr. PA*KINGTON said 1,000/. a year was given to the Boman Catholic Bishop of Quebec, while the Protestant Bishop was lett without a farthing to support his station. Air. ItUNDALL said he had pleasure in voting against the vote altogether. . Lord PALMERSTON said he should certainly vote for the proposal of his Noble Friend, the late Secretary for the Colo nies. He thought the Colonies ought to support their own clergy. He should not, therefore. vote for this proposal as a permanent arrangement. hut merely on the recommendation of his Noble Friend, that the provision ought to be made. ilhe Committee then divided— For the original motion For the amendment Majority against the amendment lO6 On our return to the gallery we found Mr. HUME addressing the Committee. He said he should move, when the House went into Committee of Ways and Means, that the amount of 7001., the salary of the Bishop of New Zealand, be made up by the late Administration, as it was granted in direct violation of their expressed opinion. After a short conversation the vote was agreed to. A vote of 18,696/. was then proposed for the charges of the Indian Department in Canada. Mr. HUME said he had understood that this vote was to be reduced. The vote was then agreed to. The sum of 1,023/. was then voted for the civil establishment of Heligoland. The sum of 59,8501. was then voted to defray the salaries of the Stipendiary Justices in the West Indies, the Mauritius, and the Cape of hood Hope. The sum of 24,0001. was voted to defray the expenses of providing for the religious and moral instruction of the negio population. The sum of 5,0921. was voted for the expenses of the Emigration Board. The sum of 5,0001. was voted for the relief of the sick and destiti:te emigrates on their arrival in Canada. The sum of 11,5001. was voted for the civil establishment of St. Helena. The sum of 2,0001. was voted for the civil establishment. of the Falkland Islands. Th, sum of 75,8501. was voted to defray the law expenses hnd grants to Scwtch Universities. Ihe sum of 200,039/. was voted to defray the expenses of the Commi•sariat. The sum of 50,0001. was proposed to enable the Lord Lieu tenant, to promote education in Ireland. Mr. M. J. O'CONNELL did not wish to disturb the har mony which seemed to pervade, the House on the subject of ecucation. He was glad to see that Hon. Gentlemen opposite felt it to be no lunger necessary to persist in their sectarian distinctions, which were cdlculated to create disunion and bad feeling. Mr. CAMPBELL said that although Hon. Gentlemen on this side of the House declitit d to divide, that was ho proof that they had aban , oned their opinion. Captain JONES said that a ProtestatA could hardly be found in the nal° al schools of Ireland. Mr. M. J. O'CONNELL—Where? Captain JONES—The north of Ireland. Air. V. SMITH was surprised that the Noble L',rd the Se cretary fur Ireland should leave the defence of this vote to the Gentlemen opposite, while these Gentlemen all abused the vote. Lord ELIOT thought that the taunt f the Hon. Member was not altogether unmerited, but as Honourable Gentlemen did not mean to divide, he did not think it necessary to speak. He mu.t say that Hon. Gentlemen behind him had indulged in very gt oss misrepresentations. In every national school to ire- land, one or too hours a day was laid apart for religious in structiOn. But was his Noble Friend the author of this system ? Decidedly not. The very same plan had been chalked out in 1812 by the Archbishop of Armagh, Dr. Elrington, and ethers. The Scriptures were not withheld or excluded from the school, but selections from Scripture were used, and those selections consisted chiefly of the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles; his belief was that instead of the relig , ous Institut tnni of the pupils being neglected by this means, they were thoroughly instructed in the first principles of religion. A Commission had been appointed to inquire into education, and they had expressed their approval of the uati mal system, whilst the much-boasted Kildare-treet system had failed altogether, the children haying been found to ha v e no knowledge of reli gien whatever ;all they learned appeared to be,le . arned by rote, .14iad-to mak e no iwpresooo4o4 ile wt t alio disV THE SUN, LONDOIsT, SATURDAY EVEkligh,. 16, 1842. agree with the Hon. Member in his statement that there were no Protestants in these schools ; he believed the Protestants had a very fair proportion to the [lonian Catholics. Under these circumstances, he did believe that the National School formed; the best system of education that could be devised for Ire-I land. — k Hear, hear ) Sir W. SOMERVILLE was del ghted to havti had the op-, portunity of hearing the speech which l:ad just fallen from the, lips of the Noble 1 ord opposite.—( Hear, hear.) What was meant by raising the Catholics of Inland from their present state of degradation, was, really, the !eduction of the Catholics, to their iwmer degraded state, during which it was a crime to give the Catholics any education at all. Mr. Sergeant JACKSON defended the character of the Kildare -street Society, and referred to the Reports of several Commissions, iorhow that the Society had faith:ully discharged its trust. Lord ELIOT said his 1 earned Friend had misunderstood him, if he suiposed that he meant to depreciate the services of the clop of the Protestant Church. _ _ . .iir. 1 - Al - 101..JCHERE said he had an anxious hope that the Not;lc Lord the Secretary for Ireland, had been a more faithful expositor of the views of her Majesty's Government • than the Solicitor-General. He thought the speech of the Noble Lord was equally creditable to his head and to his heart. —( Hear, hear,) It was clear that he thou _ht the plan es taleished by the late Government worked beneficially. He trusted every Member (in his lido of the House would sup port the Government in every liberal system of education. Lord STANLEY said her Majesty's Goverment had care fully and deliberately considered the question, and the re suit of that co,sideration was their determination to support . the present system of education in Ireland, believing it to be best adapted to give spiritual education to the great mass of the population of that country.-Hear, hear.) He trusted the Committee would not be divided on this vote. He could say that he had not changed his opinion, and he should therefore give the vote his cordial assent Mr. WYSE thought the arguments of the Solicitor-General for lrelsnd were more worthy his talents as a lawyer, than his etaracter at a statesman. The objection to the present system of education seemed to be that the Scriptures were not read in the sehords, but the fact was that the Scriptures wer e read, and a cheap edition had been published under the patronage of the heads of school establishments. Lord SANDON had opposed this measure from its very commencement, because be did not think that the attempt to bring together people of such different views as these schools brought to;ether could be attended with happy results. This stem had, however, gone on for a considerable time, and had given pretty general satisfaction ; at tie same time he thought ►t would be advisable to allow two grants ; one fur the national schools and the other for the Protestants; this he believed had been the case in England, where one grant was given fur the national schools and the other for the British and Foreign School Societe, which latter he considered to answer to the national schools in Ireland. Mr. J. O'CONNELL complained of an expression of the Learned Solicitor-General for Ireland in speaking of Mr. Blake, "a Roman Catholic, buts highly respectable gentle man." Sergeant JACKSON explained. Mr. WA ltD, ailudingtothe Right Hon. Baronet, the Mem ber for the Liiiiver,ity of Oxford, said that he had skulked away. Lord STANLEY rose to order. Ho thought the Hon. Gentlern , tu must himself be seneibie that he hid used an im proper expression. Mr. WARD said, if the we.rds were offensive, he would sub-titute the words " walked nut of the House." Lord CLEMENTS said, the speech of the Learned So licitor-General would excite great nisquisfiction in Ireland. He looked upon the grant as eneof the greatest possible benefits to Ireland. Sergeant Al URPHY supported the vote. St, augers were then ordered to withdraw, and the House divided, v. hen there appeared, For the rote Against it .... 