The Sun. — London, England, 1845-07-30 00:00:00

AMERICAN NEWS. ANNEXATION OF TEXAS. The British and North American Royal mail steam-ship Acadia, Captain Harrison, arrived at Liverpool yesterday, bringing the Hon. L. Inane, United States Minister to St. James's, several members of his family, and a large number of passengers. The annexation of Texas to the United states, it will be seen, has been agreed to by the Texan Congress. The ques tion alto the course Mexico will adopt is yet problematical. (From the Galveston News.) We are indebted to Mr. Briggs for the following interesting do cuments, which we hasten to give our readers. Verbally we hear from Mr. B. that the propositions for our independence have been submitted to the Senate. They are not yet made public, but it is understood that they are highly objectionable, and will be promptly rejected. Executive Department, Washington, June 18, 1845. Gentlemen of the Senate, and of the House of Representatives, I am happy to greet you on this interesting occasion, as the representatives of the people, again assembled in the discharge of your high and important duties. The call of an extraordinary session of Congress at this early day, by the Executive, was not made without the most mature deliberation, and a due reference to the great crisis which has arisen since your late adjournment, in the affairs of Texas, as well as the almost unanimous expression of public will, which took plaoe throughout the country in regard to the same. The Executive has now the pleasure to transmit to the Honour able Congress, for such action as they may deem suitable, the pro positions which have been made on the part of the United States to this Government, for the annexation of Texas ai.d its incorporation as a state into that great and kindred confederacy; together with the correspondence between the two Governments, which has arisen out of the same. This correspondence, entering as it does very fully into the views and sentiments of the Goverment* in question, renders it unnecessary for the Executive to add (for the information or consideration of Congress) but little thereto in reference to the proposed measure. The Executive has much satisfaction in observing, what no doubt will forcibly arrest the attention of the Congress, that al_ though the terms embraced in the resolutions of the United States Congress may at first have appeared less favourable than was de sirable for Texas, that the very liberal and magnanimous views . entertained by the President of the United States towards Texas, and the promises made through the representative of that country in regard to the future advantages to be extended to her if the consented to the proposed union, render those terms much more ac ceptable than they would otherwise have been. The state of public opinion, and the great anxiety of the people to act definitely upon the subject of annexation by a Convention of Deputies, as prescribed in the resolutions of the United States • Congress, induced the reecutlys to issue his proclamation on the sth of May, ult., recommending an election for sixty-one De puties, to be held in the several counties throughout the Republic, on the:4th of the present month, and to assemble in Convention at the city of Austin, on the 4th of July next. This recommenda tion has met the sanction of the citizens generally and the de puties in the several counties, so far as heard from having been elected upon the basis proposed, It is confidently expected the Convention will assemble at the time and place fixed upon. To this Convention the question of annexation and the adoption of a St ate Constitution will probably belong; and they will determine the great question of the na tionality of Texas, as to them shall seem most conducive to the interest, happiness, and prosperity of the people whom they will represent. It is important that the " consent of the existing Government" should be given to their exercising the powers which have been delegated to them, in order to comply with a requirement to that effect in the resolutions on the subject of an nexation, passed by the American Congress. For this purpose, the present extraordinary session of the Congress of the Republic - of Teem; has been convoked, and to its wisdom as a co-ordinate department, the Executive now submits the determination of the matter. The services to be performed by the Gonvention will be arduous, • and will probably engage it for a considerable period of time, and the Executive would respectfully recommend to Congress the pro priety of making a suitable appropriation for the payment of its Members, as well as the officers it may find occasion to employ. The Executive has the pleasure, in addition to presenting Con gress the propositions corcerning Annexation, to inform them, that certain conditions preliminary to a treaty of peace upon the basis of a recognition of the independence of Texas by Mexico, • were signed on the part of the latter, of the city of Mexico, on the I l ib of May last, and were transmitted to this Government on the 2d inst. by the Baron Alley de Cyprey, Minister Plenipotentiary of his Majesty the King of the French, at that court, by thrt hands of Capt. Elliott, H. B. M. Charge d'Affaires near this Government. In consequence of the signing of these preliminaries, the Executive believed it to be his duty to the Congress to make the fact known to the people of Texas, and to declare and proclaim a cessation of hostilities between Texas and Mexico, until the same could be communicated to, and acted upon by, Congress and the Convention about to assemble. A proclamation for this purpose was come. quently issued on the 4th inst., a copy of which is herewith trans. mated_ The preliminaries being in the nature of a treaty, will, with all the correspondence in relation thereto, be forthwith cam. municated to the Honourable Senate for its constitutional advice, and such action as in its wisdom the same shall seem to require. The alternative of annexation or independence will thus be placed belore the people of Texas, and their free, sovereign, and un • biassed voice, will determine the all-important issue; and so far as it shall depend upon the Executive to act, he will give im -mediate and full effect to the expression of their will. His situation in regard to the important subjects now communi cated. to Congress, has, since their late adjournment, been one of ~great delicacy and embarrassment. Questions of much difficulty have.been presented far his determination, upon which the fate and welfare of the country depended, and without precedent or constitutional guide for his governance, ha has been obliged to assume, in consequence, great and severe responsibili►ies. He trusts, however, that Congress wi:l approve the course he has adopted, atiel, by their enlightened counsels, relieve and direct him . Jo the course hereafter to be pursued in relation to those questions. The Executive is happy to announce to Congressthat Texas is at peace with the world; that with all foreign Powers with whom we have had intercourse, friendly relations are maintained. The (lir 'trent tribes of Indians on our borders, with whom treaties exist, have contintsed to observe the same with good faith; and within the last few nays intsrmatien has been received that the only band of Comanches within our limits, who had maintained udtil then a hostile attitude towards Texas, have sued for peace, exprelsect a wioi to be permitted to come to Bciar to celebrate a treaty of friendship, which, on the part of this Government, has been com plied with. The arrangements nixie at ynur regular session, for additional con:panies of rangers to Le mustered into service, t.as been carried into effect, anti hive afforded adequate and efficient protectioa to our fitVitjers. Thereceipti into the freasury have been ufficien tto ii.ectafie various expenditures of .the GOvernmsnt. A specie cur te-ney has been maintained without difficulty, and all the Exchequer- n 11101 were in circulation at the perichl of your late ad journment, have been redeemed tv.cl withdrawn from circulation, atiA-•the Executive is happy to congratulate the Congrets and the c :watry upon a state of peace, happiness, and prosperity never he. fore-txpericnced by Texas, and rarely if ever equalled by so young .4 nation. only rema i ns for the Executive to express an assured confi dspc4 ,in your individual wish to sustain the best interests of stall the fervent hope that lie who holds the tlestimies of ui t ersi.avn nations in his band, may crown your thliberations with ricl.est Llessings. ANSON JONES. JOINT RESOLUTION. GIVING THE CONSENT OF THE EXISTING GOVERNMENT TO THE ANNEXATION OF TEXAS TO THE UNITED STATES. Wherew, tho Government of the United States hath proposed the following terms, guarantees, and conditions, on which the peo ple, and territory of the Republic of Texas may be erected into a new State, to be called the State of Texas, and admitted as one of the S!ates of the American Union, to wit : (Here follows the resolutions of the United States Congress.) And whereas, by said terms, the consent of the existing Go vernment of Texas is required—therefore, Sec. Ist. Be it resolved, by the Senate and House of Represen• tatives of the Republic of Texas in Congress assembled, that the .Govsertiment or True doth consent that the people and territory of the Republic of Texas may be erected into a new State, to .be (laird the State of • Texas, wish a Republican form of Government to be adopted by the people of said Republic, by de. potici•in Convention. assembled, in order that the same may be ad roitled as one of the States of the American Union, and said con sent. is given on the terms, guarantees, and conditions set forth in .trip preamble to the ji)int resolution. . C. 2d. Be it furthor resolved, that the proclamation of the President of the Republic of Texas, bearing date May sth, 1845, -and the election of deputies to net in Convention at Austin, on the fourth day of July next, for the adoption of a constitution for the Siete of Texas, had in accordance therewith hereby receive the consent of the existing Government of Texas. Sec 3d. 133 it further resolved, that the President of Texas is h.:rt•by requested immediately to furnish the Government of the IThited States, through their accredited Minister near this Govern mrit,.with a copy of this joint resolution; also to furnish the Couvention to assemble at Austin on the 4th of July next with a copy of t , e same, and the same shall take effect frcm and after its passage• The above is a copy of the resolutions as they passed the two }louses, and which will, we suppose, receive the sanction of the President. They passed unanimously. TOD ROBINSON. On the 18th inst., in the Senate, Mr. Greer introduced a joint resolution offering " A nation's gratitude to Majsr-General An drew Jackson," which resolution was unanimously adopted. On the same day Major Kaufman introdticed a Bill setting apart a portion of the public land, lying between the Arkansas and Red Rivers, for the payment of the national debt—read first and second time, and referred to Committee on State of the Republic. • :$ resolution was offered by Mr. Greer for altering the time of be.atinual Session of Congress—read first time. t On Sunday Mr. Kaufman, as Chairman of the Committee on Ftio. feign relations, reported the '• Joint Resolution giving the con sent of the existing Government to the annexation of Texas to the United States," which joint resolution was pissed through its third reading on the next day (191h)—(The rule being suspended on mdt)on of Colonel H. L. Kinney)—by a unanimous ♦ote of the Senate. • On the 19th, in the Senate, Mr. Greer introduced a joint reso lution reLnive to the introduction of United States troops into Texas—read fir4t time. Mr Kaufinan's Bill, " setting apart land for the payment of the pubLc debt," &c., was taken up and read second and third times, and pa.sed. Mr. Lawrence introduced a reiohetion for the relief of Poit.Cap. taw. E. W Moore,—Read a first time. We Are happy to state that Commodore Moore has already been his command. We are further informed that Con ., probsbty adjourn on next Wednesday. 