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S' * pm. 60 DittoSruall CLOSING ONE PRICk S- Ili, O'CLOCK. 173 / 4 , S • OF FOREIGN FUNDS. Columbian Bonds, ex Venezuela. — v 36% 111 1,xican, 5 per derit. 1 8 3 7 3 , 6, 4 3, 36 :1 00 - -74 20% Ditto, Account 20 3 / 4 ?Ditto. Deferred 65% ("luguese 5 per Cent. , 65% Dit Convarted 117 117 26 1 / 2 . Vs avian zonds .. 26% 3 4% oPanish 5 per Cent. 140. 26% Ditto. Account..... --- 6 14 61 h.. 37 % Ditto, Passive 3 7% 1 / 2 Ditto 3 per Cent. -.. , • 37 1 ,, Dtto Account Dutch' 21,4 i p ..._ 994 per Cent 99 1 4 q Ditto, 4 per Cent., Certific - CLOSING 11.111,11PCES °F PAID. A ONE O'CLOCK. t• N • I' SIIARES 133% ••• ,rluin. and Gloucester. 100 3% „Ditto 1,!, Shares ttrolingham and Oa -4 h f.°ll Junction 57 sristol 11(1 Gloncewter .. 30 r 7 I O ,A uale t • ' , onian 5 21 / 2 ~ c Ditto Exte;ion . ... 2 1 / 2 - 2 . - /. 2 ...,, nbrid ~ and Lincoln - IL: ...... 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South 111idlnd. June. 1 xyl °lle and Avignon 2 Z;rillnur and Liege - ( - ),, 1 a rla and Vierzon ... 6 10%%% p - : e4 . ns and Bordeaux... 2 4 Aer ie rB c Lyons, Laffitte's and Orleans 2O ........... •• , 4r13 and Rouen .. tonen and llavre ...... 16 LoUrs and Nantes, 'Mac , keozie's ...verona and Ancona...... 1 ..... ...... .„ . West Flanders ............ 2 - 3 21 1 /. 242 4 1 4 191 29% 148 Col on i al. JOINT sTock . ** B—A7N:S. .................... 25 ..... I 2 5 .. . . ..... 1.5 3 4 ,4 London & Westminstf2r 20 .. I - 1 EL S • RAILNVAY COMAII (THIS DAY.) HOUSE OF LORDS. km a 4 COTTISII MIDLAND RAILWAY. n the r e - assembling of the Committee this morning, evidence *as u'tantiate the traffic tables, which were produced yesterday, I,lP,,occeded with, geerra'iWatson farmer, of Kellen, was first examined, and spoke the l in l Y as to th e cattle and agricultural produce that passed alone V 'ould e b . He was of opi n i on th a t th e ra il wa y, if constructed, O f great benefit to the farmers in the di s trict. heen r. o ; 4ni th, of Deanstewn, confirmed the statements which had ap a de of the traffic to and from Strathmore. He expressed Rea ri , o that in manufactures water power was preferable to *ere hi)°,,wer• The work was b e tt er d one , th e m o rals of the people f aeta r i e lue, toned, an d t h e wor k men emp l oye d i n the country manu. r. than tr ildl, Were water power was employed, generally lived longer ; "hr„,4am employed in town factories. the Provost of Perth, stated the feeling of the lab*. m r - y Perth was generally in favour of the proposed railway. Wirt, utit hrie, th e P rovost of Brechin, tendered similar evidence *ay , a e : Pedt to the opinion of the people of Brechin as to the rail O f th e s aid that they were dissatisfied with the present branch li sir Taerdeen Railway, . d ack, cf. Dunkeld, said he knew the course of the proposed 4 4 4 _ _was satisfied, if it were made, it would afford considerable mr. ;roriransmitting the traffic to the southward.. the eatt!.. nelson, butcher in Glasgow. entered into the details of ,_ and confirmed the correctness of the tables. alidi 'err, writer, at Dundee, and legal adviser to the Scottish tr,„r:d Railway Company, ' explained to the Committee the coin °4o,in'ti°ns which had takn place between the Company and the rtlit g , landed Proprietors, consisting of the Duke of . Athol, "eje ct "'afield, Lord Willoughby D'Eresby, and Lady Keith. The Used e bf the evidence was to show that the Railway Company had *h e , weeny Means in their power to induce the landed proprietors 'ie ws ere ° Phosed to the formation of the line to fall in with their ~.", r irrl i t ti n gton, civil engineer, said that the Bill now . before the h , 7 4 n ow would fnn a link in the thr ,ugh communication that descrCad ribe nearly established between London and Perth. .He then the course of the line, the particulars of which have it% kris al)Peared in th H of Commons' report, and stated that kereage through el the "'e lates of the opposing landowners, en gine e ? ecia llY in the val:ey e' or Strathmore, was the best, in an WWould;4.4 p o int of vi ew , th a t could be adopted. The estatesnterferetit.he Material's injured by the passing of the line, as it ld b w all very little ornamental ptoperty, and every facilit) affifrded for free ways either over or under the railway. tr affic h er " at present laid out was a single one, but if the very tuti. eaner permitted, it could be altered to a double lime a b ) e° O tak e " , )g Co mparative expense, as sufficient land had already the The gang...wouldas to be as,imilated with wi that of the so secure one uniformwidth of rail krentire dist ance from London to the north of Scotland. a nd s ai d i G h e ke, civil engineer, corroborated the previous . testimony,. cation of e proposed inc would be a main link in the communi :%.. 4 through line to Aberdeen. itzt:us:aisikeetrudnerer bed 'now it was intended to carry a line across , pike roods in the vicinity of Perth and Strathsay. 1.4 th e , s au ' a dder deposed to the va'ue of the land to be taken i nem e eUr Polles of the railwi,y. He estimated the value of the land, 1,,g damages, at 311,:242/. 17s. tad. " et c Lord) then adjourned till Monday at'eleven o'clock. 'COR NWALL ItAXI.WAY. Car^ Cchllr t -- rnittee met at eleven o'clock in the Lord Chancellor's th e Earl of Ehenborough in the chair. i th . o "e first witness examined was Mr. Hawkeshaw, an engineer, etweaePosed that he considered the projected line perfectly d pr e a r ct o i r . rli% e ' l a nd that the working ot it would be quite free from danger rat e O , t Y• He thought they could very weletravel at the average i fag, Lthirty miles an hour. lhe gradients on the bran( ag":,Alanchester to Oldham were, some of them, as bad as one . 11 ktp theY travelled twenty.three miles au hour on it, including tls-ro". • examined—lt would require more vigilance in the direc line t ° l, l the engines to guard against accidents on a curving uneven *l z i i a n en a l evel and direct line, but, with an ordinary degree of coanee, accideuts might be easily guarded against. rii ntli tja4 l then as k ed witness if there was not danger of trains rne4t i nto the railway station, and so causing immense deur tvete' a ,nd frequently loss of life, when the curves and gradients ki te "'less replied that such accidents had occurred, but it did not t'ither from the curves or the gradients. The surplus m . o. evie4ein.4:si a e s y u such i i `te e ns i 4 ,, ll wh ich an inclined plane would occasion was easily accidents could only arise from extreme care_ ght happen on a level line as well as on an un ' I n the olles, an engineer who was next examined, cncurrd , s v iew' taken of the line , by the last witness, and thought, e if prn Te'lY carried out, there would be no danger ot accident. th '0 answer to a question from the CHAIRMAN, witness said that wi e th ! a PeNe of working locomotive lines had greatly decreased tves e 4 f . ' t he last few years. Four or five years ago the expenses die tit ' rGl a 4 e. to se. per mile. On part of the line the ruling gra s. was 1 in 60. graadlir• Sergeant KINGLAER—What do you mean by the ruling ki ea t ? Witness —The prevailing maximum gradi e nt. William Henry Bond, an officer, who resided a t F a l mou th, : i t ' 4 4 that h e h ad been secretary to the Cornwall Rahway in the and took a great interest in it. Witness went on to describe lin advan tages which h e t h oug h t wou ld result from the projected a t , Point of traffic. i"ne B tbefall he runel, th e em i nent engineer, was next called. SurveySurveyedthought there was nothing in it to prevent its workedwith safety and convenience. There were worse -41 ° , 1 and gradients on other liner. The Great Western Cow pany, P whleh he was the engineer, would be large i.ntrlbutors towards carrying out this scheme. Tile gradients were in many cases steep and the curves rather sharp, but from his experience an average speed of thirty miles an hour for the snail train, and twelve miles for the goods' train might be mai.utained along the whole line with perfect safety and convenience. TRE arrN i LONDT_SATURDA of journeys by omnibus was 1,174, taking the actual journeys made last year. There would be a station between Kingsland-road and Newington. There were 4,000 passengers from Newington, and 11,670 from the neighbourhood of Kingsland-road. The schedule for goods was made on the basis of the Cambridge and Lincoln calculations, and of course open to the same objection as had been alleged against that line. The rates were the same-3d. a ton, the tariff and the calculations being identical. The charge for grain was to be 14d. per ton ; the quan. tity carried would be 65,000 tons. He had got this information from Mr. Ruston, the metage clerk of Mark. lane. He assumed that 35,000 beasts and 267,000 sheep would come to the Farring don.street station during the )ear, considering that half the cattle would come to the station and "half would be left at Isling ton. He had put in, however, additional cattle from Nor folk and South Lincolnshire, amounting to 27,000 head of cattle and above 300,000 sheep during the year. Claims credit Ear 575,000 sheep altogether. On an average there would be 1,500 beasts a week, and 12,000 sheep carried by the railway. He took all the passengers from Shoreditch, though he would not assert that they had the power to compel them to do so. In fact, he assumed all the traffic of every kind, and added 50 per cent. to it. The goods were doubled. In the re-examination of Mr. Webster the witness stated that he anticipated that the peculiar facilities of the line would bring all the passengers upon it. The private traffic was certainly very great. and on a comparison with the traffic on the Greenwich line, he thought his calculation was reasonable. The receipts of the Greenwich Company during the first six months of the present year were 1,044/. per week, the total being 54,2961. 199. 4d., while for this railway he only took 21,5781., notwithstanding that this railway had no river compe. tition, went through a more populous district, and would be the termination of several hundred miles of railway The Committee then adjourned till twelve on Mond.ty. 1I ELAND. INQUEST AT BALLINIIASSIG. The inquest - was resumed on Monday morning. The at tendance of magistrates and gentry was no: so large as on the previous days. A person named William Regan, who wit nessed the affray, wns examined. His statement was similar to that of the preceding witnesses. Hs. declared that he saw no stones thrown before the commencement of the firing by the police. The proceedings were suddenly brought to a conclusion by the indisposition of one of the jurors ( Mr. Gillman ). i he CORONER then said they should adjourn, and suggested that it should be until after to-morrow. Mr. Scannell objected to such a lengthened adjournment. CORONER—Let the Doctor be sworn as to hii il!ness. Dr. Tresilian, having been sworn, said he examined Mr. Gillman, anti found him very nervous and faintish, and much in dread of his head, fearing apoplexy. Ile would nut be in a fit state to sit out the day. CORONER—CouId he attend to-morrow?—There might be a possibility : but as he will have to take medicine to-night, it might be very dangerous :or him to attend to-morrow. The Court then adjourned until Wednesday at half-past nine o'clock. A party of the city constabulary, under the command of Mr. Inspector Walker, with constables Crowley and Burchill, are still quartered in the district. DUBI.IN, WEDNESDAY.—The inquiry was resumed this day, at ten o'clock, but no new facts were elicited. THE IRISH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. DUBLIN, JULY B.