The Sun. — London, England, 1850-07-04 00:00:00

[The following appeared in our Fourth Edition of last night :—] GERMANY. The Independanm of Brussels has the following summary of German news :—" Nothing is more changeable than the diplomatic temperature which reigns between Vienna and Berlin—a few days ago it was fine; now it is perfectly stormy. Our corre spondent at Berlin informs us that M. de Bernstorff, Minister of Prussia to the Court of Austria, had arrived with bad news from his Government. The Cabinet of Vienna is said to have withdrawn the half concessions to which Prince Schwartzenburg in some sort consented, during the conferences of Warsaw, and an understanding seemed more distant than ever. Immediately after the reception of the news brought by M. de Bernstorff, a Cabinet Council was held, and it lasted five hours. No formal resolu - tion was come to, but all the Ministers appeared to be very firm. As to the Danish question nothing is de cided. Prussia, says our Berlin correspondent, will only carry on negotiations for a simple peace ; but, on the other hand, our Hamburgh correspondent states that at the date of the last letters there was certain agitvtion in Copenhagen, in the expectation of the reply of Prus sia to the sort of ultimatum sent to Berlin by the Danish Government. In Schleswig, the electors, in spite of the prohibition of the mixed Commission, respond to the appeal of the Lieutenancy-General, by nominating deputies of Holstein, who are to meet at Kiel. Our correspondent at Hamburgh states that a new Minis terial crisis had broken out at Hanover. All the Ministers had deposited their portfolios in the hands of the King, on the morning of the 27th. The King bad promised to make known his decision in twenty four hours. The cause of the Ministerial deter mination is not stated in our letters. It was said at Hamburgh that the note addressed by the King of Hanover to the Duchies of Oldenburg and Brunswick, and to the Hanse towns, had not the im portance which was at first ascribed to it, its ob ject having been more for the formation of a corn mercial and manufacturing than of a political union. But that does not result from all the information pre viously received." The German Journal of Frankfort of the 30th ult. says, the Elector of Hesse Cassel has removed M. de Hasseoplug, who was recently condemned by a Prus sian Court, from the Ministries of Justice and the Interior. The Vienna Gazette of the 27th ult. contains a fundamental law for the military frontier of Croatia, Sclavonia, and the Banat. It enacts that the mi litary frontier shall form an integral part of the Austrian monarchy, but shall hare a free communal constitution. ITALY. The Statuto of Florence publishes a letter from Venice of the 19th ult., stating that Sir W. Parker has induced the Turkish Government to declare Scu tari in Albania a free port. The Debate publishes, under date of Vienna, 26th ult.:—" The following are correct particulars of the result of the conferences of the Italian delegates with the Minister of the Interior. The points on which they have come to an understanding are—the dele gates will on Friday next, in their last plenary sitting, name a committee charged to represent them, and to draw up a counter-project of Statuto. This committee will propose a provincial diet, composed of a cham ber of deputies and a senate. An electoral law, on a wider basis than that of the Ministerial Bill, will facilitate the access to the Chamber. The Senate will be composed of 60 Members, of whom 18 only are to be named by the Emperor; the others to be elected by the communes, the Universities, and the scientific institutes. The duration of the Legis lature will be four years for the Deputies, and ten 'years for the Senators. The latter, who are immoveable during that period, may be re elected by the communes, or again named by the Emperor. The Diet will have the right to occupy itself legislatively with the affairs of the country, except as regards the great common interests of the province and of the Empire, such as the arms, the navy, and the finances. With regard to the latter, the Diet will discuss and vote the division of the taxes, but the fixing of them will remain exclusively with the general Diet of Vienna, or with the Government, until that Diet be convoked. It is posi tively stated that these general arrangements have met with the approbation of the Minister of the Interior. who is said to have engaged to support the counter project thus drawn up, wi•h the Emperor. It is expected that several other members of the Ministry will adopt a similar course. B iron de Bruck, the Minister of Commerce, and M. Schmerling, the Minister of Jus tice, are spoken of as being favourable to these con cessions. POST-OFFICE SUNDAY LABOUR. NEWCASTLE TOWN COUNCIL. On Wednesday last the Tower CLERK read a re quisition to the Mayor, signed by twenty-three mem bers of the council, requesting a meeting to be called, to petition against the total suspension of Post-office labour on Sundays, or for some steps to be taken to arrest the inconveniences and deplorable consequences likely to result from the recent Post-office regulae tions, in consequence of which the present meeting had been called. Sir J. FIFE said he hoped that the mayor and coun cil would not think that he had brought them to gether unnecessarily, but that the occasion would be thought to warrant a special meeting. The subject which was now coming under their consideration was one of vast importance. He need not remind the council of the great alarm, and, he might say, the general indignation which had been occa sioned amongst men of business throughout the country, in consequence of the manner in which the work of the Pest-office on Sundays had been so summarily interrupted. It was a curious fact, that, while a minority of his countrymen took very extreme views of religious matters, the line of conduct which they took in carrying out their views was not always consistent with the influence under which they professed to act. The majority of the people looked at religious precepts through the medium of the reason which their Creator had given to them. The great majority would not, he thought, permit that great vital organ to be stopped in its functions ; and that, for two days in the week, all business should be interrupted ; thus occasioning an enormous increase of Sunday labour in the shape of telegraphs expresses, and special messengers of various descrip tions. It remained to be seen whether the country would sit down under that immense disability. There was a remarkable contrast between th Sab batarians and those men of business who would, on that occasion, oppose them. The latter did not le gislate for the consciences of their neighbours, but left them to spend their Sabbath as they pleased ; they did not make such parties send for their letters and papers. But they complained that the parties he had alluded to did not act in the same liberal man ner towards them, that they presumed, by what he must call self-righteous assumption, to dictate to others. Now, when men professed to act under re ligious inspiration, or believed that they were so acting, their neighbours naturally expected from them honest candour, and straightforward sim plicity ; they did not expect to find that sort of management, to use the mildest expression, %%hid] they expected to see in a Newcastle jockey or a gamester. But see in what manner the party headed by Lord Ashley and Mr. Plumptre had carried their resolution through Parliament— such a resolution as had not been sent from Parliament to the Crown since the days of Cromwell. The only simplicity they had shown had been in the imbecility of their arguments ; all their other pro ceedings had been marked by a remarkable degree of worldly cunning. It was competent to Lord Ashley to have brought in a Bill for the better observance of the Sabbath ; but then there would have been re peated discussion, there would have been ample time for the expression of public opinion; there would have been a succession of stages at which the opinion of the Legislature would have been taken; and before sueh a measure had been assented to its merits would have been properly tested. Instead of that he had chosen to bring forward the question in such a form that it could be hurried through at once. But that was not the worst. It had been brought on on an occasion when the House was peculiarly con stituted. He (Sir John) doubted whether there was any other day in the session on which those parties could have been so sure of a partial House—so sure of a majority of men holding extreme views' upon the subject—men who wanted an observance of the Sabbath beyond the requirements of Chris tianity, beyond reason and common sense. He bad thus carried through an address which had taken the Government, the Parliament, and the people all by surprise. If they looked at the history of the Post office for the last fifty years, they would find that im portant changes had been made ; that there had been repeated concessions to those parties who held ex treme views upon religious subjects. One