0 The announcement of the numbers was received with loud chi ering. On our admission into the gallery we found Air. LEFROY, on his legs, stating that he had never given a vote with more satisfaction in his life. lie however must say that he thought the course that had been pursued by the other side a most unworthy one. Mr. WA RD said his attempt had ended just as he ex pected.—( Hear.) Air. PLUAIPT RE said he had voted in favour of the grant, because he was determined not to be forced by the attempt of the Hon. Member for Sheffield; he, however, begged to give him notice that he should resist the grant on the bringing u;i of the Report.—( Great cheering.) The Chairman thsn reported progress, and obtained leave to sit again on Monday, as we understood. PARISH CONSTABLES BILL. On the order of the day being read for the reception of the Report on the Parish Constables Bill, air. PAKINGTON hoped that the Right Hon. Baronet at the head of the Home Department would not press the con sideration of the Report that night. Sir JAMES GRAHAM felt it to be his duty to press the consideration of the Report, but if the Hon. Gentleman wished a discussion upon the Bill, he would name a day for the third reading, to suit the convenience of the Hon. Member. Mr. CHILDERS expressed his concurrence in the sugges tion of the Hon. Member for Droitwich. Atter a short conversation the Report was ordered to be re ceived on Tuesday next. Wide Streets (Dublin) Bill went through Committee. Testimony. Preparatory Bill was read a third time and passed. ELECTION PETITIONS TRIAL BILL. This Bill was read a second time. 'I he other Orders of the Day were disposedof, and the House adjourned at Three o'clock. 1. k 14: EDITIONS of " THE SUN" in the CITY. VER. JOSEPH THOMAS, of No. FINCH OIL LANE, CORNHILL, has made arrangements by 'filch the Public and the Trade ray be sunpliad with a THIRD EDITION of «TE SUN" EVERY EVENING at HALF-PAST SEVEN O'CLOCK, And Subsequent Editions when Published The THIRD EDITION of " THE SUN" contains the PROCEEDINGS of both HOUSES of PARLIAMENT up to SEVEN O'CLOCK, and all other important in formation accessible to that hour. On TUESDAYS and FRIDAYS a full Abstract of the " Lon don GI, zette"--iankruptcies, Promotions in the Army and Navy, &c. will be found in this Edition, the importance pf which will be appreciated by MERCHANTS and BANKERS for their FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE. Advertisements and Orders for The Sun" received by Mr. Thomas, No. 1, Finch lane, Cornhill ; where also may be s btained Every Morning, before Eight o'Clock, THE MORNING SUN." 31 A T h i e t C o m m i tt ee lri4 E ' f ° the NE . Borough of L 11 E I A (- 1 Y ri L i E I 8 0 0 N N E . REFORM AND REGISTRATION ASSOCIATION, urge all the Reformers of the Borough to pay, on or before Wc. DNE snev next. the 21th inst., all POOR RATES and ASSESSED TAXES, due on the sth April last, otherwise their names will not appear on the List of Voters for the ensu ing year. Every information on the subject may be obtained at the Office of the Association, 62, Warren-street, Fitzroy square. County Voters can also b e supp li e d w i t h i n f or mati o n, and forms of " .Notices of Claim." July 16, 18162. - --• • WILLIAM ALLEN, Secretary. LOCAL NOTES PROVINCIAL BANKERS. TO THE PUBLIC, AND TRADING INTERESTS IN PARTICULAR. A few weeks •ago, whilst quitting Bath, I had occasion for money, and on applying at the City Bank of that place, re ceived "Notes,' i.mongst others of 51., two, whose numbers were" E 7,328, E 7.357." Judge of my surprise on attempting to pass one of the Notes at the Railway Office in London, to fi..cl it wholly refused. More ever, judge also of my astonishment, on presenting the Bills at lkleFsrs. Barclay, Bevan, and Co., the Agents of the Bath City Bank in Londoo, to have them all refused. I next applied to the Bank whence they were issued, and received a line as __ To Alm , s Barclay, Bevan, and Co., • Gentlemen.—We request you will give the tearer cash for two of our local five pound notes. " GEORGE MOGER & SON. _ " Bath City Falk, 2Sth June, 1842.'; - 7 Thus it seems that this Bank issues two kinds of notes—the one local (only), the other redeemable in London. I wish to arrest attention, under these circumstances, if such kind of noes as the former can be tolerated—in fact, if they can be termed the repre-entative of bullion? The oke.:t of issuing "local notes" is to gain a large paper circulation in the neighbourhood where they are issued—when the credit of the Bank may be good—and by " palming them off" to per sons about to travel to a distant part of the country, the Bank gains a month's interest, and the holding trader, &c., suffers— by having to sell them at a discount to the mosey-trafficers. The public cannot be too much on their guard with respect to such -- " notes," and trickery at all ; the pro vincial BANKS for as railways quickly take indivi duals to too ns far distant from the place of issue before they are aware of the system, the interest of 'their money is not only lost for several weeks, perhaps, but they are sadly inconvenienced, as I have been, for ten or more dai s. I may as well add, that, so far as the face of the notes which I hold indicate, the Bath City Bank may, with as much justice, refuse the notes of " the Commercial Bank of Eng land, the circulation of whose notes, in my opinion, are based on the same system cif fraud. Should—or rather, when—the Government of England, etc., becomes (under Allegiance to the People's Voice) responsible for every Note in circulation, paper money will be as good as gold —but not before—and then all notes must be Exchequer Notes (guaranteed as in America) sooner or later, any one who exa mines the effects of Rail-way rapidity upon the country cannot doubt for a single moment. In the meantime—of two evils choose the least—refuse all local notes of Provincial Bankers. CHARLES HENRY ACKERLEY, Author of " the LAMP" Apparatus, for the Liquefication of the internal Fluids of the Body's fabric by Dry Het Air, in all cases of " Morbid Action." 5, Swallow-street, Quadrant, July 16, 1642. On Monday next, the 18th inst. , in 3 vols. post B vo., S TONEHENG - E; Or, the ROMANS in BRITAIN. A Romance of the Days of Nero. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. Now ready, in one volume, comprising as much matter as 20 or dinary volumes, with 1,500 Engravings, &c., 38s. bound, BURKE'S PEERAGE AND BARONETAGE P0W1842 ; Corrected to the Present Time,_ from the Communications of the Nobility, B:c., and containing a Supplement, with ALI. the NEW CREATIONS. " Mr. Burke's Peerage and Baronetage is the most com plete, the most eonvenient, and the cheapest work of the kind ever offered to the publie."--Sun. tfenry Colbura, l'ublisher, 13, Great Marlborough -street. HAMBURGH, JULY, 1842. H IS MAJESTY the EMPEROR: of AUSTRIA, AND HIS MAJESTY THE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA, having AU THORISED and GUAttASTEED several DIS TRIBUTIONS of MONEY DIVIDENDS', by which LARGE FORTUNES may I* obtained. HEINE BRO THERS, at HAMBURGh , are now telling Genuine and WIRRANTED SELECTED BONDS for the said DIST RIBIJ Persons desirous to purchase may waive, PREVIOUS to giving any order, the PROS , 'ECTUS with full PARTI CULARS, uron addressing, WITHOUT DELAY; a line to HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH. As we • reeve fregcentir , plicatic:ns i..r CERTIFICATES, we • 'IA bad t observe, that a CERTIFICATE .is QUITE DIFFERENT from a BOND, and teat there is a great dif ference again between BONDS and SELECTED BONDS —the SELECTED BONDS ONLY TAKING PART IN THE DISTRIBUTION WHICH FOLLOWS THE SE LECTION, and which should never be overlooked, being of t' e greatest importance. coin when offered to him. in tr.011„11r. GouLnunN's proclamation; v. hich 'had Mr. C. 11 7 oon's approbatior, except that he said that it Was rather hurried, requires us at all time: to weigh every sovereign we receive or pay aWH:Y. It places us in a far worse position than if her 41,TESTY'S Government abstained from troubling itself about the coinage, and allowed the people to use lumps of precious metal, weighirg five ounces, one ounce, half, or quarter of an ounce, so that they might be at once brought to the. balance and their value ascer tained. The object of the Government in coining money is to save the people the .trouble of weighing it, and Mr. GouLnunN:s proclamation requiring them to weigh it really destroys that utility fur which the nation pays