The Sun. — London, England, 1842-05-16 00:00:00

BRITISH IRON COMPANY. - - - - - The annual general Meeting of the British Iron Com pany was held on Friday, at one o'clock, at the London Tavern, J. HoasbaY l'ALmEri, Esq., in the chair, who made an apology for the absence of Sir G. Larpent. The minutes of the last meeting having been read, The CHAIRMAN proceeded to read the annual Report, as follows : The present is an Annual General Meeting of the Prc pzielors, lisid in pursuance of the deed and regulations of the Company, At this maeting two Directors, viz., Mr. Crawford and Mr. Ravenshaw, will go out of office ; and having given the requisite notice of their intention to become candidates for the office of Director, and no other Proprietor having done so, a resolu tion will be proposed that they be again elected. It will alsO be necessary for the meeting to elect an Auditor, in the room of Mr. Charles Bayley, deceased. The Directors now lay upon the table the account of the re ceipts and payments of the Company, for the half years ending on the 30th June, and 31st December last, and the balanc4 accounts of those dates. The Directors regret to say that the serious depression in the state of the iron trade, which existed at the time of the last meeting, has not only continued, but has even greatly in c-reased since that period. So severely has it been felt by tire ironmasters generally throughout the kingdom, that with a view to its miti g ation an arrangement was entered into by them all for a reduction of the make of iron to the extent of 25 per cent. ; notwithstanding which, however, very low prices, and an almost entire want of demand, still continue. This state of things has, of course, had a most injurious effect upon the halt year's operations of the Company, but the Directors see 1110 reason to alter the opinion which they for merly expressed, that under an ordinary state of trade the works in Staffordshire and at Abersychan possess the capability of affording profit equal to any works similarly situated. In the meantime, by the reduction of wages and other mea sures, every exertion has been, and continues to be, made to raider the loss as small as possible. The loss upon the half year's trade account (exclusive of Ptuabon, where the workings are being brought to a close), is 3,4411.85. r.d., and upon the whole year on the same principle, 2,573/. 14e. 10(1. The Directors have done everything in their power to bring sume of the actions against Proprietors who have not paid the calls.to trial, but they have not yet succeeded in that object, in consequence of the great delay which has taken place in the Courts, respecting the pleas preferred by the defendants. n his observations on the Report, the Chairman said the situation in which he bad for many years been placed was a most painful one, and if he could have done any thing towards procuring a settlement of the difficulties in which the Company was placed, it would have ven him the greatest possible pleasure. He had honestly desired to do so, and was only . sorry that he had not succeeded as , he coteld have wished. The present difficulties he • ascribed to the unfortunate reversal of the judgment in 1838, which had been the. great cause. of the bickerings and differences in which they were involved. That decision prevented the Com- - pany from working in the manner they had, up to that time, possessed the means of doing, and saddled it with enormous responsibility. On the reversal of the judgment the Directors made a call of ' 3 5/. per share, which, had it been paid, could have enabled them to 11- ; &initiate their liabilities; but they had not been able to do so, front the refusal on the part of many of the Pro prietors to pay up the call. The measure was still essential to the liquidation of their responsibilities, as the Company was precluded from going into the money market. In 1838, whets Mr. Attwood was continuing his suit, it was im possible to have taken other steps than the Directors did; end from 1840, when there might have been some chance of a settlement. of the difficulties, the iron trade was, as it still continued, in an unprecedented state of depres sive:eller was this depression solely confined to the iron trade. At pre sent. throughout Statthrdshire and the iron districts, furin.ees were being blown out in all directions. The Cornpau , ,' was unable to resort to the money market, iu consequen oe of sante of the Proprietors thinking it their interes t to withhold their contributions to meet the liabilities of' the Company. Some of the most, influential of the Pro prietors were convinced of the necessity of bringing tile liabilities to a close, without effecting which no relief eeteld be given to the Proprietors generally. None cot dd be more desirous than the Directors were to alfor d . every facility to accomplish that object. The loetn borrowed in 1811 from Mr. Attwood, for the settlers out of the affairs of the Company, must be con tinued to May, 1843, at 5 per cent.., for the purpose of giving tune for the necessary arrangements. Me jar Reetteitosoe—What is the amount of the sum burro wed ? • TD e CHAIRMAN-200,00a Ile suggested that, be fore proceeding further with the business of the meetin g , the r lore regular cou r s e wou ld be to elect Directors and an. Auditor, in the room of those who had one out of uffice. William Crawford, Esq., and John Herdis Ravenshaw, Esq., were then re-elected Directors, and John Sim Smith, Esq., was elected Auditor, in the room of the late Mr. C. Bayley. Mr. BROWNLOW attended the meeting in consequence of the illness of his partner, Sir G. Larpent ; and he - wished to make a few observations. It was his opinion that, unless some energetic measure was adopted, bad .as was the present condition of the Company's affairs, it would soon become much worse. He thought that their first and principal object should be to put an end to the discussion existing among the Proprietors. If that were. effreted there would be no difficulty in arriving at a course which would lead to the ultimate satisfactory ar rangement of the Company's affairs. The CHAIRMAN suggested that the lion. Proprietor should'ernbody his views in a resolution ; and while it was preparing, a conversation took place as to a plan proposed by Major Richardson, for bringing all the tlitlinulties to a close, which the Chairman considered w.i.s impracticable, according to the deed of settlement, the Company not being able to make new shares. Mr. BROWNLOW then proposed the following reso lrition : "That it being expedient that prompt and effectual measures I , e taken to liquidate the remaining liabilities of the Company, the Directors be, and are hereby requested to consult with the principal Shareholder', on the best plan for accomplishing this object, and to report their decision to a special meeting, to be called for the purpose of receiving such Report." Mr. lIITCHENS seconded it. Major RICHARDSON said that the Proprietors, who ;had refused to pay the call on them, of whom he was kine, did so, because they believed they were not legally bound to pay. They thought the Company a ruinous destructive one, and that it was better it should be dissolved at once. With regard to the actions brought :against those Proprietors for the calls, all they asked for was, to be treated with equity. If they were entitled to pay, the decision would determine it; but they were re solved it should be after they had seen how the money hail been expended, and not before. He had brought w i t h- hi m a bill in Chancery, which, unless justice were done them, they were determined to file at the earliest possible period. The meeting would see, therefore, that it was not an empty threat. The loss on the half year had been 5,000/, and This had been going on for sixteen years. The -. principal and interest that had been paid amounted to 3,000,0001, and all the Proprietors had ever received was 43,000 L, paid out of their own capital, contrary to the deed of settlement. The legal opinion given in 1838 was. only half laid before the Proprietors, or the meet ing would have certainly come to a resolution for dis sdving the Company. He would not have the term ho nourable applied to those who had paid their calls blindly, in opposition to those who stood out upon their legal rights. Mr. BROWNLOW, in explanation, said that no good could attend discussions respecting the former manage ment of the Company. They were now in a difficult position, and they must act with unanimity, in order to !ifet , out of it. 7. The CHAIRMAN observed that, in the year 1838, every irriormation had been given to the Proprietors. No one had ever doubted that they were responsible for the interest to Mr. Attwood, but there had been an impre,ssion that they were not liable for the principal Re (the Chairman) had never defended the contract wade by the Company in 1835. It had been a most un 1--a-tainate thing that the Company was ever formed, but that was not now the question. They were to see now hoW they could best get out of the difficulties of their present potlition. In answer to a question from an Hort. PROPRIETOR, relative to the present state of the pending actions ipt which the Company was engaged, the Chairman stated that the pleas were settled, and the trials would come on in July next. After a few words from Mr. Brownlow and Major Richardson, the Chairman put the resolution, which was carried, and the meeting separated. FRANCE. CHAMBER OF PEERS.-MAY 11. The President informed the Chamber that a Member hAd given notice of a proposition relating to the police of :railroads, and wished to know if it was supported 2 (r.OO-4 cries of " Yes, yes," from all sides.) p r i:tre De Moscowa—lt was not to any proposition hi d es imil to call the attention of the Chamber, it was to put some questions to the Government respecting the p-,ii ca on railr,DAds, and the prudential measures which those very dangwous modes of communication demanded, and the urgency a which was but too clearly denion smiled by a recent an% horrible event.—(Sensation.) The Minister of Public Instruction—The Noble Mem bei.- and the Chamber at lai,ze could not doubt that the Government was very seriously and very mournfully occupied with the frightful disaster . which h a d t h rown a g looM over the capital. T here could not, therefore, be any objection on their part to have questions put from the tribune; but he could not very weli see, he con fessed, the Object of the Noble Member's proceedin g . Prince De Moscovva—There was not any intention whatever on his part to blame the Ministry respe c tin g . the horrible event of Sunday last. lie considered that it would be interesting to the public and the Chamber to have the matter discussed within the limits and on the' points he had mentioned. The President—lt. could not at present be said it was certain that the Bill just alluded to would be brought before them at all. It - would be more suitable, in his 'pinion, to appoint one of the sittings of next week as the time when the explanations :might be required from the Government.