The Sun. — London, England, 1856-06-14 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENGE. CITY, Two o'Oioe The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday closed firmly, though well supplied, at full prices. The sales amounted to 10,000 bales, chiefly American, one-third on speculation. Advices from Antwerp report an active business in coffee, with large arrivals from Saint Domingo, and prices firm. There were some apprehensions of a scarcity of this article during the present year, but more recent accounts from the Brazils and other coffee growing colonies, report a better state of the crops than was at first anticipated. The Market for sugars continues firm, with limited sup plies of raw sugars, and there are some who expect rise in prices this season, not on account of any great deficiency in the crops, but the consumption of this article is gradually increasing on the Conti nent. In refined sugar 250,000 kilos. were sold at full rates. Accounts from France state that by a decree of the sth instant, the wools imported into Algeria from Maroe, and the Regency of Tunis across the land frontier, will be subject to the same duties as those imported by sea ; the rates according to kinds and qualities. The La Plata has arrived, but it is not yet known What amount of specie she brings. The official return of the exports of bullion from the Port of London for the week ending Thursday last is as follows :-Gold goin (Hambro'), 500 oz. ; silver do. (Mogadore), 8,800 oz. ; silver bars (Bom bay), 6,419 oz. ; do. (Hambro'), 50,820 oz. The Bank of England Return completed for the 'week ending the 7th inst. is again of a favourable character. The bullion and the reserve of notes baying again been materially augmented. The Money Market continues easy, and the next state reent will no doubt exhibit further changes of an e ncouraging description, although the payment of the insolvency on the New Loan, and the prepara tions for the settlement of the Foreign Stock and Railway Share accounts, have no doubt increased the demand for discount accommodation. Active Circulation Increase Bullion Increase Rest Increase public Deposits Decrease Other Deposits Decrease Seven-Day and other Bills 805.604 Increase Government Securities Decrease Other Securities Increase Notes unemployed Increase The Funds opened rather flatly, owing to the itatements made in Parliament last evening re becting our relations w ith A mer i ca , an d b us i n ess 8 been exceedingly dull, most of the dealers being Ilhdecided how to operate. Consols were 93i to :to 'but they have since been 94 to 941. The scrip is ‘li premium. New 3 per Cents. are 94 to 94k. Ex chequer Bonds are 991. There have only been three or four transactions 1 : 1 the Foreign M ar k e t. • Turkish 6 per Cents. are u9 i, and the 4 per C e nt s . 1031 1, being rather ' l t. Mexican Stock is 22/. The following are the nominal prices of Foreign Mo cks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 6/71 ; Mexican, 24 ; Peruvian, 77 79 ; ditto 3 per Cents., 54 6; Po rtuguese 4 per Cents., 50 2 ; Russian 5 per s ants. 107 107 9 ; ditto 4 1 per Cents 97 9 ; Spanish • 8 per Cents., 4t3 7k; ditto Deferred, 251 ; ditto Ce rtificates, 61 7 ; ditto Passive, 6i 71. „ s The arrangement of the account in Railway 144 ares has again constituted th e p r incipal busin ess s of the brokers and others. The rates of "con- 2 The are not so heavy as upon the last occasion. 2 he market for Engli s h, F o r e i g n, and Colonial shares has been weaker. 5 Mining Shares are dull. 2 44 1171314 FUNDS THIS DAY AT ON$ C LO. R. r Prort the Orteial done. kr Cont. Red:lced Annuiti3a... k 3 Per r'ent. Annnities Dit Annuities, expire sth Jan. 1840 3 3.16 N . itto 30 Years, expire sth April , 1885... 17i ?or Acconnt, - .401 Scrip 2l p E lehitqu £loooer Rills, ?id I 'soo ° nl all D itto Ronde, 1858, 3k per Cant.. Ditto, 1859 POP, OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT o' 4- . ) worio‘ KK. 22/ ••ezi ca , n 3 per Cent ith Ronde', 0 par cent, 9 , A - D itto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent. Div.danos on the above ,eYable in I.•°°4°' TWO O'CLOCK. Oonsolq (money) Ditto Serip MARKET NEWS.—(This Day.) COVENT GARDEN. 11.16 supplies of fruit and ve ntables were large, and the laud ruled stearly, as follows : hnre.—Pine apples, English, Ps to 12s per lb; colonial tL.. 0 8 to Os each ; hot-house grapes. 4. to lOs Od per lb ; h._ - °'gri ditto, 04 to Os ; melons, Os oa to Os 04 each ; hes, 24. 04 to 3rB ; nectarines, 24s to 36s per dozen ; t 4.14 1, 3s Od to 5s 04 per half sieve ; pears, Re at to h . Per dozen ; plums, Os to Os p e r sieve ; green gages, Os 67 1 1 ;,Punnet ; apricots, Osed toOsed per doz.; common plums, l kh -u4 to s' Od per doz cherries, 2s to 41 per pound ; 14, - , e491 :64 ois 6d per ; oranges. 58 to 14. par 100 ; 61- % P 1.% 9s to Os per dcz. lhs : cohnuts. 15s to Os ; almonds, r INr lb. ; walnuts, Od to 01 per 100 ; figs, Os 0.1 !l bs. ,'" 64 per doz ; strawberries. 64 to Is per oz. ; goose- O lik o B , 35 Od to 6s 04 per half sieve ; currants, Os 04 to Per half sieve ; raspbsrries, 04 to Od per pottle. t4 l3l CTAßLEb.—Greeni, ls 64 to Is Oil per doz. bunches; t i rl'f{es. 94 to is 64 per dozen ; S .voy ditto, is to do, ; brocoli, is Id to 2. per bundle ; old potatoes, li kt ,r•llo4 per. ton ; new ditto, RS to 13s per cwt ; POMP aC Od per quart ; French beans, ls Od to 28 04 per turnips, new. 1., to ls 1 per bunch ; carrots, is to 2s h tinch ; cucumbers, Os 64 to 1. ed each ; garlic, ed to ol d 8d per pound ; spinach, Is 04 to 2. 04 per sieve unions, 7s 04 to 4 s per bushel ; new ditto, 31 to 4d 91', leeks, 44 to ed per bunch ; shallots, .o is Od horse-raddish, 2s to 4s per bundle ; parsley, d Q to 4d per bunch ; celery, Os 64 to is ed per 1 1 ,"%n ; 'endive, 3s Od to 4. Od per doz.: beet, 1R Od to 2. kAL,goz. ; parsnips, Os 64 to Is 04 per dozen ; small 11, 1 7, 24 to• 3d ' per punnet ; mushrooms, 18 04 to le 64 1% Pottle ; artichokes, 64 to Rd each ; cos lettuce., 1. 74 1 . 1 to 2s per score ; sorrel, Od to Os per half sieve ; 11 % ' 50,4 55. 64 to is per dozen hands ; tomatoes, 38 to 4. half sieve ; chillies,, ls. to Is 6d per 100; Brussels C. Ott, 2s'Od to 3s Oa per half sieve; capsicums, ls to 2s : walnuts pickling, at to Oa per TOO: cauliflowers, t h ,_‘ o 9s 01 per doz. ; rhubarb, 44 to 84 per bundle ; l'araguB, 2. Oil to 4s per bundle ; sea kali, I s to 3s per pun. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. b„ T tl i rkeys, 4 8 6 , 1 to 84 ; Goslings. 5s 64 to 78 01 each ; tiro. 641 to' 38 0d ; wild do., Os 04 to Os to 04 ; rab tt,„°. Is to is esch ; Pigeons. 54 to 84 each ; large W i tt ; ?Y' Fowls, Oa Od to Os ; mid.lling, 2s to 3s Od ; . e ' t iteris, 28 04 to 2s ; Capons, 3. 64 to fin oa ; Hares. Ot t n ul to 3s ; 'Grouse. Os Od to Ps to 04 each ; Pheasants, to Os ; Partridges, 03 03 to Os nd ; Guinea ( Pt Is, 2s 6(1 .3. 3d : Roasting pigs Os Od 01 each. t q lt i and fresh butter, 10 9 64 to I's 6d, a nd E ng li s h 10 3 Od (1 0 ' 4 ! Per dozen lbs. English eggs, 8s 6d to 98 6 d ; French 9 8 ,0 d to 7s Od per 12Q. iiitt fr o m NRWPORT. ai to ss m d ' 3 , 14 . vdteoal. e 6d 35 ; mutton, 4s Od to 4s 10d ; lamb, 8d to 4 3 81; pork, 3a 6d to 4s r i ct 8 1 bs ,by the carcase. virIiiTECHAPEL. lik h l) :°er from 3s 4d to 4s 441; mutton, 3g lOd to 4s 1041; la - LI, 4s 84 to' 5s 84 ; veal, 3s 8d to 41 ; pork, 3s ed to Per Blbs., by the carcase. BILLINGSGATE. la 1 3ots, 2s fid to 16s : Brills, 2s Od to 7s each: Salmon, to. is .6d per lb ' • Cod Fish, is to 5s Od each ; Sole . , lis 0:1 _per pair • ' Eels, 8:1 to Is per lb ; Lobsters, 6d to n Crihe, oa t 021163 Whitings, 5s Od to 101 s per doz. 141,Mott Ovsteri; 16S'to 20s : Natives. —s to per beh.; .til: t el cerel,2ss to 30e per 100 ; Smelts, is Od to 2s Od per doz. ; ‘O, 6d to Od per lb; Shrimps, I s 63 to 2s 6(1 per gallon: l o t aters his al to 8s al per 100 ; Fresh Herrings, 4g per hb„,,N,Der 100; - Scotch- do- 011 Sprats, Os Od to Os al per ; Doreys, 2146 d to 104 each ;.Haddocks, 4s to 1 1 s pet ELlPike 64 ; Stnrgoon, 0 .1 per lb ; Prawns, 5s 0,1 to Os; ...64 to is 04. each : Plaice, 4:1 to is each ; Halibut. 2441'i 4 1 l r lb ; Floun b ders, 'ls 61 to Os 0(1 per doz. ; salt fish, • 8 (1 per . • Ith' • . BREAD. p.Priceg of ho of wheaten hrea..l in the metropolis are from .0 pa ; usehold ditto, 81 to 941 per 4 lb loaf. HIDES AND SKINS. t o -'tricot hides, 561 b to , 411), 34:1 to al ; 6111, to 721 b. 3 fib : 7 4 1 b to POlb, 4(1 to 414 ; 801 h to B , lb, 414 to 41 , 1; tc) I, to n 951 b, 4id to stl ; 9616 to 1041 b, 1 1:1 to Od ; 1 0 41 b —(1 to —(1; upwarls. —d to —d. ; Horse bides, 'N ` 1 " ) o' , ; calf skins, light, 2s 0' to 34 01 ; (:19 64 to 03 ; Pollel Sheep. Os al to Os Od ; Kents. to to OR 0,1 ; Half-breela, Os 04 to Os 01 ; Downs, 5s Od ir °d Shearlings, is 14 to is 31: Lambs, 25 4(1 to 3s 6(1. a HAY MARKETS. i'silli-PlELD.—Meadow hay, 3/ 8s to 61 Os : clover do , 4 " 8. to 61 10s ; and straw, 11 Sa to 1/ las per load. rfloderste supply and a sluggish demand. Ati Bintatm. —Meadow hay, 3110 s to 6/ Os : clover do., 41 : -114 to t 108 . ; and straw, 1/ 5s to 1/ 11s per load. out moderate. and trade to fi rm. ` l O TECRAPEL. —Meadow ly.y, 3/ Cs to 6t Os; clover ot ~ Os to 61 15s ; and straw, 5s to 11 108 per lead. ttlier dull, at late rates. a ARE MARKETS, (TillS DAY.) RAILWAYS. RAULWATB. Closing Prices yesterday IBusiness done 1 this day tr. ;Paid 9A Araby.. No - geszi.n. June 4. . Ikifast .Sz all Wolvorb 4 toar Vahey all Birk e Lan , al... •peal Ire Junet...... %I! l'o. rbeah. & BEA-. £5O and X 24 con,, Do., all Myth AcTyLeorigia Z 25 (ioad. at 4 C. Estristol anLi LOG C'lledonian. all .'