—The General Assembly again met on Monday in the Scotch Church, Capel.street, when a discussion arose upon a memorial from Belfast, which prayed for the abandonment of the Regium Donum, on account of the pass ing of the Maynooth Bill. The memorial thus concluded : " That your memoriabsts, as members of the - Presbyterian Church in Ireland, most earnestly, but most affectionately and respectfully, pray your reverend body to consider the propriety of taking immediate steps to render the ministers of your com munion independent of all state endowment, your memorialists hereby declaring their determination to contribute, as in duty bound, according to the ability wherewith God may bless them, towards a fund for supplementing to all such ministers an ade quate support." _ _ JAMES GIBSON, Esq., as a Commissioner on the part of the memoriali.ts, supprted the prayer. The Rev. Dr. CARLILE, having left the chair, proceeded to address the meeting. He said that in taking his stand there no person could accuse him of showing favour towards Popery, for no one could be more impressed than he was with the withering and soul-destroying character of that heresy. Should they throw away 35,0001. a 3ear because the Roman Catholics gained 30,000/.? Sir Robert Peel would say Gentlemen, here is the money we require to endow Alaynooth." There was another point too—if it was their duty as Christians to re sign the grant because Government had endowed Popery, they would be bound to call upon the Established Chureh to do the same. What would the Roman Catholics like better ? How they would be delighted to take possession of what the Presby terians had so magnanimously relinquished ; and, besides, what was the alter.ative? He objected to the voluntary sys tem. He would not object to be supported by Christians, but to receive support from those who might be enemies to Christ, was more withering and blasting than to receive any payment from the hands of Government. The Rev. Dr. STEWA KT opposed the memorial, and con cluded try proposing resolutions in favour of the annual grant to Irish Presb3terians. After some discussion, the resolutions proposed by Dr. Stewart in favour of the continuance of the Regium Donum were adopted. PROCLAIMING THE DISTURBED DISTRICTS. It is stated in Saunders' News Letter that the Lord Lieu tenant is prepared to proclaim the disturbed parts of the coun ties of Leitrim, Roscommon, and Cavan, on receiving a requi sition to that effect from the Lieutenants of the respective counties. The troops encamped have had every means taken to secure their comfort ; the tents have been supplied with timber floor ing, raised six inches or more from the ground. Several log-houses, lined wish sheet iron, have been con structed under the superintendence of an eng'neer officer, to house the police where accommodation cannot be procured for them. Each log-house is capable of containing ten men. They have iron bedsteads, wiiich fold up into the smallest possible compass during the day. The Newry Telegraph, an Orange journal, makes the fol lowing announcement :—All the autiresses of Lords Roden, Enniskillen, and the other Orange leaders have been unavail ing, and processions are to be general on the 12th of July. DUBLIN STOCK EXCHANGE—TUESDAY. Government Funds.—Bank Stock, 210—Three per Cent. Con. solo, 99 99h—Three-and.a.Quarter per Cent. Stock, 101 A per Cent., reduced to 41. sterling per annum, 63 631 —Four pc r Cent. City Debentures, New, 94. Railways.—Belfast and Ballymena, 61 I—Belfast1 —Belfast and County Down, 31--Cork and Bandon, 61 7—Cork and Youghal, 31 — Cork, Blackrock, and Passage, 21( 2 —Dublin and Belfast Junc tion, 8/I—Dublin and Drogheda, 115—Dundalk and Enniskillen, 31—Enniskillen and Sligo, 21 —Great Southern and Western, 221—Great Southern Extension, 101 111—The Midland Great Western Railway and Royal Canal Company, 4 41—Ditto, Extension to Sligo, 2A, —lrish Great Western (Dublin to Gal way), 4—Kingstown and Bray, 51 U—Limerick, Ennis, and Killaloe Junction, 51—Lonuonderry and Enniskillen, 31 -a— Waterlord and Limerick, 7—Waterford and Kilkenny, 2:l—Wex ford and Carlow, 21—Waterford, Wexford, and Dublin, 11 1. ENGLAND'S WOODEN WALLS. —A railing ii bcing put up round the Wellington statue opposite the Royal Exchange. The shabby boarding. however, still continues round the Nelson column. We think, after the handsome present of the Emperor of they might have bound this work of art in something better than plain hoards. A column does not improve, any more than good wine, by being kept too long "in the wood." We certainly take a pride in giving the column this railing, because we feel that, if it is left to the public, it will never get one. The committee, too, we think, requires blowing up just as much as the boards. — Punch. _ _ SUDDEN DEATHS.—An old woman, named Mary Clements, a soldier's widow, who had followed the army through. out the Peninsular campaign, and was with her husband's regiment at the battle of Waterloo, dropped down dead at her lodgings, in George-street, Windsor, while in a state of intoxication, on the evening of Thursday last. About two hours previously, another Wceretan, residing in the same street, had died suddenly of a disease oL . the heart, and Mary Clements was called in to " lay out" the body. After performing this ceremony, she became more intoxi cated,i from taking an additional quantity of beer, and fell down n an epileptic fit, and instantly expired. She had, just before, been boasting that the last body was the 356th body she had "laid out" within the last 36 years. DISTRESSED NEEDLEWOMEN'S SOCIETY. The meeting called yesterday, at Exeter Hall, in aid of the funds of this charity, was adjourned until further notice, on account of the very small attendance. There were not more than twenty persons present at half-past two. FATE or A KlNG.—Monsi , ur Thierrv, who al . ' tempted to establish himself as an independent sovereign in New Zealand, having disappointed or given umbrage to his barbarous subjects, was recently cooked, and eaten by them at a solemn public banquet.—Edinburgh Advertiser. We believe we can state that the disagreeable re velations contained in the report of the Committee appointed to consider the petition of the South-Eastern Railway, have rendered it imperative on Captain Boldero and Mr. Bonham to resign the office.; held by them in the Board of Ordnance.—Times. Tito Courtier de Lyon mates that on '1 uesday the thermometer in that city marked 107 of Fahrenheit in the shade, and that there was not the slightest indication of the approach of ran. I ROME, ,JUNE 28. A 111311;w of the celebrated Amati was arrested in his lodgings last night, and conveyed to the Castle of St. Angelo. He frequented the Vatican Library, and made extracts from rare manuscripts, but he had taken the liberty of cutting off the leaves of several of them, and pocketing them. HANOVER, JULY 4.—The Crown Prince and Princeses intend to leave this city to morrow for Norderney, where they will stay some weeks, for the benefit of sea-bathing. It has been reported that, on account of the delicate condition of the Princess, their Royal Highnesses would not go to the baths this year, but this determination has been suddenly altered with the consent of the King. CLAREMONT.—An extensive and convenient range of stabling and coach-houses has been completed at Claremont for the accommodation of the horses and carriages belonging to her Majesty when the Court is at that delightful residence. FIRE NEAR THE BLACKERIARS-ROAD.—Thursday morning, shortly after one, a fire broke out on the premises of Mr. Downey, grocer and cheesernonger, '26, Cross.strect, Black friars• road. Several engines were quickly on the spot, and after some trouble the flames were extinguished, but not before very serious damage was done, nearly the whole of the stock in the shop being destroyed by fire or water. The occupier was insured in the London Office. LAhGE GCOSEBERRY.—A day or two ago a goose berry was pulled in the garden of Mr. William Stirling, of Kirkintil_ loch, which measured 4 3,4 by 43y inches. This gigantic berry belongs to the class of Lancashire berries, known by the name of the "companion," anti is not likely to be matched, even in Dum fries-shire. —Glasgow Argus. TEETOTALISM.—"Arrah, Teddy dear, will you tell me what is the meaning of teettrotalism? Is it repale ?" Teddy took his pipe out of his mouth, and deliberately said, " It's not repale, Dennis, but it's like it. Ilepale is dividing a sister from her mother. Teetwotalism is cutting the heart out of a man, and sticking a lump of cold water in its place." NOTTINGHAM AND LINCN.I.N LlNE.—Persons have been actively employed during the past week in staking the course of the line, which we understand is to be completed in April next. —Nottingham Journal. TUE AGATE STONE.—It was stated a days since that agate seals, imported into this country from the Conti nent, made of agate stone, and formed into the shape of seals, re. quiring only to be engraved in order to render them a complete manufactured article, and tit for their intended purpose, were to be considered goods manufactured, and charged with the ad va. lorcm duty of twenty per cent. A question has since been made with respect to brooches, made of the same kind of stone, which have undergone a manufacturing process beyond cutting, being in laid, and, therefore, though not set in any other material, were in a certain degree manufactured. It has been decided that such ar ticles cannot be admitted free of duty, as " agates not set," accord ing to the meaning of the new Act 6th Victoria, chap. 12, in re spect thereto, but are also to be charged as goods, wares, &c., in part or wholly manufactured, with the ad valorem duty of twenty per cent. The Eclit,burzh awl Northern Railway, which occupied so much time in the House of Commons, and which went triumphantly through the ordesi of that inquiry, is cast for Tues day next to come before a Committee of the House of Lords. The Bill is to undergo a vigorous opposition, notwithstanding that Lord Campbell last night presented a petition from the county of File in its favour, signed by 18,000 persons. LIVERPOOL .AND BURT RAILWAY. The Committee appointed on this Bill met in the Rolls' Cour this morning, at eleven, Lord Clanricarde in the chair, Mr. Thomson, civil engineer, was called—He stated that the length of the line from Liverpool tti Bolton was twenty.five miles, and an additional five miles to Bury would make a total of thirty miles. There was a branch to Ormskirk, and another shorter one—making altogether thirty-four miles. The gra dients were not in the least objectionable, the most unfavou. rable being 1 in 90, for a distance of three-and-a. half miles, and 1 in 97 for four miles. The estimate for construction was 911,7824 17s. sd. It was intended to connect the line with the Liverpool docks, at present in course of construction, and thus facilitate the coal traffic from the pits to the vessels lying there. Messrs. liawkeshaw and Forsyth, civil engineers, were called to corroborate the evidence of the first witness, and the Committee then adjourned till eleven on Monday. HOUSE OF COMMONS. GROUP A. The Committee met this morning at the early hour of eleven o'clock, and according to agreement, the case on the part of the promoters of the MINSTER AND DEAL LINE. was about to be opened by Mr. ALLIANDER, when Mr. Sergeant Waswoussr, on the part of the North Kent Com pany, applied for permission to appear on the part of that Com pany, to oppose a part of the preamble of the Bill, on the ground that the Company had a competing project for next session. The