The Sun. — London, England, 1844-07-12 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE TO-Molt ROW EVENING, JULY 1 ', IMII be perfornr.d (last time this soason) Donizef Ope.a, entitled LUCIA DI LAMMER3IOO R. The part of Edgardo by Sig. Moriani; Enrico, Sig. lornasart ; /3idehent, Sig. P,altoni; Lucia, Madame l'orsiani. Between the Acts a Divertissement, in which Mtllle. Cerito and 31. st. Leon will appear. To conclude with OISELLE Giselle, Mdile Fanny Elsecr. Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to to nude at elle Box Office, Opera Colonnade. Sailor Costal, new Opera, " Don Carlos," on Tuesday next will be repeated PIER MAJESTY'S PIIVATRE. Signor MORENA' respectfully inform: the Nobility, Pa'ren to the Opera, his Friends, and the Public, that 1H Liz:NE/ I r and last appearance will take place ON THURSDAY NEXT, JULY IS, When will be performed Donizetti's Opera, LUCREZIA SORG' A. Lucretia Borgia, Madame Grisi ; Orsini, Shiite. Favanti ; Alphonso, Slgnor Lablache; Gubetti, Signor Paltoni ; A stolfn, Sig. A. Glubilei ; and Gennaro, Signor Moriani (for this occasion only). Between the Acts a D.vertissement, by Mdlle. Fanny Eissler, Mdlle. Cerito, MM. Perrot and St. Leon. To conclude with a Favourite Ballet, in which all the principal Artistes of her Majesty's Theatre will appear. Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and 'tickets to be made at the Box °Moe, Opera-colonnade. Doors open at Seven; the Opera will corn. maice at Half-past Seven. • THEATRE ROYAL,- HAYMA MALT. MK. BENJAMIN WEBSTgR. lES E.E. THIS EVENING, JULY 12, Will be repeated the Prize Comedy of QUID PRO QUO; or, THE DAY OF DUPES. With a Prologue spoken by Mr. Webster. Earl of Hunsdon, Mr. Stuart; Lord Fellamont, Mrs. Nisbett ; Jeremy Grigson, Mr. Strickland; H. ny. Mr. H. Holl ; Captain Sippett, Mr Buckstone; Sir George 319rdent, Mr W. Farren ; Countess of Hunsdoa, Mrs. W. Clifford ; Lidy Mary Rivers, Miss Julia Bennett; Mrs. Grigsen, Mrs. Glover; Bridget i rim, Mrs. ilumby. Atter the Comedy Mr. John Parr , will sing " Fayre Rosamonde." After which, will be repeated a S:e.v F.rce, entitled THE HILT LINER'S HOLIDAY. S:r Simon Sparkes, Mr. Ruckstone ; Mr. Pennywig, Mr. Strckland ; Fanny Thompson, Miss Julia Bennett; M iss Potts, Mrs. Humby. To conclude with THE TRUMPETER'S 1/ACSI-ITER; or, Love and the Polka. Phillipot, Mr. Webster; Madam, Madame Celeste; who will dance the celebrated Polka. Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Boxes, :Is. - Pit, Ss. ; Gallery, , s.; Upper (Pinery, Is. Half.price—Boxes, Oa! ; _ Pit , es.; Gallery. 14. ; Upper Gallery, Bd. Doors opened at Half-past Six, and the Performances commence at Seven. Tickets and Places to be had of Mr. I. T. Arc,' er, et the Box. alley, from Ten till Five. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STRFLT. LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX THIS EVENING,JULY 12. _ _ Will be performed a New Drama, c a lled BLANCHE DE VA LMY Colonel Chatillon. Mr. Granby ; Franval, Mr. Walton ; ; t. Hilare, Mr. W. Lacy; Blanche de Valmr, Madame Eugenie Paneper. After which, GWYNNETH VAUGHAN. Owen Williams, Mr. Fitzjames ; Hugh Morgan, Mr. Wright; Gwynncth Vaughan, Mrs. Sti ling. To conclude with a New and Original Burlesque, entitled THE WONDERFUL LAMP, being an Illustrated Version of Aladdin. Ahanasar, Mr. Paul Bedfcrd ; Al tddin, Mr. Wright ; Princess Badrsulbadour, Mis: E. Stani: y. THEATRE ROY AL LYCEUM, LATE ENGLISH UtqI.A4C AOUSE. Under the Management of Mrs. KEELEY. THIS EVENING, JULY 12, Will be produced a New Drama, entitled MARTIN CHUZZ LE WIT. Principal eharacters by 'Messrs, R. Yonnge, r. Emery, F. Mathews, A. Wigan, Meadows, Kinloch, Turner, St anton, J. W. Collier, Yarnold, Bandon, a•id Keeley Miss For tescue, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. A. Wigan, Mrs. Vioollige, Miss Grove, Mr& Usher, Miss Turner, and Mrs. 1' eeley . To be followed by an Apropos Bagatelle, called POLKA MANIA• Characters by Mr. F. Matthews, Mr. Wigan, M. i.ecley, Miss Woolgar, and Mrs. Keeley. To &niclude with a New Domestic Drama, entitled THE MI 0 • 11 ENTOUS Q UESTION . Characters by Messrs. Diddear, F. Vining, J. W.ollier, Miss Fortescue, and Mrs. A Wigan. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF A.fJS. Proprietor ,aid Manager, Mt. BAT 11( SPLENDID JUVENILE FETES. Great Success of the Chinese Feast of Lanterns, and N-1 , .v. Military and Naval Spectacle. THIS EVENING, JULY' 12, Will be repeated an entire new MAitary and Naval equestrian Spectacle, entitled THE CHINESE WAR, ; cr. The Conquests 01 Amoy by B-itish Arms. New 'Scenery. Dresses, A ppointme:ds. Om, to realise the resent triumphs of England's Army and N..s y. Feast of 250 Lanterns. After which, a graceful and novel pageant, entitled THE ROY ► L COTILLION OF FRANCIS THE FI dS I', or, the Beauties of the Louvre. Marguerite de Valois, Mrs Batty. NeW and unequalled Scenes of the Circle—Extraordinary Feats of Horseman ;hip by Monsieur Louis Tournaire, s g. t , ermani, Herr Tiesback, La Petit Isabelle, Mr. Newsome, &c., with Mr. R. Smith's highly trained Steeds. To conclude with THE GREAT STEEPLE.CIIAiE; or, Eng lanh's Harvest Home. The doors will open nightly at six o'cloc.c, and the r ormance' c.immence at seven. Box-offi ce opened daily from ten till four. The private boxes have been reem.structed and decorated wi ti care and spiendour. _ . _ . . _ Acting and stagc.m anger, Alr. W. D. flrnadfoot. OAT WOE'S ROvil I, SURREY I - lIEATRE. THIS EVENING, JULY 12, Will be performed an entirely new A piattc Spe intrcducina Three Scenes of Real Water, entitled THE MOt NTAIN CATA RACT;o-, The Enchanter's .pelt. Aft er Nhich, a Lilliputt.n BaPet, entitled Nar,olenii'.4 Gene rosity," in which the Brocksten Family —three Germ:Li Lilliputians, only 24 82, and 33 ieches in height—wilt perform. To conclude with :. New Drama, called T. F CARPENTER r F ROUEN, in which Messrs Hudson Kirby, Hicks, Neville, Vale, Johi:w.n, Mrs. Daly, Miss l'errey, and Mrs. R. Honner wilt perfarrn Flynn% and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, It the Sox office, from Eleven .n rota. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOWCAL GARDENS. Davlight View et LONDON in the .011.DEv TIME! Painted by Denson and ..... _ The sensation caused by this unrivalled production is beyond all former precedent; the artist, the amateur, the casual observer are all struck with its extraor,finary heantv aid fidelity of delinea tion and are unanimous in pronouneir•wit the mo•t wonderful ex hilyticn ever witnes.el. To view it only a- a ve`,cle fur the terrific display at Dusk is unjust ; it should t e seen in the calm stillness of the quiet Evening, with its Towers aril Ste?ples reflected in the sp,- ciotta Lake, to be :idly appreciated. The Evening PROMENA CONC R Is, on Mon ars Tues days', Wednesdays, and Thrindays, c wichicte:l by Mr. Godfrey, are (Mom a scale of more than usual excellerre; Lilt words fail is Joingju,tice to the awful rrprese.ntation of _ _ TIIE GiigAr FIRE 01 , LONDON. Its fearful ch :racterrtics are truthfully pmittrayed, h .t at the same time so beattrifitily blended with Ow Wonders of the Pyretechnic Air, that delight is predominant over ter :r; ai,cl t e Thou , antit who nightly crowd the Gardens hail it with acci imat ,fmg, and admit that, gotitlitty, the Uariralled Py ote:ht ist, h s achievA a ma•chless triumph. l'hs Gardens and Zooloal Collentlm are in th. most rerfect state, ana combining ao many anal inttresting feature., are by far the 'mist attractive lounge m or nc•ar the metrvolls. Feeding of the Animals at Five—concert at via—A onfi agrat ion .at Dusk. Admitttt oe, One Shilling. L6IIITIA.N IMPORTANT Nc)TiCF.. ONE: Fin] T.T.TNT4 Adtnission to TII E. NA i 'LEON MV- Ulf, the most magnideent and exteniive trn of Histo rical Curiosities and Works of Art ever kno , .vn h twoi awrne,-! by rine rerson, during Twenty-are years , ref Parch, at a cost al 60,000 guineas, and to complete!y illustrate, ht i!.e. moat In structire and interesting manner, the Most importaLt ,iart of Euro psu history, viz.--CITARLEi T., O:,TV . EIt CI:C.I I wELL, and LIVES XIV., to the devils of Gkout ;E EEL an 4 V e :s.:NTOLEON, in 1621. This unique Museum has beeo :Nited otter., during the iasl and present year, by tile 1t,r..a.; `lop Doke Wellington, the Foreign rrinces„ttn . ,ass;:.lers, a't I 'Lear Ladies atop, many thoustuds CE•the Nobility and rr',lte I the Pro , rietor has recently trmyi able to lorre,a,,, be se ,- 1,1 very tine i•tetures, !tr., his previous altnoot an variety of litte:t., Works of Art, and a multitude vi , and ottiet In this most instructive and, as hitirire nas - e said ii slight to te, it National 'lliscutn. 11.1 any thousa.nd It. AM! TIIIEtTY PRINCIrAL EDITOI:3 of the o.^ is stated that it onght to he seen by grery one. Ti'f rrico of aarnia unit +a redtmed to ONE SHILLING.- Th' N.tI'OLEON MUSEUM is to he ICC7I Only ut Va. • vgyptiat, (!all." Piccadilly, daily from Ten till Dusk. TO CORIIESPONI)6N SV have received an amonymons communication relative to the Hospital for Consumption, et Clic he!, which we cannot inzert. Why are correspondems afraid to give _their tinnics and ad tresses ? • ()rricE, .:11.Y 12 XHFRHOMKTEP, Lowest, 58; "11144,:5t, 72- "nn, 62 BARONIZTER, N _ . tV. , manbcr 32 on el? MCI:11011:e 'tC7r.'tt`S thf fror?.ing point, and 55 temf.nr3te. In I3are - n fair is a sally placed opposite 30, and r'zir, at 21. !WU! WATER AT LW:DON-IN:II3CE T -1:S rrAy. ... mira.tes after 11 1 Ic:i7etiing 0 minntz3 at m. 0 :•7!_r'°_!"V!rr'T' . 0 , • 17.4k.L. i._4*l'; _VI 3- :1 . .. ;- ... 4 ,: -4 9 , l,-),1:..a.:".,4,:.;;!. _ ob' , *; . s,-1 : 4•1,- ')•:....:"..- "...7,71-- h•tt. i et-.4.11.,,,..,: ,' s ;•,,c 444; 2 4 - ,., , ,A, - ' --, 4r.:,..,A, ~,,, „..er i A I N I * -13 .Z12L-::,,,' •!e-,777.-'747.4- .., - 4,. ..,,, , ' 4 r. - • -.01-*--''s '• 5.. ST:COND EDITIO7S c •Os., 4 . 