The Sun. — London, England, 1845-08-02 00:00:00

NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. There was a THIRD EDITION of THE SUN published yesterday evening, containing— The Result of the Day's Racing at Goodwood, Received by Express. The FOURTH EDITION, published in time for Post, contained — The list of Appointments, Bankruptcies, &c., frcm the London Gazette. The Monthly Return of the Circulation of the Banks of Ireland and Scotland. The latest Market Intelligence. The Weekly Return of the Circulation of the Bank of England. The conctusion of the day's proceedings before the Railway Committees of the Houses of Lords and Commons. The 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. RAILWAY NEWS. Subscribers and others tnterested in Railways will find a FULL ACCOUNT of the PROCEEDINGS before the RAILWAY COMMITTEES in Me THIRD EDIT lON of THE SUN, reported up to the CLOSE of EACH DAY; it also con tains the DEBATES in BOTH ROUSES of PARLIAMENT up to the HOUR of POST EVERY EVENING, PRICES of RAILWAY S'HARES, SPORTING INTELLIGENCE by EXPRESS, and all other NEWS ARRIVING in LONDON DURING the DAY. ORDER the THIRD EXIXTION, which contains NEWS TWELVE HOURS in ADVANCE. Sun-office, 112, Strand. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. FAREWELL and LAST APPEARANCE of MDLLE. TAGLIONI Previously to her Quitting the Stage. TIIIS EVENING Will be performed (last time) Donizetti's Opera, ANNA BOLENA. Henry VIII. Sig. Lablache ; Percy, Sig. Moriani ; Smeaton, Signora 'Brambilla; Jane Seymour, Mdlle. Rosetti ; Anna Bollena, Ma dame Grisi. Between the Acts will be presented the First Act of LA SYLPH! DE. La Sylphide, Mdlle. Petit Stephan ; James, N. Perrot ; George, N. Toussaint. To conclade with A DIVERTISSEMENT, comprising the " Pas de la Bayadere," by Mdlle. Taglioni and Madame Petti Stephan, in which will be introduced the Variation as danced by Mdlle. Taglioni in the admired Pas de Quatre ; the " Pas de la Couronne," by Mdlle. Cerito and M. 5:. Leon, and La Mazurka, from the Ballet " La Gitaua," by Mdlle. Taglioni. Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Bex • lice, ( pera Colonnade. Doors open at Seven ,to comme-ea at Half-past Seven o,Clock. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Signor FORNASART respectfully informs the Nobility, Subscribers to the Opera, and the T I'ubIHURSDAY , I AUGUSTic, that HS BENEFITI, will take place ON When will be performed (last time) Rossini's Opera, LA GAZZA LADRA. Ninetta, Mdme. Grist ; Lucia, Mdme. Bellini ; Pippo, Mdlle. Brambilla ; Giancito, Sig. Mario ; l'odesta, Sig. Lablache ; Isaa', Sig. Dai Fiori ; Fabrizi Yingradito, Sig. A. Giu»ilei ; Fernando Vil lalaclo, Fori.asari. To be f llowed by Entertainments, in which Mdlle. Lucile Grahn and Mdlle. Cerito will appear. And, also, Entertainments, in which Madame Anaide Castellan, %ldlle. Rossi Caccia, and also Sig. Moriani will appear. To conclude with (first time this season) the admired Ballet of ALMA; on, La Fille de I'm Periphite, M. Perrot; Balfegor, M. Gossclin ; Emazor, M. St. Leon ; Alma, Mdlle. Cerito. Applications tor Boxes, Stalls, mid Pit Tickets to be made at the Box-office, 0 era.Colonnad, Doors open at Seven ; the Opera to commence at Half-past Seven. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. LESSEE, MR. B. WEBSTER. TIIIS EVENING Will he revived Sheridan's Comedy of THE RIVALS. Sir An thony Absolute, Mr. W. Farren ; Captain Abs, lute, Mr. 11. Holl ; Fhulkland, 31r. Stuart; Acres, Mr. Webster) Sir Lucius O'Trigger, Mr. Hudson ; David, Mr. Buckstone ; Mrs. Malaprop, Mrs. Glover; Lydia Languish, Miss Julia Bennett ; Julia, Mrs. Edwin Yarnold. In the course of the Evening, Leopold de Meyer. the Great German Pianist, will perform " Introduction and Marche Marocaine ." After which will be produced a New Dramatic Sketch, entitled 3IR. AND MRS. CAUDLE'S CURTAIN LECTURES; or, Matri monial Chapters. Mr. Caudle, Mr. Bueksione ; Mrs. Caudle, Mrs. W. Clifford. To conclude with the Musical Farce of THE LITTLE DEVIL. Nicolo Angell, Miss P. Horton; Vineentio d'Estella, Mr. Webster. Private Boxes, Two Guineas and one Guinea and a-Halt each. Tickets and [laces to he had of Mr. I. T. Archer at the Box-office, Item Ten till Five o'clock. • THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELRSTT. TIIIS EVENING Will be repeated MARIE DUCANGE. Edward Lascelles ' Esq., Mr. Howe ; John Rawdon, Esq. , M r. 0. Smioh ; Charles Claude Prong, Mr. Wright ; Marie Ducange, Madame Celeste. Atter which, an Original Terpsichorean BLrletta, called POWDER AND BALL; or, St. Tibbs's Eve. Mr. Montgomerie Tibbs, Mr. Lambert ; Captain Kidglove, Mr. Selby ; Jacob Gerkiu, Mr. Wright ; Mrs. Montgometic Tibbs, Mrs. Frank Matthews ; Sally Knobbs, Miss Woolgar. To be followed by (for three nights only) NORMA. Norma, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Adalgisa, Mr. Wright. To conclude with the highly successful and Original Farce, called TIIE MIMI DRAGOON. Mr. Brown Sherry, Mr. Selby ; Paddy Murphy O'llrallaghan, Mr. Hudson. Prompter, Mr. Gallot ; Principal Painter, Mr. Pitt ; Leader of the 'land, Mr. Mellon. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY. THIS EVENING • Will be performed a New Farce, entitled LUCK'S ALL. Principal Characters be Messrs. F. Vining, Diddear, Keeley, Meadows, KM loch, and t urner ; Miss Hicks, and Mrs. A. Wigan. To be followed by a New Farce, to be. called AN OBJECT OF INTEREST, in which Mrs. Keeley will per iorm. After which, an entirely New, Original, and Novel Grand Fairy BALLET DIVERTISSEMENT, entitled LES FEES. In which Les Danseuses Anglaises will appear. To which will be added an apropos Bagatelle, in One Act, entitled AIRS. CAUDLE'S CURTAIN LECTURES. Mr. Caudle, Mr. Mea dows, Mrs. Caudle, Mr. Keeley. To conclude with an entirely New Operatic, Dramatic, Chivalric, Fairy, Romantic Burlesque, entitled CIND EREL LA. The Principal Characters by Mr. Keeley, Mr. A. Wigan, Mr. Frank Mathews, Mr. 7. W. Collier, Mrs. Xecley, Miss Villars, Miss Falrbrother, Mrs. Woollidge, Miss Grove, Miss Howard, B , :c The Boa-office is open daily, under the direction of Mr. Grogan from Ten till Four. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. LESSEE, MR. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING Will be performed DON C.ESAR DE BAZAN. Don :Cmsar de Bazan, Mr. Wallack ; Maritana, Mrs. Stirling. To which will b.: added A COURT BALL IN 1740. In which will be introduced the Dances as performed at her Majesty's Bat Cos tume. with the Orizinal Music. Aft,r which, THE NERVOUS MAN. M.Shane, Mr. Collins. To be followed by a New Dramatic Sketch, entitled MRS. CA r DLE ; or, Curtain Lectures. Mr. Caudle, Mr. Compton ; Mrs. Caudle, Mr. Oxberry. St ige Manager, Mr. 11. I. Wallack ; Stag Director, Mr. Emden ; Machinlit, Mr. Edmund Bradwell. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPIIITHFATRE. PROntIETOR, MR. W. BATTY. THIS EVENING Will be performed an entirely New Grand National pectaele, em bracing the chief features of the heroic achievements of the British Arms in Northern India, called THE CONQUEST OF SCINDE ; or, The Siege of Hyderabad. New and Elegant Scenes in the Circle, by the whole of the French Equestrians. To conclude with IL DIAVOLO DI ABBRUZZIO; or, The Chief and the Dug of the Chateau. Box-office open from Eleven till Five. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. "Last Night of the Opera Company and the present Engagement of Madame ingenia Garcia. THIS EVENING Will be performed ('tut time) LA SONNAMBULA. Count Rodoipho, Mr. Weiss ; Livino, Mr. D. W. King, Amine, 3falame Engenia Garcia ; L!sa, Miss Collett. After which, THE TURNED HEAD. To conclude with THE DREAM AT SEA. Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box o'nee, from Eleven to Your. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. A DIFFERENT SUBJECT EACH SEASON. COMBINATION OF ATTRACTIONS. ROMANTIC GARDENS AND PROMENADE. EXTENSIVE AND UNRIVALLED MENAGERIE. COLOSSAL MODELLED REPRESENTATION OF EDINBURGH, The Acme of Scenic II The ROCK lIARMONICON from Three till Eight. knd on MONDAYS, TUESDAYS, WEDNESDAYS, and THURS DAYS, GRAND CONCERTS WET E and MAGNIFICENT DISPLAY of FIREWORKS. Admission, One Shilling. Faellng; the Carnivora at Halt-past Five ; Pelicans and Polar Bears at six ; Concert at Half-part Six ; and Fireworks at Half-past Nine. GRAND RUSTIC FETES IN HONOUR OF TilE PRINCE OF WALES'S BIRTHDAY. " Come, let us go, while we are in our prime, And take the harmless follie of the time."—Heitaicx. Under the Patronage of her MAJESTY, her Majesty the QUEEN DOWAGER, his Royal Highness PRINCE ALBERT, &c. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, MONDAY and TUESDAY, AUGUST 4 and 5, 1845. The Proprietor, flattered by the Success which has attended his ex ertion., has determined to give TWO DAYS' FETE on a more ex ended Scale than has ever before been witnessed. In announcing a SYLVAN FETE, The Proprietor's aim will be directed to enable the Subscribers, Nobility, Gentry and the Public, to witness those RUSTIC SPORTS which are nearly obsolete, but the observance of which procured for this country the title of " Merrie England," and which, in the Olden TLne, constituted the principal Amusements of a country fair ! The peculiar y English sports of the May-pole with its Storrs dan cers, Friar Tuck, Maid Marian, Pipe and Tabor, &c., will be ex hibited. " The Slay-pole is up, now give me the sup, I'll drink to the garlands around it."—IIERRICL A display of the noble science of ARCHERY ! will take place by the Members of the roxopholite Clubs, in their Forest Costume. The science of Archery, but for the manly and spirit-stirring efforts of the Archery Clubs, weakl soon become a " Tale of by-gone Days," co-existent with Robin hood and Ills Merry Men, When in Sherwood Forest they drew " The cloth-yard shaft," and the welkin rang with " the Shouts of the foresters bold." " Hail to our leader, brave Robin Hood, For a noble marksman and lbrester good." A decorated Pavilion will be erected for the use of the competitors. The magnificent modelled representation of EDINBURGH, the chef d'oeuvre of the scenic art, and the Unequalled Menagerie will be exhibited. The manly and athletic games of Quarter-staff and Single-stick will be displayed. Also the laughable and most amusing scene of a Glngllng Match, and the ludicrous game of Jumping in Sacks, a Groteique, Dance by two trained animals of the Establishment, in imitation of the Modern Polka, will be introduced. The never-tiring and always amusing PUNCH will exhibit his Mirth-inspiring antics and drolleries. He will afterwards become a'rlal, and exeihlt his tricks in another element. Two eecamptneets of Real Gypsies will gratify the believers in the Occult, science, to whom " The Book of Fate will be open." " The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whispering lovers made."