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NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. There was a THIRD EDITION of THE SUN published last Evening, containing— A Report of the Meeting held in the City, at two o'clt ck, to originate Subscriptions for the Sufferers by the late Fire at Quebec. A Report of the Meeting held that afternoon, o the Shareholders in the London and Croydon Railway. The conclusion of the day's procee3ings before the Railway Committees of the Houes of Lords and Commons. The List of Appointments and Bankrupts from the London Gazette. The Monthly Account of the Circulation of the Irish and Scotch Banks. The latest Market Intelligence. Parliamentary Intelligence of the Evening, being a full Report of the Debates in both Houses of Par liament, up to a Quarter before Seven o'clock. RAILWAY NEWS. 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NEW WORK BY THE AUTHOR OF "ME MOIRs OF THE cOVIIT OF ENGLAND," "GEORGE SELWYN AND HIS . CONTEMPORARIES," &c. ;Cow ready, in 2 vols., Svo., with portraits from original paintings, &c. MEMOIRS OF T HE PRETENDERS and their ADHERENTS. By J. lIENEAGE JESSE, Esq., Author of " Memoirs of the Court of England," " George Selwyn and his Contemporaries," &e. • Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street, Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. THIS EVENING . w;11 he performed Mercaiarre's Opera IL GIURAMENTO. Eloisa, Madame tirisi ; lsaura, Madame 13,•111'ii ; Bianca, Mdlle. Brambilla ; 31;thlrelo, Sig. Fornasari Vrscardo, Sig. Moriani. Between the Acts a DIVERTIS:EMENT, in which Mdlle. Tag lioui, supported hv Madame Petit Stephan will dance the admired " La lyrolienne." To conclude with LA ESMERALDA. La Esmeralda, Mdlie. Carlotta Grisi; Fleur de Lys, Madame Petit Stephan ; Phoebaa de Chateupers, M. St. Leon ; Pierre Gringore, M. Perrot. In the Third Tablealx, Mdlle. Grahn, supported by 3ldlles. Mon celet and Ferdinand will appe.ir in the admired Pits from " Eoline," and Mdllo. Cerito and M. St. Leon will appear in th , t admired Pas de Qaatre, from " Le Lac des Fees," supported bylles. Ferdinand and Do:lel sso. tio:.a for Boxes, :Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box °Tee. ni•er t Coionrade. Doors open at halt-past Seven o'clock ; to commence at Eight. TO CORRESPONDENTS. " A Subscriber of some years' standing, a , Halifax," is in.. formed that a very strict inquiry has been instituted on the subject referred to. He has our best thanl.s for his good opinion, which it has always been our ambit on to attain and preserve. Ii• 4 - CC "i" 6 . ...,^ . 4 66 . eT, _„0. 0_ UI • M,,, . ' ••-•. 1 . ...ikii , r ' ," .. i : ' - a -1 11 - V- , . " . , -, , -• ~. 4 , ,tia -- .; ,JP l :adia2 - 4 ', T. ..,*,• . ~ .i.. , - 4 . 41 11 0 1 16 '' ' ' ..- 1 ," • 1 ~ ,A4l ' ', ' fit- '. X.•• ,- 41, . ' ~s 9r*f:, -004,,A s , - , „ ~ - -2 . m co` ve.110,.., DR oii• kt tng ,1,..A.,. , HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE, Sir. PUZZI respectfully Informs the Subscribers to the Opera, his Friends, and tnePablie that IIIS BENEFIT will take place ON THURSDAY, JUiX 10, On which occasion will be presented (for the first time this Season) Donizetti's celebrated Opera, ANNA.. ROLE.NA. Henry VIII. Sig. Lab!ache ; Percy, Sig. Moriani ; Smeaton, Signora Brambilla (her first appearance In that part) ; Anna Bollena, Madame Orisi ; Jane Seymour, AI Ilosetti. attar which, Selec:ions (comprised in One Act) from Rossini'e Grand Opera, PIETRO L'EREMITA. (Mose in Egitto.) With the foLowin : ; powerful Cast :—Agia, Madame Castellan; Fatima, Ma rianne Rossi Cacci ; Noradino, Sig. Barroilhet ; Pietro l'Eremita, Sig. Fornasari ; Lus:gnano, itg. Corelli ; Oro,mono, Sig. Mario. In order to give the fullest effect to the celebrated Preghiera, " Dal Tun Stellato S all the eminent Artistes of the Establishment have kindly consented to lend their aid and to join the Chorus on . this oc7asion only. . . . . „.., The Entertainments in the Pallet Department will include the ombined Talents of Mdlles. C. Grisi, Lucile Grahn, and Cerito; M. Perrot, M. Gosselin, and M. St. Leon. In addition to which, Sig. "uzzi has secured the assistance of Mdlle. Aupheatioty ;or Boxes, Stalls, ind Pit Tickets to be made to Sig. Puzzi, 38, .le: myn-street, St. James ; and at the era-Colonnaie. Lours open at Seve to comme at Ralf-past Seven o,Clock THEATRE ROYAL, HAYIM XtEKET. LESSEE, MR. B. WEBSTER. THIS EVENING W.II be repeated a New and Original Comedy, by Douglas Jerrold, 3ntitled TIME WORKS WONDER.i. GoldthLmb, Mr. W. Farrell; Felix (nluldtlitunb, Mr. Charles Mathews ; Bantam, Mr. Buckstone; Miss Ilessy Tulip, Madame Vestris ; Florentine, Miss Fortescue ; Miss Tucker, Mrs. Glover ; Patty, Mrs. Humby. After which will be repeated a Dramatic Sketch, entitled THE OLD SOLDIER. Sir Lionel Baffler, Mr. Brindal ; Master Michael Cramp, Mr. Tilbury; Adam Lethersole (aged 95), Mr. W. Farren ; Buff, Mr. James Bland ; Patience Cramp, Mrs. Stanley ; Helen, Miss Telbin. 'To conclude with an entirely New Farce, called THE KING AND I. Period, IG9I. Sir William Melrose, Mr. H. Hon ; Burchell, Mr. James Bland ; Perkin Pyeruich, Mr. Buckstone; Jessie _Donald, Miss Ju'i Bennett. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELI'HJ. SUER THE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTE THIS EVENENO Will he repeated a New Comedy, entitled PEG WOFFINGTON ; or, The State Secret. The Marquis de Mousseux, Mr. Selby; Baron Stuph, Mr, Paid Bedford ; George Tarleton, Mr. Hudson ; Merestick, Mr. Wright ; Peg Woffington, Miss Woolgar. • After which, THE HUSH ATTORNEY ; or, Galway Practice in 1770. Pierce O'Hara, Mr. Hudson; Jacob Wylie, Mr. Cullenford. After which, an Original Terpsichl.rean Burletta, called POWDER AND BALL ; or, St. Tibbs's Eve. Mr. Montgomerie Tibbs, Mr. I,lm Bert ; Captain K idglove, Mr. Selby ; Jacob Gerkin, Mr. Wright ; Mrs. Moutgometie Tibbs, Mrs. Frank Matthews; Sally Knobbe, Wonl,ar. MLA FRE, ROYAL, LYCEUM. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY. THIS EVENING be repeated a New and Original Comedy, in Two Acts. entitled FRIENDS AT COURT. Principal Characters by Messrs. F. Vining, A. Wigan, Diddear, Turner, Collier, and Bender; Mrs. Keeley, Miss Villars, and Miss Falrbrother., After which, an entirely New, Original, and Novel Grand Fairy BALLET DIVERTISSEMENT, entitled LES FEES. In which Les Danseuses Anglaises will appear. To be followed by a New Farce, entitled LUCK'S ALL. Principal Characters hr Messrs. F. Vining, Dieblear, Keeley, Meadows, Kin loch, and T.irner ; Miss flicks, and Mrs. A. Wigan. corscluite with an entirely New Operatic, Dramatic, Chivalric, .'airy, Romantic Burlesque, entitled CIND ERELLA. The Principal Characters by sir. Keel , s, Mr. A. Wigan, Mr. Frank Mathews, Mr. J. W. Collier, Mrs. Keeley, Miss Villars, Miss Falrbrother, Mrs. woolib l 4c. Mi. , Grove. 'disc Howard. &c THEATRE, O.tiORD-STItEET, LE-SE MR. J. M. MADDOX. EVI.NENG Will be performed (last time) Sheridan Knowles' Play of THE WIFE. Leonardo Gonzaga, Mr. Leigh Murray; Ferrardo Gonzaga, Mr. Lynne ; Count Flot:a Mr. C. Horn, Jun.; Julian St. Pierre, Mr Wailack ; Mariana, Miss Cushman ; Floribel, Miss E. Homier. After which. a New Divettissement, called A COURT BALL IN .1740. In which will be introduced the Dances as performed at her Majesly's Pal Costume, with the Original Music. To be f , .ilow,d by a New Dramatic Sketch, entitled MRS. .CAUDT,E ; or. Curtain Lectures. Mr. Caudle, Mr. Compton; Mrs. C,mllc, 02thor7 w . t't the throurite Interlude of TIIE WEDDING DAY. Sir A 'ant Contest, Mr. Granby - ; Lady Contest, _Miss Florenec GreY ila , nthrd, Mrs. fosbroke. PP!?S WONDER-;-r. JAMES'S TilL untE . Ry nears, a.,d at the request of numerous Families of Distinction, M. I'HILLIPPE will give his LAST 31ORNENQ ENTERTAIN MENs ; or, MATINZ.r. MVSTERIEUSE, on MONDAY NEXT, juiy 7, counnenciitz at Flalf-past One o'clock precisely. Les ;SOIREES MYSTERIEUSES will be repeated during tide and th , f'flowing Weck, on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, coin menci;lg cachEv-ning at Ralf-past Eight o'clock. rail's, 'Ts Boxes, 45.; Nit, 2s. ; Amphitheatre, Is. 6d Tielets may b 3 secured ac Mi r tchelt's Royal Li!,rary, 33, Old Bond-street, and at the Box-office of the Theatre. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPIIITHF ATRE. PROPRIETOR, MR. W. BATTY. *lmmense and overflowing Audiences attend the re-production of the Grand Military Spectacle of The Battle of Waterloo. THIS EVENING Will be performed THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO. Introducing the Double Company of French and English Artistes. The Em "perorNapoleon by Mr. Gomersal, who is engaged expressly for this occasion. New Scenes in the Circle, presenting the first talent of British and Foreign Equestrians of the present day. To conclude with the New Grand Pantomimic Spectacle of THE CREEK RENEGADE. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. COMBINATION OF ATTRACTIONS. The Four Juvenile Minstrel Brothers and the Rock Harmonicon, Every Day, from Nine till Dusk. ROMANTIC GARDENS AND PROMENADE. EXTENSIVE AND UNRIVALLED MENAGERIE. COLOSSAL MODELLED REPRESENTATION OF EDINBURGH, The Acme of Scenic Illusion. The MINSTREL BROTH KRS, from Four to Twelve Years of Age, will perform Select Airs at intervals. The ROCK HARMON ICON from Three till Eight. And on MONDAYS, TUESDAYS, WEDNESDAYS, and THURS DAYS, GRAND CONCERTS D'ETE and MAGNIFICENT DISPLAY of FIREWORKS. • Admission, One Shilling. Feeling the Caraivora at Half-past Five ; Pelicans and Polar Bears A . Voncf•rt at Half- , ttst Slx• and Fireworks at Half-past Nine. JULLII.N'S SEC/ND CONCERT MONSTRE OF 300 INSTRUMENTAL PERFORMERS. M. JULLIEN begs respectfully to inform the Nobility, Gentry, and the Public, that in consequence of the immense success of his first Concert Monstre (which was pronounced by the Press, as well as the Visitors, unequalled in the annals of Instrumental Musical Assemblies), he will give a SECOND CONCERT MONSTRE on FRIDAY, JULY 11, on the same unprecedented scale ofgrandeur. The PROGRAMME will be from the works of the great Mas ters, and will include the Eight Principal Pieces that created so great a sensation at the first Concert Monstre, viz., Selection from " I Puritatil ;" Overture, " William Tell ;" Beethoven's Symphony in C Minor ; "Lo ! hear the gentle Lark !" performed by Ntesars. Richardson and Lazarus ; Pas des Flears, Valse ; English Quadrilles, Chimes Quadrilles, Post Horn Gallop. Also the following novelties : —Overture, Der Frieschutz ; Locke's Music to Macbeth ; Grand Selection from Don Juan and Robert le Diable ; Beethoven's Battle Symphony for the first time with military effect; and "God Save the Queen," performed for the second time in England in the same etylo as the Russian Hymn is played at St. Petersburgh, each bar of the National Anthem being marked by a Royal Salute of Cannon, re ceived on the first performance with enthusiastic cheering, by 12,000 persons forming the audience. Several eminent Artists from the pro vinces and the Continent will arrive, in additien to the immense • galaxy of instrumental talent at the first Concert Monstre. His Grace the Duke of Lcinster has most kindly consented to send his Monstr Contra Basso, to be used at the Congres Musical. This ,powerful instrument is the largest ever constructed, and will be played by two artists for the accompaniment of the celebrated '" Marcia di Bravura Suona La Trumba," performed in quintetti, by 20 'trumpets, 20 cornet-a-pistons, 20 trombones, 20 ophieleides, and 20 B.:rpents. Also for that piece, God save the Queen, and the Storm in William Tell, M. Jullien has superintended the construction of a Long Drum Monstre, which will be in the same extensive propor tions as the one played at the Academy Royal, Paris, in the Operas of the Huguenots and William Tell. Tickets purchased previous to July 11, 2s. 6d. Admission On the day of the Concert, Is. To be had of all the principal Libraries and Music-sellers, and of M. Jullien 214, R.