'vye ave informed that the propositions from Mexico have been -rejected; Juld•that the resolution inviting the United States troops - tia 4 *n.est.adoi t ed. - t C" ih, sailing of the last steamer business generally had litgieti dull in New York arid the business cit ies.The extreme wapitAllpf the season has made the trading community more qujoLetitlL usual. Nothing can as yet be known of the state s , r-14t- ri4ets'of the next cotton crop. The accounts, how eWalare: rather more favourable than otherwise. ee Wa.s ahundint, the rate of interest between 5 and 6 per cent. Pennsylvania Stock had risen, on a general idea that the August interest would be paid, and 73i was asked fonFiveper Cents. on the 15th on the New York Exchange, Nervcrork Courier and Enquirer of the 15th says-- ---: . ... ;;With regard to Oregon, WO have confidence that with --.- lic t P.- .i+ .4 ':io s n c l (j olisiv arrailgo4; and in these particulars, if there I '"'''"''''„,' : I di . . -n, . we think the selection of Mr. M‘Lane WV -,3k-S . - iTh r "` - r . e io England a fortunate one. Ho is well I " ;: '''''' c '"' ": ' li7 ' ± --"" ' 116 acd is of an age and has a poi jualfav?'LL374l)4th' k n n ‘ g in 'lll ay t . be taken as - a guarantee that he 1113' xi i ' l l 4' er P etiTi. e en el's, 'miss' ion without a . reasonable and well . 1.:44 tOpe . of aiding in bringirg ail disputed points to an 1 4 1 aviieab t'idjeitment. • . • "lietan g e on England bas been sold as high as 10 prem. ~ 3f=4.-•an • ~ ree, a large amount was drawn on Saturday tor au . Alit ofthe Underwriters against the cargo of the 'Ville de , ~T, n iwliich was wrecked, at 5.3]*. The rate to-day may be quoted at .5.2 7i to 30. "TbaukTras but little done in stooks to-day, and no ma- Aerial anion in prices." There has been a moderate business in the cottor market since the departure of the Caledonia, and prices had rather an upward tendency. Exchange on London stood at 110, Paris, 527 to 5 30. FreightS'rather dull. To Liverpool, Cotton d. to 3-16 d.; Beef and Pork in barrels, 2s. 9d. to 3s. ; heavy goods 20s. to 225. Gd. To London, Tobacco 30s. ; Naval Stores 2s. 6d. to 3s. ; Oil 275. 6d. To Havre, Cotton to per cent. Ashes 8 dols. to 10 measurement goods 10 dols. GOVERNMENT SECURITIES, MONDAY, JULY 14.—United States Loan, Six per Cents., 1862, 114 offered, 115 asked ; Ditto, Five per Cent., 1853, 1031 offered, 105 asked. GREAT FIRE AT MAT ANZAS.—LOSS ESTIMATED AT EIGHT HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS. (From the New York Express.) We have a Havannah paper of the 28th ult., which gives us the details of a great fire in Matanzas that happened on the 26th. The following we translate from La Aurora, a Matanzas paper of the 27th : It appears that a severe calamity has befallen the rich city of Matanzas. At half-past eight o'clock, a.m., the bells of the parish church announced that the richest part of the city was seized by the flames. In fact, the fire had burst out, as we are in. formed, in a carpenter's shop, in the Marina, where a large col lection of timber supplied abundance of fuel to the flames. The fire immediately extended to the adjacent buildings, which were all of wood, and of such age as to be highly combustible, so that the conflagration extended rapidly toward the Royal Cus tom-house, on the opposite corner, and to the house of Don Bartolome de la Mater, which was soon seized by the devouring element, threatening to consumed the whole town. It is three o'clock in the afternoon, and we have just left the scene of the catastrophe; and while the ruins of the edifices of the whole Marina are consuming, the principal block, and another adjoining it, have disappeared. A great part of the contiguous blocks in the west have been destroyed in part. We may truly say that what has been the general depot of the great part of the commercial wealth of their city, has now been made a prey to the flames. The losses have been incalculable, and consternation so great that the streets were blocked up with men, women, and children, flying for their lives from the flames. The splendid house of Don Vicente de Junco has been destroyed. The fire had hardly commenced when we had the satisfaction of seeing all the authorities of the town upon the spot, to whose exer. lions it is owing that the losses have not been more extensive. STEAMBOAT EXPLOSION. (From the New Orleans Picayune, July 2.) TIRRIBLE DISASTER.—DREADFUL EXPLOSION.—GREAT Loss or LlFE.—DzirraucTioN OF THE MartquErra.—Yesterday afternoon, about four o'clock, a most calamitous disaster occurred at the steam-boat landing, near the foot of Poydras-street. At the time mentioned the steam-boat Marquette, Captain E. A. Turpin, while backing out from the wharf, burst her boilers with a most terrific explosion, scattering instantaneous death and destruction around. The report of the explosion was tremendous, shaking the very foundations of the buildings on New Levee for several squares. The Marquette, as we are informed, bad not made more than one or two revolutions when she blew up. Pieces of the wreck were thrown, with human bodies, into the air, and at immense distances. The boat was literally blown to atoms. How many lives have been lost by this terrible accident is not known—indeed, it can never be accurately ascertained, as several who were going as passengers had not registered their names, and it is feared that many of the deck passengers are lost. The ladies and children in the cabin were all saved, and escaped injury, ex cept a small girl, who, we learn, was scalded, but not mortally. One dead body was taken from the wreck; it was that of a man, unknown, who had his legs literally blown away, and was other wise mangled. Three other persons died on their way to the hos pital. Last night there were eighteen persons in the Charity Hos pital, and one in Dr. Stone's, taken from the boat. These are all more or less injured —many of them, it is feared, mortally. The Marquette was just over from Mobile, and was leaving for Cincinnati for repairs. We have heard half-a-dozen causes as signed for the accident, nearly all attributing it to gross carelessness or negligence. CANADA. ANOTHER AWFUL FIRE IN QUEBEC. (From the Quebec Mercury of Monday, June 28.) Despondingly we take up our pen to record a second disastrous fire which has nearly blotted Quebec from the list of cities. Our task in this matter is not only painful but difficult of execution. To convey an adequate idea of the extent of misery caused by these two fires is impossible; to conceive the ultimate results is hardly to be compassed by the human mind. On Saturday evening last, about eleven o'clock, the flames were discovered issuing from the hangard of M. Teasier, Esq., N.Y., in d'Aiguillon-street, just without St. John's-gate. The alarm of fire by the tocsin was tardily given, but at the earliest moment possible a number of persons were on the spot, who lent every assistance towards arresting the progress of the fire (which, it is said, arose from the emptying of a can of hot ashes on a dunghill). By degrees it crept from street to street, and the final result was that " the entire suburb of St. John," including that denominated St. Lewis Suburbs, is, with the exception of a few paltry streets, in which but few houses had beets built, entirely devastated. The fire spread from causes which favoured it on the fatal night of the 2Sth May—namely, the shingled roofs, the high wind, and the previous dry weather. At first there was a miserable supply of water, and but few persons, beyond the military, were on the spot. Immediate preparations were made by the military autho. cities, under the immediate sanction of the mayor, for arresting the fire by blowing up houscs or entire blocks, commencing at the English burial-ground. Powder was sent for, but so rapid was the advance of the fire, that before it arrived the blocks intended to be destroyed sere in flames. Artillerymen, with ammunition, were, however, shortly at the disposal of the authorities, and six houses were blown up at different periods. Two were rased in Chevrotiere-street, and so violent was the concussion from the ex plosion, that a house on the opposite side of the road was completely rent in twain, and fell. This destruction of property was not effected without loss of life. One man was killed by the fallinw materials, and several others received severe injuries; some serious fractures, of which one, M'Kenna, has since died. At eight o'clock on Sunday morning the fire may be said to have been stayed. Upwards of 3,000 houses have been burnt, and at this moment 20,000 persons are houseless ! What is now to become of us ? Our workmen, of all descrip tions, are ruined and houseiess ; many who had commenced their re-establishment alter the last fire are again burned nut; their former savings and the assistance afforded by the charitable, and from private sources, alike sacrificed. A large number of families have fled from the city, and it is very much to be feared that their secession will be permanent. They may form new ties and fresh engagements which will event. ualiy alienate them fr , m Quebec. The parishes at Pointe Levi are filled with refugee•, as also Champlain Ward, as far as Sillery Cove; we have, moreover, just heard that Beauport, Lorene, anti the several villages adjacent to the city are crowded. Within the walls, but few houses, even of the highest respectability, arc not crowded ; one gentleman has 28 persons in his house, another 55, and a third 40. The latest advices from Montreal are to the 12th inst. inc7usive. There appears to be no particular news of coast quence. CORRESPO:VDENCE OF THE " NEW YORK HERALD."