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fire was seen to the right of the first-named place, which appeared to extend itself quickly ; at the same moment a shell from the Valorous passed through the roof of the fortress, where it exploded, upon which Captain Hall threw out the signal Bravely done, Valorous,' which was answered with a hurrah. "At 1 o'clock a.m. on the 22d the British ceased firing, weighed anchor, and passed through the southern Rinne on their return. One man on board the Hecla and two on board the Odin were slightly wounded, but none killed. Eaah of the vessels was hit several times by the shots of the enemy, one of which went through the paddlebox of the Hecla. Another report mentions four wounded, and that seven shots had hit the Hecla ; and that all the magazines in Bornarsund had been burnt down. Captain Hall received on the 22d an order to join Admiral Napier, from which circumstance some decisive operation is supposed to be contemplated. A fisherman who bad managed to escape from the Aland isles to the Faro Sound Shears, stated that on the 21st he had heard a canno , aide in the direction of Baro Sound, and seen a conflageration on the Finnish coast." "COPENHAGEN, June 30.—The new English steam gunboat Locust, of 3 guns, Lieutenant Day, that ar rived from England and took in coals in the Bay of Kioge, started yesterday again for the fleet." ADRIANOPLE. Since the 12th (says a letter from Adrianople of the 19th June) French troops have continued to arrive. On the 14th a regiment of African rifle men and two battalions of the 50th cf the line arrived, with six pieces of artillery and 42 ammu nition waggons ; and on the 16th, two regiments of Zouaves and the 6th of the line made their ap pearance, with 12 pieces of artillery and 16 ammu nition waggons. The military bearing and admi rable appearance of these troops made a deep im pression upon the Alahomedan Christian popula tion, who hastened to view them. Rustem Pacha, together with Generals Bosquet and d'Allonville, with a detachment of chasseurs and a squadron of Ottoman lancers, went out to meet them. The French camp is situated in the island formed by the two branches of the river Toundja,- in a most beautiful position, and sheltered by the trees. The infantry are all under canvas there, and the park of artillery is stationed close beside them ; whilst the cavalry are encamped at the other side of the river. All the provisions are landed at Enos, and brought up the river in boats. 10,000 oxen are expected there from Algiers. Letters from Schumla, up to the 16th, announce that the Turks still hold their ground, and that the Russians had not even succeeded in making them selves masters of the Arab Tabia fort. Sadik Pacha had succeeded in entering Silistria with 4,000 men, so that the garrison of that place is now 20,000 strong. The Turks have crossed the Danube at Rustchuk to attack Giurgevo. In two or three days General Bosquet, command ing the 2d division of the French expeditionary force in the East, will commence the march to Bourgas on the Black Sea, with the Chasseurs d'Afrique. The rest of his division will follow in detachments. lONIAN ISLANDS. Some lonians resident at Constantinople having applied to the British Ambassador in that capital for information as to whether the lonian flag would be considered as a neutral one during the war with Russia, received a negative reply, but they were at the same time informed that the question should be submitted to the Government. The opinion of the law officers of the Crown having since con finned the view taken by Lord Stratford de Red cliffe, the President of the Senate of the lonian Islands has issued a proclamation informing the inhabitants that the lonian flag would not be con sidered as neutral, and that they must discontinue their commercial relations with Russia. NORWAY. A. committee of the Storthing of Norway, charged to take into consideration a proposition for the re establishment of trial by jury in criminal matters, reported in a recent sitting in favour of the prin ciple, but represented that it could not be adopted Until arrangements should be made for having oral trials —which at present only take place before the Supreme Court of Justice. The committee accord ingly recommended that an address should be sent to the King praying him to cause to be presented in the next session a bill for establishing both trial by juries and oral trials. This recommendation was received with approbation by the Storthing. THE CREW OF THE TIGER. It is but common justice, says a letter from Vienna, to call public attention to the humane and generous conduct of the Russian Government, or, in. more distinct words, of the Emperor, to the Officers and crew of the unfortunate Tiger. The first lieutenant of that vessel has arrived at St. Petersburg on his way home, and it is understood that the whole of the remaining officers and men, who have been sent to Moscow and other places, will also be liberated on exchange. The lieutenant had the honour of being admitted to interviews With the Emperor, the Grand Duke Constantine, and the Minister of Marine, and had every reason to speak in terms of thankfulness of the treatment accorded to himself and to his companions in mis fortune. The Emperor's conduct to our brave Countrymen is, it must be repeated, fully worthy Of unfeigned gratitude and of his exalted position. Re has shown an example that will doubtless be Cordially imitated by our Government, and all under their orders, whenever the hazards of war throw Russian prisoners into our hands. GREECE. ATHENS, JUNE 26.—The dismissal of Secretary Wendling has been redemanded, but refused. A commission of investigation is established. Spiro Milos is arrested. PATRAS, June 28.—Austrian, French, and Eng lish ships are cruising in Greek waters. PREVESA, June 25. Epirus is quiet. Fuad Effendi has gone to Tricala, in Thessaly. According to a letter from Janina, dated June 20, Fuad Effendi left Metzovo on the 15th, in tending to enter Thessaly. He arrived on the 18th within a league of Kalabaka, with the corps of Osman Pasha, composed of 2,000 regulars and 1 )000 Arnauts. He effected his march without striking a blow. As the Ottoman troops ad \lanced, the Greeks fell back upon their c e nt re . These details are completed by accounts which we have received from Larissa. On the 18th of June the Turkish troops attacked the Hellenic volunteers commanded by Hadji vetros. After a conflict of three hours the Greeks ere completely beaten. There had been a Considerable number killed and wounded, and their guns and baggage were captured. The Greeks took flight, some towards Agrapha, and the rest in the direction of Olympus. A letter from Corfu, dated June 24, says :—Her Britannic Majesty's frigate Diamond left to-day for the Black Sea. There only remains at the Corfu station the corvette Modeste, of 18 guns. The Prometheus is about to leave the Gulf of Arta on a tour of observation in the ports of Albania. INSURRECTION IN SPAIN. CRITICAL 'POSITION OF THE QUEEN AND HER GOVERNMENT. The Moniteur of to-day announces that, accord 19g to a telegraphic despatch from Madrid, dated six p.m., of the 3d, the city was tranquil ; that reinforcements were expected from the provinces ; that the insurgents were close to Aranjuez ; and that the intelligence from the other parts of Spain Was satisfactory. Intelligence from Madrid to the 30th ult. states that the town was much agitated. The insurgents, to the number of 4,000 men, were at the Campo del Moro, at about a gunshot from the Palace. GeneralCampuzano, Director of the Artillery, had refused to attack them, although protesting his fidelity to the Queen. General Lara had also refused, on the pretext that he could not rely on the garrison. General O'Donnell was said to have summoned the Queen to change her Ministry. Unless she did Bo he threatened to attack the town on the same evening. Subsequent advices to the 2d inst. state that Madrid is covered with barricades. The populace cried out " Death to Sartorius." It was said that a part of the garrison had f raternised with the insurgents. The abdication of the Queen was under discus tion, and the formation of a Regency, of which :Niarv aez s h ou ld b e a member. On the other hand, the Patric declares that the Hen's received by telegraph from Spain continues to be favourable to the Government, and that the Il lsurgents, after having been defeated, have parched upon Toledo. The Gazette, of the 30th, contains the following decree " MINISTRY OP WAR-ROYAL DECREE. "The desertion committed in February last by Lieut.