—(Marks of assent from all parts.) The Chamber was then colasulled, and decided that the fivt sitting of next week sitould be the time. The decay of the Teeth a lid Glint: arises from various causes; but, princi;,ally, it may be attributed to early neglect, ill health, and the use of ' youth Powders containing* mineral and other deleterious acids, whi c h give a momentary' whiteness to the Teeth, while they orrede the enamel !—The extreme prevalence of this last cause is too wOll known to need Comment. To this fact, indeed, is principally to be attributed the long Botanical research, which wav happily terminated by the most felicitous discovery ever giver to the world for the preservation of die teeth, Gums, and p .reath, viz.—Rowland's Odonto, or Pearl Dentifrice ; this POW(' er new occupies a dis tinguished place at the Toilets of th e Sovereigns and the nobility throughout Europe, while the gi sneral demand for it at once announces the favour in which at is held by the public at fix Robert Peel and Lady 'el left town on Saturday by the Birmingham I }l 4 , 'away train for their seat, Drayton Manor, Staffordshire.. The b 'ight Hon. Baronet reru,7is to London on Wednesday next. PRICES OF CANAL, DOCK, ASSUR- ANCE COMPANY SHARES, &c. &c. &e. LONDON, FRIDAY, MAY 13. Number Dividend Price of per CANALS. per Shares. Annum. Paid. Share. 1,766 7 rer cent. Ashton & Oldharn...Average97l.lBs.sh. 94 1,482 41. Ashbl-de.ls-Zouch ..... Avtrage 1151.5 h. 71 1,260 Basingstoke.. lool.lh. 5 1,065 51. Br ecknock and Aber gav enny Mill . sh. 92 1,,000 1-1611 a. NI, Birmingham, 1.16 th share ...Ail. & 711. 194 4,000 ........ Ditto & Liverpool Junct.lg9l. sh.loorl 21 600 31. Bridgewater and Taunton.loo/.sh. allpi 409 51. Chelmer and 131ackwater 1001.5h. ni SOO 321. Coventry 1001. sh. 305 ..... .... Croydon. Average3ll.2s 10d. sh . - 2,060 51. Os. Dudley 1001.5 b. 24 800 131. Derby 1001.5h . 120 CO,OOO 4 per cent. Danube and Mayne 411.135. 4d.pd 30 3,5751 4' Ellesmiereand Chester Average Mak. 61 MIB2I Erawasn ......... ............... , .....1001.8n. 735 6,435 8' Forth and Clyde 100/. sb. 100/. pd. 1:6 :An 75. Grand Junction... ....... .............1001.sn 124% M 19i 255. Grand Union ",500 Grand 5urrey.......... 1001.5b. 15 1,000! 41 ". . percent . Ditto (optional) Co " an 1001. .026 .. ..... Grand Western ...... .......... 11. sh. all pd 10 600 IS 125.8 d. Glamorganshire, Aver. cost 17:21. 138.4 d. 'llO 749 121. Grantham ............... ...... -. 1501. sh. 220 8 238 2., Os. Huddersfield! Average 5 /I. 65.6 d. sh. 19 100 - ...... Kensington lOO eh. allpd 102 21.323 11.10 s. Kennet znd Avon, Av. 39/.185.01. eh 18k 11,699} 11.10 s. Lancaster Average 47 1 1. Os. 8 710 d 27 2,8978 301. Leeds a nd Liver p ool 5151 11. 1 0 s. Leicester l4Ol. It 150 ,897 51. vs . Leicester & Northampton Aver 200 72 2,409 IN. Monmouthshire loo l .sl 250 131. Melton Mowbray 600 251. Mersey and Irwell lOOl. sh . 510 9,000 11. 10s. Macclesfield lOOl. sh. all pd. 16 247 171. Neath lool.sh. 389 2,400 51. Peak Forest... ...... Avei.ge about 761. sh. 63 1,418 Ss. Regent's (or London) Av. 331.168.8 d. sh. 11 5,689 61. Rochdale Average 461. 62 500 81. Shropshire 800 111. 10s. Somerset Coal ........ ........... 1501.3h. 170 3,600/. 6 per cent Ditto Lock Fund Stock 121.108. ah. 11% 700 36/. Stafford and Worcester 1401.8 h. 886 500 151 Shrewsbury 125/. sh. 280 300 91. 3tourbridge .......s. 1451.5 h. 396 3,647 91. Os. Stratford.on-Avon A fer.... 791. 93. bd. sh. 33 533 12}1 Swansea 1001.5h. 265 3,762 21. 12s. Severn and Wye &Railway Av. 261.91. sh. 45 Wotan. 321. 10.. Trent and Mersey, j share .1001. sh. 475 8,149 ... ...... Thames and Medway Av. 19 1. he. B d. s h . 2 1 • h • 1 14/. Warwick and Wrmingham lool.sh 200 I,6ooish. 980 10f. Warwick and N spiced 1001.sb. 119 7,000 41. Worcester & Birmingham Av. 781.85. sh. 55 6,000 361. Wilts and Berks Average 87/. 10s Bd. sh. 28\ 800 th. Wyriev and Essington 1251. sh . 74 _ell .... ... Wisoeacn ............. ..... lf;Z . l . sh. 80 905 it Wey and Arun.......... l lO l. an. 20 DOCKS. 2.600 & j 9 p c. Commerc.al ...... ..................... 1001. sh . 61 1,065i5h. • 5 per cent. East and West India .............1:t0ck 105 11238.310 f I. 3il.p.ct, London ...........Stock 16005( Ditto Bonds 2,200 91.65. sd. Bristol Average 14'1.95. sh . 75 68,3241. 51. per cent. Ditto Notes. various amounts lO9 352,752 5 percent. St. Katharine Stock 97 50000 4} per cent. Ditto Bonds .... lOO% 204.000 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds for 10 years Deptford Pier .. 2Ol. ah. 20L pd 10 BRIDGES. 1,600 1/. Hammersmith 501. sti. 2134 7,231 1,700 I/. 155 Ditto, New, of 7 1 1 per cent.,......501. sh . 151 a,OOO 5,000 225. Od, Ditto, Old Annuities of 81 CO/. p 4 21 5,000 19a. 3d. Ditto, New Ditto of 71. 4Ol. pd 18% v. 0,0001. 51. per cent. Ditto Bonds 5,848 27s Vauxhall .......Average 701. 10s. 3d. sh 27 ASSURANCE COMPANIES. 2,000 31101 Albion ........... ............ 5001. sh. 501. pd 70 50.000 rfn,, 158.1•1 Allianceßritish &Foreignlool.sh.ll/. pd 13% 1 10,000 6 per cent. Ditto, Marine . ..... ..........1001. sh. 5!. pd 5% 24,000 41. per sh. Atlas 5Ol. sh. 51. pd 14 3 4 1,00 job. 51. Birmingham 1' ire....... ..... 250/. sh. 55/. pd 107% 20,000 41. per cent. British Fire 2501. sh. 50/. pd 41 12,000 61. percent. British Commercial 5O/. sh. Si. pd 6 5,000 51. per cent. Clerical & Medical Lite, 100 10011.5h.2110s pd 634 4,000 2108 County 2,000 51. Eag1e......... 5Ol. sh. 51. pd 454 209 ittngni Economic Life 10001. sh. 2501. pd 406 2,271 512 s.per cent. European Lit:. 20/. :h. all pd 22 50,000 2s. Ditto, New 201. sh. 21. pd 11, .000,0001. el. per ct Globe Stock 125 AOOO 51. Guardian 30,000 4s. Od. Hope 5O/. eh. 51. pd 51 2,400 5/. Its. lid. Imperial I. ire 5OO/. sh. 501. pd 140 7,500 10s. ed. Imperial Lite lOO/. sh. 10!. pd 11 13,459 5/. percent. Indemnity Marina lOOl. ih. 8/. pd 3i 34 2,020 31108 Kent Fire 5O/. sh. all pd 91 31. Ditto Life 5O!. pd 10,000 ::.5s Law Life lOO/. :h. 101. pd 32% 5,000 103. London, Fire 95/. sh. 121. 10s. pd PA 3,210 10s. London, Ship ......251. all. 121. 10s. pet 161 1.000,000!. ... ..... Minerva Life lON. sh. 2 i,OOO 5/. per cent. National Loan Fund... 201 sh 2!. 10s. pd 21 30,000 51. per cent. Palladium Life 50/. sh. 2/. pd 50,000 51. per cent. Protector Life. 2O/. sh. 21. pd 17564 10,000 4 per cent. Protestant Dissenters ....110 1 . sh. 5/. pd 534 2,500 1/. Provident Lite IOO/. sh. 10/. pd 20 100,Gf31 4s. Od. Rock Life ........... ..................... 2/. pd 4 89,2 0 .01 5/. per c.'at. Royal Exchange Stock 170 6,009 5 per cent. University Lite 1001. sh. 51. pd 11 10,000 4 per cent. United Kingdom Life 100/. sh. 51. pd . . JOINT STOCK BANKS. 25,000 Agric. and Corn. of Ireland2sl. sh. 10!. pd P.,000 8 per cent. Australasia 40!. sh. 401. pd Si 10,009 10 percent. Bank of Birmingham 50/. sh. 10/. pd 13% (0,000 19 per cent. Birmingham Bank ......» 501. sh. 101. pd 13 33,000 6 per cent. London & Westminster 1001. sh. 20/. pd 22% 60,000 51. London Joint Stock 50/. sh. 10/. pd 13 3,008 4 per cent. Lancaster lOOl. sh. 301. pd 90 25,000 10 per cent. Liverpool 1001 sh. wil. pi 19 50,000 7i per cent. Blanchester and Liver-2 50 ,.. h. 151 pd 1934 pool Discount 20,000 7 per cent. Manchester lOOl. sh. 10/. pd 4% 20,000 S per cent. Provincial Bank of Irelandlool. sh. 05/.1)11 4154 10,000 6 per cent National Bank of Ireland 50/. sh. 17i/. pd 15 10,000 6 per cent National Provincial Eng.lool. sh. 351. pd 35% 10,000 Ditto New 101. sh. 101. pd 10 10,000 Gloucestershire 50/. oh. 10/. pd 32 • 6,000 10 per cent. Hampshire 5O/. sh. 51. pd 9% GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES. - --- - - 2,500 16s Od Bath. 201. sh. 161. pd 22 5,000 ..... ... B r itish 401. sh. 16/. pd 19 5,000 [ sl *P ercent i Ditto Provincial 2Ol. sh. 191 . pd 23 and Bs. 64, 928 51 lOs Birmingham 50/. sh. 101 4,250 VI Os Bristol 2O/. sh. 36 2,250 31 101 Brighton . .... ........ 90 1 . sh. 1 3 % 750 91 10a Ditto, New 2Ol. sh. 181. pd 9 2,471 4i per cent Brighton General .90/. sh. all pd 9% 4,000 71.105. Continental Consolidated .751. 62i/. p d 110 1,000 101. City of London.. ...... ..- SOO/. sh. all pd 195 1,000 61. Ditto, New ........ .....1001. sh. 751. pd 150 4,000 31.05. Equitable •............................5 01 . poi 20 LO,OOO 3!. per cent. Imperial 561. sh. 6036 800 W. per cent. Isle of Thanet 251. eh. 201. pd 19 2,350 61. per cent. t ndependent.....................30/.3b. all p..„ 56 9,00 u 51. per cent. Phoenix 5Ol. sh. 391. pa 30% 1,1Y:9 4!. par cent. Ratcliff lOOl. sh. 80/. pd 03 4,000 South Actropoiitan 50/. sh. t 334/. pd 18 9,000 51. per cent. United General 501. sh. 471.0 30 240 51. per cent. Warwick 5Ol. sh. 50 400 5/. per cent Wakefield 2,000 3!. Westminster Chartered .... . -501. sh. 57 6,000 12s. Ditto New ... 5 . 1/. sh. 101. pd 11% 700 3 per cent. Yarmouth '2o/. sh. 18/. pd WATER WORKS 1,800 31s. Birmingham 2.5'. sh. 251. pd 91 4,4:33 71. East London 100/. sh. 165% 5,500 21 153. Grand Junction Average 41/. 15s. 4d. sh. 56 2,000 2/. Kent 1001. sh. 52% 372 101. Liverpool Bootle 2201. sh. 325 1,500 2 1101 New River London Bridge Water Ann... 60 6,483 2! lOs Manchester and Salford 1001. sh. 54 1,000 5 per cent. South London lOOl. sh. 98 8,294 4jl. West Middlesex Average 631.[125.9d. sh. 24 1.360 11 141 York Building Co. Lessee Prop. 1001. sh. 35 IRON RAILWAYS. 6,300 21. Os. Birmingham and Derby ...- lOll pd 50 9,500 3 pes cent. Birmingham and Gloucester 1(0!. pd 54 15,000 4 per cent. Bristol and Exeter 1001. sh. 70 pd 44 7,500 Cheltenham &G. Western 1001.8 h. 725,1. 19% 3,009 ......... Clarence 1001. sh. 100/ pd 20 8,000 ... ...... Dublin and Drogheda 1001. sh. 5/. psi 50.000 ......... Eastern Counties 251. sh. 231. pd 9% 10,000 5 per cent. Great North of Englandlool. sh. 1001. pd 85 10,918 12 per cent. Grand Junction lOOl. sh. all pd 182 25;00 4 per cent. Great Western 1601. sh. 65/. pd 92% 25,000 :3 per cent. Ditto New 501. sh. 501. pd 61% 6,000 5 per cent Gosport Junction.. 5O!. sh. 501. pd 59 2,000 8 per cent. Hartlepool 100/. sh. 1001. pd 145% 8,000 Rutland Selby ........ .......501. sh. 504, pd 40 2,100 4 per cent. Leeds and Selby 100 sh. 65 5,100 10 per cent. Liverpool& Manchester 10(1.sh. 1001. pd 188% 7,968 10 per cent. Ditto Half Shares 5Ol. pd 91 11,195 10 percent. Ditto Quarter Shares 25/. pd 45 36,000 ~....... London and Brighton 50/. sh. 501. pd 311% 21,000 .....».. London and Blackwall 251. sh. 251. pd 111„ 90,000 3 per cent. London and Greenwich -401. ols. '2Ol. pd 5% 25,000 ili per sh. London & Birmingham 1001. sb.9o/. pd 180% 25,000 21. is Rd. Ditto Quarter Shares ....251.171. 51. pd 373 . , 31,250 31. l' s. 4d. Ditto New Shares 32/. sh. 32/. pd 31% 30,000 3 per 0. London and S.Western Av. 381, 17s. 9d. 61 1 4 33,000 ... ...... London and Croydon} Av. 13/. 15s. 9d. 137 i Ditto New Scrip... 