a large sum every year to the Mint. If the sovereigns cannot circulate without being weighed, they ought to be called in, and the Government ought to give up the task of regulating the coinage. The appendices B to F to the eighth Annual Report of the Poor-law Commissioners has just been issued by the House Of Commons, and they contain some informa tion concerning the pauperism of England, which we slnll lay before our readers. It will not be said that this is the exaggeration of the Anti-Corn-law League, that these .statements have been got up to make out a c: , se; and that they are not worthy of credit. The Poor law Commissioners report only facts, and they do not make the matter worse than it actually exists. At page 350 is an account of the number of in and outdoor paupers relieved in 577 Unions, and an esti mate of the number of paupers relieved exclusive of these unions, in the years ending Lady-day 1840 and 1841. The total number of in and outdoor paupers actuagy relieved in these 577 unions was, in the year ending Lady-day 1840, 992,768 ; in 1841, 1,072,978, being in the latter year nine per cent, of the population, the expense of relieving whom .was 4 per cent. more in the year ending Lady-day -1841 than 1840. These are actual facts. The estimated number of paupers for all England and Wales, including these unions, was, in the year ending Lady-day 1840, 1,199.529 ; and in 1841, 1,300,928 L, or 9 per cent of the whole population. One person out of every eleven in England and Wales re,ceiveLt relief in the year ending Lad) -day 1841. The amount expended for their relief was, in 1640 3,739,414/. ; and, in 1841, 3,884,585/. Another table shoes the number of adult abl -bodied paupers receiving relief in the the two years. The actual number in the 57'7 unions was, in 1840, 245,772, and in 1841, 285,090. The estimated number in all England. including these unions, was, in 1840, 297,693 ; and, 'in 1841, 345,656,. showing in the latter year an increase in the number of adult able-bodied .paupers relieved of 48,961. But these amounts, large as they are, only come down to Lady-day, 1841, and since that period pauperism has made frightful strides in the country. Thus, in Stock port, though We cannot take it as an example for the whole country, the increase in the quarter ending December, 1841, as compared to the • quarter ending December, 1840; was, of persons relieved, from 3,946 to 6,871, and money expended, from 2,9801. to 5,1201.. Leeds, Man chester, Nottingham, and other great towns show an increase nearly as great as in Stockport, so that, large and increasing as the amount of paupe- sm was in 1841, it is now considerably greater. It must also be remembered that the increase of pauperism and expense is taking place under our new and tnvut,gent system of - poor-laws, which does everything vxts.tole to keep down the expense and prevent persons up, l ing for relief. So stringent is the law, so disagree able, in fact, do the people find its enactments, that a great number submit to the utmost extremity of want rather than apply for parish relief, and many, we be lieve, have actually perished rather than go into the workhouse. Yet, in spite of a rigid administration of a rigid law, nine per cent. of the people were paupers in 1841, and in 1842 it is probable that thfl number has augmented to twelve per cent. When such is the case, with such a stringent law, how vast must be the misery of the people I This great anti growing plague; however, is not con fined to the manufacturing districts. Opulent as is the county of Middlesex, and little as it has beenatrected by thegeneral distress, the number of paupers in it increased from 49,841 in 1840, t 9 73,815 in 1841, and we have good reason to believe that in 1842 the number is still further in creased. The number of able-bodied adult paupers in creased in Middlesex, from 15,290 in 1840, to 26,122 in 1841. •: n Surrey, the number of able-bodied paupers in 1840 was ' 8,893, and in 1841, 12,271 ; so in Kent, ;9,737, and 12,892 ; in Essex, 9,540, and 12,493. The ' agricultural counties with the exception perhaps of Devon, all exhibit their share of increase in able-bodied paupers, and in persons relieved, as well as Lancashire and Warwickshire. There are only five counties—Derby, Norfolk, Northumberland, Suffolk, and the North Riding of Yorkshire—in which there was any dimintitioo of ex pense in 1841 as compared to 1840, and in every one of these the number of paupers had increased. Thus the plague, which is now so touch more severe than in 1841, spares no place and smites the agricultural nearly as heavily as the manufacturing districts. Is there no mural to ne drawn from the extraordinary and lamentable fact, that every eleventh person in England and Wales is a pauper, and that the number of paupers, and the amount of distress, are increasing? Without now adverting to what we aro well convinced is the specific cause of this condition, let us remind the reader that to this time the laws have been, and, even yet, continue to bt made expressly to protect native industry. It is to keep our hardy labourers from being too rudely vi sited by the breath of foreign competition that the paternal Legislature has hedged them round with restrictive and protective laws. To provide the labourer with plenty of work anl high wages is the reason assigned for all the laws which are said to protect native industry, and the documents we have just quoted show that those laws have been most complete and disastrous failures. The prOtected industry is impoverished, pauperised, and degraded. : What other proof can possibly be brought that the laws have not accomplished the purpose for which they 'were deSigned ? There is no body •of labourers on the round earth at once so in genious, so skilful, so industrious, and so poor, as the la bourers of England, whose industry, we are daily told by the Tory Journals it is the great object of the laws to protect. We do not ask the lawmaker to be honest or just, we know that is not in his nature; but we ask him not to be silly, not to be weak, not to make himself the laughing-stock of mankind, by accomplishing objects the very reverse of those he pro fesses to aim at. Ile would be little better than a demon if he designed and willed the horrible degrada tion of the industrious classes to which his protecting laws have doomed them. lie does not will the mischief he causes ; but, a greater bungler thaU the Irishman, • who, in spearing a fish, is said to have cut off his own head, the lawmaker desires to promote the welfare of the people, and he steeps them to the chin in misery and degradation. COURT CIRCULAR. We are given to understand, from authority, that the Court will go into mourning next week, for the late Duke of Orleans. The Royal Family will wear mourning immediately. The Queen and the Princess of Saxe Coburg Gotha left Claremont for Hampton Court Palace in a pony phseton, a half past nine o'ciock yesterday morning, Prince Albert and the Heieditary Prince of Saxe Coburg Gotha riding on hone back, the Viscountess Canning, Lady in Waiting, following in an iihet pony carriage, and the lion. Colonel Grey and Colonel buuverie, the Equerries in Waiting, attending on horseback. Prince Albert and the Prince of Saxe Coburg, attended by Colonel Bouverie and the Baron de lirandenstien, lett Hampton Court, in a carriage and tour, fur town. Her Majesty and the Princess of Size Coburg Gotha, at tcndtd by the Royal suite, returned to Claremont soon after eleven clock. Their Roj al Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal, Here taken their accustomed airings in the gardens and. grounds at Claremont yesterday. Sir Robert and Lady Gardiner had the honour of joining the Royal circle at Claremont, at dinner, On Thursday evening. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Colonel Bouverie, p;esided yesterday afternoon at a meeting, at White hall, of the Commissioners .for Encouraging the Ftne Arts in the rebuilding of the Houses of Parliament.. Soon after five o'clock Prince Albert and the Hereditary Prince of Saxe Coburg, attended by Wiwi Bouverie and Baron de Brandenstein, left Buckingham ralace for Claremont. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, attended by Baron Knesebeck, arrived in town at one o'clock yesterday afternoon, from Bristol. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent took an airing yes terday a ternoon in a carriage. _ His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex had a seect party at dinner yesieruay evening, at his reAuence in ketisiniton Palace. The Earl and Countess of Jersey were honoured last evening with the company of their Royal Highnesses the Duchess and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, at dinner, at their resi tience in Berkeley-square. Major and Mrs. Weymouth gave a soiree dansante in Gros venor-square on Thursday evening. Among the company were the Duchess of Inverness, Duke and Duchess of Cleve land, Lady A. Paulet, Duke of Richmond and Lady Caroline Lennox, Lord and Lady Seymour, Earl and Countess Delp warr, Marquiss and Marchioness of Ely, Viscount and Vis countess Palmerston, Lady Mary and Miss Hamlyn Williams, Lady and Miss FitzWygram, Countess of Norbury and Lady G. Toler ' Marquis of Hudfor t and the Ladies 0. and M. Ta3luur, Lady H. Stews: t and Miss Byrnes, Countess of Vent lam and Lady M. Grimst.,a, Lords Loftus, Cantilupe, and J. Beresford, Earl of Bective, Countess of Normauton, Lady M. Agar, and the Marquis of Huntley. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. LIVERPOOL JULY MEETING. THURSDAY.—It has never been our good fortune to witness a more succesiful " Cup Day," every thing, in fact, tended to make it attractive—the list was plethoric. the race was cer tain to b ing out a large field, and the weather was uninter ruptedly fine. Crowds, therefore, flocked to the ground, and every imaginable description of vehicle w•is brought into play; the stands were full to an overflow ; the betting inclosure was thronged, and both sides of the course, from the stable turn to below the distance-post, were lined six deep. The great event of the day was the Cnp, and it would have afforded unmingled gratification but for the non-appearance of the Knight of the Whistle. The reason assigned by public rumour for his withdrawal is, that " the stable" had been anticipated in the market by certain persons,• who having obtained early information of the trial, had made use of it to such an extent that forced the horse up in the betting, and prevented his party getting on upon favourable terms; hence, that in order to unish the offenders, it was - resoved not to run him, but to trust to Black Beck and Rhodanthe; so goes " public co ntour." Whether a trainer having five horses in a race belcng log to declared confederates, is bound in honour to start the one which " the public" mad think proper to make first favourite, is " an open question ;" but as that "one" hap pened to be on the spot, and well enough to be quoted at 5 to I for the Goodwood Stakes, it is clear that the aforesaid "public" wouldhave been much better pleased had his number been tele graphed as a starter ; in that cafe his backers would have had no excu'e for giving vent to their chagrin in such angry terms. The racing began, as advertised, at two o'clock precisely, and did not finish until latein the evening. The Cup gave an unexpected increase to the sport, in the shape of a dead heat, which was not tun off until long after all the evening trains had depa , ted. he start was beyond comparison one of the most perfect ever seen on this or any other course. Under the personal direction of Lord Geo. Bentinck, twenty in number were wheeled round and got off at the first attempt so completely abreast that it was almost impossible to sad which was leading for the first twenty yards. Prince (Andric then took up the running, at a moderate pace, followed by Think, Retriever, Cham pagne, Una, and Forester, the others in a cluster, Vulcan and Hhodanthe being in the rear. With scarcely any change they ran to the bridge turn, where the pace quickened, and Vulcan and Rhodanthe drew towards the centre, Prince Cara4oc con tinued the running to the last turn, where he resigned it to Champagne, who was followed cleverly by Pagan, Dentine, and two or three others, with Vulcan and Rhodanthe at their heels. At the di-tance Rhodanthe took the lead, Vulcan waiting to the stand, where he caught her, and it became 46 heads or tails " for choice. The struggle home was interest ng in the extreme, and ended, to the de light of the beholders, in a dead heat. Pagan was a mo . , ilt.rate third, and Champagne fourth ; M 193 Stilton and Bel lona were next, but beaten off. The favourite made a sorry figure in the race. The deeidirg t.eat was run after the h , at for the Queen's Plate, Vulcan being the favourite at 2 to 1 ; he made all the running, and, after a splendid race from the distance, won by a neck, the mare never hating got quite up. TORIES DESCRIBED BY TORIES.—" The inconsist ency o f Sir Edward Knatchbull, who last year moved an amendment (on the Poor-law Bill) idLtical. with Mr. Sharman Crawford, and with t..e very same ob ject—of Lord Granville. Somerset, of Mr. Goulburn, and of Mr. H. Manners Sutton, in their present line of conduct, is, n c lrg leave to tell those gentlemen, dis gusting, and' can, only be accounted fur by a greater re irard for place than fur principle, or fur truth. But it is 'idle and useless to throw away comment on suc h per sons ; they seem perfectly insensible to shame."—Herald EsIIER, JULY 15.—The Queen, adored and beloved by all, is now-enjoying her drives, rides, and walks here, without the. public gaze. Almost daily she is out with the Prince, often waking on the Common, laughing and this rural retreat. Th ere are none o f t h e soldiery tn joy bore;n Only part of a band, and a f ew o f t he police. Her Majesty- appears in excellent h ea lth and i ClaremStt ih henceforward to be ctillcd tiie Palacio at ,•-• , ,;.,:,"! ~;•,.. . s _,,, -k: 4 , ,: , c. , ...: '4 ,,,, A , , ,, --,--!.,- .. 4 1- 3.5 . ; t.: ~•4:i --"1"`,„ „: *-- --, - ,... -- 0r. : 05:), 7 7,5,- • Th. YR , ?q.r ~.,..., , , '' S . • r I% THEATRE-ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA-HOUSE. THIS EVENING, JULY 16. The Performances will commence with the DREAM AT SEA. Characters by Messrs. Oxberry, W. H. Bland, and 0. Smith; Miss Pincolt, and Miss Faucit. After wine!), a New Farce, calk)! COUSIN LA MBE IN.—Cha ri.eters Lv Mes rs. J. Vining, F. Mathews, and Harley; Miss Mur ray, Mrs. Hughes, and Miss Humby. o conclude wit hl the New Drama, called THE LONE HUT. Principal Characters by Messss. 0.. Smith Diddea W. H. Bland, and Harley, M ss Murray, Miss Crisp, and Miss Faucit. Boxes, as. Gallery, Is. Doors oi,en at rialf-past Six; commence at Seven; Half-price, a Quarter before Nine. Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Grogan, :it the Private Box-office ; and of Alessi s. Andrews, Mitchell, Sams, and Bally, at their Libraries. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. THIS EVENING, JULY 16. Will be acted Auuer's celebrated Opera of FRA DIA VOLO.— Fra ifiavo:o; Mr. W. Harrison; Lord Allcash, Mr. J. Webster; Lorenzo, Mr. Waltoi ; lieppo, Mr. G. Stansbury; Giacomo, Mr. THE ARTFUL R AR om r i , rd L L o ad o y D A ti ll E. ca_sh, Ar M tf r u s i Se D4 rle g . e, Mr. G. After which, it Lauer; Zerlina, Wild. To condo c with Leman Rede's JACK IN THE WATER. Places and Private Soxes may be ad of Mr. J. Kerschner, at the Pox °Mee, from Eleven till Four daily. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. The Nobility, Gentry, Subscribers, and the Public, are respectfully informed teat ON MONDAYS, TUESDAYS, AND THURSDAY`, GRAND EVENING FETES will be given, in which will be em bodied all those popular Entertainments that have given to this favou. rite place of recreation its peculiar celebrity; with additions and in trodactunis which render them %ore generally attractive. The MENAGERIE has been enriched by many valuable and lin. portant acquisitions in the classes of both Quadrupeds and Birds. Weding Time Five o'clock. The Colos.al VIEW OF ROME has been repainted, and in some Instances remodelled, with a Mechanical Table iu d'action, repre- Fenting the Pi oce,sion of the Papal Troops, Guards, and Roman Nobles, to the Castle of St. Angelo. The BA O incluths some of the most eminent Performers, con. lucted by Mr. Godfrey, and the Programme of the PROMENADES N.ISICA LES selettederom the noblest works of the great Masters. The ILLUMINATIONof ST. PETER'S. the CROSS of FIRE, and the GIRANDOLA er ST. ANGELO, With all the gorgeous Spectacles and magnificent Introductions that have called forth ac clammations of delight and admiration on each evening of their ex. hibition, terminating with the triumph of pyrotechnic splendour, the CASC kDE wt . BRILLIANT FIRE, SIX I Y FEET