The Sun. — London, England, 1842-06-17 00:00:00

1 `~--.... !tided arces d .d by uper• , and at' tive's sches* nom' r the eters 4 lei ', the° bare the M. kr ster. stria% nt of were &free o the i; the 4 anti Ivan/ o bet d and unto ess py the Ig er ' #‘4l , s *' 121 / 4 1 rli nto li, June 15. L ady Helena Trench, on receiving the rank of an Earl's daughter, b y t h e C ountess o f E gmon t RI " , G. H. V} se, by Lady Marian Alford Lady Stewart Bruce, by Lady Katherine Jermyn Mrs. Harte Franks, on going to India, by Lady Jephson Norge .s Airs. em Penett, by the Dowager Lady Arundell A ,lrs , Gro ve , b y the Countess of P em b ro k e irs. Joh n Cary, by the Dowager Lady Bedingfeld ' qrs. John Malcolm by the Countess of Plymouth rs• George Hiil the Countess Delaware Alts. B on , • ' r, by Lady Bowater Aps. Ch ar l es Earle, by Lady Saltoun r rS• Charles Simeon, by Lady Knatchbull The Hon. Mrs. Massey, by Lady Parton Alias Mary Seymour, by the Dowager Lady Clinton . I ! ‘ss Percy, b y t h e C ountess o f B ever l ey Miss il as E. An Benneit, b her mother, Mrs. William Bennett Mary O na swald, by be Viscountess Canning ;e a Ellen R. Bullock, by her Mother, Mrs. Bullock Glegg, by rs. , Glegg Alias West b • her mother Lady West o tere ac T ) he, by Mrs. De Burgh Al i as Berkeley, by Lady Charlotte Berkeley A/:"Emily Glegg, by Mrs. Glegg sa 1 11iles, by her mother. Mrs. William Miles Ar 5 Mary Broml e y, by her mother, Lady Bromley Ai; Spicer, by her mother, Mrs. Spicer Alan; S i pieer, by her mother, Mrs. Spicer Vs' Ellaily Waddington, by her mother, Mrs. Waddington .111 '" 'Stewart, by Mrs. Brownlow Poulter A pl Jane West, by her another, Lady West . . A/ !'s Louisa Douglas, by her mother, Mrs. Admiral Douglas P 3 Evans, by Mrs. George St. John A 1 53 Helen , Wyndham, by Mrs. 'W yndham- A i!as Fzulkener, by her aunt, the Dowager Lady Arundel i,!'s Maria French, by the Countess of Egmont Trenth, by the Countess of Egmont The following G ntlemen were present : o x . e - • N B Es—Hamihoe, Buccleuch, Roxburgh, St. Alban's, irfolk, Beaufort. ; A lAK QUIS—Bute. Eg..rnaoktnt, LS73rColhvinfiw. Leitrim,h o eSter, Enni Sefton,skille Enniskillen, Morley, Aylesford, Arran, Haddington, Eldon. VISCOUNTS Galway, Acheson, Bernard, Folkestone, Dun e.'lo; Alford, Northland. L fte lilllSHOP—Armagh. hirt ) s—Leigh, Lovat, Stafford, Clifford, Talbot de Mala "ateeplrk, Wenlock, Carington, Wrottesley, Bloomfield, v.'zgerald err and Vesci, Stanley, Wharncliffe, Brabazon, Al. Radstook, Cremoroe, Belhaven. c:"N—Charles de Rothsthild. UNT —B. M etaxa . "I°lrx HONOU RABLE— R. Vernon Smith. ReV . 4) UltAßLES—ltichard Cavendish, Rev. P. Yorke Savile, Edward Keppel, W. J. G. Chetwynd, Edward Petre, 0. S -wu k ,, be, Edward Alo,tyn, A. F. Capel, C. Lennox Butler. L e i„ l l .7 - -Henry Smyth, M.D., Henry Dyrooke, Baldwin 13Z," °11 , Montague Cholmeley, Edmund Lacon, George Al Harington, William Heathcote, D. J. Norreys, J. HaThomas Uhher E. B. are. Baker, J. T. Lee, G. Jackson, 1..) " le r , J r . Gerard, J. Ho b L AN— Chi c h ester . " b ". DOCTORS—C:Imm, Hook, Hawtrey, Williams. &,'"• ll Essieur t s—Ji.hn Dymoke, F. S. Trench, M. R. Ir' J. Carver, G. G. Stonestreet, W. S. Rowe. A. ir r i ,"s—Laaeri, Field, Outram, Harrison, Jackson, Ludlow , ckenzie, Hinclley. .lit Lionel Wells, George Whitmore, Keate, M ed an . ns, Coe Coape, S. A. Donaldson, Bell, Bullock, titra t f ord n, 0. Bateman,n, Mayne, Hicks, Tisdall, J. W. G, grid' G. P. B us h e , Drewe, H. B. Walker, Whitmore, BI Fitzgerald Big ins E. Kenyon, Stuart Farquharson, N. John Car g y, 11-aecourt, Charles B. Buller, Colvile, Si r'•, Bullock, Johnson Neale, Darwin Galton, J. G. T. Gwynne,Cork, J. Halkett, Egerton, Robert 117,,. - 7"Y , Belford H. Wilson, Newdegate, Thomas Bacon, De John Tyndale, Challoner, Hamilton Story, Burton VL"gh, Devrar Summers Harford, William Miles, ALP., re7dington Rebell; Spicer, W. T. Praed, Bulkeley, Colvin, wal4dinand Huddlestone, C. Sidney Hawkins, Alexander Os- B umburg M.P., J. F. Stanford, George G. Alaepher cluu? W addingto ' n, Manley, Wm. Maxwell Dirom, Fre i:kick Seymour, Bonar, APClintock, Thos. Gladstone, M.P., uert J. Bagshaw, Dugdaie, M.P., O'Moore, O'Connor 1/Z, c ",,Y, Robertson Barclay, Hodgson Hinde, M.P., Edward Hindley, M. P., John Copling, illiam Bridges, Ha ggins Benett, M.P.,•Whitelock, Elliott, *,• Hicks, Beckett, M.P., Charles Towneley, Whitmore, ?Woo, 'Billies, M.P. A ilLn- Alaasnan—The Duke of Wellington. Joh„% it aaes—Donglas, Ayscough, Sir 'l'. Troubridge, Sir (i " " T est, K. C.B. P r „,, zl ftam,s—Si r Wm. Gomm, Sir Robert Barton, Sir li r ge riek Adam, Camlfeild, Shulrick, it Archibald Alaclaine, Pasley. S i ° L°Ntes —Fitch, H.C.M. S., Sir George Cowper, Bart., T r r William Berries, Proctor, Peter Hawker, Hon. G. R. ALP., Freestun, Samuel Dales, Trevor, H. Colvile, 1), - " , Disco°, Ellis, Garland, Fludyer, Symons, Sir Charles Ze, Love, Gwynne 1-loltord, N. Aloes, Angelo. "°" -- Pugh, Waymouth, Cooke, Last, Pinckney, Pes) John Maclean, Hallifax, Drought. c. - I ,"T„.'iNs—Sprye, Sanoe Hawker, Hilliard, Berkeley, Ald - ,.?.,; l4 teman, P. V. Cotton, Harte Franks, Frobishe r , Grierson, Taswell, William Henry Haslewood, Ed ard Stanley, Sainthill, Sandiman, Thornton, Wingfi e ld, cn nting, Moore, Howard Vyse, W. F. Hay, Chamber s , Fellowes, Samuel Parr, Maher, J. Willoughby, Ho are , vi7r.cely Maxwell, S. Price, Hathorn, Houston Stewart, C. 8., i on Berners, H. Roberts, Emery, C. M. Caldwell, Mar garY, R.A.C. 14 C ommANDEas—Bradley, J. N. Gladstone, Gordon G. acdonald, Tennyson D'Eyncourt, T. G. Dick, Norcott, R.N., iq'olce, De Saumayez, John Gwyn Wigley, R. H. Fleming, unYpentay, Schomberg, G. R. Ogilvy. LIEUTZNANTS.—KendaII, H. J. Margery, Short, H. iittrling, Cohn Campbell, Kane, Holland, Hodgkinson, R. ughes, Capel Coape, Eardley No r t on , L or d F r ederick Ker r , ',lan:land, Churchill Spencer, A. Cummi n g, J. Stewart, D. Henderson, Humbley, Haygarth, Rattenbury, Wardlaw, Percy ENSIGNS.—H. E. Weare, L. H. Bedford, Mason. _ The Queen gave audiences to the Lord Chamberlain and Colonel Walton, Field Officer in Waiting. 4 Her Majesty and Prince Albert and the Royal Suite, re -4lrned to Buckingham Palace after the Drawing-room. ~The Mess of her Majesty's Honourable Corps of Gentlemen -'lSrrus dined together last evening at Long's Hotel. 4•11!IIMMININSIMMIN114-ao V la l j , T OF HER MAJESTY AND - F ~ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE ALBERT W e a n "' I'AFF ORD HOUSE. 4,„lhert e sday her Majesty and his RoyalßoyalPrince honour the Duke and Hon -ss of Sutherland by their company at dinner, at Stafford te esT,hvileog_neen's visit was considered private, and consequently H er l anFement was made of the intended honour. Piti ed ;:-`alE.sty and hi s R o yal Highness Prince Albert, accom- Co unt "Y his E xce ll ency Count Mensdorf and his sbnt,the t eaded s b lit ign, Alphonso, Alexander, and Arthur Mensdorf , at test Y Lord Rivers, Lord i n Countess of Dun in V,dy in Waiting ;and Lord Char Waiting; Charles Wellesley, Equerry the i i I N en the Queen ; the Marquis of Exeter, Groom of i g A irl t e °l e; and Sir Edward Bowater, Equerry to his Royal kid ~. ss Prince Albert, arrived a few minutes after eight, litlt ireceived i n th e ves tibule by the Noble Duke and i :g t ab le buchess, th e b an d s tationedin the great hall . greet- N ati - arrival of the august and illustrious guests with the 11°411 Anthem. AtlePPYal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady b i b • Aaria Dawson previously arrived. l 'eln: ne r was shortl afterwards announced, the entertainment .to the owed up in the banueting-room, and in addition s and th ti ,,,,er , and Prince Albert, Count Menstiorf and his sons, sfj,.-7...-Nehess of Kent the elect circle who had the honour ii,,tt"),ll the party to dinner consisted of the Duke of Wel -1114 ° h n ' the Archbishop of York and Miss V Harcourt, Duke fly-ku,°iess of Norfolk Earl and Countess of Carlisle and d ,o,„"iarY Howard Earl' and Countess Cowper, Earl ,. an 4-adilless Grosvenor,' Viscount Melbourne, Viscount (Aden, itiltalevst-eravbeer,rlnir. William and Lady Caroline Lascelles, and e na me .. her Majesty and Prince Albert's household Th e • baited d full band of M. Jullien and Herr Koenig, including the .slas:.lnu,ieal talents of MM. De Loffre, Pilet, Baumann, and c eu t bg th e tik. P er i.errned a variety of overtures, L & e c a . in the gallery Dianzans de la tttro?ine . Cifianner? amongst which am e_r:_ a C,„t, P i s;ons nt r a 'Zorn .La Sp Les solo !or cor- Echos de la nig Quadrilles— 'zn bi' " w L i DhYr' . 4 4.11 ,_d " by " -. Waltzes—" Maske Bilder," " Ze 01:141,,'"aurne " ~ A t i " and " Tagliont." and aa 'party retiring from the banqueting '.. ri t s , - , t he galle• d played the National Anthem. ortih:lll.,l4le;::uheQ.;.ett.e,nr rp3'artt of the evening there was a dance in the Nrdl ei ' ll the Queen and Prince Albert danced in several A 2 , 4 • w os t 4 a ll circl e .. • • t o . , were . e tva, invited to the evening party, among bar t .., es s SZ 1 4 ‘7, 1 French Ambassador and xet ß ileneY d i e " Barante, M. de Barante, %is e;'"„4 P a ehes a s 'r o e f' Bedford, nri Marquis of Worcester, Mar qlnsC,;:' is3larchioness of Clanricarde, Marchioness of W est '''f'll g", 4k e and Duchess of Buccleuch, Earl of Liver oflliersl:,and Countess of Jersey and Lady Clementine 1 1) el k ',"Ir• and Lady Fanny Howard, Earl and Countess . e h s ; l ehey -4 4 ," and Ladies Elizabeth and Mary West, his Ex ande-il_ l e . & ,r 1 Prussian Minister and Madame Bunsen, Mar t 1. 4 , 1 - ~''' Lansdowne, Earl and Countess Fortescue, Lord 4 1i,1 1 an-dT c , _ St _ a n nley,iscount and . Viscountess Palmerston, 1: 0 7,41 1 10 7 , tess of Tankerville, Mr. C. Greville, Mr. t ) q Pit g e ra, Lord and Lady Ashley, Marquis„_ of Kildare, In z gerald v• Cron L td ~ , iscount and 'Viscountess Howick, Vis ak,lle, Rons.scountess Jocelyn, Lord Forester, Mr. Henri S & lady , Aiar Cay,tan Grey, Lad Georgiana Grey, Mr. C. r-. " q Y wood Eail and y Countess . of Clanwilliarn, 3 'thiel, r s eqr ge a d Alfred Paget, Lady Adelaide Paget, Hon. / Lad Li', -erbertn h stu uY F an 4_Viscount Cantilupe, Lord Brooke, Viscount soe.,, s Clie- 0r ,, , 7, , ando e ,. Ceunt Louis de Noaiiles, Sir Au . - 1. 44 .'-ord E d : a Lord Lovaine, Mr. and Lady Charlotte Deni int 14 Ur ot . ye rd Howard and Lady Mary Fitzaian Howard, I Nr,:. t ad 0 ,,, d 13 ,2r , Countess of Denbigh and Lady Mary Field I.si re Ysi, •v• C ountess of Arundel, N'isccunt and Viscountess F u Y Ili, is euunt Ebrington, Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Anson, geaosb; e rs , Lord John Mannert, Earl of Dunmore, H C a ses 1.4' 11(ul. Charles Gore Countess Flahault, and e lion. q rti hi an • A Vi s' P. , Lady Louisa Cavendish, Lord and Lady Lil e l i se Quut t i . Miss Granville Vernon, Hen. William Cowper, tan y, Carb,,ngton, Marquis of Granby, Hon. H. Cholmon tt'en, 6,;',!7'. Seymour, Viscount Ossulston, Viscount Dun ts._ger ab.'" , k redro &c. .tint . -Jest , . an , tI al e J ci his Royal Highness Prince Albert, with Id nut t a ft k' q _",r ‘ f t ,.and her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent. Q ,,,. .in .ir departure until after twelve o'clock. T-4-3-4k." r ye NORTH OF ENGLAND RAILWAY. passztnuciirnssefor the we e k en ding June 11,1842 : k er erigers , £Bl4 7 6 322 17 10 £1,207 5 4 W. O'BRIEN, Secretary. C 11 INA. 740 all Monies repaid by her Majesty's Government China, to since tat India Company on account of the War in . . p, the commencement ' of the War until the present time .