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. • TITEnW NOVEL. .Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., • ANNEDYSART M ; Or, The S cotchinister's Daughter. " A fascinating work of art."—Examiner. " Very superior to the generality of novels."—Spectator. " Remarkable for Its talent and acuteness."—Literary Gazette. " Told with great spirit and power."—John Bull. " We have rarely met with a better tale."—Messenger. " Our literature h as found an Important and valuable acq uisition in the author of Anne Dysart. The story of this remarkable fiction is deeply interesting, and the characters most vividly pourtrayed." —Critic. Henry Colburst. Publisher. 13, Great Marlborough-street. NEW WORK BY THE REV. R. COBBOLD. Now ready, in 3 vols., with Six Illustrations, R - .ESTO/1 TOWER; OR, THE EARLY DAYS OF CARDINAL WOLSET. By the Rev. RICHARD COBBOLD. M. A• " Fra tight with deep interest, as a faithftil picture of one of the meat stirring periods of our history."—John Bull. " We heartily recommend this amusing and instructive narrative to all who admire vivid historical painting."—Standard. " Full of historic interest, illustrating the manners and customs of the age, and abounding in forcible anti startling interest."—Naval and Military Gazette. Henry Coiburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. NOTICE. This day is published, and may be had at all the Libraries, in 3 vols. post Svc., 31s. 6d. bound, JULIA HOWARD. A NOVEL. By Mrs. BELL MARTIN. Orders should be forwarded immediately to the Booksellers to secure an early delivery. Bichard Bentley, New Burlington-street. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. — THE L ST GRAND CLASSICAL AND DRAMATIC CONCERTED MUSICAL ENTERTAINMEST. Will take place on WEDNESDAY MORNLI(G, July 10, And will unite the talents of Mesdames Sontag, Catherine Hayes, Giuliani, Ida Bertrand, And Fre2iolllll ; Signori Coletti, Belletti, Lorenzo, F. Lablache, Lablache, Gardoni, Calzolari, Bitucarde, and Mr. Sims Reeves. The valuable assistance of M. Thalberg has been secured, who will execute some favourite pieces, and, amongst others, an admired Concerto of Beethoven, accompanied by full Orchestra. Conductor, .M. BALFE. Selections 'will, be made froin the most classical and admired authors, and will Include pieces not hitherto performed in this country. The whole resources of the establishment, Vocal and Instrumental, will be employed, and every effort will be made is justify the ,high character and patronage with which these per formances have beeu honoured. Parcxlt, Tir ER IifAJESTY'S THEATRE. -LA TEMPESTA. GRAND EXTRA NIGHT It is respeethilly announced that a Grand lExtra Night will . take plaoe• On THURSDAY next, June 27, " when will be presented the highly successful new grand Opera, by Haievy, thi Poem by Scribe; founded on The Tempest of Shs.kspere, and composed enressly fbr her Majesty's Theatre, _ t t• A • -LA TEMPESTA. . - The Incidental Dances by M. Paul Taglioni. - The• Scenery by Mr. Charles Marshall. Alfonso, Sig. Lor enzo ; Prospero, Sig. Collett! ; Antonio, Sig. F. Lablache; Ferdinand. Sig. Baucarde ; Trinculo, Sig. Ferrari; Ste phano, Madire. Patodi ycorax. Madlle. Ida Bertrand Spirit of, Air, Madame Giuliani ; iriel, Nadia. Carlotta Grisi ; Caliban # Lablache ; Miranda, Madame Sontag. Director of the Music and Conductor, Mr. Balfe. With various entertainments in the Ballet Department. in which., Mdlle. Carlotta. GrLsi,Mdlle. Marie Tagllont, and Mdlle. Amalla Ferraris, M. Charles, and M. Paul Taglioni will appear.., Applications foi Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be Wade at the Box-office of the Theatre. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE The nobility, patrons of the Opera, and the public are respectfully informed that TO-3101tROW:EVENING, Will be presented for the eighth time, ai entirely new grand Opera by Ilalevy, the Poem by Scribe, founded on " The Tempest" of Shakspeare, and composed expressly fer her Majesty's Theatre, entitled LA TEMPESTA. The Scenery by Mr. Ch.;rlesii:rstrall;i.he Incidental Dances by M. Paul Taglioni ; the Costumes by Mr. Combes and Miss Bradley, under the superintendence of Mme. Copere; the Machinery by Mr. D. Sloman ; toe Appointments by Mr. E. Bradwell. Dramatis. Persona:—Alfonso (King of Naples), Sig. Lorenzo; Prospero (Duke of Milan), Sig. Colettl ; Antonio (his brother, the 'Usurper), Signor F. Lablache; Ferdinand (Prince of Naples), Signor Baucarde ; Trinculo, Signor Ferrari ; Stephano, Mdlle. Parodi ; Sy corax, Male. lela Bertrand; Spirit of the Air, Miss Catherine Hayes; Ariel, Millie. Carlotta Grisi; Caliban, Signor Lablache; and Miranda, Madame Sontag, Courtiers, Soldiers, Mariners, Elves, Sprites of the Air and of the Deep, Ire. To concinde with 'a Divertissement, In which Mdlle. Amalio Fer raris, Mdlle: Marie Taglioni, M. Charles, and M. P. Taglioni rill appear. Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box Office of tire Theatre. ROTAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN. Third Night of Madame Viardot. Third Night of Le Prophete. • TO-MORROW EVENLY(} Will be performed with the following powerthl east, 3feyerbeer's grand Opel-a, LE PROPHETE, In which Mdme. Viardot will make her 3d 'appearance this season. Fides, Madame Viardot (the original representative of the part et the Grand Opera in Paris) ; Bertna, Madame Castellan (the original represeatative of the part at the Grand Opera in Paris, her 3d ap pearance in that character In England) ; Jean of Leyden, Signor Mario; Count Oberthal, Signor Tagliatico ; Sergeant, Signor Lavin ; Peasants, Signori Itommi and Soldi ; (harm, Signor Maralti (3d appearance in that Character); Malthisen, Signor Polonini ; Zac caria, ilerr Formes (ad appearance in that character). The Choir in the grand Coronation Scene in the third Act will combine the powers of a full Orchestra, the Military Bands, the Chorus, and Organ. The incidental Ballet in the Skating Scene will be supported by M. Alexandre and Siadlle. Louise Tagtioni (as danced by them at the Grand Opera at Paris), and comprises the celebrated Quadrilles des Patineurs. Composer, Director of the Music, and Conductor, Mr. Costa. The Doors will he opened at Halt-past Seven. and the performances commence at Eight o'clock precisely. Tickets for thoßoxes, Stalls, or the Pit, may be had (for the night sr reason), at the Box-ofllce of the Theatre, which la open from Ten Five. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Mr. R. Webster, Sole Lessen and Manager, Old Bromptoll. ruts EVENINt. Will be performed THE SWISS COTTAGE. To be followe I by an entirely new comic Drama, entitled NONE BIT f THE BRAVE DESERVE THE FAIR. Don Flores del Caro, Mr. B. Webster ; Don Pachico de Tremolo, Mr. Buckstone ; Don Rococo efe Friar, Mr. C. Selby ; Isabella, Miss Reynolds. Atter which THE ENCHANTED ISLE. To condade with the comic drama of THE ROUGH DIAMOND. The i'..,x-ettice Is ender the direction lf Mr. L T. Archer. THEATRE ItOYAL, tinder the direction of Madame Celeste. 'MIS _EVENING, Will be reproduced the celebrated Drama of TIIE WEPT OF THE WISII-TON.WISH:h Principal characters uy Messrs. Hughes, Cul. lenford, Wright, 0. Smith ; Madame Celeste, and Miss Woolgar. Atter which a new Terpsicorian Burlesque Entitled ESMERALDA. Characters . by Messsrs. 0. Smith, Wright, P. Bedford ; Madame Celeste, Miss Woolgar, and Miss K. Fitzwilliam. To conclude with a new and original Farce, in the Vulgar Vingue, tote caned JACK IN TILE GREEN ; or, Hints on Etiquette: PRPNCH FLAYS.—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Positively the Last Aright but Two of M. Lafont and Mdllo. Nathalio'a THIS EVENING The Performances will commence .t Half-past Seven o'Clock, with An entirely new Vaudeville, entitled JOBIN ET NANETTE. Te be followed by UN CAPRICE. Madame de Lery, Madlle. Nathalle. To be succeeded by ROGER BONTEMPS. After which M. Alfred de Musset's Proverbe, IL TAUT QU'UNE PORTE, SOIT OUVERTE OU FEMME. Le Comte, M. Latonte ; La Marquise, Mdlle. Nathan*. To conclude with the amusing Vaudeville of LA DAME DE TREFLE. _ _ Boxes ana Stalls may be secured at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street ; and at the Box-office of the Theatre, which !s open daily from Eleven till Five o'clock. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPLIITIIEATRE. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty. The best ventilated Theatre in London. The Grand Military Spectacle of the 'Affghanistan War. Brilliant Display of Equestrian Wonders in the Scenes in the Arena, by the first ArtLste:i iu Europe. THIS EVENING, The Entertninments will commence at Seven o'clock, with the immensely successnd , grand National Military Equestrian and Dramatic Spectacle (in three acts) entitled TILE. AFEGILANISTAN" WAR ; or the Revolt of Cabul and British Triumphs in India. Frodne . ed with every possible care to all its original and magnificent effects, calling into action the unequalled resources of the estab lishment. A Brass Band engaged expressly for the occasion, and a host of Auxiliaries. To be succeeded by an inimitable Display of Batty's Feats of Equitation in the Cirque Olympique. .