Committee refused to admit the argument of Mr. Sergeant Wrangham, as the North Kesel. Company had actually ceased to exist. Mr. ALEXANDER then addressed the Committee on the part of .he promoters cf the line, and called Mr. C. Kingsmill, the Mayor of the town of Deal, Mr. Richard, a resident at Deal, and other witnesses spoke to the advantages to be expected from such a railway communication as this line would afford. Mr. Kean, a resident at the town of Sandwich, was then called, and gave evidence in favour of the line, which he said would give great accommodation to, and therefore confer great benefit on, the people of Sandwich. Mr. HORNE, on the part of the corporation of Sandwich (who have the tolls of a ferry on the river Stour, over which river th.s line will pass) was about to cross.examine the witness, when Mr. ALEXANDER said that his friend, Mr. Horne, had no locus standi before the Committee. Mr. HORNE contended that the railway would convey passengers to the same spot with which the ferry communicated, and therefore that it would injure the ferry. The Learned Counsel argued the point at great length, but after a few words from Mr. ALEXANDER, who contended that this line would not injure tl,e ferry, and that even if it did his Learned Friend, Mr. Home, would have no right to appear before the Committee, The CHAIRMAN said that the opinion of the Committee was that Mr. Horne had no locus standi, and therefore could not appear in opposition to the Bill. _ .. Mr. W. Lee, Solicitor, at Sandwich, gave evidence in favour of :he line. Mr. Coxhead, coach proprietor at Sandwich, and Mr. Crump and Mr. Slaver, residents at Ramsgate, corroborated the evidence of the previous witnesses, and spoke to the advantage to the people of Ramsgate to be expected from this line. Mr. George Stephenson gave engineering evidence as to the pro. posed line. The length of the line was 8 miles 7i furlongs. The line, as originally proposed, would be 10 mi.es, but the omission of the extension to Walsall, reduced the length to the amount stated. The cuttings and embankments were very slight, as the country through which the line passed was nearly level the whole way. The line crossed the river Stour about a mile and a half from Minster. The river would be crossed by a swing bridge of 40 feet span. The line would cross eight public roads on a level, but these roads had but very little traffic. The expense of the whole line was estimated at 157,0001. for the Minster and Deal branch, and 30,0001. far the Margate Extension, making together 187,0001., which included land and stations. The steepest gradient on the line was lin 264. There was no curve with asmaller radius than a quarter of a mile. Cross.examined by Mr. HILL (on the part of some opposing land owners)—The estimates were for a double line. It was intended to lay down only a single line of rails in the first instance, but it might be necessary to have a double line at some future time. Mr. Cubitt gave evidence of no public interest as to the proposed Margate Extension. Mr. Clutton, land.valuer, said that the value of the land which would be taken by the Company for the line was 24,0001. Mr. Thomas Armstrong produced tables of the available traffic of this line. The total amount of traffic expected would be 6,592/. Ils. 6d., which left a net revenue of 3,9551. 108 10d. The CHAIRMAN observed, that by the request of a Member, who had business to transact in the country, the Committee would ad journ to Wednesday. Mr. ALEXANDER said that there really was no bona fide opposi tion to the line, and he thought the case could be easily concluded if the Committee would meet for an hour on Monday. After some discussion, the Committee adjourned to twelve o'clock on Wednesday. GROUP X. YORK LINES. The Committee rnet this morning at twelve o'clock, Lord Cour te nay in the chair. Mr. Sergeant WRANGHAM contended that the notices tendered yesterday to Mr. Webster were not sufficiently specific to justify the opposition which had been made to the London and York Ilne. That at the Greenwood lane, Ross, and at Robery Common, might serve the purpose of the promoters, but the others were fr.r too vague to justify the objections legally, and he was quite satisfied that they could not be sustained. Mr. AUSTIN, on behalf of the Eastern Counties Company, contended that there was a defect in the evidence which could not now be obviated. The precedent established in the Portsmouth group held ht this case. The report of the Board of Trade was to be taken into account, and though that decision was not to be binding, yet, notwithstanding that decision, the Committee had determined to give the accesses to the town cf Portsmouth. Now, the parties for whom he appeared, had certain portions of the lane to which they were especially entitled, and he contended that the line between Biggleswitde and London was certainly open to objection, and on that principle he should assert his right to be heard in favour of the Northern and Eastern Company, especially when it was recollected that this Company hcd made the line which immediately led from the metropolis. The Committee on the Portsmouth had decided that three accesses should be given to that town. The whole of the evidence for the London and York line had been received, and he thought that he was fully entitled to adduce evidence in favour of another line. He held, therefore, that the Committee were incompetent to come to anydecision which should invalidate any other line—perhaps a better line—between the two termini. This decison could not be arrived at before they had the whole of the evidence before them. He had evidence to tender that would materially affect that deci- sion, which would in fact show that another and a better line could be made to the north than that proposed by the London And York Company. Mr. HILDYALLD wished to inquire whether the decision was only on the London and York, or on the access to the northern counties. He felt assured that is here better means of communication were proffered, he was perfectly entitled to give evidence of the advan. tages which would be obtained by taking some other route. Mr. Hope said that he had been waiting sixty days to be heard, and he hoped on the sixty-first day he should not be refused the opportunity of giving evidence on a portion of the line. The Committee then retired to consider whether this evidence should he received, and, after some time, declared that they could not at present give any decision, and they would therefore go on with the traffic evidence on the Tottenham and Farringdon-street line. _ Levett, a measurer connected with Bow-street Police.office, testified to the facility which would be afforded by the Farringdon street station, and asserted that Belgrave.square would be de cidedly nearer by that station than by one by the King's : crqss sta tion. Portman square would be about the same distance. yath respect to Grosvenor.square there would be but little chfferer!fy i .latit the facilities for communication to all the bridges by the 4i'fp.-0.6-: don-street station would be the greatest. Mr. Berks, a miller, having the largest mills in London, stated that be ground 600 quarters a week, and that his mills being situated ju-t beyond Blackwall on the Thames, were most con veniently situated for the reception of corn by water. the heel a considerable quantity of corn from Lincolnshire, partly for Mix- ing, but a good deal was used alone. In consequence of . ccintrary wins,a last winter they had been kept out of cons for six. weeks. By h, use of the Farringdon-street st tion they wcu'd save the metage. That station was situated in a large con suming district, indeed the most populous district in London. There were more bakers' shops in it than in any other district. The cartage from the former to the port ,trasfrcl. quarter, loading 2ii. a quarter. Other expenses were pretty.much the same as on other merchandise, Allowing Is. for merchants, profits, 3d. for insurance, and id. for metage, the whole expenses amounted to about sd. a quarter. The expenses might be stated at I/. 75. 6d. a ton, and there would be a saving of at least 3s. fid. a ton by this station. The total charge including freight, was 11. 19s. girl. The usual charge for car riage was Sd. a quarter, and having the option of the Farringdon street station and the Thames Junction station, he should certainly use the former. The saving. suppose the price by rail and the freight were the same, would be 10d. a quarter, and without taking ime into consideration, he should certainly use the rail. The whole saving by rail would be 17s. 6d. a ton. With respect to time and certainty the advantages were immense, for now they were obliged to keep large stocks, and in considera tion of delay there was this difference, that corn would be sold at Mark-lane at one month's credit, instead of at two months, as was now the case. The western districts had greatly interfered with the form of the existence of the railway. There had been a large crop in the neighbourhood of Reading, and it was only by going down into the district that they had been able to nullify that competition. A considerable quantity of wheat went from Lincolnshire into the western districts, though not through London. " ' To the cross.examination of Mr. PAGET, the witness stated that even if they did the work themselves, the dealers would have to pay the 4d. a quarter, and the advantages he said were so great, that though his mills were on the river, he should use it. He expected to bring back the corn by the back carriage of those waggons which delivered the flour at the bakers' shops in the north district of London. His connexion comprised an area of 14 miles, and though the Shoreditch station might be useful for the imme diate neighbourhood, and a good deal of wheat would be brought there, yet the Farringdon-street station was by far the best ; and though there were other good stations, the Shoreditch and the Far ringdon- street must continue to be the best. Mr. n o Lane testified , t t O h t he e , hpoloesitolofnsthomfn t wer e d i l t e i r ty i e i s n , g but s h e: e and distilleries, or how many should be con s idered as one or the could other. To the cross.examination of Mr Sergeant WRANGHAM the witness stated that they only claimed a portion of the traffic on the old coach line. Five rni:es and a haif was the distance which he claimed, and certified the table which had been put in. They assumed that the whole of the omnibus traffic would produce upwards of 41,060/. including Tottenham, Edmonton, and all the places within a few miles, and considered that the passengers ought to be taken as through passengers. Indeed, he considered that all the omnibuses would cease. The passengers even now went nut of their way, and, therefore, it was evident that when they could save three miles they would prefer the railway. Cheshunt would be just the same distance, and of Gout se the time consumed would be reduced by the superiority of the speed. The omnibus fare is now Is. but he could not say exactly what the railroad fare would be. He supposed at Is. 3d., the distance being t en tulles, or perhaps eleven. For the latter distance the tare sill be Is. 4 d, but the time now occupied was three. quarters of an hour, while by rail it would only be filteen minutes. Assuming the charge to be the same as by the Eastern Counties, ' there would still be a saving of four miles. He had formed his calculation on the assumption that the saving would be three miles on the nearest side of Cheshunt. He had taken all the omoibuses from Eidie!d, which was half a mile from the railroad, and