The Sun. — London, England, 1845-07-03 00:00:00

NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. There was a THIRD EDITION of THE SUN published last Evening, containing— The conclusion of the day's proceedings before the Railway Committees of the Houses of Lords and Commons. Parliamentary Intelligence of the Evening, being a full Report of the Debates in the House of Com mons up to a Quarter before Seven o'clock. RAILWAY NEWS. Subscribers and others tnterested in Railways will find a FULL ACCOUNT of the PROCEEDINGS efore the RAILWAY COMMITTEES in the THIRD EDITION of THE SUN, reported up to the CLOSE of EACH DAY; it also con tains the DEBATES in BOTH HOUSES of PARLIAMENT up to the HOUR of POST EVERY EVENING, PRICES of RAILWAY SHARES, SPORTING INTELLIGENCE by EXPRESS, and all other NEWS ARRIVING in LONDON DURING the DAY. ORDER the THIRD EDITION, which contains NEWS TWELVE HOURS in ADVANCE. Sun-office, 112, Strand. CAPTAIN CHAMIER'S NEW NOVEL. Just ready, in 3 vols., post Svo., COUNT KONIGSMARK, AN HISTORICAL NOVEL, BY CAPTAIN FREDERIC CHAMIER, R.N. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Sig. MARIO has the honour to inform his Friends, the Sub scribers to the Opera, and the Public that HIS BENEFIT will take place TUTS EVENING When will be presented (last time this Season), Bellini's Opera i PURITANI. Elvira, Madame Grisi ; Arturo, Sig. Mario ; giccardo, Sig. Fornaaari ; Giorgio, Sig. Lablache. The Danseuscs Viennoises will appear in some of their Favorite Dances, including the Pas des Miroirs, La Polka, and tae Pas des Moissonears (being their last appearance). To be folowed by a Selection from ROBERTO DEVEREUX. The Principal Characters by Madame Rossi Caccia, Mdlle. Rosetti, Sig. Moriani, and Sig. Barroilhet. Between the Acts Mdlle. Lucile Grahn will appear in the " Pas d'Eoline," supported by Mdlles. Moncelet and Ferdinand. Mdlle. C. Grist and M. Perrot will appear in the " Pas d'Giselle," and Mdlle. Cerito and M. St. Leon in the admired " Pas des Quatres from " Lac des Fees," supported by 3ldlles. Ferdinand and Demelisse. And, for the Last Time, LA SYLPHIDE. La Sylphide, Taglioni. Applications for Boxes, Stalls, And Pit Tickets to be made at the Opera-cflice, Colonna4e, Haymarket. Doors open at Seven, to commence at Half-past Seven o,Clock. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE. LAST NIGHT OF THE SEASON. FOR THE BENEFIT OF MADAME ANNA THILLON. THIS EVENING Will bo repeated an entirely new and Original Opera, entitled THE ENCHANTRESS. The Music composed by M. W. Balfe ; the cibretto, by M. de St. Georges and Mr. Bunn. Don Sylvio, Mr W. Harrison ; damir, Mr. Borrani ; Duke d'Aquiia, Mr. Weiss; Nugnez, Mr. H. Horncastle; Stella, Madame Anna Thillon. In the course of the Evening Mr. Bunn will address the Audience on the close of the Season. To conclude with the celebrated Ballet of LA GISELLE. The Duke of Silesia, Monsieur Silvain ; Giselle, Mdlle. Louise. D-e . . Circle, 7s ; Boxes, 5s ; Pit, 3s; Gallery, 2s; Upper Gallery, Is. Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets, may be obtained of Mr. John Par sons, at the Box-,flice of the Theatre. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. LESSEE, MR. B. WEBSTER. THIS EVENING Will be performel (by special desire) A CURE FOR THE HEART ACHE. Old Rapid, Mr. W. Farren ; Young Rapid, Mr. Charles Mathews ; Frank Oatland, Mr. Buckstone ; Jessy Oatland, Miss Julia Bennett. To be followed by SOMEBODY ELSE. Flans Moritz, Mr. C, Math,w:;; Minnie, Madame Vestri,. . _ _ Atter which Will be repeated a Dramatic Sketch, entitled THE OW) SOLDEER. Sir Lionel Huffier, Mr. Helldal ; Master Michael Cramp, Mr. Tilbury; Adam Lethersole (aged 95), Mr. W. Farren ; Butt, Mr. James Bland ; Patience Cramp, Mrs. Stanley ; Helen, Miss Telbin. To conclude with an entirely New Farce, called THE KING AND I. Period, 1691. Sir William Melrose, Mr. H. Holl ; Burchell, Mr. James Bland; Perkin Pyerinch, Mr. Buckstone; Jessie Donald, Miss Jtth Bennett. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTE THIS EVENING Will be repeated a New Comedy, entitled PEG WOFFINGTON; or, The State Secret. The Marquis de Mousseux, Mr. Selby; Baron Stuph, Mr, Paul Bedford ; George Tarleton, Mr. Hudson ; Merestick, Mr. Wright ; Peg Woffington, Miss Woolgar. After which, THE IRISH ATTORNEY; or, Galway Practice in 1770. Pierce O'Hara, Mr. Hudson; Jacob Wylie, Mr. Cullenford. After which, an Original Terpsichorean Barletta, called POWDER AND BALL ; or, St. Tibbs's Eve. Mr. Montgomerie Tibbs, Mr. Lambert ; Captain Kidglove, Mr. Selby ; Jacob Clerkin, Mr. Wright ; Mrs. Montgometie Tibbs, Mrs. Frank Matthews ; Sally Knobbs, Miss Woolgar. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY. THIS EVENING Will be repeated a New and Original Comedy, in Two Acts. entitled FRIENDS AT COURT. Principal Characters by Messrs. F. Vining, A. Wigan, Diddear, Turner, Collier, and Bender; Mrs. Keeley, Miss Villars, and Miss Fairbrother. After which, an entirely New, Original, and Novel Grand Fairy BALLET DIVERTISSEMENT, entitled LES FEES. In which Les Danscuses Anglaises will appear. To be followed by a New Farce, entitled LUCK'S ALL. Principal Characters by Messrs. F. Vining, Diddear, Keeley, Meadows, Kin loch, and Turner ; Miss Hicks, and Mrs. A. Wigan. To conclude with an entirely New Operatic, Dramatic, Chivalric, nary, Romantic Burlesque, entitled CINDERELLA. The Principal Characters by Mr. Keelcy, Mr. A. Wigan, Mr. Frank Mathews, Mr. .f. IV. Collier, Mrs. Keeley, Miss Villars, Miss Fairbrother, Mrs. Woollidge, Miss Grove, Miss Iloward, &c PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. LESSEE, MR. J. M. 3IADDOX. THIS EVENING Will be performed Shakspeare's Play of AS YOU LIKE IT Jacques, Mr. Wallack ; Amiens, Mr. Allen ; Orlando, Mr. Walter Lacy : Tonellitone, Mr. Compton ; Rosalind, Miss Cushman. After which al7.':°W Divertissement, called A COURT BALL IN 1740. in which will be Introduced the Dances as performed at her Majesty's Bal Costume, with tli9 Original Music. To be followed by a New Dramatic Sketch, entitled MRS. fIAUDLE ; or, Curtain Lectures. Mr. Caudle, Mr. Compton; Mrs. audle, Mr. Oxberry. :ro conclude with a New Farce, entitled LOVE IN LIVERY. Lord .sparkle, Mr. Walter Lacy ; Paul Patent, Mr. Compton ; Violet, Mi ss Emma Stanley. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. . . PIIILLIPPE will REPEAT his WONDERFUL DELUSIONS and INCREDIBLE EXPERIMENTS for the LAST TIME TO-MORROW EVENING. There will be 110 advance of prices. Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is. ; Gallery, 6d. Applications for Places, Private Boxes, &c., to be made to Mr. J. Kerschner, at the Box-office, from Eleven till Four. A.STLEY'S R , )YAL AMPIIITHr:ATRE. rROPTUETOR, MR. W. BATTY. Immense and overflowing Audiences attend the re-production of the Grand Military Spectacle of The Battle of Waterloo. THIS EVENING Will be performed THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO. Introducing the Double Company of French and English Artistes. The Em peror Napoleon by Mr. Gomersal, who is engaged expressly for this occasion. New Scenes in the Circle, presenting the first talent of British and Foreign Equestrians of the present day. To conclude with the New Grand Pantornimc Spectacle of THE CREEK RENEGADE. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. COMBINATION OF ATTRACTIONS. The Four Juvenile Minstrel Brothers and the Rock Harmonicon, Every Day, from Nine till Dusk. ROMANTIC GARDENS AND PROMENADE. EXTENSIVE AND UNRIVALLED MENAGERIE. COLOSSAL MODELLED REPRESENTATION OF EDINBURGH, The Acme of Scenic Illusion. The MINSTREL BROTHERS, from Four to Twelve Years of Age, will perform Select Airs at intervals. The ROCK HARMON ICON from Three till Eig! , t. knd on MONDAYS, TUESDAYS. WEDNESDAYS, and THURS DAYS, GRA—ND CONCERTS D'ETE and MAGNIFICENT DISPLAY of FIREWORKS. Admission, One Shilling. Feeding the Carnivora at Half-past Five : Pelicans and Polar Bears at Six ; Concert at Half- , ast Six: and Fireworks at Half-past Nine. TILL WEATHER.-SUN OFFICE, JULY 2. TuxumomETEß, Lowest, 31 ; Highest, 70 ; Noon, 67. BAROMETER, 29.90.—W1ND, S.W. NoTE.—The figures which follow the words "Lowest" and " Highest" denote the lowest and highest state of the Thermometer during the preceding twenty-four hours. All the other observations are made at noon. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning .. 