The Sun. — London, England, 1845-07-04 00:00:00

IRELAND. CONFLICT BETWEEN THE POLICE AND THE COUN TRY PEOPLE AT BALLINHASSIG FAIR—EIGHT PERSONS KILLED. The Cork Southern Reporter contains details of a frightful col. lision between the people and the police at Ballinhassig fair on Monday, by which eight of the former were killed and twenty-five wounded. The reporter of that journal, writing from Bailin. has,ig, Tuesday morning, gives the following distressing parti, There is an annual fair held In the village of Ballinhassig on the 30th of June, which is usually well attended by all the farmers and people in that district, and it is customary to send a small police force to the fair, in order to keep order and prevent riots or the disturbance of the peace. This precaution was taken yester day, but unfortunately, in my judgment, not carried out with either the prudence, good temper, or moderation which the judicious dis charge of so onerous and responsible a duty demanded. At about half-past seven, when the business of the fair had con cluded, a number of persons remained near the fair field, and about the little village. A party of police, nineteen in number, under the command of Mr. Kelly, Sub-Inspector at Kinsale, were stationed near the cross road. Two persons in the crowd, from the neighbourhood of Adamstown, named Sullivan and Neale, began to quarrel, and others having interfered, the police felt it their duty to arrest one of the principals, Sullivan, and immediately on their doing so one or two mischievous persons called out in Irish, " Don't let him with them." Symptoms of a disposition to rescue Sullivan having thus become general, the police retired with their prisoner to the dispensary, having been in the mean time pelted with stones and missiles by the crowd. The door of that edifice was not on the hinges, but it was laid to, and the stone throwing continued. A number of the country people got into a garden behind the dispensary, and were throwing atones on the roof until they had smashed it in two or three places. The police, in the meantime, had been ordered to load, and very soon after they got into the dispensary, they fired from the window and door with deadly effect. There was no magistrate present ; no Riet Act read ; no warning, as I am positively informed, to the people to desist; no attempt made to disperse them by a bayonet charge, or a volley of blank cartridge. At the first fire several fell, and the police then came out; some of them fired again, and again re turned, and the whole party once again rushed out, and the people having by this time ran in all directions, they turned up by the bridge in the direction of their barracks. When they went from the dispensary a small body of people followed them, and though no attack was, as I can learn, then attempted, one or two of the police turned round, and again fired with the same aim and effect that signalised their previous proceedings. I shall now come to the sad spectacle which presented itself on my arrival at the bridge. Having received intimation in Cork about twelve o'clock at night of what had occurred, I proceeded to the locality, in company with Dr. M'Evers, whose valuable services were put in requisition for the relief of the unhappy sufferers, and I am bound to say that, in my experience, never did I see more kindness, humanity, and professional skill united in mitigating the horrors with which this worthy gentleman was everywhere sur rounded. The first house we entered, a wretched hovel, near the bridge, presented a melancholy sight. On a heap of potatoes in the corner, resting on the lap of an aged woman, lay the body of a fine athletic man, his clothes open, and his chest covered with blood ; three or four women were col lected about—a group of men surrounded him, and only a hollow moan from the females, occasionally broke the silence of the house of mourning. With some difficulty I amide way for the doctor, and when he held the candle to his ghastly features, and looked for a moment on the last convulsive agony, he saw that his end was come. In less than a minute he had ceased to exist, and his announcement of the melancholy truth seemed the signal for a burst of that anguish only the Irish peasant can express, when involved in such absorbing sorrow. The name of the deceased was Jeremiah Coghlan ; he lived at Skehanagh, was a small farmer, and had left, besides his aged mother, a wife and child to bewail his sad and untimely fate. The bullet entered at his back, and passing through the lungs, came out at the left side. We then hastened to the nearest place, where it was intimated that one of the sufferers lay, and, in a little house in the village, stretched on the earthen floor, we found a fine young man, named John Welsh, from Carrigaline, aged twenty.four. His right leg was literally shivered to bits. It had been hastily dressed, but on opening the bandage several large splinters of bone came away. It was dressed again, as well as time and circumstances would permit. and the poor sufferer expressed his gratitude over and over again for the relief he was afforded. The doctor at once recommended that he should be removed to Cork to the infirmary, where amputation of the limb simnel take place, as the only chance of saving his life. He was unmarried, but, I was informed, had a young family of brothers ai.d sisters, who were mainly dependent on his labours. After describing other similar uses, the reporter adds—Crossing a large tract of country we next came to a house, where, indeed, a most afflicting spectacle awaited us. The woman of the house, Johanna Holland, aged 23, and lately married, was shot dead near the bridge in the village, after the police had left the dispensary. Her mangled corpse was lying on a table facing the door, and a vast crowd, principally females, thronged the house, which, from its general appearancc, I should say belonged to a comfortable farmer. O❑ examination, it was found that the ball entered at the back, and passing between the shoulders through the lungs, caused instantaneous death. The deceased was a very respectable quiet woman, and was, by mere accident, passing through the vil lage on her way home at the moment of the untoward event which brought her to a premature grave. There is a policeman, named Dawson, rather severely hurt. He has three cuts on his head from stones, and his lip is split ; but nothing more serious than those cuts and bruises. He was she tered at a gentleman's house in the neighbourhood, which was the means of saving his life from the infuriated mob. There is one matter more to which, before I close, I must call your special attention. I carefully examined the dispensary in which the police took refuge—and now observe its position. There is a window and door in front, facing the cross road—there is no window or aperture to the rear. The stones which knocked in the roof were all thrown from the rear, and yet the firing necessarily was directed against the people in front, who could not have been the parties to the attack on the building. I have not time to add more. I should have before noticed that the Rev. Mr. Hallinan, the respected perish priest, was early in atteadance on his suffering people, and administered to them the consolation of religion in their dying moments. I must also notice the prompt and humane assistance which John Kelly, Esq., of Ballinhassig, rendered. From the first intimation he received of the fatal affray he was on the spot, procuring ever; assistance that could be afforded the suf ferers. He sent an express into town for medical aid, and accom panied Dr. M'Evers and myself all over the country the whole of the inclement night, doing all that a kind, humane, and benevolent gentleman could, to mitigate the sorrows and sufferings of his poor fellow -countrymen. There are over a hundred and twenty police under arms in the barracks on the Bandon-road, under the command of Mr. Walker, sub-inspector, from Cork. A messenger has been dispatched for the Coroner. The latest account is the following : " BALLINIIASSIG, TUESDAY, Two o'come—The utmost excite ment prevails for several miles around, The people, and they are proverb:al for exemplary conduct, are sullen. They are most re spectful to all patties seeking information ; they ask for an impar tial investigation, a request that there seems every prospect of having conceded to them. The magistrates, John Molony, Esq., Win. Meade, Esq., and J. T. Biggs, Esq. ; the coroner, Franklin Baldwin, Esq. ; the parish priest, the Rev. J. Hallinan ; and a considerable number of the surrounding gentry and respectable farmers, after a consultation have agreed, and it has been resolved upon, that the inquest shall not commence its sittings untill nine o'clock on Thursday morning, several circumstances concurring to render that course the most prudent. In the meantime, counsel and agents are to be engaged, the friends and relatives of the ill fated deceased and wounded (of the former six ; of the latter, as certained twenty-five—some, it is feared mortally) having taken measures to insure justice. The coroner intimated that he would issue summonses for fifty or sixty regaectable gentlemen, from w h o m te, select twenty-three to form the jury, whilst a bench of magistrates from all parts of the country is looked for." " GREAT PROTESTANT COMMEMORATION." DCRLIN, JULY 2.—What is termed " an open air soiree " took Place last evening its the Rotunda Gardens, to commemorate the anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne. About half-past six o'clock the Rev. R. H. M. Eyre, A.M., took the chair. The business of the evening was opened with prayer, and several psalms were then sung by the company, after which the Rev A. J. Montgomery, formerly one of the chaplains of the Grand Orange L o dge; Mr. H Smith, of Annsbrook ; and the Rev. E. Prior, addressed the meeting in proposing and seconding resolutions re. specting the Battle of the Boyne. The Rev. T. D. Gregg introduced W. B. Ferrand, Esq., M.P., to the meeting. He was received with several rounds of the Kentish fire and Laid cheering. Mr. FERRAND, M.P., then rose to address the meeting, and was received with loud cheers. The Hon. Gentleman proceeded to say that he had great pleasure in coming forward toaddress a Dublin Protestant audience, for since he had last the honour of address ing them the foulest attempt was made by the Parliament to crush the Protestant feeling in this country.