131 i, 13,000 41. per sh. Manchester and Leeds...loo/. oh. '7O/.0 83 13,000 Ditto Half Shares 5O/. 30/. pd 57% 10,000 Ditto Extension 7l. pd 2 10,600 2/.los. Midland Counties 'OO/. sh. 100/ pd 76% 15,000 31. Os. North Midland ..... .... 1.01. sh. 1001 pd 66 1/.loe. Ditto New 401. pd 3234 10,256 11.10 s. Northern and Eastern.... 501. sh 451. pd 43% i,669 Preston and Wyre 5O/. sh. 30/. pd 36 isB,ooo 4 per cent. South Eastern and Dover ...... ... !Al. pd 29% 1,000 101. per cent. Stockton and Darlington ..».„ .. 10('1. sh. 265 9,000 ......... Thames Haven 501. sh 5/. pd 6,000 10/. per cent. York and North Midland 50 . sh. 501. pd 92% MINES. 8,000 ... . .... Albion Copper... ....... 51.1 ') 21/. pd 12 4.000 li. 55. A iten l5l. sh 121. Its pd 1% 10,006 ....... Anglo Mcgican,iss. 5!. pm.lool. sh. al 1 d 2 Ditto Subscription ... ....... .......251. pa '2% ... 2,000 .. . Bolanos l5O l. sh ell psi 11% 10,000 It. .... Brasilianlmp. iss.sl. pm 35/.lh. 'J.II. pd 9 6,000 ....... Macaubas & tocaes United 251.5h.251. pd 4% 1I No ....... Ditto St. John Del Rey 213/.sh. 141. pd 1% 10.000 ........ Bolivar Copper Company, 20/. sh. 20/. pd 1 10,000 „....... Ditto Scrip „.........».» 101, sh. 101. pd 2 2.0,000 ..... .... British Iron . ..........» 1001. sh. 701 pd 8 ,008 ... . . .... British Copper ..... ...........51.sh. W. pd 1% ~....... este, Brsieca .... ........................64/. pd 5% Candonga....... 7 k !. pd 5 JO,OOO I 1 Copiapo 2Ol. ,h. In pd 0 8,506 .. ...... Columbian, las. ss. pm 551.5 h. 55/. pd 0% 2,850 91. English 14/. Gs. pd 2 20,000 6155 .„.„„ Mexican Company... ...... 100/.0. GUI pd 3,008 Polberou Console . lO/. sh, 8/. p 4 4 11,500 Real del Monte, Unregistered 2ll Ditto Loan Notes 150/. pd 50 50,000 United Mexican, iss. 2 pm. 401. sh all pd 1% DIM. Scrip l% Ditto New - Scrip 4! pi 314 West Cork . . ... ......... ..... 50/. sh 50/. pd 38 LITERARY 1 NsTrArioNs. 1,00 ......... London, with Bronze Ticket ...7Sgs.sh. 13 1.500 „,...... London University ... ..... 100/. sh. all pd 7 700 ... .... . Russell .25gs. sh. 6 King' College _____ ___ 1001. 19% NE* FOUNTAIN IN ST. JAMES'S PARK. This ornamental fountain was erected last week in that por tion of the water more immediately fronting the Palace. It pretends to something like classical design in its make, but when it is considered that an ornament to the chief of our Bri tish Parks is composed merely of stone, plaster, and stucco work, it forms a poor contrast with the smallest of the marble cascades which Versailles sets forth to be the gaze and attrac tion of visitors from Paris and its suburbs. The structure of the New Fountain may be thus described —The pediment emerging from the water is pyramidally-shaped, flattened at the top, and the sides overlaid with decors• tive pieces attached, made in imitation of fan-shaped sea-shells. On this a pillar about two feet and a half in height, upon which rests a sort of basin, like the round of a sunflower, and out of this another ornament at the top. The water will, without rising any height, fall over the sides of this, and then descend in a circular shower of about five or six feet in depth into the water below. It was tried on Thursday and found to act well. The fountain, on the whole, will form a neat appendage to the Park, and give a showy air to this end of the Palace. Mr. Simpson, the architect, whose works are near the Wooden-bridge Chelsea, was the contractor, the component parts were formed at his works, and brought to the spot finished. A larger fountain, which will aim at some thing more of style, is now in progress of construction by the same party, which is destined, on completion, to adorn the centre of this fine piece of water. MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS. The following are the results of " A Table of Mortality in the Metropolis, showing the Number of Deaths from all Causes Registered in the week ending May 7, 1842." The Table is issued from the Office of the Registrar-General Weekly Average 1838-9.40-1 CAUSES OF DEATH. Total. Four I Four Springs 'Years Epidemic, Endemic, & Contagious Diseases 108 183 190 Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses 152 147 149 Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of Respiration .t.:;seases of the Heat and Blood-vessels Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion Diseases of the Kidneys, &c 9 5 4 Childbed, Diseases of the Uterus, &c l3 9 10 Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles 7 6 6 Diseases of the Skin, &c 3 1 '1 Diseases of Uncertain Seat . lOO 99 104 0 1 . d Age, or Natural Decay 56 63 69 Deaths by Violence, Privation, or Intem perance Causes not specified Deaths from all causes. 756 -- Average Weekly Deaths B7l 912 Population Average Death enu. Weekly in DISTRICTS. merated Deaths the Is4l. 18334-4 C-1. Week. West—Kensington, St. George ( Hanover-square), Westmin- Four I Four ster, St. Martin in the Fields, Ye rs . Springs. St. James 300,705 135 136 123 North—St. Mary-le-bone, St Pancras, Islington, Hackney 365,660 162 156 116 Central—Saint Giles and Saint George, Strand, Clerkenwell, Holborn, St. Luke, East Lon don, West London, City of London 373,806 188 179 141 East--Shoreditch,Whitechapel, Bethnal Green, St. George in the East, Stepney, Poplar 392,49 i 206 190 185 South—St Savioiw, St. Olave, St. G eorge( Southwark ),Ber mondtey, Newington. Lam beth, Camberwell, Bother hithe, Greenwich .... —438,060 221 210 185 Total 1,870,727 912 1171 756 It is stated that under the term Metropolis are comprised the 32 districts herein mentioned, which include the City of Lon don with and without the walls, the City and Liberties of Westminster, the out-parishes within the Bills of Mortality— and the parishes of St. Marylebone, St. Pancras, Kensington, Fulham, Hammersmith Chapelry), St. Luke (Chelsea), Pad dington, St. Mary (Stoke Newington), St. Leonard (Brom ley), St. Mary-le-bow, Camberwell, Greenwich, St. Nicholas and St. Paul (Deptford), and Woolwich. The population, as enumerated in 1831, was 1,594,890; and in June 1841, was 1,870,727. The weekly aversge for 1838, 1839, 1810. and 1841, was obtained by dividing the deaths in the four years by 208, and the deaths in the four winters by 52. TEMPERATUkE IN THE WEEKS ENDING April 30. May 7. Highest Lowest 45 42 Daily Mean General Register Office, May 12, 1842. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM TUE EVENING PAPERS OF SATURDAY. GLOBE.—The petition of Mr. H. Warburton, the late Member for Bridport, presented to the House of Commons last night by Mr. C. Buller, will strengthen the demands which the country is at length roused to make upon the Legislature, and with which that body seems at length disposed to comply, that some effectual check shall be provided against the progress of the political and moral plague which threatens the destruction of the electoral system, by degrading the franchise to a marketable com modity, and, familiarising the electors with fraud, perjury, and the companion vices which constitute the machinery of the system, expose the social system to disruption, by weakening the ties which unite society. Mr. AVarburton's petition con tains what may be properly called a history of elec toral corruption in the mildest forms which it assumes. It originated in an allusion made to the case of Brid port, in the debate on Mr. Roebuck's motion on Monday last, by the way of oblique reflection, that the " compromise and bribery at Bridport " were not proposed to be comprehended in the list of com promises to be subjected to the ordeal of the Spe cial Committee. Mr. Warburton, from the hour that he surrendered his seat, is known to have been most anxious to bring the whole of the cir cumstances which imposed that necessity upon him before the public—not less from a desire to vindi cate his own character from the imputations with which the malignity of party has industriously as sailed him, than from a sense of what was due to that public, whose cause was injured by the suspicions thus cast upon his integrity. - Mr. C. Buller gave notice that on Friday next he would move that Mr. War burton's petition be referred to the Select Com mittee, appointed to investigate and report to the House the evidence relating to the recent com promises of Election Petitions. We cannot ima gine on what grounds the motion can be resisted. If the object for which the Committee is ap pointed be to discover the sources of corrupt prac tices, which the apprehensions of having exposed, led to compromises that defeated the ends of justice and infringed the privileges of Parliament, there is in Mr. Warburton's petition a case stated, and sup ported by a series of facts, of the very description best calculated to accomplish the proposed object. It is too late for the House of Commons to shrink back from its declared purpose. There must be no exclu sion of evidence, if that evidence be pertinent to the inquiry. The character of the House is bound up with the result. It will stand or fall in public esti mation, according as faith is kept with the country respecting the expressed determination to deal honestly with it in the matters now forced upon its attention; nor can that House afford to incur the consequences of refusing to fulfil the pledge. STANDARD.—Mr. Warburton, the most emi nent of all political purists, and the founder and con stant master of the sect of the philosophical Radicals —the compounders of the wisdom, benevolence, and piety of Malthus and Tom Paine—Mr. Warburton, the very model of patriot Reformers, appeared last night in the shape of a long petition, confessing a sixteen years' career of political iniquity, and pray ing that he might be put on his trial before Mr. Roebuck's Committee. We do not remember any similar case of self-devotion to justice, except that of the Pope who solemnly condemned himself to be burned for his sins, and he was burned accord ingly, if that story is not indeed apocryphal. How ' ever, it may lessen the shock of such an astonishing act of virtue as Mr. Warburton's to recollect that there had been reason to suspect a purpose of bringing the affairs of Bridport to light before the ruea culpa cry of the lately appointed Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds could be heard or anticipated. Mr. War burton's petition developer some pleasant pas sages between him and the surviving Liberal Member, Mr. Alitchell, but, curiously enough, it does not touch the Conservative Member. The compromise appears to have been some thing different from any of those hitherto ex posed—a compromise, not between a candidate and a sitting Member, but a compromise between the two sitting Members, both conscious of very foul cor ruption, and therefore compelled to determine be tween them which should go to the wall. Mr. Warburton seems to think that he was jockied in the affair ; hence his perfect virtue is dashed with a slight shade of earthly feeling—he seems to be very angry with his Liberal friend Mr. Mitchell. If the veteran corruptor of Bridport may be said to re present the. wisdom of Liberalism, Mr. Thomas Slingsby Duncombe, of Finsbury, ought, we are sure, to be accepted as a type of its chi valry ; and Mr. Duncombe made last night some dis closures of his private practice, as startling as the revelations of Mr. Warburton. Mr. Duncombe prefaced his absurd and mischievous proposition of a declaration, by an acknowledgment that at five elec tions he had expended no less a sum than thirty-four thousand pounds !in bribes—in bribes, not to coun teract. corruption, but to counteract influence, in four at least of these elections. This is the con fession of a Liberal of the first water—of the introducer of the Chartist petition. It is not for any but Mr. Duncombe's creditors (if he has any such), to inquire where he got the 34,0001., thus expended, according to his own account, in suborning fraud and perjury —in a war against legitimate in fluence ; but looking at the mass of the House of Commons, we cannot suspect that each Member of Mr. Thineombe's standing has been able, either from his own resources, or upon credit, to squander such a sum as 34,0001., and less, we suppose, would not secure a seat in Parliament, or Mr. Duncombe would not have been silly enough to expend so much. Mr. Duncombe's own experience, therefore, would seem to be decisive against his monstrous assumption, that of the whole House GOO Members obtained admission by corruption. MISCELLANEOUS. temo 355. Ati;;;liaA.griCuTtUial:loo/.'sh . 