The Sun. — London, England, 1845-08-08 00:00:00

NOTICE To guBSCILIBERS. The THIRD EDIT1()1C of THE SUN of yes terday E venin4 con tain ed— A full Report of the Meeting of the Shareholders in the London and Birmingham Railway Company. A Report of the Proceedings at the Half-yearly Meeting of the Shareholders of the London and Brighton Railway Company. Reports of the proceedings before the Railway Com mibtees of Parliament. The latest Sporting Intelligence. Parliamentary Intelligence of the Evening, being a report of the proceedings in the House of Lords up to a Quarter before Seven o'clock. RAILWAY NEWS. Subscribers and others Interested in Railways will find a FULL ACCOUNT of the PROCEEDINGS bore the RAILWAY COMMITTEES in Me !WIRD EDI 2 lON of THE SUN, reported up to the CLOSE of EACH DAY; it also con tains the DEBATES is 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. OF,DER. the THIRD ED'=ow, which contains NEWS TWELVE HOURS in ADVANCE. Sun-office, 112, Strand. ITALY. -STEAM to LEGHORN, GENOA, C VITA VECCHIA, and NAPLES, for Passengers and Goods. he Steamer NORTII STAR, Captain George Wilson, is intended to leave the EAST INDIA DOCKS on WEDNESDAY, the 3d of Sep tember next, for Leghorn and Genoa, calling at Gibraltar. Goods forwarded on to Civita Vecchia, and Naples by steam conveyance at ships' expense ; Carriages and Horses taken at moderate rates.— . . - i•assage-money, including a handsome table, and wines, &c:, for First-class Passengers to Leghorn, ISt. lss. ; Servants, 9/..95, . . For further particulars, apply at the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's offices, No. 51, St. Mary-axe, London. To be had at all the Libraries, T " Isi EW .NOVELS, JUST PUBLISHED BY MR. COLBURN. COUNT KONIGSMARS. By Captain FREDERIC CHAMIER, R.N. 3 vols. THE WHITE SLAVE and the RUSSIAN PRINCE. By the Author of "Revelations of Russia." 3 vols. SELF; or, THE WORLD AS IT GOES. By the Author of " Cecil." 3 vols. JONATHAN SHARP; or, The Adventures of a Kentuckian, 3 rols. MAIDS OF HONOUR. A Tale of the Court of George I. 3 vols. VI. STRATHERN. A Story of the Present Day. By the COUNTESS of BLESSINGTON. VII. LADY CECILIA TARRENCOURT. By HENRY MILTON, Esq . Author of "Rivalry." 2 vols. VIII. BE ROIIAN ; or, THE COURT CONSPIRATOR. An Histo rical Romance. By M. EUGENE SUE, Author of "The Mysteries of Paris." &c. 3 vols. Henry Ce'burn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street, HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. LAST NIGHT BUT THREE OF THE SUBSCRIPTION. TOtMOUROW EVENING Will be performed Be Opera LA SONSAMBULA. Amine, 3ladume A. Castelian; Terese. Madame Bellini; Lisa, Mdlle. A. nosetii; Count Itodolfo, Sig. F. Lablache ; Aless.o, Sig., Glubilel; , Elvin°, Sig. Mario. Between the Acts of the Opera a Divertissement, in which Mdlle. Gratin will appear. To conclude with:the admired Ballet of ALMA; ou, La Fille de Perphite, 31. Perrot , Balfegor, M. Gosselin ; Emazor, M. St. Leon ; Alma, Mdlle. Cerito. .or Boxes. Stalls, and Pit Tickets to be made at the x-ofrice, 0 .1 a•Colonnsde. Doors open at Seven ; the Opera to commence at Half-past Seven. NORTH DEVON RAILWAY. Notice Is hereby given, that. no application for Shares in this Cowl any can be received after TCESDAY NEXT, the 12th instant. By order of the Committee of Management. OSBORNE, WARD, and Co., Bristol SAVERY, CLARKE, and Co., Bristol WHITEFORD, BENETT, and TUCKER, Solicitors. Plymouth Exeter, Aug. 5, 1645. HOW TO REBUILD QUEBEC ? The SENTINEL of the 9th ACGCST will point out a practicable phut tbr Rebuilding Quebec, without private subscription, Parlia mentary grant, or any taxation whatever, either on the present or any future generation. SENTINEL OFFICE, 59, Fleet-street, London HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. X orning .. 45 minutes after 5 I Evening .. 1 minutes after 5. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, AUGUST 8 FHP.RIIO3IETER, Lowest. 47 ; Highest. 64 , Noon, 65. BABOMETER, 29 93.—WIND, W.N. W. Norit.—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. ~.. ..,p ..., i ,:• ' 4 - 001 -- I f - ''' • ~ , ...-._ . ve• ~ ,t Li y, 17 'l.. 3t 01, ,),,75,, , Hi I MAJBSTY'S THEATRE. CEIZITO respectfully informs the Nobility, Subscribers to the Opera, aad the Public, that 11Elt BENEFIT will take place ON THURSDAY. AUGUST 14, BEING THE LAST NIGHT BLI."IWO OF THE SEASON, When will he presented Mozart's chef d'oeuvre, DON GIOVAN..kr. Donna Anna, Madame Grist; Donna Elvira, Madame Rosetti ; Zerlina, .Madarne Anaide Costellan. Don Giovanni, Sig. Fornasari ; Don Ottavlo, Sig. Mario; II Commandatore, Sig. Botelli ; Masetto; Sig. F. Labkche ; and Upon°, Sig. Lablache. To b followed by various Entertainments in the Ballet Depart ment, comprising a SELECTION from the Ballet of ALMA, with the celebrated " l'as de Fascination " Self ction from the Ballet of ONDINE, Including the " Tarantella,' by the Corps de Ballet, and the celebrated " Pas de L'Ombre" by 1111111 e. Cerito. In the course of the Evening "La Castellano," by Mdlle. Lucile Grahn and M. Perrot. M Selection from the Ballet of ROSIDA; ou, Les Mines de Syra cuse. Comprising "La Sleilienne." and the admired Pas by Aldlle. C4ritd anti Si: St. II:en, and an entirely New Pas by Mdlie. Grahu and N. Perrot. To emtelude with the Divertissement of UN BAL SOUS LOUIS QUATORZE, in which Mdlle. Lucile Grahn will appear as a Cavalier of the Court. of Louis XIV., and will dance with :Wile. Ccrito, in Costume of the same Court, the celebrated " Minuet de hi Cour atil Gavotte. Applications tor Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box. o !we, , pera Colonnade. Doors open at Seven, to commence at Half-past Seven o,Clock. THEATER ROYAL, IIAYMARKET. LESSEE, 41t. B. WEBSTER. Tilts EVENING Will be repeated, compresSed into Three Acts, Morton's Comedy of A SCHOOL Ft/It GROWN CHILDREN. Old Itevel, Mr. W. Far rap; Young Revel, Mr. Hudson Frank Ryeland, Mr. Webster; Lady Stanmore, Miss Julia Bennett; Mrs. Revel, Miss Fortescue ; Dame Ryeland, Mrs Glover. Tha celebrated Pianist. Leopold do Meyer, for Two Nights more, and will perform this Evening, after the Comedy, " Introduction et Marche Marocnne ' To be followed by USED UP. Sir Charles Coldstream, Mr. Webster; Wurzel, Mr. J. Bland; Mary, Miss Julia Bennett; Lady Clutter buck, Miss Carre. After which will be repeated a New Dramatic Sketch, entitled MRS. CAUDLE'S CURTAIN LECTURES; or, Matrimonial Chap ters. Mr.. Candle, Mr. Buekstone ; Mrs. Caudle, Mrs. W. Clifford. Private Eoxee, rw. Guineas and vile Guinea and a-Halt each. Tickets and • laces to be had of Mr. I. T. 'Anther at the Boa-oftice. from Ten till Five o'clock. TIIEATRE ROYAL. ADELPHI. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF 3.IADAME CELESTI. THIS EVENING Will he repeated MARIE DUCANGE. Edward Laseelles, Esq., lir. Rowe; John Rawdon, Esq., Mr. 0. SmPh ; Charles Claude Prong, Mr. Wright ; Marie Ducange, Madame Celeste. To be followed by a New Farce, entitled DRANIATIC COOKERY; or, 110 W To DISK UP A FARCE. Pythias Fizzwit, Mr. Selby; Sam Smear, Mr. Wright; Eliza, Miss Taylor; Diana, Mrs. Laws. Atter winch, an Original Terpsich.irean Bisletta, called POWDER AND ,BA ; or, St. Tibbs's Eve. Mr. Montgomerie Tibbs, Mr. Lambert ; Captain lildgiove, Mr. Selby ; Jacob (Jerkin ' Mr. Wright ; Mrs. Moiitgoinetie Tibbs, Mrs. Frank Matthews ; Sally Knobbs. MIAs Woolgar. Prompter, Mr. Gallot ; Principal Painter, Mr. Pitt; Leader of the tisul, Mr. Mellon. THEATRE LOYAL, I. 1 - CLUM • tr!,f; lEit TUE MANAGEMENT OF - MRS. ICEELEY second Night of a New Comedy—Roars of laughter at "An Object of Interest" and " Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures"—Continued Suc cess 01 " Les Datiseuses•Auglaises," and undiminished Attraction or " Cinderella." THIS EVENING Wlll be performed a New and Original Comedy, to be called THE GOVERNoIt'S WIFE, with entirely New Scenery, Dresses, and Appurtenances. Principal Characters by Messrs. oiddear, Kee ey. F. Mathews, F. \Tilling, and Collier, lies Dawson and Mrs. Keele, . Alter loch, an entirely New, Original, and Novel taand Fairy BALLET DI vEirr is*Em ENT, entitled LEt FEES. In which Les Danseuses Anglaises will appear. To be followed by a New Farce, to be called AN OBJECT OF 'INTER msr. in which Mrs. Keeley will pertorm. To hieh will be added an apropos .tag,,telle, in (hie Act, entitled Mits. CAUDLE'S CURTAIN LECTURES. Mr. Caudle, Mr. Mea dows, Mrs. Caudle. Mr. Keeley. T.. conclude with an entirely New Operatic, Dramatic, Chivalric, Romantic Burlesque, entitled CINDERELLA. The Principal Charaeters by Mr. Keel , f, Mr. A. %lean, Mr. Frank Mathews, Mr. J. W. Collier, Mrs. Keeley, Miss Villars, Miss Fairbrother;Mrs. Woolliclee, Miss (trove, 31181 Howard, 81 . . e The Loa-ottice is open daily, under the direction of Mr. Grogan from Ten till Four. TiLEATRE, OXFoItD-STREET. LE St 3112... M. MADDoX. 'fills EVENING Will be performed Shakspeare's Comedy of MUCH ADO ABOUT Ir'JI'tIING. Benedick, 111 x. Wallack ; Beatrice, Mrs. Stirling. Mr. HENRY'RUSSELL will sing his popular comp sltions. To which will b..: added A COUR l' BALL IN 1740. in which will be introduced the Dances as performed at her Majesty's Bal Cos tume, with the Original Music. To be followed by a New Dramatic Sketch, entitled MRS. CA LADLE ; or. Curtain Lectures. Mr. Candle, Mr. Compton ; Mrs. Caudle, Mr. Oxbcrry. stage Manager, Mr. H. I. Wank ; Stage Director, Mr. Emden ; NiPrlipiA, Mr. Edmund Bradwell. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPillTflt ATRE. iltii,i'RlETOß, MR. W. BATTY. Pre-eminent Success of the New Grand Spectacle, unequalled in effects and situations—First Week of a New Entree by Twelve 'French Equestrians, aided by Novel Scenes by the French Artistes tM Favourite Pantomimic Representation at Half-price of the Rrigand THIS EVENING Will he performed an entirely. New Grand National Spectacle, em bracing the chief features of the heroic achievements of the British Arms In Northern India. called THL CONQUEST OF SCINDE ; or, The Siege 01 Hyderabad. Mier which, Extraordinary Feats in the Circle. To conclude with a New Grand Ballet of Action, confiding of Mi litary' Nanceuvres, Dances, Combats,- and highly powerful effects, Including the saga, iota performance of the Dog Hector, and sur prising Leap of the Horse Beds over the Broken and Flaming Bridge, caile4 IL DIA VOLO ABRUZZI ; or, The Brigand Chief and the Dog of the Chateatt. itox-oflice open from Eleven fill five. DAVIDGE'S Ruh'AL SCRROY THEATRE. THIS EVENING 0 Will be performed LOVE IN A VILLAGE. Young Meadows, Mr. Barker; Hawthorn, Mr. D. W. King; Rosetta, Miss Collett. Altar which, THE QUAKER To conclude with THE DREAM AT SEA. Places and Private Boxes to be had ot Air. Kerschner. at the Boz o tee, from Elrron to Pour. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. FOR HE BENEFIT OF .MIL BARKER, Alla the Last Night of the Opera Compiny. TO-MORROW EVENING Will be performed _Tuber's Grand Opera of MASSANIELLO. liassaniello Mr. Barker. t;ltAltil) CONCERT, with a Selection from TUE BOLIEMIAN GIRL Adticil to which, TILE CIIIARINI FAMILY on the Tight Rope, and 1-at de Coco:as. To bt, uccecd, d by the Second Act of CINDERELLA. To conelmic with GIOVA.NNI IN LONDON. Doti Giovanni, Miss Louisa Lyons. ROYAL. SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. A DIFFERENT SUBJECT EACH SEASON. • COMBINATION OF ATTRACTIONS. • ROMANTIC GARDENS AND PROMENADE. EXTENSIVE AND UNRIVALLED MENAGERIE. COLOSSAL MOD CLLED REPRES , ',NTATION OF EDINBURGH, The Acme of Seer'e Illusion. The ROCK HARM( iN ICON fnim Three till EWA. And on MONDAYS, TUESDAYS, WEDNEsDAYS, arid THURS DAYS, GUAI.CD CONCERTS IFZTE and MAGNIFICENT DISPLAY of FIREWORKS. Admission, One Shilling,. Fee , lin^. the Carmirnra at Ilalf-past Five; Pelicans and Polar nears It i 441 ; CoiKtu - 2 at lialf-c4l , SU; and Fireworks at Ilalf-past Nine. FATAL ACCIDENT.—An inquest was held on Wed. nesdav, by Mr. Waklev. M. P., at the Middlesex Ho.pital. on the body of now.; liphan, sled 52, a carter to the Rev. John Gray. of While', Harrow La.t 'aturday night deceased was morning, r.suit Loirtun with his muster's cart. laden with straw, and drawn by two horses, when the wheel horse, as it wss des cending Vea , man',-11111. shied, and plunging towards the side at which deceased held him, knocked him down and trampled on him. lie was instantly conveyed to a neighbouring cabin, and attended by a medical man, who oreered him to be brought without delay to the Middlesex Hosoital, inhere he lingered until the following evening, when death terminated his suffer ings,- ton a post mortim examination it wasascertained that the first ,ix ribs of hia I.ft side wore fractured, one of them pe netrating his lungs; that his scapula was smashed to atoms, and that his clavicle wen broken in several parts. - verdict— Acc,iticiatal Death. THE . SUN, LONDON, riniDAV EVEI•4I.isIG , AUGUST 8, 1845. which mischievously professes to do what it i?beyond / the reach of any available or working portion of the 658 Members of the House of Commons to accomplish, in addition to their other duti. s. "Do not tell me," said Mr. BROUGHAM, in a debate on the Bankruptcy Juris diction, in May, 1827, "do not tell - ine that the system is in fault when the men are in fault." But in this in stance of Railway Committees, not the men, but t h e system fails. " Mr. Shadwell, when be was asked if three men could get through the business of the Court of Chancery, replied, No ; nor three angels." How many would be required, on this doctrine of the present Vice-Chancellor of England, to dispose of all the pending projects in the " railway jurisdiction ' of Parliament is a problem we will as little undertake to solve as to point out—(though we have an opinion on the matter)what should be the better scheme of deal ing with this department of business, which we think it quite possibly that the Legislature might adopt. We only remark, in reference to the enormous dissatisfac tion given by the defunct Board of Trade Committee on Railways, that Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S silence on the still defective nature of the tribunals before which they are brought up, as it were, by mixed trains, and stowed, ticketed, and dispatched, to extinction or construction, as the merest accident may decree—seems to be a capital omission in a speech otherwise remarkable for its ana lytical and critical synopsis of the session's "sins of omission and commission." But his Lordship's utt( r silence on the currency question we hold to be matter still more sincerely to be deplored among those who, instructed by the fatal experience of the past, look with well-founded and trembling apprehension to the future. The gambling in railway shares during the last twelve months has been only more reckless, and more infatuated, but not more guilty, more mischievous, nor more ruin fraught, than Sir ROBERT PEEL'S gambling with his currency "counters" of 1819 and 1844, against the real wealth and latent resources of the people of England, But only too many occasions will offer, we are con vinced, and in a succession but too rapid, for at once confirming and illustrating our antieipations as to thz results of a coming Oiisis, which already "casts" its por tentous " shadow before." The Observateur du Rhin, published at Cologne, and the Weser Gaulle, issued at Bremen, have been inter dicted in Bavaria. The Obscreuteu r is said to be pro hibited for defending Protestantism in Bavaria, which, being in the minority, is the object of the must violent attacks from the ultra-Catholic press, towards which the censorship is more lenient than towards the Protestant journals. The Weser Gaz4tte is supposed to be excluded because it is the zeal.us organ of the schism with which the Catholic Church in Germany is agitated. Letters from 'Wiesbaden state that the Duke of NAS SAU is about to start for Italy, where he s ill meet the Grand Duchess HELENA of Russia. The arrangements for the marriage of the Duke with one of the daughters of the Grand Duchess HELENA have been completed. The Duke of NASSAU has offered Queen VICTORIA. the use of his palace at Biberich, and also of his residence near Mayence. The King of PRUSSIA is giving as much eclat as possible to his visit to the banks of the Raine, and superintends in person the preparations for the re ception of the Queen of ENGLAND. It is said th it he is rather hurt that neither the King of HOLLAND nor the King of the BELGIANS has hitherto intimated any intention of visiting him during the time Queen VICTORIA will be his guest. The papers have an nounced that Prince METTERNICH has had an attack of paralysis ; but there is no truth in the statement. His Highness is at his castle of Johannisberg in his ordinary health, where the Count MUNCH BELLINGHAUSEN is on a visit to him. It is stated by the Magdeburyh Gautte that the King of Pnussi& has charged Prince de NIuwEID with the task of drawing up a constitution, the pr.pject of M. de CUNITZ having been found to be attended with in surmountable difficulties. We have received the Paris papers of Wednesday. They all give lengthened accounts of the late fire in the Toulon dockyard. The value of the property destroyed is estimated very differently. in the accounts published in the Paris journals, tome taking it as high as 20 mil lions, and others 15 and 10. We subjoin an extract . - rise in the Fives ; the former being quoted at 29* cosh, and 30* at 60 days ; 28,800,000 done ; the latter at 24 cash, and 29 -at - 60'days. After two o'cick matttrt were - reversed—the Threes rose tri&, and the Fives &dined, ARRIVAL OF HER MAJESTY FROM THE ISLE OF WIGHT THIS DAY.—MT Majesty and Pri flee A I [mt. , . i i ivied this day, at ten minutes to one only): k, at the Vauxhall terminus of the South-Western Railway, having travelled up from Portsmouth by special train. The royal car riages were in waiting at the terminus, and the royal party immediately drove off to Buckingham Palace. Her Majesty was loudly cheered by the crowd assembled to see the royal cortege piss. Her Majesty held a Privy Council at half-past two, at Buckingham Palace, for arranging tht• Queen's speech on closing the session of Parliament. Most of the Ministers attended. MARKET NE Ws.:::-,(THIS i.FA, Y.) , . CORN EXCHANGE.—FRIDAY: Several runs of Wheat came to hand from Essex, which; added to the quantities left unsold on Monday and Wednes day, formed rather an extensiye su iply or that, attrele. The stormy weath*r YestkiiiaS , produced 'rather irrtni %dilation on the part of the millers, to purchase in the early part dthe day, but as the atmosphere became to lerably fine, and as the letters received from various parts of the country state that no material damage ha?, as yet, been sustained by the growing crops, the demand became heavy, and Monday's quotations were with ditlictilt stipporttill Indeed, to sell, lower rates %list have been submitted to by the factors. At the close of the market, a large portion of the English Wheat remained unsold. Although the show of free Foreign Wheat *as small, that article met a very inactive demand, yet, in the few sales ef fected, previous rates were maintained. Scarcely a single transaction M 3 reported in Corn under lock, the speculators being unusually cautious in their operations. The supply of Barley chiefly consisted of free foreign qualitie;:. Grinding sorts were quite as dear, but all other kinds hung heavily on hand. We had a very limited quantity of Malt on offer. Superfine White qualities moved off steadily at full prices. In other kinds exc e edin g ly littl e was d o i ng . Our notices at foot show a very limited arrival of Oats, owing to which the Oat trade was comparatively steady, and prices were well supported. In Beaus very little was doing, but Peas and Flour were quite as dear. Several parcels of new Canary, Carraway, and Rape Seed were on offer. Most of them sold at full . prices. tinting 42;11,11L LONDON, FRIDAY. AUGUST 8, 1845. The Lords met at Five. Lord CAMPBELL asked whether it was intended to ap point Lords Justices to administer the royal functions during Her MAJESTY'S absence on the Continent. The LORD CHANCELLOR said