The Sun. — London, England, 1854-07-31 00:00:00

THE WEST INDIA MAIL. The Royal West India mail packet, Tamar, Captain Revett, Admiralty agent, Lieutenant W. H. Pyne, R.N., has arrived at Southampton with the West India mails. Her dates of sailing are :—Vera Cruz July, 5 ; Tampico, June 30 ; Havannah, July 10 ; Panama, 9 ; Valparaiso, 20 ; Callao, June 26 ; Jamaica, 12 ; Demerara, 10 ; Trinidad, 10; St. Kitts, 14; Bar badoes, 12 ; St. Lucia, 13 ; Antigua, 14 ; St. Vin cent, 11 ; Martinique, 13 ; Dominica, 13 ; Tor tola, 19. The Tamar brings 140 passengers. The freight on board consists of specie to the amount of 1,742,000 dollars, of which 72,000 dol lars are on account of Mexican dividends. Ad vices from Barbadoes state that the cholera had nearly disappeared in Bridgetown, but was still very prevalent in many parts of the island. The mortality has alrea ly reached nearly 13,000. The other islands are pretty healthy. In the Jamaica import market light stocks and high prices bad prevented the transaction of much business, during the fortnight. In the produce market, sugar had moved rather freely at an ad vance of ls. on all qualities. Rum is without change in price, though the inquiry has greatly subsided. Not auy coffee of the new crop has yet been brought in. The cholera, it is said, is dis appearing from St. Ann's, and we may therefore look for early receipts of pimento thence. Trea sury notes are still at a discount of five per cent,, but intelligence communicated by his Excellency the Governor to the Chamber of Commerce, to the effect that the loan of half a million will be gua ranteed by the imperial Government, is expected soon to cause them to revert to their original value. Freight had declined, tonnage becoming more plen tiful. Exchange : Colonial and Jamaica Banks -90 days, par ; 60 days, 2 per cent. prem.; 30 days, 1 per cent. prem. There was no political news from Mexico. The press is so fettered by Santa Anna that the public know but little of what is going on. The cholera was on the decline at the city of Mexico. Heavy rains had fallen at Vera Cruz. The United States mail steamer Owjaba was there when the packet for England left. Yellow fever was subsiding since the rains bad set in. The French Commander-in-Chief, Admiral du Quesne, died. at Havanna on the 3d of July. His remains were deposited in the church of St. Do mingo with great honours, to await instructions from France as to their final interment. The French squadron left on the Bth July. They had suffered a good deal from yellow fever. H.M.S. Espiegle had captured an empty slaver, and sent her to Havanna for adjudication by the mixed court. Troops were arriving from Spain and Porto Rico to reinforce the garrison. The United States mail steamer Cahawa was at Havanna when the packet left. H.M. steam-vessel Medea was cruising be tween the Bahama Channel and Havanna. The excitement with regard to the Black Warrior ques tion appeared to be subsiding. The Captain of an English merchant vessel had made a declaration to the Consul at St. Juan's that he had been boarded and plundered not far from Porto Rico by an armed vessel, showing no national colours. Her Majesty's steam-vessel Devastation and a French man-of-war were on the look out for her. Affairs still continued in an unsettled state at Grey town, and American man of war was daily expected. The Bermuda was stationed there when the packet left There is a great scarcity of seamen at Callao, wages up to 91. per month. A good many vessels were load ing guano at the Chincha Islands. Cruising off Havana, H.M.S. Medea. Off St. Thomas, H.M.S., Devastation. Amongst the Windward islands, H.M,S., Calypso. At Jamaica, H.M.S. linaum and Argus, the Espiegle being daily expected from Havana The Bermuda schooner was at Greytown. H.M.S. Arab expected at Havana. Callao —The Russian fri- gate left Callao two days before the news of war being declared aznved. H.M.S. President arrived two days afterwards, and Failed again immediately. The Pique arrived two days after the President left. THE SOU'IH AUSTRALIAN JOB.-THE HON. FRANCIS LA WLEY. We do not remember ever to have seen public opinion more decided or more unanimous than it is in the condemnation of the appointment of the Hon. Francis Lawley to the Government of South Australia. That appointment is regarded on all hands as the grossest job ever perpetrated. To the fine colony of South Australia a young man is about to be sent, who has no pretensions whatever. Mr. Francis Lawley, the present Governor, is a brother of the late Lord Wenlock, 'and a near connection of Mr. Gladstone, to whom lie has acted as Private Secretary, and, according to " Dod's Companion," he is a Fellow of All Souls' College, Oxford, the qualifications for which are, that the candidate shall be " bene flatus, bene vestitus, m e di ocr it er d oc t as ;" th ese qua lifications Mr. Lawley possesses. He is also 29 years of age, and is now Governor of one of our most important colonies ! He was elected for Beverley, where his family possess influence, in 1852, has never opened his mouth in Parliament, has not even been a clerk in the Colonial Office, or attaché to a Colonial staff, but has been solely em ployed for a year and a half in writing letters for his cousin, Mr. Gladstone. We hear much of Colonial Reform, and the proper administration of our colonies, but, during the present session, all that has been done in any remarkable way appears in two appointments—Mr. Stonor having been found guilty of improper practices at an election, was made judge of one colony, and is recalled as soon as the fact is known ; and Mr. Lawley who is 29 years of age, and who is said not to have been very fortunate on the turf, is made " Governor" of another colony. But the job is not yet completed. By this ap pointment, Governor Lawley vacates his seat *for Beverley ; and the candidate sent down by the Government, to receive the support of the Lawley family and secure the sweet voices of the electors, is the Hon. Arthur Gordon, the youngest son of the Earl of Aberdeen. This young gentleman was born in 1829, and is now 25 years of age. Thus, then, this job is complete. It is convenient that Mr. Lawley should go abroad. Mr. Gladstone re commends Mr. Lawley to Sir Geo. Grey, the present Secretary of State fer the Colonies, for an appoint- Ment. Sir Geo. Grey has just been appointed him self, and being a Grey, he is naturally used to family arrangements. He approvest he recommendation , and lays the case before Lord Aberdeen. The Prime Minister receives the proposal coupled possibly with the intimation, that his own son may be elected, through the Lawley interest, for