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ro urtt Mittion SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT, (THIS EVENING.) HOUSE OF LORDS. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Wool sack at Five o'clock. The Earl of CARLISLE presented several petitions in favour cf the Marriage Bill. COURT OF CHANCERY (IRELAND) BILL Lord BROUGHAM moved the third reading of this Bill. The motion was agreed to. IRISH FRANCHISE BILL. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE moved for a confe rence with the Commons on the Irish Franchise Bill. The motion was agreed to, and the Marquis of Salis bury, the Bishop of Oxf:rd, Lord Beaumont, and other Peers were appointed to manage the conference. On their return, the Marquis of SALISBURY re ported that the Commons hail disagreed to certain cf the Lords' amendment, and had assigned their reasons, which 11... delivered, and'which were ordered to he printed. CANTERBURY SETTLEMENT LANDS BILL. On the atlltion of Earl GREY, this Bill was read a third time and passed. SLAVE BILLS. The Bishop of OXFORD presented several petitions praying the Houie.to adopt measures to compel the Go vernments of Brazil and Spain to do away with the slave trade in compliance with the treaties which they had entered into with this country. He trusted the prayer of these petitions would be attended to. Lord BROUGHAM supported the prayer of these petitions. NAVY PAY BILL. On the motion of Earl GREY this Bill was read a second time. AFFAIRS OF THE RIVER PLATE. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE laid on the table the convention entered into with the Argentine Confedera tion. SALARIES IN THE POST-OFFICE. The Earl of ST. GERMANS wished to draw the attention of the Government to the smallness of the salaries paid to the Post-office clerks in the Money-office. Some of the clerks received only a sa lary of 70/. a year, and many of these clerks had passed through the Insolvent Court, and the judges had ex pressed their surprise at the smallness of their salaries, and he asked if the Noble Marquis intended to pro pose to the Treasury to increase the salaries of these clerks ? He also asked how it came to peas that several clerks in the office bad been recently passed over, and a clerk from Edinburgh promoied over their heads ? It bad been stated Ott this was in consequence of a memorial which these clerks hal presented to the Postmaster-General. (LEFT SPEAKING.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair shortly after Twelve o'clock. BARON ROTHSCHILD. Sir B. HALL wished to know whether it was the in tention of the Attorney-General to lay his resolutions on the table of the House relative to Baron Rothschild this morning or at five o'clock. It bad been generally under stood that the resolutions would ere this have been printed and distributed among Members, but such had not been the case. Lord J. RUSSELL said that it was the intention of his Hon. and Learned Friend the Attorney-General to lay the resolutions he proposed for the adoption of the House on the table this afternoon at five o'clock, and be would then propose that they should be printed with the rotes, and taken into consideration at twelve o'clock on Monday. AUSTRALIAN COLONIES. Mr. F. SCOTT wished to know from the Under-Se cretary of State for the Colonial Department, whether the Colonial-office had received a memorial upon the subject of the Australian Colonies Constitution Bill, ex preseing opinions favourable to a double chamber, and also the land question? Mr. HAWES said that no such memorial as bad been alluded to by the lion. Member had been received at the Colonial-office. When it was, it would be laid on the table of the House. SITTING ON SATURDAY. Lord J. RUSSELL said that it might be convenient to Hon. Members to know that it had been thought necessary that the House should sit on Saturday, not for the purpose of proceeding with any measures that were calculated to create discussion, but merely to for ward measures which pressed, AUSTRALIAN COLONIES GOVERNMENT BILL. On the motion for the consideration of the Lords' ami•ndments to the Australian Colonies Government Bill, • Mr. F. SCOTT wished to know whether it was the intention of the Government to agree with all' the amendments made by the Lords to this Bill, because if• they did, he believed thiy would agree to a measure which was never intended to become law, and one that would be very diffeekt from that which had passed the lkouse of Commous. The Bill as amended was not the Bill that had bt ees introduced into Parliament, and it was not a mca,ure that had received the concurrence of the. Australian caloniee. He. wished to know whether it was the intention of the Gmwarn. nt to persevere in the passing of this Bill during , the present session. Here they were, at al ost the last week of the session, and yet the measure that had been adverted to in her Majesty's Speech at the com mencement ot• the 'ession bad not yet become law. They bad decided upon giving the Australian colonies that Which 'they did not ask far, and to refuse them that which thi.;y did it quire'. It was not fair to the colo nists to bring in this Bill at the fag end of the session, and ask the tlouse to psss it, when it might have been taken into consideration a; a much earlier period. The Federative Assembly was to have no power over the land,.though it wai well known that the wishes of the colonists were in favour of such power being given to it. In consequence of the Government arrangements with respect to the sale of land, our surplus population, in stead of . going to the Australian colonies, were induced to emigrate to North America and to the United States, where they found the terms more advantageous. The land was so badly regulated in Australasia, that emi grants were driven from the neighbourhood of towns and settlements to far distant portions of the country, where they were beyond the control of the Government, and were bound by no moral, civil, or religious obliga tions. Tbis accounted for the existence of states of society in which the male population greatly predominated, and which was characterised by the most immoral and depraved habits. Another objection which he entertained to the Bill was that it gave power to the Governor to alter the various salaries contained in the schedule, and as he might of his own accord diminish them in amount, the consequence would be that if the judge of any colony should do any act which was adverse to his wishes, he might be mulcted of a considerable portion of his income. this would enable the Governor to compel a judge to give a deci-ion adverse to bis honest opinions and convictions, if it should be rig:tiro - I for any particular purpose or end. The Honourable Gentleman stated, in conclusion, that he could nut give his assent to a Bill which gave to Australia a form of government that was not in accordance with the wishes of the Co lonists, and was not calculated to cement that bond of friendship and attachment to the mother country which cuebt to exist. Sir DE LACY EVANS said it was preposterous to suppose that, af.er this country had gone to great ex pense in maintaining her colonies, she should surrender all claim to the different territories, and give them up to the present inhabitants. Although be approved of the Bill as a whole. hit entertanied objectious to particular parts of it—stech, for instance, as the appointment of a large Church establishment in the Colony. He thought the colony would got on extremely well, in a religious as well as in a moral sense, without a spiritual establishment; but hardly a new set tlement with a few hundred inhabitants sprung up, be fore a bishop was appointed and sent out. Much of the allowance provided fur the Ecclesiastical establishments of the colony might, therefore, he thought, be dispensed with i at any rate, he hoped it would not be au/patented in proportion as the population increased. But taking the measure altogether it was a very fair and liberal one, and would have a very beneficial effect !Limn the colony, and he was gratified to find that a direct intimation was givrn tl the colonists in the Bill to suggest any alteration or modifications of it which they might think nec4haary. On th e w h o l e h e t h ought the Govern meat had acted right in not prematurely disposing of this qtuistion, but leaving it to be eventually settled by the colonists themselvee. Mr. VERNON SMITH was not at a loss to form an opinion as to whether or not the Govern ment intended to persevere with this Bill this session. In the present state of the Hou se th ey could carry almost anything, and he could, therefor e , no t hesitate in deciding that they intended to carry this measure, but atilt before they proceeded further Go vernment ought to disclose what amendments of the Lords they intended - to reject and what agree to. The majo rity of the amendments improved the Bill. He agreed with the amendment which struck out the clauses which were proposed to establish a federal assembly in the colonies ; and ho should be glad to know if Government would venture to go the length of re-introducing them. The next amendment established a franchise for the stitaattiug interest, a provision which he vainly struggled for when the Bill was under discussion and in its progress through this House. The next series of alterations which had been made by the Lords were far more extenaive and far more objectionable. They would restrict thefunctions of the colonial legislature, and continuo in the hands of the Colonial-office powers which ought to ho abandoned without delay. The amendments would preclude the legislature of the colony Loin altering the franchiae, but he did hope the House and the Government would nut