—MON THEM., C F., JULY 12, 1845.—The utmost alarm and excitement prevail hare, iii consequence of the recent attempts at incendiarism, nu less than seven having been made within the last fews days. For. tunately. the fires have, in almost every instance, been extinguished by timely vigilance. The fire companies are constantly on the alert, and several of the engines stand ready horsed all night. In several parts of the city the inhabitants have formed themselves into patrols for the protection of each other's property. Five indi viduals are in custody charged with incendiarism. A considerable portio❑ of last year's stock of flour is still on hand, and although a gocd deal is held on English account, the holders of the residue are anxiously expecting the next mail, and there is much speculation as to the probability of a late harvest in England. Sales are now made very irregularly, but the quotations may fairly stand at 245. to 245. 2d., and a firmer feeling gene rally prevails in the market. In ashes, contracts were made during the declension of pots at 22 7i to 22 9, but they are now up again, and large sales are effected at 23. Pearls are steady at 24. Freights are unsteady, and ranging from 3-6 to 3.9 for Liver pool and the Clyde-4-6 is asked for London and refused. There have arrived at Quebec 309 more vessels than up to the corresponding date last year. The Governor-General has been seriously :indisposed, but he is now sufficiently recovered to attend to his official duties. THE A eFAIRS OF MEXICO. MEXICO, JUNE 7.—An abortive attempt at revolution, which at one moment created great alarm, eccurred here to.day. It came en the people, and I believe on the Government, by surprise, and, so far as I could judge, not the slightest preparation was made by the latter in anticipation of such an event. At about three o'clock in the afternoon some shots were heard in the direction of the Palace, which forms one side of the great square of Mexico, and in a few minutts after troops were set.n lining the roof of the Palace, and mounting the different turrets of the cathedral, which forms another side of the plaza, and commands that square and some of the principal streets. We were then told that General Herrera, the President, and M. Rosa, the Minister of Finance, were made prisoners, and that a pronunciamiento was declared, but whether in favour of Santa Anna or Federalism, no one could say. At this moment matters were in a critical posi tion ; but the. Government was saved by the decision and spirit of the colonel commanding the 4th Regiment of the line which was in barracks immediately adjoining the Palace. That officer, who it appears is much attached to the present order of things, instantly sent off a detachment to warn the Minister of War, and put the commandant of the citadel on his guard. He then attacked the movements of the troops in the Palace, broke, open the gates, dashed in amongst them bayonet in hand, and after killing a dozen compelled the others to surrender. He next dis lodged the soldiers from the roof of the Palace and Cathedral, and In about balfan hour put down the attempt at revolution. The officer commanding the revolted regiment was shot in the melee, but Brigadier Rangel, who was the chief conspirator and leader, escaped. It is said that a large proportion of the regiments of the garrison hed been gained over by Rangel ; and that if the 250 men who pronounced in the Palace could have held their ground for an hour, the movement would have become general. But as affairs passed, the thing was a total failure ; and even the leperos or lazaroni of Mexico did not think it worth while to assist it. Foreign diplomacy is much pleased at the result of this ex plosion, as, if the Governmeat knows how to take advantage of it, it will add immensely to their moral force. They have a strong case against Rangel and the other officers engaged in the revolt, as it was only a fortnight since that they were all included in the general amnesty granted to those who fought with Santa Anna. Rangel has shown extreme ingratitude, for though he was one of Santa Anna's most active partisans - , no acts of vengeance were directed against him. Bold measures on the part of the present Conservative Government may give a vital blow to the Federalist party, which is both powerful and numerous; but I have heard much apprehension expressed, from the known timidity of Ministers, that the golden opportunity will be lost. The city is perfectly quiet, and we have the satisfaction of knowing that not one of the people took part in the pro nunciamiento. The affair with the French Minister still wears an ugly aspect, as the Government, up to 'the present hour, has declined giving the required satisfaction, saying, that as the matter is before the tribunals; it should await their decision. To-morrow is the last day allowed by the Baron de Ciprey, and if reparation be not made, he will positively demand his passports. We all hope, however, that the matter will be amicably settled. ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE • PRINCE ALBERT'S —Considerable sensation has been caused within the l G as a t 'r fe a te ttE d a a P 3 E 's a in the neighbourhoodofß t a h g e sh l o i t re P o ar f k m , i r n . consequence son of an attempt being made to take away Turner, of Mr. James Turner, head gamekeeper of his Royal Highness I'rince Albert. It appears from information received by the police that 'Mr. Turner, who has charge of the young pheasants in Repley i F n a s r t m an , t, w f a ro s mfiredbehaitna d b a ou w t at t c w h o on , the adjoining ngintgo f which Tuesday, avast swatch bo quan tity of birds are kept, with a gun containing three bullets , one of xmoienravt the 2 2 d which struck hinsion the third finger of the left hand and shattered It to pieces. N o person was seen about the premises during the night ; and the only reason that can be assigned for the outrage is, that Mr. Turneron, a late occasion took active measure in prose. outing persons for selling pheasants' eggs which had been stolen from his Royal Highness's preserves; and the attempt to take away his life Must have been made by a person well acquainted with the place. The police are in pbssessions of inch fa&s as may shortly lead to the apprehension of the offender. BURN/INa GLAsSE3 EXTRAORDINAR".—OiI Sunday week Mr. Morgan, draper, of Abergavenny, on going to his counting-house, was surprised at smoke issuing from a bale of , shawls, of first-rate quality, which had just arrived. The skylight t tfhoraitlrgotaubthecraunzecotneechenntieraatledly the rays the sun, j of the room is composed of panes of glass, the centre of some of w ey h e i s c ; h ” pr th es e e se and the consequence was that a large and unseemly 'hole ' was burned through the pile of shawls, whereby considerable damage 'was 111Staltlec4 werebtauled...--3fo n m out h Mabry COURT OF ALDERMEN. Yesterday a Court was held for the dispatch of public business. THE CROWDING AND RAPID SPEED OF STEAM-VESSELS. A member of the Court having requested to be in formed whether the resolutions passed by the Court for the regulation of steam-vessels had as yet obtained the sanction of the judges, The LORD MAYOR stated that the important resolu tions alluded to had been some time since referred to the judges, whose acquiescence was necessary before they could be brought into operation, and his Lordship de sired the Town-clerk to let the Court know what pro gress had been made. The TOWN-CLERK said that the resolutions had been given to the Chief Baron, who banded them over for perusal to Mr. Baron Platt, and that Mr. Baron Platt being under the necessity of going upon circuit, placed them in the hands of Mr. Justice Wightman, wh.) had not (as we understood the Town-Clerk) had time to examine them, but that it was expected by Saturday next that some information on the subject would be in all pro bability received. The LORD MAYOR—It is proper to state also that in the case of the late loss of life, occasioned by the rapid transit of a steam-vessel in the Thames within the juris diction of the Court, orders had been issued to the City Solicitor to prosecute upon the part of the city of London.—(Hear, hear.) The Court was occupied a considerable time in in into the conduct of one of the sworn-brokers ; who was petitioned against by a tallow-chandler for having refused to exhibit his books and explain the nature and circumstances of certain purchases made by him for the petitioner. The boeks of the broker were produced, from which it appeared that there had been very great irregularities in his mode of doing business. The broker himself admitted that he had not exercised the necessary vigilance and caution in his accounts, but solemnly denied that he had betrayed the inters is of his principal in the transactions referred to. Alderman COPELAND strongly urged the necessity of making the most strict inquiries into the conduct of indi viduals who, from the character of their business, had a very extraordinary power of doing mischief. In his views the great majority of the Court concurred, and the broker was told that he must produce his principal in the sale of the tallow, and show that the transaction was a bona fide one, at the next sitting of the Court. A report was brought up, recommending that a gratuity of fifty guineas should be given to each of the inspectors of weights and measures. It particularly re commended the zeal, activity, and integrity of the two excellent officers, Mr. Knott and Mr. Harvard, appointed by the Court to watch over the interests of the poorer classes of the City of London. Alderman COPELAND said it was discreditable in the City of London to pay officers whose utility was so great, at such a rate that it was necessary to vote them gratuities. Ile concluded by moving that the salary of each should be raised SOL a year at once. . S;r PETER LAURIE acknowledged that duties could not be more satisfactorily performed than were the duties of the two City Inspectors, but the very vigilance and activity which they were in the habit of using, would very soon diminish their labours. Besides, they had both expressed their perfi ct satisfaction at the report which