58 minutes after 0 I Evening 20 minutes after I £litøxnin ' 'rnt LONDON, THURSDAY, JULY 3, 1845. The House of Lords did not meet yesterday. The Commons assembled at four o'clock. On the order of the day being read for bringing up the report on the Lunatics Asylum and Lunatic Pau per Bills. _ Mr. T. DUNCOMBE moved that the report be received that day six months. Lord ASHLEY, Mr. F. BARING, Mr. M. GIBSON, and several other Hon. Members, urged the lion. Member for Finsbury to withdraw his motion, which was on a division rejected by a majority of 102, the number being for Mr. I)x:rico:vises motion, 15 ; against it, 117. Mr. DIVETT presented a petition from a gentleman named BARRETT, complaining that an action had been brought against him for evidence which he had given before the Select Committee on the Medical Bill, and praying the House to afford him protection. The petition was ordered to be printed, and to be taken into consideration to-morrow (this day.) The House having resolved itself into Committee on the Field Gardens Bill, Mr. ROEBUCK expressed his determined hostility to tho measure, and for the purpose of defeating it, moved that the Chairman do leave the chair. After a long conversation the Committee divided, and Mr. ROEBUCK'S proposition was rejected; the numbers being—for it, 19; against it, 42. Mr. CURTEIS proposed that instead of three persons being authorised to call a parish meeting, to put this Bill into operation, six should be necessary. This amendment was, after a short discussion, agreed to. Mr. HENLEY moved, that each requisitionist should be rated at 10/., but on a division this was rejected, the numbers being for Mr. HENLEY'S proposition 17, against it 26. clauses were agreed to. The Chairman then reported progress, and the other orders of the day having been disposed of; the House adjourned at Two o'clock. have sown and reaped at once to some purpose. A bench of county magistrates—perhaps his brother guardians in the union—it may be his landlord or his customers— will feel every just degree of indignation on his account ; every disposition not to wrong the mysterious unknown, whoever he be, who is the party benefited by these un accountable, excessive, overwhelming costs :-13s. 4d. on a decree of 4 farthings damages 1 There is one re markable allowance to be made, it is true, as a set•off against such legitimate and equitable profit as might otherwise accrue to vigilant trespass prosecutors. Pay ment ought to follow upon conviction. But it does not necessarily follow that conviction is followed by pay ment—either of damages or costs. The Act of Par liament, with singularly ill-judged lenity, has provided for the course to be taken with the convicted, in " de fault of payment." Instead of following up the ad mirable principle of apportioning costs after the rate of 150 fold on damages found, by some acts of personal infliction on the delinquent, as it ought in consistency to have done, such as drawing out a tooth per week (from those who have them), during the period of de fault, on King John's graduated scale of Jew-dealing ; or putting them in the pillory once a week, till full liqu on of debt and costs ; instead of this, the Act of Parliament directs, for such defaults, a certain equiva lent of imprisonment, founded on very uncertain rules. In the case to which we are immediately addressing our selves, the very bad, who, having committed damages to the amount of four farthings, is unprepared to pay, in addition, 160 farthings for costs, is most properly con demned to three weeks' imprisonment. Oh, righteous law ! Oh ! paternally treated peasantry ! Oh ! land of equal justice, equal rights, equal penalties ! It must be a source of peculiar gratification to poor ROSE to know that had he been of gentle blood and gentle for tunes he might, on the very first day of next hunting season, have gratified himself by riding over the lands of every Magistrate on the Bench—and in a gallop over springing corn and young turnips have committed da mages with impunity to the amount of tour pounds in stead of four farthings,—followed by no costs (to himself), and no consequences on default of paying damages. Let us hope that he has by this time learned to appre ciate the impartial bearing of:, magistrate-made laws on all classes of her Majesty's subjects ; the high protecting duty of agriculturists, who extract, in enhanced prices for their own grown corn, millions per annum from the pockets of our indigent,and industrial community,—and the small ditch-edge grass cropper, who robs a farmer in a single night of green forage to the amount of four farthings I The question touching the claims set up by the Government of Spain, through their Miniiter at this Court, the Duke de SOTOMAYOR, for the admission of its colonial grown sugars, on terms equally advantageous with those awarded to the free-labour produce of Vene zuela and the United States, is one of a very remarkable character. It has elicited two memorable state papers —the one from the Spanish Minister in London, the other (in reply to it) from the Earl of ABERDEEN, as Foreign Secretary of her Majesty. The claim advanced on the part of Spain is to have her Cuba and Porto Rico sugars admitted—irrespectively altogether of the consideration of slave or free-labour produce—on the same terms as those " of the most favoured nations." The demand is based on an article in the treaty of Utrecht, in the year 1713, and the analogy sought to be established with the recent admissions of Venezuela and United States' produce, into the British market under certificates of origin. Now the general proposition into which the answers of Lord ABERDEEN to the several arguments with which the Duke of SOTOMAYOR endea vours to justify the pretensions of Spain in this affair, resolves itself into this : that the obligation on the Go vernment of Great Britain, under the treaty referred to is, that the " subjects " of Spain shall be treated as the " subjects" of the most favoured nation—not that Great Britain shall treat the " produce" of Spain as she shall be accustomed to treat the "produce of the most favoured nations." This proposition which, on a cur sory statement of it may seem to sound as mere special pleading, is, in fact, a very substantial and well sustained rebutter to the plea of Spain. The remonstrance of the Spanish Minister is certainly drawn with equal temper and ability. But the reply of Lord ABERDEEN does ap pear to us, not only a successful but a conclusive reply. Whether the Duke has not reason on his side, when (speaking of the reasons assigned for the latitude re cently given by the Government to the construction or force of Conventions in the two instances we have just cited), he suggests that certain existing but ancient treaties between this country and Spain must have been forgotten ;we will not undertake to say. Our own im pression is, that to this extent the Spanish Minister is right. The origin and history of Mr. GLADSTONE'S scheme about these certificated growths, his identifica tion with, defeat upon, and retirement from office on account of it—always a political mystery—seems to admit of no more probable explanation than that, in fact, these anterior treaties to which the Spanish Duke adverts (those of 1658, 1679, 1689, and 1713) had been forgotten in Downing-street or at Whitehall. We are bound to concede to Spain a sort of traditionary credit forgood faith in its observance of treaties, and we are far from wondering that the Duke should skilfully bring the merits of the Spanish Crown in that respect under Lord ABERDEEN'S notice. And we go further. So far as the mere letter of the stipulations is concerned, the Duke proves his case. It is impossible to deny that the rights of Spanish commerce to the favour we have con ceded to that of Venezuela and of the United States, as to bringing sugar into our home market, are forcibly put and emphatically illustrated. Even under the treaty of 1783, which renewed all the conditions affecting the relations of the two Crowns that were comprised in that of 1713, the Duke of SOTOMAYOR is justified in maintaining that these are terms which would include the present demands of Spain, to the extent in which they had been allowed before. But here is precisely the point which Lord ABERDEEN puts in issue ; and we can not see how the Spanish Minister is to escape from it. He demonstrates that whilst the treaties of 1617 and 1713 secure to the subjects of Spain and England recipro cally, each from the Government of the other the same privileges as were then enjoyed by the most favoured nations ; there were, in respect of the trade of the West India colonies of either Monarchy, no favoured foreign nations. By a reference to the language of the very atticle in the treaty of 1670, on which the Duke most confidently relies, the Earl of ABERDEEN, with equal diplomatic tact, and more historical accaracy, clearly proves that it was the darling object of each of the two Sovereigns, at the very date of the instrument, to guard scrupulously against, and sternly to prohibit, the subjects of the other from visiting that part of his dominions. Other stipulations were concurrently in force that expressly excepted them from the scope of any " privileges" accorded to foreign subjects in rela tion to any other countries. These West Indian pos sessions Lord ABERDEEN, therefore, insists, never came within the spirit or meaning of any of these treaties. The force of this reasoning is much enhanced by the facts—First, that in 1814, at the close of the war, it was stipulated, that in the event of the Spanish colonies in America being opened to foreign trade, that of Great Britain should be on the footing of the most favoured nation. But it is an admitted fact between both parties that, up to that time, Spain had not opened her colonial trade. How does the Duke of SOTOMAYOR escape from the necessary inference to be deduced from the circum stance of Spain, in 1814, not having fulfilled, on her own part, those conditions, in virtue of which alone she can exact from us the execution of our contract according to her interpretation? He brings forward the decree of the Spanish Government in 1824, declaring (when she had no longer any power to restrain them) that the Spanish colonies in America were open to sll nations. But in the result of their political struggles with the mother country they had in the meantime thrown off the yoke, as Lord