assent to this alteration, while the clause which had bean introduced by the Lords in the room of the cl twe giving tha local legislature the power he had referred to was calculated :to lead to doubt and mystification as to its true and real meaning, and it ought to be struck cut. The next alteration was of :till greats importance, it struck out the words which gave the local council power to vary its forms and constitu tion, Which tie thought ought to be restored to the Bill ; and he the. efore hoped, for the :site of keeping faith with the colonists themselves, the would Government insist upon carrying that point. As this was the last opportunity he should have of speaking on the subject of this Bill, he must again repeat his regret that the measura had not been made more liberal and extensive. Lord JOUN RUSSELL should have stated ,in moving the adoption of the first amendment, the course THE SUN, which Government intended to pursue with respect to the whole, but after what had occurred to-day, he could not further delay making a declaration on the subject. He agreed with the Right Hon. Gentleman who bad just sat down that the greatest alteration which the Lords had introduced was the omission of the clauses which ' related,to the establishment of a federal government. Under all the circumstances, however, of the case, he thought his Noble Friend at the head of the Colonial- ' office bad acted right in consenting to the omission of the clauses. Many objections were urged against them, and above all it was said if the colonists desired a federal assembly, it could be hereafter allowed by the Legislature of the parent country On the whole, therefore, Government was not indisposed to adopt that amendment. The next alteration was the introduction of words extending the franchise to squat ters. He would not say that this was an impolitic altera tion; perhaps it was only fair that the large body of colonists who came under that denomination should be represented in the local legislature—(Hear, hear) —and Government did not therefore object to this amendment. The next alteration deprived the legislative council of power to make any change in its forms and constitution. No doubt the giving that power was one of the important objects of the Bill, but not the object, aed as much good would result from the Bill, even as it now stood, particularly as it would lead to the settlement of the important question as to whether it was advisable to give the colonies a , single or a double chamber, Government was generally disposed to adopt most of the amendments proposed by the Lords. With respect to the 32d clause of the Bill, it stood in fact and in substance as it was originally sent from that House to the House of Lords. They bad reduced by one-half the amount of franchise, but they had left to the colonies the power of altering the qualification of the electors and the elected. They had also left to them the power of altering the constituent body, and also the power of introducing a division of the legislative body into two chambers, and the mode in which these two chambers should act. But there had been a change made, under which he did not think it would be in the power of the legislative council to pass an Act by which the whole body of the single chamber could be elected, and no one member of which could be nominated by the Crown. He did not think it I would be in the power of the council to alter the proportions of its members, however they might after the qualification of the electors, and al though they might divide the present legislative council into two chambers, they would not have the power of saying there should be a single elective chamber, and that the nominees of the Crown should be altogether excluded from that second chamber. On that subject he should certainly have been disposed to say that if such an alteration had been proposed by the legislative council of New South Wales, although it was a matter for their discussion and deliberation, he should have felt very great objection to such an altera tion. He therefore felt the less objection to the altera tion which bad been proposed. He certainly thought there were advantages in leaving the whole subject to the legislative council, but if there was anything on which the House ought to place a restriction, he thought it was the power of altering the legislative council into one legislative body. He therefore concurred in the general policy of the amendments made by the House of Lords, and he considered that this Bill upon the whole would be a very great benefit to the Australian colonies. Mr. GLADSTONE said the Bill before the House, in his mind, was not a satisfactory Bill in its principle. No doubt it had some advantages to recommend it; but in his opinion a matter of the most crying necessity, that of the separation of the colony of Port Philip from New South Wales, should be accomplished. He thought the House would have acted more wisely in seeking to pass a perfect measure on this subject in the next ses- ' sion, when they would be in possession of more infor mation from the colonies, than in passing an imperfect one at the end of the present session. The point in which the Bill was not satisfactory lay in the third amendment °tithe House of Lords, which took away the power of the legislative council in the colonies of altering the composition of the council.—(Hear, hear.) The power of altering the consitution of the council, and of affecting the balance of power as it was fixed by the Bill between the Crown and the popular body, was altogether taken away. The Government had forgotten throughout all those discussions that unhappily of all the changes which a single chamber was likely to make, that of separating itself into two chambers was the least likely, because it cut directly at the pride and vanity of the parties most directly interested in making it.—(Hear, hear.) Where they bad a popular body guiding the fortunes and the legislation of the colony, it was most unlikely, unless under peculiar circumstances, that that popular body would consent to set up another popular body by its side. Again, they might alter the aggregate number of members of the council, but not the proportions. The proportions were sacred, and must not be departed from. He wished to see New South Wales establish for itself stable institu tions, but to be stable those institutions must spring out of the soil of the colony, and the attempt by the officials in Downing-street to check the democratic principles of the population of New South Wales, would not only not check, but would give a more wildly democratic cha racter to the feelings of the people of that colony, and tend to weaken the ties between it and the mother country.—(Hear.) Ho considered those amendments of the „House of Lords amounted, as nearly as possible, to a breach of faith by the Government with the co lonists of New South Wales. The colonists would say we had sent them a Bill which was most essentially changed, and we had pleaded their consent to that Bill for passing it in the House of Commons, and then had permitted it to be altered in the House of Lords. In fact, he (Mr. Gladstone) must register his pro test against this Bill, because, while protes ing to give free institutions to the colonists:, it maintained the control of the Crown over the legisla ture of the colony, and, introducing uncertainty and un easiness into its legislation, it hai taken away that great gift of liberty which was the apol , igy and the argu ment that certainly carried the Bill in the House of Cummi,ns. Mr. ROEBUCK thought it his duty to enter his sincere and earnrst protest against this Bill. The House learned now that it was acting on imperfect information. Surely if perfect information were requisite it might be obtained. but the truth was, that the Noble Lord at the head of the Colonial Department was so determined in his own course that he would never listen either to the sugges tions from the colonies or to the suggestions from the House of Commons.—(Hear.) The House dui not come to legislate on the colonies without ex perience ; they had experience enough to guide them in that matter, and especially with respect to the formation of a federative assembly. The Noble Lord at the head of the colonies was determined to have one council, and one council only; but was told over and over again that if he adopted that plan it was im possible to make a fair and operative assembly. The Noble Lord was told there was experience about that matter to which no sane man could shut his eyes ; and that there was a plan at once simple and effective. That plan was simply to have two chambers, one of them representing the po pulation cf the colonies, and the other chamber repre senting the colonies themselves. That was the plan of the United States c-f America, hit upon by the master-mind of the American revolution. He charged every one of the Government who had had anything to do with the Bill with an obstinacy which could spring from nothing but personal vanity. There was also another point. In a Bill which was to be a permanent measure, bow was it that they had introduced provisions which would be a source of constant quarrel. He referred the House to the constitution which had been lately framed by the settlers at California, and he thought that when it was compared with this miserable specimen of their legislative wisdom it ought to shame :every Mem ber of the British Parliament. There was nothing in it which was satisfactory or certain, but it was full of the seeds of eternal di scor d. Th e ~only hope he bad was that when it got there it would create such universal dissatiefactiun that they would be obliged to reconsider the measure. He had denied (lien