- 1840, October 27 £ 150,0tX) la4l, July 2. .. 1842, February 9 ‘ 23,442 Total. £573,442 ndia East House, June 8 JAMES 42. C. MELVILL, Secretary. , 18 , TR A ,„ _ . I.—„,.—_,_.___________ un merttC"SPORTATION OF ROBERT SMITH.—We Ili p j a 'stand that Robert Smith , lately found guilty before the - ' l asg e „," r t of Justiciary for hot and breach of trust in the Itith other and Ship Bank, in which he acted as teller, was sent, dk,, 2 convicts, from Edinburgh to the Hulks on Wednes anti that he made a full confession of his guilt before de af l e "-- Scotsman. thip, arrival of the Antwerp Company's "Steara- Nt erd the St. Katharine's Wharf, 1 ower, on Wednesday and Ctat e a al, were as follows :—.The Bruges, Captain Main, from I lie7; r 2 ttl a!l the Antwerpen, Captain Jackson, from . Antwerp. L Lo x 7 Was made in 13 hours, and the latter in 19 hours. N.stei„._ GIVITY Ord WHOLE FAMILY.—A couple were i:,_q_larried at Mingat in France, when it appearcd from the tled7rtof the church; that the father of the bridegroom had " at Athte age of 101, the mother 100 years old—the father e r had lived US, and the mother 95 yeare,. THE LEVANT MAIL. TURKEY. CoNsTANTrsiorLE, MAY 27.—The representatives of the five Powers are this morning engiged in a conference with Sarim Effendi, the _Minister of Foreign Affairs, at his house the Bosphorus. It is supposed to have reference to the affairs of Syria. Mohamed Pacha, late Go.•ernor of Angora, has been appointed to the government of Tripoli, in the place of Ashkar Pacha, who has been withdrawn in consequence of the ester getie representations of Sir Stratford Canning. This is the fourth funetiona:y of that rank whom he has caused to be disgraced. Although the transactions referred to in the annexed note may be intrinsically of no great importance, and though, as far as the interests of the parties are concerned, the Porte may consent to a satisfactory arrangement of the question, still it involves a principle, the discussion'of which, from the very careless way the commercial treaty. was negotiated here, will have to be revived, at a moment, too, when the pressure and multiplicity of other business renders such additional embarrassment peculiarly inconvrniert. You are aware that one of the boasted effects 01 that treaty was the abolition of all monopolies. In reckoning, however, on this enlightened concession of the Porte, we reckoned, it appears, somewhat without our host; for in the Turkish version of the treaty the word monopoly is rendered by a phrase ( iedi rabid) (single hand), whose application is at once much wore li mited, and much more indefinite. There are other gross oversights in the treaty, both in the spirit and in the letter, which earl for immediate revision. NOTE OF SIR STRATFORD CANNING. " The undersigned, her Britannic Majesty's Ambassaeor Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, has the honour to submit the following remarks to his Excellency the Minister for Foreign Affairs : " liepeated complaints are addressed to me of the injury done to our trade by the refusal of the authorities at Salonica to allow the salt imported there by cur merchants to be sold in the ordinary way. Several large cargoes of that article have been now detained for many months, to the prejudice and heavy loss of the importers. this is not only a gross injustice to the individuals concerned; it is also a national injury, inas much as it operates to the discouragement of British trade, and is also an infraction of our commercial treaty with the Porte. The only reasons alleged for the refusal are, that salt is a re served article, that it is produced at Salo&ca, that the sale of it is farmed, and that the interests of the farmer, and consequently of the Government, will suffer by the importation and sale of other salt. It is true that salt is a reserved article in some countries ; in Turkey, also, it may have been so formerly, but there is no such reserve in the treaty. The second article stipulates the suppression of every monopoly, without any ex ception whatever, as well as the liberty of trading in every kind and article of Turkish produce. This must be deemed conclu sive. Had the Porte thought proper to make any reserves, they should have been expressed in the treaty, and in that ease nu doubt the saerifices made by Great Britain in consenting to a large increase of the duties would have been diminished. With respect to any inconvenience or loss devolving upon the Porte, in consequence of the treaty—it may or may not be a reason for proposing a reconsideration of its articles by mu tual consent ; but it will not warrant a refusal to give effect to the existing stipulations, especially when that refusal is ac companied with a heavy loss to individuals trading on the faith of those stipulations. Had the trade in salt been prohibited at Salonica, notice should have been given to the merchants. They looked, no doubt, to the provisions of the commercial treaty, and finning no exception specified there, ember ked their capital with confidence in the traffic of salt. They have therefore a just claim on the protection of the Minister ; and the Porte, who has merited reputation for scrupulous at tention to treaty engagements, cannot but do justice to the representations of her Majesty's Ambassador. In truth, the question has already been decided by the Porte itself. No less than two years ago a case similar to the present occurred at Yanina, and the Grand Vizier of that time did not hesitate to comply with the representations of the British Embassy, and to give orders 'for the sale of the salt im ported, grounding his decision on the commercial treaty, and expressly directing that eves) , facility should be given to the trade of the English in salt, as in every ether article. The un dersigned avails himself of this opportunity to repeat to his Ex. cellency, the Minister for Foreign Affairs the assurances of his high consideration. (Signed) " Pera, May 12, 1842." The day before yesterday the old Veil or covering which had been removed horn the Prophet's tomb at Mecca, and which, agreeably with the custom at the commencement of every reign, had been replaced by another, the gift of the present Sultan, was carried in procession to the seraglio, where it was deposited with other relics of the same description. An application was last week made by Baron de Hubsch, the Danish Minister for a firman, authorising the passage through the Dardanelles of a frigate having on board Prince Frederick de Hesse Cassel, nephew of the King of Denmark. The Porte, however (somewhat uncourtcously, I think, considering the occasion), has refused to grant the firman, alleging for ex cuse the provisions of the treaty of London, by which ships of war are excluded from these waters. EGYPT. " STRATFORD CANNING. ALEXANDRIA, MA I' 26. —The Mahmludieh Canal has again been filled with water, so that travellers will not have to contend with the same difficulties as unfortunately they ex perienced this month. The Pacha will also be enabled to bring his produce to market. He is much in want of money ; he lately borrowed a considerable amount from the European merchants established here. His troops are still twenty-three months in arrears. Great discontent prevails amongst them at this ill usage. The Pacha this morning determined to levy the three per cent. ad valorem duty, reserving to himself the right of all inland and other municipal duties. Although this measure is perhaps the least burdensome on trade, it is in direct opposition to the hatti scheriff, which established five per cent. at places of import, in lieu of every other inland duty. All the Sultan's firmans, hatti scheriffs, and treaties of com merce, are quite dead letters with the Pacha, and always will be so, as private interests and his open bribery of the Constan tinople officials conduce to such ends. The accounts which reached us from India say, that the steamer India would not . leave Calcutta before the Ist of May, consequently she may be expected at Suez in the beginning of next month. • . I here is a report in town that the English Government is making arrangements, with that of Austria, to convey her India mails from Ostend, across Germany to Trieste, and from thence by the Lloyd steamers direct to this. They say also that the Danube Company will soon be again plying from this to Con stantinople. MALTA. MALTA, JUNE S.—SHIPS IN POET.--The Queen, 110, bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral Sir E. W. C. R. Owen, Commander-in-Chief; Howe, 120, bearing the flag of Rear- Admiral Sir F. Mason, Second in Command; Impregnable, 104 ; Thunderer, 84 ; Vanguard, 80 ; Calcutta, 78 ; Cam bridge, 78; Vernon, 50; Maeicienne, 24; Snake, 16: and Pheenix, Devastation, and Vesuvius war-steamers; Locust steam-tender and Ceylon receiving ship, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Sir J. Louis, Superintendent of Malta Dockyard. DISPOSITION OF THE REST OF THE FLEET.—The Rodney, 92 ; the Inconstant, 36 ; and the Hecate war-steamer at Bey rout. The Monarch, 84, at Rhodes; and the Medea war steamer, off the river Xanthus ; the L'Aigle, 24, at Vourla ; the Stromboli war steamer, at Constantinople; the Cyclops steam-frigate, at Alexandria ; the Scout, 18, at Corfu ; the Alecto, steam-packet, on her way from the lonian Islands with the mails; the Polyphemus steam-packet, at Marseilles, await ing the overland London mails of the 4th inst. The Prome theus steam-packet, at Genoa, awaiting the arrival of Lady Canning and family, for conveyance to Constantinople. The Formidable, 84. Jaseur, 16, and Wizard steam-tender, at Gibraltar; the Belvidera. 38, at Cadiz; the Savage, at Tunis, and the Beacon and Magpie at Port Nassau, in the Archipelago, prosecuting their surveying labours. DEPARTED.—May 29. Her Majesty's steamer Devasta tion, Commander Robertson (acting), supposed for Tripoli; her Majesty's steamer Polyphemus, Lieutenant Evans, Com mander, for Marseilles, with Bombay mails of the 2d-4th inst., in charge of Mr. Wittenoom, Government messenger, for that service. May 30.—Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Ori ental, Mr. John Say, Commander, for Gibraltar and South ampton, with part of the Bombay mail, in charge of Lieutenant Hancock, R.N. May 31.—Her Majesty's steamer Alecto, Lieutenant Hosea son, Commander, to Greece and the lonian Islands, with mail of the 14th from London via Gibraltar. _ . _ June I. Her Majesty's ship Locust, Lieutenant Lunn, Commander, for the fleet, and thence to Tripol. June 3.—Her Majesty's brig Savage, 18, Lieutenant Bowker, Commander, for Tunis and Tripoli. June 4.—The Neapolitan steamer Ercolano, with a mail for Naples. May 27.