might have thought that these concessions would have Con ciliated such parties; but each concession had been coolly regarded as a step towards something more. That, indeed, had been one of the arguments used by Lord Ashley. So that, bad as things were now, they probably had not yet got to the worst. Indeed, it was difficult to place a limit to unreasonable men who acted as these parties had done. It was a curious fact that there should be so much pusillanimity, such a want of moral courage, in opposing such men ; but this was not so discreditable to the oppo nents of these parties as to the parties themselves. It was well known. what a terrible organ was the odium theologicum. It was plain that any party which was highly organized was powerful, and it was extraordi nary what means were taken by some parties to effect their objects. On his way down to the meeting he bad received from a merchant a piece of information bear ing on the question. He was informed that Satur day letters from the South-Eastern Counties, which ought to have been here on Monday morning did not arrive till Tuesday. Of course, too, the delivery of letters on a Monday morning must now be very late, unless they had been previously sorted. Nearly two days would be lost throughout the empire, and that loss would produce deplorable consequences. He had been informed by one of the most experienced bankers in the north of England that it might happen that a merchant, after paying in money on a Saturday night, to meet his bills, might, through this delay. have his bills protested, and thus have his credit shaken. But this would not affect Lord Ashley or Mr. Plumptre, and so they cared nothing about it; nor would it much affect the 700,000 persons who had signed they did not know what. In Lord Ashley's speech great stress had been laid upon some beautiful quotations from a prize essay by a working man upon the importance of the Sabbath. But that was all quite irrelevant. None of those who opposed these restrictive measures desired to deprive the working man of the day, whether as a day of rest, or of devotion. They left him to spend it as he pleased. But the effect of the recent change upon working men might be very disastrous. He had been informed, by a great manufacturer, that, in consequence of the non-delivery of letters on Sunday, a very great number of working men would be thrown out of employment on the Mon day, just es they were now in Scotland. And what would be the consequences ? The Scotch, who were the most Sabbath-observing, were also the most spirit drinking people on the face of the earth; and the one had much to do with the other. Lord Ashley had dwelt much upon the number of signatures he had obtained to his petitions ; but he knew well that he could obtain almost any number of signatures, on any subject, on an unusually short notice. There was a peculiar power in organization under the influence of religious feeling. He (Sir John) had no doubt that if Lord Ashley were to propose petitions that all persons should be compelled to wear black on Sundays, he could, in a abort time, get 700,000 names to them. Though the Scotch were so strict upon this subject, the common sense and neighbourly feeling of the Highland farmers went a long way to relieve them from the inconveniences it would otherwise oc casion. It happened often that a Highland farmer travelled to his kirk a distance of fifteen miles ; and, after staying there some hours listening to the sermon, first in Gaelic and then in English, before he left, he received at the kirk-deor the letters brought for him ten or fifteen miles in an opposite direction—that was still further from his residence,—and which he would not otherwise get for another week unless by an express journey all that distance. He (Sir John) did not say that the farmer opened and read his let ters and papers on Sunday ; for he believed that, generally, he did not, but he read them as soon as it was light next morning. Soon after the wool merchant, or the cattle jobber probably called, and unless the farmer k new t h e state o f t h e mar k e t s , h e mightmake duringlos e th e t h only e a a profitable bargain sithoantt patients hoe whichcould he belonged the delay i n communicatingp with necessary a i ry might often be fatal. P ersons were slowfor aid, and the surgeo n o ft en found it to to anticipate, by some hours, th e per i od at whiche send was expected to arrive. Even th e restriction adopted previously to the last had been found very inconve nient ; it had happened to him to receive letters dur ing the Monday morning, and to find that, instead of then setting out, he ought to have started at five that morning. In the hope of securing a unanimous vote upon the resolution he had to propose he had' treated the subject as moderately as he could. The resolution was as follows : " That it is the duty of the Government to afford the people every facility for the undelayed transmission and delivery of letters and newspapers sent for on Sundays ; es p ec ially as, in many cases, early tr ansmission ot infor mation may lessen anxiety, avert pecuniary ruin, or fuw. nish the means of saving human life.' He had included newspapers, because when foreign papers arrived, those of them who had connexions a broad, and particularly in th e arm y or navy, de sired the earliest opportunity of seeing the list of casual ies and other information of great interest to them. Now, Lord Ashley should have some feeling, some degree of humanity for persons thus situated Of all trials suspense was the greatest ; when some great calamity happened edto men, they bore it as best they mi g ht ; b sus ponse was torturing. He had hoped for the assistance of some of the established clergy on this occasion. It had always appeared to him one of the advantages of a highly-educated and aristocratically-connected clergy that they should save the people from such mischief as that to which he was alluding, by pointing out the difference between what was reasonable and mere fanaticism. If they had stood forward on this occasion, they would have secured the confidence and gratitude of all reasonable men I thntighout the land. He hoped thAt petitiots CANALS. I ..; I , ' ..; 'Dividend Names of t.. 0 IDividend Pri ce . Names of 1 . ... , Companies. 2, 1 per Companies. ;I Pn isi. Price. e Annum. in , - - .£ X Ashtn& Oldh 97 71. 113 Macclesfield . 100, 21. 10s. 50 Barnsley.. • • 160 121. 180 Neatla -•• • • 1001 161. 340 Brknk&Abrg 150 51. 85 Oxford.. •• • • 1081 201. 185 Birmingham 40, 41. 88% Peak Forest. 79 31. 18s. 10 Coventry.... 100' 251. 2CB Regent's.... 331 11. Os. 18 Derby ••. • • ,1001 61. 63 Rochdale.. - 65 I 41. 50% Ellsmre&Chs 11331 565. 41 Somrset Coal 155171.105. 130 cirandJunctn l loo 41. 793( Do.LkFd St 12 61. p. c. - Grand Surrey, 100 21. Os. 32 Stflrd &Wore 1 40 281. 410 Grand Union 1100 IL 10s. 24 s S t h o r itr ew b s r bury... 1 2 5 151. - - idg.. Grantham •• - I - 145 201. 290 Kennt & Avn 39 7s. 6d. 5 54 Severn and Lancaster . 100 1 41. 32 3{ Wye Rail. i 26 21.135• 24 LeedsBcLivrplloo 241. 300 Warwick& / Leicester .... 100 55. 66 Binning. j 100 41. 64% Letcstr &Nth 183 41. 4854 Warwick& 100 31. 42 Loughboregh 142 701. 510 Napton.. ) Monmouthsh' 100 81. - Worcstr &i 78 31. 43 If ntgemrysk ; 100 - - Birming. MeitnMwbry , 100 - - Wilts k Brks - 141. 734 LIST OP SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES Dividend Amount i Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. .................. r•IIIMMI•IMMMO ..... X a. d. I Z a. d Bank of Scotland British Linen Company 81. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 1913{ Caledonian Bank City of Glasgow Bank . 61. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 123{ Clydesdale Bank ••• • • • 635 per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 13% Commercial Bank .• •• 71. per cent. 500 0 0 100 0 0 170 Eastern Bank •••• • • • • 61. percent. 25 0 0 10 0 0 936 Edinb.k.Glasgow Bank 61. per cent. 5 0 0 5 0 0 51. 5. Exehangeßnk of Scot.. 41. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 9% Isle of Man. Company 71. per cent. 10 0 0 7 0 0 - National Bank 635 per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 15 North of Scotland Bank 41. percent. 20 0 0 50 0 3% North British Bank ..• - - - - 100 0 0 0 0 1 5 0 0 0 0 0 133% 89 p e per r Dent. cent. 100 Western Bank •• •• •• •• 71. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 74 Union R o yal B B a s n k k n 0 of f Scotlandtl aa d : 1 1.. Alliance Fire and Life 8561. pr cent. 10 0 0 10 0 20% B. Accord. Life an d Fire - 20 0 8 010 British Guarantee Ins. 41 . per tent. 10 0 0 1 0 15 j 0d Caledonian Fire Incur. 101. per cent. 100 0 0 1 0 0 23 Colonial Life •••• • • • • - 50 0 0 1 0 11. 3s. City of Glasgow Life- 61. per cent. 25 0 0 2 0 21. 10s 20 East of Scotland Life - 10 0 0 015 Edinburgh Life Insur 6 l. per cent . 100 0 0 15 0 - Law Life 51. per cent. 50 0 0 217 2% Hercules I s ure nce C. 71. per cent. 1 00 0 0 10 0 - Insur. Co. of Scetlnd • • 51. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 - Life Assoc. of Scotland 61. per cent. 10 0 0 1 o , 11. 