-gent-street. Tickets issued for the Concert of June 27 will be received at the Concert Monstre, of July 11. Tnz APOLLO T 1100 P-SHIP.— It is, perhaps, scarcely nee 4 jo say, in reference to the rumoured loss of thi s s hip, 114, 4r n etkftvere revived yesterday from Plymouth, st a ti ng th a t .- 0 6pt,s' Shaperoft, arrived off that port on Monday, - lIF ' ' 'II '_,' ' m Newfoundland. Her arrival having fr. .. ' A.' 4 n,-- 110 g agent, he promptly repaired on board t"6 / . loss of the A polo troop-ship. Captain rte 4 , ~ . ..,- 4,.. " , ,liforill .. e ent that he sailed from Newfoundland Itnt 470 of /One ; during his stay there—upwards of three - 4 riliik l o - "e heard !'l ' ' about the Apollo or Sp.rtan frigate; -, and *al 641ildETa their bad not been lost in that neighbourhood at 1 the Peritid iporelL/.o* ' i r - HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Nforning .. 19 minutes after 2 1 Evening • . 29 minutes after 2 THE WEATHE}L-SUN OFFICE, .JULY 4. rEIERPIODIETER, Lowest, 53 ; 11 ., ighe8t. 78 ; _ Nowu, 71 BAROMETER, 30.15.- WIND, W. S. W. NOTE.—The figure' 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. rafirnilt ,1111; LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 5, 1845. The Lords met at Five o'clock. The Irish Banking Bill was read a third time and passed. The Earl of BESBOROUGEt stated, on the part of Lord DACRE, that it was not his intention to proceed further with the Game-laws Amendment Bill this session. The LORD CHANCELLOR moved the second reading of the Irish Jurors Acts Amendment Bill, and entered into a lengthened explanation of the nature and objects of the measure. The Bill was then read a second time. The Irish Bishops' Patronage Bill was read a third time and passed. A long conversation ensued respectin; the coasting trade of Great Britain ; after which, the Bills on their Lordships' table were forwarded a stage, and the House &boomed. The Commons met at Four o'clock. A petition wai presented from Messrs. SCOTT, ship builders, praying that the officers of the House might be permitted to attend the Court of Common Pleas, on the trial of an action, brought by the petitioners against Mr. CRAVEN BERKELEY, the Member for Cheltenham, for the purpose of identifying the Hon. Member. After a short discussion the petition was rejected. In reference to the recent conflict between the police and the people in the south of Ireland, Sir T. FRE MANTLE stated that if the investigation before the Coro ner should not be satisfactory, the Government would institute an inquiry into the circumstances attending that unfortunate affair. On the order of the day being read fur the House going into Committee on the Commons Inclosure Bill, Mr. S. CRAWFORD moved as an amendment, that the House should resolve itself into Committee on that mea sure that day three months. Lord WORSLEY defended the principles of the Bill, and a discussion ensued, during which the House was addressed by Mr. HumE, Lord PALMERSTON, and the Earl or LINCOLN. Upon a division, however, the motion of Mr. CRAWFORD was negatived by a majority of 110 ; the numbers being—for the amendment, 11 ; against it, 121. The House then went into Committee, and various amendments were proposed on . the various clauses, but ultimately clauses 1 to 32 were agreed to, when the Chairman reported progress, and obtained leave to sit agaia on Monday. The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the Meuse adjourned at Two o'clock. No person who has instituted any careful inquiry into the subject of confinement for lunacy, or the con dition and management of private lunatic asylums, can doubt, that together they involve the most sacred rights of personal freedom, and even freedom of opinion. It is notoriously so difficnlt to define the line of demarka tion which separates insanity from eccentricity, that there are many still at large whose exces sive eccentricity far surpasses, in its mischiev ous character, the worst extravagance that others who have been confined for years as confirmed madmen ever committed. Mere oddity of notions on certain given subjects has subjected many a man of original genius and cultivated intellect, to the intrusive visitation of a commission de lunatic°, and the transfer of his estate and its management consequent thereon. In the same way the indulgence in some momentary caprice, shown by an overt act of whimsicality, has been held of force enough to subject the unfortunate party to personal re straint in one of those compulsory retirements which are sarcastically called " asylums." That is to say,•asylums vhich no man seeks, but all are driven into; a protec tion which its recipients shun and seek to flee from, as if it were the persecution of a pestilence. We have be fore remarked, that individuals in all the relations of 3•_ vial life, especially in the higher classes, have largely And most iniquitously availed themselves of these private asylums, and the facilities and laxity if the law which has hitherto regulated them, to divest themselves of those social relations with all the duties attaching to there ; or rather to per vert them to purposes of the most sordid avarice and the most guilty purposes. Now, of all the kinds of human sacrifices that the wickedness of man has ever devised, there is none so terrible as that of handing over a fellow-being, conscious of his own endowments and the fact of his own sanity, to the degrading confinement. the segregation, an I the coercion allAted by the severe fiat of the law to hopeless fatuity. Within these two weeks we have ourselves conversed with two intelligent gentlemen who have undergone this most cruel of inflictions, bting at the time in the lull possession of all their mental faculties. That these must have been strong. even in an unusual degree. may Oe inferred from the fact, that their elasticity survived so terrible an experiment upon them. But if we con sider how many wives have been confined in like man ner on the application of designing husbands, how many husbands at the instigation of their wives, how many rightful heirs have been handed over in these legalised domiciles of broken hearts to hopeless captivity and to death, by those who have yearned for the possession of their estates and property : how many wards have in these receptacles expiated the trouble and solicitude they have occasioned to treacherous guardians ; our only wonder must be, that any in dividuals who have once been inmates of these d. eary tenements should ever have left them, under any cir cumstances, with minds not absolutely ruined and ex tinct. Under impressions of this kind we have been 1 ,-, d more cirefully to consider, than upon its first publication we were enabled to do, the several enactments of Lord ASHLEY'S Bill for the regulation of th, , ca►e and treat ment of lunatics in England. And we are bound to state that, in reference to some of its particular clauses, especially clause 44, it does not appear to us to provide any adequate securities against the recurrence of those scandalous outrages on the personal liberties of indi viduals, of which we have spoken as being too fre quently set in motion for the most base and perfidious of purposes. We shall endeavour, however, more par ticularly to illustrate these objections at an early oppor tunity, when we propose to examine in detail the pro visions and enactments we allude to. It is impossible to devote too much attention to a Bill that is to recognise and consolidate, in very many instances, powers that already affect too extensively the liabilities (if we may so call them) of the liberties of the subject. Madrid journals, of the 26th ult. have been received. The Clamor Publico states, that on the evening of that day, several officers of the garrison had been put under arrest, but no cause is assigned. Some excitement had been caused in the capital by the acquittal of certain parties prosecuted for a libel on the Government, contained in a pamphlet en titled " The Proscribed and the Imprisoned." The jury were cheered as they left the Court, and the advocate for the de fendants was carried on the shoulders of the people to his carriage. The Madrid populace, it would appear, are not favourable to the proposed marriage of the QUEEN with the Prince of ASTURIAS. A print-seller having exhibited a portrait of that Prince in his shop, a crowd collected, broke the windows, and tore it to pieces. Letters from Barcelona of the 28th June state:that the QUEEN was to leave on the 2d for the baths of Pude, where she would remain ten days. Another letter from Bayonne, dated June 29, contains the following : " The Spanish Consul here has had it officially intimated to him that the visit of the Queen of Spain to the Basque provinces, which was postponed after the abdication of Don Carlos, and the appear. ance of his son's manifesto, is now definitively settled to take place. Her Maje,ty will be at Tolosa, the capital of the province of Gui. puscoa, towards the end of July. The Duke and Duchess de \e. mourn will make their public entry into Bayonne on the 16th of August." On the Madrid Bourse the Three per Cents. were dune at 32 for cash, and 32 3 / at 60 days; the Five per Cents., at 21 for cash, and 21 3 / at 60 days; Passives at 7, at 60 days. According to the Paris journal, the Unirers, the Papal Government had refused to interfere in