had just been presented. Alderman COPELAND said there was not the least prospect of the diminution of the labours of the in spectors. Even the apprehension of the disgrace of ex posure, as well as of the penalties visited upon the vio lation of the law, was not sufficient to deter many trades people from reaping an advantage from the exercise of an idle and dishonest avarice. —(Hear, hear.) The report of the Committee was finally agreed to. After the transaction of some business of no public importance, the Court adjourned. " r THE SUN, LONDON, 'WEDNESDAI EVENING, JULY 30, 1845 LITERATURE. THE .NARROIV AND WIDE GAUGES CON. SIDERED; also, Effects of Competition and Go. rernment Supervision. Among the primary conditions of effective railway economy, the width of the gauge—the distance from one another at which the rails themselves are, on a given line, put down—occupies a primary place. It is almost the very first object to which the eegineer must now direct his attention, because, since the in troduction of the broad gauge, he must consider what are all the probabilities, remote or contingent, of his new line being intersected by, or communicating through branches with others, the gauge cf which is different from that he proposes to adopt. The diffi culties are found to be so serious, occasioned by a change from the wide to the narrow gauge, or vice versa, in the continuation of a line—that there can be no doubt they would never leave been permitted to ise, had the whole scheme of railway projections heen orieieaily under the supervision of Government. The uniformity of the gauge, and the consequent :aving in the expense of alterations—whether con tractkns or expansions—in cuttings, embankments, Ste., and in the construction of new carriages to meet the exigencies of such changes in the gauge, would have • been, in that case, obviated. It seems, from this little tract, that— " The 4-8 k gauge, or 5 feet from centre t 3 centre, was origin ay fixed upon us assimilating with that of car riages on the common rotui. It existed in the mineral districts previous to the introduction of passengA- rail war s. t arlier pa-sengor railway Act, the 4-hi ;,':iii';" 17:S i - eia! , re(l nnper;k;tv:-. ; why the w,s aftemards discos tinueddoes not appear. NO ieemn veeieeee has ever bt , en experi, nod from, nor has any ac cident ever been attributed to the use of teat gauge. Mr. Brunel, in Inning the Great Western hallway, wadi' a dcviation from the 4-8 f gauge to one of 7 feet. But for this deviation, the probability is, that no question would ever have arisen wheti.er the 4-8 k (or narrow gauge, as it is called), or what other gauge, is the best for locomotive purpcsf , s. Of the two gauges de se, the general opinion among engineers seems to be that the one is about equally good with the other ; not one among them, not even the originator himself, presumes to say that a 'gauge of 7 feet is preferdde to all others.' It may amuse the reader to consider some of the " Reasons assigned for the use of the Wide Gauge :" " The chief reasons assigned by Mr. Brunel for a de parture from the common width of gauge, were-1. At tainment of higher rate of speed. 2. Increased lateral steadiness to the carriages and engines ; and 3. Greater spaee afforded for the works of the engine. 1. The Great Western Company have, at present, by far the most powerful engines for speed on any railway (unless, perhaps, we except the Northern and Eastern), the atten tion of their engineer having been particularly turned thereto. In a little time there will be equally powerful engines on the narro,v gauge lines. There are, at the pre:;ent time, more powerful goods' engines on the narrow gauge railways than on the Great Western, or wide gauge." Perhaps our author manifests a little too much of the partisan. There seems to us to he too decided a tendency to disparage the merits of Mr. Brunel; and too palpable a purpose to lower the claims of the " Great Western" Railway in the public favour, in order to exalt that of the " London and Birmingham." We have no doubt that these two magnificent works will continue to recommend themselves, by the main tenance of the same spirited and generous emulation to merit the public favour, of which they receive every week such substantial proofs, in return fo: their unwearied efforts to deserve it. This little paper is a valuable memoir, in the shape of a critical review of the most recent improvements in railway construction and management. The following statistics, too, are important, and may be novel to some of our readers : " The traffic receipts for the six months ended 31st Dec , mber last, a 3 shown by the Companies' published accounts, were as follows:-- On the London and Birmingham Line, £450,478 16 5 Great Western Cost of locomotive power for the same period, to earn the above amount 36,145 16 9 Great Western "By the accounts of the Companies above referred to, for time same period, it appears that the carrying stock, that is; the locomotives engines and carriages of the two Companies, has cost as follows : Great West; rn £534,088 11 4 Interest fur half-year at 5 per cent 13,352 0 0 London and Birmingham Interest for half-year, at 5 pr. ct. pr. an 6,461 0 0" The writer has a decided partiality for the " narrow gauge," and makes out a good case for them. He shows, in a curious table, that of railways, in progress, for which Acts have been obtained, or which are before Parliament this session, there are (including 894 complete miles) 5,597 miles narrow gauge; of wide gauge (including 261 miles completed) 881 miles only. Excluding London, the population pro na3wto gauge,be s u l p 2 p , c o d () ,0 b 0 y 0 e ; a w c d e i s d t i h t t u o s , 3 7 0 t 0 i estimated s r e r c o l i p ii r g og th r i e e s l s i , n o e r S f, e )r om w p h l i e c t h ed an a ke t3 t s l , l o a o s O b L ee p n er ob m ta i i l n e, e — d, those "T at 20,000/. per mile, there will be Completed— Narrow gauge, 31 millions—wide gauge, 9 millions. In progress, ditto, 331 do. ditto 1 do. ior The remarks on Competition" and " Government Supervision" display much sound sense, and may be consulted with advantage. INTRODUCTORY LECTURE delivered to the Mechanics' Inait,tion, Ashford. By John Dufton M.A., 6-c. A little tract, honourable to the benevolent zeal of its reverend author,_ to give a practically beneficial character to the operations of the Institute it was addressed to, and the studies of its members. i MR. BURKE'S PEERAGE AND BARONETAGE FOR 1 1845.—We are requested to state that Mr. Colburn, of Great Marlborough-street, has this day publi4ted Mr. Burke'l ' 6 ' PEERAGE AND BARONETAGE FOR 1845," AN ENTIRkLY NEW EDITION, materially improved throughout, from the per sonal communications of toe Nobility, &c., and containing ALL THE NEW CREATIONS, in 1 vol. Bvo. (comprising as much ' matter as twenty ordinary volumes), price 38s. bound, which can now be had of all Bookseller , throughout the kingdom. Mr. Colburn has also just published the FIRST THREE PARTS, price 104. 6d. each, of Mr. Burke's " HISTORY OF THE L.....t4DFD GENTRY," a Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the whole of the Untitled Aristocracy of England, Scotland, and Ireland; and the Fou&Ta and Concluding Put is now in tile Pros. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen and Prince Albert, Lady Portman, llr. G. E. Anson, Colonel Buckley, and Colonel Bouverie left Osborne House, Isle of Wight, in three pha,tons, at half-past eleven o'clock on Monday morning, and went through Newport and Gad hill, and part of Lord Yar borough's grounds, to Ventnor. The royal party drove to the Ventnor Hotel and partook of luncheon. After luncheon, her Majesty and Lady Portman left the Hotel in a phaeton fur Steephill Castle, Prince Albert and the Gentlemen walking. Captain Pelham had the honour of conducting the illustrious party to the Castle, and afterwards to his own residence. The whole party returned to the Hotel after walking through the grounds of each place. Her Majesty and Prince Albert and the royal suite took their departure at four o'clock ' returning by a differe n t route through Bonchurch and Shanklin, and arriving at Osborne House, at twenty minutes past six o'clock. Colonel Bowles took his departure from Osborne House on Monday, fur town. The Juvenile Ro) al Family were taken airings on Monday aftt moon. Yesterday morning, the Prime of Wales, the Princess Ruyal, and the Princess Alice, left Osborne House for a drive in an open carriage. There was no addition to the Royal dinner party on Monday evening. Yesterday, her Majesty and Prince Albert walked in the pleasure grounds of Osborne House. His Majesty the King of the Netherlands held a Di plomatic Levee, at one o'clock, yesterday afternoon, at Mivart's lintel, Lower Brook -street. The Levee was attend , d by Count Dictrichstein, the Austrian Ambas sador, and a Secretary of the Embassy ; Baron de Cetto, the Bavarian Minister ; Baron de Moncorvo, Portu• gucee Minister ; M. Fortique, Venezuelan Minister ; Baron de Brunow, Russian Minister, and M. de Berg and M. de Koudriaffsky, Secretaries of Lega tion ; General Castelcicala, Sicilian Minister ; Count Kielmansegge, Hanoverian Minister ; Chevalier Bunsen, Prussian Minister, Baron de Thile, Secretary, and Baron de Langan, Attache to the Legation ; Baron de Hugal, Wurtemburg Minister ; Le Cornmandeur Marquis Lisboa, Brazilian Minister ; Mr. Everett, United States Dlinister ; Count de Reventlow, Danish Minister, and M. de Bielka, Secretary of Legation ; Mr. Murphy, Mexican Minister ; the Duke de Sotomayor, Spanish Minister, and the Chevalier Pedrorana, Second Secretary of Legation Mr. Colquhoun, Diplomatic Agent for the Hanse Towns ; Count de Jarnac, French Charge d'Affaires, and a Secretary of the Embassy ; Baron de Rahausen Swedish Ch arge d'Aff a i res , an d M r . Charles Drouat, Belgian Charge d'Affaires. Their Excellencies having assembled, were presented to the King by Baron Dedel, his Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary at the British Court. The King was attended at the reception by his Excellency M. Boud, Minister of the Colonies, Colonel Baron Coehoorn, Aide-de-camp; Count Bylandt, Ambassador; Viscount Hawarden, Lord in Waiting; and the Hon. Captain Hood, Groom in Waiting. Mr. Stratenus, First Secre tary of the Legation, and Mr. May, Consul-General of the Netherlands, were also in attendance at the Levee. Several of the Ambassadors and Ministers were pre vented from attending his Majesty's Levee by being out of town and absent on leave. The Baron de Lebzeltern, Austrian Minister at the Court of Naples, had an audience of the King of the Netherlands yesterday morning. After