The Sun. — London, England, 1854-07-26 00:00:00

Liberal party. He is 72 years of age. He was a member of the Cabinet in 1823, and was wounded in resisting the French intervention that year, under the Duke of Angouleme. There can he no doubt that the appointment of General San Miguel is only temporary, and for the purpose of conduct ing the affairs of the moment, till the arrival of Espartero. Private letters of the 19th state the Progressistas and Republicans have united on the understanding that the throne of Queen Isabella will be preserved. It is also said that the convocation of the Consti tuent Assembly is not yet determined on. The friends of the monarchy are very anxious to oppose the convocation of the Constituent Assembly, as it is feared that it will be dangerous to the Crown. With respect to Queen Christina, it is said that she is still in concealment in Madrid, and that her hiding-place is the French embassy. The following is a copy of the address which TEspartero issued to the inhabitants of Logrono, when leaving that place. It ran thus : " I quit Logrono, my adopted country during the last seven years. My country and the call of :iberty require me to act, and I leave for invincible Saragossa. During my absence obey the orders of the most serene Junta, and uphold the liberty that has been achieved. (Signed) " Dens DR VITTORIA." FR ONCE. MM. Black and Durand, merchants at Constan tinople, who are charged with the negotiation of the Turkish loan, are now in Paris, and have placed themselves in communication with the Credit Mobilier and M. Mires for that object. It does not appear, however, that these negotiations have as yet led to any definitive result. It is said that a proposition to facilitate the loan was this day presented by the Marquis de Lavalette, ex-Minis ter of France at Constantinople. The weather has become for the last three or four days intensely hot ; the accounts from the provinces would show it to be general, and they also are highly favourable as to the crops. If the present weather lasts the harvest will bee abundant. The accounts contained in the llioniteur as to the progress of the harvest are of the most favour able nature. A cons id era bl e f a ll h a d taken place in most of the markets, and the yield was expected to be one-fourth more than the average. The following are ti receipts of the principa: Le last returns of the gross French railways : Pa , sen- Dates. Goods. Total. Cor wk. gers last year Northern I uly 9 July 15 381,809 418,204 803,013 669.052 Rouen ........ July 9 July 15 107.429 100,681 208,110 230,4"6 Havre • • July 9 July 15 38,125 5.4,615 88,770 102,845 Orleans ant Brine' , es July 9 July 15 383,495 487,808 871,363 695,582 Strasburg fuly 9 July 15 275,327 3 3.937 609,264 592,865 Ifontereau •• July 9 July I 5 11,551 17,337 28,848 - Lyon: .... July 9 July 15 267.721 198,067 485,7.8 393,128 Western ••• • • • July 10 July 16 141,992 42,700 185,692 137,831 Lyons to the Ileditexraneau !Lily 2 July 8 127,237 129,956 257,193 - Grand Central (Lyons to Ro acne) •• •• July 2 July 8 52,123 136,724 188.817 164,105 see The Three per Cents. closed yesterday at 70f. 95c. for the end of the month ; and the Four-and-a- Half per Cents. at 97f. 90c. ; Orleans Railway Shares, 1,167 f. 50c. ; Rouen, 1,017 f. 50c. ; Havre, 572 f. 50e. ; Great Northern, 816 f. 25c. ; Strasburg, 785 f. ; New Shares, 620 f. ; Paris and Lyons, 941 f. 25c. ; Lyons to the Mediterranean, 840 f. ; Western of France, 640 f. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 605 f. ; Great Central of France, 492 f. 50c. ; Lyons and Geneva, 502 f. 50c. ; Bank of Credit Mobilier, 683 f. 75c. MARKET NE WB.--( T ILLS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. We had a very limited supply of English wheat in to day's market, yet so little business was transacted in it that Monday's prices were nominally unaltered. The show of foreign wheat was good; all kinds moved sif heavily, and the quotations were almost nominal. There was nothing doing in floating cargoes. Barley and malt were dull, and most descriptions were offering on lower terms. There was very little inquiry for oats. Beans and peas ',ere excessively dull. The flour trade was heavy, at Monday's quotations. Wheat. 220 ARRIVALS THIS WEER. Barley. I Malt. 10 2,040 English .. Irish .... Foreign .. Oats. I Flour. 60 960 14,470 2,790 br 7,310 1,320 - i BOROUwi HOP. There is very little business doing in our market, and prices are next to nominal. Duty, 50,0001. to 60,0001. WHITECHAPEL. The demand ruled heavy, as fol!ows :—Beef from 3s 2d to 4s 4d ; mutton, 38 4:1 to 48 8d ; lamb, 4s 4d to 5s 4d ; veal, 3s 2d to 4s 8d ; pork, 3s 4d to4s 8d per Blbs by the carcase. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, July 26.—Wind this day at Noon, E.; light pleasant breeze, and fine weather. OFF THE SOUTH FORELAND, July 26.—(Per Elec. Tel.) —Grafton, St. John's. OFF THE START, July 22.—City of Hamilton, from Montreal. LowEsTorr, July 25.—Wind, E.N.E. Arrived—Maria, from Hamburgh. HARWICH, July 25.—Wind, E. Arrived —Lady Eliza beth. figomjLondon, for Rotterdam ; Adler, do., for Altona. SOUTHAMPTON, July 24.—Wind, SE. Arrived—Anna, Cobjornsen, from Christiana ; Henricus, Emden. PLYMOUTH, July 25.—Wind, E. Sailed—Peltona, for Malta. PORTSMOUTH, July 25.—Wind, S.S.E. Arrived—So phia, from Gefle ; Moses, Tonsberg ; Gratitude, Brevig. Sailed—Leila, for Cadiz. FALMOUTH, July 25.—Wind, E. Arrived—Packet, from Rio Janeiro ; Ursus Mino, Krugeroe. Off Port— Hindoo, from Havannah, for Hull ; Rainbow, Quebec, for Southampton ; Adolph von Nassau, Samarang ; Cho, Quebec. Or DUNGENESS, July 21 .—Arrived—Swea, from New York, for Bremen ; Michael, Torrevieja. OFF BONCHURCH (Isle of Wight), July 24.—Arrived— A. Hambnrgh barque, showing flag with No. 15 on it. BRISTOL, July 25.—Wind, N.E. Arrived—Bellero phon, from Mem e l. S a il e d Mary Ann Bruford, for Africa. MILFORD, July 25.—Wind, N.E. Sailed—Birkenhead, for Quebec. WARRENPOINT, July 24.—Wind, W. Arrived—Brothers, from Quebec. HULL, July 25.—Wind, N.E. Arrived—Rostoff Rosen ]cages, from Miramichi. SHIELDS, July 25.—Wind, N.E. from Licata • Angelia, G enoa . CORK, July 22 . —Wind, S. Arrived —Challenger, from St. John's, N.B Sailed—Jantina Roelina, for New York ; Emilia., Lisbon. SCILLY, July '24.—Wind, E.N.E. Sailed—Lady Sale, for Bremen. Put back—Merlin, Francis Harbour, with loss of bowsprit and foreyard, and with mast sprung. STETTIN, July 23.—The Humber (s s), from Stettin to Hull (cargo, wheat and spelter), is on shore near Caseburg, in the river Swine, and must, discharge part o f cargo . GIBRALTAR, July 10.--'The Cecilia (Danish schooner), from Marseilles to FP.:tmouth, and the iron m erc h an t steamer Lisbon ( ono Cher report gives the name of this steame r Pericles), from Bordeaux to Constantinople, with provisions and specie (two million francs), came in con tact, on the c dth July, about 30 miles south of Malaga. when both 'vessels foundered ; crews (except one man) picked up to.nd landed at Malaga by the French lugger Al aria -- .V 4 hand, master. Arrived—Pacific, PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY, 10.30 A. M. Wind, E S.E.; fine, The Himalaya (screw steamer) sailed this morning, at 8 -a.m. for the M e dit erranean , w i t h th e S cots Grays (Second Dragoons) on board. (BE SUBMARINE AND EUROPEAN TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Wednesday, 11.5 A.M. Wind, E.S.E ; tide 1 hours' flood ; fine. Arrived, 25th.—Merry Cutter, from Rotterdam ; lliam Thornborrow, Guernsey ; Young Hero, Konigsberg ; -Australasia, Portland Bay ; Norfolk Lass, Rotterdam ; -Anna Ge rgina, Ipata. 26th.—Auguste, from Soderham ; Adler, Dantzio; Johanna Jantina, Leer; Kertina, Ko nig sberg ; Anna Maria, Schulperseil ; Johannes Minds, Soderham ; Freedom, Girgenti ; Batavier (s), Rotterdam. Sailed, 2 5th—Arnon, for Launceston ; Irene, Adelaide. Sailed 26th—Allr e d th e G rea t, f or B om b ay ; Druid, California ; City of London (s), Dunkirk; Belgium, for 'Ostend. DEAL, Wednesday, 10 a.m. Wind E. N.E.) fresh and fine. Passed, 25 th—Deigutte H o ffni ng , f rom eas t t o west ward ;• Elizabeth, Koser, for Bristol ; Beethoven, Bremen, for New York ; Ino, from Newcastle. Anchored off Soath Foreland, and will pass with next flood tide, 'about n oon .—Th e G ra ft on , f rom St. John's; Devonshire, Trinidad ; Sagittarius, Antigua • Merry Mae athd C orregio, Quebe c ; Gran ge , P a t ras ; A ' eastus, Mar- calla Poitiers and Queen of Sheba, Port Phillip ; Belle of the West, Boston ; Minerva, Punta Arenas— all for London. Portiu Passed 26th.