in height. The Gardens are open Daily from Ten till Dusk. The Evening Fetes, with the Ptinnenades Mus,cales, Illumination of St. Peter's, Oiraimdola of St. Angelo, &c., will be given ou Mondays, Tuesdays, • ,thursdays. A dinissltir One Shilling. All Advertisements of a Disgusting Character, or Immoral Tendency, are excluded from the Columns of " The Sun." % LONDON: SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 16, 1842. The currency wa? the subject of u nestion, put last night by Mr. C. Woof) to the CHANCELL OR o f t h e E x . CHEQUER, and, according to his statement, every per soe has the power to cut and deface light gold coin ; so tnat a tradesman to whom a sovereign was offered, if he found that it was light, might not only refus e to take it. but might cut and defac e it, before returnin g it to its owner. If such be the la w, we must admi t that the people have been Much wiser than the law, and, by for bearing to do what the law has p rescrib ed , have saved themselves from many quar rels, and not a few broken heads. That the Bank and the Excise, the Custom-house , i Wtotn-bouse , and all other public offices, should . deface all light coin as it is brought to them, and so gradu a lly w i t h draw it, awl perpetually subst itute a coinage of full weight, di:: Government, or rather the people, p ay i ng the ne cessary expense, seems rational ; but th at indivi duals should be authorised to destro y the light coin, which other persons may offer them, seems so monstrous a law, so well adapted to encourage quar re l s , t h at we (t' wo sh a ll g i ve nu t - saw i with satisfaction, that its existenc e i s d ou b ted. A o l p ' i h n e i t o h n e , r f i o t r e i xt m i s t s s e e or n s tl i ia the very question is now under the consideration of the law Officers of the I Crown; and such is the blessed vaguene ss an d uncer tainty of the rule of life w i hich s Ordained at West minster, that very probably the A 7 r oalin ,_,-, kx ENERAL may decide that such a law as Mr. lyooD described does, mid the SOLICITOR-GENERAL that It due§ not, exist. But though we cannot tell xvhether such a law exist or not, we are quite positive and certain that it ought not to exist. How shill everyman t e l l at a ll tirries that every sovereign he possesaes %,,eighs not . . less titan -‘ 4 .five pen- . nyweights, two grains and a half ?) Is he-always to carry scales with him, 'add weigh every so'vereign he-receive:, and produce his'sea los to weigh it before ho p - ays it away i T hat - will b 3 p.ccot.,ary if no,con 4uk9f full 'weight is - to , Circillat4 twa if ever 10 autbuiimi, to aorace.iii- BELGIUM. 13RUSSELS, JULY 13.—The average price of Wheat last week was 231. 88c., that of Bye 12f. 45c. Wheat is therefore exempt from import duty ; and the exporta tion of it. for the prcsent, prohibited. The Ring and Queen will go on Saturday by the railway, to be present at the fetes at Liege. The following reflections of the Commerce Beige draws the attention of our „Provincial Council. There are at present 37 persons (33 men and 4 women) confined for • debt in the prison of the Petits Carmes. This number is quite enormous for a population of 1 0 0,000 souls, including the suburbs. It is in the pro- 1 porti`on of three to 1,000. The House of Clichy, at Paris, contains, at present, 142 prisoners, which is only 1-1 to . . . 1.000, in a population of 1,300,000 souls. Comparing thin two cities,,Paris should have 330 prisoners confined for debt. Among the prisoners at Brussels, there is the mother of four children, and one of them at the breast, and an old man 72 years of age. When will the Legis lature abolish the penalty of imprisonment for debt in the case of women and old men ? BELGIAN h - UNDS...BRURAELS, Jun' 18 Actual Debt, 2) per Cent. tiothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent............ Loan of Thirty Million', 4 per Cent...... « 93% .---. 3per Cent. --- , .-...Thirty.seven-- ... 71% .—,.............-------os4o) .... 102% Loan of City, 1`.'32, 4 per Cent. .......... 93% Society et Comm,rce, 4% per Cent.....,.... 85 Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 76 National Society — Exchange on London (short) - --Brussels Papers, July 13. DUTCH FUNDS.—Amorroanau, JULY 12. Monet. Bite. Actual Dtbt, 2) per Cent Jitto, ditto 5 per cent. Amoit Syndic,4% per cent 93% 14 Ditto, ditto, U, per cent...-. .............. Commercial Company, 4!.', per cent l5O 150% Ditto (1535 and 1837) 5 per cent. Loan 1837, 5 per cant Exchange on London, One month 1:: I€ 2 )4 Twomonths Hainburgh, One month as 1 , ,N Two months 35 82% Dutch Papers, July 12. AUSTRIAN FUN.OS.—VI ENNA, JULY 4 flee per Ca.nts. Metalliques ~ 1(9 Foar per Cents i hue n .r Cents. - Beak Shares..... - '_ HA 111 BURGH BORSEN HALLE, JULY 9. Bills. Money. At,trian 5 per Cents. Bank Shares Anglo.ltussian Loan lt 9% nail Russian 5 ver Cent., Ist series, Certificate )03% 1 13 Inscription, Ist aeries Russian a per Cent. Hope and Co., 3d and 4th • . Series Ditto in Certificates PS New 4 per Cent. (1840). 8.4 MN; • Dutch Actual Debt, :4/, per Cent, ......... :_Ditto . . 3 per Cent. - Polish Bonds New "Tickets Vs . ; Anglo.l3anish Loan, 3 per Ceat.............. . .16.p,snis.h, New 5 p...r cents. _ ' ..... • 18 -- - ' - l'lttlSslAN rurips.—BpluN, Am' 9 ' Bills. Monty tst. Sehuicl•Ncli.,' 4 per cent:•.:.. •• ••104' 1; I" ~. Ptuillitta -aligns h Bond; 16; , 0, cper cent. I o 574 1023,-, -.- , E!'Cbanin ow liradon -- ....1........ 6`0 1 191 - 6 21 i5 ___Zuzaitot.-Stata .CAZiiiii. Jul/ IV. - • ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SO CIETY OF ENGLAND. BRISTOL, Jute 14.—The great dinner of the members and friends of this Society took place this afternoon at four o'clock. it was given in a pavilion expressly erected for the purpose, immediately in the rear of the Victoria-rooms. The assemblage was immense. Upwards of 2,000 per. sons were present. The apsearanee of the pavilion (than which no building in the world was ever better constructed for the purpose- for which it was designed) was very im posing. It was filled in every part; but crowded no where. All the arrangements for the accommodation, as well as few the ingress and egress of so great a multitude, were perfect. The convenience of every one appeared to have been consulted—every one was at his ease, every one in the right place, every one pleased. A long and deep gallery at •the back of the principal table afforded accommo dation to a host of ladies, who seemed throughout the even ing to enter into the spirit of the proceedings with true feminine earnestness. It was impossible to ascertain the names of a tenth-part of the eminent and distinguished persons who were present. A few of them, it is true, were conspicuous at the chief table; but the great bulk of them, Dukes and Lords, and Members of Parliament, were scattered indiscriminately amongst the mass of yeomanry. Where so many were unre cognised, it may be hardly judicious to name any ; yet it may be said that there were present the Duke of Cambridge, the Duke of Beaufort, the Duke of Richmond, Earl Spencer, Earl Somers, the Earl of Ducie, Earl Fortescue, the Earl of Zet land, the Hon. Henry Everett ( American Minister), the Mar quis of Dawnshire, the Marquts of Worcester, Baron Knese beck, Lord Ebrineton, Mr. Wm. Miles, 31.1 3 ., Sir Thos. D. Arland, al. P., Mr. Benett, M.P., Mr. Pendarves, M.P., and Mr. G. Berkeley, 31. P. Henry Handley, Esq., the President of the Society, officiated as t hen man ; Mr. Miles, M.P., acted as Vice-Chairman. 'I he dinner dispatched, the fir-t toast was " The Queen." It was received and responded to with the liveliest enthusiasm. The CHAIRMAN then in a short speech proposed the " Members ot the Royal Family," arid paid a high compliment to tire Duke of Cambridge. '1 he. Duke of CAMBRIDGE returned thanks for the honour which had been done to him and to the Royal Family ' • and in expressing an earrest wish for the prosperity of the Society, begged to thank the company for the. honour they hid done him.—( Cheers. ) The CBAIRMAN—The next toast I have to propose to you is the health of the Foreign _Ministers present. I am aware that in strict diplomatic language the name " Foreign Minister'? must be applied to his Excellency on my right, the Minister of the United States of America; but in the reception you will give him lam sure you will show you do not forget that his ancestors are ours—that we are united by the ties of one corn man language and of blood—(Cheers)—that itovas from these ' shores those enterprising men embarked, who in a wild, deso late waste, have in a comparatively brief period, raised up a mighty nation.