The Sun. — London, England, 1845-08-09 00:00:00

PELLIMISARY PROSPECTIJS. T HE MIDLAND and EASTERN COUNTIES RAILIVAT. (Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7 and 8 Viet., cap. 110.) Capital 1,500,0001., in Shares of 251. each. Deposit 11. 7s. 6d. per Share. This Company having been registered on the 25th day of July, 1845. PROVISIONAL CONISITTSE. Alington, Rev. John, Little Barford, Bedfordshire, and Letchworth, Hertfordshire Booth, Williamson, Esq., Woodbury Hall, Cambridgeshire Bassett, Wm., Esq., Nether Hall, near Bury St. Edmunds Banbury, G. 8., Esq., Leamington, a Director of the Warwick and Cheltenham Railway Burman, William, Esq., Stratford-upon-Avon Carrington, John, Esq., St. Neots Cheere, William Henry, Esq., Papworth Hall, Cambridgeshire Cochrane, Hon. Horatio William Bernardo, Little Staughton Cottle, J. M • 1 Esq Leamington ,? Directors of the Warwick and Curtis, J. E. 8., Esq., London, S Cheltenham Railway Day, John 11111, Esq , St. Neots Ellgood, Thomas, Esq., St. Neots Ilmut,l?y, Captain, Waterloo Cottage, Eynesbury, near St. Neot's Letilgii r T. F. J., EA:I., Brighton .Norris, Rev. Frederick, Little Grans:len Onslow, Denzill, Esq., Staughton House, near St. Neots Page, Caw ain, Charltnn House, Somerton, a Director of the Warwick • And Cheltenham Railway Simpson,"Richarit H., Esq., Stow Lodge At. John, ti,o Right Hon. Lord, Melchbourne Park, T1.1.1 - a - 'F•hire Gf2urg , 2, Eiq., OnoroiCluney, • l'rebn, Dr., 31".ister of Clare Hall, Cann,ri , l7,c • Th,o(iore Vincent, treat Gransden, Esq., Kimboltou M., Esq., Stoneley Hall. Kinabolton rhe mimes of the other members of the Provistonsl Welsi .x•d hi a few days. (With rower to add to their number ) DANzLits--Messrs. Glyn, tiallifax, Mills, and Co., I.oLdon SOLICITORS. rfla and 3, Church-court, Old Jewry, John ChiacrY, Esq., Leanli n g ton, London. -Messrs. Day, St. Neots Messrs. Harris and Sumpter, Cambridge Messrs. Utnbers and Sowdon. Stratford-upon-Avon Charles Jones. Esq., Alcester. This railway is proposed to commence at Cambridge,' to proceed in a direct line to Nornampton, and take Its coarse, via Fenny Compton. Stratford-upon-Avon, and Alcester to Worcester. By its junction with the Northern and Eastern Railway at Cam bridge, the London and York Railway near St. Neots, the Leices ter and Bedford or South Midland and Birmingham Railways, near Northampton, the Oxford and Rugby and the proposed Oxford and Birmingham, or Warwickshire and London Railways, at Fenny Compton, the Warwick and Cheltenham Railway at Stratford-upon- Avon, and the Oxfcrd, Worcester, and Wolverhampton near Wor cester, and the proposed fines into Wales from that city, this rail way will connect Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, and the Impor tant towns of Yarmouth, Harwich, Norwich, Ipswich, Bury St. Ld mund's, Lynn, and Cambridge, with the towns and counties of Bed ford, Northampton, Rugby, Leicester, Nottingham, Derby, Banbury, Oxford, * 4 outhampton, Coventry, Leamington, Warwick, Birming ham, Worcester, Cheltenham, Gloucester, Tewkesbury, Kiddermin ster, Wolverhampton, Liverpool, . Manchester, Bristol, Hereford, Som , rset Smith Wales, and the South of Ireland. In short this railway will complete the chain of communication from the east to all parts of England. It will also be the most direct route from London to Warwick, Leamington, - Worcester, Hereford, Kiddermin ster, Stourbridge, Bromsgrove, Droitwich, and Wales. Connecting a very populous district entirely destitute of railway accommodation, opening, t o, a direct communication between extensive manufactur ing, mineral, and agricultural districts, and the best and largest coal fields in thelangdorn, thereby considerably reducing the present high price of coals, particularly in the eastern counties. This line must not only be of great public and local advantage, but also insure traffic and passengers, and goods amply remunerative as an investment. The survey made proves the line to be easy of construction, and free from engineering difficulties. The usual power will be taken in the Act of Parliament to allow `merest at 4/. per cent. per annum on the denosits, as well as on all future calls, from the date of the passing of act till the opening of the railway. Applications for prospectuses and shares may be made to the Soli citors, or to the following Sharebrokers, viz. :—Messrs. P. W. Tho mas - and Son, 50, Threadneedle-street, London ; Forsyth and Prit . hard, or T. Crewdson, Liverpool ; Johnstone and Bradley, or S. W. 'waves, Manchester ; E. Wilson, or W. Collis, Birmingham ; White and ism!, Leamington ; George Edwards and Son, or Luke Arnold, Bristol; W. Lee, or Hall Brothers and Co., Cheltenham ; Kirk and Co., or IS:usitt and Co., Leeds; John Doy, or Flit and Tootal, Hull; Eaglesileld, Leicester ; Freeman and Son, Northampton ; John Lang worthy, Exeter; Wm. Bolton, Stratford-upon-Avon; Wm. Miles, Worcester ; Hugh Munro and Co., Edinburgh ; George Brown, Glas gow ; Bruce and Symes, Dublin ; and Brown and Clark, Coventry. _ • FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Committee of the Midland and Eastern Counties Railway. . . . I request you will allot to me r Shares in the above under taking, and I agree to take all such Shares, or so many thereof as you may allot to me, and to pay the Deposit, and to sign the Parlia mentary C..utract mil the Subscribers' Agreement, when required. Name ..... ...... .......... Residence.....• • • • • • . • • • • • • .. • • • • • • . . Trade or Profession . • • • • • • • • Reference.- • . • . (PROVISIONALLY REGISTERED. ISLE OF ELY (WISBECH) AND LIN SHIRE JUNCTION RAILWAY, from the Town and Port of Wisbech to March, then joining the Railway from Ely to Peterborough ; thus completing the direct communication between Wisbech and the Metropolis and the Manu facturing Counties. A detailed Prospectus will be immediately issued. WM. BRADLEY, Chairman of the Provisional Committee. JAMES COPPOCK, 3, Cleveland-row, JOHN BELL, Craven-street, Solicitors. THOMAS S. WATSON. Wisbech, NOTICE. AIrANCI - TESTER, MIDLAND, trid UEEAT GRIMSBY JUNCTION RAILWI Y. 'rile Committee of Management have the satistliiition of annotineing the Shareholders, that, as expected, Parliament will be prorogued without coming to a final decision upon any of the competing schemes. The Committee regard their prospects with inereased con fidence, being convinced that the merits of their undertaking will fuily justify the report of the Board of Trade, viz., that " it is de eidediy preferable to the Sheffield and Lincoln, mid the Sheffield branch of the London and York." Application will ke made for an Act at the cointnencement of the next session of Parliament. By order, FRANCIS PARKER, Secretary. Rahway °Rive, Rotherham, Aug. 7, 1845. • CENTENARY OF THE ROMANTIC ADVENTURES OF PRINCE CHARLES EDWARD, STYLING HIMSELF PRINCE OF WALEA. AT the suggestion orsotne friends, and in order to save himself a great deal of trouble, the undersigned proposes to REPRINT, by Subscription (the whole to be comptised in One Volume), THE• GLASGOW CO'CRANT, (He being the Owner of the only Copy extant), which was published in Glasgow during the eventful year corn menging with the 14th day of October, 1745, and concluding with the 13th day of flotober, 1746, contabring very curious extraordinary and Minute details of the movements of the UNFORTUNATE. PRINCE, beginning with A Proclamation by KING GEORGE THE SECOND, to suppress the Rebellion, and going on to give an account of the political Intrigues of Monsieur Seigneur de Boyer, the French Am bassador; the Speech of King George the Second to both Houses of Parliament ; the humble Addresses of the Lords and Commons; sun dry Songs or Poems of the time, of which the following, being a part of one of them, is a sample A LOYAL SONG, WITH A CHORUS. RUNE OF LILLIESIILLEZO. o Brother Sawney, hear you the news, Twang 'em, we'll bang em, and bang 'am up all, — An army's just coming without any shoes, Twang 'em, hang 'ern, and hang 'em up all. To arms, to arms, Brave boys, to arms ! A true English cause for your courage (loth call, Court, Country, and City, Against a Banditti, Twang 'em, we'll bang em, and hang 'em up all. 11. The Pope sends u= over a bonny brisk Lid, Twang 'em, Ste. "Who to court " English" fawn:l - wears a " Scotcli" plaid, Twang 'em, &c. To arms, to arms, Brave boys, to arms ! A true English cause, &c. Containing, further, full history of the route of the Highland army at Carlisle, at Pres ton, at Manchester; of the difficulties encountered by the Prince's officers in raising men from the exertions of the SCOTCH CLERGY, ithe Prince's Generals having ste.ted,in an intercepted letter, let" he coabi raise no number of men, for a parcel of d—d Pres byterian C—y continually preaching against Popery and arbitrary power ;" Proclamation, by King George, for a public fast and ; Letter by Prince Charles to the Mayor of Carlisle, and surrender of that City and Castle ; List of the Chevalier's Army; .Advice to tie inhabitants of Yorkshire, by the Archbishop; Lord Lorat's vacillating conduct ; Arrival of the Highland army in Glas gow, with the Prince at their head ; ths departure born that city on the 3d Di - January, 17•16; Duke of Perth's Speech, a:Wising the adven ture to be abandoned • Dissatisfacton among the Prince's rol -1 'viers ; Defeat of the Prince at Falkirk ; A striking 'account of the battle of e t inoden ; his Majesty's letter to the General Assembly; the Duke of Cumberland's Victories; Poems made on the occasion, and balla at Holvrood House ; Account of the imprisonment of the celebrated Miss :featly Cameron, &c., i c., &c. ; and, in short, a vast MEV , : of ettricata and interesting facts concerning the Rebellion. 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I'ceding the ettrnlvora at liall-pa.st Five; I'eliesats and Polar Bears lt Six ; con t ort at nalf-papt Si 3 ; and Firework!, at Bali-pant the. . . ootuui athl ICAtere Princa Clarlrs% Drcss, wltflo on h..k talon, In 1745. .Id, of thv Iffghlalpl is Rlld a ,"hits " /Lc 71115 ticess,Nl in a green , ver-blittnt-xword, a back veiv , rtnt, Ilf;)nclay, ISTkTIONAL BANK OF 'IRELAND 4 Notica Is hereby given, that the COtirt of Diroctori, at a tc,e elai meeting convened for the purpose, have, in conformity with the provisions of the deed or settlement, made a CALL on the i+hare.. holders for a farther instalment of 5/. on each SHARE, in addition to the sums which have already been paid in respect thereof, to which effect the C ,, urt of Directors have passed a Resolution, and appointed that the same shall 1.0 paid as follows, viz.