the Diplomatic Levee, the Icing of the Nether lands received a deputation of the Consistory of the Dutch Church, who waited upon his Majesty to present an Address of congratulation. The Deputation was headed by the Rev. Dr. Gable, and consisted of Mr. Smith, Mr. Sack, Mr. Van der Ende, Mr. Schroder, and Mr. Vink. The Deputation was conducted to the presence of the King by his Excellency Baron Dedel, when the Rev. Dr. Gehle read the address, which was most graciously re ceived, and the Deputation retired. His Majesty went, at three o'clock, attended by M. Boud, Colonel Baron Coehoorn, Count Bylandt, Vis count Haivarden, and the Hon. Captain Hood, in two of the royal carriages, to inspect Buckingham Palace. The Lord Chamberlain, the Vice-Chamberlain, and the Master of the Household received the King, on alighting from his carriage, and conducted his Maj,sty through the Picture Gallery and the suite of State Sa loons. The royal party then entered the royal gardens, walked to the new summer temple, and inspected the paintings. Afterwards the royal party paid a visit to the stables, where Mr. Lewis, Clerk of the Stables, was in attendance, and conducted them during their inspec tion of the stud and equipages. • •' His Majesty and suite remained until past five o'clock, and then took their departure. The King of the Netherlands dined in the evening with her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, at ucester House. His Majesty was attended by his Excellency M. Boud, Colonel Baron Coehoorn, Count Bylandt, Viscount Hawarden, and the Hon. Captain Hoed. The company to meet his Majesty consisted of his Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, his Excellency Baron Dedel, the Duchess of Grafton, the Countess of Jersey, Lady Clementiaa Villiers, the Earl and Countess Brownlow, Lord and Lady IVilloughby d'Eresby, Lord and Lady Fitzroy Somerset, Hon. Mrs. Darner, Mrs. Culling Smith, Mr. Vincent, Lady Georciana. Bathurst, and the Hon. Captain Liddell. Their Royal Highnesses the 'Duke and Duchess of Cambridge honoured the Italian Opera with their pre sence y-sterday evening. Mr. Dixon, chamnan of the Wine and Spirit Associa tion, Liverpool, and Mr. Moore, of Bristol, had an inter view yesterday with the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Chairman of the Board of Customs. The depu tation was accorepanied by Viscount Sandon, M.l'., Sir Howard Dougla , , Bart., M,P., nn the Hon. H. F. Ber keley. The Ct , mmission for promoting and t-nocuraqing the Fine Arts in the reboaling the Palace of Westminster 11 , -Id a meeting at half-past two o'clock yesterday after noon at G wyd3r House, Whitehall. The Commissioners pr, sent w, re the Marquis of Lansdowne, thin Earl of Lincoln, Lord Colborne, the Right Hon. the Speaker, Mr. B4 , rtjamin Hawes, M.l'., and Mr. T. Wyse, M.P. The meeting broke up at half. past four o'clock. A Deputation from the New Zealand Company con sisting of Lord Incstre, Mr. Charles Buller, M.P., Si, L. Guldsmid and Mr. Young, tran sac t e d business yester day at the Colonial office. The Postmaster-General anti .3.1 r. Hart Davis, Dep u ty Chairman of the Excise, had interviews with the cellor of the Exchequer yesterday. METROPOLITAN IMPROVE MENTS. There has been a vast deal of fuss and stir made of forthethe people ; but when the groun d s outskirtsi of our metropolis are parterres, we scarce l y k now w h ere sa l late ida a . bddo with t iutth, parks ia)nudb lo people nill ba found for the parks. The great delight of a genuine. Londoner is to perambulate the streets and admire the taste and magnificence displayed in the em bellishments of the shops. Napoleon sneered at us as a nation of shopkeepers ; but ashen we can boast of such shopkeepers as Messrs. Hodge and Lowinan,we have every reason to be flattered by the ribald r y o f th e i mper i al scoffer. 'The6,vast in R Regent te te s of e P e, form premises; extending from Nos. 256 to one of th e c hi e f ornaments o f 2 r that gay and glittering thoroughfare. Por extent of front age, magnificent in ail the appointments and decorations, the fastidi,us taste and elegance which predominate through the whole building, and th e gorgeous sp l en d our of its ensemble, we know of no establishment that could compete with it in either Paris or Vi enna . I ts twe l ve " shinin g row, " like Cowper ' s each of a single sheet of g l ass t h at wou ld serve needles),statetyw windows (a as a mirror for an elephant, excite the astonishment and admiration of theflaneu7s, and the low prices which are asked for the beautiful articles exposed for sale, coupled with the excellence of the material in all the goods mann factured for this establishment, obtain fur it all the cele brity 14 ith none of the unenviable notoriety or odium with which a " cheap shop" is generally stigmatized. And whilst we are on this subject of splendid shops, it would be impossible to pass by without noticing the bright array of costly superfluities at Barry's, at the Egyptian - Hall in Piccadilly. The melancholy Jacques said long, long ago, that the " world is still deceived with orna ment," but as London is not the forest of Arden, the " world" will still be well content with what is to be found at Barry's, and like Tasso's sick child, "dalsuo inganno vitt ricere ;" the supe , flu which. Voltaire empha tically declared to be chose si necessaire, is here to be met with in profusion. How exquisite is the fabric of the Bohemian glass candelabra with ormolu branches, which he has recently imported ; and nothing can surpass the elegance of his pendant crystal flower vases, sus pended in the window recess( s, like miniature chandeliers, containing bouquets in lieu of bougies. And what a vast deal of time and trouble is saved by his method of mark ing linen with stamps ; in truth, Barry must be a man of great ingenuity as well as taste to originate so many excellent devices. If we erosi Piccadilly, we fall in with the renewed Arcadian, Doudney, who from his citadel in the Burlington- arcade hurls defiance at all his com peers, and outdoes every schneider in the land by the fecundity of his inventive powers. In the Cow t Circular the other day we read that her Majesty had inspected and approved of a cloak of an entirely new construction which has lately issued from his workshop. The novelty of this garment consists in its having a pair of loose sleeves formed o ut o f the cloak itself, and can be worn by either a l a d y or gentleman, whether on foot or on horse back. D ou d ney has done perfectly right i n reg i stering the patte rn o f th i s piece of apparel, which seems to pos sess so m an y a d vantages as to have we ll mer i te d the , royal app ro b ation. From the number of shoot i ng jackets, ga i ters, and other sporting attire which are piled about hi s s h ow -rooms, it is ev id en t th at great preparations are making for the 12th of August. How ever, whilst we are here roaming about this world, we should take some note of time, and the clocks made by Messrs. Capt, of the Rue d'Alger, 13, in Paris, enable us to mark the flight of the edax rerun with a precision which is truly astonishing. Messrs. Capt possess a large manufactory for time-pieces at Geneva ; and every watch undergoes a careful and elaborate revision on its arrival in the French capital, until the accuracy of a chronometer is obtained without the immense cost. " Sam Slick, the Cloekin a k er " must hide his diminished head before M. C apt, who warrants the durability and correctness of every watch that leaves his establishment —Post, PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS. TUESDAY, J ULY 29. The 1., , ,1 ..1' amendment s to the following Bills were i ' d, — \Pontefract, and. Goole Railway. agreed aefi e t Londonderry and Coleraine Railway. , NOTICE GIVEN AT THE PRIVATE BILL OFFICE. London and Norwich Direct Ruilway,—Recort, Thursday, July 31. . London and York Rauciay repuried ; report to lie on the table, and to be printed. The Leeds and Bradford Railway (Shipley . to Coble) - Mfttke Rectifying Bill )1'45 read a first time, IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, July 29. DUBLIN AND GALWAY RAILWAY. The Marquis of CLANRICARDE (in continuation) said— Mr. Fym, a gentleman influentially connected with the Dublin and Kingstown Railway, and interested in the success of the atmospheric principle as well as the Canal Company, thinking that this project would interfere with his other schemes, found out a few errors in the Bill. He (the Marquis of Clanricarde) was most delighted, on public grounds, that their Lordships had shown an inclination to suppress shameful jobbing and gamblieg. They ought to check a system, but not a particu lar Company, and while he hoped the result of the present ex posure would be a change in railway government, he was sorry to see them pouncing on as unfortunate Bill because they could not understand the model contract as propounded by the House. Pym had no right to present that petition, nor that House to receive it ; he went before Standing Orders' Committee, and was told he had no locus standi. It was not to be denied that frauds had been perpetrated, but if he were to tell all the frauds he was aware of, it would be tedious alike to the House and himself. It was well known in the market that brokers kept a black list, containing the names of all those who had committed frauds. If, therefore, they passed laws which others could riot comprehend, and when the Irish framed a Bill threw it out for non-compliance with those unintelligible require ments, while they admitted others equally culpable, it was a strong argument for the repeal of the Union, which would not be neglected elsewhere. lie would now state that a party who had fraudulently bought shares in the Dublin and Galway Company, to the amount of 1,2501., applied for 2,0"01. worth in the Direct Northern and 2,00 1. in the Shrewsbury and Oswestry Company. A man called Thomas Constable, who had applied for 1,0001. worth of shares in the Dublin and Galway, solicited 2,500/. worth in the South Western (Ireland.) Another man had sought shares in sari. us companies to the amount of 27.5001., and William Shackel, who had appeared before bath Committees, and had applied fur 3,5001. worth of shares in the Dublin and Galway, solicited shares to the amount of 48,0001. in the Aberdeen, Churnet Valley, Cornwall and other lines. Let all those schemes be stopped, let their progress be at once arrested; but they let all these great English Hills go by unobstructed, and when an Irish company, which could not be supposed capable of finding out every particular, made a slip, it was pounced upon for condemnation, On referring to the advertisements of the period—if they looked to the Times newspaper of the 24th of March in last year—it would be seen that but four out of forty-nine advertisements for railway shares required references. In the Times of last week he found fifty advertisements, and amongst them but two asked for refer ences. This model of a witness, Mr. Mowatt, admitted th3t his own Company had allotted shares ti stablemen and ostlers, and persons of that class, and that he had been deceived by only 20 applicants. Mr. Mowatt admitted that his Company only began the system of references when they found that persons of a suspicious class were applying fo: shares. Now, it would have been the case with the Dublin and Galway Railway, if their Lordships had allowed the luill to proceed, and heard counsel in support of the Bill. Would they then punish this Bill, and make an example of it, for the purpose of rooting out the system, whilst others equally as guilty escaped without cen sure ? Such a oourse would be contrary to justice. With re spect to the allegations of giving money to a Mr. Barry to pre vent him from laying charges against the Company, he wished to say a few words. This person, who petitioned in the name of Gerrard Barry, could not be found, after he had presented the petition, as he was in the habit of going by the name of Barry Gerrard. This was, no doubt, for the purpose of extortion.