ABERDEEN, with more truth than deli cacy, terms it, of Spain. Mr. CANNING, in 1822, having called " his new world into existence," had executed treaties with them as independent States. If, therefore, there had previously existed, either in letter or spirit, a bona fide compact upon this point between the two Crowr.s, Spain had torn the seal from the bond. She had no longer that to give which she had stipulated in its recital to bestow. This seems to us the short justification of that conduct in the British Go vernment, which his Lordship has ably vindicated. The Foreign Secretary rather hints at than enters into other considerations to be alleged for the favour shown to the sugar of Venezuela and the United States, over those of Porto Rico and Cuba. Though given under treaty by anticipation only, it might have been intended as an inducement to the former States to abolish slave trading. In any case, Lord ABERDEEN has clearly felt the imperative necessity of establishing our own cha racter for good faith and honour in respect of these ne gotiations, and has done justice to the great duty which it devolved upon him to discharge. We are mortified at the remarkable confirmation whieh the sort of naval review, in the presence of her MA JESTY last week, has afforded to those animadversions which we have so frequently found ourselves compelled to pass on the system pursued by the Admiralty for the manning of the navy. Of course these animadversions were founded much more on reports sanctioned by, or immediately emanating from, the highest pro fessional authority, than from such opportunities of personal observation as we have been able to command, or from any unassisted judgment of our own that we could pretend to exercise. We are rather, therefore, to lament that the evolutions of the ex perimental squadron have rendered Captain BERKELEY, Sir CHARLES NAPIER, and other eminent offi cers of the service, " prophets in their own country." Is we should he exceedingly sorry to be ranked among those who have been accused, and not without reason, of expatiating on the deficiencies of our naval executive, with an invidious but evident tendency to magnify the force and equipment of other navies, that of France more especialli,—we must protest, beforehand, against any such misconception of our motives. Whether or not public attention ought to be specifically directed to those elements of national force, offensive and defensive, in which there exist material and destructive deficiencies it is now too late to inquire. The fact of these defi ciencies in the most vital functions of our eflective sea service has been already distinctly and repeatedly affirmed, demonstrated, and discussed in the House of Commons, and in the columns of one-half of the public journals of the United Kingdom. Any hypothetical evil that might have been anticipated from this publicity has been at once ascertained and compensated for by the amount o (practical reform which it has stimulated, — achieving much, and setting in motion more, in the im provement of those departments that most urgently re quired revision. Indeed, notwithstanding the lamentable deficiencies of which we have still to complain, it is with increased confidence that we look forward to their imme diate permanent removal. Far from being justly ob noxious to censure for their unremitted exertions in as certaining (through the mists of no little official misre presentation and professional prejudice) the true bear ings and relations of what in time of war would inevitably prove so many disorganising principles, de structive in precise proportion to our previous inade quate knowledge of them, Sir CHARLES NAPIER and the other independent officers, Members of Parliament and others, who have so opportunely and so frankly spoken out, are entitled to the lasting gratitude of the country for the course they have taken. Of what use is it now to regret that such an expression of our naval mismanage ment, and the ineffectiveness of many important branches of the service, of the perfect condition of which we had been previously desiri d by the Government to be perfectly satisfied, should have been thus publicly made in the face of France and of all the world ? The thing is done, and cannot be recalled. But let us, instead of sitting down,like spoiled schoolboy s,to whine over the humiliation, such as it is, of our disappointment, address ourselves with the calm and steadfast energy of man to repair the errors which have produced that disappointment. It is, thank GOD, still in our power to amend these things in good time ; and from what has happened, we may be assured that nothing short of a radical and universal scheme of amelioration will be accepted by the public. The inexcusable folly, so long and blindly persisted in by the Admiralty, of sending out ships of the line with " reduced complements," not because they have less metal to carry, less canvass to hand, less steerage to attend to, less vicissitudes of wind and weather to en counter, less occasion for prompt evolutions and able hands to accomplish them, but because it i s a time of peace ; this folly draws near, we will predict, to the term of its deplorable in fluence. The QUEEN of the greatest naval and maritime State that ever existed has been a witness of the slovenly manoeuvring of a fleet composed of some of the most magnificent and formidable ships that were ever built. Signals so tardily answered that they must be presumed not to have been understood, and precon certed movements disconcerted in their execution, these appear to have been among the " surprises" with which her MAJESTY was regaled at a grand parade naval re view—of a crack squadron commanded by officers of un doubted ability and excellence. Their professional skill—as little to be doubted as their personal intrepidity or the native courage of the officers and men who sailed under them—was unequal to the task, it seems, of main taining the past character of British seamanship for un exampled rapidity and precision. The Trafalgar, alone, we perceive by one account, answered signals, and manoeuvred with facility and exactness. This fine first-rate had by no means her full complement of able seamen on board ; but then those which she had were experienced hands, who hsd, on being paid off from one snip, been entered on another, instead of quitting the service for a protracted period, in which they lose all they have ever learned. These men had formed, before joining the Trafalgar, a part of the crews of other two first-rates successively. They were, therefore, not only able for their duty but up to their work. Of other first and second -rates, one boasted 80 able seamen, another 36, out of full complements varying from 700 to 850 men. We are sincerely grieved for the mortification her MAJESTY must have expe rienced at Spithead ; but we hope and believe, at the same time, that it will be productive of unmixed good by ensuring an early and vigorous remedy for such un sightly failures. The influence of bad example is a trite subject of re mark with moralists and philosophers. The navy sup plies another illustraticn of that influence. As if the Admiralty had not done mischief enough by the " re duced complement" system, the officers whom it has for some time commissioned appear to have been indulging in the sort of foppery which dictates the choice of foot men at the west-end of the town, or the standard for troopers in the Household Brigade. In 1845, it seems we have captains of the navy who reject " good men and true," on applying to be entered, because of their being not above five feet six inches in height ! Their patronage is given to those whom it is their pride to exhibit as a ship's company of " fine fellows, six feet high." The brave tars who followed NELSON to victory were what the majority are of our soldiers who have endured the severest campaigns, and won the most brilliant victo ries—short men. NELSON, every body knows, was a very short man ; and WELLINGTON is not a giant in his boots, however lofty in his spirit and achievements. Let a determined stop, for Heaven's sake, be put to this coxcombry, which is disgraceful to the navy it intends to adorn. Get your able seamen, what ever th e i r stature. Nor i s t hi s all : retain them. How will you get them, when, unlike that spirited commander, Admiral RowLEv, you offer no in ducement of adequately improved pay and allowances, and permanency of engagement, either to mark an ho nourable distinction between them and ordinary seamen or landsmen ? How will you retain them, if, the mo ment your turn is served, and the exigency under which saint. On many occasions we have had to call the attention of our readers to the flagrant enormity of the dispropor tion between the legalised costs decreed against offenders over whom the Magistrates exercise summary jurisdic tion, and the amount of damages found against or fine levied upon the same parties. But the cases we have hitherto adduced on such occasions are comparatively trivial in the character of their vexatiousness, and the disparity of the penalty to the offence, when put side by side with that which we noticed in our paper of yester day. A poor man was charged on Wednesday last, be fore the Magistrates of the Egham division of the County of Surrey, with having cut down grass of the value of four farthings, on the edge of a ditch upon the farm of