that this Bill would please the colonies, and he re iterated the denial. He thought that when they heard an ex-Secretary for the Colonies de claring that there was no chance of governing the colonies without two Chambers, be thought it ought to induce them to pause before they sent out this Bill. It was, however, now too late, and all he could do was to protest, and, as far as he was concerned, he had done his duty. Mr. CHISHOLM ANSTEY complained that :the only 'clause of any value had been struck out in another place ; and the Noble Lord had come down and declared himself perfectly satisfied. He complained also of the clause introduced there, which allowed con victs on tickets of leave an equal share in the franchise. The Bill, he considered, was a contemptible Bill; and he should have preferred going without it altogether than taking it as it was. Mr. MACGREGOR said the question was whether this Bill gave or took away any privileges from the colonists. He believed that it gave many of them privileges which they never had before possessed. Taking into consideration the moral and social condi tion of the colonies, he thought the Bill was a good Bill, and that it had been rendered rather more practical than otherwise by the amendments of the Lords. He considered that the measure would be very acceptable to the colonists, and he would give it bis cordial support, being anxious that they should be kept ro longer in suspense as to what were the intentions of the Legislature. The Lords' amendments were then agreed to. ASSESSED TAXES COMPOSITION BILL. Tbis Bill was read a second time. The house then adjourned until five o'clock. Tho House resumed at Fir© o'clock. PETITIONS. Mr. DISRAELI presented a petition from a body of farmers in the county of Perth in favour of protection. Mr. F. O'CONNOR presented a petition from Lei cester praying the Mouse to restore the delivery of letters at the Post•office on Sundays. Mr. COBDEN presented a petition from a place in Yorkshire against Church rate:... RAILWAYS ABANDONMENT BILL. Sir J. GRAIIAM, after presenting a petition from a ' gentleman in Birmingham cumplaining of the conduct of the Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway Com pany, asked the President of the Board of Trade what were the intentions of Government with reference to the Railways Abandonment Bill. Mr. LABOLICHERE said the Bill was at present under the consideration of his Learned Friend the At torney-General, who would shortly state what the inten tions of Government ss ero with reference to it. Mr. MULLINGS presented a petition from a place in Gloucestershire, praying the House to rescind the reso lution preventing the delivery of letters at the Post-office on Sunday. Mr. SOTIIERON presented a petition from a place in Wilts praying fore rtain modifications in the Savings Bank Bill before the House. LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 1, 1850. POLITICAL REFUGEES IN THIS COUNTRY. Lord DUDLEY STUART gave notice that he should to-morrow put a question to the Secre tary of State for the Home Department re specting certain political refugees, who it was stated, having taken refuge in this country, had been delivered up to one of the Governments of. Germany, and sent away from here in consequence of being blamed as accomplices in a murder committed on the continent. POLICE FORCE IN LIMERICK. Mr. SCULLY moved for a return of the number and expense of the police force in the baronies of Costlea, Small County, Owney-beg, and Clanwilliam, in the county of Limerick.—Agreed to. IRISH FRANCHISE BILL. A conference took place with the House of Lords on the subject of this Bill, at the conclusion of which Mr. FREWEN, who conducted it on the part of the House of Commons, appeared at the bar, and announced that he had stated to their Lordships the reasons of this House for disagreeing with their Lordships amendments to the Bill. ACTIONS AT LAW BY THE OFFICE OF WOODS AND FORESTS. Mr, R. TREVOR alluded to certain unsuccessful ac tions which had been instituted by the office of Woods and Forests with reference, as we understood, to harbours of rel uge, and wished to ask the Chief Commissioners of Woods and Forests whether it was his intention to proceed with certain other actions which had ben commenced under similar cir cumstances? Lord SEYMOUR denied the accuracy of the state ment of the lion. Gentleman. With respect to the cc tions which had been alluded to, the only answer he could give was that he should take legal advice, and proceed according to such advice. VICTORIA STREET. • In reply to Sir DE LACY EVANS. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said it was desirable that this street should be finished as speedily as possible, and the subject was under his consideration, but whether the Go vernment would advance any money for the purpose would depend upon arrangements that did not rest with himself. his mind of the principal portion of the guilt charged against him in the trial, he is a person of such a peculiar disposition, and so extremely suspicious of all who come in contact with him, that it is most diffi cult to get an explanation from him of certain points necessary to throw light on the case. Mr. Hay could not venture to avail himself of writing materials during the time that Bennison wgs relating the particulars of the poisoning. Ho was, there fore, obliged simply to listen to the harrow ing narrative of the culprit's guilt; and to trust to his memory for the writing out of the details of the con fession when he went home. Mr. Hay read a copy of what he had written to Bennison yesterday, when be adhered to it all—making only some very slight altera tions upon it. A'copy of the confession so amended was subsequently lodged with the Sheriff; and it was afterwards, as we have already mentioned, forwarded to Sir George Grey. Bennison states that, on the Friday evening in ques tion, he made the porridge, and put a quantity of arsenic in them. His child having previously gone to bed, and Bennison having, on the score of illness ex cused himself from eating anything. that night, his wife was the only one that partook of the porridge, and to that her death is to be ascribed. He states that the girl Robertson had not the most remote idea that he had any interest in her except that of a religious kind, and that he never spoke to her unless in respect to her spiritual welfare. He has made no confession with regard to the first wife's sudden death at Airdrie; but as it is s•rongly sus pected that he also adminis'ered poison to get quit of her, it is not improbable that we may have a further confession from him to that effect.—Scotsman. EDUCATION IN THE AIIMY. The following is a copy of any instructions which may have been issued by the Commander-in- Chief respecting Examinations to be required on the admission or promotion of Officers in the Army :" THE FALL OF A COTTON MILL AT STOCKPORT. MANCHESTER, JULY 31.—The following is a more minute account of this shocking, and fatal calamity than appeared in our yesterday's publication. On Tuesday afternoon, between one and two o'clock, a large portion of a new mill at Stockport fell suddenly to the ground, and caused the death, we regret to say, of several of the hands employed about it. It is as yet impossible to say how many, but probably ten or eleven. The mill in question, which is called the Brinksway Mill, is the property of Mr. Cephas Howard. It is a new fire proof mill, having been commenced in August last, and having been only occupied about a month by Mr. Joseph Heaword. It is a ratner handsome erection, and the walls are apparently substantial enough. It is 47 yards long and 20 wide, and is four stories in height, the bottom one being the doubling room, the second for throstlo spinning, the third for carding, and the fourth for blowing. The mill was of rather peculiar construction, being intended to be worked not only by a steam-engine, but also partly by an undershot water-wheel, which was in course of construction at the time of the accident. The walls of the mill rested upon the solid rock, and down the centre of the mill ran a row of iron ribbed pillars, 26 feet long, 14 inches diameter in the cei.tre, ;pering to 8 inches diameter at each end; upon the heads of these pillars the flooring be am ,, , from which sprung the fire-proof arche, over the first floor, sprang. With one exe , ption, these upright, pillars were 10 ft et apart frotn.elch other; but, one pillar wax intermitted (where the teuond from the west end of the mill should leave stoop), in order to allow room for the water wheel being placed directly under the mill. This wheel was to have been 20 feet in diameter, and to have been supplied with water by an arched tunnel running under the first floor of the mill, to within 40 feet of the west gable. At 40 feet from that table the first floor ceased, the space occupied by it being for that distance taken up by the water-wheel and gearing; or rather about two-thirds of the area of the will was so taken up for that length, for there was a lower floor across the other third, on the north side of the mill, where some gearing was to have been placed to connect the water-wheel with the steam-engine; and this portion cf the floor leg was supported by a wall running longitudinally parallel to the outer wall, and did not at all depend for support upon the beams in the centre of the mill. We have stated already that the beams down the centre of the mill, and supporting the floors, were, with one ex ception, placed at a distance of 10 feet from each other, and that in that single instance there was a distance of 20 feet. Now, in order to support the intermediate flooring, a large and heavy iron flange beam, with an arched top, 3 feet 4 inches