—Goensetern. A Recruitiee Party front the Tower will attend. " None hut the brave deserve the fair." Tents and Stalls, with the usual Commodities of a Fair, will be provided. The Splendid Band of the Royal Artillery will enliven the scene; and in the PROMENADE CONcERT,t).7 the Unrivalled Band of the Establishment, the most popular selections will be performed— for o'LLIi see Bills of the Day. The Rock Harmonicon, by the Messrs. Harrison, will be heard at intervals durlnz the day, and the Fete will conclude with the Royal fifty-two fret high, in the centre of th e l a k e, rem - Aquatic Ta Wan, Sistine* of T rans parencies, Illuminations, Devices, &c., and the most brilliant display of Fireworke ever witnessed ! Admission, One Shilling.—Doors open at One. The various Games will take place on an elevated stage, and an immense t lallery will be Appropriated to witness them. The opening of the Fete will be announced by a Royal Sainte. Two MEN SAVFD.--On Sundpy night, as the Tiger steam-ship was coming up the river, the wind blowing strongly from the south west, a boat with a sail up, and two men in it, was seen to upset in the upper part of the Halfway Reach. The pi of of the Tiger, Mr. Edward Voss, immediately made to ward; them, and threw overboard cork fenders and gratings, which - ite two men caught hold of and kept themselves above water until the quarter-boat was lowered, when they were taken on board the Ti er r much exhaused. They were afterwards put ashore at Green \ The names of the orties, thus meritoriously remelt from a Q grave, wets Butterworth and Thompson. , a S NOTICE is hereby given that the GUARAN TEE SOCIETY has REMOVED from 28, Poultry, to the premises lately occupied by the London Assurance Corporation, 19, Birchin-lane, Cornhill. NEW NOVEL, BY HORACE SMITH, ESQ. Immediately, in 3 vols.,post Bvo., J 4 0V E and MESMERISM. BY HORACE SMITH, ESQ., Author of " Brambletye House," &e. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Now READY, in 1 vol. Bvo. (comprising as much matter as twenty ordinary volumes), price 38s. bound, B URKE'S PEERAGE and BARONETAGE FOR 1845. AN ENTIRELY NEW EDITION, materially improved throughout, from the Personal Communications of the Nobility, &c. AND CONTAINING ALL THE NEW CREATIONS. " Mr. Burke's ' Peerage and Baronetage' is the most complete, the most convenient, and the cheapest work of the kind ever offered to the public."—Sun. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. To be had of all Booksellers. Now Ready, in 3 vols., with Portraits, 31s. 6d., bound, MEMOIRS OF LADY HESTER STANHOPE, AS RELATED BY lIERSELF. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. NEW HISTORICAL ROMANCE. Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., post Bvo. r H E PRINCE of ORANGE. 1, An Historical Romance of the Dutch-Protestant Revolution. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. THE WEATHER.--SUN OFFICE, AUGUST 1. rHEBMONETER, Lowest, 50; Highest, 67 ; Noon, 66. BAROMETER, 29 73.—WIND, S.S.W. NoTL—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. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Horning .. 22 minutes after 1 I Evening •• 43 minutes after 1. 4 :g. ' 1.1 % • I___ 4 ~, " , N' . ' '4l‘4li4gM'llli‘CC*3l4llalifif.A '774M041- '`' , 4' • ^. " ~ .o•W't,, -e• / ` si . 2 / AUL LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 2, 1845. The Lords met at five. The Earl of BESBOROUGH brought up the report of the Committee on the case of STINTON, who had given evidence before the Dublin and Galway Railway Bill Committee. The report was to the effect that it would be inexpedient to prosecute him for perjury. On the motion for the third reading of the Bills of Exchange Bill Lord MoNTEAGLE moved as an amend ment that it should be a permanent instead of a tempo rary measure. The motion, which was supported by the Marquis of LANSDOWNE and opposed by the Earl of DALHOUSIE and the Earl of ELLENBOROUGH, was rejected on a division, the numbers being for the amend ment, 9 ; against it,37. The other Bills on the table were forwarded a stage, and their Lordships adjourned. The Commons met at Four o'clock. Lord COURTENAY having moved that the report on the London and York Railway be received, Mr. WARD moved as an amendment that the Bill be re-committed. The Committee, although they had been unremitting in their labours, had heard all the parties concerned. They had, in consequence, done great in justice, and he therefore moved the re-committal of the Bill. The cases of the York and North Midland, of the Midland Counties, and of the Eastern Counties lines, had been decided on by the Committee without having been heard. Mr. HUTT, who thought there was good reason to be dissati,fied with the decision of the Committee, seconded the motion. Lord COURTENAY explained the nature of the pro ceedings before the Committee, and defended the de cisions to which the Committee had come. After a short discussion, the amendment was nega tived by a majority of 60 ; the numbers being, for the motion, 79—for the amendment, 19. Upon the order of the day being read for going into Committee of Supply, Lord PALMERSTON drew the attention of the Douse to the present state of Greece, and called upon the Go vernment to interfere to prevent the cruelty and tyranny at present practised in that country. Sir R. PEEL briefly replied ; after which, the louse went into Committee, and, a vote of 20,0001. having been agreed to in behalf of the sufferers at Quebec, shortly afterwards Adjourned• In four or five papers on the " Oregon" questio . i, we have, from time to dine, endeavoured to lay before our readers a general outline of the incidental points con nected with its principal bearings. On the last occasion of our adverting to the same ver . y important subject we undertook to demonstrate the unsoundness and futility of the title set up by the United States on every one of the grounds upon which it had been asserted and argued by Mr. GREENHOW—by far the ablest champion which that title has yet found, and himself a salaried servant of one of the civil departments of the American Government. Want of room and the press of more urgent matters have since combined to prevent us from recurring to, or fulfilling our pledge. But we read in The .journal (a Washington paper, generally understood to be the official organ of the President's party and opinions) the following pas sage ; and we find it so apropos for our purpose of refu tation, that we will, on the first occasion that offers to us, take each of the several assumptions that we print below in italics, and prove, by incontrovertible facts and docu ments, the absolute and vttor falsehood of such assump tion. We may, then, feel disposed to inquire what must be the condition of moral teeling among the readers and supporters of a "Journal" which can wilfully propagate such gross misstatements and deliberately attempt to deceive and irritate the public mind of America into hostile excitement upon them ? We must entreat our readers not to lose sight of the grave and malicious of fence thus perpetrated, in the merriment which we may be tempted to indulge in by the bombastic egotism of this arbiter of the disputes of nations. "As the property of the United States has been fully proved and rightfully attached, bold must be the Executive, and Anti- Am , .:ricau must be that Cabinet officer who would draw, or recommend the drawn , g, of the American Boundary Line below the line of the Russian American Settlement (54 deg. 40 min.), and thereby give the British Government an out let, even, to the Western Ocean. From 42 deg. to 54 deg. 40 min. N. latitude, the United Slates by discovery, by occu pancy acknowledged on the part of Great Britain, by the French cession of 1803, and by the Spanish cession of 1819, IT IS THE OWNER." The Madrid journals of the 24th and 25th have arrived. The I feralch) advocates the marriage of the Infante Don lIExTrY with the QUEEN, and states that a letter from Ma laga, of the 16th, mentioned the fact that a courier had ar rived there, with an order for Don HENRY to repair imme diately to Bilboa. The Glob() and the Tiempo both urge upon the Government to follow the example of Brazil, and to retaliate on England for her exclusion of Spanish sugars, contrary to the just re clamations of the Duke of SffromAyon. According to the Castellano, the only object of the QUEEN'S: journey to the Basque provinces is to meet the Duke and Duchess of NEMOURS. El Clad,Jr states positively that the Count of MONTE- , MOMS, the son of Don CARLos, had received passports for Behobia, close to the Spanish frontier, and within a quarter of an hour's walk of Iron. According toEl Espectador some Modification was likely to take place in the Ministry—NAßVAEZ, however, would still remain at the head of affairs. The QUEEN reached Saragossa on the 23d, and would re main there a week. An extensive conspiracy has been discovered at Malaga, according to La Esperanza, and several arrests had taken place in consequence. The conspiracy originated in the pro vincial regiment of Jaen, the officers of which wished to bring about a Progressista pronunciamento. The Three per Cents., on 0.4 e 24th, closed at 29 for cash, and 291 at sixty days. The other securities were not quoted. The 25th being the feast of St. Jago, the patron saint of Spain, there was no Bourse (n that day. We have received the Paris Papers of Wednesday, that is to say, the Debuts, the Presse, and the Courrier Francais, these being the only papers published on that morning, in consequence of the celebration of the 15th anniversary of the revolution of July the day before. These papers are filled with descriptions of the concerts and balls, and fireworks and illuminations, of the day before. Fortunately the evening was flue, and the people therefore thoroughly enjoyed them selves. The KING was present at the concert nionstre in the Tuileries gardens. We are rejoiced to learn that he looked "hearty and well." The Presse, which on such a subject may he considered as an authority, states that the object of the QuEEN's visit to the Basque provinces is to endeavour to procure a settle ment of the much vexed question of the fueros, a question which it states " may one day call forth grave discussions." The Duke and Duchess DE NEmourts were at Gneret on the 27th, and set out the next day fir Limoges. Through out their progress they have been received in the most en thusiastic manner. Admiral Baron LA SUSSE is named inspector of the ships of the line at Brest and Roehefott. The Toutonnais quotes a report from Admiral TURPIN, Commander of the French naval station in the Levant, addressed to the Minister of Marine, in which the Admiral expresses his regret that the commercial intercourse be tween France and Patras, which is one of the most