one LANE. The man, ROSE, was convicted of having committed damage to the extent of four far things—no doubt an exceedingly heinous offence, and far be it from us to palliate it. If a penny saved be aq penny gained, according to the assurance of the old proverb, a penny insidiously purloined from the sacred purlieus of a man's ditch, must be at least the square of four pennies ; and that is a large allowance. But what was the sum of the costs actually decreed against this formidable agrarian felon who had, out of an overweening affection for his donkey, we presume, clandestinely, but in a moment of reckless sympathy, cut down a part of the valuable growing crop which adorned and gave importance to the brink of a fosse ? Some 150 times the amount of the assessed damage. Thirteen shillings and sixpence was the modest demand, en nomine expensarum, of the enlightened bench, conse quent on damages assessed of the amount of one penny. Within the memory of most living men, we believe that the price of hay has not risen to such a price as it was fetching in the Spring, 71. a load. Supposing that the present season promised no better grass crop than that of last year, and that this rustic plunderer had cut down, that is if he could, so much of the matchless bordering of this inviolable ditch-bank as would have amounted to the equivalent, dried, of a truss of hay ; the Egham bench having ordered him to pay 4s. fur the "damages," ought to have sentenced him, on their own rules of proportion, to 150 times four shillings as costs —say 301. sterling. This may seem very absurd to uninformed people, who have never learned to believe with the earlier sages among our legal commentators, "that the law is the perfection of common sense." But to talk, after this, of agricultural protection ? What is the necessity for it ? Any speculative farmer who has surrounded his homestead, like some retired burgomaster in the suburbs of Leyden, or a rich Landdrost in his canal-encircled domain in Batavia, with a ditch of banks as verdant as its waters, may realise upon a few roods of land a more profitable return than other men can derive in these times from ten well cultivated acres. Let him only leave his gates open o' nights, so that whether "at early dawn or on dewy eve," these wayfaring interlopers may test the quality of the neglected herbage on the borders of his walks or the edges of his ditches, and he will The remaining clauses of the Bill were then passed, and the report was ordered to be brought up this day. The House afterwards went into Committee on the Lunatics Asylum and Pauper Lunatics Bill, and 43 THE SUN, LONDON, THU'RSDAI MORNiNG, JULY 3, 1845. you called for them has passed away, you cut them off, dismiss them to indolenee and poverty, or the accidents of better fortune (which you do nothing to ensure for them), and turn them upon the world with barely a cer tificate of good conduct to reward them for their eminent and efficient services? There must be provision made for able seamen, on being paid off, so as to guarantee their services to the State when required, and a subsistence for themselves when they are not required, conditional on their entering into the services of no other power. Incorporate a sufficient body. of these men into your ship's crews, and the improvement of the skill,:alacrity, and discipline of the men, will be as rapid as extensive. Is there one man in the House of Commons who would balance the cost of effecting so vast and so immediate a regeneration of the effective branch of our naval ser vice against the incalculable benefits to be derived from it? We do not believe there is. Let this be strenuously insisted upon, speedily adopted, and all that is wanting to economise, and give increased effect to improvement in sailing power, armament, placing of ma chinery, &c., will follow as matters of course, in certain, easy, and harmonious order. We are well pleased, we repeat, that her Majesty has visited Spithead on this occasion. In the Madrid journals of the 24th ult. a new version is given to the statement published in the Gavle, an nouncing that the bank of San Fernando had suspended all discounts. The secretary of the bank, by order of the directors, had address..d a letter to the Espanol journal, explaining that, in suspending their discounts for the moment, they had only exercised a sound dis cretion. They add, " The San Fernando hank may pursue this course without its being concluded, because it refuses to receive bills at a certain hour, that it closes its coffers on discounts, or permanently suspends them. It has never thought of it, still less when its own ac ceptances are in question." The Opposition journals approved of the circular issued by NARVAEZ respecting the family of Don CARLOS. According to the Tien,'" the abdication was r , s,lvcd o❑ solely to further the views of the CarEsts. Everything had been prepared for organising the Government of the Prince of ASTURIAS, when married to the QUEEN, by nominating his Ministers and making extensive promo tions in the army. The Buurse was closed on the 24th in honour of some In the-. French Chamber of Deputies, on Monday, a motion was made by M. BEAUMONT to postpone till next session three important railway Bills—namely, those for Paris and Strasburg, Tours and Nantes, and Dieppe and Fecamp ; but, after some discussion, the motion was ne gatived, and the Chamber proceeded with the Tours and Nantes Bill. The Journal des Debats thus adverts to the proposition for delay :—" It is said that a financial objection exists, that the Northern, the Lyons, and the Avignon railroads will absorb all the capital of the country; and to avoid a crisis it becomes necessary to postpone two lines of such crisiderable extent as those to Strasburg and to Nantes. Those who make such an objection lose sight of an essential circumstance. The Northern railroad alone requires considerable capital for two-thirds of the ex pense. But the shareholders will have five or six years to provide the capital fur the Lyons and Avignon roads. This is a sufficient guart ntee against the market being en cumbered with shares. The last two roads cannot be adjudicated on before six months. As to the Strasburg road, if it were even voted at present, the company bid ding for it would not have any capital to disburse until the Government should have completed the embank. ments and the works of art. Another fact is worthy of consideration. German and English capitalists have subscribed for half the shares in the Strasburg railroad. But British capital is anxiously sought in the two Peninsulas and in Germany. Is it not to be feared that British capitalists may yield to the temptation ?" On the same day the sum of 2,650,000 f. was voted for the repairs of Notre Dame. The preparations for this work had already commenced, by propping up all the parts which appear dangerous ; and it is understood that the repairs will be proceeded with promptly and on an extensive scale. The Constitutionnel says the pass ports for Don CenLos had been delivered to him at Bourges, by an aide-de-camp of Marshal SOULT, M. DE TINAN, who is to accompany the family to Greouls, in the department of the Gard. We find we were led into error yesterday respecting the amount of the sums voted by the Chamber of Deputies, for the repairs of the harbours of Boulogne, Calais, and Dunkirk. According to the published report of the proceedings, the following are the estimates voted : Boulogne, 1,000,000 E (40,00010 ; Calais, 500,000 f. (20,0001) ; and Dunkirk, for a wet dock at that place' 8,000,0001(320,0001.) In the course of Monday a considerable fall took place in the Funds on the Paris Bourse. The Three per Cents. closed at 831. 50c.; the New Loan at 831. 90c. ; the Five per Cents. at 121 f 50c. ; Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,160 f. ; Rouen, 1,030 f. ; Vierzon, 7501. ; Havre, 832 f. 50e.; Avignon, 9701. ; Basle, 250 f. ; Spanish Three per Cents, 41; Ditto Passives, 71. The following are the quotations for the new Orleans and Bordeaux, 170 f. premium ; Boulogne, 110 f. ditto ; Troyes and Montereau, 25f.; Paris and Lyons (Laffitte), 20f. ; ditto (Calon), If. ; ditto (Ganneron), 10f. ; Northern line (Laffitte), 32f. 50c. ; ditto (Rosamel), 61. 50c ; Tours and Nantes (Mackenzie), Bf. 50c. ; ditto (Drouillard), par; ditto (O'Neill), 31. 50c.; ditto (Jacques Lefevre), par ; Lyons and Avignon (Lecointe),l2l. 50c ; ditto (Talabot), 37f. 50c. ; ditto (Compagnie Meridionale), Bf. 50 c . ; ' par; Paris Bordeaux and Toulouse (Mackenzie), par. ; ditto and C e tt e and(ELs eotlNer Strasbourg JUNEuasb)'°3rgf.(s°Gacnner)'loE ; Dijon and Mulbausen, par. 27.—Avignon Creil and St. Quentin and Marseilles, 9801., end of June ; Paris and Orleans, 1,170 E, ditto ; Paris and Rouen, 1,0401., ditto; Orleans and Vierzon, 7261., ditto; Orleans and Bordeaux, 645 f., ditto ; Boulogne, 580 f., ditto ; Monte reau, 5301., for the 15th of July. THE SUGARS OP CUBA AND PORTO RICO.