- general Don Leopoldo O'Donnell. Count de Lucena, bymy royal d ec i s i on o f t h e 1 4t h of the same month, eY which he wasi struck out of the list of Generals of the Spanish army. The indications of his crime of conspi racy against the State, which were then very strong, are now a fait accompli, and General O'Donnell by ,Yesterd a y placing hi mse lf i n open rebellion, proved heart disloyalty and his perfidy. It is painful to my 'ien.rt to see repeated these sad examples, and also „ t he chasti se ment of gener a l s , w h om I ra i sed to the he ad of the army to guide it in the path of honour, and not in that of military seditious ; but the re tetition of suc h ac ts and the infamy th ey pro d uce must 4 (. 1 justice more inexorable. I therefore order that b °n Leopoldo O'Donnell, Count de Lucena, shall be deprived of all his employments, honours, titl e s, and decorations, without prejudice to his being tried in con formity with the laws, if necessary. Given at the Palace, the 29th June. " THE QUEEN. "ANSELMO BLASEHy Minister of War." The Gazette also contains decrees of the same date which deprive Generals Felix Maria de Messina and Res de Olano of their grades, honours, and decorations. Other decrees promote two officers, one of the civil guard, the other of the regiment of Estramadura, for having resisted the rebels. FRANCE. The preparations for the departure of the Em- press for the baths of Biaritz are going on with activity. The Imperial yacht the Reine Hortense is already at Cherbourg, where the Empress will embark for Bayonne. The yacht will remain at Bayonne during the stay of the Empress at the sea side. _ . His Excellency Vely Pacha, the Turkish am bassador, had the honour of an interview with the Emperor, on Monday, at St. Cloud, and pre sented to his Majesty Moustapha Bey and Omer Bey, brother and nephew of Omer Paella, and M. Marinovitch, a Servian functionary. After quitting Baro Sound on the 22d, the com bined squadrons of the Baltic, says the Moniteur, anchored on the 24th at the island of Seskaer, 10 leagues from Cronstadt ; they were preparing to go and make a reconnaissance of that fortress. We make the following extracts from the Moni• tear of yesterday_:— _ _ " The Minister of Marine and the Colonies has received from Baro Sound a report, dated June 27, from the Commander of the Breslau, announcing that this vessel, which left Kiel, on the 19th of June, had arrived at Baro Sound in five days only, in spite of the fogs. "The Breslau had been joined at that anchorage by the Anglo-French division commanded by Rear-Admiral Corry, and the major part of the naval force, which since the 22d of June had been despatched to the extremity of the Gulf of Finland, under the orders of Admirals Parse val and Napier, was expected. " The report of Commander Bosse terminates thus : Our sanitary state is excellent. The smallpox, which had manifested itself on board the Breslau, has entirely disappeared. The crew is extremely well-disposed, and I have 90 good guns, for which I will answer.'" The Princess de la Moskowa, widow of the unfor tunate Marshal Ney, died on Tuesday, in Paris, at an advanced age, and after a long illness. The Duchess of Plaisance, widow of General Lebrun, has also died lately, at a residence which she occu pied for some years in the neighbourhood of Athens. She was the daughter of the Marquis de Barbe- Marbois, who was transported to Sinnamary in 1797, and who had been Keeper of the Seals and President of the Cour des Comptes. Her husband was the son of Prince Lebrun, Duke de Plaisance, one of the three consuls of the 18 Brumaire, and afterwards Arch-Chancellor of the Empire. A telegraphic despatch received yesterday from Marseilles announces that the Henry IV. had put to sea, baying on board General Levaillant, Commander of the sth division, two colonels, and detachments of different corps of the army of the East. The Three per Cents. closed yesterday at '73f. 20c. for the end of the month ; the Four-and-a- Half per Cents. closed at 98f. 50c. ; and the New Loan at 73f. ; Orleans Railway Shares, I,lBof. ; Rouen, 1,052 f. 50c. ; Havre, 587 f. 50c. , Great Northern, 872 f. 50c. • Strasburg, 800 f. ; New Shares, 635 f. ; Paris and Lyons, 960 f. ; Lyons to the Mediterranean, 865 f. ; Western of France, 660 f. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 615 f. ; Great Central of France, 507 f. 50c. ; Lyons and Geneva, 512 f. 50c. ; Bank of Credit Mobilier, 762 f. 50c. AMERICA. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPff.) ARRIVAL OF THE PACIFIC. LIVERPOOL, Wednesday Morning, 5.30 aim.— The Pacific has arrived, with advices from New York to the 24th ult., and $430,891 on freight. The President had nominated General W. 0. Butler Governor of Nabraska, and Mr. A. H. Reeder Governor of Kansas. The report of Mr. Churchwell having drawn a pistol on Mr. Collura, in the House of Representa tives, had been contradicted. A bill had been introduced into the House of Representatives for estal lishing a higher grade of officers in the navy, and reforming it generally. The Union, from Southampton, had arrived at New York, and the Canada, from Liverpool, had arrived at Boston. In the Senate, the Committee on Commerce had been unable to decide as to the, expediency of aid ing the projected canal round the falls of Niagara. The bill re-organising the naval service had been passed by a majority of 24 t,o 11. Mr. Seward had reported a bill for the formation of a line of steam-ships between California and Shanghai, cal ing at the Sandwich Islands and Japan. The Committee of Ways and Means had reported a bill appropriating $10,000,000 for effecting the stipulation of the Gadsden Treaty. Proposals for the loan of $1,000,000 had been made by the Commissioners of the Canal Fund, when over $6,000,000 had been offered. The loan was awarded to 18 bidders, at 18 per cent prem. The North Star had arrived at New York, with dates to California to the Ist June, and $355,000 in gold dust. The French Consul had been tried for violating the Neutrality Laws and released from his bonds. The Mexican Consul, implicated in the same affair, had also been discharged. Property had been destroyed by fire at Marys ville, to the extent of 175,000 dols., and also at San Francisco to 34,.000 dols. From the mines the accounts were very flat tering. Rich deposits bad been discovered, and fortunes were made in a week. Business was improving in San Francisco. Rob beries had been committed by means of chloroform with success. True bills had been found against the President Secretary of War of the Republic of Sonora. Acapulco was reported to be blockaded by one Mexican war vessel, and that Alvarez had posses sion of the city. The Canadian Parliament had been prorogued amid great confusion. A procl ama ti on di sso l v ing the House was to have been issued on the 24th. The elections were to be over, and writs returned by the 9th of August. The Catholic priest had been charged at Cincin nati with violating a young girl, and bound over in the sum of 2,000 dols. to answer the charge. Money was active, and loans on call were made at 7 per cent. We quote—London, 1081 to 1091 ; Paris, 5 111 to 5 132. ; Amsterdam, 414 to 44 Hamburg, 36 3 ,- to 37 ; Bremen, 79 to 791 ; Frank fort, 414 to 41.1. Cotton was firmer, but had not advanced in price. Flour was again lower ; freights were higher, and vessels scarce. NEWSPAPERS.