im • portant of the Greek ports, has been suffered to dwindle away to perfect insignificance, while between seventy and eighty British ships arrive and depart every year. Some years back, the report says, the whole of the trade was carried on in French bottoms. The same paper contains the fullowing news from Algiers, to the 20th ult. : " Affairs seem to have taken a serious turn in the east (of Algeria). For some days past troops have been moving in that direction. Six battalions of infantry have embarked for Dellys. The cavalry and artillery proceed by land. The brigade, under the command of General Gentil, had some sharp work with the enemy on the 18th ; however, they finally routed them ; but - it appears that Ben-Kassem had caused it to be announced in the interior that he had gained the victory, and this had created great. enthusiasm among the Kabyle tribes of the mountains near Bougia. The cause of the present move towards Dellys is owing to Ge neral Gentil's having informed the Governor that the enemy had received considerable reinforcements, and that the in surrection daily gained ground, and, consequently, that be found the small brigade under his orders insufficient for the protection of the allied tribes encamped before Dellys. It Is generally believed that Abd- el-Kader had promised Ben- Kassem that he would come into Kabylia, but the Kabyles are too jealous of their independence voluntarily to take a master, except in the case of urgent danger." The Paris Bourse was again animated on 'Wednesday, the Share market in particular. Fresh vigour appeared to have been imparted to the speculations in those securities. The improvements in the Funds are also somewhat important. The Three per Cents. closed at 831. 80c. ; the New Loan, at 84f. 10c ; the Five per Cents. at 121 f. 90c. ; Orleans Rail road Shares, 1,2351. ; Rouen, 1,077 f. 50c. ; Vierzon, 787 f. 50c. ; Havre, 900 f. ; Avignon, 1,035 f. ; Basle, 270 f. ; Spanish Domestic Debt, 29*. The following are the quotations for the new lines :- Orleans and Bordeaux, 1871. 50c. prem. ; Boulogne, 1401. ditto ; Troyes and Montereau, 15f. ; Paris and Lyons (Laffitte), 33f. 75c.; ditto (Calon), par ; ditte (Ganneron), 61. 50c. ; Northern Line (Laffitte), 47f. 50c. ; ditto (Rosamel), Ilf. 25c.; Tours and Nantes (Mackenzie), 13f. 75c. ; ditto (Drouillard), par; ditto (O'Neill), 2f. 50c. ; ditto (Jacques Lefevre), par ; Lyons and Avignon (Lecointe), 20f. ; ditto (Talabot), 361. 25c.; ditto (Compagnie Meridionale), 6f. ; Bordeaux and Toulouse (Mackenzie), par; ditto and Cette (Espeleta), Bf. ; Creil and St. Quentin, par ; Paris and Strasbourg (Ganneron), 13f. 75c.; Dijon and Mulhouse, par; Dieppe, 21f. 25c. We are confident that our readers will peruse, with much satisfaction, the speech of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, on Tuesday, in moving an address to her Majesty praying her Majesty to recommend the appro priation of the sum of 20,000/. to the relief of our suffering fellow-countrymen—victims of the two dis astrous conflagrations that have recently desolated Quebec. The terms of sympathy in which the Right Hon. Gentleman introduced the motion to the House, and the unanimous affirmative with which hi.; appeal wa3 responded to, were honourable to all parties. We sincerely trust that such an exhibition of condolence, and so munificent a contribution to the private funds already subscribed for the relief of this large body of houseless, and homeless, and ruined outcasts, will cement the reciprocal affections of the colonists, and their com patriots of the mother country in indissoluble bonds of good will and respect. GREAT FIRES AT QUEBEC.—The High Bailiff of Westminster has received two letters from the Mayor of Quebec, begging him to bring under the notice of the citizens of Westminster the distressed situation of the inhabitants of Quebec, occasioned by the two fires which hare taken place there on the 28th May and 28th June last. By the first fire 1,650 dwellings and two churches were destroyed, and 12,000 inhabitants were left without house, food, clothing, or bedding. By the last fire 1,200 dwellings, two places of worship, th-ee schoolhouses, with stores and outbuildings, were destroyed, and at the time of his writing to the High Bailiff, he states there were 15,000 inhabitants scattered over the fields, without shelter or food ; and he suggests to the High Bailiff that contributions of clothing, bedding, building materials— bricks, slates, tiles, tin, iron, nails, glass, and other articles of hardware used in building—should be for warded to Quebec, addressed to Alexander Simpson, Esq., Treasurer of the Relief Committee. Any of the citizens of Westminster who feel disposed to respond to this application may have further particulars given to them at the High Bailiff's, 40, Jermyn-street, St. James', and he will thankfully receive any money donations on this account which may be remitted to him. MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS —The total number of deaths in the metropolitan district in the week ending July '26, was 873. The number of deaths from violence was 12. The total number of deaths from disease 861. The number of deaths from disease in the week pre ceding was 839—shewing an increase of 22 on the deaths from disease during the week. The Directors of the Bank of England have con tributed 100!. to the testimonial to Mr. Rowland Hill. YOUNG ENGLAND.—Lord John Manners and the members of this spirited and well-intending party will be de lighted to find their views carried out by the liberal proprietor of the Surrey Zoological Gardens, who, we see, proposes to give fetes on the 4th and sth of August, illustrative of old English games and sports, when the rising geru!ration will have an oppoi tunity of witnessing many of those pastimes which procured for this country the title of " Merrie England." NATIONAL .ASSOCIATION.—The third anniversary of the National Association, established in Holborn, was cele brated on Tuesday evening, by a tea par'y and soiree, at the National Hall, High Holborn, under the auspices of Mr. G. Thompson, who occupied the chair, supported by W. J. Fox, Esq., Dr. Epps, W. Lovett, Esq., H. Parry, Esq., and several other gentlemen. After the tea, bread and butter, and cake, of all which articles there was a liberal supply, several speeches were made bythe above-mentioned gentlemen, in support of resolutions recommending political and social re form to the labouring clatses, as the only means by which they would be put upon a position in the country that would enable them constitutionally to assert and maintain their rights. After the speeches several songs and duets were sung by Mrs. Adams, Mr. Shoubridge, and Mr. Collet, and there were also several instrumental performers. The company in the hall did not exceed 120 in number ; but they were all of a most respect able class, very quiet and orderly, and • seemed most thoroughly to enter into the spirit of the proceedings. At the close a vote of thanks was award`ed to Mr. G. Thomp son, and he having returned thanks, the meeting then separated. TuE BRITISH PENITENT FEMALE R EFUGE.— Thursday the anneal general meeting of the friends and subscri. bees to the British Penitent Female Refuge was held at the asylum, Cambridge-heath, for the purpose of receiving the report of the committee, and transacting the usual business of the society. The Rev. George Greaves, M.A., in the chair. The Rev. J. Glanvilly, secretary, read the report. Since the formation of the society in 1829, 844 females have been admitted. At the last annual return 34 were left in the asylum; since that time 24 have been received, making a total of 64 who have been upon the foundation during the year. Of that number, 19 have been sent to respectable situa tions, 9 reconciled and restored to their friends, I left the asylum, and 1 died in the house ; leaving at present 33 upon the establish ment. The debt of the society has been reduced during the past year from 4541. fis. 2d. to 471. Is. Bd. The income amounted to 1,6271. 12s. 110., and the expenditure to 1,4421. 145., leaving a balance in the bankers' hands of 1741. 18s. 11d. The report was unanimously adopted, and the meeting broke up. PROPER ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF ENGLISH • HU MANITY.—The painful disclosures inserted in The Sun a few days since, respecting the dreadful wreck of the Dutch lndiaman John Hendrik, on the island of St. Paul, and the vigorous efforts of Captain Roseby, of the Chance, to save the unfortunate crew, has, it will be gratifying to learn, attracted the attention of the Dutch Government. On Tuesday, it was made known at Lloyd's that the Government alluded to had awarded Captain Roseby a handsome gold medal, for the humane and prompt steps he adopted in res cuing that portion of the ill-fated crew which he safely brought to this country, and fur his unremitting exertions for ten entire days to preserve the unfortunate creatures that were left on ;he island. Every inquiry hasteen made of the later arrivals as to whether the nine poor fellows drifted away in the boat, or those left on the rocks, had been seen; but not the slightest information could be learned respecting there, and that they have all perised there Is no doubt. VICTORIA PARK.—The works are now in very active operation, and considerable progress has been made in the erection of the principal lodge entrance in the approach from Bethnal-green, which is being built in the Norman style of arehi. tecture. Adjoining this the piles have been sunk in the Regent's Canal for the erection of the suspension bridge, which is at an angle of the two roads from the Hackney and Bethnal.green roads. Nearly the whole of the paling has been placed up round the park, and on the roads through it there is a handsome iron railing. In nur advertising columns it will be seen Mr. George Robins is about to transmogrify Brandeston Hall (near to Woodbridge) into its original state—that is, to renovate and restore its original beauty in the style of our Queen Elizabeth, and thus render this mansion what it claimed to be in days of yore—meaning thereby to render it worthy the occupation of the M.P. for the county, or for the town of Ipswich. This is to be done by tender, and, as Mr. R.'s name is " ready money," there will be no lack of applicants to have the first preference. It is to be got ready so that a tenant may partake, in September, of the advantages of the manors, which are very extensive, lots of game strictly preserved, and the right of fishing in the river Deben, which extends two miles through Mr. Itobins's estate. Mr. Adair's park and woods are in close alliance with the park of Brandeston Hall.—lpswich Express. . _ - . FUNERAL OF EARL GREY.