15 2 Mercantile Life a N c a o t t i u on sh al L F if ir e e an an d d u lif r e 5 1 .. p peicent. 10 0 0 1 0 225.6 d, North British Insu r. - 6pr cent. 200 0 0 20 0 ' 2554 North & West of Scot. 61 per cent. 10 0 0 I o 1 -- 20 0 0 0 11 , - Scot. Max. and Gen. Life - 0 0 015 i - Scottish Union Inane 6 141. pr cent. 20 0 0 1 0 1231 . 0 d Standard 'Ate ..... . 5 l• p er cent. 50 0 0 4 5 ' 9 % United Dep. Assurance 51. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 1165 69 M ISCELLANEOUS. Dividend Amount Name of Company, per of Annum. Share. - --- --- -... 1 2 1. 11. 1 5 08 L. 1Z50 1 .0 0 0 30 0 0. 1 0 43 12 .780 : d i P ; 1155 1; Auction Mart • • • • • • .. Australian Agriculturl 61. per cent. 100 0 0 33 10 0 30 Anglo-Mexican Mint.. - - 2 10 0 Canada Ditto, .11 . . a . 1 f . S . . h . a . r . e . s .. .. Uppr Canada Bonds 51. percent. - - 89 fifty Navigation .... - - - 91 Gen. Revers. & Invest. sp. c.ik bs. 2/ 100 0 0 100 0 0 94 Equitable Reversienry V. pr cont. 100 0 0 100 0 0 106 Gen. Steam Navigation 11. Bs. lb 0 0 14 0 0 26 London Institution .• • - - 7s 15 0 - Russell Institution •• • • - - 26 5 0 - Peninslrk Orient.Stm. 81. percent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 80 Reversionary Int. Soc. 4541. pr cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 92 61 18. 4. p. c. 100 0 01 60 0 0 59 Royal Mail Steam • • • • - 100 0 0 , 29 0 0 - South Australian ..... 11. per share. 25 0 0 25 0 0 19 Van Dieman's Land. A PROTECTIONIST LANDLORD.—WiIIiam Rushton, Esq., our present high sheriff, has returned 25 Per cent. to his tenants at his recent audit,—Yorkshire Gaigtte, SPAIN. The Herald() of Madrid of the 27th ult. says that the Government has taken the measures necessary for the payment of the instalment of the month of July to the active classes of creditors. A royal decree makes some changes in the department of the Ministry of Finance, which is charged to keep the public ac counts. M. Maneses de Britodorio, who was con veying the ratification of the postal treaty between Spain and Portugal to Madrid, died suddenly in the mail near Badajoz. STATE OF TRADE. (From the Manchester Guardian.) MANCHESTER, TUESDAY.—The continued ten dency of the accounts from the cotton-growing dis trict,' to enhance the value of the raw material has imparted additional firmness to our yarn market, and, indeed, has led to the requirement of some further ad vance for 20's water and for such numbers of mule as are most in demand. This has considerably limited the day's transactions, which, it is evident, would otherwise have been on a large scale, for consumption at home and shipment to the European continent, and which, as it is, have reached a fair amount. The finer counts, of good Russian qua lity,-are at least maintaining their buoyancy; as is also the case- with certain descriptions of doubled yarn. The accounts from India, however, have not led to any operltions deserving of notice for that quarter. On all hands, it is found that the lightness of their stocks, and the' degree in which they are under contract, together with the stimulus of dear cotton, have ren dered the great body of spinners very indifferent about taking further orders. The demand that ex ists for long cloths, T's, and domestics, has heen aidett in its effect upon the value of those articles by the state of the cotton market; the tendency of prices is still . npward, and this is particularly fel; in long clothe, which have bcome exceedingly scarce. But India goods generally, and the different widtba of printing cloths also, are not so mueh in request; prices are, however, firmly maintained. The continued inaction of the Eastern merchants finds an explanation in the advices given below ; and the quietness of liFht printing cloths and some other fabrics is partly attributable to the little that is now being done in them by the Greeks, who, since their late active operations, have been much disappointed in their; expectations of a materially increased demand from Khorassan. Letters of the 15-h ult. from Con stantinople are very discouraging as to the probable results of exports, whether for Persia or elsewhere, in connexion with that entrepot. RWEIDALII, MoaDAY.—We have had a fair demand for flannels to-day, at prices much the same as those of last week. The manufacturers continue to pur chase the raw material very sparingly, and the wool staplers hold out for good prices. The workpeople are in full employment, and the stocks on hand are extremely light. MACCLESFIELD, TUESDAY.—There is no favour able alteration to notice as regards the manufacturing trade, of this town, many weavers are understood to be out of employment, and the sales of goods are only to a small extent. If any demand should even tually arise, we apprehend there will be a scarcity of goods, consequent on production having been very much limited of late. The throwing trade continues in a very unsatisfactory state, prices of raw and thrown silk being almost on a par ; in consequence of which several more throwing concerns have been brought to a stand for the present. In the public sales of raw silk. held in London last week, very little 'business was transacted; owing to the high rates demanded, the bulk of the silk was withdrawn at extreme rates. HUDNIESEIELD, Tozsresr.—We have this week to report a decided improvement in our market; an average ansGunt of business has been doing in the hall to-day. , The warehouses have been brisker during the week than for some time past, indeed some have amounted to being quite busy for the American market. 1.4(3W fancys and tweeds have been in re quest to-day. Considering the London wool sales the market'is good, and there is every probability of its keeping firm for some time. HALIEAX, SATURDAY.—The inquiry for worsted goods is scarcely so active as it was ; the merchants being unwilling to give an increase of the price ade vete to the enhanced cot of the raw material. The demand for yarn continues good, and the late advance is freely obtained. There is a moderate amount of business doing in wool, and the quotations are firm, at the recent advance ; but the consumers appear very reluctant to accede to the farther rise demanded by the growers. LEEDS, TUESDAY.--We have had a very good market at the Cloth Halls both Saturday and to-day, and the woollen trade generally is very brisk. Prices veep firm ; and, in eonmquence of manufacturers Attuengaged b t u o ss o n rd es e s r, d s o t in ocks in are very low. There h . n od foreign tr g ade. lw ; 6 , fri--:)v ? the warehouses, both .-,- /*lfni ,NOTICE.--Newtown Butler, county ' '.--;4 fet, * be having been constituted a post town, th e office - ---1 : ' opened for the issue and payment of mo . ney \ - "127-1`""", 14 wad after th e 6th July next, upon whi c h date also - , Ile rectluAseifiCe for letters at Tottenham-cross will be /•' 4esec, ' - lu tic ani psymant of money orders. _ , THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 4, 1850. be sent from all parts of the kingdom, to show the Government that it was not the wish of the people that these restrictions should exist. Mr. A. PARKER said he had much pleasure in se conding the resolution. He thought a more mis chievous measure than the recent one had never been adopted. He. believed it would not be practicable to carry it out, for be conceived that men of business, whose desire or whose necessities compelled them to receive information on Sundays, would devise other means of obtaining it. Mr. ROBINSON said he quite agreed with the Go vernment measure. He believed that there was a divine obligation upon every man to observe the Sabbath ; and he was willing to bear any inconveni ences which might result. He bad known men in large businesses who had given up the practice of re ceiving and attending to their letters on the Sab bath, and they had since expressed to him their thank fulness that they had done so. He thought, too, Sir John Fire had been too severe in his remarks. Mr. FINLAY said he 'cordially concurred in Mr. Robinson's opinion. He thought that a fair trial should have been given to the new plan. On the motion being put, It was carried by a very large msjority, there being but three votes against it. (The number cf members present was 26.) Petitions founded upon the resolution were ordered to be sent to Earl Grey and Mr. Ord. After some further business the council broke up. —Newcastle Courant. PRICES OF SHARES IN BANKS, ASSURANCE, AND OTHER COM. COMPANIES' STOCK. From the o.ificial List. PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENING. LONDON. TUESDAY, JULY 2. 7OtNT-STOCX saxes. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. A a. d. A a. d. Australasia ••.••• • • • • 245. 40 0 0 40 0 0 25 BritshNorth American 51. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 - Ceylon ••••..•• • • • • • • 71. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 - Commercial of London 61. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 2434 Colonial. Gloucestershire ••• • • • 151 per cent. - lonian .. ••••.•• • • • • • 61. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 - Londn and Westrainstr 61. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 13 0 0 - London Joint-Stock . 61. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 - Provincial of ireland•• 81. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 - Ditto, New. •••• • • • • Si. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 - National of Ireland .. 51. per cent. 50 0 0 22 10 0 - .fat. Provncial of Eng. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 35 0 0 - Ditto, New. ••••• •• 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 - South Australia • • •... 6/ per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 - Union of Australia • 61. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 33% Ditto ••• • • . 61. per cent. - 210 0 - Union of L0nd0n..... 61. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 - Union of Madrid - INSITILA.NCE COIKCPATITIES. • • Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price Annum. Share. A a. d. a. 61. Albion ...... •••• • • • • 31. 10s. 500 0 0 50 0 0 82 Alliance Brit. and For. 711486 d &bs 100 0 0 11 0 0 2034 Ditto Marine. ••• • • • 61. per cent. 100 0 0 5 0 0 6 Atlas 135.6 d. 50 0 0 5 6 8 17% Britian Commercial • • 7s. 6d. 50 0 0 5 0 0 734 Clericl,Med.&Gen.Life spr et.& bs. 100 0 0 10 0 0 20 31. 100 0 0 10 0 0 62 148. 50 0 0 5 0 0 14% Eagle European Life ••• • • • 434 per cent. 20 0 0 All paid. 15 General • • ••• •••• • • • • 5 0 0 51 4 Glebe • • .•• ••••• • • • • • 61. per cent. Stock. 130 Gaardian ••••.•• • • • • • 51. 100 0 0 36 10 0 54 Imperial Fire •••• .• • • 121, per cent. 500 0 0 50 0 0 230 imperial Life •••• • • • • 12s. 100 0 0 10 0 0 163 E Indemnity Marine •• • • 11. sh.& ba. 100 0 0 20 0 0 - Law Fire •••••• • • • • • • 100 .0 0 210 0 2,6 LAT( Life ••••• • • • • • 11. 16s. 100 0 0 10 0 0 4334 Legal and General Life 50 0 0 2 0 0 434 Licensed Victuallers.. 5 0 0 1 0 0 - London Fire •••• • • • • 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 17 1 4 London Ship •.•• • • • • 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 173 Marine.. .• .. 12s.per share 100' 0 0 15 0 0 10 Med. invlld &Gen. Life 43{1. per et. 50 0 0 2 0 0 - National Lean Fund.. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 210 0 N ational Life • Pslladium Life ...... 51. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 210 S. ...... • • 3/. p. sh. k bs. - 145 Professional Life •• •• 51. per cent. 6 5 0 010 0 118.6 d Protector Life.... •• . W. per cent. - Provident Life• •••• • • • IL ss. & bs. 100 0 0 10 0 0 26 stock Life • ....... • • Royal Exchange 6l. per cent. Stock. 209 Sun Fire. - - 209 Ditto Life . 11. 6s. - - 48 United Kingdom .... 41. per cent. 20 0 0 40 0 33i eiversal Life.... .• • . lON pr eat. 100 0 0' 10 0 0 - ictoria Life • • .• • 51. per cut. - 412 6 4 BOOZES. Name of Company. East and West &Ist Country . London .... . Ditto Bonds • . t.Katharine ........ Ditto, Scrip ...... , . Ditto Bonds.. •..... Southampton ........ A s. d. Si 0 0 50 0 0 Dividend per Annum. GI. pr cent. 20s. per sk. 51. pr cent. 41. per cent. 4 per cent. 4%1. pr cent. 2i. per cent. Amount of Share. Z s. d. Stock. 100 0 0 Stock. Stock. 50 0 0 'tarp GZIS Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price Annum. Share. X. a. d. Z. a. d. Charing-cross•• •• .... I 15 Southwrlc .• ....•• .. 100 0 0 Ditto Nw of 7% p.c. 355. per cant. 50 0 U 16 Waterloo .• ••••• • • • • • 100 0 0 2 Ditto Old Ann. of 81. 11. 4s. Od. 60 0 0 24% Ditto Nw ditto of 71 11. Is. Od. 40 0 0 21 Vauxhall .... ... Av. 11. 70 10 3 18 TATELTIER-WORILS. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. ----; X s. d. A s. il. Eat Lonklon...• ••.• •• i 81. 100 0 0 166 1 Grand Janction •••• • • i 41. per cnt. 50 0 0 75 Kent- ----•• • • •• i W. 10s. 100 0 0 77 Lambeth New itivr Lndn Brdge 1 21. 10s. 55 Vauxhall ••••••• • • • •• 51. per cut. 100 0 0 98 West Middlesex . . . 61.0 a. pr cut. 115 GALS-LIGHT ANTI COKE COMPANIES. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. I Price. Annum. Share. --- X. a. d. A. s. d. British •••••••• •• • • •• 11. 40 0 0 18 0 0 14 Ditto Provincial.... 11. 85. 20 0 0 20 0 0 18 Brighton •••••. - • • • . 51. 20 0 0 City of London ...... 61. 100 0 0 150 0 0 Continental Consolidat. 925. 75 0 0 31 5 0 Equitable.. • • •....... 50a. .. 50 0 0 50 0 0 28 Imperial • • .... ••• • •• 31. 50 0 0-• 50 0 0 70 Independent ....... • • 61. 40 0 0 40 0 0 48 L0nd0n.............. 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 Do., Parl. Preference 61. 25 0 0 210 0 llicenix . ............ 4%1. 50 0 0 49 0 0 29 Rateliff •••• • ...• •• • • 5/. 100 0 0 90 0 0 75 United General ...... 11. 50 0 0 50 0 0 15% Westminster Chartered 31. 50 0 0 47 Ditto, New •• -- -12 s. 50 0 0 10 0 0 9% MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS. THE EXHIBITION OF 1851. The following is a eopy of a letter address,d by the Cotnrnisiioners of the Exhibition of 1851 to the Lords of the Treasury, enclosing memorandum as to the site of the exhibition building in Hyde-park:— Palace of IWstminster, July 1, 1850. Sir,—l am directed by her Majesty's Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851 to transmit to you here with, for the information of the Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury, a memorandum of the grounds on which the present site his been selected for the exhibition, a❑d of the proceedings that hare been taken in consequence of that selection. SVMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IN THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JUNE 29, 1350. Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases ... 958 Diseases of Uncertain Seat ... 34 Tubercular Diseases ... ... 172 Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses... ... 128 iiiseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 46 Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of Respiration ... 91 _ Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion... ••• ••• -.• ••• ... 59 Diseases of the Kidneys, &c. •• ..• ••• 12 Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, 86e. ... ••• 10 Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles ••• 10 Diseases of the Skin, &c. ... ... ••• ••• 3 Malformations... ••• ••• ••• ••• ••• 3 Premature Birth ... ... •• ••• ••• 20 Atrophy ••• ••• ••• ••• ••• ••• 23 I have, &e., (Signed) STAFFORD H. NORTECOTE. The Right Hon. W. G. Hayter, M.P., &e. Memorandum of the Grounds on which the Site has been selected for the Exhibition of 1851, and of the Pro ceedings which have taken place in consequence of that selection, prepared for the information of the Lords of the Treasury, by the Re) al Commissioners for promoting the Exhibition. 1. It is within the knowledee of the Lords of the Treasury that, from the time of the earliest announce meut of the proposed exhibition, it has always been in tended that it should take place in the metropolis. Not only was such a n i n t en ti on mat t er o f notor i ety at the time that the que,tion of issuing a royal commission was under consideration, but the commission itself, when issued, formally recited that it was proposed " To estab lish an enlarged exhibition of the works of industry of all nations, to be holden in London, iu the year 1851;" and it was to further the holding of such an exhibition that the present commissioners were specially appointed. 2. Considering the importance of the undertaking, and the circumstances attending its promulgation, the selection of the metropolis as its intended locality ap pears to have been both natural and proper. It will be borne in mind that the exhibitions which have been from time to time held in foreign countries have gene rally, and, as the commissioners believe, invariably, been held in the capitals of the respective countries. In the present case it was peculiarly important that an under taking which required the constant superintendence of a body of commissioners, whose occupations for the most part confine them to London, should be carried on within their immediate cognizance, and not removed to a dis tant situation. 