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116P bittiOM SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock. - TATTERSALL'S. (THIS EVENING.) NORTHUMBERLAND PLATE. - 9 to 2 agst Aribbas (taken) 6 to 1 agst Early Bird (taken) 6 to 1 agst Kingston 7 to 1 agst Grapeshot (taken) 10 to 1 agst Baalbec (taken) - 13 to 1 agst Amalgamation (taken). • Royalist was scratched to-day at 1.45 p.m. ST. LEGER. 3 to 1 agst Dervish (7 to 2 taken). DERBY. 16 to 1 agst,Oulston (taken). 25 to I agst Bonnie Morn (taken). 25 to I agst Dirk Hattorick (taken). 40 to 1 agst Monge (taken). IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS.--(THIS EVENING.) • The house met at five o'clock. The Earl of CARLISLE presented a petition from the Society of Friend:, agreed to at their annual meet ing, against church rates. - The Duke of RICHMOND presented a petition from a Free Church in Scotland, against the Maynooth grant and the appointment of the Catholic chaplains. The King of Portugal, and his brother, the Duke of Oporto, entered the house shortly after 5, and were ac commodated with seats before the Throne. There was a very numerous attendance of peers. The Duke of RICHMOND gave notice that to morrow he would ask whether it was the intention of the Government to give any mark of approbation to L on-cornmi9sioned officers and private soldiers who had served in the Kaffir war. • The LORD CHANCELLOR, in answer to the Earl of DONOUGHMORE, who complained of some informality in the recent election of an Irish representative peer, explained the law on the subject, and said the Lord chancellor had no jurisdiction to issue a fresh writ. In reply to. Lord LYNDHURST, The LORD CHANCELLOR said that, in the course of next week, he intended to move that the nine bills which related to the amendment of the criminal law be referred to a select committee. - A short discussion arose on this subject ; but in con sequence of the noise which prevailed in the house, it was impossible to catch its purport. THE SMOKE NUISANCE. • Lord REDESDALE asked the Prime Minister when the Secretary of State for the Home Department pro .. posed to issue orders and directions t; the commis- 'sinners of police for the metropolitan district and the city of London, in accordance with the - provisions of an act passed last session to abate the nuisance arising from the smoke of furnaces in the .matropolis, and from steam-vessels above London Bridge, .in order that information might be laid against all per sons who should not from and after the Ist day of August next comply with the requirements of the said _ant. The Earl of ABERDEEN said the Secretary of _State had instructed the Commissioners of Metropolitan , f Police to issue notices to the owners and occupiers of all :furnaces, to which the act was applicable, of the tune .when the act would come into operation (the Ist August), and whether steps would be taken to compel its obser vance. The number of furnaces returned to the Com- Juissioriers, which would come within the provisions of .the Act, was 8,800. Lord LANSDOWNE expressed a hope that the act . would be beneficial in its operation. After a few words from the Earl of SHArTESBURT and Lord REDESDALE, the subject dropped. THE GERMAN POWERS. Lord LYNDHURST then called the attention of the house and the Government to the memorandum relative to the Eastern question transmitted by the Courts of Vienna and Berlin to their envoys at the Germanic Diet. (LEFT SPEAKING.) HOUSE OF COMMONS—(THIS EVENING.) The SPEAKER took the chair shortly before 4 o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The Lords' amendments to the Hamilton Waterworks Bill were considered and agreed to. The following bills were read a third time and passed : —Dublin and Wicklow and Dublin and Kingstown Rail ' ways ; Farnworth and Kearsley Gas ; and Stourbridge and Bridgnorth Road. PETITIONS. - Petitions were presented by Col. Purpps, from the Mayor and Corporation of Bridgewater, against the Police Bill ; - Sir T. WINNINGTON, from Worcestershire, to the same effect; Alderman CHALLIS, from Finsbury, praying for the abolition of church rates ; Mr. CHRISTOPHER, from landowners in Lincolnshire, praying for alterations in the Drainage of Lands Bill ; Mr. OLIVEIRA, from the corpora tion of Pontefract, against the Police Bill ; Sir G. PECHELL, from the mayor, aldermen, and council, to the same 'effect; also a petition from Rye, praying for the total abolition of church rates ; Mr. HADFIELD, from the corporation of Sheffield, in favour of a decimal coinage; another petition from Sheffield in favour of the claims of Poland; by Mr. HORSFALL, from the corporation of Liverpool, against the new Police Bill ; by Mr. HENLEY, to the same effect, from Oxford ; by Mr. MILNER, to the same effect, from the corporation of York ; by Colonel 'PEEL, from the corporation of Huntingdon, to the same • effect ; by the Marquis of GRANBY, thirty-seven petitions from places in Yorkshire, in favour of a ten • hours' factory bill ; by Mr. MACKINNON, from the cor • poration of Hyde, against the Police Bill ; by Lord HOTHAII, from the corporation of Hull, to the same effect; Mr. MILLIGAN, from Bradford, to the same effect ; Mr. ATHERTON, from the corporation of Durham, to the same effect ; Mr. THOS. CHAMBERS, from the corporation of ' Malden, to the same effect ; Mr. DIVETT, from the corporation of Exeter, to the same effect ; Mr. M. GIBBON, to the same effect, from the corpora tion of Manchester ; Mr. FORSTER, to the same effect from the corporation of Walsall ; Lord DUDLEY STUART, from the parish of St. Pancras, in favour of a bet ter supply of water to the metropolis ; Mr FORBES, from places in. the north, in favour of a ten hours' bill ; Mr. CALEY, from the North Riding, against the Police Bill ; Mr. MILES, from the ltev. Joseph Ditcher, Vicar of South Brent, praying that such an alteration may be made in the law relating to the trial and punishment of ecclesi tstical offences as may remedy its defective machinery, and the excessive expense which attends the prosecution of any suit tending to repress the t eac hi ng o f , erroneous doctrine, or the enforcement of the due obser vance of sound discipline in the Established Church. On the motion of the hon. member this petition was read by the Clerk at the table. Mr. CHALLIS from the mayor, aldermen, and citizens of Salisbury against the Police Bill ; Mr. E. BALL, from the corporation of Cambridge, to the same effect; also several petitions in favour of a Ten Hours' Bill. LIFE RAFT. Mr. OT WAY asked the First Lord of the Admiralty, whether he had any objection to lay on the table of th 3 house the report made by Sir Esldwin Walker, in the month of March, 1851, on the Patent Tubular Life Raft, : Invented by Mr. Parratt. The hon. gentleman adverted to the recent loss of life in the Europa, which he and others • attributed to the went of sufficient boat accommodation on hoard this ship. Sir J GRA.112131 . demurred to tho bon. gentleman's statement-of -facto ; but there would be no objection to the production of the report. The Board of Admiralty had decided against the boat. On the motion of Mr. OTWAY the report was ordered to be hid on. the table. - THE IGER. • Sit G. PECHELL asked T if any provisions would be made for secniin,g the comfort of the prisoners of war Who:bad belonged to the ill-fated Tiger.. Sir.J. GRAHAM replied in the affirmative. Arrange • meats would be made through th 3 agency of an ambas s ad o r at St... Petersburg of a friendly Power. . _ ~ MINISTELt OF WAR. -, In reply to _Lord D..STUART, Lord J. ILUSSgLL okted that it was proposed to take - ". rota for the expenses of this office. Mr. STRUT T e . MR. STRUTT. , st ,,, x _ ml., , hi _ ill atered into an explanation of the circum- I Chaneello r O - 64 led to his resignation of the office of ' tion Of the ' t -n rc , Dr, achy of Lancaster. In the first fornaa requested h y v j' s ' , .t , Government he 'a as unexpectedly - Council to aecepll that rlohle lord the President of th office. He was at the time e - - unacquainted with- th© he dutie s of the office, they were light, a n d whole of the office upon the under but he knew standing - that the -.la time should be at the ills- - . posal of tjie Government. nao're than u s e discovered how lto e ever,' that. the offic e im lie afterw ' 1 'whatever upon bins, f 1 .0 .0 its reTonsibility end hT se " n ° Parliamentary ' . . . a w flv r th e amentary daties long 'before he had an relieved opncittunity of resigning it. Shorl race& he received- a 'communicati o n Whitsuntide .ivaifnpOn the Lord President of the Council induced him to he learned that arrangements had been m ne a il, fro m whom ,nizinS4 the Govtanment, whichonly wa it ed h is e co k ir re-orga. In -point , of fact he was: told that the completion o n pzence. him to resign rangements would require his office, and'i'enar once,in reply to their appeal tendered to the Crown the resignation which he had held since the first formation of the pregent Government. Reports had gone ab roa d that he had either been a pasty to these arrangements, which he di3approved of, or that he had attached a condition to his resignation, bat ho could assure the house , that there was no . foundation for such reports. H e had: been no party to the arrangements which his noble friend=referred to,- nor-was he driven into the resignation of his. office ; but after hearing the statement of his noble friend he immediately, without consulting a n y one, derail the the resignation of his offrce. This was a simple state ment of. the facts of the change which had taken ,place in Vliyg.gyernment with regard to himself. (Cheers.) • POLICE BILL. Arr: P. MILES wished to know if it was. intended to bring in the second reading of the Police Bill to-night. Lord J. RUSSELL said certainly not to-night, nor on anY - day this week. Probably it would be taken next week,'and be would give due notice of the day. AFFAIRS OF GREECE. Mr. COBDEN asked the noble lord if he,could afford him a day for bringing under the attention of the house the papers, relating to the afEtirs of Greece ? , Lord J. RUSSELL sa i d if the hon. gentleman would give notice of any motion he might wish to submit to the hotide on the subject, he should be ready to consider whether any day could be given for bringing on that motion._ _OUR AIVE ASSADOR AT TURKEY. Mi.:BRIGHT remarlied that There was.a rumour abroad that the ambassador from this country to the Sublime VESSELS SPOKEN WITH. The Galatea (brig) June 9. The Marion, of and for Waterford, from Savannah, May 28, lat 40 N. long. 54 W. The Annie (ship), No. 475, first distinguishing pendant, June 6, lat. 45 N. , long. 14 W. The Jeannette Bertha, Hamburgh to Melbourne, April 22, let. 1 N., long. 20 W. The Evans (brig), June 10, lat. 41 N. long. 12 W. The Queen (barque) June 13, lat. 49 N., low , . 