—The remains of this amiable and deeply lamented nobleman were interred in the family vault at Howick Church on Saturday, the 26th inst. The cere mony, in compliance with the known wishes of the deceased, was strictly private. This celebrated ',.man was followed to the grave by his son, the present Earl, by the Earl of Durham, by the Right Hon. Edward Ellice, M.P., brother.in-law to the late Earl, and by other members of the family, on foot; the only mourner not related being Dr. Wilson, the medical attendant of the deceased Earl through many years. The tradesmen of Alnwick by one consent closed their shops between the hours of twelve and two o'clock, and every tribute of respect that circumstances permitted was paid by the entire neighbourhood. So, in an obscure country church, close by his house at Howick, rest the remains of this talented, this famous, and truly veneraWe man ; so, in a vault at Hucknell, rest the remains of Lord Byron, the patriot and poet ; whilst to such men as Canning and Castlereagh tombs and monuments, in West. minster Abbey and in Palace-yard, are put up. Posterity will know hew to appreciate such scenes ; and in history, the tinsel of a false fame, and the hollow renown of unprincipled success will find their fate and that grave which are their true deserts, and that justice at last be done on earth which is already done beyond it.—Tyne Mercury. THE CONDEMNED PIRATES.—NO day has as yet been fixed for the execution of the seven miserable creatures now awaiting death in Exeter gaol for piracy and murder. Vigorous effirrts are being made by the inhabitants of the city to induce her Majesty's Government to carry ont the dread sentence of the law in a more desirable part of the county, and thus spare the feelings of a populous city from so fearful a tragedy as the death of seven wretched beings on the scaffold. Considerable interest is excited on behalf of James Majaval, the ringleader, who stabbed Mr. Pal mer, the midshipman, from the circumstance of its being confi. dently assorted that he is a nephew of the celebrated General Espar. tero. It is also said that he has written to that distinguished Spaniard, soliciting his assistance in sparing his life. Dr. Lima, a native of Brazil, a Roman Catholic clergyman, has been sent by the united desire of the Brazilian, Portuguese, and Spanish Lega tions, to afford the culprits spiritual assistance. The Secretary of State has issued most positive instructions to the gaol authorities that no person - shall he allowed to see them but such as are officially connected with the prison. Two officers arc always present with them, day and night. IGNORANT AND FATAL TREATMENT OF DROWNING PERioNs.—Mr. Wakley, M.P., held an inquest on Thursday, at the Silver Cup, Cromer-street, on the body of Thomas Bollans, aged twelve years. The deceased, with several other boys, was bathing in the canal close to the Chalk-road, when he went out of his depth and sunk. He was shortly afterwards taken out apparently alive, and held by the feet with his head to the ground, to let the water escape from him; and after that operation was brought to Mr. Wilkinson, surgeon, who pronounced life extinct. The Coroner remarked upon the popular and fatal practice of holding persons apparently drowned with their heads downwards; and re commended the application of friction in such cases. Verdisi, `Accidental death." FLANDERS MAIL. BRUSSELS, JULY 29.—The average price of wheat in the week ending on Saturday, the 20th inst., was 20f. 31c., and that of rye, 12f. 63c. It results from the above average prices, as well as from the law of July 31, 1834- Ist. That till the sth of August next, wheat remains subject to an import duty of 37f. 50c. per 1,000 kilogrammes. 2d. That from that day it will be free from all duty on importa. lion into the kingdom. 3d. That rye ;mains subject to an import duty of 21f. 50c. per ,000 kilogrammes. 41h. That the export duty on both wheat and rye remains fixed at 25 centimes per 1,000 kilogrammes. The Commercial Council at Antwerp, in its sitting on Saturday, adopted, by a majority of 22 to 2, a proposed address to the King to state to his Majesty the distressed condition of the sugar refiners, HA3IIII.7ItGLI BORSENIIALLE, JrLY 25. Bills. limey tustrian 5 per Cents •• • ..• • ......... 114% Bank Shares .• •••••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • 1650 Anglo-Russian Loan • ••• . • . Russian 5 per Cent., Ilamb. Certificate. 105 U Ditto Ist series 1n5cripti0n............ . 105% Ditto, flops and Co., 3d and 4th series.. 99% Ditto, in Certificate.. New 4 per Cent., Hope and Co. ...... 934 93 Ditto Stieglitz •••••• • • • • ....... Spanish New 5 per Cent.............. ___ 22% Ditto 3 per Cent • • . Anglo-Portuguese Loan, 2% yer Cent.. 65 Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent...... 63 Ditto 3 per Cent... •• • ........... Polish New 4 per Cent. Loan, 1814.... 86% Sq., Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 p. - .4* Cent National Bank Shares• • • • • LETTER OF THANKS. The following letter of thanks has been addressed to the Editor of the Morning Advertiser by the recent Deputation from the Licensed Victuallers of Ireland : TO DR. SHERIDAN. AND THE INCORPORATED SOCIETY OF LICENSED VICTUALLERS OF LONDON. FROM STEPHEN Fox DICKSON, ON BEHALF OF HIMSELF AND THE LICENSED VICTUALLERS OF IRELAND, FOR THEIR KIND ATTENTION AND DISTIN GU ISHED SERVICES TO THE INTERESTS OF THE LICENSED VICTUALCERS.O-F-iltE-LND: • Dear Sir, and Esteemed Friends,—After the consumma tion to so great an extent of the claims and desires of the Licensed Victuallers of Ireland as is now effected by the passing of the Act 8 and 9 Victoria, rhich is now the law of the land, restoring to 13,00 Irish traders their trade rights, I feel that I should be guilty of a total derelic tion of duty to you and to those proved friends, the Licensed Victuallers of London, were I to omit offering to you and to them, on behalf of myself and the Licensed Victuallers of Ireland, our best thanks. Indeed, from the mag nitude of the case, embracing the trade rights of 13,030 Irish establish ments, with capital invested to the extent of some millions of money, and the protracted seven )ears' duration of struggle for what is now effected by this new Act of Parliament, I feel that,' best discharge my duty by adverting in a brief narrative to some of the facts which so demand from the Irish traders a letter of thanks to our English friends. I have the honour to be one of those that took a most active I part in this struggle for the rights of the Irish traders, and who called to the it aid the rights and privileges enjoyed by their fellow-trailers of England, on the terms of the Treaty of Union between Great Britain and Ireland for maintaining a complete identification of Irish with British trade rights ; and I am happy to say that those views have been uniformly regarded with favour . by the several and respective noblemen and gentlemen who presided in the Government of Ireland, as well as by the most distinguished professional gentlemen whom we had occa sion to consult on points of law to which the Irish traders were driven by the resistance of their claims by Parliament, though now conceded. On the refusal of the claims of the Irish traders by the Legis lature, the 'advocate of the legal rights of the Irish trader, ir respective of legislation, fell back, as was natural, upon the statutes in existense, and on the Treaty of Union between Great Britain and Ireland, and established a case not only protective of the trade right to the Irish traders, but unanswerably prov ing that as some 3,753,0001. more, had since January 1, 1801, been levied on these very traders in Ireland, for their licenses than on the same number of their fellow traders of England or Scotland in 45 years, and this in violation of the 6th and 7th articles of the Union between Great Britain and Ireland, there was an additional grievance and claim established for the Irish traders. The proceedings taken at law by the Irish traders in the case of 4 4 McKenna v. Pope," to have the judgment of the House of Lords, upon the validity of their claim to their trade right, to continue to sell their coffees, teas, &c., notwithstanding the 3d sections of the 6 and 7 Wm. IV., c. 38,1 ed to my coming to London early in this session of Parliament, with the view of forwarding the cause by devoting my services to attendance on the professional gen tlemen engaged in conducting the writ of error pending before the House of Lords, arid communicating to the Irish traders and merchants circumstances as they arose, to effect which it became desirable that the agency of a public newspaper should be afforded, as through such only could the whole of the traders of Ireland be duly made acquainted with the proceedings in what so nearly concerned them. I had the honour of knoning Dr. Jordan Lynch, of Farringdon, to be a high-minded citizen, and favourable to the identification of Ireland with England in every right and privilege. I mentioned to that gentleman my desire to bo introduced to some gentleman connected with the London press who would afford me the desired facilities of so communicating, through his journal, to the Irish traders and others. The Doctor asked me if I had applied to Doctor Sheridan, who edits the Morning Advertiser, to which I replied that I had not the honour of being introduced to that gentleman. Doctor Lynch rejoined, " I am persuaded, Dickson, that no other introduction will be found necessary than for yourself to go and make the application to ' Doctor Sheridan ;' but if my assistance should be deemed of any use, it will be at your service, and the service of Ireland." On that I proceeded, waited upon Dr. Sheridan, and was re ceived with that frank courtesy which even anticipated my wishes. At this much-desired interview I narrated the circum stances which constrained me to solicit such favours, and handed to him some of my works, as a sort of credential or proof of my efforts to be useful. The Doctor at once forbade me making 'any apology, stating that he felt much pleased at my having waited on him, whereby I afforded him an opportunity of perhaps serving the Irish traders; at all events, of endeavouring to do so. It was to him pleasure, instead of a trots ble, to place whatever I desired on behalf of the Irish traders in, the columns of his journal. Doctor Sheridan in sisted that I should name a day and time when it would be con venient for me to be introduced to tha Committee of the Li censed Victuallers' Incorporated Society of London. I felt and appreciated the favourable opportunity thus presented of serving my . country. I availed myself with avidity of the fa vours offered—filling - a large space in the Morning Advertiser, from time to time, without any expense, and enjoying the hos pitality of. Dr. Sheridan and the Licensed Victuallers of London. There is one circumstance which occurred in your aid in this struggle of the Irish traders for their trade rights, which appears to me to deserve particularly to be noticed. By the 55 Geo. 111, c. 19, and the 6 Geo. IV, c. 118, teas and coffees are expressly mentioned as of the good wares and merchandise in the Irish petty chapman's license, and on taking the opinion of some of the most emi nent counsel of the bar of England and Ireland, they agreed that under the protection of this license the licensed vic tuallers of Ireland could carry on the trade of selling teas, cof fees, &c., irrespective of the excise ; but the Irish should have to pay to the Board of Stamps 21. 