• To conclude with LOVE IN THE HIGHL ANDS. Box•ofiice open From Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. Under the Patronage of het Most Gracious :Majesty, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, &e• &c. ' . ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. OPEN every MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, and THURSDAY. • Last Week but One of Mons. JULLIEN. The new Irish Quadrille, the "Hibernian," composed by M. Julilen. " The Derby .Galop," composed expressly for these Gardens, is one of the most successful of Monsieur Jullien's compositions, and.in consequence of the nightly encore, will be repeated till further notice. The Grand, Ghorka March, performed for the first time before the Nepattlese Ambassador. reodlgious %emit' . of the entirely new-modelled Dioramic Pic ture representing the I'ASSAGE of the ALPS by Napoleon and his A r my l the largest.Pteture in, the World! with innumerable moving Figures the size Of life. Modelled, painted, and produced by Mr. Danson'azid Son, assiSted by Mews. , Adams, Wilson, arc. &c. The Picture has 'occupied the Messrs. Denson for many months, and it is confidently submitted to the Public as a chef-d',eurre of art, and not inferior to any production of the day, The Splendid MENAGERIE has as lately been enriched bY'severa voluble Presents from the Queen. The Musical Department will be . eted by Mons. Jullien and e It will be the aim the Xstablishment to offer for . .410 614* -"gt e' a . titfcatien et _t he ti..lD,,i,gcrt..bet.hrs and e Pnblic. - the most' 'Splendid • 31 {MAU' l ia " • "`uv...% defected from the of her 3fajesty's Horse and Foot Guards, and the most erninent,Artistee In the profession. the engagements will, it Is hoped convhSte The fOllbwlngifet Of ed excellence of the „Band. otihis at lifo-lob*-sielisiow led g Repertoire .et Rum, Establishment will be fully maintained t will be' most extensive and 'varied, arr—.nced Popttiir --, from tb,e.mos Operas -this and other ' co untries.. Solo-P aY ers - --Meatirs. ICtem g Lazarus, Prosperre, Colinet, Pratten, Jarrett , Sonnenberg ' mess ,. and Winterbotham. and FYTatachnia During the evening a grand Colossal, Scenic, Tableau illustrating the celebrated.rieture by David, of li.on uonaofp ar th t e R Crossing the Alps ! Showing a general view of the Region Alps, stretching from the small Mountain lake in the , foregrolinA to the distant snow-clad mountains, crowned bY'ilie stupendous . Mount St. Bernard and its far-famed Monastery.' A portion of the French Army is first seen " en bivouac," presently tie drams beatto and amid the chuihorMilitity Bands and Martial Music,, the Troopf oomigieneertheA.seent,The Soldiers are aeon dragging the ArtlllerYin_ Trunks of Trees, now ascending almost Perpendicular Heights, and traversing the most Terrific Ita,yuses, but all difficulties are overcome, and the Gallant Army' , is seen pursuing its course to the Fertile Plains of Ital y ,' • The whom to cOncludie with a Gorgeous Display of Fireworks, by Megan, rwaktlibyit,intr9duoing, amongst various novelties, the most admired feux o'artince of former seasons, jets d'eau, water rockets, revolving pieces, h. magnificent Transparency fifty feet In height, painted by Messrs. Dsnsoin, . representing Buonaparte on Horseback cheeritig pn his Trix)Ps, surrounded by warlike emblems, insignia of honour, flags, tippilies,Pic., amidst a cerruscation of various coloured Ares, - The complicated and difficult machinery, and the erection of. the pietnre under the directions of Mr. Thos Lowe. The extensive gas littiugs by Messrs. Botelierby and Dixon, 23, King-street, Covent en- Oh Thursday, July'4, a Olt.tIND PETE in aid of the Funds of the Lintn-drapers, Silk-inercerS, Haberdashers, and Hosiers' Institution. ♦dmission, li. • A ROYAL Garr.--It will be remembered by those who have recently visited Windsor that among - the many improvements now in progress in ihat favoured town is the formation of a new road to Datchet intersecting a portion of the Park bn the north side of the Castle, which road, in conneximl. Wit, 11 a brid ge crossing the Thames near Black pots, now nesirly completed, will considerably shorten the distance from lndftr to that pretty village; between this roan and ' the 'Thad - 1'63 there are nearly 10) acres of the Home-park, the whole otwhich has just been given up by her Nfajesty for the sports and recreation of the inhabitants of Windscr• This important event was celebrated on Friday last b y a grand cricket-inatch betwein the new-formed 4 , Home-park"and the officers in garrison here,•which terminated in favour of the former, and a dinner of the in habitants took plate in the evening. , THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 24, 1850. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. This DAY —Morning 40 min. after 11 I Evening 0 min. after 2 To-Mosaow— Morning 20 min. after Evening 39 min. after THE WEATHER.—Sus OFFICE, Arriz 2t. THERMOMETER, IHt THE ► SHADE. 80—highest since noon yesterday. 53—lowest this morning and during the night. 75—this day, at noon. BAROMETER, 30.32 Wo - D S.E.—light breeze and fine sunshiny weather. reason to suppose that the extension which has been anxiously looked for, will effect any change in public opinion. Judges who could be entrusted with juris diction to the extent of 201. may safely be authorised to dispose of similar questions to the value of 50/., and there is no greater danger of an abuse of power in the latter case than in the former. But we would still desire to see a right of appeal given in all cases, whether above or under 201., with certain restrictions to prevent abuse of the privi lege. The absence of such a power constituted the chief defect of the fotmer Act. Questions of great importance may arise where the amount in dispute between the individual parties may be very trivial, not exceeding a 'few shillings, but where the principle may affect thousands, or even tens of thousands of pounds. Conflicting decisions may be given on doubtful points by different judges:; and it must not be forgotten that the County Courts have not the advantages of the attendance of practising barristers, nor of the regular reports of proceedings, which afford such great security to the suitors of the superior courts. The judges of these inferior tri bunals have no opportunity of seeing the judgments of their judicial brethren, or ascertaining the reasons on which they were founded. The very fact, too, of their absolute irresponsibility, the knowledge that there was no tribunal by which their decisions could possibly be revised, might naturally lead to crude and hasty judgments, and a degree of recklessness that would not be ventured on under different cir cumstances. The country wants " cheap law," but not " bad law," and the " right of appeal," if it would not altogether remove the possibility of the latter, would, at least, render it a matter of much less frequent occurrence; and would afford much greater security against vexatious demands, which might be founded, not on actual merits, but on some supposed prejudice or bias of the " judge" for the time being. The existence of an appellate jurisdic tion, which might be resorted to under any circum stance, would check many attempts at extortion, which should be discouraged as far as practicable. The privilege should not, however, be bestowed unless upon full security for payment of the debt and costs decreed by the County Court Judge, if his judg ment should be affirmed, and also of a further reason able sum for the probable expenses of the appeal• This security might be given either by lodging:the sum decided in court;with, say V. additional for costs of appeal, or by entering into a recognizance, with two sufficient sureties, to abide the event, which re cognizance . should be made free from stamp duty. No person would then avail himself of the privilege unless he had good reason to believe that he had a valid defence on the merits, and if such were the case it would indeed be impolitic to refuse, and to turn these tribunals, which might be a blessing, into a curse to the country. The only point worthy of notice in the proceedings of Thursday was a proposition brought forward by the Hon. and Gallant gentleman, the Member for the county - cif : Westmeath, that " barristers of seven years' standing at the Irish . bar should be eligible as judges of the county courts." This just and reason able suggestion was opposed by the Home Secretary, and negatived by a majority of fifty-three and yet, strange to say, the motion was purely an act of supe rerogation, for Irish barristers of that standing are, and at all times have been, eligible for the situation. The introduction of the clause could not, therefore, have improved their position, and its rejection cannot, consequently, affect any privilege they already possess. The persons qualified to act as judges are specified in the 9th and 10th Victoria, c. 95, a. 9, which enacts that "the Lord Chancellor shall appoint as many fit persons as are needed to be judges of the County Courts under this Act, each