that it was not. Previous to Her Meamry's visit to France last year, Sir F. PoLLocx had given it as his opinion that it was by no means necessary in point of law that such appointment should be made, and he (the LORD CHANCELLOR) con curred in the opinion. Her MAJESTY would be accom panied by one of her Secretaries of State ; under those circumstances, considering her absence would be for a short time only, it was unnecessary to have a cumbrous Commission appointed. Lord CAMPBELL believed this was the first instance, since the foundation of the monarchy, in which a Sove reign had been absent without such a Commission being appointed. The Earl of BESBOROUGH moved that a letter be sent to each Peer on the first week of the ensuing session of Pat liament, requesting hire to say when it would be con venient to him to attend on Committees on opposed Bills. The DUKE of WELLINGTON recommended that the motion should be withdrawn for the present, and when the proper time arrived for bringing it forward he should be glad to render ahatever aid he could to make it efficient. Lord MONTEAGLE suggested that a resolution should be passed that Bills for canals, railways, and docks might be introduced in their Lordships' House. Such a resolution would enable both Houses to proceed at the same time, and they would be enabled to avoid the in judicious haste to which they were now compelled i passing such Bills. After a few words from Lord REDESDALE, the moth)] was withdrawn. On the motion of the Earl of Damousn, several amendments in tl•e standing orders relating to Railway Bills were agreed to. Lord REDESDALE, on behalf of Lord BROUGHAM. moved certain resolutions, giving a power to Committeet. on Railway Bills of awarding costs to the opponents o: such Bills. The motion, which was opposed by Lord MONTEACILE, was negatived without a division. The Bills on the table having been advanced a stop ,heir Lordships adjourned. In the rapid but clever review which Lord JOHN Rus SELL took, on Tuesday night last, of the labours of the session that will close on . Saturday next, there were two omissions, upon which we deem it of more immediate importance to offer a few remarks than to follow the Noble Lord through his observations on the state ea affairs in Ireland, and the condition of our foreign rela tions. The omissions to which we allude were, the over whelming difficulties attending the present mode of con ducting railway Bills through Parliament, and the very unsatisfactory aspect of our monetary system, considerv, in its general bearings; and in reference to the inevitable influence of accumulated railway projects more especially. With regard to railway Bills, and the method which the projects for their construction are discussed. examined, and adjudicated upon, before Committees of either House, it is impossible to deny that nothing eau be more unsatisfactory than the course adopted since th. commencement of Committee business this session. It is not only that, from the vast accumulation of projects, all pressing for speedy investigation and report, the number and extent of the preliminary inquiries to le instituted far exceeds the capacity of all the physical energies and business application of the individuals before whom the merits of every such scheme are, in the first instance, to be tested, but that the confused, slo venly, and hurried character of those investiga tions gives rise to contingent abuses, as Well as to immediate evils that largely involve the interests of capital and the rights of property. A few designing spiculaiors can readily ascertain the fact that Group X or Y occupies the S, feet Committee charged with the railway business coming under that classification much more incessantly and laboriously than Grote) B and C respectively absorb the attention of their Committees. On this discovery, such parties speedily concoct all kinds of ingenious frauds in the nature of factitiou,, evidence to bolster up 'unlikely or suspected lines, to tamper with the share appropriation lists, &c. How vast a proportion of the time of Railway Committees may be, and constantly is, occupied by matters foreign to the ques den ut the msrits of the line under their consideratius— its expediency and practicability, probable advantams to the public, and chance of profitable returns to proprietary--foreign to every thing, in short, that it i, the main object of their appointment to ascertain—out readers cannot have failed to observe, in the long and searching investigations which the " Great Western. Ireland," alias the Dublin and Galway Line Committee, were compelled to institute into the frauds which hao been practised upon, and the gross unfairness com mitted by, its management in the appropriation of the Company's shares. In the meanwhile, he must be gifted with a larg, excess of credulous simplicity, who can be per suaded that, amidst all the variety of inqui ries—all these various classes of witnesses, these conflicts of evidence, these organised deceptions, ,and concocted lists, traffic tables, vouchers, &c., the real justice of the case is often satisfied by the selection of the best line, or the reception of the soundest evidence, or the recognition of the most genuine documentary pieces. The truth, we susptct, lies much more the other way. The interests of the public, the convenience of the residents in large districts, and enormous amounts of private capital, are much more frequently put in immi nent jeopardy, or positively sacrificed, by the decisions of Railway Committees, than duly consulted, or perma nently guaranteed. This result may be still more posi tively predicated of those cases in which there happen to be one or more competing lines of railroad between the same given extreme points. How is it pos sible, that when sixty, seventy, or an hundred new lines arc brought into Parliament in a single session, any num ber of Members of the Select Committees can find time enough —not to spare for their leisure or their own busi • ness, fer that they are no longer permi:ted to retain— but from their other Parliamentary duties, to investigate, sufficiently and properly, the surveys, reports, maps, ' gradients, plans, and sections of the engineers, the con sents and dissents of proprietors, &c ; the contracts put Madrid papers of the Ist inst. have arrived. Severe in, the calcuiations and estimates proposed for their in- arrests had taken place on the morning of the 31st ult. spection, and the proofs by which they arc to be sup- Among those arr.sted are M. SAGUSTL who, during the ported? How are ihey to make themselves masters of r egency of ESPARTERO, held the office of Political Chief the reasons for and against every such undertaking, as of Madrid ; General CaEsro, lately second in command developed in the arguments of counsel, and th e with General ALCALA in Manilla, and the Commandant evidence of witnesses ? How are they to form their and Captain in command of the guard at barracks of own judgment between the very different conclusions ex. the regiment of Gallicia. those arguments, and the conflicting character We learn from El Herald° that the public prosecutor of f r p r essed by the s allegations made by the witnesses produced on be- had demanded the penalty of death against several of the half of the supporters. as compared with the evidence of Malaga conspirators. Several arrests had taken place in the witnesses for the opponents of the line under ccnsi. Grenada. Letters from Saragossa, published in the deration ? And if these be grave difficulties at any per same journal, state that the ilyuntatriato of that city riod of the session, however early, how much are they are extremely dissatisfied with the Minister of Finance enhanc:d as it progreest s towards its expiration ? Cal- for his refusal to modify his new system of contributions. culations must be sworn to by the sheet_surveys affirmed According to El Castellano the Cortes will meet OR by the hundred weight—witnesses examined by the the 10th October, and be immediately afterwards dis gross—notes to guide the decisions of the Members taken solved, when the Senatus will be nominated in accord by steam power, to enable the Select Committees for the ance with the provisions of the new constitution. • a c inhabitanteot oi l t p he a t a was t it t citythat General publicly he e had in Seville, c at h called ieed M had oa urt. various groups to k e ep pace with the running out of correspondent of the Espect.iclor mentions that the term of the sessio n ' s e x i s t ence . No w this s lovenly and General mischievous mode of t ransac ti ng suc h i m p or t an t b us iness whipped S a ueL s e v n the C f a y crime Mar hue never been so si gna lly ill ustra t e d as i n t h e course o f ket- place, whose the present year. We lament to find that it has not "Liberty for ever." Bus , elicited the mark d animadversion of Le rd Jo The QUEEN, who was at San Sebastian on th e 3d, eliet SELL. We willingly concur in the well-merited tribute had been well received throughout her journey. The which the Noble Lord paid to the pains taking industry inhabitants, however, occasionally display their feelings of Hon. Members on these Committees. and to the on the subject of their feeres, and the authorities are devotion which they bed shown to the public service, about to petition the QUEEN for their restoration. in addressing themselves to such painful labours so Colonel AGUIRRE and 100 prisoners of the insurgents much in earnest. But the Noble Lord, we entered Barcelona on the 20th, escorted by a battalion submit to him, with all respect, should and a squadron of cavalry. have denounced the viciousness of a system There was a decline in the Three per Cents., and a 'rom the Constitutionnel on this point, as giving the most noderate calculation of the loss that we can meet with, after the Government journals, whirh declare it to bit •3,000,000 f.: The loss sustained by the naval depart :neat is much more considerable than the Government is willing to acknowledge. 