1'11.1'1 4:4„;1: 114 V N4,Pt; tV4** LONDON, FRIDAY, JULY 12 1844, not entitled to his confidence. This is a happy symptom. A Government that obtained the praises and support of such a bigot as Mr. C vauxouN, would soon excite a civil war. Mr. WALLACE applauded the Governn - ent for the manly course they had pursued on thi important measure, and would support them to the !rst. Mr. C. Bumant spoke in favour of the railway companies, and consequently opposed the motice. A number of other speakers followed, and, on a division, the second reading was carried by a majority of 88. To be committed on Saturday next. Several Bills were advanced a stage. On the order for bringing up the report of the Gaming Disconti nuance Bill being read, Mr. CHRISTIE defended Mr. RUSSELL (the solicitor in the qui lam actions) from theattack made on him by Lord G. BENTINCIC. The report was received. The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at a Quarter to Two. We concluded our yesterday's notice of the debate on the " Danish claims" by quoting the doctrine laid down by the CHANCRLLOR of the EXCHEQUER, touch ing the distinctive character of the circumstances under which their property ;lad been taken and confis- cated by Denmark. This character, the Right Hon. Gentleman contended, took this case out of that clasS of claims for property confiscated by a foreign State, in consequence of acts done by the British Govern ment, in which the law and the practice of Parliament would grant compensation to the aggrieved owners. It is clear, however, as Mr. CualsTos stated, that, in consequence of our proceedings in the present case, "Denmark made reprisals, and seized the property of British subjects, taking our merchant-ships in the Baltic by way of reprisal:' It is not less clear that the distinction thus attempted to be drawn by the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, is one "without a difference" as to any justification it supplies for the resistance of her Maaasrr's Government to the present motion: Mr. HAWES thus summarily dis posed of it :—" The Right Honourable Gentleman has added nothing whatever to the present subject. He looks at the case on two grounds. He says, the capture took place in time of war; and further, that the law officers of the Crown have given several opinions adverse to the claims. Let the House re collect that with whatever force the Right Hon. Gen tleman's arguments a 2 ply to this third class of claimants, they ap2l,- with equal force to all former claimants." That .s, to the two other sections of Danish claimants with whom - the Government has already Fettled, under the especial recommendation of the House of Commons. Now this question of war or no war" being common to the three classes of Danish claimants, has been disposed of by the act of her MAJESTY'S Government in dealing with two of them—awl cannot be revived in order to repudiate the third. It dues not appear to us worth while to dwell more largely on the Right Hon. Gentleman's legal refincrne its, albeit he attempted to establish them on some fancied analogy in the fact of the battle ta' - . Waterloo in 1815. That was fought ut our having made any declaration of war against France in the period that had inter vened since the peace of 1814: yet who, the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER triumphantly asked, would deny that we were at war with France when this great battle took place ? But the force of this analogy was demolished by the Hon. Member for Lambeth, in reply to it, referring to our late hostile operations on the coast of China. " I will ask," said he, " were we at war' with China? We took towns and ships there ; yet the navy have been refused all prize money in that instance, because there was 'no war.'—(" Hear, hear," from Sir C. NAPIER.) Will the Right Honourable Gentleman condescend to meet me on this ground? It is all very convenient to the Treasury to say that in the China. business it was no war, but in the Danish business it was a ivar. In both cases there are, doubtless, conflicting declarations or opinions ; but it now suits the purpose of Government to meet these honest claimants with a pretence of this kind—thus inconsistent with their own declarations." There are two additional circum -tances carefully to be noted, as applicable to the pre sent class of claims, as well as to the two others, which are no longer in question ; the first is, that our captures of ships and stores from Denmark realised a fund of upwards of 1,000,0001; sterling. If British üb:ects, damnified by this extraordinary and almost unprecedented act of aggression by our Government, were not to be compensated, in the intention of the English Ministers of that day, for the loss of their property consequent on the " re prisals," or " the war" (the quibble matters not), :wade upon us by the Danes in revenge for such ano malous hostilities, why were those prizes and stores ,old at all? (Our captures, if we rightly remember, eonsisted of some eighteen sail of the line, fifteen frigates, six or seven brigs ; and more than twenty gun boats, with an immense quantity of naval stores.) 2. If it was not in the contemplation of our English admi nistration, within three years after the memorable ex pedition to Copenhagen, that the present, and all other such rightful claimants should be indemnified for such losses, shat was the meaning of Mr. PER cEvAis announcement, in 1810 (in giving cert a i n explanations in Parlianient, that had been demanded of him, as to this affair, and the subsequent measures that had been adopted in relation to it), " that a sum of money hat7l, in the first instance, been set apart for the satirsfaetion of those British merchants who had suffered by the way in which the war had broken out." The else put by Mr. CHRISTIE, in alluding to thi, announrentnt, is irresistible. "If that sum was thus set apart for such a purpose, I submit that there is no body of claimants who come with stronger arguments for compensation from the British Govern meat, than those whose goods were confiscated during the time the war was being carried on." And, hi truth, let us add, the :British Government have irre vocably affirmed the principle that the present claims are binding upon them by what they have done, or have been compelled to do, in reference to the other classes of claimants. But the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER affects not only to have found a justification of the Govern ment's refu'al to pay this legacy of their Tory prede cessors' precipitation, but a justification (still more difficult) of the renegade voters on these very claims for the apostacy with which, conformably to the politi cal ethics of Sir ROBERT PEEL'S highly honourable ,Government, they now turn round upon the claim ants, and either desert, or act against them, after having formerly supported them by their recorded votes in the House of Commons. For this justifica tion he relies on the opinions of the law officers of 'ln the Howe of Lords a brief disiussion took place r i lative to the junction of the sees of St. Asaph and Bangor. The Earl Powts intimate:l that, from a cbnversation with the lJukke of•lVEr.r.mGros, he had hrArned that it was not likely her MAJESTY would give her consent to the Bill which he hal introduced, atid he, therefore, withdrew it. The Bishop of SAIISBIjILY trusted her MAJESTY'S government would reconsider the question, and in. troduce a Bill to the same effect next s'ssion. the Crown, which are all adverse to the claim ants. To be sure They are. In the little Lord CLANRICARDE said this was t v first instance in which the consent of the Crown • :Id been with held for .the purpose of preventing heir Lordships paising a Bill. word beyond Downing-street it is a notorious fact that you may get any opinion you want from any counsel•--if you have sagacity enough to shape the case you submit to him accord ingly. But the Right Hon. Gentleman, with an . Lord MONTEAGLE thought ere 4v INernment justi fied in the course they had pursued and the Bill was withdrawn. Earl FOUTESCUE postponed his intition relative to the re-appointment of Mr. O'Drtisent.t. till Tuesday. Lord MONTEAGLE MOre'l an addr , ..s: to the Crown praying that steps tray be talon tr) ameliorate the oondition of pauper lunatics in lrel,and. amusing simplicity, admits the apostacy, and actually takes credit for it, of the parties who vote in the teeth of their former avowals and convictions, since they hare ceased to be in opposition, or have taken office under the present Government; because "they have now the benefit of information which they could not get be- The motion was negativel,' and the House ad formed. • In the Commons Mr. T. Dt;:corenz presented a petition from Signor MAZZINI, praying that he might be examined before the Secret Committee appointed to ir.quire into the system of Opening letters at the Post-office. • On the order of tho day for 11,0 adjourned debate en the Railways Bill being read, Lir. BRIGHT spoke against the Bill, and contended that if the object of Mr. GLADSTONE was obtained, the Government throughout every district would -bta . n a Parlia- Mentary influence dangerous to the .; , mmunity. He approved of some of the clauses—thu c, fur instance, that would make provision for the cheap travelling of the lower classes; but still, looking at the high charges made by coach proprietors for the same clas9, rnd the improvements which railway directors had Made, he thought the poor were much better off' than they were before. He would vote for the amend ment that the . Bill be read a second time that day six months. fore," and " of course" their opinions are so much the better founded. In the little world beyond Downing- street, Mr. Goma:wax, all your ingenuity will not make thKtergiversation pass for anything but what it really