the disputes between the Jesuists and the French Government. A correspondent of that paper who writes from Rome on the 20th of June; congregation on ecclesiastical says :—" The extraordinary affairs assembled on the 12th, to take into consideration the statements made by M. TRIERS in the French Chamber of De puties on the subject of the Jesuists, and to determine upon the answer to be given to the Envoy Extraordinary of his Majesty the KING of the FRENCII, unanimously derided that the Holy See could not take any part in measures which concern the constitutional rights of the citizens of France." The Journal des Debats approves of this decision in these words :-" We cannot ask for more. The answer of the con gregation of extraordinary ecclesiastical affairs, as reported by the correspondent of the Univers, appears to us, there fore, to be satisfactory. It sets aside the religious question, the only one that could warrant the interference of the Holy See. It leaves nothing in litigation but the question of public and constitutional right-a question purely tem poral-One with which the Court of Rome has nothing to do. This is a grave lesson to those who in this country attempt to confound the two questions." A letter from Algiers of the 24th ult. furnishes accounts of more razzias, and also of an expedition by General MAREY against the tribe of the Oulad-el-Aziz, in order to chastise them for having assisted BEN-SALEM in his attempt to stir up a revolt among the tribe of the Arib-Cheraga. The General is said to have burnt severalvillages, and made con siderable booty. About 2,400 Arabs, in close alliance with the French, co-operated in this affair, and are said to have realised an enormous booty, the tribe which was attacked being very rich. The statement of the accounts of the Bank of France. made up to the 25th ult., shows the following results :-Actif the bank had then in hand in cash 260,535,069 f. ; in dis counts and loans, 124,061,025 f. ; in branch banks accounts, 74,236,974 f., credits and various items, 88,168 f. ; rentes, public securities, and reserved fund, 64,240,974 f.-total, 523,161,297 f. Passif-the amount of bank notes circulated 259,141,652 f. ; accounts current, 17E,793,005f. ; capital and reserve, 81,900,000 f. ; different items, 5,326,640 f. The dis counts, advances, and loans made during the quarter amounted to the sum of 293,030,877 f. ; movement of ac counts current (private), 3,007,035,7851'. ; ditto (public), 228,259,071 f. ; general movement of the misses, 3,573,327,966 f. On the Paris Bourse the market closed on Wednesday as follows :-Three per Cents., for cash, 83f. 65c.; for account, 83f. 65c. ; Five per Cents., for cash. 121 f. 35c.; for account, 121 f. 65c. ; Bank of France Shares, 3,220 ; New Loan, 83f. 85c. Paris and Orleans closed at 1,165 f. ; Paris and Rouen, 1,040 f. ; Rouen and Havre, 845 f. ; Avignon, 970 f. ; Stras bourg and Basle, 251 f. 25c. ; Vierzon, 750 f. The following are the quotations for the new lines :- Bordeaux, 670 f. 675 f. 672 f. 50c. pet. 680 f. 685 f. 690 f. 685 f. ; Boulogne, 615 f. ; Montereau, 525 f. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 503 f. 50c. ; Dieppe and Fecamp (Selliere), 550 f. 545 f. 543 f. 75c. 545 f. ; Lyons and Avignon (Lecointe and Desart's), 515 f. ; Ditto (Talabot), 537 f. 50c. ; Paris and Lyons (Laffitte, Blount, and Co.), 520 f. ; Ditto (Ganneron), 505 f. ; Ditto (Calon), 500 f. ; Northern of France (Laffitte, Blount, and Co.), 535 f. ; Ditto (Rosamel), 590 f. ; Charleroy, 507 f. 50c. 510 f. FUNERAL OF SIR WM. FOLLETT. The mortal remains of this distinguished lawyer and ad vocate were yesterday consigned to their last resting place, in the vaults under the eastern portion of the Temple Church. The whole of the Judges (with the exception of Lord Denman, who was unable to attend), the Lord Chan , cellor, Lord Brougham, Sir Robert Peel, Sir James Graham, the Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Vice- Chancellor of England, Earl Caernarvon, Vice-Chan. .cellors Wigram and Knight Bruce, Lord Camp bell, Mr. Greene, M.P., Chairman of the House ; Wm. Brougham, Esq., Wm. Wingfield, Esq., the Attorney- General, Lord Langdale, R. Kindersley, Esq., Mr. Baron Parke, and upwards of 200 of the principal members cf the common law and equity courts, being present to pay the last token of respect to the lamented deceased, and assisted in the funeral ceremony. The funeral cortege, which consisted of a hearse, containing the body ;and thre, mourning coaches, each drawn by four horses, in which were relatives of the deceased, left Cumberland-terrace at eleven o'clock, and arrived at the Temple exactly at half past-twelve, when the r•rocession we, formed on the terrace in front of the gardens, and pro ceeded in the following order:—The Master, the beadles and attendants of the Inner and Middle Temple; the benchers of the Inner Temple, the benchers of the Middle Temple, two by two, wearing black silk scarfs and bands; the lid of feathers and porters. the choir, consisting of ten buys and twelve male voices; the reader; Archdeacon Robinson, the Master of the Temple; the coffin, on the right i f which, Mr. Burge, Q C., as treasurer the Temple, Chief Justice Tindal, Sir James Graham, the Chancellor of the Exchequer; and on the left. Mr. Crowder, Q.C., Principal of the Temple ; Lord Lyndhurst, Sir R. Peel, and the Vice-Chancellor of England, acted as pall-bearers. The chief mourner, R. B. Follett, Esq and the brothers and immediate relatives of the deceased, followed by upwards of one hundred gentle men, forming nearly the whole of the Queen's Counsel in the several Courts of Law, as also the Judges, two by two. They proceeded round the terrace into King's Bench-walk, through Tanfield-court, to the western entrance of the church, and up the centre. The body being deposited on a bier, the per sons forming the procession filed off to the places allotted to them. The body and gallery of the church being filled by the various members of the profession, the Funeral Service was chaunted by the whole choir; at the conclusion of which the body was deposited in the catacombs, between the late Mr. Joy and Mrs. Warre, and immediately beneath the re mains of the late Lord Thurlow. The scene was altogether one of the most impressive and solemn appearance, and there could not have been less than 5,000 persons present on the occasion. statement that 20.000 dollars are offered in consideration of the independence of the new republic being established. The best sample of pines yet received—the season Lot having been previously sufficiently advance&—has "c:lne to hand by the Medway steamer, which brings a very fair quan tity. The quality and condition of these will be fully tested on Monday. when, as the advertisement in another column shows. 31, ssrs. Keeling and Hunt intend to hold their first sale of the season. The Funds are again rather firmer than they were earlier in the week. Consuls have realised 99 to 1 ,4, for the opening. Exchequer-bills are 555. to 575. premium, being fuller rates. The New Three-and-a Quarter per Cents. have been 102 1 / $ to 1 ,4, and the Three per Cents. 99% to %. Bank Stock has realised 210 1 / to 211%. The Foreign Investments are very quiet. Spanish continue flat at 27 to 14 for the Five per Cents., while the Three per Cents. are heavy at 39. Portuguese Old Bonds are worth 84 1 /. Mexican Stock has been marked 36% to 37, and Colombian 18. .Dutch Two-and-a• Half per Cents. were 62% to 9. The Share Market has been tolerably brisk, and there is no material alteration in prices. South Wales have been lower, Cambridge and Lincoln are fluctuating, and South- Eastern are steady; Birmingham are up a little. ONE CLOSING PRICES OF BRITISII FUNDS. O'CLOCK. ruler>. Bank Stock ...- . _2ll l / 210i2 3 per Cent. Reduced - 99% New 3 1 4 per Cents ..10 2 1 A 1A 102 7-16 Long-Annuities to exeireJan.lB6o 11% 7-16 11 1 / 3 Ditto 30 years, Oct. 10,1859 ... IPA India Bonds, 1,0001 69 67 67 Ditto under 1,000/. . ....... .- 69 69 Consols for Opening 9914 991 A Exchequer Bills, 1,0001., I%d 56 55 57 pm. 57 Ditto 5001. . Ditto Sinai! ONE CLOSING PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES. Austrian, 5 per Cent ......116 116 Columbian Bonds, ex Venezuela. 18 18 Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837 ...... ... Ditto, Account Ditto. Deferred ... 2 1 14 21 Portuguese 5 per Cents. Ditto, Converted — €6 1 4, Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent .. 66 Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. Ditto. Account .. ... .. . 27 1 / 8 Ditto 3 per Cent. .. D' I Ace- , t 27 1 A i 387 f i .:tto Account French, 5 per Cent Exchange Belgian 4% per Cent. .... 99 98% 98% Dutch. 2% per Cent . Ditto, 4 per Cent., Certific — 99 PRICES OF ci I, I CLOSINo PAID. A uNE O'CLOCK. PRICES RAILWAY SHARES Iberdeen _ . . i% THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY. MORNING, JULY 6, 1845. DESTROCTIVE FIRE AT QUEBEC. MEETING AT THE LONDON TAVERN. A numerous meeting wag held y.sterlay of th- mer chants and banker,. of the city et Lord n, at the London Tavern. Bishopsarite :41—.1. to oriein to sebscriptioes for the relief et' the etifforers in gut?! e:; from the late ea!a nlitou. fire. The L .rd Mayor tabk the chair at two o'clock. On the platrorm we noticed Mr. Maule, Mr. Pattison, Mr. Baring, Sir J. Firie, Mr. R. C. Glynn, and Mr. G. R. Robinson. The LORD MAYOR said that he had been requested to convene a meeting . this day, for the purpose of con sidering the propriety of relieving the sufferers from this destruction at Quebec, whereby 12,000 human beings had been driven from their homes without food or clothing, and nearly a miliion of property was destroyed, and several lives lost. He hoped that the demands of these sufferers would be met by the gene rosity of the meeting.