deep in the centre, was car ' ried longitudinally down the mill, and was supported upon the heads of the two nearest pillars; and to the centre of this beam the flooring beams for the outer walls of the building were carried; the ends of the cross beams were supported upon strong boxes, and their ends were moreover strongly bolted to the longitudinal beam. Of course, the nature of the construction of this beam is of the utmost importance in determining the cause of the accident (which, it will be seen, occurred just at this point of the mill), but this we were not en abled to ascertain, for at the time that we visited it yes terday afternoon this beam was still covered with rub bish. We were also not able to ascertain whether the upright pillars supporting the longitudinal beam were of any greater strength than the reminder of the pillars, which were obviously not subjected to anything like the strain of the two in question. Our impression is that they were not. The above are such particulars as to the construction of the mill as we were able to collect during a neces sarily hasty visit yesterday afternoon. The accident took place yesterday afternoon, as we have alreedy stated, between one and two o'clock. At that hour the whole of the interior portion of the mill. from the point where the first floor ceased, except that portion of it which, as we have stated, was supported by the longi tudinal wall—that is, the whole of the building which depended upon the longitudinal beam and its supporting pillars—fell suddenly, and without any previous warning, to the ground, with a tearful crash, burying several per sons under the ruins. Altogether about one-sixth part of the mill has fallen to the ground. Fortunately, the mill hands were almost all at dinner at the time, or the consequences to life must have been dreadful. As it was, there were only a few females, a boy, and a man, who had remained to eat their dinners at the mill, as far as we can learn, in the part of the building which fell. John March, a machine maker, was one of these. He was in the third story, and he states that the first thing that alarmed him was seeing the brickwork fall from the fire-proof arches of the room; that he immediately ran to the other end of the mill, and thus escaped, the building crashing down be hind him as he went. Of the women who were in the mill at the time none wholly escaped; but three 'sere im mediately afterwards rescued from the ruins:—Elizabeth and Ann, daughters of Richard Salt, butcher, Portwood; who were on the first-floor of the mill when the accident happened, and were not seriously injured, and Ellen Ashton, who fell three stories; she was taken out of the ruins dreadfully injured, and though every attention was rendered to her at the Stockport Infirmary, she expired in about two hours. The boy to whom we have alluded, and who was in the lower room, was also carried down amongst the ruins, and when found he had a severe flesh wound on his thigh; but this, it is hoped, will not prove serious. Four other women have nut bee❑ seen since the accident, and it is supposed that they must have boon in the mill at the time, and that their bodies must still (at the time we write) be buried under the ruins. These are Margaret Harding (single woman), of New Bridge lane; Ann Swindells, a married woman. with four chil dren; Elizabeth Sykes, a girl fourteen or fifteen years old; another girl, named Cash. But besides these there were workpeople—millwrights and their labourers—en gaged in putting up the new water-wheel at the time of the accident. Of these Ephraim Kidson, Wright Bar ker, and John Bushby (millwrights), and James Robin son, Joseph Orme, and Samuel Harrop (labourers), were known to have been engaged under the part of the mill which has fallen at the time of the accident; the tour first about the wheel, and the two last near the west gable wall, throwing rubbish into the weir. As none of !hese men have bee❑ seen since the accident, they also, we fear, must be assumed to be buried under the rub bish. This would give eleven lives lost; as follows: Ellen Ashton, Margaret Harding, Ann Swindells, Eliza beth Sykes, Cash, Ephraim Kidson, Wright Barker, John Bushby, James Robinson, Joseph Orme, Samuel Ilarrop. The damage done to the mill and machinery is, as must necessarily have been the case, very considerable. A large piece of the upper portion of the west gable wall is torn away, and this gable wall, and also about forty feet (or four bays) of the southern side wall of the mill are much shattered by large and numerous cracks in them in all directions. It is estimated that the damage thus resulting to the carcass of the mill will be about 1,0001., as nearly as can at present be calculated. The damage to the machinery is, however, computed at no leis than 7,000/. The machinery was all of the newest and best construction, and the following (almost all of them exceedingly valuable) machines are totally de stroyed :—Six carding engines, three jack frames, a drawing frame, a pair of intermediate frames, ten thros les, eight or nine doubling frames, and two pair of reels. But this does nct at all adequately represent the damage done, for a large number of very valuable machines have bee❑ most seriously damaged by the falling of the longitudinal shafting carried down by the falling mate rials. With regard to the cause of the accident, we are not at present in a position to speak very decidedly ; it seems pretty clear that it must Lave arisen from some weakness in the two westernmost pillars in the beam above the intended water-wheel which they supported, fur not only has the damage been confined to the part of the mill which depended upon these supports, but one of the millwrights who, though under the part in question, was fortunately sufficiently near the west gable to make his escape through one of the arches for the outpouring of the water after it had passed under the wheel, states that he first saw the arches immediately above him give way near the first pillar from the west gable—that is one of the pillars supporting the longitudinal beam. We apprehend, therefore, that the question will ultimately resolve itself into one as to whether the accident has arisen from thq weakness of the pillars or of the beam; but until thelie are disinterred from the mass of rubbish which at present covers them up, together with the bodies of the several unfortunate sufferers, no examina tion of thew can be had, 'and no opinion can be formed upon the point. Since the above was written the removal of the ruins has commenced, and three bodies, those of the wheel wrights, bad been got out yesterday morning. The in quest was fixed for last (Wednesday) evening, but as the whole of the bodies had not been recovered, it would necessarily be adjourned. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Mr. John W. Edwards, surgeon, St. Martin's-lane. was brought before Mr. Hardwick, charged with having used a certain instrument. with intent to procure abor tion. Mr. Hutchinson said he attended to prosecute on be half of the Medical Protection Society. The prisoner was charged with having used an instrument and drugs to procure abortion, in the case of a female who was in court, and it was suspected that the prisoner practised the same offence commonly, as it would be proved that he himself had confessed he had received money even from ladies of title for performing the same operation. Elizabeth Hobbs, a respectable lucking woman, was called. She said s h e was the wife of James Hobbs, Praed-street, Paddington, and went out to service. Last Tuesday three weeks, the 12th of July, she went to the prisoner's house, in St. Martin's-lane, and told him that she suspected she was in the family way, and that this would be very awkward if it were so, as she had to go to a place in a few days. The prisoner asked her if she was a married woman, and she replied she was. The prisoner examined her and pronounced her to be enciente. fie said if she would give him 51. he would make it all right. She told him she could not afford 51., and then he saki he would do it for 21., and told her to go home and gather as much of the money as she could. Next day she went to him, and gave him 55., promising him the balance of 355., out of her first quarter's wages. The prisoner was satisfied with these terms, and he told her to place herself on a sofa with her face from him. She did so, and she saw him with an instrument like a pencil in his hand, which e s k in o tT t h h e e room.proscutSrhixe he had previously taken fr o m had only a glimpse of the ns t r a u desk then described the operation she underwent in which the instrument was used. She telt only very little pain, and she then went home. On Tuesday she went again to the prisoner's house, and underwent precisely the same operation. On Saturday she paid him a third visit, and a repetition of the same operation occurred. The prisoner told her he had now done all that was tie. cessary, and he gave her a box of pills. Other particu lars were mentioned. To induce her to submit to the ___________.----__ operation, the prisoner told her h o did more for gentry. the p that way than for poor people—that some ladies bad paid him 201. On the following , T uesday risoner gave her a bottlo of medicine, as she was in ~I '. dreadful pain. She went to h er situation at li.