—Candahar, from London, for Belize ; B e ll a a, Londo n , Li verpoo l . AOr assed off Dungeness. —The barque Louisa, from C a ll ao , Passed oft' Dungeness. —The barque Louisa, from Callao, Rtjfl, CRlNA.—A ccor di ng to the telegraphic accounts the ntsfr o o t m h l in/ 1 g Bo ng yesterday afternoon, which reach of Jun e , the rate of exchange has experienced i only a. sl ight de c li ne at Canton, while at Shanghait remain _ac without alteration, the quotation at the former lac bei ng ss. ld. and at the latter 6q. Bd. Shipments l silver from this country are hkely therefore to con,,lnu , leasrpaeder:lnlyotas it is said that the newly-coined Carolus del to date waPsa" current at Shatmhai. The export of tei , 73,900,0001 b , and of silk 57,000 bales. New tea niu-ters were expected from Oonan in thre, weeks, but it was doubtful if there would be any from Ooptck. The s t ate of the tea districts was still unfa vonrable. mail From C a l cutta the exchange by the prese,./ znail a p pears a more f avourable for this country. Th Par Steam er Do uro , reported to have been lost on th. aeel s , is said to have been got off with eonsiderabl. damage. THE CHOLERA. IN LONDON. death from choler; is renorted in the case of a man named Saltine, resin i in Bucklersbury, who was carried off in a few houro after the commencement of the attack. Should th, isolated cases, which are manifesting themselves r various quarters, be exchanged fur a g0,,,:ral valenc, of this fearful visitation, the offici !Is of the metropolita hospitals, we are glad to sr.y, wi;i b e fund pr` pared, extra wards having been fi tted up, and here tneaub of remedial treatment abundantly pro Tided. _ di - LL•Qa.. riltri.) -:-:-gtittiott+ GOODWOOD RACES. (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRA PH.) GOODWOOD STAKES. BRIBERY Heapy 2 Sixteen ran. NORTH AND SOUTH BIENNIAL STAKES, Lord of the Isles Clotilde Boinrdo Baalbeo Twenty-one ran. :300 SOVS. SWEEPSTAKES. 1 3l 2 Two ran. 2 I s t , St, THE GOODWOOD CUP. 50 ARRIVED.—Virago. 20 ADDITIONAL SCRATCHINOS. St oc k we ll , Crusader, 10 20 Goorkah, Jerry Kent, King Torn, Ulster, Aquila, 50 Bra .ken, Fitzgladiator, Lincoln's Inn, and Erycina. 25 25 IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT, I N HOUSE OF COMMONS —(THIS DAY.) The SPEAKER took the chair at 12 o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The Earl of Fife (Trustees) Estate Bill was read a third time and passed. Baron de L'lsle and Dudley's Estate Bill, and Lord Petre's Estate Bill, were read a second time, and ordered to be committed. Mr. COBBETT presented petitions from the medical men and clergy of Paisley in favour of a ten hours fac. tory act. CRUELTY TO ANIMALS BILL. The Lords' amendments to this bill were considered and agreed to. MORTMAIN BILL. This bill was ordered to be committed this day three months. PORTLAND CHAPELS BILL. The Lords' amendments to this bill were considered and agreed to. RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES BILL. On the order of the day for resuming the adjourned debate on this bill, Mr. T. BARING insisted that if the laws of the country were not sufficient to prevent trading and speculation in the securities of a Government with which we were at war, some general measure ought to be brought in by Ministers to remedy the defect, because, although this measure was only directed against Russia, it was just possible that in a short time we might be at war with Prussia, and who was to propose a measure which should apply to the securities ? It was, therefore, clear that any change in the law must be based upon ge neral princip!es, applicable to ad the world and not con fined to Russia alone; and as this bill being based on patty spite, did not go that length, he decidedly objected to going into committee upon it. With public opinion against it, there was not the least disposition amongst Englishmen to speculate in Russian securities; but if this bill passed, it would lead to impressions on the continent that without this special enactment there would be, and, as a natural result, instead of depressing Russian securi ties, it would rather tend to enhance their value in many of the capitals of Europe. Lord D. STUART supported the bill. It would be time enough to legislate in a similar spirit with regard to other countries when we had declared war against them. At present we were only at war rith Russia, and it was enough, therefore, to direct the provisions at that power. . - - Mr. WILSON remarked that if the real state of the financial affairs of Russia was known, it would go fur ther to reduce the value of her securities than any bill of this nature, even if it were adopted by all the Legis latures of Europe. Mr. ISAAC BUTT had heard nothing which should induce the house to refuse to go into committee on this bill. Mr. SrooNER and Mr. L. HEYWOIITH supported the bill. Lord PALMERSTON said he should certainly sup port the bill, which was based upon the intelligible principle that British subjects should not be allowed to aid Russia with money. It was a childish absurdity to draw a distinction between directly lending money to Russia, which was high treason, and lending the same money indirectly. What the Secretary to the Treasury had said was perfect nonsense, and unless they passed this bill they ought to abolish the law of high treason. It was sheer nonsense to say that British subjects should be allowed indirectly to supply Russia with money, and those who could support such a principle must be pre pared to say the Dutch admiral was right, who, in the lull of an engagement, sold powder to his antagonist to enable him to renew the engagement. It was not right to set the interest of the pocket against the honour of the country. (Cheers.) It was not a pounds, shillings, and pence question, but a question of national honour, and no man who ve4s not anxious to assist the enemy or avoid committing high treason could hesitate to vote for this bill. (Cheers.) Sir J. PAKINGTON asked how it had come to pass, then, if the bill was of so much importance, that it had not been brought forward by the Government. He was at a loss to understand how the noble lord could call that "sheer nonsense" which a member of the Govern ment sitting near him supported ; but for his own part he should vote in accordance with the expressed senti ments of the noble lord. Mr. KINNAIRD replied that the hands of the Government had been full enough this session, without twitting them for not taking up this bill. Mr. DUNCAN thought the bill would interfere with the operations of commerce. Mr. HENLEY contended that if the act the bill dealt with was nothing short of high treason, the bill did not go far enough—the penalties it imposed were not sufficiently high ; but after the strong opinion the noble lord had expressed upon it, the Government could have no alternative but to take the responsibility of the m e ‘ a. r u . r R u p o o N n v t N h e c m o e n e c l u v r e r s e . of Mr. Wilson, d in (H t e h a e r v h.) ie e d w a r s and mue h protested a importance, ehate, they before ou they ght tto a s s v e e the a opinionmeasure t h s e a H no e b le lord should the e rienrreb move ; for t . thatle i city of London the committee inm p( ittee b u ep ni it. o st. polled until a future clay. The house then divided, when there appeared— For going into committee Against it 24 Majority... After the numbers had been declared, Lord D. STUART said he was informed that a right hon. member, who was in the house before, and in the lobby while the division was taking place, had abstained from voting. (Cries of " Name, name.") He referred to Sir William Molesworth, the President of the Board of Works. (A laugh.) The SPEAKER stated that the announcement ought to have been made before the numbers were declared. The figures could not now be altered. The house then went into committee on the bill. Lord SEYMOUR said he had voted for going into committee after the strong appeal of the noble lord, but as he thought the house ought to have the opinions of the law officers of the Crown upon the bill before it pro• ceeded further, he would move that the chairman do report progress. (Hear, hear.) Sir J. PAKINGTON supported the motion for re porting progress. Mr. W. A. WILKINSON observed that if the noble lord the Secretary of State for the Home Department was right in his principle, it was equally as applicable to hemp and tallow as money, and therefore further time should be allowed for considering the bill. (LEFT SITTING.) STATE OF ZBADE. ( From the Manchester Guardian of this clay.) MANCHESTER, July 25.