6 W. The Morning Star, bound to Ceylon, March 21, lat. 12 S., long. 30. The Ocean Herald, steering W. June 9, lat. 46 N., long. 41 W. A Russan ship, May 21, lat. 43 N., long. 51 W. The Harmony (emigrant ship), June 9, lat. 50 N., long. 21 W. The Dundonald, bound to Quebec, June 4, The Devonshire, June 7. The Mary Sophia, Newport to Quebec, Jane 9. The Sybilla, of London, from Barbadoes, May 23, lat. 37 N., long. 53 W. The Coronella (ship), with troops, June 5, long. 41 W. The Surprise (schooner), outward bound, June 6, lat. 43 N., long. 10 W. The Allert (brigantine), outward bound, June 14, lat. 48 N., long. 6 W. The Thomas Hodgson, Newcastle to Quebec, May 28, lat. 46 N., long. 35 W. (had lost boats, bulwarks, and cook house, in a gale on the 12th), and supplied with a jolly-boat. The Conference de Lisboa. (French brig), from China, March 26, lat. 29 S. lone* 40 E. The John Barker, Cape to London, March 30, lat. 35 S., long. 33 E. The William Rathbone, May 29, lat. 48 N., long. 39 W. The Competitor, outward bound, June 6, lat. 43 N., long. 15 W. THE TRINITY HOUSE BANQUET.—The grand banquet, which generally takes place on Trinity Monday, at the Trinity House, Tower-bill, but was postponed last Mon day in consequence of his Royal Highness Prince Albeit not being able to attend, will take place on Wednesday evening next, his Royal Highness having intimated his intention to preside on the occasion, as Master of the Trinity Corporation. THE CARTURE OF PIRATES.--It appears from a return to the House of Commons, published on Saturday, that, under the act 13th and 14th Vict., c. 26, 600 t. was awarded in the capture of pirates near Hong-Kong. The number of pirates killed. captured, or escaped was 220. The capture was in June, 1851 ; the award of the Ad miralty Court way in October, 1851 ; and in June last the reward became payable for distribution among the officers and crew of her Majesty's ship Cleopatra. MIGRATION OP FOREIGNERS PROM RUSSIA.—A Berlin letter, of the Bth, says that a perfect migration of nations, consisting of foreigners of various denominations, but chiefly of Frenchmen, is no :v taking place. They are leaving Russia by way of Tauroggen and Kauen. Most of these persons might have remained in that coun try, but a continued residence in Russia seems to them, under preseut circumstances, somewhat too inse cure, especially as they opine "that Russia is on the eve of a great revolution." This opinion, so fre quently expressed, is, according to the correspondent in question, " well worthy of attention." [ADVERTISEMENT.] HOLLOWAY'S PILLS FOR THE CURE OF LIVER COMPLAINTS, INDIGESTION, AND DISOR DERED Srolacn.-=MI.. Richard Haynes, of her Majesty's Dockyard at Plymouth, for several years had not had the enjoyment of a day's good health, constantly suffering from indigestion and liver complaint. He had the best medical advice from both army and navy surgeons, but the disease yielded not to their treatment, and various other remedies were tried with a like result. At last he began to use Holloway's pills, and this fine medicine has so strengthened the tone of his stomach and invigorated his constitution, that he is most perfectly cured, and en joys the best of health.—Sold by all druggists, and at Professor Holloway's Establishment, - 244, Strand, London. _ _ _ [ADVERTISEMENT.]—Du Barry's Delicious Revalenta Arabica Food invai iablyrestores health, without medicine, inconvenience, or expense, as it saves 50 times its cost in other remedies. We extract a few out of 50,000 testi monials of cures, which had resisted all medicines. Cure No. 180.—" Twenty-five years' nervousness, constipation, indigestion, and debility, from which I had suffered great misery, and which no medicine could remove at relieve, have been effectually cured by Du Barry's food in a very short time.—W. B. Reeve, Pool Anthony, Tiverton." Cure No. 4,208.—" Eight years' dyspepsia, nervousness, debility, with cramps, spasms and nausea, have been effectually removed by Du Barry's delicious food in a very short , timo.—Rev. John W. Flavell, Ridlington Rectory, Norfolk.' Cure Cure No. 1,781.--" Not expected to live six days longer. I war. cured by Du Barry's admirable food. Magdalena Purvis, Moffatt, Scotland." Cure No. nspearvmonizzic F ,n if e t a : sst y ah e tm a t r ai s i,e ' indescribable sctooi agony from dyspepsia, removed by D constipation, vomitina 9, fl h a a t v u e le b n e c e y n , Wortbarn, Ling, ' fear g a h c'h anti Barrv's excellent Food.—Maria Jolly, Diss, Norfolk." Cure No. 3,900. debility"Thtn —James poiterremoved by Du Barry's excellent haveaa cough, indigestion, and general Focd. No. 81.—" Twenty, Athol-street, Perth." Cure disorders of tho stoin Y a e ch_ a B' an , d _nerves, have . been 1851 ' --- . E . liver complaint, with perfectly cured by D u Haddingtonis, and i tt o e t zl i e n na „ Arabi ca.— h Trevagler i Andrew Frazer, Gulval, near Penzance. Feb. 20th, nervous debility, violent palpitation of . the 1851.—Eighteen e r throb- bing of the temples, violent pains in the left aide ar spasm s, flatulency, retching, and oafndfallaiuncghge wheneraonl r shortness of breath, coughs, numbness of the extremities,tnac have been removed by D cramps, wea k nae s ; s, a t il ha t t h L:a s s y co mi n ) s to ta m n s tlyfea packed for all climates , and with full instructions BmairlyeTss -excellent Food.—Mary Gilbert."—ln canistersll suitably 9d. ; ' 21b., 4s. 6d. • 51b., 11s. ; 121 b., 225. : —llb., 2s. 21b carriage free, on post ; office order. super-refined, 11b., 6s ; 21b., 1.1 ' 5.; 51b., 225. , 335. The 101 bi and 1 ~ Barry sir Barry and Co-, 77, Regent-street, London; Fdrtnum,•Masen, an d C, O . purveyors to her Majesty, Pic cadilly;. also at 68, Coruhill; 60, Graceehurch-street ; nd Oxford-street ; 55, 330 and 40.,, Strand, :63 a l 5 O , - Cb.aring-crois ; 4,. Cheapside. " Of Yambo I have nothing new tb say, except that its po pulation is considered the most bigoted and the best mariners in Western Arabia. We left on the 18th July, and followed a path directly eastward along the plain, between the Radhwah hills and the sea. There was no regular road ; a trodden line traversed hard and level ground, strewed with lumps of granite, greenstone, and schist, rounded by the action of water, with here and there a little stunted vegeta tion in the shape of accacias and tufts of grass, coarse enough fur brooms. The pace of the Hedjazi camel in a caravan is two miles an hour when travelling over a plain, and our first march was a short one of eight hours. Halting at three a.m., we found a grain-cafila (or caravan) of about 200 head, with its aimed drivers, and an escort of seven irregular Turkish horsemen, tolerably mounted, and each supplied with an ar moury in epitome. "July 19, at nine p.m., we arose. Prayers were said and • pipes were smoked, and We congratulated - ourselves on our 1 - escape from the towns. And - here I may observe that my companions were strictly devout whenever we met strangers, wheresa at all other times one only (the grandson of the Mufti of El-Medeeneh) ever dreamed of prefer ring a prayer to a pipe. At a mile westward of our en campment lay the little village of Muzabhal, a straggling line of miserable clay hovels; au the south was a bright blue strip of the Red Sea, and all around stretched a plain of pebbles and gravel, bounded northwards by a wall of blackish rock, with here and there a shrub only fit for fuel, or a tuft of herbage crisp with heat. At three pm. we were ready to start, and with joy saw a huge black cloud rise behind the shoulders of Radhwah, and array itself like a good genius be tween us and our fierce enemy the sun. All hoped that it contained rain ; but it was only a ' dry storm'—blasts of wind, hot as from a volcano, and fine sand—a phenomenon here common at this time of the year, and supposed to pre cede the autumnal rains. The same kind of desolate country continued the whole of that and the following day ; and be tween ten and eleven p.m. we sighted human habitations for the first since leaving Muzahhal, in the long straggling village called El-Hamra, from the 'red' colour of the ravine on which it stands, and El-Wasitah, from being the ' half-way' sta.ion between Yambo and El-Medeeneh. We wandered in search of an encamping ground nearly an hour; for the hospitable villagers c utented themselves with ordering us off every fiat patch of ground where wo proposed to pitch our tents ; dui ing which operation I was secretly warned by my companions to speak Arabic only, otherwise the gentry of El-Hamra would claim black mail for permitting me to pass through their streets. After much wrangling we found an encamping Place ; our jaded beasts were unloaded, the boxes and bag gage were disposed as a defence, and my friends spreading their rugs upon their valuables, prepared to sleep. I was invited to join them, but firmly delined the vicinity of so many steaming and snoring fellow-creatures ; and if some wonder was excited by the A ffghan Hadji's obstinate restless ness, it was thought that a man from Cabul might be allowed to do strange things. " The village is built on a narrow shelf between a high steep hill and a sandy ravine, about half a mile broad, with