The Sun. — London, England, 1845-07-12 00:00:00

A FRESII ARRIVAL OF NEW PROVIDENCE PINE APPLES. MESSE.S. J. and J. ADAM will SELL by AUCTION, at their Sale Room, 11, Pudding-lane, Lower Thames-street, on 31o:spar, 14th July, at One o'clock precisely, 5,000 NEW P.COVIi)ENCE PINE APPLES, in fine condition by :he " Minerva," from Eleuthera. To be viewed on the 21ondng of Sale, and Catalogues had of J. prd J. ADAM, Brokers, 11, Pudding-lane. 11-1.L . ,1 A t ST,c., BY AUCTION AT TII4 HALL OF COMMERCE. ALTERATION OF THE HOUR OF SALE, 3/1 - ESSES. LAMOND and CO. beg to announce that on TrEsnaz NEXT, the 15th instant, and for the fttture their Public Sales of RAILWAY SHARES will take place at One o'clock precisely, instead of Two o'clock, as hitherto ; and on the same day their usual weekly Sale of MINING SHARES will com mence at Twelve o'clock precisely, when they will have the honour to submit the following—viz., Wheal Maria, Callington, Tamar, North Wheal Providence. Copiapo, West Wheal Maria, Lamheroe Wheal Maria, Condorrow, Wheal Concord, Wheal Mary, South Caradon, Nister Iron, Lancaster Canal, London Gas, Western Gas. Old Woolwich, Waterman, Steam-boat, and other Companies. July 11, 1845. OXFORD, \VITNEY, CHELTENHAM, and GLOUCESTER INDEPENDENT RAILWAY. ( - rovisionally Registered under 7 and 8 Vict., c. 110.) Capital9oo,ooo/., in Shat es 0f251. each; Deposit, 11.75. 6(1. per Share. No Shareholder to be liable beyond the amount of his Subscription. PROVISIONA.I. COMMITTEE (with power to acrd to their number). Sir Michael H. Hicks Beach, Bart., Williamstrip Park, Gloucester- .111;:c. Slr James Duke, M.r., Alderman of the City of London David R. Ross, Esq., M.P, Francis Edr:ancl Colston, Esq., Filkin Hall, Oxon, Ronndway Park, Devizes, Wilts J. Raymund Barker, Esq., Fairford Park, Fairford, Gloucestershire Thomas Denton, Esq., Manor House, Lew, Oxon, Lord of the Manor, J.P. Rev. Dacres Adams, M.A., Vicar of Bampton, Oxon, Chairman of the Board of Guardians, J.P. Jonathan Hopkinson, Esq., Merchant, Fenchurch-street, London The Rev, Charles Jerram, Reclor of Witney, Oxon John Williams Clinch, Esq., Banker, Whitney, Oxon Frederick ',Whitaker, Esq., Bampton, Oxon, J.P. Rev. Ralph Barnes, M. A., Aril:moon, near Wantage, and Vicar of Hampton, Oxon, J.P. William Simpson Potter, Esq., 96, Lower Thames-street, and Sassex gardens, Hyde Park, London Conway Lovesey, Jar. Esq., Coxhorne, Charlton Kings, Cheltenham William Knowles Rogers, Esq., Cheltenham, and Castle Godwin, near P.m • nswi ck, Gloucestershire James Humphries, Esq., of Turkdean and Cowley. near Cheltenham Leonard Pickering, Esq., Willcote Grove, Northleigh, Oxon, J.P. Rev. Edward Cooper, Vicar of Burford, Oxon, J. P. Henry Bateman, Esq., of Asthall, Oxon Rev. Arthur Neate, Rector of Alvescott, Oxon Rev. Nathaniel Poyntz, of Alvescott, Oxon Joseph Underwood, Esq., of Norwich, and Blackheath Park, Kent George Milward, Esq., Manor House, Lechiade James Hall Nalder, Esq., Alvescott, Oxon Edward Hunt Butler, Esq., Curbridge, Oxon James Clark, Esq., Clanfleld, Oxon Ambrose Miller, Esq., Merchant, Lower Thames-street, and Upper Bedford-place, Russell-square, London The lion. A. Chichester, Coombe Bank, Kent William Mead Warner, Esq., Oxford John Barnett, Esq., Cheltenham, and Coroner for the county of Glou cester Henry Clark Duppa, Esq., Conduit-street, Bond-street, London, and Quarry House, Boughton, Kent Rev. Frank Surges, 8.D., Fellow of St. John's College, Oxford W. A. nu, Esq., 29, Lonsdale-square Major Williams. Imperial-square, Cheltenham Mr. Thomas Gulliver, Bloxam, Oxon Daniel Westell, Esq., the Bridge, Witney, Oxon Mr. James Clinch, Woolstapler and Factor, Witney, Oxon William Dutton, Esq., Curbridge, near Witney, Oxon Mr. Edward arty, Manufacturer, Witney, Oxon Mr. John Wright, Lew, near Bampton, Oxon Mr. Edward Bradshaw, Lew, sear Bampton, Oxon Joseph Thompson, Esq„ John-street, Bedford-row, Director of the London and Brghton Railway Rev. Charles Stephens Loder, Cheltenham—Reneott, Oxcn Mr. Leonard Warrington, Merchant, Witney, Oxon George Brown, Esq., Wood Green, Halley, Oxon John Harvey, Esq., Rush Hill, Surrey Mr. William James Clinch, Merchant, Witney, Oxon Mr. John Thomas Bliss, Merchant Witney, Oxon Joseph Watkins, Esq , Bampton, Oxon Jo , i a Willis, Esq., Oxford Lodge, Cheltenhan Captain William J. Cole, R.N., K.H., Lechiade ENGINEER.—R. Nicholson, Esq., C.E. BANKERS. London—Tile Commercial Bank of London, Lothbury Oxford—Messrs. Wootten and Co. Witney—Mcssrs. J. W. Clinch and Co. Faringdon—Messrs. Barnes and t edley Cheltenham—The County of Gloucester Bank Gloucester—The County of Gloucester Bank SOLICITOR. Ingleby Thomas Millar, Esq., 3, Abchurch-lane, Lombard-street, London LOCAL AGCNTS. Oxford—John 31. Davenport, Esq., Solicitor Witney—Messrs. J. and F. Westell, Solicitors • Bampton—James Rose, Esq., Solicitor Cheltenham—Septimus Pruen, Esq., Solicitor Gloucester—Messrs. Ellis, Elliot, and Swann, Solicitors The proposed lire is one expressly contemplated by the Report of the Board of Trade, of the 20th of March last, and its object is to open the shortest and most practicable railway communication be tween -London, Oxford, Witney, Cheltenham, and Gloucester. The objects to be effected by the proposed measure will be the following :- Ist. The greatest possible accommodation to the public. 2d. To preserve and enhance the value of property as it, at pre sent exists. 3d. The shortest and most practicable railway communication t eiven ..)xtorci, Cheltenham, and Gloucester, and thereby afford ing the inhabitants of those places and the intermediate towns the Most direct and expeditious conveyance to London and the eastern and south-eastern districts of Englaed. 4th. To construct the line at the least possible cost, but in such a manner as to attract a traffic from all lines now existing, or which hereailer m,y 1:e constructed at eioter end of this line, and thereby rar,re effeetualle accommodate the public, and rcaliae a greater prod: for the Shareholders. sth. file ait.ption of the double gauge, thereby affording the great advanta_te of passing from this to all other contiguous railways, whether constructed on the broad or narrow gauge. 6th. A great saving, not only of expense, but also of time and dis tance, as compared with the present railway communication from Ch-dtenham to Oxford, viz.:— Present route, vm Gloucester, Strcud, Swindon, and Didcot, to Oxford By the proposed 'Live .. • • .. Effecting a Saving in distance of • . .. 78 miles .. 41 miles 37 miles 7th. As to traffic-- 1. This Railway, forming a through trunk line, will become the great thoroughfare between the South and South-West of England, Sod h Wales and Ireland, upon the formation of the projected Rail ways to Aberystwith and Fishguard, in Wales, and those to Galway, and Val4ntia, on the west coast of treland, at which latter place an exte..sive inter-communication will take place with vessels in the American trade, outward and homeward bound,• sin.-e a very con siderable distance of the most difficult and dangerous part of the sea vorue will, by such direct communication, be avoided, and a great saving of time effected. 2. In addition to the large traffic the railway will command of its.lf, a direct communication will thus be opened with the Stafford shire a - Forest of Dean Coal Fields, and by enabling the towrs and ne'ghboarhoods in the vicinity of the line to be supplied with coal, &c., at greatly reduced prices, a valuable traffic not now existing will be created. . . . 3. Witney, a manufacturing town of considerable extent and trade in Bo cent re of the line, pays annually a very large sum for haulage an d toi:nage, which must necessarily be greatly increased, as the re duction h.: the price of coal will obviously induce manufacturers to increase their trade by the introduction of steam power. 4. In other respects much traffic will flow ftorn the carriage of timber, sslt, slates, cattle, and other commercial and agricultural .comrnod ties. ApplicsCons for Prospectuses containing ftirther details, or fer Shares, 4n he annexed form (accompanied by a banker's or other satislactory reference), may be addressed to the Provisional Committee, at the offices of the Solicitor, 3, Abchurch-lane, Lombard-street, London, or any of the local agents : or to the following Shareb:•okers :—Messrs. Shewell and Sons, Tokenhouse-Yard, London ; Messrs. Lyon, 2, Birchin-land, London; Messrs. Hall, Brothers, and Co., and Mr. Lee, Chltarhani ; Messrs. Tate and Nash, Bristol ; Messrs. Potter and riso ; Leeds ; Messrs. Foulda and Cockburn, Glasgow ; Mr. Jas. Nicholson, North-bridge, Edinburgh; Mr. J. Doming, Liverpool; Messrs. Knoles and Cooke, Bradford ; Mr. Duncuft, Manchester ; Messrs. Garton and Wright, Sheffield ; Mr. Francis Stamp, Hun ; Mr. F. C. spencer, Halifax ; Mr. J. Bannehr, Exet r ; Messrs. O'Dwyer and Robinson, Wakefield; Messrs. Hopwood and Palmer, Plymouth. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Committee of the Oxford, Witney, Chelter ham, and .iloucecer Independent Railway. Gentlemen, —I request you will allot me Shares of 25/. each in the above Company; and I hereby undertake to accept the same or any less 'lumber that may be allotted to me, to pay the de posit of I/. 