is--a shocking sacrifice of conscientious opinion to hiterested considerations of place or ex pediency. Since all the leading members of a Ca binet may be supposed to take their tone from the Premier, we suppose we shall not err in assuming :hat Sir ROBEET PEEL must have stood sponsor for the lofty and dignified sentiment embodied in this admonitory exhortation from Mr. GOULBURN to Parliament :—" If you accede to it, you open a door, not merely to the payment of this 235,000/. but to all cases of a similar kind in future wars." And, if the payments be justly due, by reason of your own misconduct, or your own policy—no matter which—or that of your predecessors in Government, why should they not be made to righteous claimants ? Sir ROBERT thinks that such questions are best disposed of by being left to Governments, instead of Parliaments. What did Lord SEYMOUR could not see the slightest objec- L4Mititrititwittle of the Bill, and the oljectionable '444441114 - 0105e7114ended in Committee. Mr. Ittia.)74: a Mr. COLQUIJOUN opposed the, Bill. The tatter 'ggintleman showed some asperity einst Mr. GEAthif6E and the Government, which 'mild leave little doubt that he considered them men the Government of GEORGE IV. do with the money realised by sales of Danish captures? Will Sir ROBERT object to ascertain how much of it, and under what orders, was appropriated to [palace build: ing, furnishing, and decorating? He will not tell us ! Yet the claims of British subjects are as much consecrated by 37 years of unsuccessful agitation, as the menus plaisirs of a Sovereign by as many of x .~ TILE SUN , LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 'l2, 1844. was adopted on Tuesday, almost without discus sion . On Wednesday, the report of the Committee on :the Customs Duties was presented. They recom men d the adoption of the tariff of 1842, and are opp )sed to any increased duties on unmanufactured woc'l and flax. The following are extracts from the pap ers : • The Constitutionnel states, on the authority of its cor respondence from Barcelona, that the retirement from the Sps Inish Ministry of the Marquis di Viluma is now quite cer tain 1, but that General Narvaez will retain the portfolio of the Wa r Department, and only hold that of Foreign Affairs pro visionally. The Gazette of the Two Sicilies of the 25th ult. states, that &um more of the insurgents who landed in Calabria have been al Tested, and that all are now in custody, but the names of only a few of them are given. A Leghorn letter states that the sons of Admiral Bandiera are among the insurgents who h. re e been arrested in Calabria. A letter from Lubeck, in the Augsburg Gazette, states that the exchange of dispatches, which hitherto took place regu -1 any once a fortnight between the Embassy of St. Peters burgh and St. James's Cabinet, is now to take place once a week. Several modifications of the Austrian Customs Tariff came in:te operation on the Ist. The chief reductions are on cotton thread and coffee ; the former is reduced from 15 florins a quintal to 12 florins 30 kreutzers, and the latter from 21 twins to 12 florins 30 kreutzers. THE BOURSE-WEDNESDAY, JULY 10. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. Ftvneh Five perC3nts•• .• 122 15 .• 122 15 .. 122 .. 122 Four-and-a-Half ..•. 113 25 .. 113 25 .. 113 55 . . 113 25 Four per Cents. lO7 75 107 75 107 75 .. 107 75 Three per Cents,. •• 81 75 81 85 .. 81,70 .. 81 75 Batik of France Lag atte Bank, I,ooof. Sharesll2o • • 1120 • • 1120 ..1120 5,000 f. SharessoBo ..5080 ••3075 —5075 Bil ank glan 8,. ....... ...•• 683 75 .• 683 75 .• 682 50 .. 682 50 Heiglan Fives,lß3l. 1840 •• •• •• •• 1054 •• 105 1 .. 1051 .. 1051 1842 .........1081 .. 1081 .. 108 .. 1081 Spa nish Active: •••••• • • • • • 31 , • • 31 • • 31 31 1 N R:ran litanT , • •••••• 1 3 39 9 0 4 11 20 1 3 39 0 9 4 93 3 1 0 94 05 f :•: 1930934:05 RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain ..... ...... ... 890 .. 890 Versailles,lC.B3Bo .. 380 38 ' 0 ' 380 247 50 .. 247 50 .. 246 25 .• 246 25 Rouen. . ...... 986 25 .. 986 25 .. 982 50 .. 982 5r Ration to Havre............ 761 25 .. 761 25 761 25 .. 761 25 Orleans ....• •• . • ...... •••• 985 .. 980 .. 980 Strasburg to Bale•••••• •• •• 241 25 .• 241 25 .. 238 75 .. 240 RAILWAY SHARES FOR THE ACCOUNT, 15 TH JULY . St. Germain ..... .• • • 890 •• 890 .. 890 .. 890 Versailles, R. 8... .... • • • • • • 375 • • 380 .. 375 .. 380 L. 8.......•••• •• 246 25 .. 247 50 .. 246 25 .. 247 50 Rouen • . • 985 585 .. 982 50 .. 982 50 Rouen to Havre.... Orleans •.......... •• .• Strasburg to 240 .. 240 .. 240 .. 240 Avignon to Marseilles 763 75 .. 763 75 763 75 . 763 75 THE DANISH CLAIMS. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) _ _ The question of the captures of ships by the Danes in 1807, is not one of ordinary circumstances. The professed object of the British Government in that year was to maintain our commercial intercourse with the Baltic, which was threatened by the private agreement at Tilsit between Bonaparte and Russia. The British Government, so far from warning its subjects not to go into the Baltic, on the contrary en couraged them so to do, by granting licenses, and sending convoys with them into that sea. The Baltic is not like the ocean, what is generally understood by the term high sea ; it is a close inland sea, of which Denmark commands the outlet. The Danes had, moreover, bound themselves by treaty, even in - case of war with Powers beyond that sea, which might make reprisals necessary, that the Baltic should always be exempt from such reprisals. The British Government h a d, i n 1 806, p ro hibit e d it s own cruisers, during th e war w i t h P russ i a , from molest ing ships within the Baltic. The Danish Consuls in the Baltic ports declared, in 1807, that in conformity with the convention of 1794, there would be no re prisals in that sea. But what gives these claimants a pculiar right to indemnity is, that the protection promised for the re turn voyage was prematurely withdrawn, and the re maining British ships and cargoes thus sacrificed. Sir Robert Peel was in error when he stated that the Danes were a party to the treaty of Tilsit, or to any secret article of it. He also quoted the Gluckstadt ordinance incompletely. He read the preamble in forming the Danes that the English were about to make war on them, and that the English war might be considered as commenced. But he omitted to read the main part, the enacting part, which does not declare war by Denmark, and only directs an em bargo on British property. WINE AND STMTS.—A return has been laid be fore the llouse of Commons, which shows that the total quantity of wine imported into the United Kingdom, in the year ending Jan. 5, 1844, - Was 6,807,053 gallons, and in bond 10,649,662 gallons; of this the Spanish and Portuguese wines form the great majority, the former amounting to 3,636,402, and the latter to 5,298,420 gallons. The total quantity of spirits in gallons imported was Rum, 3,729,754; Brandy, 2,408,378 ; and Geneva, 362,689 ; and the net amount of duty as follows : Rum,. 981,9051. ; Brandy, 1,185,478/. ; Geneva, 15,8614 ; and for Spirits of the manufacture of the United Kingdom, 4,903,2011.; making, with some other items, a total of 7,095,2611. The rates of duty per gallon are :—Rum, 9s. 4d.; Brandy and Geneva, 225. 101. ; Spirits manufactured in England, 7s. 10d.; Scotland, 3s. Bd. ; Ireland, 2s. Bd. THIS DAY'S NEWS. THIS D CHANCERY.--( AY.) LN THE NATTER OF DYCE SOMBUE, A LUNATIC. The rending of the further , evidence in this petition oceu. pied the Court the whole morning. VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY). (Before the VICE- CHANCELLOR Of ENGLAND. ) DEEKS V. STANHOPE. His HoNotrit gave judgment to-day in this case, overruling the demurrers to the plaintiff's bill. The Court then proceeded to hear unopposed petitions and short causes, which occupied the whole morning. (Before Sir JANES WIGRAM. ) JONES V. WALKER. In this case the bill was filed to set aside a promissory note given to secure the payment of a sum of money th e l oan of Inn and the security, injunction t o res t ra i n it. Appli ca ti on •was the el therefore, ic p h ay w e s o void.sfa thed t r:T o ohtbeee from ln tpenegotiati ng made ex parte for an injunction, and the motion now made by the defendant was that the plaintiff might pay into court note, and that one of proceeding with a the e p a I n a i i o n u t r t osf might y rbeac erestrained he f r m qui tam action on the note. Hit; HoNoun delivered judgment this morning, ordering the judgment to be dissolved unless the money were paid into court before the 12th of August. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. (THIS DAY.) Jane Poachers, a good-looking young woman, without eno p a l a ce, bonnet or shawl, was charged with attempting to commit suicide. Police-constable John Jones, No. 59 of th e B di v ision, stated that about half-past ten o'clock yesterday morning, as he was on duty at Hyde Park - corner, the housek e ep e r of from n called out to him female was about to throw herself into the reservoir in the G reen P ar k, i mme • Wyndham, of the upper o fN. windows d G o r N o v v that r- diately in the rear of the triumphal arch. The place is sur rounded by shrubberies, and to get to it a person must climb over three rows of iron spiked railings, five feet high. Witness hastened to the spot as quickly as he pos sibly could, and saw the girl standing on the brink of the reservoir, and from her Manner it was evident she was about to throw herself in. He rushed forward and caught her by the arm as she made the plunge into the water. Being a very powerful man, he succeeded in keeping his hold of her, notwithstanding she struggled violently to free herself, and bit him severely in the hand, declaring repeatedly that her intention was to drown herself, and that nothing should prevent her. With the assistance of one of the park-keepers he got her out, and conveyed her to Vine-street station-house. Had she fallen into the reservoir her death would have been inevitable, as the reservoir is 60 feet deep. It is constructed to afford a supply to the ornamental waters in the gardens of Buckingham Palace. Mr. HARDWICK asked why the prisoner was not brought up yesterday P—lnspector Baker of the C division said, that when brought to the station-house it was supposed from her manner that she was under the influence of liquor, but this morning her conduct was unchanged, and be had no doubt that her mind was affected. The constable, who took her into custody, said he had been informed that she was the daughter of one of the most opu lent traders in Yorkshire, but had been seduced from her home at a very early age. Latterly he had known her as living in the neighbourhood of Knightsbridge. Mr. HARDWICK humanely ordered that for the present she should be taken into the infirmary of St. Martin's parish , and that the state of her mi n d should be examined. CAPTAIN 'WARNER'S INVISIBLE SIIELL.