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. A. GILLESPIE moved the first resolution. He said that there was very little necesssity fur his alluding; to the fatality of this awful occurrence, as it had been already before the public through the prints and other sources. There had been a difficulty in aecertaining the number of lives lost, but upwards of forty bodies had already been found, and there was little doubt that a great many others had perished. He then read extracts from a letter from the corresponding Committee, which has already been published, and which set forth the deplorable losses occasioned by this fire. Those who suffered were nearly all French Canadians, with some Irish amongst them. He thought there could not be a more powerful appeal to their generosity than this calamity. The inhabitants of Quebec came forward most nobly, and, in a very short space of time, collected sub, - criptions of upwards of 7,000/. to alleviate the existing distress. The Governor-General immediately sent the sum of 2,0001. for the relief of the sufferers. Messrs. James Gibb and Joseph Masson sub scribed the sum of 1,1001. They were both French Canadians. The houses of all the neighbours were open to those who escaped from the ruins. Mr. Gillespie then read the resolution, expressive of the regret felt by the meeting on hearing that nearly one , third of the inhabitants were by this calamity deprived iu a few hours of shelter and the means of subsistence. _ _ Mr. THOMAS BARING seconded the resolution, and it was unanimously carried. The Right Hoe. Fox MattLE moved the second reso lution. lie was sure that on this occasion the appeal made to the generosity of the citizens and merchants of London would not be made in vain. if ever there was a time when the streams of benevolence should flow unimpeded, it was on the present occasion, are] if there was anything in this calamity for which they ought to thank God, it was, that it had not visit( d them in the midst of winter. Winter would come on in four months, but that was a short time to house 12 0000 human beings. They were call: d upon at or ce to vindi cote the majesty of the land in that country, and lei them howstretch forth the hand of benevolence the more readily. _ _ Subscriptions were proposed by Messrs. James Patt . ; son, It. Gillespie, G. R. Glynn, S. Gurney, jun., srd .everal other gentlemen, who appropriately and briefly addressed the meeting. The SECRETARY then went through the list of sub scriptions already received, containing the names of Lord Stanley, the Lord Mayor, the Right Hon. H. La bouchere ; Mesas. Glynn, Halifax, and - Co. ; Baring and Brothers ; Gillespie, Moffatt, and Co. ; and all the principal bankers of London. Several of the subscriptions amounted to 2001. and 100/. each. A vote of thanks to the Lord Mayor for having pre sided over the meeting having been proposed and re sponded to, the m-eting separated. CANADA. THE ONTARIO AND HURON JUNCTION RAIL- WAY COMPANY. This Company, formed for constructing a line of rail road from Toronto. on Lake Ontario, to Goderich, on Lake Huron, has lately obtained an accession to its strength in the co-operation of the wealthy and influen tial Persons forming . the Directory of the Canada Com pany, which will place the stock in this undertaking on a basis of security not surpassed by any of a similar nature in England. 'I he national importance of this work, ar•id the "air promise of an ample return which it presents, entitle it to the attention of thoio who ju,tly feel that in the prosperity of our colonies the chief wealth and security of the empire is to be found. The province through which this communication is about to be mad. has for some years looked with an anxious eye for the completion of the work which will, in a very important manner, del' , lop its resources, and place it in a position of successful competition with, in stead of dependence upon, the United States. We an ticipate, in the employment of British cal:atil in colonial works of this patine the commencement of a new era, when the people of Canada will he more united to Eng land by ties of interest and affe,tion, and, therefore, learn with satisfaction, that British capitalists have been successfully appealei to, and that the subject has been taken up in n national spirit, and with a view to British and Colonial inturests. A glance at the map of Canada will show the vast value and importance of connecting Lakes Ontario and Huron at the termini prop,sed ; they present the only true and natural points of communication between Lake Ontario and the extensive territories west of Lake Huron. The line possesses all the advantages which, in a young colony, should be rezarded as essential in the choice of a route of railroad communication. Ist. It is the short , st and most direct route between L eke Ontario and the Western States, and will, conse ntly, be constructed at the least outlay of capital. and will form the cheapest and most expeditious route for the current of the vast tide of emigration annually in'oceeding westward, and for the transit of all the pro- Alice of the west to the eastern markets. 2nd. It will form the only available trunk line, from which ruture extensions to important places ma) be con structed by the shortest new lines of road, which exten sions will a Lso eansequently be made at the least outlay of capital. 3d. It is the only line which can effectually open to emigration And settlement that extensive portion of fertile country lying between Lakes Ontario, Erie, and Huron ; and 4:11. It is a line which, by continuation at a future period through Canada, will secure to the greatest possible extent the continuous transit of goads and pas senger: entering upon the road at either extremity !hroughout the extent to the other extremity of the colon c. Such a continuation, it may confidently he anticipated, will be male at no very distant day, whereby a direct communication through Canada between Lake Huron and the Atlantic will be opened. In a pecuniary point of view it is important to observe. that of late veers the rapid strides made by the cvizens of °sweat) and Rochester, on the southern shore of Lake Ontario. have attracted. in a great measure, the western trade passing through the State of New York, from the Erie canal and Buffalo, to the route by Lake Ontario. On the completien of the proposed line, goods pro ceeding eastward aed westward will reach the markets on the Atlantic and Lake Huron in less than half the time at present occupied. and at less than half the cost incurred upon the present circuitous route by Lake Erie. We hev he assurance of parties well acquainted with Canada, that a field for the profitable investment o' British caati!al can be found in it inferior to none in the world, and infinitely superior in point of profit and se curity to those investments in which our capitalists are ever so ready to embark in foreign countries: but parties in cases of thi,. kind must inlge or thetnse'v. s. ABINGDON ELECTION.—GeneraI Caulfield, on Wed nesday, published an address to the electors, announcing his in. tention of proceeding to the poll on Tuesday. The Attorney. General has followed the example, and states that he has perfect confidence in the result. The Governownt of the Grand Duchy of Luxem burgh is about to make a great alteration in the rate of postage. A Bill has been presented to the States for reducing the postage of single letters throughout the Grand Duchy to the universal charge 4 'iabout three halfpence. TROTTING SIATCII AGAINST TlME,—Yesterflav watch to trot in harness four miles in fourteen minutes, for 101. as►de, came off on the Barnet-road, near Whetstone. Mr. Ccx was the owner of the horse, and Mr. Surridge was the backer of time. The horse trotted in admirable style, and won the match by twenty seconds. BY LIGHTNING.—On Tuesday after noon the Perth Company's sehooner Sovereign, Mann, master, was struck by lightning off Cromer, and an apprentice named Little john, was killed by the electric fluid, and the master was consi derably injured, The vessel's topmast was carried away, but she was not otherwise seriously injured. __ MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.— On Thursday was so lemnised, at the church of St. George, Hanover-square, the mar riage of Captain the Hon. Percy Barrington with the rich heiress Miss Higgins, daughter of Mrs. Staniforth, of Connaught place. The service was performed by the Hon. and Rev. Lowther John Barrington. The bridemaids in attendance were the beautiful sisters of the happy bridegroom, the Hon. Miss arid the Hon. Miss Mary Barrington, the Hon. Miss Georgiana Liddell, Miss Black weed, Miss Liddell, and Miss Ridout. After the ceremony Mrs. Staniforth gave a dejeuner, at her residence in Connaught.terrace, which was attended by the Earl of Mulgrave, Viscount and Vis. countess Barrington, Lord Ravensworth, Sir Edmund Antrobus, and a select faintly circle. In the afternoon the happy pair left town for Becket House, Herts, the seat of Viscount and Viscountess Barrington, where they have arranged to pass the honeymoon. TH. MAILS.—SOUTIIAMI'TON, ,JULY 3.—The Ori ental Company's steam-ship the Duke of Cornwall left the docks at three P.M. this day for Alexandria, with the East India and China mails; also a full cargo of bale and other goods, and twelve passengers. The Royal West India mail packet the Thames, Captain Haste, left her moorings yesterday at three P.M. upon her outward voyage, carrying the West India and South American wails ; also twenty-six passengers, 677 bottles of quicksilver, twenty boxes of silver (value 10,0001.), fur ditto of gold (value 4,0001.), and general cargo, The next Portugal mail will be due on Sunday next, and the East India and China one by the Tagus is expected at the Motherbank on the Tuesday following. THE TEMPLE GARDEN.—This garden, which has heretofore always been closed to the public, is now thrown open, and numbers avail themselves every evening, of the opportunity thus afforded of a pleasant promenade on the banks of the Thames. THE IVEATHER.—THE THUNDER STORM.—The temperature in the metropolis, during the last few days, has been somewhat low for the season ; on Tuesday it averaged sixty de grees, but after the high wind of that night, the mercury slightly rose, and on Wednesday, at noon, was sixty-five degrees, the wi n d blowing rather briskly from W. S. W.; at sunset that peculiar hue presented itself which foreboded an approaching storm, and as the succeeding morning advanced, the heat became rather oppressive, and at a quarter before eight o'clock, thunder ww. heard at a dis. twice, wh ch gradualy approached nearer, and a heavy storm of hail and rain followed, deluging the streets and roads. During the storm there were several loud peals of thunder. The storm was not perceptible at Graydon, though in Brighton, Hastqlgs, South ampton, and other places on the southern coast, it raged with great fury, the wind blowing violently from the S.W. The heat was considerable throughout the day, the thermometer from eleven o'clock till five indicating seventy-six degrees, being full tell de grees higher than the preceding day. As the sun declined the wind somewhat abated, though still blowing briskly. 