7s. 6d. per Share thereon, and to sign the Subscribers' Agreement and Parliamentary Contract when required. Profession and Professional Residence .... Date•• ••• Reference (in full). * The Great Liverpool steam-ship, on her first voyage to America, was ten days beating rof!nd the coast of Ireland, and consumed her fuel before reaching Valentla. The distance by sea from Liverpool to America as far as Valentin, the usual route, is about 500 miles ; from London to America as far a.: the same place is 800 miles. By railway a communication may be eiTected between the last-named places in about thirteen hours, and the voyage from the latter place to Halitai in seven days: so that Valentia will not only become the port of intercommunication for American vessels outward and home ward bound, but also the great seaport between the continents of Amerlc t and Europe, and consequently an incalculable amount of America traffic will necessarily flow along this line. ' - C . EA and PERRIN'S WORCESTERSHIRE 4...4 SAUCE is pronounced by connoisseurs to be " the only good sauce" for enriching gravies, or as a zest for fish, curries, soups, game, steaks, cold meat, &c. The approbation bestowed on this sauce havitn: encouraged imitations, the Proprietors deem it necessary to caution purchasers to ask for " Lea and Perlin's Worcestershire Sauce,' and to observe that the same is embossed on Bett's metallic capsules, which • they have adopted as a protection to the public. Sold, whole,ale, retail, and for exportation, by the proprietors, Pere street, Oxford-street ; Crosse and Blackwell, Soho-square ; Batclay and Sons, Farringdou-street ; and by vendors of sauces generally. • ATC I 1 ES by NV E IiSTE It and SON, t‘lirorwr , ter :lakes to the Lords of the Admiralty and Cuaean.y. Webot( r manufactory has c.ontinucd in Cornhill 134 years, where may be selected from one of the most extensive Stocks in Lon.lon every description of superior manufacture is Chronometers, Watches, and Clocks, finished under their immediate inspection on the premises, and at the lowest prices consistent with security for the maintenance of that reputation for superior work manship which has distinguished their house for so many years. Compensated duplex and lever watches, to counteract the variations of temperature. upon the principle of their chronometers, to which Government aw irded the prizes three years in succession ; small elemnt lever and horizontal watches in gold cases, engraved or engine-turned for ladies or gentlemen; small flat silver detached lever and horizontal watches, for youths, at very moderate prices; marine and pocket chronometers, new and second-hand ; ornamental and every description of cloaks; regulators upon the moat approved prine. pies. Superior workmen are employed upon the premises in the repairing department for English and foreign work. The utmost value allowed for old watches in exchange. WEBSTER and SON'S Publication, with their Equation Table for the ['resent Year, will be sent free on the receipt of 4 postage stamps. A large selection of flue Second-hand Watches at very low prices. 74, Cornhill. T HE TW 0 COUSINS. A TALE. From the country two cousins arrived t'other day, With an equal amount their expenses to pay. The first one, determined to cut a great dash, In the West-end resided and laid out his cash. The highest priced tailors alone he emplord ! Short time was his finery worn and enjoyed i The cost was so high that it emptied his purse, And he soon was left shabby; oh, what can be worse? Now his cousin tbue suits to his one woremeanwhile, Made of far better cloth, and in far better style ; Yor all three he was charged what tbe first paid for one, 411 d he ended well clad in the way he'd begun. Pre hail managed his matters with prudence and skill, Dealt with Samuel, Brothers, Twenty-nine, Ludgate-hill, Men whose System and Capital Cheapness command, And whose Honour and Judgment resound through the land. .ON E NT !RELY NEW PR INC IPL ES.—TAILOR I NG, WOOLLEN DR4 PERY, and OUTFITTING ESTABLISHMENT, No. 29, Lud gate-01, SAMUEL, BROTHERS, Proprietors. Every customer wrl be enabled to ascertain the value and quan tity of mav,trial required for every varie:y of Garment. Each cloth and eassimere, &c., being marked in figures, at the price per yard. SAMUEL, AhI,OTHERA, explain to their patrons the quantity that is necessary for the particular article of dress wanted, and charge sepa rately :or the making and trimming. The peculiar advantages of the system may be practically exemplified as follows :—The average quanti'y of cloth for a coat is 114 yards. Suppose the cloth selected - to be 12s per yard, the material would cost 215., our charge would be 20s. for making and trimmings, and thus a first-rate coat, made to measure, and comp'eted in the best style, will be obtained for 41s. ; f e w, if any, charge leas than 50s. or b2s. for the same article. The s ame saving will be effected in every description of clothing. SAMLEE. BR OTHERS', charge for making and trimming coats for c l o ths nnder 10s. per yard is las., and for the higher price cloths 20s. giro ld any arti , le (after it has been paid for) not please, they will exchange it, or return the money without demur. Ladies' Riding Habits made in a very superior manner. SAMUEL, BROTHERS, have a very extensive stock of superior „ R e ady-made Clothes, at such prices as must ensure unqualified satis faction, and submit the following list : Superior Cloth Dress Coats.. 21s. Cassimere Trousers,... I4s. Od. 265. Doeskin ...... Saxcny ditto , 10s. 6d. 3°3. 1 ' T Y w es e t e s d .. v . a . r . l.ety, 7 14 . :y . 'Very super ditto Frock Coats 35. e;;;;. price. mourning to any extent always ready. A ne a r and extensive assortment of Boys ' and Youths' Cl o thi ng, at the Lawe:At Pr ces. ob eer i; V-e Aed - ess -- .. QAIItrEL, BROTHERS, Tailors, Whole sa l e LUDGATE-ILILL. And roollen Drapers, Ale., 29. N.B. A Gui A for Self-measurenient and Patterns sent to any part wt the Kingdom. THR SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 12, 1845. the alleptions made against them in a petition, which he NI presented the previous evening. Their Lordships then went into a long discussion on the subject of the proposed New Standing Orders, on the subject of- Railway Bills, and in the course of it, The Earl of DALHOUSIE took occasion to explain and defend the course pursued by the Board of Trade on this subject. Lord BRoIIORAN moved that his resolution, requiring that the promoters of a new railway should pay the costs of an opposing landholder, be adopted as a new standing order. This proposition was opposed by the Earl of Wictuow and other Noble Lords, and after some discussion it was withdrawn, for the purpose of being again submitted on Monday next. Several Bills on their Lordships' table were then ad vanced a stage, after which the House adjourned. The Commons met at Twelve. Lord ASHLEY moved the order of the day for the House going into Committee on the Lunatics Bill. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE, by moving that the Hoase be c:;unted, and afterwards by moving the adjournment, endeavoured to defeat the measure, but without effect. The Hon. Gentleman then moved the postponement of the Bill until next session. This amendment was de feated by a majority of 65, the numbers being—for the amendment, 1; against it, 66. It was ultimately arranged that the Committee should be taken on Tuesday. The House re-assembled at Five o'clock, when Mr. HAwEs postponed his motion on the subject of the Danish claims until Tuesday week. Sir JAMES GRAHAN moved that the House do resolve itself into Committee on the Your Law (Scotland) Amendment Bill. Mr. HUME thought the Bill ought to be postponed to next session. Mr. EWART was also in favour of the postponement of the measvre, A long discussion followed, in the course of which the House was adlressed by Mr. STEWART, Sir JAMES GRAHAM, Mr. E. ELLICE, Mr. Ross, and other Hon. Members, but eventually the iiou,e went into Com mittee on the dill, and cle,tbes 35 to 55, after consider able discussion, were agreed to. The ether orders of the day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at hail past One o'clock. The last news of New Zealand will scarcely remove the impression which so generally attaches to the his tory of that colony in the public mind—that it is the ' victim of a singular fatality, or of egregious mal-adminis tration. By brief advices that have just reached Eng land, we learn that, in a conflict between the bust's crew of one of her MAJESTY'S ships, in company with a small party of troops, with the natives, more than a hundred of the New Zealanders, and from eighteen to twenty of our own people, had perished. If, after the massacre of Wairau, we are little surprised at, we do not the less deplore, this lamentable catastrophe. It would have been strange indeed—an anomaly offered to the experience of all European communications with the barbarous, or even the semi -civilised, tribes of the Southern and the South Pacific Ocean—if the moral influence of such a cunningly-contrived and successfully accomplished movement as that which resulted in the caption and murder of the " Nelson" party, including Major WAKEFIELD and his unfortunate companions, had not urged on the dusky compatriots of those who triumphed at Wairau to slake once more their thirst for the blood of the strangers. However land-jobbing missionaries, or jobbing laud companies, may qualify the fact, the fact, we have no doubt, remains an absolute one, that the New Zealander, though he be a tall, a stalwart, and even an intelligent islander is yet a sanguinary savage. Ages have passed away without witnessing any material mitigation of the " ferocity" principle, that forms, after all, the fond of his character. It seems the most unlikely thing in the world, that more ages should not elapse before they can be reclaimed from the indulgence of their sanguinary tastes (to say nothing of their predatory tendencies) — so long, that is, as they shall remain under the paternal jurisdiction of the Colonial-office in Downing-street. But let us speak more earnestly of the matter, meagre as is the narrative we yet have of it, lest we should be thought to speak with levity of another catastrophe at this ill-fated settlement in which 3) many valuable lives, English and native, have been suddenly and violently sacrificed. We do most earnestly direct the attention of the public to the amount of human misery, bereavement of property, blighting of hopes, and loss of lite, which have mourn fully recorded the different stages of the colony's brief existence. Assiduously excited and wickedly exagge rated expectations in the mother country—disappointed hopes and ruined prospects—poverty, peril, anti death, in the fertile but inhospitanle solitudes of the