3. It being thus distinctly evident that the exhibi tion ought to take place in London, it is further obvious that the actual site which may be selected for it should be within the precincts of, or in the closest vici nity to, the most central and accessible parts of the me tropolis itself. It need hardly be pointed out that it would be objectionable to impose upon persons coming to London from a great distance, the necessity of an ad ditional journey to visit the exhibition; a consideration which has already been urged upon the commissioners by the representatives of several of the most important provincial towns, who are apprehensive of the inconve nience to which artisans, in particular, might thus be subjected. Moreover, the removal of the exhibition to any distance sufficient to diminish the number of visitors would not only militate against its essential character of general accessibility, but might most seriously affect the receipts upon which its selt-supporting character must depend, a point upon which it appears much stress has been laid. 4. Although Hyde-perk, and even the particular space now in question, had been already mentioned before the issue of the commission. and, indeed, so far back as Oc tober, 1849, as a probable site fur the exhibition, it is unnecessary to assure the Lords of the 'Treasury that the Commissioners approached the question of the site, after their appointment, without having in any degree prejudged the merits of particular localities. On the 14 of February, their attention having been directed to the importance of determining the site by the committee then recently appointed for all matters relating to the building, they deputed two commissioners—namely, Lord Granville and Mr. Lebouchere—to wait upon the Chief Commissioner of Woods and Forests, and to confer with him upon the subject. The result of this conference is set forth in the report presented by the building com mittee at the next meeting of the commissioners (Feb. 21), of which the following is the portion which relates to the question of the site. " With respect to the site, it appeared to your com mittee that, firstly, the north-eastern portion of Hyde park; secondly, the long space between her Majesty's private road and the Kensington-road, in the southern part of Hyde-park; and thirdly, the north-western por tion of Regent's-park, are the only available spaces about the metropolis which would afford the necessary accommodation; and it is believed that the order in whch they have been named represents also their relative eligibility. As regards the first, the committee are in formed by the Chief Commissioner of her Majesty's Woods and Forests that considerable objec tions would arise to its occupation for such a purpose, and that no such objections would be raised to the use of the second; the committee therefore reeom mended the adoption of this site, which, amongst other advantages, is remarkable for the facility of access afforded by the existing roads. Upon this occasion a letter was received from the Westminster Committee, stating that the Local Commissioners for Westminster had visited the site in Hyde-park, and a site suggested in the Regent's-park, and that they were of opinion that the site in Hyde-park was the preferable one." The recommendation of the Building Committee having been agreed to, a form of advertisement requesting plans and suggestions for the building was at the next meet ing (28th February) submitted for approbation, and was ordered to be immediately issued in the English, French, and German languages. To this advertisement was appended a ground plan of the site in Hyde-park, for the guidance of those to whom the advertisement was addressed. The details of this plan were discussed in the presence of the Chief Commissioner of Woods and Forests, and were settled in conformity with his Lord ship's wishes. 5. In consequence of the advertisement thus issued no less than 248 plans and suggestions, many of them the productions of foreign artists, were sent in to the commissioners. A large number of these were of a very elaborate character, and bore evident marks of con siderable application and ability. 6. Soon after the site had been selected, some other important arrangements having also by this time been made, the commissioners prepared and published a statement (February 21) explanatory of the nature and objects of the exhibition, which was widely circulated in this country, was forwarded to our consuls abroad, and to the foreign consuls in England, and was officially transmitted by the Secretary of State to all foreign Governments, and to all the governors of the British colonies, as well as to India. In this statement it was announced that " her Mejesty had been graciously pleased to grant a site for the purpose (of the exhibi tion) on the south side of Hyde-park, lying between the Kensington drive, and the drive commonly called Rotten-row." 7. The site having been thus deliberately chosen and formally announced, all subsequent proceedings con nected with the building have been taken with direct reference to it. The plans have been prepared with a view to its peculiarities, and the form of the building and its internal as well as its external arrangements have been determined by them. The amount of space available for the display of articles has been calculated upon the data afforded by the site, and from a calcula tion of this amount. the commissioners have been able to assign to each foreign country a definite space for the arrangement of its own productions. All the neces sary working drawings and specifications have been pre pared with very great labour, and at considerable expense, and have now been issued in a form which will insure to thei nthe surmounted, and all the preliminary days, commissioners on t 2 fide the tenders certainty fer of th e execution obtaining, of wlt h n a presenting every facility for construction h time prescribed. The mechanical difficulties have t arrange ments, even to the extent of provision for an effective awi few design been tere d drainage .i n t and T a h e sufficient e fwat theseer s p u r p e p p l y a r , a h t i s e v h e a b h e a e v n e ern e re en to this particular site only, and are inapplicable or unsuitable to any other. 8. From what has been already stated, it will be seen that the present site was not selected without considera tion, and that the proceedings which have been taken with respect to it were not commenced until the commis sioners had good ground for believing that there would be no objection to its occupation. The attention, how ever, anxiouslyhas lately to been reconsider directe t d he to w t h h o e le po su in b t je h c as t: c somewhat more of detail as to the grounds upon which renders ac it now necessary for them to enter into I andte h a v e u y r s d w h tahhve come to the conclusion which they have i formed that this is the only site in or about the metro polis which is at once suitable and practically available for the purposes of the exhibition. 9. Of the other sites which have been suggested, the following are the only ones deserving of particular con sideration (a) The north-eastern portion of Hyde-park. (b) The north-western portion of Regent's-park. (c) Battersea-park. (d) Victoria-park. (e) Wormwood Semi:lbs. 10. The north-eastern portion of Hyde-park would, in the opinion of many members of the Building Com mittee, be a very eligible situation; but, as has been al ready mentioned, an objection was taken to this locality on the part of the Commissioners of Woods and Forests, on the ground that the building would interfere with some important thoroughfares in that part of the park, and on account of other considerations of public im portance, and the idea was abandoned in consequence. 11. The site suggested in the Regent's park has been found, since it was visited by the Building Committee, trot to be available, as the leases under which the houses in the neighbourhood are held contain a clear and strin , gent provision that no new building of any kind shall be I erected within the limits of the park. 12. With regard to the ground in the neighbourhood of Battersea proposed to be purchased by the Govern ment, and converted into a park to be called Batteries park, the Lords of the Treasury are of course aware that only a small proportion of the whole area has as yet been purchased, and the Commissioners found on inquiry that this proportion consists of numerous small detached pieces, utterly insufficient to accommodate a building of the contemplated size, and separated from each other by :intervening plots of ground, many of them in a state of high cultivation, and belonging to a great number of c afferent proprietors, with whom it would be absolutely impossible to effect arrangements within any time which "July 3, 1850. would afford the slightest chance of the Commissioners "I merely explained how an unlawful act might be being put in possession of a site in tiambnueiinitdcooicnnogymeonpfileetnthetetanhreeid. the officer Uwe t o r committed, but did no t i nv i te th e p e rson to commit it, wilding by the spring of next year. It sh ou ld b e a d ded and expressly s t ate d I s h ou ld not d o i t myse lf, Thi s i s hat the site of this district is very low, a great portion no legal offence. To save t ro uble I admit the papers a re .f it being seine feet under high-water ma r k, an d that in my hand wr iti ng, b ut decl i ne to state who I am. ,he nature of the soil presents serious o bj ect i ons to its Should it be ne cessary to b ear any pun i s h ment, I am 1 . use a s a b u ildi ng groun d. impossible situated in it i n a quite ready to d o so , even to the sacr ifi ce o f my lif e, upon 13. be Vi political principl es ." not very accessible part of the tow n . I t would, more- Mr. Alderman F INNIS d ec id e d on remanding him over, till Friday, in ord er t o a ff or d We bb quired size without most seriou s ly i nterfering with the learn mom COncorning him. P.have 11 lantations and ornamental water which been re. oria - park to i s erect Old Ag e ••• ••• ••• ••• •• • ••• 32 Sudden ••• ••• ••• ••• ••• 37 Violence. Privation, Cold, and Intemperance ... 115 (!auses not specified ... ••• ••• ••• ••• 12 DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES ... Population Deaths in corre- Enumerated. spondinz week 1841. of 1549. West Districts... 