}.eater ffolyllea i all Cork and Bando,.: All Cork, Black, &Pao 18 or,rn wal I all Do. A 8 Do. B 45 Dub .in&BelfsetJu tp : ,12 thin. P. A A.. , . Jnc. . 100 Rest fki.glim...... . zll Eastern ConnticA., 100 rlst. — ni, A St•;• 1 " iDa., B. S ock .. 11 Do., New A....... 10 East Kent IDA) 1 -'4,st fxtucashire 106 Elinburgh&Glasgi. all Edinb. and Peebles tl. S' Edin. Prth it Dead all Forth & Clyde Jun all Furness 1 all Do. Extension........ 1100 Glasgow&S W , ‘sf - all Great N. of Scotlnd. 100 Great Northern 100 Do., A. Stock .....• 1 00 Do., B Stock IX. Gt.Sth.&West.(lr,. ) .100 Great Western 1 1.00 I), Stour Val Ra Gna. Stk.. an (rich Aouth-Eastert, all rktrumiiter & Carlisle II l 4 Do., Thirds ..... 11 Do. Nov Thirds I(*) ',awash. and Yorke,: 4 ) Wet. Riding lin. ail Liv.Croby.&Southpt all London & Mu:Iwo:1 100 Lon& Bright & S.Cs. 100 Load. and N. Wefitt t 6 D. Fifths 54 DO.lOl. t3h., M&Ti. 21 Do. Eighths iOO London %TA 11 Lou. ' Tilby. & South Barking Sh. ..... ... all LudniirryticOolerao, ‘II I.udndry - .& Banish 100 - 22e. D Var. Az Lin, TTv, 1 Metropolitan,,,,,. ,, 100 Midland ...... 100 10. Ilirnang. & Der' all M 1.11.1.43. West. (Ire all I 'o. Half Shares_ %11 Newcastle & all Nwpt.Aherg. &Hrf vewry & Bnniskil) , aii Jewry Warrenpo n 1 uzd Rostrevor..... Is. Norfolk 3t Nortlin.Conntiee 1 North British..,, 100 .Nt.ti I /ovoc Rail. & Dock Stock 'lOO , A Stock • 100 •:, B Stock 100 Do., B Guarante3 N. Eastern—Berwir 214 Do. do. Extension Cl.N.R.7turch al Do. Leeds • 'A) Do. York 100 North London '3: Natz.S. Wetrn.,llr.m. • stead, and City Jn . North Staffordshir. ai North Western all & S. Westrn. June 1 9x., Wore.. k Wolv. 12 ,- ortsnionth ottish Central „ 13 . :' Scottish Midland , 100' -,Topshire Ii i , nth Devon 1 'garden:l, .... 100 South Wales . Yrksh. di Riv. Dn' ; 8 ;' ,,, , ) r.e• , ,Wek.)Briv , ‘ ,Aockton !z, Dal ing. 1.1 :to zktcn dR Hartle, )t Caff vale ti' Pref., No. 1.., ';2 ''''gmes Hay. n.Sz R. Clveratone dt Lanw , a ll V‘ii , Neath... Kilkenn all Vaterfor.i&Limer. , all West Cornwall..... all West End of Londe;. and Crystal Palm,. all Do. A 3 Do. B 41 West London ...... . . all Winabledn &Croy/Int it Mawr &It At r(VAiI Ardennes Atlan &St.Lw leased' at 6 p. c. by Gd.Tnk. of Canada . . Kagtu. June. loniers to Grovel's, 4ornbay, Baroda, an ndia.g , •ri Do Buff & Lk. Hur. Ry. Carrneaux & Toulouse Coal Mines and Ry. .enteraib ►atc}t Rhenimb Pastern of Fra.nue 1,0, Slew reast TnAsw P , SD. v K. B gu 5 p. c. Do. Ex C, gu. sp. c Do. do. D, gu. 5 p. c. D0.4p.c.8nd5.,'57 . Gee ong Melbou: ne guar. 5 per c nt.. of ilauadvA 1) 0 , • ;o, Cert of Dehon. don. into Stk. WIT, 7 io. Comp. 6 p. e. , do Central of r "ix Pcn g. sp. c. Do New, gu tr. 5 p_ c. goat Luxwtebot,r Clonetitutod Slokrtt , Woßtery ocean , Oa Do. New 4c ) , Wis., payable 's'l' Do. do., p. '60•.• do., '73, w;tholl' option „ 06110 . Lierre and Turnhout Lucca 4 ,7 Pist. sp. c.p r) (lons and 00a...mt ll Lyons & Meaitprr! ,- • 'I 0 - a.dras o gua^ 4' p c 5 Do. Nov do., sp e 0 Lo. 4i p. c. Exton ll Maria. Anton Ll f)o. do. New Kkmur b Lit go kit , nterest) ..... on. (ex intereet)_ Do. do , C p. c. Prof `aerthern of Pr,n,•, NorwegianTrunkPre Paris and Ly0n5..,... ))itto Bonds anA Orlean. Recife San. Fran., (Pernam ) g. 7 p. e . Rome and Fraseati.. l'Paniah Roy 1 Swad lab , mbre and Manse_ 'no 54 p. (*Ant I' .* - Prof, IScrtd( , , guar. 5 p. c Do ' ,. outhern of Pmuce St. And: e w's in 3 r4nebee fA) West Flanders Do St nPr c. Prof ~ W.doN.W.of v'rstre. West. of Switzerland Wiesbaden Zealand 25i 26i 4i 5 8i 9 17 - It 15 -- 16 12 - 13 83 - 96 61 61 ) 15 - 16 9 - 11 • •• "^-. gi - 16.#- t7i, 9i 10i 30 - 32 20 - 22 78 - 59 -- 61 32 - 33 ... - 88 - 92 7i - 84 941 - 95i 1 77 78 .29 131 05 1 07 Eak r,s 60 70 75 5} Op 5} 6t 921 934; • .... ... 7 74 [O4 105 102 -102. j par p par p, $ I 99 - 100, ... -4. J 7S - 79 49 - 50 ~., ... 54 - 58 31 - 3t 35i 36. ••• .. 81 - 82 5 41 3 —24 d i 7 184 58 59 89 -- 91 - - 7 10 * 11 28 - 29 !02 104 76 - 78 16 '8 '4 15 71 - 72 73 - 75 4 - 2 lA - 12 13 37 19 - 20 4i 5 6 - 6 8 2 - 4 5 - 6 Ri 8i 4 - si, 2A. 3A - 4Ar 11 - 2 5i 37i r 37i 24j 23{ -2 1 . A 2- 2i. ~.. _ .> 22 - 23 9i 15 - 16 70 73 - 6f 22i - 93 2 p 51 - 25} 2A - 21 , 100 - 102 124 --- 129 Lf.N 11 li 11 - 12 T' 20} 20 . $ 2+ - 2ip 1p 7i - 8, 3 / 4 6i - 7f 19} -19 i 41§ - 45 8 - 9 59 - 59 ii - ii 1 - li io 20 114 - 12 - 10 2i - - 4,1 36i - 371 is io JOINT-STOCK BANKS. (*vira , Omi.... 124 Rank of Egypt 50 Rank of London al ri, (01. C al , xithd, N. /marital; 'hartd. Bank of As , 6 , rnrtd. fink. of India Anstra;in, & Chin 51' City 6.1 • loturnereial of Low , . e.'oot.St kns.Cht Mary Bk &nstralis. Aitto New fendon and Conn 1 Aut. & E. Bnkg. Corp. London Joint Sto,:t• Loudon and Paris.... tiolid.lSi WeFtnuaste "qational Prn.of Eng. New Ntation 1 of IrelAA'd Yew Smith W 410 7.” :lriental Bank C!nri - g.r,tl;`Tl ..... 4 • • Ittoman Bank r•r6vincial cpf IreAar , 1t New ............ A ?is T? C , Loyal British , S.ustralis of Australia. 1 ". fc e • f London western Bk of Loud 'I 56 96 `-' 8 Par - P i 8 70 ~. -- .• i -1• p G 9 - 71 1 64 - 17- 184 - 183 2 - 1 - 2p 4 -- 2 d . ra, 42 2 44 41 - 43 - • v 38 - 40 73 - 75 8 10 2d ,;: i!! --~-- THE SUN, LON DON, SA UR e DAY EVENIN ri; 14. 1856. LAW INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.) The 92i3i, prisi sittings at Westminster were continued to-day. In the Court of Queen's Bench, Lord Campbell and a special jury were engaged trying an action. Tozer v. Child and another, churchwarden of St. Cle ment's Danes, for special damages in refusing to take his vote at the last election for vestryman, on the ground that the plaintiff bad not paid the church-rate due at the time, and also f refusing to put the plaintiff in nomination as a vestryman. The ground of refusal of payment of the church-rate was based on the illegality of the rate. In the Court of Exchequer an action was being tried before the Lord Chief Baron, brought by the Customs against Lucian Marchand, of Red Lion-street, Soho, for the evasion of duty on 222 Geneva gold watches, in attempting to smuggle them through the customs, by their being fastened in a vest and belt made for the purpose and being worn next the skin of the weareu . Both actions are likely to occupy court the whole of the day. In the Common Pe Ls Mr. Justice Willes was engaged trying an action on a bil of exchange of no public interest. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. SOUTH WESTERN. Yesterday a special meeting was held at the Waterloo Bridge Station, under the Wharncliffe order, for the purpose of considering bills now before Parliament in which this company is interested. Mr. Chaplin, M.P., was in the chair. The first bill introduced was that for making a railway from Yeovil to Exeter, known as the Exeter Extension. The CHAIRMAN said the bill now to come under their consideration was read a third time and passed in the House of Commons on the previous evening. Be fore entering into the details of the bill, he would refer to some misunderstanding which had existed amongst proprietors with referents to the notice of the meet ing. That notice stated, "at the same meeting there will also be submitted for the consideration of the pro prietors, the bills hereinafter mentioned, in which re spectively certain clauses and provisions have ban in serted by their respective promoters, proposing to c refer powers on, or to affect the interests of, the Lon don and S.iutl-Western Railway Company, &c." The truth was, the Yeovil and Exeter Extension was the only undertaking in which this company was interested by subscription, or shares, or capital, or in any way whatever. The Great Western had, as the shareholders were no doubt aware, attempted to compel them to lay down a double line of rails, the object of which was to have a broad as well as a narrow gauge ; but that at tempt was defeated, and the line would, therefore, be a single line upon the narrow gauge only. With regard to the other bills to come b-I,re them (the South-Western Company having had their name withdrawn from the Crystal Palace Bib), this company had no capital in the undertakings, nor did they promote them in any way ; but inasmuch as they must be tr;butary to the traffic of the South-Weetern, he considered it was to their interest to give all the facilities in their power to form junctions with their line, and possibly to work the traffic at some future day. He considered it better to acquire those powers by means of the bills now before Parliament, promoted by independent parties, instead of obtaining those pc were at their own expense at some future period. Having made this explanation, he thought the subject of the Exeter Extension had been so fully ventilated that it was unnecessary to enter into the details of the mea sure. He might say the Lill had passed the House of Commons almost enterily without alteration, the only opposition having been that on the part of the Great Western, with the otioct he had before alluded to, but which the committee declined to entertain. Mr. BIRDMAN (the ealicitor) proceeded to read the clauses of the bill, from which it appeared that the time allowed the company for the laying down the single line extends to the year 1861, with the permissive power to lay down a double line. The company are empowered to subscribe or advance capital to theamisunt of 100,0001. to the Salisbury and Yeovil, but not until the latter have laid out 150,000/. The terms upon which such advance is to be made are 4 per cent. interest, and half the sur plus profits in proportion to the money advanced. Mr. HENRY WOOD asked if there were no profits at all, where would the surplus profits come from ? Mr. HIITCHINS.