island— these have been the sad alternations through which the investment purchasers here, and the deluded emi grants there, have successively passed. With whom rests all the tremendous responsibility, the ulti mate atonement, for these deplorable incidents 2 The question is more easily asked than answered, more readily answered than satisfied. The Government de partmunt charged with the general supervision, economy, and management of its state and fiscal administration, may be prepared with specious grounds of accusation against the " Monster" Land Company that had set in motion a vast machinery of contracts for bargain, and sale, and settlement, without having an ascertained title of feasible proprietorship to ten acres out of every two hundred comprehended within the enormous block they called their own. Ihe Monster Land Company treated with and petted—favoured and doubted alternately—now tampered with, and now discarded by the Government-- patronised to-day, and cold-shouldered to-morrow, by the Downing-street functionaries, and especially by the great " Lord" of (colonial) " misrule," might turn round with at least as good a case upon the QUEEN'S Ministers, and on their beads charge all the mischiefs and destruction, the bankruptcies and the bloodshed, that have illustrated in New Zealand the halting, timid, miserable counsels of successive Governments, afraid to assert the clear and undoubted title of prior possession and occupancy against other States ; alarmed at the suggestion of at any rate extending the shield of British Government protection over a community of British subjects settled in that dis tant region ; and unequal to the laborious but honour able duty of upholding the inviolable rights of life and property for free Britons in any and every part of the habitable world. The present is not the opportunity for going into the important inquiry how, and in what proportions, the distressing responsibility we speak of should be divided between Downing-street and Broad street-buildings. We have already intimated our own conviction that the defence set up on behalf of the New Zealand Company by its directors against the charges of dealing in and selling lands, which subsequent events have proved that they held by no clear title, if by any is by no means satisfactory--by no means such as will even procure them an acquittal at the bar of public pressed against them of management.obpadiniofanituhpoanndthewcohrasergesloudly The Colonial Go vernment, as it is more exposed to animadversion in a case of this kind from its superior and original powers and jurisdiction, so is it more open to charges reducible into'precise and specific form than even the malfeasance of the New Zealand Company. In the infancy of that concern they ought to have determined finally, and boldly and distinctly acted upon that determination, whether they would occupy New Zealand in virtue of the rights we have mentioned— whether they would raise it to the rank of a Crown colony—or whether they would retain it only in the humbler character of a naval station? If the Government saw its way clearly as to either of these conclusions, it ought, without hesitation, to have dealt with the New Zealand Company on terms and conditions clear and unambiguous—for privileges and grants positive, limited, and ascertained. If it did not, it had no right, it was conscious of no title, it could plead no excuse, for making any bargain, reserving any conditions, or granting any charte r , i n respect o f one part of i the millions of acres, told by t h e score , w ith which it s now, in some sort, committed to deal at pleasure. But the Govern tnent has cm:apt...wised itself irretrievably, by the very coquetting eo which it obviously resorted for the purpose of avoiding the very extremes into which it has a, last fallen, instead of at first menlUlly assuming. The in stant they treated with the New Zealand Company on the letting of a party who had something to pane they in all legs' eonstruction, took upon themselves the inde fensible duCes, as well as right(, of protectorship. That protection they have not tat) tied to life or limb, property or person, to our fellow countrymen in New Zealand ; and, if Lord STANLEY imagines that he has acquit:. a himself, or his cellesgues in the Government, of the terrible responsienity that now attache, to the m for all the Engli s h bl oo d th a t has been shed in New Zea land, by dexterouslyetrung official common-places in half-a-dozen epistles from Downing-street, we venture to state that h e is most egregiously mistaken. We shall really be curious to learn at what point of hostile collision between English settlers and native chiefs—at what point of national degradation or unresented insults upon our national flag, and the unpunished massacres by wholesale of our distant fellow countrymen by these half naked savages, her MAJESTY' S Government will fe e l themselves bound to interpose the authority and the force with which the Constitution has armed them. It will be seen, from communications published in another part of The Sun, that the autho rities of New South Wales had received timely warning of the coming danger, which, unfortunately, was not heeded in time. The debate on Tuesday night last on the objects, the terms, and the effect of the Convention recently concluded betwee❑ Great Britain and France for the better suppression of the slave, trade was opened by a speech from Lord PALMERSTON, certainly one of the most able that was ever delivered in con nexion with the general question of negro slavery, within the walls of Parliament. It was :by no means faultless indeed ; for in some essential particulars we must consider it to have been deficient in candour towards his political op ponents; and as to others, in that cardinal excellence of legislative oratory—political discretion. With these allow ances or deductions, it was still a brilliant and masterly ad dress, admirable for its comprehensive views—its condensed statements of facts and documentary evidence scat tered through many volumes of sessional papers, returns, and reports. It gave a lucid but appalling account of the unmitigated—perhaps, aggravated—atrocities of this hideous traffic as it exists at this moment, not only on the western but on the eastern coasts of Africa. It was a generous, elo quent, and earnest appeal to the moral courage, the con sistent humanity of a Christian nation, not to relax in the energy with which it had embarked upon, and hitherto persisted in, the virtuous enterprise of sup pressing the most atrocious crime on the most extensive scale, which one family of the human race can perpetrate against another. In denouncing the frightful sa crifices of life which, year after year, attend the carrying on of this execrable trade—a trade that, in ten years, depopu lates Africa, on a very moderate computation, to the amount of not less than one million of human beings—in revealing, by a few casual glimpses, as it were, some portion of the unimaginable horrors—the previous hunting, capture, and manacling of these human animals of the chase, and of booty; their subsequent packing in bulk, their privations, and the maddening thirst and delirious fury that succeed it— the unremoved corpses of the dead, from suffocation or inani tion, left to corrupt by the sides, or in the laps, even, of their sur viving companions of the middle passage—and, finally, the lan guid and weakly wretches, whose constitutions, on being disem barked, are found too debilitated for the sordid puposes of the Muscat slave-dealer, and who are therefore left on the burning beach, just where they have sunk from exhaustion and ill treatment, to be drowned by the returning tide ;—in all these passages of his address the Noble Lord spoke out with all the sympathy of the philanthropist, and all the just indig nation of an Englishman. There can be no second opinion, we apprelieno, on the spirit and effect with which these terrible, though necessary, details are touched upon. It was in enforcing the immediate purposes of his motion " for the names of the witnesses examined before the mixed British and French Commission for the better suppression of the slave trade, and also of the minutes of the evidence given by them," that the \oble Viscount, in the heat of his argument, must be thought to have been betrayed into those expres sions to which we have alluded as wanting in candour and hi discretion. There is no doubt that he was justi fied—unhappily justified—in declaring his solemn conviction " that slave-trading was a crime which desolated Africa, de based Asia, contaminated America, from the north to the south of the settled states of that Continent, and stained Europe with unpardonable guilt." But, surely, he was re proved not without reason by Sir R. PEEL for volunteering a somewhat exaggerated apprehensiveness of French insiacerity in its adhesion to the cause of slave trading suppression, and for manifesting a disposition to speak disparagingly of the value of French aid in a common cause on so righteous an object. We are likewise compelled to acknowledge that we feel the force of the Premier's re proof that it was ungracious in the Noble Lord to seek to detract from the merit of Portugal (whatever the past duplicity and contumacy of her conduct) in respect of the good faith and even vigilance of her present exertions to put down the slaving expeditions of her own subjects. Perhaps, too, the Noble Lord may have somewhat damaged the cause he so very ably advocated, by accusing the present Government of apathy in looking to the execution of those conventions and engagements for the suppression of the slave trade, which the Government that had the good fortune to reckon among its most accomplished colleagues the Noble Lord himself, nego tiated undeishis Lordship's immediate supervision and ma nagement. There is as little of political discretion as of moral candour, we must repeat, in needlessly reflecting upon the counsels of a great people like the French, with regard