—The fol lowing is an extract of a letter read at Lloyd's to-day ; '‘ Sir,—l am requested by C apta i n W arner to acquaint you, for the information of the subscribers in general, that an ex periment of his invisible shell against a ship will take place off Brighton on Saturday next the 13th inst., between twelve and one o'clock.—l am, &c. (Signed) " To W. Dobson, Esq.. Lloyd's." EXPLOSION AT BOLTON.—After an inquiry which lasted three days, the jury returned the following verdict : "We are unanimously of opinion that the death of James Swift, Bridget Hart, and J. Macdonald, was caused by an explosion of a steam boiler at Mr. Brook's mill ; .that the said boiler exploded f rom t h e pressure o f t h e s team being too great ; and that George Branscombe has caused the explosion. We are also of opinion that due care has not been used in the general superintendence of the .steam .engines and boilers.: George Branscombe was thereupon committed to take his trial for manslaughter. A subscription was entered into by the jury for the relief of the families of the deceased; and the sum of 8/. 10s. was handed to the coroner, as the commence ment of a subscription for that purpose. A GROGGY CUSTOMER.—A person in the habit of using a tavern in this city (Canterbury) was surprised a few days since, by a bill bein g presented him, c harging him two hundred and ninety- six pounds for grog, alleged to have been had on credit ! We understand he intends having this me morial framed.—Kentish Observer. TItIESTE, JULY i.--Not only England but Sweden has refused to receive the notifications of the Duke of Bordeaux respecting the death of the Duke of Angouleme. The other Powers have merely acknowledged the receipt of the notification without any answer to it. ~ G. L. BRITTEN. concealment. These are odd ideas of honesty and justice in a statesman. What are Mr. GouL max's opinions of the constitutional uses of a navy ? That our ships of war should be exclusively devoted to the transport, backwards and forwards, of Royal, and Serene, and Imperial visitors, or the attainment of any given object of offensive warfare by separate or combined operations on the coasts, or azai9st the fleets and harbours of an enemy ? Certainly the protection of our vast and beneficial commerce and mercantile marine would seem not to enter into Mr. GOULBURN'S category of a fleet's occu pation or uses :—" The Hon. Gentleman has said that the claimants in this case are entitled to compensation because the British Government withdrew their fleet from the Baltic at an early period, instead of leaving it to protect British subjects. Why was such a thing ever heard of, as that a British armament, stationed in a sea like the Baltic for warlike purposeis, should remain there exposed to all the dangers of such a situation, in order to protect British ships, and that if it did not remain, and any loss ensued, the merchants should be entitled to compensation ?" These horrors of such an ignoble appropriation of naval service we could understand in some inferior clerk at the Navy-office or' in the Admiralty, whose technical notions they might reasonably outrage, but in a Privy Councillor of the Sovereign in the first commercial empire in the world they are ludicrous. Passing over the manly speech of Col. SIBTIIORP, of which we must say that it was distinguished by a spirit of justice, and an uncompromising vindication of what he deemed to be the rights of a certain body of his fellow-countrymen, which reflect upon him a degree of honour not assailable by any suggestions of personal or party dislikes ; we must next notice the valuable assistance the claimants derived from the consistent advocacy of Mr. HUMS. His rapid review of former debates and former votes on these claims will be acceptable, we should think, to every reader of the debate, excepting the little knot of " Jim- Crow jumpers," noticed in Mr. CHRISTIE'S muster- roll of deserters, absentees, or new opponents. Among these (proh pudor 0 were, Lord,ELIOT, Mr. MILNES, Mr. E. TENNENT, Mr. PRINGLE, Captain BOLDER°, Sir F. TRENCH, &c. On the prudential argument of Sir R. PEEL and Mr. GOULBURN, we beg to ask whether they intend to take a leaf out of the book of certain Federal States, on the other side of the Atlantic ? Do they call upon the House to repudiate these claims in reference to their amounting to a quarter of a million—not to their justice or equity—with a view of cancelling the political guilt of such a measure by the merit of supplying future Governments with a precedent for similar repud:ations under similar circum stances ? Sir ROBERT PEEL, however, we con dole with. He tumbled down in the middle of a sentiment which was meant to be very effective ! Sir C. NAPIER having complained of the treatment our naval forces had received by being de nied prize money for their services in China, Sir ROBERT got up one of his most plausible and in genuous gesticulations, in protesting that he was sure these gallant men would always acquit themselves with honour, and not fail in their duty because of their not being rewarded in the manner alluded to. " I did not say," interrupted Sir CHARLES, " that the sailors would not do their duty. That they will always do. But I said, if they had known you would treat them in this way, they would not have en tered your service." Sir ROBERT made a feeble but fruitless attempt to carry through his misunder standing. The Gallant Commodore would not let him ; and so poor Sir ROBERT fell through his in tended " effect," protesting angrily against being diverted (which he had not been) into a discussion of the war in China on a question of Danish claims?' This was not his only peccadillo of the evening. He raised a cry of "out of time" against the claimants. On a former occasion, Lord MONTEAGLE, we re member, beaten from all the grounds he had occu pied in resisting these claims, put this touching con sideration to the Legislature, as one which (judging from his own impressions probably), must operate conclusively against the case of the petitioners. " Look at the amount. Why it is about 250,0001." Well, too, we remember Lord BROUGHAM'S indig nant retort. " Was national justice to be done or withheld, according to the tale and measure of the claims upon it ?" But Sir ROBERT PEEL— improving even upon the lofty tone of Lord MOST EAGLE'S political morality—throws in a lapse of time as an additional plea to excuse the defrauding these claimants of their rights. " The real question," said the Premier, "is—whether the House of Commons shall vote a sum of upwards of a quarter of a million on account of a:leged captures upwards of 37 years since." The perfection of Ministerial justice, then, it would seem, consists its closing the doors of the public treasury on those who have suf- fered vast losses, by no laches of their own, but by the acts of the predecessors of her MAJESTY'S Government or the Councils of the Crown—for thirty-seven years consecutively—against the entrea ties and reproaches of the creditors themselves, the re monstrances of the public, the recommendations of the Parliament, and the favourable consideration of the Crown, as intimated by the Crown itself ; and then turning round on the claimants with a dignified sneer at the remote date of the wrongs on which they claim compensation and redress We exhort the claimants to a determined unflinch ing perseverance. The majority of four against the motion is a legion in favour of the justice of their claims. They must triumph : and they have had the glory of compelling the.preient Government to record their own want of generous policy and humanity by the most humiliating victory a Government ever achieved ! Accounts from Madr:d of the 4th inst. state that the Government have given orders for the march of 6,000 troops for Cadiz, where they are to embark for Ceuta. A brigade of mountain artillery, con sisting of 24 pieces, has been organised at that port, and is about to proceed to the same destination. The object of the expedition is said to be the occupation of Tangiers. General Don JUAN VILLALONGA 15 appointed to the command of the expedition. According to a letter from Barcelona, a decree was to be issued on the 10th inst., dissolving the Cortes, and assembling new Chambers for the 10th of Octo ber ; and in the same decree the Government was to make known its system of government. The Three per Cents. were done at 26 for cash, and 261 at 60 days ; and the Five per Cents. at 19i, at 60 days, with premium. In the French Chamber of Peers on Wednesday the Prince Ds LA MosßowA brought forward his motion relative to the affairs of Morocco. Sir Ro- BERT PEEL, he said, in the House of Commons, de clared that he had received the most complete and sa tisfactory explanations on the affairs of Morocco. These communications, according to the English Minister, were without reserve, even with regard to the instructions given to the young Admiral, whose appointment was sufficient to excite the susceptibility of England. He thought that this was an impru dence which was not even justified by an frisk the entente cordiale might run. He then attacked the portions: of Sir ROBERT PEEL'S speech which he said might be injurious to the French possessions in Africa. The declarations of Sir R. PEEL could not do otherwise than raise the courage of the Emperor of Moaocco and ABD-EL-FADER, and encourage them to persevere in their hostility to France. He contended that there was a flagrant contradiction be tween the assertions of the English Minister and those of M. Guizor in the Chamber of Deputies, in answer to M. DE LAROCIIEJAQUELIN. He waited for the explanations of M. Gtazor. In reply, M. GUIZOT said—" None of the instruc- tions given to admirals or generals had been divulged to the British Government. Sir ROBERT PEEL could merely have alluded to political instructions. The policy of the French was known. They did not want territorial aggrandisement or conquest, and this was stated to Sir ROBERT PEEL. The Government had demanded three things of the Emperor of MOROCCO : lat. That no collection of troops should take place on the frontier. 