The Sun. — London, England, 1844-07-08 00:00:00

-5m55a..........--..-..........- the count was bad. If they charged a man with intend ing to intimidate as ss criminal offence, and with intend ing to use a deme.,Sistration of physical force criminally, - • th e i ndiotnic:Lit must state on whom the intimidation, and on ';;Com the demonstration of physical force, was intenr.led to operate. In indictments for obtaining money under false pretences, it - was always necessary to state . • whose money was to be obtained. In indictments for conspiring to defraud it was necessary to" state who was to be defrauded, and how the fraud was to be accom plished, - Therefore he contended that in an indictment • for a political conspiracy in which intimidation was on. • rainalty charged, it was necessary to state whom it was intended to intimidate. . He challenged the Counsel of the Crown to shew on what ground this count • . could be held good, and why it was unnecessary to 'state on whom the demonstration of physical force was to act. It was bad for generality. But he would • Proceed to show that intimidation and the demonstration ,orphysical force were not necessarily illegal, and if he could put a case in which it was lawful to use intimida tion and physical torce to assist in pro Curing a change in the law, he should prove that this count did not ne cessarily charge any crime at all. He besought their sAirdsh,,.ps to dismiss from their minds that the real ob i,ee.t of th ese meet i ngs was to procure a repeal of the -7 P -ton, an object which was opposed to the wishes of the • segislatur e and to the wi s h es o f t h e majority of the 'people in this country. B u t l e t t h em suppose that this 'charge related to a change in the law in favour of which . the Sovereign, the great body of the people, and the ma jority of . one House at least of the Legislature were united-- a change just and desirable in itself, would it be unlawful to further that object • by the intimidation of Physical force ? Let him suppose that the ' third readin g of some such measure as the Reform Bill was fixed,. to take place in their Lordships' House mat evening, and th a t a b o d y of 10,000 men were to nssetnble in Spa-fields, and to say we will march down • to the. House of Lords, and prevent the Lords from altering the law, would it be illegal' if a body of gentle- Men residing in Whitehall and the different streets thro ug h Which these men would have to pass, were to nay let us oppose the progress of these men, and by inti tinlation and a demonstration of physical force, prevent . their go i ng down to the House of Lords? Would that be I l legal or not ? Yet that proceeding would be described by this count of the indictment fer Lord BROUGHAM—Why do you not take the case of a s on holding out a p isto l to prevent a highwayman rout robbing him by intimidation ? You take the case of parties engaged in an act almost of high treason, in 'W. hich the loyal subjects of the King assemble to prevent the c ommission of crime. :IMr. KELLY—That was just the ease: yet these loyal 4n.h)ects were, in the words of the'indictment, seeking by ":_nlnidation. and a demonstration of physical force to _C;unge the law and the Constitution. That . inn. snovved how important it was that the person to how elsould be • named in the indictment, ?it order that it isligl whatit be shown that intimidation was Illegal, and thr.4 tile party accused might know, at' once, he had to defend hi mse lf f rom . U n l ess it were 14 P intendedv, to to the principle laid down on the Q ueen a total ly,tew and different principle, this count could no t ~ • sl am - Alined. He wou ld, th ere f ore , venture t o ask h t:ther was the intimidation of a large meeting neces• B WY—for that was the question—illegal? Was a Ineeting to intimidate evil doers illegal ? There were many cases in which a meeting to intimidate was attended with good. He therefore said, it would be necessary to show what ' the intimidation was, to show that the Me e ting was necessarily illegal, unless their Lordships prepared to hold that, in all conceivable cases, W__ here large, meetings were held to intimidate, no matter 6 iv t a ll 3 t; that all such were illegal. Where was the object ~._,ated here, which object was necessarily illegal? Where Is ."Tre ., the means stated, in furtherance of this object, 1 , 111 04 were unlawful ? The 'object was not illegaL 4 -. was to effect a change in the law, and in 141;e Constitution. That was what was done in a multi de °f e ases. Ever • brought in a Bill in l'arliament ha d y person w ho Would not th. object in view. • It more or less t hat illeg a l, erefore be contended that the 'object was Would find n . ' Then With regard to the means employed, they jeeti,,,e s-rvesting:the count of the multitude of ad that i - t „„,824,ndverbs in which the means were enveloped, sou te b ' .1 " 141 to exhibit physical force, and to intimidate Whe-• 'cl Y• Why, if every large meeting of persons 14-4. eat there was: a large physical force exhibited was % I t !Marge number of persons coming forward to be %pi, as special constables would be guilty of Con s 1 9' be t h ey meeting whereat ?;se at ; cause cont e mp lateda so k , Physical force was to be exhibited, an d whereby th ee Jerson were to be intimidated, would be illegal, thili g ,, the meeting was for the purpose of exercising 8 u ph ysical force, and causing that intimidation in ~,•'e ih t e t of the law, and not in violation of the law. ' 4 ihj„ /v . ords " unlawful" and " seditious" it was 'im f,ths - ,i 1- 4 ` ) give any precise meaning. He need not refer t e „,'" e cl. ?Lails' of the case of the Queen v. Rowet, already n ." O perk that case there was an indictment charging °lll and ": 11 . 1 with being in an open place for certain ille "ve a fi e ry bad purposes, and words were used Which to t o particular character to the illegality , of the acts be d `"? te a k,„ 4 , one. But the words were deemed . insufficient the e a .„` 1'11,,e acts ' illegal. So here there was nothing on cu e i;, - , e e l the count to show what was illegal. Another 'wall an d was that of the King v. Cherer, 4th Berne that - f or with e sswell. The defendant was indicted . for didunlawfully or arms in the churchyard • of the parish he the i o te Mr. Cecil, a clerk, inzeading service for th rrupt one and that h d' ° " Burial of the Head" . over a corpse, ee r „ B _, eid prevent and hinder the burial of the said of t' ti v ”Cording aidhe rites and ceremonies of the Church and land, and l violent hands on the said Mr. Cecil, eh,..L'uere were ot h er counts. The court held that that h t ,'ZiOn was too g eneral , o b serving that every interrup -Pfr- "u Was not an i n di cta b le offence. So hero he Xls:lr. lily) contended that every intimidation was not an in letahle offence s. it m us t b e shown how and upon whom the, in order to be indictable. The courf sai e defendant must see clearly what he had to answer s 4- 4180 • h these defendants. A meeting to procure th with o „ e repeal of the dnion was perfectly lawful, and, . in tCer to be made unlawful, it must be shown who were e Pare • • the count must state f.,,, , ies intended to, intimidate,,., . . , - ;`,` 4 B, from Which it should be made evident that the s‘ - D is , ti ng was illegal. He would trouble their Lordships tt '"" 'Mother authorities with reference to this count,'but a „ Q . : nee submit that it was necessary, in order to establish %e rne of this kind,-not merely to state that the acts Were di r aw ful, but to place• upon the record circumstances • Il e pea and expressly showing how they were unlawful. upon Prayed their Lordships to consider well the effect ~s the law, and upon the well-being of the people of ".I,l4l.oeountry in times of excitement, of their de easily in this case. He intreated them to consider how 1 ) , I , l y, upon vague. and general charges, persons might Nti a ted as criminals.' In these times, when there was he% ens of discussion, and freedom of - assembly, when, s ten r° a Bill received the Royal assent, meetings were so t he Bil l held in v ar i ous parts o f t h e country , some f or st reo , 4 l ' and some against it it did appear to him to be a co'u r t P r ePosition for that House to affirm, sitting as a of The i't Error, that every assembly, relating to a change held in was illegal. Meetings were, and would., be excit e 'li3 country for political objects in times of eni-t "might be resorted Ito senieti ol -- Prosecutions iee-...„ e s for the gratifi ca ti on o f private ma -40,,,, asi bl O meti mes from party f e elings— a nd it was 13 4 T e or t o shut their eyes to the fact that even the 11 , uumf:nen mu s t be subject to them, and he ventured held t `f, to beseech their Lordships to pause before they tiPo u - " l 't any of the subjects of this realm niust be put reeer4their trial on a vague charge like that to which he these''. It Was under these circumstances and upon Una sixt h that he submitted to their Lordships dui gi ,, Xth 14 t c ennt--and the same line of 'argument would i' to the other counts—was clearly too general and etie t i:9ll W• He had said that there was only one other n eo m the indictment to which he would call the attenf peuihoif their Lordships. The eighth count . wits , i the e, ,, more extraordinary, when considered as six th "Neet of • a criminal charge, 'than the kip s e eount. It was that these eight persons eo lt br . kl , unlawfully, m ali c i ous ly, an d seditiously, .did Othet,,ue, conspire, confederate, and agree, with ea c h t o th e : an d with divers other. persons, whose names are an d d . Jurors aforesaid, unknown, to bring into hatred for tb i3r ePute the tribunals byestablished in Ireland Aden: administration of justice, and to diminish the con the mH of her said Majesty's liege- subjects in Ireland in issue inistration of the law therein, with the intent to t iqn U t er Majesty 's subjects to withdraw the adjudica „ll'er, i t , t h eir diffrences with, and claims 'upon each ( i s taheaen the cognisance of the said tribunals by law ;,' e terae h ed, and to submit the same to the judgment and t e ntris e - d it , s tien of other tribunals •to 'be constituted and „ - ",,e Q t , - : I . o r that purpose in contempt of our said Lady " 1 allo t - 0 , and the laws ofthis realm, to the evil example en t . - :`!rs in the like case offending, and against the peace 'the ' 44 Lady the Queen, her Crown, and Dignity." tsibun übstanee of this charge was the bringing some tioned4l or o ther—svhat particular tribunal is not men ' e unfid., --i nto hatred and contempt, and withdrawing the s.ri e ,:ilci n ot eof the Queen's eubjects from them. Now they pot, th ," mean all the tribunals of the country. They did Pie- Po 4 ,1 11t° bring all the minor courts, or all the courts of otherot 1. 