—(Loud cheers.) But such could not be done, because the Protestants spoke the truth. He had a right, as a free-born Englishman, to stand up for that privilege, and he had sto xi up in the House of Commons against the worst blow that was ever aimed at the Constitution. In a letter which he addressed to Sir James Graham he had vindicated the same principles, and that letter was widely circulated—he had also sent a copy to Sir James himself—(Cheers) —but that Minister thought to crush them by a lying and infamous report,—(Loud yelling and Kentish fire.) The Ministers were traitors to their re ligion, their country, their Sovereign, and their God. Several rounds of the Kentish fire followed the conclusion of this sentence. A VOICE—PeeI is an impostor.—(Cheers, and loud cries of " Yes, he is.") Another VOICE—PeeI is a common traitor.—(Cheers.) Mr. FERRAND— He is the worst traitor that ever lived.—(Kentish fire and cheers.) Mr. Ferrand continued to say that Peel was the Marotto of Conservatism, and he had betrayed the party whom he was solemnly pledged to support, and the religion he was sworn to maintain, and he (Mr. Ferrand) would prove that he was a traitor to his country and his Sovereign.—(Cheers.) A Voice—Peel is an infidel.—(Tremendous yelling and Kentish fire.) Another VOICE—We will put out the traitor.—(" Order.") Mr. FERRAND then proceeded to prove that Sir Robert Peel was a traitor. He had passed the Roman Catholic Bequests Act, a heavier blow to the British Constitution than the grant to May nooth—by his own admission, a more revolutionary measure—and thus, in express defiance of the Act of Parliament, making the Roman Catholic prelates bishops and archbishops. Yes, in direct opposition of the oath of supremacy and the Act of Settlement, he had passed through the Lords and Commons his Romish, his Popish Maynooth Bill.—(Hisses.) It only now waited for the signature of her Majesty to become the law of the land—and ho would repeat the assertion which he had made in the House of Commons —the instant their gracious Sovereign attached her sig nature to that Bill, she signed away her right and title to the Bri tish throne.—(Loud cheers.) The Rev. TRESII /01 GREGG briefly addressed the meeting, and after a vote of thanks had been passed to Mr Ferrand, the meeting formed into a procession, and marched round the gardens,the band play fng appropriate airs. ARRIVAL OF MR. O'CONNELL. About ten o'clock this forenoon Mr. O'Connell arrived in Kingstown from London, by the mail packet, and proceeded to the residence of his son, Mr. John O'Connell, M.P., near the railway station. DUBLIN STOCK EXCHANGE, JULY 2. Government Funds—Three per Cent. Consols, 99 99 / —Three and.a. Quarter per Cent. Stock, 10Ih *—Bank Stock, 210. Miscellaneous —Grand Canal Stock, 94. Itailways-43elfast and Ballymena, 5i i—Bandon and Bantry, lA—Cork and Bandon, 7i 7—Cork and Waterford,ll—Cork and Youghal, 21 —Cork and Passage, j prem.—Dublin and Belfast Junction, s 7l—Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine Junction, 2I — Dublin and Drogheda, 109—Dundalk and Enniskillen, 3g — Enniskillen and Sligo, 21 —Great Southern and Western, 23t_ Ditto, Extension, 11*—The Midland and Great Western Railway, and Royal Canal Company, 3g 4—Ditto, Extension to Sligo, 2g 3—lrish G eat Western (Dublin to Galway), 31 *—Killarney Junctions, 2 k—Limerick, Enniskillen, and Killaloe Junction, 4—Limerick and Ennis, 3—Londonderry and Enniskillen, 3g _Waterford and Limerick, 7 71—Waterford and Kilkenny, 3 Wexford and Carlow, 21—Waterford, Wexford, and Dublin, I g 2. it g...;11 be sen from the report of the Asturian C.,mpany. that several collieries have been opened near Oviedo, which promise to be of in the north of Spain, great service to that country. Should the mines, as anti cipated, turn out well, the people would find better employ ment than in quarrels with the Government about their fueros or the claims of the Carlist dynasty. A paper on these , mines was read at the recent meeting of the British Asso ciation held at Cambridge, to which we refer those who t a k e an interest in the subject. The Plivselflorf Gazette states that the health of the Empress of Russia has beccrae alarming, and;that the Emperor ie again suffering from a disease of the liver. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. There was a THIRD EDITION of THE SUN published last Evening, containing— The report of the day's proceedings before the Railway Committees of the Houses of Lords and Commons. A full Report of the nominatiou at Dartmouth. A Report of the Meeting held yesterday afternoon, at the Hanover-square Rooms, for providing per manent employment for the Poor. The Betting at Tattersall's up to six o'clock. Parliamentary Intelligence of the Evening, being a full Report of the Debates in the House of Com mons up to a Quarter before Seven o'clock. LAST NIGHT BUT ONE OF THE SEASON. WI L S ON'S SCOTTISH ENTERTAIN MENTS. At the MUSIC-HALL, STORE-STREET, BEDFORD-SQUARE, On MONDAY EVENING, the 7th July, at Eight o'clock, Mr. WILSON will give his popular Entertainment of MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS, Condensed into one part : and a selection of the favourite Songs of Scotland. Piano-forte—Mr. LAND. PART 1.--Comprising Mary Queen of Scots, with the illustrative songs—Death-bed Lament of King James—The Queea's Marriage— Carle, noo the Queen's come—The First Blast of the Trumpet—The Veteran's Welcome—The Last Lay of Chatelard—Tammie and Nannle—Oh weep, weep, ye streams. PART 2.—Over the Water to Charlie—There was a Lass and she was fair—Up in the Morning early-0 whistle and I'll come to ye, my Lad—Logie o'Buchan—Last May a braw wooer cam down the Lang glen—Hooly and fairly. Tickets, 2s. Reserved Seats, 2s. 6d. Private Boxes for Six, 155.; for Eight persons, 1/. Now ready, in 3 vols. A SECOND EDITION OF " SYBIL ; or, The Two Nations." By B. DISRAELI, Esq., M.P. IL A FOURTH EDITION of " CONINGSBY ; or, The New Gene ration." By the same Author. 3 vols. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. NOTICE B URKE'S PEERAGE and BARONETAGE, FOR 1845. THE NEW AND REVISED EDITION, containing ALL THE NEW CREATIONS TO THE PRESENT TIME, and corrected throughout from the Communications of the Nobility, &c., in 1 vol., comprising as much matter as twenty ordinary volumes, WILL BE READY FOR DELIVERY IN A FEW DAYS. AY' Orders received by all Booksellers. Ilenry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough -street. WEST INDIA PINE APPLES, IN TWENTY-ONE DAYS, BY THE ROYAL MAIL STEAM-SHIP MEDWAY. FOR SALE by PUBLIC AUCTION, on MONDAY next, the 7th of July, by KEELING and HUNT, Monument-yard, at Two o'clock precisely, WEST INDIA PINE APPLES. 2,500 now landing in fine condition from the above vessel. KEELING and HUNT, Brokers, Monument-yard and Pudding-lane. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. TO-MORROW EVENING. Will be performed Mercai ante's Opera IL GIURAMENTO. Eloisa, Madame Grist ; Isaara, Madame Bellini ; Bianca, Mdlle Brambilla ; Manfredo, Sig. Fornasart ; Viscardo, Sig. Moriani. Between the Acts a DIVERTISSEMENT, in which Mdlle. Tag lioni, supported by Madame Petit Stephan will dance the admired " La ryrolienne." To conclude with LA ESMERALDA . La Esmeralda, Mdlle. Carlotta Grisi ; Fleur de Lys, Madame Petit Stephan ; Phoebus de Chateupers, M. St. Leon ; Pierre Gringoire, M. Perrot. In the Third Tableaux, Mdlle. Gratin, supported by Mdlles. Mon celet and Ferdinand will appe.ir in the admired Pas from " Eoline," and Mdlle. Cerito and M. St. Leon will appear in the admired Pas de Quatre, from " Le Lac des Fees," supported by Mdlles. Ferdinand and Demelisse. applications for Boxes, stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box office, Opera Colonnade. Doors open at Half-past Seven o'clock ; to commence at Eight. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Sig. FUZZ! respectfully informs the Subscribers to the Opera, his Friends, and the Public that HIS BENEFIT will take place ON THURSDAY, JULY 10, On which occasion will be presented (for the first time this Season) Donizetti's celebrated Opera, ANNA. BOLENA. Henry VIII. Sig. Lablache ; Percy, Sig. Moriani ; Smeaton, Signora Brambilla (her first appearance in that part) ; Anna Bollena, Madame Grisi ; Jane Seymour, Mdlle. Rosetti. After which, Selections (comprised In One Act) from Rossini's Grand Opera, PIETRO L'EREMITA. (Mose in Egitto.) With the following powerful Cast :—Agia, Madame Castellan ; Fatima, Ma dame Rossi Cacci ; Noradino, Sig. Barroilhet ; Pietro l'Eremita, Sig. Fornasari ; Lusignano, Sig. Corelli ; Orosmono, Sig. Mario. In order to give the fullest effect to the celebrated Preghiera, " Dal Tuo Stellato S:;glio," all the eminent Artistes of the Establishment have kindly consented to lend their aid and to join the Chorus on this occasion only. The Entertainments in the Rallet Department will include the ombined Talents of Mdlles. C. Grisi, Lucile Gratin, and Cerito ; M. Perrot, M. Gosselin, and M. St. Leon. In addition to which, Sig. °uzzi has secured the assistance of Mdlle. Taglioni. Application" for Boxes. Stalls, and Pit Tickets to be made to Sig. Puzzi, 38, Jeimyn-street, St. James; and at the , rcra-Colonnar.: , .. Boors open at Seven, to comme.:e3 at Half-past Seven o,Clock THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. LESSEE, MR. B. WEBSTER. THIS EVENING Will he repeated a New and Original Comedy, by Douglas Jerrold, 3ntitled TIME WORKS WONDERS. Goldthumb, Mr. W. Farren ; Felix Goldthumb, Mr. Charles Mathews ; Bantam, Mr. Buckstone ; Miss Bessy Tulip, Madame Vestris ; Florentine, Miss Fortescue ; Miss Tucker, Mrs. Glover ; Patty, Mrs. Humby. After which will be repeated a Dramatic Sketch, entitled THE OLD SOLDIER. Sir Lionel Burner, Mr. Brindal ; Master Michael Cramp, Mr. Tilbury ; Adam Lethersole (aged 95), Mr. W. Farrcn ; Buff, Mr. James Bland ; Patience Cramp, Mrs. Stanley ; Ilelen, Miss Telbin. To conclude with an entirely New Farce, called THE KING AND I. Period, 1691. Sir William Melrose, Mr. H. Holl ; Burchell, Mr. James Bland ; Perkin Pyefinch, Mr. Buckstone ; Jessie ,Donald, Miss Juli Bennett. TIIEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTE 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, THE IRISH ATTORNEY ; or, Galway Practice in 1770. Pierce O'Hara, Mr. Hudson ; Jacob Wylie, Mr. Cullenford. After which, an Original Terpsichorean Burletta, called POWDER AND BALL ; or, St. Tibbs's Eve. Mr. Montgomerie Tibbs, Mr. Lambert ; Captain Kidglove, Mr. Selby ; Jacob Gerkin, Mr. Wright ; Mrs. Montgomerie Tibbs, Mrs. Frank _Matthews; Sally linobbs, Miss Woolgar. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF 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. Atter which, an entirely New, Original, and Novel Grand Fairy BALLET DIVERTISSEMENT, entitled LES FEES. In which Les 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 Turner ; 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. Keelrf, Mr. A. Wigan, Mr. Frank Mathews, Mr. J. W. Collier, Mrs. Keeley, Miss ViDars, Miss Fairbrother, Mrs. Woollidge, Miss Grove, Miss Howard, &c PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. LESSEE, MR. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING Will be performed THE CASTLE OF AYMON ; or, The Four Brothers. Baron de Beaumanoir, Mr. Walton ; Olivier, Mr. Allen ; Allard, Mr. C. Horn, Jun. ; Richard, Mr. Rime ; Renaud, Mr. Mattacks ; Ivon, Mr. Leffler ; Hermine, Mdlle. Helen Coudell ; Clara, Miss Brentnall ; Yolande, Miss E. Honner ; Eglantine, Miss •'Connor ; Gertrude, Mrs. Fosbroke. After which. a New Divettissement, called A COURT BALL IN 1740. In which will be introduced the Dances as performed at her Majesty's Bal Costume, with the Original Music. To he followed by a New Dramatic Sketch, entitled MRS. CAUDLE ; or, Curtain Lectures. Mr. Caudle, Mr. Compton ; Mrs. Caudle, Mr. Oxberry. To conclude with THE 'WIDOW BEWITCHED. Mr. Clement Furnival, Mr. W. Lacy ; Mrs. Lorimer, Mrs. Stirling. ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.—FRENCH PLAYS; Last Appearance but Four of the p , •2ular Actor, M. ARZ.cAL, and Last Four Nights of the present Season. THIS EVENING, Will be performed RENAUDIN DE CAEN. Arnal ; Suzette, Mille. Ozy. After which UN MONSIEUR ET UNE DAME. Un Mon. sieur, M. Arnal ; Une Dame, Mdlle. Forgeot. To conclude with LES GAN I'S JAUNES. Anatole, Monsieur Arnal ; Madame Remi, Mdlle. Licvenne. Boxes, 65.; Pit, 3s. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, 3a. ; Gallery, 2s. Doors will be opened at Seven o'clock, and the Performances commence at llalf-past. Renaudin, 31 DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. M. PIIILLIPPE will REPEAT his WONDERFUL DELUSIONS and INCREDIBLE EXPERI THIS MEN'I EVENING'S for the LAST TIME , There will be RO advance of prices. Boxes, 23. ; Pit, Is. ; Gallery, 6d. Applications for Places, Private Boxes, &c., to be made to Mr. J. Kerschner, at the pox-office, from Eleven till Four. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. PROPRIETOR, MR. W. BATTY. Immense and overflowing Audiences attend the re-production of the Grand Military Spectacle of The Battle of Waterloo. THIS EVENING Will be performed TIIE 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 CREEK RENEGADE. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. COMBINATION OF ATTRACTIONS. The Four Juvenile Minstrel Brothers and the Rock Harmonicon, 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 HARMONICON from Three till Eigl.t. tud on MONDAYS, TUESDAYS, WEDNESDAYS, and THURS DAYS, GRAND[ ONCER PLAY TS D'ETE and MAGNIFICENT of FIREORKS. Admission, One Shilling. Feeding the Carnivora at Half-past Five Pelicans and Polar Bears at Six ; Concert at Half- 'fist Sly and Fireworks at Half-past Nine. - - THE MAILS.—SOUTHAMPTON, JULY 3.—The Ori ental Company's steam-ship the Duke of Cornwall left the docks at three P.M. this day for Alexandria, with the East India and China mails ; also a full cargo of bale and other goods, and twelve passengers. The Royal West India mail packet the Thames, Captain Haste, left her moorings yesterday at three P.M. upon her outward voyage, carrying the West India and South American mails ; also twenty-six passengers, 677 bottles of quicksilver, twenty boxes of silver (value 10,0000, four ditto of gold (value 4,0001.), and general cargo, The next Portugal mail will be due on Sunday next, and the East India and China one by the Tagus is expected at the Motherbank on the Tuesday following. The commune of Schapfen, says the New Zurich Gazette, is having cast at Aaran a church bell, weighing thirty. two quintals (more than three tons), and which is to bear the fol lowing inscription—" In honour of the persons who died, or were captured, whilst fighting against Jesuitism, in the year 1845." The tax on dogs (says a Belgian journal) pro duced in 1844, inthe City of Antwerp, the sum of 44,903 f. THE StTN, LONDON, FRIIIAI._EYENTWG, TO CORRESPONDENTS. A Subscriber of some years' standing, at Halifax," is in formed that a very strict inquiry has been instituted on the subject referred to. He bas our best thanks for his good opinion, which it has always been our ambition to attain and preserve. THE IVEATIiEN...—SuN OFFICE, JULY 4. rfIERMOMETER, Lowest, 53 ; Highest. 78 ; Noon, 71. BAROMETER, W.S.W. Nara.—The figures which follow the words "Lowest" and " Highest" denote the lowest and highest state of the hermorneter during the preceding twenty-four hours. All the other observations are made at noon. RIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning .. 42 minutes after 1 I Evening -. 2 minutes after 2 fields for the last two days and nights. Her clothing bad - previously been worn to rags, till it dropped off, leaving her in the miserable condition we have descril,ed. Sty had been in the Hemel Heripstend union for some time, until turned out of the house by the master, on th 4 ground that, " having no children, she ought to find her own living." She then getout to see if she could hunt up her husband, and, after lainly wandering from place to place, was reduced to thestate in which she was thus discovered in Mr. Angersten's park. Now what is the sort of duty which the extcutive authorities under the New Poor Law are elected, aid, in this instance, paid, to perform ? Is it to relieve urgent, instant distress, or not ? or is it meant to be gravely affirmed that a woman in no more decent conditiot than a famished, tintless, and unclad aboriginal female of Australia, shall not be looked to, until so many intervening forms and cere monies have been gone though, that the Commissioners of the Poor-law themselves can neither wonder nor complain if the indignaton of the public should impute to them the having devisi'd so vexatious and barbarous a system of procrastinated relief, with a view to evade the spirit of an Act sanctioned by the nation, if at all, in a feeling of charity for our suffering fellow-creatures —by a miserable, quibbling, and a rigid adherence to the letter of it? These things should not be. They are abuses of the noble law of ELIZABNTII, and must not disgrace the reign of VICTORIA. It is little consolation to us, in the present instance, that the Greenwich ma gistrate expressed a strong opinion that an indictment would lie against the master of the Hertfordshire union house for turning the poor woman out of its shelter. Madrid journals, of the 26th ult. have been received. The Clamor Publico states, that on the evening of that day, several officers of the garrison had been put under arrest, but no cause is assigned. Some excitement had been caused in the capital by the acquittal of certain parties prosecuted for a libel on the Government, contained in a pamphlet en- titled " The Proscribed and the Imprisoned." The jury were cheered as they left the Court, and the advocate for the de fendants was carried on the shoulders of the people to his carriage. The Madrid populace, it would appear, are not favonrablw to the prGpoeed marriage of the QUEEN with the Prince of ASTURIAS. A print-seller having exhibited a portrait of that Prince in hie shop, a'crowd collected, broke the windows, and tore it to pieces. Letters from Barcelona of the 28th June state:that the QUEEN was to leave on the 2d for the baths of Puda, where she would remain ten days. Another letter from Bayonne, dated June 29, contains the following : " The Spanish Consul here has had it officially intimated to hire that the visit of the Queen of Spain to the Basque provinces, which was postponed after the abdication of Don Carlos, and the appear. ance of his son's manifesto, is now definitively settled to take place. Her Maje.ty will be at Tolosa, the capital of the province of Gui. puscoa, towards the end of July. The Duke and Duchess de Ne mours will make their public entry into Bayonne on the 16th of August." On the Madrid Bourse the Three per Cents. were done at 32 for cash, and 32 3 / at 60 days; the Five per Cents., at 21 ibr cash, and 2 i 3 / 4 at 60 days ; Passives at 7, at 60 days. According to the Paris journal, the Univers, the Papal Government had refused to interfere in the disputes between the Jesuists and the French Government. A correspondent of that paper who writes from Rome on the 20th of June, says :-" The extraordinary congregation on ecclesiastical affairs assembled on the 12th, to take into consideration the statements made by M. TRIERS in the French Chamber of De puties on the subject of the Jesuists, and to determine upon the answer to be given to the Envoy Extraordinary of his Majesty the KING of the Fut:Ncu, unanimously decided that the Holy See could not take any part in measures which concern the constitutional rights of the citizens of France." The Journal des Debuts approves of this decision in these words :-" We cannot ask for more. The answer of the con gregation of extraordinary ecclesiastical affairs, as reported by the correspondent of the Univers, appears to us, there fare, to be satisfactory. It sets aside the religious question, the only one that could warrant the interference of the Holy See. It leaves nothing in litigation but the question of public and constitutional right-a question purely tem pos al-one with which the Court of Rome has nothing to do, This is a grave lesson to those who in this country attempt to confound the two questions." A letter from Algiers of the 24th ult. furnishes accounts of more razzias, and also of an expedition by General INLA.REY against the tribe of the Oulad-el-Aziz, in order to chastise them for having assisted BEN-SALEM in his attempt to Air up a revolt among the tribe of the Arib-Cheraga. The General is said to have burnt several villages, and made con sideYable booty. About 2,400 Arabs, in close alliance with the French, co-operated in this affair, and are said to have realised an enormous booty, the tribe which was attacked being very rich. The statement of theaccounts of the Bank of France, made up to the 25th ult., shows the following results :-Actif the bank had then in hand in cash 260,535,069 f. ; in dis counts and loans, 12-1,061,025 f. ; in branch banks accounts, 74,236,:974f., credits and various items, 88,168 f ; reates, public securities, and reserved fund, 64,240,9741..-total, 523,1614T71: Pussif-the amount of bank notes circulated 259,141A : 521. ; accounts current, 17C,793,005f. ; capital and reserve, .81,900,000 f.; different items, 5,326,6401. The dis counts, at:vances, and loans made during the quarter amounted to the sum of 293,030,877 f. ; movement of ac counts current (private), 3,007,035,785 f. ; ditto (public), 228,259,0711. ; general movement of the raisses, 3,573,327,966 f. On the Paris _Bourse- the market closed on Wednesday as follows :-Three. per Cents., for cash, 83f. 65c.; for account, 83f. 65c. ; Five per Cents., for cash, 121 f. 35c. ; for account, 121 f. 65c. ; Bank of France Shares, 3,220 ; New Loan, 83f. 85c. Paris and Octeans closed at 1,165 f. ; Paris and Rouen, 1,0401. ; Rouen and Havre, 845 f. ; Avignon, 970 f. ; Stras bourg and Basle, 251 f. 25c. ; Vierzon, 750 f. ' The following are the quotations for the new lines :- Bordeaux, 670 f. 675 f. 6 - 72 f. 50c. pet. 680 f. 685 f. 690 f. 6851. ; Boulogne, 615 f. ; Mont areau, 525 f. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 5031. 50c. ; Dieppe and Fecamp (Selliere), 550 f. 545 f. 5431. 75c. 545 f. ; Lyons and Avignon (Lecointe and Desart's), 515 f. ; Ditto (Talabot), 537 f. 50c. ; Paris and Lyons (Laffitte, Blount, and Co.), 520 f. ; Ditto (Ganneron). 505 f. ; Ditto (Colon), 5001. ; Nortllern of France (Laffitte, Blount, and Co.), 535 f. ; Ditto (Re samel), 590 f. ; Charleroy, 507 f. 50c. 510 f. FUNERAL OF SIR WM : FOLLETT - - The mortal remains of this distinguished lawyer and ad vocate were this morning consigned to their last resting place, in the vaults under the eastern portion of the Temple Church. The whole of the Judges (with the exception of Lord Denman, who was unable to attend), the Lord Chan cellor, Lord Brougham, Sir Robert Peel, Sir James Graham, the Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Vice- Chancellor of England, Earl Caernarvon, Vice-Chan cellors Wigram and Knight Bruce, Lord Camp bell, Mr. Greene , M.P., Chairman of th e House ; Wm. Brougham, Esq. , Wm. Wingfield, Esq., the Attorney - General, Lord Langdale, R. Kindersley, Esq., Mr. Baron Parke, and upwards of2oo of the principal members cf the common law and equity cou rts, being present to pay the last token of respect to the lamented deceased, and Assisted in the funeral ceremony. The funeral cortege, which consisted of a hearse, containing the body, and thre, mourning coaches, each drawn by four horses, in which were relatives of the deceased, left Cumberland-terrace at eleven o'clock, and arrived at the Temple exactly at half past-twelve, when the procession was formed on the terrace in front of the gardens, and pro• ceeded in the following order :—The Master, the beadles and attendants of the Inner and Middle Temple; the benchers of the Inner Temple, the benchers of the Middle Temple, two by two, wearing black silk scarfs and bands ; the lid of feathers and porters, the choir, consisting of ten boys and twelve male voices; the reader; Archdeacon Robinson, the Master of the Temple; the coffin, on the right a which, Mr. Burge, Q.C., as treasurer of the Temple, Chief Justice Tindal, Sir James Graham, the Chancellor of the Exchequer; and on the left, Mr. Crowder, Q.C., Principal of the Tein - ple ; Lord Lyndhurst, Sir R. Peel, and the Vice-Chancellor of England, acted as pall-bearers. The chief mourner, B. B. Follett, Esq., and the brothers and immediate relatives of the deceased, followed by upwards of one hundred gentle men, forming nearly the whole of the Queen's Counsel in the several Courts of Law, as also the Judges, two by two. They proceeded round the terrace into King's Bench-walk, through Tanfield-court, to the western entrance of the church, and up the centre. The body being deposited on a bier, the per sons forming the procession filed off to the places allotted to them. The body and gallery of the church being filled by the various members of the profession, the Funeral Service was chaunted by the whole choir; at the conclusion of which the body was deposited in the catacombs, between the late Mr. Joy and Mrs. Warre, and immediately beneath the re mains of the late Lord Thurlow. The scene was altogether one of the most impressive and solemn appearance, and there could not have been less than 5,000 persons present on the occasion. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) WELLAND RACES—WEDNESDAY. The Welland Stakes of 5 SOTS. each, with 20 added ; the second to save his stake. Heats, one mile and a half. Mr. Carless's Aurungzebe, 5 yrs (Darling) 5 1 1 Mr. Raworth's Donna Anna. 5 yrs 1 2 2 Mr. Noble's Charity, aced Mr. Kitton's Miss I'restwood, aged 3 dr The Hurdle Stakes of 3 sovs. each, and 15 added, the second horse to save his stake, and the winner to be sold for 80/., were won in two heats by Mr. Griffith's Somerset (Powell), beating The Bird, Little Taffy, and Riding Master. The Hack Stakes of 2 sovs each, and 10 added, were won in three heats by Mr. Isaton's Fickle (owner), beating Sr. Daly's Wellington, Mr:Turner's Brewood, an two others. LUDLOW RACE ' S—WEDNESDAY. d Y. The Ludlow Handicap of 15 sovs. each, and 30 added ; once round and a distance. Mr. Parr's Ninety-One, 4 yrs (Marlow) 1 Mr. A. W. Hill's Salopian, 3 yrs... • 2 Mr. Collins's Mainstay, 4 yrs Mr. Davies's Princess Royal, 3 yrs Mr. Copeland's Reliance, 3 yrs The Maiden Plate of 50/. ; heats ; Ludlow Stakes Course. Mr. Collins's Mainstay,4 yrs (Darling) 5 1 1 Mr. W. Jones's Falstaff, 3 yrs ....... .... 1 3 4 Mr. Eskett's Exhort, 3 yrs Mr. Morgan's Tipple Cider, 3 yrs 8 2 3 Mr. Lucas's Retriever, 4 yrs 3 5 dr Mr. Skarratt's Own Brother to Caitiff, 3 yrs 2 dr Mr. Slower's Fat Jenny, 4 yrs Mr. Godson's Susannah, 4 yrs The Oakley Park Stakes of 10 sovs. each, and 25 added. Heats as above. Lord Powis's Is m, by Advance, out of Acco, 3 vrs (Marlow) 1 1 Mr. itobins's Confab, 4 yrs 2 2 Mr. Clifton's Pedlar, aged. MARRIAGE IN HIGII - Y esterday was so lemnised, at the church of St. George, Hanover-square, the mar riage of Captain the Hon. Percy Barrington with the rich heiress Miss Higgins, daughter of Mrs. Staniforth, of Connaught .place. The service was performed by the Hon. and Rev. Lowther John Barrington. The bridennaids in attendance were the beautiful sisters of the happy bridegroom, the Hon. Miss and the Hon. Miss Mary Barrington, the Hon. bliss Georgiana Liddell, Miss Black weed, Miss Liddell, and Miss Ridout. After the ceremony Mrs. Staniforth gave a dejeuner, at Der residence in Connaught. terrace, which was attended by the Ead of Mulgrave, Viscount and Vis countess Barrington, Lord Rwensworth, Sir Edmund Antrobus, and a select family circle. Inthe afternoon the happy pair left town for Becket House, Herts, tie seat of Viscount and Viscountess Barrington, where they have aranged to pass the honeymoon. - _ MONEY and COMMERCIAL Illi _El' WS. CITY; QUARTER TO THREE. The business done in Cotton at Liverpool yesterday was again considerable ; 10,000 bags were sold, including 4,000 American on speculation, and 500 for export. Mid. American were steadily supported at an advance of %(1. per lb. All other sorts were firm.-Shares were ra ther firm, but prices generally were maintained. Barnsley Junction, Half Shares, 3% ; Blackburn, Burnley, and Accrington, 9% ; Belfast and Ballymena, 6% 5N ; Belfast and Gounty - Down, 3% ; Bolton, Wigan, and Liver pool, 16% ; Caledonian, 11% 76 ; Ditto Extension, 2% ; Cambridge and Lincoln, 4% %- ; Chester and Birkenhead, 60 3 / 4 ; Ditto, Half Shares, 30 1 4 : Chester and Preston Brook, 2 3 / 4 ; Clitheroe Junction, 3% x ; Derby and Crewe, 3 1 4 3 ; Dublin and Galway, 3%; Dublin, Mullingar, and Athlone, 4; Dundalk and Enniskillen, 3' • Eastern Counties, 21 1 % %; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 7 6 1 / 2 ' ; New Quarter Shares, 8N ; Glasgow and Dumfries, 19s. 6d. 1/. ; Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock, Half Shares, 9% ; Ditto, Preference, 21% 465. ; Grand Junction, 239 ; Ditto, Eighth Shares, 22 1 / 2 ; Grand Union, %; Great Grimsby and Sheffield, 61s. 4r. ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 16s. 16s. 6d. ; Great Western, 205 ; Goole and Doncaster, 1 1 A ; Huddersfield Canal and Railway, 8% ; Huddersfield and Sheffield. 6% ; Lancaster and Preston, 57 58; Leicester and Birmingham, 345. ; Limerick and Water ford, 6% 1 .4 ; Liverpool and Manchester, 42 1 4 ; Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 58s. 9d. ; London and Birmingham, Quarter Shares, 35 ; London and Croydon, New Shares, IN ; London and York, 3% 16s. 3d. ; Direct Northern, 3 1 ,4 ; Leeds and Dewsbury, 17 16 3 / 4 ; Leeds and Thirsk, 7 6 1 / 2 •, Leeds and West Riding Junction, 4 3 / 4 % ; Manchester and Birmingham, 60; Manchester and Birmingham Continuation, IN 335. ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland, 3%; Man chester and Leeds, 174 ; Ditto, Half Shares, 78 ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 25 1 ,4 3 4 ; Midland Railway, 188 ; Ditto, 40/. Shares, 29% 1 / 2, ; Newark and Sheffield, 2' • N e wcastle and Berwick, 18 3 / 4 / 8 ; Newry arid Enniskillen, 3 3 / ; Newry and Warrenpoint,lBs. ; North British, 25%; Ditto, Half Shares, 7 ; North Kent, 32% ; North Western, 4%; Nottingham, Erewash, and Ambergate, % ; Nottingham and Mansfield, % ; Oxford and Birmingham Junction, 4 ; Oxford, Wor cester, and Wolverhampton, 6% A • Preston and Wyre, 32% 3 4 ; Ditto Extension, 2 1 4 ; Sheffield and Manchester, 130% 131; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 16% ; Shrewsbury, Os westry, and Cheshire, 414; South-Eastern and Dover, 49 3 4 ; Ditto, New Shares, No. 1, 1914; Ditto, New Shares, No. 2, 17 1 4 ; Ditto, New Shares, No. 3,9% ; Scottish Central, 6 3 / 4 ; South Midland, 425. 41s. ; Trent Valley, 18%; Ulster, 50 1 4 52 ; Waterford and Kilkenny, 3 2 3 / 4 ; Welsh Midland, 3 3 / 4 ; West Yorkshire, 3 3 / 4 Ils. 3d. ; Worcester and 'Tring, 31s. 325. ; York and Carlisle, 4% ; Bordeaux and Cette, .2 1 4 ; Dendre Valley, 2 1 4 1 / 2 ; Jamaica and South Midland, 395. ; Northern of France (Laffitte), 5% ; Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux, 12 1 / 4 ; Verona and Ancona, 2% Bs. 6d. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JULY 3.-The sales are -Hammy a-estion, 7 6 3 / 4 ; Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, 5% ; Churnet ycai n .., aIZ, • Clitheroe Junction, 3 9-16 ; Edinburgh and ; Glasgow, 76 . % ; ra ..-it vsit ev 33 1 4 Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester, Ils. ; Glasgow and Dumfries, 21s. ; Goole, Doncaster, Sheffield, and Man chester, 265. ; Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction, 345. 