'The timbers in the sheds were of the finest description fur ship building, and 14,000 stores (about as many cubic yards).are certainly worth more than 3,000,000 E; and to this sum must be idded the value of the roofs, which is put down in the inventory of the marine at 800,000 f., but which cannot se replaced fur less than 1,500,000 f. Besides, the mere value of the timber burnt gives no exact idea of the loss sustained, for there must also be taken into account the ime, difficulties, and expenditure required to replace a store so precious." There seems to be little reason to doubt the fact that the fire was the work of the convicts, who were dissatis fied with the treatment they received. The Commerce states that a fresh creation of Peers is about tc take place. The following appears in La France : " We have been assured that the Dictatorship of M. Bugeaud in Algeria is drawing to a close. The journal of his department announces the Duke of Isly has obtained leave of absence to visit his estate of Excideuil. This leave is considered as the forerunner of the retirement of the Mar shal. It is certain that M. Bugeaud has become too un wieldy and too restive an instrument in the debilitated hand of Marshal Soult. That quasi vice-royalty of the pos sessions of Africa does not sound well in the ears of the Minister of War, who finds his ascendancy and power sadly contemned." All these papers contain accounts from Algiers of ,uccessful " razzias." Private letters state that it is probable Queen Vic routA will visit the French Court on her return from Germany, and that the Palace of Petit Trienon is being prepared for her MAJESTY'S reception. The Franch Funds rose somewhat considerably on Wednesday. Shares fluctuated, but, generally speaking, he market was firm : The Three per Cents. closed on, the Bourse on that thy at 84f. 25c. ; the Five per Cents. at 122 t. 40e. ; Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,2901. ; Rouen, 1,085 f. ; Vierzon, 7951: ; Havre, 90.5 f, ; Avignon, 1,075 f. ; Basle, 281 f. 23c ; Spanish Direr: per Cents, 38; ditto Passives, 6%. The following are the quotations fur the new lines : Orleans and Bordeaux, 185 f. premium ' • Boulogne, 130 f. ditto, Troyes and Montereau, 50f.; Paris and Lyons, (Lathtte), 31f. 25c.; ditto (Caton), par; ditto (Ganneron), 6f. 50c.; Northern Line (Laffitte), 45f. ; ditto (Rosa owl), 1-11. 50c.; Tours and Nantes (Mackenzie), 12f. 50c. ; ditto (Drouillard), par ; ditto (O'Neill), SE; ditto (Jacques Leferre), par ; Lyons and Avignon (Lecointe), 17f. 50c.; Jitto (Talabot), 36f. 25c. ; ditto (Compagnie Meridionule), 7f. 50c. ; Bordeaux and Toulouse (Mackenzie), par; ditto Ind Cette (Espeleta), 16f. ; Creil and St. Quentin, par; i'aris and Strasbourg (Ganneron), llf. 25c.; Dijon and Ilulhausen, par; Dieppe, 20. LYoNs, AUG. 2.—Avignon and Marseilles, 1,0221., for the 15th inst. ; Paris and Orleans, 1,230 f. ditto; Paris- and Rouen 1,065 f. end of August; Orleans and Vierzon, 773 f. !it to ; Nismes and Montpelier, 5601. ditto; Montereau, 5221. ditto. tii,aINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, AUG. 7. Boulogne and Amiens.. OverYssel ... 1 p Bordeuax &Alediterran Paris& Lyons (Lafitte) 3% Bordeaux and Toulouse Ditto (Ganneron's). 2% Do. avid Cette 2 Ditto (Calon's).... Dutch Rhenish Dendre Valley _ _ _ .. . . Dieppe & Paris Juliet :Paris&Strsburg(Gan- Dijon and Mulhouse ... I neron's) • 24 East Indian Grt Northern of } rahee !Paris and St. Quentin. —' (Laftitte's) ;Rouen and Havre...... 31 Ditto (Rosamel's) Great Paris and Lyons — Sambre and Meuse .... 61 2 Jamaica Junction 7 Strasbourg and Basle'. Do. South Itldlnd June —'Tour: &Nants(sl.'Ken. ~ .ouvain itnd Jemeppe 4% zie's). 2% yons and Avignon — Do. (Lefebvre's) -,- Namur and Liege 5% Verona and Ancona.... 3 3 / 4 Orleans and Vierzon .. 17 West Flanders 4% Orleans and Bordeaux 114 --- • LLOYD'S StaPPING.-(THIS DAY LONDON, AUG. B.—Wind N. W. , light breeze and cloudy, DEAL, AUG. 7.—Wind W. to W.S.W.—Arrd. Sylph, Treadwell, • Barbadoes ; Barrett transport. Davis' Straits Arrd. from the River and sld., John Wickliffe, Daly, Madras Albion, Wave, Quebec; Faithful, Chamberlain, ditto; Ham let, Wilson. Sydney; Ramifies, ditto ; Lady Amherst, Thompson, China. FALMOUTH, AUG. 7.—Wind N:W.—Arrd. Skelleftia, Fleetwood, Pernambuco. Off port, Edmund, Smith, Gua gama, and sailed for Ghent. LtvEttroOL, AUG. 7. —Wind N.W., moderate.—Arrd. Argentina, Tillson, Buenos Ayres, sailed May 29; Oxeola, Childs, New Orleans; Russell, Glover, ditto; Thous, Mark, St. Andrew's; Liffey, Nianan, Quebec; New Brunswick, ditto; Calcutta, Smith, ditto, water-logged. Sid. Magellan, Nosworthv, y Lima ; Richmond, G regson , di tto. O ff port, Waterloo, New_York. E X ETER, AUG. 6. Arrd. Arab. Hain, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Talisman, Popham, Quebec. GLOUCESTER, AUG. 7.—Sld. Resolution, Quebec. NEWPORT, AUG. 7.—Sid. Underly, Bowden, Jamaica. SWANSEA, AUG. s.—Arrd. Mantu;lJ, Valparaiso. Sld. Wil liam and Joseph, Crisp. Quebec. WIIITIsfIAV - EN, AUG. 6.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Lightfoot Wilson, Quebec. _ _ CLYDE, Au°. 6.—Arrd. Queen Pomare, St. John's, New Brunswick. Sid. Cherokee, Brown, Demerara. DUBLIN, AUG. 6.—Wind S. W. to N.W.—Sid. Ruby, Croker, St. John's, New Brunswitk. IVATEIWORD, Atm. 6,LWind N. to N.N.W. and S.S. W. —Arrd. sth, Laurence, Forrestal, Poole, Quebec. MONEY and COlvl ERCIA I, NEWS. QVA RTE le To TIM EL. There was a quiet market for Cotton at Liverpool yester day. Sales, 5,000 bags, including 500 on speculation, and 500 for export. There was no change in prices. Shares were rather fiat, and with less doing. There are some few later accounts to-day by a transit ship from New Zealand, from which we learn that the colonists were in a somewhat better situation, business having im proved. The rains continue to excite a considerable degree of anxiety among the Bull speculators in the Funds, but prices have not altered much on the Stock Exchange to-day. It is to be hoped after all that the damage said to have been done to the crops is much less than has been reported. Consols have advanced for the Account from 99 to 99 1 4, and fur Money from 98% to 99%. One or two bargains have been made at 102 1 h in S,ruth Sea Stock at 113, and in Ex chequer-bills at 495. premium. In the Foreign Stocks a slight increase of business has to be noticed. Spanish Consols have receded to 26 3 / 4 %, and the Three per Cents, to 38. For Adstrian Bonds 117 has been the value today. Portuguese Converted are a shrde lower. The other Foreign Stocks have remained much the same as yesterday. The Railway Share Market is in a firm state. The prin cipal rise has been in the London and Birrninghams, which have advanced from 148 to 152 premium. Manchester and Leeds are up to 205 (with 761. paid), and the Great Northern of France to 2 1 4 premium. These have been the greatest changes this morning. The market is firm on the whole. ONE. CLOSING PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES i per Cent. Reduced 3 per Cent. Consels Annuities 99g 59 New 3 1 % per Cents Lona Annuities to exclireJan.lB6o 111 1 / 2 11 1 /, Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 I I IA ' 11 1 A India Stock — 2724 South Sea Stock Ditto Ohl Annuities Consols for Account .. ..... Exchequer Bills, 1,0004 11hd 49 pm. 51 Ditto 5001. Ditto Small ONE PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. Austrian, 5 per Cent ........117 Brazilian Bonds c — Columbian Bonds, ex Venezuela. 17% Danish Bonds, 1825, 3 per Cent... SO IA Mexican, .5 per Cent. 1837 CLOSING PRICES, 117 88 1 4 17F Ditto, Account Ditto, Deferred ........... Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents Portuguese 5 per Cents — Ditto, Converted 64 Ditto Account Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent Ditto, Acco.ii.t6 — Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840 Ditto 3 per Cent. •• * 38 Ditto, Account 3B 38 Dutch, 2% per Cent . Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certific 99% 99% PRICES OF BUSINESS DONE CLOSING RAILWAY SHARES PAID. AT ONE 0 ; CLUCK. PRICES Aberdeen .--_ .. .. _ . Aylesbury and Thame.. 18...... 2% Bristol and Exeter Do. New .... «........ 2 ...... Caledonian .. Ditto Extension 0... 4 Cambridge and Lincoln 1 A__ 3 /0 4 Chester and Holyhead... 15 ...... 22 1 / 2 22 Cheltenham and Oxford 2 ... 3% Coventry, Nuneaton, Bir. and Leicester 1 ...... 1314_ Cornwall Direct Northern Dublin and BelfastJunc. 2%...... 8 1 / 2 1 4 • 8 1 0 Dublin and Galway... - 2 %...... Eastern Counties 141. 165...... 2013% 20 3 / 4 Ditto New 41. 16s. .... . . 6;i 6l • Ditto Perpetual, 5 er Cent, No. 1....5/. p 13s. 4d....... Ditto ditto, No. 2 - Eastern Union l5 - ... 25 Ditto Extension . ... 11 ,4 31.4% Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ...... 86 1 / 2 Ditto Quarter Shares 12 1 / 2 ...... 21 Ditto New 1 4 Shares... 2%, ...... 10 1 / l O l, Edinburgh & Northern.. 1 1 A ...... Great South. and West. (Ireland) Great North of England-100 ...220 21,7% 22% 20 220 Ditto New 5 .... 55 Ditto New 2 .... 31 Great Western BO ..... Ditto, Fifths 2O ...... 49 1 4 4 9 14 Hull and Selby 5O ..... 107 106 107% .. 108 Do. Half Shares Leicester and Bedr.ird... 225. ...... 2% p ... 2% Limerick and Waterford 2%...... I,ondon and Birningnin t stock) 252 Do. New Thirds Do. Quarters. _2_ __ 3B - London and Blackwall. 161. 13s. 4d. .11%4 l ll London and Brighton... 50 London and Croydon, 131. 1!1 Jd. 24 3 / . 24 1 % Do. New l3s 4d 134 ....... ... .. 1% p Lona. & S.Western 41/ 6s 10d by. Consolidated Bths 12 — Do. New London and York ...... ... 2%...... 5% 5% .... .. .. 5% London, Salisbury, and Yeovil - Lynn and Ely ... 21,4 71.,414 Lynn and Dereham l% 4% 31 anchester and Leeds... 76 205 Manche:ter and Birmin. 40 Manchester,Buxton,and Matlock 22s. Midland 100 lBO 178 205 65)/i'2 Do. New Midland,Birtn.,Derby...loo 138% : l3B Newcastle and Darling ton Junction '2s ...... 55 .. 55 Newcamle and Berwick 1 1 / 25 % 3 /4 25 ...... Newry and Enniskillen. 2 1 / Q North British 24 1 / 2 3 30 Do. New North Kent North Staffordshire 225....... 3 1 4 p North Wales Norwich and Brandon... 