Beverley. He approves the scheme, recommends it to the favour able consideration of the Queen, and Mr. Lawley is made Governor-General of her Majesty's colony of South Australia. A new writ is then issued for Beverley, and the son of the Prime Minister is started for that borough, before the electors know anything of the family arrangement. Thus are ourcolonies governed. Such is a spe cimen of Coalition Government—such has been a recommendation to the Queen—and such is the conduct of the good Aberdeen, Mr. Glad stone, and Sir George Grey. It is very com mon for a Grey or an Elliott to get places, but for a young mau of 29, merely because he has got into trouble, and is a connexion of the Minister, to be made Governor-General of one of the largest and most important provinces belonging to the Queen, is a thing unparalleled. The party in the Ministry who desire to retain their places, at all hazards, have triumphed, and they will stay in till they are turned out, and drag their colleagues along with them. When winter approaches, we doubt not meetings will be held all over the coun try upon the state of the Ministry. We still cling to the belief that Parliament must meet in .No vember, though it i s c l ear th a t some o f t h e Minis ters will oppose an autumnal session in every way. ---Zorning Advertiser. BEVERLEY ELECTION. —On Saturday morning the walls were placarded with the announcement of a new candidate, Mr. George Woodyatt Hastings. who appeals to the electors as a thorough going liberal, a friend of a vigorous war policy, and a determined opponent of Lord A berdeen. The nomination took place at 11 o'clock, When both candidates appeared on the hustings. Dr. Sandwith proposed and Mr. William Cresskill seconded Mr. Gordon, and Mr. Hastings was proposed by Mr. s G eorge I re l an d, secon d e d by Mr. Ligar. The candi d'tes having addressed the assembly in exposition of their political views, a show of hands was taken, when there appeared a sliaht majority in favour of Mr. Hast ings. This was ann'ounced by the Mayor, and a poll was then demanded on behalf of Mr. Gordon, and fixed f i 7, Monday. Th e i ssue seems somew h a t doubtful, there Gordon.g an opi n i un th a t th e T or i es w ill vote against Mr. ‘-c SAILING OF THE ARABIA.-LIVERPOOL, Saturday.— The British and American Royal Mail steam-ship Arabia, Captain Judkins, sailed from Liverpool for New York, this day, at 11'45 a.m., with the usual tn aile, a large cargo, and one hundred and thirty pas sengers. CHOLERA IN ITALY. —The following private telegra phic despatch has been received :- "Turin, 28th.--A ucepatch from Genoa announces that the cholera has made its appearance at Leghorn, Florence, and Naples. .There Were yesterday at Genoa 124 cases an d 51 d eat h s. At T urin and in the provinces the sanitary state is satis factory. REPRIEVE OF A MURDERER.-The Right Honourable the Home Secretary has commuted the sentence iifdeath which was passed upon the Spaniard at the last Hert ford Assizes, for the murder of a young man, to trans• Portation for life. No ground has been assigned, ex cept that the prisoner, since his apprehension, has refused to speak. afARKET NEIVS—(TELTS DAY. ) CORN EXCHANGE. The leading country markets held on Saturday wore very moderately supplied with wheat, in which only a limited business was doing, on easier terms. Barley and malt were dull, and cheaper. In oats, there was scat cely any inquiry, at drooping prices. ' Beans, peas, and flour were cheaper. Most of the continental markets have been dull for wheat and oth..r articles. Prices almost generally have tended downwards. Our last advices from New York state that both wheat and floor were drooping. The arrivals of English grain up to our market last week, were moderate. The imports from abroad amounted to 17,238 quarters of wheat, 5,230 barley, 35,565 oats,3ol beans, 161 peas, 20 tares,l,2lslinseed, 56 sundry seeds, and 6,33.! barrels of flour. The quantity of wheat received fresh up to our market to-day, coastwise from Essex and Kent was but moderate; and the arrivals from all quarters by land carriage were limited ; nevertheless the show of samples was somewhat in excess of Monday last. For all kinds we had a slow in quiry, and the amount of business doing was limited, at prices somewhat beneath those of this day sen'night, the fall being about is per quarter. There was no new corn in the market, but a sample or two may be looked forward to on Monday next. The show of foreign wheat was tolerably extensive. There was only a moderate inquiry for most descriptions, and low qualities were the turn in favour of buyers com pared with Monday last. Very fe v floating cargoes were on offer, but the inquiry for them was heavy. We had a very dull sale for barley, at a decline in value of is per quarter. Malt was heavy, and is per quarter beneath last week's currency. . We were heavily supplied with oats, which moved off slowly, at is per quarter less money. There was scarcely any demand for beans and peas, the prices of which were almost nominal. The supplies were The flour trade was very dull, and the quotations had a downward tendency. CURRENCY PER IN Wheat —Essex 3c. Red .• new 624 to 743 Ditto •• • • ........ old 62s 753 • titto, White new 66s 76s Ditto ........ old 663 76s Norfolk and Lin coln, Red, old 643 72s Ditto new ...... 64 172 Eye—Old ............ 508 sls New ............ 50s 51s Ba •ley—Grinding 31e 373 1 1 Malting ..... • . .• —s Chevalier.... .•• —3 —3' Kalt--Suffolk and Nor folk-- •• • • 66s 7ls dr0wn............ • 60, trinestonand Ware 73s 745, .PERIAL MEASURE. ;Vlalt—Chevalier .• •• 74s to 75 Oats Yorkshire and Chicolash., Feed 283 31s Potato roughal and Cork Black• ••• • • • 27s 30s Cork, White ... 2ss Scotch, Feed..... 3is 34s !leans —Tick • 43s 52s Pigeons .• 47 • 58s Peas—Grey •••• 44s 48s SI tote. —...• •• 46s 51s .• • 54s 58s B oilers ......... st‘s 58s leltiar—Town-made... 588 60s *Audi)lk •....... . 50, 57e itocktn & Norfolk 483 55s SMITHFIELD. The total imports of foreign stock last week amounted to 5,515 head. In the corresponding week in 1853 we re ceived 10,553 ; in 1852, 7,805 ; in 1851, 9,001 ; in 1850, 5,788 ; in 1849, 5,988 ; in 1848, 6,703 ; and in 1847, 7,41./ head. IMPORTS INTO LONDON LAST WEEK. From Beasts. Sheep. Hamburgh 159 1 073 Rotterdam 315 1,601 ... 470 ... 344 ... 19 Harlingen 3 ... 23 ... 3 ... 3 ... 47 Calais Lambs. Calves. Pigs Amsterdam l3 ... Dordt ....... 46 ... Antwerp — Tonuingen 254 ... Bremen 77 ... Ostend Bromvershven 339 ... - ... 91 ... 11 ... 151 ... 38 10 ... 10 33 ... 43 Total ... 867 ... 3,317 . ... 527, ... 677 The yearly comparison of weekly imports is as under : Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. 