to transactions that have passed, and as such—as being " faits accomplis "—are, perhaps, no longer within the pale of useful or fair criticism, because they cannot be conformed to any rule or proposition, however excellent, that can now be suggested I But having entered our protest against these partial de fects, we must do justice to the general tenor, and express our full concurrence in, the general conclusions of this noble address. Whilst we fully concur in the opinion avowed by Sir ROBERT PEEL, that such a convention between the two nations, as that which has been negotiated on behalf of the respective Crowns, by the Duc DE BROGLIE and Dr. LUSHLNGTON, is, in itself, and its purposes, a political good, and a hopeful augury of a happier future to the outraged races of Africa, we cannot escape from the force of the charge which Lord PALMERSTON has brought against the British negotiator of having admitted allega tions into the preamble and certain articles of the Convention, at once derogatory to the high reputation this country has justly earned by its abolition of slave-trading eight-and thirty years ago, and by the Imperial ransom which its munificence and its justice paid down, under the self-imposed conditions of the Act of 1634. for the emancipation of all the negro slaves within its colonial dominions. To this reputa tion, to the truth of history, to the moral character of the British people, and to the dignity of the British Crown, the terms of one part of the preamble and the recital and stipulations of Articles 3 and 8 are most offensively and palpably injurious. No British di plomatist ought to have lowered the moral preten sions of his country to a level with those of France in any record or notice of the proceedings of either touching the suppression of slave-trading from any date subsequent to 1807. Now this is a distinction to be never lost sight of. It raises no point of political disparagement that can give offence to France, to abstain from putting her in the same category with England, as one of the two Powers which, by the conventions of 1831 and 1833, were determined to prevent their subjects from slave-trading under their flags. The flag of England has been struck for ever in connexion with slave-trading from the year 1807. In the year 1831 that of France was notoriously and most extensively and profligately spread over this trade. Till 1831 the French Government had manifested more than reluctance to any virtual effort to put down this shame upon the French people. For the Convention, as a treaty, we rejoice, as we shall ever do, at any other equally valid evidence of a good understanding between the two Crowns; but that Dr. LUSHINGTON should have been inveigled into such a mode of slurring over unpleasant recollections affecting France, by degrading England into an implied (but, thank GOD, most unfounded) participation in the long-protracted criminality of the French sufferance of slave-trading, argues great tact and ability on the part of the Duc Ds BROGLIE, but does not excuse the Learned Doctor for yielding to the suggestions of his flattered vanity, or his ol er- excited credulity. Madrid journals of the 4th instant have been received, but they bring no news of importance. The Heraldo, a Minis terial paper, announces that the French Government have permitted Don Canr.os and his consort to proceed to Greoulx, in the department of the Lower Alps ; but it adds that he will be watched there as closely as at Bourges, and that the Prince of AsTuurAs will remain in the last-named town, under surveillance. On the Madrid Bourse the Funds were flat. The Three per Cents. closed at 30 for cash, and 30% for 60 days ; and the Five per Cents. at 20% for 14 days ; Passives, 6% cash. In the French Chambers of Peers the Bill for increasing the number of French cruisers on the African coast was taken into consideration on Wednesday, when the Marquis DE BOISSY first addressed the Chamber. He considered the new treaty of a very satisfactory character, and far superior to those of 1831 and 1833, but at the same time maintained that the Government had consented to concessions that were to be regretted. He wished to know why no stipulations had been made with regard to the eastern coast of Africa. Was it with a view to favour England, that the slave trade might be carried on there for the benefit of the East India Company. He declared also that a secret treaty existed, by which France could not send more than 3,000 men to the Indian Seas. He should, therefore, be glad to have some answer from the Government on these points. The Duke DE BnoGuE said no such exception existed. The French Government could send on the eastern coast any num ber of vessels it pleased, but it had not entered into any obli gation on the point, because the right of search was not exer cised in that part of the world, the slave trade being only prac tised there under the Portuguese flag, over which England possessed certain rights, iu virtue of ancient treaties. The fact was, that the eastern coast of Africa had not been included in the treaty because slavery was abolished in all the British possessions. M. GUIZOT denied the truth of the assertion of the Marquis Botssy relative to a secret treaty stipulating not to send more than 3,000 men to the Indian Seas. No such treaty, he said, existed, or had ever existed. The Bill Was passed by a majority of 94 to 8. The intelligence in the papers is without interest, if we except the following ex tract from the Quotidienne, which relates to the forma clanwsa raised against Vic-ron HuGo, with which our readers are already acquainted. The name of the married lady is not mentioned : "We have spoken with all the reserve prescribed by public decency of an event which has caused, and still causes, great sensation in Paris, atm respecting which a grand trial before an exceptional tribunal was expected. The affair is arranged. A high functionary who, when he was Minister, had never a very decided taste for the policy of conciliation, has, it is said, in duced the complaining party to decline prosecuting. The Peers will not, therefore, be retained in Paris after the close of the session. The only justice that will take place will be that of public opinion." The Sud of Marseilles contains the following intelligence from Algiers, dated June 21 : " M. Leon Roche returned last night from Larache, with the Emperor of Morocco's ratification of the treaty concluded between that Sovereign's Minister and General Delarue. The arrival in the roads of three French ships of war, the Veloce, Titan, and Cygne, has promoted the arrangement, and seasonably seconded the intel ligent effbrts of General Delarue, our Charge d'Affaires, M. do Chaseau, and M. Leon Roche." It is stated in a letter from Beyrout, of the 12th of June, that the Pacha was expected there on the 13th, and fears were entertained that as soon as he left the mountains the war between the Druses and Maronites would be renewed. 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Six,—The news from New Zealand, bad as it is, is le•s disastrous thso there was reason to expect. 1 left Auckland towards the end of January, in company with Major Robertson, who conveyed dispatches from Captain Fitzroy to Sir George Gipps, requesting a force of 200 soldiers. Sir George Gipps did me the honour to inquire my opinion of the state of affairs in New Zealand, when I assured him they were most pressing, and that 200 men would be wholly insufficient to keep the natives in subjection, since military aid would be required in a dozen or more places at once, and to divide a small force would be but to invite its certain destruction. A month was suffered to pass over without Sir George Gipps sending the aid required ! When, urged by the recollection of the many friends in New Zealand, who had charged me net to forget their precarious position, I remonstrated with Sir George in a letter published in the Sydney Herald, a copy of which paper I send you. In a conversation I subsequently had with Major Robertson, I understood that the reason a larger force than 200 men would not be sent down to New Zealand was, that no snore men had been " asked for" by Governor Fitzroy. After a most unwarrantable delay, the troops were sent down to New Zealand in the North S'ar, and the attention of your readers is requested to the fact, that had ordinary dispatch only been used, those troops might have reached New Zealand a month earlier than they did. Sir George Gipps advertised for tenders for their freight, and because the offers he received were not so low as he wished them to be, British life and pro perty in New Zealand were left for a month to the improbable abstinence of large bodies of gloating savages, insolent in their strength, and the comparative weakness of those they were evidently longing to make a " tower" (foray') upon. I again repeat, the heavy expenditure necessary to bring the natives into continued subjection will exceed the sum required to compensate the settlers for removing to some other of the adjoining colonies. New Zealand is lost as a colony, unless a pestilence carry off nine-tenths of the natives, and so render the remainder controllable at a reasonable expense to this country.