6d. ; Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal, 8% 7 1 /) ; Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction, 7 ; Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester, 16% 17 ; Leeds and West Riding Junction, 4% ; Liverpool, Orrnskirk, and Preston, 2% ; London and Birmingham, Third Shares, 47 ; London and Windsor, 1 1 / 8 1 ; London and York, 3% ; Manchester, Bury, and Rossendale, 17%; Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 5 1-16 ; Manchester and Birmingham, Quarter Shares, 9 5-16; Manchester and Birmingham Continuation and Welsh Junction, 1 13-16 3/ ; Newcastle, Durham, and Lancashire, 3 / 4 prem. ; North .British, New Shares, 6% ; North-Eastern, 55. prem. ; North Western, 4 %; Notting ham, Erewash Ambergate, and Manchester, 15-16 prem. ; Preston and Wyre, 32%; Ditto, Half Shares, 3 1 4 ; Sheffield and Manchester, int. ; Shrewsbury and Trent Valley Union, 1 15-16 ; Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, and Dudley, &c., 4 ; South. Eastern and Dover, 49% ' • Ditto, No. 3,9% % ; Wakefield, Pontefract, and . Goole, 16%; Welsh Midland, 3% ; IWest Yorkshire, 3% ; Worcester, Shrewsbury, and Crewe Union, 1%. There are no ship-letters to-day. The accounts from Jamaica, and other of the West India islands, notice the prevalence of more moist weather, so much needed in Barbadoes. Most of the colonies were re ceiving supplies of emigrants from the East Indies, and some few continued to arrive from Africa. The arrangements of the British Government, for the isttlement of a steady Government on the Mosquito shore, had been completed, and the young King had been duly christened, and afterwards crowned at Belize, in the Hon duras, her Majesty's ship Hyacinth afterwards conveying him to his own territories. The Republic of Mexico was quiet, and should Texas ac quiesce its independence will evidently be guaranteed, though we do not imagine there is a word of truth in the statement that 20,000 dollars are offered in consideration of the independence of the new republic being established. The best sample of pines yet received-the season not having been previously sufficiently advanced-has come to hand by the Medway steamer, which brings a very fair quan tity. The quality and condition of these will be fully tested on Monday, when, as the advertisement in another coluinit shows, Messrs. Keeling and Hunt intend to hold their first sale of the season. The Funds are again rather firmer than they were earlier in the week. Consols have realised 99 to 1 4, for the opening. Exchequer-bills are 555. to 575. premium, being fuller rates. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been 102% to 1 / 2 , and the Three per Cents. 99 %to %. Bank Stock has realised 210% to 211%. The Foreign Investments are very quiet. Spanish continue fiat at 27 to % for the Five per Cents., while the Three per Cents. are heavy at 39. Portuguese Old Bonds are worth 84%. Mexican Stock has been marked 36% to 37, and Colombian 18. Dutch Two-and - a - Half per Cents. were 62% to %. . The Share Market has been tolerably brisk, and there is no material alteration in prices. South Wales have been lower, Cambridge and Lincoln are fluctuating, and South- Eastern are steady ; Birmingham are up a little. ONE CLOSING PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced New 3 1 4 per Cents ......102 % 1A 102 7-16 Long Annuities to expireJ an 1860 11A 7-16 11% Ditto 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859 ... - 11 1 4 India Bonds, 1,0004. Ditto under 1,0001. Consols for Opening Exchequer Bills, 1,0004, 1 1 4 d 56 55 57 pm. 57 Ditto 5001. . Ditto Small ONE CLOSING PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES. Austrian, 5 per Cent . ......116 116 Columbian Bonds, ex Venezuela. 18 18 Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837 - - Ditto, Account 36% 37 37 1 / 8 Ditto. Deferred Portuguese 5 per Cents. Ditto, Converted. - €6 l /. Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent - 66 Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840 - - Ditto. Account Ditto 3 per Cent. ... .. - - Ditto Account French, 5 per Cent Exchange Belgian 4% per Cent. ...... 99 98 1 4 98% Dutch, 2% per Cent Ditto, 4 per Cent., Certific - 99 PRICES OF BZI " 1 CLOSING BAILWAY SHARES PAID. A ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES Aberdeen Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush l% 2 Birmin. and Gloucester. 100 134 133% ... 133 1 / 2 Birmingham and Ox ford Junction Bristol and Exeter 7O Do. New .. , . 2 ...... 12 1 4 11% Caledonian Ditto Extension ...... 212...... 2 3 / 4 Cambridge and Lincoln 1 1 / 2 ...... 4 1 41 5 ,4 Chester and Holyhead... 10 Coventry, Bedworth, and Nuneaton Coventry and Leicester 1 4 - Cornwall Direct Northern Dublin and BelfastJunc. 2% 7l/2 .. Dublin and Galway...., 2 1 / 2 3l itYs- Dublin and Mullingar... 2 1 / 2 4 .. ... ......... Eastern Counties 14/. 165...... 21%% Ditto New 4/. 16s. Ditto Perpetual, 5 per Cent, NO. 1....51. 13s. 4d l% Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 Ditto Quarter Shares 12% l B l / 2 14 .... Ditto New 1 4 Shares... 2 ',Z - - Ely and Bedford Great Grimsby and Shef field Great South. and West. ( Ireland) - Ditto Extension ;.great North of England..loo - Ditto New 5 - Great Western Ditto Half Shares 5O ll3 Ditto, Fifths - 20 - Guildford, Fare'm, Ports. 2 1 / 2 _ Lancaster and Carlisle... 20 London and Birminghm (5t0ck)...245 244 244 Do. 1 4 Shares - ., 35 3 / London and Blackwall. 16/. 13s. 4(1. 9% 1 / 2 9% London and Bright0n... 50 London and Croydon, 13/. 15s. 9d. 21 1 / 2 3 / 4 2 1 3 /4 Lond. & S.Western 411 6s 10d - - Do. New Do. New London and York 2 14 3 3 / 4% 3% Londonderry and Ennis killen 2% 3 14 3 l/. Lynn and Ely 2% - Manchester and Leeds... 76 - , - Do. % Shares Manchester and Birmin. 40 Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock 225.. . .... - 4 Midland... 100 lB 7 l /2 188... lBB Do. New Midland,Birm., Derby...loo 147 Midland Great Western IS ( Irish) - Newcastle and Darling ton Junction ... 25 ...... 54 1 / 2 54 54 Do. New Brandling... 10 Neweasi le and Berwick 1 1 / l9 18 3 4 Newry and Enniskillen. 2% ..... 41 % % 4% North British North Kent North Wales - •• • 2 1 4 Norwich and Brandon... 10 Do., New ... ..... ..... 1 - Oxford and Worcester... 2 1 4 6 14 6% Preston and Wyre Rugby, Worstr, & Tring 1 Scottish Central Shrews., Wolverhamp., Dudley, and Binn 2%..... 3%..... South Devon.. south Eastern & Dover 33/ 2s 4d... 48%. Do., No. 2. Do., No. 3 Staines and Richmonr! ... 1 - -- wrath Wales . 2 1 / 2 41..... Frew Valle) 2 ...•. . - Trent Valley and Holy head Junction IVaterford and Kilkenny I ..,... 214 v 2 ... . Welch Midland Nest Cornwall 1 14... .. - York and North Midland 50 - Do. 1 / 2 Shares - Ll% 2% 4 3 L 5% 3 78 273 01 / 2 240 62 1 / 2 213 113 3% 25 481, 17 9% 10/ 4 2 3 1 / 2 112 FOREIGN R.A I 11!': : 11 Great North. of Erauce (Latlitte's) ' -l a l f I' . 01 M \ - 4 tr , V . .ioir • „ T .-- -• wt triOntllS '74111. LONDON, FRIDAY, JULY 4, 1845. The Lords met at Five o'clock. On the motion of Lord WHARNCLIFFE, the Gaming and Wager Bill was read a second time. Lord Bum:runAm then proposed certain resolutions for the regulating the passing of Railway Bills, to be added to the standing orders. The further consideration of these resolutions was, after a short discussion, postponed till to-morrow (this day). The Earl of ABERDEEN brought in the Slave-trade Treaties (Brazil) Bill, which was read a first time. The Irish Banking Bill passed through Committee. On the motion of Lord DENMAN, the Administration of Criminal Justice Bill was read a second time, after a short discussion. Their Lordships then adjourned. The Commons met at Four. Sir G. CLERK, in answer to Mr. HUTT, stated that it was his ittention to introduce a Bill for continuing the Flour and Biscuit Act. Mr. DivETT then directed the attention of the House to the case of Mr. PARROTT, against whom an action had been brought fur evidence given by him before a Com mittee of the House, and moved that the party bringing the action, and his agents, be summoned to the bar. At the suggestii n of Mr. WINN and Sir R. PEEL, AUGUSTUS HENRY MoonE, the attorney to Mr.PARROTT, was called in, and proved that the declaration in the ac• Lion had been served on Mr. PARROTT on the ;26th .of June, in the name of KETTLE, BARER, and GRANT, of 34, Lyon-street, for EDWARDS and FRY, solicitors. Totness. On the motion of Mr. DIVETT, Messrs. KETTLE, BARER, and GRANT, were ordered to appear at the bar on Monday. On the motion that the order of the day for the House going- into Committee on the Poor Law At (Scotland) Bill be read, a lengthened discussion ensued, but on a division thero appeared, for going into Com mittee, 76, against it, 33 ; majority for going into Com mittee, 43. The House then went into Committee, and several clauses were agreed to. After some conversation a division took place on an amendment proposed by Mr. Fox MAULE for the omis sion of part of the 18th clause. The amendment was lost by a majority of 34. The numbers being for the amendment, 30 ; against it, 64. Clauses up to 34 were agreed to, when, or► the motion of Mr. WATSON, the Chairman reported progress, and asked leave to sit again. Sir T. FREMANTLE brought in the Drainage Acts (Ireland) Amendment Bill, which was read a first time, and the House adjourned at One o'clock. Nothing can be of more mischievous consequences than that the severity of a law, admirable in its prin ciple, but in its operation, perhaps, inevitably unequal, and occasionally cruel, should be aggravated needlessly, and most offensively, by the heartlessness or stu- pidity—or the operation of both these causes—of churl ish officials charged with the duties of its administra tion. The Poor-law Amendment Act has enough to answer for, HEAVEN knows, in its sins of omissior, which are many—and of commission, which are more. But we should scarcely have credited the fact, had we not seen it so particularly announced—that a Statute which, whether its intrinsic good or evil preponderate, has certainly received an unusual degree of support from humane and upright men of all parties, could be per verted to so manifestly oppressive an application of the letter of its enactments as in the instance we are about to refer to. It is a tale of those social anomalies among us, the horror of which is only blunted by reason of their frequency. If a foreigner were now, for the first time, to arrive in England, unacquainted with our laws, and the ge nius of our Constitution, with the professed respect both for the personal rights and privileges of the subject ; but thrown into the midst of that profusion, opulence, and luxury, which are concentrated in such masses in this metropolis ; what would be his first and very natu ral impression of the people and the institutions among which he then found himself ? Surely—that he had come among a people with whom wealth was all but uni versally diffused, or by whom property was univer sally respected, even among the more indigent classes of society. The magnificence of the shops, the bril liancy of the equipages, the sumptuousness of the enter tainments, the almost careless display of valuable and precious property on all sides—and, above all, the ge neral patience and forbearance of those who had least in respect of those who enjoyed the most of these felicitous conditions of existence—could not