25. per year for this license, while their fellow-tradesmen of England and Scotland had theirs from the excise on the payment of Ils. 61d. a year only. Yet the trade right being secured to the Irish, traders, resistance was at an end, and the grievances of the Irish traders became re duced to the question of whether the Irish should be obliged to pay a tax of '2l. 2s. per year for license under the stamps to sell tea, &c., whilst the traders of England and Scotland had theirs for Ile. 6 1 / s d. per year ? This was manifestly too outrageous to be defended, as so clearly demonstrated and published in your journal of the tJd of June, with the opinions of the eminent counsel ; and on the 9th of July, 1845, the Government brought into the House of Commons the new 1311 now an Act of Parliament, expressly repealing these restrictions. During all this time I had the honour of receiving the aid and energetic services of Edward Grogan, Esq., M.P., David 11obert Ross, Esq., M.P., and Morgan John O'Con nell, Esq., M.P., and several other Members of Parliament, who took deep interest in the sufferings of the Irish traders, and laboured to effect the relief now afforded by the pass ing of the Victoria Act, which is now law. All these circumstances are eminently calculated to excite in Irish minds gratifying assurances that the British people and the Imperial Parliament will join in affording relief to proved Irish grievances, without regarding or being controlled by pre viously expressed opinions. As the Irish traders only asked for an identificatien in rights and privileges, which is now conceded, it is difficult to see why the Government should hesitate to provide by Act of Parliament that every statute upon each respective matter or subject in England should be made to extend to and embrace the same or like subject or matter in Scotland and Ireland, whereby a perfect identifica tion and interpretation of the laws, rights, and privileges of the English would be secured to Ireland and the Irish people. The Treaty of Union, if it is to be maintained, recognised a claim which the Irish have purchased by giving up their own Parliament, for the strength of the umpire generally. I beg again to repeat to you, Gentlemen, on behalf of myself and the Licensed Victuallers of Ireland, my best thanks, and I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, Your most humble and obedient servant, STEPHEN DICKSON. b 9, Millbank-street, Westminster, London, and 52, Townsend-street, Dublin, July, 1845. Upon receiving this address, Dr. SHERIDAN expressed him self to the deputation as follows:—" My friend Dickson and Gentlemen,—l receive with profound emotion this most gratifying testimony of your feelings towards the licensed victuallers of London and myself ; but in limine allow me to correct a little inaccuracy in the address of this letter in placing the editor's name before that of the licensed victuallers of London, whose officer he is. I regret that the haste in cidental to the important claims upon your attention, and the limited time, I might indeed say suddenness of your intention being conveyed to me, should have prevented me from even acquainting my Governor, and the more influeniial members of the Committ ee an d i ncorporat i on o f your grateful and generous purpose, or I am sure they would be now present to receive, in a more suitable manner than I can, this proud and glorious tribute, not to them and me only, but to the irre sistible I ower of the public press when applied to the general interests of man, and directed by the unerring skill of truth and justice. Mr. Dickson and gentlemen, for myself I most cordially and heartily thank you, and shall esteem it the most glorious triumph an humble citizen like myself can ac complish, if I even effectively aid, in carrying that great sug gestion, to identify, in a spirit of co-operation, the trading, industrial, and honest interests, not of England and Ireland only, but of the world. Should Ibe so fortunate as to aid in the achievement of this object, it is not the most refractory or insubordinate man in Ireland, or in the world, even though he were the most powerful, that dared to raise his voice for a re peal of the Union—for my union would be the union of man in one bond of universal brotherhood. This would be my in carnation of the three cardinal virtues—FAirit, Herz, and CHARITr. AUDACIOUS IMPUDENCE !—An accredited Cor respondent informs us, that at a recent dejeuncr, a modest, but not very reti r i ng gent l eman connecte d with the press, whose name wa s was asked whether he was any relative of a ce l e b rate d c h aracter w h o b or e the same name, when the m o d est man said, "I do not know, — l believe • he was descended f rom a spur i ous or co ll a t e ral branch of mine —the original family but the most celebrated man of that name has now the honour of addressing you." One of the most distinguish e d guests o f t hi s di sl i ngu O party, excited by such presumption, immediately' said, " There is certainly some truth in that, for the man before you now is incalculably the most notorious of the name at present in existence 1" THEATRE ROYAL, DUBLIN.—Mr. Balfe's opera of The F.nchaneress, which was produced on Monday night fur the benefit of Mr. Harrison, was repeated on Tuesday evening with the most complete success ; after which a one•act piece, founded on the celebrated Curtain Lectures of Mrs. Caudle, was performed. On the following evening the opera of Lore in a Village was per formed, the chief characters being sustained by Miss Romer, Mr. Harrison, and Mr. Bishop. They acquitted themselves creditably, Miss Romer introducing Lover's song of the" Four.leaved Sham rock" sweetly and effectively. It was deservedly encored. The duet of " When thy bosom," was also beautifully given by this giftsil lady and Mr. Harrison, both voices blend*: in the most leliciow harmony..—Dublin Packet, MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. (From The Sun of Last Night.) The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 7,000 bales; mostly taken by the trade. The Market was quiet, and rather in favour of buyers. Sales, 800 Ma ranham at 54d. to 534 d., 400 Bahia at 5 3 / 4 d. to 6 . 1 4d., 200 Pernam at 6 1 „. 1 d. to 6 3 4 d., 200 Egyptian at 64d. to 7 1 / 2 d., and the rest American at 3 1 / 2 d. to 6%d. for Orleans. Shares were heavy, and prices declining :- Aberdeen, Banff, and Elgin, % 1 / 2 ; Birkenhead, Lanca shire, and Cheshire, 5 % % •, Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, 7 1 4 ; British and Irish Union, 70s. 6d. 725. ; Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 25 1 ,1 2 25; Caledonian, 10% ; Ditto, Extension, 565. 6d. • Cambridge and Lincoln, 3% 6s. 6d. ; Chester and Birkenhead, 64 1 /, 66 1 / 2 ; Ditto, New Shares, 61 1 / 2 63 ; Ditto, Half Shares, 324 33; Chester and Holyhead, 22 ; Chester and I'reston Brook, 4 1 / 2 ; Clydesdale, Junction, ; Derby and Crewe, 635. 9s. 635. ; Dundee and Perth, 3 1 / 4 ; Edinburgh and Peebles, 3 1 / 2 ; Glasgow and Dumfries, 245. 245. 6d. ; Ditto, Preference, 24 ; Glasgow and Ayr, 88; Grand Junction, 240 ; Ditto, Half Shares, 120 ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 60 Ditto, Eighth Shares, 22%; Grand Union, 2 ; Great Eastern and Western, 1 65.: Great Grimsby and Sheffield, 5 4 ' • Ditto, Quarter Mares, 1 21s. 6d. ; Great Western, 222 ; Huddersfield Canal and Railway, 12% ; Huddersfield and Sheffield, 111/ 2 11 ; Leicester and Bedford, 3% 6s. 3d. ; Leicester and Birming ham, 2 1 ; Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 6 6 1 / 2 ; London and Birmingham, 321. Shares, 54; London and Brighton, 81 1 /._, 81 ; London and York, 6% ; Direct Northern, 2% 3s. 9d; Lees and Dewsburv, 20; Leeds and Thirsk, 74 %; Leeds and West Riding, ti 8 ; Lynn and Dereham, 2%; Man chester and Birmingham, 66 ; Ditto, New Shares, 8%; Manchester and Birmingham, Continuation, 24 ; Man chester, Belton, and Bury, 175; Manchester and Leeds, 191 ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 30 ; Midland Railway, 40/. Shares, 28 1 ,4 ; Newark and Berwick, 21%; Newcastle, Dar lington, and Lancashire, Junction, 18s. 9d.; North British, Half Shares, 7% 8 ; North Kent, 3 ; North Staffordshire, 4 3 / • North Wales, 3% ; North Wales Mineral, 184 ; Not tingham and Boston, IA ; Nottingham, Erewash, and Am bergate, 3% %; Oxford and Birmingham, Junction, 4%; Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhamton, 7%; Preston and Wyre, 33% %; Ditto, New Shares, 44 1 / 2 ; Sheffield and Manchester, 127 1 / 2 ex. new and div.; Ditto, Quarter Shares, No. 2, 12%; Ditto, Quarter Shares, No. 3,74 %; Sheffield and Lincoln, 3 1 / 8 ; Shrewsbury and Hereferdshire, 355. 6d ; Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, and Birmingham, 4% Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Cheshire, 4% ; Shrewsbury and Trent Union, 3% ; Shrewsbury, Worcester, and Crewe, 31 / 4 314 ; South-Eastern and Dover, New Shares, No. 2, 1614 ; South Midland, 5 ; Welsh Midland, 334 4 ; West Yorkshire, 8% ; Whitehaven and Furness, 2X 61s. 6d. ; Worcester and Tring, 1% 3 / 4 ; York and North Midland, New Half Shares, 235. ; Dublin and Belfast Junction, 8 1 ,4 8 ; Dublin • and Galway, 2 1 4 ; Dundalk and Enniskillen, 24 ; Limerick and Waterford, 6 3 / 4 %; London and Coleraine, 4 1 / 8 ; Newry, Bainbridge, and Belfast, 565. 6d ' • Newry and Enniskillen, 3 ; Newry and Warrenpoint, 3 ; Waterford and Kilkenny, 24 ; Dutch Rhenish, 83% ; Great Luxembourg, 11% 24. 6d. ' • Northern of France (Latlitte's), 6 ; Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux, 11% ; Paris and Lyons (Laffitte's), 735. 6d. ; Paris and Lyons (Ganneron's), 21., 51s. ; Paris and Rouen, 411/2. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JULY 31.--The sales are -Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction, 5% prem. ; Blackburn, Burnley, and Accrington, 11% ; Blackburn, Clitheroe, and North Western .Junction, 21-16 prem. ; Black burn, Darwen, and Bolton, 71 g ; Bolton, Wigan, and Liver pool, 26 ; Cambridge and Lincoln. 