—Her Majesty's iteamer Stromboli was lying at Constantinople by the latest intelligence received. Her Ma jesty's corvette L'Aigle quitted Smyrna-roads for Vourlah. Her Majesty's steamer Cyclops was at Alexandria. Letters from Athens of the 30th of May announce that the surveying vessels, Beacon and' Magpie, had proceeded, the former for Poros, and the latter for Falconera. (No date is given.) The French squadron, under the orders of Admiral de La susse, was about to leave the Piraeus for Smyrna. The mo tive assigned was, that the Santi Petri had not been admitted to pratique, that ship having several persons on board sick of the small pox. The French steamer Scamandre, will proceed to-morrow, at S a.m., for Marseilles, with a mail from the Levant. Her Majesty's ship Rodney may be expected to arrive in Malta about the end of the month, from Beyrout and Alex- THE EX-REGENT CHRISTINA, • AND DON CARLOS. " TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS DON CARLOS, INFANT OF SPAIN, &C.. " Although still suffering from the effects of a slight indispo•• sition, I answer myself the despatch delivered to me by Don A. T., during an audience which was pleased to grant him for that purpose. " I pass over in silence those p 'hits of the proposition which you submit to me in the above-named despatch to which I have no objections to advance, andt enumerate those only which appear to me susceptible either of considerable modification or of total rejection. " I shall subscribe to the mart age which you propose to me between my august daughter, the very legitimate Queen of Spain, and his Highness the Pence of the Austrian. How ever this con'ent on my part mayr un counter with the views of a powerful Throne, which harel ong been entertained, it is my duty, for the prosperity of my wel -beloved subjects, and urged on by circumstances, to unite with lour desires. It is gratify ing to me to give you this unec trivocal proof of my affection. On your own part weigh this important concession, which touches me both as a Queen and as a mother, with the just weight your balance ought to contain. " I should wish, however,t ha this alliance were not con cluded until a year after the defeat of hint who has usurped' all my powers—powers which are t o be restored to me immedi ately after the establishment of peace. " Although, as a servant of; he Lord, I respect the mis fortunes of those even who have suffered for you, I cannot, however, receive as a condition their restoration to high and public offices ; and the less so, as the Cortes of Constitutional :Spain cannot regard with confidence Ministers who might, in some respects, appear suspicious. " The very reason which I have here alleged would suffice, if necessary to prove to your Royal Highness that it does notenter into my views to deprive Spain of a Constitution, although at the same time, I must admit that that which is now in force necessitates certain modifications and ameliorations. " It is my pleasure to believe, that after mature reflection you will regard things more temperately ; time advances, and flies, and in its progress it carries us onward, and impera tively commands us ; in a certain measure, therefore, we can not evade obedience. " I also desire that all my objections, which I make only after a well-weighed examination into the details of your proposition, may be appreciated to their just value, and that, without fur ther hesitation, you should commence, with the enterprise projected between us, the regeneration of a country equally dear to both.—Your affectionate, M. C." " April 11." THE LIGHT SOVEREIGN 5. It is not true that the very hot weather has led to the Queen's proclamation on the sub ject of " sweating sovereigns." We understand, however, that Sir Peter Laurie has placed all his ready cash in an ice-house, in order to keep the gold from getting into a violent perspira tion from the intense heat that has been lately prevalent. After the allusion to" sweating sovereigns," we can perfectly under stand the meaning of parties betting " a cool thousand," which of course means a thousand pounds that have not been sweated. —Punch. MESSRS. WIGNEY'S BANK RUPTUY. BRIGHTON, JUICE 15.—An adjourned meeting under this fiat took place to-day at the Town-hall before Messrs. Merri field, Turner, and C. Cooper, the Commissioners. At the opening of the Court the Commissioners gave their decision in the following case, which was gone into yesterday. At a meeting held in Brighton in November last, the Rev. J. S. M. Anderson was appointed Secretary, and Mr. I. N. Wig ney, Treasurer, of an auxiliary to the African Association, and a sum of money in a bag collected at the meeting was handed over by Mr. Anderson to Wigney. On the Sunday after the fai.ure Mr. Wigney offered to return him the bag, which had never been opened. Mr. Anderson refused to take it, and it was ultimately handed over to the assignees to abide the decision of the Commissioners. Mr. 'MERRIFIELD now stated that the Commissioner had decided that the money being held by Mr. Wigney merely as a trustee, it therefore might be given up. Mr. I. N. Wigney's examination by Mr. James was then resumed.—My father's will contained a clause directing the executors to wind up his affairs, but the executors (my bro thers George and William, myself, and my mother) never did so. The deficiency of the bank at the time of my father's death was known to all the executors, arid was spoken of, but no pro position was ever made for supplying the deficiency. It was hoped that the debt of Cochrane and Co. of Glasgow (17,0001. ) would be paid, and that the. concern would be productive of profit. At this time it wasanticipated that Mr. Clement Wig ney would join the bank. He was to bring in his in. crest under my father's will. I think he was not aware of the ex tent of the deficiency of the bank, but I have no doubt he was aware there was a deficiency. Mr. U. Wigney said, he certainly knew that the account of Cochrane and Co. was overdrawn, but he had not the slightest idea of the losses by the s, eculations mentioned yesterday, or he certainly should not have taken his property into the bank to be lost. _ _ Mr. 1. N. Wigney—l never told my brother Clement of the loss of 23,0001. by speculations. He brought ir.to the bank 15,826/. ; and during his partnership he has drawn out the w hole 01 that sum except 211. There was no sum of money set expressly apart out of my father's estate to meet the defi ciency ; but there was a sum to which I looked in the event of a necessity occurring. It %% a s Bank and lndi3. Stock. I availed myself of this to the extent of 12,0001., and placed the amount to the credit of the executorial account. This took place to supply funds, pro tanto, to the bank. The 56,000/. owilig by the bank at the time of my father's death has all been liqui dated, with the exception of 5,211/. My housekeeping and personal expenses, from the 3d of November, 1837, to the 4th of March, 1842, amount to 11,250/. 19s. 3d., the education of my children to 1,0721. - The bankrupt was then examined by Mr. Bennett.—l do not know how much gold there was at the bank on the eveninr , of the 3d of March. There was not 1,000/. I did not take the balance. From the book it appears that on the following day there was at the bank 69/. in gold, bO/. in Bank of England notes, ar.d 1901. in silver. In your balance -sheet there is an item of '27,5941. 3s. 10d. in liabilities to Messrs. Alasterman and others, believed to be good. How much of that has been paid ?—All except one bill. When all the liabilities have run oft; Messrs. Alasterman will be indebted to the assignees to the extent of 2,0031. 3s. Air. George \%igney's name is endorsed on bills to the extent of 13,000/. He began to ecdcrse bills for me during the last year. Aiy account was overdrawn, and Mr. Alasterman said it was desirable to have a name on the bill. Now, Mr. Wigney, did you receive any sum of money for withholding your resignation after your bankruptcy ?—No. Have you not stated at the Reform Club that your last elec tion cost 2,300/. ?—I think I stated to some gentlemen who manage the business of the Reform Club relating to giving as sistance to candidates, that my election had cost, or would cost , about 2,000/. Lord Lowther, M.P., made my wife a present of a. gold enamal watch ten years ago. That watch was lost two or three years ago near the Elephant and Castle, and a reward was offered for its restoration, hut without effect. I-low many clubs did you belong to?—One in Brighton, and two in London. I was a witness at the trial of Lord de Hoos. I have occasionally played at short whist since 1837, forcrown or half-crown stakes. I have played as high as 20s. points. Did you ever lose 201. at a sitting? Mr. Creasy objected to the question, which he said was put to gratify a vindictive feeling, and not with a view of benefiting the estate. Some warm language here ensued. And the admissibility of the question was argued at considerable length by Mr. Creasy and Mr. Bennett, The COMMISSIONERS decided that the question could not be put, inasmuch as it had a tendency to invalidate the bank rupt's certificate. Mr. Clement Wigney was then sworn; but the only ques tion put to him was one relating to the bond to his wife's trus• tees for 5,000/. At the time he gave it he had nothing but what his father allowed him. _ _ _ Mr. BENNETT then opposed the passing of the bankrupt, on the ground that he had destroyed the documents relating to the Glasgow affair, where nearly 70,000/. had been ingulfed, and that he had not taken a proper course on discovering the loss of the 745/. Mr. Jamas, on the part of the assignees, said, that as an adjournment could not be productive of any benefit to the estate, the assignees did not ask for an adjournment. Mr. CREASY then addressed the Commissioners in favour of the passing of the bankrupts, and contended, in an eloquent speech, that Mr. I. N. Wigney, fallen and erring as he was, was still not criminal, and did not merit that the Commis sioners should, by refusing to allow them to pass, ratify and adopt the censure which had, during the last four months, been most unfairly cast upon him, and sent forth to the whole of the civilized world through the medium of the press, without any opportunity being afforded him of reply. . The decision was postponed till to-morrow (this day), at one o'clock. DR. REID'SLECTURES ON CHE- 3IISTRY. Metals, and their liability to oxydation, formed the subject of Dr. Reid's lecture last night at Exeter Hall. The uses, he observed, to which metals were put, both in every-day life, and the arts that embellish that life, were so countless, that there would be less difficulty in enumerating them, than in repressing that enumeration. Ihe mightiest or most singular among these, were the steam-engine, the printing-press, and the small steel spring, on which the whole mechanism of the watch depended. The readiness of metals to unite with oxy gen, naturally led the Doctor to the consideration of oxyda tion, their chief characteristic ; this process in iron assumed the form of the red rust;- in copper that of the green. Of those metals which do not oxydate, Dr. Reid mentioned, gold, silver, platinum, and mercury : consequent upon this fact, therefore, articles in use, or such as were desired to last with out any kind of corrosion attaching to them, are generally com posed of one or other of these. Platinum, it had been as serted, existed in large quantities in certain mines, but