—Yesterday a return, procured by Sir John Shelley, was issued, showing the titles, names, and addresses of the rublishers, the weight and date of re gistration of every registered newspaper whereof a por tion is stated to be published without stamps. The number in England is 106, in Scotland 23, and in Ire land 7—making a total of 136. Of the papers in Lon don 34 are published monthly, and not liable to duty, and 25 in the country, and exempted for the same reason. TEE BANK.—An opinion was strongly circulated that, owing to the large increase in their stock of bullion, the easier state of the money-market, the steady condition of the foreign exchanges, and the approaching pay ment of the dividends on Saturday next, the Bank of England contemplate an immediate reduction in their rate of discount. Various heavy calls, however, are falling due, among which are the 1,000,0001. of India railway debentures on the 10th inst., as well as 25 per cent. on the last 2,000,0001. of Exchequer-bonds to day, and some persons consider that these, toge ther with a desire to wait until the prospects of the harvest shall have become still more certain, will induce at all events a slight delay. FIRE OFF PEMBROKE ROYAL DOCKYARD.—PEM BROKE YARD, JULY 3.—Early this morning the muster bell was continuously rung some time, in consequence of a fire discovered on board a large barque off the dock yard, discharging a cargo of timber for the establishment, from M oulrnein ; and, although many of the workmen quickly assembled, yet the distant residence of so many belonging to the establishment, contrary to the express regulations of the Admiralty, was severely felt. It ap pears that some Lascars, on board, suffering from the inclemency of the weather (it is intensely cold and wet), had kindled a fire and went to sleep, without thoroughly extinguishing it. A dense smoke was discovered, and the alarm immediately given ; the flames, however, had burst up and were communicating with the rigging be fore they were effectually suppressed. Captain Smart, the now superintendent, was quickly on the spot, as well as the master shipwright and other officers, and every thing was soon made safe. Had it been dry weather, instead of so excessively wet as it is, the results might have been most disastrous. The master of the vessel, without any other clothes on than his shirt, continued using the greatest exertions until the fire was completely extinguished. As is the general custom, the crew had all been discharged on the termination of the voyage, and there were only two or three coloured men on board besides the captain. THE PENINSULAR MAns.--The Peninsular and Orien • tal Company's steam-packet Madrid, Captain George Bradshaw, Lieut. Beddeck, RN., Admiralty agent, arrived yesterday at Southampton with the Peninsular mails, and 56 passengers. Her dates are Gibraltar, June 25 ; Caeiz, June 26 ; Lisbon, June 29 ; Oporto, June 30 ; Vigo, July 1. The Madrid had pratique at all the ports, with the exception of Vigo and Oporto outwards. June 25, at 6 p.m., arrived the Prometheus, man-of-war steamer, at Gibraltar from Lisbon. June 26, at 4 a.m., found lying at Cadiz tho man-of-war steamer Medina, which arrived from England on the 25th ; put into Cadiz in want of coal. June 29, left lying at Li-lion the French war steamer Newton, and the Rage, Brazilian man-of-war steamer, and the usual . Pyrtugnme iquadron. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 5, 1854. varb itt° SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock. NEWMARKET RACES. (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) HANDICAP PLATE OF £7O. Cheddar Folly o' the Day Six ran. SWEEPSTAKES. Dead Heat with Census and Farmer's Boy. Four ran. MADRESFIELD STAKES. Questionable Melbourne c Eight ran. TOWN PLATE. Epaminondas Testy Five ran. SWEEPSTAKES. Thessaly Cacique Moor of Venice 1 2 3 WORCESTER RACES. (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) FLYING STAKES. Nelly Hill Battery Monimia Twelve ran. HANDICAP PLATE. Titterstone Hazlenut .. Voucher .. Six ran. LADIES' PLATE. Economy Lady-in-Waiting BENTINCK STAKES Whalebone Battery Six ran. SWEEPSTAKES. Wellsbourne Le Juif Five ran. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS—(THIS DAY.) The SPEAKER took the chair at 12 o'clock. REAL ESTATES CHARGES BILL. This bill was passed through committee. CHURCH TEMPORALITIES, &c., IRELAND. The adjourned debate on the Church Temporalities, &c., Ireland, was then resumed by Sir J. YOUNG, who regretted that this subject had again been brought into the Parliamentary arena after so many concessions had been made upon it in the past. The hon. and learned gentleman, disregarding the feel ings of the vast majority of the people in favour of the Established Church, was anxious to bring in a bill which would make a sweeping alteration in the position occu pied by the Irish clergy ; but he was quite confident the house would not countenance the attempt. But sup posing the house gave permission to bring in the bill, the plan that it embodied would be found impracticable, and he would therefore suggest to the hon. and learned gentleman whether he had not better withdraw his motion. Mr. J. O'CONNELL said that Irishmen would not submit to finality upon a measure like this, nor would they submit to the injustice of an Established Church. He could not vote for this motion, because he was a thorough voluntary, and would not vote a single farthing for the support by the state of any church, not even the one to which he belonged. What he wanted was a total abolition of the connection between Church and State, and he would never submit to any modification or compromise on that question. Mr. NAPIER could not regard this question as one of figures in finance, but he must view it as one of principle. He wished the Church in Ireland to be placed upon precisely the same footing as the Church of England, teaching the religion which the State believes to be true. Still, if there were those who wished to argue this as a question, they should endea vour to be accurate, which neither the speech of the hon. and learned serjeant (Mr. Sergeant Shee) who had made this motion, nor the pamphlet which he had pub lished on the subject was. The right honourable and learned gentleman then proceeded at great length to ex pose the errors and inconsistencies of the statements of Mr. Sergeant Shee, who, however, by the facilities he had exhibited in arriving at a surplus, would be inestim able as a Chancellor of the Exchequer. The Established Church of Ireland was civilly and socially useful; it was guarded by the laws of the country ; it was interwoven with the Constitution, and it would be dangerous alike to the safety of the State and the interests of religion if the Legislature should ever consent to a measure like this. Principle and truth demanded that the Church of Ireland should be supported rather than attacked. He hoped the house would not