The Sun. — London, England, 1845-07-02 00:00:00

ENGINEERING EVIDENCE. (From Punch.) Usually the most profitable part of the present rail way mania consists in persons going before the COM mittees of the House of CoMmons, to give what is called engineering evidence. Engineers are consequently in ♦ery great request; and, while they are at their present t remendous premium, Punch has it in contemplation to t ake a few pupils, and qualify them for giving their tes timony at ten guineas a day from each Committee before which they are examined. Punch undertakes to qualify any one to pass an exa mination in the following triumphant style, for a bonus of 50/. and a share in the profits of the evidence : Q. Now, Sir, can you explain the engineering advan tages of this line ? A. I can. Q. Do so, if you please, in your own manner. A. It is obvious that if I take a mean isosceles triangle of three and'a quarter, it gives a gradient of five to the square inch, and thus tunnelling will be avoided through at least one-half the line. Q. But how about the embankments ? A. If I cut a square inch out of a rhomboid, and throw it off at right angles, it is clear that there can be no support to the sides. It; on the other hand, I esta blish a fulcrum on the surface of a spheroid plane, it is impossible that the embankments can fall in ; and this, I take it, is the great advantage of the proposed line. The CHAIRMAN—AIIow us to ask, Sir, whether you think a gradient of two will be sufficient ? A.—Certainly I do. If I had a lever and a'screw now in the room, I would undertake to show in five minutes that a patent axle working on a broad gauge and going consecutively in rotation after a double stuffing box would be of itself sufficient to do all that was required. This answer caused the greatest excitement in the Committee-room, and strangers were at once ordered to withdraw that the Committee-room might deliberate. In about a quarter of an hour the public were re-ad mitted, and the Chairman said he had only one more question to ask of the last witness. It was simply this —Can it be possible for the broad gauge to wear out the cylinder of a single valve, without tearing off the siphon cock from the main boiler ? The witness, after making a few drawings in his note book, and a reference to a five-foot rule, with which he measured the table in three different directions, answered deliberately, and with great emphasis—Certainly not. The Chairman immediately announced :the preamble of the Bill to be proved; and the rush to the door was so overwhelming that our reporter was carried into group Z, and thence into Palace-yard cab-stand. Ex presses were waiting for every part of the kingdom, and shares immediately went up to 75, at which everybody refused to realise; but a flaw having been discovered after every one had left the room, and before the Com mittee had finally broken up, the Bill was subsequently declared to be lost, and the shares fell to 2, with a down ward tendency. THE EDINBURGH REVIEW, No. CLXV. will bct published on WEDNESDAY NEXT, July 9th. CONTENTS I. VESTIGES OF THE NATURAL HISTORY OF CREATION, 11. THE HON. MRS. NORTON'S CHILD OF THE ISLANDS. 111. LUTIIER'S CORRESPONDENCE AND CHARACTER. IV. THE BOKHARA VICTIMS. V. LIFE, GENIUS, AND DRAMAS OF MOLIERE. VI. MACGREGOR'S COMMERCIAL STATISTIChI. VII. LORD ROBERTSON'S POEMS. VIII. TIIE OREGON QUESTION. London : Longman and Co. Edinburgh A. and C. Black. THE ARMY. ARRIVAL OF TROOPS FROM BOMBAY AND MADRAS.—Last night, about ten o'clock, the following detachments of regi ments serving in India arrived at the Invalid Depot, Case mate Barracks, Brompton, consisting of 1 sergeant and 21 privates of the 14th Light Dragoons, with 7 women and 10 children, and the 2d Queen's, 5 sergeants and 37 privates ; 13th Light Infantry (Prince Albert's Own), 2 privates ; 17th, 2 sergeants, 4 corporals, and 35 privates, with 2 women and 3 children ; 22d Regiment, 1 sergeant, 1 corporal, 3 drum mers, and 45 privates, with 11 women and 16 children; 28th, 4 sergeants, 2 corporals, and 46 privates, with 7 women and 11 children ; 78th Highlanders, 1 sergeant and 10 privates, with 3 women and 6 children ; making a total of 19 serjeants, 11 corporals, 4 drummers, and 218 rank and file, 34 women, and 46 children. The troops were in command of Major John G. S. Gilland, of the 2d Queen's, with Capt. Wakefield, 28th, Lieut. Wade, Lieut. Williams, and Lieut. Mitchell, three officers of the 13th Light Infantry. The above embarked at Bombay, on board the Herefordshire, 1,400 tons burden, Capt. Richardson, for England, on the 24th February last, and arrived off Graves end on Monday, the 30th June, after a passage of four months and four days, during which time the troops lost by death 28 men, viz.: —1 man, 17th; 3 men, 14th Light Dragoons; 7 men, 2d Queen's ; 6 men, 22d ; 4 men, 28th ; 4 men, 86th ; and 3 men, 78th Highlanders, and 2 children. Major Ken nett, of the Honourable Company's service, a passenger, and Mr. Porter, steward of the Herefordshire, died on the voyage. One man of the 2d Buffs, of the name of Ed wards, a prisoner, under sentence of a court-martial, came with the troops. The men of the 28th are those who were providentially saved from that malignant fever which nearly carried off the whole of the regiment during the time of its attack with the Beloochees, on the 15th June, 1842, at the taking of Sinde. The troops will undergo medical inspection previous to their discharge on their respective pensions. A detachment, consisting of 31 men, with 3 women and 7 children, belonging to the 94th Regiment, under the command of Captain Doar, arrived yesterday afternoon at the Invalid Depot, from Gravesend, where they disembarked from the ship True Briton. This detachment embarked at Madras on the 3d of March last. The only death on board was one man belong- I ing to the Company's service. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. LESSEE, MR. B. WEBSTER. THIS EVENING Will be repeated a New and Original Comedy, by Douglas Jerrold, entitled TIME WORKS WONDERS. Goldthumb, Mr. W. Farrell ; Felix Goldthumb, Mr. Charles Mathews ; Bantam, Mr. Buckstone ; Miss Bessy Tulip, Madame Vestris ; Florentine, Miss Fortescue ; Miss 'Fucker, Mrs. Glover ; Patty, Mrs. Humby. After which will be repeated a Dramatic Sketch, entitled THE OLD SOLDIER. Sir Lionel Railer, Mr. Brindal ; Master Michael Cramp, Mr. Tilbury; Adam Lethersole (aged 95), Mr. W. Farren ; Buff, Mr. James Bland ; Patience Cramp, Mrs. Stanley ; Helen, Miss Telbin. To conclude with an entirely New Farce, called THE KING AND I. Period, 1691. Sir William Melrose, Mr. H. 11011; Burchell, Mr. James Bland ; Perkin Pyeflnch, Mr. Buckstone ; Jessie i Donald, Miss Juli Bennett. LON DON DOCKS. Yesterday the half-yearly general meeting of the proprietors in this commercial establishment was held at the Dock House, Prince's-street, near the Bank, for the purposes of declaring a dividend for the half-year just ended, and the election of directors to otece for the year ensuing. At one o'clock Mr. Cattley took the chair. The minutes of the last Court were read by Mr. J. D. Powles, and the report of the Court of Directors was then submitted to the proprietors. The general results of the half-year, as given in the document just referred to, are these :—ln the six months of 1845, 424 loaded vessels from foreign ports have entered the docks. In the corresponding period of last year 395 vessels were entered, show. ing an increasing tonnage of 16,048 tons in favour of this season. In the earnings there has been an increase of 33,7841. in favour of the docks in the past half-year. To conduct this increased business, it follows, as a matter of course, that an addition in the shape of wages must have occurred, and the expenditure upon this account principally is increased rather over 7,0001. The other details of the report have reference simply to the present flourish ing state of the docks. On the question that the report be adopted, a long discussion 'was entered into with respect to the policy of the charges for new works being deducted from the earnings of the establishment, as respected the interest of annuitants for a term of years ; but the Chairman and others put the subject in a clear position by the assertion that annuitants, as well as others, had been benefited by the new works, which had led to income sufficiently great to increase the dividend now proposed of 21. ss. per cent, for the half• year. A resolution was proposed that a special committee be ap pointed to consider the legality of paying for new works out o. profits, but only three hands were held up in favour of it, and the original motion that the report be adopted, embracing the dividend, was carried. The thanks of the meeting were returned to the Court of Di. rectors, and the meeting then adjourned. Mr. Matheson, M.P., has paired off for the rest of the st'ss ion with Alderman Copeland, M.P. FA'IAI. ACCIDENT ON BOARD THE ECLIPBE STEAMER.—Last evening Mr. Bedford held an inquest at the Red Lion, Prince's-street, Westminster, on the body of Charles Yemms, aged aa, a cabinet-maker, killed by falling into the machinery of the Eclipse Richmond steam-boat, on Thursday .last. Verdict— Accidental death ; the jury recommending that the hatchway should be barred over to guard against future accidents. , r UNERAL OF SIR WNI. FOLLETT.—On Friday next the remains of the Right Hon. and Learned Gentleman will be removed from Cumberland.terrace, Regent's.park, for interment in the Benchers' vault under the eastern portion of the Temple Church. The funeral, it is understood, will be conducted in as pri. vate a manner as is consistent with the high position which he occupied. THE LATE 1 BOMAS HOOD.