28/ pd 37 6, 0 00 1. per cent. British American Land Company 3141. pd 9 10.000 61. per cent. Canada Company.— ..... 1001. sh. 323/. pd 30 20,000 51. per cent. Upper Cana, , a Loan City Bonds, 4 per cent 2t1,000 IL 6s. General Steam Na v igation 151.71..14/. pd 24% Lolol.percent. London Com. Sale Rooms ....Av. 75/. sh. 19% Caoutchouc Company 12“. pd 12 New Brunswick Land Compalq...sol pd 12 5,187 41. per cent. Reversionary Int. 50c...1001. sh. 1001. pd 95 9..tal 5/. per cent. Ditto New 100/. sh. 1001. pd 107 4 ,000 ........, Thames Tunnel ' ... ...........501. sh. all pd 7 10.000 68 . Van Die.ner.'s Land 100/. sh. 16g pd 10 LIST of SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES MAY 4, 1842. BANKS. _ ___ 49C0,000 1 . 61. p. et. Bank of bCotiand...B3l. 6s. Bd. s h all pd 152 1.000,0001 61. p. ct. Royal of Scotland 1001.1 h. all pd 150 500,000/. 8/. p. ct. British Linen Company 1001. sh. all pd 205 600,0001. 71. p. ct. Commercial ..... sh. 100/. pd 159 500,006/. fo. a. National 1001.•h. 10/. pd 14 500,0005. 81. p. et. Glasgow Union ..... 2501.5h. 50/. pd 81% 4000,0001. 6p. ct . Western of Scotland 2OOl. sh 401. pd 68 INSURANCE COMPANIES. 2500005 h. ct. Scottish Union 1/. pd 23s.rd. 7 . 100 10 p. ct. Hercules. .. . lOO/. eh. 10/. pd 121 j. 100,000 10 p. ct. Insurance C o. of Scotland .10/. sh. all pd 50,000 10 p. et. North British .200/. sb. 101. pd 19% 1,000 16 p. ct. Caledonizn Fire 1001. sh. 10/. pd 5,000 10 p. et. Edinburgh Lae 1001. sh. 10/. pd 15 300,000 3i p. et. West of Scotland lOl. pd MISCELLANEOUS. 4,818 Edin. and Glas. Un. Canalso/. sh. all pd la Ditto Allocated , 96/. sh. all pd g 25,40( ( 4 1 per cent. Edinb. JointSteek Water 251. sh all pd 34 I,ooosh 21 per cent. Shows Iron boundetv 50/. sh 481. pd 3 6 0,000 S per cent. Edinburgh & Leith Glass 20/.sh. 16/. pd 4,500 10 per cent. Edinburgh Coal Cas ...... h. all pd 50 $,450 10 pet cant. lesco ‘ w oa aas . .... ......„..25/.sh. all pd 52 760 7 h per cent • L eithLL i!G,,4 all pd 25 1.154 tug ann ualkelth Rali way 50/. sit 30 A DE 1711 or it D MIRA I , SMOLLETT.—This gallant and venerable officer, one of the veteran heroes of the last war, died at Edinburgh, on Friday last, at an advanced age. He was promoted to the rank of Post Captain in 1804, and obtained his rank as Rear-Admiral 10th Jan., 1837 , on the retired list, but era. , subsequently removed to the active list, taking rank next to Rear-Admiral Skipsey, and his com mission dated 1840. The Admiral was related to A. Smollett, E s q., M.P., and by his demise the number of flag•officers is reduced to 171. The Silver-Stick in Waiting appeared at the Bal Masque attired in a splendid suit of silver armour of the time of Edward 111., emblazoned with the arms of Sir Grey Bryant. The armour was manufactured by Mr. T. Stanton, of 43, Davis-street, Berkeley-square. TIIE SUN, LONDON. MONDAY MORNING, MAY 16, 1842. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS (From the Voles and P roceednigs of the fiance of Commons.) TKIDAY, MAY 13. CUSTOMS ACTS. Order for Committee read ; Motion made and Question pro posed,—" That Mr. Speaker do now leave the Chair :" Amendment proposed, to leave out from the word " That " to the end of the Question, in order to add-the words " in mak ing a new arrangement of the Customs Duties, it is not expe dient to impose different rates of Duty upon the same articles when imported from F reign Countries or from British Posses sions, in any case where no such difference now exists ; and that in those cases in which such a difference already exists, it is not expedient that it should be increaed,"--( Viscount Ho wick),—instead thereof :—Question put, " 'That the words proposed to be left out stand part of the Question :"—Trie House divided : MAJORI T Y—AYES, Acland, Sir Thomas Egerton, Lord Fran. Aciand, T. D. Eliot, Lori A'Court, Captain Escott, Bichkam Ackers, James Estcourt, T. G. B. Acton, Colonel Farnham, E. B. Adare, Lord Fellowes, Edward Ainsworth, Peter Feilden, W. Alford, Viscoant. Ferrand, NV. B. Mhz, John Peter Filmer, Sir E Antrobus, Edmund Fitzroy, Captain Arbuthnot, lion. H. Fitzroy, Ho H. Archdall, General Fleming, J. W. Arkwrignt, George Ffolliott, Joh.i Ashley, Lord Flower, Sir. James Astell, William Follett, Sir W. W. Attwood, M. Forbes, William Bagge, Wm. Forester, Hon. G. Bagot, Hon. W. Fuller, A. E. Bailey, J. Haskell, J. M. Bailey, Joseph, jun. Gladstone, NV. E. Baillie, Colonel Gordon, Hon. W. Baillie, H. J. Gore, Montague Baird, Will am Gore, W. R. 0. Baldwin, C. Barry Goring, Hall. Balfour, J. M. Goulburn, H. Barclay, David Graham, Sir J. . Baring, W. B. Granby, Marquis Baskerville, T. B. M. Greenal, Peter Beckett, William Greer.e, T. G. Bell, M. Gregory, W. H. Beresford, Major Grimsditch, T. Bernard, Viscount Grimston, Lord Blackburn, John I. Grogan, Edward Blackstone, W. S. Salford, H. Bothein, W. H. Hamilton, C. J. B. B.,ldero, Henry G. Hamilton, W. J. Borthwick, Peter Hamilton, Lord C. %Afield, Beriah Hampden, Renn Bradshaw, James Hanmer, iir John Bramston, T. W. Hardy, John Broadley, Henry Hay, Sir A. L. Broadwood, H. Hayes, Sir E. Brocklehurst, J. Heneage, G. W. Brooke, Sir A. B. Henley, J. W, Brownrigg, J. S. Hepburn, Sir T. B. Bruce, Lord E. Herbert, Hon. S. Bruce, C. L. • . Hill, Sir Rowland Buck, Lewis W. Hillsborough, Earl o 2SI. Mas:erman, John Maunsell, T P. Meynell, H. Miles, P. W. S. Mile,;, NV. Milnes R. M. rdannt, Sir J. Morgan, Octavius Morris, David Mundy, E. Miller Muntz, G. F Murray, C. R. S. Neeld, John Neville, Ralph Newry, Viscount Nicholl, J Norrevs, Lord O'Brie A. Stafford O'Brien, W. Smith Parke, Pakington, John S. Palmer, R. Patten, John Wilson Peel, Sir R Peel, Jonathan Plunmtre, J. P. Polhill, F. Pollington, Viscount Pollock Sir I.' Powell, Colonel Praed, W. T. Price, Richard Pringle, A. Pusey, Pnilip Rashlcigh, William Reade, W. M. Reid, Sir J. R. Richards, Richard Rolleston, Colonel Rose, Sir George Round, C. G. Round, J. Rous, lion. Captain Rushbrooke, Colonel Russell, J. D. W. Ryder, G. D. Sanderson, R. Sandon, Lord Scarlett, Hon. R. Scott, Hon. F. Shaw, F. Sheppard, Thomas ,S iirley, Evelyn J. Sibthorp, Colonel Smith, Abel Somerset, Lord G. Sotheron, T. H. Stanley, Lord Stanley, Edward Stewart, John Stuart, H. Stint, H. C. Sturm, Henry M Taylor, J. A. Tennent, J. E. Thesiger, F. Tnompson, Ald. Thornhill, George Tollemache, John Trench, Sir Frederick Trollope Sir John Trotter, ' John Tumor, Christopher Tyrrell, Sir J. Vere, Sir C. B. Vernar, W. Vernon, Granville Vesey, Hon .T. Vivian, John Ennis Waddington, H. S. Walsh, Sir J. Wilbraham, R. B. Williams, \Vm. Williams, T. P. Wodehouse, Edmond Wood, Colonel Wood, Colonel T. Wortley, Lord Wortley, J. 'Stuart Wynn, Sir W. W. Young, John Bulkeley, Sir EL B. .. i Hinde, J. . Bunbury, Thomas Hodgson, F. B rrell. Sir C. M. . Hodgson, R. Burroughes, N. N. Hogg, J. W. Campbell, Sir H. Holmes, W. A'Cour Campbell, A. Hope Charles Cardwell, Edward Horny, John C ornegie, Captain Houldsworth, T. Cayley, E S. Hutt, W. Chapman, Aaron Ingestre, Lord. Coarteris,Hon. F. Inglis, Sir R. H. Chelsea, Viscount Irton, Samuel Chetwode, Sir John Jackson, J. D. Cholmondeley, H. Jernsyn, Earl Christmas, William Jocelyn, Viscount Christopher, R. A. Johnson, W. G. Chute, W. L. Johnstone, Alex. Clayton, R. R. Johnstone, Sir John Clerk, Sir G. Johnstone, Hope C.ive, R. H. Jolliffe, Sir W. Zochrane, A. Kemble, Henry Cockburn, Sir 0. Kerrison, Sir E. Codrington, C. W. Knatchbull, Sir E. Collett, W. Bickford Knight, Henry Gaily Colv:qe, C. it. Knightley, Sir C. Comptoif; H. Lefroy H. „„ Lawson, Andrew Coote, Sir '.• ii• , Anthony Corry, H. L. Leg h, Geor g e C. Courtenay, ViscoN/d Leicester, Earl of Cresswell, Baker l Lincoln, Earl of Cripps, J. L i n dsa y , H. Darner, Hon. Dawson Lope..: Sir Ralph Darby, George Lowter, J. H. Dawnay, Hon. W. Lowther, Colonel Denison, E. Beckett Lyall, George Dickinson, F. El. Lygon, General D'lsraeli, Benjamin Mackenzie, Thomas Dodd, George Mackenzie, W. F. Douglas, Sir Howard Maclean, Ihrnld Douglas, Sir C. E. MacGoachy, F. A. Drummond, H. H. Mahon, Lord Dugdale, W. S. Mainwaring , T Duncombe, 0. Manners, Lord C. East, James Buller Manners, Lord J Eaton, Richard J. Marsham, Viscount Egerton, W. T. Martin, C. W. Egerton, Sir P. G. Master, T. W. C. TELLERS, Fremantle. Sir T. Baring, Fi. B. NORITY-- NOI.S, Gord .n, Lord F. Granger, T. C. Greenaway, C. 4.3 rey, Sir G. Hall, Sir B. Hastie, A. Hatton, Captain V. Hawes, B. Hen are, E. Howard, C. W. G. Howard, P. H. Howard, H. Howard, Sir H. Howick, Lord Hume, Joseph Jervis, J. Lambton, H. • Layard, Captain Lemon, Sir C. Macaulay, T. B APTaggart, John Maher, V. Marshall, W. Martin, John Mitchell, 'l'. A. Mostyn, Hon. E. M. Murphy, F. S. Murray, A. Napier, Sir Charles Norreys, Sir D. O'Connell, AI J. Ogle, S. C. U. Ord, W. Palmerston, Viscount Parker, John Pectiell, Captain Pendarves. E. W. Archbold, R. flaring, F. T. Berkeley, C. Bernal, Captain Bowring, Dr. ' Brotkerton, J. Bryan, George Buller, C. Byng, George Callaghan, Daniel Carew, R. S. Cavendish, Hon. G. Chapman, Benjamin Childers, J. W. Clay, Sir W. Clements, Lord CobOen, Richard Colborne, W Ridley Colebrooke, Sir T. E. Craig, W. Gibson Crawford, W. S. Curteis, H. B. Divett, E. Duff, James Duncan, Lord Duncan, George Duecombe, T. S. Dundas, Admiral Dundas, F. Dundas, David Dundas, Hon. J. C. Easthope, Sir John Ellis, Wynn Evasn, William Ferguson, k olonel litzroy, Lord C. Gibson, T. M. - - Philips, G. It. Philips, Mark