--A decline, in one week, of ten shillings per quarter in the price of wheat, following so large a previous fall, has exercised, as it was sure to do, a cheering influence upon the whole of our mar k et to-day. Speaking generally, we may say that the medium and lower counts of yarns are more saleable now at the full prices of last week than they were then ; and for some kinds an advance of id per lb. upon those quotations is required and obtained. This is the case with pincops pretty generally, and 24's to 32's warps. Some number of doubled, also, are inclining upward. The home manufacturers and the continental mer chants are the principal buyers ; and their operations appear to have reached a fair aggregate amount. HALIFAX, July 22.--There has been scarcely any in quiry for worsted goods of any description in our Piece Hall to-day, and the sales have Leen very limited. Yarns are languid ; and as the spinners are not able to realise prices adequate to the cost of production, they restrict their operations within as narrow a compass as possible. Wools are somewhat stiffer ; but as the spinners only buy from hand to mouth, there is not much doing. ROCHDALE, July 24.—We have bad a better demand for flannels to-day, at prices not less than those of the preceding week. Kerseys and low.priced goods have been dull, and the demand for these has been more limited. The wool market has been steady, the demand moderate, and prices very firm. PORTUGAL.--Advices from Oporto, with regard to the vine disease, state that, owing to a long prevalence of cold foggy weather, it has continued to increase, although topes of an improvement were beginning to be enter tained from the effects of a change to warmth, which had just set in. From the Upper Douro the recent tccounts were more favourable in relation to certain die ricts, and some persons even thought it likely as much vine may be produced as last year. Around the city of iporto, however, the young grapes seemed entirely gone. riiroughnut the Minho province they looked better, but in the Beira the b ight was general. Apples and fruit •f all descriptions, particularly almonds, and lil *wise he potato crop, were less infected than in former years, and promised to be abundant. A disturlance which h l taken place in the city, owing to a great advance in In Tian corn, caused by the stocks having been bought 1p by the speculators, had been promptly suppressed, oil some of the master manufanturers of the place .ppea:•ed disposed to turn it to account by urging the • .or, with whom it forms an important article of fool, the belief that their privations wuu:d increase with every step the Government may take in departing from a prohibitory tariff; THE SUN, LOND_ON, WEDN.ESDAY EVENING, JULY 26, 18 SHARE MARKETS, (THIS DAY.) 1.11.12i1/ 4 , 3• Shr. Paid. RAIL WAY .. Leasing 'closing Prices Business Compans. yegierdsi• this day. 50 all Bedford and London & Bletchley N. West ••• St. 1.00 Buckgharesh L&N.W. 95 100 98 50 %11 ClydesdaleJc Jaledon.. 95 97 St. 1.00 F E. Lincoln gr 6 per cent. lt.Nrthn. 134 13 7 25 all rlas. Barr. & Caldonian. Neils. Direct' ••• 25 all Do. New D o ••• 25 all r3 lstr.drDn.Flrlt. Westn 28 30 100 all Yrtlpl. Dk. Yk. New. Railway & Berw. 50 all tfnll & Selby Y. &N Md 103 105 25 all , Do. Shares. Do 614 524 124 all Do. 1 Shares. Do 254 264 13i all Lon.&Greenw S. Eastern 124 —l34xd 20 all Do. Preference Do 23i —24 i 20 1.00 'Lowestoft gr. 4 per cent. Norfolk ... 20 100 Do. 6 per ct. Ali ••• all .Maneh. B x t n. L . & N. W. and Matlock & Midid 2R 2i 50 all Widdlesbro' & Stekton & Redear . . . Darlingt. ••• 10( all Widld.Bradfd Midland 93 50 all Northern and Easternsp.c. E. Count. 57 59 50 • . Do. 6 per et. Do 50 all Do. Fixcds p Do ••• 25 all Prest. & Wyre L. &N. W 124 12 Do. Shares. Do&Ln&Yk ••• St. 100 Boyan.&l7lit. Gt Northn St. 100 Do.Shepth.St Do 134 137 25 18I,i Shef.Roth.a , c. La.neash& Gooleg. 5 p.c. Yorksh. 12 94 S. Statlordsh. A.MClean 21 —11 d 50 all Wear Valleygr Stockt. & 6 per cent... 4 Darlingt. 25 all Do ..... ....... 4 Do._ 294 —39 i St. 100 Wilts&Sornrst rkWestn. 91 93zd THE HERO OF SCINDE. THE NAPIER TESTIMONIAL. On Saturday afternoon, the Committee of the Napier Testimonial assembled at the United Service Institution, in Whitehall-yard, for the purpose of taking into con sideration the state of the funds at their command, and the amount of subscriptions still outstanding. Among those who were present were—the Ri4ht Hon. the Earl of Ellen borough, the Right Hon. the Earl of Harrington, Gene ral Aitchis on , Li eut.-Colonel Kennedy, Captain Claxton, R.N., George Jones, Esq., RA., and several other gen tlemen who have taken either an active part, or a lively interest, in the project of raising somewhere in the streets of our metropolis a suitable public monument to comme morate the late illustrious General Sir Charles James Napier, the heroic conqueror and administrator of Scinde, the glorious victor of Meannee and Hyderabad. The Earl of Ellenborough having been voted into the chair, the report of the joint secretaries, dated July 22, 1864, was then read by Colonel Kennedy. It proved to be a report in every respect, we are bound to say, eminently satisfactory. It showed that, notwithstand ing the suggestion circulated by the committee, recom mending that subscriptions should be restricted to small sunis, yet the subscribers had been so numerous, and some of their contributions so liberal, that an amount has already been realised, amply sufficient, it is calcu lated, to raise a statue twelve feet high, namely, one of colossal dimensions. This, according to the estimates obtained —estimates of a reliable character, and provid ing, moreover, that the first class of artists that the country furnishes shall be employed in the design and erection of the monument. As illustrative of the satis factory operation of the principle of small subscriptions recommended, it may be well to give the following quo tation from Major Wynyard, Birmingham, when for warding his 10th list :—" In forwarding this last list likely to be sent from hence, a significant fact should be noted. The ten lists have contained, besides the contri butions of other classes, the unsolicited subscriptions of up wards of 1,600 pensioners from the Coventry, Glou cester, Northampton, North Stafford, Shrewsbury, and Wolverhampton districts, and in a period of great priva tion and high prices." It was next intimated by the report "That a simul taneous movement having been set on foot in India for the erection of a public testimonial in that country to the memory of the late Sir Charles Napier, it has not been deemed advisable to take any very active steps to bring the subscription list for the home monument before the Indian public." The gross amount of the subscription list reaches the large total of 2,708/. Os. 51d. The amount actually paid into the bankers', 2,399/. 19s. Bd. Incidental expenses, 117/. 10s. 6d. The sum actually in bank, 2,282/. 9s. 2d. Altogether, as already observed at the outset of the re port, it is estimated that a sufficient sum has even now been secured to the funds of the testimonial to supply the amount requisite for the raising a gigantic metal statue of the Hero of Scinde upon a huge granite pedes tal. The report here adds—" That several subscribers and members of the committee have expressed an opi nion as to the eligibility of giving an additional record by the erection cf a tomb, somewhat in accordance with the accompanying design, over the body in th e Ports mouth churchy ar d ; but hat the family desire to erect this tribute themselves, and measures are accordingly being taken for its execution." Finally, the Report said, "That a change having taken place in the organisation of the Scinde Camel Corps, the commander of that corps has forwarded the colours of that regiment, with a request that they may be placed in the Portsmouth Military Chapel, inserting under them a marble tablet, with Vie following inscr;p tion, all of which has been executed according to his de sire, viz. : " The standards waving above this tablet are conse crated to the memory of General Sir Charles Napier, G.C.8., the conqueror of Scinde, by whose genius the Scinde Camel Corps was formed. Happier than most con querors, he secured the affections of the vanquished by a wise and beneficent rule of that noble province which his valour and military skill bad won for his country. M a his glorious name animate the b reas t s o f B r i t i sh soldiers in the day of battle !' " BRITISH RAILWAYS. So closed the report, with the signatures of J. p. Kennedy, Lieut.