ftil to impress the foreigner with lofty notions of the humanity which the poorer and more miserable sec tions of the community must receive from the higher, to secure that respect for property which its exposed con dition, its abundance, its accessibility, in every dire ction, would at once lead him to infer that property, in t ffect, must realise. Without that sort of experience, which only opportunities for nearer observation could afford him, he might be seduced into the dangerous delusion of moralising on the happy influence of equal laws for the rich and for the poor in producing, among the latter, an unlimited respect for the possessions of the former ; in the former, an unbounded interest and sympathy for the condition and feelings of the latter. If this foreigner were told that, from a variety of causes, some of them inherent, as it were, in our social system, our laws and usages, regarding the descent and distribution of pro perty, and many more identified with, or neces cessarily resulting from the accidents of our commercial relations with foreign states, and the fluctuat ing character of our domestic trade, there was a tendency to pauperism in some classes, commensurate with the tendency of the population to numerical increase ; he would readily comprehend the beneficence and the policy of a poor-relief law. But what could be his estimate of the equity of the charity—of the wisdom with which the Legislature rewarded in the indigent and labouring million this respect for the rights of capital and pro perty in others, this upright abstinence from spoliation under the strong temptations of appalling want, of squalid misery, and the bitter contrast of their own con dition with that of the possessors of lands, money, and lucrative investments ; if he looked into the practical operation of that law of relief, which in the abstract he would rightly conclude to be intended for the succour of the " helpless and infirm, the aged,"„impotent and destitute ?" Would he not blush with natural indignation at his own simplicity and credulity in believing that England was a land of Christian charity, of humanity, of mercy ? What would he think of such a case as that which oc curred at the Greenwich Police-court, only a few days ago ? A gentleman was riding, with his father, over the estate of the latter, in a direction from Blackheath towards the river, and behind a bridge, in a field, detects a human figure, almost in a state of nudity. The wretched object proved to be a female, with a fragment of clothing thrown about her shoulders. After giving her a piece of money, the gentleman humanely rides to the Greenwich Union Workhouse, and informs the master of her destitute and perishing con dition. This happens on a Sunday afternoon. The master assures the gentleman (in that strain of official slang or pedantry, which seems, to us, never so dis gusting as when employed by poor-law officers,) " that it is not the province (!) of the parishes to interfere. The police should take the woman into custody, and then the magistrate would deal with the case, formally." No doubt, a very proper and delicate technicality. But the woman—the homeless, shivering, forlorn, naked creature, crouched under the "shelter" of a bridge arch — is this woman to wait to be rescued whilst the long chain of official formalities, link by link, is strung together ? Well, a policeman is found ; in due time he visits the miserable creature ; X 999 is satisfied that it is a case ; X 999 returns, and applies to the union-house for some kind of apparel before he can legally remove her. Having procured at the workhouse a worn-out covering and bonnet, he hies him back to the field, causes her to dress as well as she can, and marches her off to the station house, where he gives her into the charge of an inspector on duty. Having thus been moved through three appli cations and two custodies, she is brought up to the Greenwich Police-court ni?st day, and then states that, being utterly destitute, she had wandered about the Jamaica Junction l% Do. South Midlnd. June. 1 Louvain and Jeiueppe... 4 ... . sy i , . . . ........ . . Namur and Liege Pans and Lyons, Gan neron's, 2 — Paris and Rouen Verona and Ancon i...... JOINT STOCK BANKS. 'nion of Australia MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE.-FRIDAY. The show of Wheat of home produce was limited, owing to which the holders were firm, and in some instances ob tained a trifling improvement in the quotations, while a good clearance was effected. Fine Foreign Wheat was in good re quest, and the rates had an upward tendency. Grinding Barley moved off at previous rates; in other kinds very little was doing. For fine Malt we had a fair retail demand, but at no more money. Oats were steady; but other articles commanded very little attention. ARRIVALS. Barley. - qrs, Wheat. 2,690 qrs. English • • • • • • Oats. Flour. 550 I 1,050 17,130 I - 1,450 I - 1,450 Malt, 80 qrs. SMITHFIELD. Although our market was rather scantily supplied with beasts, the demand for that description of stock was heavy, at barely Monday's prices. From Holland we received 60 Oxen and Cows, and from Scotland. 200 Scots. The num bers of Sheep were on the increase, yet the Mutton trade was brisk, at extreme rates of currency. In Lambs a good business was doing, but we can notice no alteration in value. The Veal trade was rather inactive, yet the quotations were supported. Pigs moved off heavily, at previous figures. Mulch Cows sold at from 16/ to 19! each. Suckling Calves, 18s to :30s, and Quarter old Store Pigs, 16s to 20s each. Beasts, 692 ; Cows, 156 ; Sheep and Lambs, 10,470 ; Calves, 470 ; Pigs, 320. xrtiVirit}.A.Ta .&ND LEADENIZA.X.X.. We had only a moderate supply of Meat, while the demand was steady, at full prices. BOROUGH HOP MARKET. From nearly the whole of the plantations our accounts re specting the appearance of the bine are somewhat favourable ; however, the general demand here is heavy, at barely sta.• tionary prices. The duty is called 160,000/. COAL MARKET. Prices per ton at the close of the market :—Buddle's West Hartley, 15s; Chester Main, 14s 3d; Hasting's Hartley, 14s 6d ; Holywell Main, 14s ; Nelson's West Hartley, 14s 6d ; New Tanfield, 13s 6d ; Ord's Redheugh, 13s ; Ravensworth West Hartley, 15s; West Hartley, 15s; Wall's-end Bewicke and Co., 14s 9d ; Hilda, 14s 3d ; Eden Main, 14s 9d ; Brad dvll's Hetton, 16s 6d ; Hetton, 16s 9d ; Lambton, 16s 6d ; fernnertuii, 1-fr.oa, H etton 15s 6d • Sou Kelloe 15s 9d ; Adelaide, 15s 9d ; Coke, 2-15;1,t, th Hartley 14s ; Hartley, 14s 6d ; Lewiss Merthyr, 21s 3d ; West Hartiq Netherton, 14s 6d.—Ships arrived, 7. Foreign .• • • • • HOUSE OF LORDS.-(THIS DAY.; Their Lordships sat to-day in a Committee for Privileges. The Peers present were the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Shaftestury, Lord Brougham, Lord Skelmersdale, the Earl of Leitrim. Lord Templemore, the Earl of Falmouth, the Marquis of Winchester, Lord Sandy., the Earl of Wicklow, Lord Saltoun, Viscount Hawar. den, and the Bishop of Ely. THE MARQUIS OF SLIGO'S CLAIM TO VOTE. Counsel were heard and witnesses examined on behalf of the claim of the Marquis of Sligo to vote at the election of representa tive Peers for Ireland, and their Lordships allowed the claim. LORD FITZGERALD AND YESCI'S CLAIM. Counsel were heard and witnesses examined on behalf of Lord Fitzgerald and Vesci's claim to vote at the election of representative Peers for Ireland, after which the Committee allowed the claim. 25 3 / 4 THE CRAWFORD PEERAGE. The examination of witnesses and the putting in of documentary evidence, on behalf of the claimant to the peerage, occupied their Lordships the rest of the morning. The Lord Chancellor left shortly before twelve o'clock to attend the funeral of the late Sir William Follett, at the Temple Church. CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY ) The Lotto CHANCELLOR did not sit today, in consequence of having to attend the House of Lords. His Lordship will not sit in his Court in Lincoln's Inn Hall till Wednesday next. ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY,) His Lordship the Master of the Rolls sat to.day at ten o'clock, and heard part of the arguments in the case of Lord Nelson v. Lord Bridport, in which the object of the suit was, that the present Lord Nelson might be declared entitled to the estates granted to the first Lord Nelson at Bronte, in Sicily. His Lordship rose at half past eleven o'clock to attend the funeral of the late Sir W. Follett. VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY. The Viciit-CHANcELLos of ENGLAND did not sit till after one o'clock, in consequence of having to attend the funeral of the late Sir Wm. Follett. The Court took unopposed petitions and short causes. (Before the Vice-Chancellor KNIGHT Baum) THE ■ARTLEPOOL RAILWAY COMPANY V. THE CLARENCE RAILWAY COMPANY. The arguments in this case, which came before the Court upon two demurrers and motions, occupied his Honour the whole day. SECONDARIES.-(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Secondary JAMES.) TALLIS V. GOLDSWORTH. The plaintiff in this action is a well-known publisher of peri odicals. The defendant had entered into a bond for 1001. on be half of his son, who was one of their travellers. The present demand was for 42/., the amount of a deficiency in his account. Proof was adduced that books were at various times sent to the son at Birmingham, &c., by railway, by his direction. One of the jurymen, however, held out from giving a verdict, on the ground that there was no proof that the books ever reached him. The Secorsnsav said, if a party ordered goods to be sent by a paricular conveyance, and it was proved they had been, that was sufficient. Tradesmen would otherwise have immense difficulty in proving actual delivery. The juror, however, would not give way, and a witness was called to prove that the son had emitted he was a defaulter to the amount claimed. The SECONDARY said, that the additional evidence was unneces sary, but if the last proof had stood singly, it would have bound defendant, as hid guarantee, as had been decided last week, in an action against the Guarantee Society, that the admission was sufficient.—Verdict for 42/. WEST INDIES. The Royal Mail Steam-packet Company's ship Medway, Captain Andrews, arrived at S7uthampton at eleven o'clock last evening, after a voyage of thirteen days, from Bermuda. She brings ninety-four passengers and the usual mails. Her dates are as follows:—Vera Cruz, June 1; Havanisah, June 10; Jamaica, June 8 ; Demerara, June 4 ; Barbadoes, June 8 ; Gre nada, June 10 ; Bermuda, June 20 ; and Antigua, June 11. She also brings the following on freight :-1,238,406 dollars; 3,000 oz. of silver; 1,618 oz. of gold and gold dust; 138 serons of cochineal ; 246 dozen of pines; 40 turtles ; 20 cases of vanilla; and 25 bales of jalap. _ _ _ _ . . . 