1 -re, into contempt. It must apply to courts of eSeriPt S '-h • • ts to be so bad .d tons. upposmg t ose cour si r - eserv e h t men de- . „., ed t„ atred and contempt, and hones . "'uld On l y art improvement in the law,.which they eole o S effect b holding up - these courts in their true th e • rs,in order th a t by lawful means procure 1 4 Intwor they might w • cone of the • to alter and amend the N,.. in t h is Legislature . _. . _ ,_ s c i respect, would that be criminal? Their bora r tint (t)inl'd' not here enter into the qiiestion of whether tha t eh e courts of law Were so odious as to require il l In g e ' If the vices d de fects of the mode It W1 11 ,, h . . an b ome elat J u st-Ice was administered was to ec elt mu gf question in dealing with peole's rights e 3 , , . ^oeld b l e laW, freedom of discussion in this country • t• e at a, jp i ri cou nt ,. n end ; could any great improvement in !- th e - Y; even where it was most needed, be effected .) 2 ., t , Y were to be deemed criminal who agreed. IC " e r in nt uti _ any number to hold up a particular Pbli c? un to the hatred and contempt of the te tt If - this indictnient, which was framed at h s m oron law sv en „..., . ere good at the present day, it would have x..ne s s i ;uo two centuries ago. And 1 1 any nuniber 'of Ch en had d write the 4 Mber, or agree together to down Star up to tk the High Commission Court, and hold them nii "e hat ed a nd • gilt r a execration they deserved, they have been indicted for conspi racy, t, Lot,ci C' ' l e ProceeTnELL—The overt act being the publishing • k r. it . `"ngs of the Star Chamber. °vest 'ELLY---Precisely. That would have been an the St ar the effect of which must I• b hold tp Cl i ,;,,_, have been toup it 'egAl? xf""uver to hatred and contempt. But was it lid co46 _, file courts were such as to deserve the respect Sue sti __ uence of the people, they would have it. But the T wo "is vvas not as to the character of these courts. ?ping_ tri ies to case might come to very different it 4 , 1 , 0 2 !S to the decision on a case e might think , in e. ,rY just one and the other the Very reverse. But es L r ee counts lik aa i ost ,, .Y e_ t his, where all the vices and evils aad for iii might, if not checked, grow into 'dal k i t i Bart to Itlle -, - s ligeols. was it cri nglishmen to a g re e togethir, if they believed this t ll° l i e ,tic ° °` thout e ....w conscientiously that any iilstitutioh deserved hatred and e'ontempt, and to hold it up in its true light to the people ? He woad quote to their. Lordships the descrip tion given by an eloquent and learned writer, Vvho had boon a Cabinet Minister (Mr. Macaulay), of the manner in which justice was administered in England hi the time of Charles the Second and dames the Second ; he saj 5 " The next great blessing which we owe to the Revolu tion is the purification of the administration of justice in political easea. Of the importance of this change no person•can judge who is , not well acquainted with the earlier volumes of the Stall trials. Those volumes are, we. do not hesitate to say, the most frightful record of baseness and depiavity that is extant in the world. Our hatred is altogether turned away from the cri me and the cri- Mina's, and directed against the law and its ministers. We see villainies, as black as ever were imputed to any person, at any bar, daily committed on the bench, and in the jury box. The worst of the bad acts which brought discredit on the old Parliament of France—the con demnation of Lally, for instance, or even that of Camas, may seem praiseworthy, when compared with the atrocities which followeach other in endless succession as we turn over that huge chronicle of the shame of England. The Magistrates of Paris and. Toulouse were blinded by prejudice, passion, or bigotry. But the abandoned judges of our own country committed murder with their eyes open. The cause of this is plaiu. Ie France there was no constitutional opposition. If a man held language offensive to the Government he was at once sent to the Bastile or to Vincennes. But in England, at least after the days of the Long Parliament; the King could not, !by a mere act of his prerogative, rid himself of a troublesome p o liti c i an . He wasforced to remove those ivho thwarted him •by means of perjured witnesses, packed juries, and corrupt, hard-hearted, brow-beating judges. The Opposition naturally retaliated, whenever they had the upper hand. Every time that the power passed from one party to the other, there was a pro scription and a . massacre, thinly disguised under the forms of judicial procedure. The tribunals ought to be the sacred places of refuge, where, in all the vicissitudes of public affairs, the innocent of all parties may find shelter. They were; before the Revolution, an unclean public shambles, to which each party in its turn dragged its opponents, and where each found the same venal ferocious butchers waiting for its customer. Papist or Protestant, Tory or Whig, Priest or Alderman, all was one to those greedy and savage natures, provided only there was money t o save and blood to ;lied. Of course those worthless judges soon created around them, as was natural, a breed of informers more wicked, if possible, than themselves. The trial by jury afforded little or no pro tection to the innocent. Th e jur i es were nom i nate d b y the sheriffs. The sheriffs were in most part of England nominated by the Crown. In London, the great scene of political contention; these officers were chosen by the people. The fiercest parliamentary election of our time will give but a faint notice of the storm which raged in the city on the day when two infuriated parties each bearing its badge, met to select the men in whose hands were to be the issues of life and death for the coming year. On that day nobles of the highest de scent did not think it b enea th th em to canvas and marshal the livery, to head the procession, and to watch the poll. On that day th e great chiefs ciparties waited in an agony of suspense for the messenger who was to bring from the Guildhall the news whether their lives and es tates were, for the next twelve months, to be at the mercy of a friend or foe. In 1681, Whig sheriffs . were chosen ; and Shaftesbury defied the whole power of the Government. In 1682, the sheriffs were Tories. Shaftesbury fled to Holland. The other chiefs of the party broke up their councils, and retired in haste to their country seats, Sydney, on the scaf fold, told those sheriff's that his blood was on their heads. Neither of them could deny the charge, and one of them wept with shame and remorse." Such was a true description of the tribunals of the coun try at 'the time to which this eminent writer refers. Though, thank Heaven, they lived now in different times, and under different institutions, yet, be would ask, if it would be criminal for any number of men to unite to write or speak down tribunals in which there might be many vices of practice and administration. Was the charge of an indictment of this kind necessarily a criminal charge—that of con spiring to bring the tribunals of the country into con tempt? If the courts did not deserve contempt,' they would not receive it ; that decency of language and moderation should be used in the •discussion, might be necessary, but it was another and a very different ques tion, because parties believed that such were vices of the system, that it deserved hatred and comtempt ; they be came criminal because they agreed to speak of that insti.; tution in what they believed to be just and becoming terms. Again, this was extremely vague. He would not say how the administration of justice bad been carried on ; he would not say anything of how the ecclesiastical courts had been spoken of in and out of Parliament. The attacks that had been made upon these courts was not upon the judges, but upon the system ; look at the criminal courts ; in those courts many men had been tried who were not guilty, and suffered death, in consequence, perhaps, of the badness of th e s y s t em ; and was it to be said, that those who had been their nearest and dearest relatives, suffer under a bad sys tem, that, if they decreed it, they would be guilty of conspiracy ? It was too much to say that parties could not attack a bad system without being guilty of conspiracy. There were many parts of the system that might be assailed, and with truth, and for doing so men ought not to be considered criminal. As to the latter part of the count, was it to be said that it was a crime to say that the administration of jus ticehad become hateful and contemptible, and that parties would refer their differences to another tribunal? He submitted that there was nothing illegal or criminal in attempting to bring anypart of the system into contempt in order to obtain an improvement ; there was nothing he believed that it would be illegal to t)ring into con tempt except the religion of the country, and that had been even held not to be illegal. On these grounds the count being bad the whole was vitiated, and the whole indictment must be reversed. Lord CAMPBELL wished to advert to this difficulty. You say, Mr. Kelly, that these bad counts charge no offence, then we find the record saying " for the offences aforesaid." Now, can that be supposed to include that which you say is no offence. • Mr. KELLY submitted that that must be - so, because the word offence aforesaid must mean the offence the jury had found. Offence could not mean offences ; it must mean one offence well laid, and an offence ill laid. The LORD CHANCELLOR—Every time Mr. Kelly, you adverted to this circumstance; you used a word that is not in the indictment—several offences—whereas, it is offences*aforesaid. Mr. KELLY asserted that there was not a single offence legally charged ; ‘ the offences aforesaid must mean the offences found by tho jury. Suppose, for instance, in an action for slander he were to introduce a most absurd and ridiculous count—suppose in the first count the slan der was stated to be that the man had been called a felon, that in the second .count it was stated to consist of something equally actionable, and that in the third count it was stated.that he had called the plaintiff an honest and an honourable man—if on those three counts a verdict was given with general damages, the court not being able to discriminate how much had been given by the jury on the good counts, and how much on the bad ones, would reverse the judgment, and send the case back, again for trial. So in this case the court