—Sir R. P ee l coonso n Tuesday copies of evening laid on the table of th e H ouse of correspondence Coin. respecting the claim of Spain, that the stezars of Cuba and Porto Rico should be admitted into the United Kingdom upon the same terms as the sugars of the United States and Venezuela. This correspondence consists of two letters —one from the Duke of Sotomayor to Lord Aberdeen, and the other from Lord Aberdeen in reply. The letters extend to great length. The Duke contends that all the provisions of the treaties of 1713 and 1783 were extended to the colonial possessions of Spain since the commerce of the Spanish colonies was opened to foreigners in 1824. And he adds—" Though this argument is in itself incontestable, it receives a corrobo ration which dots not admit of any rational reply on bearing in mind that the British Government itself re cognised its force by exempting from the high duties which are the object of the present application the sugars proceeding from her Catholic Majesty's domi nions is the Philippine islands. He therefore hopes that these statements will have due weight with the British Government, and that the sugars will be admitted on the terms demanded." Lord Aber deen denies the validity of the claim in these words :—" Her Majesty's Government have duly exa mined the differ( nt treaties subsisting between the two countries, and have attentively considered the various arguments advanced in the Duke of Sotomayor's note ; and it now becomes the duty of the undersigned to de clare to the Duke of Sotomayor, that her Majesty's Go vernment cannot admit that, either in the early treaties between the two Crowns, or in the later decrees of her Catholic Majesty. or in the acts of the Parliament of this country, any valid ground is to be found for the demand with which that note concludes, namely, that the sugar of Cuba and Porto Rico should be admitted into British ports on the footing of sugar of the United States and Venezuela." This subject is likely to give rise to im portant discussions. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. (From The Sun of Last Night.) There was a :large amount of business done at Liverpool yesterday in Cotton—viz., 10,000 bales, including 4,000 Ame rican, on speculation. Prices were rather firmer, and the middling and low qualities were quoted %d. per lb. higher. The better sorts were at previous rates. There was only a small business done in Shares, and former prices were scarcely maintained. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JULY I.—The sales are —Barnsley Junction 7 ; Ditto, Half Shares, 3 7-16 ; Black burn, Burnley, and Accrington, 9%; Blackburn, Clitheroe, and North Western Junction, 1% prem. ; Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 16% ; Cambridge and Lincoln, 5 ; Clitheroe Junction, % ; Dei by and Crewe, 3 ; Direct Northern, ; Dublin and Drogheda, 103 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 76 1 / 2 ; Erewash Valley, 32 14; Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester, 13s. ; Glasgow and Dumfries, 21s. ; Goole, Don caster, Sheffield, and Manchester Junction, Fry Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction, Quarter Shares, ; Hud dersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal, 8%; eeds and Thirsk, 7 ; Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester, 16 3 / 4 1 / 2 Leeds and West Riding Junction, 4 3 4 13-16 ; Leicester and Birmingham, 1 3 4 ; Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston,2 15-16; London and Worcester, Oxford and Rugby, 1%; London and York, 3 3 / 4 ; Manchester, Bury, and Rossendale, 17 1 4 ; Man chester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 5% ; Manchester and Birmingham Continuation and Welsh Junction, 1% 13-16; Manchester and Leeds, Quarter Shares, 25%; Midland Rail way Consols, 401. Shares, 29 1 h, ; Newcastle and Berwick, 19Ch ; Newcastle, Durham, and Lancashire, % 3 / 4 prem. ; North Eastern, ss. 4s. prem. ; North Staffordshire, 4 1-16 ; North Western, 4%; Nottingham, Erewash, Ambergate, and Manchester, 17s. 6d. 16s. prem. ; Shrewsbury, Hereford, and North Wales, 3 2% ; South Eastern and Dover, No. 1, 18 3 / 4 ; Ditto, No. 3,8% 1 / 2 ; Trent Valley Continuation and Holy head Junction, 2% ; Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole, 20 ; West Yorkshire, 3 13-16 3 4 ; Whitehaven and Furness, 3 ; York and Carlisle, 4% ; Great Northern of France (Eng Esti), 514. in — ost prompt measures have been taken by the leading merchants of the Canada trade to forward as large a sum as possible by the next Halifax steamer to alleviate the distress and destitution of those inhabitants of Quebec who have been deprived of every thing by the awful fire which has occurred, and the details of which are set forth in the appeal already made public for and from the inhabitants of the mother country. A committee has been formed, at the head of which are the principal merchants of the City, to carry out most fully the object of the address (published in this journal), and there cannot be a doubt that at the meeting to be held on Friday, at which the Lord Mayor will preside, a rea dy de sire will be shown to raise a sum adeqquate for the occasion. It is satisfactory to state that the most earnest desire has been exhibited by the merchants of all descriptions of colonial and other trades, in aid of the funds to be collected here. A very full meeting may, therefore, be anticipated, and we hope to see the great room of the London Tavern crowded to excess on the important occasion. _ _ There have not been any colonial arrivals of interest to-day. The letters by the Overland Mail have not been delivered up to the present hour. As respects commercial affairs, we are led to believe that many orders for goods may now be expected. The English Securities- continue quiet. Consols are 98 7 4, to 99. Exchequer-bills have been 535. to 565. premium. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. are 102 to 10218. Bank Stock is worth 211 1 / 2 . Spanish Active Bonds have been down to 27% 1 4, but the Three per Cents. continue at 39% 1 4. Portuguese Con verted have been 65 1 /, 3 / 4 . Mexican are 36 3 4, and Colom bian 18 to 17 3 / 4 . Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., ex dividend, have been 39% to 1 4. The Share Market is buoyant again. South-Eastern New, No. 3, have touched 8% premium, and North Kent have been down to par. Brighton are well supported— Cambridge and Lincoln are flat—London and York are better maintained at yesterday afternoon's rise, and Direct Northern have been lower. ONE CLOSING PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES. Bank Stock .. . ........... .....211% 211% 3 per Cent. Reduced New 3% per Cents 102% 102 102 Long Annuities to expire Jan.lB6o 11A% 1114 India Bonds, 1,0001.. Ditto under 1,0004 .. Consols for Opening 98% 99 99 Exchequer Bills, 1,0004, I%d 53 56 pm. 56 Ditto 5001. . Ditto Small ONE O'CLOCK. CLOSING PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. PRICES. Buenos Ayres Bonds 6 per Cent. 46 Columbian Bonds, ex Venezuela. 18 17 3 / 17 3 / 4 Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837 ...... ... —3 6 1 A Ditto, Account Ditto, Deferred —2 1 1 A Portuguese 5 per Cents. — Ditto, Converted 6 s 3j' 1 ,4 65 1 /., Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840 Ditto. Account Ditto, Passive Ditto 3 per Cent. .. . ... 39% 39% Ditto Account Belgian 4 1 / 2 per Cent. ...... 98% Dutch, 2 1 / 2 per Cent Ditto, 4 per Cent., Certific 99 99 PRICES OF PAID. A ONE O'CLOCK. CLOSING RAILWAY SHARES PRICES Aberdeen Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush l% 2.. Birmin. and Gloucester. 100 Ditto 1 / 2 Shares Bristol and Exeter Do. New . Cate,lonian Ditto Extension ...... 2 1 / 2 .. ... 2% Cambridge and Lincoln 1 1 / 2 .-- 4% Chester and Holyhead... 10 Chichester and Brighton 20 iliurnet Valley Coventry and Leicester 1 1 4 ll ' Cornwall --Al 95% Direct Northern I , üblin and Belfast June 2 11 / 2 8 7;A Dublin and Galway..... 2 1 / / 2 3304. Dublin and Mullingar... 2 1 ,4 4 3%... Eastern Counties. 141. 165...... 21 3 % 22 .. Ditto New 41. 16s. Ditto Perpetual, 5 per Cent, No. 1....51.135. 4d — Ditto ditto, No. 2. l3s. 4d... 0 1 / 2 .. Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 Ely and Bedford Great Grimsby and Shef field Great South. and West (Ireland) Ditto Extension Great North of Scotland 2% Great North of England..100 Great Western Ditto Half Shares Ditto, Fifths Guildford, Fare'm,Ports. 2% ~. . 3IA Hull and Selby SO Do. Half Shares ...... 2 .—.. 24 London and Birminghm (5t0ck)...242 243% 243% Do. New Thirds Do. 1% Shares .. London and Blackwall. 16/.133.4d. 9%14,3A ... ...... 934 London and Brighton... 50 London and Croydon, 13/. 15s. 9d. 2134% 2 1 14 Do. New l3s 4d 1%. Lond. & S.Western 411 6s 10d B2 ........ , .... 81 Do. Consolidated Bths 12 — Do. New Do. New London and York 2 l /2 3 3 / 4%% . 3% London, Salisbury, and Yeovil Londonderry and Ennis killen ... 2 1 ,4 3 1,4 Lynn and Ely Manchester and Leeds... 76 173 . . Manchester, Buxton, and ... 4% 2:2 1 % 111 A 2% 3% 6 174 Matloc Midland 100 lBB 189 188 lB9 Do. New Newcastle and Darling ton Junction ... 25 ...... ... ..... ... ~ 54 Do. New Brandling... 10 Newcastle and 13erwick 11 Newry and Enniskillen. 2 1 0 ..... 4LA 4 14 Newark and SLeffield .. 1 A...... 2% 2 ...... North Do. New British 1 North Kent North Wales Norwich and Brandon... 10 Do., New . 1 Oxford and Worcesttr... 2 1 ,1 6l/ 6 Portsmouth Direct ...... 2% 3% 4% 414 Richmondand West End Junction Rugby, Worstr, & Tring 1 Scottish Central Scottish Midland ' 1%. ... 2% Shrewsbury, Hereford, and North Wales 2 3 /4 South Eastern & Dover 3312 s 4d 48% 48 Do., No. 1.. 8 Do., No. 2. Do., No. 3 Staines and Richmond 1 .Staffordsh. & Shropshire 2 3 / 4 ... ....... ... south Wales ..... ... 