-Colonel, and C. Claxton, Captain, R.N., as the joint secretaries. The following resolution was then proposed by J. G. JONES, Esq., seconded by H. KENNEDY, Esq., and una nimously resolved— "That Messrs. Drummond, the Oriental, the Union, and any other bankers or individuals, who may have re• ceived subscriptions, be authorised and requested to pay to Messrs. Cox and Co. the balances now in their hands respectively, and any moneys that may hereafter be received by them, on account of the Napier Testimonial." Another resolution was then proposed by the Earl of HARRINGTON, seconded by Captain CLAXTON, and una nimously resolved— "That the Earl of Ellenborough, Lieut.-General Ait chison, and Colonel Kennedy, be appointed trustees of the funds, and that the signatures of two of them be sufficient for business transactions ; and that the trustees be autho rised and requested to invest the moneys subscribed in Government securities, as to them shall seem best." Subsequently a third (and final) resolution was pro posed by General AITCHISON, seconded by Lieut.-Colonel KENNEDY, and unanimously resolved— " That an executive sub-committee, composed of the following noblemen and gentlemen, be authorised to take such steps as they shall think desirable to obtain designs and estimates for a fitting statue of the late Lieut.-General Sir C. J. Napier, with a pedestal, to be erected in London ; and to obtain a desirable site upon which to erect the same, and finally to conclude such arrangements and bargains as they may think advisable for the speedyexecntion and erection of such pedestal and statue, and that th ree members of th e execut i ve committee shall form a quorum : His Grace the Duke of Richmond ; the Right Hon. the Earl of Ellenborough ; the Ri g ht Hon. the Earl of Har rington ; the Right Hon. the Earl of Devon ; General Lord Seaton, G.C.B. ; General Sir John F. Burgoyne, G.C.B. ; General Sir George D'Aquilar, K.C.B. ; General Aitchison; J. G. Phillimore, Esq., M.P. ; George Jones, Esq., R.A. ; H. A. Kennedy, Esq. ; the Joint Secretaries, Captain C. Claxton and Lieut.-Colonel J. P. Kennedy. The committee then adjourned—everything being now satisfactorily arranged for the speedy carrying out to a successful completion of this very noble and na tional testimonial. ROYAL HIGHLAND SCHOOL SOCIETY. On Saturday last the Rev. Alexander Fletcher, D.D., accompanied by Mr. Macki e , secretary, had the honour of a conference with the Lori Archbishop of Canterbury, at Addington-park. The Lord Archbiilop having been educated at the same college as the secretary, and other pleasing remi niscences, rendered the visit highly interesting, while his grace's reception of the venerable chaplain was no less cordial. But the chief object of the visit was to present the most grateful thanks of the society for his grace's late pious advocacy of one of the oldest mis sionary and educational institutions in the kingdom, having been incorporated by Royal charter in 1709 ; and to represent the many difficulties which, through his grace's kindness and condescension, had been so happily removed. Public dinners having become no longer a profitable medium for working a public benevolence, the secretary had endeavoured to propitiate the advo cacy of the ministers of the eospel. Some, whose place it was to respond to his repeated solicitations, having declined, he appealed to his grace, and, through his be nign example, several worthy clergymen have since readily consented to preach in behalf of the charity. The excellent prelate returned a most gracious answer, and the party retired, highly delighted with their re ception. Another clergyman, a visitor of Dr. Fletcher, was present at the interview, who was much moved by the courtesy and condescension of the highest dignitary in the Church, whose urbanity of manners has become a proverb in this country. On Sunday the Rev. A. Fletcher, D.D., preached in behalf of the institution in the Rev. R. Redpath's chapel, Wells-street, Oxford street, in the forenoon, to a highly respectable and attentive auditory, selecting for his text Proverbs xix. 2 " That the soul be without knowledge it is not good." In the course of his sermon he expatiated on the infinite worth of the soul, and the sublime importance of Bible education. He compared all the riches and treasures of the world, the wonders of creative genius, and the vast stores of wealth, all brought together, to the value of the soul of a ragged babe on the breast of a beggar, and he de clared that all the wealth of the world could not be taken in exchange for that single soul. The Highland School Society had more than 12,000 juvenile immortals under their daily care, besides adult and Sabbath schools. From these had been sent out hundreds to every corner of the world, who had been useful members of society. He drew no uncommon picture in mountain life when he described the joy of grandfathers, fathers, and other old people listening to the juvenile missionary reading the word of Divine Truth. The eloquent sermon of the worthy Doctor was followed by the Rev. Ranald Mac pherson, the minister of the Scots Church, Swallow street, who only a week or two since delivered two ser mons for the same benevolent purpose. Being a native of the Highlands, he gave a most in teresting account of the country. He compared other charitable institutions which fed, clothed, and educated children whose parents were in comfortable circum stances, many above the middle ranks, and those poor suffering children in the Highlands who were educated for less than 53. a-year. He deprecated the practice of converting those charities which were founded for the . poor into seminaries for the rich , w ho were sheltered in the asylums which rightfully belong to the chienildren ess, of penury, who are left to wande r about in rags, frdl and destitute of any means of subsistence except by beggary and theft. He had no wish to conceal such disgraceful facts. On whatever plea of custom, or of civil law, this perversion of the stream of . charity is sought to be justified, it is, in reality, nothing b . etter than a downright spoliati on of the truly necessitous. It was the meanest and most atrocious cruise that ever was perpetrated coolly and deliberately by men who I were called by the name of Him who voluntarily because poor that by Lis poverty the needy might be enrich e d. He drew a line of dem arcation betwixt such charities as the one for which he pleaded ; the !mialinessolf. t t o 20 hee / x- • and the ex pense of education ; t he p oorly-paid but well-educated schoolmasters, wh ose salar y averaged from 18 provision for superannuated teachers, who, by aye e or infirmity, were incapable—the old men about 10/ .) and the women about 8/. But we cann ot follow t h e rev, speaker at present ; it is probable his sermon will be preserved with tat of Dr. Fletcher's by the secretary, as One o f the many tri umphs he has obtained over he secret enemies of this exc ellent society, if any such there be. ARRIVALS FROM AUSTRALIA.—The Binh - friars, from Sydney, and the British Isles, from Hobart Town, are announced, but their quantity of gold, if any, has not yet been Ascertained, I Pald.J RAILWAYS. 100 I, Alerdeen.. • Anibg Nottng. Bost and Eastu. Janet_ all Belfast & Ballymena. all Binning. Wolverh. & Stour Va11ey......., 28 Birkenhd. Lanesh, Cheshire Junet..... all Do. Chesil. & Birk. £5O and £25 Cons, 184 Do., ....... 30 Alyth & Tyne original £25 (issd. at £45, .00 Bristol and Exeter... 100 Caledonian all Chester & Holyhead. all Cork and Bandon... all Cork, Black, & Pass 14 Cornwall Crieff Junction 45 Dublin&BelfastJune all Dundee Perth&Aber; deen Junction..... . all Do. New all East Anglian..... all Do., (£lB E & H)._ all Eastern Counties all Eastern Union, A Stock 100 Do., B. Stock 86 Do., New A 00 East Lancashire .00 Edinburgh & Glasgow 9 Edinb. and Peebles .00 Edin.Pdb &Dundee 1 r'orth & Clyde June. 100 Glasgow &S. Western! St. 100 Great Northern St. 100 Do., A. Stock St. 100 Do., B. Stock St. 100 Gt. Sth. &West.(lre ) St. 100 Great Western 12 12 Irish South-Eastern 50 all Lancaster & Carlisle 16 11i Do., Thirds 16? 