—Of course there would be no profit at all. Mr. BIRCHAM then read the clause relative to the qualification of candidates for the directorship, which, it will be remembered, was the subject of considerable dis cussion at the former meeting. Under the provisions of the present bill, the qualification for a director at the South-Western board was raised to £3,000 of consoli dated preference or ordinary stock. It is also provided that in the event of any director now sitting at the board not holding that amount of stock, he should be allowed three months from the passing of the bill for the purpose of completing the required qualification. Another ins poitant clause related to the permission to the proprie tors of unseating a director by a vote of a general meeting. Originally, it appears, it was intended that this power should be vested in a simple majority, but, upon the suggestion of Mr. Sergeant Gaselee, ;t was subsequently determined that three.fifths of the share heldere must concur in such a resolution for the removal of a director. Mr. Sergeant GARELRE availed himself of that oppor tunity of explaining that remarks had been made to his ' prejudice in the matter of this clause. It had been called a "directors' protection clause." So far from this being the case, it was a "shareholders' protection clause," conferring on them a power which they never possessed before, of turning out a director when he misbehaved himself. But at the same time he could not conceal from himself the inju4tice which would be done if they were able to turn out a director upon a single majority of one; and, theref.re, it was he hal endeavoured to secure that which was a fair safeguard against the cap rice of a party spirit of a meeting. After a short discussion on matters totally irrelevant to the subject before the meeting, The CHAIRMAN put the resolution for the approval of the bill, which Mr. SNOW sec inded. Mr. HELPS said he iiad already taken so active a part in opposition to this measure that he could no be content to give a silent vote upon it. Ile believed than the bill before them was not the free act of the company, but had been forced upon them by Parliament ; and he would state briefly how he would vote, and why. He felt it is duty to abstain from giving a sanction to the bill by even the semblance of acquiescence on his part. He opposed the bill on principle ; and, speaking from his honest con victions—not, he beieved, prompted by any pride of consiAency—he con , idered it a gross violation of free d )m of private enterprise in this country, and opposed to every principle of equity. Mr. PIINOFIBR said he believed if every proprietor were canvas-ed at his own fireside he would sympathise with the hon. gentleman who had last spoken, or, he might say, condole with the directors ; for he firmly be lieved that a greater piece of commercial villany was never perpetrated than the infliction upon this company of the construction of the Yeovil and Exeter Extension. Mr. WOOD opposed the bill on the ground that the line would ever pay, and entered into a statement of statistical facts, comparing the Yeovil and Exeter with the London and Brighton, which were received with re peated it.terruptions by the meeting. Mr. FOOKES objected to the bill on the ground that no power taw , contained in it to effect a junction with the Great Western at Exeter. The original object of con structing a line to Exeter was for the purpose of uniting the railways of the west with those of the south, and be contended that this object bad been altogether lost sight of ; and he charged the direct , rs with entertaining the design of carrying out a narrow gauge line from Exeter to Falmouth and Piyinmith, to which their large hold ings in Devon lines appeared to give a sanction. It was impossible, he said, to arrive at any other conclu sion, in the absence of any arrangement having been made for a connection with the western lines. M. HUTCHINGS, M.P. (.4 director), repudiated the charge, which he considered very offensive to the mem bers of the board. He would ask what act of the boardi had led the hon. proprietor to the conclusion he had come tot The hon. proprietor should bear in mind that the present line was imposed upon them by Parliament, from which they had no escape. Mr. FOOSES w denied baring brought any charge against the directors. It was an opinion at which he had arrived upon the ostensible facts of the case. Mr. HENEAGE (formerly member for Grimsby) said he considered Parliament had exceede I its proper powers, and the directors had gone beyond theirs. Parliament had introduced the clauses conditionally, and the direc tors had accepted them. After a further conversation, the resolution was put and carried, with five dissentients. The second bill t i be submitted to the meeting was for the incorporating of the Salisbury Railway and Market House Company. The CHAIRMAN explained the objects of the bill to be the construction of a market house, and about half a mile of railway to connect with the South-Western at Salisbury. The whole of the capital had been subscribed by independent parties, and this company had no lia bility in the matter. Upon the reading of the clauses, it appeared that per missive power was given to the South-Western to sub scribe 1,000/ , and upon the resolution for the approval of the bill being put from the ch&r, the same was carried, with tt P exception of the clause relating to the advance of 1,000/. The third bill was for making a railway from South. ampton and Dorchester to Blandford St. Mary, to be constructed entirely by independent capital. The length of the line is 10 miles, and it is proposed that the South- Western should have powers to make arrangements for working the line. The bill was uranimously approved. The last bill on the list was for making a railway from Lymington to the South-Western line at Brocklehuret, with a landing place at Lymington. The CHAIRMAN explained tkat the length of the line was four miles, imposing no liability whatever on the South-Western, and would lead to the establishment of steam c mmunication between Lymington and Yar mouth, in the Isle of Wight, which it was believed wouA contribute considerable traffic to the South- Westsrn. Mr. HUTCHINS said the promoters of the line were the gentry and tradesmen of Lymington, who had sub scribed sums varying from 2001. to 3901. each to the undertaking. Perhaps a better subscription list, or one more generally responded to, could not be found. roe bill was also approved, and the business termi nated. CRYSTAL PALACE.—We are requested to state that the first display of the great fountains of the Crystal Palace in the presence of her Majesty on Wednesday next will not take place earlier than five o'clock. It is desirable that this fact should be known, since the lateness of the hour may enable many to see the flower show at the Botanic Gardens, in the Regent's-park, as well as the display at Sydenham on the same day. • .„.„ .t .; , t , t'• Z. 14 4;c -'' . l tl - • SUN OFFIOE, Six o'Cloek. THE DISMISSAL OF MR. CRAMPTON. The following is the despatch of Hr. Marcy to Mr. Dallas, informing him of the determination of the American Government to dismiss Mr. Cramp ton. THIRTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. WASHINGTON, MAY 29. A message was received from the President of the United States, informing Congress that he has ceased to hold intercourse with the Minister of the British Government to Washington, and deems it proper to lay before them the considerations of public duty which have led to the adoption of a measure of so much importance. Among the documents transmitted by the Presi dent is the following despatch from Secretary Marcy to Mr. Dallas : SECRETARY MARCY TO MR. DALLAS. "Department of State, Washington, Tuesday, May 27. " Sir,—The President has carefully considered the note of the 30th ult., addressed to you by the Earl of Claren don, her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, relative to the questions which have arisen be tween this Government and that of Great Britain on the subject of recruiting within the United States for the British army; and as directed me to present to yon Lis views thereon, for the purpose of having them made known to her Majesty's Government. He has been much gratified by the conciliatory spirit of that note, and by the desire manifested by the E trl of Clarendon to adjust the existing difficulties, and preserve and strengthen the friendly relations betwen the United States and Great Britain. "The vast interest which the Government and people of both countries have in upholding and cherishing such rela tions cannot be more solemnly impressed upon her Majesty's Government than it is upon that of the United States. The unequivocal disclaimer by her Majesty's Government of any intention either to infringe the law or disregard the policy, ornot to respect the sovereign rights of the United States,' and their expressions of regret if, contrary to their intentions and to their reiterated directions, there has been any infringement of the laws of the United States, are satisfactory to the President. The ground of complaint, so far as respects her Majesty's Government is thus re moved. But the President extremely regrets that he can not concur in Lord Clarendon's favourable opinion of the conduct of some of her Majesty's officers, who were, as this Government believed, and, after due consideration of all which has been offered in their defence, still believes, im plicated in proceedings which were so clearly an infringe ment of the laws and sovereign rights of this country. "In respect to such of these officers and agents as have no connection with this Government, it has nothing to ask from that of her Majesty ; but the case is different in rela