-!I burn Priory, and on the 24th of t he same month one child delivered of a stillborn child. She believed the r . l t d w w a a s s b a u b r o te u d t four tnth emgoanrtdhesoold. The body of l' he iri ta pony Mr. E. Fagg, surgeon, 18, Grotto road, St. (Jo w to ood, was requested by a gentleman at Kilburn PrierY be call and see one of his servants, who Kilburnuspected to li T ke o l l y d and in the family way. send . e a e r n e d. delivered.she wa s Witness went to priory ,-t r saw tho proseeutrix, who was in bed. She said go keepa rry. t he r miscarry c quiet , bad riot th.idi her so me medicine. About four hours afterwarOro a g ain . ssenger came to his house, :lttendas .. u arrived He r was Out; but his assistant went, and whe t ; he he found the prosecutrix had been deliver about half an hour before. On cross-examination, witness said be saw the chil l b" after it had been disinterred. It appeared to be . a five-months' child. He examin ed it, but could of the fo r cnot state anything positively in consequ ence which had be en used in pressing i t into the eart h w ith e a spade. He found a conical wound on the head and neck, r which he should say had been done by a , r. e, The wound was not such as would be likely to be pro' dwell by such an instrument as the proaccutrix had - d scribed. It was possible, had there been a punctured 103°,11 on the head, that the spade might hare obliterated it 4 , subsequent injuries. The menicine now produced 0% common medicine. The medicine and pills bad not Y e been ant, ly, e d. Mr. Hutchinson said w there was the evidence of g or r• Fagg's assistant, and that of anot her servant, a i h° s6 ri a the child when born, and who could speak as to sIA" on its head. He must therefore ask for a remand. not The prisoner, in defence, declared tbsit he h 34 1 1,, to acted in the way described. He produced his hc" 9 " o ",, prove that the prosecutrix had consulted hini ou 6 c • n d won medical ease, and that, being in doubt, he W . lo co. her in an old gown, ' which was ragged at th e 8 n od a li n e d it was possible the rags hanging down ha d c 5 rto think he had an instrument in his hand. one, Mr. HARDWICK said the charge was a very seriously _od the ca till Saturda but ca se s the evidence wand plt he should re ' l 4 appearance, eacb himself in 2001., and two safeties ill I --....1 y, take bail for the prisea.eo9l, AQUATICS. TIIE CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE TEll;is7iver Mr. Bone having challenged the holder of the : f t he sculls, the symbol of amateur chauipinnsgbricPundole Thames, and having been objected to, on the he_ had disqualified himself for that race by rcsvin e g wo rld , Bath regatta, in a sculler's match open to all ,t h , ba pre' in which the first prize was 101, the second 5 1, ' b o is vious competitors for the challenge sculls , in w „ e et V ) vested the duty of deciding all disputes ifi lh „ re hietid 4 the honorary distinction, held a meeting 0 " . ot teoel e a v n e d ning, fir the purpose of inquiring into the objects aot it being then stated by Mr. Bono that he ' to re enter for the race in question, but rowed onlY s t ee r la quest cf the regatta secretary, to prevent A W i ' ll r stSn a.. one of the trial heats, and with the express uncl e s o of ing that should he win, the prize was to be disP e o f t o amongst the other competitors, at the dise reti cul ler committee; the conclusion arrived at before the Ad aot sculls holders' tribunal was, that the objection 0, 1 : 4 p re be sustained, but in coming to that conclusioe,_rte thst vious competitors felt it incumbent on them to to o c ilio could lamateurs thought proper to row with peesi°e-toore not be considered such, they shoutbicle p t : ceos e a n tev in d : carethan appeared to have been taken in _ stance to have it understood that they wera not hic b hes ing for the prize. Thus the important Po o ' v e to I° ` c s aus e ed considerable excitement 1R the aquatic elr fort i, the hoomlderti t m f e th p e sst s , en h l a l s s, b r e e c s .n ig s n e s t tahtemre,st. gr. Pleiltbere be an d shoul" it coo' t any other challengers besides Mr. Bone, they Will end on the 10th instant. the T T he ha th m i e r s d of Grandofthe s ß er e ie ,, s at o t f a, THAMES BOAT RACES. . lien ~ next, amd will consist of a great conin g base appointed t br ,sne lb ° picked watermen of the d v• The folloviing 1311 Pocock First SC. paired by t h e c • a - ' committee of of management• bell , }16 ,• a i n i d George Campbell s ; great boat races, in fl , i dor Heat—Charles and Henry CsniP ci , , F. Lott n_ard;T. Prince and J. Phelps; R. ;eritvel au .' ma S e e k cond Heat—T. Goodrum. , t , o d;, „,„ and H. Shelton; R. Doubledee ac . d , JeseP R. CoombesennY Cole and James ° ll k ' . P ll3 l _ h (the champion) and J. 101)Plug' 0 the P ie Leac and 11. Green. have been ..hich A It Prom the remarkably first-rate manner i l s n a " ot Tie - ip 4 e ri teu t bre i t , ek n is, however, considered that the struggle i ,; l ,, t p i ler '' lg ee e c ti e n e ci e jl for the two first places will be between -' R- t he and Pocock, with their partners; and, in t id, flii v o ubi vii i l e s; their e partners, will be placed. The roci ri g ea ts (t! l d 0 e at six o'clock in the evening, and th v e a b tnei tic; ; in number) will be rowed upwards from " to Hammersmith ______,------ qr s• THE COUNTRY MAl c2-114- 00 P; th e A ri re gril° Liens, JULY 30.—The arrivals of wheat 13 Rate OP of fine weather caused considerable dulne'gh' Were ° e n tbo t per quarter over last week's ; but at Frida(s"cd thar l °- f ly i ° im ite 20 Act The business done, however, much more day. Barley as before. Oats, shellingst aod be te 6 NEWCASTLE CORN MARKET, JUL Y SO . g 6UI value . . :0 0: r i . °S . f f t e i ld! a re sp tu ea rn t. of _fi o ne_ e Weather,.our market this motn7 witn . d ; a° Hld rs remain firm, d Wets 11 , co abr us d 110 1 1 Supplies from the interior small, 'an but rn libera l ir heat a° sa li the few transactions that took place in bethlirleY, oats' Saturday's prices were fully maintained. I ° '''.- e 011 . 1) ; other kinds A grain, no change to note. 30.- Th le tt' e el N . EWCASTLE CATTLE AIARKET, JDLV , 01 lO 6t 5 g of beef showed a decline of about '2OO heel from 00,m If ° ra te b h ot `'.' gaud quality very indifferent : trade dull at highe r clearance. The number of sheep and larnb s ,_ a , 0 ' n , st' than last Tuesday; both descriptions of stoe,,, r . i e sh e , el isitP request, and all sold. Arrivals-13easts, '',`,; l 4'ct 1;a; lambs, 6,400. Beef, 4s 9d to 60; mutton , " re i ° 44d to 51d per lb. ere ; 1 „!; . Entivatutott MEAL MARKET, JULY' 3°. - " Tl i j ghir i, ' 9 Y9 ''-' the meal market to-day 15 sacks oatmeal, trocal, each cr, e ''f a t l a - 0 4e 0 imperial, whereof 14 sold thus:-3 at 1110 s oe , 0 .1_,5. ''', it and 10 at 119 s 00. 2 sacks flour, which sold it.; d 6 5 " 3 0/ pot-barley,_ pi whereof 7 sold thus :—1 at 1 14 ' t)cl i : . Jt lli i 0°1 ; Oat E straw, N Bu ~,i to , RG fr ft om HAY AND STRAW 31A .... R o g f r i'6 s tone - 7 , Ohl ha hay, from ls t 7 o s wheat ditto, 6s Od to is v ditto, 6e Q v A t o &di, bae ' new ditt° , ° ': -, fier e - 0 1 ' l O s d 2 t d o o g d s ; I'd per kerapie per stone; JULY d ,, „... .Ther'_ e t v ee p DALKEITIi MEAL MARKET, ., _ hi d, w j et , demand. Oatmeal up 6d per bag on 48 bags oatmeal at this day's markets v''',l s ecoe",! - Dit o t he top an" d ' 4 , 04 Oatmeal, per sack, of 280 lbs. First S ee ld 9°' °I imperial .. Barleymeal, per ditto .— ... 5 0 ,„,..9 0 4 Peasemeal '•• Od ''''''"° d "" ..1 Od Flour ... ••• ••• '''' ..B od ...-5 ° / 6 Od Pot barley ... ... ... —s -1 ---s ... . —s Ot., 9ci 22: Od ! ... 9 3 0 jj ..,4 oj B BU eg d b d i l e e:B _2l----,-------- y 15 8 Aj COAL MAIMET.—YEstEI'D't • ..... 0; 'A 13s 3d Lembton ... ; I , .....' 1 45 0 , W ia . rt il le) a,rtley l4s 3d:Kecpier Grang . .......... . i b , 0 6 , ' Chester Main l3s Od Russell's 1: 114 ` .° .... .' 166 a j . D . a a vison'sWest Hartley 14s 3dlScarborough."' •....... 05 ' t o Ha sting's Hartley l4B 3d!Stewart'B ............... s . 0,4 Od Holywell Canfield Moor l'antield Moor Butes l3s Od Hartlepool ....... • ,„ Jo ,1 6 Walker's Primrose West Hartley Wylam .. '.. l3s 3d Whitworth ...... • . ..... ~ . 4 , vi.! Wall's End, &c. Adelaide Tee s : „.. 1 35 0:1 Acorn Close Benshain ...... ..... Gosforth .. , l4s Ocl:South Durba n " ....... ...' 1 45" i :;` Harton Walker ... 13s tid Cowpen Bart 6 . 37 . ;„ 14 , Eden Main ' • 14s ect Hartley .-....,;";_i.5e111,; ,il Bell Belmont l4s 9d Nixon's Paer.. . 1 44 t' Braddyll fletton Haswell ..._ 21 6 7 ,3 d Ip , atOd Sidney.% IlArtiwejsrlter, i f ?: ' ' Fay , t ioit t GOODWOOD R . (BY ExpitEss.) . 1 Duke of Richmond's Plate., s Wallflower Titbit ... Preslaw • I Teddington ... H ppolytus ... SALARIES COMMITTEE. Mr. DISRAELI wished to ask the Chairman of this Committee why its report had not been printed yet ? Mr. W. PATTEN said the report had been laid On the table, but still he could not answer the question. THE NATIONAL BALANCE SHEET. Mr. CARDWELL wished to know if the Chancellor of the Exchequer bad any objection to lay his balance sheet on the table. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER had none whatever. THE NATIONAL LAND SCHEME. Mr. F. O'CONNOR wished to ask the Secretary of the Treasury an important question. A man named Somer ville, who called himself " A Whistler at the Plough," and who had bean discharged from the army for mis conduct, had recently published a circular ; addressed to the Manchester school, with reference to the land scheme, in which he stated the enormous expense he had been put to for the purpose of putting it down. The only remuneration however he had received for all his trouble was a sum of money which he received from the Hon. Secretary to the Treasury for preparing a history of the Land Scheme and the bank, for the pri vate use of the chairman of the committee appointed to investigate the nature and origin of the company. Now ho wished to ask the Right Hon. Gentleman whether the money came from his own pocket or from the secret service fund. Sir G. HAY TER said although the Hon. and Learned Gentleman bad given him no notice of the question, he had a sufficient recollection of the circumstances to enable him to answer. The Hon. and Learned Gentle man had attempted to throw discredit upon the person to whom he raters, and whom he believed to be quite as respectable as the Hon. and Learned Gentleman himself. --(Cheers.) The man was never discharged from the army, and although this had nothing to do with the question, he maintained that Mr. Somerville purchased his discharge from the army. It was true that he sup plied him with some information on the subject of the Land Scheme, the collection of which cccupied more time than he could afford to devote to the matter with out remuneration, and he certainly did remunerate him for his trouble, not, however, as the Hon. and Learned Gentleman had insinuated out of the Secret Ser vice Fund, but out of his own purse.