2 , 1. That those who provoked the collision should be punished. 3d. That ABD-EL-KA.DBR should be sent away from the fron tier. On the second point, satisfaction had already been given. The son of the Emperor of MOROCCO had given orders for the dismissal and imprisonment of the two Kaids who had authorised the violation of our territory." The Chamber of Deputies was still occupied with the Budget. The usual vote for public instruction MONE YAND COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE- A fair business was done in Cotton at Liverpool yesterday, at steady prices. Sales 6,000 bales, of which 300 were Per nam, at 50. to 6d ; 200 Marahham, at sd. to 54d. ; 500 Surat, at 3d. to 34d., and the rest American, at 34d. to sid. per lb.—Shares were dull, except South-Eastern and Dover, which were in good demand :—Caledonian, 3; ; Eastern Counties, registered, 134 ; Ditt o , perpetual, 11. 12s. 4d ; Great Western, Fifths, 23i ; Liverpool and Manchester, 115; Ditto, Quarters, 57; London and Birmingham, 321. shares, 37 ; Ditto, Quarters, 26* ; Midland Counties, 99 ; North Midland, Thirds,- 334 ; North Union, 93 ; Sheffield an Man chester, 76; South Eastern, 36*; Trent Valley, 9* ; O r l eans, Tours, and Bordeaux, 11.155. The provisions of the new Brazilian treaty have been a subject of much conversation and of deep regret. No ques tion exists but that the heretofore lucrative trade carried on between this country and Rio de Janeiro will be all but anni hilated. In fact, the Government seems to be doing the best they can in order to divert commerce, heretofore exclusively enjoyed by this country, or nearly so, into other channels. France, it appears, will, ere long, enjoy most of the privileges which this country had, in carrying on a most lucrative trade, which might have been not only preserved to the merchants and manufacturers of this country, but have been extended to an enormous extent, provided liberal measures had been adopted with respect to imports received from the rapidly improving country to which these remarks more especially refer. The letters read this morning from New York to the 22d of June, state that business continued tolerably active, and money easy. The fall trade is expected to be good. Cotton was rather flat, owing to the accounts out from England. In the English market the transactions to• day have been to a fair extent, and at full rates. The Government broker has purchased again, but took Consols this morning, the amount being 20,0001., at 99k. The general quotations have been 99 to 99k. Exchequer Bills have been steady at the premiums of 765. to 785., and India Bonds at 945. to 965. Bank Stock has been firm at 199 to 199 f. The Reduced Three-and-a-Half per Cents are 1021 1, and the Three per Cents 991 to 100. Spanish Bonds are flat again, the Five per Cents being 22a and the Three per Cents. 324 to 33. Portuguese Con verted, stock is worth 45* to 45i, being rather better, though with very little doing. Mexican are steady at 354 to 36 for the Five per Cents., and at 15• for the Deferred. Dutch Two-and-a• Half per Cents. are worth 61i to 61i, and the Five per Cents. 100• to 101. The Railway Shares are quiet again, and prices exhibit some want of buoyancy. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Bank Stock 199% 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 3 per Cent. Consok, Annuities 991414 334 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 102%% New 3% per Cent. Annuities....... ....... ... 161% 10e 101% Long Annuities, Expir e sth Jan. 1860 l2 9-1634 India Bonds,l,ooo 94 Ditto under 1,000 ». 94 Bank Stock for Acco un t „. 199% Consols for Open n g 9 9304% Exchequer Bills, 13(d. 1W 1,0001. te oiotnft Deferred 5001. BFrottihnNde s AD, Advertised ' jcs — 78 pm. ... v ... ....... ..... Ditto 5ma11.... . p .. 7 .34 Ditto for the Account 35% 15% 837sctTou,cilk5t:perDCAenYt.A..T....0.. .... E .,. O'CLOCK. Portuguese Bonds 5 per Cent. 1 . FOREI GN .86IDDexii p tit ••• Ditto Converted' 45 1 4 Spanish Bonds, Fi ve per Cent 1840 45% Ditto for the Account. 22% Ditto Three per Cent. .. ........- Ditto for the Account .. . -. :32% 33 32% Dutch 2)4 per Cents 61%34 Dutch 5 per Cents. , lOl% 100% PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHAGS. Birmingham and Gloucester lOO 98 N.—. to 97 •• Caledonian Chester and Holyhead 5 - 4 to Eastern Counties Ditto New Registered 81. 6s. Bd. ...... 13% Ditto Perpetual .5 per cent l3s. 4d. ... 1 Great North of England lOO lOl% London and Birmingham. Ditto )4 Share 0 26% ... to -- London and Brighton 5O 46%% ... to London and South Western 41% 62% to London and Croydon Manchester and Birmingham ... 40 Midland Counties lOO 98% to Newcastle and Darlingt o nJ unct. :21 ...... ... :i9% Northern and Eastern 45 5B to Ditto Scrip North Midland South Eastern and D over ......... &2)4 . 36%% Trent Valley York and North Midland ......... 50 .... ..... Ditto Scarboro' Branch ..... „.. 2)4 Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux... 1 MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JULY 11.—We have had a firm market to-day, but only a small amount of busi. ness has been done, owing to the limited supply of stock. South-Eastern, 36; Manchester, Bury, and Rossendale, 4 to 34 ; Trent Valley, 9*; Manchester and Buxton, 10 prem. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bask Stock 199% Indian Stock — 3 per Cent. Red 99% Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent. Cons. 334 per Cont. Red 102% Ditt o N ew Annuities .... — New 3% per Cent. lOl% Ex. Bills, 1, 0001. 15(d ... 78 pm New 5 per Cent. ;— Ditto 5....... ........ 16 pm: Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small 7 ; pm. Jan 1q30....... ........ 12% Bank Stock for Acct 199% Oct: 185. Consols for Opg. 59 Jan. 1860 !lndia Stock for Acct.... FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per Cent ... ..... . Portuguese, 5 per Cent Belgian, 5 per Cent — 'Ditto, New Ditto Brazilian Bonds ............... Eilk% Prussian, 5 per Cent .... Buenos Ayres, 6 per Ce:it... 01: , , Russian, 5 per Cent — China n i 6 per Cent 'Ditto, Metallic ii. Colombian, 6 per Cent Ditto' 1824 — ,Ditto, 3 per Cent 3 2 3A Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent — Ditto,' Deferred Danish, 3 per Cent — French, 5 per Cent. —f. —c. Greek, 18-5, 5 per Cent — Exchange ... ........... .... —f. —c. Mexican, 5 per Cent . ..... Ditto, 6 per Cent., 183'7 Dutch, 2% per Cent...... 6i % Peruvian, IEOS, 6 per Cent f6% Ditto, 5 per Cent ..........100e SHARES. Birmingham and Gloucester (100 paid) 97 Bristol and Exeter (:0 paid) ......... Chester and Holyhead ( 5 paid) Eastern Counties (23 paid) „ I2IA Ditto Registered (816 s 8,1 paid) Great Western (75 paid) Ditto Fifths, 12 paid London and Birmingham (Stock) Ditto, New Thirds, 2 paid Ditto New Quarters (s paid) 26 Lon Jon and Brighton (50 paid) London and South Western OIL 6s. 10d. paid) EG London and Croydon (Trunk) • 17 1 • Northern and Eastern (45 paid) North Midland (ipo paid) Norwich and Brandon, 2 paid .... ..... 714 South Eastern and Dover (33 2s ad paid) .... ..... 261 A Ditto 'Jew Shares ( 4 paid) Trent Valley, 2 paid ll% Yarmouth and Norwich (IS paid) York and North Midland (50 paid) lOl York and Scarborough Branch (234 paid) 1 A : s 1 4 38 u Pariso r r a i r e as andl andl s,TRo Orleansuo u s e , . 2( .20 d 0 p n i du pa i d ) r dea u x , !paid MARKET NE WS.-(THIS DA Y. CORN-EXCHANGE-FRIDAY.. Since Monday last, the arrivals of English Wheat fresh up to our market have been only moderate. The samples left over from that day having been mostly disposed of, the show was by no means large. The demand, however, for all de scriptions, was in a very sluggish state, and previous rates were barely supported. In foreign Wheats next to nothing was doing, although the holders were disposed to take less money. Barley was very heavy in sale, and the turn lower. Malt might have been purchased at a further decline of from Is to 2s per quarter. Oats, Beans, Peas, and Flour, were a mere drug, and somewhat cheaper. ARRIVALS. [ Barley. Oats. Flour 1 220 qrs. 3,V10 qrh. 3,s4osackr. '22,010 - 6,560 6,970 - alt. 5,8111 qrs. SIVEZIMPIMI.D. The supply of Beasts was only limited, and, comparatively speaking, of very inferior quality, while the Beef trade was exceedingly heavy, at barely the late depression in the quo tations. We had on offer 140 Scots from Aberdeen, and 15 Oxen and Cows from Ruttenlana—the latter being in very poor condition. Tile numbers of Sheep were small, owing to which the Mutton trade was active, at fully iilonday's pnces. With Lambs we were abundantly supplied, while the side for them was in a very sluggish state, at barely stationary figures. Calves were in full average supply and heavy de • nand. The prinnest qualities of Veal were quite as dear; but other kinds declined in value quite 2d per 81b. In Pigs next to nothing was done. Mulch Cows sold at from 161 to 191 lOs each. Wheat. English I 4,430 qrs. Irish.. Foreign 6,15) Per Sibs. to ci s. d. to s. d. s. d. to s. d. Inferior Beasts 2 4 2 C Second qualityditte... 