did not know how much of the punishment had been apportioned to the good counts and how much to the bad ones, and he tipprehended they had no choi ce , b u t mus t reve r se th e judgment altogether. - Their Lordships here retired for a short time ; on their return, Mr. KELLY resumed, and said that in reference to the point he had just concluded with, the only consequence which would arise from reversing the judgment, would be that the same degree of precision would be observed in criminal cases which was now observed in civil cases ; and it would be competent for the prosecutor to enter up judgment upon one count which the court held to be good, as was don e e in civil cases. Ile would now proceed to the ques 7 tion which rose up Mn the writ of error, in fact relative to the swearing of the witnesses before the grand jury ; and it would ,appear, both in the plea in abatement in the case, 'and on the assignment of the writ of error, in 'fact, that the witnesses in support of of the indictment, if sworn at all, had been sworn, not in open'court, but before the grand jury .only ; and he would submit to their Lordships that, under the statute regulating the swearing of witnesses upon indictments in Ireland, there was no authority in the grand jury to swear the witnesses in this prosecution, being in the Queen's Bench, but that they must be sworn in open court ; and upon this, this further and more important question arose, whether, supposing the statutes did ex= tend to the Court of Queen's Bench, and therefore the witnesses were properly sworn, whether they did not authorise that the names of the witnesses should not be indorsed on the bill, and signed by the name of the foreman, or by his initials. He would refer to this latter point first ; but, before doing so, he would proceed with regard to the swearing of witnesses upon trials on indictment in Ireland. This was regulated by two Acts of. Parliament, the 56 Geo. 111., c. 87 and the 1 and 2 Victoria, c. 37. Before he called the atten tion of their Lordships to the particular language of these statements, he, would state what he considered to be the effect of them. Before the statute of 56th George. 111. was passed, a practice prevailed in Ireland of sending witnesses before the grand jury without being sworn at all, and indictments were found on the testimony of those witnesses who were not sworn ; and to regulate this evil that statute was passed. That statute provided expressly that in all cases where witnesses were to give evidence before a grand jury, on any indictments ; they were first to be sworn in open Court, so that from the time of passing the Act to the year 1838 noßill had been.properly returned, and no person was put upon his trial upon an indictment unless the witnessess in support of it had been sworn in open Court. [The Learned Gentleman -was proceeding when our report left.] • IMPORTATION OF FOREIGN BEASTS.-011 Sunday morning last, eleven very fine cows Were landed from on hoard the Emerald Isle, Captain Bouch, from Rotterdam. —Hull Advertiser. APPROACHING MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.---W e have to announce that the nuptials of Lord Charles Welles ley, son of the Duke of Wellington, and Miss Pierrepont is finally appointed to be solemnised to-morrow. The Duke of Wellington, as we have previously stated, give s the wedding breakfast at Apsley House, for which circulars of invitation have been issued. HUNGERPOED SUSPENSION BRIDGE.--01l Friday, wooden cradles were placed at each of the pillars in the centre of the river, for the men to work in, in fixing the chains across the river, for the Suspension Bridge. The whole of the iron works are ready, and it is expected to be completed by the Ist of August. A wag, passing through a country town, observed a fellow placed in the stocks, "My friend," said he; " I ad vise you by all means to sell out.' " I should have no ob jection, your honour," hugpjledskily, ~, ,, imtagtiirefelit they seem much too low." 14 h SUN, LONDON, _MOicnAY Jutk 8, 1.84 MONE Y AND COMMERCIAL czry ; oriAlirtfi Tb tuREE. trant . dellont In WWII at Liverpool on Saturday were < atelisivr l / 2 but prices were firm. Sales, 3,000 bales. Shares *ere dull at the following rates :—Birmingham and %in. tester, 95 ; Grand Junction, 928; Liverpool and Marieliesttr, Half, 115 i ; London and liffininghani i ibiafteP, 261 ; Lon don and 8011th Westerr4 Manchester and Birmingham, 541 k North Aiidtand i thirds, tit South Eastern, 35i ; Paris and Lyons, g 4, , 'ero are accounts from the Mauritius this morning to the sth of April, but they are, as usual, extremely barren of intelligence. If the financial affairs both of Spain as well as of Portugal are fairly represented in the accounts that have recently come to hand, there cannot be a doubt but that the treasuries of both kingdoms are in a more impoverished condition than they have before been. Still se sanguine are foreign Minis ters that the gullibility of John • Bull is as extensive as ever, that new propositions are made for fresh advances of capital, upon the security of thrice hypothecated revenues. The first proposition of M. Mons is thus disposed of by a City capitalist of long standing. Being asked what he would be ready to take the proposed new issue of Stock at, the price assumed for the Three per Cents. being 35 per cent., " Why," said he to the interrogator, " if you will strike off the 30 per cent., then I will 'come to some terms with the remaining 5 per cent." It is intended, to make the bait more sure of sue cess, that the dividend upon the proposed new Stock should be made payable in Paris and Amsterdam, as well as in London, but it is not believed that the scheme will take. Then, as to Portugal, the Cabral Ministry is in a rapid course of annihilation. What with internal dissensions and politi cal intrigues,. this fine country , is reduced to nearly as low an ebb as that of Spain. Here, too, a new attempt is about to be made to obtain fresh advances from this side of the water. To those of our readers who have any spare cash at disposal, we may give this adviee—seleet some good English line of railway, about to be: carried out . under the provisions of an Act of Parliament, invest in that, and let foreign loans alone. There have been some accounts received at the Hall of Commerce from Buenas Ayres and Monte Video. Another battle had taken place, in which the French party, who had joined the Orientals, had been defeated. The petty squabbles and minor military movements that so frequently take place in that direction scarcely deserve notice. The commercial news is deficient in interest. • A very small amount of business has been transacted in the English Stock Exchange to-day, notwithstanding the banks are now open for private tranifers. The prices of Consols have ranged from 98i to 99 for Money, as well as for the Account, the dividend deducted. Bank Stock has been quoted at 1981; India Stock-at 285; and the New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. at 1011 ft. Mexican Bonds have varied from 36 to 36a, now being at 36i.. Columbian and Venezulian have been done at 13$ ; Peruvian at 26k, and the Dutch Five per Cents. at 100 ft In most of the Railway Shares a slight improvement has taken place this morning, as the corrected list of prices will show. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (Front the Official List) Bank Stock .. .. . . ................ .. ......:. 198% 3 per Cent. Redu c ed Annuities ..... .• ..... 9934 % 3 per Cent. Consols. Annuities 99 9n% 99 33{ per Cent. Reduced Annuities lO2 New 3% per Cent. Annuities.... .. . ......... Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860.... Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth Jan. 1860. 123(. India Stock .. “•••••• •••• .......... 11 1 •••••,•••••••• 284 Consols for eriZ . n ng ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• so 90 98% 99 Exchequer Bills, 15(d. 134 d. 1,1., ........................ ..... ..•..•• 74 pm. 500444 ••••••••••••••••••• ..... ..... •••••••••••• 74 pre. Ditto imall•••••..." •••••••• .. .. •• •••••••••• 74 pm. Ditto Advertised pm. FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Columbian Bonds. .. 13% Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent. .....- ..... .... Ditto for the Account. 3 6i5614 Ditto Deferred Stock l6 16 Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents. ... . ..... Spanish Bonds, Five per Cent 18 . 40........" Ditto for the Account. - 23% Ditto Three per Cent. ..... •••••••••••••••••••••••••••• .... Ditto for the Account - 3314 Dutch 2% per Cent 5...,........•.. ............. .. Dutch 5 per Cents. .. . ... ..... ..................... New Loan. 4 per Cents. (1844) PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. PAID. ?z SMARR. Birmingham and Derby ' 100 Birmingham and Gloucester...." 100 ..... .... 97 Bristol and Gloucester 3O •••• ..... 46 • to 45% Caledonian _ __ _ _ 2 . 33c: to Chester, and Holyhead. 5 43 % .:. to Dublin and Cashel...« .... . ... Eastern Counties .... .... .... 23 ..«.« 11% Ditto New Register ed. * " 81. 66. M. 13% to Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O e0n.... 69 Great Western ..«w.... .......... 75 126 ..... to 12534 Ditto N . Shares • 50 ..........79 Dittr o Fifths..- .......«. .....«..... - ...... ..... 12 ‘. .... ..•• '22 Harwich (Braithwaitei..... ..... 2 London and Birmingham. lOO .226 to Ditto New Thirds 2 37% .... to 38 London and Brighton 5O •.......• 46% - London and Greenwich - London and South Western ....• 4 1% ...». 83 to 223( Midland Counties lOO 97% to North British 234 ...... Inx North Midland Ditto % Shares 4O ....... 48 Ditto Thirds 2ll. 13s. 4d. 32 ..... ...• to South Eastern and Dover 82% 3 S IA % ... to 35 Ditto New TrentNalley .• . ... ... ..... ..... 2 Yarmouth and NoWich Ditto 34 Shares : 25_.. . ..... 52 Ditto Scarboro' Branch ....... 236... 21 to Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux... 1 ....... 2 Paris and Orleans . 20 29% to Paris and Rouen .....«.»«..«.«.».. 20 KurcintsYEA STOCK EXCHANGE, JULY 6.—We have again an improved market, and considerable business has been done in Manchester and Birmingham, and Trent Valley. Manchester and Birmingham, 5.5 i 54 ; Paris and Lyons, ; Trent Valley, 10ii. CLOSING PRICES. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTFZIOUTII, JULY 7.