further off than Cheshunt. He was not prepared to say that either Bishops gate street or the Exchange were neater to Farringdon.street than to the Shoreditch station. In fact, the reverse was the case. Southgate was a considerable distance from the railway, but he thought not so much as four miles. The present charge VMS fid. by omnibus, but when the railway was made, the passengers would have to pay the two fares instead of one. From Enfield they claimed 7.0001. a year, conceiving that all the passengers who went along the track of the omnibus would go by the railway. From Stamford Bill they claimed 4, 4 .2001. a year. To the CHAIRMAN. the witness replied that the instance front the point of separation was about five miles. To Mr. Sergeant WRANGIIASI, Mr. Law Stated that the number EirrtNlNG, - • -- THE SOUTH-EASTER :1 -RAILWAY AND ME BOARD OF- ORDNANCE. The fdlowing is the report of the Select Committee ap point: . impire into the allegations of the petition of the South:F.astern Compar.y relative to the conduct cl Mr. Ilignett, of the Board of Ordnance, and Captain Boldero and Mr. :Bonham. Several letters and extracts of evidence, i:-.cludc.d in the report, we are obliged to postpone, but indeed they are not very material, as the report itself embodies the substance of them. The Committee consisted of Mr. Hawes, Mr. Sheridan, Mr. Roebuck, Lord Worsley, Mr. llayter, Mr. Tapered, Mr. T. Duncombe, Lord Ashley, Mr. Pakington, Mr. W. Patten, Mr. Vernon, Mr. T. Egerton, Sir R. IL Inglis, Mr. Liddell, and Sir C. Douglas. After giving the petition at length, and Mr. ilignett'a letter to Mr. Whitehead, which has already appeared in The Sun, and which led to the investigation, the report thus pro ceeds : From this petition it appears to your Committee that the allega :ions or charges mace by the South-Eastern Railway Company are .ht se : The fast is a charge made directly against Mr. Hignett, the so licitor to the Board of Ordnance, that he had written a letter to the secretary of that Company on the 3d of F,bruary last, suggest. ing that shares in the South-Eastern Railway Company should be sent under cover, marked " private," to two members of the Board of Ordnance, Mr. Bonham and Captain Bolder(); and further, that he had solicited similar shares for himself from that Company, and had offered to tell the parties interested " whom to call to give evi dence" calculated " greatly" to assist the promoters of the Bill then before Parliament, on behalf of that Company. The second charge is made, though indirectly, against the Board of Ordnance, and is t., this effect : That the petitioners had "reason to apprehend that undue in fluence may have been used by the solicitor of the Board of Ord. naoce in Lvour ci:the Lon:don, Chatham, and North Kent Rail way, to the prejudive of the petitioners," that the "interests of their proprietary and the public may have been compromised by the corrupt influence of the said J. Hignett at the said Board of Ordnance; or that the documents bearing the sdgoature of the said J. Hignett may not have had the proper and full consideration and sanction of the said Board of Ordnance " The petitioners, therefore, prayed the House "to institute an inquiry into the circumstances of the case, and into the bona fides, and expediency of the arrangements between the London, Chat ham, and North licit Railway and her Majesty's Board of Oid nance on beha f of the public service." In reference to the first charge, your Committee examined Mr. John \Vhiteheatl, who was for several years, and until the 27th of February last, the Secretary to the Company, and to whom the letter of the 3d of February last, referred to in the petition, was addressed; Mr. John Peter Fearon, who is the solicitor to the Company, and who has held that office from the period of the for mation of the Company to the present time ; and Mr. Hignett himself. Mr. Hignett admitted that he had written and sent to Mr. Whitehead the letter in question of the 3d of February. He considered it a private and confidential communication, but ac knowledged that he understood that its contents were to be com municated to one or more leading directors, and that it could only be acted upon with the full knowledge of the directors. Though, however, Mr. Hignett admitted that he had written the letter referred to, he declared to your Committee that when he wrote it he had no authority to use the name of either Mr. Bonham or Captain Boldero, that " he had no conversation whatever with these gentlemen upon the subject," and that he used their names considering that it would " give weight to" his application for the shares he was soliciting from the Company. Mr. Hignett further declared that the statement that he had spoken to Mr. Bonham was" untrue," and that the pri.sumption intended to be raised by this use of the names of influential members of the Board, that the demands of the Company on the Board might be assisted by the course suggested by the letter, was without foundation, as " they had not the power to further the objects of the South-Eastern Com pany," the questions at issue being deemed of a purely military nature, and the decision upon s uch questions resting solely with the Mostar-Genera land not with the Board. Tour Committee also gather from the evidence, that Mr. Hignett h.d frequently corresponded privately with the secretary of the South- Eastern Company, who states that " the general character of the correspondence was suggesting to the South-Eastern Company the course which they should take in order to bring their project under the notice of the Board of Ordnance, with the ♦iew of secur_ ing their assent to it;" that it "all had reference to the South_ Eastern North Kent of Line Railway and the other North Kent Line." (Here are inserted letters, showing the general character of the cor respondence of Mr. Hignett with the Company ) These letters, addressed from time to time to the secretaries of the Company by Mr. Hignett, were, it appears, handed over to their solicitor, Mr. Fearon. But other letters of an earlier date, having refer once to shares, Mr. Whitehead states, were afterwards disposed of, and were placed in the hands of Mr. M`firegor of Liverpool, one of the Dine. tors of the Company. It appears in evidence that Mr. Hignett had frequently speculated in the shares of the South-Eastern Railway Company. During the last two years, or thereabouts, he states that he has had forty or fifty transactions in the shares of that Company, and that in the autumn of 1844 he was the proprietor of seventy shares in the Com pany, which he had bought as a speculation and not as a permanent investment; but that he parted with all his shares in this Company in Deceinber of that year. In his character of a proprietor of the South-Eastern Railway Company, Mr. Hignett was entitled, it would appear, to a certain number of shares in a French northern line of railway, and that eight shares were consequently allotted to him, which he received as a matter of right, and not as a favour. This transaction is re ferred by Mr. Big, ett to some time about the end of the year 1844. But there seems to have been a subsequent transaction between. Mr. Hignett, Mr. Whitehead, and one of the Directors of the South-Eastern Railway Company, and which, as detailed in the evidence, assumes a questionable character. Subsequently to the 3d of February, 1845, Mr. Hignett states that he had business to do with Mr. Whitehead, and that at an interview with that gen tleman Mr. Whitehead said, " Mr. Hignett, I have these shares to hand to you ;" " but," Sir. Hignett acids, " nothing further passed between us as to the shares." In the course of his explanation of this transaction, Mr. Hignett adds, " We had been discussing about some difficulty that occurred to their line, and just as he was going away he said that he had those shares to hand to me." Upon being asked whether these shares, being 40 shares in the French Northern live, included the eight shares to which he was entitled of right, he replied, " No, they were distinct. I dare say they were Mr. M`Gregor's shares which you allude to; but I did not receive them from Mr. M'Gregnr." This conversation, your Committee may add, has reference to a statement previously made, that the 40 shares in question were part of a number alloyed to Mr. M`Gregor, one of the Dirt store of the South-Eastern Railway C o mpany, who afterwards, at the suggestion of the their secretary, gave them to Mr. Hignett, in the hope 05 thus obtaining thebenerit of that gentleman's influence. Upon pressing the examination further upon this point, it was admitted by Mr. Hignett, that the 49 shares so handed to hint by Mr. Whitehead were accepted by him from the South Eaetern Railway Company "as a matter of favour, and not as a matter of right." It a'so appeared that these shares were then at a premium of from 11. to 21. per shale, and that they were given to Mr. Hig_ nett at par, on his paying the deposit of 4/. At a later period Mr. Hignett appears to have purchased shares on speculation on his own account, as well as on account of a mem ber of the Board of Ordnance, Captain Boldero, in the North Kent line, the line then competing with the South. Eastern North Kent line before the Select Committee, and in several other companies. The first of these transactions is dated the 7th of March, 1845, when Mr. Hignett purchased 100 shares for Captain Boldero, which he subsequently sold for the account ot, and with the knowledge of, that gentleman. On the 15th of April Mr. Hignett again pur chased 145 shares in the same line, 70 of which were for Captain Boldero, 25 for a friend of his, and the remainder for Mr. Hignett himself; and on the 19th of June Mr. Hignett bought 50 shares for himself, at 2/. premium, and which he held at the period of giving his evidence. The last-mentioned were all scrip transac tions, and meant not for investment, but for speculation. It also appears that Mr. Hignett speculated to a considerable extent in the shares of other lines, both French and English. He states, how ever, that in reference to the lines the proceedings as to which he was required officially to watch, excepting those of the •South- Eastern and North Kent Companies, neither he nor any friend of his, nor any member of the Board of Ordnance, nor any acquaint ance of his, had held any shares whatever. Independently of the transactions thus specifically referred to, it appears by the correspondence to which your Committee have already directed attention, that Mr. Hignett, a few days suer he had become a purchaser of 145 shares in the North Kent line, suggested a compromise between the South-Eastern Company and the party advocating the North Kent, a competing line, and offered to become the agent of this compromise or amalgamation of bite rests. He proposed to the secretary of the South Eastern Rail. w ay Company, if he were authorised, " to communicate with their opponents teem that subject privately, and let him know what the answer was, stipulating that whatever passed should be private and confidential." Mr. Hignett states that lie did not think such a proceeding inconsistent with his public duty ; but that he volun teered his mediation, to relieve the Board of Ordnance from the applications of both parties. He states that he expected neither shares nor other compensa. lion on becoming the aibitrator between the rival companies, but to act only as the mutual friend of the parties. Mr. Hignett also states that in his letters to the South. Eastern Railway Company, offering advice, assistance, and support, he was actuated only by a desire to premote an important