at so enormous a price was it at present in the markets, that the lecturer knew of 10,0001. and 15,000/. having been paid for the construction of a boiler, of which platinum chiefly entered into the make, but which was not capable of holding many gallons. The fusion of metals in some districts was carried on to so great an extent, that unhealthiness inevitably per vaded whole districts, from the fumes. Three factories in \Vales, to the Doctor's own knowledge, evolved annually no less than 80,000 tons of sulphur in a state of vapour, carrying along with them portions of the copper, minute and invisible. Damp and acid atmospheres were the chief causes of the oxy dation of metals; if the air could be rendered absolutely and chemically dry, iron, kept therein, would be preserved from rust, corrosion, or deterioration, for an indefinite period of time. Water, again, if entirely released from its oxygen, will allow iron to be kept bright under water for months. The most powerful agents in the solution of metals were acid and chlorine, the latter being the most potent of the two, and formed by admixture of acids. In support of this statement, Dr. Reid proceeded with a series of experiments, illustrative of the solubility of gold and platinum thereby, which, with some accompanying remarks, concluded his lecture. It appears that the great room in which Dr. Reid usually lectures, being in requisition next Wednesday, for a third grand display of the classes of Air. Hullah, who, in common with Dr. Reid—is another great improver of the public mind— that ,Esculapius yields for that night to Apollo—and the lecture of the latter, thus postponed for a week, will prolong the course to the first week in August. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY' MORNING, JUNE 17, 1842. METROPOLITAN IMPROVE MENTS. Wednesday a deputation from the Metropolitan Improvement Society, headed by Lord Robert Grosvenor, had an interview with Sir Robert Peel, in Downing-street, the Earl of Lincoln, Chief Commissioner of Woods and Forests, being also present. Toe Deputation consisted of the following gentlemen :—Lord Robert Grosvenor, 51.1'., Sir Charles Leman, Bart., M.P., Hon. 11. Fitzroy, M.P., Gaily Knight, Esq., M.P., J. Wyse, Esq., M.P., Dr. Bowring, 51. P., Colonel Sykes, H. I. Hope, Esq., H. E. Hickson, Esq., Dr. Southwood Smith, J. L. Do naldson, Esq., S. Mills, Esq., C. Fowler, Esq , J. Martin, Esq., G. Godwin, Jun., Esq., J. Dillon, Esq , T. Oldfield, Esq., H. Austin, Esq., and other gentlemen. One object of the Deputation was, that Government should advise with the Commissioners of Woods and Forests, and other competent parties, upon the practicability of carrying out the plans now in progress upon a scale better adapted to the end proposed. But the principal object of the deputation was to obtain a better agency for future improvements than that which had hitherto been employed. They wished, as a basis for fu tur6 legislation on this subject, that Government should cause to be prepared an official scientific report upon the general cha racter of the improvements required in the metropolis, in re ference to Lew thoroughfares and open spaces, roads" connecting the railroad termini, the most practicable means of throwing open the banks of the Thames, and the steps to be taken for the drainage of unhealthy districts. The Deputation did not propose a commission in the ordi- nary sense of the word ; they did not wish to see the subject intrusted to a beard of virtuosi of amateur architects, or of parties who might be interested in any of the plans which had been discussed by the Committee of the House of Commons. They desired to see a report from parties possessing the special qualifications required in the highest degree, arid upon which two or three of our first civil engineers and architects, or sur veyors, ot equal ability to those who had been employed in the Irish survey, would stake their professional character. Sir R. PnEn said, that without troubling the Deputation to enter into any particular explanation, he might at once say that the subject was one which had engaged his serious atten tion, and that with the general views expressed by the Depu tation his own opinions coincided. Without pledging himself to the exact course which he might deem it desirabl3 to take relative to the appointment of any board, he certainly thought that the object would be promoted by taking a broad and comprehensive view of the whole subject, instead of legislating wholly upon detail ; and that for this pur pose a Committee of the House of Commons—open, perhaps, to local influence—was not the most desirable body to whom such an inquiry should be intrusted. He might fur ther add, that as the object appeared to him one of pa ramount importance, both in reference to the sanatory state of the poorer districts, and the greater facilities of communi cation required, he did not think the consideration of a merely trifling expense should stand in the way, and he should pro bably not hesitate to propose such a grant as would be sufficient to render the inquiry effectual. Some conversation then en sued relative to the character of the improvements now in progress, plans of which were produced; Lord Grosvenor especially urging the attention of Sir R. Peel to the fact, that if the formation of the new main thoroughfare streets were built of a width of 52 feet where 60 feet at least were required, and made crooked where they ought to be straight, the opportunity lust might be eternally regretted, but could never be recalled. Mr. MILLS. Chairman of the Commissioners of Sewers for Finsbury, in adverting to the importance of drainage, expressed a hope for the speedy publication of the evidence which had been taken by the Poor-law Commissioners relative to sewer age, and the Deputation took their leave, Lord Robert Gros venor thanking sir Robert Peel, in the name of every gentle man present and of the public, for the extremely satisfactory result of the interview. IRELAND. CLARE RIOTS. DUBLIN, JUNE 14.—The Government inquiry commenced on Friday, and was continued till Saturday evening. At this early stage of the inquiry it might be, perhaps, out of place to pass any opinion either as to the origin of the riot, or as to what course might have been adopted by wbich the loss of human life might have been averted. The Clare Journal, however, appears to think that much of the calamity would have been avoided had the resident Magistrate, who brought out the police, remained with them, as it was his duty to do, and have prevented them from firing, especially when, according to his opinion, he did not cousider they had received sufficient pro vocation to oblige them to do so in self-defence. Instead of this Mr. L. Smyth becomes himself so greatly alarmed at the first fire, that he retreats for shelter to the house of Dean Shaughnessy, and there remains for ten or fifteen minutes, not thinking it safe to leave without having for an escort a Roman Catholic clergyman. The evidence given by Mr. Fitzsimon, the Constabulary Inspector, would lead to,the inference that the discipline of the force is not yet on a par with that which governs the army. Mr. SMITH, Queen's Counsel, in opening the inquiry on Friday, said—ln consequence of certain representations having bean made to his Excellency the Lord-Lieutenant, relative to recent loss of lives in this town, arising out of dif ferences between the constabulary and the people, I have been directed by the Government to investigate the conduct of Mr. Smith and the police, and to report thereon for the sa tisfaction of his Excellency. I am now ready to hear any witneses that may be produced relevant to the proposed in quiry. The mode I intend to adopt is, that gentlemen em ployed en both sides should entirely abstain from making obser vations as to the nature or tem'eney of the evidence produced. One person making a remark would draw forth another, and the discussion would become interminable. Therefore, what I propose is, that the evidence shall be taken without comment, and leave me to draw the roost befiting conclusions I can from its import. A number of witnesses were then examined,but, with the ex ception of the terrible responsibility fixed upon the stipendiary Magistrate, by his own admission, little more than a repetition of the evidence produced at the inquest had been elicited. Up to the close of Saturday's proceedings the charge of having given the order to fire had been brought home to no one individual in particular ; and the evidence of Mr. Fitzsimon, sub-inspector, in common with that of other credible witnesses, tends to show that the police engaged acted throughout independent of all control. Indeed, so culpable was the apathy amongst their officers after the fatal occurrence, that neither the cartouche boxes nor carbines of the men were inspected, in order that it might be ascertained who had fired upon the wretched mob of their famishing fellow-creatures. ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY.—The ordinarY meeting was held on Monday evening, R. J. Murchison, Esq., V. P., in the chair. The presents announced were very nu merous and valuable, consisting, amongst others, of ten vo lumes from the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences; 392 sheets, and many folio volumes of the great cadastral map of Bavaria, by the King of Bavaria ; 18 charts from the Depot de la Marine, and the Depot de la Guerre., at Paris ; with 47 charts from the Lords of the Admiralty. From Admiral Kru sensteirn was a copy, made by himself, of a rare map in the collection of the Duchess of Parma, of that country in 1367. From Colonel Napier was reada short notice of a route through part of Palestine, across from a point near Beyrout to the site of the ancient Tyre. Dr. Deiffenbach communicated some interesting particulars respecting the large lake of Tewanga, in the Arekauri or Chatham Islands, which, having broke through the low range of sand hills, had opened a communication with the sea two miles in width. Mr. Murchison presented to the meeting two large and elaborate maps of the Oural Mountains, which have recently been surveyed by order of the Russian Go vernment. The mines were celebrated even as early as Hero dotus, and it was probable that the Romans derived their sup ply of precious metals from them. The Chairman stated some interesting facts on a subject which would probably come under the notice of the Society. It was that a gentleman had, in ascending the river Juba, in Africa, from east to west, fallen in with a considerable tract of country inhabited by a curious race of pygmies, not exceeding 4 feet in height, with very strange notions of religion and government, and exactly resem bling the type of Herodotus, and singularly confirming some opinions on the subject recently brought before the Aborigines Protection Society. INTREPIDITY OF A Boy.