2 Do. New Thirds St. 100 Lancash.andYorksh 196 186 Do., Fifths 14 11 D,., Wst. Riding Un 50 all Leeds Northern 20 all Liv.Crsby.&Southpt I.IA all London & Blackwal 10 all Lond. Tilb. &Sthend. it. 100 Lond.Bright&S.Cst it. 100 Lond. and N. Westn !O 12 Do. Fifths .0 1 Do.lo/.5h.,M&8...( .26 26 Do. Eighths it. 100 London and S. Westn. 0 426 Do., £5O 0 34 Do. £4O 5 all LiiLdrry&Coleraine 5 all Lmludrry. & Ennisk: t. 100 Mancli.Shef.& Lincln 2s 44 Do., Mau. & Lin. Un. t. 100 Midland t. 100 ;)o.l3irnin g. & Derby () 474 Midld, G. West.(lnt.) 5 17; Do. Half Shares all Newcastle & t. 100 Newmarket 54 Do., Bury Extension 5 107 Nwpt.Aberg. & Hrfd ) 7 Newry & Enniskillen ) all Newry Warrenpoi.nt and Rostrevor 100 Norfolk .. )33 Northu.Connties Un 100 North British 18 North Devon, No. 1 i all Do., No. 2 i all Do., 6 A Deferred.., 1 8 Do., B Guaranteed 1 all North London 56 Do. New £lO 111 s N.&S.Wstrn.,Hamp stead, and City Ju., 176 North Staffordshire., all North Western 10 N. &S. Westrn. June 1 Nuneaton, Hinckley and Leicester 100 Oxford, Worcester, & Wolverhampton 21 2s Portsmouth 100 Scottish Central 1.00 ScottisliMidland 100 Shrewsbnry &MI mg 100 Do. L. di N. Wester, Guaranteed St Gc.k 10 Shrewsby. dti llerefd all Shrewsby. & Chester (N. W. Min,; all Do. Halves,l G all Do. Oswesti7 06 Shropshire Union Do. A, B, C,& D,fully paid up at per cent all South Devon 100 'South Eastern all South Wales 15 S. Yrksh. & Riv. Dun 5 Do 212 s Staines, Wok &Wok all Stockton & Darling 165 Stockton & Hartlepl. 100 Taff Vale . 8 Do. £lO shares 100 Do, Pref., No. 1.... 21 Thames Haven Dock and Railway 17 Vale of Neath all Waterfd. & Kilkenny all Waterford&Limerick 16 West Cornwall. 1 West End of London and Crystal Palace all West London. 81s. Wimbledn & Croydon 100 York Newctl.&Berw. 20 Do. Extensions 13.1 Do. G.N.E. Purchase 1100 York& N.Midland lillosing Prices yesterday. 23k - 24 5k- 5# 9 - 10 11i --10 i 17 -- 18 7 -6. i 98 100 62 63 4 15a 16, 12 14. i 2 - id 7 - 17 - 18, 131 -13 - 35 -- 37 25 -- 27 64 - 66 59 - 61 U - 26 66 - 68 90 - 91 75 - 77 125 - 127 96 - 98 79k -79 i 89 - 9i 11 - 13 D 11 -13 p 67i - 67 6t -- 6i .1 141 - 15, Si - - 1054 - - 4 P - 82 - 84 9 - 81 8 - 7 22j - 23 66; 67 38 40 d par! 6i 6 2 24 6 - 8 50 - 52 34 - 31 334 ... 344 52 55 I par § p 41 4 P l l fit 74 ld 1 p 32 - 34 93 - 95 5 3 - 60 68 - 72 68 -- 72 21 -- 2i 18 -- 20 0 - 10 14 -- 15 3i -- 3,0 14 - 16 634 - 644 35 -36 i ~. ''"'" ... ii = in 19 f - - 194 4 - 5 23 - '25 6 - i* : i** 734 —74 a 7 Gicil 4 -- 3 di 55 - - 5 ' FOREIGN. all ,kntwerp &Rotterdam 3 Belgian Eastn. June. 8 Beziers to Graissessae 2s. Bombay, Baroda, and Central India,Serip Central of Italy all .liarleroi 4 Erqueiiu all Demerara 14 I , - )ij on and Besancon 9 Outch Rhenish all East Indian 2 Do Extension all •=4. Indian Peninsula 10 Janet. of France 10 , :lrd Trunk of Ca.nad , 4u Do. Debentures all Do. do. 10 Gt. Central of France all Gt. Western of Canada Shares . Do. Bonds (Ist is. )'57 all Hamilton & Toronto all Do. 6 per cent. 5 Lake Coust. & Basle all Lucca di Pistoj a 5 p.c , pref 15 Luxembourg 10 Do. (Railway) ..... 2 Do. Pref 3 Do. (Canal) 5 Do. 6p. ct. pref '0 Lyons and Geneva 12 Lyons di Mediterran 13! . Madras 33 I Maria Antonia all 'I Do. do. New 2 Nfelbourne Dk. (SI Ry all Namur & Liege (wit) interest) all Do. (ex interest) all Northern of France Do. 201. 3 p. c Bds all (fmy. B. & Ams. Shs.) all NorwegianTrunkPref 10 Paris and Lyons all Ditto Bonds . ..... all Paris and Orleans all Paris and Rouen all Paris and Strasbourg 10 ParisCaen dr Cherbrg. 10i 4uebee dr Richmond all Rouen and Havre 15 Royal Danish 2 Royal Swedish all Sambre and Meuse 6 Do. 54 p. cent. Pref , 6 Southern of France—, 8 St. Andrew's and Quebec (A) all West Flanders all Do SA per c. Pref 10 Western of France 7 West. of Switzerland 2 Wiesbaden 15 Zealand lIISCEL: all Lubin Coal and Iron 17 k ustralian A gricult. 14 lustralsn.Pcitic. Maii 8 thstraln. Royal Mail' 4 3erlin Water Works 40 :3rit. American Land 1 :Ira. & Coln. Smeltg. and Reduction Co.. 32!, ":lanada 5 •.:17stal Palace , 3; Do. New 2 I 'rystal Pal. of France 3 V.astern Steam 20 El ectrit Telegraph(A) all Do. (B) 1 '7lectric Teleg. of Ir 14 (leu. Steam Navigat 18 . 4eneral Screw Stean 7: [rish Beet:oot Sugar 10 Nagdaleua St. Navig. all Nat. Pat. Steam Fuel 3 Netherlands Land—. 1 N. S. W. Coal di Inter. Steam Navigat. Co. all N. B. Australasian... Do. New 10 NAIL ofEuropeSteam all Peel Rr. Ind. & Minrl. all Peninsular& Oriental 40 Do. Do. all Portland Iron Co it I -t,oyal Mail Steam all Scot. Austral. Invest iouth Austral:Lary! all Submar. Telegraph all Do. Registered, 28 Van Diemen band 3 .3Ad 3i— 3d id—ip ii = 3 P d 1 i 2 p i d i a I) 5i 4Ad 6A 5A id par 18 —l9 id— ip . •• • • • ...'. • ' ... dis ... - _ ... "' • . ... ..-. .. par -- ipsn id ••• .... • ••• ..... • • • .°.. •I 7§ - 8 iii - ii, 8 - 171 - 17ipi 45 - 47 40 - 42 31i•- 31 - pm 22i 23 1 d —lpan d••• 8i .9 ..• ''... ••• ... "--. pm 3i - 5 - 6 p 1 ••• ••• . ii - - 34 i i 44 - 45. ... ... b 5 70 41 id 4i • 20 --- 21 ••• ... ••• 1 ...... 11 ••• ..... ••• i ''. 1 f .. —ad ••• I - i P ia 34 36 la = 20 20 10 10 Business done this day. 18i 13i 9O 89 79 i 109/ 10 105 41 84 3j 221 a 661 I i 34 I SI 131 i per cent. 64b 3/ 10 25 10 1.0• f dis St. 74 20 13i 25 55i 25 22 x i n x in x in X in 2 in x in x in x in x in 4P/m1 41 I 4if 42 1 i 49 PREFERENCE SHARES. 100 100 Do. No. 2, p. c. .... r 30 Blyth and Tyne 10 pe, c. pref. (issd. at 50/) 100 Bris. & Ex. 4p. c. St. 5 Do. 4 p. c. Shares 100 Caledonian all Chester & Holyhead Guar. 54 per cent 64 Cork &Bandans4p.c all Dundee Perth &Aber deen Junction all EastAnglian (1:310s; 6 per cent all Do. (£5) 7 per cent 2 Do. (X 7 17s) 7p. c all Eastern Counties Ex-, tension, 5 p. c. No. 11 all Do. No. 2 all Do. New 6 p. c. St all Eastern Union, Scrip Guar. 6 per cent.. all Do. 51., 10 ner cent, all Do. 101. Del;entr.Sh• 100 East Lan cash. 6 p.ets. all East and West York shire June. Pref... all EdinbPrth.&Dundee 4 per cent. .00 Glasgow Sr. S.Western j Guar. 5 per cent..., 00 ,seat Northn. sp. c. .00 Do. sp. c. Redeem., at 10 p. c. prem. .. .00 Do. p. c. Scrip 6 :4t.N. of Scot. Ist Pref all A. Soutlin. & Westm. (Ireland) Eighths) 5 Do. 4 per c. Pref. Sli 6 ;It. Westu. (Berks & Hants Ex. 5 p. c) .00 Do. coy. rod. 44 p. c , .00 Do. con. red. 4p. c ' 100 Do. irred. 4p. c 6 Lan. & York. F. £2O 100 Do. 6p. c. Stock 13 Deeds N. 6p. c. No.l 9 Do. Quarters, 1848 100 London and Brighton Guaranteed 5 p. c 100 Do. Pref., sp. e. St. all Do. Convertible, sp. c., 1852 100 Do. New Guar.6 13. c 100 Lon.&N. W., Coy. & Nuneaton 5 London &S. Western Con. Thirds all Londonderry& Coler Shares all Londy. & Ennie.4 Sh all Alan., Shef., & Lin., Shares, No. 1. all Do. New, £lO 44 Do. £6 all Harypt & Carl. 4 p.c all Do. 44 per cent 104 Do .00 Consol.6 p.e.St .00 Do. Consol. Bristol & l4irm. 6 per cent 5 Do. Pref. 44 per cent 6 Norfolk Debenture 100 Do. Prof. 4 p. c. Stoc 100 Do. 5 P.C. Eat 100 Do. 54 per ct.pref 100 Do. Way. Val. sp. c 100 North British all North Staffordshire 100 Oxford, Worcester, & Wolverh. Xl5, 6p.c 15 Do all Scot. Cent. , New Prof St. 20 St. 15 5 10 St. 5 St. St. 20 St. all /Shrews. &liirm.N.G., all Shrewsby. & Cheste d (Nor.W.Min), 8 p.c, 10 Do. 5 per cent all South Devon De. fixed, 46 per cent all S. Eastern (Reading Ann.) of £1 Os. tid. 100 Do. 4i per cent all S.Yorksh.4p.c.Guar all Stockton and Dar lington, 4 per cent 5 Do. do. do. all Stockton and Hartle. pool, guar. 5 p. c. till Ist July, 1856 Waterfd.&Kilk.6p.c. 100 York, Neweastle,and Berwiek,4 p.c. Pref. 5 Do 10 York&N. Midlanai. Tl , l S. 1 ) 11 ....... ••• •"' • • • ..... 95 - 97 11 •••— ad ••• ~. '"'. 31 - 34 4 - 5 P 1 -14 p - lip 134 13t 22 - 24 all Agua Fria all Inglo Austrin. Gold all Anglo Californian 2 Australasian.,,,, 6 Australian ............ all Australian Cordillera all Australian Freehold all Ave 211,tr7a ............ all Baden (Gd. Duchy of) all Blaenarvon Ir. & all isritish Austrin. Gold 13.5 British Iron • ......... 244 Brazilian Imp. (issued at £5 pia:........... a all Do. Cocaes Cuiad 15 Do. St. John Del Rey Carson's Creek 4 Clarendon Con. Co. of Jamaica.,,.,. all Cobre, Copper ......... 1 Colonial Gold ... ...... 