— ( Hear, hear.) Such practices were as common as could be. Parties agreed to take shares in a company by signing the names of each other, and so deceiving the company, that they might bring charges against them when before Parliament, or withdraw them on being paid for doing so. This person had no doubt found that there were names in the contract deed, which ought not to be there. Persons of the highest respecta bility were in the habit of compromising matters, in which they knew they were right, rather than incur great ex pense and trouble. If, then, the Committee found that there was sufficient money iu the contract deed to carry out the works, they had no right to stop them. This might be effected by a supplementary contract, which he believed was frequently adopted. Besides, the Dablin and Cashel had volunteered to subscribe 100,000/1 to complete the undertaking, if they would allow them to carry it out, leaving a considerable sum more than would be required. Because the parties had shown them a bad list which had grown out of their own imperfection, would they prevent so great a work from being carried out? General Burgoyne had stated that such areaway would be of the greatest advantage to that part of the country. Would they do any substantial good by stopping this Bill? They would de right to no one who had been wronged. They would remedy no flaw in the law, but they would stop one of the most im portant works ever undertaken for the benefit of Ireland. What had they done for public works in Ireland? They had made an attempt, and a successful one, to improve the social, religious, and political condition of the people by passing measures with respect to education. But the Govern ment bad not projected any great works for the benefit of that people. You have done nothing for emigration —you have done nothing whatever for the benefit of public works in Ire land, and now that the capitalists of England and Ireland come forward and say they will complete a great work which will employ the population, and will add to the wealth of the country and improve it, and come to you and ask simply for posers to do so, you refuse on the ground I have stated, but which I hold csnnot be maintained. Earl I3ATHURST Lad but a few words to say on the subject, after what had fallen from the Noble Earl who moved the motion. Their Lordships would remember that the Committee had made no report upon the merits of the scheme. They had only reporte i that fraud hail been committed and that the directors had beers guilty of great negligence. It was therefore for their Lord ships to (Leide whether the Committee should proceed further with the inquiry or not. If their Lordships thought these frauds had been so clearly proved that they ought to be marked with the strongest disapprobation, their Lordships of course would not allow the inquiry to be carried on further. The Earl of WICKLOW had come down - With . a sincere hope that he should be convinced, by the arguments of the Noble Marquis opposite, that their Lordships ought to allow the Bill to proceed, but he regretted, having heard the argument of the Noble Marquis, that he felt himself con strained to support the motion and resist the amendment. There was no doubt frauds had been committed in other rail says, but there was none to equal those in the present instance, and he could not conscientiously do otherwise than support the original motion. P fhe Earl of ST. GERMANS said, havirg been a member of the Committee appointed to inquire into the allegations of the petitioners, he could not be ignorant of the frauds which had been committed by this company, and he aitni"cted that the mode adopted by the directors in allotting shares had been exceedingly lax and careless. They had, however, filed a supplementary list in accordance with their Lordships standing orders, and lie thought it injudicious for their Lordships to stop the Bill at this stage. The Committee had not inquired into its merits, nor could they say whether the parties were or were not competent to carry cot the undertaking, and until the Committee had made a report upon that point, their Lordships ought to pause before they postponed the farther progress of the Bill. Lord BEAUMONT having also served upon the Committee alluded to by the Noble Lord, wished to say a few words on the subject before the debate closed. Ile should feel not the 'east hesitation in voting for the m o ti on o f th e N o bl e 'E ar l, if by doingso, he thought he was punishing the parties who corn. mitted the fraud; but they were not doing so. They were not touching them in the slightest degree.—( Hear, hear.) He could not see why the country should suffer by the rejection of this Bill ; nor why innocent shareholders should be punished for the faults of managers who committed themselves to a culpable line of conduct with their eyes open. The truth was, the House of Lords could not allow this matter to pass away in silence. Some steps must be taken to prevent similar misconduct, for he believed, as had b, en well observed by the Noble Marquis, that if English rail way projects were as closely investigated, many cases of the same, if not of an equally flagrant kind, would be discovered. He would earnestly recommend the House to acquiesce in the suggestion of his Noble Friend opposite (Earl Bathurst), and refer the case again to a Committee. If the Committee found the contract to be sufficiently valid and bona fide to admit of the work being carried out, then he would recommend their Lordships to allow this Bill. The Duke of CLEVELAND said it would be most im ortant that the House should as certain that no frauds existed, and if they did, projects in which they 'should he discovered should be thrown out. He did hope that before the session closed the House would come to some resolution to prevent such practices. It would be of the utmost consequence that the House should do so. Lord REDESDALE said he agreed with the Noble Earl opposite ; and it was his (pinion that where acts of fraud were detected the parties should be punished; for if they were not, they might as well object to punish pickpockets, if they ac cepted the excuse that other pickpockets had committed the same offence for which they stood charged the same dey. Lord MON TEAGLE felt assured that, if the Bill should be passed, after the discovery of these frauds, the result would be that other Bills would be attempted to be passed which might be got up in the same way ; but, at the same time, he would say that the parties to the Bill were not guilty of any participa tion in the fraud, because they might have been taken in ; but then, to a certain extent, the parties had a right to be punished, because they should have taken the proper precautions to have prevented such an occurrence. The Earl of DEVON felt bound to oppose the motion ; and, in doing so, he begged to say h• also was as anxious to do jus tice as hie Noble Friend near him ; but, at the same time, he would be glad to know to whom it was that he was called upon t• do justice? H. would contend for it that if it was to be considered injustiee to any it was injustice to the House itself. lie wsuild aostmalrkt6 that if this Bill were re jected, an injury to a great extent wenld be inflicted on those who really did not deserve it; while by the passing of the Bill, those who had been guilty of the fraud, or rather those who ought to be punished, would be let escape by reason of the House of doing so. The Duke of WELLINGTON said it was very strange that the Directors, who had the power to come before th e Committee, should not have come before them, for the purpose of clearing themselves. By not adopting this course they 'threw great suspicion on their proceedings. Their Lordships then divided, when there appeared— For the rejection of the Bill 37 Against it 8 .Majority . . Some eonversation then ensued with respect to the witness Smith, against whom there is a charge of felony, which, how ever, led to no satisfactory result. STANDING ORDERS. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE gave notice that he should bring the following standing order under the attention of the House on Friday next :—That proof shall be required before the Standing Orders' Committee that the names subseribs4 to a Bill or petition are bona fide. SCOTCH POOR-LAW BILL. The Duke of BUCCLEUCH moved the third reading of this Bill. The Marquis of BREADALBANE presented a number of petition's from ♦arious parts of Scotland against it. The Duke of BUCCLEUCH could not consent to the pro position of the Noble Lord (Cottenham). The Act of Parlia ment provided that that portion of the feofment which it was contended belonged to the parish of South Leith, not to that of St. Giles, Edinburgh, and its inhabitants, were subject to pay double rates, both parochial, tithe, and'cese. The object of the clause was not to overthrow a decision of that House, but to remedy a palpable hardship, which had been exposed by a discussion in the House, and he therefore cordially supported the clause. Lord CAMPBELL was astonished, after the able speech of his Noble Friend near him (Lord Cottenham), to find that the Government persisted in pressing this obnoxious clause—a clause which, if passed, would be a reproach, not only to the Administration, but the House. He had always been an op ponent of the Government, but, nevertheless, had believed that among its members were men of honour, who Wished to act upon principle towards every part of the kingdom, and of jus tice towards man and man. lf, however, they now refused to accede to the , proposition for excluding the 17th clause, he shoald change that opinion, and believe that they were actuated by neither ability er principle. At any rate, he implored his Noble Friend on, the Woolsack, whose talents, integrity, and honour Were unimpeachable, to say whether the clause was not most iniquitous? This was a question already decided by the House. He himself, as advocate, had argued it at the bar of their Lordships' House, and his Noble Friend ( Lord Cotten ham), who then sat on the Woolsack, satisfactorily put the matter bayond dispute by an adjudication which it was sought to overthrow. Earl DALIIOI3 1t "mid that it was becalm her Majeity's Government wished to act with justice towards man and man that they would not agree to the expunging of this clause. It was a novel principle to be laid down that because an advocate had pleaded, and a judge had decided, a certain question, the House was prevented from amending the law which rendered that adjudication, however hard in its requirements, necessary. The LORD CHANCELLOR said, that having been called on by his Noble Friend ( Lord Campbell) to explain the law upon the question, and give his opinion, he would without he sitation respond to the appeal. He had looked into the Act of Parliament and the original contracts most carefully, and he was therefore in a position to speak with confidence. No con tract between these parties could affect the parish of Leith, and therefore the parties residing in the district would be liable to pay both the poor-rates of the city of Edinburgh and the paro chial burdens of the parish of Leith. The inhabitants were liable, he repeated, to contribute to ►he public burdens of the parish of Leith. That was the effect of the contract. The Act of Parliament had been passed 10 years after the contract had been made, and it ratified and recited that contract. The Act recited that the spot in question should be included in the Royalties of Edinburgh, and at the same time be subject to the burdens above enume rated, in the parish of Leith. Therefore, the Act of Parlia ment in no way varied the case. The matter had been first decided by the Lords in Ordinary, then by the Courts of Ses sion, and finally by that House, which confirmed the decision of the courts below, on the footing of contract. The present occupants were as much bound by the contract as the original contractors. The effect of the law might certainly be hard en those persons, but they took the property subject to the con. tingent burdens. It was, he admitted, hard, that the inhabi tants should be taxed, not fur the value •f the land, but Record ing to their means anti substance. There could be no doubt as to the law of the case; and if the inhabitants were to be relieved, it must be done by Act of Parliament. Lord CAMPBELL said the clause could not be supported, and trusted that without further discussion it would be with drawn. The Earl of HADDINGTON 'supported the clause, and thought the hardship a serious one, and required a remedy. Lord COTTENH AM urged the withdrawal of the clause, and entirely agreed with his Noble and Learned Friend on the Woolsack, that it would be highly inexpedient to pass the clause. The co.itract was a regular bond fide one, and to abolish it would be to take the property of one and give it to another. He thought that those who framed the clause must have done so in utter ignorance of the law of the cue. The Duke of WELLINGTON said it was most unfortunate that any party views had been brought into this discussion. It appeared to him when the question was first introduced that the legal objection had been raised with the view of postponing the Bill to a future session. Lord CAMPBELL intimated his dissent. Tae Duke of WELLINGTON said, however that might be, it was quite certain that by this law great alterations were about being made in the condition of the poor of Scotland. As re garded the clause under discussion, after the expression of the Noble and Learned Lords opposite, and the Noble and Learned Lord on the Woolsack, he would recommend the withdrawal of the clause. The Duke of BUCCLEUCH acquiesced in the suggestion of the Noble Duke, and would withdraw the clause. The clause was then withdrawn, and the Bill was read a third time and passed. PAUPER LUNATICS ALYLU3I The House then went into Consmi(tee upon this Bill. Lord BEAUMONT objected to the wording of the clause which permitted the public asylums to admit other lunatics. The LORD CHANCELLOR supported the cause, which, after some verbal amendments, was agreed to. Clauses up to clause 41 were, with a few verbal amendments, agreed to. Clauses 42 and up to 91 were agreed to. The House then resumed, and the Bill was ordered to be re.: ported on Thursday next. DRAINAGE (IRELAND) BILL. This Bill was read a third lime and passed. LUNATICS BILL. On the motion being put for the committal of this Bill, The LORD CH ANCELLOR rose and said, he had been requested by his Noble Friend Lord Ashley to state the nature and object of this Bill. Previous to the year 1774 there was, comparatively speaking, no protection given to persons who happened to be in this unhappy situation, and everybody who was acquainted with the history of that period knew well that cases of cruelty and injustice were of frequent occurrence. The 14th of George 111. to a certain degree provided a remedy for the evil, but it was found the provisions of that Act were totally inadequate for the purposes for which they were brought forward, and in 1830 his friend, Mr. Robert Gordon, brought the sukject under the consideration of the other House of Parlirment, and introduced a Bill for improving the then existing law of lunacy. By that Bill Commissioners were appointed who . had the power of 'licensing and visiting private establishments, and the Bill contained other provisions for the purpose of meeting the evils which had been pre• viously complained of. That Bill was merely a temporary measure, and was only intended to continue in force for three years. It was found, however, that it operated so well that it was again and again renewed, and it was now about to expire. The present Bill was brought forward for the purpose of making that Act permanent. The Bill, however, introduced some alterations into the exieting law, and it would be necessary for him to put their Lordships in possession of the changes which it proposed to effects he first alteration was, that in conse quence of the Bill being made permanent, it had become ne cessary to make the office of Commissioners also permanent. Hitherto the number of Commissi ,ners had been twenty, eleven of whom where paid, and consisted of barristers and medical practitioners, and the remaining nine Commissioners, from motives of benevolence, performed the office gratuitously. The present Bill proposed to reduce the number of paid Com missioners from eleven to six, and the number of the other class of Commissioners from nine to five, making in all eleven. By the existing law a paid:Commissioner was not restricted from devoting his attention to private practice ; but, under the pre sent Bill, he was compelled to give the whole of his atten tion to the duties of his office. Another change was pro posed to be introduced into the law relative to the mode of re muuerating the Commissioners. Under the existing law they were paid by fees ; hut, instead of paying them by this mode, they would be paid by salaries of 1,500/. each, making an annual total of 9,0001. It had been suggested to him that this mode of remuneration would considerably increase the expense of the commission, but he had looked into the subject himself, and he could assure their Lordships that it %TAM diminish instead of increase the expenses. The Com missoners wider the existing Act had the tpower of visiting pritiate asylums, but they had not the power of visiting private hospitals. But the Bill of his Noble Friend proposed to remedy this defect. Another point of improvement v 6-. that the visitors were ti be allowed to examine and inseeet workhouses or places where paupers were confined ; they were not; however, to interfere with the duties of the Poor-law Commissioners, but simply to report to the Commissioner the result of their in quiries. There; was another important alteration to which he wished to call their Lordships' attention. It related to what were termed single houses, or in other words, houses where only one patient was confined. Their Lordships, in the exist ing Bill, restricted the Commissioners from visiting these esta blishments, but ; as the proposed Bill stood, the Lord Chancellor would have the power of selecting three of the Commissioners who should act as a sort of private committee for visiting single houses. These were the chief provisions of the Bill. He thought that the alterations were all salutary. The persons who kept lunatic asylums were hi the habit of taking in persons who were accused of being of nervous temperament, but not insane or idiotic. Those persons did not come under the jurisdiction of the visitors. There were cells and places of concealment in the asylums which would not be allowed to exist if the visitors had the power of examining the whole of the house. He pro posed that their Lordships should go into Committee upon the Bill. _ _ The Earl of ELDON approved of the 8111 generally, but he objected to some of the details, and he hail a petition to present from persons in the county of against interference with doe institution at Warnford. Lord NIONTEA GLE thought that there ought to be some better provision made for the supervision of asylums in England and Ireland. The House then went into Committee, and the report was brought up with some amendments. _ . The Rills of Exchange Bill passed through Committee, and was ordered to be read a third tine on Friday. The Railway Selling and Leasing Bill passed through Com mittee, as also did the Bonded Corn Bill, and were ordered to be n-ad a third time on Thursday. The Report on the Fisheries (Ireland) Bill was received. The Fees Compensation Bill went through Committee, as did also the Criminal Jurisdiction of Assistant Barristers (Ireland) Bill, which was ordered to ba read a third time on Thursday. The Militia Pay Bill, and Joint-Stock Company's Bill, were committed, and ordered to be read a third time on Thursday. The House then adjourned, at Eleven o'clock, till Thursday next. HOUSE OF COMMONS. .7ulu 29. RAILWAY STANDING ORDERS. (Continued from our Fifth Edition of last night.) The several alterations were then considered, and agreed to. Mr. GREENE moved, that the sectional order, No. 60, should for the future form portion of the standing orders.