a wind ing bed. On all sides are rocks, so that you here find your self in one of those punch-bowls which the Arabs seem to prefer to plains. The ravine threads the heights all the way from the Medeeneh plateau ; and during the rainy sea son it .becomes a raging torrent, carrying westward to the Red Sea the drainage of a hundred hills. Good water is found in it by digging a few-feet below the surface, at there-entering angles ; and El-Hamra is further supplied by a fine spring, which bubbles up from the base of the southern hills. The village is a collection of stunted houses, or rather hovels, made of unburut bricks and mud, roofed over with date leaves, rarely boasting a bit of plank for a shutter, thickly peopled where the walls are standing, but, like all settlements in the Hedjaz, half in ruins. It contains a few shops in a long lane, and this bazaar, like the other streets, is full of glare and dust. Palm groves of considerable extent supply it with dates, and my companions found grain so cheap that they laid in a store for their families at El- Medeeneh. "Ready-made bread, horse-plantains, rico, butter, and similar edibles are also plentiful; and flocks of. sheep and goats, driven in by surly shepherds, who would give no milk even in exchange for bread and moat, But I bought a large lamb for a pillar dollar; and we breakfastld merrily. Near our encampment was a fort, held by a troop of Arnauts, puked to defend the village and to escort merchant travellers, consisting of a wall loop-holed for musketry. El-Hamra is the third station from El-Medeeneb, on tho Derbees•Sottedso (' royal' or high road'), the westerly highway along the sea shore to Mecca. " When robbers permit them, pilgrims prefer this route to all others, on account of the facility of procuring supplies, and of passing through the holy place of Bedr.' " After midday of the 21st, a caravan en route from Mecca to El-Medeeneh entered El-Hamra, and had interest enough to procure an escort and permission to proceed without delay. We joined them, starting from our halt at 5 p.m., and after a delay, occasioned by a band of Bedawiu having positively ob jected to admit our escort of 200 irregulars, we passed about midnight through another straggling village called Gadaydab, or El-Khayf, a 'declivity.' Like El-Hamra, it has a fort and springs of tolerable sweet water. A little beyond it is the Baghar, or defile, where the Egyptian army under Tussum Bey were totally defeated by the Harbi-Bedawin and the Whabis in 1811 &,n. (and the disastrous day of Saffra and Gadayah' was long afterwards mentioned by the Turkish soldiery in Egypt with feelings of horror and regret.). "At four p.m., having travelled 24 miles due east, we en camped at Bir-Abbas. Its position is like that of El-Hamra, and it has a stone fort, where troopers are stationed to pro tect travellers. Nothing worthy of note happened during our journey, till on the morning of the 24th July, at day break, we entered the ill-famed gorge called Shuab-el-Hag (Shab-el-Hadj), the Pilgrim's Pass.' As we neared it, loud talkers became silent, and in their faces fear was written in a fine clear hand. Presently from the cliff on the left a thin curl of smoke rose in the morning air, preluding the match lock's loud ring. A number of Bedawin, boys and men, were swarming like hornets over the crest, and clambering with ad mirable agility up the precipices, till comfortably seated behind a breastwork of stones, piled up as a defence and as a rifle rest, they fired down upon us with perfect convenience to them selves. It was useless to invite them to fight us upon the plain like men. On the eastern coast the robbers will some times do this, but not in the Hedjaz; and it was equally un profitable to shoot at stones. Moreover, had a Bedawi been killed, the country would have risen en masse, and 3,000 or 4,000 robbers might have the courage to overpower a caravan, in which case there would have been a general cutting of throats. Their fire was directed principally against the Arnauts, who called for assi s tance from the party of Shayks that had ac companied us from Bir-Abbai ; but those dignified ancients, dismounting and squatting round their pipes in council, came to the conclusion that as the Bedawin would probably turn a deaf ear to their words, they had better spare themselves the trouble of speaking. So we blazed away as much powder, and veiled ourse l ves in as t hi c k a c l ou d, as possible, I * This natal is the more remarkable, as Athendus describes tho musical instrument called " Sambuca" as " resembling a ship with a ladder placed over it." T A mule. - ' - " " Behiir House, Bombay, April 13." 2. Journey from Cairo to Jerusalem, via Suez, Mount Sinai, Akaba, and Hebron, by the late Professor G. Wallin, of Fin land, translated by Dr. Shaw. • 3. Further explorations in Central Africa, as far as lat. 14 deg. 10 rain. 52 sec. S., and long 23 deg. 35 min, 40 sec., by Dr. Livingstone, with correct astronomical observations, and map of route, communicated through the London Missionary Society and Lieutenant-Colonel Steelq, F.R.G.S., with notes from G. Frere, Esq., F.R.G.S., through the Foreign-office, and from T. Maclear, Esq:, astronomer at the Cape, to Sir J, Herschel, communicated through Sir Roderick Murchison, who stated that ho heartily agreed with the astronomers, Mr. Maclear and Sir John Herschel, that so prfound an explorer as Dr. Livingstone deserved every encouragement, and that he rejoiced that the Royal Geographical Society should pre viously have placed its confidence in this adventurous missionary, and that he should have lived to accom plish, with the chronometer awarded to him by the society, results exceeding in accuracy of observation any lately made. Dr. Livingstone has received this award for his discovery, in company w.th two English gentlemen, Messrs. °swell and Murray, of Lke Ngami, and afterwards for his discovery of the largest river of Southern Africa, which river this most en terprising of modern explorers had now traced far into the in tenor, and the results of whose labours were so well con densed in the following letter Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope, April 19, 1854. "My dear Sir John—By to-day's mail for England, I send to Lieut.-Colonel Steele, F.R.G.S., the observations, and the results from them, made by Dr. Livingstone for the geogra phical points along his•route in 1853. By the last I forwarded to the same gentleman a despatch from Livingston, intended, I believe, for the Royal Geographical Society. " Having reduced the observations, I can vouch for their correctness ; and they include four occultations. " The remarkable geographical fact is the existence of a very large river, which he navigated in canoes, in the com pany of a horde of natives, from about lat. 18' 20' to let. 14° 11'. —" - On the other side I give you the latitudes and longitudes of the points where he observed for both, and the latitudes of all the points where he observed. I h o p e a l so a tracing of in the river will be ready time for the -post. One has been sent to Colonel Steele, on a large scale, drawn by Livingstone, but it will require a little correction, as derived from my cal culations. _ " Lake Ngami and most of the southern points must now be shifted rather more than two degrees to the westward. " Another remarkable fact is the detection of a Portuguese slave merchant stockade. It was said that the existence of slave merchants in that quarter, and so far south, is new—in other words, the game is wearing out in the northern direc tion. " Where there is plenty of rank vegetation, heat, and mois ture, you may conjecture that there is likely t o b e plenty of fever ; and such is the case. Livingstone has had fever eight times. At a spot a little south of the Chobe river, the whole of his party was laid prostrate at one time, This spot he names the Fever Ponds.' " At the date of his writing to me (Sept. 29,1853), he was preparing for a push towards Loanda, on the west coast, thence to return to his late track through Loanda, the capi tal of a powerful state, down the Leda.' If sp are d to accom plish this, he will rip up and expose to the public an interest ing section of this terra incognita.' " In order to accomplish his task without personal anxiety, he seat his wife and family home (to Eng:and) last year. Such a man deserves every encouragement in the power of his country to grant. He has done that which few discoverers or other travellers can boast of—he fixed his geographical. points with very great accuracy. He is a poor missionary.— Yours, my clear Sir John, faithfully, "T. MactEa.a." 4. On the Eastern Territory of the state of Ecuador, the Canton Quizos, the River Napo, and the N.W. sources of the Maranon. Communicated by the Rev. C. G. Nicolay. In introducing the well-known traveller, M. Kohl, to the society, Sir R. Murchison briefly enumerated the leading features of a work on America on which that author is en gaged, and which is specially recommended by Baron Hum boldt. This work was described as follows :- 1. A manuscript of about five volumes, containing a history of the progressive discovery of America and all its divisions, from the earliestlimes down to the latest years. 