1 tie DtrVSA.fhtf:f Orrz , fle th.i , the health of he Empress of Russia has become alarming, and that the Emperor again suffering from a disease of the liver, THE STEAM SHIP « GREAT BRI TAIN." This splendid vessel, which sailed from Dublin yes terday morning. at ten o'cl ,, clt, arrived in the Mersey last niv lit at nine, amtdst the cheers and enthusiasm of assem bled thous„,nds. As a proof of the ,xeiternent which her appearance produced, we may staV, that several fine steam vessel* left Liverpool for the pu,-pose of accompanying this leviathan of the deep to our harbour. As the steamers, freighted with their 'dying cargoes. came alongside the mammoth ship, cheers, loud and prolonged, rent the air, and the cordial greeting, thus gen, rously g:ven, was enthusiastically responded to by the crew and passengers on board the Great Britain She is unquestionably a splendid vessel—so elegant—so frigate-like,—and her immense proportions, great as they are, strike the eye with less surprise than their symmetry and elegant buoyancy. To her may be ap plied, without t xnggeration, and with a vast improve ment on the beauty and power of the craft in Byron's Corsair, eulogised by the poet — She alks the waters like a thing of lire, And seems to dare the elements to strife ! As a proof of the interest whieli her 94enearance in the capital of Leland excited, it may ha stated that the Directors of the Dublin and Kirgst-Avn Rciilway, an ticipating a rich harvest in the number of pass , mgers, whom curiosity would bring to Kingstown, gave a bonus of 500/. to the proprietors of the Great Britten as an in ducement for her to call there and be exhibited. She sails from Liverpool for New York on the 26th instant, and, in the interim, the proprietors will reap a rich harvest by exhibiting her in Liverpool, where she will be an object of the most intense interest. We had an opportunity of seeing her in Bristol, and still more recently in London, but on neither occasions, as a steam ship, or a work of art, did she convey to us an impres sion so vivid, or so pleasing, as she did last night in her run of some dozen miles into the port of Liverpool.— 'Verner and &litres European Tmes of Friday. WEST INDIES. The Royal Mail Steam-packet Company's ship Medway, Captain Andrews, arrived at Southampton at eleven o'clock on Thursday evening, after a voyage of thirteen days, from Bermuda. She brings ninety-four passengers and the usual mails. Her dates are as follows :—Vera Cruz, June 1; Havannah, June 10 ; Jamaica, June 8 ; Demerara, June 4 ; Barbadoes, June 8 ; Gre nada, June 10 ; Bermuda, June 20 ; and Antigua, June 11. She also brings the following on freight :-1,238,406 dollars; 3,000 oz. of silver; 1,618 oz. of gold and gold dust; 138 serons of cochineal; •246 dozen of pines; 40 turtles ; 20 cases of vanilla; and 25 bales of jalap. 214 Coolies, five having died, arrived at Trinidad shortly before the Medway left in the Fatel Rosack, 98 days from Calcutta. The arrival gave great satisfaction to the agriculturalists. The troops appear to be healthy at all the islands. The ex.Pre.ident, General Santa Anna, embarked en board the Medway, from the River Antigua, 13 miles N.W.or Vera Cruz; he was sent down with an escort of 200 cavalry as a prisoner; he was unattended except by his brother, nephew, and wife, with some others of his family. The lady who accompanied him is his second wife, a young and pretty woman, of about 16. It ap pears he was sentenced to leave the country, and his property confiscated; he had very considerable sums of money with him. but a greater part of it was stopped, though lie ultimately retained a large sura in his possession. Santa Anna stated he was going to Venezuela, but it was not credited. He left the Medway at Havannah. We have Jamaica papers to the 7th of June, by which we learn that the island has been favoured with the most propitious season for very many years past. The accounts of the sugar cultivation continue to be highly favourable; the wet weather may possibly impede the manufacture of this year's crop, but would be of vast benefit to that of next year. The few Hill Coolies that had ar rived continued to give the highest satisfaction ; they work cheer fully, industriously, and indefatigably, and it is eonsidered will be a great boon to the colonists. MEXICO, MAY 30.—The Mexican Senate, by a majority of 30 to 6, and the Deputies, by 41 to 13, have authorised the Government to nego►iate and conclude a treaty for the recognition of the in dependence of Texas. Mexico was perfectly quiet. The Minister of the United States, Mr. Shannon, has at length demanded his passports, and withdrawn from Mexico. A gereral amnesty has been proclaimed. Banta Anna submits to exile for life in Venezuela. and CO3,IIIIERCIAL NEWS. ( From The Sun of Last Night.) The business dime in Cotton at Liverposl yesterday was again considerable ; 10,000 bags were sold, including 4,000 American on speculation, and 500 for export. Mid. American were steadily supported at an advance of V s d. per lb. All other sorts were firm.—Shares were ra ther firm, but prices generally were maintained. Barnsley Junction. Half Shares, 3% ; Blackburn, Burnley, and Accrington, 9 1 / 2 ; Belfast and Ballymena, 64 514 ; Belfast and County Down, 3% • Bolton, Wigan, and Liver pool, 16% ; Caledonian, ; Ditto Extension, 2% • Cambridge and Lincoln, 4 3 / 4 % •, Chester and Birkenhead, 60% ; Ditto, Half Shares, 304 7 Chester and Preston Brook, 2 3 / 4 • Clitheroe Junction, 3% %; Derby and Crewe, 3 1 / 4 3 ; Dublin and Galway, 3%; Dublin, Mullingar, and Athlone, 4; Dundalk and Enniskillen, 3%; Eastern Counties, 214 %; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 76 1 / ; New Quarter Shares, 8 3 % ; Glasgow and Dumfries, 19s. 6d. 11. ; Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock, Half Shares, 9% ; Ditto, Preference, 24 . 465. ; Grand Junction, 239 ; Ditto, Eighth Shares, 22% ; Grand Union, %; Great Grimsby and Sheffield, 81s. 4t. ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 16s. 16s. 6d. ; Great Western, 205 ; Goole and Doncaster, 14 ; Huddersfield Canal and Railway, 84 ; Huddersfield and Sheffield, 6 3 / 4 ; Lancaster and Preston, 57 58; Leicester and Birmingham, 345. ; Limerick and Water ford, 6 7 / 8 4 ; Liverpool and Manchester, 42 1% ; Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 58s. 9,1. ; London and Birmingham, Quarter Shares, 35 ; London and Croydon, New Shares, 1%; London and York, 3% 16s. 3d. ; Direct Northern, 3 1 4 ; Leeds and Dewsbury, 17 16 3 / 4 ; Leeds and Thirsk, ; Leeds and West Riding Junction, 4 3 / 4 5 / 8 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 60; Manchester and Birmingham Continuation, 1 3 / 4 335. ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland, 3%; Man chester and Leeds, 174 ; Ditto, Half Shares, 78 ; Ditto. Quarter Shares, 25% 3 / 4 ; Midland Railway, 188 ; Ditto, 40/. .Shares, 89%% 1 / 2 ; Newark and Sheffield, 2; Newcastle and Berwick, % ; Newry and Enniskillen, 3 3 / 4 ; Newry and Warrenpoint,lBs. ; North British, 25%; Ditto, Half Shares. 7; North Kent, 32% ; North Western, 44 ; Nottingham, Erewash, and Ambergate, % ; Nottingham and Mansfield. 1 / 2 ; Oxford and Birmingham Junction, 4 ; Oxford, Wor cester, and Wolverhampton, 6 1 4 • Preston and Wyre, 32 1 /, 4 ; Ditto Extension, 2 1 4 ; Sheffield and Manchester, 130 1 ;4 131; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 16% ; Shrewsbury, Os westry, and Cheshire, 4 1 4 ; South-Eastern and Dover, 49 3 A ; Ditto, New Shares, No. 1, 194 ; Ditto, New Shares, No. 2, 174 ; Ditto, New Shares, No. 3, 9 1 ,4 ; Scottish Central, 6 3 / 4 ; South Midland, 425. 41s. ; Trent Valley, 184 ; Ulster, 504 52; Waterford and Kilkenny, 3 2 3 / 4 ; Welsh Midland, 34/ ; West Yorkshire, 3 3 / 4 11s. 3d. ; Worcester and Tring, 315. 325. ; York and Carlisle, 4%; Bordeaux and Cette, 2%; Dendre Valley, 24%; Jamaica and South Midland, 395. ; Northern of France (Laffitte), 5% ; Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux, 12 '4 ;_ Verona and Ancona, 2% Bs. Gd. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JULY 3 —The sales are —Barnsley Junction, 7 6 3 / 4 ; Blackburn, - Darwen, and Bolton, 5% Churnet Valley, 4% ; Clitheroe Junction, 3 9-16 ; Edinburgh and ; Glasgow, 76 1 ,4 ; Erewash Valley, 33 1 4 Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester, 11s; GlasgoW and Dumfries, 21s. ; Goole, Doncaster, Sheffield, and Man chester, 265. ; Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction, 345. 6d.; Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal, 8% 7 1 - / .; ; Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction, 7 ; Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester, 16% 17 ; Leeds and West Riding Junction, 4% ; Liverpool, Ormskirk, anti Preston, ; London and Birmingham, Third Shares, 47 ; London and Windsor, 1% 1 ; Londai an 4 York, 3 7 / 6 ; Manchester, Bury, and RosserLle, 17%; Manchester, Buxton, .Matlock, and Midland, 5 1-16; Manchester and Birmingham, Quarter Shares, 9 5-16; Manchester and Birmingham Continuation and Welsh Junction, 1 13-16 4 ; Newcastle, Durham, and Lancashire, 3 / 4 prem. ; North British, New Shares, 6% ; North-Eastern, ss. prem. ; North Western, 4%; Notting ham, Erewash, Ambergate, anti Manchester, 15-16 prem. ; Preston and Wyre, 32% ; Ditto, Half Shares, 34 ; Sheali and Manchester, ir.t. ; Shrew,-bitry and Trent Valley Union, 1 15-16; Shrewsbury, \Volverhampton, and Dud!ey, &c., 4 ; South Eastern and Dover, 49%; Ditto, No. 3,9% ; Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole, 16%; Welsh Midland, 3% ; West Yorkshire, 3% ; Worcester, Shrewsbury, and Crewe Union, 178. There are no ship-letters to-day. The accounts frAn Jamaica, and other of the West India islands, notice the prevalence of more moist weather, so much needed in Barbadoes. Most of the colonies were re ceiving supplies of emigrants from the East Indies, and some few continued to arrive from Africa. The arrangements of the British Government, for the settlement Government on th e M os quito shore, hatlhee of a steadycOmplet and the.young King had been duly christened, and afterwards crowned at btlize, in the Hon duras, her Majesty's ship Hyacinth afterwards conveying him to his own territories. _ ..... . The Republic of Mexico wac quiet. and should Texas ac iiiiiesce its independen-ea will evidently be guaranteed, though we do not imagine there is a word of truth in the Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush l% Birmin. and Gloucester. 100 134 133% 133% Birmingham and Ox ford Junction Bristol and Exeter Do. New . 2 ...... 124 11 1 / 2 Caledonian Ditto Extension ...... 2 1 / 2 ...... 2 3 4 Cambridge and Lincoln 11/2„.... 414,6% . O/ 81 Chester and Holyhead... 10 Coventry, Bedworth, and Nuneaton Covent? - and Leicester 11/ —7 . ry Cornwall Direct Northern Dublin and Belfast June. 2% 7% 7 Dublin and Galway._ .. 21/ 2 3 13% • Dublin and .1111111ingar... 2% 4 - Eastern Counties 141. 165...... 