15 Copiapo ......... . . . .... all Copper MM. of Eng all Do. Pref, 74 p. cent. all English and Austrin. Copper Smeltg. Co. all. General ............... all Great Nugget Voin... all Do. Registered ...... all Great Polgooth ...... all Liberty ............... all !Linares ......... _ . all I Lend. dleal_ifori. a o . Ili Quartz Crush. Co. all Mariquita 9 Mexican&S.Americn all New Granada all New Linares Mining and Smelting Co all Nouveau Monde all Pontgibaud Silver Lead Min. do Smelt 1 Port Philip all Quartz Rock all Rhymney Iron 15 Do. New 10i Santiago de Cuba all Fouth Australian 7 Tin Croft all United Mexican all Waller all West Granada all West Mariposa 12s. Worthing Mining of Au5tra1ia............. all I Yuba JOINT-STOI all i Australasia 1 all 1 British Colonial Bankl and Loan Company all 3ritish N. American 5 Chartd. Bank of Asia 2 Chrtd. Bnk. of India, Australia, & China 25 Colonial 20 Commercial of Loud 14 English Scottish and Australian 20 Lond. Chart. Bk. of Australia 1 20 Loudon and County 10 London Joint Stock 20 Loud. & Westminster 35 National Provincial of England 10 Do. New 221 National of Ireland all New South Wales all Oriental Bank of Corporation. 5 Do. New 25 Provincial of Ireland all Do. New 1 Royal Australn.Bkg & Gold Imp Co all South Australia all Union of Australia.. Do. New 10 Union of London AUSTRALIA.—The Australi route will bring dates a forth' days from Melbourne, and a compared with the correopi GOldei) AP, - .adj 5 --117 [O9 - 111 .01 - 103 6 6A 96 98xd 88 90 ' 91 93 Id par .35 137 .. '"' ,• -" • ~ .... ... r• .... •• • .. • "'"' so. 2i - 3 p 6 - 7 9 - 10 * - gip 1.36 138 li id 90 - 93 108 - 110 9i —lO 16i -17 j 10 -10 j 11 -- 13 id -- i P 100 -- 103 2 - id 92 - 95 3i - St ad i - 1 1 -- li - i -- i 7 - 8i 9i 41 2 24 27 29 d 45 - 47 11 -1 2 52 -57 li - 2 4 - 0.1 • si i i a 1` 16 1 7 A A 31 33 9 10 5 34 4 a - i ... - - 83 -- - -8-5 ... . 4. . i a ... ...d ...• ...... 3 - 2i (2i 20i -- 21 46 - 48 -- 41 - ,ii 72 - 74 • - ... ian advices by the overland ight later from Sydney, 24 6 month from Adelaide, as ondence received by the 50 20 35 30 20 1 1. 1 10 1 1 30 1 10 281 20 50 20 25 i al 111 12 PUBLIC-HOUSES ACTIN SCOTLAND-THREAT ENED ASSAULT ON THE MORAL FREEDOM OF T.FIE CITIZEN IN ENGLAND. TO THE EDITOR OF THE BUN. SlR,—Some short time back, one Forbes Mackenzie then in P ar li amen t as one o f th e mem b er s for Liverpool, but afterwards deprived of his seat on account of illegal practices at the election—i. e., bribing the electors with short drink —was successful in carrying throughthe House of Commons a bill which, among other most oppressive enactments, closed against the public all houses of enter tainment where beer or spirits are sold throughout the whole of Sunday. That a person so insignificant was able to effectuate such tyranny I should think surprised everybody—and must have surprised himself. I now notice that three members of the House of Commons, designated as Mr. Wilson Patten, Mr. Henley, and Mr. Sutheron, have introduced into the branch of the Legis lature of which they are members a bill of much the same description, and that at the fag-end of the session. Several measures of great importance, announced in the speech of the Sovereign at the opening of Parliament, as the plan for extending the franchise—a, measure of transparent equity—have been abandoned or defeated. The restrictive, oppressive, and most insulting legisla tion of the trio just named may, however, be successful. Those parties I never, to my knowledge, heard of before ; but even feebleness and unpopularity may work wonders in a case like the present. You may recollect that I addressed to you a denunciatory letter before the Mackenzie affair was perpetrated. Ido so again before Messrs. Patten and Co. have had time to earn the same success, and be crowned with the laurels of the same virtue as the ex- M.P. for Liverpool. The people of England are not so ready to submit to fanaticism as my countrymen, I am sorry to say, are; and I trust that on this occasion they will stand forth to vindicate their fair fame as the steady supporters of civil and moral liberty. That the limited right existing at present to procure refreshments such as beer on the Sabbath may be abused, and is abused, in a moral sense, I am sorry to be obliged to avow ; but the idea of punishing the community for the faults of some of its members is monstrous, and exemplified in any other case would at once arouse indignant opposition. The law, by an extreme stretch of its power, punishes drunkenness ; it very properly arms the magistrates with authority to deprive of license publicans allowing drunkenness on their premises ; it closes houses of entertainment during canonical hours on Sunday. Pre caution has, therefore, been carried to its extreme limits, and homage done to the public services of our holy reli gion. Surely, in reason, this is quite enough. To de prive the poor man of the means of refreshment on the Sabbath because some get drunk, is a piece of prepos terous tyranny, and should at once be resisted in every constitutional way. Such legislation is extreme and unusual, and is utterly unwarranted by the mild, wise, and generous spirit of the Christian faith. In this country for many years every approach to sumptuary laws has most properly been avoided. What we shall eat or drink, or where withal we shall be clothed, has been wisely left to the individual conscience and to personal choice. Sump tuary laws are the parent of fraud and hypocrisy, and tend to demoralise those more immediately employed in carrying out their provisions. In no country of the world was the Sabbath more rigidly observed than in Scotland; but during ages of that piety and virtue which, right or wrong, called forth the admiration of other na tions, such a thing was not thought of as preventing, under certain regulations, the sale on the Sabbath of the ordinary beverages of the country—so often employed even as cordials or adjuncts in numerous forms of ill ne-s. This transaction, indeed, was regarded as quite different from the tragic or commerce which, lawful on other days, was forbidden on the day of rest. Laws of the kind under notice proceed on principles dangerous to the peace and welfare of society. If some crochetty, prejudiced, or hypocritical persons, without sympathy with the feelings or situation of others, be al lowed to add the force and sanction of law to their va garies the dearest rights of the citizen are perilled. At a former period tyranny was directed against religious liberty; its work is now against moral freedom, and it can here operate most successfully. Such evil ordinations tend to prejudice the citizen against the laws of his country— to render the administration of public justice obnoxious —or, as before suggested, depraved. Either the statutes which are of such a character are not enforced, and are, therefore, held to be null and void by an authority lower than that by which they were passed, or, being carried out, are likely to attract public sympathy towards the offender, and that from persons otherwise excellent citi zens and loyal subjects. This is a bad, an unhappy state of matters, and statesmen and senators should eschew what causes the impressions and convictions to which it is owing. Let the people of England recollect, too, that if the bill by which they are now menaced be passed into law it will remain unalterable. In cases of the kind, unlike what obtains in matters of a political or religious nature, there cannot be secured such a pressure from without as will secure the repeal of even a most unjust and oppressive statute. A. large number of the people are timid, and cannot encounter the invectives of fanaticism; numbers conceal their real sentiments on such subjects ; and many well-meaning persons, substantially impressed ' with the sentiment that the opposite of wrong is right, are willing to allow of certain severities in order to ex tinguish obvious evils; forgetting all the while that the vice they deplore may only be more secretly and more dangerously practical, while great social rights may be invaded or overthrown altogether. There are other good things to be secured besides sobriety, and other evils to be dreaded besides drunkenness. It is not the abuse, but the use, of moral liberty which here and else where is to be reasoned from. Since the passing of Forbes Mackenzie's bill we have bad strange work here. The police, of course, are con verted into a set of spies on the licensed victuallers, and one poor woman, who keeps a public-house at Porto bello, a watering place, about two miles from the city of Edinburgh, is under prosecution for selling some liquor to two persons who came from a distance, and alleged they were travellers. Numerous prosecutions have been directed against publicans for contraventions of the sta tute. Hotels, as well as humbler places