2. An historical map of the whole of America, showing upon a single sheet the progress of the discovery of the New World, and the part which several European nations, trading com panies, and other classes of persons, as well as every distin guished couquoror took in that progress. To each advance a particular and distnct colour was assigned, whilst the names, dates, and routes of 700 travyllers are given in the map. 3. A collection of sketches and copies of 759 American maps, taken from many old books anti collections iu Ger many, France, and England. These maps have been divided into general and special maps, and arranged in twenty-six portfolios. Each portfolio contains the map of one great American division or country, put into chronological order, so that you see all the different representations that have been given of this country successively displayed from the first primitive maps and the rudest sketches of the earliest dis coverers and travellers down to the perfect surveys of modern geographers. The Chairman next directed attention to the instrument on the table, for measuring the Velocity and ascertaining the direction of sub-surface currents, by Pr. Buist, of Bombay; to an ancient map of the world made in the fifteenth century, exhibited by Sir Thomas Phillipps,• as contrasted with Mr. Arrowsmith's beautiful map of tho southern portion of the Crimea, shortly to be published ; and to the sketches exhi bited by Mr. John Webster, illustrative of the cruise of the royal yacht schooner Wanderer, commanded by the lamented Mr.• Boyd, through the islands of the Pacific, including the Sandwich, the Kingsmills, and the golomons, depicting the Latives and the scenery of the various groups. In answer to Mr. Montgomery Martin.'s inquiry about the actual state of the proposed North Australian expedition be explained that the council had that.day empowered the president to communi cate ou the subject with Sir George Grey, the new Secretary of State for the Colonies. In adjourning the meeting to No vember, the Chairman announced that Lord Ellesmere had requested him to state that the fellows of tho society were warmly invited to attend his soirees at Bridgewater-house, on the 14th and 21st inst. PRISONERS REMOVAL BILL.—The Prisoners Re moval Bill, which has passed the House of Lords, and is now before the House of Commons, provides that, with the approbation of the Home Secretary, prisoners for debt or contempt of Court, in the custody of the sheriff, may be removed from a debtors' prison to the county gaol, when the Inspector of Prisons shall have certified to the justices in quarter sessions (on their ap• plication) that the county gaol is in a proper state for the reception of debtors ; and thereafter all the sheriff's prisoners for debt shell bo sent to the county gaol. If the keeper of the gaol is appointed by the justices, and not by the sheriff; the keeper and not the sheriff is to be liable at law for the escape of a debtor ; and the justices arJ to cause the keeper t•) give security. RAILWAY FROM ATHENRY TO TCJAM.----We understand that Martin J. Blake has been successful in urging upon the directors of the Mid:and Great Western Railway the riece6sity of opening a branch line from Athenry' via Tuam, into Mayo, and that the project will be pushed forward with the utnioatidespateh.—adway Pad*. Kingston Bairownie Red Lion Typee (91b extra) Indian Warrior Talfourd Hunca Munca Joe Miller Eulogist Little Jack Grapeshot Mr. Sykes Colsterdale The Skinner Don Quixote Provost Marshal Candlewick .. Doublethong Peggy Braxev The Early Bird Axwell (61b extra) La Belle Augusta Age st lb 5 8 9 4 8 2 5 8 1 4 7 12 5 7 10 4 7 4 4 7 4 5 7 4 4 7 0 a 6 13 4 6 12 4 6 12 6 6 10 4 6 8 4 6 4 4 6 4 a 6 4 4 6 3 4 6 2 5 . 6 2 3 6 2 4 6 2 4 6 0 4 6 01 Age at lb St. Clare 3 5 7 General Breezo 3 5 7 Aribbbas. Dr. O'Toole Caliph Comfort 3 5 0 Baalbec Swiftaure 3 4 10 Shunting 3 4 8 Bianca. 3 4 7 Sir James Graham 3 4 7 Julius Agricola 3 4 7 Amalgamation 3 4 7 Royalist 3 4 7 Lincoln's-inn 3 4 4 Erycin a, 3 4 4 Jetty Treffz 3 4 4 ch cby Verulam— Marchioness..., 3 paid Prime Minister paid Eva paid Dear Me paid Punchbox paid Her MAJESTY'S PLATE of 100 guineas ; three•yr-olds, 7st ; four, Bst 101 b ; five, 9st 41b ; six and aged, 9st 71b. Three miles. THURSDAY. Fifteenth year of the GATESHEAD LOTTERY STARES of 5 sovs each, p.p., with 50 added, for three-yr-olds ; colts, Bst 71b ; fillies, Bst 41b. The second to receive 20 sovs. out of the stakes. Two miles. 16 subs. Jetty Treffz The Jealous One Orange Blossom Moss Rose The Medal Billingham Mcesia Midsummer Village Lass - Diligent Jujube Monomia Middlesborough Sister of Mercy The Greek Slave Lamprocles . The GOLD CUP STAKES of 10 soy's. each, pp. ; three-yr olds, 6st 101 b ; four, Bst 51b ; five, 9st ; six and aged, 9st 81b ; mares and geldings allowed 31b ; the winner of the Northumberland Plate to carry 31b extra. Gen tlemen taking a nomination and not starting, to be subject to the payment of 3 sovs, which will be given to the second horse. Two miles. 10 subs. Yrs Goorkah 4 Yrs The Wild Huntsman 3 Goldfinch 3 Kingston 5 The Jealous One 3 Stiletto 3 landicap) of 60 gs., and 10 .se. Certain winners extra. Brown Brandy ...... 3 _ Ne wminster Meteora Uwbriel The CORPORATION PLATE added for the second ho: Once round. 82 subs. Age .st lb Age at lb. Koh-i-noor Red Lion Typee Vindex Captain Cornish... 4 7 6 Saguenay Lough Bawn 6 7 5 Fairthorn Grapeshot 4 7 3 Bourgeois Deformed - 4 7 obc by Fitzallen— Merry Bird Haricot a 6 12 General Breezo... 3 5 7 Jack the Giant Merry Monk 3 5 7 Killer 4 6 12 Toni Rintonl 3 5 7 Felatah . Lindrick Lerry wheut Helena Revolver Cariboo Li ttle Jack a 6 10 Jujube(inc.7lbex.)3 5 5 Catherine Parr 4 6 9 Eva t 5 4 The Skinner 4 6 9 Seducer 3 5 4 Sir R. Trenchard 6 6 9' Garrulity Colsterdale Donskoy The General 46 7 The Jealous One.. 35 2 The Surveyor The Buck 5 6 71Julius Agricola... 3 5 0 Braxey CandleWiek Dalkeith Itch Don Quixote 46 6 Syvagee 35 0 Provost Marshal 4 6 6 Gamelad 3 5 0 Dear-me 4 6 6 Sir James Graham 3 5 0 The Vet 5 6 6 Miss Allen 3 5 0 Dove Early Bird 3 6 5 Amalgamation.... 3 5 0 Maid of Team Sister of Mercy... 3 412 Valley Ammonia Axwell La Belle 4 6 2 Bianca , „, i The SPECULATION P LATE o f 5 SODS each, w i th zo , added ; the second to receive back his stake ; for three- , yr-olds and upwards ; optional selling weights. Once i : round. The SCURRY HANDICAP of 3 soya each, with 20 added, for all ages. The second to save his stake. T.Y.C. URES FOR 1854. NE. Riding 2B Bibury 98 Ludlow 28 Stockbridge ........ 2B Winchester 3O LY. Stourbridge l7 Stamford 18 Newton 18 Knutsford. l9 Nottingham 2O Great Grimsby 24 Goodwood 25 Radcliffe .. 3l Deritend Pool Bl Rip0n...,x......,01 The exodus of the Americans from the colony con tinues with unabated activity. The reported discovery of gold in Peru, and the liberal encouragement held out to settlers in that country, is the great attraction which draws this enterprising body of n'en to South America. The port of destination is Callao ; and although the dis covery of gold in those regions does not appear to be fully authenticated, the Americans are perfectly satisfied to run the risk. The truth is, they are anxious for an excuse to abandon a colony which affords so little en couragement for settling in; the exorbitant price of la bour, rendering agricultural pursuits a speculation which holds out no prospect of a remunerative return at all proportioned to the outlay, the risk of failure of the crops in so precarious a climate, and the enormous cost of transmit of the produce to market being serious draw backs upon this branch of industry. The older colo nists, who have obtained their land at low prices, and have the aid of their own families in the cultivation of the soil, may possibly make it answer ; but even these, unless men of large capital, prosecute agricultural en terprise under- great disadvantages, and without much enjoyment of what we should consider the necessaries of life ; but as the greater part of them have never been ac customed to anything better, and have enou;h to eat of damper and mutton, and in the season, "when grass grows," of milk to drink, they bear their lot with patience , and equanimity. Men who have neither rent nor taxes to pay, and are exempted from the expense of keeping up appearances with regard either to dress, hou-ehold furniture, or house accommodation, beyond a bark hut, or the more pretensional residence of a dwelling con structed of " wattle and dab," are freed from many anxieties ; and though the range of their enjoyments is limited, the deprivation is probably compensated by the absence of positive suffering. The Americans, who can do so much better at home, and can ob tain the best land unsold at a dollar an acre, with the advantage of water-carriage, have few induce merits to remain here. The mines here they do not consider as productive as those of California, where they can moreover eiigage in the opera tions of mining with the enjoyment of greater comforts than they can procure here. They value this country only for its gold, and as the yield is now comparatively scant and precarious, they prefer their own country as a field of enterprise to that of Vic toria. When pressed upon the prospects in Peru, the answer is, that they arc indifferent upon that point, for if the accounts should prove fallacious, they will be nearer their own country, where they cannot fail to push their way. The country which intervenes between Calloa and the reputed gold fields of Peru is difficult to pass through, which is not unknown to the Americans. This, with other considerations, leads me to believe that these keen-sighted men have other objects beyond the acquisition of gold by digging in view, in their emigrat ing speculation. The propagandism of republican principles and the ultimate annexation of Peru to the great republic are at the bottom of the movement. The Tarrengower diggings are still favourably spoken of, but no positive proof of their richness has been as yet produced, nor is it expected until the washing season sets in. It is computed that there are now 18,000 per sons on these fields. Ballarat has not lost its fame, and very large deposits of the precious metal are reported to have been found in the deep sinkings, but these are very expensive operations, which require considerable capital, and, as the result is precarious, are only engaged iu by the old, experienced, and systematic diggers, who can afford to make the outlay, and to look for remuneration for their labour and outlay upon the calculation of ave rages. _ _ _ he season has been dry beyond previous experience, which has been attended with a very general failure of the crops, the want of pasture and water. Extensive bush fires have taken place in the