1853 1,454 6,823 676 ... 1,098 507 1852 1,138 4,574 ... 853 ... 855 384 1851 1,475 5,381 1,253 538 454 1850 OB4 3,664 622 303 355 1849 752 ... 4,380 4u5 351 100 To-day's market was well supplied with foreign stock, the general quality of which was inferior. The demand was steady, and prices were on the advance. About an average time-of-year supply of home-fed beasts was received fresh up this morning, but their weight and condition were by no means prime. Although the attend ance of butchers was far from extensive, the beef trade ruled somewhat active, at an advance in the prices of Monday last of from 2d to, in some instances Id per Blbs. From Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, and Northampton shire, we received 1,960 short horns ; from other parts of England, 400 of various breeds ; and, from Scotland, 100 Scots. Notwithstanding that the numbers of sheep were rather extensive the sale for that description of stock ruled steady, at Friday's advance in the quotations of 2d per 81bs. The best old Downs were worth 5s per 81bs. Lambs—the supply of which was tolerably good, moved off steadily, at 2d per 81bs above last Monday's currencies. We had a better demand for calves, at extreme quota- tions. The supply was rather large. Pigs commanded very little attention on former terms. Per Sibs to sink the offals. s. d. s. d. Inferior Beasts.... 3 4to 3 6 Second quality.... 3 8 4 0, Prime large oxen 4 2 4 6 i Prime Scots, die. 4 8 410 Inferior Sheep ...3 6 3 8 Second quality ...3 10 4 0 Prime crse.-wlled. 4 2 4 8( Lambs TOTAL SUPPLY. s. d. s. d. Prime Southdown 410 5 0 Large crse. calves 3 2 4 0 Prime small d 0... 4 4 410 Large hogs 3 0 4 2 Small porkers 4 4 4 8 Suckli ng cal ves ..22 0 29 0 Quarter old pigs 21 0 27 0 4s &1 to 5s Bd. FOREIGN SUPPLY. Beasts . ...... ........... 4,085 ; 8ea5t5......... ..•• •... -I,4ra Sheep .. •• .• —31,780 5heep................. ...4,291 salves .......... ••.••• .. 43 ......•• 253 A. statement and comparison of the supplies and prices of fat stock exhibited and sold in Smithfield Cattle Market, on Monday, Aug. 1, 1853, and this day, Monday, July 31, 1854. Per Blbs, to sink the curios. Aug. 1, 1853. (July 31,1854 s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d Coarse and inferior beasts ... 3 oto 3 4'3 4to 3 6 Second quality ditto ... ... 3 6 3 8 3 8 4 0 Prime large oxen ... 310 . 4 0,4 2 4 6 Prime Scots, (ire 4 2 4 4A 8 410 Coarse and inferior sheep 3 6 3 10'3 6 3 8 Second quality ditto ... 4 0 4 43 10 4 0 Prime coarse woolled ditto ... ... 4 6 4 B'4 2 4 8 Prime Southdown ditto 410 5 0,4 10 5 0 Lambs ... ... 5 0 6 OA 6 5 8 Large coarse calves ... 3 4 4 0 3 2 4 0 Prime small ditto ... 4 2 4 814 4 410 Large hogs ... 3 0 3 63 0 4 2 Neat small porkers ... 3 8 4 014 4 4 8 Beasts... -. 4,535 4,085 Sheep -. 28,790 31,780 343 ::: Pigs :4 28 7 0 0 420 SUPPLIEE ON SALE, • Aug 2, 1852.—Beasts, 4,620 ; sheep and lambs, 33,060; calves, 412 ; pigs, 470. Aug. 4, 1851.—Beasts, 4,187 ; sheep and lambs, 31,810; calves, 438; pigs, 415. NEWGATE AND LEADENFIALL. For the time of year our markets are fairly supplied with each kind of meat, the general quality of which is by no means prime. The best beef, mutton, lamb, and veal move off steadily, at full prices. Otherwise the demand is in a sluggish state. Per 81bs by the carcass. s. d. s. d. I s. d. s. d. Reef, inferior 3 0 3 4 Mutton, Inferior 3 4 3 6 Do., middling 3 6 3 8 I Do., middlinr , ..... 3 8 4 2 Do., prime largo 3 10 4 0 Do. prime 4 4 4 8 Do., do. small ....4 2 4 6 Veal 3 2 4 8 Pork, largo 3 2 4 0 Pork, small 4 2 4 10 Lamb 4s 4d to 5s 6J. BOROUGH HOP. As our accounts from the plantations are still unfavour able, the market is firm, and in some instances higher prices have been paid for fine hops. The duty is about 50,0001. Last week's imports were very extensive—viz., 77 bales from Ostend, 431 from Ha mburgh, 51 from Ant werp, 15 from Rotterdam, 20 from Boulogne, and 8 from Amsterdam. Mid and East Kent pockets, 121. Os to 161. Os; Weald of Kent, 11/. Os to 141. 12s ; Sussex, 11/. Os to 131. 13s per cwt. BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS. The supplies of home-grown potatoes on sale here are large, and in good condition. We have no foreign quali ties on sale—last week's imports being only 6 baskets from Rotterdam. The demand is steady, at from 4s Gd to Gs Gd per cwt. WOOL. The public sales of colonial wool held since Monday last have been well attended, and prices have ruled firm, in every instance. The following quotations have been realised : —Sydney—llandwash e d sheep's, is 2,1 to is 8d ; clean ditto, is 3d to is 9(1; clothing, is 7d to is 9d combing, is 8(1 to is 90. New Zealand—Clean sheep's, Is 3(1 to is &1; grease, 8d to 19 id. Ad e l a id e —S coured sheep's, is 3,1 to is 6d ; clean ditto, is to is 6.1 • lambs', 4tl to is 8d; mixed, 10,1 to is 2d; lama:ged, 10dto Is 3d. Ciipe—Clean sheep's, is ld to is 41d ; damaged, 9d to is; grey, dr.c., 8d to ls. Portland B ty—Clean sheep's, is 4d to is 9d ; other kinds, 8,1 to is 3d. Port Philip— Clothing, is 5d to 2s 01 ; clean sheep's, fine, 2s Od to 2s 31d; grease and locks, 101 to ls ; lambs, is !id to Is lld ; skin, - 9d to is ; grease, 8d to lid ; slipe, is Od to is sd. Launceston—Clean sheep's, is od to is 8d; lambs', is 4d to is 10d ; grease, 8d to 101. Several par cels of foreign wool have changed hands at 3d to is 8(1 per lb. Last week's imports were large—viz., 140 hales from Freemantle, 95 from Champion Bay, 1,760 from Melbourne, 850 from Sydney, 1,120 from Algoa Bay, 93 from Ham burgh, 3,645 from Geelong, and 1,546 from Portand Bay. English wools are in improved request, and rather dear. The following are the current rates of English : South-down hoggets, is to is id; half-bred hoggets, to ls • ewes, clothing, lid t o 110 ; Kent fleeces, is to is ld ; combing skins, 10d to 19 ; flannel wool, lld to is ld ; blanket wool, 8d to 1800 ; and Leicester fleeces, lld to is per lb. SEEDS. There has been less business doing in linseed, and sales of Black Sea have taken place at 62s to 63s per quarter. Samples of new rapeseed in good condition have made their appearance ; whilst new trefoil has been on offer. Canary seed has f.,4: . 11en in value 2s per qr. ramie. wrpte, por Watt 14. u. 2o• alarraway .... •• 42 ; 48s Swede 21s 38s coriander......•• • . 10• iss , iustard, 8r0wn.... 1 03 13s Hemoseed, per quarter 41-s 44s White, new...... 14s Linseed, Eng. sowing.. 74s 76s Fires,Winter, new.... Os 04 Os 0 Crushing .. •. • 62, 64s O1(1... • . • .Os OdOs Od Baltic •••••• •• 62s 6 , ;)anary, per quarter .. 45. 48: O dessa €B s dy e •• • • • . 