14 - 2 4 34 Do., New .... ..... ..... 1 Oxford and Worcester... 2 1 4 iertb and Inverness ... 2% Pilbruw Atmospheric ... 1 ...... Rugby, Worstr, &'f ring 1 Scottish Central Scottish Midland I:I i s. ••• Shrews., Wolverhamp , Dudley, and Birm 2%. .... 4%•••... Shrewsbury and Trent Vailey Union 22s. • Shrewsbury, Hereford, • aid North Wales 2 34 — South Midland 22s South Eastern & Dover 33/ 2s 4d 47 . 46% Do., No. :3 .... ..... Staines and Bicbmono... 1 South Wales ..... ...... ... 2% 5% Trent Valley 2 ...... Trent Valley and Holy head Junction Waterford and Kilkenny • 1 •••••• I?Ni _ 2% Welch Midland . 2%. . .... 3•% 4 %7', 3% Worcester, Shrewsbury and Crewe Union ..... 1%... .. 3 %•• 3% York and North Midl an d 50 110 Do. 1 4 Shares Ditto Scarboro' Branch. 25 2p 3 1 4 5 4634 8 2 g, 18 Do. Extension 1 14...2 4 3 /4 25 3 / 4 24 1 / 4 25 : 24; FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Boulogne and Amiens Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cettf Dutch Rhenish Great North. of France 11% (Laffitte's) Do. do. (Rosamel's) " 2 Jamaica Junction........ 1.1 2 6 3% Louvain and Jemeppe... 4 ... , Namur and Liege Orkins and Vierzon ... I; ...... 17% Orleans and Bordeaux... 4 Over TsseL 413 s 4d 1 aria & Lyons, Laffitte's 4 Paris and Orleans Paris and Rouen . Paris and Strasbourg (Ganneron's) 2 ...... 2 1 4 Do. (Compte de L'Est) 2 ... :.. 2% Rouen and Havre ...... 1G Royal North of Spain ... 2 Sambre and Meuso ..... 4 Verona and Anconi...... 3 West Flanders 2 - JOINT STOCK BANES British North American 50 — Commercial Of London 20 6 !4 2% 5 1 4 : 17 11 ..... 4% 49 1 4 24 ARRIVALS. Barlay. 40 qrs. English Irish .. Foreign ...... Wheat. 2,040 qrs. 1,790 Oats. I Flo.tr. 20 qrs I,B9osks, 2,960 i 2,110 MAIL 550 qrs. SIVIXIMPIELD, On the whale, the supply of Beasts on sale here was tole rably extensive as to numbers, but very deficient as to quality. The few prime Scots offering sold at Monday's quotation. 4, but all other breeds were very dull. We had on offer SO Beasts and 100 Sheep from Holland, together with 200 Scots from Aberdeen. The numbers of Sheep were on the increase, owing to which the Mutton trade was heavy, at barely late rates. In Lambs only a moderate business was transacted, yet their currencies were supported. Calyes were a dull sale, but not cheaper. Pigs moved off slowly, at our quotations. Mitch Cows sold elowly, at from 161. to 191. each, including their small calf. Ink the offal. • Per 81bs. to s s. d. s. d. s. d. to s. d Inferior Beasts .... 3 0 3 4 Second quality ditto 4 0 4 4 Second quality ditto. 3 6 3 8 Coarse-woolledditto 4 6 4 8 Prime large Oxen.. 310 4 1; Soutbdown Wethers 410 5 0 Prime Scots •..• • • 4 2 4 4 Ditto out of the wool Large coarse Calves 3 6 4 4 Large Hogs ••• • 3 0 3 8 Prime small ditto 4 6 410 Porkers .... 310 4 2 Suckling Calves, .18 0 30 0 Quarter old Pigs ..16 0 20 0 Inferior Sheep .. . 3 6 310 Lambs ••.• • . 5 0 6 0 SUPPLY AT MARK F.T. Beasts. Sheep. Calves. I Pigs. I 925 10,940 . 410 280 IV zur ways D &VAX) ZITi I.X. 1.. For each kind of Meat we had only a moderate demand at our quotations. At per stone, by the Carcue. s. il. to s. d. 1 s. (1. to s. d. Beef, Inferior— ... 2 6 210 ' Mutton, interior .. 3 0 3 6 middling, .... 3 0 3 2 1 middling.. 3 8 310 prime large .. 3 4 3 6 1 prime .. •• 4 0 4 8 prime small .. 3 6 3 8 Pork, large.... •• • • 2 8 3 6 Veal.. - small ........ 3 8 4 0 Lamb. 4s led to Gs —d. nO7ZOUGN HOP 112.3.3bU1LZT. The prevailing wet weather has had the effect of prevent ing any further decline in the value of Hops, ir. which rather more business is doing. The plantation accounts are favour able. The duty is called 1900 1 0/. Sussex Pockets, 5153 to 51. 15s; Wealds, 519 s to 51 15s; Mid Kents, 61 to 81; East Kents, 81 to 11/. COLONXILL. SALTPETRE—The demand is but limited. 36 19 1 4 374 64 64% 64 64' TE.A.Not much is doing, and prices are rather drooping. Low to good common Congou is 9d to 10d, and common yel low leaf Twankav about Is 2d per lb. llysun, fair to common, 2s 4d to 2s 6d per lb. The King presided yesterday in a Council of :Ministers. Her Royal Highness the Duchess, who left Vienna on the 29th to proceed to the Rhine, is accompanied by the Archtiuke Frederick, who goes to compliment Queen Victoria, in the name of the Emperor, on her arrival in Germany. *BRUSSELS, Ana. 5.—M. Nothomb will return to Brussels at the end of this week. He has passed the principal part of his absence in Luxembourg with his family. It is believed that he w ill shortly go to Germany as his Majesty's repre sentative at the Court of Berlin. 0 1 ,;p 24 3 4 3 1 / 2 87 SECONDARIES.-( THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Secondary JAMES ) FIELD AND ANOTHER V. MEADER. The plaintiffs in tins action are brewers, and the defendant was landlord of the Ship Tavern, Essex -street, Strand. The action was brought to recover the sum of 101. 153. 6J., the balance of an account to which defendant claimed a set-off of 9/. 15s. 6d., and iisid 11. into court. The case occupied the whole of the morning. and the ques tion was whether the defendant was bound to pay for the writing of the names of the plaintiffs on the sign. board. The. ease entirely rested on the credit of the witnesses. The plaintiffs' agent swore positively that he only gave an order for work to be done to the amount of 21. ss. On the contrary, the painter deposed that he was in the habit of working for plain • tiffs generally ; that he was told to do anything defendant ordered, but defendant said he would not give any orders. The agent then said he must do anything wanted, and he did so, and was pain by defendant by order of :,ivewril. , ,ht. Witnesses were called and recalled on each side to bear out the alleged conversation, still leaving the case in the same doubt. 111 r. BALLANTINE, for the defendant, urged that it was highly improbable that the painter would, if he swore falsely, do so for the defendant (who, in all probability, would never have the necessity of again employin g him) wh e n he wa s in th e employ of the plaintiff ; besides, the defendant left the house, but the board remained, and still would, until the house was out of the plaintiff's trade. It was, therefore, clearly a work for their keriefit, and being paid for by the defendant, he was en titled to deduct the amount. The plaintiff's solicitor said, that on the evidence of his wit. nesses the pla.ntiffs were entitled to a verdict, which the jury might safely give, and if the witnesses had sworn falsely, they might be indicted for perjury. The SECONDARY recapitulated the evidence, and commented on points which might possibly reconcile the contradictions, but after the jury having for the third time had the painter in the box, the :secondary said it really became a question who spoke the truth ; the evidence was irreconcilable. Verdict for the defendant. LONDON AND COUNTY JOINT-STOCK BANK.- Yesterday the half-yearly general meeting of the proprietors of the above bank was held in the board- room, No. 71, Lombard•street, City, William Hawes, Esq., in the chair. The report of the directors, read by Mr. R. P. Nicholls, the secretary, stated that they had declared a dividend on the capital stock of the Company of 5 per cent., tree of income-tax. The business of the bank coreinued to increase s.eadily, and the balance, 1,693/. 175., now pro posed to be placed to the guarantee fund, would, with the surplus of the last half-year of 2,554/. 15s. 6d., and in terest thereon, ntake an increa.e to that fund for the year of 4,441/. 10s. 6d. In announcing the terminafion and settle ment of the law proceedings in which the company had been engaged, the directors called the attention of the proprietors to the improved prospects of the company, and to expres. their opinion that. the cessation of those proceedings, and the release of a large sum so long unemployed for profitable investment, would, at an early period, justify a satisfac tory increase of dividends to the proprietors.. The loss arising from the law proceedings would not exceed the sum now placed to the credit of the guarantee fund; and it was the intention of the directors, at the next meeting, to submit for the consideration of the prorriet•irs a resolution to apply that fund, or such part of it as might be required, to its liquidation. The report having been adopted, and a dividend of 5 per cent, declared, the balance-sheet was read. It stated the gross pro fits of the year to amount to the sum of 33,7961. 9s. I Id. A vote of thanks was then passed to the chairman and the !direc tors, and the.meeting separated. NIGHT BALLOON Asct.NT FROM CREMORNE HOUSE. —Last night Mr. C. Green made his 306th ascent in his " Albion " Balloon, from Crtmorne House, it being the second night aerial trip this season. On the occasion there was a very numerous company in. the gardens, and an additional variety of amusement was provided. The balloon was placed in the front ground, nearly adjoining to King's-road, and a strong barrier was erected to prevent the immense throng from approaching too near the men employed in arranging the preparations for the ascent. This was to have taken place at ten o'clock ; but in consequence of the necessity of taking every nece,sary pre caution against an accident, it (lid not occur till nearly a quarter to eleven o'clock. By this time, it being intended to have a pyrotechnic exhibition after the balloon had reached an elevation of about 2,000 feet, a wooden frame work, about five feet its diameter, was attached to the car, with Which was connected the apparatus to which the various fireworks were fixed. About 4 cwt. of sand, in bags, the grappling-irons, the barometer, &c., were also deposited in the car. Mr. C. Green then gave the word that he was ready, upon which he immediately liberated himself, the band playing " God save the Queen." The ascent was slow, and, for several hundreds of yards directly perpendicular, the remnant being greeted with the loud cheers of the company. Having attained the altitud e intended, a beautiful display o f fireworks took place. An illu mination, successively, of white, pink, and green colours was presented, which was followed by a discharge of Roman candles. A change occurred, which caused the frame-work to revolve, leading to a discharge of various-coloured stars. The whole concluded by a loud report, accompanied by a shower of silver fire. The balloon was carried in an easterly direction. Sub sequently a youth named Herbert made an ascent in a small balloon, amidst a discharge of fireworks, the height be reav4 , 3l being allT3t fifty feet. SUGAR.