—On Tuesday evening, one of the most extraordinary instances of intrepidity upon record, and which resulted in saving human life, took place in the Regent's-canal, near Camden-town, under the following circumstances —About six o'clock, a boy named Lodgett, residing with his parents at No. 1, Pear Tree-court, Clerken well-close, who is between 14 and 15 ,years of age, had been bathing in the canal, near the bridge, at the back of St. Pan cras ws,rkhouse, when suddenly he got out of his depth into six feet of water, and sunk. The screams of his companions brought a little boy, but 11 years of age, named Joseph Lague, living with his mother, a poor widow, at No. 4, Oxford terrace, King's.road, to the spot. On hearing what had hap pened, the gallant little fellow, regardless of consequences, threw off his jacket and cap, and at once dived into the water. In half a minute be made his appearance with the boy Lodgett above the surface, but the latter being nearly double his size, the strength of the poor little fellow was unable to maintain him, and he again sunk. Lague again went down after him, and was equally successful in bringing him to tne surface, but his strength again failed him, and he was forced to let the older boy go. After recovering himself for about a minute, the little fellow, who is scarcely 3 1 / feet high, dived down for the third time, and making a desperate effort, brought the body of Lodgett again up, with his head under his arm, and managed to reach the wood-work passing along the canal at this part, against which he rested the body till some of the boys caught hold of it, and they were both with the greatest difficulty then got out and conveyed to the St. Pancras work house. Lague being very much exhausted, was placed in the infirmary, and stimulants were administered ; but the boy Lodgett being to all appearonce perfectly lifeless, was placed in the dead-house, and was about to be left, when Grist, the gate porter, seeing, as he thought, the body move, instantly ran for Dr. Escott, the parish surgeon, who promptly attended, and for two hours used every endeavour to restore suspended ani mation, which at the end of that period proved entirely success ful, and on making inquiries yesterday morning, it was found that Lodgett, as well as his youthful reserver, Lague, were in a fit state to leave the infirmary. rile iutreoidity of the boy has excited the greatest admiration, and it is understood to be the intention of the Directors and Guardians to apply to the Royal Humane Society, claiming at their hands such reward as they may think the merits of the case deserve. The Earl and Countess of Carlisle received letters m b been e r a c t a hospitably from Lord Morpeth by the Acadia steamer, from New York, on Tuesday. His Lordship talks of returning home h d er a lfi e a t j h as esty the from his tour in the United States and Canada the latter end of August. His Lordship, after leaving New Orleans, v n e ai d d elo t s o ex pressedisi entertainedt ed the m b c s ehylifet the e pleasedei G tie o s v earwondiothrp.ohGritsesntieonit.iarii!aar n i t t d i shhaAd Quebec. l o a f n nd Queen and Prince Albert to honour their Graces with a visit at h a v ri e l re e c D eive lk d e ar a l intimation pu che o s f s the of intention S utller tohfetihrespseleansodnidinsetaotr,, town. —entithaimverHhaalnl,,pStotanffocirdsirohniriecie. THE CASE OF MR. CAREW, THE SCTJLPTOR.—This case, which was heard in the Insolvent Debtors' Court, was incidentally mentioned in the Court on Tuesday. In the course of an opposition the case of Mr. Carew was referred to, and at the close of the investigation the Learned Chief Com missioner said, that as the case had been alluded to, he would state a circumstance which came to his knowledge on the pre vious day, which had occurred wit h re g ard to Mr. Carew. He had been informed by a gentleman that the executors of Lord Egremont had actually paid the costs of the action which Mr. Carew brought against them to es tablish the cla im he alleged he had against Lord Egremont. The bar also said th ey h a d so heard, and Mr. Cooke remarked that the exec utor had made the same offer before, but Mr. Carew decl i ned at that period to consider the matter sufficiently final . Th e Chief Commis sioner added, that he thought the conduct of t he executors very liberal. It will be recollected that Mr. Carew b rought an action against Sir C. Burrell, AL p., and Colonel Wy n dh am, heth w ee a xsencountsoued. T executors, to try the executorsthequestion had offeredofhisc claim, and on w hi c h to pay the co s t s of the said action, which were about 6001., but it was not con sidered by Mr. Carew that the question had been finall y d ec id ed. The costs had, however, now been pai d. Sir H. Williamson took his depa rtu re for the North last evening in the General Steam N avi gation Company's steamer City of Hamburgh, for Newcastle. Two LIVES LOST ON THE RlVER.—Between seven and eight o'clock on Tuesday evening a boat, in which were two young men, named Carter and 7Rawlinson, was upset in Erith Reach, and, melancholy to relate, before assistance could reach them, both p a rti es m et with a watery , grave ; . neither of . .. the bodies haa yet been discovered. BUENOS AYRES.: By adviees via the United States to the 30th of March from Buenos-Ayres, and 6th of April from Monte Video, inclusive, we learn that considerable dissensions existed between the com manders of the forces opposed to Roses in Entre Rios, and President Rivera appears to have withdrawn from the compact. Business at both places was exceedingly dull. At Buenos- Ayres there was considerable excitement and fear amongst the shopkeepers, owing to several individuals having been assas sinated, no doubt by the " Mashorca Club." One very respect able shopkeeper is represented to have been killed whilst sitting in his warehouse or shop by several men who entered in dis • guise and shot him. The Buenos-Ayres fleet, which had a decided ascendancy over that of Monte Video, was off the latter port; no action, however, was likely to take place, and under such circumstances there seemed no immediate prospects of a termination of these troubles, as the separation of the Monte Video forces from those of Corrientes and Santa Fe scarcely left any expectation of success against Rosas by land, whilst, on the other hand, he would not be able to overthrow Rivera. It is to be hoped that our Government will interfere and bring about a settlement between these two countries, which are se interesting to British interests. Exchange at Monte Video, 441 d. to 45d., and at Buenos Ayres, aid. per dollar. The mails via Rio Janiero had left Monte Video on the 30th or 31st of March, but they had not yet reached England. These dates are about three weeke later from Monte Video, and ten days from Buenos.Ayres, than those previously to hand direct. THE GARRISON OF GHUZNEE. The following melancholy passage is extracted from a private letter, addressed to one of his friends in England by an officer of the 3d Native Infantry : " AHMEDABAD, APRIL 22, 1842.—Intelligence has just ar rived that these poor fellows have been destroyed to a MOIL There were about 25 officers and 700 men, sick included. The scpoys could not hold their muskets, and the Ghazis re ferred to In the P. S., perceiving this, closed upon and destroyed them." MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS TIMES.—The English Funds to-day have presented no feature whatever beyond the mere maintenance of yesterday's prices, which the ordinary run of business enabled the jobbers to effect. Money was rather more in demand, although no absolute want of it was felt, as the settlements in the Foreign Stock and Share Markets drew off some of the floating capital. The exchange of the light sovereigns at the Bank of Eng land causes a constant scene of bustle and confusion, although the business is divided into three departments, sums not ex ceeding 1001. being taken in the Rotunda, not exceeding 500/. in the Hall, and all above 5001. in the Bullion-office. Although this division must in some degree tend to lessen confusion. yet it is thought there are not enough clerks to give all the facility that is desired. Yesterday it is understood 70,000 sovereigns were taken. A party who then aFplied at the Bank has sent the following letter, which gives rather a new view of the sub ject : " TO THE EDITOR, OF THE TIMES. " Sir,—For the information of those who can muster fifty sovereigns, and wish to obtain the highest price for them, I think it but fair they should be acquainted with the difficulty, &c., in so doing. I yesterday took fifty to the Bank of England, and before I could be attended to was kept at least two hours. When the sovereigns were put in the scale, behold they could not weigh them for want of proper weights, but they could manage 49k. Then, Sir, they have no grains ; consequently, if they weigh 23 grains (worth 3s. 9d.) beyond the penny weight, the Bank has the benefit of it, in addition to the half pennyweight ( worth Is. ), which they place in the scale against the seller. So that while the Bank professes to give the highest price, refiners, who will give 31. 175. 6d. per ounce, actually give more, treat you with respect, and attend to you immediately, and give all they profess. " The following is the amount I realized for 49i sovereigns : —4B!. 13s. 5d., not more than 31. 17s. 6d. per ounce. " 1 am, Sir, your obedient servant, " AN OLD SUBSCRIBER." The disastrous accounts from St. Domingo have naturally created the greatest excitement among the merchants con nected with that island. One great source of consolation is, however, that the intelligence from the Cape to Pert-au- Prince (whence the news has arrived), is only verbal, and therefore it is hoped that the amount of calamity may have been stated at a rough guess, and may not prove so great as is now reported. At the same time the private letters that have been received from Port-au-Prince express great alarm at the fact that no person had been there from the Cape since a period of four days, whereas the journey does not occupy more than three da y s, and theta is a constant intercourse be tween the places. Limbe, the Governor of which sent his son to the Cape to ascertain the state of affairs, is about six leagues distant, and it seems that the intelligence verbally brought by that gentleman first to his father at Limhe, and afterwards to Port-au-Prince, comprises all that is known to the present moment. AWFUL STORM AT LIMERICK, AND LOSS OF LIFE. A most awful and long .continued storm of thunder and lightning, accompanied by heavy rains, visited this neigh bourhood and the country for seine miles around on Sun day, and was, we regret to learn from statements made by correspondents, accompanied in several places by loss of limbs and life, destruction of cattle, houses and trees, and was the cause of the greatest consternation throughout the extensive district it swept over in its merciless course. The storm arose from the North East, and went on with out abatement, pursuing a south-westerly direction, from twelve till near seven o'clock, P.M. At Scariff, Killaloe, • Sixmile-bridge i and the country generally in that quarter between the Clare mountains and the shannon, the storm first broke out with vehemence and fury. We regret to say that about five o'clock, P.M., the fluid struck the house of John Branton at Sixmile Bridge, and killed a fine boy about four years old, who was sitting at- the moment be tween Branton's knees, leaving Branton speechless, tear ing up the floor, and killing some sheep which this poor man had brought from his fields for protection. In the same neighbourhood a man was knocked down and left senseless, and two women who were scorched are now lying without a hope of recovery. The market-house roof of Sixmile-bride was thrown down, and some cattle were P killed in that vicinity. 