21/ 5% Trent Valley and Holy head Junction Waterford and Kilkenny 1 ..,... ...... ..: Welch Midland Wilts, Somerset, & Wey mouth York and North M i dl an d 50 112 Ditto Scarboro' Branch. 25 Do. Extension THE REPEAL MEMBERS.-Mr. Smith O'Brien and Mr. John O'Coiinell havir.g been summoned by the Chairman of the Committee of Selection to serve on Railway Committees on the 14th instant, the two Hon. Members have announced to the Chairman that they re fuse to attend, and deny the power of the House to en torce the order. Mr. O'Brien says, " I trust that the Committee ?fSelt ction will not think that I am by any feeling of disresp ec t t owar d s t h em , or towards the House of Commons, when I inform them that it is, my intention not to serve on an y C o mmittees, exept such as may . be appointed w i t h re f erence to the affairs of Ireland. ' Mr. John O'C onne ll says , prompted de cline attending." " I absolutely FOREIGN RAILWAY,,. Boulogne and Amiens... 6 Bordeaux and Toulouse 2 Bordeaux,Toulouse, and Cet te Great North. of France (Laffitte's) Do. do. (Hosamel's) 2 ...... 2 %IA Jamaica Juncti0n......... 1% Do. South Midlnd. Junc. 1 Louvain and Jemeppe... 4 ... . ........ ••• Namur and Liege Orleans and Vierzon ... 6 Orleans and Bordeaux... 4 Over Yssel 413 s 4d 0 % % Paris & Lyons, Laffitte's ' Paris and Orleans 2O Paris and Rouen - ..... ... Paris and Strasbourg (Ganneron's) ... 2 Rouen and Havre ...... 16 Sambre and Meuse ~... 4 Tours and Nantes, Mac kenzie's Verona and Anc0na...... .1. 6% 24 3 % 48 REPRESENTATION OF Ross AND CROMARTY.—Refer ring to our notice, in the Third Edition of our Satur teirday's paper, to the rumour of an expected vacancy in the representation of Ross and Cromarty, and to the letter from the present tic% Member for these counties, in our caper of Monday, contradicting the report of his having any intention of retiring, and which we there fore cannot doubt is unfounded, we beg to mention that our notice of it was founded on information received from the county and from Edinburgh ; and that we find from the Ross•-shire paper of last week, published before the date of our notice, that the rumours alluded to were prevalent there ; and that we know that in Edinburgh it was stated, before our notice appeared, by parties who might be supposed acquainted with the facts, that the worthy and Hon. Baronet we referred to intended forth with publicly addressing the electors as a candidate on the occurrence of a vacancy, either by the retirement of the present Member, or a dissolution. n 2% 4 4 % 16 1 ,4 11% THE RUSSIAN MARKET FOR REFINED SUGAR.— The Russian Government has thrown open the markets of that country for a twelvemonth, and it is said that the English refiners are preparing " refined goods," that is, sugars, for that market with se much vigour, that they will be able to send in a supply for two or three years. This is one cause of the present activity of the sugar refining trade — Liverpool Times. On Sunday morning last, upon the congrevation assembling at the Independent Chapel, Swansea, they found the doors fastened wi,h apadlock, which had been put on by five indi viduals of the church who disagreed with their preacher as to certain points of doctrine, and were, moreover, averse to him be cause he was a teetotaller. —Bristol Journal. UANALS AND RAILWAYS,---At a meeting held on Tuesday at the City of London Tavern of the London Proprietors of the Kennel and Avon Canal, it was unanimously resolved to re quest the Committee of Management to take measures to ascertain if it will be practicable and desirable to convert that canal into a railway. ~. o , 7:Ntik+t, 00 AllilL:C.'lol#74.' • . „,„; l' i b . i -mIIFFw, ,z r ",.,".'- .., •=l, ‘, .4bek . ;f.,,' - ' ; ;ALi.ji,,,..;, ,,, , ,,,,,.,, LtnE50 m016,---., ' • "I‘lik JOINT STOCK BANKS. Australasia v .. 40 Union of Australia STATE OF TRADE.—The yarn market continues in the same state as for two or three weeks past. The spinners being nearly all working to order, there is scarcely any business done for immediate delivery ; but exporters are still desirous of making contracts,—in some cases extending to the termination of the shipping season ; and prices remain exceedingly firm. In goods there is rather more business doing, and manu facturers, in some cases, are asking a slight advance.-- ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET.—There has been rather less doing in the flannel market to-day than on the preceding Monday; manufacturers are wanting more money for their pieces, and buyers are not willing to give an advance, which has caused less business to be transacted. The price of wool is rather on the advance, and some sorts are very scarves—Manchester Guardian. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen, accompanied by their Majesties the King. and Queen of Belgians, honoured the Horticultural Exhibition in the Regent's Park with a visit yesterday. The Royal Suite included the Viscountess Jocelyn, Baroness d'Hooghvorst, the Maids of Honour, and the Equerries in Waiting. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Mr. George Edward Anson, presided yesterday morning at a meeting at the office of the Duchy of Cornwall in Somerset House. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, were taken an airing yesterday in an open carriage-and-four, accom panied by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, and their Majesties the King and Queen of the Belgians, honoured the per formance of the French Plays with their presence yesterday evening. The Royal suite included the Viscountess Jocelyn, Baroness d'Hooghvorst, Earl of Morton, Colonel Buckley, Colonel Bouverie, and Major de Moerkerke. Her Majesty the Queen Dtswager, accompanied by the Duchess Ida and the Princesses of Saxe Weimar, left Marlborough House shortly before twelve o'clock yes terday in a carriage and four, for her residence, Bushy House, Bushy Park. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, attended by Lady Augusta Cadogan, honoured Lord and Lady Stanley with their company at dinner yesterday, at their residence in St. James's. square. His Serene Highness Prince Herrmann of Saxe Weimar visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester at Gloucester House, and their R4AI High nesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge at Cam bridge House. Viscount Adare had an interview with the Earl of Dalhousie yesterday at the office of the Board of Trade. The Archbishop of Canterbury had an interview with Lord Stanley yesterday at the Colokial-office. The Chancellor of the Exchequer arrived in town on Tuesday evening, from Cambrid ge . M r . J o h n W oo d the Chairrnan, an Mr. Hunt Davis the Deputy-Chair man, of the Excise, had an interview with the Right Hon. Gentleman yesterday, at his official residence, in Downing-street._ Mr. tOck, M.P., and Mr. G. Trail], M.P., transacted business yesterday at the office of the Board of Trade. Dispatches fOr the Governor of New Zealand, and also for the Governor of South Australia, were sent off last evening from the Colonial-office. Sir J. Hope had an interview yesterday with the Earl of Dalhousie at the Board of Trade. GRAND ENTERTAINMENT AT THE MANSION-HOUSE. The Lord Mayor gave a splendid entertainment on Tuesday to the Common Councilmen of the wards of Aldersgate, Billingsgate, Tower, and Portsuken, and their ladies. Several of the Deputies were present. Turtle and venison in great perfection, and the most delicious fruits, ices, and wines, abounded, and drew the most rapturous commendations from those excellent judges of the right kind of hospitality. The Mansion house plate was most tastefully displayed. The health of the Lord Mayor was proposed, amidst acclamations, by one of the Deputies, who paid a very high tribute to the talents, independence, integrity, and zeal of the Chief Magistrate, and commented upon the ability and judgment exhibited in the performance of the duties of the office. The LORD MAYOR, in returning thanks, said that he felt high gratification in being surrounded by such a company. and it made no slight addition to his hap piness to have so many of the fair sex amongst his guests.—(Cheers.) _ _ When the health of the Lady Mayoress was proposed, the mover said he hoped most fervently that the ex cellent example set by the Lord Mayor, in inviting the ladies of the members of the Court of Common Council, would be followed by other Chief Magistrates. Such a course would tend more than anything else to establish an amicable understanding between the two Courts, and put an end for ever to the incessant snarling with which the members of the one met the members of the other.— (Cheers.) The company separated highly delighted. The next of the series of dinners will take place on Friday. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BETTING AT MANCHESTER.—TUESDAY. Goonwoon STAKES.-14 to 1 agst the Libel (taken)-15 to 1 agst Pythia (taken)-16 to 1 agst Warp (taken freely) —l6 to 1 agst Pine-apple-18 to 1 agst Lightning-20 to 1 agst Lothario-20 to 1 agst Venus-25 to 1 agst Coal-black Rose (taken)-25 to 1 agst Roderick (taken). LIVERPOOL CUP (accept or not).-12 to 1 on the field -15 to 1 agst Milton (taken)-25 to 1 agst Ironmaster (taken) —25 to 1 agst Warp (taken)-25 to 1 agst Valerian (taken) —25 to 1 agst Pompey. GOODWOOD CUP.-6 to 1 agst Ironmaster (taken)-12 to 1 agst Arundo (taken). ST. LEOER.