tion to Mr. Crampton, her Majesty's Envoy and Minister Plenipotentiary to this Government, and the Consuls at New York, Philadelphia and Cincinnati. The President is gratified to perceive that her Majesty's Government would not have hesitated to comply with the request to withdraw these officers from their official position if it had entertained the views here taken of their conduct in regard to recruiting contrary to the laws and sovereign rights of the UniteeStates. I need scarcely say that in making this request, no interruption of the diplomatic relations between this Government and that of Great Britain was anticipated; but, on the contrary, the President was and is sincerely desirous to keep them upon a most friendly footing. "Mr. Crampton's withdrawal was asked forexpressly upon the ground that his connexion with the affair, raising re cruits in this coun try for the Br itish service, has rendered him an unacceptable representative of her Brittauic Majesty near this Government.' Forthe sa me reason the with draw al of the three British Consuls was also requeste I. These officers were, as this Government confidently believes, deeply im plicated in proceedings contrary to the law and sovereign rights of the United States, and contrary, as it now appears, to the intentions and reiterated instructions of their own Government. It was their personal acts, not the less ob jectionable for having been done contrary to the directions of her Majesty's Minister, which rendered them in their official character and position unacceptable to this Govern ment, and induced the President for that cause to solicit their recall, believing that by this couree he was contri buting to the common interest and harmony of the two Governments. He has nt , t, after most mature considera tion, been able to change his view of their conduct, and cannot therefore change his purpose in relation to them, though their conduct related to, and in fact originated, a difficulty which disturbed the cordial harmony and good understanding betwean the two countries. It constituted a decided objection to them of a personal character, which loses none of its force by the satisfactory adjustment of that difficulty. The only embarassment which attends the critic is the difference of opinion between the two Govern ments as to the complicity of these officers in illegal pro ceedings within the United States. In riviewing this subject, the President was disposed to avail himself of any reasonable doubts which could be raised in his mind in order to bring his opinion in this respect into conformity with that of her Majesty's Government ; but, after careful consideration of the case, he has been unable to change the conclusion to which he had previously arrived. "The difference of opinion may in some degree be as cribed to the difference iu views of the two Governments in respect to the neutrality laws an i sovereign rights of the country. It is not proposed, however, to continue the dis cussion upon that s ubj ec t. Th e conclusions of the Presi •tent, stated in my despatch of the '2Bth of December to your predecessor, in regard to the construction of that I r.w aid the extent and character of these rights, remain un changed, and he cannot forego the duty of using all proper means to sustain and vindicate them. "The main C , .11.10 of this difference of opinion is the dif ferent appreciation of the proofs by which the charges ,gainst her M•jesty's diplomatic Representative and Con sul s are sustained. Lord Clarendon asks this Government r,o regard the bare declarations of these officers as of suffi cient weight to countervail evidence against them. Their denials, as presented in his de s pat c h o f th e 30th o f A pr il , (and that is all which has been communicated to this Go vernment on the subject,) seem to be special, and do not traverse all the alleg 4ions against them. They deny that they have infringed our neutrality law by enlisting persons within the United States for British service, or hiring or retaining persons to leave the United States for the pur pose of .being enlisted in that service. " The charges ac a miust them are much braader, and em brace the offence of violating the laws and sovereign rights ~ f 'the United States, by setting in operation within our own territory and conducting an extensive system of re cruiting, which was not and could not be carried into effect without infringing upon our laws and rights; by employ ing numerous agents to engage parsons, for pecuniary and other considerations, to leave the United States for the express purpose of entering into the British army ; and by keeping these agents in this employment after it was well known that they were constantly infringing our laws. The denial of the implicated officers only covers a part of the delinquencies imputed to them, but, confining the ex culpatory declaration to the simple charge of having vio lated the provisions of our neutrality act, it does not merit the consideration which Lord Clarendon has ascribed to it. " By adopting Lord Clarendon's construction of our neu trality law, contained in his note of the 16th of November, which renders it almost nugat,;•ry, and contrary to that of this Government and of its judicial tribunals, these officers have not probably found much embarrassment in meeting the charges with a general denial—but giving to the decla- I ration of Mr. Crampton and the Consuls all the considera tion which can be fairly claimed for it under the circum stances of the case, it cannot counterbalance the uni in peached and well-sustained evidence which establishes the charges against these officers of having infringed the laws and sovereign rights of the United States. "Lord Clarendon's note to you of the 30th of April con veys the impression that the evidence by which the officers are implicated is derived from one or two witnesses, whose credibility has been assailed. This, however, is not a cor rect view of the facts. By examination of my despatch of the 28th of December, it will be perceived that these wit noises were strongly confirmed, and that there are proofs, wholly independent of their testimony, abundantly suffi cient to establish the complicity of Mr. Crampton and the Consuls in their infringement of the laws and sovereign rights of the United States. I trust that it will not be questioned that it belongs exclusively to this Government and its judicial tribunals to give a construction to its municipal laws, and to deter mine what acts done within its jurisdiction are an infringe ment of these laws. This is a matter which concerns its in ternal administration, and it cannot allow the agents of any foreign Power to controvert that construction and justify their conduct by a different interpretation of our laws, which virtually renders them ineffective for the purposes intended. The Earl of Clarendon informs you, iu his note of the 30th of April, that Mr. Crampton positively denies the charge of complicity in any of the acts of illegal enlist ment in the United States, and that the three Consuls in culpated do the same. He assumes that the charge against them is sustained mainly by the evidence of two persons, Strobel and Hertz, whom he conceives to bo unworthy of oredit,and ho appeals to the American Government to accept as conclusive declarations of the Ministeis and Consuls. "I am instructed to say that these considerations do not relieve the President's mind of the unfavourable impressions produced by the conduct of these gentlemen in relation to foreign recruitment in the United States. It will be seen, by referring to my despatch of the 28th December, in which the grounds of charge against Mr. Crampton were fully stated, that the testimony of Strobel and Hertz was quite a secondary and unimportant part of the evidence adduced, the charge being supported, independently of their testi mony, by other witnesses, by original letters of Mr. Cramp. ton and others, and by the undenied and undeniable acts of Mr. Crampton. As to Strobel and Heitz, however, it may be observed, the documents transmitted by Lord Cla rendon as proving these persons unworthy of credit are entitled to but little weight, consisting as they do of ex parte affidavits, detailing matters mostly of hearsay ; and whatever may have been the character of those persons it by no means follows that they did not testify to the truth. " They were agents selected and trusted by Mr. Cramp ton himself, and to them he committed most important con cerns. Such an endorsement should countervail the im peachment of their veracity, founded on loose, hearsay re ports. Nor does it seem to be a thing of much moment, in relation to the present question, that Strobel, in copse• quence of imputed misconduct, was dismissed from emoloy went by the Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia, and af terwards endeavoured to obtain money from Mr. Cramp ton. The fact remains that he held a commission in the British Foreign Legion, and that, as is clearly proved and not denied, he maintained, as recruiting officer, and for a consioerable period of time, association, personally or by correspondence, with Mr. Crampton. "The employment of Strobel, by Mr. Crampton, their long association in the joint work of recruiting in the United States for the Foreim Legion, the distinction of Her Majesty's commission of captain in the corps conferred on Strobel would seem at least to deprive Mr. Crampton of the right to deny his credibility as a witness. But there is a large and more compreh nsive class of considerations applicable to this particular question. For a period of nearlyfive months, that is, from about the middle of March, 1435, to the sth of