—(Cheers.) In a word, to use the language peculiar 'to our class, it is the children of Old England who have taken the occupation of the western continent under a lease which I trust they will . dud both advantageous and inter minabie;—(Great cheering.) I am sure you will allow me to request his Excellency, when he communicates with our distant relatives on the other side of the Atlantic, to assure them how welcome they will always be to the shores of the mother country—( Continued cheering)— to remind them that our affections at least are based on peace— (Checrs)—and that we earnestly pray they may long continue to be united with us in the bonds of goodwill and mutual ad vantage.—( Loud cheers.) I propose " the health of the Hon. Henry Everett, the Minister of the United States."—( Loud and long continued cheering.) Mr. EVERETT, on rising, was hailed with a tumult of ap plause. He said , I beg you to believe me duly sensible of the kind feelings which you have been pleased to express towards me and my country.—(Applause.) I assure you, without affectation, that I want words to do justice to my emotions. To be received with su much kindness so far from my home, by such a company as this, I confess almost overpowers me. And let me say that there is no part of tbis,great and prosperous country where such a reception could be more, ~ w elcome to me than it is here.—(Cheers.) It is a singe-; lar circumstance that the history of North America runs ; back to this very point. Its very first chapter was written' in the chamber of the merchant adventurers of Bristol.— (Great cheering.) lam not now alluding to the little! coincidence which I mentioned the other day—that Co- . lumbus himself was once a resident here. That was• a mere casual circumstance. I refer now to the more striks! ing fact that Sebastian Cabot, the great discoverer of Northl America, who, in 1497, sailed forth from these waters, dis-; covered Newfoundland, and ran down the coast of North America to the Gulf of Florida, was a native of Bristol) fitted out on his venturous voyage by the enterprise of Bristol. merchants.—( Great cheering.) You all know that it wasi under the auspices of the Plymouth Company that the settles; merit of my native New England began, and that the rock Upon, which the fathers of New England first set foot was from that circumstance called, and is to this day called, the Plymouth rock.—(Loud cheers.) The father of William Penn, the! great founder of Pennsylvania, lies buried in the vaults of St., Mary, Redcliffe, and although William Penn was not him. self a native of Bristol, I have no doubt that in his youth' he was accustoind to hear the stories of the navigators of, this port on coming back from their adventures in the wes tern world, and that it was thus that his thoughts were first directed to a settlement in those distant regions.— ( Cheers.) It seems to be the purpose of the merchant ad venturers of Bristol at this day to keep up the communi cation, which they were the first to establish between the two countries. At an early hour this morning I went up to the tower of Blaize Castle—a lofty point, commanding a pano rama, than which one more beautiful my eye never rested upon. —( Chem.) In that exquisite panorama there was one object, apart from all the beauties of nature, which particularly excited toy attention. I could scarcely discern it; but yet, in the dis tance, I did distinguish the masts of the Great Western steam ship—(Cheers)—which the day after to-morrow is going again to launch upon the deep.—(Cheers.) Your Chairman has requested me, in my next communication with home, to let the people of North America know the kind feelings expressed to wards them at this table. Why, in 14 days from the time that vessel sails, she will carry the tidings, and almost before their cordial cheers have died away here, they will be re-echoed from . beyond the waves of the Atlantic.—(Great cheering.) I assure you that this communion between us, resting upon common descent, cemented by common language, strengthened by kin dred feelings, is not confined to speculations of business or considerations of commercial advantage.—(Cheers.) Nu; that is. the least important part of it. This com mon origin, this kindred blood, this revered and com mon ancestry makes us one people—(Great cheering)—one people for every purpose but that of political jurisdiction— ( Cheers ) for every purpose social, literary, moral, intellectual. —( Loud cheering.) Everything that emanates from your press is imuicdiately received and welcomed by the reading public in our country, and most happy am I to learn, as I do, that our authors are received with favour here.—( Applause.) We have kci-t our eye particularly upon what has been doing in this country for the improvement of agriculture. The climate of the New England States, although more severe than that of England—running into either extreme to a greater extent— is yet on the whole not greatly dissimilar; we are consequently enabled to derive instruction from all the works that issue from the British press relating to agriculture. None are i cad by us with greater avidity.—( Cheers. ) I wish the intelligent agri culturists of England to understand that the seeds of instruc tion which they scatter here are actually sown broad cast it North America.—(Great cheering.) You cannot, by your improvements, lessen the bone of a pig, or straighten the back of a cow, or render finer the fleece of a sheep, , but in due time the advantage is -felt across the Atlantic. —( Loud cheers.) I am glad that the prosecutidn of this most peaceful of pursuits has an effect far beyond the ma terial interest or material advantage. I believe that people and nations must be good friends with each other who are engaged together in the advancement of such pur suits ; and whilst Mr. Smith is teaching us his system of thorough draining, I believe it will, at the same time, aid in drawing off the bitter waters of international jealousy.—(Great cheering.) I most cordially respond to the wish you have ex pressed for the perpetuation of peace betweea the two coun ties.—(Cheers.) I wish, from the bottom of my heart, for nothing else but the speedy and honourable adjustment of all the questions in discussion between us, and most happy am I to say, that from all the means of information at my command, such an effect is likely to take place.—(Loud and long-con tistued cheering.) These little clouds once blown over, I wish I our two nations to engage, heart and hand together, in the pur suit of all the great objects which improve the condition and ennoble the character of man ; and England and America, once united, I believe, if necessary, they might bid defiance to the world in arms.—(Enthusiastic cheering.) I will add nothing nothing more than to renew my heartfelt thanks for this most unexpectedly kind and cordial reception from this great and respectable company. His Excellency resumed his seat amidst the most rapturous applause, the whole company rising and continuing to cheer for several minutes. After the lapse of a short time, Mr. EVERETT again rose and said—lt is unnecessary to say,' Sir, that alter having so recently occupied the attention of the company, I should not rise again except by your special command. I have been honoured by your request to propose to the meeting a toast which 1 am sure will be received with the utmost enthusiasm, it is " Prosperity to the great Society under whose auspices we are assembled this day."—( Cheers. ) Earl SPENCER proposed the next toast. He was greeted with loud cheers. When silence was restored, he said, The toast which I am commissioned to propose is, " Success to the agriculture, manufactures, and commerce of this country."— (Cheers.) It is the union of her agriculture, her manufac tures, and her commerce which renders this little island, which ii' you look upon it in a map of the world is scarce a spot before you, one of the moat powerful of the nations of the earth.— ( Great cheering.) It is by the united energy of her people— by their exertions in these different branches of industry—by the wealth that their exertions have produced and accumulated, that England has become what she is, and what I hope in God she may long continue to be.