3 3 / 4 cum new. ; Clitheroe Junction, 4% 1 / 2 ; Derby and Crewe, 2% 2 15-16; Direct Northern, 2%; Eastern Counties, 214 ; Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester, 2% ; Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding Junction, 2 3-16 5-16 ; Glasgow and Dumfries, 245. ; Goole, Doncaster, Sheffield, and Manchester Junction, 245. ; Grand Union, 2 15-16; Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction, 41 ; Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal, 121 . Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction, 104 ; Leeds and Thirsk, 7% ; Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester, 21 ; Leeds and West Riding Junction, 8 1 4 ; Leicester and Birmingham. 2 ; Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 6 15-16 ; London and Worcester, Oxford and Rugby, 1% 3 / 4 ; London and York. 6% 1 4 •, Lynn and Dereham, 2 9-16 % Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 6% ; Manchester and Bir mingham, 64 1 / 2 5; Ditto, New Quarter Shares, 8 1 / s ; Man chester and Birmingham Continuation and Welsh Junction, 2% ; Manchester and Leeds, Quarter Shares, 294 1 / 2 ; Ditto, Sixteenth Shares, 114 ; Newark and Sheffield, 2% 3 ; Newcastle, Durham, and Lancashire, 18s. 9d. prem. ; North British, New Shares, 7%s ; North Eastern, 1 1 12 sR ; Not tingham and Boston, 7s. 6d. 6s. 3d. prem. ; Nottingham, Belvoir, and Grantham, 14 prem. ; North Staffordshire, 4 1 / 2 ; North Western, 5 1-16; Nottingham, and Mansfield, 2%; Nottingham, Erewash, Ambergate, and Manchester, 3 7-16 ; Preston and Wyre, 34; Ditto, Half Shares, 5 8; Preston and Wyre Extension, 2 7 -16 ; Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction, 23 . 4 Sheffield and Manchester, Quarter Shares, No. 2, 7 prem. ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, No. 3, 6%7 ; Shrews bury and Trent Valley Union, 34 31 ,4 • South-Eastern and Dover, 46 ; Ditto, No. 3, 8 ; South didland, 4% 15.16 ; Trent Valley Continuation and Holyhead Junction, 24 ; Welsh Midland. 3 5 j 4 3 / 4 ; West Lancashire Coast Line, 3% 3 prem. ; West Yorkshire, 7% Whitehaven and Furness, 2% %' • Worcester, Shrewsbury, and Crewe Union, 3%; Dutch Rhenish, 6 1 / 4 . HUDDERSFIELD STOCK-EXCHANGE, JITLY 31.-The sales are :-North British, 27 3 4 ; Cambridge and Lincolu,3l. 3s. 6d. ; Grand Union, 15s. ; Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction, Quarter Shares, 21s. 6d. ; Huddersfield, Halifax, and Brad ford Union, 100 s. 85s. • Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction, % 11 11; Leeds and Thirsk, 91s. prem. ; Leicester and Birm ingham, 235. 6(1. ' • Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 64 6%; London and York, 634 ; Manchester and Birkenhead Con tinuation, .11s. 6d. 12s. prem. ; South Midland, 4 prem. ; Wakefield and Bradford, 345. ; West Yorkshire, 7%; Wake field and Harrogate, 3. LEEDS STOCK ExcitAxGu, JULY 31.-The sales were as follow : - London and Croydon, New, 40s. 395. 6d. prem. ; Manchester and Leeds, 1091 E ; Midland, New, 284 27% ; North British, 274 ; Ditto, New, 7% 3 A ; Sheffield and Manchester, Quarter Shares, No. 3, 7 1 / 4 ; York and North Midland Extension, 22%; Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush, 2%; Blackburn, Burnley, and Accrington, 11% %; Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 26 1 A ; Caledonian, 10%; Cambridge and Lincoln, 3 1 /, 38.9 d. ; Clitheroe Junction,3 IA prem. ; Derby and Crewe, 30s. 325. Gd. prem. ; Direct Northern, 2 1 ,{ 3 21. Is. ; Grand Union, 13s. 14s. Gd. prem. ; Great Grimsby and Shef field Junction, 5 ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 225. 21s. ; Hud dersfield, Halifax, and Bradford Union, 80s. 735. ; Hudders field and Manchester, 123% ; Huddersfield and Sheffield, 10% 10 ; Lancashire, Yorkshire, and North-Eastern, 10s. I2s. prem. ; Leeds and Bradford, 51% ; Leeds and Dewsbury, 204 20; Leeds and Thirsk, 898. ; Leeds and York, 16s. prem. ; Leicester and Birmingham, 21s. 245. prem. ; Leicester aad Bedford, 455. ; Liverpool ; Ormskirk, and Preston, 64 is ; London and York, 6 1 / 4 1 / 4 ; Ditto (I3awtry), 5 4%; Man chester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 7% 19s. ; Man chester, Liverpool, and Great North of England, 21s. 6d. 255. prem. ; Manchester and Birkenhead Extension, 13s. 10s. prem.; Manchester, Liverpool, and Newcastle Junction, 535. 50s. prem. ; Newark and Sheffield, 3%; Newcastle and Ber wick, 21% 22; North Western, 3% 165.; Nottingham, Ere wash, and Ambergate, 375. 6d. 38s. ; Nottingham and Boston, 10s. 12s. ; Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton, 8% i c y ; Rugby, 355. 345. ; Sheffield and Lincolnshire, 575. 6d. 58s. •, Shrewsbury and Trent Valley, Union, 21. 2s. prem. ; South Midlands, 78s. prem. ; Wakefield and Bradford, 455. 60s prem. ; Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole, 284 29 ; Wake • field and Harrogate, 765. 555. prem. ; Welsh Midlands, 255. 28s. prem. ; West Riding Junction, 8 1 / 2 16s. ; West York shire, 71. 19s. ; York and Carlisle, 27s 255. prem. The private accounts which have been received from the East Indies and China are somewhat of a more flattering character than those published in the public journals. We are assured that a steadily increasing demand existed at the date of the latest advices for British manufactured goods. The notification which had been received out from hence, of the starting of companies to establish railways in India, had taken the natives by surprise. The more wealthy merchants of the various Presidencies of India were most ready to take an interest in what may be called a bold and novel enter prise. We have every reason to believe that more than the shares reserved for the natives of India will be required, as, notwithstanding the Court of Directors of the East India Company have fairly set the difficulties which they believe to exist before the public here, there is not a doubt entertained by practical men in India, that such difficulties will be most easily overcome. The prospect of rapid communication between the various presidencies of India had athsrded a vast degree of satisfaction to all those interested in trade and commerce. But, of course, the Directors of the East India Company, the Board of Control, and the Go vernor-General will receive the report of the eminent en gineer who has been deputed to survey the country ere any final opinion shall be expressed a' to the practicability of the construction of railways in British India. There were not any arrivals in the City to-day of im portance. The Consol Market is rather more firm to-day, the price for the Account being 98% %, and for Money, 98 1 4 %. South Sea Stock has been quoted at 113, the Government brokers continuing their purchases in them. Bank Stock is a shade higher. The other Bonds remain much the same as yesterday. Not much has been transacted in the Foreign Funds to day. Peruvian Bonds have fluctuated between 36 and 37 ; Portuguese Converted from 65 1 ,4 to 65; Spanish Actives from 27 to 26%; and the Dutch Four per Cents. from 99 3 4 to 99 1 A. The settlement of the account in the Railway Share Market is progressing, and, all things considered, satisfac torily. The prices were pretty firm this morning. ONE CLOSINo PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced 3 per Cent. Consels Annuities 98 % 1 /4 98% New 3 11 4 per Cents .10 2 1 /4 102 102% Long Annuities toexnireJan.lB6o 11 1 , 7-16 11 7-16 Ditto 30 years, Oct. 10,1859 ... 11 1 % 11 1 4 Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 ... 11 1 4 3-16 11 3-16 India Stock 272 273 India Bonds, 1,0001.. Dia() under 1,0001... • . South Sea Stock C oasols for Account Exchequer Bills, 1,000/., I%d 5l 53 pm. 53 Ditto 5001. Ditto Small ... 55 53 pm. 53 ONE CLOSING PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES Columbian Bonds, ex Venezuela. 17 3 / 4 Vi 17 1 % Danish, 3 per Cent ... B9 Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837 ...... 36% 36A Ditto, Account Ditto. Deferred Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents 36 37 36% 36 % Portuguese 5 per Cents. — Ditto, Account 65% 65 65 1 4 Ditto, 4 per Cent 65 Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent _ Ditto Account Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. Ditto 3 per Cent. ... . ..... 38 37% Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent — 45% Dutch, 2% per Cent . Ditto, 4 per Cent., Certific.„, 99 3 / 4 1/ 99% PRICES OF PAID. A ONE O'CLOCK. CLOSING RAILWAY SHARES PRICES. Aberdeen Birming. and Gloucesterloo ...... Ditto % Shares Bristol and Exeter Bristol and Gloucester... 30 ...... 59 Caledonian Cambridge and Lincoln 1 1 / 2 ...... 2% Chester and Holyhead... 15 Cornwall Direct Northern Dublin and Belfast June. 9 % B 3 /4 '4 B l4 Dublin and Galway..... 21,4 2 % 14 24 Dundalk & Enniskillen 2 1 / 2 — Eastern Counties 141. 165...... 21 Ditto New 41. 16s. Ditto Perpetual, 5 per Cent, 110. 1—.5/. 13s. 4d Ditto ditto, Nu. 2. l3s. 4d. 0% ON p Eastern Union l5 .. ... • Ditto Extension . ... 1% 3l 3 Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 Ditto New 1 4 Shares... 2 1 4 IIV, ll% Great South. and West (Ireland) - Ditto Extension Ore it North of England..loo 225 Ditto New Great Western BO 223 225 225 Ditto 1z Shares 5O 122 Guildford, Fare'm,Ports. 2 1 / 2 21,i 31x ...... [lull and Selby Leicester and Bedf)rd. : 9 25.! 1%:2% 1 3 / p 1% London and Birmingnnia6tock) 246 Do. Quarters London and Blackwall. 161. 13s. 4d. 11 1 4%% ll y2 London and Brighton... 50 London and Croydon, 131. 15e. 9d. 26% % ...... .... Do. New l3s 4d 2% p. ..... . .. 2% Do. Guaranteed 5 per Cent. London and Greenwich 121 1554 d... Dit', - ) ' Pieference lB% 24% . . 24 Lond. &S.Western 411 6s 10d...... 80% 80 ....... 80 Do. New London and York 2% 6 % 1 4 1 /2 6 l /2 London and Windsor ... 1 1 London. Salisbury, and Yeovil 2% 6% 3% 193 Lynn and Ely Lynn and Dereham l% 2 7ii 3 / 4 3% Manchester and Leeds... 76 194 195. Do. 1/, Shares Do. 14 Shares ... Manchester and Birmin. 40 Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock 225...... 5 1 / 2 7,4 li,j p•••••• 51 / 2 Midland 100 179 180 l7B Do. New Midland, Birm., Derby...loo l4O 139 1 / 2 13 9 1 /2 Midland Great Western ( Irish) , 2 1,4..... 3% 3 34 Newcastle and Darling ton Junction Do. New Brandling lO 39 ... ......... ... Newish(' and Berwick 1 1 / 2 . 21 Newry and Enniskillen. 21 / 2 North British Do. New North Kent North Staffordshire 22s. ...... 2 1 ;f 1 3% p North Wales Norwich and Brandon... 14 Do., New Oxford and Worcester... 21 / 2 7 l / 2%% Portsmolith Direct 2 l /2 5% 4 3 / 4 ..... Richmond and West End Junction 65% 39 21 23 / 4 28 814 Rugby, Worstr, Sr Tring 1 coaish Midland l l / 2. ... 2 1 A1 Shrews., Wolverhamp., Dudley, and Birm 2%. .... Shrewsbury, Hereford, and North Wales 2% 3 l /8 South Devon... 2O South Midland 22s. South Eastern & Dover 33/ 2s 4d... 45 3 / ... D0., No. 3 South Wales 2% 5% Trent Valley 2 Trent Valley and Holy head Junction ‘ 4,', • Welch Midland Waterford and Kilkenny 1 ...... Yarmouth and Norwich. 