21 1 /a 4 Ditto New 4/. 16s. Ditto Perpetual, 5 per Cent, No. 1....5/. 13s. 4d. Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 Ditto Quarter Shares 12%.....„ 18 1 / 2 m .... Ditto New 4 Shares... 2 1 / 2 — Ely and Bedford Great Grimsby and Shef field - 4 Great South. and West. (Ireland) Ditto Extension • ;rest North of England..100 Ditto New 5 — great Western Ditto Half Shares 5O 113 Ditto, Fifths Guildford, Fare'm, Ports. 2 1 / 2 ... .. 3 1 / 2 3% I. , ,ncaster and Carlisle... 20 London and Birminghm (5t0ck)...245 244 244 Do. 1 4 Shares London and Blackwall. 161. 13s. 4d. 9 3 / 1 1 A 9% London and Brighton... 50 London and Croydon, 131. 15s. 9d. 21 1 / 2 3 A 213 Lond. &S. Western 411 6s 10d — Do. New FM. New :_ ondon and York 2% 3% % 3% Londonderry and Ennis killen 2% 3% 3% Lynn and Ely Manchester and Leeds... 76 Do. 1 / 2 Shares Manchester and Birmin. 40 Nlancheiter,Buxton,and Matlock 223.....• 4 Niidland 100 187% 188 Do. New Midland, Birm., Th-rby...100 147 . . ~ Midland Great Western tj (Irish) :Newcastle and Darling ton Junction 25 ...... 54 1 /., 54 Do. New Brandling... 10 Now , asile and lierwick 1 1 4 l9 18,i Newry - and Enniskillen. 2 1 / 1 ...,. 4 1 4 1 A 4l; North British North Kent North Wales .. I IA — Norwich tint Brandon... 10 1)0., New Oxford and W , rcestrr. 214 61,... 6% Preston and Wyre Rugby, Worstr, & Tring 1 Scottish Central ......... 2 1 / 2 ...... 7 shrews., Wolverhamp, Dudley, and Birm 2 l /6. ... 3%..... South Devon... South Eastern & Dover 33/ 2s 4d... 48%. 48% Do., No. 2. Do., No. 3 Staines and Richmonfl,.. 1 South Wales 2 1,4 4 1,A.... Trent Valley - • 2 ..... (rent Valley and Holy- .._ . _......, . ~...„. ___ _ head Junction Waterford and Kilkenny 1 ~... 2,4 V s ... ...... - 2 1 , Welch Midland ...... ... 314 ;Vest Cornwall ............ 1 1 ,4._ ork and North Midland 50 112 Do. 1 / 2 Shares FOREIGN RAI LWAY ... Boulogne and Amiens... 6 ..... nti 11 Great North. of France (Laffitte's) ........... 4 Jamaica Junetior l% Do. South Midlnd. June. 1 21% Louvain and JonepPe... 4 ... . 5(4 5l Namur and, Liege Paris and Lyons, Gan neron's, ... .. ... Paris and Rouen Verona and Ancon 1.-- ** 24. ..... .. ... 2% JOINT STOCK BANKS. Union of Australia _ DUTCH PAPERS. THE HAGUE, JULY I.—A letter from Carlsruhe:of the 25th of June hai the following statem.n " An extraordinary general meeting of the Centre! Manufacturing Association of the Grand Duchy of Baden has been held here, in the last three days. Besides the Baden manufacturers, there was a great number of others from Bavaria. VVurtemburg, Prussia, &c. The steps to be taken at the next Congress of the eputies of the ZollsreFeiii,The interest of the German rnanufac - turers, were the chief subject of the discussions which were in general very animated, probably in consequence of the report gaining ground, that the greatest of the States composing the Zollverein will give to the Pleni potentiary at this Congress instructions contrary to the wishes of the German manufacturers. The re.ult was. resolutions that the President of the Association sh. uld propose an address to the Gov,rntnent, requesting it to propose to the next meeting of the Congress modifica tions of the tariff. conformable to the wishes expressed by the Legislative Assemblies of the States of Southern Germany." AMSTERDAM, JULY 1.;--It appears by an official com munication made to the States-General. relative to the revising of the Old Netherlands currency, that the total amount is estimated at 64 millions of florins, 11,41 the loss in revising 4,970,000 florins.—Det.•h Papers, July 2. MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—The marriage of Henry Somerset, Marquis of Worcester, only son of the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, with the Lady Georgiana Curzon, eldest daughter of Earl Howe, wassolemnized on Thursday at Hampton Church, Mid dlesex. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, with her august rela tives, the Duchess Ida, and the Princesses Anna and Emilie of Saxe Weimar, honoured the ceremony with their presence ; and, in addition to the Royal party, there were the Duke of Wellington, the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, Earl Howe, Lord Fitzroy So merset, the Hon. Captain Curzon, R.N., the Hon. Robert Curzon, Mr. Culling Smith, and a select family party. The service was performed in a most impressive manner by the Rev. Dr. Wellesley. At its conclusion. the parties retired to the vestry, where the usual record was signed by the noble pair, the attesting witnesses being her Majesty the Queen Dowager, the Duchess Ida of Saxe Weimar, the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, the Duke of Wellington, Earl . Howe, Lord Fitzroy Somerset, the Ladies Blanch and Rose Somer set, the. Hon. It. Curzon, Mr. Culling E smith, and Dr. Welle s l e y. A superb deiettner was afterwards given at Bushy-park, and shortly befo'e one o'clock the happy pair entered a travelling carriage, drawn by four of the Queen's horses, and attended by outriders in the royal livery, and left Hampton in the direction of Slough, whence they would proceed by railway to Badminton. THE WFATHE E AND CROPS.-I)Hling the last week frequent arid heavy showers have fallen ; and on Friday it rained incessantly. Some of the crops in the neighbourhood were in consequence considerably laid ; but they have recovered in a great degree from the effects of the rain, owing to the light breezes which have since prevailed. The aspect of the country has now become a'ike beautiful and luxu riant, and it would be difficult to remember a time when the crops, whether white or green, gave fairer promise of autumnal abundance.into it, d: and the Wheat, p potatoes are a a r n e d eo o m at i s n , gaareweaiy with scarcely an ther in ear, or burst ing ap parent blank. l'h egar d ens, a l so, prese nt a perfect flush of luxuri ance, and ripe str aw b err i es, cherries, &c., have now been added to the produce of a m ore h ome l y an d serviceable kind.—Edinbur g h Advertiser of Tue s d a y . ANDO BR, I'IIIIRSDAY, JULY 3.—This morning, p. shortly ssed before over th e ten o town, ock,a accompanied heav y by st rain, which fell in torrents;orm of thunder and lightni ng the storm was of short duration, and the weather, which had been previously unusually cold, became very sultry and oppressive. Happily, no damage was occ. sioned by the lightning in the town, but we regret to state that at the village of Fullerton, about three miles distant, a man, named Joy, who was employed, with three horses, harrowing upon the farm of Mr. Henry King, was struck by the electric fluid, which entered the crown of his hat and passed into the earth, through the roles of his shoes, causing his instant death ; the valuable horses he was attending were also killed, in the presence of their owner, Mr. King, who was directing his servant to take the horses into their stable when the awful event occurred. By the mercy of a kind Providence Mr. King received no injury. The same storm was also felt severely at Abbottsann, near Andover. where the tower of the church sustained some damage by the lightning. ASTURIAN MINING COMPANY. The first annual general meeting of the proprietors in th• Asturian Mining Company was held on Monday. the 30th ult., at the Company's offices, 9, Austin-friars, Gideon Col quhoun. Esq., in the chair, when the following report was read by the Secretary : "FIRST ANNUAL REPORT BY THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE ASTURIAN MINING COMPANY, READ AT THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF THE PROPRIETORS, HELD JUNE 30, D 45. " The Directors have much pleasure in meeting the Proprietors at their first anniversary, and submitting a statement of their pro. ceedings during the past year. They have, in the first place, to eon. gratulate the Proprietors upon the establishment of the Royal North of Spain Railway, which has given an increased value to the exten. sive mineral property possessed by the Company, by creating a cheap outlet for its produce to the port of Aviles, in the Bay of Biscay, and thence to nearly the whole line of coast bordering on the At lantic, whilst it opens, at the same time, a considerable extent of inland inter-communication. The line is now underg-ing a minute survey, with a view to the early commencement of the works ; and it is believed that in the course of next year. it will he constructed for a distance of nine mites from Aviles on the one side, and from Mires collieries to the c•ty of Oviedo (the capital of the Asturias), on the other. The large mineral traffic which the railway company anticipate from the Asturian portion of the line, affords the strongest possible inducement to hasten its execution. "But in order to accomplish this important object, the Directors would re emmend that they should be authorised by the Proprietors to enter into a negotiation with the Royal North of Spain Corn. pany, for a lease of this portion of the line, for a term of not less than tee years. " The Directors have devoted their unceasing attention to carry out the two main odjects contemplated by the Company, the opening of the most easily worked; and most productive of their coal and iron ore concessions, and the erection of works for smelting the iron ere, and manufacturing bar, bolt, and nail, rod, and sheet iron. Two collieries have already been t.peneel on the north and south sides of the river Mieres ; and although the workings have necessarily been limited, yet these have enabled a correct opinion to be formed of the direction and the thickness of the seams, the quantity of the coal, and the cost of its extraction. The colliery on the north side has been found to contain t.eventeen veins o coal, of which the second is seven feet in thickness. On the south side the first vein is eight feet thick, and the second five feet. In order to supply the local demand, and to open an export trade through the port of Gijon, the colliery on the southern side will soon be in active work; and as the coal can be raised at the level's mouth at 9 reals, or less than 2s. an Engish ton, a fair re. munerative price may be expected, notwithstanding the cost of transit to the sell. " And here the Directors think it their duty to bring under the notice of the Proprietors a proposal which haq been made to them for the purchase of a colliery upon advantageous terms on the line of the North of Spain Railway, and within a limited distance of the coast; by means of which the shipments of coals may be proeeeded with whilst the resources of the larger and more valuable collieries are developing themselves. The coal, although not equal in quality to that of the Mitres mines, is