26: 3Os Lonve e d C ake • 64s pr. • ton Mover. Red Enc. (cwt.) —s s English .. • 10' Nll 10. t White • • --e —s Foreign,per ton 951 11' 5s Foreign Red...... —s —l4 Rape Cakes, pr ton 6 15- 7bs White.... —s —s Rapeseed, New, prlst 38 , 0, 40 Ps Trefoil, new........ •• •• •• •• —3 TALLOW. We have very little change to notice in prices since Monday last To-day P.Y.C. en the spot is firm, at 668 6d to 67e per cwt. We have very few sellers for forward delivery. Town tallow, 64s 6d net cash. 1850. 1852. 1853. 1454 Stock this day • • • • " t:: 2 63 5 56 ' 6 . : 9 , 1 1 : 1 : 337 3 85 ? ao - l c ! 0: 1 308 4 .8 2/ do 3 d % Price of Y. O. .... { 1,254 1,55 Delivery last week .• 982 1.184 729 Ditto from June 1.... 10,221 1 ,623 8,037 12,556 8,6-'6 'to 51188 01 °7 : 1 ) 2 4 1)6 0 53 0 34 : 6 o l 18 r Arrivals last week.. i 9 85 323 247 1,113 779 Dittofrom •une I ....1 9,658 7,718 : 9,941 7,613 6,3u4 I Price of T0wn...... ;Ai Od 1394 6,d 393 6d 1.23 9d 674 Od RADCLIFFE RACES. (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) ARRIVALS. WILTON CUP.—Typee, Skinner, Little Fawn, De formed, Baron Osy, Ploughboy, D. 0., Gamelad, Jetty Treffz, Julius Agricola, Professor Buck, St. Andrew, an•l Einelia colt. FOR OTHER RACES.—Helena, Moss Rose, Revelllb, Syvagea, Spencer, and Nelly Hill. LATEST BETTING. WILTON CUP. Even on Typee, laid to money. 3 Lc) 1 agst St. Andrew. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS—(THIS DAY). The SPEAKER took the chair at 12 o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The Lords Amendments to the following bills were considered and ordered to be read a third time :—Car marthen and Cardigan Railway and Cardigan Harbour, and Eastern Counties Railway (Purchase of Railways, &c.) Bills. THIRD READINGS. The Earl of Harrington's Estate, and Lord Wil loughby de Broke's Estate Bills were read a third time and passed. Tile following bills were ordered to big considered : Horny°ld's Estate, Park's Estate, Peel's Estate, and Staveley's Estate Bill s . Stocker's Divorce Bill was read a second time. PUBLIC HEALTH ACT AMENDMENT BILL. Lord PALMERSTON, on moving the second read ing of this bill, said, health to the labouring population was existence itself. While they were in health they were enabled to perform work useful,to themselves and bene ficial to the country. The requirements of society in later days all tended to compel men to live together in large masses, and therefore precautions for pre serving the public health were rendered all the more necessary. Tue noble viscount, after describing the formation and functions of the General Board of Health established by Act of Parliament in 1848, said the functions of that act would expire at the end of the present ses sion. He reminded the house that they were on this subject dealing with the interest of millions of their fel low-subjects—the moral, commercial, and local interests of their fellow-countrymen. He did not wish to excite alarm, but the truth ought to be known, and the truth was that that formidable epidemic, cholera, had .been lin gering in various parts of this coun try for the last twelve months. Every one remembered its ravages at New castle last year; it had been very severe at Glasgow and other places, and there was too much reason to believe it had now made its appearance in the metropolis. He repeated, he did not wish to create alarm by this state ment, but the contrary; tor terrible a disease as the cho lera was, there was no disease that yielded more readily to medical treatment, if taken in its early stages. (Hear.) But there must be direction to govern that treatment ; and one of the most efficacious, he be lieved, would be found in a house to house visitation. He therefore trusted the house would consent to con tinue the Board of Health with the amendment which he believed the present bill would introduce. He pro posed that the Board of Health should be under the con trol of the Secretary of State for the Home Department, who, in his opinion, as he might say, as Minister of the Interior, was peculiarly fitted by his office to look after the general health of the country, and who would be in his place in Parliament to answer as to any questions 014 that subject that might arise. (Hear, hear.) As to the persons composing the present board, they had all placed their appointments in his hands. (Hear, hear,) He felt bound to state this, in justice to those gentle men, because a very considerable amount of clamour and prejudice had been raised against them in the dis charge of a very important and difficult duty. (Hear ) Lord SEYMOUR, in rising to oppose the second reading of this bill, said he was actuated by no feeling of opposition to the Government ; but the Board of Health Act being on the point of expir ing, this was a proper occasion for reviewing its ope ration. He did not deny that there ought to be a Board of Health Act, but• the value of such an act must depend upon the manner in which it was adminis tered, and he was now prepared to show that the board, as it at present existed, had not worked for the public advantage. This was no new opinion of his ; because while in office, he repeated it to his colleagues on every occasion that offered this act, couplad with the Nuisances Removal Act, enabled the Board of Health to interfere with every trade in the country, and such a power ought only to be entrusted to men who would act with great caution, great judgment, and great for bearance. The Board had two powers entrusted to them, namely, to advise as to the best sanitary measures to be adopted, and seeoudly, to administer the existing law with justice and discretion. He was prepared to show that in neither of these cases had the present Board given satisfaction. The noble lord then proceeded to enumerate a number of instances where the advice of the Board had either proved mischievous or abortive, A PIRATE, OR PRIVATEER, SEEN OFF THE WEST INDIA ISLA NDS, A letter received from St. John's, Porto Rico, states that the British sloop Sea Flower, from Hayti, reports having been overhauled 28th June, 25 wiles west of this island, in the Mona passage. by a fast sailing schooner of about 125 tons, armed With a long brass gun (18-pounder on a pivot), and two small guns on each side, manned by 60 or 70 white men, speaking all lan guages ; showed no colours, but had on deck a blue flag, with a red square on it. The Sea Flower was detained for a day and a half, was robbed of 24 coils of cordage, and the captain's coat was stolen by one of the men. A ship and a brig heaving in sight, the sloop was cast off, and the schooner made towards them. She was sup posed to be either a pirate or a privateer. THE BUILDERS' BENEVOLENT INSTITUION. (THIS DAY.) The seventh annual general meeting of the friends an d subscribers t o thi s valuable charity, founded for granti ng pensions and g i v i ng re li e f to aged and decayed members of the various building trades and their widows, was held this day at the London Tavern, business. Mr. purpose o f receiv ing the repo r t, an d upon other Mr. A. G. HARRIS, the s ecre tary, read the report, s which r s was n highly thr ee deaths —making satisfactory , and been de a e n d ot wfueolt:cahl total that, two electionsuosf.t.heT institu tion u e pen sioners, the past year, there ha commencement paidtl) fu fo n:d funds pensions i ; nviz.,s sincel4 the males , co tion amounts to 1,3941. The annual ball held at W ins il t l i i t s u '; R oom s, again superintended by the hen. secretary, Mr. Joseph Bird, realised a profit of 136/. 