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant, London, July 9, 1845. ROBERT D'OYLY. The following is the letter referred to : " TO lIIS EXCELLENCY SIR GEORGE GIPPS. " Sir,—At the risk of being even thought impertinent, I cannot resist the inclination of addressing you again on the subject of New Zealand. " I know that your administration of the affairs of this colony is approved of by the leading men in Englard, both Ministerial and Opposition ; but it appears to me, most distinctly, that you are incurring a heavy responsibility by delaying to furnish the military assistance called for by Governor Fitzroy. " At the time Major Robertson _left New Zealand, bearing dispatches to your Excellency respecting troops, the position of the European population was becoming daily more precarious. "I am credibly informed that within a few days after these dispatches left Auckland, Captain Fitzroy found it expedient to temporise with a native chief and his followers in their threat of plunder, by giving them a horse and other coveted things. Each succeeding day, therefore, must, in my opinion, enh nee the difficulties of the New Zealand Government, so long as it remains incapable of suppressing and redressing the native out rage and plunder of Extropeans. " Befzre 1 left the colony, now some six weeks ago, the na tives had been collecting in and about Auckland for several weeks, in large numbers, without any more ostensible object than that of flies hovering around a butcher's stall. To ear, therefore, of their having made a rush at, and emptied the stores, would excite no surprise in my mind. If in such tilun • der they should be resi-ted and any blood be shed, there is no calculating what amount or lives they migh' sac dice. " Should such a stale of circumstances occur, afier the time when troops might have got down to New Z:-taland, had your Excellency used dispatch, the whole blame will be thrown on you ; and you will find it difficult to exonerate yourself, it is conceived, before either her Majesty's present or late advisers. " Assuming it probable that you were so, it is no wonder that you should have been disgusted by the hasty return of the troops you sent, some time ago, to the Bay of Islands, or that you should be annoyed and inconvenienced by the ports being thrown open in New Zealand, the sale of lands at a penny an acre, &c. But your Excellency must not lose sight of the tact, that Captain Fitzroy is no Lieu enant-Governor ! If he send to you for military aid, the Home Government must defray the expenses of such aid. It is not competent for you to say, ' I disapprove of Captain Fitzroy's doings, and will curb or ob struct his unnecessary extravagance.' "To her Majesty's Government alone is Captain Fitzroy amenable for his expenditure. On this point lam most clear, that whether troops are necessary in New Zealand or not, your Excellency cannot justify delay in acceding to the call for military aid on any ground or argument of expenditure. In ability to forward the troops, if it can be shown, will prove your sole justification. " I trust your Excellency will excuse this expression of my sentiments, in assurance of the perfect respect entertained for your able government of the colony, by your„Excelleacy's most obedient and very humble servant, " Sydney, March 3." " ROBERT D'OYLY. • " Tower" is the New Zealand word for foray, that is, to rush upon and plunder. ' - JEW S SYNAGi,GEE.—INSTALLATION OF THE CHIEF RABlL—Wednesday was the day fixed for the installation of the Rev. Dr. Nathan Marcus Adler, Chief Rabbi of the united con gregation of Jews of Great Britain. The Synagogue in Duke's_ place, was, from half-past four, completely besieged with the ar rival of persons of the Jewish persuasion wishing to see the ceremony. The open space in front was completely crowded, and inscriptions on canvas fixed on several of the neigh bouring houses, such as " Welcome, Dr. Adler," &c. Dr. Adler was, till the death of the late English Chief Rabbi, the Chief Rabbi in Hanover, where his talents and his amiable character had caused him to be much respected. His loss there will be much felt. The synagogue was crowded to - excess, all the elite of the persuasion being present, the Rothschilds, the Montefiores, and many others being present. At half-past five Dr. Adler arrived, and entered the Synagogue, when the service immediately began. The greater part of it was sung, or rather chanted. There was a choir of about forty or fifty singers present, whose voices gave great effect to the chant, and a sermon was afterwards preached by the Chief Rabbi. Though not understood by us, and therefore not appreciated, those of his hearers more gifted than ourselves, seemed fully to appreciate those powers of eloquence with which the Rev. Gentleman is so fully and generously gifted. After the service another psalm was chanted by the full choir, and the congregation then dispersed. A strange sight to us was to see the whole of the 1114?.14 congregation, as usual, wearinf their hats (twin)/ the service. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. There was a THIRD EDITION of THE SUN of last night, containing— The conclusion of the day's proceedings before the Railway Committees of the Houses of Lords and Commons. The List of Appointments and Bankrupts from the London Gaz e tte. The latest Market Intelligence. The Parliamentary Intelligence of the Evening, being a full Report of the Debates in the House of Commons up to a Quarter before Seven o'clock. RAILWAY NEWS. Subscribers and others tnterested in Railways will find a FULL ACCOUNT of the PROCEEDINGS before the RAILWAY COMMITTEES in the THIRD EDMON of THE SUN, reported up to the CLOSE of EACH DAY; it also con tains the DEBATES in BOTH ROUSES of PARLIAMENT up to the HOW? of POST EVERY EVENING, PRICES of RAILWAY SHARES, SPORTING INTELLIGENCE by EXPRESS, and all alter NEWS ARRIVING in LONDON DURING the DAY. ORDER the TILTED EDXTION, which contains NEWS TWELVE HOURS in ADVANCE. Sun-ultice, 112. Strand. NOTICE. C OLBURN'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE, Now Edited By W. HARRISON AINSWORTH, tact. _ In the August Number, in addition to the Editor's own Romance, now in progress, will be commenced A NEW WORK, By G. P. R. JAMES. Esq. To be continued, in successive Numbers, for a year. Mr. James will henceforth write regularly in tbs New Monthly. Henry Colburn, publisher, 13, Great Marloorough-street. Now eady, A N EW EDITION of THE CRESCENT AND THE CR07,,,5. By ELIOT WARBULTON, Esq. In 2 vols., with Illustrations, 21s. bound. Henry Colbw'', Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough•street. METROPOLITAN MINOR THEATRICAL FUND. All Persons who were Subscribers to the METROPOLITAN MINOR THEATRICAL FUND, instituted at the Royal Cobourg Theatre, in January, 1823, are particularly requested forthwith to send their n •mes and addresses to Mr. W. CULLENFORD, Theatre Royal Adeiphi, London. July 3, 1845. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. THIS EVENING Will be performed Donizetti's celebrated Opera, ANNA BOLENA. Henry VIII. Sig. Lablache ; Percy, Sig. Moriatil ; Smeaton, Signora Brambill4; Anna Bollena, Madame Grisi ; Jane Seymour, Mdlle. Rosetti. Between the Acts of the Opera will be presen'ed (forthe first time) a new PAS DE QUATRE, composed expressly, by M. Perrot. for 111dlles. Taglioni, CeritJ, Grahn, and Carlotta Grist (her last ap pearance but three). To conclude with the First Tableau of LA ESMERALDA. La Esmeraldr, Mdlle. C. Grisi. xppllcstions .or Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Bex office, Opera Colonnade. Doors open at Seven o'clock ; to commence at Half-past Seven. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Mdlle. C. GRISI respectfully informs the Suoscribers to the Opera, her Friends, and the Public that HER BENEFIT will take place ON THURSDAY, JULY 17, On which occasion (BY SPECIAL DEAIRE) Will be revived Mozart's celebrated Opera, COSI FAN TUTTE. Fioridigili, Madame Anaide Castellan ; Dorabella, Madame Rita Borio ; Despina, Madame Rossi Caccia ; Ferrando, Sig. Mario ; Giuglielmo, Sig. F. Lablaohe ; and Don Alpitonso, Sig. Lablache. The Entertainments in the Rallet Department will include the combined Talents of Mdlle. Taglionl, Mdlles. Cerito, Lucile Grahn, and C. Grisi ('ter last appearance but one) ; 31. Perrot, M. Gosselin, and M. St. Leon; and will comprise a new Pas de Quatre, composed ex pressly, by 21. Perrot, for Mdlles. Taglioni, C. Grisi, Lucile Grahn, and Mdlle. Cerito. After which, ' , elections from the Last Act of Donizetti's Opera ANNA BOLENA. The Principal Characters by Mdlle. Grist, 3ldlle. Brambilla, and Sig. Moriani. To conclude wite the Second Act of LA GISELLE. Giselle, Mdlle. C. Grist. Doors open at Seven, to comment:a at flalf-past Seven o.Clock THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. LESSEE, NIR. B. WEBSTER. TILTS EVENING Will be performed THE SHERIFF OF THE COUNTY. Mr. Hollylodge, Mr. W. Farren ; Pansy, Mr. Buckstone ; Nonpareil, Mr. Webster ; Mrs. Hollylodge, Mrs. Glover ; Elen Forrester, Miss Julia Bennett. After which, the Comedy of A CURE FOR THE HEART AChE. Old Rapid, Mr. W. Farren ; Young Rapid, Mr. Charles Mothews ; Frank Oatland, Mr. Buck stone ; Jessy Oatland, Miss Julia Bennett. To conclude with an entirely New Farce, called THE KING AND I. Period, 1691. Sir William Melrose, ➢lr. H. 801 l ; Burchell, Mr. James Bland; Perkin Pyednch, Mr. Buckstone; Jessie Donald, Miss Jug Bennett. Private Boxes, Two Guineas and One Guinea and a-Halt each. Ticket,' and laces to be had of Mr. I. T. Archer at the Box-office, f m Ten tin Five o'clock. THEATKE ROYAL, ADELPIII. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELEST}. THIS EVENING Will be repeated a New Comedy, entitled PEG WOFFIN - GTON; or, The State Secret. The Marquis de Mousseux, Mr. Selby ; Baron Stuph, Mr, Paul Bedford ; George Tarleton, Mr. Hudson ; Merestick, Mr. Wright ; Woffington, Miss Woolgar. To be Collo ,ed by THE IRISH ATTORNEY; or, Galway Prac tice in 1770. Pierce O'Hara, 31r. Hudson; Jacob Wylie, Mr. Callenford. After which, an Original Terpsichurern Barletta, called POWDER AND BALL; or, St. Tibbs's Eve. Mr. Montgomerie Tibbs, Mr. Lamber,; Captain Kidglove, Mr. Selby ; Jacob Gerkin, Mr. Wright ; Mrs. Mootgomei le Tibbs, Mrs. Frank Matthews; Sally Knobbs, Miss Woolgar. To conciinle with the highly successtbl and Original Farce, called I'll E lIiIsII DRAGOON. I,r. Brown Sherry, Mr. Selby; Paddy NiurnbN O'Brnillgban. Mr. Hudson. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. UNDER TUE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY. THIS EVENING Will be performed TO PERSON; ABOUT TO MARRY. Cha racters by Messrs. Meadow:, F. Mathews, Kinloch, Miss Arden. Mrs. WoolJide, and Mrs. Wigan. . . . To beibilowed by a New Farce, entitled LUCK'S ALL. Principal Charac:e Iby Messrs. F. Vining, Diddear, Keeley, Meadows, lun loch, ard Turner ; Miss Hicks, and Mrs. A. Wigan. .A - ter wricb, an entirely New, Original, ard Novel Grand Fairy BALLET DIVERTISSEMENT, entitled LES FEES. In which Les Danseuses Anglaises will appear. To ohich will be added (second time) an apropos Bagatelle, in One Act, entitled MRS. CAUDLE'S CURTAIN LECTURES. Characters by Messrs. Meadows, Bender, and Keeley, and Mrs. Usher. To conclude with an entirely New Operatic, Dramatic, Chivalric, Fairy, Romantic Burlesque, entitled CINDER EL LA. The Principal Characters by Mr. Keeley, Mr. A. Wigan, 317. Frank Mathews, Mr. J. W. Collier, Mrs. Keeley, Miss Villars, Hiss Falrbrother, Mrs. Woolii,ige, Miss Grove, Miss Howard, &c I'ELNC E,s's THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. LESSEE, MR. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING Will be performed THE SYREN. Scipio, Mr. C. Horn, Jun. ; Balbaya, Mr. Leffler; Marco Tetnpesta, Mr. Allen; the Duke de Popoli, Mr. Walton. After which a New Divertissement, called A COURT BALL IN 1740. In which will be introduced the Dances as performed at her Majesty's Bal Costume, with the Original Music. To be followed by a New Dramatic Sketch, entitled MRS. C A UDLE ; or, Curtain Lectures. Mr. Caudle, Mr. Compton ; Mrs. Caudle, Mr. Oxberry. To conclude with a New Farce, entitled LOVE IN LIVERY. Lord Spa*. kle Mr. Walter Lacy ; Paul Patent, Mr. Compton ; Violet, Miss Emma Stanley. Stage Meru ger, Mr. H. I. Wallack; Stage Director, Mr. Emden ; achinito , . Edmund Bradwell. GRAND MORNING PERFORMANCE. sT. JAMES'S THEATRE. And positively the Last Week but One of Monsieur Phillippe's Appearance in London. By Desire, and at the request of numerous Families of Distinction (who were disappointed in securing places for M. Philippe's last Juvenile Entertainment), lie will give another GRAND MATINEE MYSTERIEUSE, on MONDAY MORNING NEXT, commencing at Half-past One o'clock precisely. And in consequence of the nig.h• ly overtiowS, and continued demand for places to witness Monsieur PHILLIPPE'S WONDERS, LES SOIREES MYSTERILUSES will be repeated THIS EVENING, and on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday next, commencing each Evening at Halt-past Eight o'clock, being positively the last week but one. Stalls, 7s. , Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Amphitheatre, Is. 6d. Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets may b secured ,it Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street, and at the Box-office of the The,itre. ROYA itTli PROPrIETOR, M;:. W. BATTY. THIS EVENING Will be repeated a New Grand Ballet of Action, consisting of Mi litary 3lanceuvres, Dances, Combats, and highly powerful effects, called IL DIAVOLO ABRUZZI ; or, The Brigand Chief and the Dog of the Chateau. New and Elegant Scenes in the Circle, by the whole of the French Equestrians. To conclude with 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. The Manager, ever anxious to gratify all classes of the public, and in order to accommodate those who are unable to attend at an earlier hour, has arranged that this national and most successful Drama shall be per,brined as the last piece. Box-office open from Eleven till Five. tArk. %MG E'S ROYAL. 4(J RUE Y THEATRE. THIS EVENING, Will be performed the Grand Opel a of LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR. Lucy Ash ton, Madame Eugenie Garcia ; Alice, Miss Collett ; Edgar, Mr. D. W. King ; Colonel Ashton, Mr. Weiss; Arnold, Mr. Barker; Norman, sir A. Harris; Allan, Mr. .1' An increased Band and Chorus from the Theatre iloyal Drury-lane. After which, THE WATERMAN. I'm Tut, Mr. Barker. To con,bule with a New Drum., by E. L. Blanchard, Esq., called FAITH, HOPE, AND CHARITY. In which Messrs. Hughes, Hicks, Homier, Onve , !, Johnson, Heslop, Miss Martin, Mrs. R. Homier, &c., &c , w'll per corm. Places and P:ivate Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box () tr.e. troll', Elpven to Four. I , >> - AL st.:l:R.,:f 7 .OOLOGiCAL GARDENs. A ISFFEREI , :c SUBJECT EACH SEASON. cOMBENATION OF ATTRACTIONS. PONIANTC GARDENS AND PROMENADE. EXTENSIVE AND I[7:IIIVAT,I,ED MENAGERIE. !OLOSSAL MODEi.T,ED PRESENTA LION OF EDINBURGH, The Acme of Beanie Illusion. The ROCK HARMOSICOS from Three till Eight. knd o - 1 MONDAYS, TUESDAYS, WEDNESDAYS, and THURS DAYS, GRAND CONCERTS D' ETE and MAGNIFICENT DISPLAY of FIREWORKS. Admission, One Shilling. Feeding the Carnivore at Half-past Five Pelicans and Polar Bears Ris ; Concert at HAlf-past Stx ; and Fireworks at Half-past Nine —NUN oie !ACE. JULY 11 ell I,IIMOMETER. Lowest. 55; Highest, 69; Noon, 68. R OMEI ER. 29 7.—W IND, S.W. N OTE.—The figures which follow the words "Lowest" and • lii!„deAt" denote the lowest and highest state of the hertromei,er during the preceding twenty-fbur hours. AU th- ,;;;ier nbservat;ons are made at noon. HIGH IVATEI: AT LoNDON-131i1DGE THIS DAY. Atirning 31 minutes after 6 Evening .. 54 minutes after 6 1, 4 6 tX M44' .‘,92 1 k • ' - 41, 41111 ,j,•,'„l ; , ' b"„ !,,;;A1bi,,,'4143204,,.. Mandita LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 12. 1845. The Lards met at Five. THOMAS BAKER appeared at the bar, and stated on oath that an action had bees commenced against him for evidence before a Committee of their Lordship's House. The LORD CHANCELLOR moved that the plaintiff and his attorney be summoned to the bur on Monday, which motion, after a short discussion, was agreed to. The Earl of CLANCARTY presented a petition from the Irish Great Western Railway Company, denying DUTCH MAIL. Tnx HAGUE, JULY 7.—We hear from Scheveningen that early on the morning of the 6th a splendid English Govern ment steamer appeared off that port, at the distance of 300 ells, where it cast anchor opposite the bathing-house. It was soon seen to put off a boat, in which the captain and some officers and cadets came on shore. Various conjectures were made during the whole day by the numerous spectators on the cause of the arrival of this steamer. A report passed from mouth to mouth that the intelligence published by the Dagblad, of the Hague, was going to be realised by beginning to take sound ings for the purpose of making a harbour for small steam boats, for the English correspondence, which will be of incal culable advantage to Scheveningen and the Hague. About six in the afternoon a fine Dutch merchantman was seen to approach in full sail, which passed dose by the steam boat. This sight was loudly cheered by the thousands of spec tators assembled on the terrace of the bathing-house, especially when the Captain of the merchantman fired a salute of three guns, but whether it was intended for the steamer or for the fair sex, or for the fine band of music directed by Mr. Dunek ler, is a mystery. The English Captain, Officers, and Cadets, having announced themselves among the numerous company in the bathing-house, returned to their vessel, which immediately weighed anchor, and was soon out of sight. COLOGNE, JULY 2.—Oificial information was received from Berlin yesterday, that. the Prince of Russia will arrive in our city on the 25tti, and the King and Queen on the 27th of this month. It is thought they will stop here only a few days, and will go down to the castle of Stotzenfels. There is some reason to hope that their Majesti.-s will be present at the fete in ho nour of Beethoven at Bonn, on the I Ith of August, and that Queen Vietoria, who is expected at Stoizenfels on the Bth of August, will likewise be present. SALMON AND ANOTHER V. NIMMO.—In this case, which was tried in the Sheriff's Court on the Bth, the verdict was for the defendant, but execution was delayed till next term, as stated in The Sun of that day. A Correspondent says :—" The verdict was for the defendant on the' second issue' only, and for the plaintiffs on the other issues, the Sheriff giving the plaintiffs liberty to move the court next term to set aside the detendani's verdict, on a point of law reserved, the record being stayed for that purpose." SWIMMING MATCH AT HOLBORN BATHS.—This match came of on Tuesday evening, at half-past eight o'clock, before a very crowded and respectable audience. In the first heat three competitors started—namely, Messrs. Pentus, Mr. Poulton, and Mr. Nicholson. Mr Pentus took the lead at the start, and kept it all through, Mr. Poulton maintaining a very good second. The second heat was between Messrs. Robertson, Turner, and Grant, which was won easily by Mr. Robertson; Mr. Turner coming in second. The final heat was contended for by Messrs. Turner, Nicholson, Robertson, and Pentus, and after a sharp contest, the latter gentleman was declared the winner of the cup, amidst loud cheering. Mr. Robinson was awarded the medal. The race was one against time, and occupied two minutes and twelve seconds. There was yesterday another of those sudden changes of weather, for which the present summer has been so remarkable. During the greater part of the night of Monday there was much thunder and lightning, with a heavy fall of rain, which lasted a great part of yesterday, and the thermometer was several degrees lower than on the preceding day.—G alignani of Wed . nesday. The eminent Roman banker, Prince Torlonia, has arrived at Milan from Rome. His journey is said to be connected with the formation of the railroads undertaken by the Italian and ♦ustrian Railway Company. On Sunday night, about eleven o'clock, a farmer from the neighbourhood of Honfleur was caught in the storm, whilst travelling on horseback, and both man and beast were struck dead by the electric fluid. The Duke and Duchess of Nemours are expected at Libourne on August 2, to remain there during the 3d, and leave on the 4th for Bordeaux. The municipal council has voted 6,000 f. for the entertainment of their Royal Highnesses, and the principal inhabitants intend to offer them a spiendid ball. The Du ke d'Au male will, it is believed, arrive at Libourne on the 3d, and pro. coed with the Duke and Duchess of Nemourd, on the 4th, to Bordeaux. BIRMINCHAM, THURSDAY.