interior, and even within ten miles of Melbourne ; the loss of property has not been very great. Several people were severely burnt, but loss of human life has not been reported. The fire continued in some districts, Glenire's for instance, within ten miles of Melbourne, fur three weeks con tinuously. The snakes and venomous vermin were ex tenzively got rid of, and the opossums were roasted without anybody being found to eat them. The rapid passage made by the Golden Age steamer has attracted general attention, and much dissatisfaction has been manifested at the conduct of the Government in not encouraging the enterprise of the owners. The want of policy in this case is now apparent, and the merchants have suffered et verely by this transaction, as the overland mail has not yet arrived ; their advices through that medium might have been anticipated by the Golden Age. The passengers were so well pleased with the quick run, that they presented Captain Porter with a purse of about ninety guineas, for the purchase of a service of plate, which is a well-merited token of respect. It will be recollected that this ship made the passage from Liverpool to Melbourne in bl days and 3 hours, "running time,' but was detained 18 days coaling, ac complishing the 'passage from port to port, in point of time, in 69 days. Porte had been recalled, and he wished to ask the noble lord if there was any truth in that statement ? Lord J. RUSSELL had not heard the report, but there was no truth whatever in it. (Cheers.) OXFORD UNIVERSITY BILL. The committee on this bill was then resumed. Mr. PHINN moved the insertion of the following clause : And whereas it is expedient to prevent credit being given to persons studying at - U n i v ersities apd schools who have g year of s, this act, ac i t t , no . n e a n c o te t sia,ttathinaetd fromthe age o and action or suit shall bo c ommenced or maintained in an y court of law or equity , for the recovery of any debt or de affter t w t e h n e l p r" as:in mand contracted or incurred. by any person under the age of twenty - one years, who at the time of contracting or incurring such debt or demand, shall be a student in any university or college, or a pupil in any school or insti tution for the purpose of education, or who shall be a pupil b on d, or obligation given a s a secur it y f or re siding with any tutor within the United Kin g d o m, nor upon deed, any demand so incurred by such pupil w hil e such an y under the age of 21 as aforesaid. That from and after the passing o f this act, the Court of the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford shall in all matters of law be governed by the common and statute law of the realm, and not by the rules o f the civil law : That it shall be lawful for any three of the judges of the superior courts to make such rules as they may deem fit for the regulation of the procedure of the said Court ; and that the said court shall proceed in all matters subject to the said rules in conformity with the mode of procedure established in the County Courts : That all all persons duly admitted to act as counsel or attorney in any court of law or equity shall be admitted to practise in the said court ; and that no person in Holy Orders shall be permitted to practise therein as advocate or proctor." Mr. HENLEY objected to the clause. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER thought the principle of the existing law was sound, though means had been found fur defeating its spirit. At the same time ex ceptional legislationiwas objectionable, and he could not re commend this clause for the aduption of the committee. After some further discussion the clause was withdrawn. (LEFT SITTING.) RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, JUNE 17. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market was buoyant to-day, and the business transacted was at an advance of i to I per cent. on yesterday's quotations. MANCHESTER, JUNE 17. STOCK EXCHANGE.—There was a considerable quantity of business done for Saturday, and prices were well sus tained. The sales were—Leeds, 63 # ; Sheffield New Pre ference, 3-16 dis. ; Midland, 63i ; Dover, 19k. BIRMINGHAM, JUNE 17. STOCK EXcHANGE.—There was no material difference generally in the quotations of to-day as compared with those of yesterday ; but in the prices of North Stafford shire, in consequence of satisfactory arrangements with the London and North-Western Company, there has been a marked improvement. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. CUSTOM-HOUSE, JUNE 17. VESSELS ENTERED INWARDS.—The Belgium, from Dun kirk; City of London, Dunkirk; Ostend; Thrifty, Antwerp ; John and Mary, Caen ; Ruby, Moga bdoon ; re; Governor rt Brown, Evans, New ;aHndelGennbCaa;thHaroinnna,slLowis: Dunkirk ; Enterprise, Malaga ; Harriet , Marsal a ; Pioneer, Cardenas York Hamburg; Fortuna, Christian ia ; Havaunah ; Diana, Blanch, Santiago and Cuba ; Rhone, Nautilus, ITtidewalla ; Gotteuburgh ; Helen Mary , Batavia . ; Den 6 Juli, Leg horn ; Maria, Seville ; Bathorina, Seville ; Camalan, Ca diz c diz ; Albion, Genoa - Dove, Port Fairy Thomas Dryden, Colombo ; Greenwich, Mauritius ; Inca, Panama and Buena Ventura; Phcebe Dunbar, Galle and Colombo; Rodrigo, Seville ; Greyhound, Previse ; . Seine, Boulogne. ENTERED OUTWADEL — The American Congress, New York ; Alar, Dunkirk ; Belgium, Ostend; City of Lon don, Dunkirk; Margaret anti Jane, Toulon ; Apollino, M e lbourne ; Tropic, Barbadoes ; Countess of Lonsdale, Hamburgh ; Janet Kerman, Dorst ; John and George, Feeamp ; Amity, Dunkirk ; Frien, iship, Havre; I. and S. Martin, Dunkirk ; Agenoria, Dunkirk; Zephyr, Dankirk; Marianne, Hamburgh ; Lord Raglan, Adelaide ; Hero, Hamburgh and Harburgh ; Golconda, Constantinople ; Emperor, Madras; City of Boulogne, Boulogne; Two Sarahs, Dunkirk ; John Edward, Cape of Good Hope, VESSELS CLEARED WITH CARGO.—The Achilles ' and Emma Mathilde, for Hamburg Mawr() and Jane, Tou lon ; Eendraght, Dautzic ; Economy, Swartwick ; William 111., Port-Philip ; :A. S. Lindsay, Bombay ; Alphonte N. Cezard, Port-Philip ; Braganza, Payta • Countess of &afield, Sydney, New South Wales ; ' Zephyr, Dun kirk ; Acacia, Madras ; Joseph Fletcher, New Zea , and ; Baron Osy, Antwerp ; Batavia, Rotterdam; Lori John Russell, Harlingen ; Earl of Auckland, Rotter dam ; Phantom, New York ; Wanderer, Copenhagen ; Wellington, Hobart Town; D'Auvergne, Honduras; Royal George, Calcutta ; James Armstrong Calcutta ; Albion, Boulogne; Magnet, Amsterdam ; Anijoena Syd ney; Alar, Dunkirk ; City of London, Dunkirk ; Triton, Calais ; Soho, Havre ; Paris and London, Rouen and Paris ; William Stewart, Sydney, N.S. LIVERPOOL, June 17.—The Sarah, from Matacong to Liverpool, with a cargo of palm-ml, was lost in the Talloff River, 30 miles north of the Gambia. The wreck of a ves sel, painted black, apparently about 250 tons, was passed, May 26, in lat. 37, by the Express, arrived here. THE SUN s LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 19, 1854. ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY. At the last meeting of the session of this society, Sir Roderick I. Murchison, Vice-President, in the chair, the papers road were :-- 1. Late Tour to Medina and Mecca, made by Lieutenant R. Burton, of the Indian Army, at the expense of the society, with route from Yamba on the Red Sea. Condensed by Sir Gardner Wilkinson. The object of Lieutenant Burton's journey in Arabia was to cross the Peninsula from El Medeeneh to Muscat, or from Mecca to Makulla on the Indian Ocean ; but finding the state of the country too unsettled at the time, and his leave of ab sence too short to admit of his waiting for a more propitious moment, he was only enabled to perform the two short jour neys from Yambo (Emba) to Medeeneh, and from this last to Mecca. The former of these is the subject of the present •ommunication, _ . After noticing his departure from Southampton, in April, 1853, and his arrival in Cairo, he describes the precautions he adopted for travelling through the " Holy Land" of Arabia, so rigidly forbidden to Christians, and the disguise he assumed for this purpose. During his stay at Cairo he became an In dian doctor, and having supplied himself with " one of those preposterous outfits, thought necessary for all Eastern travel 'ers to the Hedjaz, which can only find a parallel in the baggage of our East India cadets," he proceeded to Suez, where by good fortune a young man of Mecca and a respectable party of ‘ledeeneh people, believing him to be what his second clis mise proclaimed, an Affghan pilgrim, became his friends, Ind offered to take him to their native city. By this means ho was enabled to reach Medeeneh without suspicion, and at the " prophet's burial place" managed to visit the mosque, to sketch the town, and to visit all the consecrated environs with the exception of Itha,ybar. At Meeca, too, he had after wards an opportunity of seeing all the ceremonies of the Haj ',Hadj), made a plan of the Kaabah, and, after visiting the nest interesting objects of that holy city, returned to Egypt with the title and character of a real Had j ji ; which may do aim good service on some futuro occasion in these countries. The narrative of his journey from Suez must be given in his )wn words, though somewhat curtailed in order to accommo late it to the necessary limits of this paper:— " We embarked on board the Golden Wire, a pilgrim ship, iclonging to a merchant of 'i 4 uez. Her ri g and build, like that . 