—(Cheers.) These three great interests are intimately connected together, and depend upon it if any one of them fail the others will soon fail also. This being the case, although I know I might confidently ask you to drink success to the other branches of industry besides that in which you are yourselves particularly engaged—although I know your good feeling to your fellow-countrymen would in duce you to do this, I feel that I may with the greater boldness do so, because when 1 ask yoti to drink success to commerce and manufactures, I am, in fact, only inviting you to drink success to yourselves—success to the agricUlture in which you are engaged.—(Cheers.) These three 'great branches of in dustry have run a race in thisnountry. With regard to agri culture, although we have not hitherto applied to it, as I hope we shall, the advantage of scientific improvement, our practi cal knowledge has yet been such that I think at the present moment I may confidently venture to assert that in agricul tural skill we stand among the highest, if indeed we be not. the very highest amongst the nations of the world.—( Cheers. ) There is, however, one thing that we, as farmers, want—we want the application of science to aid us in our practical skill. —( Applause.) It is for that object that this Society has been established—(Applause)—and I sincerely trust that, continu ing to pursue that object as we have hitherto pursued it, the titue will not he distant when we shall succeed in giving to agriculture and to the operations of the farmer the same ad vantages derived from science that manufactures have already possessed themselves ot.—(Applause.) I feel confident that this will be the result of our Society. I beg to propose "Suc cess t o Agriculture, Manufactures, and Commerce. "—( Cheer s . ) 'Elie Duke of Rico moon proposed the health of the " Agri • cultural Labourers.''--(Che e rs.) I ntereste d as a ll classes ot the community are in the welfare of each other, I know of no body of men in this country who have stronger ties upon the occupiers and owners of land than the class I am about to bring under your notice.-0 beers. ) Without their aid and per solidi assistance, our lands could not he cultivated. We ail know the advantage it is to us all to have skilful shepherds and t herdsmen, clever shearers, good ploughmen, honest industriousloyal Isboureis. We k now t h em to b e a peacefu l , orderly, and,o3'" cla s.— (Cheers. ) We cannot disguise from ourselves that upon many occasions they exhibit the greatest patience under privatton.—( Applause.) We knots' also—and I speak to you, if )011 will permit me so to call myself, as an English country ' gentleman —we loony alto that they perform towards each other those offices of kindness and of true charity, which, low , lag from the purest source, ennoble alike the possessor of the proudest castle and the inmate I trust I may,' without of the humbles e t cot b ta u g t e a . vei y few words upOn the subject of our be re e r e rn tin tt g ea h t ere Si. to-tin meeting ine - aeated and in - I believe that its creasing prosperity • I -beg heartily to conora P t r u egu late rn :o t c u i : u i n i tt : . [ ex ertions have been of " the - reatest benefits; and I sive g t continues to be supported assit fordly anticipate that :f 2 intelligent. . v o r t:t d h . i c s great glaUtrY) it* tIa7444CW w lot 14A PiFt4o; 4teacdo. hitherto ;has sw' by the practical fainters o f -t.,, ~iw!~Z~ ( Cheer;.) I can say no more than I have said tvirt fern:air oceasiens, that I owe to the farmeils of England ie. deep-deb-t -or gratitude—a debt. so heavy that I - osan never vain ., et to repuy: it ; - but .. "tike the will for the deed," . .and y - ou wilt fiiid no man more anaieus to promote the improvement of agriculture than' the individual who thanks you now; ann asks you if you with him to rise. and, with really true British cheers,*inethe health of the agricultural labourers of l England,—( Che ers. 'I he Duke of CA atwttlnox prepOsed tire health of the Chair man, who was also the President of the S,lciety. The CH.% IRM A N returned thanks. . Mr. limit, 11. P., proposed, " The Highland and Ageita). tural Society of Scotland." Mr. 'Salmi, of liranstown, in the absence of the Duke of Bu: cleneh, returned thanks. The Earl ot Ducie proposed, " The Royal Agricultural Ise provement Society of Ireland." The Marquis of Dowissurat returned thirriks. The Duke of Ca meuinGe proposed the health of Earl Spencer, who, having been one ot' the original !sunders of this Institution, might be regarded as a benefactor of his country. Earl SPENCER—II is very much the fashion for a man, when he has to return thanks fer the drinking of his health, to begin by saying that the honour WtIS unexpeeied by him. 1 say so now, and you may be perfectly aware that I do so with the most complete sincerity, because I could no.; have expected that any other healths would have been 'hunk tha n those which were named upon the printed list. of toasts.. which i s i n every b ody ' s hands.—(Apt lause.) I beg to let urn my most sincere th an k s to his Royal Highness for the kindness. which he' has l eiineed towards me. in coming for . wardn4l , 4l4`att this proposition ; for I will own to you that it is to me a seurce of the greatest gratification to feel that 1 a m popular with such an assembly as this.—( Cheering.) must certainly attributea great part of the warmth and kindness of my receptoin to the pelt I took in the establishment of Haag institution. It is quite true that the Duke of Richmond. Mr:- Handley, and myself. were the first who took a lead in the formation of the Society. We did so because we felt that such a Society was wanted in this country —we saw the advantage which the Highland Society of Scotland had produced in that country—we thought there was no reason why such a Society establi,hed in England should not produce the same beneficial results in this part of the country.( Applause.) Of late I have observed ,amon ; ,•st those who had previously taken little or no interest in the improvement of their agriculture —amongst those who never thought of accurately investigating the effecte of the course of farming they were pursuing, a disposition to be more Watchful and more alive to the advantages ot an atten tive observation of what they were doing themselves, and of what their neighbours may be doing upon a different system.. Since the establishment of this Society I know that many men who never made observations before are making them now. 1 will not detain you further. 1 return you icy most sincere and heartfelt thanks for the honour you have done me in drinking my health.—.( Loud cheers.). The dinner party, one d the largest ever assembled in this county, almost immediately afterwards broke up, and those who had been fortunate enough to secure a bed in the town hastened to take possession . of it. CLOSE OF THE PROCEEDINGS. 11}: /STOL, FRIDAY.-At twelve o'clock to-da y genera?. Meeting of the members was held at the Viet aria .* Room , , for the purpose of cksing the proceedings. he President, Air. HANDLEY, having taken the chair, Earl SeEscEa, in a complimentary speech, proposed that "the thanks Of the Society he given to the Ma3or, the High Sheriff. the Corpora:ion, and other constituted aut.horiti,e of Bristol, iOr the kind reception they had given the Society, and the very handsome manner in which they had entertained them during their stay in Bristol." SHUTTLEWORTII, of London. having seconded the mo , - tion, it was tut and carried unanimously. Lord 'PORTMAN then moved, and the Honourable Cap tain SPENCER. seconded, .• A vote of thanks to the different Institution , of Bristol, anti to the Proprietors of the Victoria Booms for the use of the building, Great Western Railway, &e." Captain PORTEIt remarked thal the Great Western gallosay charged a very high price for the conveyance of the stock, &c. The PaESinENT said he believed it had arisen from a mis conception; it. was intended to represent the circumstance to the railway directors, and no doubt they would do what waa right. Mr. ions BLAKE, of Warminster, proposed "a vote of thanks to their President, H. Handley, F.lsq., for his able and easielient. conduct throughout his year of office." The Fut(' was carried by acclamation. Mr. H A I Y returned thanks, and resigned his office to the next President, !lie Earl of Hardwick, who, he regretted, no absent on a to t,,e King of Prussia. Thy proceedings of 41.7 >nciety were then closed. MONEY MARKET ,CITY NEWS. CITY, F.RIDAY EVENING. SUN.