20 f ork and North Midland 50 — Do Selby Do. Extension FOREIGN RAILWAY.. Boulogne and A miens... 6 Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cette Dutch Rhenish 3 East Indian ... ss. Great North. of France (Laffitte's) Do. do. (Rosamel's) 2 Great Paris and Lyons 2 I:Z4 0% 614 2 IA 1% Jamaica Junction........ 1 1 / 2 7 14 7 Louvain and Jemeppe... 4 ... . Lyons and Avignon 2 Namur and Liege Orleans and Vierzon ... 6 ...... Orleans and Bordeaux... 4 Over Yssel 413 s 4d l l /s p•• ••• ...... Paris & Lyons, Laßitte's 2 Paris and Lyons, Gan neron's, _ .__ _ 2 Paris and Strasbourg ( Gan n eron's) 2 ...... Do. (Compte de L'Est) 2 ...... 24 Strasbourg and Bale Sambre and Meuse .... 4 Tours and Nantes, Mac- kenzie's 2 West Flanders 5 3 A 16 3 A 11 1 4 I%p 2% 2 1 4 3% 10% 67118 Erratum in List of July 30.—Read East Lidian lf, instead of 1 ,4 pm. Fier Majesty has done Robert Bell, Dq., the high honour of presenting him with a truly magnificent vase, In acknowledgement of the promptitude with which he lately sur rendered his magnificent seat, Norris Castle, in the Isle of Wight, to the use of his Majesty, the King of the Netherlands. The presentation of the vase, was accompanied by an expression of reeling most gratifying to Mr. Bell, while it evinced the pleasure the Queen felt in testifying to the politeness of one of her subjects We are sorry to learn that the Directors of the Eastern Counties Railway have resolved not to issue either season or day tickets. We hope they will be induced to review their decision. It is now understood that Parliament will be pro rogued either on Thursday or Friday of next week. The former, we hear, is the more probable; and her Majesty will then leave England on the following day.—Post. _ _ JULLIEN AT LIVERPOOL.—On Monday and Tuesday evenings last, M. Jullien and his exquisite corps, accom. panied by Signor Camillo Sivori, gave grand concerts at the Zoological-gardens, Liverpool, which were attended by great collections col the fashion of that town and neighbourhood. The performances fully realised the most sanguine expectations. CHESTER AND BIRKENHEAD RAILWAY.-LIVER root, THURSDIY.—The half.yearly meeting of this Company was held here to.day for the purpose of declaring a dividend. Before the proceedings commenced some negotiation took place with a deputation from the Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction Company. Mr. William Jackson, chair man of the directors, presided, and the neptiations referred to having been closed, the chairman said—" I have to apologise to you for detaining you so long ; but I am happy to announce to you that there is a prospect of peaco and pros perity.—(Loud Cheers.) Circumstances have arisen since we came into this room which induce me to request the favour of your adopting so much of our report this day as relates to the dividend, and to waive the consideration of every other matter con tained in it until Wednesday next.—(Great applause.) Your own interests require this adjournment ; and I hope you have confi dence enough in your chairman to believe that he would not recom. mend such a step unless he deemed it advisable for the sake of your interests." The chairman then read extiacts from the report, which congratulated the proprietors on the prosperous condition and prospects of the Company. The passengers, &c., conveyed, and the amount received, from the Ist January to the 30th June, 1845, shows an increase of 27,283/. This result enabled the Directors to recommend that a dividend be now declared of 13s. per 501., and 6s. 6d. per 25/. share, and that the same be payable en and after Monday, the 18th of August next; but there will be 3s. per share to be deducted from the dividend on the new 501. shares for in terest on calls unpaid at the period of closing the accounts. The Chairman concluded by moving that the dividend be now declared. A shareholder seconded the resolution, and it was carried. The meeting then ail , urned. _ _ CHEAP RAILWAY TRAVELLING —On Sunday the passengers by one of the pleasure trains from Whitstable to this city were treated with a ride for nothing. On rising tLe hill from Bog's-hole, the carriages became detached from the rope, and ran back u considerable distance with great velocity, to the alarm of the passengers, but happily attended with no injurious results. Kentish Observer. IMPORTATION OF OXEN AND SHEET FROM HOI, LAND.—Thursday morning two large steamers arrived from Hol land in the river Thames, having on board 150 oxen and 300 sheep, all of which were consigned to carcass butchers in Newgate ma►ket. The oxen and sheep are of remarkably fine quality. TILE LATE MARQUIS WELLESI.EIf.—A very splen did marble statue of the late Marquis Wellesley, the Governor- General of India, is about to be placed in the General Court room at the East India House. The figure was removed on Thursday from the sculptor's to Leadenhall.strcet, and in a day or two will be placed on its Intended site. The governors of the Charter-house met yesterday to appoint two new governors in the places of Earl Grey and Lord Canterbury. Their choice fell on the Duke of Buccleuch and Lord Devon. REPEAL OF THE UNION.—On Thursday, a very numerously attended meeting took place in the National Hall, Holborn, to take into consideration the circumstances which have led to the present difference between them and the Loyal National Repeal Association of Dublin. Before the meeting commenced, a long consultation took place in a private room, and on the Rev. Mr. Moone being unanimously called to the chair, he came for ward and addressed the meeting. He observed, that all the diffe rences had now ♦anished.—(Cries of " Thank God 1 " and loud cheering.) This would be a glorious day for Ireland, and would deprive their enemies of a fancied triumph, and there would be a reconciliation amongst all repeaters in London as well as in Dublin. Mr. Daly read a letter from Mr. O'Connell recommending recen - ciliation. Mr. Furlong proposed a resolution—" To bury all dif ferences in oblivion, and to redouble their exertions to effect the objects of repeaters," which was carried unanimously. Thanks having been accorded to the Rev. Chairman, &c., the meeting broke up. _ _ BIRMINGHAM,THURSDAY.-DEATII OF DR. MERLE, OF BIRMINGHAM.—Connected with the death of the above distin guished physician, which took place here on Saturday morning, an inquiry of considerable interest has taken place relative to the cause of the death of deceased. In consequence of unpleasant ru mours, that the lamented gentleman had died from poison taken by himself, with a view of causing his death, his family applied to Mr. Davies, the Borough coroner, to hold an inquest on the body, and that gentleman, in compliance with their request, proceeded to the investigation, when, after a long inquiry, in the course of which the testimony of the medical gentleman who had been in attendance on decease entirely dissipated the imputed crime, the jury immediately returned a verdict of "Accidental death." GROWTH OF SILK AT NORIVICIL—A person named Leeds, a working cooper, living in St. Edmund's, Norwich, has this year about 10,000 silk-worms, which have just com menced spinning in a room at the top of his house, without any artifie'al heat ; they have been this year in the most healthy state, he having lost scarcely 20 from the time of hatching. Mr. Leeds has now materials for several splendid silk dresses, one of which it is contemplated to send to her Majesty.— Chelms ford Chronicle. RESURRECTION OF A THREE-THOUSAND YEAR OLD PEA.—In the year 1838, Sir Gardner Wilkinson brought from Egypt a vase of great antiquity, which had been dug out of a mummy-pit. This vase was presented to the British Museum, and was opened in the presence of several anti quarians; but it contained only a small quantity of dust and a few seeds, among which were peas, vetches, and wheat. Three of the peas were presented to Mr. W. Grimstone by T. J. Pettigrew, who kept the peas by him until 1844, when, having purchased the Herbary at Highgate, he set them in a pot of composite. The pea soon sprang from its three-thousand-year trance into vegetable life—riot into green vegetable life, but yel!ow, as if it had been jaundiced with a di3eat-ed liver. This yellow appearance, arose, no doubt, from its being confined in a hot frame. When it had attained sufficient height it was carefully"; transplanted into the open garden ; the stalk thrived, blossomed, and, in August last, Mr. Grim stone harvested fifty-five seeds from its pods. These fifty-five peas have been planted this year, and all of them have now thrown up their stems, their blossoms, and their pods, ar.d again give hope for an abundant increase. This r ca. has many peculiarities, one of which is, that the pod pro jects through the blossom, leaving the latter behind it, while the generality of peas push, or, rather carry off the blossom at the tip of their pods. Mr. Grimstone was offered, last year, twenty pounds for twenty of these peas, which he refused to accept, preferring rather to multiply than to sell. The bloom of this pea is white and of a bell form; that of our pea having wings something like these of a butterfly. A visit to Mr. thirastone's herbary to see this production from the antiquated Egyptian grandfather pea is well worth the trouble. TRADES DELEGATES' CON FE N C E. FIFTH DAY. At the ineetiro , of the Delegat( s yesterday, the Com mittee appointed to frame the plan for the organisation of the trades brought up their report, la hich was read, and having undergone sonic slight amentlinews, was agreed to. The next paragraph read was that heads d POWERS AND Dunns.