3f all the Red Sea craft, have a general resemblance to the Indian pattituar, which I believe to be the most ancient shape in the Eastern world after the Catamaran' and the loni,' or hollowed mango trunk. The Western Arabs still know only two kinds of vessels, the Sambuk'" and the Baghlah,'t differing in tonnage, not in shape ; while the Eastern Arabs have almost as many varieties of craft as we have. This arises from the circumstance that timber for ship building is not to be found on the shore of the Red Sea, for which reason the people never were and are not a nation of mariners ; whereas the inhabitants of Oman, Hadramaut, and Yemen easily sup plied their want of wood by trading for teak with Malabar. This traffic, which began doubtless in early ages, gave the Eastern Arabs a spirit of adventure familiarising- them with navigation, afforded them an opportunity of colonising, and op.uled India to their energy and industry. " The owner of the Golden Wire had agreed to take 60 passengers-La cargo quite sufficient, with the mountainous heap of baggage, for au open decked vessel of about 75 tons. Favoured by fortune, he filled it with 130 human beings, mostly Bedawin, from Ei-Maghrab (' Western' Africa), per haps the greatest ruffians in Islam. " I will not describe the daily fights we witnessed, and had sometimes to join in. Two men were stabbed in the port of Suez, and before we were halfway between Egypt and Jambe, the second class generally made an energetic attempt to share with the first the lofty loop of the Golden Wire. But we re ceived them with our quarterstaves, and after au elegant little defence of our vantage ground, we forced them to beat a re treat, when, in token of their repentance, they kissed our heads, shoulders, audknees, and having promised not to offend again during the rest of the voyage, they contented themselves with cursing us. We crept slowly down the coast of the Red Sea, and on the sth day we slanted across the G fir ul oemd f lm, o lle f eeor A itGi t ae a is... - b b ae pions wu mentionedmheann , i(n3i (Mountain t ahiinl course of f t o Eh f . eo Romans), omm iawn aoy conversation, aahn one maos o ue l d covered with remains of ancient buildings. They might be worth exploring, and since BurckLardt's glorious restoration of Petra to the world, and that profoundest of Arab travellers Dr. George Wallin of Finland, there has been no discovery in this region more interesting than would be the remains of a Roman civilization in the wilds of Arabia. Near Muway,ah gold is still found. A Hadji of Cairo extracted with quicksilver no less than 6 drachms of dust out of 52 of sand collected in a torrent bed, and according to the testimony of the ancients, the precious metal was at one time plentiful in Arabia. " We made Yamboo on the 12th day aster leaving Suez, and tottered ashore with cramped legs ; some feverish, others co vered with boils, and all suffering from the burning heat of the sun. Abstemiousness had been my safeguard during this voyage, as on my two subsequent journeys, and the pilgri mage time, when my bare head and almost naked body were expose.' to tie fires of au Arabian September. As precau tions I avoided washing, because warm water debilitates and cold gives fever ; a little oil or melted butter and occasionally a bath of lukewarm water and henna paste to coal the skin were found amply sufficient. For thirst, I neither chewed bullets nor washed hands, face, or feet, nor anointed my jaws with clarified butter, nor drank great quantities of liquid; the only remedy is patience, and after suffering for an hour or two the task is an easy one. When the skin is burned by the sun, white of eggs cures the sore, which, if not attended to in these regions, may become very serious. And as i>l hot climates cold is injurious, it is as well not to be underdressed by day, and at night to sleep with a sheet drawn over the head as well as the body. _ _ and wore obliged to be content to lose twelve men, besides camels and other beasts of burden. After an hour of hurrying on, we passed Shuhada, an unremarkable spot, with a few ruined walls, and a cluster of graves, each an oval of rough stone, containing the martyrs,' crowned with glory in ono of the Prophet's plundering expeditions ; and iu thirty minutes reached Bir-el-Hindi, a favourite halting place, where some forgotten ' Indian' had dug a well. We jogged ou, scarcely out of the cut-throat gorge, and the nests of the Hem'dah ; and then, leaving the ravine, we struck off northward into a well-trodden road, running over stony rising ground. The heat became sickening. At no time is the sun in these regions more dangerous than between eight and ten a.m. and it was eleven o'clock before we encamped. The station Suwaykeh is a rugged plain covered with stones, coarse gravel, and thorn trees, and surrounded by rocks pin nacle-shaped and calcareous on a granite base. We pitched our tent under a villanous mimosa, the tree whose shade is compared by these poetical thieves to the false ono that deserts you when most needed ; and on the 25th of July, as day dawned,. finding all my friends were hurrying on with reckless haste, I enquired if more robbers were there ? No,' replied a neighbour, we are walking upon our eyes; in a minute we shall sight El Medeeneh.' Rapidly we crossed the muse-loved ravine El Akeek. It was dry as summer's dust, and its beautiful trees' were stunted firewood. Presently we came to a mudarrag, a broad flight of steps,' and at its summit, passing through alane of lava with steep banks, we suddenly beheld the Holy City' lying upon the plain before us. We halted our beasts as if by word of command, and all of us, tired and hungry as we were, dismounted and sat down to enjoy the view. Numerous were the poetical exclamations of those around me, whilst their features worked with excite ment and their eyes swam with tears. I now fully under stood the meaning of the dark phrase in the Moslem ritual, When his (the. pilgrim's) sight falls upon the trees of El- Medeeneh, let him raise his voice and bless the Prophet with the choicest offerings.' In all the fair view before us, no feature was more striking after the desolation of the journey than the gardens and palm-groves of the town. 'We reached El-Medeeneh on the 25th of July, thus taking nearly eight days to travel about 13Q miles. " My computation of the stages is From Yambo to Muzanhal Mlles. 16 Bir-said • El-Hamra • *** 14 -64 half-way. El-Hamra to Bir-Abbas ......... ...... 24 Suwaykeh ..... 22 El - Medeeneh 20 —66 • Total 130 "My camel men were of the Herb tribe, corrupted by Turkish example, and the profession of taking in pil grims. They made no difficulty in answering my questions about the country. To obviate curiosity I had an extract of Arab genealogies, and always began my questions with You men of Harb, on what lineage do you pride your selves ? ' Notes must be kept private, and sketches must not be seen ; but these people do not object to a learned man writing in a manuscript, as if commenting upon it, and he may also retire into solitude. The best pretext to avoid company is Saudo, a black,' , i.e., a melancholic tempera ment, all Orientals, especially the Arabs, being subject to fits of nervous depression, when they fly to solitude as to a friend. " Before I conclude I will not omit to mention some of the secondary objects of my journey, which were to find out if a market for purchasing hores could be established, to obtain information concerning the great eastern desert, and to in quire about the existence of perennial streams, as well as the disputed slope of the country. Of the first 1 can say that I feel satisfied El-Hejaz (the lledjaz) cannot supply India with horses. These anim ds, though bred in the holy land of Arabia, are rats,' as slender stunted bloods are generally called, of fabulous price, and to be bought only when neces sity compels their owners to part with them. 2. Of the great eastern desert, marked in our maps as Ruba-el-Khali, or the uninhabited region, I have heard from credible sources that its horrid depths swarm with a large and half starved population, amongst whom a hardy and daring explorer will find it possible to travel ; and that it is a sys tem of rocky hills, semi-fertile ravines and valleys, sand deserts, and plains of hard clay covered with thin vegetation from a scanty winter rain. At El-Medeeneh I heard a tradition that in days of yore a high road ran from the city, passing through this wild region, to Hadramant; it had, however, been deserted for ages, and my informant con sidered ma demented, when I talked of travelling by it. 3. I am satisfied that, despite all geographers between Ptolemy and Jomard, Arabia, so rich in ravines or winter streams and mountain rills, contains nothing that can pro perly may be called a river, and I have reason to believe that, B th a e ga g a e d ne t i o •al m d e e c cli a y . ity N of r; Arabia is y n t o o rt ß h i t t o te s r o ethno lozical researches I propose to detail at some f u t ure ti me, and my next communication will be the itin erary f rom El aunthd—oftib•oelins, Mecleeneli to Mecca.—l have the honour to be, sir, your most obedient servant. " RicriAnn F. BURTON, Lieutenant Bombay Army. "To Dr. Shaw, Secretary to the Royal Geographical So ciety. - (Sigued) SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE RACES. PROGRAMME OE THE SPORT. TUESDAY. The TRIAL STAKES of 5 sovs. each, with 20 added ; two yr-olds, sst ; three, 7st 41b ; four, Bst 51b ; five, 9st ; six and aged, 9st 31b; mares and geldings allowed 31b. The winner to be sold for 200 sovs., if demanded, &c., and the second to save his stake. T.Y.C. The NORTH DERBY of 10 sovs. each, p.p., with 100 added, for three•yr-olds ; colts, Bst 71b ; fillies, Bst 91b. Certain winners extra. The second to receive 50 sovs. out of the stakes. Once round 18 subs. Marley Hill Horatio Melcombe Flying Frenchman Honeysuckle Aribbas Amalgamation Brown Brandy Neville The Norseman British Queen Biilinghara Ervcina Orangeblossom Monimia Jujube Meteora The Bee The MEMBERS' PLATE HANDICAP of 5 sovs, each, with 900 added. Certain winners extra. The second to save his stake. Mile and a quarter. 26 subs. Age st lbl Age st lb Kohinoor . 5 8 7 Dalkeith 5 6 7 Vindex Captain Cornish... 4 7 8 Merry Monk 3 6 0 Lough Bawn ...... 