pu' lic work, and that he had " never afforded them any assistance except in a regular way." He admits, however, that if he "h. el been ieimi cat to the line he might have hu ng back, arid have hampered them w ith delay," but " that he did not do so ;" 'hat " lie always transacted the business with as much alacrity as he could," and cam " went out of his way to do so." Upon reviewing this portion of the evidence, it clearly appears that Mr. Hignett was a considerable speculator in the shares of one of the competing lines then before a Committee of this House, and which immediately affected property placed under the charge of the Board of Ordnance, and the proceedings as to which it was his duty, as a public officer, to watch, in order to protect the interests of t h e public; and also that he entered into private and confiden tial communications with both of the parties promoting these lines before the Committee, without the knowledge of the Board of Ordnance, of which he was the paid servant and legal adviser. With reference to the second charge, your Committee proceeded to examine Mr. Bonh am and Captain Bold en ) , in consequence of the use made of their names in Mr. Hignett's letter to the Secre tary of the South- Eastern Railway Company, of the 3d of Fe. bruary last. It was the wish of your Committee that each of these gentlemen should, before his examination, have had in his hands a complete copy of the previous evid ence ; mote especially in th e case o f M r. Bonham, as it had been stated in the evidenc e, that on the passing of the Bill in 183 6 , a sum o f 300/. had b een paid to Mr. Bonham, support he had give n th e B i ll as a remuneration for the "general in Parhament," Mr. Bonham being at that period a Member of the House of Commons; mid, as it appears by the records of the House (to %bleb you'Committee ha ve refe rred), a l so a member of the d s Committee upon that Bill. Mr. Bonham reeteatly attend e d the Committee, and voted. Mr. Bonham, however, decl desirous u t a h v e a l h t o v f e, th a e nd ad s v ig a r si d t fi a e g d e which your Committee were d his wish to be examined , and to make an explanation to the Com mittee without delay. On your Commi' tree proceeding with his exami nat i on accordingly, he denied that Mr. Hignet t was in any way authorised to use his name as it had been used in the letter set forth in his petition. It appears, further, from the testimony of se Bonham himself, that he held and still holds shares in the North Kent Company. No evidence was ca lled or tendered on behalf o f the London and Chatham Ncrth Kent Railway this summary Your Committee having given summary of evidence which was brought before them, pr oceed to stat e to the House the con elusions to which tLey have come, both with r e f erence to t h e charges contained in the petition of the So uth-Eastern Railway Company, anti to the conduc t of the parties i mplicated in the trans. actions disclosed in the evidence now presented to the House. Your Committee feel it to be their duty, in the first instance, to state that nothing which has transpired leads th em to suppose that the decisions of the Master-Gen eral upon any of the questions brought before him by the parties promoting either th e S ou th- Eastern North Kent, or the London, Chatham, and Kent lines of railway, were influenced by an y o ther th an strictly public con siderations. Nor has your Committee any reason to suppose that any act of the Board of Ordnan ce was affecte d or influenced by the conduct of Mr. Hignett; however well calculated that conduct was to suggest the sus picions ex pressed in the petiti on of the South- Eastern Railway Company. Your Committee entertain n o doubt that th e decisions of the Master-General and the acts of the Board of Ordnance, in reference to these railway companies, wer e the result alo ne o f a desire to pro tect public interests, and to efllird consistently with them a reason able and ;Toper accommodation to the public in the districts through which it was proposed that these railways should pass. But they are of opinion that throughout these transactions Mr. JULY 1 IMF titiort tvpopil mmi iitiP itill4f*tf 4181 #t3 furtherance cf his private pecuniary Interests, and has thereby vets. dered himself unworthy of confidence as a public officer. Your Committee, upon the evidence before them, cannot enter tain a doubt that the paragraphs in Mr. Hignett's letter of the 3d of February, 1545, which refer to Captain Boldero and Mr. Bon ham are altogether false. But your Committee find that Captain Boldero and Mr. Bonham have trafficked in the shares of a railway company, the progress of whose Bill depended ..pon the consent of a public Board, of which, at the time, they were members ; and they are of opinion that such transactions are inconsistent with the maintenance of that strict impartiality of conduct upon all public questions which is to be expected from every servant of the Crown, and are calculated to impair the confidence of the public in the integrity of members of Government departments. Your Committee feel the greatest regret in being obliged to direct the attention of the House to a circumstance which has been disclosed in the course of this investigation, viz., that Mr. Bonham received from the South-Eastern Railway Company in the year 1836, at which time he was a Member of the House of Commons, the sum of 3001. This sum appears to have arisen from the premium upon the sale of 100 reserved shares, which were sub. sequently to the passing of the Bill appropriated to Mr Bonham, and disposed of tor his benefit, and was paid by a cheque to Mr. Bonham through Mr. Wray, as a gratuity for the services which he had rendered to that Company, both in and out of Parliament, and as a member of the Committee on the South-Eastern Railway Company's Bill. But the Committee are bound, in justice to Vs. Bonham, to add that they received no evidence to show that such gratuity was the result of any previous arrangement between Mr. Bonham and the Company. Your Committee cannot abstain from expressing their opinion, that the part taken by Mr. Wray; the Receiver-General of Police, is deserving of serious animadversion. Your Committee also feel bound strongly to condemn the Con duct of all those parties in connexion with the South. Eastern ltail_ way Company who participated in the transactions cf the years 18:36 and 1845, referred to in the evidence, as being in the opinion of your Committee highly reprehensible Your Committee feel It to be their duty also to call the atten- lion of the flame to the practice of canvassing disclosed in the evidence. It appears to your Committee to be a rractice de. grading to both parties, the party canvassing and the party can vassed, and to be calculated ultimately to destroy all respect for the decisions of the House, especially in the case of private Bills. Its obvious tendency is to cause these decisions to be regarded rather as the result of personal solicitation and private influence, than that of an honest and impartial regard for the interests of the public. COURT Cl'lcU The Queen and Prince Albert rode out on hors , .back yester day moaning, attended by the Alaid of Honour and the Equerries in Waiting. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfied, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, were taken an airing yesterday in are open carriage and four, accompanied by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton. His Royal Highness Prince Albert presided yesterday after noon at a meeting of the Commission for promoting and enaou raging the fine arts in the re-building the Palace of Westminster. His Royal Highness arrived at Gwydyr House at a quarter before three o'clock, attended by Colonel Bouverie. Equerry in Waiting. The Commissioners present were the Marquis of Lansdosne, the Earl of Lincoln, Lord Colborne, Lord Mahon, Sir Robert Peel, Sir Robert Harry Inglis, and Mr. Benjamin Hawes. 'I he meeting broke up at half-past four o'clock, when Prince. Albert, attended by Mr. Eastlake, the Secretary to the Com mission, and Colonel Bouverie, honoured Sir Robert Peel with a visit at his residence in Whitehall Gar,:ens. Some of the Commissioners also visited the Right Hon. Baronet after the meeting. The Queen and Prince Albert, and their M , jesties the King and Queen of the Belgians, honoured the performance of tic French Play with their presence yesterday even►ng. 'I he royal suite included the Viscountess Jocelyn, Bareness d'Hoogh vorst, Earl of Morton, Colonel Buckley, Colonel Bouverie, and Major de Moerkerke. Sir George Hayter's picture of the Christening of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, in St. George's Chapel at Windsor, was removed yesterday from Buckingham Palace, previously to its completion for engraving. The Queen inspected, on Thursday, an entirely new descrip tion of waterproot cloak, which was submitted by Mr. George Doudney. Her Majesty was most graciously pleased to express her approval. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager left her residence, Marl borough House, in a ccrriage and four yesterday morning, for Bushy House, Bushy Park. Her Majesty was accom panied by their Serene Highnesses the Duchess Ida of Saxe Weimar and the Princesses of Saxe Weimar. Their Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge had a dinner party yesterday evening at Cambridge Howe. The company included the Prussian Minister and Madame Bunsen, the Duke of Buccleueh, the Earl and Countess Delawarr, the Earl and Countess of Dalhousie, the 'Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster, the Marquis of Granby, Earl Cadogan, the Earl and Countess of Jersey and Lady Clementina Villiers, Lord Ossulston, and Baron de Talleyrand. Dispatches from the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope were received yesterday at the Colonial-office. LUNATIC ASYLUM for the MIDDLE CLASSES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sra,—Having attended the meeting for promoting an asylum for the insane of the middle classes, I was prepared to support the pro ject with the utmost of my ability, if I found that this new institution was to be conducted on the opposite principles of the present system of the private lunatic asylums; that is, if the interest arising from the detention of the patients should, by the regulatiiins of this new institution, be severed from that of the proprietors or governors, or, in other words, that a patient should be received with a view to effect his cure, and, as soon as that could be effected, or he became so far coeval s. cent as to give a fair and reasonable expectation of his final recovery, he should be discharged. The new institution should not he conducted in the manner of the private asylums at pre sent. Under the present system, it is hardly caricaturing the principle on which they are conducted to say, if a patient when he enters be not mad, he shall quickly be made so; if he be mad, he shall be kept in that state until he be incurable. I appeal to the return of the very few casts of cures from 'he pri vate lunatic asylums for the truth of this startling pr. position, :rid I can prove it by my own observation. When 1 offered myself to the meeting, the Noble Chairman put me down ; he would not hear a word—he chose to assume that I must be opposed to the new institution. For once Lis Lordship was in error. Neatly five years of unmerited con finement, passed under his Lordship's surveillance, in five pri vate asylums, has not steeled my heart nor rancoured my breast. I was prepared to support his Lordship's views, if they were to be carried out