Augnet, 1855, the peace and order of this country were 'disturbed, especially the cities of Bos ton, New York, Philadelphia, and Cincinnati, by the un lawful acts of numerous persens engaged in raising recruits or in being recruited for the British Foreign Legion. They were supplied with ample funds by British agents, and they obstinately resisted and set at naught all the efforts of the loeal authorities of the United States to put a stop to their proceedings, nor did they desist until they received otders to that effect from the British Government in the month of August. "The recruits thus unlawfully raised in the TJ Lited aides during all that time were conveyed by British agents to Halifax, and there enrolled in the Foreign Legion. AU these acts, as well as their illegality, were notorious. Long before the trial of Hertz in September, and of Wagner in October, they must have beea brought to the particular notice of Mr. Crampton, the British Consuls, and other agents, by the prelindoary judicial inquiries which took place both at New York and Philadelphia. In consequence of steps to that effect taken by me on the 2?d of March, the proper instructions were issued on the 23d, and prose cutions commenced in Philadelphia on the ',;0.1a of March, and in New York on the sth of April. As an example of the character of these proceedings, their notriety, and their comprehensive legal effect, what occurred in May deserves particular notice. "At New York, on the 15th of May, a number of per sons, namely, Godfrod Wachier, Wilhelm Schumacker, Julius Parkus, Oscar Cremey, and Andrew Lutz, were examined before Commissioner Betts, on a charge of re cruitment for the service of Great Britain. Eminent counsel were employed by the accused, who argued that no offence had been committed, because it did not appear that any valid contract of enlistment had been consum mated ; but this ground of defence was overruled by the commissioner, who, though he discharged Wachier for de fective evidence, committed Lutz, Schumacker, Cremey, and Parkus. "At Philadelphia, on the 25th of May, three persons— Hertz, Perkins, and Bucknail—having been arrested on the charge of illegal recruiting in the service of Great Bri tain, applied to the Circuit Court of the United States, by habeas corpus, to be discharged from custody. The presiding judge, the Hon. John K. Kane, on the examina tion of the evidence taken in the case before a commis sioner, found the proofs were sufficient to bring the acts of Hertz and Perkins within the conditions of the law, but not so to Bucknail ; accordingly the latter was dis charged, but the two former were committed for trial. " Thus, so early as May, it was judicially shown that what was doing in this respect was unlawful. Mr. Cramp ton was acquainted with these proceedings, and was thus sufficiently admonished that the acts of recruitment car ried on under his authority did in fact, whatever may have been his intention, constitute a violation of the mu nicipal law of the United States. This had been decided by the Courts of the United States, and was publicly and extensively made known. It is not controverted—indeed it is admitted, that he had the recruiting business in his charge and under his controul ; yet he permitted it to be continued, although judiciously determined to be unlaw ful, through the months of May, June, July, and August. "Now this long series of acts, unlawful and otherwise prejudicial to th e goo d name and tranquillity of this coun try, were performed by persons who were liberally paid by the British officers, and many of whom actually entered the military service of Great Britain. That was incon testably proved on the trial of Hertz and Wagner, by evi dence which has not been and cannot be impeached, and although the evidence adduced on these trials does not need corroboration, still it may not be amiss to add that much other evidence to the same effect is in possession of this Government, some of which is annexed to this des patch, in the form of dosuments responsive to those ac companying the letter of the Earl of Clareadon. " Who is to be held accountable for these unlawful acts ? Were they all performed by volunteer and irresponsible persons, as argued in the Earl of Clarendon's despatch of the 16th of July ? That cannot be admitted for the con clusive reason that they received pay from British officers, and of course were employed by some responsible agents of the British Government. The Earl of Clarendon, in behalf of her Majessy's Government, disclaims all inten tion to violate the laws, compromise the neutrality, or-cgs , respect the sovereignty of the United States by the Enlist ment of troops within their territory. The President un reservedlyaccepta and is fullysetistied with this disclaimder. Of course the unlawful acts in question were not autho rised by the British Government, but the fact is never theless well established that they were done, and done in the name and at the expense of the British Government. " Who, then, is responsible for these acts ? Were there no direct proof, though there is much of that character, the inference would be irresistible, that, not being autho rised by the British Government itself, they were the un authorised acts of the British agents in the United Statss, Such agents, having acted in wilful disregard of their Go vernment in thus infringing our laws, may have failed to inform their Government that what they had undertaken to do could not be done without infringing those laws ; or by mismanagement, indiscretion, or over zeal, they may have participated in such infringement, though well know ine ' it was contrary t o th e w i s h es and express orders of their Government. However this may be, it is certain that agents existed, because their acts appear. Who were these agents? Of this we aro not left in doubt. " In the documents on the subject recently laid before Parliament it is distinctly stated that the enlistment in the United States did not stop until Mr. Crampton gave orders for their cessati,n on the sth of August. He had the power to stop the acts of enlistment. He knew the proceedings were, from the commencement, exceedingly offensive to this Government, and that it was devoting its activeenergies to arrest him. Ile was bound to know—he could not but know—what was notorious to all the world, that, through the months of April, May, June, and July, the recruiting agents in various parts of the Unite.i States, and conspicuously in Boston, New York, Philadel phia, and Cincinnati, were keeping up a most unseemly contest with the law officers of the United States, and that, at least, as early as May, the illegality of the pro ceedings had been pronounced by the Federal Courts iu New York and Philadelphia, and yet, notwithstandirg this, he permitted the unlawful acts in question to go on wiehout check until the month of August. For thus giv ing countenance to those illegal proceedings he is distinctly responsible. " But his accountability extends yet further for the same documents show that the official suggestion to the British Government of the untoward scheme of obtaining recruits in the United States cane from the correspon dence of Mr. Crampton, and of the consuls at New York, Philadelphia, and Cincinnati, and that to Mr. Crampton was the superintendence and execution of the scheme com mitted, and thus it was that he who directed had power to stop pr.cee tinge, and thus from early in MArch until Au gust he is found busily occupied in superintending the en listment, partly in the Unite,t States and partly in Canada and Nova Scotia, and in issuing instructions to the agents engaged in that enterprise. "It does not suffice for Mr. Crampton now to say that he did not intend to commit or participate in the commis sion of any infringement of the laws of thelTuited States. He was the directing head of the long-continued infringe manta of the law. It was under superior authority from him that acts of continuous violation of law were perpe tratecl by the inferior agents. Some of these agents are proved by his own letters to have held direct intercourse with him ; and in every stage of inquiry in the numerous eases investigated by the American Government there is reference by letter and oral declaration to the general su perintendence of Mr. Crampton. His moral and legal re sponsibility are thus demonstrated. With full information of the stringency of the laws of the United States against foreign recruiting, with a distinct perception of its being all but impossible to raise recruits here without infringing the laws, and with a knowledge of the condematory judi cial proceedings of April and May at New York and Phi ladelphia, yet he persisted in carrying on the scheme until August, when its obstinate prosecution brought on a mos/ unpleasant controversy between the United States and Great Britain ; and it is not the least of the causes of complaint against Mr. Crampton that by his acts of com mission in this business, or in failing to advise his Go vernment of the impracticability of the undertaking in which he was embarked, and the series of illegal act, which it involved, and in neglecting to observe the general orders of his Government, and step its recruit ing here the moment its illegality was pronounced by the proper legal authorities of the United States he was recklessly endangering the harmony and peace of twit great nations, which, by the character of their com mercial relations, and by other considerations, have the strongest possible inducements to cultivate reciprocal amity. " The foregoing considerations substantially apply to the conduct of the British Consuls at New York, Pkila delphia, and