hesitate fora moment to reject this motion _ _ Mr. MAGUIRE denied that there could ever be any finality in this matter, and argued that the Act of Union, and all subsequent legislation, had evidently proceeded upon the assumption that the temporalities of the Church of Ireland were still to remain an open question. The facts and figures of the case were all on one side ; they went to show that the Church Temp .ralities of Ireland rested on a most unsatisfactory footing ; they provided for the religious education of the minority at the injury and expense of the majority of the people which had made all impartial authorities, including Ma caulay himself, declare that the Established Church of Ireland was a bad and unjust institution. Like Mr. O'Connell, however, he was for the voluntary principle, and therefore if the hon. and learned sergeant went to a division upon this motion, he should feel himself con strained to go into the lobby against him. Mr. G. A. HAMILTON controverted the state ments of M r . S ergean t Sh ee on a former occasion rela tive to th e i ncomes o f the Sees of Ossory, Cloy ne and gentleman amounting ounting in the whole, if hisgeneral statement was as muc h exag gerated as that with reference t o th ose t h ree di oceses,to no less than 111,0001. (Hear.) He was quite willing to admit that the question of endowments was a most important question, but it was surrounded with very great difficulties ; and if he thought the great est of all truths truth in religion was to be maintained by the voluntary principle, he should adopt it, however much he might deplore the separation of i Church and State; but he held that the State w as bound, homage to religion, to maintain one established fo rm of religion. On those grounds he strongly objected to the motion of the hon. and learned gentleman. Sir J. FITZGERALD suppolted the motion of the hon. and learned sergeant (Sergeant Shee). Mr. LUCAS said in the greater part of the discussion they had heard that day he took very little interest. He had stated before that he did not approve of the plan of the hon. and learned sergeant, for he did not think it would be effective. He did not intend on this or any other occasion to be seduced into putting himself on the defensive as to the interpretation he had a right to put upon the oath taken by members of this house, notwithstanding the attack made upon him in his temporary absence from the house by the right honourable and learned member for the Uni versity of Dublin (Mr. Napier). He thought he bad as good a right as that hon. member to put what construction he thought best on that oath, and he was quite of opinion that oath d;d not by any means pre clude him from taking part in this discussion. He be- lieved there was no chance of this questioli being finally settled except by the voluntary principle, and he trusted that the people of Ireland would see the necessity of giving up the grant to Maynooth, which he believed stood in the way of justice being done to Ireland by perpetrating the enormous grievance and wrong of the Established Chu rc h o f I re l an d . Th e right honour able and learned member for the University of Dublin (Mr. Napier) had vaunted of the great alteration of the relative proportion of Catholics and Protestants in Ireland since the census of 1834. He (Mr. Lucas) believed there was a great alteration, but he also believed the alteration was of an exactly oppo site character, and that the decrease of Protestants was much greater than that of Catholics. The honourable member quoted a number of statistics on this subject, and he believed that of 15 parishes in Galway, Roscom mon, and Kilkenny, while the decrease of the general population was 30, that of the Protestant population was 54. Mr. M‘MAHON rose to correct an historical inaccu racy of the right hon. and learned member for the Dub lin University, that the property of the Established Church was conferred upon it in times long antece dent t• the Reformation. This was totally inaccurate, as the records of Ireland showed, and even Geraldus Cambrensis stated that in his time the Irish people did not pay tithes, except where the English influence pre dominated ; and from the earliest period that tithes were heard of they were always looked upon as a badge of foreign domination ; and he (Mr. M 'Mahon) believed they should never have peace or contentment in Ireland until tithes were abolished. (Hear.) Mr. A. STAFFORD said, without going back so far as the twelfth century, he could state that tithes were now collected in Ireland with the greatest facility. Assuming, as he was bound to assume, that the fall of the Established Church, or any heavy blow struck at that Church, would be the most welcome news that could reach the Vatican, he asked were they justified in granting this great boon to Rome? And he believed that the events of the last few years would more than ever make the people of this country unwilling to grant this boon ; and he was pre pared to give his hearty vote against the proposition of the hon. and learned sergeant. (Hear, hear.) Mr. KENNEDY moved that the debate be fol. journed. Mr. HADFIELD seconded the motion. Mr. Sergeant SHEE said as the hon. gentleman (Mr. Stafford) had evidently spoken on purpose long enough to prevent his having time to reply, he trusted that the motion for adjournment would be agreed to. (Cries of "No," and " Divide.") The motion for adjourning the debate was agreed to, and it being within a few minutes of six o'clock, the house, after disposing of some formal business on the paper, adjourned. SHARE MARKETS. (THIS DAY.) BRITISH RAILWAYS. Rlnmsys. Closing Price' this day. Business done this day. Aberdeen Ambg Nottng. Bost and Eastn. Belfast & Ballymena. Birming. Wolverh Stour Valley Birkenhd. Lancsh & Cheshire Junct...... Do. 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June. 14 20 8 Beziers to Graissessac 34 24 d 20 2s. Bombay, Baroda, and Central India,Scrip 3 d—ip par . . Central of Italy 20 all Charleroi & Erquelin 174 all Demerara ••• ••• 20 14 Dijon and Besancon p 20 9 Dutch Rhenish 20 all East Indian 24 213 p 20 2 Do. Extension ~•„ d par 5 all Gt. Indian Peninsula - p 20 10 Gd. Junet. of France 25 10 Grd. Trunk of Canada 5 • d 5j 6 20 10 Gt. Central of France •p . 100 40 Do. Debentures . . ... Do. Bonds (1st •• is. )'5 • 7 Shares ...... . . 2 2 0 .0 : G all il t a . m W il e t s o te:n s o , fTC:rno 6 4 d a n: l i t to par 100 all Do. do. . . 3_ lo l i 194 20. 19i 1p 100 all Do. 6 per cent. .. 7— 9 p 1084 20 5 Lake Const, Bas • l e 5 all Lucca & Pistoj a s p. c, ••• • pref .............. 20 15 Luxembou rg 10 10 Do. (Railway) .... 5 3 Do. (Canal) 10 5 Do. 6p. et. p re f ...., ••• ••• d 20 8 Lyons and Geneva . ••• par p 20 12 Lyons & Medit errati : 20 13 Madras .. . ........par •• • 334 33 1 Maria Antonia 2P 2 Melbourne Dk. ••••• ••• 20 all Namur & Liege (with • '*' interest) ..... . 10 all l Do. do. New 20 all Do. (ex interest) 6 16 all Northern of France. 341 Do. 201. 3 p. c Bdp. 20 all Ams.Shs.) 10 all Norwegiau r frunkPref 8 20 10 Paris and Lyons l6l ___. 17 40 all Ditto Bonds 10 all Paris and Orleans.... 48 20 all Paris and Rouen.—. , . 40 ...... 42 20 all Paris and Strasbourg 314 20 10 ParisCaen dr Cherbrg ••• pm iLI 104 10f Quebec dr Richmond 20 all Rouen and Havre 2 24 234 234 20 15 Royal Danish 2d par 5 2 EloyalSwedish 20 all Sambre and Meuse B4 9 • • 6 Do. 54 p. cent. Prof O4 20 6 Southern of France —pm 20 8 St. Andrew's and Quebec (A), •• ••• -• 8i all West Flanders 3 i —44 10 all Do 5A per c. Pref ••• d 9 20 10 Western of France si 6ip 10 7 West. of Switzerland ... 20 2 Wiesbaden ........ ••• 20 15 Zealand MISCELLANEOUS 5 all Aubin Coal and Iron ... 25 17i Australian Agricult. 464 474 17 20 11 Australsn.Pcific.Mail 10 8 Australn. Royal Mail ... 10 4 Berlin Water Works ... 50 40 Brit. American Land 70 75 5 1 Brit. & Coln. Smeltg. and Reduction Co — ••• 100 32i Canada BO 85 85 5 5 Crystal Palace, 5 54 54 5 3A Do. New.... Par iP 4 2 Crystal Pal. of •• France ... 20 3 Eastern Steam — 25 20 ElectritTelegraph(A) 184 19 19} 25 all Do. (B) ••• ••• 1 1 Electric Teleg. of Ir ... 15 14 Gen. Steam Navigat — 20 18 General Serew Stearn 20 76 Irish Beetroot Sugar ... 20 10 Magdalena. St. Navig. 1 all Nat. Pat. Steam Fuel 10 3 Netherlands Land 3 14 2 1 N. S. W. Coal & Inter Steam Navigat. Co — 1 all N. B. Australasian — 1 1 Do. New ••• ••• 20 10 NAIL of EuropeSteain • 5 all Peel Rr. Ld. & Minrl. d 4 t 50 all Peninsular& Oriental 57 50 40 Do. Do. ... ...p 2 all Portland Iron Co 6 - iP 100 60 Royal Mail Steam .. 1 all Scot. Mistral. Invest Si 2i 25 25 South Austral. Land 36 38 36 1 all Submar. Telegraph lf 14 1 all Do. Registered. 284 Yam Diemen land 12 =l3 'l3 NINES 1 all Ag,ua Fria 1 all Anglo Austrlu. Gold 10s. all Anglo Californian 1 10 2 Australasian 1 d 20 6 Australian 1 all Australian Cordillera 1 all Australian Freehold 4 - 1 all Ave Mi.ria 1 all Baden (Gd. Duchy of) $ $ 1 50 all Blaenarvon Ir. & Coal 7 9 1 all aritish Austrin. Gold ... 20 13.5 British Iron 35 24/ Brazilianlmp.(issued at .C 5 pin 3l 41 30 all Do. Cocaes & Cuiada 11 —2/ 20 15 Do. St. John Del Rey 28 —3O x d 1 4 Carson's Creek - $ d 1 4 Clarendon Con. Min Co. of Jamaica 40 all Cobre Copper 44 46 5 1 Colonial Gold - ... 15 Copia po St. all Copper Min. of Eng 5O 60 25 all Do. Pref. 7. p. cent 2 4 D 5 all English and Austrin. Copper Smeltg.Co. 14 2 20 all General 2 all Great Nugget Vein... 2 all Do. Registered 3 all Great Polgooth 1 all Liberty 3 all Linares 1 all Lond.&Californ.Gold Quartz Crush. Co. 1 all 11fariquita 10 9 %lexican&S.Amoricn 6l —6i 1 all New Granada 1 all New Linares Mining and Smelting Co ... 1 all Nouveau Monde 4 - 20 all Pontgibaud Silver Lead Min. & Smelt. 16 —lB 171 5 1 Port Philip g 1 all Quartz Rock 50 all ithymuey Iron 15 15 Do. New 94 104 30 101 Santiago de Cuba .. 4 5 1 all south Australian 4 10 7 Tin Croft 2 4 284 all United Mexican 34 4 1 all Waller 4 —• 1 all West Granada !. 1 all West Mariposa 1 12s. Worthing Mining of Au5tra1ia............ 1 all Yuba JOINT-STOCK BANKS. 40 all Australasia ' 81 83 821 14 40 all British Colonial Bank and Loan Company ... 50 all British N. American xd 25 5 Chartd. Bank of Asia 1 4d 20 2 Chrtd. Bnk. of India, Australia, & China ... d 100 25 Colonial — ••• 100 20 Commercial of Loud — 20 12 English Scottish and Australian 3 24 d 91 9 20 20 Lond. Chart. Bk. of Australia 2l 211 50 20 London and County ... 50 10 London Joint Stock — 100 20 Loud. & Westminster 100 35 National Provincial of England • --- ••• 20 10 Do. New ._. . 50 221 National of Ireland 20 a ll New South Wales,, — 25 all Oriental B an k o f: Corporation 4B —49 484 25 5 Do. New ••• ••• 100 25 Provincial of Ireland 10 all Do. New ••• 5 1 Royal Australn • Bkg. ••• & Gold Imp C 0.... 25 all South Australia 42 44 x d 25 all Union of Australia 74 76 75 1 Do. New 8 10 50 10 ,Union of London —26 A I 26i LAW INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY). COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Betore Mr. Commissioner Holroyd.) EXTENSIVE MERCANTILE FAILURE.-IN RE BUONO. This bankrupt was described as of Fenchurch-street, merchant, in partnership with G. Buono, of Naples, trading under the firm of G. and G. Buono, Naples. To-day was appointed for the choice of assignees. The debts and liabilities are stated at upwards of 100,0001., without at present any available assets, de pending on the realisation of the sale of sulphur in Sicily. There were only three or four proofs tendered, and none of the creditors accepting the trust of assignee, the choice was adjourned. CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY). OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Baron Martin.) James Clarkson Peters, Moss Hart, and James Simson surrendered to take their trial, upon an indictment for conspiracy. for fraudulently obtaining goods from various persons, representing that they were merchants, and carrying on business between this country and Aus tralia. The case, which will last all day, has been several times before the public at the Bankruptcy and Guild hall Police Courts, and t i the alleged fraud was that they had conspired fraudulently to obtain goods from a num ber of tradesmen under the pretence of shipping them to Australia, but which had been sold by one of the de fendants to the other at from 40 to 50 per cent. below cost price. Between the months of November and March goods amounting in value to 3,3381. had been obtained. THIRD COURT. (Before Russell Gurney, Esq.) Adolph. Carlson, 18, a Dutch sailor, was indicted for cutting and wounding Gustaff Posilius. It appeared that, upon the night of the 4th of June, the prisoner and some other seamen were drunk in Spring-gardens, Shadwell, and, some quarrel arising, the prisoner, with a knife, made a blow at the prose cutor' who was there with some g i r l s , an d i n fli cte d a most fearful wound, extending from the right ear to the chin, dividing the ear, and laying bare the whole of the jaw -bone. The jury found him guilty of unlawfully wounding, and sentenced him to 9 months' imprisonment, with hard labour. PRIVATE AND JOINT-STOCK BANKS. The Banker's Magazine furnishes the returns of circu lation of the private and joint-stock banks in England and Wales for the four weeks ending the 10th of June, 1854, and gives the following as the average weekly cir culation of those banks during the past month, viz. : Private banks Joint-stock banks 3,023,219 Average weekly circulation £6,783,339 On comparing the above with the returns for the pre ceding month, ending the 13th of May last, it shows— A decrease in the circulation of the private banks of A decrease in the circulation of the joint-stock banks of 111,969 Decrease on the month £301,875 and, as compared with the return for the corresponding period of last year, viz., June 11th, 1853, it shows— An increase in the circulation of the private banks of A decrease in the circulation of the joint-stock banks of 21,806 17,930 Decrease on the year £16,124 On comparing the above with the amounts of the fixed issues, the following appears to be the comparative state of the circulation : The private banks are below their fixed issues... £847,335 The joint-stock banks are below their fixed issues 302,638 Total below their fixed issues £1,149,973 STATE OF TRADE. (From the Manchester Guardian of this day.) MANCHESTER, July 4.—Manufacturers have experi enced a somewhat diminished demand for goods to-day, partly because there is a hesitation among buyers to pay even the inadequate advance required upon printing cloths, longcloths, T's, and domestics. In jaconets, madapollims, and shirtings, suitable for India, prices are a shade easier. The home consumers of yarns have been rather backward buyers today. That department of our market is therefore reported to be languid, yet without any giving way in prices. Warps and pincops in general have been rather inanimate, and the absence of a demand for China is felt in the water twisA suitable for that quarter. The India houses have bought freely of several counts of mule yarn, principally 40s, and from 60s upwards, which are higher in price. HALIFAX, July I.—There is a more hopeful tone, both as regards yarns and pieces ; but we cannot yet note any increase of demand, or improvement in prices. There is more inquiry for wools, and the quotations are firmer. ROCHDALE, July 3.