--The usual meeting of the iron and coal masters of South Staffordshire and South Shrop shire took place in our Town-hall this day. Since the last quar terly meeting, it is needless to say, the price has teen very consi. derably reduced. Every description of manufactured iron, within thirteen weeks, has been reduced 20 or 25 per cent. The great hope of the iroumastera is, now the price has, as they conceive, got to its lowest eob, that the present price will remain stationary. We do not, from all accounts, believe that it will • The railway spe culations of the midland counties, and of the entire country, now Parliament is becoming tired of the inquiries, prove to be great hoaxes to the iron-manufacturers. It is true that ssme masters, in anticipation of a great demand, have done well (most of them deeply involved in these speculations), but the issue will be, as an ticipated by Lords Brougham and Ashburton, that the railway mania will not only injure private speculators, but that it will he seriously injurious to the iron trade of Staffordshire and Wales. The attempt to suppl} has far outreached the probability, if not the possibility, of demand. The prices settled at Dudley, on Saturday next, will be most important to the public. DETERMINED SUICIDE AT LONDON- BRIDGE —On Thursday night, a few minutes before eight o'clock, as a man re. spectably attired was passing along London-bridge on the pathway on the eastern side, he suddenly stopped near the third recess, and threw himself over the parapet into the Wd er. The tide was run ' ing down with extraordinary rapidity, so that before the unfirtu. nate man could be reached his body had floated to a considerable distance Just as he sunk, one of the boats neared him, but too late to save his life, as he sank to rise no more, The body of the sots of Mr. Chandler, the pro• prietor of the Ship, Milbank, who was drowned on Tuesday whilst endeavouring to save a man from a similar fare, was found on Thursday by some fishermen off the Hungerford Suspension-bridge. I'hurs:'av rner.ong Mr. Bs-luaus n lilahv, the eh t" usher of the Thames Police-court, departed this life in the 65th year of his age. He had been attached to the old Thames police for 24 years previous to his appointment, as a " land of f icer." REASONABLY MAD ! rile authorities of the town of Greenwich have issued a proclamation to the local police to destroy all wandering dogs who may be "suspected reasonably mad ;" the matter being left to the judgment of the policeman on duty. SPA -FIELDS BURIAL - GROUND.—Thursday the arbi trator (Mr. Bramwell, barrister) commenced the hearing of evi. dence on the order of reference made on the prosecution connected with the Spa-fields burying-ground. Mr. Wakeling, the vestry clerk of Clerkenwell, attended in support of the prosecution ; and Mr. Lewis, of the firm of Lewis and Lewis, represented the de. Pendants. The evidence given was riot allowed to be made public, nor, of course, the discussion which occurred between the parties, and which took place before any of the witnesses were called. The matter was not concluded, and the opinion of the arbitrator will be made to the Court under whose direction the order of reference was made, COURAGE REWARDED.—On the Bth instant the General Court of the Royal Humane Society, at the recommenda tion of the Special Committee, awarded silver medallions of honour to Mr. Frederic Burd, son of the Rev. G. Rued, of Cound-lodge, near Shrewsbury, and to Henry Wood Sandford, son of the Rev. W. Sandford, incumbent of Newport, Salop, for the highly cou rageous manner in which they exerted themselves, under circum stances of extreme personal peril and difficulty, in rescuing three ladies and a gamekeeper from very imminent danger of death by drowning in a large sheet of water on the estate of Mr. J. C. Borough, recently High-Sheriff of Shropshire. HER _MAJESTY'S THEATRE.-There were present at her Majesty's Theatre, on Tuesday, her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, accompanied by their Majesties the King and Queen of the Belgians, and attended by Lady Jocelyn, Hon. Miss Dawson, lion. Miss Stanley, the Earl of Morton, Colonel Buckley, Colonel Bouverie, La Baronne de Hoogbvorst, and Major Moerkerke ; their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and his Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge, attended by Baron Knesebeck, and Mr. Edmund Mildmay ; Prince Wratislaw, the Dukes of Wellington and Beaufort, the Duchess of Beaufort; the Marquises of Ailesbury, Abercorn, Huntley, De Lisboa, Lansdowne, Clanricarde, Donegal, Douro, Titch field, and Granby; the Marchionesses of Douro, Ailesbury, Abercorn, Breadalbane, and Clanricarde; the Earls of Wilton, Shelburne, Munster, Jersey, Lonsdale, Liver. pool, Bruce, and Falmouth ; the Countesses of Wilton, Shelburne, and Jarnac; Count Kielmannsegge, Count Jarnac ; Lords Charles Wellesley, Ernest Bruce, Compton, Templemore, Carrington, G. Paget, Aylmer, Stuart, Brougham, Cantalupe, A. Fitzclarence, Duncannon, Templetown, and W. Beresford ; Ladies C. Welles ley, Fitzroy Somerset, Earnest Bruce, Easthope, Aylmer, Wetherell, Clive, Meux, Wombwell, Dymoke, and Curtis; Honourables R. Curzon, General Upton, Colonel Pennant, Carew, Foley, Spencer Cowper, James Macdonald, Colonel A. Upton, and F. Cadogan, Miss Carew, Miss Warneford, Miss Foley, Miss Dymoke, and Mrs. Murray; Sirs Goldsmid, C. Kent, C. Marshall, C. Wetherell, W. Stanley, H. Dymoke, and W. Curtis ; Major Baring, Captain Meynell, Captain Cuddy, &c. --- CHEESEMONGERS' BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION. —Th e anniversary dinner of this Society was held on Thursday at the London Tavern, when about one hundred and twenty- gentlemen sat down to an excellent dinner prepared in the best style of Messrs. Bathe and Breach. Mr. W. Ewart, M.P., took the chair, and was supported by some of the principal members of the trade. The Chairman, in proposing the toast of the evening, " Success to the Cheesemongers. Benevolent Institution," hoped and ventured to prophecy that, in the course of a very short period of time, the duties upon those articles which formed now an incubus upon their trade would be removed. The Secretary then read the usual report, which announced the increasing pros perity of the Institution, and also the list of subscriptions of the evening, which amounted to nearly three hundred pounds. The vocal part of the entertainment was conducted by Mr. Hobbs, who, with his assistants, contributed greatly to the amusement of the assembled party, who retired about eleven o'clock. Mr. Toole was the toast-master, and, we need hardly add, acquitted himself in an able manner. REDUCTION IN THE PRICE O 1 GAS. —The Birming ham Old Gas Company have given notice that from the Ist of the present month the price of gas to consumers under 5,000 cubic feet per quarter, will be 6s. Bd. per 1,000; to those consuming up wards of 25,000 cubic feet per quarter, ss. Bd., and to consumers above that quantity, 4s, 6d. per cubic foot. • ORNITHOLOGICAL EXYRESS.—The Aysfern of com munication by means of carrier-pigeons, between London and Paris, is carried on to a very eonsideral le extent, and at a great cost. There are several perfect establishments kept up by parties interested in the quick transmission of intelligence, at the ports of Dover and Calais, and at regular distances on the roads of the two countries; whence the birds are ex changed in regular order, as they return with their little billet. The interruption occasioned by the hours of night is made up by a man on horseback; who ag iin at daylight, on arriving at a pigeon -station, transfers his dispatch to the keeper, who has his bird in readiness. The distance by day is accomplished in less than eight hours. It has been found that hawks have proved themselves dangerous enemies even to these quick-flighted birds; and a premium of half-a-crown is paid for every hawk's head produced. The pay of a keeper is 501. a-year ; and when this is added to the cost of food and the expense of sending the pigeons on from station to station to be ready for their flight home, it will appear that the service is attended with considerable outlay. The duty of training young birds, and the management of the old ones, in feeding them at proper times, and in keeping them i❑ the dark till they are thrown up, is very responsible, and &most unceasing. A good bird is not supposed to last more than two years. —Note Book of a Naturalist. ROCHDALE MONTHLY CATTLE FAIR, MONDAY, JULY 7.—We have had about an average number of horned cattle in the fair to-day ; there was also a numerous attendance of graziers, butchers, and country farmers. The prices of all sorts of horned cattle were about ten per cent. higher than they were at our last monthly fair, and more than an average num ber of the middle qualities of beasts were sold. Good old hay was selling at 9d., 9d., and in some instances at 10d. per stone, being upwards of a penny per stone less than it was a month ago. NE , IV6 ' MONEY and COMMERCIAL (From The Sun of Last Ni t i m atei The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday, were esteatio, at 5,000 bags, including 1,000 for export and on sne , i hor The market was quieter, but without, any other C"nd the There was again a good business doirg in Share s ' market was firm. Sale S SPI MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JULY W.--T ktio, —Blackburn, Burnley, and Accrington, ; 131 erpo' L Damen, and Bolton, 5 ; Belton, Wigan, and iL! c od 16% ; British and Irish Union, 10s. prem. ; Cambridgoo Lincoln, 43 , i ', 5; Clitheroe Junction, 3 3 4 ; Direct N,.., 01 3 1 / 8 ; Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester, 3; kleetwood, Dun' and West Riding Junction, % prem. • Glasgow an d ester' fries, 19s. ; Goole, Doncaster, Sheffield, and Man,c.; r tet 7s. 6d. ; Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction, Wy" Shares, 11-16; Huddersfield and Manchester Raii"..,a•sborY, Canal, 8 1 4 ; Leeds and Thirsk, 6 1-16; Leeds, Pr uc tioll• and Manchester, 19% ; Leeds and West Riding e u eice stef 6 1 4 ; Leicester and Bedford, 7s. 6d. 6s. 3d. prem. ; 1 1, re toth and Birmingham, 1% 1,4 ; Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Lo nde' 2%; London and Birmin g h am , Q uar t er Shares, 37 ; DurC' Worcester, Oxford, and Rugby, 1 11-16. Manchester, ~,id and Rossendale, 22% %; Manchester, BUXtol3,3lati°'''Se4 Midland, 5% 3-16; Manchester and Birminghanlhoe, Quarter Shares, 7 1 % ; Manchester and Leeds, H alf it ' il l 77% ; Midland Raiway, 401. Shares, 29%; Sheffield, 2 1-16 ; North British, 25; Ditto, . 