—The Childers, 16, Commander Wellesley j haVing discharged her cargo of silver at the Royal dockyard on Thursday, hauled off into the stream, and WO *lnspected by the Flag Captain of the port (R. P. Rowley) as deputy for the Commander-in-Chief, after which ceremony, she commenced stripping, preparatory_ to being paid o ff at this port. The Child ers t ouc h e d a t Simon's Bay . , on her way' home, on the 30th of April, at which date th e Winchester, 50, Captain C. Eden, flag of Bear-Admiral the Hon. Jocelyn Percy, had recently returned from a short cruise; the Thun derbolt steam-sloop, Commander G. N. Broke, and Cleopatra frigate, 44, Captain Wyvill, were also lying at 'the Cape at the same date. The Childers came into port minus four of her guns, which she had left behind at Hong-Kong, to mount a battery with. She has been upwards of five years in com mission, has had two [commanders, and is in a very dilapi dated state. She will be paid off , docked, thorougly over hauled, and refitted forthwith. The Queen, 110, Captain Sir C. Sullivan, will be paid off on Tuesday next, if the Camperdown is round by that time. The Spy, 3, Lieutenant-Commander Woolridge, is ordered home from the Island of Ascension, to be paid off. She will be relieved by the'Sealark, 10, Commander Gooch, Byprivate letters froin the Madagascar, 44, Captain. Foote, we learn that she is on her way home from the Cape Verd Islands, to be paid off. The Albion, 90, Captain N. Lockyer, is ordered for the Mediterranean. The Clio, 16, Commander J. Fitzjames, is on her way home from Bombay, to be paid off, and is shortly expected. The Cornwallis, 72, Captain P. Richards, with the flag of Vice-Admiral Sir W. Parker, G.C.8., is expected home from Madras the 30th proximo, to be paid off. The Star, 6, Commander Dunlop, has captured two slavers —the Nova Christina, schooner, picked up in a sinking state off Sierra Leone, with 70 slaves aboard, and the Mary, a beautiful craft of near 600 tons, captured near Badagry, after a run of 200 miles; she mounted four guns, and had a crew' of 40 men, fitted to carry 950 slaves. We have letters ftom the Star to the Ist of May, all well, at which date the Hyacinth, 18, Commander Scott, was cruising off the Bight of Benin. The Scylla, 18, Commander R. Sharpe, left St. John's, New Brunswick, on the 15th ult., for the Bay of Fundy. The North Star, 26, Captain Sir J. E. Home, Bart., was at New Zealand on the Bth of February. The Warspite, 50, Captain Wallis, and the Vesuvius steam vessel were at Gibraltar on the 22d ult. The Nimrod, 20, Captain Glasse, and the Sapphire troop ship, Master-Commander Fittock, left Madras on the 4th of May for Coringa. The Java, transport, arrived at Santa Cruz, Tenerife,' on the 24th of May, and sailed for Hong-Kong on the 25th. In Harbour—The Victory, Rattlesnake, Collingwood, Queen Excellent, Resistance, Childers, Fearless, and Echo. In Dock—The Rodney, Victoria and Albert, Prince Re gent, Albert, Scourge, Pantaloon, Lily, Athol, Waterwitch, Seaflower, Wanderer. At Spithead—The St. Vincent. DEVONPORT, JULY s.—The Caledonia, 120, sailed this day from the Sound, for Gibraltar. In consequence of the hosti lities between France and Morocco being considered by the French Government sufficient warranty for sending out a fleet, under the Prince de Joinville, her Majesty's Govern ment have wisely determined to send out a squadron for the protection of her Majesty's interests in that vicinity. Conse quently the St. Vincent, 120, Captain Rowley, expects orders hourly to follow the Caledonia, and it is probable that on the arrival of the Camperdown, 104, Captain Martin, she will also be dispatched to the same destination ; as also the Col lingwood, 80, Captain Eden; Cornwallis, 74, shortly ex pected from the East Indies ; the Madagascar, 44, Captain Foote; the Thalia, 42, Captain Hope; and we are credibly informed the Albion, 92, Captain Lockyer, and Volage, 26, Captain Sir William Dickson, Bart., have been ordered from the Irish station upon the same errand. The Fox, 42, Captain Sir H. M. Blackwood, Bart., is or dered to sail this day from Barnpool to relieve Commodore Chads in the Cambrian, 36, on the East India station. She takes out two full-length portraits of her Majesty as presents to the Emperor of China. Second Lieutenant Parke, RM., will take a passage in the Fox, to join the Isis, 44, Captain Sir John Marshall, Knt., K.O H., at the Cape; she also takes out the shipwrights, coopers, and smiths entered on board the San Josef for service in China, to be borne on the books of the Agincourt, 72, Captain H. W. Bruce, flag-ship of Rear. Ad miral Sir T. J. Cochrane, Knt., to whom Sir Henry will be second in command, and hoist a blue pendant as Commodore of the second class. The Sydenham steam sloop, Commander D. R. B. Maple ton, arrived from Portsmouth on Wednesday, received su pernumeraries, and sailed in the evening for the Mediterra nean. The Swift packet, 6, Lieutenant-Commander J. Douglas, was paid advance yesterday, and will proceed to Falmouth in a day or two to convey the next mail to the Brazils. The Delight, 10-gan brig, has been sold out of the service by private contract. On Monday a nuufber of artificers were placed upon the Amethyst, 36, frigate, to expedite her launching, her slip being required for the Avenger steam-frigate, of which the following are the dimensions : Feet. Inches. Length Breadth 39 0 Depth 25 6 Tons, 1,444. Engines, 650 horse power. The Indus, 80, recently paid off here, was docked on Tues day, to have her copper cleaned and undergo a thorough overhaul, preparatory (we are informed) to speedy re-com mission. Lieutenants Nepear and Farmer, three sergeants, three corporals, one fifer, 150 marines, and 150 sailors, draughted from the San Josef, embarked yesterday in the Caledonia (as supernumeraries), and Captain Delacombe, R.N.,als em barked to relieve Major Mitchell, who stands next for pro.. motion. In Harbour.—The San Josef, Diligence, Swift, Confiance, and Adventure. - In Dock.—The Grecian, Kent, Ranger, and Acteon. In Barnpool.—The Fox. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock 11.85 Indian Stock 98434 3 per Cent. Red ......... .... 99% Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent. Cons. 3% per Cent. Red 102% Ditto New Annuities ...• - - New 3% per Cent. lOl% Ex. Bills, 1,0001. 1%d... 76 pin. New 5 per Cent. — Ditto 5001. Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small 76 pm. Jan 1860 l2 7.16 Bank Stock for Acct.... Oct. 1859 — Consols for Opg. l9 Jan . . le6o 12% India Stock for Acct.... FOREIGN FUNDS. ' • Austrian. 5 per Cent ........ • Portuguese, 5 per Cent .;;...:7 Belgian, 5 per Cent — Ditto, New Ditto . Brazilian Bonds .....* ......... Prussian, 5 per Cent — Buenos Ayres, B per Cent... Russian' 5 per Cent — Chllian, 6 per Cent .... ....... . Ditto, Metallic . Colombian, 6 per Cent Ditto, 1824 — Ditto, 3 per Cent.... ....... ....' 3 Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent --• (Ditto, Deferred....".. ......- Danish, 3 per Cent — ( Exchange 5 pee Cent. ...... —t. —c. Greek, 18Z, 5 per Cent — Exchange - ..... .......... —f. Mexican, 5 per Cent .... Ditto, 6 per Cent., 1837 — !Dutch, 2)6 per Cent.... 60% Peruvian, 1825, 6 per Cent 26% Ditto, 5 per Cent ........100A, SHA RES. • Birmingham and Gloucester (100 paid)..... ....... . 98 Ditto, New Shares, 17% paid % 24 Bristol and Exeter (70 paid) l7 Harwich (Braithwaite), 2 paid % London and Birmingham (Stock) - 226 Ditto New Quarters ( 2 paid) ...... ..... 26 London and Blackwell (161. 135.4 d.) 7M London and Brighton (50 paid) London and Greenwich (121. 15s. 4d. paid) 6% London and Croydon (Trunk) l7 Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) Manchester and Birmingham Newcastle and Darlingron Junction. 21 paid 39 Northern and Eastern (45 paid) Ditto Quarter Shares (12% paid) North Midland (100 paid) ....... ...... ~ ........... Norwich and Brandon, 2 paid 7M South Eastern and Dover (33 2s 4d paid) Ditto New Shares ( 4 paid) York and Scarborough Branch' (2% paid) Orleans, Tours, and Bourdeaux, I paid ...... Paris and Orleans (20 paid) ......... ..... ... E9% LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-.(THIS DAY.) LONDON', JULY B.—Wind Southerly, fresh breezes and cloudy at times. Dw., JULY. 7.—A.M. Wind N.N.E. to N.E. P.M. E.N.E., moderate.—Arrd. Coaxer, Ridley, Singapore; Steiling and Lalla Rookh, Kenney, Calcutta; Eden, Boyce, ditto; Themis and Eliza Ann, Bell, Bahia ; Emerald, Gaynes. Antigua ; Edwina, New York; Pearl, Douglas, Montreal; John Fors tar, Gambia. Sid. Catherine Elizabeth, St. Vincents ; Victor, Cape of Good Hope ; Thalia, Ichaboe. OFF HASTINGS, JULY 7.—Arab, Canger, Valparaiso: Ska tan, Bahia, for Stettin. Orr Poirrsmourn, JULY 6.:--Seppings, Thompson, Calcutta. Cowm, JULY 7.—Arrd. Columbus, Sterling, Rio Janeiro; Diantha, Storey, Matanzas; Nestor, Moses, New Orleans. SOUTHAMPTON, JULY 7.—krd. Ocean, Jobson, Miramichi Royal Tar (steamer), Gibraltar, 29th ult. Sld. Cairo, Quebec. M OFF 6.— LordSALCOB, JULY Wenlock, •Hobbs, James Angus, Camsell, and Ellen, St. John's, New Brunswick. Pat back, Patelina, for Gambia. EXMOUTH, JULY 4.—Sld. Calea, Ichaboe. PLYMOUTH, JULY 6.—Wind Northerly and fine.—Arrd. Emma, Spice, Miramichi ; Constance, Malony, Prince Ed ward's Island. 7. Earl Islopetoun, Bartlett, Cape Breton. Sid. Asia Calcutta. , Os Istx or WIGHT, JULY s.—Finden, Buenos Ayres. FALmou'ru, Jura 6 AND 7.—Wind N.—Arrd. Mastery, Lucy, Rio ; Rossana, Morrison, Brazil. Sld. his Neapolitan Majesty's ship Merafrie, Batavia. Off, Reliance, Calcutta ; Active, Hutchison, Buenos Ayres ; Willi am R us h ton , F os t er , Port au Prince, and sailed for Antwerp ; Parton, Richardson, Port au Pais, sailed for Hambuigh ; Snelhied, Kemp, Ha- Vannah for Amsterdam. OFF EASTBOURNE.—PetroneIIa, M'Diarmid, Mauritius. OFF NEIVIIAVEN.—Niagara, Champion, Mauritius. LIVERPOOL, JULY 6.—Wind light.—Jmr 7. —Wind N.W.,moderate.—Arrd. Glenny, Sidney, New South Wales ; Imaum of Muscat, Port - Phillip ; Elora, China ; Earl Powis, Sutton, and Pandora, Newland,, Calcutta ; Ma labar, Barker, Bombay; Marbella, Vallent, and Undaunted, Callao ; Sir C. Napier, Hantriss, and Ursula, Valparaiso ; Helen, Noel, ditto and Bahia ; A rg yl e , W e l c h , Eli za , and uvick, Jones, Ichaboe ; Panope, Pipon and Selina, Bell, Buenos Ayres;' Commodore ' Williams, Ichaboe ; Kate, Honey, tic) . Grande ; Severn, Whitler, Bahia ; Brazi lian, Goble, Bahia ; Nightingale, Hunter, Pernambuco ; Gloucester (late Feed), Princes Island; Fiquemaux Barba does ; Concord, Cuba ; Hebden, Lo ug hb r id ge , Porto 'Cabello ; Charles Humberston, Clinton, Coronet, Essex, Glasgow, Hamlet, Isaac Allerton, and Thetis, New Orleans; Cornelia, Great Britain, and Greenock, Fleek, Mobile ; Globe, Apala chiola •' Lanarkshire, and Rosalama, S avan n a h ; Indefatiga ble, Scott, Charleston ; Hudson, Page, and Southener, Palmer, United States ; Briton, and England, Bartlett (7th ult..), New York; Trinidad, M'Kenney, St. John's, New Bruns wick; Prince Charlie, Quebec; R. J. Haynes, Trinid a d ; Frances, Corkhill, Barboes. Off, Speed, Mobile. 