of whom shall be a bar rister-at-law, who shall be of seven years' standing, or who shall have practised as a barrister and s p ec i a l pleader fur at leastseven years," &c., Sec.' Now the phrase " barrister-at-law," in a statute passed in the Parliament of the United Kingdom, applies to Irish as well as to English barristers. There is nothing whatever to limit the application of the phrase. The Irish barrister is fully entitled to practise in either House of Parliament. His status in the profession is fully recognised by the house of Lords, as well as by the House of Commons. How then can it for a mo ment be asserted that, if the required standing be ful filled, the Irish practitioner is excluded, or disqualified from receiving the appointment ? The proposition was, therefore, as unnecessary as its rejection was insult ing to a high-minded and honourable body of men who, for character and acquirement 9, need not fear a comparison with the members of the legal professio❑ in any country. The Audit of Railway Accounts Bill (No. 2), which had come down from the House of Lords, was on Friday night negatived without a division in the House of Commons, on the ground that it contained clauses imposing additional taxation on railway com panies, and was therefore at variance with the un questionable privileges of the popular branch of the Legislature. The Right Honourable Gentleman the President of the Board of Trade, however, obtained leave to introduce another Bill on the same subject, and there is no doubt that the rejected measure, which is one deeply affecting the interests of all rail way shareholders, will again be brought forward. It may appear strange that a matter about which Ministers appeared so exceedingly anxious in the commencement of the session, and respecting which a most unseemly haste was exhibited, should have been permitted to lie over for so long a period— that it is now, in the latter end of June, the fifth month of the session, only commencing its progress, and that it will still have to pass through all its stages in both Houses of Parliament. A brief conside ration of the circumstances will, however, explain the causes of this extraordinary delay, and will furnish an additional illustration of the truth of the old adage) " the more haste the worse speed." had Ministers permitted a reasonable time to the delegates of the different railway companies to mature a measure that would be satisfactory to all parties, we should ere this have bad a Bill which, while it would have permitted railway shareholders to haie enjoyed the privileges which are not denied to any other body of Englishmen—the full control and manage ment of their own property, would have provided ample security to the parties interested, and to the community in general, against any unfair tampering with the accounts, or wilfully erroneous statements as to the condition and property of any of these impor tant undertakings. The Government, however, de sired to carry matters by a coup de main—they de sired to constitute a new board, with a considerable amount of patronage at their disposal. If they waited for the delegates this pleasing prospect would be completely removed. The gentlemen selected by the shareholders felt the severity of the existing imposts to. which railways were subjected and they were not very likely to approve of, .or sanction any proposition which gave a further unlimited power of taxation either to the Government or to any board or body of individuals whatsoever. Neither would they assent to the publication of the most private affairs of the companies—not for any alleged advan tage to the shareholders, but for the benefit of their competitors in trade, or with "a view to the rati ng o f railways"—a reason which the Commissioners gravely put forward as sufficient to justify their inquisitorial prying into the most private affairs of every company. No time, then, was to be lost in order to secure a b " e G en ov g e i r v n e m n audit."ednutringthe pre ceUnfortunate ly, dingsession a th p a r t o lk im ll i n se ist b e a r d s would take no step if the railway interests could agree on a Bill that would appear to meet the ex igencies of the case. A chosen body of directors had endeavoured to prepare such a measure, but the attempt was a failure. They could not agree among themselves, and, after sundry abortive efforts, they formally withdrew from the undertaking. It then remained fur the shareholders to make a vigorous exertion, or to consent to abandon themselves to the tender mercies of the Board of Trade. The alterna tive was by no mea ns pl eas i ng , an d consequent l y th e leading companies, at their ordinary half-yearly general meetings, held in February and March last, appointed delegates, in order to prepare a " Railway Audit Bill," on behalf of the shareholders. The chief qualification sought for was an avowed hostility to the principle of' Government interference, or indeed of any extraneous influence whatsoever in the con trol and management of Wain, and an unflinching de termination to preserve for the parties whom they res. presented the ordinary rights of property. The delegates thus appointed entered zealously and energetically upon their duties. They-met day after day, devoting their entire time to the performance of the important trust confided to their charge. But although the Railway Commissioners were well aware of the extraordinary progress that had been made, Earl GRANVILLE deliberately brought forward a measure in the House of Lords, alleging that there was " but little probability of any Bill being brought forward by or on behalf of the railway interest." His Lordship was speedily undeceived on this point! he was distinctly informed that a measure had ac tually been prepared, which would receive the final sanction of the railway delegates within the week, but still he persevered in forcing on his measure, which was read a second time in the House of Lords in the beginning of March. This Bill, as it now appears, was a palpable inva • sion on the privileges of the Commons House of Par liament. It provided that all railway companies should contribute, in proportion to the amount of their paid-up capital, sums amounting, in the whole, to the sum of 10,0001. per annum, and all such further sums as the new board, which was to be appointed pursuant to the Bill should consider to be incurred for the common benefit of all railway companies, which sums were t o be payable to the Board of Inland Re venue, and recoverable in like manner as passenger duties. This was, therefore, a matter that could not originate in the hereditary branch of the Legislature, that could only proceed from the guardians of the public purse, the representatives of the people ; but this obvious objection was overlooked in the anxiety to jockey the railway delegates and to outstrip them in the legislative race. On the 9th of March the delegates had finally ap proved of an Audit Bill, and had appointed an Executiv t e hr C o o u m sh lia mi p tt a e r et m o progress of the measure Parliament, the and to oppose the Go vernment Bill. This Bill was introduced by Lord STANLEY in the Lords, and was, as well as Lord GRANVILLE'S Bill, referred to a Select Committee nominated by the Government, and on which Ministers might calculate upon a decisive majority. Many members of the Executive Committee were most anxious to be examined before their Lordships' Committee, in order to give evidence in favour of their own Bill and against that of the Government. This privilege was, however, - denied, no witness being heard on any Bide—the Select Committee merely considering the provisions of the rival measures, and, finally, after an interval of several months, reporting against both, and in favour of a hybrid measure com pounded of both, and possessing all the disadvantages and but few of the advantages of either. We cannot at present afford space to enter into the details of this most objectionable, most unjust, and most impolitic measure. A close examination of its provisions will show that while it affects to bestow an option on shareholders to decide which system of audit they will select, it provides such means for taking the accounts from the bands of their own auditors, and bringing them under the cognizance of the Central Board, or th e " auditors of railway ac counts," as they are termed in the Bill, that the only real choice- is whether- they will submit to the board's audit alone, with all its heavy expenses, or have their own audit in the first instance, and that of the Central Board afterwards, with a double series of expenses. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. We have received the Paris journals of Saturday and of yesterday. The Dotation Bill still continues to excite great differences among the reactionary members of the Assembly. Several meetings of the reactionary members have been held on the subject, but no decision has been arrived at. The Petrie of Saturday says— " The members of the majority composing the Par liamentary Club, held, in ttie Rue Richelieu, flisernbled lasi evening to come to an understanding on the terms of an amendment equivalent to the Bill of the , Go vernment. The five members of the minority of the Committee, MM. Leverrier, Lefebvre, Durufle, Bavoux, Augustin Geraud, and Fortoul, were pre sent. Several representatives arriving from their de partments, stated to the meeting the feeling of the people with regard to the measure. They declared that the demand of the Government was popular in the pro vinces, and that the electors had expressed to their re presentatives their desire to see the grant voted. Several other members present made similar statements, adding that they had left Paris after the presentation of the Bill with a different opinion. The following amend ment, nearly au exact copy of Let - Government Bill, was then agreed to, • There is opened to the Minister of Finance on the budges of 1850 a credit of 2,160,000 f. for extraordinary expenses of the Presidency in 1849 and 1350.' M. de Dampierre has given notice that ho will move this amendment in the Assembly." The Ordre, the organ of M. ODILON BARROT, has the following mysterious warning:— " Whilst awaiting the information or revelations which the public discussion may lead to, and without paying too much attention to the rumours already more than once put in circulation and contradicted, we believe that the members of the Assembly who have in view on this occasion only the public interest, will do well to ask themselves this qaestion,—lf an ensemble of resolutions in a delay more or lees prompt, was to be submitted to us, and if we were not disposed to go to the extreme extent, which would be better both for success and to cover our responsibility before the country, a refusal, more or less disguised, opposed without delay even on a question of money, or a resistance which could come only after a concession made to the President of the Republic on this question, so delicate—resistance, which for that very reason could be much more energetic? Perhaps we have not arrived there, but it is well that it be thought of. Nothing would be more pitiable, it must be allowed, for a Sovereign Assembly, after the trials already passed through by France, than to have to say one day, and perhips before long, we have been surprised!" The PRESIDENT retrains inflexible ; he will have all or nothing ; he declares, that should the Bill be rejected or mutilated he knows what to do. The Pouvoir, the organ of theElys6e, has the following, on the report of the committee : " There are obligations . which custom imposes on power. To deprive power of the means of responding to such obligations is to depopularise it. Such is the truth. The reporter, acknowledging that the President has been obliged to have recourse to his private fortune for matters of public utility, offers to defray the cost of installation under the ridiculous name of ' national compensation.' Keep your compensation—no one has a+.ked it. A credit is demanded for the office, and not fur the man." The following account of a meeting of the represen tative Members of the Club of the Council of State held on Thursday night Appears in the Patrie; , -- " The meeting was never more numerous; about 300 representatives were present, and the discussion lasted till midnight. M. de Montalembert, who was one of the first speakers, declared himself in favour of the Bill; and, having just returned from a visit to the country, he added that it would be a mistake to suppose the pro vinces unfavourable to demand: He further said that the rejection of the measure would make the majority unpopular. M. de Kerdrel then spoke. He is, it is known, the author of the amendment for according 2,160,000 f. for the extraordinary expenses; and thero is every reason to believe that it will be on this amend ment that the compromise unanimously desired by the party of order, out of the Assembly, will be effected between the Government and the Assembly. M. de Kerdrel belongs to the. Legitimatist fraction of the majority. lie per fecty established his position with respect to his party, and the significa tion of his amendment as regards the Pre sident. His speech, it is said, obtained. very great success. M. Thiers, Who next spoke, warmly supported the Bill. He showed that it neither engaged the Ties., lion of Government for the future, nor the personal affections of Hon. Members. It is-saidsthat, in order to motives, jae said, ' I am neither Republican, nor Bona-' overcome the resist ance w hi c h was founded on these partist;and'yet I Shalt 'vote for the Bill.' M. Berryee followed. The eloquent orator first blamed the faults committed in the presentation of the Government Bill;' he declared that h e , cons id ere d it inopportune, and the manner in which it had been defende d o ff e nsive to the d di w g e n l i l t i y ng of o t a he th A e sae n m ec b e l s y s .' ity He nevertheless concluded withdedby posed the sum of 2,000,000 ° f! a ll LasPyrie compromise, and pro . Jules de. spoke i m th p r t t h a e n c e of same t e n ff e e effect, j at, o n r d i t y adopted on3 6i : n i therlgin same amount. M th . e p de r ß es r i o d g e l it, Broglie and M on . tMheoiidainngsiesrteodf, putting an e n d to like M. Thiers, on t he that union OR a quest i on o f money. The sitting was brought to a cl ose a thidit very great agitation. The Legitimati s t s are to meet t hi s evening; it is said that a numerous fracti on o f t h e i r party will separate from M. Berryer on this question." According to the Evenement a very violent scene t )ok place at this meeting:between M. Di LAROCHE-. aacquELlN and two Members of the Legitimatist party, which nearly terminated in a duel. The Ordre of Sunday has the following allusion to a contemplated coup t ( kat:— " The Bulletin de Paris and the Evenement speak this evening of a rumour which bad prevailed during the day relative to the appointment of a new Minister of War in place of General d'Hautpool. These rumours, which are of old date, are not altogether without foun dation. We believe, however, that the appointment al luded to depends upon much more grave , events than th a t of a simple Mini s t e ri a l modification.' The Patrie publishes a laboured defence of BaronGaos against the accusation of duplicity brought against him by Mr. WYSE'S letter. As a specimen of the meanness and equivocations to which General DE LAHITTE is compelled to have recourse, -we give the following extract from the conclusion of the article in the Patric : " This leads us to an explanation with regard to a phrase in the letter of recall of M. Drouyn de l'lluys, upon which, as we said at the commencement of this note, Mr. Wyse has fancied that he could support an accusation, that M. Gros had concealed from him the existence of the project of convention in question. It is said in that phrase that at the moment that Greece was compelled to cede to compulsory measures, the ea• sential bases of that project were already known at Athens. That is perfectly exact, historically and gram matically. " The dispatch of the 12th of April, brought to M. Gros by the Vauban, had already informed him of the conditions of arrangement upon which France and Eng land had already come to an agreement, the same which, a few days after the departure of that dispatch, became the bases of the project of convention ; but it did not inform him—it could not inform him—of the fact, of little consequence, moreover, that those conditions would be sent to him in the form of a convention regu larly drawn up, instead of being sent to him under the form of instructions." The writer of this article nowhere ventures to as sert that the essential bases of the project were known to Mr. Wvsn at the time that Greece was compelled to yield ; they were known to M. GROS at Athens because the steamer Vauban was dispatched with them specially from Marseilles; they were known to King OTHo, because M. GROS took care to communi cate them to him. They were known to Mr. O'BBIEN, to whom M. GROS also communicated them ; but they were unknown to Mr. WYSE, because Baron Gaos cautiously and purposely abstained from giving to Mr. WYSE the least hint of their existence. The lifoniteur announces that the Court of Assize in Paris sentenced on Saturday, and by default, M. TJMOLEON LIBEL, a member of the Institute of France, to ten years' imprisoment for having stolen from the National Library different works, manu scripts, &c. Letters from Toulon of the 19th inst. state that the Vedette steam-frigate arrived there that morning from the Piraeus, with Baron Gnos, the late Minister Extraordinary in Greece, on board. The Marseilles steam-packets had been placed in quarantine at Leg • horn, Civita Vecchia, and N aples, because the board of health of Marseilles had announced that a ship re cently arrived at Marseilles ' and on which a sailor had died of yellow fever, had been allowed to enter the port after performing quarantine. There has been but little doing in the Passage de rOpera, but prices are rather better ; Fives having been done at 94f. 25c. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, Jusx 22. Dutch Rhenish, lh—Luxembourg, I—Northern of France, 3%. SPAIN. Madrid journals of the 18th have arrived. A warm discussion had taken place between NAR. vim and the United States Envoy on the subject of the Cuban expedition. - MADRID BOMA, JUNE 18.—The Three per Cents , 33 13-16 ; Five per Cents., 12 13-16, both money, Exchange on London, 50 30. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TWO O'CLOCK. The sales of Cotton at Liverpool on Saturday were estimated at 10,000 bales, of which 300 American were taken for export, and 3,000 American, 500 Bahia, and 500 Surat on speculation. Extreme rates were obtained for all kinds, and the market closed with an upward tendency. The sales comprised 7,000 American, 300 Pernam and Maranham at 71d. to 7,31. ; 1,200 Bahia at 7il. to 71d.; and 1,200 Surat at 41d. to 51d. per lb.—ln Railway Shares a fair business was done, and, in some instances, at rather higher quotations. Wheat in Mark-lane is steady this morning, but other articles are dull. Considerable annoyance and inconvenience has been experienced this morning by the merchants and under writers at Lloyd's, and doubtless by commercial men generally, from the circumstance of no letters having been received from Liverpool, Dover, Gravesend, and other leading ports, and which arises, of course, from the stoppage of letters throughout England yesterday. The Hamburgh mail of Friday brings the quotation for Bills of Exchange, on London, at 13 7i, being 1 lower. There was an increased amount of paper offering. Money was in greater request. At Riga, according to advises of the 16th inst., the liquidation of the May accounts went off very easily. Amounts from Brussels again state, that a treaty with the Zollverein States was fully expected to be concluded. In the Amsterdam Bourse on Saturday a fair business was done in Dutch Securities. Spanish Bonds were without alteration, and Russian firm. At Frankfort on 21st inst. Austrian Metallics were quoted 79, and Spanish Three per Cents. 32 7 16. The following is a comparative statement of the arrivals and tonnage at Quebec from sea, in the years 1849-50, up to the Bth of June in each year:- 1849 ... 299 vessels. ... 115,631 tons. 1850 ... 334 „ ... 139,004 „ 35 „ ... 23,373 tons more this year. Comparative statement of arrivals and tonnage from the Lower Ports in the years 1849-50 up to the Bth of June in each year:- 1649 ... 14 vessels ... 972 tone, 1860 11 „ SOO „ 3 172 less this year. The journals at the various porta on the Upper Lakes of North America, all speak of the large number of vessels which remain unemployed there. Among them are many of the finest craft in the country. At Oswego there are a large number of lake craft not yet brought into service. Information had been received out of 10,144 steerage passengers having embarked from British and Irish ports for Quebec. In deprecation of the annexationists, the Toronto Globe remarks :—" Is not the Government of Canada in our own hands, and if every complaint is not redressed is not the blame our own ? Is not our Government the best and cheapest in the world? And is not the Go vernment they seek to unite ua to far behind both in theory and practice of liberty ? Many annexationists admit all this. But they want the,2o per cent. duty off Canada wheat and - the - 15 per cent. duty off our timber, and just because the United States deal with us illi berally we must join them. Strange reason for a union! We owe much to Great Britain for her unpaid protec tion, and she is ready to do anything in her power for us. It is owing to this that oar taxes are so low, and yet we must abandon, her.; and join that which not only is commercially illiberal, but would impose double taxes upon us. The 20 per cent. wheat duty, as we have often shown, is little more than a dead letter, and when small quantities are occasionally taken for the United States consumption, the importers generally manage to pay far less than the nominal duty, while the additional taxation, if we were united to the States, would amount to the whole price of all the wheat exported to every place. The timber duty may, to a small extent, restrict the quantity and diminish the price in Canada; but the Ame ricans must take our wood, for they cannot get it any where else. Such silly reasons for annexation are a mere pretext to hide the disloyalty which has taken fast hold of these undutiful and ungrateful subjects. They are nearly as worthless as that of one of the members of Montreal, who would send us to the United States, because he alleges he got some foolish answers from a clerk in the Colonial-Mice, to some remarks which were probably as foolish as the answer." There is a very firm market for public securities, and this in the absence of extensive dealings. Consols bare been 96k The debate of this evening is looked for with considerable interest, the more especially as reports are being circulated that the majority for Ministers will not be so large as could be wished. The New Three and-a-Qearter per Cents. have been 98 to 98k, and the Three per Cents. 96i Bank Stock has beets firm at 209. Exchequer-bills have realised 675. to 695. prem., and India Bonds 85s. to 88a. The Foreign Securities have been quite neglected. Mexican Bonds are about 30. Peruvian Four-and-a Half per Cents: have been done at 771 to i; and Russian Four-and-a-Half per Cents. have been marked 97i. Railway Shares have been very quiet, and at abou previous rates. QUARTER TO THREE. Consols for opening ... .. ... 96 96i ONE CLOSIITG PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS O'CLOCK. PRICES. hlanit Stocx 3 per Cent. Redueed Anne New VA per Cent. Anna... 98 1 ,E 98 98 IA 98 i,ong Anne. to expire J an. 1860 3-16 India Bomb., 1,0001. BB p 86 p Ditto undeil,ooo/......... B5 isB p Consols for Account 9 6 ,4 Exchequer Bills. 154 d. Zs 2d 1,0001. June 500/. June Small. June 7O p 88 i) 9611 69 p 67 p 70 p ONE CLOSING PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES. Grenada Bonds, 1% per Cent. —1 8 1 A Mexican, 5 per Cent.lB46, with Coupons— Ditto, Ex Jan. Coupons .... — Ditto, Account Peruvian Bonds, 4% per Cent 7710,4 77% 8 Russian Bonds Ditto, 4% par Cent Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840 — L 17% Ditto. 3 per Cent Ditto, Account Dividends on the above payable in London. 38% PRICES OF :BUSINESS DONE CLOSING RAILWAY MARES. PAID ' AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES. Caledonian Eastern Conaties... Do., New Pref.rence, 6 per Cent ....—.... 10 Ditto,Extension, 5 Per Cent., No.l 61.135. 4d.... p Ditto ditto, No. 2...61, 13s. 4d... p ......... Do. North. & Eastern, 6 per Cent. Ditto. 5 per Cent... 50 Do. New Great Northern Do., 5 per Cent. Pref 12% I O 3A ... 10 1 4 Great Western 100 - P is P r 000000000 .••"• 59 Ditto. Now 171... ... 15 ... ~ 7 3 / 4 7 3 /4 Lancashire & Yorkshire 100 Po. Fifths... .. 11% l% ..... ... ...... 13i, Do. (W. Riding Union) 11% Leeds and Bradford 50 London &Blackwell-11/. 68. 3d... 4 1 4—. London and N. Western ltXt 109% 108% lO9 Ditto, New Quarters 12 London ts &Western .AOO ...... 60 , A 1 / 2 CO Midland Do.. 501. Shares Norfolk 100 Do. Guaranteed 5 1 / a pc. 5 North Britinh ........ ... 25 , . Ditto Preference . 5 ...... North Staffordshire ... 17 1 , 1 VA % 6% Preston & Wyre 25 ... .. _— Do. Do. % Shares (A) lO ,—. Reading, Guildford, and Reigate Shrewsbury and Birm... 13 1 4...... dis. — dis Ditto, New Guaranteed 8 —... 9 .... ..... ... , 40ott, 4Ast.r. .. . 3 3 1% 14% % 14% South Yorkshire, Don caster, and Goole York, Newcastle, and Berwick. .... ......... 25 Do. Newcastle Eaten. 20 Du. G.N.E. Preference 8 ... 3 2% FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Luxembourg Paris and Rouen; 2O 21 5 / 2 22 MINES. Santiago de Cuba.. lO - „JD II 0. I.lti L, • -4e It r • .* h -AA 0 , 7 1 f 4110% DIE v • 0 • 11 ' ^"' altalt LONDON, MONDAY, JUNE 24, 1850. From what fell from Lord BROUGUAM in the House of Lords on Friday evening it appears that her Ma- USTI ' S Ministers have counselled their Royal Mis tress to commit an act of very doubtful legality, in truckling to the bigotted fanatics who are agitating for the Pharisaical observance of the Sabbath, and striving to turn that which should be a day of rest and rejoicing to all mankind into a season of gloom and seclusion, to be as much dreaded and disliked as it is now eagerly desired and looked forward to by the industrious classes. The impolicy and inexpe diency of the change was admitted on every side. The enormous inconvenience that must neces. fierily be felt and stations by persons of all grades in society from the total stoppage of all means of communication on one, or, we should rather say, on two days in each week, was fully understood by the Government. And yet they wilfully and deliberately advised their SoYHUIGN to yield a prompt and willing obedience to an address voted by surprise, in a thin House, during a race week, in the interval between the , Derby and Oaks. The puritanical faction—sufficiently wise in their generation to appreciate the opportunity afforded by the absence of those who in the spirit of Englishmen enjoyed the old gnglish sports and pastimes—mus tered in