6 7 6 Tommy Merry Bird Revolver 5 7 0 Eva - 3 5 12 Donskoy 4 7 0 Maude Mary 3 5 12 The Skinner Itch 4 6 10 The Jealous One... 3 5 10 Ammonia Early Bird , 3 6 9 Miss Allen 3 5 7 The Surveyor 5 6 9 Gamelad 3 5 5 The General The TYRO STAKES of 10 sovs each, p.p., with 50 added, for two-yr-olds ; colts, Bst 71h ; fillies, Bst 41b. Cer tain winners extra. The second to save his stake: _ T.Y.C. 22 subs. Lady Alicia Saraband Flight Chisel Cockspur Abercrombie Lord Alfred (2 lb ex.) Great Prophet Maid of the \Voids Oakwood • Courteney Nettle Neoptolernus Jack Sheppard Scipio Westminster Marco Spada The So!e Star Dragon The Corfiote Lily I Orion The. SELLING STAKES of 3 sous each, with 30 added, for three•yr•olds and upwards. One mile. 6 subs., or no engagement. WEDNESDAY. The GRAND STAND STAKES of 10 sous each, 5 ft, with 50 added, for two and three-yr-olds ; two-yr-olds, fist 121 b ; three, Bst 121 b ; fillies and geldings allowed 31b. Certain winners extra. The second to save his stake. T.Y.C. 17 subs. Age Freddy Ingornar The Jealous One 3 b f by Chanticleer, Age Lily 2 Rose 2 Cockspur 2 Maude Mary Gamekeeper Lord Alfred 2 Sir Peter Oakwood 2 Orion Ellerdale 2 Rylstone Westminster Sahara 2 Eva 3 FREE HANDICAP of 5 sovs each, 3 ft, with 50 added Certain penalties. The second to save his stake ; if seven start, the second to receive 20 sovs out of the stakes. The highest weight accepting being under Bit 71b, it has been raised to that weight, and the others in proportion. Three-quarters of a mile. 37 subs. Orestes Age st lb .4 8 7 .4 8 0 4 8 0 .4 7 3 .4 7 2 Age st lb The Jealous One 3 5 3 Viniagrette Horatio Billingham The Early Bird 3 5 1 Maude Mary 3 5 1 Master Adam Garrulity Torn Rintoul 3 4 13 Tommy 3 4 13 Device Arribas General Breeze 3 4 13 Maid of the Tees 3 4 11 Cable 3 4 11 Gabriel 3 4 11 Nelly Hill 3 4 11 Phcenix. Bright Phcebue 3. 4 11 Vindex . Hunca Munca Catherine Parr Axwell Maid of Team Valley Miss Agnes Dear-me Candlewick Dilly Richardson Donskoy Eva St. Clare Stiletto Robin Hood Nelly Punch-box Roebuck a 7 0 4 7. 0 4 6 7 a 6 7 5 6 7 4 6 3 .3 5 9 .3 5 8 .3 5 7 3 5 5 .3 5 5 .3 5 5 .3 5 4 The NORTHUMBERLAND PLATE of 200 sovs, added to a Handicap Stake of 15 sous each, 10 ft, and only 5 if declared, &c. The second to receive 50 sovs out of the stakes, and the third to save his stake. Certain winners extra. Two miles. 103 subs, 57 of whom declared. RACING FIXT JU Newcastle-on-Tyne 2O Hampton - 21 Knighton 23 Carlisle Beverley, Hull, and. East JU. Newmarket Worcester 4 Barnstaple 6 Lancaster 6 Odihain 7 Harrogate lO Mansfield ll Liverpool l2 Abingdon 13 Ipswich " 13 NEWS FROM MELBOURNE. The bill for the construction of the new constitution, says a Melbourne letter of March 4, which has been so long under the consideration of the Legislative Council, is drawing to a close. The schedule of members for the Lower House has.been adopted, with no other change than that of giving an additional member to Sandridge, the Gravesend oeMelbourne, and to Emerald-hilj, a small but rapidly increasing village on the road from that port to the city. In the draft schedule, these places had but 1 member assigned them ; they will now have 2. The total number of members, 60, as proposed, will remain, the addi tional met - ober being abstracted from the district of the Loddon, which will be excluded from the arrangement, and added to the Talbot distri,,,t, there being but thirty electors within the boundaries of that district, whereas Sandridge and Emerald-hill contain a numerous popu lation, which is increasing every day. The alteration is therefore judicious, as these places are thriving locali ties, and must in a very short time become towns of con siderable commercial importance. The schedule for the Upper House, which is to consist of thirty members, has been agreed to in committee ; they are distributed according to the following arrangement : Number CENTRAL PROVINCE. Members. Including the city of Melbourne and the country ex tending three miles round the corporate limits of the city 5 SOUTH PROVINCE Including the counties of Bourke, Evelyn, and Morn- ington SOUTH•WVESTERN PROVINCE. Including the counties of Grant, Grenville, and Pol warth 5 WESTERN PROVINCE. Including the counties of Ripon, Hampden, Heytes bury, Villiers, Normanby, Dundas, and Follett 5 NORTH-WESTERN PROVINCE. Including counties of Talbot and Dalhousie, and the Wimmera and Loddon districts EASTERN PROVINCE. Including the county of Anglesey, the proposed county of Rodney, and the Murray and Gipps' Land districts The Colonial Secretary, in proposing the schedule, observed that, "in forming this division of the country, the Government had acted with great deliberation as to the most advisable course to adopt, and they now sub mitted their scheme to the consideration of the house, confident in the belief that, under such i distribution of the provinces, whatever of talent or character was pre eminent in each locality would become readily known and recognised for election by the voters to the Upper House." A sentiment which appears to be acquiesced in by the council, indicated by the readiness with which the arrangement was agreed to. The bill has passed through committee, and the consideration of the report stands as "an order of the day" for Friday next, the 10th instant. -- - raising last year upon 42,000 tons, at peace prices averaffig 351. per ton, a market value of nearly 1,500,000 1 • It appears, then, that last year we received from Bu ssis of these two articles , F:ax Hemp _-._--- INDIAN FIBRES. The following letter, written- by Mr. Samuel Gregson s i has been addressed to Sir Charles Wood, President of the Board of Control :-- Dear Sir Charles,—Among the many important ques ticns now pressing upon public attention, there are two which I venture to bring particularly under your notice, both for the interest of India and the public at large. They are the means of providing an effective and ample substitute for flax and hemp for our manufactures, and of obtaining the necessary quantity of material, now noto riously inadequate to supply the demand for the produc tion of paper. The war with Russia affect a in a material degree our command of these important articles—flax and hemp; while the rapidity and largely increased consumption of paper without any corresponding extension, but rather a diminution, of the supply of the raw material for its pro duction, operates prejudicially on what may now be called a necessary of life. Allow me to submit , to you a few facts bearing upon each of these matters. The growth of flax has rapidly increased within the last few years in the United Kingdom and especially in Ireland. In 1819 the quantity of land in Ireland under this crop, was 60,314 acres ; and taking its average yield at 6 cwt. per acre, the produce would be 18,091 tons. In 1853 there were 174,423 acres under flax cultivation, yielding, at the same average, 52,327 tons. The importation of foreign flax for the last three years has been _ All other Total From Russia. parts. importation. In 1851 40,934 tons ... 18,775 tons ... 59,709 tons 1852 47,426 „ ... 22 ,703 „ 70,129 „ 1853 64,399 „ 29,770 „ ... 94,169 „ Total in 3 years 152,759 „ 71,243 „ —.224,007 „ Average per an. 50,920 „ 23,749 .. 74,669 showing that the importati on o f l ast year from Russia was 16,; , 73 tons more than that of the year pre'ceding-13,479 tons above the average of the three yeam—and within 10,270 tons of the total average importation from all parts of the world. Putting out of view the growth of flax in Great Britain, of which we have no available information, the importation, and the Irish production together, of flax during the last yoar amounted to 146,496 tons, of which entire quantity nearly one-halt, and of the total importation snore than two-thirds, came from Russia, its market value (at peace prices averaging 301. per ton) amounting to nearly two mil lion pounds. Then, for hemp. Of the articles passing under this ge neral title, including sunn and jute from India, and that known as Manilla hemp, the quantities received from Russia do not bear the same proportion as in the case of flax, being— All other Total From Russia parts. importations. In 1851 1852 1853 41,819 „ 21,323 „ 63,142 „ Total in three years 102,246 „ 79,281 „ 181,527 )7 Average per annum 34,082 „ 26,427 „ 60,509 „ Here again, however, we see that Rusiim, has supplied considerably' more than half the entire importation, re. • --- Total 105,538 „ Value... £3,395,335 And the present war price has enhanced that value to ur wards of 6,500.000/. little Next, as regards paper. We are, comparatively , dependent upon other countries forthedirect manufacture of in the state in which it is used in the a- of this most important article. Without particularly specifying the quantities of rag s i mpor t e d, chiefly f r° Germany and Italy, it may be taken at less than , twelfth part of the enti re we i g ht o f m aterial . o `. all kinds used for paper making. But small as th at e1,1111f• portation is, in . proportion to our wa n t s , we are not -, fered to retain it. The Am er i cans are l arge buyers of ra in this countty ; whether of those imported or of ou r ° te pro uction is immate r i a l ; th e genera l consumption in United States, so enormou s i s th e quan tit y us ed Pone" papers exceeding their own internal supply. With this state of things is to be coupled the vae.,... t t i h n ; crease in the consumption of paper in this country. ends five years, 1830 to 1834, prior to the reduction of the ex.cod duty on first-class papers from 3d. to its present equal i vo rate of lid. per lb., the average annual quantity n 2 „, ,,(1 , 2 8 70,989,1311b5. ; and in the last five years, 1849 to 10 "'"'The average annual quantity made was 151,A3,1:5 1 b5• production of the year 1853 was 177,623, above 23,000,0001b5. (more than 10,0 10 tons) over that 4. the preceding year, and more than 36,000 tons over such excess requiring for its production not less than 1 3, `,,',76 tons of rdw material in the former case, and nearly 47, rii t in the latt r. The whole weight of material employe"...., the manufacture of paper only, may be stated at bets"' 0001bs., h. l l 110,000 and 120,000 tons per annum, for It results then from these s evera l s t a t em ents, that our textile manufactures, rope and twine, and paper way ti ; we are short of the requisit e su p p li es o f raw material , compared with our position at the beginning of last Y e to the extent of nearly 120,000 tons, viz.:— Last year's import from Russia of hemp and 0 , flax, as above lO6 The above excess for the m a k e o f paper Deficiency 119, 218 subject only to such dimi nu ti on o f th a t quantity as gasp may find means to c onve y t o us b y circuitous rou_e With a liberal allowanc e f or thi s p oss ibl e di m inution, 7. 