Plumridge, Captain Ponsonby, Hon. John Reddington, 'l'. N. Ricardo, John Lewis Rundle, John 'tassel', Lord John Scott, Robert Shell, R. L. Shelburn, Lord Smith, Benjamin Smith, J. A. Somerville, Sir W. Stansfield, W. R Strutt, Edward Stuart, W. Villiers 'falba!, C. R. M. Tapered, H. W. ThornelY, Thomas Trait!, George Troubridge, Sir T. Turner, E. Vane, Lord Harry Villiers, Charles P. Vivian Hon. Captain Wakley, Thomas Walker, R. Watson, W. IL Wilshere, W. Wool, Benjamin Wood, C. Wrightson, W TELLERS. Hill, Lord Msrcas Tufnell, Henry JAMAICA. • (From the Jamaica Standard and Royal Gazette of March 25.) Kingston, March 21, 1842. To his Excellency the Right Honourable Sir Charles T. Metcalfe, &c. &c. The humble Address of the Members composing the Congregation of the English and German J e ws of the City and Parish of Kingston. May it please your Excellency—We, the members of the congregaticn of English and German Jews of this city, beg leave most respeotfUlly to approach your Eicellency, and in common with all classes to express our deep sorrow at the severe loss the island is about to sustain in the departure of your Excellency from these shores. Identified as are our interests with the welfare of the colony, our feelings are still more warmly en listed in whatever concerns it, since we enjoy here, equally with all our fellow-subjects, privileges and immunities denied us in other parts of her Majesty's dominions. We, therefore, stand not aloof, but join in the general regret which pervades the minds of all, particularly when the advantages arising from the enlightenment, generosity, and kindness which have distinguished your administration, are considered. We should, however, have been wanting in grati tude to your Excellency, had we on the present oc casion failed to express our sentiments separately, as a religious body, for the noble and disinterested conduct you have maintained, and for the charity of heart and hand you have evinced in all cases, and to all sects ; nor can we ever forget the kind feeling you displayed, not only towards our brethren here, but also on behalf of the sufferers at Rhodes and Damascus. The sympathy manifested towards the poor and afflicted—the assistance amply afforded to the wants of others, and the support and patronage extended to works of pub lic utility, cannot fail to meet that recompense which the great Judge of our actions awards to the benevo lent, to secure the peace of an approving conscience, and indelibly to engrave your memory on the hearts of a grateful posterity. In the departure of your Excellency, we shall de plore the loss of a tried friend, who watched over the best interests of the people with the unceasing solici tude of paternal consideration, whose wisdom ensured the just administration of the laws, and whose urbanity of manner secured the love and esteem of all. In rendering to your Excellency these our un feigned sentiments, we offer our fervent prayers to the throne of grace, for your prosperous passage home —for a long and uninterrupted enjoyment of health, and for the possession of every happiness which a bountiful Creator can bestow. By direction and behalf of the meeting, P. LAWRENCE, Chairman. HIS EXCELLENCY'S REPLY. To the Members of the Congregation of English and German Jews of the City and Parish of Kingston. I beg you, Gentlemen, to accept my warmest thanks for the sentiments that you have expressed on the oc casion of my approaching departure. To he deemed worthy of such kindness, I must ever prize as one of the highest honours than can be received. You ha ve j us tly alluded to the fact, that you enjoy in Jamaica, equally with all your fellow-subj ec t s , privileges and immunitie s d e nied to you in other parts of the British dom i n ions. The fact i s h onoura ble to this island, and the reverse is discreditable to the mother country. I trust that the time is near, when the Legislature of the United Kingdom will follow the example of that of Jamaica, and grant equal rights to all the loyal sub jects of our gracious Queen without distinction. We have here proof, from experience, that this can be not only without injury, but with manifest be nefit ;and I hope to see the day when it will be ad mitted by the Imperial Parliament, that all who con tribute to the support of the State are entitled to the enjoyment of equal rights, and that the surest mode of promoting the stability of an empire is to unite all hearts in common interests and brotherly love. My best wishes will ever attend you, Gentlemen, with a cordial desire for your prosperity and hap piness. Saturday morning at 3 o'clock, the mail packet for Hamburgh left her moorings, havingon board two of the Direc tors of one of the principal fire-offices, besides the principal of that department. The Secretary and other officers of two other principal fire-offices were also on board. The principal of the fire-department of the Sun Fire.office is at present in Hamburgh. The above offices have remitted nearly half a mil lion of cash to pay every demand on them immediately on the arrival of the above vessel, and to save the sufferers the delay that would otherwise occur in making their claims in London. BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, MAY 13.--We have had a fair show of sugar of all descriptions, and a good amount of business has been transacted ; but the London market having continued to decline. there was less disposition to purchase at the close of the week. Prices are still too high for the coun try buyers to have confidence in them. The arrivals sirce our last are—Feliza, 6,914 mats; NiUian Thompson. 3ro hhds. ; Fanny, 460 hhds. ; Hornby, 419 hhds. ; Triumph, 200 hhils.; Ajax, 500 hhds. ; George, 580hhds.—Bristol Mercury. STRAWBERRY HMI. SA!..E. FIFTEENTH AND SIXTEEIVI-1 Press of rnal.er precludes us fru.n noticing more than a few of the leading lots, which during those days' sale s have been disposed of at Strawberry Hill. We subjoin the following : Lot 10. A curious antique silver seal, extremely ancient ; this remarkable relic once belonged to Hugh O'Neill, King of Ulster-291. Bs. Farrow. Lot 15. A curious 'spoon of English pebble, with two gold handles, richly ,worked in foliage ; there were a dozen of these spoons made by order of Catherine Lady Walpole as a present to Queen Caroline, after whose death Horace Walpole met with this and the handle of another in a toy-shop—.3l. 15s. Lot 19. A tooth-pick case of gold, enamelled with cameos and very beautiful ; a present from Lady Diana Beauclerc -11/. 11 s. Farrow. Lot i>o. A circular-shaped gold snuff-box, engine -turned, with the image, in wax, of Madame la Marquise du Deffaud's dog Tonton, which she bequeathed. with the snuff-box and her manuscripts, to Horace Walpole-141. 14s. Forster. Lot 25. A circular white snuff-box, mounted in gold, with a miniature portrait on the top of Madame de Sevigne, and at the bottom the cydhers of Robertin Sevigne in marcasi es ; this box, with the letter enclosed from Madame de Sevigne in the Elysian Fields, was sent to Horace Walpole by Madame du Defraud after his return from Paris in 1776 ; the letter is a beautiful composition, and was considered peculiarly interest ing by the literati of the day-23/. 7s. Strong. Lot 59. A truly interesting relic, one of the seven mourning rings given after the death of Charles 1. ; it has the King's head in miniature, behind a death's head, between the letters C. R. the motto "Prepared be to follow me ;" presented to Horace Walpole by Lady Murray Elliot-151. 153. Harvey. Lot 60. A most extraordinary and very curious jewel, a golden heart set with precious stones, and ornamented with emblema tic figures and Scotch mottoes, enamelled in the finest style; it was made by order of the Lady Mary Douglas, mother of Henry Lord barnley, in memory of her husband, Matthew Stewart Earl of Lennox and Regent of Scotland-1361. 10s. Hertz. Lot 61. An extremely valuable and magnificent jewel, Lord Burleigh's head, on onyx, by Valerio Vicentino, cut on the re verse of an antiquate intaglio of Caracallo ; appendant is the head of Queen Elizabeth, on sardonyx, also by Vicentino ; it is enriched with 53 fine brilliants and was presented to Horace Walpole by his father, who purchased it of Sir Andrew Fon taine, vklioe design it was, being in allusion to Queen Caroline and Sir Robert Walpole-841. Hertz. Lot 03. A beautiful locket, in the shape of a heart, set with fine brilliants, containing the hair of Sir Robert Walpole— Ils. Forster. Lot 64. A ditto, with the hair of Catherine Shorter, Sir Ro bert Walpole's first wife—lll. 11 s. Russell. Lot 63. A curious antique watch, enamelled upon gold, with beautiful paintings of the Virgin and Child, at different ages —131.13 x. Jarman. Lot 66. A splendid cabinet of rosewood, designed by Horace Walpole, of most chaste and elegant form, richly carved, orna • mented with ivory, and a rare specimen of art ; on the pedi ment are three statues is ivory, of Palladio, lnigo Jones, and Filmingo, carved by Kerakovis, after the models of Rysbrock ; in the pediment, the 'Walpole arsn‘ are displayed, supported by a Cupid and a lion, with a relief of flowers, eagles' heads, with festoons of flowers forming the base, all carved by Kerskovis ; the d ,ors enriched with eighteen splendid carvings in ivory, by Gibbons, Pozzo, and other celebrated artists. It is perfectly unique, and, as a work of art, may be pronounced matchless -1•i61. Richard. Lot 63. A small and interesting antique' bust, in bronze, of Caligula, with silver eyes. This exquisite bronze is one of the finest things in the collection, and shows the great art of the ancients : it is evidently a portrait, and represents the Em peror at the beginning of his madness. It was found with some other small busts at the first discovery of Herculaneum, whilst digging a well for the Prince d'Elbesuf, who resided many years afterwards at Florence, where i- was sold on his return to France, and being purchased by Sir Horace Mann, was by him presented to Lord Orford (vide Catalogue of Straw berry Hill)-481. 6s. Boone. Lot 77. A magnificent missal, perfectly unique, an-1 most beautifully illuminated ; it is enriched with splendid miniature pictures by Raffaelle and his scholars, set in fine gold and enamelled. This precious volume was executed expressly for Claude, Queen of France, wife of Francis 1., and is supposed to have afterwards belonged to the father of Thuantis (vide vol. 1., page 142, of the French edition)-1151. 10s. Forster. Lot 79. Henry the Eighth's dagger, a rare and beautiful specimen of Turkish work; the blade is of the finest steel, damascened with gold ; the case awl handle of chalcedony, enriched with diamonds and a profusion of rubies-541. 