54. 6d., being an increase over the preceding year of 151 . 19:. re port, after stating that W. Lee, Esq., M.P. for Maid stone, had consented to act as President for the year ensu ing, and that the directors had deter Billed to reduce the corn necessary to be collected previous to the building of almshouses, from 5,0001. 2,5001., concluded by ex pressing a hope that eff ,rts will not be spared to increase the funds of the charity, and thus to make it one of the foremost among the many noble institutions which adorn this land. The subscriptions and donations received during the past year amounted to 1,2061. 188. The directors have added to the funded stock 7001. Three per Cent. Consols, and the building fund has been increased by 400/,, snaking the total amount 4,3501., divvied as follows, viz , 3,0501. to the relief fund, and 1,3001. building fund. The adoption of the report was carried win, dis ; and after the usual complimentary votes of thanks to the committee, and to Mr. G. Bird, the treasurer, the meeting separated. S lIARE MARKETS. (THIS DAY.) BRITISH RAILWAYS. RAILWAYS. r tlosirtg Prices t•aturday. THE BETN, CONDONE MONDAY gVNING, JULY Sly 1854., Leasing Company. f.ouclon & N. West L. &N. W. ;aledon... Businels done this day. ,It.Nrthu. Do • it. Wegtii Yk. New. & Borw. Y. N Do S. Eastern Oo I Norfollc.. L.& N. W. & itaton & Dar!! ngt. E. Count. D 0......... Clogna Prices Saturday 95 - 100 96 - 93 134 - 137 ii = io Do L. & N.W &Ln&Yk Do 103 - 105 51 - 524 254 264 124 - 134 234 - 244 Gt Northn D 0..... .... 2i - 2i Business this day. 93 -7 .- 95 57 - 59 Lancaskit Yorksh. 11.14 Clean -;tockt. Darlingt.' fit = lii hWestb. 2} ia' 30 31 - 91. 93 LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, July 31.—Wind this day at Noon, S.W. light breeze, and cloudy. The Barom e t er h as f a ll en . PORTSMoUTH, July 30.—Wind, S.S.E. Arrived—Flo rida, from London, and sailed for New York. SOUTHAMPTON, July 30.—Winfl, S. W. Arrived—Celle, from Buenos Ayres ; Tamar (s), West Indies. —The Neleus, from London to Sydney, N.S. W., struck against the Dock head, and received considerable damage. OFF THE START.—M en t or, from Amsterdam, for Java, had been in contact with the Pomona, from Havannah to Amsterdam, when the latter lost one man. PLYMOUTH, July 30.—Wind, S.W. Sailed—Australia, for Melbourne. Off Port—Ali c ia, Hamburg, fo r C u b a . PENZANCE —Arrived—Mecca, from Quebec ; Earl Grey, New York, for London, leaky. CO WES. -- Arrived—Franklin (s), New York, and sailed for Bremen. FALMOUTH, July 30.—Wind, W. Arrived—Mentor, from Rio Janeiro, fsr Ha m b urg h . Maid, for Newfoundl•MA ; Oceanus, Baltic. MILFORD, July 22 . — Arrived—Frances, from the Clyde, for New York. DUNDEE.—Arrived—Retriever, from St. John's, N.B. ELSINORE, July 27.—The Reine Hortense (French steamer) arrived here on the 21th inst., and proceeded, after coaling. Her Majesty's steamer Termagant, with the Julia and Columbia (French transports), in tow, arrived on the 25th, and remain. The Termagant is coal ing. An English steamer, with two brigs in tow, passed this on the 24th inst. A. French steamer arrived here on the 25th inst., and proceeded this morning with a lugger iu tow. PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. LIVERPOOL, Mo n d ay, 11.15 A.M. Wind, N.N.W.; fresh and tine. Arrived.—N. S. de la Victoria, Matanzas ; Hans Ffolm bie, Veniee ; Reform, Toronto ; Coqueta, Santander ; Ca roline and Maria, Denmark ; Elise, Altona ; Standard and Daniel, Antwerp ; Petrel, Patras ; Sarah, Rotterdam ; Corporal Trim, Cuba; Petronella, Ostend ; Catherine, and Johanna Mar, Amsterdam; Mary, Bremen ; and Wilhelmine, Hamburg. (BY SUBMARINE AND EUROPEAN TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Monday, 10.42 A.M. Wind, W.S.W ; tide, nearly low water; fine. Arrived, 30th---Augusta, from Port Adelaide. Arrived, 31st —Union, from Stettin ; Liou, Gravelines ; Leon, do. ; Fyenoord (s), Rotterdam ; Ravensbourne (s), Antwerp ; Ocean (s), Havre. DEAL, Monday, 9.58 a.m. Wind S.W.; moderate and fine. Passed—Maria Augustes, from Bahia to Stockhol Im ; Adolf van Nassau, Samarang, for London ' • her M a j es t y ' s ship Resistance, Sheerness, for westward ; Sumoter, Lon don, for Boston ; Urania, St. John's, for London ; Earl of Elgin, Callao, for London ; Zephyr, London, for Belize ; Enterprise, London, for Nantes; Wm. Shelton, London, for Newport. Anchor e d—Cyb e l e , from London, for Berbice ; Koiziniott (Dutch brig), from Falmouth, for Harwich. 100 '.ll.ic • Nottng. Bost. and Eastn. Junet... Belfast & Ballymena. Binning. Wolverh. & Stour Valley Birkenhd. Lancsh. & Cheshire Junet. Do. Chesh. di Birk., £5O and £25 Cons. Do., £20...... .... Blyth &Tyne original £25 (issd. at £45) Bristol and Exeter Caledonian. Chester & Holyhead. Cork and Bandon Cork, Black, di Pass Cornwall Crieff Junction Dubliii&BelfastJuuc Dundee Perth&Aber deco Junction ..... 'Do. New ... East Anglian.... ..... 'Do., (.ClB E & H)... Eastern Counties..... Eastern Union, A Stock ......... .... . Do., B. 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Registered. i •••••• li the wife of private Costello, of the 87th R M ay, 1 Irieh • 281%iranDienua Laud 11 =l2 F o a ls's , wax murdered byherhusband. s°MrtitioDE:nl RAILWATO. Bedford and Bletchley Buckgbamsh Clydesdale Jc ,E. Lincoln gr 6 per cent. Inas. Barr. & Neils. Direct Do. New tilstr.dt Dn. Fr Hrtlpl. Dk. & Railway Hull & Selby Do. Shares. Do. 4 Shares. Lon. & Greenw Do. Preference Lowestoft gr. 4 per cent. Do. 6 per ct. Manch. Bath and Matlock Middlesbro' & Redcar ld. Bradfd Northern and Easternsp.e. I Do. 6 per et. ,Do. Fizeds p t Prest. & Wyrt. Do. Shares. itoystn.4k Hit. Do. Shopth. St Sher. Roth a Goole g. 5 p.c. S. Staffordsb. Wear Valleygz 6 per cent... Do Nilts&Solursi ••• -"" . 