-21. 10s: on the 15th of October next, and 21. 10s. on the 15th of January, 1846, such payments to be made at Messrs, Barnett, Hoares, and Co.'s, Bankers, Loml , ard-street, Londim ; or at any of the Offices of the Society at the r6llowing. places, Athloas, jroyle, Cairick-on-Stdr. Cashel. Castlerea, Charleville, Cloaakilty, elOnillel, Cork, Dungarva::, Ennis, Enniseorthy, Fennoy, av, Kantilet, Killarney, Kilrush, Limerick, Long ford,Midletovrn,;llltchelstowt, bloate, Nenagh, lolighrea, New Ross, Rathkealti, Roscomlnon, Roscrea, Skibbereen, Sligo, Tal low, Thnrles, Tipperary, Tralee, Tuam, Waterford, Westport, and Wexford By order of the Court of Directors, N. S. KING, Secretary 13 , Old Broad-street, London, Aug. 2, 1845. SALMON Ftsismo.--:-172e take continues to be fair for the season.. On Tuesday 25t; _boxes were shipped for Lon don, being the produce of three (flys' on the upper sta tions of the 'ley, which might contain abott;;:.3, 000181110 / 3 and grilse. Some days are much more productive than others. Friday last the take was very large, the average being from 60 to 100 at one tide to each station. It has been observed thatja strong east wind brings the salmon to the estuaries in great ntimbers, but it is only with a west wind that they ascend the river. Prices continue pretty steady ; salmon 7d. to Bd., and grilse:A. to 6d. per lb. A very large fish was takee at the Rhynd Cairn station (a shot a little above the Earn )en Satur day morning. This fish wei4hed 461b5., measured two feet in girth, and was something more than four feet long. It was a finely-formed fish, and' seemed to be very old, there being no teeth in its heed, with the exception of one, which wet much decayed. It was the largest salmon which has been taken in the Tay for severs.: years.—Pertlashire Courier. RAPID TELAVsi.UNG.—CApt4iii Drummond, Pitcairne, and J. Wheatley, Esq., of her Majesty's 42d Regi ment, and Lieutenant Norton, of her Majesty's 88th Regiment, resolved on Visiting Catania, with a view to ascending Mount Etna. TheyrictuallT accomplished the distance from Palermo to Catania, over` a heavy Mountainous country, in twenty-nine hours 1 On ascending the mountain they found the cold almost insupportable, 'the thermometer being 2 deg. below zero. ti n placirg a handkerchief before their mouths, it was actually .frozen to their lips. What delight, 'after leaving a country With the thermometer at 82 hi the shade! RAILWAY AVCIDEN T.—The Prfr,;:u Gaz-tie reports *hat on the 234 ult. a serious accident happened at the railroad station in that city, Until the giving way of the columns which supported the'roct. It is said that one hundred and fifty per sons were iejiired; but the above journal is so reserved in its account that.we do not learn whether any person was 1Y blllll l 2 l C ' t l 1 / 4 44, 11.- 4 LONDON.- SATURDA Y, AUGUST 9, The Lords met at two, and judgment was given in several outstanding Appeal Cases. At four ; the Royal assent was given by commission to several public and private Bina. The Appropriation Bill was r:=ad a third time, and their Lordships adjourned. The Commons met shortly before Four o'clock, and proceeded to the Bar of the Homo of Lords to hear the Royal assent given by Commission to several Bale. New writs were ordered for Belfast, in the room of Mr. EMERSON TENNENT, who has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds ; for Cirencester, in the room of Mr. CRIPPS, who has been appointed a Lord of the Treasury ; for Linlithgow, in the room of the Honourable CHARLES HOPE, appointed Governor of the Isle of Man ; for Warwick, in the room uf Sir C. Lo: 11LAS appointed a Commissioner of Greer wick Hospital and Suntlerit:nd, in the room of Lord HoWlCii,' "rho has been called up to the House of Peers. The Silk Weavers' Bill was read a third time and passed. Lord PALMERSTON presented a petition against the use of propelling engines on railways, and urged the House to adapt some legislative enactment on the subject. Lord COURTENAY brought up the report uf the Com mittee on Group X, recommending the postponement of the Hertford and Biggleswade, the Swinton and Lin-, colt; the Lincoln and Ely, and the York and North Midland, and Doncaster Extension Railway Bills. Mr. Ht-PE brought in a Bill for the improvement of the waste lands in Australia. Lord PALMERSTON then rose and, in a speech of con siderable length, directed the attention of the House to the affairs of Syria. Sir R. PEEL commenced a reply to the Noble Lord, but an lion. Member moved that the House be counted, and there being only 25 Members present, the House adjourned. In our Thursday's edition we remarked, in reference to the late colliery explosion at Aberdare, on the general neglect that appeared still to pervade our Mit.ing Districts of the very valuable recommendations of the House of Commons' Committee on " Accidents in Mines," (owing to the want of some duly constituted Executive to give effect to suggestions of this kind, when they regard only the protection of life, not the rights cf property.) Among these neglected recom mendations we especially instanced " the bricking up the final apertures that have been left, marking the site of exhausted works and demolished passages." To-day we have to notice the singular confirmation which our assumption has received by the actual verdict of the coroner's inquest on the bodies of the: sufferers rescued from this very Dyffrin Colliery : for the jury, among other things, beg to enforce the necessity for adopting "a system that will prevent the gas oozing out from the old or abandoned workings . to tram-road airways" by similar precautions. We cannot refrain from observing that we have here another exemplification of the " selfish indifference to," we are loth to call it—but, at least, the culpable carelessness of human life, which too largely operates upon the relations of masters and work men in some of the largest speculations that private capital is invested in. It was stated in the very first ac cDunt W 3 had of this catastrophe that the pit had always been in bad repute " on account of its deficient ventilation." We see nothing in the return of the in quest to disprove the justice of this received impression. Now one is irresistibly tempted to repeat the question-- hsd the better ventilation been demanded for animal chattels, or other such tangible property, instead of mere human lives, over which our anomalous law, all tenderness under some circumstances, permits under others the most irresponsible custody and control to private individuals. Had these pitmen been partridges in a preserve, or pheasants in an aviary, or sheep in a fild, does any one suppise that after the first represeh tation to their owner, that they were exposed in de fold, the aviary, or the preserve, to mephitic gases or noxious exhalations, these birds or beasts would have been left there for another day ? Why, it is not long since we read of all the leaden water-pipes commu nicatirg between the river and a dog-kennel being taken up and replaced, at a considerable expense, by wooden or clay drain pipes, on a bare suspicion that some of the houn...s had been from time to time affected with symptoms that indicated the presence of some arseniate deposit from the metal in the water. If the higher and wealthier orders thus manifest a comparative apathy about the tenderness for human life, which it is not oely one of the first objects of morality to inculcate, but should be considered one of the first duties of civilized society to enforce upon all its mem bers, it must be allowed that the orders below them have not been slow to follow their pernicious example. We gather, from a perusal of the daily reports of cases of t;ic police courts, some conclusions that creep out of sight in the elaborate organization of our table of cri minal statistics. Whatever More favourable result these latter may exhibit, we are compelled to infer the fact— tile painful and disgraceful fact—that among the in ferior classes (of the metropolitan population at any rate), crimes of violence against the person are decidedly on the increase. On many accounts (and for reasons most of them too obvious to make it necessary here to enfOrce them) this result is as extraordinary as it is deplorable. To what cause shall we attribute it ? We have long since, in our own minds, arrived at the answer to this query. We consider the result to be ascribable to the gross anomalies of our criminal jurisprudence. These anomalies, however, determine in one strangely ceteistent demonstration—namely, that the genius of our laws, in modern application, is far more vigilant for security of property than for security of life. The con sequence seems to be that persons of inferior condition take up a notion that they may, with impunity, commit any serious excesses of personal violence, seeing how in different those in superior ranks of society show them. selves to be to the personal safety, and even existence, of others. Property, indeed, as against poverty, seems to enjoy an immunity from the ordinary liabilities to civi l action, which the latter would certainly occur, for mall °lens, or even for mistaken, prosecution. Is there no chance of inducing the Legislature, in the course of the c ,wing session, to look into these anomalies, and devise some remedy for them ? A very few days ago, we published the report of a case tried at a country sessions, in which a young wo man, who had been accused of stealing some drapery in the house or shop of a small trader, was, on the clearest evidence, acquitted. During the trial the poor creature exhibited all the emotions of terror, shame, and distress which an innocent but timid female might be supposed to experience in so trying a situation. Her acquittal was greeted with the most enthusiastic, albeit indecorous plaudits of the people in the Court. But she was