12s. Forster. Lot 83. The renowned silver bell of Benvenuto Cetini, was put up at 100 gu , neas, at which sum it remained in state quo, till Mr, Robins, by his ingenuity and eloquence, contrived to prevail upon some one to bid 201., when there was another halt, end, after mounting to 254., it was finally bought in ; the same laxity in bidding prevailed, when the Palter of Julio Clovio was put up, and which was also bought in, at 441/ Lot 48. Queen A nn:i. BUllen's clock, of metal gilt, surmounted by a lion, supporting a shield, on which, and on the sides of the clock, are the ti_oyal Arms. One of the weights more ornamented than the other; on that most richly decorated the motto, " Dieu et mon Droit ;" below are the Royal initials H. A., with true lover's knot, and an inscription, in reference to her marriage with the King, " The most Happye." Pre sented to Horace Walpole by Lady Betty Germaine, from which circumstance it is evident it formerly behmged to the Arundel collection. One hundred and five guineas. Pur chased for her Majesty. Lots 54 to 56. Six ebony chairs of the Elizabethan period, sold for 16/. Lot 57. Silver inkstand, used by Sir Robert Walpole, when Prime Minister, having his arms and crest elaborately engraved; purchased for Sir Robert Peel, the present Prime Minister of England, at 365. per ounce, so that the cost of this article (noticed and admired, while on view, by many persons in the higher ranks of society) will be about 1851., a sum far ex ceeding the speculative amounts of many self-determined pur chasers. Lot 67. The mahogany four-post bedstead in the Holbein cham ber, with its fluted pillars and grey cloth hangings and bases, bound with rich velvet, and lined throughout with chick white satin, canopy top, surmounted by a coronet, as the property of the Earl of Orford, and on which the most illustrious of the visi tors to Strawberry-hill, in NI alpole's time, reposed, produced only 21. 12s. 6d. Lot 73. Cardinal Wolsey's red hat, authenticated from the fact of its having been found in theweat wardrobe by Bishop Burn-t, when Clerk of the Closet, and from his son. Thomas Burnet, the Judge, it descended to the Countess Dowager of Albem,rle, by whom it was presented to Horace Walpole. 211. Mr. C. Kean, tragedian. Lot 75. Monastic oak chair, with carved religious invocation, Latin mottos, and the name of the maker or possessor of the chair, " John Arthur, monk of Glastonbury,' an indubitable proof of its construction prior to the dissolution of the English monasteries in 1537. Mr. Robins commenced the save in this chair, and he made it an express stipulation that, whoe,er be- came the purcha.er, it was to continue his rostrum till the ter mination of the sale. 73/. 10s. Lot 96. Bust of King Henry the Seventh, the work of Torre giano, in 1509, fur that Monarch's effigy on his tomb. There is an etching from this celebrated head by Carter. 27/. 6s. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF QUEENS BENCH. May 14. The Court sat in Banco this morning, and heard several cases in the special paper, nene of which sere of any general interest. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. OLD COURT. TRIAL OF MOLLY GOOD AND RICHARD GAMBLE. The verdict recorded by the Jury, on Friday, in the case of Daniel Good, the principal in this atrocious deed, has almost wholly allayed the excitement which, up to this period, has prevailed, and which it was our duty to notice on Friday. " Blood," it is au old saying, " de mands blood." The demands of justice have been sa tisfied by the sentence which has been passed upon Da niel Good, and few people care to prosecute the charge against old Molly, who was, no doubt, the senseless dupe of the wicked and designing man, whom she called hus band, and whom, as such, she was bound to honour and obey. _ _ _ _ The Court was not more crowded to day than on ordi nary occasions. At ten o'clock Baron Alderson, accompanied by Mr. Justice Coltman, took his seat on the bench, when the prisoner, Molly Good, was placed at the bar, charged with being accessory after the fact, with Daniel Good, in the wilful murder of Jane Jones alias Good. The Attorney-General, Mr. Adolphus, Mr. Wadding ton, and Mr. Russell Gurney, attended on behalf of the Crown, and Mr. Ballantine appeared for the prisoner. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL then rose to address the Jury. He said, the prisoner at the bar stood charged with harbouring Daniel Good, who was yesterday found guilty of murder, and she was charged eith harbouring him knowing him to have been guilty of that crime. It was necessary that people should know that it was a grave offence so to protect a person under the imputa tion of crime, and it was essential that they should know that this offence would be prosecuted whenever it was discovered. The prisoner, however, bore the name of Good, and he believed that her defence was that she was married to Daniel Goud. Ia the case of a wife the law provided that it was no offence in her to assist and to conceal her husband, whom she was bound to love, to honour, and obey. He thought there was every reason to believe that some marriage, whether strictly legal or not, did take place between the parties in the kingdom of Ireland, where the registries were extremely difficult of access, so that the absence of that proof should not be considered as fatal to the defence. They certainly did live together for a long time as man and wife, and he thought that he should be doing his duty if he said that she, thus believing herself to be the true and lawful wife of him whom she harboured and protected, would nut be a fit object fur punishment. He had obtained satisfactory information as to these facts, which he thought it right to state, and under these circumstances, he thought it was not fit to raise any case against the prisoner. He hoped that in making these observations he had not unnecessarily taken up the time of the Court. On the part of the prosecu tion no evidence would be offered. It would, therefore, be their duty to acquit the prisoner. Mr. BALLANTINE begged to thank the Learned At torney-General for the manner in which he had acted in this case ; and though he believed it to be the correct course, and quite consistent with justice, it was worthy of the manner in which the whole of the inquiry bad been conducted. It had saved the prisoner the pain of a long and tedious inquiry, and, on behalf of the prisoner, he begged to thank the Learned Attorney-General for the conduct which he had pursued. Mr. Baron ALDERSON then addressed the Jury. He said there was no evidence, and it would therefore be their duty to acquit the prisoner. It was a very grievous offence to harbour and assist those who were accused of any crime. A wife, however, in legal construction, could not be guilty of harbouring her husband ; th e pri soner at the bar having gone through the ceremony of marriage, though she were not perhaps legally his wife, had harboured him, she would be liable to be convicted of the offence ; nevertheless, if she had acted • under the supposition that she was his wife, the Court would have availed itself of the utmost extent of that circumstance in mitigation of her offence. He thought, therelbro, that the Attorney-General had only acted according to the duty which belonged to him, in prosecution of his high office P • •on ; and the Court entirely approved of the course he had pursued in not offering , any evidence against the prisoner, she having been in duced, by the circumstances which h-td been stated, to commit the felony ; and had the case been proceeded with, the Court would not have awarded such a punish ment as would be commensurate with the magnitude of the crime. If a ease should occur in which one person should harbour another, without having any excuse such as the punishment would b e ver y - heavy, and it was necessary that it should be so, more particularly as public 108. opinion did not think the offence so grave a on., as it was. li p tile practice of harbourin,E,r Molls were permitted, thole would be no safety, and that such 4„ practice did exist was one of the gre:l,l, iaiSTuituneS o a imighbouring country. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said, it was his duty to add that the priaoner had many witnesses of the greate.st re spectability, ready to speak to her character. She had long lived where she resided when she was taken into custody on this charge, and she had been much respected in the line of life in which she moved. The prisoner was then acquitted on this charge, and the Jury having been re-sworn, she was placed on her trial on the charge of receiving stolen property, knowing it to have been stolen, &c. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said it was not his intention to offer any evidence in this case, and the Jury there fore returned a verdict of " Not Guilty." Richard Gamble was then placed at the bar, charged with receiving stolen property, kn;ow•ing it to be solen, &c. No evidence was off Ted on behalf of the prosecution, and the prisoner was acquitted according:y. Sarah Dowdale was indicted for feloniously assaulting Charles Dowdale. her husband, by throwing a quantity of titriol, or some other lamming; liquid, into his face, with intent to maim and injure hen. Pro es , .!ator stated that he was a butcher, and resided in Exeter-place, Newington. He had been married to the prisoner about two years, but, in consequence of the eoutinued disputes that took place between them, they separated about three months ago, he having agreed to allow her the sum of 10s. a-week as a separate maintenance. The particulars of the case have appeared in The Sun. The Jury re turned a verdict of guilty, on hearing which the prisoner, in the most imploring terms, begged the Court would not separate her from her child, which was then at the breast. Mr. Baron ALDERSON, in passing sentence on the prisoner, said, he regretted that her violent temper should have led her to commit the serious offence of which she had been convicted. She appeared to have a great affection for her child. It was a pity that she had sot an equal affection for her husband. After some further remarks, the Learned Judge sentenced her to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour in the House of' Correction for the space of three years. The trial of the twelve sailors, indicted for a mutiny on board the Ann Hall, a merchant vessel, was post poned until the next session, on the ground, that as they were committed so late as Thursday last, they had not bad sufficient time to prepare their defence. STABBING.