3 0 3 4 Second quality ditto 2 8 210 Coarse.woolled ditto.. 3 6 3 8 Prime large Oxen 3 0 g 4 Southdown Wethers 3le 4 0 Prime Scots, &c. 1 arge coarse Calves 3 2 810 Large Hogs ........ 3 0 2 6 Prime small ditto 4 0 4 4 Small P0rker5........, 3 8 4 0 Suckling Calves, each 18 0 94 t QuarteroldPigs,eachls 0 2 0 laferior Sheep SUPPLY AT MARKET. Beasts. Sheep. I Calves, I Pi gs , 630 10,010 451 320 ink the offal. . - PirZW - GliT33 AND LEJLIMNEIII3434.-- We had a very heavy general demand here, and prices were barely supported. At per stone, > y the Carcase, s. d. to s. d, s. d. to s. d. astefOnferior....“ ..... 2 0 2 2 Mutton, inferior 2 4 2 6 mkWhng 2 4 2 6 --- middling 2 8 3 0 - prime large 2 8 30- prime 3 2 3 8 - prime small 3 2 3 4 Pork, large 2 6 3 6 Veal Lamb, 4s Od to 5s Od. PIOROUG7I HOP 1t2.61H3C,MT The reports which continue to arrive from East Kent are, on the whole, somewhat favourable, but those from most other quarters state that the bine is looking unpromising. The supply of Hops offering is extremely small, yet the amount of business doing is by no means extensive, at late rates :—Sussex pockets, 6/ to 6/ 103 ; Weald of Kent ditto, 6/ lOs to 71; Mid Kent ditto, 71 to 101; Ditto, bags, 71 to 8/ 10s; East Kent pockets, 71 to 91; choice ditto, 101 to 121. COLONIAL. SUGAR. — There has been more disposition to purchase British Plantation, and prices have rather improved. Sales up to last evening inclusive, 2,550 bales. The supply in the market was rather smaller. REFINED. - -Standard Lumps have obtained fuller rates -74s to 74s Gd, with a good business doing. EAST INDIA.—The auctions of Bengal have been very small ; 657 bags realised 59s Gd to 63s 60 for low to good white, and 58s to 61s 60 per cwt for damp. Mauritius is also dull and holders are more disposed to meet the buyer; fine is called 63s to 68s, and brown 46s to 54s per cwt ; 1.084 bags Manilla were taken in at 18s 60 for good grainy yellow, and 1,249 baskets Java sold at 22s 6d to 23s for very fine yellow, and 18s 6d to 19s for good yellowish. FOREIGN. -460 brls Brazil were taken in at 18s to 19s for mid and good yellow, and 4,000 boxes Havannah, afloat, de liverable at this port, were sold at 19s 6d to 20s 6d per cwt. COFFEE.--A fair business has been done in British Planta tion, and at fuller rates generally. At auction 219 casks 17$ brls sold at 65s and 68s for good and fine ord, and 104 s to 108 s for good Jamaica, and at 43s to 57s 6d for good to fine ord Demerara. Ceylon has been in moderate request ; good ord at 508 6d to sls 6d per cwt privately; at auction 127 bags went at 34s to 84s for low to mid. Mocha has realised 71s to 71s 6d for mid. In East India descriptions there have been no public sales worth noticing. Cocas. -87 bags Grenada were taken in at 35s to 37s for sound, and 41 bags Trinidad sold at 40s for mid red. The demand is limited. RICE. --Th e public sales have offered only 1,248 bags Ben gal, which realised Its to lls 6d for good white, 1,191 bags Java being taken in at 9s Gd to 10s for sound good yellow. Privately a moderate business has been done. S ALTPETRE.—CaIcutta has obtained full rates. SPICES. —Pimento is steady; Sumatra Pepper has been sold at 24(.1 to 3d, and Malabar at 3id to 34d per lb. TEA. —The transactions are very moderate, and prices rule somewhat heavy. TALLOW.—P.Y.C. is about 41s 3d to 41s 60 per cwt on the spot. INDIGO.—The public sales of 15,146 chests have been in daily progress since Tuesday, and are going off at rates 2d to 3d lower than in April, on ➢iadras and Kurpah ; 3d to 6d on Bengal; and at full rates for Oude, with a good attendance, both from the Continent and the manufricturuig diet:Jot?). :v MARY OF NEWS A N tintiltr Opttuott. " Who runs may read' On Monday evening the King and Queen of the French re ceived Marshal Soult, the Minister of Public Works, the President of th e Ch am b er of Deputies, Rear-Admiral Leray,' Generals Friant and Changarnier, and the Count de Castellux. The Duke de Nemours will not set out for the camp of operations of the Moselle before the Bth or 10th of next month. He will be accompanied by the Duke de Montpen sier, and a numerous staff. On the evening of the sth, as Marshal Gerard was pro ceeding from Paris to his seat at Villers-St.-Paul, his horses, in passing by Nogent-les-Vierges, came on a piece of the road under repair, and the wheel catching on a large stone, the carriage was overturned. The Marshal was thrown out, and fell on a large heap of stones, which slightly wounded him in the face. Dr. Cazauvieilh was soon called in, and gave the necessary attention to the Marshal, who is now nearly recovered. The members of the Council of Discipline of the order of Advocates met on Tuesday to deliberate on the subject of the decision of the Cour Royale. At the close of the discussion the whole of the members, including the batonnier, gave in their resignation. The advocates are to meet on the 13th to proceed to a new election. It is said that an appeal is to be made to the Court of Cassation against the decision of the Cour Royale. The Gazette des Tribuneaux announces that the advocates of the Cour Royale still refuse to plead before Baron Seguier, the First President. On Monday, M. Se • gaffer, in refusing to postpone a cause on account of the absence of the 'counsel, said, " The avoues have given proof of good intentions, and, I must add, of talent. We will 'profit by it." The advocates may find to their cost that the Court can do without them. The Spanish Government is at length seriously preparing to make war against Morocco. An army of 6,000 men is under immediate orders for Ceuta. According to accounts from St. Petersburgh of the 24th ult., the health of the Grand Duchess Alexandra continued to improve. Nothing is said respecting the rumoured severe illness of the Empress. A violent storm occurred in the night of the 16th, in the province of Padusi. It uprooted large trees, threw down two substantially-built houses, four barns, and a mill, destroyed the sluices, and carried away two vessels on one of the rivers. Two young girls were killed, and 22 persons more or less in jured, by the falling of the houses. The number of passengers _conveyed by the railroad from ' Naples to Capua, in the month of May, was 67,062. The number by the railroad of Castellamare and Nocera was 102,013. A letter from Alexandria, of the 18th ult., says :—" Mehe met Ali is endeavouring to dispose of his stock of cotton. At the request of the Marquis de Lavalette, he has consented to adopt a new mode of sale. Hitherto he has allowed the pur chasers only eight days for payment ; they are in future to pay only one-fifth in eight days, and the remaining four-fifths thrrty-two days afterwards." maw AND POLXCZ. Mr. Justice 'Williams opened the commission for the Nor folk circuit at Buckingham on Wednesday. The criminal calendar is very short, and the crimes charged are by no means of a serious kind, with the exception of a charge of murder, in which the deceased was a gamekeeper. The number of prisoners is only 14. At Abingdon on Thursday, Chief Justice Tindal heard some cases in the nisi prius court, but they were without in terest. In the Crown court Joshua Ware, 19 years of age, was convicted of a burglary, on the Ist of May, in the house of the Rev. G. H. Hodson, at Cookham, and sentenced to be transported for ten years. In the Court of Bankruptcy William Bromley underwent another examination, which disclosed facts of a most painful nature, and frauds to an enormous extent. The debts and , liabilities amount in round numbers to about 140,0001., prin cipally through breaches of trust, and some of them appeared to have extended as far back as 1824. The case is given at length under the proper head. John Warringham, a waterman, who resides near Horsely down, was fined 40s. at the Mansion-house for serious ob struction to the navigation of the river Thames, which is at the present time crowded within the port of London with ves sels of all description's. At Marylebone, Frederick James Reynolds and Jane Thompson, both of .whom were respectably attired, were charged with having, by means of begging petitions of a fic titious nature, obtained various sums of money. In conse quence of a begging petition and a fictitious certificate, the list of subscriptions was of considerable length, and among the names, many of which are supposed to be fictitious, was that of the Rev. Dr. Spry fur 5L ; and there was also an item " voluntary subscriptions in the neighbourhood, 151. 