5. Sid. Vibelia, Cape Of Good Hope ; Cloughbane, Ichaboe ; Jane and Barbara, Quebec. 6. Cincinnatti, China ; Captain Ross, Cape of Good Hope ; Lanercost, Luna, and Robert Isaac, New York ;• Emma, Montreal. 7. Ann, Africa; Lan cashire, and Queen of the West, New York.; William God dard, Boston;' Evergreen, St. john's, New Brunswick; Glenview, Helen, William Peirie, and W. G. Anderson, Quebec. CAMPBELTOWN, JULY 4.—The Diana, of Speymouth, from Liverpool to St..Menans, with salt, is ashore on the island of Sauda, and expected to become a wreck; crew saved, cargo lost. POOLE, JULY 4.—Arrd. Nelsen packet, Newfoundland. 7th, William Field, ditto. STUDLAND NY, JULY 6.—Arrd. Caroline, Rains, Ichaboe. 'The following vessels were loading guano at Ichaboe, on May :—Zenobia, Horatio, Grindley, George Glen, Alexan der, West Indian, Indus, Bombay, Tulloch Castle, Rain bow, Henry Wellesley, Dream, Lowther, .Trinity Yacht, William and Ann; Flora,' highlander, Rebeeca, Hudson, Jo seph Hume, Ann Grant, ConservatiVe„ Emily, - George, Amy, Charles, Ann Laing, Robert Kerr, Matthews, Columbine, grace, Hanover,, Cicero, Thalia, Helen, and several others, names unknown: • LycEnm.--The following distinguished persons have visited this theatre during last week :—The Marquis of Worcester, Lady Stanley, Lady Theresa Lister, Earl and Countess of Jers e y, E ar l an d C ountess o f Ailesford, Earl and Countess of Harrington, Lady Manley, Earl of Miltown, Lord de Lisle, Lord and Lady Duncannon, Lord Compton,. Lady Cator, Lord Craven, Sir Wm. and Lady Middleton and family, Sir John and Lady Boileau, Sir Henry and Lady Willeck and family, Lord Dungannon, Lord Charles Welles ley, Lord Burghley, Lord Suffield, Lord Hillsborough, Lady Ladyy. Harriet Clive, Sir R. Barton, Sir Andrew Cor bett, IL Esq., A. K. O om , E sq ., Hume, E sq ., Lord quOnsev, Hon. Charles Hill, Mrs. Hammersley and . family, CiPt l iciti 2 liar* 13sge; GordSiiiia, Esq., Lady Augusta, Finch, Right Hon. H. Pierrepoint, Mrs. Otieyd, &c. SUMMARY OF NEWS ANI) ti bitc ®pinion. " Who runs may read" row:mum. The Journal de Frankfort announces the arrival of the Duchess of Kent and the Prince de Leinengen in that city on the 29th ult. They alighted at the Hotel d'Angleterre. The august travellers, on the 30th, received the British and. Saxon Envoys, and the British and Prussian Consuls, at din ner. On the 2d they took their departure in one of the Co logne Company's steam-boats for Mentz, whence they were to proceed by railroad to Brussels. On Thursday, at two o'clock, the King of the French, ac companied by Colonel Dumas and two orderly officers, paid a visits to St. Cloud. His Majesty returned to IsTeuilly to din ner. In the evening their Majesties received the Portu guese Minister, and the President, Vice-Presidents, and Se cretaries of the Chamber of Deputies. Prince Gaston de Montmorenci has undergone an interro gatory respecting the reported Legitimatist conspiracy. The Gazette de France asserts that it produced no more result than that of the Duke d'Escars. We learn, by a letter f rom Goritz of the 27th ult., that the Duchess d'lngoultme had left for the chateau of Frohsdorf, near Vienna, where she was to arrive on the 30th ult. The Duke de Bordeaux was to arrive there on 'the 4th inst. The Nation, a journal published in connexion with the Gazette de France, and the responsible editor of which is in prison for an offence against the laws regulating the press, has suspended its publication. This is announced as follows by the Gazette :—"A new responsible editor having become necessary, he presented himself to the Minister of the Inte rior, after having paid to the Minister of Finances 33,000 f. for his personal cautionment. The Nation has thus already 133,000 f. at the Treasury, but the Minister of the Interior demands, on account of the appointment of a new responsible editor, a new cautiomnent of 100,000 f. The Nation will try the merits of this act of persecution, but at a great expense." A professor of philosophy at the College of Avignon, who was suffering under brain fever, threw himself from the win dow of his room, last week, and, in falling, broke both his legs. The shock caused an instant return of reason. The unfortunate man, on being picked up, uttered a well-merited reproach. "You knew that I had lost my reason," said he, " and yet you left me unwatched." A letter from Algiers, June 29, states that the tobacco plantation, which had been formed in Algeria as an experi ment, have been perfectly successful. A letter from Pesth' (Hungary) of the 14th ult. says:— " Baron Salomon de Rothschild arrived here on Monday last, from Vienna, in the 'Perth steamer. Numerous depu tations from all the different corporations, as well as from the Israelite community, waited upon him, all eager to do honour, and show their gratitude to a man to whom the city owes its magnificent bridge over the Danube, connecting it with. Ofen, the railroad now in construction, which forms a junction with that of the Emperor Ferdinand, and more than forty large establishments, which give bread to thousands of families, besides other great proofs of his charity and bene volence. The directors of each of the theatres put one of their first boxes at his command, and when he appeared in them the audience rose to receive him. Having visited all the charitable establishments, he left 10,000 florins (1,000/.) to be distributed among them. On the 13th he returned to Vienna." cov=es—riuntromusza. The Duchess of Gloucester intends to give a splendid en tertainment next week, at Gloucester House, to her neice the Grand Duchess of Mecklenburgh - Strelitz. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Duchess of Glou cester, and the Grand Duke and Duchess of Mecklenburgh Strelitz, have signified their intention of honouring the Waverley who by their presence to-night. The Ladies Pa tronesses, who have engaged to attend, have agreed to meet punctually at ten o'clock, in order to receive the royal visi tors. The Royal Archers (the Queen's Body Guards for Scotland), headed by the Duke of Buccleuch, and those noblemen and gentlemen connected with Scotland, who have arranged to appear in the Highland garb, have taken upon themselves to assist in preserving a suitable space for the Royal Family, and likewise to guard the allotted arena for the fancy quadrilles. On Saturday evening Viscount and Viscountess Palmer ston entertained the Duke and Duchess of Leinster and Lady Jane Fitzgerald, the Marquis of Anglesey and Lady Adelaide Paget, Earl of Besborough, Countess of Newburgh, Viscount and Viscountess Sydney, Viscount and Viscountess Leveson, Viscount Ossulston, Lord Elphinstone, Lord and Lady Ash ley, Hon. Mr. Fitzwilliam, and a distinguished circle, at din ner, at their mansion on Carlton -terrace. The Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch's dinner party at Montague House, on Saturday last, consisted of Earl Bathurst, Earl and Countess of Beverley, Lady Louisa Percy, Viscount Melville and Hon. Misses Dundas, Lady Georgiana Ker, Sit James and Lady Graham, Viscount and Lady Sarah lngeatre, Sir George and Lady Clerk, &c. The Earl and Countess of Cardigan have arrived in Port man-square from Ireland, and are expected to remain in town for three weeks before going to Deene Park, Northamp tonshire. Viscount Melbourne, Earl and Countess of Minto, Lord and Lady Carrington, Viscount and Viscountess Jocelyn, and a distinguished party, dined with the M arqu i s and Marchioness of Landowne, on Saturday, at Lansdowne House. Xf.ZSCILLLANMOUS. Mr. Scholefield, son of the late Member for Birmingham, has received a pressing invitation from an influential body of the electors, to come forward as a candidate. In his reply he says—" I assure you that I should have felt compelled re spectfully to have declined the request which has been urged upon me, if Wired not been accompanied by a strong expres sion of opinion, that the majority of the independent electors of the borough wou ld probably concur in the views which dictated it; and that ultimately the Reformers of our town would combine in my favour. HI am thus acceptable to my fellow-townsmen, and union be your watchword, I no longer hesitate, but cheerfully tender you my humble services in discharge of the important and responsible duties of your representative." The following are the prices of a few choice paintings sold at Mr. Christie's,'lCing-street, on Saturday :—" The Reposo," by Titian, 200 guineas ; " A Hawking Party," by *Wouverrnans ' 620 guineas ; "L e L e nde ma i n d es N oces, " b y Teniers, 510 guineas ; "An Italian Landscape," by Gaspar Poussin, 380 guineas ; the " Flight into Egypt," by Claude, 760 guineas; "A P ar ty o f P easan t s, " by Teniers, 850 guineas; ." Susannah and the Elders," by Guido, 900 guineas; the " Interior of a Large Room with an Arched We observe, by the provi nc i a l papers , th at t h ere have been copious falls of ram in all p ar t s o f t h e country, and that the crops Door a h t a " vtheebeend been mofuieth," by Ostade, 1,310 guineas. the wheat, looks well. benefitted by it. The grain, esp ec i a lly Sunday being the anniversary of the birthday of the Em peror of Russia, the event was celebrated by a grand service at the chapel of the Embassy in Welbeck-street. Among the distinguished individuals present were the Prince and Princess Radziwill, Prince Lottykoff, Prince Lubormirski M. de Oberskorff, Baron Brunnow, and the several attach& of the embassy, the latter in their official uniform, and , wearing the decorations presented to them on the occasion of the Em peror's recent visit to this country. Very numerous applications have been made to the Home office for a remission of the sentence •on Barber, who is now' on board a convict-ship about to sail for: New South Wales, but they have all been unsuccessful: The Juno, 26-gun frigate, on the plans of Sir William Sy monds, was launched from Pembroke on the 2d inst. Her dimensions are—Length, 131 ft. ; breadth' 40 ft. 6 in. ; depth, 10 ft. 9 in. ; tonnage, 911 tons. ' SPORTING INTELLIGENCE: INTELLIGENCE EXTRA. NEWMARKET JVLY MEETING, TUESDAY. stake. Handicap of 20 soya, eacb,.and only 5 ft, if declared by ten o'clock this (Monday) evening, for 3 y rs o ld an d upwards. New T.Y.C.The July Stakes of 50 soy each, 30 ft, for 2 yrs o ld ; s c ec olt o s n , d Bs to t 7 s l a b ve ; his stake. fillies, Bst 51b. New T.Y.C. Th e Lord Albemarle's Scarmentado and Tisiphone—Mr. Bouverie's Old England (late Bastion)—Mr. John Day's Winchester—Lord Exeter's Tunick Deodara, Jet and Concealment—Duke o f Grafton's Sister to Canadian— Col. _Peel's Hersey f, by Slane, out of Seakale, and Sis ter to Cameleon—Mr. J. R oge rs's Glee—Mr. Wreford's f, by Sultan Junior, out of Victoria, and f by Liverpool, out of Westeria.