301,189 .. 19() North Districts.. 376,568 .. 205 Central Districts 374,199 ... 246 East Districts ... 393,067 ... 251 . ziouth Districts.. 503,346 ... 325 . 965 Deaths in the Week. 165 200 164 201 235 Totals... ..... 1,948,369 ". 1,217 ... 965 Males ... ... ..• ... ... 536 Females ... •• • ... ... ... 429 BIRTHS IN THE WEEK. ••• Males ••• ••• ... 748 Females ... ••• ••• ••• ... 699 Total ... ... ... ... ... 1,447 *ln this number are included 14 by Scarlatina, 34 by Typhus Fever, 33 by Diarrhoea, and 2 by Cholera. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. A young man, aged twenty, very respectably dressed, but who refused to give his name, was brought before Mr. Alderman Finnis, charged with making use of seditious language at the Queen Vic toria public-house, in King-street, Smithfield. It was also mentioned in the charge that he was supposed to be insane. Police-constable Webb, of the detective force, said that from information he received he went into the Victoria public-home about two o'clock the previous afternoon, in the parlour of which he saw the prisoner and asked him whether he was the person who wished to see witness respecting a letter he then held in his hand ? Prisoner said he was, and turning to the landlord asked if he could be accommodated with a private room ? On being shown into a private room, prisoner said to witness, " I suppose you know the contents of the letter 1" And on being answered in the affirmative, he asked witness if he was a deter mined Chartist? Being again answered in the affir mative, he added, " I am a determined Chartist, and a physical force . man." He th en as k e d witness if he would assist h im to carry out a certain plan, and after explaining what it was he said if witness did not do it he (prisoner) would ; adding, " It can be easily done and if you will not do it I am determined to get some one else." He then again spoke of his plan, which is laid down in the letter produced— _ _ " 29th June, 1850. " Sir,—ln Kensington -gardens of a Tuesday and Fri day evening, about six o'clock, nearly the whole of the aristocracy in town are congregated to hear the hand play. A great number seat themselves under the trees near the band, but a greater portion promenade upon the gravel-walk. They are so crowed together that the dresses of the ladies, which aro of the lightest materials, touch one another. Therefore if we could set tire to one of the girl's dresses the flames would imme diately extend over the whole. " T6e scheme is this—go to the gardens some very fine Tuesday or Friday evening, and take with you a piece of paper steeped in turpentine, a few matches, and some cigars. Screw one end of the paper in the form of a cigar light, light it with a match, and after lighting a cigar, drop the blazing paper upon a muslin dress, which it will immediately set fire to. The girl would instantly rush into the crowd, and in the confusion all the people running together, they would push the persons n.ar the girl against her, and the ladies dresses, being all in motion, the tames would rapidly extend to a great number. The people could not easily escape, as there are so many chairs and stools about they would fall over them. You could easily escape in the confusion, and it would be advisable to turn penny-a-liner, and re port the matter to the newspapers as an accident, for which you would get a good sum, and as it would allay any suspicion that might otherwise arise, you would haveithe satisfaction of grilling the greater portion of old Satan's representatives, besides saving him some trouble, by sending them to their final residences half roasted. "If you could succeed in getting a light dress fairly on fire, success would be almost certain, as persons on fire, especially ladies, naturally rush to any body near at hand. "If you do not like this scheme I am acquainted with some others, one of which is to set the Opera House on fire on a grand night in such a manner as to cut off the retreat of the audience; but this would require three or four persons. _ "Yours, &c., "A. B." Addressed to "A Determined Chartist." Witness then asked the prisoner if the foregoing was in his handwriting, and wai answered that it was, and on being further questioned as to whether he had any more such letters about him, he produced the following:— "29th June, 1850. "Sir,—Are you a determined Chartist? if so and you would not mind risking your lif e i n ass i st i ng your party, I am acquainted with a scheme whereby you may , to so by settling the greater portion of the aristocracy now in London. " Although I do not belong to your party, yet the aristocracy have so misbehaved themselves to me, that I should like to start 500 of them on their infernal journey. "If you would not like to undertake the business yourself, can 3 , 0 u inform me of a person who would? want a cool determined fellow who does not mind running some risk. Yours, &c., " A. B." Prisoner—This is my writing. I admit it, and the first letter is also my writing, Witness further asked if he was determined to carry his plan into execution, afid he answered that he certainly was, and if witness did not choose to do it he would go and get some Frenchman who would do it in no time, and added that he thought no more of taking a man's life than he did of spitting. Witness then took him into custody, and, on prisoner's name being demanded at the police-station, he said he would rather be hung at Newgate than say who he was. On searching him, a piece of paper containing the following instructions was found in his pocket : " INSTRUCTIONS TO PERSONS ADMIT TO COMMIT SU ICIDE.—You may as well be hanged as drown yourself. Break head of relieving officer;' if none at hand, prac tise on that of policemen. (Note—Operatives with starving family cannot get relief.) " Attend at Belgrave-square or Eaton-square about twelve at noon. When a lady is passing from her man sion into her carriage, settle her with a crack of a life preserver. If you killed a duchess it would be as good as a life insurance for your family. (Note—Spitalfields weaver on 3s. 6d. per week.) "Fasten a cork on the head of a long bodkin. Attend at Regent-street, about three P.M., and as a lady is pass ing from her carriage into a silk-mercer's, thrust the bodkin into her temple, and you will kill her instanter. If you had the luck to stick a countess, you would do more for the distressed needlewomen than all the so cieties and public speeches have ever done. You would very likely escape being hanged on the ground of in sanity; and if so, be comfortably provided for for the rest of your life. (Note—Distressed needlewomen on slop wages.) " Attend at Tattersall's and shoot the first jockey you see. (Note—Ruined by betting on horse-racing.) "Kill some person of that class who have driven you to desperation. If you are hanged for so doing, you will depart to the future state easier and more respect ably than if you had drowned yourself, besides being of some use to society in your death. (Note—All persons about to commit suicide.) . A second piece o f paper found on the prisoner had written on it the following : " National Hall, Holborn.—Meeting-house, bottom of Holborn-hill, up yard.—Sons of Fussell, Bonner's fields Cottages, near there. Chartist leaders, French re publicans in Lond on . 44Y. —Get one to come over from Paris." Robert Smith, residing at No. 30, King-street, Smithfield, a commercial traveller, said he saw the prisoner between one and two o'clock yesterday, at a house where witness usually dines. Prisoner came in and called out, "Is there any one here who is a Chartist?'' 'Witness treated the matter lightly, and jokingly said that he was a Chartist, upon which pri soner wanted to speak privately with witness, who would have nothing to say to him unless he spoke aloud. The prisoner then said that what he contem plated would be best known by the perusal of the two first letters, which he handed to him. Witness treated him as a person a little deranged, and left him with a friend of his. His friend took him to the Victoria ; and witness, afterwards thinking that it would be un safe for such a person, if deranged, to be at liberty, went to him, and asked him for the first letter, which was given to him, and he then gave information to the police. The prisoner, who during the examination was smiling at everything that was said by the witnesses, when called on for his defence, handed in the follow ing paper cently laid out there, thus inflicting on the classes for whose recreation that park has been opened an incon venience intinitely more serious than could be c,usPd to the frequenters of the very much larger area c f Hyde park by the proposed occupation of a comparatively small portion of it. 14. Lastly, as regards Wormwood Scrubbs, besides that the distance is a very serious objection, the rights of the commoners in that locality would prevent its ap propriation ; and the commissioners are advised that it would be impossible to erect the building there without risk, as any single commoner would have it in his power to interrupt the proceedings, and to cause them to be discontinued at any stage of the work, however ad vanced. Similar objections apply to Wandsworth and some other commons in the neighbourhood of London, which have been occasionally mentioned as possible sites. 