—It is gratifying and creditable to the national character to observe, in the evidence afforded by the provincial press, the general feeling that appears to prevail throughout the country to pay to the literary genius and moral worth of this departed poet and good man the philan thropic tribute of a widely- extended contribution towards the future support of his bereaved family, from whom he was prema turely snatched before the exercise of those high mental qualities with which nature had gifted him, enabled him to place them beyond the reach of those bitter vicissitudes which un. happily are too frequently the lot of the widow and the orphan. We perceive that Manchester is stepping forward in the good work with a noble stride that promises to reach the sum of 5001., and its rich neighbour Liverpool we doubt not will keep pace with the praise worthy Lancastrian movement. Bath, too, never behind in the appreciation and reward of genius, has also opened a subscription. Lincoln has done the same, and we hope soon to hear that Bristol, and all the other cities and great towns, not only in England, but in the United Kingdom (for the benevolent unobtrusive genius of Hood was at the service of all) will have caught the humane im pulse, and generously respond to its call.—Post. ACCIDENT TO LADY ELIZABETH DE BURGH.— We regret to hear that Lady Elizabeth De Burgh, eldest daughter of the Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricarde, met with an acci dent yesterday afternoon, by being thrown from her horse while riding on Constitution-hill. It appears that her Ladyship, in company with Viscount Lascelles, to whom she is about to be married, was riding on horseback in the park, and that on reaching Constitution-hill her horse stumbled and threw her forward on her head. Her Ladyship, on being raised from the ground, appeared stunned by the violence of the fall, and was immediately conveyed in Lord Ravensworth's carriage, which was passing at the time, to the Marquis of Clauricarde's mansion on Carlton-terrace, where medical advice was promptly obtained. Her Ladyship received some contusions, but was not dangerously hurt. RUNAWAY NEGROES.- A BATTLE WITH THE Wilizes.—We learn from the Haggerstown (Md.) papers, that on Monday morning, the 26th ult., about 3 o'clock, 10 runaway negroes were discovered passing through Smithburg, Washington county (Md.), on their way to Pennsylvania. They were passed en the road to Smithsburg by Mr. Adam Shank, jun., and sup. posing them to be runaways, he alarmed the citizens of that place, and a party, consisting of Mr. Shank, Constable Flora, Joseph Waltemyre, Henry Lyday, jun., Calvin Shoop, William M'Coy, Joseph D. Price, and John Daimond started in pursuit. Upon overtaking the negroes, they were commanded to halt, when they drew themselves up in battle order, their leader exclaiming to them, " Now, boys, G—d d—n you, fight!" They were armed with pistols and tomahawks, and immediately commenced an attack upon the whites, felling several of them to the earth at the onset. The whites being unarmed, except with bludgeons, found themselves engaged in rather an unequal and hazardous contest. Repeatedly the negroes were knocked to the earth, but they re turned to the contest with redoubled fury, and being all stout and very athletic men were rather hard to handle. Constable Flora was twice knocked down, Price had his arm nearly severed and the bone broken, by a blow from a tomahawk; he also had a pistol snapped at his face, which very fortunately failed to go off. M'Coy had his shoulder dislocated. Lyday received a wound in the shoulder from a tomahawk, Shank was several times felled to the earth, and the whole party more or less injured. However, after a desperate contest, the whites succeeded in carrying off one prisoner, in an almost hopeless condition, with two pistols and two toma hawks, which were wrested from the hands of the negroes. Ano. ther negro, badly wounded, after following his companions a mile or two upon their retreat, gave himself up. We also learn that two more of the gang were arrested near Leitersburg.— American paper. MARRIAGE IN limn LlFE.—Yesterdav the nup tials of the Duke dell' Albaneto F. Proto PallaviCino, and Miss .Caroline Vanneck, ,daughter of the late Hon. Gerard Vanneck, and cousin of the present Lord Huntingfield, were celebrated at St. George's, Hanover-square, in the presence of a select family circle. The wedding party adjourned to Mivart's Hotel, where the Hon. Mrs. Vanneck, mother of the fair bride, gave a dejeuner. Among the company there were about thirty of the relatives and friends of both families, his Excellency Prince Castelcicala, Lord Huntingfield, &c. The Duke and Duchess, after receiving the con gratulations of their friends, left for the seat of a family relation in Surrey. It is positively stated in the higher circles of society that Sir Thomas Wilde is about to conduct to the hymeneal altar Mdlle. D'Este, daughter of his late Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. titorning .. 10 minutes after 0 I Evening . • 35 minutes after 0 NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. There was a THIRD EDITION of THE SUN published last Evening, containing— The conclusion of the day's proceedings before the Railway Committees of the Houses of Lords and Commons. The List of Appointments and Bankrupts from the London Gazette. The latest Market Intelligence. The latest Prices of Shares from the official list. Parliamentary Intelligence of the Evening, being a full Report of the Debates in both Houses of Par liament, up to a Quarter before Seven o'clock. RAILWAY NEWS. 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THE QUARTERLY REVIEW, No. CLI, _ _ls pubUshedllllS DAY. John Murray, Albemarle-street. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. 3IARIO has the honour to inform his Friends, the Sub scribers to the Opera, and the Public that HIS BENEFIT will take place TO-MORROW EVENING When will be presented (last time this Season), BeMlA's Opera I PURITANI. Elvira, lladame Grisi; Arturo, Sig. Mario ; 4iccardo, Sig. Fornasari ; Giorgio, Sig. Lablache. The Danseuses Viennoises will appear in some of their Favorite Dances, including the Pas des Miroirs, La Polka, and tne Pas des Moissoneurs (being their last appearance). To be followed by Selections from ROBERTO DEVEREUX. The Principal Characters by Madame Rossi Caccia, Mdlle. Rosetti, Sig. Moriani, and Sig. Barroilhet. With various Entertainments in the Ballet Department, In which Mdlle. Taglioni, Mdlle. Cerito, rldlle. Lucile Grahn, and Mdlle. Carlotta Grisi will appear. And, for the Last Time, LA SYLPHIDE. La Sylphide, Mdlle. Taglioni. Applications for Boxes. Stalls, and Pit Tickets to be made at the Opera-cifice, Colonnac:e, Haymarket. Doors open at Seven, to comme.ice at Half-past Seven o,Clock. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE. LAST NIGHT BUT ONE OF THE SEASON, And of the celebrated Singe.', ➢iadame Anna Thillon, THIS EVENING Will be repeated an entirely new and Original Opera, entitled THE ENCHANTRESS. The Music composed by 31. W. Balfe ; the %ibretto, by M. de St. Georges and Mr. Bunn. Don Sylvio, Mr W. Harrison; Ramir, Mr. Borrani ; Duke d'Aquila, Mr. Weiss; Nugnez, Mr. H. Horneastle; Stella, Madame Anna Thillon. To conclude with the celebrated Ballet of LA GISELLE. The Duke of Silesia, Monsieur Silvain ; Giselle, Mdlle. Louise. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHL UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTI THIS EVENING Will be repeated a New Comedy, entitled PEG WOFFINGTON; or, The State Secret. The Marquis de Mousseux, Mr. Selby ; Baron Stuph, Mr, Paul Bedford ; George Tarleton, Mr. Hudson ; Merestick, Mr. Wright ; Peg Woffington, Miss Woolgar. After which, TIIE IRISH ATTORNEY ; or, Galway Practice in 1770. Pierce O'llara, Mr. Hudson ; Jacob Wylie, Mr. Cullenford. After which, an Original Terpsichorean Barletta, called POWDER AND BALL ; or, St. Tibbs's Eve. Mr. Montgomerie Tibbs, Mr. Lambert ; Captain Kidglove, Mr. Selby ; Jacob Gerkin, Mr. Wright ; Mrs. Montgome;ie Tibbs, Mrs. Frank Matthews; Sally Knobbs, Miss Woolgar. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT Or MRS. KEELEY. THIS EVENING Will be repeated a New and Original Comedy, in Two Acts, entitled FRIENDS AT COURT. Principal Characters, by Messrs. F. Vining, A. Wigan, Diddear, Turner, Collier, and Bender ; Mrs. Keeley, Miss Villars, and Miss Fairbrother. After which, an entirely New, Original, and Novel Grand Fairy BALLET DIVERTISSEMENT, entitled LES FEES. In which Lea Danseuses Anglaises will appear. To be followed by a New Farce, entitled LUCK'S ALL. Principal Characters by Messrs. F. Vining, Diddear, Keeley, Meadows, Kin loch, and Tamer ; Miss Hicks, and Mrs. A. Wigan. To conclude with an entirely New Operatic, Dramatic, Chivalric, Fairy, Romantic Burlesque, entitled CINDERELLA. The Principal Characters by Mr. Keel , J, Mr. A. Wigan, Mr. Frank Mathews, Mr. J. W. Collier, Nlrs. Keeley, -Miss Villars, Miss Falrbrother, Mrs. ‘Voollidge, Miss Grove, Miss Howard, &c PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. LESSEE, MR. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING Wilt be performe4 LOVE IN A VILLAGE. Justice Woodcock, Mr. Granby ; Young Meadows, Mr. Allen ; Hawthorn, .Mr. Leffler ; Eustace, Mr. C. E. Horn; Hodge, Mr. Ozberry ; Rosetta, Miss Grant ; Madge, Miss Emma Stanley. After which a New Divertissement, called A COURT BALL IN 1740. In which will be introduced the Dances as performed at her Majesty's Bat Costume, with the Original Music. To be followed by a New Dramatic Sketch, entitled MRS. CAUDLE ; or, Curtain Lectures. Mr. Caudle, Mr. Compton ; Mrs. Caudle, Mr. Oxb.z.rry. To conclude with a New Farce, entitled LOVE IN LIVERY. Lord Sparkle, Mr. Walter Lacy ; Paul Patent, Mr. Compton ; Violet, Hiss Emma Stanley. ST. .JAMES'S THEATRE.-FRENCH PLAYS. Mr. MITCHELL begs respectfully to acquaint the Nobility, Sub scribers to the French Plays, and•the Public, that HIS BENEFIT will take place THIS EVENING, • Being the Last Performance but Four of the present Season, on which occasion the eminent Actor, M. ARNAL, will perform in three popular Pieces. The Performances will commence with the popular Vaudeville of LES GAN IS JAUNES. Anatole, Monsieur Arnal ; Madame Remi, Mdlle. Lievenne. After which, L'HO MALE BLASE. Nantouillet, Mons. Arnal. To conclude with PASSE MINITIT. Chaboulard, Monsieur Arnal ; Un Monsieur, Monsieur Cartigny, Boxes, 6s. • Pit, 3s. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, 3 s. ; Gallery, 2 s. Doors will be opened at Seven o'clock, and the Performances commence at Half-past. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY T HEAT ER. M. PIIILLIPPE'S SOIREES MYSTERIEUSES. In order to afford to the patrons and frequenters of this Theatre an opportunity of witnessing the most extraordinary Entertainment ever produced in this country, an arrangement has been made with the Celebrated M. PHILLIPPE (now performing at the at. James's Theatre with unparalleled success), for Two performances only, of his astonishing exhibition of PHYSIQUE AMUSANTE ; or, MAGICAL DELUSIONS ! ! ! Which will take place THIS EVENING, and FRIDAY. There will be RO advance of prices. Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is. ; Gallery, 6d. Applications for Places, Private Boxes, &c., to be made to Mr. J. Kerschner, at the Box-office, from Eleven till Four. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPIIITHF•ATRE. PROPRIETOR, MR. W. BATTY. Immense and overflowing Audiences attend the re-production of the Grand Military Spectacle of The Battle of Waterloo. TIIIS EVENING Will be performed THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO. Introducing the Double Company of French and English Artistes. The Em peror Napoleon by Mr. Gomersal, who is engaged expressly for this occasion. New Scenes in the Circle, presenting the first talent of British and Foreign Equestrians of the present day. To conclude with the New Grand Pantomimic Spectacle of THE GREEK RENEGADE. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. COMBINATION OF ATTRACTIONS. The Four Juvenile Minstrel Brothers and the Rock Harmonlcon, Every Day, from Nine till Dusk. ROMANTIC GARDENS AND PROMENADE. EXTENSIVE AND UNRIVALLED MENAGERIE. COLOSSAL MODELLED REPRESENTATION OF EDINBURGH, The Acme of Scenic Illusion. The MINSTREL BROTHERS, from Four to Twelve Years of Age, will perform Select Airs at intervals. The ROCK HARMON ICON from Three till Eight. knd on MONDAYS, TUESDAYS, WEDNESDAYS, and THURS DAYS, GRAND CONCERTS D'ETE and MAGNIFICENT DISPLAY of FIREWORKS. Admission, One Shilling. Feeding the Carnivore at Half-past Five ; Pelicans and Polar Bears at Six ; Concert at Half- ,ast Six! and Fireworks at Half•past Nine. THE WEATHEIL-SuN OFFICE, JULY 2 rHERMOMETER. Lowest, 51; Highest, 70 ; Noon, 67. BAROMETER, 29.90.—W1ND, S.W. NOTE.—The figures which follow the words "Lowest" and " Highest" denote the lowest and highest state of the thermometer during the preceding twenty-four hours. All the other observations are made at noon. 4'4 4 Op .y„ , 45 .• DR 4111(6.04;1... • • ;y0.44.4. , " ' I IIZ,IO- .4 • SECOND EDITION u*tcening 241114 LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 2, 164). The Lords met at Five o'clock. The Leases' Bill was read a third time and passed. Lord BROUGHAM then moved the resolutions recom mended by the Railway Bills Committee, admitting Railway Bills which had reached the House of Lords this session ad eundem next session. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDIVESDA I EVEIVING, JULY 1, 11448 The Earl of WIcKLow thought the, object sought would be attained more easily by a Bill than by those reL•olutions. After a few words from the Duke of RICHMOND, the Duke Of WELLINGTON, Lord BROUGHAM, and Lord CAMPBELL, the resolutions were agreed to. The Protection of Property Bill having been read a third time and passed, their Lordships adjourned to Thursday. The Commons met at Four o'clock. Captain BERKELEY moved, " That no private Bill for the construction of railways, or other public works, to which the consent of the Admiralty is required, will be committed until the decision of the Admiralty shall be communicated to the House," be made a standing order. The motion, which was opposed by Lord G. Soataß• SET, Mr. WA.RBURTON, and Mr. J. S. WORTLEY, was lost by a majority of 48, the numbers being, for the mo tion, 22 ; against it, 70. Mr. GREENE moved the re-appointment of the Rail way Bills Committee, for the purpose of referring to them similar resolutions to those which had Leen agreed to by the Railway Bills Committee of the Houae of Lords. After a short conversation, the motion was agreed to. A new writ was ordered for Exeter, in consequence of the vacancy occasioned by the death of Sir WILLIAni FOLLETT. The correspondence on the subject of the admission of Cuba sugars was laid on the table. Captain LAYARD moved an Address to her Majesty, praying her to cause inquiry to be made into the expe diency of limiting service in the army to ten years, with a view to secure the services of a better class of meu, and thereby prevent desertion. Mr. SIDNEY HERBERT, on the part of the Govern. ment, could not accede to the motion. Mr. HumE supported the motion. The House was subsequently addressed by Mr. S. HERBERT, Mr. HUME, HOWARD DOUGLAS, and several other Honourable Members; but ultimately the motion was withdrawn. Mr. M. MILNES then rose to address the House on the present mode of conducting public executions in this country ; but there not being forty members present, the House adjourned at eight o'clock. On many occasions we have had to call the attention of our readers to the flagrant enormity of the dispropor tion between the legalised costs decreed against offenders over whom the Magistrates exercise summary jurisdic tion, and the amount of damages found against or fine levied upon the same parties. But the cases we have hitherto adduced on such occasions are comparatively trivial in the character of their vexatiousness, and the disparity of the penalty to the offence, when put side by side with that which we noticed in our paper of yester day. A poor man was charged on Wednesday last, be fore the Magistrates of the Egham division of the County of Surrey, with having cut down grass of the value of four farthings, on the edge of a ditch upon the farm of one LANE. The man, ROSE, was convicted of having committed damage to the extent of four far things—no doubt an exceedingly heinous offence, and far be it from us to palliate it. If a penny saved be tt . penny gained, according to the assurance of the old proverb, a penny insidiously purloined from the sacred purlieus of a man's ditch, must be at least the square of four pennies ; and that is a large allowance. But what was the sum of the costs actually decreed against this formidable agrarian felon who had, out of an overweening affection for his donkey, we presume, clandestinely, but in a moment of reckless sympathy, cut down a part of the valuable growing crop which adorned and gave importance to the brink of a fosse ? Some 150 times the amount of the assessed damage. Thirteen shillings and sixpence was the modest demand, en nomine expensarum, of the enlightened bench, conse quent on damages assessed of the amount of one penny. Within the memory of most living men, we believe that the price of hay has not risen to such a price as it was fetching in the Spring, 71. a load. Supposing that the present season promised no better grass crop than that of last year, and that this rustic plunderer had cut down, that is if he could, so much of the matchless bordering of this inviolable ditch-bank as would have amounted to the equivalent, dried, of a truss of bay ; the Egham bench having ordered him to pay 4s. fur the "damages," ought to have sentenced him, on their own rules of proportion, to 150 times four shillings as costs—say 301. sterling. This may seem very absurd to uninformed people, who have never learned to believe with the earlier sages among our legal commentators, " that the law is the perfection of common sense." But to talk, after this, of agricultural protection ? What is the necessity for it ? Any speculative farmer who has surrounded his homestead, like some retired burgomaster in the suburbs of Leyden, or a rich Landdrost in his canal-encircle d domain in Batavia, with a ditch of banks as verdant as its waters, may realise upon a few roods of land a more profitable return than other men can derive in these times from ten well cultivated acres. Let him only leave his gates open o' nights, so that whether " at early dawn or on dewy eve," these wayfaring interlopers may test the quality of the neglected herbage on the borders of his walks or the edges of his ditches, and he will have sown and reaped at once to some purpose. A bench of cou❑ty magistrates—perhaps his brother guardians in the union—it may be his landlord or his customers — will feel every just degree of indignation on his account ; every disposition not to wrong the mysterious unknown, whoever he be, who is the party benefited by these un accountable, excessive, overwhelming cots :-13s. 4d. on a decree of 4 farthings damages ! There is one re markable allowance to be made, it is true, as a set-off against such legitimate and equitable profit as might otherwise accrue to vigilant trespass prosecutors. Pay ment ought to follow upon conviction. But it does not necessarily follow that conviction is followed by pay ment—either of damages or costs. The Act of Par liament, with singularly ill-judged lenity, has provided for the course to be taken with the convicted, in " de fault of payment." Instead of following up the ad mirable principle of apportioning costs after the rate of 150 fold on damages found, by some acts of personal infliction on the delinquent, as it ought in consistency to have done, such as drawing out a tooth per week (from those who have them). during the period of de fault, on King John's graduated scale of Jew-dealing ; or putting them in the pillory once a week, till full liqu on of debt and costs ; instead of this, the Act of Parliament directs, for such defaults, a certain equiva lent of imprisonment, founded on very uncertain rules. In the case to which we are immediately addressing our selves, the very bad, who, having committed damages to the amount of four farthings, is unprepared to pay, in addition, 160 farthings for costs, is most properly con demned to three weeks' imprisonment. Oh, righteous law ! Oh ! paternally treated peasantry ! Oh ! land of equal justice, equal rights, equal penalties ! It must be a source of peculiar gratification to poor ROSE to know that had he been