1), e", , 1 17 4 ' 6'2% ; North Staffordshire, 3% 3 4 ; North Union (.1, 0 0 North Union (B), 105 ; North Western, 4 7-16 N ; 1 01 and Wyre, 32%; Ditto, Half Shares, 3% • liefge c lie o Lincolnshire Junction, 1% ; Sheffield and ills e ,ertai Quarter Shares, No. 2, 4314 % prem. ; Shrewsburr„all..); 8,1 Valley Union, 1% ; South Eastern and Dover, . 04 °: o tiO 13-16; South Midland, 365. ; Trent Valley Conlin $ , t; ' and Holyhead Junction, 1 15-16 ; W e lsh Midland, ; West Lancashire, 1 1 / t prem. ; West Yorkshire, 4 , 7 korf' Worcester, Shrewsburv, and C re w e U n ion, 1%; G rea '' ' l of France, Enlish, , •I'f° There has be g en a ship an ival to day from Rio de ii s.i t'e° with accounts of the 3d of May. The exchange *re' 24 3 4 d., and the Six per Cents. Stuck at 78. Ther e 9 t eni!P one or two papers, and very few letters by this oppqo and these add • nothing of importance to our p recj oere i " formation. No news is given relative to the cola treat. We have more arrivals to-day from Australia , butt oe are not quite so late as those al re ady rece ived. the) ' The particulars which have transpired relative t e *lo o bing of certain officials in the Shares of the projected%Aptk Kent line, brought to light through the petition of t h - Eastern Railway Company, shows how the npPosi ti qZi V plans of the latter has been carried on, and hog dtbs North Kent ever was entitled to boast of the sanctiolko Board of Ordnance. In standing upon its merits theiV Eastern Company, in the judgment of most parties, li se bet# ensured the ultimate success of its comprehensi Ce for supplying the railway wants of Kent. • tio al P It is gratifying to state that in addition to the sueo already advertised in The Sun fur the relief of the bs crir f by the dreadful fire at Quebec, her Majesty has fill nals p k 2001., Prince Albert 100/., and the Canada -- dc, 1001. &c. No doubt the full list will appear 11 4 $ 0d' two in another column of The Sun. The Bank of fle likely, we hear, to give a liberal sum. flea fr The Funds have been with ou t an y ma t e rial altersb-.A5 day. Consols have been 99 t o 1%. E xc h e quer-- p, rising, they have touched 58s. and 60s. premium' A t P . Stock has been at 210 3 4 to 211%, and India Stock . 0 The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. are 102bN YiL / The Foreign Investments have been dull. SP', r hrser per Cents. have been heavy at 27and the A• e ir 8 , , Cents. at 38 to %. Mexican are quiet at 36% Four-and-a-Half per Cents. bring 98%, and Dutch ' a-Half per Cents. 62 to 62%. e p Shares are rather fluctuating, and not generally 4 45 4 supported as yesterday. CP - c0; ONE , 14 PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. 0 21 Bank Stock 211% 210% 211% 99 4 , 3 per Cent. Reduced ••• 995 9 9 i 3 per Cent. Consels An nu iti es 99% 9 9 1 05 ' New 3 1 ,A per Cents 1021/2 %% 3 1% 6 Ditto, 5 per Cent 126 2 75 India Stock India Bonds, 1,0004 ~,- - • Ditto under I,OOW. .. . 72 CI r South Sea Stock 290 Ditto Old Annuities Ditto New Annuities .. — Bank Stock for Account 2111/ ,ft Consols for Account . •.•.• 99% 6 0 Exchequer Bills, 1,0001., 1 1 / 2 d. Ditto 5001. . Ditto Small ... 58:60 P 1331, ct; .00 4 , C ONE r o 9o, PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. 3 61 Danish Bonds, 1825, 3 pe r Cent... 89 0 Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837 ...... ... Ditto, Account 36% 5 5140 Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents 331.E • Ditto, Account — Spanish 5 per Cent. 1440 Ditto. Account 6? 27% 0 Ditto, Passive Ditto Defarred Ditto 3 per Cent. ... . ..... 38 Ditto A ccoun t Belgian Scrip, 21/ per Cent • 9 3 / , 6 %)1i 99, __ . Dutch, 2 , / 2 per 0(74 ov Ditto, 4 per Cent., Certific O O l /1 Vs% 00,V, PRICES OF a' r igi' o PAID. A ONE O'CLO B A ILWAY SHARES Aberdeen Birmin. and Glou ces t er. 1 00 Ditto New Shar es ... 17 1 / 2 ----31.t; '''''''''''''''''''' '' '' 15355 ! ' l Ditto 1 / 2 Shares Bristol and Gloucester... 30 56 ''''''''''''''''''''' 1'! Ciledonian Cambridge and Lincoln 1 1 / 2 .-- 5 4 3 A ............ 12,i; Chester and Holyhead Ctiurnet Valley 7 if Coventry and Leicester 1 1 / 1 1 ............. Dendre Valley . . ~,. Dirext Northern Dublin and BelfastJunc. 2, 7%7( 3 1 / 2 34 ..... ' :0 4 Dublin and Galway... .. 2 1 / Eastern Counties 141. 165...... 2 4 7 1 1 1 t 3 ii i/ 26 :4 .. • • ...................... 'll4 Ditto New l6s. / . Ditto Perpetual, 5 per Cent, No. 1....51. 13s. 4d — 0 ............... Ditto ditto, No. 2. l3s. 4d 0 / ,1 ,4 ........... Eastern Union 15 —— .............. 0 Ditto Extension . ... 1 1 / 2 ..... . ......... / i L ... (lin burgh and Glasgow 50 .......... IP .. Ditto Quarter Sh ares 121/2-- 18 1 / 2 , ..... .. .... / h , qt.. , it south. and West. (Ireland) Ditto Extension reat North of Engl an d..loo 243 ......... •• • ' S' IP Ditto New ireat Western BO 206 ... 11$ Ditto 1 / 2 Shares 5O 1 4 1 6 4% .. 11 .. . .............. ...... 43 11,1 , Ditto, Fifths 2O Harwich Hui l and Selby aricaster and Carlisle... 20 London and Birminghm (Stock) — ............... 5), 91 Do. 1 % Shares ~, 1 London and Blackwell. 16/. 13s. 4d. ... ............ s_, , i, London and Bright0n... 50 London and Croydon, 131. 15s. 9d 225.i;1,/tl/2 ......... / t h London and Greenwich 12l 15s4d — ............... 4 47 Ditto, Preference l B 7a — ... ........... WO Lond. & S.Western 411 6s 10(1 B l l /2 801 / 2 . • ''' v London and Y0rk...... ... 2% 3A ............... i 91 London, Salisbury, and Yeovil ..... .....„ ...... 2 1 / 2 •••••• 2 %.. ..... ....... 1 Londonderry & Coleraine 21 / ,;....., ___ ............... $§ Lynn and Ely Lynn and Dereharn l% DA% ............ 1 Manchester and Leeds... 76 Do. Quarters Do. New Quarters ... 2 Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock Midland... 10 0223 . 190 1.'39. . LOO ........... ,„ Do. New Midland, Birrn., Derby 100 149 ... ......... ... 4 Nen castle and Darling ton Junction 25 ...... .. .......... ••• 3 0 1)0. NI `w Brandling lO NewPas;le and Berwick 1 1 / 2 l -8 ,i 4 .... 9 ' ................. 1,1394' Newry and Enniskillen. 2 1 / 2 Newark and SLeffield .. 1% 2 •••9 11 1 ! North B r iti s h ................. :i Do. New North Kent North Wales .. Norwich and Brandon lO ... ........... . $ 2 1 3 4 1/4 .. .. -- , ,;x3 .. .. .. .. .. ................ 916; Oxford and Worcester 2 14 6%lh ............ . Perth and Inverness ..• 21 /; Rugby, Worstr, & Tring 1 Scottish Midland l l / 2.. .• 2 ... 41 /•• ............ South Eastern & Dover 33/ 2s 4d... .... .......... 19, .. 11 Do., No. 1 8 ---„ ............. . 7 Do., No. " Do., No. 3 57 South Wales 2% . 5 1/ ........ Wolch Midland - /4. 3X 3 -i i i ............ 6ii Wilts, Somerset, & Vey- 7 mouth 55 / s t, York and North Midland 50 ........... •• 7 ' . IS Ditto Scarboro' Branch. 25 Do Selby Do. Extension A IS FOREIGN RAILWAYs. Bordeaux & Mediterran. 2 East Indian Great North. o f F rance fi (Laffitte's) Do. no. (Rovitners) 2 ...... 2z4 3 4 Jamaica Junction l l /2 314 .............. '5 Do. South Midlnd. J une . 1 Louvain and Jemeppe... 4 ... , .............. 1 0 Orleans and Bo r d eaux... 4 Paris & Lyons, Laffitte's 2 Paris & Lyons, (Colon's) 2 Paris and Orleans 2O -4% .• 40 Parts and Rotten 20 Sambre and Meuse .... 4 West Flanders 2 Union of Australia JOINT STOCK B—ANK-S-............ 014,- WHEAT, &c. —An account of the pan— titeL wheat, barley, oats, wheat-flour, and o a t mea l , imported i, i ' 1ef110.4 Britain from Ireland, in the years 1842. 1843 , a nd 1 6 7liel g , that in 1844 there was so imported 200 , 27 6 quar ters 7 6 /CO's 90,656 quarters of barley, 1,509,870 quarters oats, 839'".L of wheat meal or flour, and 1,150,976 cwt, of ost me ; r eo quantities imported in 1843 amounted to 192,477 4" M W wheat, 110,449 of o f quarters of barley, 1,561,997 quarter, 773,463 cwt. of wheat m ea l or fl our, and 1,700"; i ej oatmeal. The return w as move d b y Mr. Trotter, A P ' Surrey. r Pr is On Thursd a y, a yout h name d Ch ar l e s `-' ° 'oi c her al aged sixteen, was amu s in g hi mse lf upon some l ogs o f tire.— on '- were floating on the Grand Surrey Canal, near the bride' f ol D e ; Old Kent-road, when the logs sudde n ly s e p ara ted, and he roirtl, tween them and im me di ate l y sun k. Th e d rags were Putr°,3 procured, and after a s h ort t i me hi s b o d y was recov ered ; " ce , withstanding several surgeons were promptly in attellid°,olot every means used to restore animation, all efforts were u 03 1. 0190 ROBBERY FROM A WAGGON.—ThursdaY .„,% piof, shortly a ft er nine o'clock, James Stutter, a man in the `;11 1 , ,, Messrs. Chaplin and Horne, had occasion to leave t o psoll'; containing goods, for a few moments, at the corner of 11° `,,,, 0 street, Lincoln's Inn-fields, and, during his absence, apparently countrymen, who had been noticed standinifeo 0 ; 0 waggon, and heal been supposed to be belonging to itll r estle, served to lift several parcels from it, and proceed in t he o ff 1 ,4 of Holborn. Upon the return of the man they had made ,, De the property. SINGULAR ACCIDENT.—On Thnrsdayr*Di pili 6 1 4'111 1, 1 i tween eleven and twelve o'clock, Isebilkbyesi, asated Job - dr ioxi t o residing in Upper.street, St. Martin's-l a ne, who had be en . ;0 ,4 , to excess, fell asleep, with a bo x o f cong reve met 000;0 pocket, which from some cause ignited and set fire to h', t he His wife, who was in th e r oom with hi m , fortunately out, but not before pe had sustained mere WWI! 1.1..... 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