14 a. As regards Primrose-hill and the Isle of Dogs, the want of a level space on the firmer, and the objec tionable situation and dampness of the litter, render them so obviously unsuitable as to make any particular observations unnecessary. 15. But, even could the objections to any of these sites be removed, or could another and unobjectionable site be pointed out, the commissioners feel bound to state, from their experience of the time, thought and labour necessarily consumed in the investigation, arrangement, and preparation of the great mass of detail requisite to enable them to carry out this extensive work, that they are fully convinced of the impossibility of now adapting their plaas to any other site, with any reason able prospect of being able to complete the work within the time to which they stand pledged in the lace of the wort 1; and they could only regar 1 a change of site, particularly if it should involve a change of plan, as tan tamount to the postponement of the exhibition till another year. And the commissioners cannot shut their eyes to the fact that a postponement of the exhibition would, under the circumstances, certainly lead to its entire abandonment. 16. In order to give the Lords of the Treasury some idea of the consequence of an abandonment of this scheme, the commissioners would in the first place direct their attention to the large amount of money already subscribed towards its completion (which is at press nt nearly 64,0000, to the number of local committees (now about 240) which have been called into existence throughout the country, to the funds now being raised by subscriptions out of their wages among the working classes in all parts of the country towards enabling them to visit an exhibition to which they are anxiously look ing forward, and the abandonment of which would be a great disappointment to numbers; and still more to the extensive preparations which are now making fir the supply of articles for exhibition. It is within the know ledge of the commissioners that several individuals in this country have incurred several thousand pounds' ex pense in such preparations, resides the anxiety which they have occasiened. 17. But the evils which would result from postpone ment, so fir as this country is concerned, are as nothing when compared with those which would arise in the ease of foreign nations and the colonies. The plan of the exhibition has been widely circulated for several months, and the following states have already signified, through their respective Governments, that they have appointed committees or commissioners,. consisting of the most distinguished individuate in those countries, to co-ope rate with the Royal Commission in this country:—Rus sue, Sweden, Norway, France, Holland, Belgium, Den mark, Prussia. Saxony, Austria, Bavaria, Hanover, Oldenburg, Mecklenburg, Hans,' Towns, Spain, the United States. Turkey, Sardinia, Venezuela, Switzerland, Nassau, Anhalt, Dessau, &c. Besides which it may be mentioned that special commissioners have been sent to this country by France, Russia, and one or two other states; and that in most cases the Governments have un dertaken the collection and the transmission to this country, at their own expense, of the articles intend d for exhibition, fur which, of course, their preparations are no w made. 18. In all the countries which have been mentioned active preparations for the exhibition are now going on, and in some considerable expense is known to have been incurred. The Russian Government has announced that the goods intended for exhibition will be shipped from that country in the autumn of this year, and questions pointing to a similar arrangement have recently been put by the Government of Denmark. The Austrian Government have given notice that the Great Exhibi tion which was to have been held at Vienna in the year 1851 has been postponed till the year 1852, in order not to clash with the exhibition in London. All these cir cumstances tend to show that the postponement of the exhibition would be seriously inconvenient to many countries, and would probably occasion considerable and natural irritation at what would appear like. national vacillation, besides the certainty of rendering these countries unwilling to run the rink of a second disap pointment, and of deterring them from continuing their preparations fur a later period. 19. These inconveniences would be felt also by the British colonies. Committees have been announced as formed at Malta, Ceylon, Nova Scotia, Barbadoes, Galena, and several of the West India Islands, and it is probable that others have been appointed elsewhere. In India most extensive preparations have been made, and the East India Company have incurred very great ex pense by their exertions to contribute to the exhibition. 20. After what has been said, it is unnecessary that the commissioners should enlarge any further upon the consequences to be apprehended from the postponement which would bo occasional by an alteration of the site of the building. They will proceed te offer a few re marks upon some of the objections which have been taken to that at present proposed. 21. An idea appears to prevail in some quarters that the occupation of the park is intended to be of a perma nent, and not, as has been repeatedly announced, of a merely temporary character, and the commissioners are given to understand that, by proposing to construct a building into which a good deal of brickwork is to enter they have shown au intention at variance with their pro fessions. Upon this point they have to remark, in the first place, that, although the eminent architects and en gineers whom they have consulted, and to whom they have uniformly given instructions to prepare plans suit able to a temporary structure, have agreed to recommend the use of brick and other durable materials, they have left it perfectly open to contractors to send in their tenders for the execution of the work in any material or materials whatsoever, and have notified their readi ness to entertain such tenders on the single condition of their being" accompanied by working drawings end spe cifications, and fully priced bills of quantities." It is probable that some such tenders will be made, and if made they will be impartially considered; but the commissioners must protest against the supposition that it is necessarily more judicious to construct a temporary building of perishable than of enduring materials. The first requisite of the building is, that it should be suit able for its purpose, capable of protecting the valuable goods deposited in it from injury of every kind, as, for instance, from the weather, from the effects of the damp ness of the soil, from the danger of fire, and so forth, and that it should be strong enough to avert all risk of accidental damage. Its next requisite is, that it should be economical, and in estimatieg its cost, regard must be ' had, not only to the expense of erection. but to the faci lity of removal and the value of the materials when re moved, as a building may easily be conceived to be cheaper which should cost 100,0001. to erect, but of whicn the material could afterwards be sold for 50,000 L, than another would bo which cost but 80,0001 in the first instance, but of which the materials should be come so far deteriorated as to produce only 20,000/. when taken down. It is the opinion of those who have devised the plans in the present case that a build ing constructed of durable materials will in the end be cheaper than one constructed of such as are more perishable; particularly as a considerable portion of the building, namely, the iron roofing, will be of a kind which is generally used in the construction of railway stations, and will probably be disposed of for that pur pose after the close of the exhibition, as its temporary application to the purposes of the exhibition will be of no detriment to its being so. An opportunity of testing the correctness of this opinion will te given when the tenders are received, as, in addition to the customary form, it has been required that they should also be sent upon the understanding that the materials shall remain the property of the contractor, and shall in fact only be hired for the purposes of the exhibition. The third re quisite of the building is, that it should be at least seemly, though it may not be necessary that It should be highly ornamental. The commissioners trust that it will fulfil this condition, while they would at the same time point out that no expense is to be incurred for merely ornamental purposes, unless it should be thought desirable to select a dome for covering in the large space which must necessarily be left in the centre of the building to snit the internal arrange ments. A cheaper mode of covering in this space will probably be resorted to, and the cominiasioneee have directed that a special estimate of the coat of the dome should be laid before them when the tenders are complete, in order that they may judge of the propriety of sanc tioning its erection. Haiing offered this short explanation, they can only repeat once more the assurances they hare already given, that the building is not intended to be permanent, and that it will be entirely removed, in accordai.ce with the conditions prescribed by the Lords of the Treasu-y on yielding up the site, within raven montns after the clos ing of the exhibition, which cannot be deferred after the Ist of November, and will probably take place at an earlier period in the autumn of next year. 22. Another ground of apprehension is stated to he, lest the park should be injured by the erection of the building, and the injury should continue after the structure is removed. his apprehension is, how ever, groundless; a small clump of ten trees has been allowed to be removed; in compensation for which, it is proposed by the Commissioners of Woods and Forests to plant another clump elsewhere. It is not intended to cut down any more than that clump. As regards the surface of the ground to be occupied. it will not only not be injured, but will ultimat..ly be ma terially improved by being drained and freshly sown with grass seed. It will be a strict condition with the contractors for the building that they shall, on its re moval, restore the ground to its present condition. 