95 - 97 ••• 4.. Ii id SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES FOR TILE ARMY. (From Ike Daily News.) th , ' Secretary at War is to ask the House of Commons to vote the Supplementary Estimates for the Army. In a house where the people have so few real representatives of their views it is not at all likely that any very serious ob j,-ction could be maintained against any vote the Ministry chose to ask for. The temper of the pre sent House of Commons is so easy that the Cabinet have but to ask and to have, the only thing " Honourable Members" really object to, being a speedy return to the hustings. But even an as sembly so affected may very well take into con sideration, one or two facts about the war and its cost, on a night when more money is to be voted for an army that up to the present time has done literally nothing against the enemy. We have in Turkey at this hour about thirty thousand English troops. To carry them there, a sum of uo less than two and a half millions sterling was some time ago voted. Beyond this large amount votes have been taken for the cost of raising additional soldiers above the total of 100,000 that used to satisfy us, and we are now asked for money for th e m ili t i a besides. Is all this required by th e nee d s of the case, or by the improvidence o f G overnment ? No popular criti cism has hith er t o b een, or is likely to be, turned against the really needful cost of the war. It is known that an invader and a despot cannot be checked without expense—it is known that the innocent must pay a part of the penalty of the sins of the Czar —and men's minds are made up ac cordingly. Our enormou s t ra d e and ever-active nationalindustry enable us to meet the fair de mands of the contest without serious difficulty, and we meet them cheerfully. But whilst doing this, the very cheerfulness that marks the public temper is iu itself a reason why resources yielded so generously should not be improvideutially spent. Can the Government who ask for these supplemen tary army estimates say they are innocent of waste ? Let the circumstances of the case tell. Taking the number of our troops in Turkey at 30,000 men, we see at once that our army sent affainst the Czar is about as strong as the force thought requisite for keepi ng I re l an d in subjection before the famine and the exodus brought that country into a state of quietude. The force under Lord Raglan is also just as numerous as that usually maintained in our colonies. Indeed we should not be very far wrong if we said that in round numbers the 100,000 men who used to form our regular standing army were usually one-third in the colonies, nearly one-third in Ireland, and the remainder in England and India. But Ireland now wants nothing like 30,000 men. She is quiet and prosperous. Again, the colonies need nothing like 30,000 men, as we have shown over and over again. The application of steam to navigation has rendered the keeping of soldiers in all the spots where in old days—before steam was known —bar racks happened to be built, a military blunder as well as sheer financial waste. These points esta blished, it follows that some 20,000 men could very well be spared from the West Indies, from Canada, and from our other colonial stations, and that 10,000 at the very least could be struck from the figure at which the needful army for Ireland has often heretofore been fixed. Here, without having raised a single extra regimenr, we find a force equal in numbers to the army sent with Lord Raglan to Turkey. Either the colonies, or Ireland, or both could have spared such a force for active service against Russia, and been none the worse. Then as to maintenance. The real cost of feeding 30,000 men is not greater in Turkey than in Ireland, or the West Indies, or New Zealand. A sheep or an ox is to be bought near Varna for about one-third of the money that it will fetch in Ulster, whilst corn must be cheaper in Bulgaria than in Belfast or Dublin. Thus we need not have spent money for fresh troops : we need not spend more for main taming a force in Turkey than in Ireland. Next we come to transport. If our navy had been efficient—if the 573 ships in our Royal Navy had not been half shams —and if the Horse Guards had been effective—the 30,000 men would have been mustered from the proper points —the royal navy ships would have been ready to take them on board, and the whole body would have been landed at Varna, literally without any special or supple mentary cost whatever. The whole operation would have gone on as a part of the customary movements of our land and sea forces, with this simple difference, that in place of moving 30,00 u men from one portion of the British dominious to another in small detachments, iu the ordinary way, the men would have been gathered in smaller bodies in different colonial and other quarters, to be con centrated as one army on the shores of the Black Sea. Such an arrangement would have shown business-like capacity on the part of our Govern ment—would have proved that the national re sources were properly husbanded that our rulers were ready to economise the forces in our pay—and that the 573 ships of war in our Navy List were an efficient reality ready at need to do the nation's work. Instead of this, what do we find ? The 573 ships of the royal navy are not able to move the troops, and 21, millions sterling —money enough to build two Crystal Palaces—is taken to pay for transporting soldiers to the East. Instead of drawing from the colonies the needless troops there, and taking from Ireland all that she does not want, fresh soldiers are raised and others are sent from England. To fill the places of those regiments sent from this country the militia is embodied. Nor is this all. Instead of buying oats and other supplies in Turkey, merchant ships are hired to take grain from this coun try to the Black Sea, thus reversing the natural order of things—sending grain to the Danube being equal in absurdity to sending coals to Newcastle. By such mismanagement enormous waste is of course induced. The army of 30,000 men who until fight ing begins ought literally to cost less for their sup port in Turkey than in Ireland, are made a hinge on which to turn millions of the public money into the pockets of contractors and others. This direct cost is not all the national loss. The ships of the Royal Navy being inefficient for transporting the troops, the Government go to the commercial marine for help. By doing this they raise freights against the merchant, and so against all the merchants' custo mers—the public. The people pay direct taxes to make up Royal Navy and Government deficiencies, and then have to pay higher prices for all seaborne