unwonted numbers. The signal went forth that Lord ASHLEY, from whom we should have 'expected better things, was about to make an onslaught on the Post-office authorities for affording any convenience, however trifling, to the public on the Sabbath. If successful in the attempt there was no knowing to what extent they might succeed in destroying the comforts of their fellow citizens, and rendering the day one of general morti fication. As, according to their narrow prejudices and jaundiced views, true religion consists in a sour countenance and ascetic disposition, they would take care to destroy everything that could lead to innocent mirth and harmless gaiety. " Soul destroying news papers" should be kept from the hands of those who would have no time to read the narrative of daily events on other days. The influence of the press, that tended so much towards liberalising the nation, would thus to - a certain extent be got rid of, and priestly domination and super stitions observance might once again prevail thrOughout the length and breadth of the land. " Profane walking abroad" on the Sabbath might be conidered a high crime and misdemeanour, punish able with a good long term of imprisonment, or, in the case of hardened offenders, on a second or third conviction, of banishment from what might then, at least, be termed " the land of saints." Absence from the parish church would, of course, be visited with a heavy fine, or incarceration with hard labour in the nearest Howe of Correction in default of payment, and a power of summary conviction would necessarily be given to godly magistrates, and the dialect of what once was Merry England would be changed into the slang of the conventicle and the blasphemous abSurdi ties of the Praise-God-Barebones of modern times. The great desideratum was to introduce the " point of the wedge," and that was effected by the hasty re solution adopted by an insignificant clique. Perhaps it was that Ministers desired to punish the people fur the numerous defeats they had sustained of recent days. Perhaps the Chancellor of the Exche quer was brooding over the " snubbings " he had so repeatedly received from the House. Perhaps they wished to give the Agnewites " rope enough " in order that they might thoroughly disgust the people with their absurdities. - Whatever might be their motive, they immediately bowed down before the unseemly idol which was set up for general worship. Her MAJESTY'S directions were given to carry the de sired changes into immediate execution, to over set the deliberate legislation of the three estates of the realm on the hasty resolutiun of a sin gle branch of the Legislature. Thanks, however, to Lord BROUGHAM—to '"HARRY BaouGnAM," the liberal and constitutional lawyer, the advocate of true liberty the illegality of the course so unwisely adopted has been pointed out. The new view of the case which the Noble and Learned Lord exhibited came by surprise on the Government. The point, when once noticed, was like the " egg mystery" of CoLumaus, sufficiently obvious to the meanest capacity. It was clear that a solemn compact had been entered into between the Crown and the people, ratified and sanctioned by the "three estates of Parliament," The people assented to a certain amount of taxation and charge upon every letter that should be transmitted through the Post office, and in order to render the charge productive to the revenue various statutes were passed prohibiting the transmission through any other sources. In return, and as an equivalent for these great advantages, which produced a handsome item in the national balance-sheet, the Executive undertook to forward these communications with all convenient dispatch, and penal laws were enacted, subjecting to severe punishment any of the Post-office functionaries who should wilfully delay the delivery. It is but a few days since an unfortunate letter-carrier was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment, with bard labour, for detaining some circulars that had been entrusted to his bands for delivery ; and yet, on the advice of its responsible Minister, the Crown has ordered certain officials in its employment to deliberately vio late the law and set at nought solemn enactments. This is clearly and unquestionably illegal. It is an undoubted principle of law—indeed, it is obvious to any man of plain common sense that no instrument can be annulled, no regulation abrogated, by any less authority than that by which it was created. The provisions of a deed under seal cannot be altered by a mere agreement, even if between the same parties. For the same reasons an Act of Parliament cannot be altered by the resolutions of both Houses, approved of by the Crown, and a fortiori by the hasty resolu tion of one House only, on which the other had not been consulted. We trust that Ministers will no longer persevere in the fatal error into which they have fallen, but that they Will proMptly retrace their steps, and, if so, we shall perhaps not be inclined to 1 1F,se an Act of Indemnity freeing them from the consequences of the unquestionably illegal act they have already committed. The County Courts Extension Bill was on Thursday read a third time in th e H ouse o f C ommons . Thi s important measur e has thus received the sanction of p ula r 0 p b p r o a s n i t c i h o n osfhothuld obstruct its prog ress if no in e Legislature • and the Lords, it will speedily becameunexpected the law of the land. From the fair and honourable conduct ex hibited by Ministers, who, notwithstanding their admitted dislike to the Bill, not only *Withdrew from all opposition, but even assisted to render it as perfect as possible, we entertain the most sanguine exp e ct. tations that it will neither be rejected nor mutilated in the Upper House. The right of appeal, which was so strongly insisted on in the Commons, but which was, we think, unfortunately rejected, will probably prove the chief subject of debate, and will possibly form, the only material point of difference between the Houses. Other minor alterations may perhaps be made, but none of any real importance, affecting the principle of this just and salutary measure, as calcu lated to endanger its ultimate safety. We may, there fore, venture to congratulate the public on the valua ble reform which has thus been almost achieved, and by which'cheap and expeditious remedies will be af forded for the recovery of small debts and demands not exceeding 501. The operation of the law, so far as it has hitherto been tried, has, with some trifling iexceptious, given great satisfaction, and there is no JOINT STOCK BANKS. Commercial of London 20 CONSECRATION OF THE NEW CHURCH OF ST. BARNABAS, SOUTH LAIIBETI - I.—The above church, which has been erected by voluntary contribution, was this morning consecrated with the usual ceremony by the Lord Bishop of Winchester, attended by his chaplain, registrar, irc. i &c., in the presence of the Venerable Archdeacon of Surrey, the Rev. C. B. Dalton, Rector of Lambeth, the Rev. Mr. Harker, the new incumbent, and about twenty of the district clergy. GRAND SCOTTISH FETE IN HOLLAND PARK.— The grand Scottish fete is fixed to take place this year on Monday, Ist, and Tuesday, July 2d, in Holland Park, the use of which has on a former occasion been kindly granted to the Scottish Society by Lord Rolland. There will be a grand competition for the championship in archery and the Scottish national sports and pastimes under . the joint direction o f th e Highland Society and of the Scott ish Society. The members of several archery clubs have enrolled themselves as com petitors. The fete is under the joint patronage of the Queen and Prince Albert, and Mr. A. Mackay, her Majesty's piper, will be (by special permission) in attendance. We believe this will be the most magnificent fit of the season. EXTRAORDINARY FISHING.—On Thursday last, Mr. Radmore, of the Globe Hotel, and a friend, while fishing on the whiting ground, about three miles inside the Eddy stone, in a free yacht, hooked a bottle-nosed shark, about 30 inches long, which he secured without much difficulty. In a short time afterwards a tremendous pull on one of the lines indicated that another ugly customer had taken the hook; and after three quarters of an hour's play, if it might be so called—but more correctly speaking, it should be termed hard work—" a monster shark," of the blue species, was brought, by the excellent management and extended patience of these gentlemen, to the edge of .the water, almost in an exhausted state; a bight of a rope was then slung just within its tail, and it was safely got into the boat. It mea sured 6 feet 2 inches in length, and weighed about 60lbA. What renders the fact of such a large fish being taken tinder such circumstances more extraordinary, is that the gear in use was of a fine description, simply adapted for whiting fishing. These extraordinary fish were brought to the Globe in the eYening, and formed a subject for the curious in these matters to examine. The party were successful in their sport, as they took twenty dozen fine whiting and bream. — Plymouth Herald. EARTIIQUAKE.