again arraigned and tried on further indictments, notwith standing a significant intimation to the prosecutor from the Bench that he should not proceed with them. He persisted. The woman was acquitted again ; but ever since remains in a deplorable state, consequent on the agony of her feelings under so protracted an ordeal. The defeated tradesman retires to his shop,- with no other penalty but what it is just possible he may expe rience from some occasional accesses of. remorse, or the undissembled contem p t sad disgust of his fellow-towns men. At another country assizes, in a case in which two fellow-servants had quarrelled, it appeared that the male; prisoner had inflicted a kick upon the person of the pcosecutrix, from the effects of which she had been already confined to her bed for five and twenty weeks, — was still painfully suffering—and, in ell human proba bility, never would recover. All the facts were proved to the satisfaction of the jury ; and the whole punish meet to nhich the unmanly perpetrator of this outrsge was sentenced—was six months' imprisonment . with hard labour. But might he not plead that even this visitation was too severe, when iu richer men the gross carelessness that assigns nine and twenty men employed upon and "in" their property to it violent and instan taneous death, is not visited by a deodand, even of as many pence ? ---------~b►- Swiss papers of a late-dace have been received. The discuiA,Ti • - of the Jesuit question in the Diet was fixed fizr the 3d inst. The Suss journals state that General DE SONNEN• BMW, %au commanded the tnopsi of Lucerne in the late disturbances, has return e d to his military duties •at ti vies. Letters from Copenhagen of tin: 31st mention the dis covery of a Republican plot in that cit 3. One of the leaders had fled, and taken refuge, it was suppos(d, in London. Prince FREDERICK of ILEsSE uas expected in Petersburgh, on the invitation of his father-in-law, the EMPEROR, who is desirous that he should marry the Princess WILHELMINA of ORANGE. It is not yet a year since his late wife (the Grand Duchess ALEX ANDRIA) died. Accounts from Madrid have been received to the Ist instant, and from San Sebastian to the 3d. Se%eral persons had been arrested on the lA. The QuEtst was at San Sebastian, and the physicians con sidered a long course of treatment ntcrssary for the restoration of her health. Her sister, the Infanta LuisA FERNANDA, was also suffering from ill health. All parties seem to consider tbat the marriage of the QUEEN with the son of Don CARLOS would be a dreadful eaLmity for Spain. The marriage of the Infanta LUISA with the Duke of MONTPENSIER is spoken of as a matter decided on. We have received the Paris papers of Thursday. The Moniteur publishes the official dispatch of the Maiitime Prefect of Toulon on the subject of the late fire. lie estimates the damage done at 2,400,000 francs. It has been ascertained, according to some of these jour nal:, that the fire originated in a plot among the convicts. The Jesuit establishment in the Rue des Pontes was broken up on Tuesday. The Duke and Duchess DE NEitouns and the Duc D'AusiALE, arrived at Bordeaux on the sth. M. MARTIN DU NORD, the Minister of Justice, set out from Paris on Wednesday for Eu. Accounts from Posen, quoted in these papers, state that tranquillity was perfectly restored in that city on the 30th. The French Funds rose again on Thursday : The Three per cents. ciosed on that dad• at 84f. 40c. ; u'i ICE Tty '44.1 1.1.-Sk_ The THIRD EDITION of THE SUN of 3 es- terday Evening contained— The Latest Prices of Shares from the Official List. The Latest Sporting Intelligence. The Conclusion of the Day's Proceedings before the Railway Committees of the Lords and Commons. The Weekly Return of the Circulation of the Bank of England. The List of Appointments, Bankrupts, &c. from the London Gazette. The Latest Market Intelligence. Parliamentary Intelligence of the Evening, being a full Report of the Proceedings in the House of Lords up to the hour of adjournment, and of the House of Commons up to a Quarter before Seven o'clock. RAILWAY NEW S. -11b. , :cr,6crs and others interested in Railways will find a FULL ACCOUNT of the PROCEEDINGS b2rOre the RAILWAY COMjJITTEES in the THIRD ED-1210N of THE SUN, reported up to the CLOSE v . ! EACH DAY; it also con tains the DEBATES in BOTH - HOUSES of • PARLIAMENT up to the HOUR of POST EVERY EVENING, PRICES of RAILWAY SHARES, SPORTING INTELLIGENCE by EXPRESS, and all other NEWS ARRIVING ix LONDON DURING the DAY. ORDEN the THIRD EDITION, which contains NEWS TWELVE HOURS in ADVANCE. Sun-office. 112, Strand. Now READY, in 1 vol. Bvo. (comprising as much matter as twenty ordinary volumes), with New Engravings of the Arms, &c., price 335. bound, BURKE'S PEERAGE and BARONETAGE. AN ENTIRELY NEW EDITION for 1845 ; .11aterially improved throughout, from the Personal Communications of the Nobility, &c. AND CONTAINING ALL THE NEW CREATIONS. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Greai Marlborough-street. Now ready, in evo. with Portrait, ss. bound, THE FOURTH VOLUME of M. TRIERS' HISTORY of the CONSULATE and EMPIRE, A Sequel to his " History of the French Revolution." Translated by IL FORBES.' CAMPBELL, Esq. With the sanction and approv4dof the Author. The present volume comprises, among other important and inter esting topics, the• Rupture of the Peace of Amiens—The Camp and Flotilla of Boulogne and Threatened Invasion of Rngland—The Con spiracy of Georges—The Death of the Due D'Enghlen, &c. Henry Coiburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. LAST NIGHT BUT THREE OF THE SUBSCRIPTION. THIS E VEXING Will be performed Bellini's Opera LA SONNAMBULA. Amino, 3ladarne A. Castellon; Terese, Madame Bellini ; Lisa, 3fdlie. A. Rosetti ; Count Rodolfo, Sig. F. Lablache ; Alessi°, Sig. Giubilei; Elvino, Sig. Mario. In the course of the Evening a Divertissement, in which Mdlle. Grahn will appear. To conclude with the admired Ballet of ALMA; on, La Fille de Fen. Per.phite, M. Perrot, Balfegor, M. Gosselin ; Emazor, M. St. Leon ; Alma, Mdlle. Cerito. Applications tor Boxes, Stalls, Ind Pit Tickets to be made at the Box-office, Opera-Colonnade. . . Doors open at Seven ; the Opera to commence at Half-past Seven. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. 31dHe. CERITO respectfully informs the Nobility, Subscribers to the Opera, and the Public, that HER BENEFIT will take place ON THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, BEING THE LAST NIGHT BUT TWO OI"THE SEASON. When will be presented Mozart's chef d'auvre, DON GIOVANNI. Donna Anna, Madame Grist; Donna Elvira, Madame Rosetti ; Zerlina, Madame Anaide Castellan. Don Giovanni, Sig. Fornasari ; Don Ottavio, Sig. Mario ; Il Commandatore, Sig. Botelli ; Masetto, Sig. F. Lablache; and Leporello, Sig. Lablache. To be followed by various Entertainments in the Ballet Depart ment, comprising a SELECTION from the Ballet of ALMA, with the celebrated " Pas de Fascination." Selection from the Ballet of ONDINE, including the " Tarantella,' by the Corps de Ballet, and the celebrated "Pas de L'Ombre" by 3ldlle. Cerito. In the course of the Evening " La Castellana," by Mdlle. Lucile Grahn and M. Perrot. A Selection from the Ballet of ROSIDA; ou, Les Mines de Syra cuse. Comprising "La Sicilienne," and the admired Pas by Mdlle. Cerito and M. St. Leon, and an entirely New Pas by Mdlle. Grahn and M. Perrot. To coocludo with the Divertissement of UN BAL SOUS LOUIS QUATORZki, in which Mlle. Lucile Grahn will appear as a Cavalier of the Court of Louis XIV., and will dance with Mdlle. Cerito, In Costume of the same Court, the celebrated " Minuet de la Cour and Gavotte. Applications tor Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Bott a,' ce, I,pera Colonnade. Stoors open at Seven , to comme.tce at Half-past Seven o,Clock. TIIEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. LESSEE, MR. B. WEBSTER. THIS EVENING Will be repeated Sheridan's Comedy of THE RIVALS. Sir An. thony Absolute, Mr. W. Farren ; Captain Absolute, Mr. H. lion; Faulkland, Mr. Stuart ; Acres, Mr. Webster ; Sir Lucius O'Trigger, Mr. Hudson ; David, Mr. Buck.stoue ; Mrs. Malaprop, Mrs. Glover; Lydia Languish, Miss Julia Bennett; Julia, Mrs. Edwin Yarnold. The celebrated Pianist, Leopold de Meyer, for Seven Nights more, and will perform this Evening, after the Comedy, Themes from " Lucrezia Borgia." To be followed by USED UP. Sir Charles Coldstream, Mr. Webster ; Wurzel, Mr. J. Bland; Mary, Miss Julia Bennett; Lady Clutter buck, Miss Carre. After which will be repeated a .New Dramatic Sketch, entitled MRS. CAUDLE'S CURTAIN LECTURES; or, Matrimonial C4ap ters. Mr. Caudle, Mr. Buekstone ; Mrs. Candle, Mrs. W. Clifford. THMATRE ROYAL, A.DELPLLT. UNDER Tlll.' DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTT, THIS EVENING • Will be repeated MARIE DUCANGE. Edward Lascelles, Esq., Mr. Howe ; John Itawdon, Esq., Mr. 0. Smith ; Charles Claude Prong, Mr. Wright ; Marie Ducange, Madame Celeste. To be followed by a New Farce, entitled DRAMATIC COOKERY ; or, HOW TO DISWITP A FARCE. Pythias Fizzwit, Mr. Selby; Sam Smear, Mr. Wright; Eliza, Miss Taylor; Diana, Mrs. Laws. After which, an Original Terpsichorean Burletta, called POWDER AND BALL; or, St. Tibbs i s Eve. Mr. Montgomerie Tibbs, Mr. Lambert; Captain laiglove, Mr. Selby; Jacob Gerkin, Mr. Wright; 'qrs. Montgomerie Tibbs, Mrs. Frank Matthews; Sally Knobbs, Miss Woolgar. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM, UNDER THE .MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY. THIS EVENING Will be performed a New and Original Comedy, to be called THE GOVERNOR'S WIFE, with entirely New Scenery, Dresses, and Appurtenances. Principal Characters by Messrs. Uiddear, Keeiey. F. Mathews, F. Vining, and Collier,`Miss Dawson, and Mrs. Keeley. Alter which, an entirely New, Original, atql Novel Grand Fairy BALLET DIVERTISSEMENT, entitled LES FEES. In which Lea Danseuses Anglaises will appear. To be followed by a New Farce, to be called AN OBJECT OF INTEREST, In which Mrs. Keeley will perform. To uhlch will be added an apropos Bagatelle, in One Act, entitled MRS. CAUDLE'S CURTAIN LECTURES. Mr. Caudle, Mr. Mea dows, Mrs. Candle, Mr. Keeley. To conclude with an entirely New Operatic, Dramatic, Chivalric, Fairy, Ron kindle Burlesque, entitled CI N D EREL LA. The Principal Characters by Mr. Keel's, Mr. A. IVigan, Mr. Frank Mathews, Mr. I. W. Collier, Mrs. steeley, Miss Pillars, Miss I•alrbrother, Mrs. woollkige, Miss Grove, Miss Howard, &a PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. LESSEE, MR. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING Will be performed Shakspeare's Play of AS YOU LIKE IT. Jacques, Mr. Wallack ; Amiens, Mr. Allen ; Orlando, Mr. Walter Lacy : Touchstone, Mr. Compton ; Rosalind, Mrs. Stirling. Mr. HENRY RUSSELL will sing his popular compaitions. To which will In added A COURT BALL IN 1740. In which will be introduced the Dances as performed at her Majesty's Bal Cos tume, with the Original Music. After which, THE IRISH AMBASSADOR. Sir Patrick O'Ple nipo, Mr. Collins; Lady Emily Delaney, Mrs. Brougham; Isabella, Miss Emma Stanley. AATLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITUEATRE. PROPRIETOR, MR. W. BATTY. THIS EVENING Will be performed an entirely New Grand National fapectacle, em bracing the chief features of the heroic achievements of the British Arms in Northern India, called THE CONQUEST OF SCINDB ; The Siege of Hyderabad. After which, Extraordinary Feats in the Circle. To conclude with a New Urend Ballet of Action, consisting of Mi litary "Maineuvres, Dances, Conthfits, and highly powerful effects, including the sagacious perfortminc,e of the Dog Hector, and sur prising Leap of the Horse 13eita over the Woken and Flaming Bridge, called IL DIA YOLO ABRUZZI ; or, The firigand Chief iuid the Dog at the Chateau. Box-office open from Eleven till Five. 11.1VIDGE'S Itifi Ai ,SURREY THEATRE. THIS EVENING FOR BENEFIT OF 31R. PARKER, And the Last Night of the Opera Coniriny. TO- )10 It ROW EVEN ING Will he performed Aut - , , ,r's Grand op+•ra of MASSANIELLO, Massaniello, Mr. Barker. A GRANI , CONCEIiT, wicn a Seketion from THE BOHEMIAN At: cr which, MRS - . cAtmx, WILL :DELIVER HER LECTURES. Mrs Caudle, Mr. S. Cowell. • Added to which. TUE ckiI.A.MNI FAMILY on the Tight Rope, and I'm ale Cocoa.d. To lie ..ncceedcti by the Second Act of CINDERELLA. To conclude with GIOVANNI,IN LONDON, Don Giovanni, Mien Louisa Lyon& lIIOtI WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning .. 19 minutes after 5 Evening 39 minutes after 5. TH! WEATIIEII.—Surr OrvicE, AtrausT 9 TthilitaloslßTEß, Lowest, 49 ; High 6B t, 67 ;Noun, 65. BAROMITEK, 29.57.—W1ND, S.W. Nom.—Ttie figure* which follow the worth "Lowest" and -` Highest" denote the lowest and - highest statz of the il - :erinonieter during the preceding twenty-tbur hours. Ail the other observations are made at noon. , ~, ~, s z !..-., a N.,„ ..,.? 7 . t -ri,...>-- 4•, '," : k i• ' cA, ,-v---- '';tir.r4 ~r44z9,.4 p 1.,- ~. 9 .4, _ t - 7.7 , ~,, . 1. - . - - , 1.,. r .- 14 ,,,,,,,„ ~,,, ,', ' ''"2l---_,: . i. ... i l . "- t*,, ...„' • --.44. k r 0 .- , -,,,__. ~ _ the Five per Cents. .40c. Elizii•es„ 1.292 f. 50c. ; Rouen, 1,092 f. 50c. • Vierzon, 787 E 500. ; 907 f. 50e. ; Avignon, 1,08011 ; Basle, 286 f. 23c. ; Spanish Three per Ceuta, - '38%; (lilt° Passives, 7. The following are the quotaiions for the new lines : Orleans and Bordeaux, 190 f. premium ; Boulogne, 140 f. ditto, Troyes and Montereau, 60f. ; Paris and Lyons, (Laffitte), 30f. ; ditto (Calon), par ; ditt o (G anneron ), 6f. 50c. ; Northrn Line (Laffitte), 42f. 50c. ; ditto (Rosa mel), 17f. 50c.; Tours. and Nantes (Mackenzie), 12f. 50c. ditto (Drouillard); par ; ditto (O'Neill), 5f.; ditto (Jacques Lefevre), par ; Lyons and Avignon (Lecointe), 18f. 50c.; ditto (Talabot), 35f. ; ditto. (Conpagnie Meridionale), sf. ; Bordeaux and Toulouse (Mackenzie), par ; ditto and Cette (Espeleta), 15f. ; Creil and St. Quentin, par ; Paris and sltrasbourg _(Ganneron), 12f. 50c.; Dijon and Mulhausen, par; Dieppe, 12f. 50c. _ _ LYONS, "AUG; 4.—Avignon and Marseilles, 1,0421., end of August ; Paris and Orleans, 1,247 f. ditto ; Paris and Ronan, 1,062 f. ; Orleans and Vierzon, 7851. ditto; Orleans and Bordeaux, 680 f. ; Monterean, 537 f. ditto. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Auo. 8. Boulogne and Amiens.. 1.1 1 OverYssel Bordeuax &:Meditorran ,Paris& Lyo ns (L a fitt e ) 3% Bordeaux and Toulouse , _Ditto (Ganneron's). Do. and Cette 2 IA ; Ditto (Calon's).... Dutch Rhenish ... Deudre Valley ... Paris and Rouen 41% Dieppe & Paris Junct. Paris & Strsburg (Gan- Dijon and :Mulhouse ... ; neron's) - 2 1 4 East Indian Grt Northern of France Paris and St. Quentin. (Laffitte's) Ditto (Rosamel's) Great Paris and Lyons — 'Sambre and Meuse .... 6 Jamaica Junction 6% .Strasbourg and Bask . Do. South Mdlnd J unc — Tours & Nants(M'Ken. Louvain and Jemeppe 4% ; tie's). Lyons and Avignon — , Do. (Lef e b vre ' s ) — Namur and Liege S IA Verona and Ancona.... Orleans and Vierzon Orleans and Bordeaux 11 We direct public attention to an excellent article which we copy, in another column, from the Sentinel, on the subject of rebuilding Quebec by the issue of paper money. The suggestion, we understand, emanates from that useful body, " the Society for the Emancipation of the Working Classes." SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. • HARWICH The Ladies Purse of 3 soya. each, with 15 sovs. added, for horses that never won previous to the day of entry. Heats, about ohe mile and a half. The winner to be sold for 401., in the usual, way. Mr. S. Dawson's Son of a Saint...(Hon. S. Erskine) 1 dis. Mr. Painter's Donkey Mr. Young's Catton , 3 2 1 Mr. Hobson's Villebecque Mr. Graham's Harlequin Mr. Hornby's gr gby Stumps Gr fby Stumps led off, was soon pursued by Son of a Saint, who won easy. Second heat—S on o f a Saint led off. Villebecque second. Donkey headed him at blue post, and raced with Son of a Saint in straight run. At distance Son of a Saint crossed Donkey, and was disqualified in conse quence. Third heat—Catton took the lead, and was never headed. Mr. Hobson withdrew from the fourth heat under protest. Catton walked over. A Cup, value 50 guineas, the gift of W. S. Standish, Esq., of Duxbury-park, added to a sweepstakes of five sovs. each. Mr. Collett's Coranna (Murphy) 1 Mr. A. Johnstone's Sir Henry 2 The following also started :—Susan, Lara, and Flamingo. Lara went off at a rattling pace, kept it to the turn i n t o the straight run, where he was headed by Coranna, who came in an easy winner by at least eight lengths. A good race for second place between Lara and Sir Henry. The Selling Stakes of 5 sovs. each, with 20 soya. added. Heats, one mile and a half. Mr. Palmer's Betsy Bird (W. Arthur) 3 1 1 Mr. S. Waring's Saul 8 started for the first heat, 6 for the second, and 5 for the third. MARLOW RACES-THURSDAY. The Quarry Stakes of 2 sous, each, with 20 added (once round) were won easily, in two heats, by Mr. Lamb's ch m Lady Flora (Livesey), beating Mr. Hardy's Fair Play, Mr. Wiltshire's Freystrop, Mr. Stuckey's The Lord Misrule, Mr. Gibson's Concealment, Mr. Whittington's Miss Robinson (late Crocus), Mr. Wood's Sittenham, and Mr. Smith's Five times Five. The Ring Stakes of 2 sous. each, with 20 added (twice round) were won, in two heats, by Mr. Whittington's Miss Robinson ( Hardy), beating Mr. Wesley's Jessy Hammond, Mr. Woeofield's St. Michael, Mr. Hobbs 's Bavarian, and Mr. Fane's The Mile. The first heat was won by two lengths. The winner was objected to, and the stakes are withheld. The Hurdle Stakes of 2 sore. each, with 20 added (once nund, were won, in two heats, by Mr. Bladon's Palemon ( Livesey), beating Mr. Hornsby's Donald Caird, Mr. Hardy's Little Dan, and Mr. Fowler's The Ranger., by a length. BRIGHTON RACES.LY'azDAY. Sweepstakes of 3 toys. each, with 30 added ; heats,l mile ; the winner to be• sold for 150/. if demanded, &c. ; any horse entering to be sold for 1204 allowed 41b; for 1004, 71b; 801. 121 b; (8 Subs.) Duke of Richmond's •br c by Mus, out of Belvidere (801.) 3 yrs, 6st 3 Mr. Beresford's Best Bower, 4 yrs, Bst 81b 1 4 2 Mr. Mathews' Tub Thumper (.01.) aged, Bst 31b Mr. B. Smith's Beggar Girl (801.), 5 yrs, 7st 81b 2 3 dr Betting, 2to 1 agst colt by Mus ; 5 to 2 agst Tub Thum per : and 3to 1 agst Beggar Girl. The first and srcond beats were each won by a length, and the third by three lengths. The South Down Stakes of 25 sovs. added to a sweepstake of 10 soya. each, sft for three years old and upwards. Heats, Now Course; gentlemen riders. (7 Subs.) Lord George Bentinck's Naworth, aged, 12st Mr. Brook named Alice Grey, 6 yn, lost .... 2 dis Betting-10• to 1 agst Naworth. The first heat was won by a neck. In the second heat Alice Grey ran.on the wrong side of the post, and was pulled up. The Hurdle Stakes of 5 soya. each, for horses belonging to officers of the 17th Lancers ; - 11 st 71b 'each. Mile and a quarter. ( 5 Subs. ) Mr. Dodwell's ch in Chance .... ...Mr. Itch_ 1 Mr. E. Haworth's Marengo Captain Scobell's b m Meder Won easy by two lengths; ' • • ST. LEGER BETTING ON' THE COURSE. 1 4to 1 agst Weatherbit—ta. 11 to '1 agst Old England—t. 7to 1 agst Mentor—taken , 30 to 1 agat The Pacha—t. 10 to 1 agst M. Monarch—ta. 40 to 1 agst Idas—taken DERBY. 10 to 1 agat Sting I 20 to 1 agst Arkwright (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) ABERYSTWITH RACES. —WEDNESDAY. The Cardiganshire Stakes of 15 Soya. each, 10ft. Two miles. Mr. Parr's Ninety-one, 4 yrs ...... . ..... .. (Owner) 1 Sir. Pryss's Jack Cade, 4 yrs . The Johnny Raw Stakes of 5 Sovs. each. Mile and a half. Mr. Parr's b f Minna Treil, 4 yrs (Owner) 1 Mr.• Pryse's Jack Cade, 4 yrs 2 Mr. Gough's The British Grenadier, 3 yrs 3 The Cresswood Stakes of 5 sovs. each, with 15 added. Heats, mile and a half. _ _ _ Mr. R. Soutliby's Waterloo, 6 yrs (Sadler) 3 1 1 Mr. J. B. Lloyd Phillips's The Monk, 6 yrs 1 dis. Mr. C. Powell's b g The Bruiser, 6 yrs The Town Plate, added to a Sweepstakes of 3 sous., each. Heats, mile and a half. Mr. Parr's Ninety-one, 4 yrs (Owner) 1 1 Mr. W. Simmonds na Ulysses, 3 yrs The Welter Handicap of 3 sous. each. Two miles. Mr. R. D. Jones's b g Herbert walked over THURSDAY. The Goggerdan Stakes of 10 sovs. each, with 20 added, Four miles. Mr. R. J. Sowerby's Waterloo, 6 yrs (Mr. Rowland) 1 jr. C. Powell's The Bruiser, 6 yrs 2 Tlie Member's Plate of 501. added to a Sweepstakes of 5 soya. each. Heats, two miles. Mr. Pan's ch f Ninety One, 4 yrs - (O wner ) 1 . 