of entertain ment, are open to the inroads of the police. A citizen without family cannot even get a dinner in an inn as before. In Aberdeen, however, the police commissioners refuse to allow their constables to be transformed into teetotal spies, and the new law is, in the meantime, at a stand still in the "city of bon accord." In some places the abstainers have formed committees of vigilance, to see that the law is enforced. One of those impudent harpies entered a public-house in Dumbarton, along with a local policeman. He was very properly ordered to leave the premises by the landlord. He refused, and an attempt was made to eject him, but so violently did this man of temperance conduct himself even before the officer that the life of the publican was placed in peril. This outrage is to become the subject of a trial in the jury court here, the damages being laid a t a h eavy sum. Of course the partiz ans of the bill are loud in its praise, and some of our journals merely pander to the views of these men. All manner of stories are put afloat through the press, and strange theories suggested as to the effect of the new legislation, and the walls are posted over with abstinence placards of the type common to the school. Some "Alliance," too, is mentioned, and a " Maine Liquor Law" is u rge d an d lectured about. What the Abstainers lack in number they labour to make up by activity and forwardness. There is not wanting, also, a sufficient stock of impudence on the part of their allies of the journals I might ask the managers of the Eng lish restrictive and penal bill this question—. Has any Scotsman, Forbes 111ackenzie, or a limb of the law, a noted Teetotaller in Edinburgh, had communication with you, or have others of the same class and aims interfered, or have abstinence people in England urged you to your present enterprise ? The interpellation is important, for in the bill under notice we may have but the result of a factious intermeddling with the conscience and the rights of others. I need scarcely say to you, sir, that here there are persons who, if they had the power, would shut up the highways on the Sabbath, and exclude the citizens from the green fields—and prevent a journey even of necessity or mercy on the Christian day of rejoicing and of rest. I may tell you we have some very high purists in the Town Council of the city, to whom the bill of the afore named Forbes Mckenzie was highly acceptable. The Provost (or mayor), a cold-hearted canting member of one of our strictest sects, is at great pains (somewhat un necessarily) to prove what he considers the issues of that wildiand tyrannous measure. Well, a proposal was made ' in the Council to open the Botanical Gardens near the city—be it recollected when—only after FOUR in the afternoon of the Sabbath ! This measure of concession was resisted by the Lord Provost, and also by others of the voluntary school, who, hostile to the powers of the civil magistrate in matters of religion, have no great ob jection to exercise a part of the obnoxious prerogative population so that it embodies itself in their own carcases. Th e motion was defeated by a majority of 13 against 9, o ne member declining to vote. So much for the bland liberality of the Edinburgh Town Council. I may men t in the tion that in Glasgow, containing a larger be i drawn than Edinburgh, and numbering vastly more of the sons of toil, the Botanical Gardens are shut through. e f deeply eu.r h o a l anxious x r i e o l u i .. s w uld attend Green the Iser:il.lcles p o o u vv t ,e t r he et wh s e e l m e e of pa t r h t e ie S s, ab a bat co n r ; do a n nd l , vowueldre around timt all ab G le las s g h o o g i on . Rightly understood, the ways of Christianity are pleasantness, and her creation are peace.B to hinder 'a man's r But I see nothing lee —nor, the sin of ss drunkenne a the Christian jubi strictly avoided, the refreshment of the body by means tity of the ordinary beverages theof ofamoderate country. quau- I am not the less confident in these views , ferocious zeal which characterises from knowing that the what is called Sabbath -breaking certain parties against times exemplifies . < king and drain-drinking at itself in those whose religion is ma d e up of little else than small st oc k o f this furor. I could tell you strange stories as to this part of my su bj ect, b ut rather choo se t o f orbear. More than I could d o th e same. I w ill not at present draw indulg ence ; b ut trusting that the more largely on your peopl e of England will now as hith er t o guard and protect their moral as well as civil ri g ht s , I b eg to subscribe Sir, your obliged and obedient servant, SAUNDERS FITZSAUNDERS. Edinburgh, July. P.S. May I respectfully beg that the editors of other journals would, on public grounds, kindly copy this let ter into their columns. More may feel gratified at this act—however humble and imperfect the communication —than would avow their feelings of approval and sym patby. MADAME TITSSAIJD'S EXHIBITION.—This popular ex hibition has ju,t had au important addition —it is a por trait model of her Majesty the Queen of Spain, and in consequence of the stirring events from day to day passing in her kingdom, great curiosity is felt and ex pressed by the numerous visitors who crowd this most excellent place of in4truction and amusement. RAILWAY INTELLIGENC E. M F Al s T rom CH th E e S r T e E po l n R FFIELD, AND LINCOLN of the RdirAeictLOWrsAtoY.be submitted to the meeting of proprietors in Manchester an the 2d Aug . , it appears that th e half-year shows., a t o t a l receip t f 237,0221., a total expen di ture o f 1 4 4 ,5221., leav ing,with 3,1021., from the last half-year, 95,602/. available for interest and dividend. This snm will pay the debenture interest, the canal annuities, and the chYtaint half-year's dividend on the 61. shares, leaving a. balance of 3,792 t. The attention of the directors continues to ,be ,directed to a reduction of expenses, so far as. may be consistent with efficiency. In the locomotive department various changes are being introduced, which the 'directors hope will ensure a smaller per tentage expendittre. ' , The di rectors have consolidated the accounts of the Company, under the charge of Mr. R. G. Underdovfn, appointed chief accountant. The question of economising the per manent way expenditure, and of completing -with the least possible delay, all works in progress on capital account, has not escaped attention. The traffic receipts for the half-year ending 30th June, 1853 and 1854 show an increase of 19,164/, in favour of the latter, notwith the these war, circumstances the fi s t c a i e n n d t i n h g a r v t e h ' the directors consider the traffic receipts as far from s e t o g f re la at st l y es e s ar e . aus U ed nd b e y r unsatisfactory. As regards the financial position of the company, a portion of the loans falling due on the I st January, 1855, has been renewed on favourable terms. The directors have before them important negotiations, having for their object the security of the company's ter ritorial position, the increase of its share of through traffic, and a saving of that duplication of expense which all competition of route more or less involves. Should these negotiations end successfully they will be duly laid before the proprietors for consideration at a special meeting. NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE RAILWAY. The report of the directors, to be submitted to the half-yearly meeting of the company on the 27th inst., states that the recomnaendatitin'of the arbitrators ap pointed to sottle the differences between the London and North-Western and the North Staffordshire Companies is now in force in a modified form, and although the committee of the House of Commons have with held their consent to the preamble of the bill for which application was 'made, the systems of the two com panies are combined by mutual agreement, and the work ing arrangements are carried out in the same manner as if the amalgamation had been completed by act of Parliament. It is the intention of both companies to prosecute the amalgamation bill in the next session of Parliament. Meantime the independent traffic of the line is such, that the director's have no hesitation in con firming the opinion previously expressed, by the chair man, that the amount of dividend specified-in the circu lar of the 25th of May, is secured to the proprietary from its own resources. The traffic receipts for the half-year 1854, including receipt s un d er agree meritLondon land, a and Western have been Company,een and rents 'eo3oifo houses, l e n l2 d . o n the g 2 w siljt.hu the o3. d from which, deducting 5,0001. tolls due to other lines, and 48,94 g. ls. 9d. for the working r e i x s p d e t n n se t s h o e f gtheenehraal revenue account of 58,0861. 