'At Olin, thirty miles to the west ward, the house of Capt. Hamilton, we learn, was burned down, and a man was killedseveral casualties are said to have occurred to cattle. At Newcastle a man was killed and a house was burned down also. Some of the -largest trees in the demesne of Mount Shannon and Adare, in Cratloe—indeed, throughout this part of the country al ! most without exception, were split into fragments, and, •in some instances, were thrown across the roads. The river in a kw hours rose about several feet, and the lowlands adjoining, the valleys in the interior, the moun tain gorges, and every channel which had been dry in the morning has been flooded. It is impossible for us to give anything like an accurate estimate of the amount of injury done.—Limerick Reporter. CHRIST-CHURCH ORGAN. PERFORMANCE OF MENDELSSOHN. Dr. Mendelssohn Bartholdy, the first organist performed yesterday afternoon on the large organ at Christ Church, Newgate-street. Never have we before so fully appreciated the powers of this most noble instrument. He took his seat at the organ at two o'clock, and commenced with one of Sebastian Bach's magnificent voluntaries. Those alone who are acquainted with the compositions of Bach, the Milton of music, can form any idea of the gran deur, sublimity, and power which Mendelssohn infused into this most magnificent comppsition. It was indeed, a high treat to hear a composition of Bach's performed by Mendelssohn, on, per haps the finest instrument in London. The composer, the performer, and the instrument, were alike worthy of each other. Mendelssohn afterwards performed several fugues and voluntaries, and among them many compositions of his own. In hese last his astonishing powers of execution were brought admirably into play. We had always hitherto considered Thalberg's pianoforte playing as the ne plus ultra of execution, but lie is surpassed, both in rapidity, preciseness, and power, by. Mendelssohn. When we consider what would, by a mere pianiste, be thought the insuperable difficulties of organ playing ; that the performer has not only to work several sets of keys with his fingers, but also several sets of pedals with his feet, that he frequently depends solely upon one finger for preventing him from falling forward on the instrument, that it requires a firmness, united with a delicacy of , touch, of which the mere pianiste can form scarcely any idea, and that the finger must continue resting on the key as long as the note .is to be sounded ; when we consider all these things the powers of Mendelssohn appear little short of miraculous. Is it to these difficulties that we are to attribute the paucity of organists in England We hope not—it would argue ill for the future progress of music in this country if such were the case ; but it is a lamentable fact that we have no rising English organist at the present day. Who is to be Samuel Wesley's successor is a question to which the English musical public will find it somewhat difficult to reply. This ought not to be ; while flutists, pianistes, and violinists, are elbowing each other in the race for fame and patronage, surely there ought to be somo musician to support the claim of the most sublime of instruments—the organ. The church was crowded, and the thanks of the public are due to the parish authorities for their kindness in lending the instrument, and in throwing open the church to all who chose to come. To Dr. Mendelsshon a high debt of gratitude is due from the British musical public, and we thus publicly tender him our thanks for the high treat he has afforded us. FATAL ACCIDENT.—Joseph Ford, about 40 years of age, in the employ of Mr. Priceman, of Barnes, Surrey, while walking by the side, and driving his master's horse and cart over the Suspension-bridge at Hammersmith, stumbled and fell, and before he could scramble out of the way, the near wheel passed over his body, just above the hips, as he was lying on his face. He was directly conveyed to St. George's Hos pital, where he expired shortly afterwards. An inquest will be held on the body this day. SUDDEN DEATH.—Yesterday morning an old man, named William Hopjoy, who resided in Kenneston-yard, Knightsbridge, was found by police constable, No. 109, of the C division, lying, as was supposed, in a fit on the footway pavement in Piccadilly. He was conveyed to St. George's Hospital, where it was discovered he was a corpse. His death is supposed to have been caused by the rupture of a blood vessel in the region of the heart. An inquest will be held on the body this day. MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE.—Between one and two o'clock, yesterday afternoon, a finely grown little boy, named Charles Shepherd, aged three and a half years, the son of respectable parents, living at No. 25, Rochester-street, Pimlico, was brought into Westminster Hospital, in a state of perfect insensibility, from having swallowed a quantity of lauda num. It appears that the mother was affected with the tooth ache, and having applied some laudanum to relieve the pain, heedlessly left a cup, containing about a table-spoonful of the poison, on the table, which the child got hold of, and drank off unnoticed, and the fact was not discovered until after the lapse of upwards of half an hour. The child was then lying in apparently a profound sleep, on the floor. The usual anti dotes were applied, but to hope is entertained of a favour able result. DAGLIERRE S INVENTION.—We are happy to learn that Mr. Beard, the spirited patentee of the above extraordi nary specimen of art, has succeeded in effecting a visible im provement in the portraits recently taken at his three establish ments. They are unerring copies of nature, even to the " fleeting smile" of the countenance. The arrangement of the figures in some of the groups taken display a presiding taste. FUNERAL Or T. H. LISTER, ESQ., REGISTRAR GENERAL.—.The interment of the remains of this lamented gentleman took place at the Kensal-green Cemetery. Lord John Russell, brother-in-law to the deceased ; the Earl of Clarendon, the Hon. Edward Villiers, the Hon. and Rev. H. M. Villiers, &c., attended the fauna. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, Jane 16. Their Lordship's met at Five o'Clock. The Bishop of LLANDAFF presented a petition from Shepton Mallet, and from two Deaneries in the County of Cornwall, praying for protection for the Church. The Marquis of LONDONDERRY postponed to Tuesday the motion, of which he had given notice for Friday, on the subject of employment in coal mines. SAVINGS BANK. Lord MONTEAGLE said, that as much misappre hension had gone abroad on the subject of the applica tion of the funds of Savings Banks, he would move for a return of the amount of Exchequer Bills purchased on account of Savings Banks, and converted into stock. His object in doing so, was to satisfy the public that there was no diminution of the security of the public funds. DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE MONEY. Earl MIN TO wished to put a question to the Noble Lord the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. It ap peared that iu the Act for the Prevention of Piracy there was no clause for the distribution of the prize money taken from pirates and slave vessels ; he wished to know whether such a clause was to be inserted ? The Earl of ABERDEEN said that such a Bill was in preparation and would be introduced in the present session. STRAWBERRY-HILL. The sale yesterday comprised the English portraits of the reigns of King Charles 11., James 11., and William. HI., many of the rarest description, but sadly mutilated, and their value consequently deteriorated. 3U3. Three divines seated at a table, opened books before them, portraits of John Dolben, Bishop of. Rochester, who is in the middle ; John Fell, Bishop of Oxford, seated on his right ; and Dr. Richard Allestry on his left. They were known at Oxford, as Chipley, Chopley, and Chepley, but a manuscript note by Walpole, appended to the print, states " King Charles the Second, on seeing the original picture (by Lely) in the hall of Christ Church, Oxford, in which Fell is so lean, Allestry middling, and Dolben so plump, at once said, Chip'ain, Chaplain, Chaplain.'" The print, "D. Logan ex cudit," is of extreme rarity ; at Sir 31. 51. Sykes's sale it sold for 271. 16s. 6d. Walpole's, yes: erday, though in fine condi tion, produced only 71. Messrs. Smith. 331. John Barefoot, letter doctor (1, e. carrier or postman), to the University of Oxon, 1681, half-length, presenting a letter, hat under his left arm, twelve lines in English verse be low, Mich. Burghers, sculpist, half-sheet, very rare. The print of Barefoot at Bindley's sale sold for 51 12s. 6d. 336. Josiah Keeling. discoverer of the Rye-house Plot, in 1683, engraved by Robert White, fine and very rare, 2/. 4s, Colonel Darrant. Sold at Bindley's sale for nine guineas, and at Sir M. M. Sykes's for seven pounds. 339. Eight portraits of the Bawdon Family, octavo size, en graved by Robert NN bite, of the first degree of rarity. Thoresby who appears to have originally possessed this series, has recorded, " they were engraved for a genealogical history of the Rawdon family, of York, written by Alannaduke Rawdon, who died in 1688 ;" but this family history not having been printed, the copperplates have been since lost, and impressions are almost unique. At Sir M. Al. Sykes's sale, these produced 25 guineas, the set yesterday sold for only 61. 15s. Evans, Great Queen street. 361. Eleanor Gwynne, a three-quarter length, in loose attire, seated under the shade of trees, carressing a lamb ; this couplet below " The sculptor's part is done, the features hitt, Of Madam G win—no art can show her witt." engraved after a painting by Lely, by Valek, 21. 125., Graves. 365. Stephen College, styled the Protestant Joiner, rare. Two satirical prints of " Bob Ferguson, or the Raree Show of Mamamouchee Mufty." Ferguson was employed by the Earl of Shaftesbury to write libels, but Walpole believcdthese prints, notwithstanding the name given, had reference to Titus Oates, who was also another of Shaftesbury's writers. 31. ss. E. W. Martin, Esq. 382. George Jeffries, Earl of Flint, Viscount Wickham, Baron of Weim, Lord High Chancellor of England, in robes, half-length, after Kneller, engraved by Cooper, 21. 12s. 6d. Graves. This print is remarkable from the circumstance of its mentioning a title—the Earl of Flint—unknown to all our heralds and historians. 