—Robert Rickerby, a seaman, was indicted for feloniously cutting and maiming another seaman, named Charles Butler. It appeared that when the vessel to which prosecutor and prisoner belonged was at Ancona, a quarrel took place between them ; that the prosecutor, who is a very powerful man, was in the habit of insulting and bullying the other sailors, and that on the day in question he struck the prisoner two violent blows on the head, and that: in the heat of the moment, and finding himself unable to contend with his powerful opponent, the prisoner drew a knife, with which he stabbed him in the belly ; the wound fortu nately was not a very serious one, and the prosecutor in a short time recovered from the effects of it. The Jury found the prisoner Guilty, but strongly re commended him to mercy on account of the provocation he had received. Mr. Baron ALDERSON, in passing sentence, said that the offence of which the prisoner had been convicted was unfortunately one of a prevalent and dangerous nature, but in his case it appeared that he had received very great provocation. His Lordship then sentenced the prisoner to six months' imprisonment in the Peni tentiary, Milbank. NEW COURT. Margaret Salmon, 27, married, and Bridget M'Col mark, 23, spinster, were indicted for stealing four shawls, value 3/, the property of Eleaz..r Collins. Mr. Phillips defended the prisoner Salmon. The prosecutor is a hawker of shawls, and he was in a public-house kept by the prisoner Salmon, in the village of Putney, in company with the prisoner ,',l 4 Cormack, on the night of April 6. He hail his pack with him. He was drinking with the prisoner, but he did not know her before that night. He tell asleep, and whoa he awoke he missed the shawls named in the milicAuent. On cross-examination he admitted that he treated the girl to a gown, and placed the shawl; round her heck. He asked her to travel round the country with him. He afterwards gave his pack into the cus:ody of Mrs. Sa. mon. There were several other females in the room at the time. A pawnbroker's clerk was called, who deposed that the shawls in question had been pledged at their shop. but not by either of the prisoners. The Jury found the priSoner Margaret Salmon, Not Guilty, and the other prisoner Guilty. lie was sen tenced to three months' imprisonment. Grace Fairnwn, a young woman, respectably attired and of good connexions, was indicted for embezzling and stealing the sum of three half-pence, which she had re ceived for, and on account of John 'Whitehouse, her em ployer. The prosecutor stated that he was a linen-draper, living at No. 54, Oxford-street, and the prisoner was employed behind his counter. He gave a person of the name of Wilkinson ninepence in copper coin, penny pieces and halfpence ; Wilkinson went and purchasc-d three yards of twopenny riband, and paid fur it out of the marked coin, and three halfpence was found upon her. Mr. CLARKSON addressed the Jury, and made some caustic remarks upon the conduct of the prosecutor of these very extraordinary charges. The hereto Core re spectable young woman at the bar had been tried and acquitted twice, upon charges which, in point of amount, did not average sixpere on the whole. The prosecutor, however, thought proper to persevere, and now she was called upon to answer to other charges of stealin three halfpence, and then of fourpence. She hal - lived fifteen years, more than _half her life-time, in on, situation, and went to the prosecutor's with an un• sullied character. Was it likely that such a person w•ttltl disgrace herself by stealing a few paltry halfpence. when ihe had, were she so disposed, more valuable property within her reach ? The Learned Gentleman was pro seeding, when the foreman'of the Jury announced they had heard enough, and pronounced the words " Not Guilty," very emphatically. Mr. CLARKSON said there was another charge. llt , did not know whether the prosecutor would proceed fur ther ?—Mr. Whitehouse nodded " I shall," when some wag exclaimed, " He's a regular Shylock." The charge was accordingly tried, and the Jury in stantly returned a verdict of " Not Guilty," when the young woman was ordered to be liberated forthwith. and she departed the Court with a number of respect. able friends. POLICE I TE LIGENCE, CLERICENWELL. The wife of Hopson alias Elmore, who was charged on suspicion of being concerned in the robberies at Hornsey, applied on Saturday for his discharge. Mr. COOMBE said this Hopson or Elmore had written a letter to one of the Inspectors of Police, which was cal culated to induce a belief in his insanity. His conduct before this Court did not betray any thing like unsound ness of mind. It really did not appear that he had been doing otherwise than telling gross falsehoods, and the applicant could not well complain of his suffering through the newspapers, when his strange conduct and prevarica tion left him open to such suspicion. His wife had been either duped by him, or she had been lending herself to gross imposition. A person named Rouston offered himself as bail, but Mr. Coombe advised him to inquire after his family, w Ito were respectable, and who would take the best steps for his future welfare. The application, therefore; was refused. THE LAZE RAILROAD ACCIDENT NEAR PARIS. (From Galignani's Messenger.) The painful interest excited by this me'lanc'holy event con tinues unabated, or, to speak more correctly, augments with each new afflicting detail; for every -hour has shown that the accounts of the disaster, which were in the first instance founded upon public ru.nour, were not exaggerated, as is usually the case, but were rather under the truth. The Gazette de France of yesterday evening has the fol.. lowing :—" The official declaration of the death of Rear-Ad miral Dumont d'Urville. and hiS wife and only son, a youth of fourteen, has been received by the Minister of Marine. 'f he bodies of this unhappy family have been recognised by several persons, and, as has been already stated, a letter, which was found on the person of the Admiral, did not permit any doubt to be eistertained of his identity. Dumont d'Urville, who had commanded two expeditions of circum navigation, and braved so many dangers during a career cf more than thirty-five years, was aged only fifty-one years and a few months. He was created a Rear-Admiral in 1840. It will be remembered that. this celebrated navigator gave the name of his wife Addle to the region which he disco vered in his last expedition. By the orders of the Minister of Marine a commission has visited the late residence of the Ad miral, to collect all the papers which may be useful to the navy or to science. It is not true that a naval officer perished with him, but the report may be attributed to the following circum stances :—ln one of the waggoes was a Lieutenant de Vais seats, named Guilbert, and his young wife. The veh t:lts they were in followed that in which were the admiral and his family, and was thrown with great violence by the shock aga'nst that which preceded it, but the lieutenant had so much presence of mind, strength, and resolution, that in a few seconds ke succeeded in releasing his lady arid himself from their daniger ous and distressing position, and getting away from the scene of desolation. Among the sufferers w.;.s a young builder named Youf, who had both his legs cut off. In the same car riage were his brother and his sister-in-law, who both got safe out, but, on looking tor him, they found him horribly muti lated, as we have said. They got him to Paris, where he soon died. It has been stated that the number of dead, including those in the hospitals and at their own homes, amount to at least 107. This at present may be au exaggeration, but from the many known to be in a precarious state, the estimate is likely ere long to be fully realised." The Moniteur Parisien furnishes the following additional detail:—." From the want of water, the fire continued to rage until its aliment was almost entirely exhausted, and did not subside till eleven o'clock. Its intensity might t e judged of by the quantity of the jewellery and money belonging to the pas sengers afterwards found in a state of fusion among the ashes. It is stated that one of the rails had been broken to the extent of four or five yards. The two nephews of M. Roulin, librarian of the Institute, were seriously injured. At eight. o'clock, about two hours after the accident, a train arrived in Paris with some of the victims recovered from the burning mass. One died on the way, and six were placed in one of the rooms of the station, converted into a temporary hospital. A captain of artillery had his leg broken initwo places. A woman had her thigh and leg broken, and her face, mouth, arid hinds terribly scalded by the steam. One elderly man had his jaw fractured. One of the stokers was dreadfully crushed on the loins, and two other men were suffering from various contusions. They were all in a state of stupor ix delirium. M. Berard, surgeon of the Necker hospital, accompanies! by AI. 13.1,emberg, one of the assistants, and a great many stu dents, came and had them eorse)ed to the Institie lot!, or to their homes. At twelve o'clock on the day after the accident, the site of the cat: strophe still presented a frightful spectacle. The two engines completely blocked up the road, and at certain distances along it were to be seen carbonised fragments of the waggons, calcined bones, remnants of shawls and veils, and various portions of dresser stained with blood. Some soldiers kept the ground clear for stteh as came t - = seek traces of their lost relation's_ ' We are inf. ,rmed that the grand son of a late Prefect was among the killed. We are happy to ,1 learn that M. Rebel, the Avoeat, is considered to be out e danger. He was taken into the house, at Morton, of m . Walker, a pleader at the Tribunal de Commerce, who also took charge of several others. " Mr. George, the engineer, ‘OlO was killed, was ett log( years employer; in the tit. Etienne Railway. On the after noon of this m e ! ar , tholy accident he 'vent with the same loco; motives to Versaill e s, an had with him his two sons, wh o we a to have retur ne d w ith hi m at h a lf- pas t fi ve ; b u t they sol leave to stay to se e th e c l ose o f t h e p l ay i ng o f the waters, stl!:, c ot was granted, and th us t h ey pro b a bl y escape d d es truction. ).` the slightest vestige of this untirtunate man's remains has b ee . found. Three watches have been discovered, one of which is said to have belonged to hi m , b u t even this is not positive. the was forty-one years of ag e , an d i s sa id t o have been distils. guish.d for sobriety and goad conduct." The following results of the disaster is given by this morel ing's Quotidienne :—" It was ascertained last night th at " d were dead, comprising those who expired in the hospitals, from the state of others who are injured, there is every rese°7, to apprehend the number will be increased to upwards of 96 :, The Debats states the number of dyad to be much smaller t': that given by some of the journals, but more considerable th.e: the number sta•ed by the Messager. According to the D el l l , the number of deaths known up to yesterday evening Ra s , Among the dead was M. Chavard.:s, a n i nsu rance ageu.' Bezieres, accompanied by a friend and his wile. who had be married only three months, and two other friends. The ht io e. band of the lady, who is lodged at the Hotel du Globe, in . 