-6 to 1 agst Weatherbit (taken). WINCHESTER RACES—WEDNESDAY. Handicap Stakes of 5 sovs. each, and 25 added. Three. quarters of a mile. (5 Sabi.) Captain Delmes' Redskin, 4 yrs, Bst 51b (Nat) 0 1 Jr.A Shepherd's March First filly, 3 yrs, 7st 121 b... 0 2 Mr. Dorien's Justice Greedy, 4 yrs, Bst 71b 3 Mr. Herbort's cby Venison, out of Pet, 2 yrs, 6st 21b 4 Mr. King's Harem, 3 yrs, 7st 61b 6to 4 on Pet, 3to 1 agst March First filly, and 3 to 1 agst Redskin. After the dead heat Redskin won in a canter. The Original Hampshire Stakes of 25 sous. each, 15 ft, and 5 only if declared. Two miles and a dis. Mr. R. Etwall's /Egis, 3 yrs, bst 71b (Kitchener) 1 Mr. Herbert's Ajax, aged, 7st 12Ib 2to 1 on 2Egis, who won an interesting race by three parts of a length. The Great Produce Sakes of 50 sow,. each, h ft. New mile. sir. Etwall's Witticism (allowed 3ibs) walked over. Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each, and 25 added. One mile and a quarter. Mr. Rolt's Hampton, 6 yrs (Cohen) 1 Mr. King's Artful Dodger, 6 yrs 2 Mr. Wall's The New Forest Deer, 4 yrs 3 The following also ran :—Lord Bruce's ch g by Elis, out of Rosalie, 4 yrs, Mr. W. Etwall's Venatrix, 5 yrs, and Mr. Ley's Adrian, aged. 2to 1 agst New Forest Deer. Hampton made all the run ning, won easy by a length, and was claimed for 1201. The Queen's Plate of 100 guineas; for 3 yrs old 7st 51b, 4 yrs 9st 11b, 5 yrs 9st 111 b, 6 yrs and aged lOst 21b. Heats two miles. Mr. Payne's Queen Mab, 6 yrs (Nat) 1 I Sir J. B. Mill's Pugilist, 4 yrs Mr. King's Sparsholt, 3 yrs 4to 1 on the mare, who won the first heat in a common canter, and walked over for the second. EAST SURREY RACES. •••••YESTERDAY. The Albert Stakes of 2 sovs. each, with 15 added; winner to be sold for 801., twice round and a dis. (5 subs.), were won in two heats by Mr. Trimmings' Gazelle, 3 yrs, Bst (Bemetzreider), beating Mr. Whittington's Gipsy, aged, lOst, and Mr. Moore's Chief, aged, lOst 71b, by half a length. The Heigh Over Stakes of 2 sous. each, and 15 added. Heats, twice round and a distance, over five hurdles; winner to be sold for 100/. (5 Subs.) Mr. Hardy's Little Dan, aged, list 71b ...(Hardy) 2 2 1 Mr. Robinson's Tincton, aged, 11st 51b Mr. Pilgrim's Bob Booty, 5 yrs, lOst 111 b ..... 1 3 sir Mr. Morris's Chief, aged, list 81b Three well contested heats. The Beaten Purse of 10 sous., twice round and a distance, was won in two heats by Mr. Hardy's Fairplay, 9st ( Hardy), beating Tinctun, 9st, Chief, 9st 21b, and Gipsy, Bst Illb (distanced). THE PENALTIES FOR ADVERTISING FOREIGN Lorreetes.—ln consequence of the actions lately commenced against various newspapers to recover penalties for the pub lication of advertisements of foreign lotteries, the Solicitor- General has just prepared a Bill of five clauses, and is "to amend an Act of the seventh year of King William the Fourth, for preventing the advertising of foreign and other illegal lotteries, and to discontinue certain actions com menced under the provisions of the said Act." The preamble, after reciting the Act referred to, and setting forth the fact of the actions in question having been so commenced " by persons who sue, inform, and prosecute, as well on their own behalf as on behalf of her Majesty, to recover various penalties incurred or alleged to have been incurred under the provisions of the said Act," further states that it is expedient that " all further proceedings in such actions, suits, informations, and prosecutions, should be prevented, &c." The several clauses of the Bill then proceed to enact that all persons who may have been sued before the passing of this Act for penalties incurred under the statute of 7 Will. IV., may apply to the courts, or a judge of any of the superior courts, to stay proceed. ings, upon payment of whatever costs may have been incurred up to the time of such application being made to the court or judge. The Bill, however, is not to extend its operations to actions in which judgment has been obtained, or convictifin passed on or before the day of the passing of the measure. The third clause is a very important one, as it enacts that all penalties incurred under the recited Act shall go wholly to her Majesty, and it is further declared by another section of the Bill, that no action for penalties shall be commenced except in the name of the Attorney or Solidi tor.General in England or Ireland, or her Majesty's Advocate for Scotland. The last clause merely provides that the Act may be altered &c., this session. THE NEW HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT.—The Peers insist on having their house ready for occupation in February next, and thegreatest efforts are consequently being made. All the walls and the ceiling are to be covered with carved wood-work of the most elaborate character, and this is being forced on by one hundred and fifty additional workmen much more rapidly than is desirable. It will probably be ready for fixing about October, and instead of remaining as it should do in the dry ing rooms during the winter ready for fixing in the summer, will be taken into the new building in the bad weather, and probably be irreparably injured. Do what they will, moreover, the House of Lords cannot be completed by the time named, nor is it desirable that it should be. Surely, if their Lordships would consider that thie building is not simply for some immediate or temporary purpose, but is Intended to last for ages, and that the great obj,ct should be not to do it quickly but well, they would'restrain their Impatience, and allow the architect to work out efficiently the whole design. If the present accommodation is bad, let it be made better; re.construct the temporary House of Lords during the ensuing vacation, and persuade them to put up with the indignity yet a little longer, so that their order may be worthily lodged ever after, The architects of the middle ages produced the nobleworks to which we now appeal with pride, slowly, by degrees, and as works oflove; at least let us give the nineteenth century one chance, and not by unnecessary and childlike haste risk adding another failure to the crowd which already disgrace it.—The Builder. EFFECTS OF THE BITE OF A RAT.—About six weeks ago, a porter at one of the Wakefield corn warehouses In Thornes.lane, caught a rat, and while putting it into a sample bag, in order to take it home for a little deg to worry, the rat bit the hand of the porter, and so firmly kept hold with his teeth that he had some difficulty in ex. tricating his hand ; however, he did so, and took the vermin to be destroyed by the terrier, without taking any further notice of his hand. Two weeks passed on and symptoms of mortification began to appear, and the man was obliged to obtain medical advice. He has since been ill in bed, suffering great pain, but the man is tsp_ parently reco vering.—H alifax Guardian. On Monday se nnight, a pony driven by Mr. Henry Steed, of Sudbury, who was accompanied by one of 1* sons and his eldest daughter, took fright in Melford.road, kicked through the dashing board, and broke the shafts; the travellers were consequently thrown out, and Miss Steed's foot unhappily I becoming entangled In the broken dashboard, she was dragged along at a furious rate, and her death seemed inevitable. A la. bourer, however, stopped the animal, and she miraculously escaped with a dislocation of the shoulder and severe contusions. Mr. Steed and his son, we are happy to add, sustained only a few slight !guises, I —Zoe: Herald. 1 THE LICENSED VICTUALLERS' SCHOOL. The dinner of the 39th anniversary of the establish' ment of that excellent institution the Licensed Vie: tuallers's School, was given yesterday, at White Condit" House, Harvey Coombe, Esq., in the chair. An assay blage of several hundreds met to honour the occasion, and a spirit of harmony and conviviality had evideatif thrown itself over the whole meeting. Good humoar , kindness, and interchange of feeling, was the order of the day. The dinner was put on the table with that prof le! liberality which has distinguished the en t er t a i n ments to this House. Every attention was paid by the steward! to their numerous guests, and a very judicious f or esigin, had evidently been made for th e o rd er ly p rocee dings °` the day. A numerous band, under the direction of The T. Adams, gave several popular airs d ur in g di nne r. , vocal arrangements were under the direction of nit' Ashton, who was assisted by a large number of able pro' fessional gentlemen. After the cloth was drawn and Grace had been said , tho vocalists sang Nan Aobis Do:nine, with a delight°, effect, not the least feature of which was the control' which this splendid composition gave to the entertain" ments which usually engage the ample space where the dinner was given ; and it was an ad m i ra bl e pro" of the spirit of those who have taken the charg e s and are engaged in the conduct of this charity, that during the delivery of this noble canticles there was a continuance of silence and deferenc e to the great God, whose are all th e bl ess ings °( the earth, which, considering the variety of characl which was gathered in that meeting, sp o k e hi g hly, an with an irresistible force, to the heart, of that goodtlev , of heart which human nature will always evince wile!, unrestrained by any other influence but that which hew prompted the liberal spirit by which the Licensed V l , ° ' tuallers of the metropolis, and we may add of W e country also, for