10s. 6d." They were both remanded. James Mitchell, a determined-looking fellow, was brought up for final examination before Mr. G. Clive, the sitting ma gistrate, at Hammersmith, on a charge of having committed a murderous assault upon a female, named Fanny Pearce, who was in attendance. She appeared very weak from the effects of the injuries she had received, but upon being called upon to take the oath she refused,saying she had no charge to make against the prisoner. Mr. Clive, nevertheless, said—l think it my duty t o sen d th e case to t h e sessions, and I shall also report the case to the Secretary of State for the Home Department, as it is now done in cases of most serious assails, in which it is essential to the public interests that a convic tion should be had. The prisoner was then ordered to enter into recognizances, himself in 40/., and two sureties in 20/. each, to appear at the sessions. At Union Hall, a woman named Brown, in the service of Charles Conolly, a newsvender. of Duke-street, London - bridge, was brought before Mr. Cottiugham, charged with robbing her master of 1851. i n B an k of England notes and sovereigns, and four other persons, a man named Buckley and his wife, and two women, named Quin and Wigzell, were charged with being concerned in the offence. All the pri soners were remanded. t; 01C723.1e —TABU ZO 7.7171.23 Her Majesty and Prince Albert paid a visit to the Duchess of Kent at Frogmore Lodge, on Thursday forenoon. Her Majesty 'appeared to be in good health and spirits. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and the Grand Duke and Duchess of Mecklenburgh Strelitz will honour the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort with their company to dinner this evening at Beaufort House, where a distinguished circle are invited to meet the illustrious guests. The Earl of Iladdington held a levee yesterday, at the Admiralty, which was attended by a large number of naval officers. The Earl of Yarborough has left Arlington -street for his seat in the isle of Wight, where he has been entertaining Viscount and Viscountess Milton, Lord and Lady W-orsley, Mr. and Lady Frances Bridgeman Simpson, Mr. W. Caven dish, Mr. A. Wodehouse, the lion. Captain and Mrs. Dudley Pelham, Sir John and Lady Sinclair, &c. The Earl of Eldon had a dinner party on Thursday even ing. The company consisted of his Grace the Archbishop of Armagh and Miss Beresford, the Earl and Countess Beau champ, Mr. Neville, Lady Charlotte Neville Grenville, and Miss Grenville, Sir Charles Wetherell, Mr. and Mrs. Donald Maclean, &c. - - -- Viscount Camden, Lord Stuart de Decies and family; Lady Belaney, Lord Thomas Cecil, Laxly Sophia Cecil, Count de Bevier, and the Rev. Mr. Hope and family, left London on the same day, by the General Steam Navigation Company's steam-ship Soho, for Antwerp. We understand that the marriage of Lady Elizabeth Georgiana Leveson Gower, the eldest daughter of the Duke of Sutherland, and the Marquis of Lorn, son of the Duke of Argyll, w ill be solemnised on the first of the ensuing month. The ceremony will take place at Trentham, the Noble' Duke's seat in Staffordshire, where a distinguished circle of friends of both families will be invited to attend. THE LATE WILL FORGERY CASES. It will be in the recollection of the readers of The Sun that we inserted two several declarations which had been voinn - ,. tardy made by Fl e t c h er, a f ter the embarkation o f hi m self and Barber on board the Agincourt, convict ship, for the pens/ settlements in Norfolk Island, in which Fletcher declared the innocence of Barber in any guilty knowledge or participa tion of the forgeries - which had been committed. In The Sun of yesterday we also published a letter sent by the con vict Barber himself, immediately preparatory to the sailing of the vessel on Monday. Yesterday, Mr. Peckham, Bo ber's attorney, received the following document, which hag been forwarded to Sir James Graham, the Home Secretary " I, William Sanders, now under sence of transportatio n for seven years, and about to leave my country, and desirous of reiterating all my former statements of my firm belief and conviction of the complete innocence of William Henry Bar ber of any participation or guilty knowledge whatever of the late transactions in which I or my wife, Lydia Sanders, we re concerned, or that he received one farthing more than his pro fessional remuneration. " William Henry Barber was an utter stranger to me, unti l introduced to him by Joshua Fletcher as Thomas Hunt; nor did I after see him, or have any subsequent communicatio n with him until my examination at the Mansion-house. " I make this declaration from an unfeigned desire of doing all the justice that in my power lies to one whom I have been instrumental in placing in a position of the horrors of which I am now too painfully acquainted. _ " W. SANDERS " Ship Lord Auckland, o ff Woolwich, July 9, 1834." "Signed and declared in my presence, this 9th day of 31 11 Y, 1844, on board the Lord Auckland. "JOHN J. LANCASTER , "Surgeon Superintendent." .IV.Z3ISCI7 , X.M.e.IV3BOUS. The canvass for the borough of Birmingham is now nearly finished, and each party claims a majority. One thing is certain—the three candidates will go to the poll. The various Committees paid down their respective shares of the expense of erecting the booths last night, and there is no chance of any one of them receding. The nomination takes place this day. A Court of Common Council is about to be called, to take into consideration the report of the Committee respecting wholesale dealers, which was presented at the last court, and ordered to be printed. The report was accompanied by a printed collection of extracts from the charters and records of the Corporation, from .which it is inferred that not only wholesale dealers, but all householders within the City, whether engaged in trade or otherwise, are compelled to be come free; and it is understood that proceedings will be in stituted for the purpose of carrying 011 t the recommendation of the Committee. _ _ At a vestry meeting of the 'mesh of Hackney held on Thursday, Mr. Churchwarden Waud moved a rate of 3d. in the pound for repairs of the church. On a show of hands the motion was lost by a majority of 100, when a poll was demanded by Mr. Burt. At five o'clock the numbers were —For the rate, 110 ; against it, 142. The poll closes at five to-day. Both parties are sanguine of success. On Wednesday evening, an amateur performance took place at the Brighton Theatre, in aid of the fund for the Sussex Cricket Club, and so great was the interest excited, that all the boxes were speedily taken, and one half the pit was converted into stalls. The principal performers com prised Viscount Seaham (Ist Life Guards), Mr. Bruce, Esq., (Grenadier Guards), H. P. de Bathe, Esq., and C. Seymour, Esq. (Scots Fusilier Guards), C. G. Taylor, Esq., Bertie Mostyn, Esq., and H. Brook Esq., who were assisted by Miss Jane Mordaunt, Miss Williams, and Mrs. Thorn. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, JULY 12.—Westerly, moderate breeze, and fine. WICKLOW, JULY 9.—Arrd. Briton, Lightfoot, Quebec. LEITH ROADS, JULY B.—Arrd. Wingrave, Wallace, St. John's, New Brunswick. PonTsmotTnr, JULY 11.—Wind N.W. to W.N.W.—Arrd. Quebec, Hebard, New York ; Pagoda, London, for Cape of Good Hope. CILATIIAM, JULY 11.—Arrd. CarltOn,llPAlly, Savannah. DEAL, JULY 11.— Wind S.W., fresh breezes.—Arrd Maxicn, Currie, Trinidad ; Marion, Campbell, Jamaica Sid. Calcutta, Hobart Town; Owen Glendower, Calcutta; Gladiator, New York. Put back, Wilson, for Mauritius Charles Brooke, for St. Vincents ; Coromandel, for Quebec. COWES, JULY 11.—Arrd. Bohemia, Nasen, Matanzas. OFF THE START, JULY 10.—Ranger, Milliken, Mobile ; for Rotterdam. PLYMOUTH, JULY 11.—Wind W.—Her Majesty's ship St. Vincent, Portsmouth. FALMOUTH, JULY 11.—Wind W., fresh.—Arrd. Delia, Adey, Miramichi. 1111LFoRD, JULY 10.—Arrd. Richmond, Hanbury, and Pem broke Castle, Quebec. CLYDE, JULY 9.—Arrd. Favorite, Montreal. DUBLIN, JULY 10.—Arrd. Westmoreland, Walk er , St. John's, New Brunswick; Hero, Quebec. WATERFORD, JULY 9.—Arrd. Ann Kuny and Ann Black, Quebec. CORK, JULY 9.—Arrd. Coxon, Morgan, St. John's, New Brunswick. TRALEE, JULY 6.—Arrd. Ann Eliza Jane, LuSant, Miramichi. SUNDERLAND, JULY 10.—Sld. Imogene, Mont rea l. FALMOUTH, JULY 11.—The Roman, from London to Newport and Boston, New Brunswick, has put in here, with damage, having been in contact with the Ark, from London to Cadiz, off the Owers yesterday ; the latter bore up for the eastward, having also received damage. LivEuroor., Aux 11.—Arrd. Rochester, New York, left I 22d ult. TUE KING OF SAXONY.—BEACIILEY, JULY 9.-- -After his Majesty tl.e King of Saxony's departure from Clif ton, he proceeded to the Old Passage across the Severn, I DIED. where the steamer was in readiness to convey him over the On the 20th of May, at Bombay, Captain C. B. Morton, of Severn to Beachley, where he arrived at six P. In. He after- the 10th Regiment of Native Infantry. wards proceeded to the much-frequented ruins of Tinterne On the 7th inst.,•at Connaught-place West, Hyde-park, Abbey, and the splendid views of the Windcliff, previous to William Prest, Esq. • his tour through the iron districts of South Wales. On the 7th inst., on board the Princess Royal, on the INCENDIANISM.—We are sorry to learn th a t t wo passa ge f rom Li verpool to Glasgow, C. Foote, Esq., M.D., o f straw stacks, the property of George Sligo, Esq ,of Carmyle, Gibraltar. wssmia,assalraar.ammump Haddingtonshire, were on Friday consumed by w ilf u l li re. .....—.--"....---; London: Printed and Published by lt '.‘l 7 An itinerant bookseller has been taken up and lodged in'URDO YOUNG c . Haddington gaol, against whom there are strong suspicions. No. 112,. Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, No. 1 ix, —Caledonian Mercury. Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the County of t Friday, July 12, 1844. G.RII b illy Sunda: At Stye; Half ttre—Fore Ct Star °rice I ".---....____L_ ? STEAM alt TIII2t' / 'RE, iaclud THE C r r ,„ B. It. 2 refitte, From Liverpc Saturday Ditto ITS:Va°3>TDitbiei. eNEtDoi9I lit th e °— fridge. 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The immense• number of people frequenting Gravesend during the low fates, may be judged from the following statement : RETURN OF PASSENGERS LANDED AND EMBARKED AT Tiro TERRACE AND TOWN PIERS, GRAVESEND, IN THE MONTH OF JUNE, 1844. - TERRACE TOWN PIER. PIER. Star Company, with 5 boata Diamond Company, with 6 boat s Blackwall Company, with 3 boats Sons of Thames Company, with 2 boats Eagle Company, with 2 boats Commercial Company, with 2 boats ... The Corporation Tug. 77,299 95,444 31,35 6 ....... 