—We have had a dull sluggish market, differing very little from those of the three past weeks, either in price or demand. The wool market continues inactive, with very little doing, but prices are firm. HUDDERSFIELD, July 4.—The market has been quiet to-day compared with the last two weeks. A few goods have, however, been disposed of in the lower qualities. On the whole, the manufacturers are well employed, notwithstanding the quiet markets, and none, we be lieve, have commenced to run short time. Many of the goods produced in this district, however, an d particu larly good woollens, do not come to market at all, but are sent direct from the manufacturers to the large dis tant houses. In establishments like t hese, operations have an important effect in the general employment of the neighbourhood. CITY OF LONDON THEATRIL—The summer season at this theatre has commenced most propitiously. During the last two or three weeks the performances, which do infinite credit to the management, have attracted very numerous audiences, and have given general satisfaction to the theatre-goers in this part of the town. One of the most successful pieces brought out here is a drama, by Mr. James Worrell, entitled, The Mulatto Murderer; or, the Bridal Ring, which we must say f or startling effect and intense interest, is not excelled by some of the French productions, with which West-end managers have lately startle d the metro polis. It is repeat e d thi s week, and will no doubt prove extremely remunerative to the management. We are glad to find that a rap id and marked improvement is taking place i n a ll th e en tertgumenta at this place of amusement. • 1 2 50 50 20 20 8/ 100 - 100 473 173 all 100 51 19i all 64 25 50 20 ti 1;1 17, all 10 1 212 s 100 100 [OO 100 St. 10 St. 25 20 20 50 20 17 all all 16 100 63} 4 35 164 191 18i 90 1 i 73 4 1251 791 9 661 7 6 15i i 11# 1051 4# 5i •7 61) 74 64 7j per cent. 641 5 354 6 FINE ARTS. The Lake Scenery of England. Parts I.—V. Painted by J. B. Pyne, Esq. Lithographed by W. Gauci. Published by Thomas Agnew and Sons, Manchester. It would not be extravagant to designate this im portant work, a work containing the most remark able specimens of lithography that we can remem ber to have ever fallen under our observation. We do so—and that, moreover, with all emphasis and deliberation. We do so in justice to M. Gauci, in justice to the Messrs. Agnew, and with refe rence to Mr. Pyne in a spirit of cordial and un affected congratulation. It is something- to have had such scenery as the Lake Scenery of England delineated by the hand of an artist such as Pyne— in a series of brilliant and masterly water-colour drawings. It is something to have had paintings like those lithographed as they have been litho graphed by W. Gauci, so successfully, and some of them, we can say, so very marvell ously. R emem b er i ng still the gratification derived by us from more than one examination of the original pictures at the time when the collection was on view, a season or tw o b ac k, a t t h e gallery of th e Messrs. Graves' establishment, hard by the Opera Colonnade—i t is with peculiar plea sure that we recognise in this series of plates the fulfilment of what was then merely a projected en terprise —an enterprise which has now, however, nearly reached the period of its completion, and that with a success on the part of the lithographer, and we may a dd of the printer, too, whic could scarcely have been reasonably anticipated. It would appear ridiculo us , of cou rse , i n reviewing a literary production, to take note, in the criticism, of the tex ture of the paper upon which the book is printed, of the various dimensions of the volume in length, breadth, and thickness, or of its weight, binding and all, say in ounces avoirdupois. Not so, how ever, in regard to some notices in reference to cer tain matters of Art. In allusion, for example, to lithography—the subject here immediately brought under consideration—the size of a plate i s of no trivial or very subordinate consideration. In viewing the mere mechanical part of the art of lithography, it becomes a source of interest, and a matter of curiosity to observe the scope afforded to the skill of the artist by the largeness or smallness of the calcareous stones, adapted to his purpose, procurable, let us suppose from our insular quarries at Corston, in Somers e t s hi re , or f rom more remote ones, such as the famous Bavarian quarries at Solenbofen, near Pappenheim. It is obviously allowable, therefore, to comment, en passant, upon the peculiarly ample scope afforded to the dexter ous ability of M. Gauci, in copying on stones of such singular amplitude in their dimensions, the exquisite scenes depicted in water colours by the pencil of Mr. Pyne—the wonderfully diversified and exquisitely picturesque Lake Scenery of Eng land. To the mere size of the impression thus produced, we believe that we are indebted for much of the vraisemblanee. For which reason, therefore, we are fain to regard the otherwise subordinate merit as especially deserving of remark, and par ticulary entitled to this passing but direct notifica tion. As well overlook the importance of the dimensions of the slab placed under the hands of the lithographer, as that of the drawing in red crayon, or as that of the etching with nitric acid— as any stage in the whole elaborate and ingenious process, in fact, from the polishing of the surface of the stone, to its final passage un d er th e p r i n t er ' s cylinder. Not without some commendatory re ference, therefore, to the scale upon which these lithographic plates have been produced, may we direct attention in befitting terms of eulogium to the enterprise displayed by the publishers, the skill evidenced by the engraver, and the genius revealed by the painter in the delineation of some of the most exquisitely beautiful of our insular landscapes. Hitherto, no work at all commensurate in cha racter, no illustrative publication at once pictorial and descriptive, has celebrated in a manner worthy of the scenery, by a consecutive series of engravings, accompanied by appropriate letterpress, the lovely localities renowned among the many celebrated and picturesque portions of our island as the Lake District—the woods, and lakes, and hills, and dells of the contiguous counties of Lancaster, Cumber land, and Westmoreland. Detached nooks, here and there , have been depicted, it i s t rue, b y the pen, and the brush, and the p , ncil. Scar ce ly one among the more prominent features in th e land scape but has been commemorated as " a thing of beauty," and therefore as " a joy for ever" in immortal verse. The whole country side has been described by guide-books in abundance. But a work of the nature above indicated has never until now made its appearance —a work portraying the Lake District, in a way not altogether unworthy of the theme at last selected for artistic treatment through systematic and elaborate delineation. "It was not," says the Introduction, " until the pro prietors had induced a painter, every way qualified for the task, to co-operate, con amore, in the pro duction of such a work, that they decided o n attempting to supply ie desideratum." The distinguished genius of Mr. Pyne as one of the first among the great living colour-poets of England, aided, as it has fortunately been, by the practised ability of M. Gauci as a lithographer, has at length enabled the publishers and proprie tors of this very noble serial to carry out to a suc cessful issue their undoubtedly bold and really na tional undertaking. The interest of the localities here