well adapted for inland sale, as well as for a general coast trade, and also for being converted into coke. "The adaptation of the coal for steam purposes has been recently proved by a successful trial in the steamer Attwood, in which, ac cording to a certificate of the engineer of that vessel, its evaporative power was superior to the Welsh coal, and Equal to to the West Hartley. No evidence was necessary to establish its fitness for household purposes. " The great demand for, and the high price of coke, for manu. turing and other purposes, combined with the large importation of this article, induced your Directors to commence the erection of coke ovens, which, they have no doubt, will yield a liberal return upon the comparatively small amount of capital expended upon them. A contract has already been entered into by the Com pany's agent for supplying 100,000 quintals of this article to the Government foundry at Trubia. " The proprietors are already familiar with the magnitude of th• home and foreign markets which will be opened to the produce of the coal mines ; but your Directors are convinced that, whatever may be the extent of that demand, it can form no relative propor tion with the capacity of supply, of which the Company's coal Lon cessions are capable. The concessions, situated in the districts of MiZ,rea, Tudela, and Le Foz, contain upwards of one hundred:work able seams, and constitute, in fact, the richest and most available atoms in the great coal basin of the Asturias. " The proprietors were informed by a circular.report, which your Directors distributed in December last, that they had con. traded with Messrs. Graham and Sons, of the Melton Works, for supplying the requisite machinery for making pig iron and cast ings, arid the manufacturing of iron ; and also for the erection of the necessary works in Mieres, which %are to be completed in three months atter the delivery of the last cargo of machinery. The shipment of the machinery was delayed in consequence of an appli. cation made by your Directors to the Spanish Government for permission to import it free from the very her,y duty imposed by the tariff, and they have now the satisfaction of announcing that this permission is on the eve of being granted, and that a member of the board is now in Madrid, to carry this liberal privilege into effect. The works will then be proceeilea with, with the utmot vigour, and it is confidently anticipated that in the month of March next year the furnaces will be in blast. •' The site selected for the works, in the valley of the Mitres, is within a short distance of the iron mines, and in the very midst of the northern and most important collieries. " Your Directors need not dwell upon the large returns which this important branch of the Company's operations must realise in a country in which there hi a constant demand for wrought iron, with the most inadequate means of supply, and in which its impor tation is subjected to a duty of 15/. per ton. In the detailed esti. mates, of which the substance was embodied in the circular report already referred to, it was stated that the sum required for Messrs. Graham and Sons' contract for opening the mines, making roads, purchasing land, and carrying on the works for three months, would amount to 23,0001; and upon the assumption that the quarterly produce would be only 1,000 tons of pig iron, the net profit on three months' working was estimated at 4,5201., or an annual profit of 18.080/. " The above estimate of profits,' says the Company's engineer, will not be deemed excessive, when it is considered that the minerals in the Company's concessions are worked as cheaply as in the most favoured mining districts of Great Britain ; that the pre. sent selling prices of castings add wrought iron are fully 40 per cent above the estimated rates; and that large fortunes have been recently realised in Spain by manufacturing Iron under the serious disadvantage of using charcoal as fuel.' " The Directors are un ble to report upon all their experimental mining operations beyond the fav,urable indications which con. tinue to encourage their operations, except a. respects the Cinnabar mine, lately discovered, and now at work at Pole de Lena, which adjoins the great coal field of Mi4res, and is a short distance from the mines now working by the Spanish Mercury Companies, the shares of which are now at between 2.000 and 3,000 per cent., pre mium. The Directors have the gratification to state that the ore of this valuable metal, already exposed in the Company's mine, is estimated to be worth upwards of 3,600/. ; and the latest reports from the captain miner show that the further workings indicate still more cheering prospects. In his report of the 7th of June last, he writes—' We have now found a vein of four feet wide, with good asr,ciates. which contains cinnabar throughout. We have cut a very good lode in the "slopes," cast of the wince, the leading branches from three to seven inches in extent. If the lode hold as good as it is now, we shall be able to break from 3001bs. to 4001bs. of ore a day.' On the 16th inst, he writes—' I hasten to inform you that I have this day inspected " La Eugenia" mine; and that its appearances are even of a more promising charac t er than any thing we have yet met with. The lode in many places carries beau tiful veins of cinnabar.' " The Directors congratulate the proprietors upon this valuable acquisition, which, when fully developed, they have every reason to believe, will form a very large item in the Company's revenue. The demand for quicksilver is steady, and the price equally so, by the right of pre-emption enjoyed by the Spanish Government; and it is almost unnecessary to add, that every quicksilver company in Spain returns to its associates a larger revenue than any other com mercial enterprise. " The other experiments which the Directors are making are upon a limited scale, and guided by a spirit of economy. They refer you to a report from their milling correspondent at Intiesto (dated the 14th instant), for a detailed account of the trial work ings in this district. " The Directors are enabled to speak with more confidence upon the prospects of their mining operations in consequence of one of their number, whose geological knowledge and experience in min ing are as fully appreciated by the public as by themselves, having just returned from a visit to the Asturias, during which he person ally inspected the whole of the Company's mines. The informa. tion which he collected in the course of his tour was communicated by him in a paper read at the recent meeting at Cambridge of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, and which at. tracted, as it merited, much attention amongst the most eminent geologists and mineralogists in the University. "The Directors, theretbre, consider themselves justified in ar riving at the conclusion that the field of mineral enterprise opened up to the Company—from the riches and variety of the mineral's it contains, from the facility of working them, and from the number of remunerative markets at which their produce can be sold, has no parallel in this country, or in any other district of similar extent in the continent of Europe. "' The Directors deem it an at of justice to the Political Chief of the province to state that every facility has been afforded by him in carrying on the operations of the Company. The local authori. ties have also forwarded the views of the Company's agents, aid the excellent cond uc t o f t h e nat i ve m iners has added another tes. timony to the peaceable and industrious character of the Asturian population. " The Directors have to report that, in conformity with the provision of the Spanish Commercial Code, ' Regulations for con. stituting the Company as an anonymous Society,' have been duly registered in the archives of the province of Oviedo. This regis tration limits the re sponsib.lity of the Proprietors to the extent of their interest in the capital stock, and confers upon them privileges equal to those of a royal charter of incorporation in this country " In conformity with the ' Regulations,' your Directors submit the annual balance sheet, verified by the auditors, showing the liabilities and assets of the Company. for the financial year ending on the 30th of April last. " One of the auditors, Mr. William Campbell Gillen, retires by rotation, but being eNible for re-election, he offers himself ac. cordingly. (Signed) " G. COLQUHOUN, Chairman. " Asturian Mining Company's Office, June 30, 1815." Resolutions approving the report (which was considered as highly tatistactory ) and for carrying the recommendations of the Directors into effect, were unanimously agreed to ; atter which the meeting separated. _ M Mr I) 11 y Ch. , ira,ar:. a,: C. interviews wit:LA the (inalieelwr uf Lae I , ..Aenequer yes terday. LONDON and CROYDON RAILWAY A special general meeting of the Proprietors of the London and Cro3 don Railway Company met yesterday at one o'clock, at, the London terminus, to take into consideration the drafts 01 several Bills at present before Parliament fur the widening and imprivement of their own line, and a portion of the London and Greenwich Railway, as well as the formation of branch lines in connexion with •heir own. Mr. W. Wilkinson took the chair. The SECRYTARY having read the circular calling th e . meeting, The CIIAIRMAN said that the course which the Control should follow in the present state of their affairs was so deer , that it would be unnecessary for him to enter into any 1(1 , 0: ened observations. The object of calling the present meeting was to obtain the approbation of the Company to the two Bills which had not yet been decided upon by Parliament, and whic h were at present pending the decision of the Select Committee, namely, .