11,647 8,374 6,60 6 ___ 95 186,589 145,150 Terrace Pier, with 9 boats... Town Pier, with 11 boats and the Corporation Tug 145,150 Balance in favour of the Terrace Pier, during the month of June 41,439 . • , Gross Number of Passengers.... ' 331, 739 • Of which --,----- To and from Blackwall • . 209y 5, To and from Hungerford Market •••1 Waterloo-bridge ............ Old Swan London-bridge • and other places through th e P 001..... j . . . 331,739 GRAND REVIEW IN HYDE-PARK.—A grand review of all the household troops at present quartered in and near London is intended to take place to-morrow (Saturday) Q° the ground generally appropr i ate d to such purposes 1° Hyde-park, a communication having been issued yesterday from the Horse Guards to the several regiments to that effect. The troops will comprise the Ist Regiment of Life Guards (Colonel Viscount Combermere), the 2d Regiment of Lit . ? Guards (Colonel the Marquis of Londonderry), the 2d and 3d battalions of the Grenadier Guards (Colonel his Grace the. Duke of Wellington), Ist an d 2d b attal i ons, making the full force of the regime n t, o f C o ld s t ream G uards (Colonel his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge); and it is stated that there will be added a detachment of the Royal Artil lery. The troops will arrive on the ground shortly after tel o'clock. The infantry will be commanded by General Lord Saltoun, and the cavalry by Major-General Nugent. The ground will be'kept by the 17th L ancers , o f w hi ch reg i m en' his Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge is Colonel, and which are now stationed at Hounslow. QUICK TRAVELLING.—(Extract of a letter dated Cologne, Monday evening, July B.)—The rapidity of travel ling between this place and London is now wonderful in the extreme. I left the Tower yesterday at eleven o'clock, and here I actually am on the second evening at Cologne on the Rhine; there has besides been nothing like "hot haste in the matter ; on the contrary, everything has been done quietly and comfort a bly. Y ou are aware that I embar k e d on board the steamer Antwerpen, having been assured at the office in London that we should arrive at Antwerp on Mon day morning in ample time for the railway train for Cologne- This promise was repeated to me on board by the comman der, Captain Jackson, and I certainly was not. misled. We landed before eight o'clock, and all of our passengers wil° wished to do so, and they were certainly almost the whole (including many persons of high rank), got away by tie train, and reached Cologne with me, after about thirty hours travelling. Who wouldhave believed this even ten years ago? LINCOLN'S INN, JULY 11.—At twelve o'clock this day the Cotrts of Chancery were honoured with a visit by the Nabob of Surat, attended by his suite. The Nabob Pro ceeded, firstly, to the Vice-Chaucellor of England's C o urt, and then to the C our t o f t h e Lord Chancellor, atten ded by large body of individ ua l s w h o h ad speedily assem bled to make a full personal inspe c ti on o f " a very good-looking fe ll ow ," as some of the young bar r i s t ers t erme d hi s A siat i c Highness- - certainly he is a princely-l oo ki ng personage , an d hi s f ea t u r es are of a very fine cast. Up on th e Nabob approaching the bench, the Lord Chancellor rose and exchanged salutations with him, and he continued with his suite seated on the bench a considerable time. At the time the Prince entered the Lord Chancellor's Court, Mr. Dyce Sombre's " business" was under discussion, and however interesting "strange facts" in that case were to a rather crowded court, the visit of the Indian Prince was more so, judicial equanimity was disturbed, the whole bar shnultaneonaly "moved," even seats were mounted by short personages, the ushers "hushed" in vain, and the Nabob, in fact, continued in possession of the Court till. his departure, when business again proceeded in AS usual dull and monotonous course. EXTRAORDINARY STEAM -BOAT EXPEDITION,—Fire weeks ago Messrs. Ditchburn and Mare, the iron steam-boat builders at Blackwall, at whose manufactory eight of these fast iron'steamers, called W a t erman, were made, receive an order to build another steamer for the Watermen's Steam Packet Company without delay, and entered into an engage ' merit to complete her ready for the conveyance of p - assengers in five weeks. The plans and drawings were at once made by Ditchburn and Mare's draOghtsmen, the keel laid down , founders, shipwrights, joiners, carpenters, and others set to work, and on Saturday evening last, at half-past five o'clock —four weeks and four days only after the order was given and the keel prepared, the new steamer which is called Waterman No. 12, was l aunched, and conveyed to Deptford to have her engines and machinery fitted in her. Messrs. Penn and Son, of Greenwich, having, in the same space of time, made and finished two oscillating engines, of sixteen horse power each, with boilers and machinery. At tea minutes before five o'clock on Monday evening, and twenty tour hours before the expiration of the five weeks, the steam was up for the first time, and away started the vessel down the river at a tremendous spe'ed, to the surprise of every one. She is capable of carrying 350 passengers in safety, and is a very handsome vessel of her class. fhe engines are very neat and turned out in perfect style, and in a way that re flects great credit on Messrs. Penn and Son, who have fitted up no less than 100 of nur river steamers. Waterman No. 12 commences running between Woolwich, Greenwich, and the Adelphi Pier to-m orrow . Th e f are to Greenwich has been reduced to 4d., in consequence of the low price charged by the Gravesend steamers. THE EXHIBITION IN WESTMINSTER HALT,.—Tbe success which has attended the exhibition of the works of sculpture and specimens of fresco paintings recently opened in Westminster Hall. has far exceeded the most sanguine expectations of the Commissioners, to whom the public are indebted for it, and affords satisfactory. proof of a growing taste for the fine arts among the people generally. During the first week of the exhibition being thrown open the weather was extremely unfavourable, notwithstanding w hich the hall was never so poorly filled as during the same period of the cartoon exhibition last year. The attendance since Monday last has been still more numerous, and the result altogether •is extremely satisfactory. On Wednesday his Royal Highness Prince Albert presided, for the last lime this season, at a meeting o f th e C omm i ss i oners at Gwydyr House, on which occasion some important arrangements in con nexion with the subject of fine arts were unanimously agreed to. Without professing to be minutely accurate with regard to these arrangements, which in all probability will come be fore the public in an official form before many days, it may be stated that the Commissioners had judged it right, after a careful examination of the specimens of fresco painting sent in for exhibition by the various artists, to select six indi viduals from among the whole number, and commission there to commence works on given subjects immediately. The Comthissioners, however, unwilling to confine the practice of the art to a few hands, have unanimously agreed to invite the competition of other artists not included among the six selected individuals, under conditions which are not yet finally determined on. The names of the six artists have not yet transpired, but they will no doubt be made known in the course of a few days. The exhibition will be thrown open to the public gratuitously on Monday next. THE WESTMINSTER OPHTHALMIC HOSPITAL.-- The annual general meeting of the governors and friends of the above charity took place yesterday in the board-room of the hospital at Charing-cfoss. His Grace the Duke of Rich mond was announced to preside ; but in the unavoidable ab sence of his Grace, Mr. Hollond, one of the Vice-Presidents, was called to the chair. The secretary read the report, which stated the gross receipts for the past year to be 672/. 13s. 10d., and the expenditure 687/. 16s. 9d., leaving the Institution in debt to the amount of 14/. 14s. id. The medical report showed that during the year 1843 the in-door patients had been 151, and the out-door patients 3,738, making a total of 3,889 ; of these, one operation was for ex tirpation of the eye, 81 for cataract, and seven for an arti ficial pupil. Of the 81 operation for cataract 76 were com pletely successful, two partially so, and three failed from inflammation. The seven operations for artificial pupil were' successful. Since the foundation of the hospital 52,224 patients had participated in its benefits, of which number 1,310 cases of cataract had been successfully treated. The report having been adopted a list of subscriptions were read, and thanks being passed to the chairman, the meeting separated. _ _ On Monday the bakers of Greenock reduced the price of bread one penny. The 41b. quarten fine loaf now sells at 7d., and household at 6d. BIRTHS. On the 7th inst., in Burton-street, the lady of T. H• Golden, Esq., of a son. On the 7th inst., Mrs. G. Ashley, of Brixton-hill, of daughter, which lived only until the 10th inst. On the 7th inst., at Newton St, Loe, near Bath, the lady of Charles Gunning, Esq., of a son. On the Bth inst., at Mount Pleasant, the lady of Argyll Plunkett, Esq., of a son. On the Bth inst., at Houghton Hall, near Carlisle, the lady of James R. Grant, Esq., of a daughter. On the 9th inst,, in Devonport-street, the lady of Joshua Williams, Esq., barrister-at-law, of a daughter. On the 10th inst., at Vauxhall, the lady of John B. F. Burnett, Esq., of a son. Prerr i 4 I