1 Mr. W. Simmond's Ulysses, 3 yrs 2 d The Tradesmen's Cup of 50 soya., add e d t o a sweepstakes of 10 soya. each. Mile and a half. Mr. Parr's ch f Ninety-one, 4 yrs (Owner) -1 Mr. Southby's Waterloo, 6 yrs The Ladies' Plate, added to a sweepstakes of 3 soya. each. - Heals, one mile. Mr. Pryse'i JaA Cade, 4 yrs (Dodgson) 1 1 Mi. Simmorid's Illysees, 3 yrs .. .. ... 2 2 THE PROROuATION: OF PARLIAMENT. HER MAJESTY'S SPEECH. MT LORDS AND GENTLEMEN, I rejoice that the state of public business enables me to release you from further attendance in Par- CRICKET. THE GENTLEMEN or KENT V. THE GENTLEMEN OF ENGLAND. This match Was commenced at Canterbury on Thursday, but the vvt.ather - altogether spoilt—the play. The preceding night hailteeriWry wet, .and although the morning opened with much proitise, yet; abOut eleven o'clock the rain came down in torrent's, and continued"tibtil nearly one, when . the ground becarne — completrty Saturated. The surt then shone firth in all his sPlendourascircinnstanca which appeared to summon all tile beauty — and ashioh of that part of the country, for ere — the gentlemen had taken their places in the field,,the grouild was, titre° sides - Of it, encircled in carriages, tilled with eiegantly-Attired ladies, The Earl of Wizichilsea, with a large parts' again honoured .the pro ceedings with — his presence It'beedes, Esq , 111... V., was likewise preent; with ammeroti:i company of friends; the Ilbn. F. Cavendish;: the HOIL:F. Petisonby, the /lon. S. Pon itionhy. the Hoff: 1 Grituston, in adoition- to ' almost every nobleman and gentleman of wealth "and importance in the county. The score stood as belew at the close of the day's play:-- - KENT. E. Banks; Esq., b - Coninierell., 3O W. Banks, Esq., trDenison . 3 F. A. Fiigge, c Taylor. 1, Denison ... 18 N. Felix, Esq., not nut ... 69 A. 3lynn. Esq., b E. Bayley, Esq., not our Byes 6, wide (Randolph U); Taylor 4, Corn - mere!! 4) 18, nubidls (Denison) 3 WHITEHALL REGATTA. The annual contest amongst the very respectable water men plying at Whitehall-stairs, for a purse of sovereigns liberally subscribed by the Duke - of Buccleuch, the Earl of Liverpool, Sir Robert Petl, and - others of the naility and gentry of the vicinity, took place yesterday. The race was in two heats with five scullirs. Pener, pink F. Jones, green T. Pener, red T. Jones, blue S. Pence; yellow ................. ................... 5 The start was-from oft' the Ea r l of Liverpool's, up round a boat off the New Houses, down round a boat near Hunger ford-stairs, up round a boat opposite the Duke of Buccleuch's, and finish at Whitehall.:: It was It - good and very close race. They all went klivay at the same moment, and then, after a few sharp strokes, 11. Pener led. - In rounding the upper distance boat, T. Jones was second; but, overshooting it, his opponents cut him off, and he becaMe last, but went to work r gain sharply, and overhauled S. Pener, .off Brent's-road. 11. Pence held the lead, but a little skill displayed by his op ponent, Jones, left it doubtful at one time which would be the winner; asTin passing -some craft off the Houses of Par liament, against - the tide; H. Pener went outside, and Jones taking the inside in the slack, came up scull and scull i with him. Won by half a length. • . . , GRAND HEAT. H. Pener • 1 : 1 I T. Jones .........••. 3 F. Jones 2 T. Pener The winner took the lead, and kept. it, coming in first by three or four lengths. In coming" up from Hungerford, T. Jones outrowed - T. Finer, and,took the third place. THE MURDER AT PENZANCE.--The execution o f Benjamin Ellison, for the murder of Mrs. Seaman will take place at Bodmin, on Monday nex t. It is understo od that the unhappy convict has made a fill confession of his guilt. His conduct since his condemnation has been very resigned, and he engages much in prayer, in which he is assisted by the worthy; chaplain of,the gaol,-..Plymouth Jour n al. I feel assured that you will promote and confirm, by your influence and example, that spirit of loyalty and contentment which you will find generally- pre valent throughout the country. In the discharge of all the functions entrusted to you for the public welfare you may confidently rely on my cordial support; and I implore the blessing ofiDivinis Providence on our united efforts to encourage the industry, and increase the ,comforts of my people, and to inculcate those religious and moral princi ples which are the surest foundation of our security and happiness. ROYAL THAMES YACHT CLUB.—The members of the Royal Thames Yacht Club held their monthly meeting on Thursday evening, at the British Coffee-house, Cockspur street ; Captain Wheeler (the Treasurer), in the unavoidable absence of the Commodore, presided. Captain Wheeler, on the motion for confirming the minutes, suggested that as a motion for building a cutter for the especial use of the Com modore at sailing matches, had been carried at the last meeting without notice having been previously given, that such portion of the minutes be not confirmed on the ground of irregularity. This portion having been expunged, on the above ground, the minutes were confirmed. The subject of building a new club house, and some other important motions, were postponed, owing to the absence of parties, and after ten or twelve gentle men had been ballotted for and elected, several were proposed for ballot, and the meeting broke up. . HARVEST PROSPECTS.—A broken .sky, with warm gleams of sunshine, have this morning given new heart to those who are looking with anxiety towards the ap proaching harvest. The wheat is not forward enough yet to have suffered from the recent rains— and no mischief has been done which a few days of fine weather will not repair. We have seen experienced agriculturists from all parts of the county, and we find them by no means desponding, either as to the present condition of the crops, or the ultimate . prospect of the yield-very little sunshine will bring prices down as fast as they got up, as our market of to-day has proved. —Western Times. STATE OF THE HOSIERY AND LACE TRADES.— The Nottingham trade is in a very depressed and g!oomy state. The wrought cotton hose branch is not at this moment worse than it has been in for months past, and the cut-up cotton hose branch, which has been stagnant for months, has revived a shade. The drawer and pantaloon branch is very dull, and employment scarce. The silk glove branch, after having passed through a sort of fever, has rather suddenly fallen back into its former state, which causes considerable privation amongst the workmen. In Belper and the vicinity the hosiers are attacking the rate of wages ; but the hands, long inured to suffering, seemed determined to resist.—The plain silk hose branch, after being a shade improved, has also retrograded to its old position, if not to a worse. The fancy bobbin-net trade, that is, the - Lever's fancy trade, continues extremely de pressed, and many machines and hands are standing, though we have heard it asserted that two of the principal firms have had some large orders, but this we fear is exaggerated. The stint of hours was pretty well abided by for a few days, but some of the manufacturers finding they could sell som e of their patterns, continued to work long hours : this caused the measure to be abandoned, in which attempts are made to induce Parliament to interfere. A meeting was called on Monday evening, at the . Town•hall, of the twist and warp hands, at which it was resolved to petition Parliament to limit the working hohrs of lace machines to sixteen per day. But as Parliament will be prorogued, it is said, on the 9th instant, nothing can be done this session._ The warp lace trade i s also very dull, especially the cotton trade. The silk branches have.uot felt it to the same extent, though the warp lace hands have almost taken the lead as to the restriction of hours ; mot of the frames are worked single-handed ; the long hours are confined in general to the rotary machines at times, and to those now making cloth. The all for compelling the hosiers and masters to give tickets with their work, as amended and made applicable to the Netticghani and Derby trade, passed the House of Lords on the 30th ult„ arid has re ceived the royal assent. It comes into operation on the Ist of January next. This law will cause a new era iu the hosiery trade as the system of underwerking by giving secret prices, and by private docking from the regular list of prices is now at an ca d. It will cause an equalisation of price, to be given t hroughout the trade. The Bill now extends to bagmen, and all putters-out of hosiery, who will be compelled to give tickets to their journeymen, and even to their appren ices, It will provide emplovinen , for printers to prepare torsos of the necessary schedules, etiich in some descriptions of work will require to have more than twenty entries. The large warehouses will be compelled to have extra clerks, as wil l every different description of work a distinct schedule or ticket must be given. It does not appear that the tarsiers made any opposition to this law, though in 1823, when a similar measure was proposed by Mr Perer Moore, li.l' for Coventry, they alinot unanimously petitioned against it. Nottingham Review. DEATH WHILST BATHING IN THE SEHPENTINE. Last evening Air. ail' held an inquest at the Brown Bear, Knightsbridge, on the body of William Powell, aged nineteen, who was drowned whilst bathing in the Serpentine. The deceased was an apprentice to Air. Lack, harness-maker, of Stockbridge-terrace, Pimlico, and on Tuesday last, be tween eight and: nine o'clock in the evening, he, with a fellow apprentice named Hayley, went to the Serpentine to bathe: Powell went into the water first, and having got about eight or nine yards in the river from the shore, he was observed by his companion to be struggling in the water, and tried to call for assistance, but was unable. He sunk, .and an alarm having been given, the boats belonging to the Royal Humane Society came to the spot, and in ahou, ten . minutes the body was recovered, and conveyed to the receiv ing -house, where every means were resorted to to restore animation, but without effect. Verdict, " Accidental death." A gentleman present wished to know if the Royal Humane Society thought three men sufficient to watch the numerous bathers? Air. Charlier, the secretary, said that they would like to have double the number, if they had sufficient funds; the present was the only accident of a fatal character that had occurred this season, although the number of bathers had considerably increased. New oats were cut last Monday fit Cromwell, but generally speaking, that (as well as other grain) is remarkably late, and the rainy weather very much militates against its ripening.