of gentle blood and gentle for tunes he might, on the very first day of next bunting season, have gratified himself by riding over the lands of every Magistrate on the Bench—and in a gallop over springing corn and young turnips have committed da mages with impunity to the amount of four pounds in stead of four farthings,—followed by no costs (to himself), and no consequences on default of paying damages. Let us hope that he has by this time learned to appre ciate the impartial bearing of, magistrate-made laws on all classes of her Majesty's subjects ; the high protecting duty of agriculturists, who extract, in enhanced prices for their own grown corn, millions per annum frcm the pockets of our indigentand industrial community,—and the small ditch-edge grass cropper, who robs a farmer in a single night of green forage to the amount of four farthings ! We are mortified at the remarkable confirmation which the sort of naval review, in the presence of her MA JESTY last week, has afforded to those animadversions which we have so frequently found ourselves compelled to pass on the system pursued by the Admiralty for the manning of the navy. Of course these animadversions were founded much more on reports sanctioned by, or immediately emanating from, the highest pro fessional authority, than from such opportunities of perscnal observation as we have been able to command, or from any unassisted judgment of our own that we could pretend to exercise. We are rather, therefore, to lament that the evolutions of the ex perimental squadron have rendered Captain BERKELEY, Sir CHARLES NAPIER, and other eminent offi cers of the service, " prophets in their own country." As we should be exceedingly sorry to be ranked among those who have been accused, and not without reason, of expE3ti iting on the deficiencies of our naval executive, with an invidious but evident tendency to magnify the force and equipment of other navies, that of France more especially,—we must protest, beforehand, against any such misconception of our motives. Whether or not public attention ought to be specifically directed to those elements of national force, offensive and defensive, in which there exist material and destructive deficiencies it is now too late to inquire. The fact of these defi ciencies in the most vital functions of our effective sea service has been already distinctly and repeatedly affirmed, demonstrated, and discussed in the House of Commons, and in the columns of one-half of the public journals of the United Kingdom. Any hypothetical evil that might have been anticipated from this publicity has been at once ascertained and compensated for by the amount of practical reform which it has stimulated, — achieving much, and setting in motion more, in the im provement of those departments that most urgently re quired revision. Indeed notwithstanding the lamentable deficiencies of which wt have still to complain, it is with increased confidence tha;we look forward to their imme iiate permanent removal Far from being justly ob noxious to censure for flea' unrcmitted exertions in as certaining (through the nists of no little official misre presentation and professonal prejudice) the true bear ings and relations of what in time of war would inevitably prove so Many disorganizing principles, de structive in precise proportion to our previous inade quate knowledge of then,Sir CHARLES NAPIER and the other independent officers Members of Parliament and others, who have so opportunely and so frankly spoken out, are entitled to the lasting gratitude of the country for the course they have tiken. Of what use is it now to regret that such an expression of our naval mismanage ment, and the ineffectiveness of many important branches of the service, of the perfect condition of which we had been previously desired by tae Government to be perfectly satisfied, should have been thus publicly made in the face of France and of all the world ? The thing is done, and cannot be recalled. But let us, instead of sitting down,like spoiled schoolboy eta whine over the humiliation, such as it is, of our d isappoistment, address ourselves with the calm and steadfast energy of man to repair the errors which have produced that Cisappointment. It is, thank GOD, still in our power to amend these things in good time ; and from what has happened, we miry be assured that nothing short of a radical and universal scheme of amelioration wi.l be acceptel by the public. The inexcusable folly, so tong ans , blindly persi,ted in by the Admiralty, of sending out ships of the line with " reduced complements," not because they have less metal to carry, less canvass to hand, less steerage to attend to, less vicissitudes of wind and weather to en counter, less occasion for prompt evolutions and able hands to accomplish them, but because it i s a time of peace ; this folly draws near, we will predict, to the term of its deplorable in fluence. The QUEEN of the greatest naval and maritime State that ever existed has been a witness of the slovenly manceuvring of a fleet composed of some of the most magnificent and formidable ships that were ever built. Signals so tardily answered that they must be presumed not to have been understood, and precon certed movements disconcerted in their execution, these appear to have been among the " surprises" with which her MAJESTY was regaled at a grand parade naval re view—of a crack squadron commanded by officers of un doubted ability and excellence. Their professional skill—as little to be doubted as their personal intrepidity or the native courage of the officers and men who sailed under them—was unequal to the task, it seems, of main taining the past character of British seamanship for un exampled rapidity and precision. The Trafalgar, alone, we perceive by one account, answered signals, and manoeuvred with facility and exactness. This fine first-rate had by no means her full complement of able seamen on board ; but then those which she had were experienced hands, who had, on being paid off from one snip, been entered on another, instead of quitting the service for a protracted period, in which they lose all they have ever learned. These men had formed, before joining the Trafalgar, a part of the crews of other two first-rates successively. They were, therefore, not only able for their duty but up to their work. Of other first and second-rates, one b iasted 80 able seamen, another 36, out of full complements varying from 700 to 850 men. We are sincerely grieved for the mortification her MAJESTY must have expe rienced at Spithead ; but we hope and believe, at the same time, that it will be productive of unmixed good by ensuring an early and 'vigorous remedy for such un sightly failures. he influence of bad example is a trite subject of re mark with moralists and philosophers. The navy sup plies another illustration of that influence. As if the Admiralty had not done mischief enough by the " re duced complement" system, the officers whom it has for some time commissioned appear to have been indulging in the sort of foppery which dictates the choice of foot men at the west-end of the town, or the standard for troopers in the Household Brigade. In 1845, it seems we have captains of the navy who reject " good men knd true," on applying to be entered, because of their being not above five feet six inches in height ! Their patronage is given to those whom it is their pride to exhibit as a ship's company of " fine fellows, six feet high." The brave tars who followed NELSON to victory were what the majority are of our soldiers who have endured the severest campaigns, and won the most brilliant victo ries—short men. NELSON, every body knows, was a very short man ; and WELLINGTON is not a giant in his boots, however lofty in his spirit and achievements. Let a determined stop, for Heaven's sake, be put to this zoxcombry. which is disgraceful to the navy it intends to adorn. Get ~, o r able seamen, whatever their stature. Nor is this all : - retain them. How will you get them, when, unlike that spirited commander, Admiral ROWLEY, you offer no in due( ment of adequately improved pay and allowances, and permanency of engagement, either to mark an ho nourable distinction between them and ordinary seamen or landsmen ? How will you retain them, if, the mo ment your turn is served, and the exigency under which you called for them has passed away, you cut them off, dismiss them to indolence and poverty, or the accide::ts of better fortune (which you do nothing to ensure for them), and turn them upon the world with barely a cer tificate of good conduct to reward them for their eminent and efficient services? There must be provision made for able seamen, on being paid off, so as to guarantee their services to the State when required, and a subsistence for themselves when they are not required, conditional on their entering into the services of no other power. Incorporate a sufficient body of these men into your ship's crews, and the improvement of the skill,"alacrity, and discipline of the men, will be as rapid as extensive. Is there one man in the House of Commons who would balance the cost of effecting so vast and so immediate a regeneration of the effective branch of our naval ser vice against the incalculable benefits to be derived from it? We do not believe there is. Let this be strenuously insisted upon, speedily adopted, and all that is wanting to economise, and give increased effect to improvement in sailing, power, armament, placing of ma chinery, &c., will follow as matters of course, in certain, easy, and harmonious order. We are well pleased, w,+ reptit. that her Majesty has visited Shithead on this occasion. In the Madrid journals of the 24th ult. a new version is Liven to the statement published in the Gazette, an nouncing that the bank of San Fernando had suspended all discounts. The secretary of the bank, by order ef the directors, had address - d a letter to the Espanol journal, explainieg that, in suspending their discounts for 'the moment, they had only exercised a sound dis cretion. They add, " The San Fernando bank may pursue his course without its being