—A.ll in training at Newmarket, except Old England, Winchester, and Mr. Wreford's two, which are at Stockbridge. Match, 100, h ft, New T.Y.C.—Duke of Bedford's Glen Fisbie, Bst 121 b, against Lord Exeter's Petrowna, 6st 121 b. (Both at Newmarket.) WEDNESDAY. 501. ; for three yrs old, 7st 21b; four, Bst 71b; five, 9st llb; six and aged, 9st 51b. From the starting post of T.M.M. to the end of B.C. The Town Plate of 501. ; for three yrs old colts, Bst 71b, and fillies, Bst 31b. Last mile and a distance of 8.C. - 1 Sweepstakes of 10 sovs, each; for three yrs old, 6st 91b; five to be sold for 3004 &c. Bst 101 b; six and aged, 9st. winner;lo sows, each; for two yrd old colts, Bst 41b. Last half of B.M. Winner of, Sweepstakes T.M.M. asi B ok Bst da t snTfd l ooh l rffi b e 1210 i ecisi • t Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each; for three yri old colts, Bst 71b; and fillies, Bst 41b. New T.Y.C. Winner to .be sold for 1001., &c. THURSDAY. • Sweepstakes of 10 sovs ; for two yrs old, Est 111 b ; and 3 yrs, 9st. New T.Y.C..- Winner to be sold for 200 L, &c. Handicap of 15 Soya each, oft, for all ages but 2 yr s . From the starting post of B.M; to end of New T.Y.C. The Chesterfield Stakes of 30 soya each, 20 ft, for 2 yrs horse 41b extra. Last old colts, Bst 71b; and fillies, B st 41b; winner of the Lord Albermarle's Tisiphone a n d Alecto—Duke of Bedford's c by Cesar out of Misnomer—Lord Che s t er • h J a ul if y of Stakes, li. 7113; the second field's f by Hornsea, out of Dirce--Lord Exeter's c Tunick, f Deodora, f Jet, and f Concealment—Duke of Mr. Kin g ' s Ri c h ar d by Slane, oat of Sea kale, and Sister to Camelion—Lord Spencer's Joseph— Mr.Wagstaff's The Queen of C4'presa— M r . Wreford's Cricket—ColonelGrafton's Sister Peel'sto f by ,Sultan Junior, out of Victoria, and fby Liverpool, out of Westeria. All at Newmarket and in training, except the Mis nomer colt, the Dirce filly,. and Mr. Wreford's two, It is reported that Running Rein has been destroyed to prevent any further discoveries, s i x y r s, Bst 51 b — Aristotle, fl . (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) LIVERPOOL JULY MEETING', 1844. AcCeptances for the Trades' Cup. fi P v a e ga yr n 's, Bst—The Era, four yrs, Bst —Pompey, four The Squire, six yrs, Bst 91b— William-le -Gros, fi ve yrs, —vs Yrs, est 31b. Misdeal, yrs, 7st 111b—Lothario, four yrs, 7st 101 b—British Yeoman, four yrs, ist 101b—True Boy, four yrs, 7st 9 1b—Yardley, four yrs, 7st 81b—Scaltcen, five yrs, 7st 71b —Aristides, four yrs, 7st 71b—Whistle Binkie, five yrs, 7st 71b —The Caster, four years, 7st 51b—Queen of the Tyne, five yrs, 7st 51b—Armitage, four yrs, 7st: 11b—The Neill, our yrs, 7 st—The Currier, aged; 7st—The F'oor Soldier, four yrs, Est 131b —The Orphan, four Yrs, 6st 21b—Mickey Free, yrs, fist 12Iat, four yrs, 6st 101b—Red Rose, six yrs, 6st 101b—Nawortk aged, fist 91b—Red Deer, three yrs, Est 61b—The Best of three yrs, Est —Tarquin, four yrs, sst 81 b—Pastoral, three yrs, sst 7—British Tar, three yrs, 4st 61b. The Derby Handicap. Th r ee, three The following have paid :—Discor ~, d, aged _Chatham, five yrs—John-o'-Gaunt, six yrs— Fl amingo, five yrs--Sally, five yrs—Proof Print, five yrs—Bramble, four yrs—Gaper, four yrs—Vakeel, five yrs — Emma, three yrs--Vin Ordi nai dead.re, three yrs—Bowsprit, three_ yrs- Colin Clink, four yrs, The number of steam -boat from T . to (full amoun t s t o a bout 36,0 00 per ar. LAndon Advertiser. PROMOTIONS. Commander—Frederick Hutton (1838), of the Vanguard, to the rank of Captain. Lieutenant—Georgel Elrington, to be retired Commander, by order in Council of 1830. Mates—John: Johnston (1841), of the Inconstant; W. L. Partridge, of the Dido ; and Charles S. Dunba r , o f th e F ox , to the rank of Lieutenants. Second Master—G. L. Hall, of the Sydenham, to the rank of Master. APPOENTBIENTS. Captains—Frederick Bullock, to the Porcupine; J. C. Car penter to be out-pensioner of Greenwich Hospital. Deputy Inspectors of Hospitals—Edward Hilditch, to Ja maica Hospital; Oliver Evans, M.D., of Jamaica Hospital, to Bermuda. Lieutenants—The Hon. P. F. Pellew, additional, to the Colling' food ; Alfred Fairman (1829), to the Warspite ; W. L. Partridge, and Charles S. Dunbar, additional, to the Agin court; F. E. Johnston, of the Queen, to the Illustrious. _ _ . Surgeons—Charles M'Arthur, M.D., of the Victory, to the William and Mary packet, for special service. Master—G. L. Hall (acting), to the Geyser. Second Masters—F. Farrant, to the Sydenham ;T. Pitt (1841), to the Medusa steam-packet; W. B. Edwards, to the Caledonia ; R. T. Saunders, to the Zephyr steam-packet. Assistant-Surgeons —W. Fosken, M.D. (acting), additional to the Illustrious; W. A. Leslie (acting), additional to Ply mouth Hospital ; R. Clark, M.D., and E. Elliott, M.D., addi tional, and T. F. Wooldridge (acting), additional of the Cale donia, and V. C. Clark, M.D. (acting), additional to the San Josef, for duty at Plymouth Hospital ; L. C. Urquhart, M.D., from the Camperdown, additional to the Ocean, for service at Sheerness Dockyard; G. Willes, for service at Hasler Hos pital ; J. Gordon (acting), of the Camperdown, to the Poic tiers, for service at Melville Hospital Mates—C. 0. H. P. St. John (1840), of the Excellent, to the St. Vincent; R. Chambers, to the Firefly; E. Burnstall, to the Porcupine; G. S. Boys, late of the Vernon, to the Albion. Navil Instructor—G. S. Bourne, to the Talbot. Gunner—J. White (acting), to the Apollo. Clerk—D. Stapleton, to the Porcupine. Midshipmen—H. Bennington to the Excellent; F. Bul lock, to the Porcupine. Naval Cadets—F. A. Campbell, to the Camperdown ;J. H. shads, to the Cambrian. Colonel Lawrence, C. 8., has retired from the command of the Chatham division of Royal Marines. , EXTENSIVE FIRE AT STRATFORD.—Yesterday (Sunday) morning, a few minutes after one o'clock, a de structive fire broke out. in the High-street, Stratford, near Bow, by which much property was destroyed of a most va luable character. Two houses are gutted, and two others, with the contents of the whole, very seriously damaged. The outbreak occurred in the house of Mr. Henry Ballard, watch and clockmaker, and jeweller, 4, High-street. The building contained seven rooms, and the fire was discovered at the back of the premises by one of the K division of police. The parish engine and the Jeffery-square and the Wellclose square engines were soon upon the spot, and an abundant supply of water was furnished. Before the engines from town had arrived the flames had obtained firm hold, and the house was on fire from the top to the bottom. The interior of the building was entirely consumed, as were also the stock and furniture, not a particle of either of which is saved. The adjoining house, in the occupation of Mr. Robert Pearson, grocer and cheesemonger, had also caught fire ' and another on the other side, adjoining, was on fi re a t the back and roof. Upwards of fifty of the neighbours being employed at the engines, the effect became shortly apparent, and in less than an hour so greatly had the fire been subdued, that the inha bitants of No. 2, High-street, _ were enabled to remove the chief part of the contents of that building, the destruction of which at one time appeared inevitable. With incessant la-. bour ' up to a quarter past thre e o ' c l oc k, th e fl ames were sub dued, and all danger of the extension of the fire was at an end. How the fire originated is not known. SERIOUS.ACCIDENT.--On Saturday morning an unfortunate accident occurred to Cockrill, 108 L, one of the officers at Astley's Theatre, which is likely to be attended with serious results. It appeared that about three o'clock, as he was about to go off duty, he went over some new houses at the rear of the theatre, in Stangate, to ascertain Whether the lead and workmen's tools were all safe, and on crossing aplank on the first floor bis feet slipped, and he fell through the joists into the cellar, a depth of 20 feet, broke his right leg, and seriously injured the spine. He lay there nearly 20minutes, until his groans brought a constable to his assistance, when he was speedily conveyed' to Guy's Hos pital, where he now lies in a precarious state. He is well known to the public as the " Duke," from his striking like _mess to the Duke of Wellington. Several of our Contemporaries have taken notice of the omission of 100,0001. in the statement of the decrease of the property-tax in the present quarter, the decrease being stated in the published account to be 9,2241, whereas it ought to have been stated as 109,224/.' This error, however, makes no difference in the c o m p ar i son o f t h e total increase and decrease on the quarter, as we observe some of our con temporaries suppose, as there happens to be another omission of the same amount on the opposite of the account. The increase under the head of "Repayment of Advances" is stated to be 36,3501. instead of 136,350/. ; the sum received under this head in the present quarter being 274,5571., 'and in the corresponding quartet of last year only 138,2071. The aggregate amount of the decrease under the several heads of revenue for the quarter is 771,223 L, and that of increase for the same period 594,9241., instead of a decrease of 671,223/., and an increase of 494,9241., as stated in the ac counts published on . Saturday. The actual decrease on the quarter is 176,299/, being precisely the same after this cor - rection is made as before. As these quarterly accounts can never be made up till late in the evening of the sth of the month,. it .-is not surprising that in the hurry of transcribing the numerous copies of this account for the use of the several public journals, clerical errors of this sort should occasionally occur; and when, as in the present case, there happen to be omissions of equal amount on the two sides of the account the error is very apt to- be • overlooked, at it does not affect the general result.— Herald. THE LANCASTER AND CARLISLE RAILWAY.--This ImPratant national work is now fairly commenced. A satis i;ictory arrangement has been made between the company and the Earl of Lonsdale, upon the fair principle that a valuer should be appointed on, either side, with powerto name a third party ; and the adjustment of terms will, therefore, be ail - easy matter. The first general- meeting of the com bany was held on Friday last at Kendal. A very efficient ody of Directors has been appointed. Tlf NtIV POOIt.L.A.W BILL. A frightful case has recently occurred al Beeding, near Horsham,. in Sussex, of accidental poisoning by eating putrescent, meat. Some circumstances of that case, in connexion with the conduct of the Poor law Guardians of the union in which Beeding is situated, remind us that we have hitherto omitted to notice the subject-matter of the " Second . Report from the Select Committee on Medical Poor Relief," recently issued from the Vote and Paper-office. To speak first, however, of the Beeding affair.