214 Coolies, five having died, arrived at Trinidad shortly before the Medway left in the Fatel Rosack, 98 days from Calcutta. The arrival gave great satisfaction to the agriculturalists. The troops appear to be healthy at all the islands. The ex-President, General Santa Anna, embarked en board the Medway, from the River Antigua, 13 miles N.W. or Vera Cruz; he was sent down with an escort of 200 cavalry as a prisoner; he was unattended except by his brother, nephew, and wife, with some others of his family. The lady who accompanied him is his second wife, a young and pretty woman, of about 16. It ap pears he was sentenced to leave the country, and his property confiscated; he had very considerable sums of money with him, but a greater part of it was stopped, though he ultimately retained a large sum in his possession. Santa Anna stated he was going to Venezuela, but it was not credited. He left the Medway at Havannah. We have Jamaica papers to the 7th of June, by which we learn that the island has been favoured with the most propitious season for very many years past. The accounts of the sugar cultivation continue to be highly favourable; the wet weather may possibly impede the manufacture of this year's crop, but would be of vast benefit to that of next year. The few Hill Coolies that had ar. rived continued to give the highest satisfaction ; they work cheer fully, industriously, and indefatigably, and it is considered will be a great boon to the colonists. Mexico, MAY 30.—The Mexican Senate, by a majority of 30 to 6, and the Deputies, by 41 to 13, have authorised the Government to negotiate and conclude a treaty for the recognition of the in dependence of Texas. Mexico was perfectly quiet. The Minister of the United States, Mr. Shannon, has at length demanded his passports, and withdrawn from Mexico. A general amnesty has been proclaimed. Santa Anna submits to exile for life in Venezuela. ANDOVER, THURSDAY, JULY 3.—This morning, shortly before ten o'clock, a heavy storm of thunder and lightning passed over the town, accompanied by rain, which fell in torrents; the storm was of short duration, and the weather, which had been previously unusually cold, became very sultry and oppressive. Happily, no damage was occasioned by the lightning in the town, but we regret to state that at the village of Fullerton, about three miles distant, a man, named Joy, who was employed, with three horses, harrowing upon the farm of Mr. Henry King, was struck by the electric fluid, which entered the crown of his hat and passed into the earth, through the soles of his shoes, causing his instant death ; the valuable horses he was attending were also killed, in the presence of their owner, Mr. King, who was directing his servant to take the horses into their stable when the awful event occurred. By the mercy of a kind Providence Mr. King received no injury. The same storm was also felt severely at Abbettsann, near Andover, where the tower of the church sustained some damage by the lightning. THE WEATHEIL—THE THUNDER STORM.—The temperature in the metropolis, during the last few days, has been somewhat low for the season ; on Tuesday it averaged sixty de grees, but after the high wind of that night, the mercury slightly rose, and on Wednesday, at noon, was sixty.five degrees, the wind blowing rather briskly from W.S. W.; at sunset that peculiar hue presented itself which foreboded an approaching storm, and as the succeeding morning advanced, the heat became rather oppressive, and at a quarter before eight o'clock, thunder was heard at a dia. tsnce, which gradually approached nearer, and a heavy storm of hail and rain followed, deluging the streets and roads. During the storm there were several loud peals of thunder. The storm was not perceptible at Croydon, though in Brighton, Hastings, South ampton, and other places on the southern coast, it raged with great fury, the wind blowing violently from the S.W. The heat was considerable throughout the day, the thermometer from eleven o'clock till five indicating seventy-six degrees, being full ten de grees higher than the preceding day. As the sun declined the wind somewhat abated, though still blowing briskly. MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—The marriage of Henry Somerset, Marquis of Worcester, only son of the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, with the Lady Georgiana Curzon, eldest daughter of Earl Howe, was solemnized yesterday at Hampton Church, Mid. dlesex. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, with her august rela tives, the Duchess Ida, and the Princesses Anna and Emilie of Saxe Weimar, honoured the ceremony with their presence ; and, in addition to the Royal party, there were the Duke of Wellington, the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, Earl Howe, Lord Fitzroy So merset, the Hon. Captain Curzon, R.N., the Hon. Robert Curzon, Mr. Culling Smith, and a select family party. The service was performed in a most impressive manner by the Rev. Dr. Wellesley. At its conclusion, the parties retired to the vestry, where the usual record was signed by the noble pair, the attesting witnesses being her Majesty the Queen Dowager, the Duchess Ida of Saxe Weimar, the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, the Duke of Wellington, Earl Howe, Lord Fitzroy Somerset, the Ladies Blanch and Ruse Somer set, the Hon. R Curzon, Mr. Culling E. Smith, and Dr. Wellesley. A superb dejeuner was afterwards given at Bushy-park, and shortly before One o'clock the happy pair entered a travelling carriage, drawn by four of the Queen's horses, and attend( d by outriders in t h e royal livery, and left Hampton in the direction of Slough, whence they would proceed by railway to Badtruuton. STRUCK Ily LIGHTNING.-0 • ri,r,11 . .V after noon the Perth Colchaos 's homier Sovereign. Minnmaster, was ntt t•ck by liwb:n Met an api nlaw n.simd Littie joh., w 3. k 1. ., ticl , ff. d t v olato. I was COO.' derably injured, The vessel's topmast was carried away, but she was not otherwise seriously injured. A!.;iT CHIAN NITNIN'6 , COMOANY. The first annual general meeting of the proprietors in the Asturian Mining Company was held on Monday, the 30th ult., at the Company's offices, 9, Austin-fiiars, Gideon Col quhoun, Esq., in the chair, when the following iepore was read by the Secretary : "FIRST ANNUAL REPORT BY THE Boa nn OF DIRECTORS OF THE ASTURIAN MINING COMPANY, READ AT THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING Or THE PROPRIETORS , HELD JUNE 30, 1§45. " The Directors have much pleasure in meeting the Proprietors at their first anniversary, and submitting a statement of their pro ceedings during the past year. They have, in the first place, to con gratulate the Proprietors upon the establishment of the Royal North of Spain Railway, which has given an increased value to the eaten sive mineral property possessed by the Company, by creating _a cheap outlet for its produce to the port of Aviles, in the Bay of Biscay, and thence to nearly the whole line of coast bordering on the At.. lantic, whilst it opens, at the same time, a considerable extent of inland inter-communication. The line is now undergoing a minute survey, with a view to the early commencement of the works ; and it is believed that in the course of next year, it will be constructed fur a distance of nine miles from Aviles on the one side, and froen Nlieres collieries to the city of Oviedo (the capital of the Asturias), on the other. The large mineral traffic which the railway company anticipate from the A sttirian portion of the line, affords the strongest possible inducement to hasten its execution. " But in order to accomplish this important object, the Directors would recommend that they should be authorised by the Proprietors to enter into a negotiation with the Royal North of Spain Com pany, for a lease of this portion of the line, for a term of not less than ten years. " The Directors have devoted their unceasing attention to carry out the two main odjects contemplated by the Company, the opening of the most easily worked, and most productive of their coal and iron ore concessions, and the erection of works for smelting the iron ere, and manufacturing bar, bolt, and nail, rod, and sheet iron. Two collieries have already been opened on the north and south sides of the river Mieres ; and although the workings have necessarily been limited, yet these have enabled a correct opinion to be formed of the direction and the thickness of the seams, the quantity of the coal, and the cost of its extraction. The colliery on the north side has been found to contain seventeen veins of coal, of which the second is seven feet in thickness. On the south side the first vein is eight feet thick, and the second five feet. in order to supply the local demand, and to open an export trade through the port of Gijon, the colliery on the southern side will soon be in active work; and as the coal can be raised at the level's mouth at 9 reals, or less than 2s. an English ton, a fair re munerative price, may be expected, notwithstanding the cost of transit to the sea. " And here the Directors think it their duty to bring under the notice of the Proprietors a proposal which has been made to them for the purchase of a colliery upon advantageous terms on the line of the North of Spain Railway, and within a limited distance of the coast; by means of which the shipments of coals may be proeeeded with whilst the resources of the larger and more valuable collieries are developing themselves. The coal, although not equal in quality to that of the Mieres mines, is well adapted for inland sale, as well as for a general coast trade, and also for being converted into coke. -;-oration of the erial for steam has been recentlf proved by a successful trial in the steamer Attwood, to ...hid,. ac cording to a certificate of the engineer of that vessel, its evaporativ e power was superior to the Welsh coal, and equal to to the West Hartley. No evidence was necessary to establish its fitness far household purposes. " The great demand for, and the high price of coke, for mantr luring and other purposes, combined with the large importation of this article, induced your Directors to commence the erection of coke ovens, which, they have no doubt, will yield a liberal return upon the comparatively small amount of capital expended Ulte p them. A contract has already been entered into by the Corn' pans 's agent for supplying 100,000 quintals of this article t o the Government foundry at Trubia. " The proprietors are already familiar with the magnitude of the home and foreign markets which will be opened to the produce of the coal mines ; but your Directors are convinced that, whatever may be the extent of that demand, it can form no relative prope r ' lion with the capacity of supply, of which the Company's coal con., cessions are capable. The concessions, situated in the districts or Mieres, Tudela, and Le Foz, contain upwards of one hundred:wa it ' able seams, and constitute, in fact, the richest and most available seams in the great coal basin of the Asturias. " The proprietors were informed by a circular.report, which your Directors distributed in December last, that they had con' tracted with Messrs. Graham and Sons, of the Melton Works, r - °' supplying the requisite machinery for making pig iron and es t i ings, and the manufacturing of iron ; and also for the erec tion the necessary works in Mieres, which were to be completed in thre e months after the delivery of the last cargo of machinery. It e shipment of the machinery was delayed in consequence of an aPP: cation made by your Directors to the Spanish Government fin permission to import it free from the very heavy duty imposed the tariff, and they have now the satisfaction of announcing cha r thi; permission is on the eve of being granted, and that a menflre' of the board is now in Madrid, to carry this liberal privilege int° effect. 