—NoffingharnJournal. A MAN KILLED BY A BULL.--On the arrival of the down ttain at Selby, on Tuesday morning, the body of a man of the name of Isaac Woodcock, was discovered lying at the bottom of one of the caravans, which contained a bull, be longing to Earl Fitzwilliam, whilst proceeding to the exhibi tion of the Yorkshire Agricultural Society at Beverly. When the discovery was made, it was also ascertained that the bull had his fore feet placed on the shoulder of the unfortunate suf ferer; and that the unfuriated animal had also struck him with his horns very severely at the back part of the head. Life was quite extinct.—Doncaster Gazette. TESTING THE SECURITY OF RAILEOADS.—Yester ! day, on account of the long •continued heavy rains, the Direc tors of the Great Western and of the London and Birmingham Railroads caused an experimental trial to be made on those railroads, for the purpose of a...tertaining the solidity of the roads and blocks on which the iron work is affix,d, also to in vestigate the state of the embankments. The examination was very satisfactory, the roads being found perfectly secure, * 7- A tobacconist, who recently entered the happy state of wedlock at the church of one of the principal parishes Of South-West Essex, in the fulness of his joy at the con urn niation of his wishes, presented the officiating minister and clerk_with packets of genuine Havannah cigars. —Essex paper. NAVAL INT.:VI,LIiia,.:NCI --- LAUNCH OF THE AVT..r , iGEI-;, This steam-frigate was launched at Devonport Duckyard on Tuesday afternoon, at five o'clock, in good style, in the pre sence of the authorities and a large concourse of all classes of spectators. The interesting ceremony of naming the frigate was gracefully performed by Miss Harding, a nit ce of the gal lant Admiral Superintendent Sir Samuel Pym, K.C.B. The Avenger after being launched was taken alongside the sheer hulk, the following day she was ma=ted, and yesterday was taken into dock. The following are her principal dimensions, draught of water, &e. Length from fore part of figure-head to after part of taffrail on upper deck ... Breadth to outside paddle-boxes Length on the upper deck ... Breadth extreme of ship ... ••• Eztreu:e height from top of figure-head to fal,e keel ••• •• ••• ••• Extreme height of taffrail to ditto Depth in hold ... Draught of water—fore Ft. In. ... 236 ... 65 ... 210 39 36 11 33 5 25 7 9 10 10 0 Ditto ditto—aft Burden in tons, 1444 36-94ths. Horse power, 65 Speaking of this vessel on Saturday last, our western Con temporary, the Plymouth Times, makes the following apposite remarks : The floor of the midship section of this vessel is flat com pared with either of the steam-frigates hitherto built by the Navy Office ; yet we venture to predict, from the immense masses of timber unnecessarily employed in her construction, together with the great quantity of copper bolts and metal dump fastenings, she will, in consequence of the proper form not being preserved throughout, be just as bad as the Retribution and others which have preceded her. A very little investigation will make this quite evident. " The Avenger, to a draught of water of 17 feet even keel, has a displacement of 2,450 tons. _ " To si light draught of water of 10 feet, which most pro bably will be the mean draught when launched, without b liast, the displacement will be about 1,120 tuns. Now, as is evident, the difference, viz , 1,330 tons, between the light and load draught will be all the capacity she has for stores, equipment, engines, coals, &c. " At a moderate calculation, the weights required will be as follows : Engines, gear, &c., for 650-horse power 550 tons. Coals ... . . 500 do. General armament, &c., suppose as Penelope 6OO do. Total ... ... 1,650 To meet this 1650 tons ther e is, as we have shown , only 1330 tons. Difference 320 tons. Consequently the Avenger will be short of displacement 320 tons ; and taking 16 tons to the inch at her load line, will give an immersion of upwards of 1 foot 6 inches beyond the draught of water, as shown by drawing. •' What is the precise armament intended for her through out we believe no one not in the secrets of the Navy Office knows. It is wisely preserved as a Protean quantity to veer and haul upon, so that the constructors may be committed to nothing; and if the ship should not happen to suit the arma ment, why then they will make the armament suit the ship, as in the ca,e of the Albion's 68- pounders, except that indiscreetly that armament was promulgated at an early period. " If we may venture to judge from the' size of the ports on the main deck, she cannot well have an armament greater than a 32-pounder, if so large—her ports being only 3 feet 3i inches long, by 2 feet 10 inches deep ; whilst a line-of-battle ship's lower deck. port is 3 feet 6 inches long, and 2 feet 11 inches deep. . " The Whole of the main deck is so loaded with cabins, that whatever armament be placed on this deck, it will he impos sible to work the guns without clearing them away, whilst the cabin-windows are so high, it will puzzle any one how to make a gun bear aft in the line of the keel, now there are no after ports appropriated to this purpose. So much for this new specimen of the anti-science school, and so much for at least 30,004. of the public money, together with another 30,000/. for the engines." THE JAwus STiAM-SLOOP.—This new steam-sloop, de signed by the Earl of Dundonald, is alongside the sheer hulk at Chathath. On Saturday she proceeded on trial as far as Short Reach, at the rate of 3i miles per hour ; but it appears she had some difficulty in getting back in the evening. Last week there were a great many pipes bursted on board, and the plumb,rs and braziers were at work night and day. • The Janus was to have gone to the Nore on Wednesday morning; but after having her steam up for several hours, there remained little prospect of her moving. THE LATE FIRE AT CHATHAM ON BOARD THE SOUTH AMPTON FRIGATE.—On Monday last an account appeared in the daily papers of a fire on board the Southampton frigate, at Chatham, the particulars of which, as to the alarm it created, were very exaggerated. A fire certainly did take place, but it was of such a trivial nature, and the alarm was so slight and transient, that it was not worthy of record ; but as an incorrect statement did appear in print, it is only fair that the correct version should be given. The shipwrights of Chatham dock yard had been opening the ship preparatory to the annual sur vey, and having ripped down a part of the lining of the after bread-room, . they left a quantity of chips there. The shipkeeper was ordered to clear it out, for which pur pose he went down with a candle and lante rn , b u t w h i l st engaged, his attention was called by the bay to a signal made by the Poictiers, ordinary guard-ship, which, it ap pears, it was the duty of the shipkeeper to answer, and he immediately proceeded on deck for that purpose, leaving the light in the bread-room. From some cause the lantern fell oil one side, and the horn having been burned through the flames communicated to the chips on the floor and from thenee to the liniug. The women on board perceiving the smoke ascending, gave the alarm, and assistance being imme diately on the spot, it was extinguished in a very few minutes. It is true the sentinel on the wharf opposite the ship rang the alarm bell, at his post, which was the only bell sounded. Not a musket was fired; and, as for the Poictiers firing her guns, the idea is absurd, as it is weil known that the few gulls she has on board are merely to exercise the boys of the Ordinary, and are neier discharged, not even on the most urgent occasions, as the ship, being close to the dock-yard, the firing of her guns would cause a great destruction of glass. The Calliope, 26, Captain Stanley, is lying in Plymouth Sound. The Adventure, transport, left Chatham, on Wednesday, for Devonport, with stores. The Tortoise, lighter, arrived at Devonport, from Pembroke, on Monday, with stores. CHATHAM, AUG. B.—The Scout, 18 guns, corvette, Com mander Hon. James R. Drummond, was paid off this day. 1 sergeant, 1 drummer, and i 5 privafes of the Royal Ma rines, joined this day their head.quarters at this division from the ship. The Teazer steam-frigate is ordered for building; her keel is alongside the slip from whence the Alutine brig was launched. The shipwrights are engaged laying the blocks fur its reception, and the vessel will be commenced building in a few days. The Calypso, 20 guns, was put out of dock and masted on the 4th inst., being nearly completed for the pendant. The Janus steam-sloop was taken into dock the same day to clean the copper on her bottom, and she was put out on the sth ; and the Active, 36 guns, taken in to be coppered. The Rover, 16 guns, in dock. The required repairs of this vessel are of so extens►ve a nature that the Admiralty have ordered her to be taken to pieces, and shipwrights are to be hired for that purpose. Janu,c steam-Sloop—This unfortunate and most expensive craft has at length made a start. She was ca:t off from the sheer hulk about eleven o'clock A. M., yesterday, and by the aid of a high pressure of steam and canvass, managed to get down the river nearly as far as Sheerness, when she returned, and arrived at the sheer hulk at about four r.at. There is cer ta►nly a slight improvement in her movements, but still not one-third of what ►s required. SA - 11PPING.—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, AUG. 9.—Wind S.W., fine clear weather, and fresh breeze. DEAL, A UG. B.—Arrd. Diana, New Orleans, for Bremen ; Symm4try, Chudleigh, Quebec ; Wind W. to W.S.W., moderate.