443. William Bullock, comedian, a half-sheet mezzotint by Johnson ; Thomas Betterton, after Kneller, by Williams, a fine mezzotinto ; Cave Underhill, comedian, after Byng, a mezzo tint, octavo size, by Faber the Younger; all very scarce, 6/. Adamson. The prints to be sold this day comprise the portraits illustra tive of the reigns of Queen Anne and the first two Georges, many of them of considerable rarity. The amount of the three past days' sale has been 9051., but the volumes of prints to come will greatly advance the proceeds. The produce of the ten days' sale has been estimated at 4,0001. MARRIAGE OF THE PRINCE ROYAL OF HANOVER. -it will have been seen that her Majesty has signified her ap probation of this inter ded alliance, the Royal Marriage Act, we presume, rendering such a step necessary, as the Prince Royal is in the direct line of succession to the throne of Great Britain. The lady to whom his Royal Highness is about to be united is the Princess Alexandrina Maria Wilhelmina Cathe rine Charlotte Theresa Henrietta Louisa Paulina Elizabeth Frederica Georgina of Saxe Altenbourg (formerly Hilbourg hausen), who has lately completed her 24th year, having . been born on the 14th of April, 1818. Her Serene Highness is the eldest daughter of his Serene Highness Joseph Frederick Ernest George Charles Duke of Saxe Altenbourg, who was born ou the 27th of August, 1789, and succeeded his father, Duke Frederick, on the 29th of September, 1834, having been mar ried on the 24th of April, 1817, to the Princess Amelia Theresa Louisa Wilhelmina Philippina, daughter of Louis Duke of Wirtemberg, born on the 213th of June, 1799. SUGAR DUTIES BILL. On the motion of Lord WHARNCLIFFE this Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed to-morrow. DISTRESS OF THE COUNTRY. The Earl of RADNOR, in rising to make the motion of which he had given notice, said he thought it was lie• cessary that her Majesty's Ministers should do something hr the present distresses of the country, or at least give some reason why they did not do so. The motion he had to . present was for an account of the quantities of corn admitted for home consumption (if any) under the provisions of the 7th George IV., c. 70 and 71. He be lieved that a considerable amount of corn was admitted under that Act, though the distress then was not so great as it was at present. He thought that the distress at present existing could not be denied ; in proof of it, however, he might instance Manchester, where there was a soup establish ment for the distribution of soup to the poor ; the doors were opened at eight o'clock iu the morn ing, and continued open all day, yet were the doors besieged as early as three o'clock in the morning, and the miserable applicants re- I mained there till the doors opened. The number of inmates of the Sheffield poorhouse was, in the year 1837, 261 ; in 1838, 401 ; in 1839, 386 ; in 1840, 443 ; in 1841, 480 ; at the present time 600. There were also at the . present time 1,000 able-bodied people receiving out-door relief ; the weekly payments to the casual poor had increased from 7151., in 1837, to upwards of 15,000/. at the present time, and the county-rate paid in 1837, which was 1,7121., had increased last year to 2,453/, He had selected this fact, in order to found a case for the application which he was about to make, and he should make it on the precedent of the year 1826, when Lord Liverpool was the first Lord of the Treasury. In that year a measure was brought forward in the House of Commons, for an amendment of the Corn laws, when the Government said that a revision of these laws was necessary, but that was not the time for it. Two measures were passed to remedy that state of things ; one was to allow persons having corn in bond to take it out at a lower rate. By the former law, up to 1822, corn was prohibited until the price rose at home to 80s. the quarter. In that year it was allowed to intro duce wheat, when the price was 705., at a duty of 12s. a quarter. In 1826 an act was passed to allow the ad mission of foreign wheat, not exceeding 500,000 quarters, at a duty not exceeding 12s. a quarter. He called the attention of the present Government, several members of which were parties to that enactment, to their own pro ceeding on that occasion. The circumstances were very similar. Even now the new Corn-law had not effected a reduction of prices.. On the contrary the price of corn was still rising. A duty of lls. proved to be prohibitory as much as 225. had been, and it was clear that by lowering the duty they had not benefited the people. -They (the Ministers) had, first of all, said that they would not interfere with the Corn-law. But they had interfered with it. They had broken faith with the landed interest, and they had net done any good to the people. The Noble Lord went into the details of numerous returns, which showed that wages did not rise with the price of bread, but that on the contrary, in the years in which bread was dear, wages were low, and in the years 1834 and 1835, when bread was cheap, wages were high. The increase of crime was concomitant with the increase of the price of food ; crime had been increasing from 1836 to 1841. Some persons attributed the increase of crime to the increase of population, bat all the returns showed that the increase was more in proportion to the diminished quantity of food. lie was quit~ safe in saying that .the increase and de crease of crime had kept pace with the increase and de crease in the price of wheat.—(hear. hear.) The Noble Lord concluded by moving for the returns of which he had given notice. The Duke of WELLINGTON said he had no objec tion to the motion of the Noble Lord, and all he could say was, that he had no knowledge of any in tention on the part of her Majesty's Govern ment to introduce any measure of this descrip tion for the approbation of Parliament. There was no question but the distress in the country was very great, but a variety of measures bad been introduced with a view to the alleviation of that distress, and to relieve commerce and manufactures from the present embarrassments under which they suffered. The provisions to which the Noble Lord re ferred were passed only for a temporary purpose, and the revision of the Corn-laws was postponed, but in point of fact it did not take place in 1827. He did not know that the measure which the Noble Lord proposed would be of the slightest advantage to the country ; but if the Noble Lord saw any advantage in it, there could be no objection to the introduction of such a measure ; or if the Noble Lord pleased, he could, at the close of I the session, bring in a Bill to repeal an Act which they had passed at the commencement of it.—(Hear.) Lord KINNAIIID very much regretted to hear the Noble Duke say that it was not the intention of her Majesty's Government to introduce a measure on the subject of the motion of his Noble Friend. This was the second time the Noble Duke had told them that they must wait, whilst the people were dying by thousands for want of relief. lie could fully bear out the statements of his Noble Friend (Lord Radnor), which he knew to be strictly correct. He had tbat morning received a letter from a most respectable man, who formerly employed 700 men, but now only 200, the rest had gone on the parish, and lie said he could not keep those long ; at the same time that person had letters from American merchants stating that they were willing at once to send over large quantities of meal, in exchange for Sheffield goods. The motion was then agreed to. INCOME-TAX. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE gave notice that on the third reading of the Income-tax to-morrow, he should move the resolution which it was his intention to have moved on the second reading, and which had already been laid upon the table by a Noble Friend of his. Lord KINNAIRD moved for a copy of any report or instruction given to the Commission sent to Burnley ; also for copies of the instructions given or sent to Mr. Commissary Twisselton, and to Mr. Commissary-Gene rat Ramsay ; and to state if they were communicated to the Magistrates of Paisley, to Sir Wm. Napier, Bart., to Mr. Sheriff Robertson, or Mr. Sheriff Substitute Camp hell, or to the Magistrates of Rentrewshire,; as also copies of any replies or remonstrances against the in structions sent to, or the orders issued by, the aforesaid Commissioner and Commissary, or by any of the autho rities before-named, respecting the food or treatment of the unemployed and destitute ; also, copies of any Re ports which may have been made .by one or more medical men attached to the military force quartered in Glasgow, or other professional gentlemen from a distance, to Mr. Commissioner Twisselton, or any of the above-named authorities, and specifying to which, if to any, respecting the health of the destitute and unemployed in Paisley ; and, also, the amount of funds placed at the disposal of Mr. Commissioner Twisselton, or the source from whence theAc have been derived. The Duke of WELLINGTON said that the funds col lected were private funds. It was true that they were distributed under the direction of the gentleman who held the office of Secretary of State ; but the funds were pri vate. The collection was private and confidential, and no official returns could be given by the Government. Lord KINNAIRD said that perhaps the best form of application for information upon this subject would be by petition. There were great complaints about the mode of distribution. Lord WHARNCLIFFE said that there had been great mismanagement as to the first collection, and the Com missioners having discovered that, took care that *the second contribution should be more economically and properly applied. No public money whatever had been expended ; but 5001. had been advanced from the Civil List to meet the emergency, and that had been in two or three days replaced. He thought that the fund was private, and that their Lordships could not ask the Crown to grant the return moved for. Lord KINNAIRD withdrew his motion. AFFAIRS OF SYRIA, Lord HOWDEN wished to know whether the official accounts which had been received from the Consular Agents in Syria corresponded with the communications which he had received from private sources through the last mails from the Alediterranean. It was his decided opinion that the interest of the East could be upheld without those outward manifestations of pity from one power, and Protestant jealousy from another. He bad been in all parts of that country, amidst a mixed and heterogeneous population, and he was convinced that since the strong hand which governed the country had been withdrawn, it would be impossible to prevent dis quiet in that small, but important, corner of the Medi terranean. The Earl of ABERDEEN answered that the official information received reported an unsettled state of the country, but much less so than it had been when the Bri tish Government, in concurrence with the other Powers, assisted to restore Syria to the sovereignty of the Turkish Government, and it did not follow that it was to interfere with the internal government of the country. The agents of Great Britain had made promises unfor tunately ; but to a certain extent those promises had been fulfilled. It had not been in the power of the Go vernment to do all that was desired in favour of the Christian population ; but they had been as much as possible protected ; and certainly in rEspect to taxation the Turkish Government had fulfilled its promises, and the people were reliev e d as tar as it was possible. T he Noble Lord might rely that the English Government would not sleep upon the subject, and would not neglect anything that the honour of this country or the interests of humanity and justice required. IRISH POOR-LAWS. Lord CLARE presented a petitioa from Limerick on the subject of the Irish Poor-law. The Duke of WELLINGTON said that the subject of the petition required attention, but,he wished the con sideration to be postponed to a later period of the session. NATIONAL EDUCATION (IRELAND.) Lord MOUNTCASHEL presented a petition against the system of National Education. COUNTY COURTS' 13ILL. On the motion of the LORD CHANCELLOR, the Bill for regulating the practice of county courts was read a first time. The other Bills on the table were forwarald a stage, and their Lordships then adjourned. \ , HOUSE OF COMMONS, June 16. The SPEAKER took the Chair shortly before Four Welock. Mr. 