on a just, liberaL and humane system. Allow me to ask, why is his Lordship so sensitive and deter mined to stifle all public discussion on matters of lunacy? and why will not his Lordship acceae to an inquiry before a Com mittee of the House of Lords or Commons previous to further legislation, and hurry on both Houses to legislate without the information that has been proffered to them by those best ac quainted, by practical experience, with the subject ? Your obedient servant, WILLIAM BAILEY. TO THE ED.17011 OF THE SUN. Sia,—l have just seen your Taper of this evening, and having turned to the report of the business in the House of Commons, I beg leave to call your attention to the noble and unsupported exertions of Mr. T. S. Duncombe in behalf of real and effectual reform in the present laws affecting the sei zure, detention, treatment, and release of persons of un , ound mind. I do not wish to exaggerate the importance of the subjr ct, but if only one or two in a thousand are confined as insane patients, and if only one in a hundred of those may be unjustly and improperly seized, or unjustly and improperly de tained after being restored to a state of convalescence, still the intense sufferings of such unfortunate individuals, and the re sponsibility the Legislature incurs of allowing a possibility of any such person under such circumstances having his reason dethroned, dues, I think, demand the attention of reflecting and considerate men. And when we consider that subjects of the g,r..ndest nature connected with religion, anti the modest and delicate treatment of females, and the putting a stop to the most unheard-of cruelties, and the expenditure of millions of the public money are involved in these measnres, may we not be surprised and grieved, that scarcely a House could be formed t.) discuss Lord Ashley's Bill ? In hopes that by your able pen you may stir up more of the Liberal Members, at least, of the House, to come to Mr. Duncombe's aid in a question so deeply connected with religious and civil freedom, I venture to address these few words to you, and I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient humble servan , -, London, July 11, 18.15. JOHN PERCEVAL. ROYAL ARTILLERY.—Captain Turner's company, 6th battalion, recently first on the roster for service in Canada having been ordered to New Zealand, Captain Henderson, with Lieutenant Hon. W. Yelverton, four non-commissioned officers, 25 gunners and drivers, the most part selected of those acquainted with stone-cutting and bricklayers' work, and one collar-maker, one shoeing smith, and one wheeler, are to embark in the Castle Eden, hired convict ship, expected down to moorings near the Royal Arsenal, from Deptford, for a passage to New Zealand. The other portion of the company is ordered to Weedon for a short period until an opportunity offers for their embarkation. The change in the destination of Captain Turner's company has caused the issuing of orders for Captain Stanway's company, Ist battalion, to hold themselves in readiness to proceed with Major Anderson's company, lstbat'alion, for foreign service. at Halifax, Nova Sc - dia: and Captain Vaughan Arbuckle's company, 6th battalion, is to be mmediately withdrawn from Manchester. to hold themselves io readiness to embark with Captain Glasgow's company, 2d battalion, for foreign service in Jamaica. JULLIEN'S MONSTER CONCERT AT THE SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GA EDENS.— One of the most extraordinary spec tac•les was exhibit, it yesterday evening in these Gardens that we ever beheld. Jultien's second Monster Concert took place, and, although the rain came down in torrents from the com mencement to the close, above three thousand persons of the highest respectability braved the continued tempest, to l'sten to this prodigious " Congress Musicale." We are certain no one but Jullien could have effected it. We must confess, we scarcely blamed them, the effect was prodigiously grand and effective, and we hope the spirited coneoctors of this un.ivalled musical treat will be induced to give the public one more con cert this season ; at all events, annual it must be, it is worth coming a hundred miles to hear. SUICIDE BY A MEMCIIANT IN THE CITY.—(From a Correspondent.)—We regret to learn that Mr. Clements, late a partner in the extensive and respectable firm of Messrs. G. Bous. field and Co., woollen warehousemen, 60, Gracechurch•street, com mitted suicide during the night of Monday last. It appears that on the 25th of June, only a fortnight ago, Mr. Clements ceased to be a partner in the firm of Messrs Bousfidd and Co., for whom he also acted as traveller, and as such was well known throughout the provinces. We understand that in all his commercial dealings Mr. Clements was a man of unimpeachable integrity; but prior to the dissolution of partnership some unpleasant words having been ut tered in the warehouse, a separation was resolved on, after a service of nearly forty years. After the dissolution of partnership Mr. Clements commenced business as a woollen warehouseman in Queen.street, Cheapside; but a few days after he had taken pos. session of the premises he seemed to be suffering from the effects of indisposition, and was recommended to proceed to the country to get a change of air. Accordingly he proceeded to Dartford, Kent, where some of his friends reside, accompanied by his daughter. On Monday evening he left his temporary residence for the purpose of taking, as he said, a short walk in the fields. As he did not return that night or the next morning (Tuesday), inquiries were made after him, and he was found lying in a field with his throat cut nearly from ear to ear, and quite dead, the ground being deluged with his blood. The body was removed to Dartford to await a coroner's inquest. The deceased has left a widow and family.—Shipping Gazette. - - - A A , IAN KILLED BY ALLING INTO A WELL.—On Monday afternoon, as Edward Letherland, p'umber and glazier, Scotland-bridge, was repairing a pump in the yard of Mr. B. Scho field, Cheetham-hill, he had the misfortune to fall to the bottom of the well, and his skull was severely fractured. Eight minutes elapsed before he was got out of the water, and he was then quite dead. The deceased was forty-two years of age, and has left a widow and two children.—Manchester Guardian. A man named Coulomier, employed on the Bor deaux and Teste Railroad, near Pessac, a few days back, seeing two men loitering aaout, suspected that they meant no good, and by down en the line to watch them. The heat of the day over powered him, and he fell asleep. He was roused from his slumber by a violent pain in his left foot. It was the train which bad gone over his toes and crushed them. He was taken to the hospital, where he is doing well, 8 II wi.F:f.ll7.4marPii7; more, -- on 4 tie 1 4 4 'z4 k 4 .40441 4 4 #44.44V "T EIGHT SEAMEN OF lIER MAJESTY'S SLOOP WHITEHALL, JULY 9,- ISO.. • WASP. The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent t PIA - mourn, JULY 10.—The prisoners were again brought up, passed u nder the Great Seal, granting the dignity of a Bari? and Curium ria desired to make an addition to his evidence of yes- of the United Kicgrioin of Great lit itain and Ireland thrto terday. On bOng permitted, and again sworn, he stated as fol. John Francis Davis, I?. q., Governor of llon;-Kong, and the lows : Emanuel Jose Alvez was the man in the boat after he had heirs male of his body ',wilily begotten. his head cut open by the English quarter.master. As soon as he CROWN -OFFICE, JULY 10. came from the boat, on board the schooner again, he came forward MEMBERS RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT where the blood was, and took it up with both hands and drank it: PARLIAMENT. Emanuel Francois Rozegres, a black, and native of the Isle City of Exeter— Sir John "I homes huller Duckworth, Bart., of France, was then examined at considerable l eng th. He in the room of Sir William Webb Follett, deceased. depose dto having been engaged by the prisoner Serva as Borough of Abingdon—Sir Frederic Thesiger, of Bryanston a servant, and to his having subsequently gone to sea in square, in the county of Middlesex, Knt., her Majesty's At the Echo, which took on board 434 slaves at Lagos. She was torney-General. captured by the British. He was placed in a boat with six WAR-OFFICE, JULY 11, 1845. others and towed at the stern of the prize. When he had 2d Regiment of Life Guards—Sir M. R. S. M. Stewart, been there about half an hour he heard a noise from the deck of Bart., to be Cornet and Sub-Lieutenant, by purchase, vice the schooner. He could not see what was doing, but about ten Clayton, who retires, July 11. minutes after he first heard the noise he saw two bodies of white sth Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Lieut. J. C. Yorke to men disappear in thi water. In the place where they went down be Captain, by purchase, vice Meade, who retires; Cornet the water was red. I also saw two blacks swimming. They had R. H. P. Crawiurd to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice blue shirts on. Serva said about two minutes after, " Haul the Yorke; J J. Thomas, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice beat up, there is no more danger." I still heard i 11... same noise. I Crawford, July 11. heard a voice twice, and I rather think it was Serva's, saying in 13th Re g iment of Light Dragoons—Captain W. Knox to be Portugnese, " Kill, kill." Serve called to us to p u ll u p t h e boat, Major, by purchase, vice Hamilton, who retires ; Lieut. C. and I then got on deck, and saw four of the prisoners wounded on Deacon to be Captain, by purchase, vice Knox ; Cornet C. the head. They were passing handkerchiefs over their heads. C. W. Doraville to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Deacon; Another had a wound on the side. There was blood on the deck. Ensign T. H. Goad, from the 51st Foot, to be C. rnet, by There was a large quantity OR the starboard side forward. The purchase, vice Domville, July 11. prisoner then gave directions so as to get alongside the Echo to llth Rliment of Foot—Capt. W. H. Thornton, from the board her. Several of the men objected. The other party 89th Foot, to be Captain, vice Stanley, who exchanges, then said, "We must; give it up. because we have no arms." July 11. Serva then said, " Pass by the Echo, and fire into her mainmast." 15th Foot—F. IL Mylius, Gent., to be Ensign, without One of the guns was their fired. Serva then claimed the vessel for purchase, vice Braylirooke, appointed to the Ceylon Rifle Re his owners. The witness then detailed the circumstance of the giment, July 11. ncapture of the Star. 46th Foot— Ensign R. W. Pipor to be Lieutenant, by pur- The witness was subjected to a long cross-examination by the chase, vice Nooth, who retires ; E. L. Pretyman, Gent., to solicitor for the prisoners, but nothing of at.y importance was be Ensign, by purchase, vice Piper, July 11. elicited. The Court then adjourned to 51st Font—H. B. Westropp, Gent , to be Ensign, by put . .." . FRIDAY.— On the prisoners ing brought up this day, the third approver—a negro slave, who had obtained his freedom by touching on the Bntl,h soil—was examined. At the time of the affray he was in bed, and refused, when urged to do so, " to take any part in the quarrel between the whites." He described the appearance of the vessel, and the language used by the prisoners after the English had been destroyed, and in these respects his evidence was confirmatory of that previously adduced. The Court then committed the ten prisoners on the charge of Wilful Murder on the high seas. It will be for the Crown to de termine whether they shall be tried at Exeter or in the Central Criminal Court. chase, vice Rowley, appointed to the Ist or Grenadier Regi ment of Foot Guards, July 11. 