goods, as a second result of official mismanagement. Next, the nation has to find men to fill a militia, rendered requisite by the refusal to bring useless troops from colonies that can or ought to keep the peace for themselves. And then, with as calm and smooth an official face as if all things had been done in the best possible manner, we find Mr. Sidney Herbert asking the House of Commons to vote supplemental army estimates for a war that shows no fighting, and a militia which, if affairs were rightly mana ge d, nee d never b e ca ll e d i nto service, TREATY BETWEEN AUSTRIA AND THE WESTERN POWERS. From the letter of our Paris Correspondent, which appeared in our Second Edition of Saturday, we learn that it is confidently believed in that capital that a treaty of alliance, offensive and de fensive will very shortly be concluded between Austria and the Western Powers. There can, we t trust, be little doubt that this expectation will turn out to be well founded ; and, indeed, it is in accord ance with all that we already know respecting the result of the attempts which have recently been made, by the Courts of Berlin and St. Petersburg, to influence the counsels of the Emperor Francis Joseph. The mission of Colonel Manteuffel to Vienna has proved entirely abortive, and he carries back to his Sovereign the announcement that Austria can neither aid nor countenance hi s weak and temporising policy. The time has at last arrived when Prussia must either accelerate b et . ; movements to keep pace with Austria, or disunit e herself from her yoke - fellow, and drop unregard into the rear. N negotiator b e en more prosperous in his operations at Vienna for Prince Gertschakoff has utterly failed in th con f es sedly arduous undertakin g o f satisfying the Austrian Cabinet that his master i s his specious professions of moderationiu earnest in niraity. It is, in fact, patent to Il and Inagua- Russia herself has lost faith in hera the world that mys tification, for she has, for s powers of concentrating masses of troopsome time past, been the view of meeting on her frontier, with the hostility of neighbour, which she foresees can ' no longer be evaded or delayed. At the same time, the cease less advanc e o f the Austrian army into Transyl vania and the Bulio ' wina ,proclainas in the provinces the truth which is scarcely whispered at the capital; and capi • • and though diplomatic reserve may still delay ' for a few days the open adoption of a decided course of action,• it is evident that the Cabinet of Vienna is irresistibly impelled in the direction prescribed by its duties and its interests.—Morning Chronicle. THE VOTE BY BALLOT SOCIETY have issued an ad dress to the electors of Beverley, in which they say : "You are called upon to elect a member to represent your political feelings and wishes in the House of Com mons. Do you wish the vote that you are called upon to give at Parliamentary elections to be really free and uncontrolled ? Let that wish be clearly and emphatically de eared at the hustings, by polling for Hastings and the ballot." TALE PEDESTRIAN COATES, who has long been before the world as an extraordinary walker colninenc , d his last match on Saturday, on the Tavistock-road. He has un dertaken to walk I,OOQ quarter miles in 1,000 NUCCeS BI Y e quarter hourN, NEItrSPAREI "- - E - -,-4., , :- r i!'••!.,.,,?*‘.. ‘ 4..4- .- v..• -4-1 1 hus goes the IVorld Aro nioc- A sinig, 'snifter), composed, and dedicated T,,Claywu, Esq. By T. W. Thirlwall. Blogro .: This is a very spirited compusition, , which is likely to become a favourite with the musical public. Tho air, though simply arranged, is striking and original, and the words (no incon siderable merit) are also superior to the sentimental effusions which so often mar the effect of the best accompaniment. They are capable of much ex pression, and, if sung with taste and feeling, would be very effective. It is not out of the reach of ordinary voices, and is equally suited to the student, or to those advanced in vocal science. We can cordially recommend it to those desirous of at taining a song not difficult of acquisition, and which will well repay study. NEW ilf LIT.ER AT URE. The Lake.qcenern of England. Part VI. P a i n t e d by J. B. Pyne. Lithographed by W. Gauci. Published by Agnew and Sons, of Manchester. Another instalment, the sixth, of this costly but popular serial, illustrative of the " Lake Scenery of England," has, within the last few days, been is sued from the Messrs. Agnew's house at Manches ter. It will b e f oun d , on exam i nat i on, t o sus t ain the credit already secured to the work by the fire parts previously published, if it does not actually, in some respects, add, and that materially, to the admirati on won f or t h e em i nent painter by the in genious a n d pa i ns t a ki ng l i thographer. As with each of its predecessors, Part VI. comprises four of these noble engravings, accompanied by appro prias,e and explanatory letterpress. The visitors to the village of Wytheburn, and to the ample sheet of water in the vicinity of the property of the Leathes, or Laithes, of Dalehead, will recognise in the first lithograph the picturesque beauties of " Thirlemere." The lake of Wytheburn, or Thir lemere, washes the foot of Helvellyn, that famed Helvellyn, celebrated in the verse of Barry Cornwall, Southey, Coleridge, and Wordsworth, while, in re gard to the stream that issues out of the lake, and flows thence through the val e o f S t . J o h n, i t may be remembered that its borders were selected as the scene of Sir Walter Scott's " Bridal of Trier main." The whole view, as portrayed by Mr. Pyne (who has very happily imparted a human in terest to the landscape by the adroit introduction of a gypsying or picnic party in one corner of the foreground) embraces a charming variety not only of lake, but with that also, of hill, valley, and mountain scenery. As the second lithograph we have a copy from his noble water colour of the "Derwent River and Borrow-dale." Towards the left of the picture is introduced the Bowden Stone, thus described by the poet of Rydal Mount : " Upon a semi-cirque of turf-clad ground The hidden nook discovered to our view A mass of rock, resembling as it lay, Right at the foot of that moist precipice, A stranded ship with keel upturned, that rests, Fearless of winds and waves." As curiously adding to the interest of the scene, let it not be forgotten, that after that river "Der went " wandering so wildly through that lovely region of Borrowdale, Mr. Coleridge named one of ills sons in loving and living remembrance. " West Water" is the subject of the third lithograph— Wast Water, or