'hums was introduced by Mr. SCHOLEFIELD and Mr. BROTHERTON, and took the oaths and his seat for Newcastle-under-Lyme. Mr. LUMLEY brought up returns from the Poor-law Commissioners. • , Mr. THORNELY presented a petition from Orms kirk, praying for an equalization of the Sugar Duties. Mr. BERKELEY presented a petition from Bristol against Church-rates. Sir J. HANMER presented two petitions from York shire, one of them signed by 8,000 persons, of various po litical opinions, against the New Poor law. Mr. LYALL presented a petition, praying that the metropolitan bridges might be opened to the public. Captain PECHELL presented a petition • from a labourer in Sussex, complaining of the treatment he re ceived in the Eastbourne Union. Mr. BROTHERTON presented a petition from the friends of the Society for the Promotion of Universal Peace, against war in general, and particularly against the wars in the East, as being opposed to the Christian religion. Mr. DUNCOMBE presented a petition from the Working-men's Church praying that an humble address be presented to her Majesty to prevent wars in the East; also a petition from North Shields, in Northumberland, against the system of landlord and tenant in Ireland, and praying that juries may be composed of half Catholics and half Protestants ; and that the prosecution against the Vindicator newspaper may be given up by the Irish Government ; also a peti tion from Finsbury, praying that the metropolitan bridges may be opened to the public. Mr. METCALFE presented a petition, praying for an alteration of the law regulating the payment of seamen's wages. Mr. PAKINGTON presented a petition from a Poor-law Union in Worcestershire; praying that parties who reside out of their respective Unions may be taxed to certain rates. SUDBURY IMPROVEMENT BILL This Bill was read a third time and passed. SUDBURY DISFRANCHISEMENT BILL. Mr. lIEDINGTON said, that it having come to his knowledge that a copy of the Sudbury Disfranchisement Bill, and of the order for reading the Bill a second time, which had been ordered by that House to be served upon the returning officer for the borough, had been served upon the late, instead of the present returning officer, he begged to move that the copies be served upon the present returning officer; and that John Hall, who had served the copies improperly, be called to the bar of the House. Johii Hull then appeared at the bar of the House, when the following examination ensued : The SPEAKER—John Hall, are you a messenger of this House ? Witness—l am, Sir. The SPEAKER—Did you receive an order of this House on the 2d of June, to serve a copy of the Sudbury Disfranchisement Bill, and the order for reading it a second time, on the returning officer for the borough of Sudbury ? Witness—l did, Sir. The SPEAKER—Did yon proceed to Sudbury ? Witness—l did, Sir. The SPEAKER—On whom did you serve the copies ? Witnes-1 served it on Thomas Jones. .• The SPEAKER—Is he the returning officer ? Wit ness—lie gave me a receipt, and signed his name " re turning officer." The SPEAKER-1s he the present returning officer ? Witness—No, Sir ; he said the present returning officer had nothing to do with the late election. The SPEAKER—Did be say that he presided at the late election as returning officer ? Witness—No, Sir ; he said nothing about presiding at the late election ; he said he was the returning officer then. The witness was then ordered to withdraw. Mr. REDINGTON moved that the order for receiving the Report on the Bill be postponed till next Wednesday. —Agreed to. BELFAST ELECTION. On the motion of Mr. O'CONNELL the following Members were appointed a Select Committee on the Belfast election :—Mr. O'Connell, Mr. Shaw, Mr. Beckett Denison, Mr. Cripps, Mr. East, Mr, Liddell, Mr. Ellice, jun., Mr. Protheroe, and Sir Benjamin Hall ; with power to send for persons, papers, and records. Mr. O'CONNELL then moved that the Committee have the power to inquire into alleged bribery and treating at the said election. Sir J. GRAHAM inquired (as we understood) what the motion of the Right Hun. and Learned Gentleman was? Mr. O'CONNELI said he had given notice that he should move that the Committee should have the power of inquiry into alleged bribery and treating, but instead of that it was taken on the notice paper, that they should have power to send for persons, papers, and records. If, under those circumstances, the motion should remain as it was, he would not offer any objection. Mr. HATTON hoped that the same precautions should be taken to secure attendance of the members of the Committee as had been in the case of the Commit tee appointed on the motion of the Hon. and Learned Member for Bath. Mr. O'CONNELL had understood from gentlemen connected with the Government that five out of the nine would attend. He (Mr. O'Connell) had ascertained that three out of the remaining four would attend, and he had every reason to believe that. there would be a full dttendance of the Members. Sir R. INGLIS would not trouble the House by pressing the matter to a division, but his opinions were the same on this matter as he had expressed on former occasions. When the Right Honourable Ba ronet, at the head of her Majesty's Government, con curred in the measure, it would be but giving the House unnecessary trouble to divide ; but he wished merely to record his opinion. Mr. DARBY thought that the customary and proper notice should be given in this matter. Mr. O'CONNELL said that the fact was, that he had given the notice he had mentioned, but that it was taken down inaccurately. As the period of inquiry must be much later than he could wish, it was desirable to have as much expedition as possible. He should then hope that the motion, as now proposed, would be agreed to. Sir R. PEEL said his Hon. Friend had again referred to him, and he, therefore, had again to repeat that all he asked was to be allowed to exercise his own indi vidual judgment.—(Cheers.) He did not in any way wish to influence any one. He had not asked any man to vote fur him, but he claimed the right of deciding what course he should take.—(Cheers.) Consider ing the appearances of compromise, and consider ing that considerable bribery prevailed, he then stated his deliberate opinion that he did not think it would be to the character or credit of the House of Commons to put this question on one side solely on account of technical objections.—(Load cheers.) He wished to maintain the House of Commons as he found it ; he wished to prevent the recurrence of these compromises, which were constitutional changes ; and if the House of Commons were to refuse an inquiry in cases of this nature he was perfectly persuaded that they would find more difficulty to refuse - further consti tutional changes. When one person said, if you will protect my friend I will protect yours ; he did not think this would be upholding the character of the House of Commons. He gave public notice that he never would act on that principle. If the parties were guilty of corrupt compromises, for the purpose of concealing inquiry into practices of bribery, lie would not use the influence of party to prevent that inquiry.—(Cheers.) He did not say that any party then had committed bribery ; but he would - say for one, that he never would use the influence of party for the purpose of preventing inquiry into prima Jude cases of bribery.— (Loud cheering.) He thought that such a course would have a great tendency to diminish the character of the House of Commons.—(Cheers.) Those who were guilty of bribery, if there were any, must take the con sequences, for he gave them public notice that he would not exercise his influence fur the purpose of preventing inquiry.—(Great cheering.) Sir R. INGLIS said his Right Hon. Friend had quite misapprehended his meaning. He did not accuse his Hight Hon. Friend of using the influence of his office for this or that purpose. He had stated simply the fact, that in a case in which his Right Honourable Friend and the Noble Lord at the head of the Opposition concurred, it was in vain to expect to divide success fully against them; and that for that reason, though he retained the opinion which he had expressed in con junction with those who voted with him, in the case of Belfast and Nottingham, it would be painful to be found again in fruitless opposition. Mr. O'CONNELL then moved for leave to bring in a Bill to indemnify witnesses who may give evidence before the Committee to be appointed by this House, to inquire whether a corrupt compromise has been entered into for the purpose of avoiding investigation into gross and ex tensive bribery, and gross and corrupt personation of voters, and consequent perjury, alleged to have been practised at the late election for Belfast. Sir R. PEEL said he had stated yesterday that he thought the House of Commons ought to rely, in the first instance, upon its own constitutional powers. If they found those powers insufficient, it would be time to make alterations. He hoped the Right Hon. Gentleman would not at present ask for additional powers. Mr. O'CONNELL said he had been t th apprehen sive, from what had formerly p assed, t great powers were insufficient ;bt afteruou, would what wthi h da h a( r if iV ie i n from the Right Hon. Barone t,s motion. Right Hon. Baronet (Sir It Mr. HAWES said, as the llis intention to bring the sub jectlnglis) had given no t ice o under the consideration of the of Church Extension . he • Ito ask him whether intended to House, he Legged CHURCH EXTENSION. e t ti o s en— his fixed t, 0 do so ? Sir intention—to the d l it attention l‘.a sil lf the House st in t the s ubject of Church Extension. If h e m i g h t b e per mitted to add one word in reply to the question, it was this, that if the lion. Member for Lambeth w ou ld pro iLi n t i e lN i: t G i 0 1 ;1 18 'also him his support, lie would then take his counsel as to the time and manner of bringing the subject forward ; otherwise, he must be allowed to bring it forward at that time and in that manner which he should think best. Mr. HAWES did not understand - the Right Hon. Baronet to state whether he intended to bring the nutter forward before the end of the session. Sir R. INGLIS said it was his fixed intention to bring the subject forward before the close of the session. . SOUTHAMPTON ELECTION. -- • Mr. W. 0. STANLEY moved fora Select Committee, to inquire into the matters contained in OP- weal Pe'