illustrated cannot be questioned by any one who has turned over the pages of even the most superficial hand-book descriptive of these classic portions of Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Lan cashire. For it cannot be forgotten, either by the student or the traveller, much less by those who can lay claim at once to both characters—it cannot be forgotten that it was among these " pleasant places" and "sweet solitudes" that retired not only " the noble-minded Arnold, the paradoxical Haz litt, and the speculative De Quincey," not only artists as illustrious as the " graceful but neglected" Romney, and as Hogarth, our glorious satirist of the easel, but that here it was that Words worth found a home at Rydal Mount, and Shelley at Ambleside, and Wilson at Elleray, and Coleridge at Grasmere, and Southey at Keswick, and Mrs. Hemans at Dovesnest. Memories, each of sufficient interest, but together fraught with irresistible fascination. Accompanied by memories like these, we follow the painter with his attendant lithographer, with rapt attention, through scene after scene of picto r i a l enc h antment. Now, watching the " play of light" over Skiddaw, asking— " What was the great Parnassus' self to thee, Mount Skithlaw, in thy natural s overe i gn t y '?" Now pausing suc cess i ve ly b e f ore th e woo d s, an d wilds, and waters of Ennerdale, and Rydal, and Windermere, and Hawes, and Wallergill, and Bassenthwaite, and Derwent, and Buttermere, and Langdale, and Grasmere, and Ulleswater, and Conister, and Crummoch--wandering off, in fancy, from the track selected by the artist, hither and thither as we list at the moment, in an ascent of Fairfield, in a stroll down the Vale of St. John's, in a saunter over the Sands of Cartmel, in an ex cursion to Saddleback, or in a ramble through Borrowdale. a the period when the original col lection of water-colours from the hand of Mr. Pyne was on view, we took occasion to express our sense of the genius displayed by the artist in his delineation of those remarkable landscapes. It were idle to observe in regard to the engravings from those original drawings, the engravings here issued in the form of an eminently meritorious and costly publication, more than that the genius of the painter has been emulated to a considerable extent by the skill and adroitness of the lithographer. In somuch that the enterprise, commenced some time back under the happiest auspices, is now rapidly ap proaching a successful consummation. MAGAZINES. sawith we feel The Rambler.—We observe in t he Jul y numb er of this intelligent and not unf re q uentl y brilli ant the orga o n f o a f vocurryCdaitffheorleinc different l in o w d -, cbor eachtrym of en, two arti clesthem par stiactuislfiareldy, entitleddis passionate. re to tha e r rniepina;tpicenru. Both,l who but very recen tl y ventured forth from the ob scurity in which he has been born and nurtured, and proffered—we doubt not with a tremulous though daring hand—more metrical contributions to our national literature. The other refers to the chief representative and glory of that literature. One has allusion, that is to say, to Gerald o ther to William Shakspere. - Massey's little volume of The criticism on Air. of poems, especially in re gard to the " Barad Babe Christabel," is genial and eulogistic. The essay upon " The Immortal Bard" is nothing more nor less than an argum en t in reply t o th e ?" A inquiry, " Was Sh a k s p ere a Catho licquestion we are not by any means sur prised to find answered by the Ramble, rather by delicate inference than by positive assertion, in the affirmative. The Head and Heart.—A new claimant for pub lic favour has here appeared among the already considerable cluster of monthly periodicals. Al though it is usually somewhat difficult to judge of the merits of an enterprise of this kind from an examination of merely one number, we can see sufficiently into the design of The Bead and Heart from the initial instalment of it, before us, to perceive at once that it is a design eminently entitled to commendation. From one of the many entertaining contributions to_the Bead and _Heart we quote the following sensible observations upon Boarding-School Education : " But if much ill the syetem of female education ezist. ing in England (of course with exceptions), how much more of evil is that system productive under which gulls are sent to France for instruction ? It is notoriously a boast, that every English tendency of the young heart is there eradicated. A girl goes from a happy and oom. Portable home to the meagre fare and chilling accommo. dations of a French boarding-school: She is taught nothing of good that could not, with proper care, have been taught at home ; and in far too many instances the information she does acquire is such that eventually makes her an outcast from society. At the best they are either crammed to repletion with wearisome lessons, or such are altogether neglected for the sake of frivolity. Such girls are like victim s destined for the sacrifice, and dressed with the perishable flowers of mere accomplish. merits.' " A story, entitled " The Heart and the Head : a Father's Legacy to his Son," is already commenced. Besides which we observe the beginning of a " Stu dent's Self-instructing French Grammar," and an article on the subject of the War --contributions sufficient of themselves to justify the supplementary titles of the Bead and Heart as a Youth Instructor and Fireside Intelligencer. LYCEUM THEATRE. On the occasion of Mr. and Mrs. F. Matthew's benefit last night, a slight piece not remarkable for vis arnica, but still noticeable as a specimen of French ingenuity in building something upon nothing, was produced with success. We say " French," because The Gentleman Op posite, as the piece is called, is taken from a vaudeville en titled La Tasse Cassee. Lucy (Mrs. F. Matthews), the ser vant of Mrs. Mowbray (Miss Talbot), a fascinating widow, has the misfortune to break an ornamental china-cup that stands in the window. To conceal her own delinquency, she attaches a stone to an undirected and unsigned let ter she has received from her sweetheart, Pounce (Mr. Swan), and places it near the fractured ornament. Mrs. Mowbray, seeing the damage, and discovering the epistle, concludes that the letter comes from Mr. Charles Villiers (Mr. C. Mathews), a " gentleman opposite," with whom she, is person Ily unacquainted, but of whom she hears good accounts. A lawsuit in which she is engaged, and which she fears she can only terminate by a hateful marriage with her adversary, Fitzaddle (Mr. Basil Baker), enables her to invite Mr. Villiers in his pro fessional capacity, and she is t greatly astonished to find that the supposed hurler of the love epistle is modest and retiring to a fault. However, out of this interview a serious engagement results, the straight path of gen t ee l courtship 'being now and then inter rupted by the pretensions of Mr. Pounce, who hearing his letter read with evident affection by Mrs. Mowbray, concludes that he himself must be the favoured object. On the strength of this hypothesis, Pounce bullies Fits addle into a resignation of the lady's hand, but he now finds that it is a case of sic vos non vobis, and that he has merely exerted himself to make the road clear for Mr. Villiers. The finished representation, by Mr. C. Mathews, of the bashful timidity of the modest admirer, gradually yielding to a growing ardour, and the brilliant appearance of Miss Talbot as the fair widow, are the chief features of this little unpretending piece. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DI Y.) LONDON, July s.