Cincinnati. Though of a subordinate official character, they are not less responsible than Mr. Cramp- ton. Toe continuous violation of law proceeded within their respective consulates, month after month, under their eyes, not only without any apparent effort on thei r p ar t, to stop it, but with more or less of their active participa tion therein. The Consulate at New York appears to have been the point at which the largest expenditures were made, and it is proved by documents herewith transmitted that payments at that Consular office to some of the re cruiting agents, continued to be made by the secretary of the Consul, in the Consul's presence, from time to time, down to the beginning of Jan. in the present year. " The President, as has already been stated by me, can not admit the force of the objection now urged of the al• leged want of respectability on the part of some of the wit-' nesses by whom these facts were proved, and as to whom a prominent cause of such alleged want of respectability seems to be the fact that their evidence has inculpated their accomplices in the violation of the law. The testi mony which most directly inculpates the British Consul at New York, as will be seen by the inclosuree herewith, is in the affidavits of the very persons relied on by her Ma jesty's Government for proofs in this case, and whose de positions accompany Lord Clarendon's note to you of 30th April. The Earl of Clarendon perfectly well understands that in Great Britain as well as in the United States it would be impossible to administer penal justice without occasionally receiving the evidence of accomplices. " In Great Britain not only is evidence of this class re ceived continually in state trials, as well actin inferior mat ters, but rewards and other special inducements are held out to such witnesses by not a few provisionsof acts of Par liament. The competency of such persons in a given case, and ',heir credibility, are in bath countries questions upon which the court and the jury, in their respective sphere of jurisdiction, ultimately pass. In the present case con clusions have been established on documentary proof and other unimpeachable evidence, by proceedings before the proper tribunals of the Uuited States, by the verdi c t s o f juries, and by the ruling of judges, which must be held as final in the estimation of the President. The Earl of Cla rendon suggests, as a consideration pertinent to this ques tion, that the Minister and Consuls had no means or op portunity of rebutting the charges thus indirectly brought against them in the trial of the inferior recruiting agents. " In regard to the Consuls, the Earl of Clalen-ion errs in supposing that they had not 'till means and opportunity if they saw fit, to appear and to confront and contradict any accusing witnesses. They were not a llowed to interfere in the trials by mere letters written for the occasion which indeed they could not have done lawfully had there been no such prohibition : but, if conscious of their own inno cence, and that of the parties-on trial, and that their own acts would bear examination, it was alike their duty and right to appear and say so on oath, and to contradict by their testimony whatever was alleged against British ofE ours or agents if known to them to be untrue. Nor is it any just cause of complaint that evidence was received upon these trials impugning the acts of Mr. Crampton. It was in due course of proceedings required to be shown, as against the parties on trial , that the recruitments in whit-h they were engaged were for the service of a foreign Go vernment. " Mr. Crampton was himself privileged froni trial for a violation of oar municipal law, but the persons whom he employed were not for that caus e t o go unpunished—nor was the administration of penal justice to be indefinitely suspended on account of his position and the diplomatic immunities which that conferred , on the oontrary, it Was peculiarly proper that the facts by which he was implicated but for which he could not be tried, should be verified in due form of law, for the information of his Government as well as that of the United States. The Earl of Clarendon remarked in his letter of the 30th Apyil that— " The intentions of the British Government, andthe arrangements made to carry nese intentions into execnton, were not concealed from-the Government of the United States ; those intentions and arrangements were frankly stated by Mr. Crampton to Mr. Marcy in conversation on the 22d March, 1855, and the only observations which Mr. Marcy made in reply were that the neutrality laws of the United States would rigidly be enforced, but that any number of persons who desired it might leave the United States and get enlisted in any foreign service.' " It is incumbent on me to say that in this respect the Earl of Clarendon labours under serious misapprehension THE WEST INDIA MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY MORNING. By the Royal Mail steamer L 3 Plata, Captain Weller, with the West India and Ricific mails, we have dates from Jamaica, May 26 ; Demerara and Trinidad, 25th ; Barbadoes, 27th ; St. Thomas's, 31st. The Plata brings 249 passengers, among whom are Sir H. Barkly, Governor of Jamaica, and lady; and Sir J. Rowe, late Chief Justice, and lady. Brings on freight 800,000 dols. in specie, and the usual cargo. The Airato arrived out at St. Thomas's on the 31st ult. At Jamaica plenty of heavy rains had fallen, and dysentery prevailed to soine extent among the in habitants. The Queen's birthday and the Peace were duly celebrated. Tranquillity prevailed in all parts of the island. Commercial matters remain nearly the same. Bread was dull, without any sales. Corn was also dull. In flour there was a downward tendency. Very little sugar was offering. Exchange on London at 60 days, 1 per cent. premium. - Yellow fever was prevalent in St. Thomas's, De merara, and other places in the West Indies. Many cases had occurred on board the Royal Mail steam ship, and several of the medical officers had suf fered from the disease. Her Majesty's ship Ma lacca, while lying at Port-au-Prince, had lost the greater portion of her crew. The health of Barbadoes continued good. The present year's crop was all but finished, and gloomy anticipations respecting the prospects of the young cane crop existed. Trade was dull at Demerara, and the weather favourable to the growing arops. The ship Thomas Hamlin had arrived from Cal cutta with 319 Coolies. There are no news of interest from the Pacific ports. - The steamship New Granada, with the southern mails, arrived at Panama on the 21st ult. Her dates are—Valparaiso, April 30 ; Callao, May 12. THE PENINSULAR MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY MORNING. By the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Sultan, C iptain Cook, with the Peninsular mails, we have dates from Gibraltar, June &1 ; Cadiz, 4th ; Li s b on , 9 t h ; Oporto, 10th ; Vigo, 11th. The Sultan brings 82 passengers, 1,3331. in specie, and a cargo of fruit, &c. During the homeward voyage the Sultan was detained 12 hou rs a t Vi go ow i ng to a dense fog. On the . sth instant, off Cape St. Vincent, she spoke the steam transport Orinoco. Oa the 9th passed Her Majesty's storeship Industry, steering north. On the 11th also spoke the mail steamer Tagus, steaming into Vigo Bay. The Ministerial crisis was over, and a new Ministry formed, as already announced by tele graph. The country was tranquil, and likely to continue so. The English steamer-of-war Industry, Captain G. Bar, out 39 days, from Sebastopol, for Ports mouth, put into Lisbon on the 7th instant with machinery damagd. The exchanges for bills at three months, on this packet, 54a on Loudon, with small supply of bills and scarcity of money ; Paris, 5.20 ; Amsterdam, 421 ; Hamhnig, 4%1 ; and Genoa, 5.17. The stock market had been at a grant during the Ministerial crisis, but Three per Cents. were again firm and in demand at 411 to 42/ when the packet left ; Bank of Portugal shares 495 to 502 milreis each ; and Oporto Bank Stock, 172 to 20 per cent, premium. At Gibraltar were Her Majesty's ships Dragon, Industry, Conflict, Desp!‘rate, Ariel, and Vulcan, and several transports. Her Majesty's ship Ariel had arrived from the Riff coast with four of the crew belonging to the plundered ship Hymen. Her Majesty's ship Retribation was off Cape Tres Torres with some Moorish authorities on board. Hopes were entertained that the remaining 11 of the crew of the Hymen would be recovered. DEATH OF CAPTAIN THOMPSON, ONE OF THE _HEROES OF KARS. While Sir Fen wick Williams and his comrades are en joying the honours which it is the delight of a brave na tion to lavish on brave men the sad intellizenca ha• reached them that their gallant friend and brother it, tams, Henry Lai.ghorne Th impson, after surviving in safety the perils of the field, the hardships of a pr tracted siew.e, and constant exposure to the inclemency of a severe climate, has suddenly died in his own home, amid those nearest and dearest to him; the bitterness of whose bereavement, if it can admit of assuagement, should be mitigated by the fact that the object of sorrow receive l at their hands the last offices of duty and affection, and lived to rea, at least an instalment of that public respect and admiration wbich chivalrou aon.luct will always command. Your readers roust have heard of his heroic conduct at Kars, when, wit,h the most loyal obedience to he general, a high military skill, and a talent for command which gave an earnest of even greater ti.inga here after, he assisted in holding that fortress against one of the ablest commanders in the world. With wha , sorrow will they learn