it is evident that the same feeling .f kindliness will, under the same circumstances, and 07 the same impulses, always be shown for the benefit humanity. The toasts were heralded by the sound of the trumPeti and announced with admirable effect by Mr. Harker , who seemed to have borrowed the lungs of Stentor for the occasion. On introducing the first toast of the day, the Clbilt Max said, that he had now to propose a toast for W e meeting, which he trusted would be drank with the ear thusiasm which it merited. He had to propose th e health of the first Lady of the land, w ho by th e admit ableness of her conduct, and the force of her character, had done honour to the race from which she sprang' Under her administration there had been a gradual T r sumption of prosperity in the country, which was e ly titled to, and would assure, the attachment and prove bial loyalty of this country to the throne. With a deg sense of the high merit of the illustrious personage el whom he had spoken, he proposed the health of th e " Queen." The toast was drank with a corresponding enthusiasts' after which the National Anthem of " God save th e Queen" was given in most admirable voice, and in er cellent harmony, by the vocalists, Mr. Ashton taking, the solo, with that clearness of en unc i a ti on an d le. ,t e his voice truth of tune for which h e i s remar k a bl e , " voice filling the ample space till every semitone pervade ( ' its remotest corners. The chorus of th e l as t verse roStl i above the assemblage, and came out in one burst °' generous enthusiasm. The CHAIRMAN next proposed the " Health of the Queen Dowager," and said that, in proposing this twig' he was anxious to do justice to the virtues of a lady wil ° ' by the extent of her charities and the general bene" lence of her character, had won the hearts of all. 1 : 6 0 was sure that the company would drink•th e t oas t w ith the respect that was due to it. He then gave the "Quel Dowager,* which was drank with three ti mes th re e, and the utmost cordiality. Mr. Genge then sung the " Four-leaved Shamrock with excellent taste. The next toast, the CHAIRMAN said, was "His ROY, Highness Prince Albert," as the bel ove d consor t of the Queen, and one who had exhibited all the qualities of • high-minded gentleman, and of a genuine Briton. The toast was drank with all the honours, and ill! way which, if he had heard it, wou ld h ave grat ifi e d Royal Highness, coming from so important a body the Licensed Victuallers. After the toast, the vocalists gave a new glee, written ' by Mr. Ashton, and composed by Mr. R. Butler, ' 2 Hand-court, High Holborn. It was admirably given' and as this was the first time which it had been sung in public, we transcribe the words " We hail thee, Prince Albert ! Prince Albert, all ha l And joyfully sing to thy glory, For virtues resplendent like thine, cannot fail To honour Old England's proud story. Oh, happy Prince, whose gentle mien, Hach won the smile of Britain's Queen, Be ever constant as the dove, Still honour'd by Victoria's lave. " All hail thee, Prince Albert! Prince Consort, all bai l/ Exalted and blessed in thy station ; May each Prince and Princess through life as the! sail, Rejoice in the smiles of their nation. Oh. happy Prince, whose gentle mien, Ilath won the smile of Britain's Queen, Be ever constant as the dove, Still honour'd by Victoria's love. " We hail thee, Prince Albert, as patron and Fried , To this truly good Institution, Who cheerfully giveth, and heaven doth send A blessing with each contribution." When married to the notes, the effect of cordite' greetine was in, .st admirable, and the spirit of friendship which beamed through the words, and was embodied i n the air, gave all those indications of hearty respect ane goad fi llowship for which Britain—and in the term /I include Ireland as an integral portion—are remarkable . ' The glee was followed by a toast to " the Duchess ei Kent and the rest of the Royal Family in England." In proposing this toast, the CHAIRMAN said that hei needed no other recommendation to an assembly ° Englishmen than the tact that it regarded those Wl ° lived in Britain, and partook of the generous i m pulse' by which Britain was distinguished. The toast was drank with that right cordiality will betokened how truly the meeting entered into the spil l of the toast, and after it Mr. Bruton sang the song which bore the title of " Hints to Emigrants," and which, after alluding to the inconvenience to which emigrant a are subjected, goes on with the wording, with which ' ? its usual sense, our readers are familiar ; b u t i n this 11 1. stance there was an introduction of all the, peculiar fee' tures of the case, embracin g a ver y h a p py a ll us i on t o the Association having the Comb at his head. The CHAIRMAN proposed "Prosperity to the Licenfe j Victuallers' School." In doing this he felt that he shot" but feebly discharge his duty, if he did not advert to th e circumstances which peculiarly entitled this institutio n to the support of the numer ous an d libels' community to whose support it had been so long le e debted. This school had been started by a few gentle' men connected with the Licensed Victualler's 'mate' tion, in 1806. Their exertions had, in the first plac e ' been most successful ; but it was well known that exec tion was not only necessary that an institution should h e founded, but that it should be carried on. During th A e first years of its existence, not l ess th an 30 c hild ren 11 5 " found a home in the asylum ; but it was found after wards necessary to reduce this number, and for a whi le , the institution had languished, but its friends were 1 1 °' asleep, and 160 girls and boys had afterwards been el : joying th e a d van t ages o f t h e i nst i tut i on . L atter ly it had declined, and the number had been considerallif reduced, but he should not be satisfied until not only th e whole of the number was restored, but that the asylnw was filled with as many as its precincts would alloy' The number had been 160, who were c l o th e d all*, educated, and found a home with which every bear' must be satisfied. This, however, was not the only portion of the institution which he wished to bring before the meeting.—The toast was drank with the u tmost enthusiasm. After the toast the children were brought before the meeting. Their appearance indicated the ca r e which had been bestowed upon the recipients of the charity' the 'success of which was of the utmost importance to the general interests of the charity. A pupil of the name of Brayshier, whose enunciatio n of the following address we could not but admire, thes delivered the following verses:— Again the cheerful summer comes; again The flowers and blossoms dress the fragrant plain; Joyful the tribes of earth their voices raise, And hymn their annual truthful songs of praise. So comes again to us the pleasant day, Beaming around its bright and gladdening ray; That day, more welcome than all time beside, That circles onward in revolving tide; For now we meet these FRIENDS, whose generous care To us bath given a home of bounteous fare ; • Whose Christian and parental kindness thus The opening paths of life bath smoothed for us : We greet this day with joy, but words may not reveal The warm emotion youthful bosoms feel. Dear FRIENDS and PATRONS ! grateful we would bless The hand that guides our age of helplessness. Safe 'neath the circle of your fostering shield, You brought us from the drear and dangerous field, Where pale-eyed want spoiled e'en the fertile ground, And IGNORANCE breathed a pestilence around, To where sweet PLENTY spread her generous board, And rest and comfort tended on her word : But, costlier far than these, was that fair boon, That gentle freewill gift conferred thus soon, Which gave to culture and the care of truth, The precious moments of the morn of youth. Patrons, revered ! grateful our b osoms g l ow, We feel the nature of the debt we owe ; Yet how shall we return, or make essay Such true, paternal goodness to repay? But onward, onward glid es th e rapid time, Sounding abroad its ever-warning chime ; And soon the numbered moment will appear That calls us forth, to active life severe : 'Twill then be ours in real guise to show That we remember what to you we owe. Our minds shall vigour take from t i mis one thought, And, aided by the precepts wh were taught, With modest steps we'll enter on our way, Our hands shall labour, and our hearts obey The sacred laws of truth, of industry, Good faith, good will, and strictest probity ; And we will reach that goal of good renown Where honour waits deserving men to crown : Thus, would we please our God who reigns above, And, patrons dear, thus meet your care and love. A well-educated pupil repeated the lines at the other end of the hall, afterwards, with a conseiousnes s that no great blessing could possibly result that had no t the foundation of a good education to begin with. The address was delivered by the senior scholar, Brayehi i r e ,' who was followed by H owe , b ot h connected with indi viduals who h a d b een su b scr ib ers to the Asy l um ; 111,0 3 _ though we have seen man y sc h oo l ex hibi t i ons o f the same sort, we nem were present at anything which o - - sprit diffic Libit been posed being bum p full p with given the n It ing and t Were Ever , the g that 4 brouf tral did ceiv A ever shri unti spor T man mire