—A smart shock of an earthquake was felt in Comrie at a nuarter to nine o' clock on the morn ing of Saturday last, accompanied by a loudru mbl s in c g ot n n o n i a s n e which appeared to proceed from under the houses.— The Rev. W. Maskell was received on Saturday into the Ronan Catholic Church at the chapel in Spanish place, PORTUGAL. Accounts have been received from Lisbon to the 9th. The Bill regulating the press was still before the House of Peers. It was said that the Count of THOMAR was about to have recourse to an extensive creation of Peers, in order to ensure its passing. HEE MAJESTY'S SHIPS AT LISBON, JUNE 19. Her Majesty's ships Prince Regent, La Hogue, Leander, Arrogant, ♦rethnsa, Phaeton, Conflict, and Encounter (her Majesty's ship Indefatigable sailed June 16, and Thetis June 17); French frigate Mi nerva, Phsenixi war . steamer, Russian frigate Pallas and Karnychatk steamer, sailed June 12. Arrived' the United States steam-frigate Mississippi, June 19. GERMANY. The Prince of PRUSSIA arrived at Berlin on the morning of the 19th, and, after a conference with the Ministers, proceeded to Potsdam. The same evening he was to go on to Ostend, and thence to London. " This journey," says the Cologne Gazette, "may be considered as very important for the affairs of Europe in general." The Prince of PRUSSIA was in England in the spring of 1848, and was in constant communication with the Lieve-Guizot-Metternich clique, which planned the reactionary proceedings going on ever since in Europe, and which got up the ex pulsion of Sir HENRY BULWFR from Madrid, in hopes of at the same time of ejecting Lord Pludaits- TON from effice.-- He was in constant - dom mun ication with cet excellent ABERDEEN, and the Tory chiefs of the Russian party here, and he now arrives in England post haste from the Emperor of Russis at Warsaw, on the eve of a debate on the foreign policy, on the event of which the existence of the Ministry depends. Is he the bearer of any com munication from the AUTOCRAT to the English ser aisintoisttrhye p w e h rs ie o h nne t / h a e n y d phoolpicey to o f th in e a n g v si i a le t i k s, u ew rat it e u i s n England on the downf4l of the English Minister, Lord PALMERBTON ? On the 19th the tribunal of Griefswold found M. DE HASSENFLUG, President of the Council of Ministers of Electoral Hesse, and Plenipotentiary of Hesse to the Congress of Frankfort, guilty of misappropri ating the public funds as a Prussian Minister, and passed on him a sentence of a fortnight's imprison ment, the repayment of the sum misappropriated, and payment of the costs ; and also declared him inca pable of filling any public office in the Prussian ter ritories. The Provisional College of the Princes held a sit ting at Berlin, on the 20th, and appointed a com mittee to draw up a code of regulations. Art. 181 of the Constitution declares that the judgments of the German tribunals were to be executed in all the ter ritories of the Union, and that a law was to fix after wards the rule in that respect. The College of the Princes has decided that the Governments are to be invited to transmit to it the laws and treaties concern ing the matter, and to communicate their own views respecting it. The PRESIDENT announced that the Minister of the Interior would speedily send a com munication relative to the diplomatic negotiations concerning the Union. A letter from Frankfort says it has just been de cided that no state can take part in the deliberations of the plenary assembly unless it recognises that body as having a legal existence according to the federal compact, and thereupon Prussia received a reply al together negative to the propositions which she bad made in the interest of union. The plenipoten tiaries have demanded new instructions, and await the resolution of the Prussian Minister. The new Gazette of Munich states that .Count DE BERNSTOTT, the Prussian Ambassador at Vienna, has received instructions for regulating the question in dispute relative to the affair of Germany, and particularly what concerns the position of the Federal Assembly. ITALY. A 'duel took place on the 15th, ten miles from Turin, between Colonel ASSANTI and M. SOLER. The cause was that the latter had written against Meras, and the former had taken his defence in no measured terms. The duel was fought with pistols, it being understood that it should continue until the result was fatal to one of the combatants. M. SoLen fired first, and missed; M. ASSANTI, on the contrary, hit his adversary in the head, and laid him dead. The Osservatore Romano publishes a letter from Fossombrone, Ist inst., announcing that another mira culous image of th e irgin has commenced to move its eyes in that town. Except its smaller size, it is the exact copy of that of the Very Reverend Fathers of the most Precious Blood at Rimini, and belongs to a woman called the Fattera, to whom it was made a present of on her wedding by a Monsignor who is not' named. It is added; that this image began to move its • eyes almost at the same time as that of Rimini, and the miracle was at first observed in pri vate by- the owner and some of her female friends. The Bishop, Monsignor .UGOLIN/, afterwards got it placed in the Episcopal Chapel. A commission of theologians, named to give its _opinion, declared itself satisfied of the fact, and made a favourable report, in consequence of which the statue was transported to the Cathedral, where, says the letter, it now cures the halt, the blind, the dumb, and the deaf. Im mense sums have already been received for alms by the Church on account of this wonderful miracle. • The Giornale_ di Roma publishes a decree of the director of police at Rome,: in which it is stated that the measures hitherto taken for disarming the popu lation have been found insufficient, and that, conse quently, all persons who are in possession of arms were to have given them up by the 20th of June ; after which period those who are found in possession of arms will be prosecuted according to the notification of September 30, 1849. Accounts from Naples of the 13th state that the French fleet in the bay of Naples was a very large one. It is under the command of three admirals, namely, Vice-Admiral PeaszvAL-Dzscrums, and Rear-Admirals VAILLANT and DUDOURDIEU. Admi • ral TREHOILIRD had arrived at Naples, on his way to the Levant, where he is to take the command of the fleet. PHYSIC FOE THE &Tam—Lord Ashley and his Sabbatarian friends will rejoice to hear, after all their pains to atop the delivery of Sunday newspapers, that the London and South-Western Railway Company have volunteered, pending more complete arrangements, to receive at the Waterloo-station, and forward to any station on the line, on payment of one penny, newspapers addr'ssed to private in dividuals, and directed to be left till called for. They must be open at both ends. In addition to the stations at Water loo and Nine Elms, newspapers may be left at the following places :—Hamburgh Whar4 Upper Thames -street ; Swan with Two Necks, Lad-lane; Spread Eagle, Gracechurch street ; Cross Keys, Wood-street; Golden Cross, Charing cross; Universal Office, Regent-circus; George and Blue Boar, Holborn ; Griffin's Green Man and Still, Oxford street.— Weekly Dispatch. TRH ARCTIC EXPEDITION. — Accounts from the west coast of South America mention that her Majesty's ships Enterprise and Investigator had passed through the Straits of Magellan. efotrti 12bitton NEWCASTLE RACES. (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) Tyne Stakes. ... walked over First Triennial Stakes. Wish The Prior of Laneroost The Bar&ness Miss Dagleish Whim ... „ .tht• • • . - ... ... 1 .. 2 ... 3 ••• ••• WOlaYit held. ... 4 LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, JUNE 24.—Wind at noon E., light breeze, and fine clear, sultry weather. NEW YORK, JUNE 11.—The British brig Brazilian, Porto Cabello to this port, was wrecked on the S.E. side of St. Domingo, about 6th April; three of the crew saved, the master and remainder not since heard of. ST. LTBES, JUNE IB.—The Rosins, of Kirkaldy, Carthogena to Newcastle, foundered off Cape St. Vin cent 6th inst.; crew saved and landed at Sines. The Presto, Trapani to Norway, put in Bth inst. very leaky, and has discharged to repair. JAMAICA, MAY 29. The Hebe, of Alloa, was wrecked at G alera Gambia, Columbian coast, 23d April; crew and part of cargo saved. NORFOLK, VIRGINIA, JUNE 8 —The Invincible, Newport to Baltimore, on shore in Carrituek Inlet, 18th May, has been got off and brought in here sth inst., leaky, much strained, and otherwise damaged. HALIFAX, N. S., JUNE 13.—The Virginie, of Ari chat, was lost near Scataree during a thick fog, 26th May. DEAL, JUNE 22.— Wind S. to S.W.—Arrd. Ellen Buck ham, Hong-Kong; Isle of Wight, Mauritius; Wallace, Myer, Callao; Commerce, Yull, St. Domingo; ()den, Seth, Porto Rico. Arrd from the River, Harlequin, Cape of Good Hope; her Majesty's ship Dolphin, Coast of Africa. Arrd. from the River and sailed, Primrose, Boston. Sid. Marian, Bombay; Tweed, Cape Coast Castle. Ory THE WlGHT.—Plantin, Buenos Ayres for Ham burgh. FALMOUTH, JUNE 22.