concluded, because it refuses to receive bills at a certain hour, that it closes its coffers on discounts, or permanently suspends them. It has never thought of it, still less when its own ac ceptances are in question." The Opposition journals approved of the circular issued by NARVAEZ respecting the family of Don CABLOS. According to the Tienipo, the abdication was rc-s, , lved solely to further the views of the Carlists. Every thing had been prepared tor organising the Government of the Prince of ASTURIAS, when married to the QUEEN, by nominating his Ministers and making extensive promo tions in the army. The Bourse was closed on the 24th in honour of some In the French Chamber of Deputies, on Monday, a motion was made by M. BEAUMONT to postpone till next session three important railway Bills—namely, those for Paris and Strasburg, Tours and Nantes, and Dieppe and Fecamp ; but, after some discussion. the motion was ne gatived, and the Chamber proceeded with the Tours and Nantes Bill. The Journal des Debals thus adverts to the proposition for delay :—" It is said that a financial objection exists, that the Northern, the Lyons, and the Avignon railroads will absorb all the capital of the country ; and to avoid a crisis it becomes necessary to postpone two lines of such considerable ex tent as those to Strasburg and to Nantes. Those who make such an objection lose sight of an essential circumstance. The Northern railroad alone requires considerable capital for two-thirds of the ex pense. But the shareholders will have five or six years to provide the capital for the Lyons and Avignon roads. This is a sufficient guartntee against the market being en • cumbered with shares. The last two roads cannot be adjudicated on before six months. As to the Strasburg road, if it were even voted at present, the company bid ding for it would not have any capital to disburse until the Government should haVe completed the embank ments and the works of art. Another fact is worthy of consideration. German and English capitalists have subscribed for half the shares in the Strasburg railroad. But British capital is anxiously sought in the two Peninsulas and in Germany. Is it not to bo feared that British capitalists may yield to the temptation ?'' On the same day the sum of 2,650,000 f. was voted f the repairs of Notre Lame. The preparations for this work had already commenced, by propping up all the parts which appear dangerous ; and it is understood that the repairs will be proceeded with promptly and on an extensive scale. The Constitutionnel says the pass ports for Don CARLOS had been delivered to him at Bourges, by an aide-de-camp of Marshal SOULT, M. DE TirteN, who is to accompany the family to Greouls, in the department of the Gard. We find we were led into error yesterday respecting the amount of the sums voted by the Chamber of Deputies, for the repairs of the harbours of Boulogne, Calais, and Dunkirk. According to the published report of the proceedings, the following are the estimates voted : Boulogne, 1,000,000 f. (40,0001.) ; Calais, 500,0001. (20,0001) ; and Dunkirk, for a wet dock at that place, 4,000,000 f (320,0001.) In the course of Monday a considerable fall took place in the Funds on the Paris Bourse. The Three per Cents. closed at 83f. 50c.; the New Loan at 83f. 90c. ; the Five per Cents. at 121 f 50c. ; Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,160 f. ; Rouen, 1,0301. ; Vierzon, 750 f. ; Havre, 8321. 50c. ; Avignon, 970 f. ; Basle, 2501. ; Spanish Three per Cents, 41 ; Ditto Passives, 7%. The following are the quotations for the new lines:— Orleans and Bordeaux, 170 f. premium ; Boulogne, 110 f. ditto ; Troyes and Montereau, 25f.; Paris and Lyons (Laffitte), 20f. ; ditto (Calon), If. ; ditto (Ganneron), 10E ; Northern line (Laffitte), 32f. 50c.; ditto (Rosamel), 6f. 50c. ; Tours and Nantes (Mackenzie), Bf. 50c. ; ditto (Drouillard), par; ditto (O'Neill), 3f. 50c.; ditto (Jacques Lefevre), par; Lyons and Avignon (Lecointe),l2f. 50c ; ditto (Talabot), 37f. 50c. ; ditto (Compagnie Meridionale), Bf. 50c. ; Bordeaux and Toulouse (Mackenzie), par. ; ditto and Cette (Espeleta), 3f. 50c.; Creil and St. Quentin, par; Paris and Strasbourg (Ganneron), 10f. ; Dijon and Mulhausen, par. LYONS, JUNE 27.—Avignon and Marseilles, 980 f., end of June; Paris and Orleans, 1.170 f., ditto; Paris and Rouen, 1,040 E, ditto; Orleans and Vierzon, 726 f., ditto; Orleans and Bordeaux, 645 f., ditto ' • Boulogne, 580 f., ditto ; Monte reau, 530 f., fur the 15th of July. THE SUGARS OF CUBA AND PORTO RICO. —Sir R. Peel last evening laid on the table of the House of Cons mons copies of correspondence respecting the claim of Spain, that the sugars of Cuba and Porto Rico should be admitted into the United Kingdom upon the same terms as the sugars of the United States and Venezuela. This correspondence consists two letters—one from the Duke of Sototnayor to Lord Aberdeen, and the other from Lord Aberdeen in reply. The letters extend to great length. The Duke contends that all the provisions of the treaties of 1713 and 1783 were extended to the colonial possessions of Spain since the commerce of the Spanish colonies was opened to foreigners in 1824. And he adds—" Tinale.b this argument is in itself incontestable, it receives a corrobo ration which does not admit of any rational reply on bearing in mind that the British Government itself re cognised its force by exempting from the high duties which are the object of the present application the sugars proceeding from her Catholic Majesty's domi nions its the Philippine Islands. He therefore hopes that these statements will have due weight with the British Government, and that the sugars will be admitted on the terms demanded." Lord Aber deen denies the validity of the claim in these words :—" Her Majesty's Government have duly exa mined the different treaties subsisting between the two countries, and have attentively considered the various arguments advanced in the Duke of Sotomayor's note ; and it now becomes the duty of the undersigned to de clare to the Duke of Sotomayor, that her Majesty's Go vernment cannot admit that, either in the early treaties between the two Crowns, or in the later decrees of her Catholic Majesty, or in the acts of the Parliament of this country, any valid ground is to be found for the demand with which that note concludes, namely, that the sugar of Cuba and Porto Rico should be admitted into British ports on the footing of sugar of the United States and Venezuela." 'This subject - is likely to give rise to im portant discussions. THE REPEAL MENBERS.—Mr. Smith O'Brien and Mr. John O'Connell having been summoned by the Chairman of the Committee of Selection to serve on Railway Committees on the 14th instant, the two Hon. Members have announced to the Chairman that they re fuse to attend, and deny the power of the House to en mrce the order. Mr. O'Brien says, "I trust that the Committee of Selection will not think that I am prompted by any feeling of disrespect towards them, or towards the House of Commons, when I inform them that it is my intention not to serve on any Committees, except such as may be appointed with reference to the affairs of Ireland." Mr. John O'Connell says, " I absolutely de cline attending." CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) The Lord Chancellor sat to-day In Lincoln's Inn Hall, and heard lunatic petitions and appeals, none of which possessed any points of public interest. ROLLS' COURT.-('PHIS DAY.) His Loidship the Master of the Rolls was occupied the whole day in his private room with the further arguments in the cue of Cardross v. Cardross. VICE-CHANCERY.-(TRIS DAY.) (Before the VICE.CHANCELLOA Of ENGLAND.) His Honour took causes today, but in consequence of the ab. sence of Mr. Bethell, the Court was only enabled to dispose of a few of the cases in the paper. (Before the Vice-Chancellor KNIGHT BPUCE.) GUY V. WAKEFIELD ♦ND DAY.—INJUNCTION. Mr. Ann►s, at the sitting of the Court. applied exparte on behalf of the plaintiff, for an injunction to restrain the defendant Wakefield from receiving the sum of 400/. and upwards from the defendant Hay, and also to restrain Hay from paying that amount to Wakefield. It appeared from the statements of the Learned Counsel, and the affidavit in support of the application, that the defendant Wakefield, who is well known in the sporting world, being desirous to take an inn called the White Hart, at Hampton Wick, applied to the plaintiff for the loan of 300/. ; that amount was advanced by the plaintiff, and Wakefield executed a mortgage deed to him upon the property. A short time since the plaintiff discovered that Wakefield had sold the whole concern to a person named Baker for 6201. ; that out of that amount he paid his wine merchant about 200!., and deposited the remainder in the hands of the defendant Hay, to take care of for him. The object the►efore of the application was to restrain Hay from paying the money to Wakefield and also to restrain Wakefield from receiving it. Hit HONOUR granted the injunction. The Court then proceeded to bear bankrupt petitions and causes. (Before the Vice-Chancellor Wvaram.) His Honour was occupied the whole day with the further argu ments in the part-heard case of Cafe v. Bent. QUEEN'S BENCH-(T.I-11S DAY.) (Sittings in Banco, before the full Court. CLARKE V. SMORRIDGE. This was an action for ejectment, tried before Mr. Justice Patteson at Exeter. The Learned Judge then gave judgment in favour of the plaintiff, reserving to the defendant the power to rule for a new trial in the higher court. The case was called on to day, when Mr. Crowder appeared for the defendant and Mr. Cock. burn for the plaintiff. The circumstances of the ease were of the most simple character. The plaintiff had rented certain property to the defendant for three years, the agreement entered into between the two expiring on Lady-day, 1843. It was found necessary, however, to levy an execution before that period. At the trial at Exeter a subsequent agreement was entered, giving the occupant possession for another year, and it was on this ground that the present action was brought. The Court