— Agreed to. LONDON AND YORK RAILWAY. Mr. P. M. STEWART presented a petition from the Mid land Counties Railway, complaining that the London and York, which had just passed a Committee of that House, would intersect their line ; and praying that that portion of those works should not be allowed to be constructed without the sanction of the former Company. • MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE OF LORDS. Messengers from the House of Lords brought up the Glas gow Junction Railway and other Bills, with amendments. COLONEL A. LA UTOUR. Mr. MILNER GIBSON then brought forward the mo tion of which he had given notice, that a Select Com mittee be appointed to investigate the allegations contained in the petition of Colonel Augustus Lautour, presented to this House, June 6th, 1844, and printed with the votes, June the 26th, 1844, and to report their opinion to the House. The Honourable Member stated that this related to what took place in 1828, when the Colonial. ogice invited parties to invest their money in the Swan River settlement. Among others who were induced to do so was the petitioner, and from circumstances that afterwards transpired he now petitioned the House. These regulations were officially issued, and under them Col. Lautour had acted. The question, then,was whether the Crown could escape from its engagements. He thought it could not, and the opinion of the law officers of the Crown had been taken on the subject, and there was some doubt respecting one or two points, and there might be a weak feature which he had not observed, and he had seen so much of these cases that he was always ready to suspect that there was something more than he saw. But if the matter were, as it was laid down, he could not see how, in justice, or even legal equity, the Crown could escape from its engagements. He had been informed that Sir Thomas Wilde had given an opinion in favour of Colonel Lautour's claim, which opinion was presented to the Government when they came into office, but the Government said it was not binding on them, because the cri4inal contract had not been officially promulgated. He (Mr. IQ Gibson) trusted that a generous and fair con struction might be expected. and that no "advantage would be taken of any trifling want of 'foresight on Colonel Lautour's part. It appeared to him (Mr. Gibson) that the claims alluded to in the petition were founded in justice, and he thought that Government should take the matter into its con sideration. In bringing forward this subject he did not mean to impute blame on any of the Members of the Government. He did, however, trust that the subject would be immediately attended to. Mr. HOPE said that he should be obliged to state shortly the history of the circumstances connected with this matter. In 1828 a plan was proposed and published for the purpose of bringing Colonel Lautour's attention to it. .The Hon. Member grounded his motion upon the fact that no formal or official notice was given to the colonel of this document. Mr. M. GIBSON—But in the meantime you took his land.—( Hear, hear.) " Mr HOPE observed that this was really no ground for the complaint. Colonel Lautour was one of the parties to whom the publication was addressed, and he would not fail to have known its purport. In point of fact, that gentleman had got possession of 100,000 acres to which he had no title whatever. Mr. M. GIBSON then withdrew hii motion. The Service of Heil s (Scotland) Bill, aril the Crown Charters (Seotland).Bill were read a second time. SUPPLY. tic The "repott of the'Cornixattes Simsly *at then brought up and sgreei to; after which the House stgourned. MONEY AND CITY NEWS. The meeting of the Blackwall Railway shareholders, held yes terday, was for the purpose of obtaining the sanction of the pro- • prietors to an issue of shares for the formation of a junction be tween that and the Eastern Counties line. The shares are to he appropriated at the rate of one new share for every six shares of ; original capital, and the directors speak with great confidence of the success of the projects they have connected with the under taking. The remarks that have lately been made in the House of Com mons upon subjects connected with the currency have causes! the same subjects to be discussed in the City, where probably more practical knowledge of such matters is to be found. With respect to Mr. Hume's project forxelieving the public of light sovereigns by establishing Government agencies in different parts of the kingdom, which should take gold coin at its intrinsic value, and do for the provinces the work which the Batik of England performs for London, it is looked upon as all but ins. possible of execution. Every one of the agencies must be supplied with a large stock of Government money, and with power to in crease such stock if found Insufficient. By this a great deal of cash would be taken out of circulation, and the agents, holding a most responsible office, would necessarily require considerable sala ries. So expensive, it is believed would be the machinery of the scheme, that the outlay would far exceed any good to be promottd by it. That there are instances of provincial tradespeople taking advantage of the current belief in light sovereigns, and defrauding the humbler classes, there is too much reason to believe; but, on the whole, the public seem to be satisfied with the system that 110 been at work since the last three years. - - - A supposed deficiency of silver has likewise been brought before public attention. The Irish railways have, indeed, abstracted some silver from the circulation for the purpose of wages ; and the Dutch, who have recently been coining, have come in as large Pur chasers of silver bullion, that metal being the standard of thei r country. But, after all, it is questionable whether the deficiency in silver coin is to any important extent much greater than it usually is about the time of harvest, when a large quantity is used for the payment of labour. The Mint is, at the present time, making new silver coin, after having suspended its operations, it is said, on ac count of some damage sustained by the machinery. The Bank of England has a large supply of silver bullion in its vaults, which it is ready to sell to Government, and therefore there is ever/ reason to suppose that the demand will be very soon supplied , unless the public mind be needlessly disturbed en the subject, fot it is well known that a belief in a deficiency is very likely to create one. The result of the last meeting of Mexican Bondholders is WO' known. They decided upon taking legal steps to compel Mesa* Lizardi and Co. to transfer to the new agents, Messrs. Schneider , the funds which they so unaccountably detained. That according to every principle of equity, as understood by merchants, the late agents were bound to appropriate to the bondholders only the money they received on account of the dividends, nobody seemed to enter tain the slightest doubt ; and we do not believe that a single impar tial person was to be found who agreed to the doctrine that debts due from Mexico to Messrs. Lizardi could be justly set off against this specific fund. Still there has been great anxiety to see some legal opinion on the subject, and hence the following opinion of Sr- James Russe.l, the Chancery barrister, which has been taken bi the Committee of Bondholders preliminary to their proceeding‘ will be read with great eagerness, It will be seen that public and legal opinion are precisely in harmony with each other : "By the agreement of 1837, one-sixth of the Custorn:hotiS e duties of Vera Cruz and Tampico is appropriated to the paymen t of the interest on the bonds; and, in order to secure its slue elr plication, it is paid by the administrators of the Customs into .tbe hands of two Commissioners, one of whom is nominated by the bondholders. In the hands of the Commissioners this one-sixth l severed from the general funds of the Mexican Government, An d it is thenceforth clothed with a trust for the bondholders. " By a subsequent arrangement the share of the Customs WO appropriated has been increased from one-sixth to one-P b * Though the Mexican Government could not, without violating good faith, have lessened the fund, it was quite competent I n them to increase it ; and the one-fifth when received by t he Commissioner is equally clothed with' a trust, and for the setn e purposes as the one.sixth would have been. " The funds are transmitted by the Commissioner to Lizardi an Co., the agents of the Mexican Government; but the transmissi on is merely for the purpose of distribution among the bondholders' The transmission is made for the purpose, not of destroying I . _b e trust, but of carrying it into effect. Lizardi and Co. receive th e funds subject to a specific appropriation. Of that appropriation . ' of the trust to which the funds are thus subject—Lizardi and Ca have complete notice : they are themselves trustees of the fund's soon as the moneys come into their hands, and they cannot them to any purpose other than the payment of the interest - on t he bonds, without violating obligations and duties too plain to be mistaken. " If Lizardi and Co. have made advances for the general Pur poses of the Mexican Government, and if on this separate acees ai a debt is due to them, they must seek payment of that debt fr o , the Mexican Government ; and they may justly retain any le° l l . In their hands on the general account of the Mexican Governnrer But the funds in question were funds which even that Governmen t had no right to .divert from the bondholders. If the Me%i te l- Government had directed Lizardi and Co. to apply the one-fini se . the Customs remitted by the Commissioners to the discharge 0, 0; private debt due from Mexico to Lizardi and Co., that diree tt would not have entitled them to retain the money for their 0 use, and to attempt to do so without the sanction, a nd in opposi tto o to the orders of the Government, is as unjustifiable in law As it in morality." The opinions of Mr. Turner and Mr. Malins have also be e r , taken, and, as the Committee st a t e, entirely concur in Mr. Ru ssell view, It may be worth whil e to rem i nd some o f our r e aders t" has ._. the reasoning above as to th e c h ange f rom t h e one-s i xt h to the on; ~ filth is nearly the same as that put forward under this head, wbeg, the point was first started. 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