—lt seems that a labouring man, named CHAPMAN, bought of a farmer, among whose herds and flocks the murrain had extensively prevailed, the carcass of a cow which had died a.few days before. CuArMAN's object in buying the carcass was—by his own confession—to have fed with it the poultry (!) . and the pig (! !) which he reared around his miserable hut in the neighbourhood. The chickens died. The pig, whether it met with the same fate, or was slaughtered, was partly eaten by CHAPMAN and his family. Alarming symptoms having rapidly supervened, the medical officer of the union was called in, and found that the wretched family, the poultry, and the pigs all in habited one and the same room, the stench of which was almost fatal to the medical man and those who came to aid him. The CHAPMANS were removed into a tent pitched for them at some little distance from the but ; the meat was burned and buried ; and every remedial treatment adopted to save the family from the animal poison they had too clearly absorbed by eating the infected food on which they had for some time subsisted. But these attentions were vain. CHAPMAN and two of his children sunk under the effects of their deleterious diet; and a third child, who laboured under similar symptoms, by the last accounts was not likely to survive its brethren and parent. " What renders," says the writer of the statement, "this extraordinary case more astonishing, is the fact that the deceased family have been buried, and no notice forwarded of their deaths to the coroner, though we are informed that the medical officer has announced it to the Poor-law Guardians of the Horsham Union, in which the parish of Beeding is included." Of course, we can reason only on the allegations before us as we find them in the Hampshire Inde pendent. But, assuming them to be true, as we are bound to do, we should say a most flagrant case of neglect of duty is established against the functionaries in question; and, we are sorry to add, an additional evidence supplied of the miserably deficient machinery of our very costly and very clumsy poor-law admi nistration. It must not be forgotten that this is by no means a solitary case of official neglect,. in re ference to the last sad scenes of a miserable pauper's existence. We mean neglect of those guarantees which, so far as solemn and public investigation into the causes of any individual death can supply them, the law has scrupulously provided for the pro tection of the pauper as well as of the aristocrat. This case of CHAPMAN and his children has, however, one redeeming feature in it at least. The succour of the medical officer of the union was prompt ; his at tentions sustained; and his removal of the unhappy people to a tent at once humane and considerate. Very different is the impression with which we rise from a perusal of the evidence attached to the Second Report of the Select Committee before us. To this Committee, "appointed to inquire into the Mode of administering Medical Relief to the Sick Poor under the Provisions of the Poor-law Amend ment Act," had been " referred the petition of Mr. JOHN B. RYDER, of Sloane-street, Chelsea." The report itself is sufficiently brief. " Your Committee have examined several witnesses respecting the ease of Henry Osman, which was brought under their consideration : the testimony Oven in evi dence is very conflicting. Your Committee are of opinion that there was irregularity on the part of the medical officer of the Kensington Union House, in having removed the said Henry Osman without a medical certificate in writing, and without having seen him within twenty-four hours of his removal ; but your Committee are not prepared to say that the Poor-law Commissioners exercised an unsound discretion in not making further inquiry into the case of henry Osman." Now the case of HENRY OsMAN is very clearly stated by Mr. RYDER himself, in answer to the desire of the Committee that he should describe it to them:— " I felt it my duty, in the month of July last, to lay a complaint before the Poor-law Commissioners, in whose province I suppose grievances of this kind peculiarly come, and whose duty it is to investigate complaints ; and the complaint is this: that on the 14th of July last year, a pauper, named Henry Osman, aged 56 years, was removed in the most hopeless and helpless state from the Kensington to the Chelsea Workhouse; in fact, when he arrived at the Chelsea Workhouse he was in an absolutely dying condition ; and there was no medical certificate granted as to the fitness and safety for his removal, which, I submit to the Committee, ought to have been the case, and which, I think, the Commis sioners themselves cannot for a moment deny the pro priety of, and, in fact, the absolute necessity of. As a proof that he was in this extreme state of sickness—in this dying state—he died the following morning, very early, i. e. about five o'clock, of inflammation of the lungs, which I am sure I need not tell the Committee, is a complaint above all others requiring the nicest and tenderest care before they remove a man." The evidence of Mr. J. B. GUAZZARONI, the medical officer of the Kensington Union, whose conduct has been impugned, we confess by no means removes the unfavourable impression which we, on the first public notice of OSMAN'S case, conceived of it. By his own showing he does not appear to have considered the man to be in at all so dangerous or exhausted a condition as other witnesses (examined), and as the officers of the Chelsea Union evidently did at the time of the pauper's removal. His evidence appears to us characterised by a sort of in difference to the suffering of a patient, amounting to absolute flippancy; and there is a tone of nonchalance in his answers to questions relative to the general course of pauper treatment in the Kensington Union, which is in singular bad taste. He is too pro foundly professional to know anything on any subject not within his own immediate duties ; and he thinks it sufficient reply to an imputation on the manage ment of the one workhouse in allowinia pauper to be removed thence to another workhouse in a filthy con dition, that the man had had a bath at the former— when he first went in. -" It has been stated that when he arrived at the Chelsea Workhouse his person was in a very filthy state ?—I have no reason to believe that it was so. " Is great care taken of their personal cleanliness in the Kensington Workhouse ?--Yea ; on their admission they always have a bath." But from the evidence of the Relieving-officer of the Kensington Union, it is clear that Mr. GVAZZARONI was guilty of a positive neglect of duty in not giving a written order or certificate for OsMAN's removal. " When the medical officer gives his certificate to the effect that the recipient may be removed with care, after his. naming the conveyance in which he should be re moved, I do not think it necessary that the medical officer should be immediately present at•the time, if he gives a written statement to that effect.. " But upon this occasion he did not give a written statement ?—No, he did not." The surgeon of the Union-house at Chelsea dis- tinctly deposes to having found OSMAN in almost an hour after his reception into that house in a dying state—rapidly sinking. The master of this house remonstrated with the men who brought him from Kensington on the impropriety of removing him in such a state as he was, before he assisted to help him out of the cart. The female nurse (MARGARET Dot vmsoN) deposes to the fact that she and others put OSMAN to bed immediately, because they thought him in a dying state; and she deposes likewise to the filthy condition of his person and his clothes; the •latter of which were obliged to be immediately de stroyed. The evidence of the male nurse (JAmEs NEWTON) is still more stringent and precise to the dying condition of the man when taken out of the cart. 'Mr. RYDER, the Chairman of the Board of Guardians at Chelsea, brought this case before the Poor-law Commissioners, struck by the entry on the admission-book of the workhouse, that the man bad been removed in a dying state. IL complains, naturally onough.we think, that the Poor-law Com missioners— " Instead of instituting what I, with great submission, say they ought to have done, an investigation into this • case—instead of a public inquiry, which was what I asked' for, and which would have satisfied all . parties (and I think there was nothing unreasonable in my asking for a public inqui r y, an d b e i ng sat i sf i e d w i th nothing less), they get from the Kensington Union-- from the very parties themselves, whom I charge as b e ing implicated in the removal—a report with which they allow themselves to. be satisfied, and decline to grant any further inquiry. If this inquiry had been granted, I have every reason to believe, and I am pre pared to swear it, that a great deal of public good would have arisen from that inquiry ; public good in this way, that it would have prevented, I have no doubt, by the publicity which would have been given to it, other similar instaii6ea' of whit I term gross cruelty to the door, in removing them during their dying or their sick moments. There have occurred since this case three or four cases where coroners' juries have sat on the bodies, one of which occurred in this very Kensington -Union ; and therefore it was that I have been dissatisfied, and I have a right so to be, with the wanner in which the Poor law Commissioners have thought proper to end this in quiry ; and having those dissatisfied feelings, I thought it a duty I owed to the poor in general to present a pe tition to the House of Commons, praying them to grant what they have granted, a Committee jo inquire into my complaint." Upon the whole of this case we are satisfied that it is an organic mistake in the New Poor-law to require complaints of this kind to be carried in the first instance before the Poor-law Commissioners—it is a mere mockery. Their powers should be altogether administrative ; their judicial decisions can never tend to any other result than to bring the Poor-law into odium, and to involve themselves in absurditic , .. such as those which their Assistant, Mr. Nienoi.r.s, perpetrates in his