wild, or waste water--a scene of exquisite beauty, but one which is seldom fre quented, save by the more adventurous pedestrians. As the crowning glory of the sixth part comes the fourth lithograph by M. Gauci, from Mr. Pyne's matchless delineation of a summer's evening on "Lake Windermere," or Winaudermere. The oc casion chosen by the artist, one of fun, frolic, and feasting, as shown by the floating bottles, and the gay boats, with their load of revellers, cool and merry, under the awnings. The hour is that magio time towards twilight, or rather sundown, the ne cessary precursor of twilight, " just before the clouds put on their ruddy, burning tinge "—in oour, as the painter has recognised, of supreme and entrancing loveliness. If for nothing- else, for the success of this one lithograph, part six of the "Lake Scenery of England " would be entitled to our admiration. Trial and Triumph. A Novel. By the author of " The Blacksmith's Daughter," " The Gold beater," tire., AT.c. 3 vols. Newby. The opening chapters of this story are full of melodramatic horror. M. Duravel, a French physician, is summoned to the bedside of the Mar ' guise de Laque. The Marquis is jealous and violent, and the doctor is apprehensive for the safety of his patient. However, he succeeds in maintain- Lug tranquillity in the sick chamber, and the ' heroine of the story is born. The doctor leaves his patient in safety, but immediately afterwards the Marchioness dies, evidently poisoned by her hus band. The chateau, whether from accident or .lesign, is set on fire, and the nurse escapes with the infant, whom she brings up as her own. The Mu.- Luis immediately afterwards discovers proofs of his wife's innocence.. He seeks for his child, and believes it dead ; and then, in an agony of remorse and repentance, disappears from the scene, and some years afterwards we find him in England, a priest, ander the name of AL Leinagne, a penitent and reformed man. Such is the tragical commence ment of the history of Lucille de Laque ; but, although at times strange and even terrible incidents are introduced, the story is of a more natural and more homely character than might have been anticipated from the introduction. Lu cille's nurse is the wife of an Englishman, and one who i s no t muc h credit to his country. le is compelled to fly from France for some misde meanour, his wife accompanies him, and, dying soon after, the young Lucille is left to his care. We meet her again, about the age of eleven, on the eve of a robbery in which her supposed father is to take part. The child overhears the conversation of the robbers. The inmates of the Grange have been kind to her ; she sets off through the dark ness to give them warning off the d anger , an d then bravely returns t o tell the robbers what she has done, in order to prevent them from hurrying to lestruction. The resolute and heroic character of Lucille is displayed through her career of " Trial." She separates from the robbers, and is educated by the family at the Grange, and afterwards enters life as a governess ; the story, as we have said, becoming more homely and natural. Some of the characters aro very interesting and pleasing, and others again are quite the reverse. Mr. Lampton (in whose family Lucille is at one time governess) is an evident imitation of Mr. Manta lini, only he proves himself too much of a villain to be compared, to the amiable admirer of Kate Nickelby. _ _ The iang of robbers again make their appear ' ance, and Mrs. Lampton is murdered by R')b, the ' supposed father of Lucille—a horrible incident, ' which adds little to the interest of the story, and I were better dispensed with. The same may b e said of the preliminary murder of the Marchioness. Poor Lucille shrinks from her reputed father, and is anxious to find one, however humble, unstained with crime; but she is not successful in this respect, and however much faith we may have in the effi cacy of repentance, few readers will feel great Sym hoofweLvuerc,illeis pathy for the Marquis de Laque as a hero, or re ,j.., °niche in a f t a h t e l i er‘.‘ Triumph" That, only triumph of the much-triedand • !ioroine, and M. L mnagne, immediately in no g t ain t i h ng e virtuous on the restitution of his daughter to her rights, retires from observation, and is heard of no more till the death of an old monk, from , pestilence, in the E as t alossher of unhappy :announces to L uc ill e the happy father. We have no particular admiration for novels abound ing in horribl© and tragical incidents like those above enumerated ' ; nevertheless the history is re deemed by som© l . • p easing chapters, and the heroine herself is very attractive. We hear a great deal too much of the conversation of Rob's companions in Mother Fippen's den--their bad principles, and their bad English are not worth either the atten tion of reader or writer. The author of this story will succeed better if he attempts less. If he trusts more to his own abili ' ties than to any imitation of successful authors, and if he relies upon the genuine interest which springs from a happy delineation of character and a well -constructed tale, rather than have recourse to those elements of horror which delight the lovers of melodrama, but which more than all others require to be employed sparingly and with the utmost deli cacy and skill. Some of the requirements of a good novel writer are possessed by this biographer of Lucill e d e Laque, and some portions of her story have afforded us pleasure in the perusal ; where fore, we are inclined to hope that some future and more judicious tri a l o f s kill may award to it author a more complete and manifest Triumph. THE CITY CORPORATION AND THE ROYAL COMMISSION sj o eo F bno, E nt N eh Qavutelsaßt committee —m itmOn Saturda y witatseereblv at ed,e the n a ppointedtthe e m t mo e oettini prepareo gn of the l f f ivairp. leNptiateiraoyrn: to Parliament against that p.trt of the commissioners report, which after recommending that the metropolitan districts should be formed into district corporations, and that a central board of works, composed of delegates from each of such new corporations, and also from the City of London, shall be established, which shall have controloolivse,rptuhrepotasexsestiwiahtictlhi earlearrgaeisepdrofpreormtytnhoewwhheollas et bmytrhoepCity shall continue to be administered only b a y the corporation of London, and for its exclusive benefit, nd to pray in such petition that such property shall be administered by the Central Board of Works, or else be fairly distributed amongst the new district corporation in such manner as Parliament shall, in its vas' dem, deem meet. I