—There has been a very good market for British Plantation, and, with rather large sales, advanced prices have been realised. At auction Bat badoes has realised 53s for fine yellow, and 49s to 51s for mid. The consumption is good. REFINED.—A large business has been done. Standard Lumps have been 68s 6d to 69s per cwt. EAST 1ND1A.—:4,500 bags Bengal nearly all sold ; fine grainy Hobe), kind 61s; fine Bewares white, 57s 6d ; mid, 54s 6d to 555; mid yellowish white, 53s 6d to 545; and yellow, 4Ss 6d to 50s. Mauritius has been held firmly; fine is 50s to 555; yellow 40. t to 475; and brown, 35s to 40s per cwt. FOREIGN.—White Havatmah has been at 40s 6d per co t. CoFFE,B.—Not much has been done in West India samples, the supply of other sorts being abundant. Ord to mid Ja maica has realised 41s to 86s per cwt. Ceylon has been dull of sale, and is to Is 6d lower, good ord pale 45s 6d, and low 435. Plantation 50s to 755. Singapore Java, 1,570 bags, partly sold at 36s to 39s 6d per cwt. Rust.—A contract for 10 0 ,000 gallons, half East and half West India, will be taken this afternoon. Proof Leeward has been is 10d to is 100 per gallon, and Calcutta is 9d to Is 9id. ' RlCE.—Bengal has been higher, and a good deal had been done, low to fine white 12s to 13s 6d per cwt. SPICES.—The demand for White Pepper is fair, and 4IAd to 511 per lb has been paid, being fuller rates; Black, 2 1 / 8 d to 24d per lb. Pimento has been brisk, at 3d to ai,gd per lb for mid. Cocoa.—British Plantation has been rather lower, the supply being larger. TOBACCO.—The market was quiet last month. Sales about 500 hhds. Kentucky was more in request than other sorts. TALLOW.—P.Y.C. is 40s to 40s 3d per cwt on the spot, being rather brisker, owing to the lower stocks and good consumption. _ _ FLANDERS and HAMBURGEI MAIL. BRUSSELS, A uo. 6.—The Moniteur Beige of this date pub lishes the statutes (with his Majesty's approbation of them) of the Joint Stock Company of the iron railways from 'l'ournay to Imbine. The capital is fixed at 12,500,000 francs, which may be increased for executing branches. The capital is divided into X 5,000 shares of 500 francs each. The Company is to be governed by a board of nine members. For the first time they are—. lessrs. Robert and William Kinnard, Paterson, Gladline, illoz'ey, Mackenzie, Barry, Bullot, Tercelan Sigart, and Bruneau, who have taken for themselves and others the whole 25.000 shares, excepting 1.000 shares taken by Mr. John Pierce Kinnard, and 100 by Mr. Thomas Rhodes. RAILWAY COMMI ri°B; S. (THIS DAY.) HOUSE OF LORDS. The Select Codivittee appointed by the House of Lards to inquire into the subscription contract of the Lou :on and York Bill met at 11 o'clock, in Room No. 2 of the Hour of Lords. The first witness called was flit.. John Haines, who appeared on the deed as of the Treasury Chambers, for the sum of 500/. This witness was under examination when our report left. Ne ttal examined - before the Commons. The ChArtnan of the Lords' Committee is the Marquis of Clanricatt!. HOUSE OF cOMMONg. _ - The Select Committee on the London and York Plb'c rl P'' tion contract met at eleven o'clock; Mr. Hawes in the chair. The Committee sat up to a quarter to vivo this morning, but notwithszaridirg their unwearied lahnur, they do not appear to make much progress. A great portion of the time 13 occupied in discussing points of form. Thomas Sherman, Esq., a major in the army, who appears on the contract deed as of 51, st. Mary Axe, and a subscriber to the amount of 8,25 PL, and who was examined at much length yesterday, was re-called this morning. He was under examination when our report left. The proceedings of both Committees are drawing rapidly to a clo•e, and the interest manifested in the proceetings becomes more and more intense as the hour of four o'clock approaches. The avenues leading to both rooms are crowded with spectators whose countenances show unequivocal marks of anxiety. Every new corner is re garded with suspicion. The professional men who have access to the Committee-room wear an air of mystery and gravity which is quite amusing. When asked a question, they only answer by a negative nod, reminding one of a scene in an old play, where four patriots come together upon the stage, preserving total silence, and merely shaking their heads. One bystander remarks to another, •' Why, these wise men are very silent." " Oh, but," says the other, "there is a great deal 0 be conjectured from the shaking of their heads." Notwithstanding the extreme caution, silence and secrecy preserved, some rumours leak nut, and the prevalent one is, that although a few subscriptions' en the deed have been in. validated, and although a few cases of the same nature as those which have excited so much atteetion on the Irish Great Western have been presented, nothing has yet transpired before either Committee to vitiate the contract deed, or ohstrutt the progress of the Bill. An. Honourable Member, who supported the Bill, said, upon the last occasion that the subject was under discussion in the House of Commons, that though the contract deed was invalidated to the amount of 60,000/., there was yet enough of bowl fide subscriptions to carry out the scheme. No such amount has yet bean struck off, hut there is one either fraud upon which the Committees may decide against the scheme—carelessness anti extreme want of caution. Whether the projectors of it have left themselves open to this or any other charge, a few hours will probably determine. . Carpenters and other mechanics are busily employed in pre paring tor the prorogation , erectir . g seats along the corridor through which her Alajesty will pass, so that st. Stephen's presents to-day an unu usl scene of bustle and confusion. THE NAVY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN'. Sm—You will oblige me by giving fir 626ocliburn an opportunity of explaining an apparent inconsistency, which, in my opinion, stands unparalleled. _ Alatiy of your readers, no doubt, recollect the powerful appeal mane last year, in Parliament, by Sir C. Napier, in favour of the masters in the navy, when the Secretary of the Admiralty assured the Members " there was not a class of officers who occupied more of their Lordships' attention;" and, in answer to several Gallant Officers, Sir G. Cockburn said, "In his opinion, the masters ought to have a retired list, and he trusted the time was at hand." This announcement was received by " hear, hear," and left no doubt but something would soon be done fur that long-neglected class. Sir C. Napier brought their case forward again this year, and was told by Sir George, "It was in the contemplation of the Admiralty to amend the position of the masters in respect to half-pay and retired allowance." This semi-promise cheered the hearts of many' brave old veterans, who have been looking for the appearance of the retired list with intense anxiety, and now find they are not included in it. The masters feel sensible of the debt of gratitude they owe to the gallant Nir L'. Napier, Captains Pechell and Plum ridge, and 1 trust these brave officers will still persevere in their endeavours to obtain justice for that long-neglected and useful class of officers. I wish to ask the Admiralty their reason for withholding promotion from the master, and giving it to his servan s ; and why a young enterprising man, who gave up the command of a merchant ship to enter the naval service of his country (when at war with nearly all the world) as master, who had immediately to perform the duty of lieutenant, and sometimes commander, in addition to his own, is ti.ld, " Thus far thou shalt come, but no further," though the door of promotion is open to his servant ? 1 have heard of a case of this sort from good authority. A boy entered the navy More the mast, was servant to the master .of a sloop-of-war, afterwards servant to a lieutenant commanding a gun-brig (rated midshipman pay), anti, in 1815, was, with many others of a similar descrip tion, placed on the lieutenan , s' list. Let the masters throw off all false delicacy; and I hope the public press will assist them In making known their grievances. Ido not hesitate to say they are the most useful class in the navy. If you will give this a place in your valuable paper, you will oblige, Sir, your obedient servant, A CIVILIAN. Whitechapel-road, Aug. 5, 1845. SINGULAR ACCIDENT IN THE BLACKFRIARS road —This morning, at about half-past eleven o'clock, an ac cident occurred, ,which, though happily unattended with the loss of human life, was of a somewhat unusual and terrifying character. It arose from a man who had charge of a wart, which was delivering rough ice at the Cross Keys in the Blaektriars-road, incautiously taking off the horse's bridle to give him corn. The animal being startled by some object in the road, shook himself free fraln the man's hold, notwithstanding his struagles to retain him, and started off at full speed. The first obstacle with which he came in contact was the chaise of Mrs, Wood, of illackheath, in which a groom was seated, waiting his mistress, xho was making some purchases in the shop of Messrs. White and Greenwell. The chaise was overturned and broken to pieces by the encounter, and the groom thrown out. The author of the mischief, un checkett in kia wild career, then ran amongst a flock of sheep that was being driven home ft , m Smithfield, tejuring several so severely that they were obliged to be slaughtered ininn.diately, and was at, length stopped by the wheel of the cart striking against a lamp-post,-vtinch threw him down. Mrs. Wood's horse, as soon as he recovered from the effects of the concussion, also galloped away, kicking and plunging desperately, with the remains of the broken chaise at his heels, to the infinite alarm of the numerous passengers, but was fortunately secured before he had done much damage. The groom escaped miraculously, with no further injury than a few bruises and a lacerated hand. PRIZE FIGHT FOR FIFTY POUNDS.