—Wind Mis day at Noon, W. ; light pleasant breeze, with alternate cloud and sunshine, and in occasional shower. OFF DOVER, July 4.—Harriet and Jessie, from St. Stephen's, N. 8., for Hull. PLYMOUTH, July 4.—Wind, W.N.W. Arrived—Puri tano, from Lisbon. Sailed—Columbus, for Adelaide, S.A. ; Calcutta (s s), Southampton. PASSED at the back of the Goonvatr—Seringapatani, Bombay. PORTSMOUTH, July 4.—Wind, W. Sailed—Victoria. from London, for New York. FALMOUTH, July 4.—Wind, N.W. Arrived—Richard Young, from Akyab, and sailed for Amsterdam ; Mar garetha, Shields, for Naples ; Jersey Lass, do., for Cadiz ; Alexander, Pernambuco. Sailed—St. Racer, for Geelong; Rose, Alexandria ; Juno, Constantinople. Off Port•— Jane, from Akyab, and sailed for Bremen. POOLE, July 4.—Wind, W. Arrived—Secret, from Newfoundland. BRISTOL, July 4.—Wind, S.W. Arrived—Margaret, from Havannah ; Sylph, Girgenti. GRIMSBY, July 4.—Wind, S.W. Arrived—Ahi, from Havannah ; Hamburgh (s), Hamburgh. OFF BONCRURCH (Isle of Wight).—Brisk, Gambia. SHIELDS, July 4.—Wind, W. Arrived—Flora, from Genoa ; Hanie Marie, St. Helena. Sailed—James Mont gomery, for Aden ; Pet, Quebec. HULL, July 4.—Wind, S.W. Arrived—Albatross, from Dantzic ; Gefion, Bogense ; Walkington, Rotterdam. BELFAST, July 3.—Wind, S.W. Arrived—Nemesis, from Shanghai ; Arab, Wilmington. Sailed—Emma Heyn, for Quebec. QUEENSTOWN, July 3.—Wind, N.W. Arrived—Ala bama, from Callao, for London ; Southampton, London, for Calcutta. Sailed—Christiania, for Quebec. Off Port —Argyle, from Callao ; Hespems, Cuba, and both sailed for London ; United, Belize, for Liverpool. MALAGA, June 26.—The Avernon, from Port Vendres and Tarragona, to New York (cargo, lead and wine), foundered off Valez, Malaga, June 24; crew saved. GIBRALTAR, June 24.—The Quatre Sceurs (French barque), from Marseilles, in ballast, to Sierra Leone, was stranded on the rocks off Green Island, near Algeciras, on the night of the 23d of June, and bilged. CIIRISTIANSAND, July 2.—The Pomona, from Dantzic to Hull, put into this port very leaky, has discharged, found the leak, fothered it, and will commence reloading early next week.—Her Majesty's s. Gossamer (surveying) is at present here. NEW QUAY, July 4.—Part of a boat, 14 feet 4 inches long, 5 feet beam, painted pink inside and red out, has been picked up one mile from the shore. (i3Y ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) LIVERPOOL, Wednesday, 10.45 a.m. Wind W., light, and showery. Arrived.—Pacific (s.), from New York ; Bl.ek Prince, Valparaiso ; Othello, Maceio ; Dundonald, St. Jan a, N. 8.; Adam Kerr, Dantzic. Sailed.—Brilliant, for New York ; Nerio, Fayal ; Sidon, Monte Video; Trieste, Trieste; Star of the East, Mel bourne. (BY SUBMARINE AND EUROPEAN TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Wednesday, 10 30 A.M. Wind W.S.W., tide first hour ebb, fine. Arrived, sth.—Vrowe Vrenke from Worcum; Christi ana Jautino, Danzie ; Leonne, Gravelines ; William Parker, Islay ; Vriendschaft, Worcum ; Gravelincs ; Angler, Lisbon ; Eliza Anne, Darien ; Chance, Stettin; Enterprize, Havannah ; Steen Belle and Vrow prizes, Faro Sound ; Zephyr, Jersey; Favourite, Danzic. rkSailed—Holland (s), for Bremen. DEAL, Wednea lay, 10.30 a.m. Wind W.S.W., very fine. No arrivals. Sailed.—Schooner yacht Shark, Curling, Esq., for Poole. MARKET .NEWS-(THIS DAY). CORN EXCHANGE. To day's msrket was very scantily supplied with all kinds of English wheat. The demand, however, ruled very dull, and inferior qualities were offered on lower terms without sales being effected. The show of foreign wheat was extensive. Owing to the prevailing fine weather, the inquiry for all descriptions was heavy, and the quotations were not supported. Very few floating cargoes were on offer. Barley and malt, the show of which was but moderate, were dull, but not cheaper. The show of oats was good, whilst the inquiry was con fined to immediate wants, on former terms. Iu beans and peas very little was doing. The flour trade was dull, and the top price of the best Town-made was 65s per 2801bs. ARRIVALS TEMS WEEK. Wheat. 1,860 Barley. 110 English Irish .... Foreign .. Malt. Oats. 570 10 260 1 15,100 j 2,5805ka lionr. 320 22,320 1 1,210 WHITECHAPEL. Each kind of meat was steady to-day, as follows : Beef from 3s 4d to 4s 6d; mutton, 3s 6d to 4810 d ; lamb, 4s 8d to 5s 8d ; veal, 3s 4 d to 4sSd ; pork, 3s 4d to 4s 8d per 81bs by the carcase. BOROUGH HOP. Our market is firm, and fine East Kent pockots are worth 10/. 10s per cwt. The show of samples very PRICE OF GOLD.—The quotation of gold at Paris is about 4 per mille discount (according to the last tariff), which, at the English mint price of 31. 17s. 101 d. per oz. for standard gold, gives an exchange of 25.07 ; and, the exchange at Paris on London at short being 25.00, it follows that gold is about 0.28 per cent. dearer in Paris than in London. By advices from Hamburg the price of gold is 422 per mark, which, at the English mint price of 31. 17s. 101 d. per oz. for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13.3 a ; and, the exchange at Ham burg on London at short being 13.31, it follows that is The 0.06 courseper ce n o t f . e d x e o a h r n e n r g i o n H a t a m N b e u w r g y t o h r a k n o i n n o o d o gold n. Lon don for bills at 00 days' sight is 1094 per cent., and, the par of exchange between England and America being 109 23-40 per cent., it follows that the exchange is no minally 0.17 per cent, in favour of England ; and, after making allowance for charges of transport and difference of interest, the present rate leaves a small profit on the importation of gold from the United States. MELBOURNE MINING COMPANY.—AII action in the Court of Queen's Bench on Monday, brought by a share holder in the Melbourne Gold and General Mining Com pany, against one of the directors and trustees, to re cover a deposit of 11. per share on 50 shares, on the ground that the conditions of the prospectus had not been fulfilled, was successful. A bill of exceptions, however, was tendered by the defendant's counsel, and a new trial is to be had before a special jury. GEOGRAPHICAL CLUB.—The members of this club held their last meeting for the session on Monday, at the Trafalgar, Greenwich, Sir Roderick Murchison in the e chair, supported by Lords Sheffield and Overston . annual grant of 5001. to the Royal Geographical Society was also voted by the House of Commons on the same evening. CITY COMMISSIONERS OF SEWERS.—Yesterdaythe corn missioners assembled at Guildhall, Deputy Peacock in the chair. The commissioners were some time occupied in considering the course to be pursued with regard to property needing, in the opinion of the medical officer of t hea lth , works of o drainage,fpremises cannot&c., be tob e found, do and in as done in cases w c here hoowners es where the tenants are of the lowest description, and psy no rent to any one. Many of the commissioners objected to lay out the public money in the improvement of such property, and others of them were of opinio n that the n ecessary orders must be ca rriedinto execution as the only means of providing against or remedying the evils of disease. Ultimately, at the suggestion of the chief clerk, the case was adjourned for a week, in order that further investigstiou may be made. The contractor was paid a second instalment for repairing the Fleet sewer ; the whole of the repairs will, according to the statement of the surveyor and engineer, cost the sum of 8,0001. Several improvements, one of which was the important improvement of widening Chancery-lane at the southern end, were agreed to, and, after the transaction of othQr incidental busineso the t cow. adjourned,