—Sld. Eudora. Hobart Town; Mary hay, Laun ceston ; Wonder, Wortf, Batavia. OFF MARGATE, AUG. 7.—Blenheim, Jackson, Quebec. OFF ST. ALDAN'S liEsp.—Catherina, St. Thomas for Hamburgli. OFF PENZANCE, AUG.' 7.—Herald, Coubro, Sydney, New South Wales; George Andrews, La Guayra, ter Altona. CARDIFF, A co. 4.—Arrd. liursteliffe, Quebec. OFF FALmcrrii, AUG. 7.—Buctanch, ktio, and sailed for Haniburgh. :^IVANSEY, AUG. 7.—Arrd. Texian, Alleyne, Valparasio; Cuba, Youlden, Cuba. _ LivEnroot, AUG. B.—Wind W.N.W., moderate.—Arrd. Viola, Goodedge, Bahia and Macao; Commerce, Cvgnet, and J Ines M. Cooper, New Orleans; iklemphi, C3offen, Charleston; Waterloo, Allen; New York; Jewess, Prince F. (Ward's Island. Std. Aret bust', Quebec • William Fisher, Montreal. Ott; Laura, Bahia; Naoob and .Helen. Hamil ton —. LYTHAM, AUG 6. —Sid. Royalist, Quebec. GLyi)E, AUG. 6.—Sld. Rose, Jamaica ; Harlequin, Per aul'ouco DUBLIN, AuG. 6.—Sld. Foig-a-liallagli, Sir James Mac. ionell, Kingston, and k'agan Bilac, Quebec ; tinny, St. rotas, :\ .:;w Brunswick. HuLt., AUG. 7.—Arrd. Collecta, Rio Grande, Quebec. COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT. (mom Oust OWN COURESPONDENT.) COWES, Ana. 8. Her Majesty, Prince Albert, and suite left Cowes this morning, embarking on board the Fairy steamer, which eame Liu the harbour to receive her; she is much better ...dapted for embarking, and cruising also, inside the Wight than the Victoria and Albert. The men are employed hay and night in buikling the new pier for the royal landing place; the Fairy will be able to lie along side of it. The company is begining to arrive fur the regatta. The following are the arrivals at the Globe Hotel, on the South Parade:—Lord Warnelitre, Lord Castlereagh, Captain Pen man, Colonel White, M.P., Mrs. and Miss White, Duke of Leeds, Lord Seabam, Sir John Nicholls, E. Niel - nits, Esq., H. Eaton, Esq., M.P., Lord W. Graham, Captain Murray, Hon. Captain A. Berkeley, W. Watts, Esq., Mr. and Mrs. Linton, L.rd Ceutalupe. Lidy Shadwell has taken Egypt House till the middle of November. • Lord Wilton is entertaining the Duke of Beaufort and a large party of fashionables at Clitf House. ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. Aug. 4.—The cutter yacht Caprice, William Potts, Esq., from Cork ; Nautil us , cutter, R. S. Wardab, Esq., Wey mouth; i tiGanymede, cutter, J. H. W. I'. S. Pigott, Esq., Plymouth; Fairy, schooner, W. Peareth, Esq., from the eastward. 6 th.—Galatea, schooner, C. R. M. Talbot,-Esq., from the westward. ith.—Caroline, cutter, Crofton Vandeleur, Esq., Ireland; Phantom, cutter, Hon. George Byron. SAILINGS. Aug. 2.—Resolution, schooner, Duke of Rutland, eastward. YACIITS AT All ABOUT' fliE STATION. Schooners —Galatea, Xarita, Georgian, Flirt, Camilla, Fairy, Maud, Merlin, Esmeralda, Zephyretta, Gitana, Syren. Cutters—Tear, Sparrowhawk, Frisk, • Alarm, Peterel, Avenger Whim, Corsair, Nymph, Amazon, Falcon, Osprey, Will-o'-the-Wisp, Ganymede, Turquoise, Stermfinch, Noran, Medina, Gauntlet, Wave, Nautilus, Intrepid, Caprice, Heroine, Canline. Yawls—Columbine, Eagle, Lugger, Gulnare. On Tu,sday next the struggle for the silver cups com mences,and if we have such tine breezes as the little yachts had at Hyde and Southampton there will be fine sport; it is just the weather for our large yachts, while it destroyed the fleet at the ,!4outharnpten Regatta. In our match three yachts lost their masts, and one her bowsprit. 'f heir barques were built for little lakes and not to brave the sea. liELMSDALE, AuG. 4.—Our herring . 64hing• atteridesi with little success during the past week, The high.st average we had was 2 crane upon Tuesday—another day w e had Li mans—the general average fur the season is :f:23 mans. The salmon fishing is far short this season, not h a il the thequan titygrilse fi s hi ng h as done well, last season —few are lo o k e d f or ntietayrelyaufoguhrt timeshe re lasttiie year, n h t ;t after this date.—lnverness ttrant. liament. In closing this laborious session, I must express to you my warm acknowledgments for the zeal and assiduity with which you have applied yourselves to the consideration of many subjects deeply affecting the public welfare. I have given my cordial assent to the Bills which you presented to me fur remitting the Duties on many articles of import, and fur removing restric tions on the free application of capital and skill to certain branches of our manufactures. The reduction of taxation will necessarily cause an immediate loss of revenue, but I trust that its effect in stimulating commercial enterprise, and en larging the means of consumption, will ultimately provide an ample compensation for any temporary sacrifice. I have witnessed with peculiar satisfaction the unremitting attention which you have bestowed on the measures recommended by me to your considera tion, at the commencement of the Session, for im proving and extending the means of Academical Education in Ireland. You may rely upon my determination to carry those measures into execution in the manner best cal culated to inspire confidence in the Institutions which have received your sanction, and to give e&ct to your earnest desire to promote the welfare of that part of my dondnions. From all Foreign Powers I continue to receive assurances of their friendly disposition towards this country. The Convention which I have recently con cluded with the King of the French for the more effectual suppression of the Slave Trade will, I trust,.by establishing a cordial and active co-operation between the two Powers, afford a better prospect than has hitherto existed of complete success in the attainment of an object for which this country has made so many sacrifices. GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE Or COMMONS, I thank you for the liberality with which you have voted tha Supplies for the service of the current year. MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN, On your return to your several counties, duties will devolve upon you, scarcely less important than those from the performance of which I now relieve you. 1117 . 4410 'DITOR OF II E.: SUN Slit,—l am a constant reader; of your very valuable paper, which 1 prefer to all other London papers, and beg to direct your atter...i.o., I think, you could do great justice. sk watt At stair:tier given to Sir Henry Potting! , in London, in the latter part of his speech, be said, " That to respect to the introduction of missionaries into China, there ought to be great caution used, as the Chinese were a suspi cious people, and it would be most impolitic to do anything that would do away with the friendly feelang so fortunately sub sisting between us." In corroboration of the soundness and propriety of tali opinion of Sir Henry Pettinger, I beg leave to give you the Duke of Wellington's opinion en the same subject as to our East India possessions, from his speech in the House of Lords, Aug. 14, 1638 ,—he said, " He had seen the mission aries at work in India, and hit witnessed the little or no pro' greys they made, while, at the same time, they created a very considerable degree of jealousy." I hope, Mr. Editor, that y o ° will pardon the liberty I have taken, but I have such a sin cere wish to see Great Britain at peace with all nations, mere particularly so when O'Connell and the repeaters are s° anxious to tee her brought into difficulties, that they ma y the more easily carry out their designs. A. LOVER OF TRUTH AND ORDER. August 3, 184.5. BONE MILLS AND PUNISHMENT WHEELS IN UNION WORKHOUSES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUrv. Sfa,—That a very many improper transactions are car rying on tity4 in some ttnioirworknouses is as clear as that the houses•have been built. Sir J. Graham expressed his astonishment at the statements made by Mr. Wakley in the House of Commons this day week, and said he c , iuld not believe the assertions ; if what was stated be true, he must have heard of the cirmmstances before. L t not the Home Secretary be deceived; he may depend upon it that in some union-houses transactions take place which he little thinks of. The c ,untry has paid officers in abundance, beginning with the poor-law commissioners and downwards, and yet (even from % hat has been broached in Parliament during the last six months) we have most disgraceful transactions carried on in union workhouses. It is high time Sir James Graham set about having those scandalous transactions put an end to.—Your obe dient servant, A CLOSE 06SERYEIL Aug. 8, 1845. THE BRAZILIAN PIRATES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUIV. Sta,—When the Felicidade was captured by the Wasp , there being no slaves on beard, was st.e a legal prize and & British vesiel until condemned by the Mixed Commission Court at Sierra Leone? If the Felicidade was not an adjudged legal prize of the British Government, was a British naval officer justified i° using the Felicidade, a Braz Tian vessel, in capturing another Brazilian vessel (the Echo) even having slaves on board? If the Felicidade was still under the Brazilian Governuteoty the vessel not having been adjudged to be a legal prize when the crew of the Echo was placed on board, was not any offence committed by any part of the Echo's crew, on board th e Felicidade, liable to be adjudicated by the Brazilian Govern ment, and not by a British court of justice, the capture of the Echo being supposed to be illegal, not having been shade by British officers trom a British ship ?—Yours, &c., Ilfracombe, Aug. 8. D. THE CONDEMNED PIRATES AT EXETER :Th e Western Times says that on W e d nes d ay a further resin" until the 25th November, for the pirate slavers left for Wow / tion at Exeter, was received by the Governer of the gaol ° that city. GLASGOW ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO.—It will be seen, in reference to the advertisement in another column, that a singularly interesting work is about to be published, 13 . ,i, subscription. It is a rep u bli ca ti on o f t h e o ld Gl a sgol Courant, from the 14th of October, 1745, to the 13w October, 1746, which gives a complete detail of the mow silents and romantic adventures of the Pretender. t he work has been undertaken by William Meikleham, LLD" solcitor, in Glasgow, and secretary to the University. He jg the son of Professor Meikleham, and is in possession, w e be lieve, of the only copy extant. As a record of news, notices, and advertisements, of the inhabitants of Glasgow 160 years ago, the work still be a great curiosity, and, there cannot be the least doubt, that it will b e grea tl y pr i ze d b y a ll l ove rs of ancient relics, and others desirous of perusing the records ei their forefathers.—Extr ac t e d f rom t h e Liverpool Mercers!° August 8. of CAUTION TO ADVERTI SERS .—A no ve l species - fraust has lately been discovered in connexion with adle" tisereents, which only requires mention to put the public on their guard against the system of victimization, which, ° far as it has at present gone, appears to have produced a° ample revenue for the gang of vagabonds concerned in th 6 affair. The most successful part of this plan has been 113 obtaining payment fo r a d ver ti seme n ts supposed to be ,in in small weekly a n d mont hl y per i odicals, but whic h periodicals have really no existence, the names of substaty tial booksellers being given as the publishers to prevent eel; picion or inquiry. Of course persons advertising under s uch circumstances have only themselves to blame for not exe; • 1 cising prope r cau ti on i n see i ng t h at the i r advertisemen t s appear before they pay the money, and a little experience may' ° perhaps, teach them wisdom. But the system extends furth er than this. The sa me p ar ti es h ave expressed their willingness t ° relieve their fri en d s wh o h ave h onoure d t h em w i th orders of th_t i trouble and inconve n i ence o f ta ki ng t h e i r regu l ar advertiseme nt . to the daily journ a l s . s t a ti ng t h at t h ey are al l owed a comm ission I of 2-i per cent., which, if th e a d vert i ser were to go hims elf' he would not get. It does not seem that they have done mu': in this way at present, though the default has not arisen from their want of inclination, but f rom want of-patronage- ''',. cases where they have obtain e d suc h or d ers t h e a d vert i s emen t s have never appeared, though th e y h ave c h arge d an d r eceived the money for them. The receipts seen for sums ai on till' system of advertising bear the s : victuals of two or p th d ree ind,r victuals evidently in disgui se d h an d s , an d t h e bill s are gener aall made out for amounts of between 2/. and 31. IMPORTATION OF FOREIGN CATTLE, FRUIT, 84C.- -- ; A very large quantity of cattle, fruit, and other descriptions of provisions, ,have again been brought. to this country foes Holland and other parts of the continent within thew fe w days. The Dutch ste am - s hip B atav i er, w hi ch arrived at the St. Katherine's Steam Wharf, from Rotterdam, on Wedge'' t; day afternoon, had on b oar d th e large number of 74 head u " oxen and c ows, and 60 sheep, all of which were in excellent'' condition, and were landed and delivered with all possible dispatch. This vessel also brought 646 baskets of curreatst“ besides a large quantity of melons, poultry, yeast, and other ',, articles of Dutch produce and ma nu f acture. Th e GenerP. ,, . - Steam Navigation Company's vessel, Rainbow, which at'''!`' rived at the St. Katharine's Steam Wharf, from Havre, 4 1 . 1 1 11 ; -; , the following evening, had a large quantity of plums and egg._ besides a variety of other articl es ; an d th e C ompany ' s vesselat,. the Tourist, from Calais, a n d th e E ar l o f Li verpoo l, f ro m Or! , tend, on the same day, had also a large quantity of poultry'' t, eggs, and butter, and other articles for consumption in tan' country. It is remarkable to how extended a period the its '' pertation of currants are taking place from Holland, fro m ' : which country the importation of that peculiar description , fruit appears to be chiefly confined, whereas the cherry season, - having in a g rea t measure cease d, t h e f ru i t now b rought from t ,.., ' French ports co ns i s t s o f pl ums principally, unripe walnuts fo r pickling, p ears , & c . I n t h ese t hi ngs t h e F rench season appear s to be considerably in advance of ours in the production of suc h articles. SEVERE HAIL STORM.—An immense shower of bail fell at BoWood, the seat of the Marquis of Lansdowne , e ° Thursday afternoen, by w hi c h t h e g l ass i n hi s L or dshiP . 'e houses and geenhouses was destroyed, to the value, it is esti mated, of 5001. Much i n j ur y was a l so d one to t h e b ea n° . pines and plants, and many of the trees in the park al stripped of their leaves. I n th e ne i g hb our h oo d t h e w h ea t an the beans were cut down by the hailstones as if by a s cythe; The roaring of the tremendous storm at Bowood was heard e Caine, which is two miles distant, for full five minutes befor e its approach to that t own . S o l ou d was t h e appal li ng so u° that the people in the streets stopped to listen to it, not being able to conceive what was the immediate cause of it. Consi derable injury was also done at Rumsey House, the residence of Mr. Angell, arid at Bowden Park. The hailstones were re markably large, some of them being an inch in circumferenc e ' —Devizes Gazette. TERRIFIC AND DESTRUCTIVE THUNDER STOltg* —About four o'clock on the afternoon of Thursday, the 3 16 C ult., two clouds, like immense mountains, were observed ar prnaching each other from opposite points, the one cioniel from the dire c tio n o f Alelksharn, and the ether from that Chippenham. They moved alo n g sl ow l y , s il ent l y , an d rnaie' .l' ',„;- cally, till they neared ea c h o th er , over t h e seat o f T. let• S. Sotheron, Esq., M.P., at Bowden Hill, when, coming into Cati lision, an appalling nois e was h ear d, as if a t h ousan d pieces° artillery had been simultaneou s ly di sc h arge d, an d repeated at intervals of a second only. The war amongst the element , n evi became grand in the extreme. The clouds, dividing and recediog for a short space, instantly returned to the conflict, like s° many huge and infuriated monsters striving for victory' As if stunned by the violence of the second charee, they ,It drew up in parallel masses, pursuing a north. easterly diree- lion, skirmishing in their s ull en movements towards Derrr hill and Stteiley. Unable to restrain their mutual wrath any ,!, longer, the contest wa s renewe d w i t h re d ou bl ed f ur y, when the rain descended in t orren t s , accompanie d w i t h shower' . „,, . of hail-limes of various forms, and of extraordinary ; magnitude, tome of them measuring three inches .°: circumference. The descent of these sharp, angu i r f '- and ponderous congelations, committed such Idisc ule r among the windows, fi e ld s , an d gar d ens o f the p.OO cottagers, breaking their gl ass i n a t h ousan d f ragmen ts ; euttief their potatoes, peas, bea us , an d every spec i es o f garden ro duetions, and laying them prostrate • and literal!), thrashing their wheat in the ear. It i s supposed that a hundred pounds will not cover the los s su s tai ne d by M r . C o l e , a s mall allot' at Studley. From Studley the storm took a more easterly direction, and passed over Bowood, where it committed Kea' havoc. Besides breaking a number of windows in the mansion' thirty thousand squares of glass were demolished among th e frames and hoi.h ouses o f t h e Ma r q u i s o f L ans d ow ne. Forth_ nattily the tempest did not extend to m uc n more than a mil s in breadth, and about three mil es i n length:l ,4l6)lll Independent. GROSS CASE OF NEGLECT.—MANSLAUGHTE Re-- Last night Mr. Bedford held an inquest at the Feathers, Dean' r street, Westminster, on the body of James Smith, aged fon t months, the illegitimate offspring of Ann Smith. From th e evidence of severel females residing in the same house with. the mother of the dec e ased, it appeared th a t the deceased was oro' i ! in St. Ma rg ar e t' s wor kh ouse , w hi c h p l ace th e m other left _n March last with t h e d ecease d, w h o was th en a fine healt hy child. Shortly after the mother was in the habit of lesell • the deceased alone in the room for the wLole of the day, on! r. turning home at night intoxicated; and but for the kindness its of die witnesses, who were frequently attracted to it by cries and feint, it would have had no food. For the last six !weeks the deceased had 'gradually wasted away, and on Thursdayf_ e n : last it presented such a pitiable appearance of skin a nd ? ° . b ., that the police were made acquainted with the case, and i te, deceased, who was four;d alone in the room in a dyingttad was removed to the workhouse, in which it expired o n 13 _ nesday last. The mother, who was found in a neighbou a r.il public-house playing at cards with some soldiers, was t aken into custody, and remanded by the magistrate to await result of the present inquiry. Mr. White, surgeon, of Story 's ' . gate, who had opened and examined the body, said be cou l d find no organic disease sufficient to account for his death, and he attributed its death to atroa, through want of car e and nouns-tin - rent. Ihe jury, after some consultation, retu rns Coroner verdict of manslaughter against Ann Smith ; and the issueei his warrant (or her committal to Neegate. ~ 1 , 17 a i ker, EXHIBITION OF PUBLIC FEELING.—Mrs. her who was ac qu i tte d on T ues d ay o f t h e al l ege d po i s oning fo 0 et to son, sells. eed to Lockerbie on Thursday last. We re gr et in learn that something like a popular out iire..k has occurr edt, 13 _ consequence of this step, which was certainly an imprude:. et j. in the state of iris leeling. She war hooted by a criL d Locker' at Aioffat ; sod similar treatment awaited her at . _ hu,s _ bia, where In r sage was burned b..fore the it.- doer, 0 .. t_ ., ,,,,,.. day eteriing. Ceesiderable excitement s , ill prev,als it) Itu bet.-- Duntfiies Cakricr. ALL A LIN -E. ' -0 ---On Niot ,, l. • .'" ;: rt i c r . 4. 0 Hoyl., surgeon, of Ileighingron, near ). Lincoln, the of whose mystetious tiisappeariice camed so much exc i :;: meet a short time ago, arrived at e his home from a rusticat'?"- in the neighbourhood of Spilsby, it is said.—ridscv lsghsl.4. Chronicle. TR E THE S UN, LONDON,_SATITRDAY EVENING, A TTGTTST 9, 184F1/2. 11 1 ,`