4s. 9d. half year, there remains a balance ear- The canal net profit on the half-year has been 38,8731. lie. 2d. The total receipts carried to general revenue ort debenture amounted to 9 de B9. 59 debt and I div . idend nn capital available f or interest a sharend capital. RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS. • LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST RAILWAY.— Traffic return for the week ending July 22, 1854 £17,122 19 8 Corresponding week last year 14,177 3 7 Total of the half-year to this date, 1854 48,195 13 4 Total of the half-year to this date, 1853 43,340 5 9 LONDON AND 6OLTTH-EASTERN RAlLWAY.—Traffic Te. turn for the week ending July 22, 1854 £21,175 4 9 Corresponding week last year 19,238 15 4 Increase in 1854 £1,936 9 5 GLASGOW AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.—TratEct re turn for the week ending July 22, 1854 £6,002 13 11 Corresponding week last year 5,002 13 5 Increase in 1854 ...£l,OOO 0 6 RAILWAY SHARE MARKET. LIVERPOOL, JULY 25. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market has been flat to-day, with a reduction of 4 per cent. on Midland and Leeds stocks, while other leading stocks are steady. Shef fields lower. East Lancashire, 164 ' - Lancashire and York shire, 67 61; Ditt o (W est Riding Union), 44 d. ; London and North-Western, 1014 ; Halton and Driffield, 511 • Man. cheater, Sheffi e ld, an d Li nco l n, 23 3 ; Midland , 66i ; South-Eastern, 194 ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln 10/. shares, 104. LEEDS, JULY 25. STOCK EXCHANGE.—Thero has been an inactive market in railway shares this morning, and in the few saleseffected lower terms were accepted. BIRMINGHAM, JULY 25. STOCK EXCHANGE.—There was very little yariation in prices in this market to-day. London and North Westerns closed, buyers at 104 ; Midlands, at 66 7; Oxford, War. cester, and Wolverhamptons, buyers at 32. MANCHESTER, JULY 25. ' STOCK EXCHANGE.—There has been but a moderate business. East Lancashire, 164 ; Eastern Counties, 13i ; Leeds, 674 7 ; Midl an d , 67 ; Dover, 19 3-16; She ffi eld New Pref., II prem. ; Sheffields, 23 ; North Staffords, 4 1-16 d. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. ( From the Loudon New Price Current of yesterday.) SCGAR.—This article is quiet. There are several auc tions. The quantity of British Plantation landed last week at the East and West India Docks was 2,227 hhds 220 tierces 573 barrels, there were taken forthome con sumption 1,054 hhds 102 tierces 466 barrels. The stock in the same places is 8,730 hhds 1,460 tierces 2001 barrels. To-day there was again a reluctance to purchase inferior and brown West India, whilst the rates taken were rather under those of Friday, but superior sorts of yellow and grey mot with ready buyers at full prices. REFINED.—To-day refined sugar met with ready buyers for home trade purposes, and supply not being more plen tiful, rates ruled firm; brown lumps at 44s 6d, and low to fine grocery 45s to 49s 6tl per cwt. FOREIGN.—To-day the operations in foreign sugar were on a more extended scale; still duty paid parcels and floating cargoes were to be obtained at last week's rates. CC,FFEE.—Tho market i s fi rm . G oo d ord Native Ceylon 41s 6d to 45s per cwt. TEAS. —The Prices current were—congou, ord to good ord, 100 to 10 .l ; rather blackish leaf, is 2id to is 3d; pekoe kind, is 10d to 2s 3d per lb. COFFEE.— To-day plantation Ceylon was less in demand; fine to fine ord selling at 64s to 66s 6d, low mid to mid 57s to 60s, good mid to good 61s one lot fine 675, and triage 535, Costa Rica i s wan t e d , and 1 , 026 bags went at firm rates ; good to fine fine ord 51s 6d to 545, low mid to mid 55s to 60s Gd- Rum.—The quantity landed last week at the East and West India Docks was 937 puns 453 hhds, there were taken for home consumption 164 hhds, and exported 80 puns 3'5 hhds. ARROWROOT.—Bermuda, 89 barrels sold publicly at is ld to is 23 per lb for good and fine, but 16 packages St. Vin cent's were bought in at 4d. INDIGO.—The quantity passed up to last evening was 12,540 chests, of which 6,289 chests were sold. OlLS.—Sperm 1021 to 1041 for mid to fine quality. Seal, pale selling at 391 to 401, and other sorts 351 to 38/ 10s. Cod, 38/ 15s to 391. Southern, 371 to 401. Cochin 50s to 50s 6d ; Ceylon 48s to 49s 6d ; and Sydney 47s to 48s Od. Balm good to fine at 45s to 47s Gd. Olive, and the market presents a firmer aspect. Gallipoli at 56/ to 58/, and other sorts V/ to 54/ per tun. Lard oils sell slowly at 53s to 55s per cwt. TALLOW.—Tho market has an unsettled appearance; in onlyados e n: : t i h h n ar nee declined, i s ' 1 n monthsp b o it 6 d 5t towards a w n 6 l;f d a r ci s the close advanced ; since which a decline has taken place, the early part of last wee l k iivse p el r a7n i n c oid e speculators and the trade operating with reluctance. Prices wn s le l ~f the o t r year. Home melted is now 64s 6cl to 70s cas h, supply a t n 7 o u s w p 9 l d o r , u f 6 l o e 7 r e f 6d o d r e t fi rn o r a s 6 n t 7 d s B :9 r d t f T o P h r . e Y d r e: other sorts of tallow. Australian mid to fine mutton Gls to 65s Gd, beef 60s to 635, and South American 60s t per cwt. Stock o f t a ll ow i s more than last o 66 8 season by 16,000 casks, and deliveries 3 000 ; less, still r ' , 2s to 14 s p er cwt. are ates rule higher by 1 THE CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY. --A übc meeting changeof the on ii te inhabitants 2ist oi inst., s L t . Lincoln 1 the was helas t hel day at of the t heCAogrrnicEut tural Show. The Right Hon. R. A. Ch r i s t op h er, M .P. for North Li nc olnshire, and one of the trustees of the Society, took the chair, supported by some of the chief of andai et t ren h se e t ii oßi town r ow 1:: d a o n w d K c o n u e n x t , r m y . . p A . . magistrates deputation, consisting and estates vice-chairman of the executive committee, C. E. Lewis, Esq:, the solicitor, and C. L. Gruneisen, Esq., the secre tary, attended for the society, to explain its plan and objects. The Right Hon. Chairman addressed the meet ing with great force, pointing out the commercial advan tages of the investment, as well as the important politi cal privilege acquired by the freehold franchise, while no shackle or control was imposed by the Society on any _ . person joining its ranks. Colonel Knox gave t from in teresting teresting statistics of the progress of the Society from formation upwards o f on l the o : 02 7 5 t h sharesSep t . 0 , f l 855021: perto t capital & p ro : f e l ! aena+rPege period; taken, representing a subscribed capi h 1 e o d r order had half a be m e i n llio a n ctu p a o l u ly nds p had been allotted, and paid up, oriiiv t h i lc o estateso a f " lo rightsu amounted , 2 exceeded o to o . only T ha thritohuttr a l thw 3 arte O ni b , l O u o ht O ea d i d . amongstthree th e m enl were he 4n . Pl] : )' P t 1. and the ' h y Te fi r : : k: , 11 1 at E rsi :seesqxo. exhausted a sut rn agi 8 - Estate, near the St. Margaret's Society was a safe speculation, completed shares, and he re several having Dixon bad the Richmond, e o c p o p n o d r e tu d ni t ay he eef resolution, viewing : :mone, elanation of the deputation re commended J. G. x a that h r a a t t e h , e stated hdaedd taken ia his s friend.; to do the same. Mr. Fytch Colonel meeting opinionoms ‘ f oo T evthleandet: Conservativer hitanh:cni, f t tlh i ea s ar w dt 0 1 iLtrehtalein3d, of s support." Society, p p Knox ia °1 o r tt.h"i this Wind J. G. Stevenson, Es q ., having moved a vote o f thanks to the chairman, the meeting separated, after the announcement that several shares would be immediately s ubscribed for. 111ILITA.RY EXECUTION IN CANADA,—The Kingstoft Herald says that a soldier was shot for desertion on June 26th, at the garrison, Fort Henry ; and adds that the articles of war will be for the future in the case of deserters most rigidly executed. Mr. Barnum has resigned the presidency of the New York Crystal Palace, The result fell short of his wishes. Financially the exhibition was a failure before he knew it ; it remains a failure after his spirited trial to make al otherwise,