posting reports from Ireland. They have in some cases a positive interest in screen ing the misconduct of their subordinate functionaries —in all cases a natural tendency fro palliate it. We cannot understand why the Select Committee should not be prepared to say " that these Commissioners ex ercised an unsound discretion in not making further inquiry" into OSMAN'S case ; still less can we attach the weight of one feather, or the value of one straw, to the quasi defence set up for them—that Mr. RYDER. was not "authorised" by the written instructions of the Board of Guardians to present his petition, or to enter into correspondence with the Poor-law Com missioners. This last pretension of imperial ?in approachability, except after due ceremonial prelimi naries of office, is exquisitely ridiculous. We have seen it imitated on a small scale by minor " com missioners" clothed with a tenure of office adroitly expanded by them—for the public good, of course— from a two years' duration into one of four; but we have never seen the Fum-Ho grandeur of Chinese irresponsibility so amusingly acted as, on certain oc casions, it is at Somerset House. AMERICAN NEWS The packet ship England, Capt. Bartlett, arrived at Liverpool on Saturday, after a run of little more than 13 days, from New York. The House of Representatives had passed a resolution authorising the Postmaster-General to enter into an ar rangement with our Government for the purpose of fa cilitating the dispatch of the English mails from Boston to Montreal, &c. The Senate had rejected the clause of the Naval Appropriation Bill, abolishing corporal punish ments, on the 14th ult. The President had nominated J. S. Green as Secre tary of the Navy, but the Senate had not acted on it. The grand jury finished their labours in connexiop with the recent riots at Philadelphia on the morning of the 15th ult. In their presentment they state that they have acted on upwards of 200 bills of indictment, out of which number they found 161 true bills. They refer at some length to the late disturbances, the whole of which they attribute to the lax manner in which the law has been exercised by the constituted authorities ot i kbe city and county, and more especially those of the dißrict of Kensington, and to the efforts of a party to exclude the Bible from the public schools. They severely censure the authorities of the disturbed districts for their want of energy and promptitude on the occasion, and are of opinion that their conduct ought to undergo legal inves tigation. Judge Parsons addressed them upon the con clusion of their labours, and said that the Court had read the presentment with great satisfaction, and approved of it entirely. We have no commercial news. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen and Prince Albert, the Ladies and Gentlemen of the Royal Suite, and the Household, attended Divine ser vice yesterday, in the Chapel Royal, Buckingham Palace. The Hon. and Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay officiated. His Royal highness Prince Albert, attended by Colonel Bouverie, Equerry in Waiting, went on Saturday mornitg to the Hanover-square Rooms. Her Majesty and Prince Albert walked on Saturday fore noon in the Royal gardens of Buckingham Palace. The Queen, accompanied by the Princess Royal, and at tended by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, took an airing on. Saturday afternoon in an open carriage and four. His Royal Highness I'rince Albert, attended by the Equerries in Wait ing, Colonels Buckley and Bouverie, accompanying her Ma jesty on horseback. Her Majesty visited her - Royal High ness the Princess Sophia, at Kensington. The Queen and Prince Albert, attended by the Viscountess Jocelyn, Hon. Miss Liddell, Hon. Miss Paget, Earl of Morton, Colonel Buckley, and Colonel Bouverie, honoured the Italian Opera with their presence on Saturday evening. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cam bridge, and the Hereditary Grand Duke and Duchess of Muck lenburgh-Strelitz, attended Divine Service, yesterday morn ing, in Grosvenor Chapel, South Audley-street. Baroness Ahlefeldt and Major Stephens were in waiting on the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the Duchess of Mccklenburgh-Strelitz, went, on Saturday morn ing, to Kew. Their Royal Highnesses returned to Cam bridge House in the afternoon. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and the Hereditary Grand Duke and Duchess of Mecklonburgh, attended by Baroness Ahlefeldt, Baron Knesebeck, and Major Stephens, honoured the Italian Opera with their presence on Saturday evening. The Duke of Wellington, the Hon. S. Wortley, and Sir F. Trench, attended the early service yesterday in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The Rev. J. V. Povah officiated. The Duchess of Beaufort, the Marquises of Salisbury, An glesey, and Granby, Lords Effingham, Bandon, Harrowby, Cawdor, Wilton, Wrottesley, and Alford ; Ladies Wilton and C. Sanford, attended the daily service yesterday in the Chapel Royal, St. James's: Prayers were read by the Rev. J. V. Povah; the Lessons by the Rev. Dr. Dr. Knepp. The Ser mon was preached by the Rev. Dr. Sleath. The musical service was Arnold's in F. the Sanctus in A. (the Earl of Wilton), and the anthem " In Jewry is God known," (Dr. Clarke). Lords Powis, Wilton, Wharncliffe, Godolphin, Forester, Norreys, and Henniker, and the Countesses Browmlow and Wilton, attended the afternoon service yesterday, in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. Lord Stanley left town on Saturday for Tonbridge Wells. Baron Brunnow, the Russian Minister, transacted business on Saturday at the Foreign-office. Dispatches were received on Saturday afternoon at the Colonial-office from the Governors of the West India Co lonies. Sir James Graham and other Cabinet Ministers visited Sir Robert Peel on Saturday. The ball which killed Lord Nelson has long been in the possession of Captain Vincent Beatty, formerly Captain of the 24th Light Dragoons, and senior sur viving brother of the late Sir William Beatty, M.D., R.N., the principal medical attendant of Lord Viscount Nelson on board the Victory. This gentleman has ad dressed a letter to the Earl of Haddington begging that this national relic might be submitted to her Majesty, and praying her royal acceptance. To the ball are at tached the particles of the coat and epaulette forced into the body by the stroke, set within a crystal case, which is mounted with a double cable of gold around its circum ference, and it opens like a watch. Lord Haddington wrote in reply, begging Captain•Beatty to call on him at the Admiralty, when his Lordship handed him a letter, written by the Hon. George Anson, from Buckingham Palace, stating that her Majesty would much like to pos sess the relic, and intimating that Windsor Palace would be the proper place for its deposit. SERIOUS ASSAULT.—At the Brentford Petty Ses sions, on Saturday, an omnibus conductor and coach man, named Frederick Alleston and William Limpus, were fined, the former 40s. and 7s. costs, or one month's imprisonment, and the latter 20s. and 7s. costs, or four teen days, for a most outrageous assault committed by them in conjunction with Thomas Goddard, a horse dealer (who did not appear to his summons), on the per son of a Pole, named Tlesah Kowski. It appeared that the complainant was riding on the defendant's omnibus, on Thursday, the 27th ult., and Goddard and Alleston, while Limpus held his hands, rubbed him over the head, face, and neck, with " cow-itch," from the effects of which his skin was in a state of high inflammation, and much blistered and raised. The Bench said it was one of the most outrageous cases, and they should fine the defendants in the utmost sum that the law allowed. A warrant was issued against Goddard. GOVERNMENT PATRONAGE.—A rumour is afloat that, in consequence of the' difference between 'Mr. Miles and the Government on the Sugar Duties Bill, the Bristol Tory party have unexpectedly found themselves denuded of local patronage. This may be true, or it may not ; but it may be stated, in part confirmation of the correctness of the report, that the office of weigher at the Custom-house, Bristol, has been filled up, on the recommendation of the Member for Shrewsbury, by a native of that town ; and that a native of Brighton' has been appointed to the office of tide-waiter here, on the recommendation of one of the Members for , Brightort. The appointments are not, certainly, of much import ance, but "straws thrown up show which way the wind blows."—Bristul Mercury. LIVERPOOL FRIDAY.—The man who committed so many horrible atrocities on board the Saladin, ac counts of which have been published in all the papers, was well known in Liverpool. His wife lives here at present, and has been a resident of the town for some years. They did not reside together for a long time past ; but he allowed her 9s. a week, which she received at the parish office. Upon being made acquainted with his tragical deeds on board the Saladin, she manifested little or no surprise, as she had often been subjected *to ill-treatment at his hands ; but she expressed much con cern at hearing of the fate of her unhappy sort, who, it will be reoollected, was thrown overboard eater the father. RAILWAY TRAVELLING TO LIVERPOOL.—SeveraI correspondents of the Times have been complaining, withisi the last few days, of the arrangements of the Grand Junction Company, which render it impossible fora second-class pm-, senger to go through from London to Liverpool without stopping: One of them states that, start from Etiston-square what time he may, he must remain for hours in Birmingham,' unless he consents to pay first class fare on the Grand Jiinc tiou line. The conduct of the Birmingham Comptany angt • of the Great Western, who have many second-class tntinak is contrasted with that of the Grand Junction, who have buts two—one at 6 o'clock in the morning, the other at 4 o'clock in • the afternoon. It is a great pity that this cause of reproach has not long since been removed. We are satisfied that it would tend to the pecuniary advantage of the Grand Junction Company to make au alteration.—Railway Record. An accident, which has proved fatal in its results', occurred to a boy named Lund, at the Alarylebone' Theatre, on Friday night. The boy was engaged in at tending to a water piece, entitled the Water Fiend, in-- which there is a large fall of water,. Ile was carried over the fall, and in descending received such injuries aSt caused his death on Saturday night. Preparations are in progress to commence the Whitehaven and Maryport Railway immediately. , 111/- ,S 1.1.. ;ar , I I '.