that he only landed in his owu country to receive the welcome and congratulation of his friends, and reached his own hearth to die there ! When he and his friend) and superior officer, Colonel Lake, reached Hull on Saturday last amid the cheers and ovation of its' citizens Captain Thompson was suffer ing from a severe throat attack, which threatened no dangerous results, but was sufficient to prevent his mak ing that full and hearty reply to the good wishes expressed to him which his natural kindliness of heart would have induced him to do. On reaching London his sore throat increased, and it was succeeded on Monday morning bs a bilious attack, accompanied with some fever. No fears, however, were entertained by his relations, and those who on the evenieg of that day shook the hand which hal done such good service for his country little thought that it would so soon be cold in death. That night he grew somewhat worse, but the following day, though his medical man was in attendance, there wa no apprehension of danger. On Wednesday, and even up to Thursday there was, I believe, no ground for se rious alarm ; but bronchitis came on rapidily, and yes terday morning (Friday) at 11 a.m., he breathed his last at the residence of his mother and family in Glocester street, Belgrave-road. ft would ill become any to intrude on the sanctity of domestic sorrow, but there can be no thing short of a national sympathy with the grief-op pressed heart of a widowed mother, and sisters and bro thers, who have so unexpectedly lost one of whom they were so ju-aly prou i, and who had so lately been " the theme of honour's tongue." He was the son of a gentleman who held an important official appointment as Receiver• General for Crown rents for the northern counties, was educated at Eton, and in 1845 entered the military profession, of which he became so early an ornament. He was appointed to an ensigncy in the 68th Regiment of Bengal Native In fantry in that year. On the 12th February, 1850, he was promoted to a lieutenancy, and in the secand Bur mese war received a wound, from which he had not re covered when he returned to England, after nearly 10 years' service, in the autumn of 1854. When the de mand was felt for Indian officers to aid in the proposed campaign in Asia against the Russians, Lieutenant Thompson, his wounded arm still in a sling, volunteered ) and after visiting the seat of war in the Crimea returned to Constantinople and proceeded to Erzeroum and Kars. In consequence of his gallant behaviour at Kars he was appointed in the winter of la-t year a captain (unat tached) of the Royal army, and it recently pleased her Majesty to confer on him as well as his valorous com rades a Companionship of the Bath. His condu - ct under the command of Gen. Sir Fenwick Williams is ma't r for hi,tory, and must command the eulogiks which even history is -low to pronounce on those not holtlng high command. It is perhaps fortunate for the memory of this brave young officer cut off in his early prime—for he had only reached his 27th year— that he was one of "a small band of heroes." His name will be for ever associa•ed with those of Williams and Lake, and Teesdale and Sandwith, and other gal lant men. This is no time, while his family and friends are weeping fir him, to enumerate his vigilant defence of the heights of the Karadagh, or to speak cf the tact and strategy by which he, on the memorable 29th of September, got a heavy gun into position, and mate rially assisted in winning that victory by the deadly fire which he poured into the Russian ranks. We would rather call to mind at this moment his excellent social qualities, his kindness and cheerfulness and thorough goodness of heart. Between him and his brother officers there seems to have existed a feeling of more than fraternal friendship. It vas but a day or two ago that I heard his brave friend and fellow-soldier, Colonel Lake, bear warm testimony to his conspicuous merits as an officer and a man. • The admiration which his valour aroused in the minds of his generous enemy the wor'd may some day learn, for the progress of himself and his brother captives through Russia was an ovation throughout. The sword that Mouravieff returned to him, "in ad miration of noble and devoted courage, a s a mar k of honour and respect," will be cherished in his bereaved and now sorro w i ng f a mily as a precious h e i r l oom. In what victorious fields be might have hereafter worn it had Heaven spared his life The following letter from Gen. Williams will show the estimation in which he was held by his gallant chief : "Tiflis, Sunday, March 24. " My dear Thompson,—One little line to beg you to give my love to Lake, and to thank you for your letter written en route. I am, thank God, quite well again, and start f or Ria son on Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock, having every hope that—peace or war—we shall all meet at Moscow as soon as I report myself from Riazon to Petersburg. Teesdale sends love to you both. Wherever my fortunes may fall there I hope to see you by my side.—Affec tionately yours, "F. W. WILLIAM!!." CRYSTAL PALACE.— Concert day, Friday, J une 13 :: Admissions on payment, 1,479; ditto by veasoli tickets, 3,122; total visitors, 4,601. 10 i 7i 101 i f 101 l 21 1i 99 4 i 783 4 711 i 74 221 xn 25} i 8 7i 8i 58 1 i i 11 which, while it serves in part to explain how it happens that the enlistment went on for so many months in a man ner contrary to the intentions and express orders of the British Government, also serves to increase the weight of Mr. Crampton's responsibility in this respect. I repeat now, with entire consciousness of its accuracy, what I stated in my letter of the 23th December last, that at that interview on the 22d March—the only one I ever had with Mr. Crampton, as ha admits, in which the recruitment business was alluded to—he (Ar. Crampton) had satisfied me that his Government had no clnnexion withit, and was in no way responsible for what was doing in the United States to raise recruits for the British army. But Tam quits certain that on no occasion has he intimated to me that the British Government or any of its officers were or had been in any way concerned in sending agentsinte the United States to recruit therein, or to use any inducement for that purpose. Nor did he even notify to me that he was taking or in tended to take any part in furthering such proceedings. Such a communication, timely made, would probably bay* arrested the mischief at its commencement. If he had then apprised me of the system of recruiting which had .at that time been already arranged and put in operation within the United States by British agents, and under his superintending direction, he would have been promptly notified in the most positive terms that such wig were contrary to the municipal law, incompatible with the neutral policy of the country, a violation of its national sovereignty, and especially warned against the violation of our neutrality laws. But he blames me now for not thea stating to him that nay construction of that law differed from his own ; but no such dif f erence of opinion was then developed. " Mr. Crampton on that occasion manifested a coiacideace. in opinion as to the provisions of that law which I then held and have since fully disclosed. He called on me to show a letter which he had written on that day to the Consul at New York disapproving the proceedings of a Mr. Angus M'Donald, because I (he) thought those proceedings would or might be taken to constitute a violation of the Act of Eighteen—the Neutrality Law of the United States.' What were the pro ceedings of Mr. M'Donald which Mr. Crampton thought might constitute a violation of our neutrality? The simple issuing of a handbill, specifying the terms on which recruits would be received at Halifax into the Queen's service. " This opinion of Mr. Crampton ascribes as much strin gency to our neutrality acts as has ever been claimed for them by the Government or Courts of the United States. I had then no suspicion, nor did Mr. Crampton give any cause to suspect, th he was acting or intending to act upon an in terpretation of that law which would justify the act of Mr. M'Donald, which he then condemned, and make the law but little better than a dead letter. I could not but suppose he viewed it in the same light as Lord Clarendon did when he wrote his despatch to Mr. Crampton on the 12th of April thereafter, in which his lordship declared it to not only very just, but very stringent.' " To show that I was not mistaken in this respect, I quote a passage from a letter of Mr. Crampton, dated the 14th of March, to Sir G. Le Merchant Any advance of money by her Majesty's agents or others in the United States would cone stitute an infraction of the neutrality law.' The depositions which accompany this despatch, made by some of the same persons who have furnished the British Government with affidavits to impeach Strobel and Herta, prove conclusively that Mr. Crampton did disburse various sums of money to agents employed in recruiting within the United States. "It was, indeed, apprehended by me at the time that violations of that law would ensue. It could not fail to be seen that any organized scheme of a foreign government to draw recruits from the United States, though by mere in vitation, would necessarily tend and result in violations of the municipal law. So decided was my belief in this respect that measures had already been taken by me, in behalf of the Government, as it happened, upon the very day of the interview with Mr. Crampton, to institute prosecutions against persons engaged in this business in New Yurk and Philadelphia. I then notified Mr. Crampton