13,0000 10 , may fairly consider ourselves deficient to the extent o , of quantity ranging between 80,000 an d 100,000 t° ll6 fibrous matter. rest This being our position, it i s a su bj ec t o f muc h in +. -t ; „‘ to determine in what way so l arge an ac t ua l or imeeou'" deficiency can be supplied. iat To this point I proceed now t o draw your attentione a Aia if the facts which hav e come b e f ore me are s ubstant it correct, of which there s eems t o b e no reasona bl e doubt , would appear that not only can we o bt a i n a d e quate I l i ' s ; ; plies from India, but that something like reproach att ach t o to us for having permitted ourse l ves so long t o neglea lt . procure, to some extent at least, these essential coO ties from that great country. Dr. Forbes Royle, whose reputation as an e xperieui °4 4 Indian botanist is too well est a bli s h e d t o s t an d in need any individual testimony, and w h ose va l ua ble pafief this subject, recently read before the Society of Ar't ter will, as it is already out of print, circulate with this lea throughout India, has distinctly proved the existen ce, various parts of our Indian empire, not only of the iden ti ' cal plants which furnish flax and hemp, but of numer ° ,4 other plants yielding fibres of great importance, some them greatly superior in strength and general valu e either of those articles. The proof of this is too important to be omitted he: Having submitted a variety o f fib res t o b e tested, weight each broke with he ascertained to be as follows • FIBRES OF EQUAL WEIGHTS AND OF EQUAL LENCIT., I I TESTED AT THE EAST IND IA COMPANY 'S MILIT .M " STORES. Mg* Petersburg, broke with l6O Jubhulpore hemp, from Mr. Williams l°4 Wuctoo nar fibre, Travancore ................ . Mudaror Yercum fibre, common all over India.-• 190 China grass, Boehmeria nivea .. 220 ....... 320 Rheea fibre, the same from Assam Wild R 1 sea, BoehsperiH species from Assam.- 400343 Kote Kangro hemp (no breakage at) East India House, Dec. 16, 1853. It is true that some these Indian plants are grow n places remote from the seaboard ; and from which ther e e 4 still very bad roads, or no road s at all, for transport; , several of them, and amongst them perhaps the most P 0 life of all, are of very exte ns i ve growt h i n par t s c ontiVe,',', to the coast, and therefo re ca p a bl e o f b e i ng benefiols"/ and cheaply prepared for exportation. iclx The most conspicuous of these is the plaintain, w - , ; 0 . contains a valuable fibre, and is everywhere cultivate(' ' rs ij, the plains of India for its fruit, an article of univ e ,•„a. consumption by the native population. It is a tree 'l/. 11 7 4 bears fruit only once, and as soon as that is removed it and has been from time immemorial, cut down and lab' rot upon the ground. Persons who have paid close a tte . ll ; tion to the subject state th a t th ere w ill b e no difficulty 1° obtaining from this plant alone any quantity of fibre ° I admitted valuable quality, an d as f as t as th e mechard' appliances necessary for its preparation can be sent out. Upon this essential point I have reason to believe th_ e machinery is devised and patents are secured for the pi cesses of preparation, calculated to carry on every necessl operation both as regards fibre f o r t ex til e purposes pulp far paper, in a perfect manner ; and at a cost svili'; oven under any conceivable rise in the price of the re, material in India, must command su c h a profit as to en sure its continuous and almost unlimited production. „„.. Some statements have also been prepared, and are reaolZ, producible, showing a very tempting pecuniary profit re i induce parties in India to produ ce th e material requi and that the simple and efficient machinery to be erepl°l may be furnished at a moderate cost. Applicable as this fibre is to the manufacture of efe 6 species of cloth or other article usually made from f1a ,1 .;,, hemp, and of equal quality, it can b e used with 11 0 „ " .a r facility and advantag e i n th e manu f acture of paper, th'e supplying both the one and the other of the important d O. siderata which the foregoing facts and figures establish. We have, therefore, within the li m it s o f our own posseSi sions, in the East Indies and in th e West, ample means 4t) furnishing at a low price as mu c h o f this important pr ~, duct as our utmost wants can require. Permit me, in conclusion, to add, that this question , i n ; volving as it does the interests of India, which, in Y e % high position as president of th e I n di a Board I know y. ° watch over with anxious solicitude, embraces also the 1 ,. 1° : terests of the whole empi re , espec i a ll y a t thi s momelP; and I feel assured of its receiving as it well deserves, prompt and earnest attenti on , and the continued fav,.. b9e.t able consideration o f th e E as t I n di a Company, and of Majesty's Government.—l am , d ear Sir Charles, very faithfully, SAMUEL GREGsolf• London, June 1. COUNTRY MARKETS. HADDINGTON—JUNE 16. The following are the prices of grain at our rasr“ 4 to-day : WHEAT. 1 BARLEY. OATS. I E LV 74 First B2s Od 40s 6d 40s Oct 5 5 s Second -1 li t 75s 1(1 i 38s 1(1 37s 6d a 4 0 4., Third 66s Oct 1 358 Oct 34s Oct 1 48s Total quantity of wheat i n mar k e t , 362 qrs ., 334 sl 4, : PP FP barley PI 137 qrs., 10: , 5:,,,, PP PI • oats PP 258 qrs, 243 soli Average PP beans PP M qrs., 5 1 " Average of wheat .£3 15 10 4-12ths Ditto of Barley Ditto of Oats . .. Ditto of Beans ...... ...... ..... ... 2 11 11 8-12 tbs DALICEITH GRAIN MARKET—JUN 1 5 . Qrs. Best. Current. Inferior 0 1 1 1 346 Wheat 81 s 0,1 532 Oats 3 Bs 8, 1 o os Od 178 Barley 39 s 3d ON n Od - 33 Peas & be ans 59 i Od oos Od Average of wheat, Si. lle. 84d. ABERDEEN —JUNE 10. The prices of grain to-day are—Oats, 32s Od to 3 2 s ;, 401bs pet tusbel ; new oats, 00s Od to 003 Od, 401bs bushel ; her e , 33 s Od 31s Od, b3lbs per bushel ; hart e' 33s Od to 343 Od, 13lbs per bushel • wheat, red, 60s 0 -15 - 65s Od, 62103 per bushel ; wheat, Aite 73; 04 to 75 3 _,7. 1 621bs per busha ; oatmeal, 24s Od to' 26s Od per flour, 5Gs 04 t ') 57 5 04 per sack. Provisions—Beef, per lb.; 6d to 9d ; mutton, Od 8(1 ; veal, ditto, Gd to pork, per lb, Os Ott to Os 8d ; saithon, per lb, 2s Od to Os 04 4, rabbits, each, Od t o 04 ; t a ll ow, per stone, 5s 9d t o Os 1! potatoes, per peck, 14d t o s4d ; butter, per lb, 84d to 9A • 0 4 eggs, per doz, 51 to Os ; hens, per pair, 3 s - 3s 5,1 ; chickens, ditto, Os 01 to 2s Od ; ducks, ditto, 2s 6 to 3s 01 ; ducklings, ditto, 2s 6d to Os Od ; turkey! each, 33 01 to 4s 04 ; geese, ditto, 2s 6d to 3s Od ; butoi: for exnortation (pre.i.ent cure), per cwt, 74s to rs ditto (sumnv r cured), 04)s to 00s Od ; eggs, wholesale pries' per dozen, Cd t o sid ; llb l oa f , 9d ; 21b l oa f , 4 4 d ; Po" ! fine small, Os Od to 'is ; pork, large, Os Od to Os 0411 lamb, per qr., Gs to 7s 6d ; cheese, per imperial stout 5s 6d to 7s. :—W ns U D B LI N—Jm 43 10. I Prices Whit wheat, s Ocl to 47s Od ; red, 40s Od , 44,4 Od. Barley, 17 s Od to 22s Od. Oats, 16s Gd to 18s .1, per barrel. Oatmeal, 16$ Gd to 18s Od. Bakers' flour, 22 Od to 27s Od. Indian corn, per 4801 b., 41s to 455. Vice-Admiral the Hon. Sir Fleetwood Pellew presented to her Majesty at the Levee on June the 9th 't by,the First Lord of the Admiralty, on return from ft rwign service. BIRTHS. OF A SON. t On the 15th i ns t., a t th e R ec t ory, G reat Stanmore, Lady Ellen Gordon. ),1 On the 15th inst., at Dnnstew, Oxfordshire, the wife 4 Henry W. Dashwood, Esq. OF A DAUGHTER. h r On the 15th in s t., a t 14, G rove - en d- roa d , St. jO-11 wood, the wife of H. T. Adamson, Esq. On the 15th inst., at Graveley Rectory, Cambridgeshir the wife of the Rev. J. P. Birkett. MARRIED. On the 15th inst., at Kinross, Robert Dundas, EsT he H. M.'s Cust oms , Gl asgow , t o M ary A nn, daughter of late Robert Forbes, Esq., writer and procurator-fiscal I " the county of Kinross. DIED. On the 17th inst., Hart Davis, Esq., P.R.S., of Bere-hl House, Whitchurch, Hants, late deputy-chairman of ti Board of Excise. On the 13th inst.. at Tegreha n , Cornwall, the lady! Colonel Carlyon, an d s i ster of Sir Samuel Spry, aged : years. t' On the 24th o f A pril, at Madras, aged 32, Captain A 4 nold Ward, Ist Madras Fusiliers, youngest son of the la John Ward, Esq., of Dover. ft On the 15th inst., at Highbury-place, in her 78th Y(3 'op Elizaheth, relict of William Farquhar, Esq., of Lloyd and Woburn place, Russell-square. L iNDON: Printed and Published by HURD() YOU 1 11 of No. 112, Strand, Printei, at The Sun O;iire, 11 . 0. o f Strand, in the P rec i nc t o f t h e Savoy, in the centrt 'Middlesex, ' Monday, June 19, MC SOCIETY FC RENT OF T I on WEDNE 4 4 egent-street. at abets and thtir F "wen by the Rlgh ilk 2, HI DE • eB B C , I or FP I L i T g Ei a ° t E u 2' R. 11( not to be dial neY Will never .41Y teeth ever .. e tlon of root rve teeth tha' And taaaticatioi ~F ~ L. variety trOCK will be — lroveraente M the tariff( Seale. Si at this good tit, ' liar Will en 4114 11 ..e°1 : u h r e ll gr e: in t e I °llr variable 4. , .to 423. L. H' THE .9 COAT Ind beauty tt 'Waldo well t ` h am Of charg L. H • • uNZQUA NOTH: _ of L. Parents and these well fa 44 PPlied at u L. HIS T Estab :•trords uniN 9 55 kept ion MuWes* flt, • k ovelties di s uggest, wil l arlY visit I G R _ No Wu who Pack W terrace Pier st i a Direct ^. Omnibu tVery qua LitUNSIA ~_ 'Pen thurch Street 5 1014 11% 12% 2% *514 Zoorfr 114„eG(it Three : Past w Street -June P