23. Some dissatisfation has been expressed at the prospect of a furnace bein e rected to heat the boiler and drive th e steam apparatu s. It is, however, intended to sonstruct such furnace on the principle of consuming its own smoke, or to burn coke instea of coal, should that upon the whole appear the best mode of preventmg annoyance. Care will also be taken not to erect any chimney of an unsightly character. 24. As regards the amount of traffic and g o o d s be e occasioned by the transport of mater i a l s to h site, the commissioners have been furnished by the building committee wit h an approximate estimate that it will not in the whole exceed the ordinary amount of three weeks' general traffic of a single railway station, and as this traffic will be spread over a period of more than six months, it is manifest that its amount has been enormously exaggerated by public estimation. 25. Tho Queen's Ride, though in the immediate vi cinity of the site, will latl4 be ill gay degree interfered with, except that it may bo advisable to rail off a strip not exc....ding t n f-et, or one-sixth of the whole in width, fir fiat p , lss,rg , rq, in order to prevent the in eouveidt,me of crowding the space open to riding parties. By this arraugetnent the riders will be secured from annoyance. _ 2.; - a. It has been said that the effect of the erection of the building will be to drive the inhabitants of London out a their parks. Tha Commissioners think it right to draw the a!tention of the Lords of the Treasury to the following statistics:— The area of Hyde Park is 378 acres. „ Kensington Gardens 290 „ „ Regent's Park 9. St. James's Park „ Green Park „ Victoria Park Greenwich Park making a total of 1,568 acres, while only 20 acres are proposed to be taken for the purposes of this exbi bHon. 26. In conclusion, the commissioners think it desir ablo to call attention to the fact that the last three exhi bitions of this nature which have taken place in Paris have been held on a site (the Champs Elyr6es) very closely corresponding to our own Hyde-park in many respi cts, and particularly resembling it in being the most fashionable and the most frequented promenade in Paris, more frequented, indeed, than the particular spot selected on the present occasion has ever been, or is likely to be; and yet it does not appear that the Pari• siana have had occasion to complain of those annoy ances si hick are now apprehended by some persons in this country. And the commissioners are informed that the exhibition in Vienna was held in the Prado, the principal public place in that city ; and that the exhibi tion in Berlin was held in the Thiergarten, which is not only the principal public place within the city, but is re markable as being the only open park of any sort within several miles. 27. In the foregoing observations the commissioners have thought it right to confine themselves strictly to a discussion of the practical difficulties which would attend a change of site. They cannot, however but ex press their decided opinion that the renouncement of the selection of the most beautiful park in London fur the scence of the exhibition may be looked upon as indicat ing a diminution of interest in the undertaking, and would materially detract from that appearance of hos pitality on the part of England which has been one great cause tor the very favourable ,reception which this pro potal has everywhere secured. They must add that the possibility that the bringing the exhibition into Hyde-park should be considered as an interference with the enjoyment of that park by the public has never entered their minds. They have, on the contrary, always intended it as a means of recreative and intellectual enjoyment of the greatest portion of her Majesty's subjects, and they have hitherto had reason to believe that it has been so regarded by the country in general. __ - The following are the names of the Building Com mittee:—The Duke of Buecleuch, Lord Ellesmere, Mr. Barry, Mr. Cubist, Mr. Stephenson, Mr. Brunel, hir. Cockerell, and Mr. Donaldson. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir,—As an old inhabitant Orßitieirt;a, I wish to correct a wrong impression that might be formed by any stranger to this locality from reading the memorandum of the Royal Commissioners, published in your paper of to-day; in the 12th paragraph of which it is stated, in reference to the site of the proposed park in this neigh bourhood, " that only a small proportion of the whole area has as yet been purchased, and that in detached pieces;" and they urge t hi s as a reason w h y t hi s spo t should not be selected. Now, inasmuchaSthey state that only 20 acres will be required for the proposed building, surely there can be nu difficulty in selecting a suitable site out of the 320 acres scheduled to be taken fur, the park, the proprietors and occupiers of which have been long ago served with ❑otices in conformity with the Act of Parliament, and it therefore only matins for the Commissioners of Woods and Forests, in ease of disagreement with the parties, to summon a jury to assess the value, which may be done in 14 days, and possession immediately obtained. Taking the maximum value of the laud at 3001. per acre, if the whole 20 acres had to be purchased, it would only amount to 6,0001, and as the arable land is cropped with early wheat or potatoes, which, from their present ap pearance will probably be ripe, and might be cleared by the end of the present month, without damage to the occupiers, who are altogether few (one principal farmer cultivating the greater portion), and with whom I find the best feeling and disposition to give every facility to the undertaking, there is consequently no reasonable ground of objection on the above score. In the latter part of the same paragraph it is further stated—" The site is very low, a great portion of it being some feet under high water mark, and the nature of the soil presents serious objections to its use as a building.' ground." In reference to which, although I admit this description will apply to the-meadows next the river, yet that portion of the land which would naturally be se lected as the most convenient for the projected building. fronting the lower Wandsworth-road, and within a feW hundred yards of the South-Western Railway, is from 10 to 15 feet above the meadows, to which, no doubt, their description refers. This is, perhaps, as dry a soil and as suitable for building purposes, as any within 10 miles of London ; in proof of which, I refer to the church lately erected in the neighbourhood; whilst the great and paramount advantage of adopting this spot jet that the building might remain, and be reserved to the public as a tinter garden, and, in connexion with the park, become a permanent btnt.fit. And, as r eg ard/ acce4s, there is none so convenient to all parts of the metropolis, either by railway, steamboats, or omnibuses. and this might be materially increased by er.e:i ng a temporary wooden bridge from the Red-house to Rene lagb, in lieu of the intended suspension -bridge, the toll from which would cert ainly, in one year, cover the whole expense of t he construction, and probably leave a con siderable surolus. lan, Sir, your old subscriber, JAmEs PIIILLIPS, Churchwarden of S. George's, Battersea-fields• Battersea fields, July 3. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. BRISTOL, JULY 3. STOCK EXCIIANGE.—The share market was inanimate to-day, but prices remain tolerably firm, without any devi ation from last quotations. The business was principally confined to the Great Western and Bristol and Exeter Shares. LI VEKPOUL, JULY 3. STOCK EXCHANGE. —There was v ery little business doing to-day, and prices were a shade lower. 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