of thatfact, as he expressly admits in his report of that interview made to his Goverument. " An attempt is made to deduce an excuse for Mr. Cramp. ton's course in the business of recruiting in this country from the alleged fact that he communicated to rue on that occasion the arrangements which had been made for that purpose, and that I did not disapprove of them otherwise than by insisting upon the observance of the neutrality law of the United States. This allegation Is hardly Consistent with Mr. Cramptol,'s own statement of what then passed. In the defence of his conduct, recently sent by him to his Government, he makes admissions, inconsistent with the Allegations, that there was uo concealment on his part, and that the recruiting arrangements were communicated to me. He says : " ' It is perfectly true that I did not enter into any details of xneans which were to be adopted by her Majesty's Govern ment to render available the services of those who tendered them to us in such numbers. There seemed to be obvious reasons for abstaining from this ; and even if it had occurred to me, I should have been unwilling to do anything 'which !night have borne the appearance of engaging Mr. Marcy in any expression of favour. or approbation of a plan favouring she interest of one of the parties in the present war. All I could desire on his part was neutrality and impartiality.' " His reasons for withholding from me the details of the enlistment system—the most important part of it for this Governnment—are cot satisfactory. If Mr. Crampton be lieve that what lie was doing, or intended to do, in the way of recruiting was right, ho could have had no reluctance to communicate it to me, for his instructions required him to make that disclosure. Acting in duo frankness, a d with a proper regard fir the dictates of international comity, Mr. Crampton should, it would seem, have disclosed to use all measures intended to be pursued within the United States by the agents of his Government, including himself, in execution of the Act of Parliament for raising a foreign legion. Nay, lie was expressly commanded by his Government to practice no concealment with the American Government en the sub. ject, If ho had obeyed these orders all misunderstanding be. tween the two governments would have been prevented. " Mr. Crampton was the more imperatively called upon to make full explanations on the subject, not only because he was commanded by his government to do so, but for the fur ther reason that immediately after the breaking out of the w a- between Great Britain and France on the one baud, and Russia on the other, he had, by an official note addressed to me, invoked the efforts of this government to enforce upon the inhabitants of the country (citizens or others), the necese pity of observing the strictest neutrality towards the belli gerent parties, and especially to enjoin upon them to abstain from taking any part in armaments for the service of Russia, or in any other measure opposed to the duties of a strict nen trality. To this application the undersigned, by exprese direction of the President, replied, declaring that the United States, while claim ng the full enjoyment of their rights as a neutral power, will observe the strictest neutrality towards each and all of the belligeaents. " Reference was made to the servere restrictions imposed by law not only upon citizens of the United States, but upon ill persons resident within its territory, prohibiting the en. listment of men therein for the psrpose of taking a part in any fo eign war. It was added that the President did not apprehend any attempt to vio'ate the laws, but should his just expectations in this respect be disappointed, he will not fail in his duty to use all the power with which he is in vest,ll to enforce obedience to them. In view of this formal and solemn appeal by Mr. Crampton to the American Go. vernment, and of the assurance he received of his deterinis !cation to mai .taia a strict neutrality, it was not for a mo ment suspected that Mr. Crampton could misunderstand its purposes, or believe he would be permitted to set on foot and execute for a period of five ooasecutive months a syste matic scheme to obtain military recruits for the British Der vice in the United States. " That Mr. Crampton did enter most deeply into this scheme is proved by evidence already submitted to her Ma jesty's Government, but is still more conclusively established by the additional proofs which accompany this despatch. Whatever detraction from the value of the testimony against gr. Crampton may result from the attempt to discredit Stro bel and Hertz, is much more thammade up be the additional proofs now adduced. This body of strong cumulative evidence confirms the President's former conclusion as to the cempli• city of Mr. Crampton and the British consuls at New York, Philadelphia, a❑d Cincinnati, in the illegal enterprise of re cruiting soldiers for the British army within the United States, and the President does not doubt that when this new evidence shall be brought under the consideration of her Ma jesty's Government it will not longer dissent from this con clusion. " The gratification which the President feels at the satie• factory s_ttlement of the recruiting question, in so far as respects the action of the British Government itself, has induced him to examine the case again with the view to remove, if possible, from his mind the personal objections against her Majesty's Minister and Consuls. The examina tion has not produced that effect ; bet, on the contrary; has strengthened his conviction that the interests of both Go vernments require that those persons should cease to hold their present official positions in the United States. He sin cerely regrets that Her Majesty's Government has net been able to take the same view of the case, and to comply with his request for their recal; but it has not consented to do so. " If, in the earnest desire to act with all possible courtesy toward Her Majesty's Government, the President could have suspended his determination in the case iu order to sub. mit the new testimony which ho is confident would havebeen fou, d sufficient to induce compliance with his request for the recal of the British Minister, he is precluded from any etch thought of delay by the exceptional character of the despatches of that gentleman, copies of which, having been recently laid before Parliament, have thus come to the knowledge of this Government, and which are of a tenor to render further in tercourse between the Governments through that Minister alike unpleasant and detrimental to their good underetatcling. The President has, therefore, been constrained by considera tions of the best interests of both countries reluctantly to have recourse to the only remaining means of removing, with out delay, these very unacceptable officers from the connexion they now have with this Government. " Thi course has been deemed necessary Zen account of their unfitness for the positions they hold, arising from the very active part they have taken in getting up and carrying out a system of recruiting which has been attended with numerous infractions of our laws, which has disturbed our internal tranquility, and endangered our peacef u l re l at i ons to a nation with which this Government is most anxious to maintain cordial friendship and intimate commercial and social intercourse, lie has, therefore, determined to send to Mr. Crampton, her Majesty's Diplomatic Representative, his passport, and to revoke the exequaturs of Mr. Matthews, Mr. Barclay, aut Mr. Rowecroft, British Consuls at Philadelphiso New York, and eineinnvi. " I am, sir, respectfully, your obedient L sernt, , MARCY. " Geo. M. Dallas, Esq., &c., Loudon." Mr. Mason spoke in complimentary terms of the ability with which the question had been discussed by Mr. Marcy, Mr. Cass thought that no pretext for war could aril, out of the dismissal of Mr. Crampton, unless England was doter. mined to go to war. Mr. Toombs thought, if this Government was satisfied with the explanation of Lord Clarendon, Mr. Crampton should not have boon d stu!ssed. Mr. Cass replied that this Government had not expressed itself satisfied with Mr. Crompton's conduct, but with the ssurance of the British Government that they (the Govern ment) had intended no violation of our laws ; but it has now turned out that Mr. Crampton had acted in ♦iolation of the intentions and directions of his own Government. Mr. Toombs did not believe England or her officers bad vi• fated our laws at all. While the matter was pending, be did not choose to argue the question against our Government; but ho would now say he disapproved the construction which this Government had placed upon our neutrality laws. Mr. Butler thought it would have been better to hate dis missed Mr. Crampton as soon as his complicity in the uni.tter was discovered Adjourned till Monday. _ HOUSE OF RErRESENTATIVES. A message was received from the President, notifying Con. gross of the dismissal of Mr. Crampton, and transmitting doe cut - lints, being the same that were sent to the Senate. Re. ferred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Mr, Cr)w, representing the majority of the Committee • Territories, made a report, proposing t o a d m it Klima, into the Union with the Topeka constitution, passed.—Adj owned till Monday: S ever al private bills were NAPLES, Friday, June 13.—1 t is generally said that the exportation of corn will be continued at the same duty up to the 15th of July, at the price of about 625. shipped. our ber f US IBM (en ou, oe ve• Lerg ing fitly of on_ pUr Opt ion arl Igr ;be by ~11 pg or FOR :GN. 23k li 11&. ` = " c, N I