—On Thursday the pugilistic contest between Charley George and Peter Stevens came off. The parties started by a train of the Great Western Itadvray. and proceeded to the appointed spot. Stevens was waited upon by Jemmy Shaw and M'Donald and Driscoll and Turner did the needful for George. The fight was opened by S evens, who showed his superiority in science, and had winning certain, his antagonist receiving some heavy blows without returning the compliment. Stevens operated severely upon his opponent for thirty-five minute., his backers thinking his winning a certainty. After fighting another round, and to the surprise of all present, he refused to continue the contest, and in this way the affair abruptly terminated. . BURGLARY.—Yesterday morning, between one and seven, a daring burglary was committed on the premises of John H. Screed, Esq., in the Kennington -road. no thieves effected an entrance during the night by forcing the back par lour window fastenings, and carried off a quantity of silver plate, consisting of spoons and forks, a gull watch, and several articles of wearing apparel. They also regaled themselves with some cold roast lit ef and the remains of a currant pie, and drank two bottles of sherry, which they found on the parlour side-board. The page, whet slept in the pantry, was not disturbed by the slightest noise. DESTRUCTION OF PORTMAN HAY MARKET DT Flux.—Last evening, between the hours ef six and seven, a fire, most lamentably destructive in its results, broke out in the premises known as • Portman-market, Alarylebone. It origi nated in a large shed, used as a straw depot, the property of a Mrs. Ellis. This building was filled with straw, and when once in flames the fire travelled with more than usual rapi dity. From this pot lion of the premiies the fire laid hold of the roof of the market, and in less than half an hour the whole, wns in flames, which rose a considerable distance into the air, causing the most lively apprehensions for the safety of the contiguous property. At this period there were standing in the market, and beneath the fuming roof, a large number of waggons, loaded with hay and straw. To save them the inhabitants rushed forth, and were instru mental in rescuing a deal of the property contained in the mai kot, consisting of straw, hay, towls, and pigs, as we ll as the horse's. The different engines of the parish and London Brigade promptly attended, and those of the County and West of England Companies. There being plenty of water at hand several engines were set to work, but 6y the period that could be accomplished the whole of the hay-market, from 300 to 'Pit) feet long, with a large quantity of the stock, was blazing most furiously. The dif tertnt engines took up the most commanding positions, and the water being brought to bear upon the flames, they were pre vented from ex'ending to the opposite houses. The patent spreader was attached to the brancii of the West of England engine, which had the effect of causiner the water to be seat tered over a large surtace of burning hay and straw, which damped the flames very considerably. Owing to the exertions of the firemen the conflagration at length began to assume a less frightful aspect, and by nine o'clock it was safely exfin guished. By that period the whole. of the baymaiket ( vith the exception of an office at one end) was nearly consumes!. The total loss must be very considerable. The origin of the fire cannot be accounted for, hut it is the opinion of the inha bitants that it was caused by a man smoking in the market, arid some of the partly-consumed tobacco falling amongst the straw. The marker was the property of Lord Portman, and is believed to be insured. Six houses. in Ilantsvrorth-terrace are severely damaged. WILL OP THE LATE JOSEPH SOMES, ESQ., M.P.- The will of this extensive shipowner has been proved by the executors, Joseph and Frederick Somes, the nephews, and Thomas Collyer and Edward Saxton, Ergs. he personal estate sworn under 500,001)1. He bequeaths a sum of 70,00 W. i to be invested for the benefit of his wite, 30,C0U1., part. thereof, to beat her own disposal; it. is the testator's particutar wi. h that she should not re-marry within two years. Bequeaths to his daughter, sirs. Collyer, 70,0001, sod to her children at her decease, and to Air. Thomas Collyer, 1 . 1,0001. Bequeaths to his sister, Mrs. Harriet Docker. 6,0001., and to her daughter Harriet at her decease ; and leaves to his said niece, Harriet Docker, a legacy of 10,4100/. Tn his sister, Mrs. Sarah Briant, 15,0001., 10,0001. at her decease to her daugh ter Harriet, and 5,000/. to her son William. To his sister, Mrs. Ellen Holloway, 20,C00/., and at her decease to her children; a legacy to her daughter Ellen. Bequeaths many other legacies to his telatives. Leaves to his wife's mother, Mrs. Saxton, 4,0001., and 5001. to each of his executors. The residue being undisosed of, the Widow and daughter take the same under tte statute for distributiial of intestates' estates. The will, which is in draft, is in the deceased's handwriting, signed by him, and dated January, 1844. but was not executed until the day of his death, tl." - ith of June last, it was intended as instructions, and sent to his solicitor as a groundwork fur his will, from which a draft was prepared and shown to deceased, but owing to his sudden illness there was not time to have it fairly copied. The testator, on the day on which he died, the 25th. made a cross below his sig nature thereto, and acknowledged the said will or instructions to be his:last will, in the preseiice of his physician, H. J. Little, M.D., and Norman 31•Leod. '- DEATH BERNARD C AVAAAGU, Taß FASTING Max.—This individual, who three or four years since excited some attention in the metropol.s by professing to exit without sustenance, liquid or solid, expired on Sunday last, in Rucouts hne, in his thirty-second year. Ile had recei,tly k..pt a huckster% shop, in which he had tailed. He had gone by an assumed name, and his right one did not transpii e t 11 shortly befo , e his death His brother, who was with him whi n he exhibited him,elt in London, was present. The deceased was of p , rsitniminu , habits, and often reduced to great eztrernities, but has left money to the Bank. CAPTAIN BOLDER() AND HIS CO.;6TITUFNTS. Chippenham, Aug. 4, 1845. Dear Sir,—lt afforils me great pleasure to l rward to you the inclosed address, in the sentiments of which I believe the whole town and neighbourhood concur. I have the honour to be. Sir, Your faithful and obedient ser.Nnt. JOHN DARBY' H. G. Bolden, Esq., Grosvenor square. London. • TO CAPTAIN HENRY GEOtiGE BOLDER°. We, the undetsigned, aingst your personal friends an n constituents; having seen with great regret the report of the Committee on tl.e South Eastern Railway Petition, itoPl) J i l a c:nsure on sour conduct as a Member of the Boar ° " . Ordnance, beg to. express our entire confidence in sour tegrity and honour, and that we cannot think the evidence taken before that Committee justified their report, or the calueasie6 which have been circulated to your prejudice. ' • fully appreciate the honourable feeling that induced y e ! res. .;enation of your office, but it gives us . : _ tir to tender the hing has occurred to prejudice! r '', o pleasure to state muds your h , gh character i •:•.• honour and integrity+ o lessen those sentiments of confide., have always entertained towards you. ".eSc., I .••e' flue,. ..ce and respect Witch o JOHN DA R BY, Ma) ot, • , tig. 5. Orosvenor.Nuare, My dem Sir,—Your letter and address from personal t'• e and constituents of the borough of Chippenham reached 70 this morning, -and I take this early opportunity of expressing , you (and you will allow me, tbfatigh you, to each and ever; individual who ha , signed that address) TO y grateful aslo yvi r ledgmenis fir such kind expressions of frienethip, con fides and respec. 1 beg to t assure you that this address, together Pith tbg of honourable testimony evinced by every Member last nig,b_h ib e whatever political opinion.. who took part in the debate I° to f House of Commons, has afforded rue a gratifying proof that entire confidence in the justice of my cause ',as n o t mispla c eb . and that no part of my conduct has deprived me srf the Ott o ment and respect of those prittve and political friends, wi'_ ; „„ good opinion I value above all price.-13elieve me to rely my dear Sir, yours very truly, To J. Darby, Esq. H. G. HOLDERCP` IO THE VACUUM EN ATEVIOSPHE I ,t PROPULtsION PRODUCED BY THE DIRE ACTION OF STEAM. Mr. Janos Nastny.h, whose indefatigable exert i ll in c,irryieg out improvements in machinery are 50 known arid appreciated—whose f o rge-hammer and V„ , i tu driving_ apparatus, worked by the direct action of st em ; are m.