—(Cheers.) Mr. IIUME bore his testimony to Mr. Somerville's good character, and that his conduct since he lelt the army had been highly to his credit.—(Hear, hear.) BRITISH MERCHANTS AND THE GOVERN MENT OF TUSCANY. Mr. HUME asked Viscount Palmerston to state the amount and nature of the disputed claims made upon the Government tf Tuscany for injuries sustained by British merchants at Leghorn. Lord PALMERSTO — N said the claims made on the Government of Tuscany arose out of these circumstances. When there was a revolt at Leghorn the town was taken by storm by an Austrian corps acting as an auxilliary to the Grand Duke of Tuscany. After the town had been taken resistance was ()tiered, and some of those Austrian troops entered the houses of certain persons. Among others there was the house of a Mr. Hall, which was forcibly entered by an officer and a party of Austrian troops, who remained in the house for several hours, and when wines were brought into the house for the soldiers, The house was broken into and plundered of everything from cellar to garret, and the furniture was carried sway in shoulder ' loads. That was done at the houses of Mr. Hall, and the houses of a widow ltdy, and others, each of those houses being visibly marked as being residences of British subjects. It was for those losses, acting under proper legal advice, that compensation had been demanded. The amount of compensation originally claimed bad been very much reduced by a communication which had taken place Letween her Majeety's Government and the claimants, and the total amount now claimed v► as about 1,5301. Mr. DISRAELI suggested that inasmuch as the re port on public salaries could not be laid on the table of the House without the :evidence, which had nor yet been s printed, that the report be printed forthwith, and laid on the table, with the understanding that the evidence should be forthcoming. The SPEAKER was understood to say that that course could not be adopted, except by an order of the House. LAND TAX. Mr. WODEHOUSE put a question to the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether it is the intention of her Ma jesty's Government to introduce any measure for the purpose - of remedying the inequalities of the present land tax, as regards that portion of the tax which remains unredeemed, and which were particularly adverted to by the Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue, Mr. John Wood, in his evidence before a Committee of the House of Lords in 1846); or. for amending the present state of the law with regard to ap peals from the Commissioners, by giving a right of appeal to oue of the superior courts. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER replied that when the land-tax was first imposed, it was laid equally on all the property of the kingdom, but by lapse of time it had necessarily operated very un equally. It was not, at present, the intention of the Go vernment to bring in any measure to remedy the inequality PARLIAMENTARY VOTES (IRELAND) BILL. Sir W. SOMERVILLE appeared at the Bar at the House to request a conference on the part of the Lords, on the subject of this Bill, in the Royal Gallery. (LEFT SITTING.) THE GORHAM CASE. It is believed that the following Prelates have de clared their approval of the decision of the Judicial Committee of Privy Council in the late Gorham ease:— The Archbishops of Canterbury, York, and Dublin. The Bishops of Durham, Peterborough, Ely, Hereford, Lichfield, Cheater, St. Asaph, Wit. David's, Worcester, Norwich, and Manchester, as not affecting the doctrine of the Church. The Bishops of Salisbury, Gloucester, and Ripon, have returned ambiguous replies to the Tractarian addresses. The Bishop of Bangor dissents from the judgment. The Bishils of Rochester claims fur it " legal re spect." The Bishops of Exeter, Bath and Wells, London, and Oxford, are hostile. The Bishops of Lincoln, Carlisle, Winchester, Chi chester, Llandaff, and Sodor and Man, are not yet known to have expressed themselves on the subject. The two Universities of Oxford and Cambridge have each declined entering into the controversy; but about one-fourth of the members of convocation of the first mentioued have separately addressed the Archbishop of Canterburylagainst the decision. This address is signed by two only out of the twenty-four heads of colleges and halls, and six professors only—all of the Tractarian party—via., Professors Pusey, Hussey, Reay, Earle, Kenyon, and Cooke; and inaludes the names of Judge Coleridge and the well-known Archdeacons Thorp, Wil berforce, and two Scotch bishops, who, notwithstanding their secession from the English Church, retain their ❑ames on the university register as members. The uni versity of Cambridge has not moved. From a summary of the results of the agitation which has reached us, it would appear that the total number of clerical dissentients from the judgments through out England does not exceed 2,000 out of 15,000 ; and the number of laity who have come forward is insignificant. Afier the failure of the last efFort at St. Martin's Hall, which was remarkable for the absence of Mr. Gladstone, M.P., and others whose presence or absence on such occasions is regarded as in dicative of the probability of success or the reverse, ri e may dismiss the agitation as something beyond a Denison power to resuscitate.—Church and State Gazette. CONFESSION OF BENNISON. The man Bennison, who was found guilty at the Lligh Court of Justiciary, on Friday last, of the double crimes of bigamy and murder, and sentenced n of to d o u r his he e g s e u e l t el . e t t d li e t e :r o e n d c u h s e i f r e at r e o f G the , to be ex ecute d h ero on the 16th of Augutt, has made c ly a tri c a o l end before all prevent, that of the murder of his I wife he %as innocent ;" and that if the witnesses bad spoken the truth, '• he would not have been a guilty man before their Lordships that day." Notwithstanding of these solemn asseverations, he, in a cony, nation with his pastor, the Rev. Mr. Hay, of the Methodist:Church, Leith—who has beers most unremitting in his attention to the culprit since his condemnation —confessed on Monday that he had poisoned his wife on the Friday evenin g th a t she was alleged to have become ill. The confession is not, meantime, in such a complete state a s wou ld justify p u blication ; but we believe that a co py o f it has been transmitted to Sir G. Grey, the Secretary otnifststifhtyelleitsto.r the Home Department. Bennison, ever since the sentence was declared, has exhibited th e deepest contrition ; but although he ha unbosouted MIDLAND RAILWAY. Yesterday a special meeting of the proprietors of this company resident in Liverpool was held at the Clarendon Rooms in that town, in reference to the proposition (for the conversion of the 501. shares) agreed to at the general meeting at Derby. About thirty gentlemen were present. Mr. J. H. BXANCEER was calle'i to the chair. He stated that the object of the meeting was to organize an opposition to the measure which the directors had carried at the late meeting, and which was so adverse to the wishes and interests of a large minority. The di rectors, to carry out the plan, would have to bring a Bill into Parliament, but he felt satisfied that if duly met so inequitable a measure would never pass the Legislature; but, if necessary, those who dissented must be pre pared to carry their, opposition even to the Rouse of Lords.