—The Central Committee shall di rect and control the general proceedings of the Association for and in the name of the Association. They shall receive all ap plications from the Trades for advice and assistance, and shall . act thereon as they may deem requisite. They shall by me diation, arbitrarien, and legal proceedings, protect the interests and promote the well-being. of the Associated Trades in all cases of trade disputes anti diffirulties. They shall promote all measures, polilical, social, or educational, which are intended to improve the condition of the labouring classes. They shall appoint such clerks, agents, and subordinate officers as they may deem expedient. They shall summon the annual or special Conference, as provided by the laws; and, generally, they shall take the most efficient means its their power to promote the ob jects of tie Association. The above paragraph contained a power to the Com' mittee to object to, or approve of, "strikes," which, after a short discussion was struck out, upon a show of hands, there having appeared to be, For strikirg out the passage 27 • Against it Majority for striking out The Delegate from the Woolcombers of Bradford said, it was his intention to move that the votes of those delegates who voted for or against strikes should .be re' . corded, for it would be, he had no doubt, very satisfac tory to their constituents. The meeting adjourned at the usual hour. MAGAZIN ES-(CONTINUED.) COLBURIVS NEW MONTHLY. Mr. Harrison Ainsworth has secured the services of 1 powerful staff. of contributors to the New Monthly. Among them are Captain Marryatt, who gives the first of a series of extracts from the log of a privateer's- man* hundred years ago, and Mr. G. P. R. James, who has, in the present number, commenced a new novel, entitled " Beauchamp," from which we give file 'following exclut‘ . site pasage, which it would require the pencil of A Gainsborough to adequately illustrate : " Nevertheless, we know that every now and then, in Mayi comes in a warm and summer-like day, bright, and soft, and • beautiful, full of a tempered sunshine, appearing after the cold ' days of winter, like joy succeeding sorrow, and entendered the memories of the past, such was the sort of day upen which the traveller we have spoken of rode on upon his way through a very fair and smiling country. The season had been gorse.. what early in its expansion ; the weather had been unusualy mild in March ; frequent and heavy showers had succeeded ifs April, and pouring through the veins of the earth the bountiful libation of the sky, hart warmed the bosom of our common mother to a rich and lovely glow. The trees were all out in leaf, but yet not sufficiently unclosed to have lost the rich variety of hues, displayed by the early buds. The colouring would have been almost that of autumn, so bright and manifold were the tints upon the wood, had it not been for a certain tenderness of aspect which spoke of youth and not decay. There' was the oak in its red and brown, here and there mingled with the verdant hue of summer, but beside it waved the beech, with ' its long arms robed in the gentlest and the softest green, th ee ash pointed its taper fingers in the direction where the was going, and the larch lifted up its graceful spire, fringeo with its grass like filaments, while its beautiful cones, full of their coral studs, afforded ornaments, that Queens might b. proud to wear. The fields were spangled with a thousan d flowers, and every bank and hedge was jewelled with v egetable stars; not only the pale violet, and the yellow primrose, b e ' the purple columbine and the white hawthorn, even the ode•— rons-breathed cowslip, the wild geranium. and a long list be; side, were all spreading their beauty in the evening air, a n glittering with the drops of a shower not long passed bl•-• Overhead, too, the sky was full of radiance, warm yet se l t l deep in the azure, yet tinted with the evening light, as if the sunbeams were the threads of a crimson woof woven in wit h the blue warp of the sky." Leigh Hunt, too, has joined the corps of the Ne l° , Monthly, and has this month given us a quaint version V old Chaucer's delightful tale of " Death and the Ruffians. Mr. Ainsworth himselfeontinues his "Revelations of Lew don," and Mr. Francis Ainsworth continues his interest' ing series of papers on the rivers and cities of Babylon t The " Robertses on their Travels" are as a musing ever, and the gentleman on half-pay gives a most laught e . r. m.sving account of the adventures which betel him 111 , consequence of his advertising for a wife. We Its" kindly notice of poor Barham (Thomas Ingoldsby)ci from the pen of his intimate friend Mr. Htighess $ f Dudley Costello gives us two spirit-stirring chapters de a tale, entitled the Fortune of Fr a n ce or th e Hotel.ti Cluney, a scene of which is laid in. Paris at the 0. 111 ; mencement of the reign of F ranc i s I. P e t e r PriggT e gives us a must amusing and Theodore-Hook -llk r . sketch of society, enti t l e d t h e F ox i n th e W e ll. P i .e te b however, must look to hi s l aure l s ; the author of da cn Oinnium, the Me rc h an t P r i nce , i s fast treading on • ',, heels. This is a good number of the New Monti"). and contains greater variety than many of its pro the cessors. We could wish, ho we v e r, th a t some 01 , s he long works were brought to a conclusion, and th"sga space devoted to them were occupied by light ni n g in zinc tales , complete in themselves, such as were 0 1. t he days of yore to gladden the hearts of the readers ° l O l. New Monthly. We like not the system of ° nuations. AINSTVORTH'S MAGAZINE. fi thor ri s os a m r ni ß soc o rg i a, " an historical romance by the a_ ith of " Whitefriars," in the three first chapters c arries w i T t h :ll: r e e e i: with stirring incident a ; e situation. —e the power of the and .cturefiqn (Alexander VI.); rise of the family of e o p f o a c ih, p acp o ,fa w l e th r t f he u r l oi\ni a ei n d d :vl i tei n i t lA : t r g e iel s es t i n fil ri g iloe t ra . ree fraughti rn : e ri n Rodrigo Borgia ambition, the luxury, the crimes, the fortunes, and 1 1 downfal of the execrable Alexander and his men sl % son, Duke Cmsar, as they have come do wn t o us, areal, of them, on a gigantic and marvellous scale. The story opens at Rome, in the commencement of the far-fa tne o jubilee year, 1500. " The Man who makes Bargein s o (by Russel Graham) and " Working the Oracle" are, l ,l / 1 . capital papers, the latter re,ninding us strongly or h. capital graphic sketching of James Smith. Mr. Ja mes e " Ehrenstein" advances a chapter or two, and "by number closes with the following beautiful'stania o Mrs. Ponsonby:— THE RETURN FROM BATTLE. " Open the window, mother dear ! let the bright sunsitinen ; ,i The joyous shouts are drawing near, I hear the trumpet's n isi Unclose these curtains round my bed, the air is soft and 11) ",11, Oh 1 mother, threw the casement wide 1" "Be still, be my " I love to see the soldiers pass, in all their proud array; ero Their glancing spears, their prancing steeds, their bison broad and gay. I love to see the soldiers pass—" , t Thou canst not see W. now; Thy chamber window is too high—thy couch of pain too low. " Then, mother, tell me who returns, as rank by rank tb e l come. her Does my dear father fill his place? comes my young bra t home ? 0 Ah I mother, I can see your brow flush with a sudden OP .1 .. Ws, God be praised ! my husband comes—home com e° noble boy !" 4 " The men at arms have all passed by, loud peals the tru m p et strain; sip I hear the charger's clattering hoofs; oh, mother ! look ag. es Dost thou nit. see our gallant guards ? do they not proudly nu Our valiant e:nperor at their head, my lover by his side. Bareheaded rides our emperor, methinks I see him now. 0 . His casque of steel and burnish'd gold hangs at his saddle.b6 • Bareheaded too my lover rides, he lifts his standard high; • The conquering eagles soar aloft, the silken streamers fly Let me arise and braid my hair, my weariness is vast, lo s The languor leaves my beating brow, my strength is coin fast, And I shall live —for he returns to lead me forth again Where summer dews and cooling airs shall soothe my bu rn ' ram. Oh, mother, mother ! do not pause, the sunlight blintio eyes ; • I sec ;he banners waving high—on high the eagle flies. 0 . Oh, mother, mother 1 is he there?" " M 1 y child, I look in I .'o l But lay thee down and take thy rest, for he may come agO n : " No, mother, no ! thy cheek is pale; I know you look in / My dear one lies in distant lands, he ne'er may come agai.r. l‘lother ! I sink—l faint—l die—my hope, my life is oe r '• 0 " Yes, faint, my child ! and die, my child ! thy loYer corner more." LITERATURE. CABINET HISTORY OF ENGLAND. fig Cluvles Mac Fa,lane. Vel. VII. The present volume contains the history of the latter part of the reign of Henry VIII., of the wb of Edward VI., and of the commencement of ge r :i o at The history of the reign of Henry ea ts VIII. is the accurate account which has yet appeared of the ev, a of that interesting period. The recently discove4t extensive collections of the " State Papers" Of i,t`•;;li period have afforded Mr. Mac Farlane materia ls vv .":" o f • were not within the reach of his predecessors, snyruhe which he has known well how to avail himself. if style is manly and perspicuous, and the histolio written in a spirit of benevolent charity which is the yond all praise. The following reflections, 00 ll death of the unfortunate Catherine Howard , are w e warthy of serious attention : at " The Protestants were as ready to believe i n t „v he b lit ia of the Papist Catherine Howard, as the PaPone been to believe in the guilt of the ' Anne been ••"' t o f Boleyn. Since the triumph and firm establishoilave the reformed doctrines, sympathy and admirat ion of been incessantly demanded for the unfortunate wet gibed , Queen Elizabeth, but no Protestant tears ha ve bell t for tha still more hapless Catherine Howard . attentive examination of dncuments, contempororiio twit's, and traditions, will convince every impartial w ore that the frailties and guilt of Catherine were n: substantiated and proved than were the guilt and it a , o pt • of Anne, and that, in the case of both ladies, the , and his slaves bade defiance to all law and j us tice! tiro living and distinguished Roman Catholic historiari_l.,, an d Anne Boleyn into a wanton, and Catherine into t ri i " noc( nt martyr. Alas I for the slow progress of I. oct i of impartiality ! Are these and other histo rical so , •11 . t he still greater weight always to be. treated of 7 0 , to same angry plssions a nd the same wilful bl iu les 2 evidence ? Is prejudice to hold f or e ver the oea Must every history continue to be one•sided ?" Lite ---- EAST INDIA House.—The Statue of t"' the Nlaquis Wellesley, by Weekes, h as been relnorcvedefe°;ll Royal Academy, and is no N placed on a turnpora . fixe d i ll iii the General Court Room, preparatory to its being destined positior. order EXTENSIVE MILITARY DESERTION. ---W c Al oure ° stand that during the time the 87th Regiment 131 in '7 -- artli l° Castle, upwards of seventy soldiers deserted from its t h erani Ws l ar as we know, remain yet at large. It is supposed t the (usg ,e facilities afforded for employment On railways is chie tl ,. / p - a - .:". of these deserters remaining undiscovered.— Edinborfo ",,ritfh WHAT IS METAPHYSICS ?—A Scotch blt' c 'y it if .- being asked the ineanirg of metaphysics, ellOgifiescbst tbe follows :—" When the party who listens &nos l',,endippa k eis • party who speaks means, and the party wbo Spe aks what he means himsel, that is metaphysics."' THE SUN, LONDON, SATITRDA Y MORNING, AU6UST 2 lB►s. cairi the I on Lad , Lad; rive( usua grou Cc Higl Hou ciou of 0 race at a Rus tion the o'cl race the thei Mar W e at h Bus Vie, so ter( z 4 ?fir b Lo n l ati Pe Zvi an