0" Rue Croix des Petits Champs, had both his legs fractured; ;_„ gendarmes dragged him trom the waggon, but it requi red r , much force, that the joints of both the poor man's arm s Rife dislocated. This was partly occasioned by his grasping his i in the hope of saving her also, but she was so much bu re u i that a fragment of her flesh came off in his band. Anin the persons recognised at the Morgue are a lady nan::ll,. Mignot, and her son-in-law, and M. Droitecourt, an ,i 1 merchant, of the Rue Mauconseil. The son o f Gen7i, Berthemy, a youth only 17, and a friend of his father's. ' l ot taken home on Monday evening very much disfigure d '. s 4 hopes are entertained that both will recover. A M. °Tit/ of the Rue d'Enfer, who is 76 years old, had both his t b L broken. He refuses to undergo amputation, and is his last momea with perfect resignation. His son, bit' wail son, and the wife of the later, were with him in the train, ,„0 are all severely injured. A young man, who was on the ll'ore of one of the waggons, was thrown by the shock into eif t o ground. He felt much hurt. but was a ble to drag hini te ; i sti a neighbouring house. He opened the d o or and entered, sf the himself on a chair, and uttering a cry, fell dead. One stakes for training the vines had pierced his chest. A singular incident occurred during the canfusion So oa ti . day evening. M. Mar in, a merchant, having a country P i o at Bellevue, had his cabriolet and his horse at his door, r e , t io to convey him to Paris, but called away by the ,report accident, be became so engaged by his anxiety to re nder 1 1 00 ance, that he entirely forgot his intend e d dep a rture, and his he returned to his house at a late hour, his cabriolet and horse had disappeared, and w ere 'la seen tiil five o'cldes;001 terday morning, when they were brought back and fast at his own door. They had, i n th e mean ti me , b e en lir" conveying the sufferers to Paris." FIRE AT HAMBURGH. (EXTRACT OF A PRIVATE LETTER.) VIA HAMBURG/I. MAY 10.—The dreadful conflagration o t has destroyed one of the most favoured parts of our city, length ceased Thirty-seven streets, including the au las of St. Nicholas and St. Peter, witk their admirable steebbo lie in ashes. A tremendous storm from the south confini f flames at length between the rampart of the suburb of George and the great basin of th e Al s t er , an d i n th a t ar e fire died out by its own rage. of We count 1,200 houses g u tted a n d d es t ro y e d , 01- 0 / them were blown up or batt ere d d own w ith b a ll s , t o put It to the progress of th e fl ames . F our d a y s an d n i g h ts the _ . .h4 0 01 element raged, and mocked the al mos t su p er h uma n encts of our inhabitants. Many of them have fallen eat" 0,0 to their courage. During this dreadful perioi all disto — te of rank or of station was obliterated, and all presented th i l e f o s t s4 fying example of self-devotion for the general good of a native city. This excitement could alone have enabledki bear the unceasing exertions of four days. But few - their eyes during that time. Now that the fire :s extinct,' some degree of quiet ret ut j; but the pain and grief only now begin to be felt; FortWr iY there are not many quarters inhabited by poor pe°l; tf s# eluded in the pale of destruction, and the i ne xp r es ibl e d i t t o and misery exhibited during the time of terror by 11 0 0 of homeless wretches, exposed to all the inclemency bt d night air, arose, indeed, from the precipitate n,ig it tit those whose habitations have bezn spared, an c lA for, have now returned to them. The real sufferers are cat fi s t with admirable k rebiess All the cities around . us have be with each other in their efforts to assist us from the verifier ginning of our misfortune. Lubeck, Kiel, Luneburg. s pi burg, &c., sent engines, workmen, and food in plen t 1 1 ; 0 1 , fourteen hundred carpenters marched in from Bremen , mirable order. lef° Our new Bourse is saved, as also the Bank, at the silver and the books—that is to say the most v t a l io tl i ost portion of its contents. Indeed, the fire never reached jor p commercial portion of the city, but rather the seat of jos' trba and we shall long have to mourn over oar heavy loss. . 0 0 mercantile body hope to retrieve their losses soon, and , 4 0 :0 course of three years, we may hope to see a nem anure beautiful city wising from th- present heap of ruins andas„,e( This lamentable event has deprived our Senate, eversa7y the lowest and l eas t educated classes, of all right to its.l. " Most. Wise," which planed its members apparently tet4 e 0: olli the Almighty. To th e wea k- m i n d e d mem b ers o f tha t , alone do we owe th e f ear f u l sprea di ng of theat structive element ; t o th e i r tota l di sregar d c'• advice, the prayers of well-informed profess o o men who, at the very outset, recommended en ergetic 0 8 _140 for stopping the progress of the flam es . A t a l ater neri u n true, the " Most Wise" allowed a corps of H anove rian arli and of engineers, to take those steps which they had OP when their own imploring . fellox-cittzens proposed thee. " - may forgive them—our citizens never will. the t ' llll Our own mutual friends have escaped ; habitaeion of G. 0. lies in ashes, but he, not being it t o I, foresaw the coning danger, and removed all his pr opel. .. 0 al it is true See to place •afety. I live in the country myself, and our pi' business lie fa from the scene of dstruction.. co er ( ' You will, s must likely, h ar of se everal e%ce sse- w ho m ouremp employed. and natgitalii7itngEonnggloisohd terms with rnioa * the Ue. 0 0$ bw h y a e v ll e bee looked upon as incendiaries and thieves:sll4 canaille. lam afraid there is one individual against goet an aecusat,on miget be made without injust ice. ,'" - s oll l ' eitirms of Hamburgh, however, have shown theinsol ksi 4 cient'y shocked at the excesses to which 1 alluded. en LK repeatedly risked their lives to save th e u n h appy victirto r ° 4 9o,l pular fury. iet us hope that such a fea r ul time ofbo r excitement may nut recur, and we shall have cause well even of our lowest classes. off"' 4 ' The h, ellude ,e• Je street here alluded to is mentioned in on Paper of this day awing those totally destroyed. , THE MARKETS-SATORDO- y- ,, NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. 0,11 There was a very good show of meat. Trade was „I% prices as last quoted. Poultry a good supply, trade prices lower. WHITECHAPEL MARKET. itO ° The supply of Meat was good, trade dull, and prical°o Beef, 2c. 4d. to 3s. Sd. ; Mutton, 2s. Sd. to 3s. 104. ; 4 , OF 2s. Bd. to 4s. Sd. ; Pork, 2s. 4d. to 4s. Bd. ; Lambs , ; 0 40 to ss. Bd. Clover, 41. to 51. Bs. ; Hay, 21. to 41. 4s. ; 11. Its. to 1/ 16s. TEA MARKET. Co The demand was dull, but prices were sustained. Congou, Is. Bd. cash, and Company's Is. 94d. per lb. 11 1 7,4 SPIRITS. Rum dull, and prices on the decline. Proof L,e ° 2s. 40. per gallon. Brandy sold s l ow ly, but priu su,tained. TALLOW MARKET. Prices were supported, but the m ar k e t was dull at 41;0114 on the the spot, and 495. for delivery in the last thre o of the year. _ _ _ WOOL MARKET. The market is firm, and a fair business s‘as transacted' ---•" r ely COUNTRY MARI- ETs Wheat. Barley. 1 Oat, deans. ..„,./0 ---------, —........, ............ ..............-• ~,,,,. , Per Quarter.' a. to s. a. to s. 1 s. t.. 3. s. to t• 04/ !lath ,tO ea j 24 34 12(1 25 40 48 ....''& Blandford -I 02 65 20 27 20 23 39 42 ~..- :7 dridport ' - 68 - - - - -",, 11,41, 'hard 'sB 62 29 30 18 22 32 2 ° , „.._," :. .44, Exeter •aloucester 5B 64 24 3.1 19 t 5 llil ..',% „.,47 ,, , j diii Id ford Newbury ..- '42 70 12 36 .18 28 26 e o,i Reading ... SL 76 i 2 36 18 30 21 43 ~.4=4 Salisbury ....,. 60 68 31 36 '25 29 40 5 0 „ ~ ,i.:, .j iherborne 5-/, 5'3 26 CO 18 24 .36 4y I $l. r Sherton Mallet 51 68 25 32 18 22 34 49 Sg . ;1 Uxbridge - - 37 43 2.% '2B -, ..' W-Aminster - / Worcester et 08 :2 31 ..', 2, , 43 78 ~,4 teovil 52 60 24 28 21) 24 32 44 WAKEFIELD CORN NI ARM.: t , a); T s The supply was moderato, an d p r i ces o f Wh ea t, Oa!: ling, and Beaus. %%ere rather higher. No variation 1 " `. and other artich s. od vv,,,t, Li.,,A, Essex and 00 Kent....„ ...... ,„ _a . gj 62.:, t, , ~ 64. , —..-- !10r:i.,1, ..A3 'i,iit,ll3 . t, sa. to tO , ' a 1 --------- Lin. and Cam --- Yorkshire ii 58s. tr. 62' 4 -- White. • -s 60.. to 62 , . 00 ..—Foreign, tted . s. sto v.. -„g White -s. -.T. to tri'' ijorso Barley, Nr.rfolk ant, ' , lift'silt . .-. Lincolnshire ...-- Yorkshire Wold . 26s. to 20 gse --- Foreign Beans, New ----- Old Oats, Potato ---. Poland -s. -s. to 2* 4 ' —. Vriczland and Small -a. -s. to 18 , •,, - Nealing ishAling , talt 9'...oes.ed LEEDS CORN , %Rh ET. g ,„ OA. 1 `Nhcat, Slrfolk and Sittll.lk, 60111... York. and Lincoln. 601 b... ..... .. .....,. . b.', iv ) , :at!ey, Noriolk and Sutthlk Yorkshire and Lincolnsh ire - Grinding !ieans 631b.. - ,r flats, Potatoe it. e i o r o .--'Healing, For. VI tolOd Eng. 9%c1. to t! 1 . l l i leg ,i . Sielling 0 7. I DEVIZES CORN MARKET. J .• I( "1 Per Sack. a. d. a. it. Per slum . ter. : • o t o First W heat '33 0 to 35 0 Oats Second 29 r 31 (. Be a n s (p er sack)... ;d • 0 A • ~. Third &Ailey 26 0 33 U Bread (per gallon). • I . CHELTENHAM MARKETS. i t. Per Bushel. s. d. to s. d. IN , h .at barley Oats 3 37 0 6 0 3 3 9 9 9 9 1 Vea1 8 M e . e it t 01 . n . .......... 1. .. : . .. e . . : . ........ 1 . .. b . .........1.....• . : :: ; 1 6: l '' ' ; ! 1 .. Beans 0 , ~ , "ease 5 0 8 0 Lamb .................• Hay „to r .. CANTE 4 II I I3 S U L I Wheat, whit e—........ t;5l. to ;Os. ...... 01d„........ "' s , to ji:, —. red...........- 6. , 5. to ti s ....... 01d......... ...... 9. 0, ~,..;:,,,, Harley, Nl.ilting ..... 30s to 34s ~.-. Grnding.• _.,. to's. , Oats ... ; Ito 3 4 1 / A :l R tis K :bd;..per -- . 218. to 0.6. ........ 01. L.--...• ',-, to, 8ean5......-....- . 321 to 44 , 3. ...... 01d.......... ,7 4 ;. to Pease ........... 40s. to —5..... Grey.......-• ' HULL. CORN MARKET. 00! 6 N. 6 2 f : Wheat, White (per Quarter) Red . - W oos. Foregn 6s. 3000-*,,,Y+ Barley, Malting ..lE6 ." 4 .r," . 1 7- 4 ' Oats, British Fore .go (in bond) ISi 2° , :3 !, I'. i t* • 39. s $". :i4., .. sr.;• ni § . of .....5... •v. / B r e ea a s n e s o and White Linseed.. .... Flour per Fack Itape.eed (per l quarters) -- - . _ --- —.---7-,-- MARRIED. 0,41 On . the :oth inst., at Charlton, K en t, Williainsohl !ow. E.q.. of Leicester, ynungeA Ant of Pete r or F. R. S., to scltna Crawf or d, youngest daug hter j Catlin, Esq., ~ f Woolwi c h- common. ..,re• On the I:2th inst., a t S t. J o h n ' s , Oxford 5c1!,,,q0 111 Hnmpage, Esq., of B ryanston . stree t, portnt„,./4 0 Elizabeth Anne, youngest dauohter of Robert v"- formerly Captain in the 4th Dragoon Guards. L):iuCr.. anted and Published by Mir 1 YO • $l Ol !ram,. a Su, Office, No. 40. the ClJUlttyof Midiieben, Monday, Nay 16r 6 1 if