—(Applause.) It appeared, he said, that the directors had adopted the objectionable change pro posed, in consequence of a bill in Chance ry having been filed; and in order to escape from the personal re sponsibility which would otherwise attach. The Chair man stated that ho intended most strenuously to carry out the opposition ; the solicitations which he received from parties in London would warrant him in doing so, even were he not so well supported in Liver pool. He contended that no class of shareholders could illegally acquire any inequitable lien on another class of shareholders; and if the directors had done illegal acts on them the responsibility should rest, not on the proprietary. If the directors were to be acted upon only by their fears, and if one section of the company could force them into a concession of advan tages injurious to the others, then the other shareholders must also go into Chancery, and see what they could do. He for one would recommend that they should com mence as soon as possible to take proceedings against the directors to restrain them • from carrying out the inequitable proceedings which they intended. The chairman proceeded to analyse the speeches of Mr. Ellis, and of Mr. Carbutt, at the late meeting, and concluded by moving, That in the opinion of this meeting it is essential for the in terests of the proprietors of the Midland Railway, and for the maintenance of good faith amongst all classes of stock and shareholders, that the personal and sectional pretension of the 501. shareholders should be opposed by all legal and Parliamentary measures." Mr. PENNY seconded the motion, in which he stated that he cordially concurred; and after some words also of approval and condemnation of the directors, from Mr. Driffield and from Mr. Wills, the resolution was put to the meeting, and unanimously carried. The CHAIRMAN moved the next resolution—" That to organize and further such opposition, a subscription should be entered into, no one to be responsible for a further sum than that he should subscribe ; and request ing all shareholders to join in resistance to payment of any further preferential or guaranteed dividends" Mr. A. H. WYLIE seconded the motion, which was also carried nem. dir. A resolution was then carried that a petition contain ing the foregoing recitals should be presented at the re opening of Parliament, and the meeting terminated. HEALTH of LONDON DURING the WEEK. (From theeßegistrar-General's Return.) This return, in connexion with the two previous, in dicates a continuous increase in the mortality. of the metropolitan districts. The deaths which in the two preceding weeks were successively 781, 863, rose last week to 898. In the corresponding weeks of nine years (1840-8) the lowest number occurred in 1843, and was 749; the highest in 1848, when it was 1,201; but last year in the same week the deaths rose to 1,931, when pestilence rapidly multiplied its victims. The avert:Lee of the corresponding weeks of ten years (1840-9) is 1,022, which, with a correction fur increase of popula tint, becomes 1,115. The 898 deaths of last week, therefore, show a decrease on the latter number, amount ing to 217; ,bet it will be observed that the average is in part founded on the aggravated mortality of last year. The deaths from phthsis or consumption are still less numerous than usual, having last week been 121; in corresponding weeks they fluctuated between 120 and 156. In the class which comprises other diseases of the respiratory organs, the deaths, amounting to 74, also fall below the average. The zymotic or Epidemic class numbers 272 deaths; and though this mortality is not yet excessive as compared with that of the same week in some previous years, it shows a tendency to increase as the autumnal season approaches. Small-pox, measles, scarlatina, hooping-cough, and typhus, show less than the usual fatality or differ little from the average; but diarrhoea exhibits a rapid increase on the previous weeks, and has now risen above the average. The numbers from dim-tees in the last four weeks have been succes sively 40, 37, 51, and 104. Of the 104 persons who died of it last week, 84 were infanta under 1 year, 14 were 1 year old and under 60, and 6 were 60 years of age and upwards. Last week 13 deaths were ascribed to cholera, showing an increase, when compared with those of the previous returns; but an inv es ti gat i on o f t h e case s a s detailed in the registers proves - that in a certain propor tion of them i t was the common English form of tte complaint. In the Rectory sub-district, Marylebone, on the 24th July. at 11, Orchard-place, the son of a la bourer, aged 3 years, "cholera (24 hours)". " This (says Mr. Josephs) is a small house in the rear of a densely crowded place, well known in Marylebone, which, though in a much better condition than formerly, is still imperfectly cleansed and ven til a ted." Also in 75 Paradiseo the Rectory sub-district, smith,2, " The child had diarrhoea for a wee k p rev i ous . It s pa rents lived in a small fr ont parlour, with five other children. The locality is cr ow d e d." In St. John's, i o 2 July, the son of a ' Marylebone, at 14, Henry-street, on the 25th July, the son of a shoemaker, aged 1 year, " English cholera (5 days)." In the same sub-district, at 16, Townshend cottages, on the 24th July, the son of a labourer, aged three months, "cholera." In Islington East, at 48, King-street-terrace, on the 20th July, a working wo man, spinster, aged 38 yea rs , " c h olera (12 hours). had diarrhoel 2 days.' In West Hackney, at 13, Tottenham square, on 231 July, th e son of a contractor, aged 3 months, " English cholera (3 days)." In the Game neighbourhood, at 11, Tottenham-road. on 25th July, the daughter of a draper, aged 1 year, " English cholera (5 days), convulsions (12 hours)." In North St. Giles's in-the Fielde, at 12, Great White Lion -street, on 23d July, the daughter of a print er , age d 7 months,' " Eng lish cholera (7 days)." In Pentonville, at 9, Penton grove, on 23d July, the son o f a police-constable, aged 6 months, "infantile cholera." In Whitechapel-church sub-district, at 17, Colchester -street, on 24th July, the daughter of a shoemaker, aged 4 months, "Asiatic cholera (2 days)." Mr. Hems, the registrar, states that " the child was suckled by the mother for a fortnight, was afterwards brought up by hand. and never thrived. It was attacked with violent vomiting and purging on Sunday, recovered, and grew worse on Monday. when ' the medical attendant first saw the case, and pronounced it hopeless. The house is well aired." In Lambeth, at 39, Wotton-sereet, on 24th July, the wife of a printer, aged 25 years, "cholera (2 days), peritonitis (3 week s )." Mr. Mears states that "the house airy. It hasa cesspool." Also in Lambeth, at 8, Vine terrace, Waterloo-road, on 21st July, the wife of a stone mason, aged 24 years, "cholera (10 hours)."' " Thi s person (says Mr. Dews) had been in delicate health for some - months, and had only come the day before from Somersetahire." The medical attendant adds on his cer tificate that there " was no purging, all the other symp toms were urgent ent, the secretion of urine su'pended, the catheter was passed, but no urine in the bladder." The house is in an airy situation and well drained. In Lambeth, at 7, High-street, on the 19th July, a carpen ter, ter, aged 36, " A s i a ti c cholera (44 hours). , ' Mr. Har wood states that " th e deceased retired to rest about eleven o'clock in hi s us ual state of health, but in about two hours awoke w ith violent cramp, which was tol- lowed by sickn ess an d diarrhoea : these continued till death." In co m p ar i son with the a above thirteen deaths from cholera, r eg i s t ere d l a st week, it is proper to men tion that in the corresponding week of 1846 there w e r e in that of 1849, the deaths from cholera rose to 7 8 3. 26 from the same di se ase ; also 26in that of 1848; and SINGULAR FULFILMENT OF A DREAM.—On Friday evening last a young man, named Joseph Pixton, aged 22, t was bathing in the river Collin, near to Ashley - mill , when he was uinv(h)raipcir;liglyidnra hay field It appears that the deceased had been f i e ld throughout the day, and, being al t the mill, withparicularly cautioned whom he lived. though u l n h o o t t, t d o e d te o r s nonnbeydhitsorelations a Their reason for so cautioning him was that on the three previous nights he had dreamed that he was drowning in the river. Each morning he had related his dream to the family, and in joke told them who should have his clothing, &c., if it happened, and mentioned a young woman who was to have his watch. On the night in question he had been age, but an excellent swimmer , j um p ed into the swimming down the river. Ile left the water, and tol d the parties who w ere w ith hint that he would have a dive in a deep part e f th e r i ver. S o s aving he ran on the bank , sprang in headf oremost, and never w as seen afterwards. An alarm was given, a n d M r . D aven p o rt, who is upwards of sixty years of ge, river, dived several times, and tried all he could to find him but without succss. It was an hour and a half before Pix ton'a N body co u ld b e f oun d,—anchester Guardian. Sir Harry V erney transac ted business yesterday with the C omm i ss i oners o f R a il wa ys, at their office in the Bo ar d o f T rade. BO6TO N 1 JULY 16.—The Myrtle, Now York to Hali fax, United States, went on shore on Smith Point, Nan tucket, 14th July; cargo expected to be saved. " CONFIDENTIAL MEMORANDUM. " horse-Guards, May 14, 1850. "Her Majesty has been pleased to command that the candidates for commissions, and fur promotion in her army, should be qualified by knowledge and attainments previously to their appointment to commissions of the tint named, and to the promotion to superior rank of those thus appointed. " The qualifications required of candidates for com missions have been made known to their friends, and the time and place of examination will be stated in each case, so as that an examination may take place before any one is appointed to a commission. Before officers can be recommended for promotion to the rank of lieutenant in any regiment, the command ing officer must have them examined by a board of officers, consisting of himself, another field officer, it' there should be one present with the regiment, and the senior captain of the rejment; and if there should be no livid officer present with the regiment, the two senior cap tains present. " This board must report to the Military Secretary, (or the information of the Cemmander•in•Chief, that thp officers about to be recomm ,, nded for promotion to the rank of lieutenant are instructed on the following puint.:7 " 1. They must have a perfect knowledge of the stan ding orders of the regiments in which they are serving. "2. They must have a krowlelge and must give an account of the duties they have to perform as regimental orderly officers, and as officers commanding guards, or as subaltern officers of guards under command of officers of superior rank. "3. They must have a knowledge of the words of command for the manual and platoon exercise. "4. They must be able to