—The weak parties having been got lid off, the market, now that the account has been closed, has again become firm, and Cons.tals left off at 901 90i, for I%loney, and 90i for the Account, rather an extensive business having been done. Panic Stock, 1651 1661 ; India Stock, 247 249; Exchequer Bills, Old, 48 50; New., 46 48 prem. • The prices of Foreign Securities were—Ptelgian, 101 102 ; Dutch Two..and-a- Half per Cents., 51 .511; the Five per Cents., 100?,- 101*; Danish, 81 N; and Brazilian, 64 66. Mexican was quilted 354 36k. for Shares was rather improved—London and Birmingham, 177 179; Birmingham and Gloucester, 47 49; Great Western 86 87 ; the Half Shares, 61 61i ; South Western, 601 Ell; North Alidland, 59 60; South Eastern and Dover, 22 22k ; Eastern Counties, 818 ; Northern and Eastern, 391 Blackwall, 9 91; and Brighton, 33k 331, per share. The rates of the Foreign Exchanges were all firm, at the quotations of Tuesday; Hamburgh, however, was a shade higher. The Bonds were quoted—Colombian, 21 2;1 ; Peruvian, 16% 17 1 / 2 ; Portuguese Five per Cents., 324 33i ; the Three per Cents., 19 191; Spanish Five per Cents., 204; the Three per Cents., 20i 21. A communication appeared in The Sun of last evening, complaining that several fruitless applications had been made at the !Money Order Office for the cash tor a post-effice order. in consequence of the country postmaster having neglected to seed " advice" for the receipt of the money to London. If these be any consolation to be found in the tact, that this par ticular party does not stand alone in the grievance, it may be sa..ely used, inasmuch as not a day passes without. numerous answers of a similar tendency being received by applicants. There is no branch of the public serviee which is more i calculated to benefit the community, and especially the poorer orders, or the details of which are so bully managed as this. Much personal inconvenience and great loss of time have to be endured before the individual in possess - un of the order er,..n make his way to the small window, at v,Neil it is to he presented to invisible official! ; after this ordei.! r has been passed, more time is wasted io searching if it be cor rect, and ultimately it may be, that owing to the neglect of persons in the c:.uutry, whose duty it was to acknowledge the receipt of the motley, the applicant is sent back with the loss of, generally, nearly as hour consumed in visiting lite turn, with the prospect of a simi!ar occurrence on the next day. A most ingenious contrivance also has lately been added, apparently for the axle purpose of adding to the annoyance, in the shape of a long wooden box, into which those requiring orders, as well as those wanting payment, are alike confined ; an open room, with two counters, could hare ufforeied • far greater facilities for business, and done away with the liabilil;es of robbery, for the furthering of which the box is so athnirablf adapted. When it is remembered that this loss of time falls chiefly on these parties to whom time is money, the necessit y of the alteration will be clearly seen. Some plan surely might be found by - which all these orders wonl,l be payable at any post •office with out the necessity for " advice ;" any banker's clerk who has been sufficiently long at business to understand the mere routine of the office, would be able, in the course of half an hour, to make such changes as would completely do away with the cause of the present complaint. Tile Hibernia packet-ship has brought New York papers, to the 24th ult., two days later than that. previously received, the chief extracts from which will he found elsewhere. The steam packet from Boston is now expected hourly. COURSE OF EXCHANGE—(YESTERDAY.I Amsterdam CF. 12 8 !Gibraltar ... .. Ditto, at sight Rotterdam ...... ...9 U l2 81 Genoa . 25 90 Antwerp Hamburgh 11.8. 13 13 i Venice Altona . 13 14 Naples .. .. 40 Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 60 Palermo, per oz lll4 Ditto, 3 months 95 85 ( Lisbon • 5•.' Marseilles Boutdeaux 25 90 Rio Janeiro •26i Frankfort on Maine.— 1511. Bahia Petersburgh, 3Us ... 37 !Buenos Ayres Berlin-- ... ........ .... 7 New York, 21 days sight 461 • Vienna, effec. 11. 3 Al. 9 56' Philadelphia Trieste, -ditto 9 59 eatc.r.s OF nut.t.lo iv, reit 07. Madrid • • 361 ;Foreign Gold, bars £3 17 0 Cadiz Bilbao ...... :36 ,New Doubloons U 0 0 Kareeloatii4,•., 36 New Dollar.= 0 0 0 Seville STATE OF TRADE LIV ER TOOL, Juvr 14.—(FT0111 our Cotrespondeat.)—The public sates of colonial wools, which commenced this day, have been very numerously attended, and the competition for all qualities has been very animated. 'I he wools sold to-day are in very fair condition, and are tolerably free from seeds and burrs. Ale,srs..Buchannari and Brown have a sale to-morrow. I have reason to believe that the imporie. s are %Nell satisfied with the prices which, under present circumstances, have been obtained. FoREIGN WOOL. TRADE. LEEDS, JULY 15.—We have had many inquiries for new wools this week, and about an average amount of sales has been etleeted,althpugh prices are notfound. to be so low as was anticipated, and but little. if any, cheaper than old wools were selling at previous to the German fairs. ENGLISH WOOL MARKET, LEEDS, Jct.Y 15.—Tne present week has not produced azq alteration in this blanch of trade. Sales have been to a Hunted extent. The new wools are now coming to hand, and the manufacturers consequently have a better assortment from which to select their purchases, which they are therefore enabled to make on rather better terms than a few weeks ago. _ DosicasTE — a WoOr. MARKET, July 9.—The supply of wool was large this day, but the trade throughout was dull a 1 heavy, and at the close, though buyers were pretty numerous, n some quantity remained. Prices much as last eek. Hog wool 12s. to 135., Hog and Ewe 1 Is. to 125., Ewe 10s. to I Is., Locks 6s. to 7s. per stone. Another acecont gives the prices as follow :—/log and Ewe 12s. to 13s. ; very fine. 13s. 641: ; Ewe I ls. to I2s. per stone ; Locks Bd. to 10d. per lb. HULL Woo'. Pam—On Tuesday last there were but few buyers, and more sellers than usual, and consequently there was again a good deal of hanging oft as to prieeti, yet a fair amount of business was done, a greater number of lots passing, the scales than, we believe, on any previous market day this season, and these too at in ices rather in advance of those hitherto obtained, but this was owing in rart at least to the excellent quality of the fleeces offered. An extraor dinar y number °lsmail lots was shown and we believe all bought up. YORK WOOL MARKET. JULY 14 —The show of wool has been moderate at this day's market, and their being a :dewier et e e, d l ay. Is. .61 kr i al , eutiatice of buyers , the mar ket ruled heavyatitil prices were, fur half -ho g and two-third-hog, a 125., 12s. 3d. to 12s. 9d. ; for all ewe,• lOs. dd.to is. per stone. Locks and cuts, 741. to 8(1. per lb. Tit...DE or LEEDS.—There has been a little more business dune at tan. Cloth Halls this week in beavers, a n d as la d r u 'e l Y l of sale inns ; but fine and middle cloths continue quit as for some time past; on the whole the marke e ts both on 1..a -turday and Tuesday were tar below an average. Prices s tationary, and the stocks, although re trtaiu light, compared atthisse v ls?th are more than with what they have usuatly been ample for ti,e-present demand. Business continues very Anil in the warehouses; the few buyers who,visit the market con tinue to buy very si.aringh, and only for present demand. BRADFORD Maitslia,-.Tltuasnay.—We learn with plea sur, that rather more has been done to-dab in the Piece market, and that chiefly by the houses aged in the home trade, who usually ma, t e their p urc h ases a this season. Orlearr's hive been more in request als , ) merinos, and figures suited for the approaching season. In prices we hear of no alteration. S cannot report th e slightest demand is a s h a d e L improvement in yarn, for if the etter without an altered price, we tear that the }resent nt , been the hab lll r d production will continue; and to-day has ingerpf .it.telligent* more satisfactory. Our lzs are somevhat - Lettzr supp;i4 .. and" winne rs b e ,:n qIrYPIMMIg,--amliteori#ay,onJ,y tame, ham tts tss, andtlit i;uta tavvve.44-tlit Inyer. 114,4241 • . IOWCWW, ' • • -- -,-.~. t AT A _ t , ``~~~ IZ - " a tY .11 ;47:1.%i