• A Bill to enable the Lond n and Croydon Railwal Company to widen and improve the London and Croydon Railway, and also a portion of the London and Greenwich Railway ;" and "A Bill to enable the London and Croydon Railway Company to make a certain line of railway to Mniv stone and Ashford, with a branch to Tonbridge." The first resolution was then read," That the draft of the pro posed Bill to widen and improve the I.ondon and Cro)dn! Railway, and also a portion of the London and Greenwic h Railway, be now approved, and that the seals of the Compaq be affixed thereto." Air. CASH seconded the resolution. Previously to putting it to the vote the clauses of the Bill wer e read to the meeting. On the clause being read, limiting the directors to six instead of eight, the number in the present direction, Mr. FLOOD asked if it was desirable to limit the number of Directors, seeing that the business of the Company was incress• ing so much, and likely to increase to a far greater extent ? He hoped to see the Compaay having a line of 100 miles )et! stead of 16. The CHAIRMAN said that he could speak from experiencet that the present system of railway anaragement required gres correction. He considered that limiting the number of Direr tors was a prudent step. In point of fact, even at present , ti l e ma iagement became ultimately vested in two or three viduals, and he thought that the business of railway com pany, in general would be better managed if the responsibility o "'' thrown on one or two individuals, as was the case in all other public companies. He traced the mismanagement which e present existed in some lines to the absence of that restriction . Mr. FLOOD expressed himself satisfied with the explanation 9, and said that if the board considered that the business could be better rnanaged by limiting the number of Directors they we in a better position to form an accurate judgment on the e u b . jecti han he was, and he would not press his objection. The resolution was then put and carried. The second resolution was then proposed, " That the draft the Bill to enable the London and Croydon Railway ComP'el to make a certain jive of railway to Maidstone and Ashforer with a branch to Tonbri 'ge, be approved of by this meeting; and that the seal of the Company be affixed thereto." The clauses were then read as with the former Bill, and the resolution was then put and carried unanimously. The CHAIRMAN then said that the business for which the meeting was called was now at an end, but he would enter briefly into a statement of the present prospects of the Control with respect to the line , which they had in projection. tie the" went at eonsithrable length into the state of the following 1 3 ° 1 1 some of which had been thrown out b the Select Committees's ° it had been con3idered advi-able to postpone the others till nes sess,on A Bill to enable the London and Croydon Rail Company to make a branch railway to Orpington " AP b to make a new line of railway, and branch to communicate Bib Chatham and Gravesend." " A Bill to make a new line 0 railway to Chatham, with a branch to Fowersham Creek, a in the county of Kent. " A Bill to make a railway in est e r e sion of the Croydon and Epslnt Railway to Dorkini, t " I county of Surrey." He then briefly alluded to the prospects e • the atmosperic line. The meeting then broke up. CoURT tiLA it. his Royal Highness Prince Albert presided yesterclof afternoon at a meeting of the Commission for prometil and encouraging tae Fine Arts in the rebuilding t b Palace of Weontiuster. His Royal Highness arrived at Gwydyr House et e l quarter before three o'clock, attended by Colon., Bouverie, Egli, rry in Waiting. The Commission er ; present were the Marquis of Lansdowne, Lord P il r a Russell, Viscount Palmerston, Lord Ashburton, _II° Colborne, the Right Hon. the Speaker, Lord Mallt Sir R. Peel, Sir J. Graham, Sir Rebt. Harry Inglis, ll f "' IL Gaily Knight, Mr. Samuel Rogers, and Mr. Thoo lo. Wyse. big After attending the meeting of the Commission - 1 , 1 Royal Highness Prince Albert went to inspect the ne Palace of Westroins , er. Their RON al Highnesses tl ti Prince of Wales, Pri ses Alfred. the - Prirve-s R. , yai, and the Princess Alice, t' e ' i. companied by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, were tel‘ e an airing yesterday in an open carriage awd four. „ 0 ' The Queen and Prince Alpert, and their Maj.-411,-4 the King and Queen of the Belgians, honoured t" e . p,rformance at Drury-lane Theatre with their pi eserl e . yesterday evening. The royal suite included "A Viscountess Jocelyn, Baroness d'Hoogllvorst, the P a of Morton, Colonel Buckley, Colonel Bouverie, Major de Moerkerke. of Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchos i , Cambridge lrie,noured the Duke and Duchess of De!,;;;; fort with their company at dinner ye s t er d a y, at 111,`„t -residence in Arlington -street. The Duke of Cambriee;: afterwards honoured Mr. Pariither with his con3oll' at his residence in Graft:Ai-street. His Excellency General Baron Fagel, Minister of 11 :: Netherlands at Parirs, arrived la 4 Thursday in Wk°- crescent, on a visit of a few days to his Excellency 1 3 s' y • Dedd. gt - of. A meeting of the Commissioners for the Roduct' °- ' the National Dcbt was held yesterday, at the Tregisor f o The Chancellor of the Exchequer and the do - ye - Onc e . the Bank of England were present. Mr. Higham, tary and Comptroller-General, was in attendance. Mr. Francis Smith had an interview with 19° Stanley yesterday, at the 0)1 , 3:U-office. K Mr. Fitzroy Kelly had an interview with S7r be Peel yesterday. cl The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England 1 13 meeting yesterday at the office in Whitehall There were present the _Bishops of London, Hereford, Lichfi e ld, and Worcester, the Right 0° John Nicholl, and the Dean of Westminster. T, Mr. James M`Qucen had an interview with ---'),. Stanley yesterday. Mr. W. Jeffcott had also an i" te " ' view with his Lordship. The Committee of vie Baronetage for Privileges h y pe' yesterday, their last meeting for the season, at 0 r Chirerdon [lot.d. On this occasion a box of pa b longing to the Comm , ttee of Baronets which sat W I & 1783 to 1792 (deposited with Messrs. Drumm on d . bankers, in the mimes of the late Sir Henry Ilig ht° ol Sir Edward Astley, Sir George A. Winn, and Sir Ed o . o Lloyd, Bar nets) was produced and examined. Thl6 valuable documents, which have been lost s i g n ; of for upwards of half a century, will have an impor l , il h e effect in regard to the particular objects for w hich L 0 Committee of the Baronetage for Privil eges has constituted. 'O l Dispatches were received yesterday at the C01° 111 . 4 Office from the Governors of the West Indian Coloto.;i Dispatches were sent off last evening from the Colo ll 4 Office for the Governors of the Cape of Good Hope, Helena, and the Gold Coast. SPORTING R SINTELLIGENCB WELLAND ACE— -. The Welland Stakes of 5 sovs. each,-WEDNESDAY with 20 added;, the second to save his stake. Heats, one mile and a half 1 Mr. Carless's Aurungzebe, 5 yrs (Darling) 5 2 Mr. Raworth's Donna Anna, 5 yrs 1 „ Mr. Noble's Charity, aged Mr. Kitton's Miss Prestwood, aged 3 u 4,8 The Hurdle Stakes of 3 sovs. each, and 15 added, second horse to save his stake, and the winner to be sold ~..-A 80/., were won in two heats by Mr. Griffith's Solver; (Powell), beating The Bird, Little Taffy, and Riding Mastott The Hack Stakes of 2 sires each, and 10 added, were Oa, in three heats by Mr. Kitton's Fickle (owner), beating Daly's Wellington. Mr. Turner's Brewond, and two othell' LUDLOW RACES—WEDNESDAY. et' The Ludlow Handicap of 15 sovs. each, and 30 added; ° . round and a distance. 1 Mr. Parr's Ninety-0-e. 4 yrs ... (Marlow) 9, Mr. A. NV. lu ll's Salopian, 3 yrs... ..... ........................ 5 Mr. Collins's Mainstay, 4 yrs ............... .. .................. 4 Mr. Davies's Princess Royal, 3 yrs ... 5 Mr. Copeland's Reliance, 3 yrs ................................. The Maiden Plate of 50/. ; heats; Ludlow Stakes Course' 1 Mr. Collins's Mainstay, 4 yrs (Darling) 5 3 I 4 ...... Mr. W. Jones's Falstaff, 3 yrs .... 1 5 Mr. Eskett's Exhort, 3 yrs 5 Mr. Morgan's Tipple Cider, 3 yrs 8 ,4 of Mr. Lucas's Retriever, 4 yrs 3 A drs„ Mr. Skarratt's Own Brother to Caitiff, 3 yrs _ 2 u* Mr. Slower's Fat Jenny, 4 yrs Mr. Godson's Susannah, 4 yrs . The Oakley Park Stakes of 10 sous. each, and 25 added' Heats as above. Lord Powis's b m, by Advance, out of Acco, 3 yrs Mr. kobins's Confab, 4 yrs (Marlow) 5! 2 3 Mr. Clifton's Pedlar, aged TOWER REGATTA. re' The annual contest for a new boat and other prizes, P R / sented by the ladies and gentlemen residents in the vici li ,ll of the Tower, took place on Thursday, and was exceed attractive, every place where a view could be c ommand the race being thronged with company. The match T o g in five heats, with six pai r o f scu ll s , th e c o m petitors b e „ c e tree watermen plying at the Tower-stairs, and the distl i 'd rowed was from the Tower, twice round the Eel-chain , to round the lower buoy opposite St. Katherine's-dock tiP the starting place. /; First neat—William Finnis, jun., I ; Francis BurrY'' James Grates, 3. Won easily. Def r Second Heat—George James, 1 ; John Warwick, 2; - jamin Vans, 3. A capital race; won by half a length. Third Heat—Warwick, 1 ; Burry, 2. Fourth Heat—Finnis, 1; Jame:, 2. firs t This, in which the first man of the first heat and the t ie man of the second heat rowed with the two first men I 'l o 4 third, was a most spirited contest throu g h ou t. Finnis the lead cleverly, waited upon by Warwick, but after A r t be ceeding a short distance James came up and challenge u ol latter, and a most determined struggle ensued for the ,e ec h eet place, which was ultimately gained by James. A3i would have covered the three first boats at coming in. its Fifth Heat—Finnis and James were the competiter9ot this, the grand heat. Finnis took the lead, his ( O u nce' being close upon his quarters for a considerable dig s ' iv. Finnis then gradually drew away, and ultimately won e lls The race was well conducted. It will be seen from the report of the Astilt„ea Mining Company, that several collieries have been 0P!'" o f in the north of Spain, near Oviedo, which promise to ver.ti. great service to that country. Should the mines, a s j o y. cipated, turn out well, the people would find better en l P, c if ment than in quarrels with the Government about th ese fuerog or the claims of the Carlist dynasty. A paper on so . mines was read at the recent meeting of the British .i t ta ice ciao ,n held at Cambricb;e, to which we refer those trh o an inter.-st in the subject. Tu F MEMOIRS OF LADY HESTER STA' . r le• just published, i re exciting much interest in the great 0100 Among the numerous celebrated personages, of whom particulars arid anecdotes are given, will be found the follos1;170, —George 111., George IV., Queen Caroline, Lord Ch, s a ke of Mr. Pitt, Air. Fox Mr. Canning, Mr. Shelidan, the Jj A t „ O P Welli , .gton, Lord ' Liverpool, Lord Hood, Lord St• r ds p d Lord Bridport, Lord Brougham, Lord Palmeiston, Lady tore, Lord Haukeebury, Lord Carrington, Lord Crsif Wrquis of .tbercorn, Lord Ebrtngton, Lord Bu ff Sit Edward Sugden, Sir Francis Burdett, Mr. Abercrombie, pi, Walter Scott, Mr. Thomas Moore, Beau Brummell, sine' Lady Charlotte Bury, Lady J—, Mrs. Fitzherbert, do. -- Their The F prelento Th e r Banki„, The 3 went, th Royal H I ceder th In Dubl; Th e E was even The I The E lacre, tl With his I ] This 1