'l' h e works will then be proceedea with, with the utmos vigou r ' and It is confidently anticipated that in the month of March tte S year the furnaces will be in blast. " The site selected for the works, in the valley of the Mi eres, it within a short distance of the iron mince, and in the very midst the northern and most important collieries. hicb " Your Directors need not dwell upon the large returns this important branch of the Company's operations must realise a country in which there is a constant demand for wrought with the most inadequate means of supply, and in which its inte r .: tation is subjected to a duty of 151. per ton. In the detailed ei t rt i mates, of which the substance was embodied in the circular rep ° f ,. already referred to, it was stated that the sum required for Mee s ,, Graham and Sons' contract for opening the mines, making to. purchasing land, and carrying on the works for three m on th s o would amount to 23,0001.; and upon the assumption that to quarterly produce would be only 1,000 tons of pig iron, the e o , profit on three months' working was estimated at 4,5201., Or annual profit of 18,0801. " The above estimate of profits,' says the Company's engin e b• will not be deemed excessive, when it is considered that c is minerals in the Company's concessions are worked as cheaply 5 the most favoured mining districts of Great Britain ; that the .. . 0 sent selling prices of castings add wrought iron are fully el:Lro cent above the estimated rates; and that large fortunes have n` - ‘0 recently realised in Spain by manufacturing iron under the seri° disadvantage of using charcoal as fuel.' 41 -- th , • - The Directors are unable to report upon aL_ heir ex, 00' mining operations beyond the favourable indications which to Uinta to encourage their operations, except as respects the Cint',. s .. c p mine, lately discovered, and now at work at Pola de Lena, tig",,', o adjoins the great coal field of Mieres, and is a short distance fro the mines now working by the Spanish Mercury Companies , shares of which are now at between 2,000 and 3,000 per cent., PO.O mium. The Directors have the gratification to state that the II of this valuable metal, already exposed in the Company's loi ne ' t tr estimated to be worth upwards of 3,600/. ; and the latest ree t i from the captain miner show that the further workings indi,e;st, still more cheering prospects. In his report of the 7th of June' 3 11 he writes—' We have now found a vein of four feet wide, WI good associates, which contains cinnabar throughout. We ) : 10 1 cut a very good lode in the "slopes," cast of the winze, the 1e a t branches from three to seven inches in extent. If the lode h el. lo, good as it is now, we shall be able to break from 3001bs. to 401 1 4 of ore a day.' On the 16th inst, he writes—' I hasten to into you that I have this day inspected " La Eugenia" mine; an d t o its appearances are even of a more promising character than ' l a thing we have yet met with. The lode in many places carries he tiful veins of cinnabar.' sh le " The Directors congratulate the proprietors upon this val e acquisition, which, when fully developed, they have every reaglo believe, will form a very large item in the Company'srevenue• l ye demand for quicksilver is steady, and the price equally so, big it right of pre-emption enjoyed by the Spanish Government; ° ip is almost unnecessary to add, that every quicksilver corriPaqw Spain returns to its associates a larger revenue than any other mercial enterprise. " The other experiments which the Directors are makinf ro l upon a limited scale, and guided by a spirit of economy, 4 % 4 0 refer you to a report from their mining correspondent at I 0" (dated the 14th instant), for a detailed account of the trial W ings in this district. " The Directors are enabled to speak with more confidence o lf the prospects of their mining operations in consequence of 011:0, their number, whose geological knowledge and experience / 11 701 ing are as fully appreciated by the public as by themselves, h l o tr just returned from a visit to the Asturias, during which he P er , ally inspected the whole of the Company's mines. The in let l ed tion which he collected in the course of his tour was conununnor by him in a paper read at the recent meeting at Cambridge British Association for the Advancement of Science, and whi c ,.o l traded, as it merited, much attention amongst the most ero" - geologists and mineralogists in the University. Q'" The Directors, therefore, consider themselves justified to ped, riving at the conclusion that the field of mineral enterprise Woo up to the Company—from the riches and variety of the lui Pe Or it contains, from the facility of working them, and fr° l ,o B , number of remunerative markets at which their produce 0 1 sold, has no parallel in this country, or in any other dis trict ' similar extent in the continent of Europe. Ch id The Directors deem it an a , :t of justice to the Political h id of the province to state that every facility has been afforded hi „,,,rl' in carrying on the operations of the Company. The local itit"spi ties have also forwarded the views of the Company's agents , te n the excellent conduct of the native miners has added anothe r yep timony to the peaceable and industrious character of the Mt° population. tlg " The Directors have to report that, in conformity tyg t provision of the Spanish Commercial Code, Regulations for d olt stituting the Company as an anonymous Society,' have bee n d ig; registered in the archives of the province of Oviedo. Thir r tit o tration limits the responsibility of the Proprietors to the e%reii-der their interest in the capital stock, and confers upon them Pi ll equal to those of a royal charter of incorporation in this country,l "In conformity with the Regulations,' your Directors ° Or the annual balance-sheet, verified by the auditors, showiogjoi liabilities and &sets of the Company for the financial year e' l on the 30th of April last. tir Vi " One of the auditors, Mr. William Campbell Gillan , re.- If sv rotation. but being eligible for re-election, he offers Wins,' cordingly. (Signed) " G. COLQUHOUN, " Asturian Mining Company's Office, June 30, 1845." Resolutions approving the report (which was co nsider d t he highly satisfactory ) and for carrying the recommendations e l 0 0 Directors into effect, were unanimously agreed to ; after wh ir ' .k meeting separated. r r. el" A very remarkable collection of property , ou o , bracing much to interest the connoisseur, is now arranged for lic exhibition at Robins's Auction Rooms, in Covent.gardelh ;err paratory to the sale, which commences on Monday next, an d tinues throughout the week. This multitudinous assesubl"-col' property of every description connected with the fine art s, vi° off lected by the late Mr. W. Forster, who was for many years a 00 0 0 attendant at all auctions of interest and attraction, which ae eg jitd for the many rare specimens here found congregated , toe .iY, gems from Strawberry Hill, and the Duke of Sussex's 7 0 es whilst treasures and relics are without end, which formerly C 15 2, 00 ownership with the most exalted persons in the world; the Vi i pre and miniature of the unfortunate Marie Antoinette, are Pe c t interesting, as well as many relics connected with Cha si `",ol° First, and Prince Charles Edward ; a cabinet of forty sp le- old cameos on Sardonyx, portraying with wonderful effect the Ih e elf passion of our Saviour, may be pronounced unique; it was 01 .;$ 01 in the possession of Pope Leo X., and afterwards of Murat , , ba Naples. Mr. Forster's intention, it appears, was to illustrs t :,of i works of Burns and Cumberland, as well as the lives of the Pinoe family and their adherents; and in addition to numberlessfortoct traits and scarce prints, many interesting matters will he connected with those periods of our history. • -- the •it THE WEATHER AND CROPS.—During week frequent and heavy showers have fallen ; and on r'" f iefr rained incessantly. Some of the crops in the neighbourhood inf in consequence considerably laid ; but they have recovered 11l great degree from the effects of the rain, owing tc : o per light breezes which have since prevailed. T he . , lot of the country has now become alike beautiful an d pi ., tfri rlant, and it would be di ffi cult to remember a time seb--0319 crops, whether white or green, gave fairer promise of eu_ ru to o r s abundance. Wheat, barley, and oats, are either in ear, n bP tog into it, and the potatoes are coming away with scareelY.%ofr parent blank. The gardens, also, present is perfect flush of , : d ' e d to ance, and ripe strawberries, cherries. &c., have now been aribld the produce of a more homely and serviceable kind. —EdiS 0 Advertiser of Tay. TROTTING uesd MATCH AGAINST TimE...._YeSterti*;OP match to trot in harness four miles in fourteen minutes, O r i;6 ( aside, came off on the Barnet-road, near Whetstone. lek'er was the owner of the horse, and Mr. Surridge w.is the bacra", time. The horse trotted in admirable style, and w on the by twenty second,. b THE E GARDEN.—This gardi - n, wh ic 0 4' heretofore always been closed to the public, is now throvr r, and numbers avail themselves every evening of the 01,P;0100 thus afforded of a pleasant promenade on the banks .21.94,,,,e, RAILWAY NEWS. 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