—Wind W.S.W. to Off port, Rider, Porto Rico for Havre; Dolphin, Ha vannah; Adolphus Yates,Havannah; both for Guernsey; Rattler, Goldsmith, Hobart Town; Soundrapovy, Angel, Jaffa, and sailed for Londonderry. SCILLY, JUNE 21. Wind W.S.W.—SId. Olinda, Ceylon. LLANNA.DOCK, NEAR SWANSEA, JUNE 22.—A head board, with the name Ottawa painted on it, has been picked up in Rhosilly Bay. Several cocoa-nuts have been seen floating about near the Helwicks, and a few have come on shore in the above bay. FISHGUARD, JUNE 22.—The John Guise, Glasgow to Newport, struck on the lower ledge in Aberithy Bay yesterday and filled; crew saved, but verse' expected to become a wreck. LONDONDERRY.—SId. Julia Heyn, New York; Bengal, New York. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE-(MONDAY.) The country markets held on Saturday were but mo derately supplied with both English and foreign Wheat, the demand for which ruled heavy, on somewhat lower terms. Barley and Malt were very slow in sale, but not cheaper. Good sound Oats:and the best Flour were in steady request. In all other articles very little was doing. At New York on, the 18th instant, both Wheat and Flour sold to a fair extant, at lull prices. In the Baltic and Black Sea ports ♦ery few transactions have taken place on English account. Up to our market last week the receipts of all Grain of home produce were small. From Ireland and Scot land the receipts were trifling. The imports from abroad were 14,967 quarters of Wheat; 6,602 quarters of Barley; 13,949 quarters of Oats; 1,195 quarters of Beans ; 576 quarters of Peas ; 4 quarters of Tares; 347 quarters of rapeseed ; 18 quarters of mustard• seed; 905 quarters of sundry Seeds ; 4,792 sacks and 120 barrels of the best Flour. The quantity of Wheat received fresh up to this morn' ing's market from Essex, coastwise as wall as by land carriage, was very small, even for the time of year. From Kent, Cambridgeshire, &c., the receipts were but moderate, though of excellent quality. The number of country buyers in attendance was small, that of those re siding in and near the metropolis tolerablygood. Tb• Essex stands were speedily cleared of their samples, at prices quite equal to those obtained on this day se'nnight• In other kinds only a moderate business was doing at late rates. From the eastern parts numerous orders came to haa . d to ship Wheats at present rates. The amount of bust , - ness doing, however, for forward delivery was small, as many of the millers are still importing from abroad on their own account. The show of foreign Wheat was by no means extcn• sive, and of but middling quality. Very few large pur chases were effected. The importers generally were bl no means anxious sellers at present rates; yet many of the dealers refused to purchase except at reduced figures- In floating cargces no transactions were reported. NO, English Barley was brought forward, but th e su pply oi foreign was quite adequate to the demand. All kinds moved off slowly, but we have no alteration to notice in prices. Malt, the supply of which was bu t moderate, moved off slowly at last week's currencies . The show of Oat samples was smaller than for some time. Selected samples moved off steadily, at extreme plow Lions. The value of the middling and inferior kinds was well supported. Beans were very dull in sale, and ra ther lower to purchase. Peas and Indian Corn COor mended very little attention. Fine Flour sold to a fai r extent at full prices. Inferior parcels were unaltered jo value. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. Wheat—Essex & Kent, Malt—Chevaller• • • • .. 500 to 549 Red, New.... 3 6 s to 41a 1 lOats— Yorkshire and Llncolnak., Feed. 111 , 7I Ditto,White, New 40s 48. Norfolk and Lin- Potato . tss 2." coin, Red..... 350 40s Youghal and Cork, 161 Ditto, White ••• • • • 370 42s Black . ...... 140 - „ 1 7 0 Irish, Red •••. • • • • 37s 41s Cork, White .••• • 1 4 os Ditto,White.. 40 5 43s Scotch, Feed. •• • . 17 0 2 31 Rye—Old •••••• • • • • • • —a —s Beans—Tick... New. ••• • • • ...... 20a 22s l'igeons ...... Barley—Grinding . .... 19s 21s Peas—Grey 2 30 : 3 6 ; Malting ......... 23s 25s Maple 240 `,„" Chevalier •• • • •• • 250 26s Malt—Suffolk and Nor folk.... . . . . . . . . 43s 48a Flonr l — V h T i Boilers toe n ". - m :: a : d : 0 : :. ..• .: 2 3 25 2 3 5 : 3;7' i II; 271 3" Brown .. ••••• • • • • 40 0 420 Suffolk Kingston and Ware 46s 50s Stockta & Norfolk 2 70 SEED. al The season for sowing being now over, the gen ar- 1 fit demand is in a very sluggish state, at almost nosial quotations. Turnip,White, per bush. 103 to Its go CarraWay •••••• •• •• • • ,• 0.. • a 340 Coriander .........• •• 161 0. Ite - cl and Gieen.. • • lOs 12s Mustard, 8r0wn.... . 83 Its White •• • • ...... Gs 9s Tares, Spring • • • • ....33 6d 4s Gd Hempseed, per quarter 3 2, 7,6 Linseed, Eng..-;owing.. 54s Crushing •••• • • • • 404 : 4 Baltic .. •••••• • 38s Ni Odessa ..........421 '— Linseed Cake, pr.l,ooo— •..81 ON 91 '" 01 Foreign, per ton 51 1 05 41 ,54 Rape Cakes, pr ton 41 be op itaimeed,NeNr,prlst32l Os 361 Old Canary, per quarter .. 74s 828 Rye grass.• ... • • ... 20s 245 Clover, Red En,. (cwt.) 358 503 White .. • • ...... 348 48s Foreign Red 33s 508 White.... 32s 50r Trefoil .. •• •• • ...... 148 4188 80311017G33 UOP 21C.6.3113LZT. Notwithstanding that the bine is progressing raP i . a T the demand for the finest Hops is steady at lull prlcl; In all other kinds so little is doing that the q uotati c) . o are almost nominal. The duty is called 150,0001 :0 160,0001. New Mid and . East Kent pockets, 6/ 29 101 10s; New Weald of Kent ditto, 61 to 8 1 ; 14/ i e g; Sussex ditto, 51 5s to 6/ 12s; New Farnhams,..,l2loo..to Yearling Kents, 313 s to 41 8s; Tearling Sussex 2 11 r: • 31 ss; Old Hops, 11 to 31. SMITHrIELD. Even the time of yeir; considered, the arrivals. 01.1,630. reign stock into London last week were very eXt:l2e,lol especially from Germany, as will be seen by,oUr. AnP i :oo head, against 2,979 during the correspondin statement. The total supply has amounted to • ps 1849; 2,731 in 1848; and 2,696 in 1847. 4 110 ) 011 of the importations has fallen off. IMPORTS INTO LONDON IN TIIE PAST WENIta vie& From Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. 1. 4 Harlingen l4l 913, 2 ... 134 ••• Hamburgh l4B ... 1,282...,.. . 7 *" 56 Rotterdam 231 983111 1 .4. 158 ... 30 4 ••• Antwerp St. Valery — els) ••1 •• • ld Nieu Diep 1 ••• 9 9 Total B2l ... 3,118 ... 160 ... 412 ** Corresponding week in 1849 333 ... 2,173 Same week in 1848 1848 496 .. 1,769 .. ... 446 1, 0 out' g About 1,200 head of stock have been landed At t; from ports from Holland and Germany. The arrifs' were Ireland for this market last week, direct by s e* Oar 4 Beasts, 176 Sheep and Lambs, and 4 Calv es ' jib 1 0. market to-day was seasonably well supplied : her of reign Beasts, Sheep, and Lambs, but the °district° Calves was limited. From our own gracing re coo' the arrival of Beasts, fresh up this morning. we pot" col; siderably on the increase. and of excellent 0 0 0 withstanding that the attendance of ;both to w oi led country buyers was numerous. Tho Be ef tradetos of heavy, at a decline in the prices of Monday 35 6d quite 2d per Sibs. The top figure for Beef Wet coo per 81bs. From Norfolk, Suffolk. Essex, es, s hot bridgesbire, we received 2,600 Scots an d the r Horns, with a few Home - br eds. From the 'pe. parts of England, 500 Herefords, Bunt s !, s c ofo• vons, Short-horns, &c. ; and from Scotland, 3,o`' owing With Sheep we were very extensivel y auppliea: roe, to which the Mutton tr ade ruled heav y in the x t The and the quotations gave 'way quite 2d per 8lbs• The p r i mes t old Downs were sell i ng at 3s 8d per Sl bi ' e d of f number of Lambs was large. All breeds toe.! alit heavily; but we have no further decline to n otice I , " . . s ii. value. Inferior Calves were a mere drug. Prime, q u o y ties of Veal sold at last week's value. Scarce Y business was doing in Pigs at late rates. Per bibs. to sink the offal. d, top g s. d. to s. d, Inferior Beasts..... 2 4 2 6 Inferior Sloe, •• '• g: ° s e cond quality •.• . 2 210 Second enal. Slice, a 4 ' 3 prima large Oxea.. 3 0 3 2 Coarse-woolle d dltto3 .; Prime Scots...• .. 3 4 3 6 Southdown Wether 7, `; Large coarse Calves 2 6 210 Dittos onto( the wool 0 2 ; 0 Prime Small ditto .. 3 3 4 Large Hogs •••• • • , 0 ; 4 Suckling Calves ..18 023 Small Porkers ••• • " 21 0 Lambs .......... 310 S 0 Quartsr old Pigs ~16 TOTAL SUPPLY AT MARKET. rig'. Beasts. Sheep. I Calve s. I 320 I 3,832 36,900 303 FOREIGN SUPPLY. Beasts. Sh I eep. g Calves. I 20 903 1,780 154 NERFGATZ AND I.II.II.DENICAI O w ing to the prevailing hot weather, eoarcu ... 132 629 •• • 'applies ( toarkets offer, Blau A Very lir viol the g About 61) °I; at vvry /It et,inferlo **--- otiddlii s " -- primal ."-- prime: BO: beareeli tnarkets bees, ti there are the &wan 4 ^t. The ` ) rif , , 1,20( 12 00 bask ' .4 (1 104 su vitn; and Since h c ot , t amed to !I a close t om Lona( Pra Hatr. S ydney; 1°0 ; 295 ft ut t el from levy inhati ,Sto ce of 16 n :j e wi8e : 731 ha y 81:1 'kick this da: T. 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