reserved its judgment. EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.) (Sittings in Banco.) The COURT, as usual, took the special paper, and only matters of the most technical character came on for hearing. T HE PENALTIES FOR ADVERTISING FOREIGN LOTTERIES. --In consequence of the actions lately commenced against various newspapers to recover penalties for the pub lication of advertisements of foreign lotteries, the Solicitor- General has just prepared a Bill of five clauses, and is "to amend an Act of the seventh year of King William the Fourth, for preventing the advertising of foreign and other illegal lotteries, and to discontinue certain actions com menced under the provisions of the said Act." The preamble, after reciting the Act referred to, and setting forth the fact of the actions in question having been so commenced " by persons who sue, inform, and prosecute, as well on their own behalf as on behalf of her Majesty, to recover various penalties incurred or a lleged to have been incurred under the provisions of the said ♦ct," further states that it is expedient that " all further proceedings in such actions, suits, informations, and prosecutinns should be prevented, ke." The several clauses of the Bill then proceed to enact that all persons who may have been sued before the passing of this Act for penalties incurred under the statute of 7 Will. IV., may apply to the courts, or a judge of any of the superior courts, to stay proceed. ings, upon payment of whatever costs may have been incurred up to the time of such application being made to the court or judge. The Bill, however, is not to extend its operations to actions in which julgment has been obtained, or conviction passed on or before the day of the passing of the measure. The third clause is a very important one, as it enacts that all penalties incurred under the recited Act shall go wholly to her Majesty, and it is further declared by another section of the Bill, that nu actiou for penalties shall be commenced etcept in the name of the Attorney or Solici tor. General in England or Ireland, or her Majesty's Advocate for Scotland. The last clause merely provides that the Act may be altered la., this session. LIB NEW 1.1 , USES OF PARLIAMENT.—The Peers insist on having their house ready for occupation in February next, and thegreatest efforts are consequently being made. All the walls and the ceiling are to be covered with carved woodwork of the most elaborate character, and this is being forced on by one hundred and fifty additional workmen much more rapidly than is desirable. It will probably be ready for fixing about October, and instead of remaining as it should do in the dry ing rooms during the winter ready for fixing in the summer, will be taken into the new building in the bad weather, and probably be irreparably injured. Do what they will, moreover, the House of Lords cannot be completed by the time named, nor is it desirable that it should be. Surely, if their Lordships would consider that thin, building is not simply for some immediate on temporary purpose, but is intended to last for ages, and that the great object should be not to do it quickly but well, they would restrain their Impatience, and allow the architect to work out efficiently the whole design. If the present accommodation is bad, let it be made better; re-construct the temporary House of Lords during the ensuing vacation, and persuade them to put up with the indignity yet a little longer, so that their order may be worthily lodged ever after. The architects of the middle ages produced the noble works to which we now appeal with pride, slowly, by degrees, and as works of love; at least let us give the nineteenth century one chance, and not by unnecessary and child-like haste risk adding another failure to the crowd which already disgrace it.—The Builder. There were present at her Majesty's Theatre last evening, her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, ac companied by their Majesties the Kingand Queen of the Belgians, and attended by Lady Jocelyn, the Earl of Morton, Colonel Bou. verie, the Baroness de Hooghvorst, and Major de Moerkerke ; her Majesty the Queen Dowager, accompanied by the Duchess of Saxe Weimar, and the two Princes and Princesses of Saxe Weimar, and attended by the Marchioness of Ormoode, the Hon. Mr. Ashley, and Mr. Hudson ; their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince George of Cambridge, attended by Lady Augusta Cadrgan, Baron Knesebeck, and Mr. Edmund Mildmay ; the Dukes of St. Alban's, Cleveland, and Beaufort; the Duchesses of St. Alban's and Beaufort; the Marquises of Douro, Ailesbury, Abercorn, Granby; the Marchionesses of Douro, Ailesbury, Aber.. corn, and Conyngham ; the Earls of Harrington, Wilton, Dal. housie, Jersey, Lansdale, and Liverpool; the Countesses of Her rington, Wilton, and Dalhousie ; Count Kielmansegge ; Lords Gifford, Sandys, Templetown, W. Beresford, Suffield, Ernest Bruce, Torraigton, A. Paget, and Alford; Ladies Fitzroy Somerset, Ernest Bruce, Lyndhurst, Ashburton, Quentin, M. Corbet, Rendlesham, Alford, Jodrell, Meux, Easthope, E. Fielding, W. Martins, B, Graham, Voulis, Dillon, and Wynchester ; Honourables General Upton, Colonel A. Upton, Colonel G. Fitzroy, Captain Duneombe, Colonel Wrottesley, Booth Grey, Mr. Fitzgibbon, Mrs. Duncombe, Mrs. St. John, Mrs. Fitzgibbon; Sirs H. Willoughby, H. Wtbb, H Meux, W. W. Wynn, It. Wilmot, Colbnel Wigrasn, &c. - . -- CANALS AND RAILWAYS. — At a metingheld yes terdey at the City of London Tavern of the London Proprietors of the Kennel and Avon Canal, it was unanimously resolved to re quest the Committee of Management to take measures to ascertain if it will be practicable and desirable to convert that canal into a railway. 101 N EY and C4)MMERCIAI Eliir S. ITY, QUARTZ[ TH EE. There was a large amount of business done at Liverpool yesterday in Cotton—viz., 10,000 bales, including 4,000 Ame rican, on speculation. Prices were rather firmer, and the middling and low qualities were quoted %d. per lb. higher. The better sorts were at previous rates. There was only a small business done in Shares, and former prices were scarcely maintained. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JULY 1 . —The sales are —Barnsley Junction, 7 ; Ditto, Half Shares, 3 7-16 Black burn, Burnley. and Accrington, 9%; Blackburn, Clitheroe, and North Western Junction, 1% prem. ; Bolton, Wigan, arid Liverpool, 16% 1 / 2 ; Cambridge and Lincoln, 5 ; Clitheroe Junction, 3% ; Derby and Crewe, 3 ; Direct Northern, 3%; Dublin and Drogheda, 103 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 76%; Erewash Valley, 324 ; Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester, 13s. ; Glasgow and Dumfries, 21s. ; Goole, Don caster, Sheffield, and Manchester Jun c tion, 1:4 ; Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction, Quarter Shares, A. ; Hud dersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal, 8 1 % ; Leeds and Thirsk, 7 ; Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester, 16 3 / % ; Leeds and West Riding Junction, 4% 13-16 ; Leicester and Birmingham, 1 3 % ; Liverpool,Ormskirk, and Preston,2 15-16 ; London and Worcester, Oxford and Rugby, 1% ; Lonelt,n and York, 3% ; Manchester, Bury, and Rossendale, 174 ; Man chester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 5% ; Manchester and Birmingham' Continuation and Welsh Junction, 1% 13-16; Manchester arid Leeds, Quarter Shares, 25%; Midland Rail way Consols, 401. Shares, 29%; Newcastle and Berwick, 19% ; Newcastle, Durham, and Lancashire, % % prem. ; North Eastern, ss. 4s. prem. ; North Staffordshire, 4 1-16 ; North Western, 4%; Nottingham, Erewash, Ambergate, and Manchester, 17s. 6d. 16s. prem. ; Shrewsbury, Hereford, and North Wales, 3 2% ; South Eastern and Dover, No. 1, 18 3 / 4 ; Ditto, No. 3. 8% ; Trent Valley Continuation and Holy head Junction, 2% ; Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole, 20 ; West Yotkshire, 3 13-16 ; Whitehaven and Furness, 3 ; York and Carlisle, 4% ; Great Northern of France (Eng. fish). 54. The most prompt measures have been taken by the leading merchants of the Canada trade to forward as large a sum as possible by the next Halifax steamer to alleviate the distress and destitution of those inhabitants of Quebec who have been deprived of every thing by the awful fire which has occurred, and the details of which are set forth in the appeal already made public for and from the inhabitants of the mother country. A committee has been formed, at the head of which are the principal merchants of the City, to carry out most fully the object of the address (published in this journal), and there cannot be a doubt that at the meeting to be held on Friday, at which the Lord Mayor will preside, a ready de sire will be shown to raise a sum adeqquate for the occasion. It is satisfactory to state that the most earnest desire has been exhibited by the merchants of all descriptions of colonial and other trades, in aid of the funds to be collected here. A very full meeting may, therefore, be anticipated, and we hope to see the great room of the London Tavern crowded to excess on the important occasion. There have not been any colonial arrivals of interest to• day. The letters by the Overland Mail have not been delivered up to the present hour. As respects commercial affairs, we are led to believe that many orders for goods may now be expected. The English Securities continue quiet. Consols are 98% to 99. Exchequer-bills have been 535. to 56s premium. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents, are 102 to 102 1 / x . Bank Stock is worth 211 1 /. Spanish Active Bonds have been down to 27 1 ,E 1 4. but the Three per Cents. continue at 39 1 / 8 V t . Portuguese Con. verted have been 65 1 ,E %. Mexican are 36 3 /, and Colom bian 18 to 17%. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., ex dividend, have been 39 1 ,( to U. The Share Market is buoyant again. South-Eastern New, No. 3, have touched 8% premium, and North Kent have been down to par. Brighton are well supported — Cambridge and Lincoln are flat—London and I ork are better maintained at yesterday afternoon's rise, and Direct Northern have been lower. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Bank Stock 2l l l/ 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 99% New 3 1 4 per Cent. Annuties lO 2l 102 Long Annuities Expire sth Jan. 1860 IIA % India Bonds 1,0001 7l Ditto under 1.0001 Consols for Opening Exchequer Bills. 1 % d. 1 yo. 1,0001. 500/. ... ... .. ... 55 56 pm. Ditto Small — PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Columbian Bonds. lB 17% Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent. Ditto for the Account Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent — Ditto Converted ••• 65 % 1 /2 Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent,1840 Ditto for the Account. Ditto 3 per Cent 3 9 1 /8 Ditto for the Account. Dutch 21/z per Cents Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates ..... 99 PRICE OF SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. RAILWAYS. PAW PER SHARE. Aberdeen ............... ........ 2% 3.7 1 1 1,i ... to Armagh, Coleraine, Portrush 1% 2 Birmingham and Gloucester 100 ...... ... Dittj: t laif Shares ...... 3 Bristol and Exeter • aledunian 5 ... 11 1 / 2 14% . % to Ditto Extension Cambridge and Lincoln ...... 1 1 / 2 4% • to CheAer,and Holyhead - 15 - ',2hurnet Valley Coventry and Leicester Cornwall 1 irect Northern : .. 2 1 / 2 3 % 1 / 2... to Dublin and Belfast Junction 2 1 / 2 8 Dublin and Galway 2 l /2 3A%... to Dublin and Mulliogar 2 l /2 4 ..... to 3% .a.tern Counties Do. New 4/. 16s B LA to 7% Do. I'erpet. 5 per Ct. No. 1. 6/. 13s 4d -- Ditto, ditto, No. 2. ... 13s. 4d O% to • .ly and Bedford l4 2IA ..... to Great South and W. (Irish)... 10 - 7_ Ditto Extension Great Western Hull and Selby . 50 - Ditto Half Shares London and Birmingham ...100 Ditto, New Thirds ... London and Blackwall 16% 9% 4 3 /4 to London and Brighton 5O 76%4... to London and Croydon... 13/. 15s. 9d 21%4... to Do. New l3s 4d l% to London and South Western.. 41% B2 to Ditto New . London and Y0rk........ ...... 2%...... 3 3 / 4 % to Londonderry and Coleraine... 2% 2% to Londonderry and Enniskillen 2% 3% to Mancheste: and Leeds 76 .....173 Manch, Buxton, & Matlock 22s Midland .......100 ......188 189... to 188 Ditto New Newcastle &Darlington.)unc. 25 Ditto New Brandling Newcastle and Berwick Newry and Enniskillen ...... 2 11 / 2 44...... to Newark and Shaflield North British Ditto New 1 .. 7 North Kent 1 North Wales Norwich and Brandon lO .... Ditto, New 1 Oxford and Worcester 2 l /2 6 l/ to Portsmouth Direct Richmond and West End June. 1 Rugby, Worcester, and Tring 1 - g l /2, ... to Scottish Central Scottish Midland South Eastern and Dover ... 33% 48% to 48 Ditto New, No. 1 8 Ditto New, No. 2 7 .. ....17%...... to 17 Ditto New, No. 3 2 l/ ...... 11 9.? , 10 to 914 South Wales Trent Valley and Holyhead Junction... ... 1% 2 1% to Welch Midland 2% ...... . 3%%% to fork and North Midland Ditto, Extension FOREIGN RAILWAYS: Boulogne and Amiens 6 .... 11% to 11 Bordeaux,Toulouse,andCette 2 Ureat Northern of France (Laffitte's) ffgDo. Do. (Rosamel's) 2 ..... 2 1 / 8 1 , ... to Jamaica Junction Do. South Midland Junction 1 Namur and Liege... Orleans and Vierzon Orleans and Bordeaux ... .. 4 ..... Over Yssel 413 s 4d o ss to OA Paris and Lvon,(Lailitte) ... 2 ‘1 8 ...... to 'aris and Rouen. 20 • 41 1 (1. : ...... to Parisa:ml Lyons(Ganneron's) 2 ... - Sausbre and .leuse Fours & Nantes (Mackenzie) 2 - Verona and Ancona 1 JOINT STOCK BANKS. Australasia Union of Australia A.RK N P., r 3 H 1S 1)A 1,:.) E. URA EXC HAN cat:— WEDNESDA The supply of Wheat of home produce was very limited : however, we have to report a steady demand for that article, at prices fully equal to those obtained on Monday. Foreign Wheat was in fair request; but no advance was noticed in the quotations. Barley, Malt, and Oats met a slow inquiry ; but Beans and Peas were quite as dear. ARR I VALS. Barley. - qrs. Wheat. 1,580 qrs. English • • • • • • Irish •• • ..... Foreign .•• • • • Oats. 1 Flonr. ---- 1 680 9,720 I 950 1,450 10 qrs. --- M Jt, waxwmcliArzz . Although the supplies of Meat were somewhat on the in crease, the general demand ruled steady, at full rates:— Beef, from 2s 6d to 3s 8d ; Mutton, 2s 10d to 4s 8d ; Lamb, 4s 10d to 6s; Veal, 3s lOd to 43 8d ; and Pork, 2s 10d to 4s per 81bs. tPetPPING.—(THIS DAY.) DEAL, JULY I.—lt has blown very strong throughout the day from S.W. by W. to W.S.IV., and most of the vessels are riding with two anchors, having driven considerably. The Jane, for Launceston, has carried away her windlass. Arrd. Kipley, Porto Rico ; Thire Petre, New York for Stettin ; Pleiades, Quebec ; Duchess of Kent, Sidgwick, Calcutta, and not Sydney. LEITH, JULr I.—The Christian, Calloway, of Leith, from Shields, went on shore on Holy Island is the gale of Saturday last, with loss of sails ; cargo hove overboard. The l'rince of Wales, and the Bon Accord, both of Hull, left Greenland Eshery for the Straits, previous to the Ist ult. The Eclipse, of Peterhead, has returned from the north to the seal fishery. BRISTOL, JULY I.—Wind W.—Arrd. Mohawk, Farr, Africa. Sld. Governor Harvey, Newfoundland. OFF MARGATE, JULY I.—Young Queen, Penang ; William Gillies, Clark, Bombay ; Susannah, Naylor, Sierra Leone. LIVERPOOL, JULY I.—Wind S. to W.S.W.—Arrd. Cora, Miller, Bahia ; Two Brothers, Brown, St. Domingo ; Bradshaw, Currie, New Orleans ; Clara, Mobile ; Feronia, Quebec. tild. Zephyr, Berbice ; Islam, Barbadoes ; Scotia, Baltimore; Lanarkshire, Quebec. FLEETWOOD, JUNE 30.—Arrd. Canning, Montreal. D u BLIN, J UNE 30.—Arrd. Lady Bassett, Carthuw, Antigua; Ameron, St. John's, New Brunswick. CORK, JUNE 29.—Arrd. Sir 11. Huntley, Prince Edward's Island. Off, British Queen, St. John's, New Brunswick. KILKUSIE JUNE 29.—Arrd. Patiope, St. John's, New Brunswick. LEITH, JUNE 28.—Sld. Noma, Honduras; Voyager, Quebec. STROMNESS, JUNE 26.-51 d. harvest, New York; All:ert, Hudson's Bay. A letter from Munich states, that there is now being cast in bronze, at the Royal Foundry of that city, the statue of the English statesman, William Huskisson, which is to be erected at Liverpool. The model is from the hand of a young English sculptor, Mr. Gypson, now at Rome. COURT OF CHANCERY. 7 U TILE ED1T01? OF THE SUN. sia,—lt must be gratifying to all true lovers of reform to watch the growing determination in the public to discountenance the prac' tice of offices of trust and confidence being performed by deru* I regret, however, to perceive that in the law the same ie 34/1 watchfulness does not prevail. In the office of the Masters in Chan cery there is at this present time an officer in the receipt of a salary of 1,0001. a-year, who has never attempted to perform the import 4 P / duties attached to the office, to which the Lord Chancellor £l , ' pointed him two years ago. As this person has neither the plea Of ill heath nor old age to urge for this default, I should like to be informed what pretext can be alleged in justification of a practh* which the Court professes to hold in such abhorrence Y-1 am, M Chancery-lane. A OLICITOII. CAMBRIDGE AND LINCOLN RAILWAY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUIV. SIR,--I beg respectfully to call your attention to the very ill' accurate report in this evening's Sun of the Cambridge an d Lincoln Railway proceedings before the Committee in the Houl e of Commons. Your reporter represents Mr. Hildyard, the counsel , as saying, that trains by the Cambridge and Lincoln line would perform the distance between London and York not:as (in one place it is many hours, and in another some hours) quicker thal ) trains by the London and York line could perform it. Now, you are hereby informed that Mr. Hildyard, whose speech I heard (rolls beginning to end, never said anything of the kind, nor could a° attentive reporter suppose him to have said so. The statement 1 0 totally unfounded, and I am sure your interest in the character a The Sun, as a faithful and impartial reporter of railway proceedings. will inuuce you to make some inquiry as to the cause of so extra ordinary and mischievous a mis-statement. Allow me, mos t strongly to urge that no speculator in shares should be intrusted with the duty of reporting railway proceedings —a duty pereMP' torily requiring faithfulness and impartiality in him who did. chat ges it.—Your obedient servant, J. L. 3, Walbrook, July 1, 1845. [lt is our desire and our endeavour to give not only the refort i of the proceedings before Railway Committees, but all report , which appear in The Sun, with the greatest possible accuracf• We readily insert this letter. The gentleman who furnished 0 the report is not a speculator in shares, nor is he interested directly or indirectly, to our knowledge, in the success of 001 railway project.— ED. Sun.] THE GREAT BRITAIN STEAMER• TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN: SlR,—Your article upon the Great Britain and steam has had ral attention, and I hasten to inform you that you werequite correct in your opinion that the figures setting forth her tonnage are reversed• I gave the Custom.house officer, who called at the office In ac• cordance with his instruction from the higher powers, 3,481 tong as her displacement when loaded. A large allowance is stia/ 3 1 l made for the space occupied by the motive power of steamera , which really ought to include the coal stowage also, although it doe s not, when they are registered, further than that which is stowed on each side of the engine.room, known by the name of th e bunkers. I send you some rough extracts of the Chip's passag e to Dublin, seeing that you appreciate in a national point of vie' the vast strides made by ourselves and others in steam navigatioa. —Your obedient servant, C. C. N.B. The small amount of tonnage which appears in the return when compared with the power of steamers, is to be accounted O r , by the omission of the whole sp a c e i n th e b o d y o f t h e sh i p occu plo by the machinery. Thus the Star, for instance, is nearer three than one hundred tons. In some cases the engine -room occupie i half the ship ; in none, I should think, less than one-third. BYO with this allowance, the Bristol steamers, generally speaking, ar e nearer two tons to one horse power than those of many 0 0 1 places. Our Irish steamers, for in s t ance , are f rom 1 80 to 19v horse-power to a tonnage averaging 400 or thereabouts. T be smaller the vessel, the less should be the proportions of tonnage t 0 power, and vice versa. Bristol, July 1, 1845. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Ste,—l find in yesterday evening's Sun, "In answer to S:r Hayes, Sir J. Graham said the Government did not require ant additional powers to put down the disturbances in Wick Cavan, and Fermanagh." As in neither the question or reply WO Wicklow mentioned, I request you will relieveit from the charg e which appears in your payer to apply to that county, which afford,, at all times a perfect example of tranquillity and obedience to 1 0 law.—l have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant, WILLIAM ACTON, M.P., Wicklow county. Carlton Club, 2d July, 1845. SEAMEN. A Return "of the Number of Seamen who, in the autumn of 1840, received a proportion of the wages due to them , with fourteen days' leave of absence, and directions to re' turn on board their respective ships at the end of that time; together with the number of those who, after receiviV% such proportion of their wages, neglected to return." Total Number Total Number who received neglected to retur o received a proportion of their wages. after receiving such proportiou• 322 38 98 1 SUIPS. Donegal North Star Fair Rosamond Snake Serpent Hermes Spitfire Sparrow hawk ...., Rhadamanthus Boxer 1 1 9 Total J. T. BRIGGS, Accountant-General Navy. Admiralty-office, June 21, 1845. Yesterday the Duchess of Northumberland gag e an elegant fete clianzpetre at Sion House, the ducal re s idence e Isleworth, where a limited but brilliant circle of the aristocracy sembled. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridg e and Prince George of Cambridge, attend e d by B aron Kneseb°x and Lady Augusta Cadogan, arrived at a quarter past four o'Cle e ' r and left shortly after six. AMERICAN ICE.—For som e ti me p as t t hi s nove l importation has been in pretty g enera l use i n Gl asgow. It is fet; fectly clear and transparent, bein g care f u ll y cut frqm large P°°ll prepared for the purpose, and kept free from all impurities. 11,t. th at a a very striking instance o f th e s pi r i t o f enterprise, r"-,., a regularly organised comp a ny s h ou ld b e esta bli shed for the Pit, pose of dealing in such a comm o dity ; an d i t i s rat h er s i ng ular '° think that an epicure in Great Britain may have his wine in the shape of " sherry cobblers" with ice produced u pon t h e lakes o f . the American continent, and which has be en b roug h t t h ro ugh tir heat of summer across the Atl an ti c, f or hi s express use and rag fication.—Edinbuigh Witness. MYSORE COFFEE.—A parcel of coffee, import from Madras, the produce of the Mysore district, has within til er ?, few days been admitted a t th e l ow duty of fourpence per lb. I" Lords of the Treasury, by an order dated 13th June, 1844, 00 " - application from the E ast I n di a and China Association, respectie, the admission of sugar an d ot h er articles from Mysore, direct e d that Mysore produce, being legally admissible as such, should be admitted as the produce of Madras ; and since that period OS imported direct from Madras, and cer ti fi e d b y a num b er o f tw spectable merchants or brokers, judges of th e art i c l es, as b e i n g th e produce of the Mysore district, h av e b een d e li vere d as the prod,'", of the former place. The trial of William Harper and Edward Vl' liarns, who were arrest e d on t h e c h arge of passing o ff several baw: notes stolen from the b an k at M anchester, which charge, as °- robbery was committed in England, and the prisoners were Pc lishmen, the criminal t r ib una l s o f F rance could not entertain, O.; who were detained as guilty of the offence of obtaining and usinf in France a passport taken at Boulogne in a false name, e t ': brought of before the Correctional Tribunal on Saturday. HarPe" on being interrogated, stated that he was a butcher in NeWge rr o i market, at London ; that he came t o F rance on t h e i nv i tat ion Williams, is ho said he hats business in which he Harper, might h e useful to him, and promised to pay all expenses. Willialued i : said, had a passport from England, but h e, H arper, was w it"; out one. The passport in the name of John Parker, w it i which he came to Paris, was obtained a t B ou l ogne, b y WI liams, without Parker's app earance or i nterference. He st ated that he had been acquainted with Williams between two and thr ee years. He admitted changin g E ng li s h b ank notes to the arnotte•, of 4601. ; but declared that they were given to him by Williams' and that he did not know how he came by them. Williams, On being examined, contradicted H arper i n most points, and insist ed that he had never seen him more than twice in his life, boil met him for the fi rs t ti me i n t h e packet wh i ch brought him 0 1 to Boulogne. O n b e i ng as k ed what business he had in Paris, h e declined giving any answer until he had consulted his coun ee .,, Upon this M. Fo rca d e, th e a d vocate, came f orward " , and stated 4 the court that h e h a d b een c h osen to plead for Williams, but b ad had no comm un i cat i on w i t h hi m, b ecause he had at first engage d Charles Ledru, who was prevented fr om a tt en di ng t h e cour t, a n therefore he requested time to receive due information and in btructlons from his client. Upon this the court put off the furthe r hearing until Thursday next. The following painful occurrence happened thre e days ago in the Rue Folie Mericou r t. A y oung w if e, in the 10 stage of pregnancy, having occasi o n t o warm some water, l i g ht' , a brazier of charcoal in a room which had no fireplace. Ina fe w minutes afterwards, site was taken in labour; being unable to move from the room, and no person being within hearing of h er cries, she could have no one to assist her. She succeeded, be ei. ever, in delivering herself, and she and her baby might have done well, hail not the vapour of the charcoal overcome her and coal' pelled her to lie down on her bed, where she remained 'cuticles for several hours. At the end of this time some of her family we e ! in; by throwing open the door and window, and using the prope r means of resuscitation, the poor mother was recovered, but h er child had been long dead.—Galignani. BARBAROUS MURDER OF AN IN FANT .--O n Mon' day last a countryman, who was going to the fair of Hungarveet when passing through the townland of Kilgobinet, heard 5 00 e faint cries ; on looking round hi m h e could see no object, a n d after standing in amazement for some mit. utes, he put his ear to il heap of stories, when he felt convinced that some living creature was concealed underneath within a few feet of him. He proceeded to remove the stones, when, to his surprise, he found a female child, about eight or ten days old. The poor man had the child taken to the parish priest, who baptised it, but in the course of th e evening it died from the injuries it received. On WedneadslP Thomas Dennehy, Esq., county coroner, held an inquest; the jury returned the following verdict:—" That the said female child was buried alive by some person or persons unknown, and 100 alone was the cause of its death."— Waterford Mail. RAILWAY.-1 he last prevailing rumour reit'. Live to the opening of the railway from London to Cambridge We e ' that it would take place on Wednesday the 9th instant. This is correct however only so far as regards the line front Cambridge to Ely, which we believe will be opened on that day. Yesterday e n experimental train was made in a sin g l e carr i age down that par t 0 i the line, and everything proved very satisfactory. Within the las t week or two, the station has rapidly advanced.—Cambride Advertiser. We have heard with regret that the child of Mr• Booth Bell, who had his arm fractured by a fall from the gig wh en his father was shot, has since died.—. Northern Standard. FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT.— W e heard just as W e . were going to press that the floor of the Petty Sessions House at Mullinahone gave way yesterday (Friday), with about 500 person'', The fall was so sudden, th a t many were ser i ously injured, arms, legs, and thighs b e i ng b ro k en . Th e b ench, on wh i ch were the magistrates, John Mill e t, H. T. R e d mon d , Purefoy F 64. Esqs., and the Rev. W. B ryan, rema i ned undisturbed. Dr . Gor ing promptly attended, and administered medi ca l re li e f to t h e su ff e rers' —Tipperary Free Press. On Sunday mornin g , s h or tl y b e f ore t wo o ' c lock, a fire broke out at No. 30, G rea t P u l teney.street, Golden. s quare , in the joint occupation of M r . C. G oo d a ll , card manufacturer, a nd Messrs. Parsons, Wel l ing, and Looser. The fire was first ofr; servod an the second floor by a policeman, who g ave an a larm, a" enabled the inmates to esc a p e Theflames were not extinguish °., until the upper floors were d e st roye d. s evera l A PnILOSOPHER IN TROUBLE. —A gentle M an named Goddard, who resides in London, was brought before the borough magistrates on Monday, and charged with trespassing °l3 , the grounds of C. Pemberton, E>q , and refusing to give an a e count of himself. Mr. Bradley appe a red f or th e d e f en dant, sa d stated that he had been requested by Professor Phillips to say tba t the defendant was a gentleman of respectability, well known to W . : and the principal members of the B r iti s h A ssoc i at i on . The O' planation given of the affair was, that the defendant had taken a n r over-dose of wirer, which had affected him so much as to rend er him perfectly unconscious of what he wa s d o i ng , so th a t he fano himself in some of the college grounds...CamOridge Chrosicle. lh' clause Th thing point, rival proloi Stand in cc rules to sit subje Orde this ( port .......... R,l On usual the a until meet an ad unnei on tt, He h hund he lc of a passe JoUrn furtti pliea distil whet He mitt Bost grea shoe he iq