54th Foot—F. H. Baxter, M.D., to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Itl‘Culloch, appointed to the 2d Regiment of Life Guards, July 11. 59th Foot—Lieut. H. W. Gordon to he Captain, by pur chase, vice Weir, who retires; Ensign M. P. Lloyd to be Lieu tenant, by purchase, vice J. J. Coghi:l, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vi c e Lloyd, Gordon; uly 11. 66th Foot—Ensign H. U. Coate3 to be Lieutenant, by par chase, vice Kebbel, who retires ; R. Conner, Gent., to be Ensign by purchase, vice Coates, July 11 ; M. W. Bell, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Davis, who retires, July 12. 67th Foot—Captain W. Lyon, from half-pay of the this West India Regiment, to be Captain, vice the lion. A. G. Stuart, who exchanges; Lieut. T. P. Onslow to be Captain, b) pur chase, vice Lyon, who retires; Ensign D. S. Miller 'o be lieutenant, by purchase, vice Onslow ; D. Thompson, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice M Iler ' July 11. S9lli Foot—Captain J. 'l'. Stanley. from the 1 lth Fn it, to be Captain, vice Thornton, who exchanges, July It ; Ensign J. Shuter, to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Saunders, deceased, July 2; T. J. G. Thompson, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Shuter, Ju'y 1 - 1. • let West India Rogiment—Sergeant-Major G. Jones, from London Recruiting ilistrict, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Wood, deceased. 3d West India Regiment—J. Halahan, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Burke, dismissed the service, July 11. Ceylon Rifle Regiment—Lieutenant F. B. Bayly to be Cap tain, without purchase, vice Burleigh, deceased, May 2 ; Li-u -tenant G. B. Tattersall to be Captain, without purchase, vice Bayly, whose promotion. June 20, has been cancelled, June 20 ; Second Lieutenant P. O'Gorman, to be First Lieu tenant, without. purchase, vice Bayly, May 2; Second Lieutenant H nham to be First Lieutenant, by pur chase, vice O'Gorman, whose promotion by purchase, has beers cancelled ; Ensign W. L. BraNbrooke, from the 1511 Foot, to he Second Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Swat tenham, July 11. Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment—W. Ki ng , G en t., t o b e Ensign, by purchase, vice English, whose appointment has been cancelled, July 11. BREVET.—Captain William Lyon, of the 67th, to be Major in the Army, Nov. 23, 1841. UNATTACHED.—TO be Captain, without purchase.—Lieut. J. M. Isaac, from the 59th Foot, July I I. HOSPITAL STAFF—Staff Surgeon of the Second Class A. Foulis to be Staff Surgeon of the First Class, vice W. Fergus son, appointed Governor of Sierra Leone, July 11. MEMORANDUM—The date of the commission of Ensign and Lieut. Rowley, of the Ist or Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards, is 7th July, 1845, and not 4th July, 1845, as pre viously stated. Erratum in the Gazette of the 20th June, 1845. Ceylon Rifle Regiment—For Second Lieutenant C. C. Durnford to be First Lieutenant, vice Bayly, promoted, read vice Tattersall, promoted. Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Suffolk. P. Bennet, the younger, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant ; C. Tyrrell the younger, Esq., to be ditto ; C. Lillingstone, Esq.,to be ditto, June 27. DREAMFUL MURDER On Tuesday morning last, the greatest excitement prevailed in Penzance, in consequence of the discovery of one of the most appalling murders that it has ever fallen to our lot to record. The supposed perpetrator of this tragical crime is a man named Benjamin Ellison, aged about 55 ; and, we are informed, belonging to some part of the north of England. His unfortunate victim was Elizabeth Rens Semen, about the same age as himself, and also an entire stranger in Penzance. They had resided together about eighteen months, in one of the cottages in Rosevean-road, nearly opposite the Catholic Chapel. Previously to the discovery of the murder, about eleven o'clock on Monday night, Ellison called at the Temperance Hotel, in Princes-street, and asked for some refreskment. He inquired if he could sleep there that night; and on being asked why he did not go home, he said it was too late to do so, and requested to see a man named Eddy, who lodged at the hotel. Eddy came, and in the course of conversation asked how Mrs. Seman (the murdered woman) was, to which Ellison replied that she was unwell. He appeared depressed in spirits, and was continually examining and rubbing his hands. He retired to rest, and on the following morning, between five and six o'clock, came down stairs and left the hotel. From thence it appears he went to the house of a Mrs. Hill, in Rosevean.road, and informed her that his house had been broken open, and that Mrs. Seman was murdered. Greatly alarmed she accompanied him to the fatal spot, where, stretched on the floor, lay the mutilated remains of the unfortunate woman. Her face was covered with a gauze veil, and there were marks of blood in all directions. Ellison said he would inform the police, and re quested Mrs. Hill to give the ;:larm. About nine o'clock he again called at the Temperance Hotel, communicating the dreadful intel. ligence there, and shortly afterwards was himself arrested on suspicion. The scene at the house on Tuesday morning was horrifying in the extreme. A huge hatchet was found upon the floor where lay the unfortunate ♦ictim, whereby the head was nearly severed from the body. Upon the handle and blunt part of the axe were spots of blood, and in the hand of the deceased was clasped some hair, which it is said corresponded in colour with Ellison's. The back part of the head was nearly beaten in, and other parts of the body were dreadfully cut and mangled. From appearances, there is reason to believe that a desperate struggle must have ensued between the deceased and her murderer; and it is reported that the hands of Ellison are much bruised, and one of his fingers apparently bitten. About seven o'clock on Monday evening a neighbour of the deceased met Ellison on the North Parade, and soon after that time he was seen on Rosevean.road proceeding in the direction of the house were the murder was committed. No alarm of any kind was heard by the neighbours, but it appears they were principally irs the town witnessing the proceedings connected with the general holiday. A Coroner's inquest was held upon the body as speedily as prac ticable, before 'John Roscotla, Esq., and a respectable jury. The proceedings occupied between eight and nine hours, during the whole of which time the hall was crowded. The evidence ad. duced was of a circumstantial nature, but sufficiently conclusive to lead the jury, after a short consultation, to return a verdict of Wilful Murder " against Benjamin Ellison. He was committed to take his trial on the charge at the next assizes, and left Pen zance in custody at an early hour on Wednesday morning fur Bodmin. Messrs. Millett and Borlase attended the inquest on behalf of Ellison, who has stated various particulars regarding the deceased. He says that s he was in the receipt of an annuity, and was shortly about to be married to a gentleman of title, on which event taking place she had agreed to settle upon him (Ellison) an annual income. He also states that a gold watch, and wearing apparel to a consider able amount, had been stolen from the dwelling.—Cornwall Adver tiser of Friday. FREAKS OF A FLASH OF LIGHTNING.—On Tues day morning, about six o'clock, the electric fluid fell on the house of M. Bouselier, Rue du Commerce, Grenelle, and demolished the chimney. It then passed through the wed, and entered the cham ber of a marchand-de van, named Teissedre, residing in the next house, and running a'ong the bed irons, melted the curtain rings, broke a secretary to pieces, and split a zinc bucket, near a bed, where two children were asleep, but did them ho injury. It then broke the espagnolette of the window into three pieces, writ down to the salle- a.manger, where it broke twenty-eight panes of glass, passed out through a window at the back of the house, and returning to the house of M. Boussilier, tore to pieces the zinc roof. It next passed across the street, and melted 17f. in silver and copper, which a milkwoman held in her apron, then en tered the kitchen and passed out of the dining-room, after break. ing eight panes of glass. The razors, keys, and other iron articles of the secretary, were found to be strongly magnetised. The sil. ver and sous of the milkwoman were reduce-1 by the melting to pieces no larger than stilt, and she herselt was paralysed fiir 24 hours its all her limbs. In a butcher's shop close by 400 to 500 kilogrammes of meat were so spoiled as to be totally unfit for use. —Galignani. FAIL OF A BUILDING IN PITILPOT- LANE.—Yester day morning, shortly before nine o'clock. an accidet:t happened on the premises of Mr. Tayler, wine in porter, 23, Philpot-lane, City, which was attended with serious consequence to two exca vators. As four men, employed to excavate the earth at the tear of the premises of Mr. Taykr, were pursuing their avoca tion, the building fell with a frightful crash, burying two of them in the ruins. The fall Is described by an eye. witness as being al most instactaneous, nor was there any previous warning given to the men, except an extraordinary creaking of the beams, immediately after which the roof, skylight, and wood work fell into the cavity the excavators had made. One of the men was driven with such violence against the wall that his head is consi derably injured, and he was obliged to be bled and sent home. Two others, named White and Burch, were dug out after consid.•rable difficulty; the tomer was protected by a large beam falling above him, but Burch was covered by the rubbish, and when extucated from his perilous position, it was found that he was exten►ively injured. - • A melancholy event happened yesterday morning on the Champ de Mars. During a review of the cavalry by the Duke de Nemours, accompanied by his brother the Duke Aumale, General Count tie Sparre, who was on the ground as inspector.general, was suddenly struck with a congestion of the brain, the consequence, it is sad, of an affection of the heart, and died in a few minutes. The Princes were deeply afflicted, and immediately dismissed the troops. The officer thus so suddenly taken out of life was President of the Cavalry Committee, Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour, and Peer of France. He had eminently distinguished himself in the service of his country both as a soldier and a legislator.—Galignani of Thursday. _ _ STATE OF r i RADE.-1V ouls and pans continue firm, with a slight tendency to advance in yarn'. A few purchases are making, by Londoners, in anticipation of the demand for the fall. These purchases are not made so early as they were last year by two months, as there is no sufficient reason to apiirehend either a scarcity of goods or a rise in prices this fall. Trade will be moderate, but not more, judging from past date and present ap pearances.—Leicestershire Mercury. MURDER or Al tt. BooTn.—The Lord Li. utenant has offered a reward of 1001. for such in'orrnation as shall lead to the apprehension and conviction of the person or persons concerned in the murder of Mr. Booth, on the 9.9. d ult. —Dublin Evening Post. '.IIIIJNDER ,t,TORNIS s.toi ins have ‘ist«-(1 HereforEl,hire, Worcestershire, Gloucestershire, and materially injured the corn-fields, turnip fields, and orchards : at Bewdley and Pershore, great losses have been sustained. The thunder and deluge in many vats of this county was violent, but less injurious than in other surrounding counties; but we have heard that a mower was killed by lightning at Cherrington, near Newport. At Wroxeter, near this town, considerable injury has been sustained; the lightning shivered one of the sails of Charlton windmill, killed a sheep at Withington, destroyed a field of turnips of Mr. Caresweil, at Eyton, and the deluge in his house was nearly three feet deep. —Shrewsbury Chronicle. _ _ WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET, JULY 11. The supply of Wheat is good ; of other Grain short f. , r this day's market. Wheat is Is. per quarter dearer than last Friday, but millers pay the advance with great reluctance. No alteration to no;ice in the value of spring Corn. "1 . 11 WEATHER ANSI T,tt CROPS —A grid dell of hay was secured en Friday and Saturday, and on Monday and Tuesday last, but since that time we Lave not had a hay day, though there is now a good deal of grass cut, and the period for the height of the hay harvest in Yorkshire and the neighbouring coon. ties has arrived. The corn crops and the root crops arc doing well, but we seem doomed to have a late, though we trust an abundant harvest. The tendency in the price of grain is upwards. Last week it advanced 3s. the imperial quarter in the Wak( field market, and yesterday there was a further advance of ls.—Leeds paper. Yesterday, Mr. Bedford held an inquest at the Pine Apple, Hungerford-market, as to the death of Thomas Chandler, jun., son of Mr. Chandler, of the Swan at Milbank. It appeared by the evidence of two men named Tomlinson and Brown, that on Tuesday afternoon they went out with a barge of rubbish from the House of Lords, but it was so over-laden that it took in water as soon as they got into the stream. As soon as they reached Dalton's-roads the barge touched and shipped several tons of water—in fact, the barge was sinking. The deceased was on his father': pier, and seeing the danger, put off in a boat, with two other young men to their assistance. The deceased got on board, but Tomlinson and Brown, seeing the danger, jumped overboard, arid were picked up by boats. The deceased was seen on board as she was sinking, and his body was picked up on Thursday. The witnesses stated positively that barges were con. scantly overloaded by Allen, the foreman to Mef•srs. Grissell and Peto at the Houses of Parliament, and that they had repeatedly told him their lives were in danger. This was the fourth boat that had been sunk by overloading, and had eight or ten to ns more than she ou,ht, but Allen himself measured her. The jury, after some deliberation, returned a verdict that " the deceased was accidentally drowned by the sinking of a barge by being overladen, and to which he had g one to rende r assistance; and the j ur y ' cannot separate without expressing their strong disapprobation at the recklessness of Mr. Allen in causing the barges to be so over. laden." It seemed there was some pecuniary advantage in exces sively leading the barges. —•--, - - LAUNCH OF AN IRON STEAMER.—On Wednesday evening an iron steamer, named the Concordia, was launched from the yard of Messrs. Miller, Ravenhill, and Co., at Blackwall. She was constructed for the Dusseldorf Company, and will ply upon the Rhin.. Her length is 185 feet; breadth of beam, 18 feet; being about 15 feet longer than the Elberfeld, launched from the same yard for the same company last year. Her engines will be t w•o fifties. BANKRUPTS. William Parsley, hat maker, Woolwich, to surrender July 18, at half-past one, and Aug. 22, at eleven, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Alsager, official assignee, Birchin-lane, Cornhill; Hughes, Chapel-street, Bedford-row. Samuel Elphick, victualler, Bermondsey-street, July 18, at two, and Aug. 22, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Alsager, official assignee, Birchin-lane, Cornhill ; Pyke, f.in coln s Inn-fields. William Haward Rawe, currier, Portsea, July 17 and Aug. its, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall•street ; Messrs. Clarke, Bishopsgate Church-yard, London. John Harvard, lamp maker, Brook-street, Bond-street, July 17, at half-past twelve, anti Aug. 22, at half-past one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basing hall-street ; Hodgson, Red Lion-square. William Burleigh, scrivener, Haverhill, Suffolk, July 19, at half-past eleven, and Aug. 22, at twelve, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Belcher, official assignee; ;Holmes, Liverpool-street, Bishopsgate-street ; Jardine, Stoke, Essex. The Forth Marine Insurance Company, Bishop gate-street Within, July 24, at half-past eleven, and Aug. 22, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pent.ell, official assignee ; Ellis, Cowper's-court, Cornhill. John Archer Dow, draper, Rumford, July 19, at half-put one, and Aug. '22, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Follett, official assignee, Sambrook -court, Basinghall-street; Bristow and 'Tarrant, Bond-court, Walbrook, Louttn, and Greenwich. 'llit,mas Eastwood, grite,r, Brighton, July lii, at eleven, and Aug. 23, at one, at the Cou tof Bankruptcy. Green, offictal assignee Aldermatibury ; Stevens, Wilkinson, and Co., Queen• street, assignee, John Davenport, wholesale hosier, Little Lye-lane, London, July 22, at half-past twelve, and Aug. I I, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official as,ignee, Frederick's- riace, Old Jewry ; Watson, Winchester- bud4it.gs, Broad. street. James Filbey, licensed victualler, Egham, Surrey, July 21, at onv, and Aug. 11, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee, Abchurch-lane, LoiLbard-street ; Lloyd, Milk. street, Cheapside. Joseph 'Thorn, New Breutford, Middlesex, paper hanger, J•ily 23, at half-past twelve, and Aug 11, at half-past one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, offic,al assignee, Abchurela. lane. Lombard-street ; SI, ap, Middle Temple-lane. John Farrow, Stanton, Suffol, draper July 23, at one, and Aug. 22, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official as,ignee, A behurch-lane, Lombard-street ; Soles and Turner. Aldertnanbury. John Shorland, grocer, Bristol, July 25, at twelve, and Aug. 22, at one, at the Bristol District Court. Aeraman, (Acta! assignee, Bristol ; Cross, Son, and Ash, Bristnl, Thomas Los ell, general dealer, llenstridge-marsh, Somerset shire, July 28 and Aug. 22, at t civ.s, at the Bristil District Court. Hutton, official assiance, Brigid ; Pile and Gaml.-ti, Gray's Inn, Lonibin ; Chandler, un., Sherborne, Durwrshire. DIVIDENDS bECLA RED. J. Clarke, carpet ma.nutacturer, Market Harbor . ugh—first div. of 20s. in th, pound, any 'I hursday. at the office of Mr. Christie. Birmingham. T. Coleman, J. Morris, J. B. Morris, and T. Morris, bankers, Leominster—final div of in the pound, any Thurs day, at the office of Mr. Bittleston, Birmingham. R. Benbow, timber merchant, Liverpool—final div. of Id. in the pound, July lti, and any following Wednesday, at the office of Mr. Follett, Liverpool. A. Alder, cloth factor, Brimpscombe, Gloucestershire—fin& div. of id. in the pound, July 14, and any following Alonday. at the office of Mr. Miller, Bristol. W. Ambrose timber merchant, A wre, Gloucestershire—third and final div. of 2Ld. in the pound, July 14, and any following Monday, at the office of Mr. Miller, Bristol. W. s. Drury, ironmonger, Cheater—first dir. of 9s. &I. in the pound, July 14, and any following Monday, at the office of Mr. Bird, DIVIDENDS. At the Court of Bankruptcy, ilasinghall-street. W. Ridge, C. Ridge, and W. Newland•, bankers, Chic nester, Aug. 5, at half-past twelve—W. S. Warwick arid T. W. Gagett, merchants, Bllliter-square, Aug. 5, at half-put eleven—M. Darks, carpet manufacturer, Hutton-garden, Aug. I, at twelve. In the Country. T. Morris and W. Woodward, drapers, Burslem, Stafford shire, Aug. 4, at one, at the Birmingham District Court—J. Willis and J. T. Swainson, merchants, Liverpool, Aug. 4, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court—J. Brown and A. Urquhart, stuff manufacturers, Manchester, Aug. 8, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. CERTIFICATES to by granted, unless cause be shown to the contrary, on the day herein-mentioned. J. Vaux, lamp manufacturer, Stephen-street, Tottenham court-road, Aug. I—J. Phillips and T. Pearson, sick dressers, South-place, Finsbury', Aug. 4—T. H. William and W. C. Stanes, auctioneers, Chelmsford, Aug. 4—J. Yates, ship owner, York-road, Lao Beth, Aug. 4—\V. Harrison, pattern dyer, Leeds, Aug. 6—J. APDougal, Aug. 12—W. Hardy, draper, Oxford -street, Aug. I—G. Hawkins, clothier, Col chester, Aug. I—J. Messenger, farmer, 'lowness, Cumberland, Aug. I—E. Bumpstead, grocer, Halesworth, Suffolk, Aug. 1 —T. O'Rorke and W. Birks, commission agents, Manchester, Aug. I—H. Cook, licensed victualler, brewer, Coggeshall, Essex, Aug. I.—F. \V. Palmer, colonial broker, Mincing-lane, Aug. I—E. S. Darvell, colonial broker. Great Tower—treet, City, Aug ]—J. Schaffer, fringetuan, Cla k's-Mace, Islington. Aug. I—P. French, carpenter, Wo. thing, Aug. 1. PAR I.\ ERSHIPS IJISsOLVED. A. and W. 1. R. Crowder, wine merchants, Wakefield—J. Goldihorp and J. Rhodes, jun., worsted spinners, Wakefield— W Taphouse and W. Lovesay, smiths—J. 11. Todd and T. Waters, attorne‘s. Winchester—A. Hindes and J. Thompson, stock brokers, feeds—M. Fitch and G. Nesse), patent s.,lt %, ro h a o n e t . a a c it. tur g e r r , s ,e , s Price, and D. Nt'illt.rt;_issiabblienkkeer,sp,e 13r,r,eip•oin3—mo\t:hteti\o‘t,,Juauteoyi l G. Partridge, iv , a j n . J. ll rAilda;e7 ,Ttobaccoe ü b ta r e i t d u g r e e , r s A. ..•!, he c ffiel C. Bridge,dT — B i ana g t be . , R . iii gge , jewellers, Ludgate-hill—T. Gaden, S. Adey, and \V. L. C. Adey, timber merchants, Poole —W. and W. C. Miller, builders, Little Gonerby, Lincolnshire—M. Th urs t an and E. Burley, grocers, Darlaston, St afforerii dsh s i t r o e n — , B j .. i lt e a n k iv er . and J. S. Earl , statuaries , Liverpool— j. p t on , and T. Peniston, cloth finishers, Ilolbeck, Yorkshire— F. Belloni and J. Primavesi, watch makers, Warminster—J. Greenwood, H. Clough, R. Turner, and J. Kershaw, coach proprietors, Manchester (so far as regards J. Kershaw)—S. Crosland and J. Crowther, corn millers, Elland, Yorkshire— J. Yearsley and W. Bou,field, wine merchants, St. Mary at Hill, Tower -street—R. James and W. Edwards, Middle-row. Holborn—G. Lord, W. H. Rolfe, and J. M. Izod, wine mer chants, George-yard. Lombard-,treet. COTCH SEQUESTRATMNS. Alexander Young, spirit dealer, Edinburgh, July 16 and Aug. 6, at three, at the chambers of Mr. Junner, Edinburgh. John :Milne, c_rd manufacturer, Dundee, July 17 and Aug. 7, at twelve, at the Royal Hotel, Dundee. William Borthwick, feather merchant, Edinburgh. July 16. and Aug. 6, at two, at the chambers of Messrs. Rennya and Webster, Edinbui gh. Gilbert Duncan, writer, Lerwick, July 17, and Aug. 11,, at twelve, at the New Subscription Rooms, Lerwick. PRICE o . l' SUGAR.. The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, for the week ending July 8, 1845, is 325. 9 i. per cwt.., exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the im portation thereof into Great 13ritain.. THE JUNIOR COLONEL OF EUROPE.—The Em peror Nicholas has appointed his grandson Alexander Alexan• drowich, an infant three months old, chief of one of the battalions of Finlanders belonging to the Imperial Guard. (ISAUN ) k•••••• "' 0 Itili i ) F: : ! 1 Y - 7 7 7: - '- -, -'"?,' • 7 38. at go h ie , V by tc io leo O ust B ye 'he d 1 0 ° I 11