put the company through the manual and platoon exercise, and be capable of ex ercising both a squad and company in the drill and evo lutions as prescribed in the first two parts of the regula tions for the field exercise of the infantry. " 5. They should know exactly the place of all the company officers in every situation of the battalion, whether in line, or in open, close, quarter, or half-dis tance column, and whether right or left in front. " 6. They must have a knowledge of the general re gulations and orders of the army, and of the Mutiny Act, and Articles of War. "7. They should be acquainted with the Queen's re gulations and warrants regulating the description and qualities of the necessaries of soldiers, of the price of each article, and the regulations applicable to the same. "8. They should know the weight of the knapsack; the weight of the soldier's firelock; of his pouch, with or without the ammunition which it is calculated to curry; of his accoutrements, with or without the bayonet; the weight of the musket, with or without the bayonet; of the bayonet., with or without the scabbard. " 9. In addition to such portions of the above as may apply to the cavalry service, the cornets should be re quired to be well acquainted with all their stable and barrack duties, to have completed their course of instruc tion in the riding-school, and to be able to exercise a troop both on foot and mounted. " Lieutenants who shall have entered the service since July, 1849, will be required, before they can be recom mended for promotion to the rank of captain, to have— " 10. A competent knowledge of geography. " 11. Of history, ancient and modern. " 12. Of the first six books of Euclid. " 13. Of the properties of the circle. " 14. Of algebra, to quadratic equations inclusive. " 15. Of the use of logarithms. " 16. Of plane trigonometry, and "17. Mensuration. " 18. They must have studied permanent and field fortification, and " 19. Have so far a practical knowledge of the science as to be capable of projecting a front of fortification, according to the first system of Vauban. "20. They must be - perfectly acquainted with the pro. visions of the Mutiny Act and Articles of War. "21. And with the forms and proceedings of courts• iaartial. "22. They should have studied some of the standard worko on courts-martial. "23. They must understand perfectly the evolutions of a battalion of infantry or regiment of cavalry, as laid down in the regulations for those services respectively. " 24. They must be acquainted with the light infantry drill. "25. They must perfectly understand the interior economy of a troop or company, the regulations for the messing and subsistence of the soldiers, and the esta blished system of keeping their accounts. " 26. They must have a knowledge of the Royal warrants which regulate the pay, provisioning, pen sions, rewards, periods of service, clothing and equip ment of the soldier. " 27. They must be acquainted with the general re gulations and orders of the army, more particularly with those for the Government and management of the troops embarked in transports or convict ships. " 28. And it must be a s certained that they are com petent to take charge of a company or detachment in every position in which It might be placed. " Lieutenants who entered the service prior to July, 1849, will, after July, 1552, he required, before they can be recommended for proinotion to the rank of captain, to have— " 10 (a). A competent knowledge of geography. " 11 (a). Of English history. " 12 (a). Of the first four books of Euclid. " 14 cr - ). Of algebra, to simple equations inclusive. "19 (a). And so far a practical knowledge or the science of fortification as to be capable of projecting a front or fortification according to the first system of Vauban. " 20 (a). They must be perfectly acquainted with the provision. of the Mutiny Act and Articles of War. ' "21 (a). And with the forms and proceedings of courts-martial. " 22 (a). They must have studied some of the standard works on courts-martial. •` 23 (a). They must understand perfectly the evolu tions of a battalion of infantry or regiment of cavalry, as laid down in the regulations of those services respec tively. " 24 (a). They must be acquainted with light infantry drill. "25 (a). They must perfectly understand the interior economy of a troop or company, the regulations for the messing and subsistence of soldiers, and the established system of keeping their accounts. "26 (a). They must ha►e a knowledge of the Royal warrants which regulate the pay, pro►isioning, pensions, rewards, periods of ser►ice, clothing and equipment of the soldier. " 27 (a). They must be acquainted with the general regulations and orders of the army, more particularly with those for the government and management of troops embarked in transports or convict ships. " 28 (a). And it must be ascertained that they are competent to take charge of a company or detachment in every position in which it might be place d. "It is to be distinctly understood that they are to complete the remainder of the course prescribed for the lieutenants who entered the service subsequently to July, 1849, before they can be declared eligible to become field officers. These examinations of officers for the rank of cap tain must be made by boards of officers, to be appointed by the commanding officer, composed of the three senior officers of the regiment, as far as relates to matters of re gimental economy, detail, or discipline, and must be re ported to the Military Secretary in every case of a lieu tenant recommended by the commanding officer to be promoted to be captain of a troop or company. "Till the month of July, 1852, officers recommended for promotion to the rank of captain in their several re giments need not be examined .on the points stated in Nos. 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, of this order, unless it should be known to the Commander-in-Chief that such officers had passed one year in the United Kingdom subsequently to theist of June, 1850, in which case he will require that such officers should pass an ex amination as required by this order for the lieutenants who catered the service antecedently to 1849. " Any officer of the rank of lieutenant in a regiment serving within the United Kingdom, who may have en tered his name as a purchaser of a troop or company, may, through his commanding officer, express his desire to be examined in respect to his required attainments, as specified in this order, upon which demand the Com mander-in-Chief will give such orders as may be proper and necessary. "Orders will hereafter be given to provide for the examination of officers serving abroad, in respect to their qualifications and attainments, preparatory to their being recommended for promotion to the rank of captain. " By command of Field-Marshal " THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON, Commander-in-Chief. "G. BROWN, Adjutant-General." " Horse Guards, Juno 6, 1850. "Sir,—l have it in command to explain, with refer ence to the circular memorandum of the 14th ult., that although the educational part of the examination of offi cers, preparatory to obtaining the rank of captain, is proposed to ho deferred for two years, the professional portion of it is to be carried into effect immediately; and that henceforth the qualifications of candidates for promotion to the ranks of lieutenant and captain respec tively, as far as relates to military evolutions and to the details of regimental discipline and economy, are to be duly ascertained by a board composed of the three senior officers present with the regiment, as therein prescribed, whose certificate must accompany all future recommen dations for promotion. " I have, &c., " G. BROWN, Adjutant-General. " Officer Commanding." COTTON CULTIVATION IN THE WEST INDIES.— MAN ti ESTER.—On Tues da y a meeting of spinners and ma_ fi nufacturers was held in the Clarence Hotel, by adjournment, to take into consideration a plan (by the medium of a joint stock company) for the cultivation of cotton in the West Indies. A sample of West Indian grown cotton was e x hibi ted, which the chairman stated to be long, strong, and worth ls. per lb. Mr. Hacking read letters from Messrs. J. Bright, M.P. the Right lion. I'. M. Gibson, M.P., W. B rown, M.P., J. Kershaw, M.P., G. Thompson, M.P., expressive of various opinions on the propriety of forming joint-stock comp3nies to promote the growth of cotton. Mr. Cross was addressing the meeting in favour of the cultivation of cotton in the West Indies when our parcel left. Amongst the gentlemen present we observed Sir E. Armitage, Messrs. 11. Ashworth, W. R. Callender, E. Ashworth, F. Warren, Alderman Morris, Rev. Dr. Pennington (an American of colour), &c. WOODS AND FORESTS —The total amount paid nut of the revenue of the Woods and Forests to the Commis sioners' law agent in Scotland during the four years ending March, 1850, is stated in a recent return at 7,1391. 16s. 1 Id., of which 4,1341. 19s. 7d. is for professional services, and 3,0!)41. 17s. 4d. outlay and actual expenses. The number o f suits in respect of which emoluments have arisen is 169. • .•• The Molecombe 'Stokes. ING, READING, ________---- - - 17------ ...,..................""*".......".".... 11414 rte ~,g, nA It be TR ' etS reli t tPd i ' s , The dividend of 10s. per share out of the 1,. , 1 o g, do t ht , the winding up of this company has been lo_: d ii poo. o f t ,, ,, declaration ot a further dividend will dePef,ebrolter7wl AND IiAdINGST‘,• covery ot a sum of 6,300/. advanced to f ib ff,sof ell' company, and of 2,5001. advanced to a cu wr Great Western Extension Railway. the lady of__Cap am D. McLeod. 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