(lttng such beneficial changes in the varinus opq tuns to which they are applied—has just obtail le , u , patent for a novel plan of producing the vacuum D' u c e e r s sary in the tube of the atmospherie railway, and Po , his favourite power, steam by direct. action, i• 4 f i g t he brought into requisition. The great objection e of atmospheric system at present is, that in conseqns- , " leakage, &c.. a much larger consumption of fuel is sary to produce an equivalent amount of power, in old risen with the locomotive engine. Much ingeniousber vestigatien has Leen, and is being, exercise d. so to improve the continuous valve as to prevent the . t io mission of air, or to dispense with it • altog..ther, by o u t introduction of an entirely different principle for u i d connexon of the cetrri).ges outside, with the trove" p piston ins de the tube ; but., whatever success may at o w the etrot is to mature the several plans which are 12 ,0 beff)re the public, the cemnomising the production of t!,os power which produces the vacuum is in itself the Istlie important point, in a - pecuniary point of view, iri th ! istem of atmospheric propulsion. By Mr. Nasmllef invention, he is enabled to dispense with the collo; system of stationary engines and air pumps, as at p be .hig used—the whole apparatus substituted in their place b hp a series of two or more large upright air-tight chareic t s, connected at top by slide valves, and made of boiler pi e B , to which the steam is admitted from a common low - P r d , sure steam-boiler. The bottom of these vessels open bY i ba able valves, into the railway main pipe, and also wit h Ifl open atmosphere, to permit the exit of the air• t he order to produce a vacuum, the steam is admitted li t t upper end of one vessel, and, ' as it flows in, does n°,i t t, the slightest degree mix with the air contained th er ' „„ but forces that air out through the valves at bot.e.l°"l,' preci-ely the same as tf acted on by a piston, the 0E 0 :4 non between the two columns of air and steara perfect. As soon as all the air has escaped, 01:1 est vessel, consequently, full of steam, a jet of cold w i t h is thrown intothe condenser, which is connecte d the chambers at the same moment ; the valve is,s (l e . a gulated that the vessel is closed at top, ha c T e 7 s ta" vacuum equal to that produced by the best 5 ;„. is engine, while the connexion with the main ,P' l o eav open( d, and the air rushes into the vessel ; in t he vessel the steam is admitted at the top, in like n l atn with the first, and the alternate production of /1„ ditl and admission of air from the main, goes on with r 7, the and regularity greater than by steam-engin°' 'piper iliaotint of •resistance from friction is absolute l f 4 . o large ceptible, and all that is requisite to cause these t .qu i s ite) vessels (or as many mor e as may be considered r ' to cause to continue the exhaustion of the , pipe, 0 , of tilt/ ' the abde valves at top, and the others at bn' lc tir s with apparatus, to work in their several proper po d ` ‘ se if.act . regularity. To render this apparatus perfect l y o f w ater ing, the inventor has introduced two small tanks l a ced placed over the discharge valve, in each of which is ‘ P as the a small gasometer having a hole in the top, a nd o f it discharged air bubbles up through the water, some collects under the gasometer and lifts it up; but the 0 , -,4 meat the last bubble of air is gone, and by the action I!, 'he valves, st,itm begins to enter at -the top of the °the' vessel, the gasometer in consevence of the hole at 0 8 top, immediately sinks, causirg just at the right time th e reverse action of the vaive—thus giving the apparo r t f, • almost a discriminating power to act at wily w. thig proper moment. One very great advantage by ," 1 9 wilulesa:e production of vacuum is also gaine", bringing an entire set of any number of great Chamber'io into the condition of one vast magazine of rac ll , ll r, and. on Cm instant of the signal being given t o by opening the communication with the main V oi , the train would immediately proceed at a rapid r'li o ug its journey—a tar more certain and .expeu l ,,,ab mode than waiting the effect of air-pumps' ios ins ifir gradual leakage, and loss of power, until the c Mr• point is reached by the continued exhaustion b old , Nasmyth propsses that these vacuum chambers e t he be lined inside and outside with wood to econora'sould. heat, and 1 - irevent loss by radiation, and that they ii":yer be enclosed in brick towers, or buildings, which, by 11 ,` ar' sified architectural design, Might be rendered hig hll t i4 namental to the various points on the line wher e t ot are situated. The discovery is, doubtless, an inV? r fe ,nt one, bids fair to produce a vast change in this yet ' ll t o mode of propulsion, and, by greatly economising i; • productihn or power, places the system in a more factory light before the public. • he HENRY HUNT'S SON.—On Tuesday afternoo n - or t y • remains of Mr. Hunt, the only surviving son of the late 1 1,09 Hunt, the celebrated advocate of Universal Suffrage. an d isr for many years represented Preston in Parliament, wein do . terred in the new burial-ground, near the Old Church , '—ue beth. The deceased, who is the subject of this n otice , s. h ceeded his father in the extensive blacking-manufactorY. ‘ ch b ic ed his father, amidst the turmoil of political agitation, estab lis hlt in Broadwall, Blacafriars; but as he did not possess the i s e P co , or enterprise of his father, the business soon went to ' l ait y, and fur several ye,rs past he subsisted partly upon an an! i n eo, and partly on the bounty of his late father's political ftl e a di The deceased was the last of an ancient family, and the bit one that had obtained notoriety was, his father, who bee° ep s political career as a Universal Suffrage and Annual Parlit i lso man, and continued to advocate those principles till t h e hi§ of his political career. Henry Hunt, the younger, durt n ot b father's lifetime, made the. tour of Europe, and travelled tbra er the whole of the United States of America and Canada. at some time past he had been living in a very retired ma nn :Bye No. 41, George-street, Regent-street, Lambeth. Ab °l/ swed. weeks ago he was attacked with illness, and he died ono f h i s nesday, July SO, in the 45th year of his age. Manyf .the father's political friends wished to follow the remains 0101 decoa,eo to the grave as mourners, but the offer was t he by those who had the management of the funeral ; o ld mourners consisted only of his late father's servant, a Ter 'tion! man, who said he had witnessed the burial of three get& e ,lSen of the Hunts ; Mr. Mackintosh, proprietor of the c kler Lion Tavern, Westminster-bridge ; the brother of Mr. dpef' tosh, Mr. Braithwaite, the deceased's solicitor; Mr. J• Elm mot and Mr. Newman, his medical attendants; and Nt oft more, the horse-dealer, of Ockendon. The deceased h": 6 in a widow, from whom he has been separated many Yel; consequence of a distressing malady, under which sh e o riel labouring. Air. Henry Hunt obtained considerable n°drtsco during his father's lifetime by driving a blacking- I ' l T' i f e ras by eight horses, across the Serpentine River, ulm e tio sble frozen over. He was greatly respected, and a more e s o d man never existed. His mother is still living at Bat h, 1 upward of fourscore yearld. he TH s W EAT E s olVednesday a fternoon t o recent course of dry weather was interrupted by a hes / Yoso. of rain, which continued to some extent on Thursd a y ri ble, Since then the weather here has been on the whole fa!"%vere although in some pLees at a distance we perceive tha t a _lo,- thunder-Storm was experienced on Frida), attended by so`;'e sudtie=. To-day sunshine arid heat prevail, which , 11 _ i o ta tinned, will relive the fears of those who are dreading • _ • harvest.— Ayr Observer. at iotil EXTENSIVE iti/BBElZlES.—Yestertiay of the lollowing rail:writs was received by the metropnlitagr'eit City police :—From the person . of Mr. Davis, Yu. 6 0, Tichtield-stret.t, .Cavet dish:square, while in a mews, °n "ih hill, Dover-street. Piccadilly, a siigle.cased gold watch , gold face, maker's. name,- •' Williamson, Royalebta..-idge- From the person of W. Curlake, of-No. 16, Southwaris. or% road, while in the England üblic-house, st. S av !, l ° ,nce a '.201. and five 5/. [tank ofg noses. From the re si j a ,nss of Mrs. •Brodie, at. Eastbourne, Sussex„two silver butter , ' le two gravy. spOons, a large fi .h slice, twelve large spoons, fifteen dessert spoons, twenty-seven large tab' )01 , eighteen dessert forks, and Other articles of plate ; a lso ~, ok Bank of England note, a Si. ditto, and two 5/. Love' n ieces' notes, seven sovereigns, and ninety s leer fourpennY rino at Also, from the person of •Mr. Argon, a gentleman staY the Hetle S auvage lon, Luitgate-hill, a silk-purse, cciair. a Bas.k of England note for 501.,.and a sovereign and a " ciu s, siive: row, ELANCHOLY DEATH eir THE AFfiIEAN hot! —LLANIDLOES. JULY 3.—lt is with extreme reg re ,, a t oc to inform you of a most melancholy and fatal accident in curred to Mr. Aldridge, the African Boscius. From ' l ' soiour to ttrest you and your friends totrik in him dur in g biS 4, his among you, feel satisfied that you would sympath'see o f its friends' berea:ernent, and the loss to the stage of (!!!. h i ! car !t. promising' ornaments. Mr. A. was returning been rirge trum the seat of I oloncl Powell, where he 00 of rli ivilig about, and when within half a mile of this ti c o n nsgo iks the horses took fright at the blaze of light from thenjrthe brink with which this country is studded; this occurred 0.., its in of a precipice,. over which the carriage swerved wguet time to mate, dragging the horses and postilion, w ho bad o a t disengage hirnsi lt. The footman bad a most Pi ty , h o rses escape ;he was, in the . act of alighting to seize It is heads as the carriage was precipitated over the cliff. needless to add that Mr. Aldridge, ere tilled upon the spot—the carriage bermt dash 1 ; 2 0 fee The place where this frightful accident occurredo!,;te K e rry from the summit to the bottom.— Correspondent Jy• of Ereany Post. o rder by I FIE BRITISH' Alusrum.—Yesteru a y the post the svb o her Al jesty's Commissioners Of Woods and Fores wo re oinPri -1 "b by of the eastern wing of the British Museum , c o tons of lead, the entire brick-work, &c., wa s ._ o f the P e " b ' edaa;io horses auction, order to be removed for the erection,,,_ w hic stone wing to correspond with that on the western of building hts Twillny finished. 'A ming the ma l a a s ntern _fortne d winch be taken down will be the old dstino f °e The foes . • 0 , house, abutting in Great Russell-street- , h u t the Intended wing has been laid for some gre . el . ga; . petted to be two years before it will be complete" Th ( uOrsei tern o( Larto: \v NI Af t a, 4: