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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. ROUSE OF COMMONS, July 10. WEIGHTS AND MEASURES BILL. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.) On the motion for going into Committee on this Bill, Sir G. PECHELL did not dispute the propriety of giving additional powers to the inspectors of weights and measures, but he complained that while that was the object of the present Bill, several most useful Acts of Parliament woald be abolished by which"most of the large towns in the kingdom were governed. He hoped the Government would arrest the progress of the Bill, because he believed it was a pieee of legislation which was wholly uncalled for. So many important considerations were involved in the measure that even if the principle were approved of by the House, it would not be advisable to press it until the subject had been referred to a Committee of Inquiry. He concluded by moving that the House should go into Committee on the Bill this day three months. Sir JOHN DUbKWORTH said his object had been to make the Bill as perfect as possible, and fur that purpose he had taken the advice and received the assistance of those who were most conversant with the working of the present law. The working classes were the parties who would be benefited most by the measure, because they were more liable to the frauds practised upon the public by the use of deficient weights and measures. He trusted that the House would not accede to the amendment of the Hon. and Gallant Member. He would not wish to take upon himself the responsibility of altering the law on this subject unless he was supported by the opinion of the House. In de ference to the opinion of the Hon. Baronet (Sir George Pechell), he had struck out certain clauses in the Bill which were objectionable to him. Sir GEORGE GREY hoped the House would go into Committee on the Bill. He approved of the princi ple of the Bill, which was to assimilate the practice of examining weights and measures throughout the country, anti to make that practice as uniform as possible, which was not the case under the existing law. Mr. PACKE approved of the principle of the Bill, and would vote for the House going into Committee up..in it forthwith. Mr. BROTHERTON hoped the House would post pone the Committee on the Bill. Mr. E. ELLICE, jun., s..'d this Bill was little known in England, and still less in Scotland, and he thought the country should have an opportunity of being better acquainted with its provisions. He recently presented a petition from the St. Andrew's district of Burghs, which he represented, praying that they might be ex empted from the operation of the Bill ; and should the House go into Committee on the Bill, it was his iaten tion to propose a clause with the view of exempting the whole of Scotland from its operation. Mr. DUNCAN expressed his intention to support any motion for exempting Scotland from the Bill, and of voting at all events for the postponing of the Com mittee. Mr. COWAN hoped the House would postpone the Committee until the next session of Parliament, and that the Government in the recess would take into their consideration a Bill for providing a standard measure. After a few words from Sir DE LACY EVANS and the ATTORNEY- GENERAL, Mr. HENLEY said he was by no means satisfied with this Bill as it stood, because it proposed to place very extended powers in hands far less responsible than at present. Mr. FREWEN hoped that the Hon. Baronet (Sir George Pechell) would not divide the House on his amendment. Sir GEORGE PECHELL consented to withdraw his amendment, and the House went into Committee on the Bill. Os clause 1 being proposed, Sir G. PECHELL renewed his opposition to the Bill. He objected to the details of the Bill, and he thought it was in direct opposition to all farmer enactments. After a few words from Sir G. GREY, Some conversation took place, in which Mr. Henley, Sir John Duckworth, the Attorney-General, Sir George Pechell, and Mr. BroLherton took part. Colonel DUNNE asked if the Bill would extend to Ireland? Sir GEORGE GREY said it would. Colonel DUNNE had several amendments to propose then, but he should postpone them till the bringing up of the report. Mr. E. ELLICE, jun., moved that Scotland should be exempt from the operation of the Bill. Sir GEORGE GREY thought the Bill ought to be confined to England only. Sir G. DUCKWORTH had no desire to force the Bill upon Scotland. Mr. HENLEY thought a Bill that was required for England was equally applicable to the other parts of the kingdom, and the statement that neither Ireland nor Scotland ought to be subjected to the operation of the Bill was a strong inducement for him to oppose the Bill altogether. Mr. SADLEIR called upon the Right Hon. Baronet who bad charge of the Bill to give a distinct pledge that the Bill should not extend to Ireland. The ATTORNEY•GENERAL said in the existing state of the law, and as the Bill now stood, it could not possibly apply to either Scotland or Ireland. Mr. E. ELLICE, jun., under those circumstances, would not pre4s his amendment. Sir G. GREY now suggested that they should agree to the fint two clause 3, and then report progress, so as to give Government an opportunity of considering whether or no the Bill ought to extend to every part of the United Kingdom. _ _ Sir G. PIC HELL understood that the original Act, 5 and 6 Will. IV., applird to every part of the kingdom, but now there appeared to be some doubt as to that. He should, therefore, move that the Chairman do at once report progress. Sir JOHN DUCKWORTH was prepared to accept the proposal of the Rio-ht Hon. Baronet the Home Se cretary, but he must resist the motion of the Hon. and Gallant Member for Brighton. He only proposed to take the first two clauses, and to strike out all the others. Sir GEORGE PECHELL reluctantly consented to withdraw his amendment. Clause 1 was then agreed to with amendments. On clause 2 being proposed, Sir GEORGE PECHELL proposed the omission of certain words which compelled local authorities to transfer their standard weights and mea sures to the clerk of the peace, with the view of inserting certain other words, which would have the effect of continuing the weights and measures of the town of Brighton and other places in the same custody that they are at present. The Committee then divided, when there appeared — For the amendment Against it. 126 Majority The clause, with some slight amendments, was then agreed to. The House then resumed, and the report was or dered to be brought up on Friday next. MARRIAGE BILL. Mr. STUART WORTLEY presented a large number of petitions from various parts of Scotland in favour of this Bill. lir. COBDEN presented similar petitions from dif ferent parts of the metropolis. Major BERESFORD presented several petitions from 51 rural parishes in Essex against the Bill. Alderman SIDNEY presented a petition from the City in favour ef the Bill. Colonel THOMPSON presented several petitions from various parts of the metropolis in favour of the Bill. Mr. FOX MAULE presented a petition from Glasgow against the Bill. Sir G. CLERK presented a petition from the Free Kirk against the Bill. On toe motion that the Bill be read a third time, Mr. WALPOLE said he thought the Bill was revolt ing in principle, and could not fail to be fatal in its consequences. It had been viewed hitherto in two points of view; the first was a religious, and the second a social point oview view; and be could not help expressing his regret that this Bil l had not been first introduced in the House where the religious bearing of the question could be fairly disposed of. In the absence, however, of any decision from that branch of the Legisla ture, the House was bound to grapple with both points. Well, then, in his opinion there were great religious objections which ought to preclude them from passing this Bill. It was doubtful whether it would produce much good, while it was no less certain that it must encourage immorality, and the safest course for the House to adopt was to throw out this Bill altogether. The prohibitions which the Bill referred to were founded upon principles of morality and sanctioned by the Scriptures. True, holy writ only contemplated the male in commanding that a man should not marry his brother's widow, but according to all ecclesiastical authorities the prohibition ap plied just as much to the female as the male. And it was natural that it should do so. He would not put it positively that these mar riages were prohibited by the Deity, but deal with it as a matter of doubt. Now, how were they to solve that doubt? Why, only by referring to the past. For 15 centuries, then, these marriages had been prohibited by every Christian community. Look to t h e west, north, or south, and they found that this prohibi tion had never been departed from till the time of the infamous Pope and debauchie Alexander the Sixth, who granted a dispensation to the King of Portugal to enable him to marry his deceased wife's sister. It was a cardinal rule to take that course which admitted of no doubt, and as it was more than doubtful that these marriages were forbidden by the Creator, the House ought to reject this Bill upon religious grounds. He came now to the social part of the question. It was said that this prohibition interfered with the exercise of civil liberty, but before they could enter upon that branch of the controversy, they must first decide what liberty was—to what extent it should go, because if they were to pass this Bill upon the plea of liberty, why should it not for the same reason extend to other cases of prohibition? The liberty, however, which could sanction such a measure as this was vicious in the extreme, and he hoped no such argu ment as that would weigh with the House in disposing of this measure. Another ground urged in favour of this Bill was, that it would give orphan fa =Wee better protection than they now enjoyed. Let the House pause before it was led away by such an ar gument as that; let it remember th 3 mischief and vices that would be encouraged if the husband were taught to look with longing eyes and evil passions at his wife's sister, or, on the other hand, if the wife's sister were inflamed with the hope that she might one day become the wife of her sister's husband. As for conferring benefit upon the children, every body knew that the feeling of a step-mother for her husband's offspricg was not always of the warmest or most af fectionate character, while the situation of an aunt gave birth to a charitable and motherly solicitude for the welfare of a sister's orphan children. The Bill, in fact, was frangbt with danger, it could only benefit a selfish few. Pass it, and there would b 3 no cud to the in roads that would be attempted upon the established laws. At present the law was re spected ; it protected society f. oat frightful abominations, but deny the Divine rule that man and wife were one in blood, and who should say where the injury would stop? As they valued the social and reli gious institution of marriage—as they wished to see society uncontaminated with a frightful vice, he begged and implored the House, even at this stage to stop the further progress of this Bill, and in or der to give the House an opportunity of doing so, he should move that the Bill be read a third time this day six months. Colonel THOMPSON deprecated dealing with this question upon theological grounds ; it only led to con fusion, and never gave satisfaction. He took issue with those who contended that these marriages were prohibited by the Levitical law, though he did not dis pute that until political laws were established they were not tolerated. The moment, however, that political laws obtained force, so far from such marriages as these being forbidden, a rich man was bound to wed his deceased brother's widow, while, in the time of the Great Author of Christianity, our Saviour did not dispute the legality of such marriages when he was asked if there was any hope of salvation for a woman who bad married seven husbands. The fact was, in disposing of this question upon theological grounds, they were dealing with phantoms, for he could call to mind ao passage in the Scriptures or in Montesquieu which declared that there was affinity of blood between a man and his wife's sister. It was there fore ridiculous to tell him that these marriages were incestuous. According to his judgment they would benefit rather than injure society, and he should cer tainly vote for the third reading of this all. Mr. M'NEILL would not enter into the religious con• troversy which had been raised by the previous speakers, he would simply confine himself to expounding the feel ings of Scotland upon this measure. They be lieved it to be opposed not only to civil but religious law, and if the House passed this Bill it would be tantamount to telling them that their construc tion of the Scriptures was false. But why should these marriages be forced upon the people of Scotland because some 1,500 violators of the present law in England re quired it to be passed? It was one c f the arti cles of religious profession that these marriages were prohibited by Divine law, and in the face of that fact it would be an act of cruelty to force a Bill of this nature upon Scotland. He therefore pro • tested against the passing of the Bill, which ought to be resisted upon every ground of principle, morality, and expediency. Mr. STUART WORTLEY said the Bill bad already undergone such 13ng and deep discussions that it was hardly necessary for him to trespass at any length upon the attention of the House, but after what had fallen from Hon. Members to-day it would be culpab!e negligence on his part, if he altogether re mained silent. Now, if they refused to pass this Bill, how were they to deal with the disastrous state of things which the existing law had produced? Up to 1835 the legality of these marriages had given rise to none of those abuses about which they had heard so much, and he really thought before the House suffered this Bill to be negatived in its last stage, they should require its opponents to suggest some other alternative for removing the evils of the existing law. His Hon. and D arned Friend the Member for Midhurst admitted that the Divine law upon the subject of these marriages was doubtful. Well, if it were so, would it not be impious in Parliament to pronounce, through the medium of an Act, what were the intentions of the Deity? In this admitted state of doubt would it not rather be much better to leave the matter to the consciences of men, or bodies of men, or of churches? So much, then, for the religious portion of the subject. With regard to the social part of the question, he really could not understand how this change should lead to so much vice and evil, when he remembered that in America, where these marriages were general, they produced no such results. Now he did not believe that the English women were less moral than those of America, and, therefore, so far from think ing that this Bill would be the pr.cursor of profligacy and vice, be was convinced it would promote the happi ness and moral welfare of large masses of the community. He was then called upon to pay respect to the leople of .Scotland—he had ever done so, and if he thought the measure was repugnant to their feelings, he would not persevere with it. But what was the fact? Wby the whole of the measure having been made known t that dis criminating people, petitions had loaded the table of the House from Edinburgh, Glasgow, and other parts of Scotland in favour of the measure. He was disposed to pay every attention to the wishes of the people of Scot land, and if the old law with reference to marriage in that country was still carried cut, he should be content to exclude it from the provisions of this Bill. Mr. F. MAULE could not allow this Bill to pass its last stage without objecting to its provisions being ex tended to Scotland. He also objected to it as far as it related to England, because he believed its provisions would lead to the worst results, and would be a great encourag ement to bigamy. The Right Hon. Gentleman, in his opinion, might as well have brought in a Bill to repell the laws with respect to bigamy, because old soldiers were in the habit of marrying wives abroad, forgetting that they had been previously married at home. His countrymen, to a man, were against the measure, he coincided entirely with their feelings, and he there fore felt bound to vote against the third reading cf the Bill. Mr. C. ANSTEY supported the third reading of the Bill. Mr. WE3THEAD supported the Bill. After some observations from Mr. MOORE, Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, and the House divided, when there appeared— For the amendment ... 134 Against it ... ... 144 bi..jority against the amendment —lO The amendment was consequently lost, and tha Bill was then read a third time. On the question that the Bill do pass, Mr. OSWALD moved the addition cf a clause, to ;he effect that the Bill should not extend to Scotland. The House divided upon the introduction of the clause, when there appeared— _ __ For the clause Against it Majority against the clause ... —7 It being past Six o'clock, the House adjourned without the question of the passing of the Bill being put. ••• 130 .. ... 137 _MASSACRES AT THE SANDAL WOOD ISLANDS. (From the Hobart Town Herald.) In the Herald of the 12 th instant an account was given of the voyage of the Elizabeth schooner to New Caledonia, and the account brought by that vessel, led to the supposition that not only had the party at Mr. Fitzgerald's beche - la-mer fish ing establishment, at the north end of the island, been driven away or massacred, but that the French Mission establishment, at Yengin, or Beladeh, had shared the same fate. The Mary Anne schooner, which arrived yesterday, brought further accounts , hich we regret to state are of a most melancholy character. The superintendent of Mr. Fitzgerald's establishment, Mr. David W. Miller, arrived by the Mary Anne, and by him we have learned the follow ing particulars : Feejee Islands, 1849.—0 n the 10th July we sailed from Cantate Harbour in the Mary cutter, for Balade Harbour, New Caledonia, in company with the schooner Minerva and the Sir John Franklin. We arrived there after a passage of 21 days. On the 12th September, the Mary returned to Balade to look for the Sir John Franklin, which vessel she ex pected to find had returned there from Sydney. On arriving there Capt. Roby, of the Mary, sent a boat with Robert Hall, an American, and a native of Rotumah to procure water. On getting up the river they were attacked by natives and killed. After this, two natives came on board the Mary, under pretence of selling fish ; the cook went down into the hold to bring up some yams to exchange for the fish, and the captain's attention having been drawn to the fish in the canoe belonging to the natives, they split his head with a tomahawk; then they killed the cook as he was coming out of the hold. The only man now left alive o'3 board the Mary, was a Rotumah man, whom the natives would not eat, because of a disease in his eyes which rendered him almost blind. They cooked the bodies of the captain and crew ashore, and ate them, after which they burnt the vessel to the water's edge. This is the statement of the Rotumah man, who managed to make his escape from the cannibals to Yengin, and who related the in person, and facts . to Mr. Miller, who now takes up the narrative :—On th e ewBrtihtes Sept.,fr from r n . esta blishmentt.ihtzaleinrgaldh'esardof the loss of the Mary, Mr. Fitzgerald th sailed for Sydney, I being left in chare of John e h belpe-la-mer expedition. —the party consisting (an Ea't Indian) uma O h man, Blake (an American), nineteen Feejee men, one Rotumah and .Abra hslempteSmilbveerr 20, the natives bro.ugvhetrnintefh;mmeorgnriasngs for friendly terms. t assembled, k and to our thatching, and appeared on About noon, from 300 to 400 of th y em keepa num ber em rushed upon us with spears and clubs. We arms, with which we were enabled to keep off till about 4 P.M., and two being killed and wounded, they retired, John Blake, the Ameri can, refusing to fight, and holding a correspond ence w ith the natives. I took his gun from him and gave it to one of the Fejee men. The natives continued quiet until the 11th of October, when a large body of 800 or 900 natives assembled and commenced an attack on our settlemen t, which they maintained with great determination from eleven in the morning till sunset. One of the Feejee men was wounded with a spear, and I had several very narrow escapes. The natives had surrounded our but, and were calling out to John Blak e to set fire to it. Several of the natives being killed and a n umber wounded, we made a rush at them , a nd shot their principal chief, on which they all ran away. On the follow ing day, finding that our Feejee natives had lost heart, and were const antl y crying, we thought it was best to prepare to leave, as we could not have stood another encounter with the natives, our ammunition being nearly ex pended, and on the 14th of October we took the boats and started for Yengin. Having yams and water we pulled up the coast, followed by about 200 natives, until we arrived at Balade. We then landed on a sand bank to recruit, where the natives attacked and obliged us to retake to the boats, one of which being very leaky we left behind. We then pulled to the south-east, the wind being contrary and blowing strong; during the night I missed one of the boats, and ran to the lee side of a small island where there were no natives. We were obliged to remain here for four days, it blowing and raining very hard. The weather having moderated, we pursued our course to Yengin, and during the pat sage picked up two natives from the missing boat the others having most likely been cast ashore and taken to the bush. _ _ On the 25th of October we arrived at Yengin, after being eleven days in the boats, and were kindly re ceived by the French missionaries, and remained with them until the arrival of the schooner Mary Anne, when the Bishop granted us a passage to Anatam, from which place Captain Padden was kind enough to give me a passage to Sydney. I do not think the natives would have attacked us bad they not been encouraged to do so by the man Blake, who stole a boat and deserted from the schooner Vanguard a short time previously, and had been living with the natives since. COOK'S BAY, ERao➢iANGA.—Extract from the log of the Rover's Bride, dated 11th December, 1849 : Light breeze ; schooner Rosetta in company. At 7 A.M. lowered the boat, and sent the first and second mate to trade for sandal wood at Mallaby and Bun kett, the vessel cruising between those places. At two r.m. Mr. Banner, first mate of the Rosetta, came on board, and stated that he had some suspicions that one of my boats was taken by the natives, he having been trading at Effoo, a place about two miles distant from Bunkett, and that about noon the natives of that place gave over trading, and informed him that the Bunkett tribe had taken a boat and killed the crew of five men. The Effoo natives then went in the direction of Bunkett, taking with them their tomahawks and other weapons. On which Mr. Banner returned to the Rosetta, and informed Captain Ed wards. In the meantime Mr. Dill, who had been trading at Bunkett, and had seen the Rover's Bride there trading with the natives on very friendly terms, went back to the Rosetta for more trade, and on his return to Bunkett found no natives but two, who brandished their spears, and said, "No wood to-day.' The Rover's Bride's boat was gone, and Mr. Dill having returned to the Rosetta, and in formed Captain Edwards of his trip, that gentleman immediately sent Mr. Banner to inform Captain Bell of the Rover's Bride: Captain Bell immedi ately made a signal to his other boat at Mallaby to return to the ship, and on her arrival he dispatched her with two extra hands, in company with the Rosetta's boat, to ascertain the facts. On their return at 7 P.M. they made the following statement:—When the boats arrived at Bunkett the crews landed, leaving one man in charge of each. O❑ examinig the beach they found it strewed with portions of hair and patches of blood; they then proceeded up the river as far as possible in the boat, and, on landing, discovered one ton of sandal wood besmeared with blood, near which was the stump of a tree literally covered with blood, portions of flesh, hair, &c., and which from its appearance seemed to have served the purpose of a block for this human butchery. Near the stump was found a pistol belt and canvas pistol-bag ; no natives were seen, and not a vestige of the boat save the anchor-buoy. Finding that nothing further could be ascertained they took the sandal-wood and returned to the vessel. Captain Bell then consulted with Captain Edwards, and it was deemed best for the Rover's Bride to proceed to Anatam, and the Rosetta to continue cruising about Cook's Bay for five days, in case anything further should transpire. On the Sunday prior to the mas • nacre the ehief of the Bunkett tribe was on board the Rover's Bride, received some presents, and appeared on the most friendly terms. Bunkett is a small boat harbour and creek, on the south entrance of Cook's Bay, Erromanga. The following is a list of the names of the men killed:—Mr.. Wm. Jordan, first mate, of Berwick-on-Tweed; John Allen, of Liver pool ; Frederick Gardener, of London ; John Bur rows, of Glasgow; and Edward Ward, of Bristol, seamen. THE SUN, THE HEALTH OF LONDON. (From the Weekly Return of the Registrar-General.) In the week ending last Saturday, the deaths regis tered in the metropolitan districts were 794—a number which shows that the diminished rate of mortality con tinues, and which, taking the corresponding weeks of ten previous years is less than in the week of any year since 1842. The average of the ten weeks is 877, or, augmented in the ratio of in creased population, 957, compared with which the de crease of last week amounts to 163. The whole number of deaths recorded as caused by the zymotic or epi demic class of diseases is 159, whereas in the same week of last year they rose to 393, and the corrected average of ten corresponding weeks is 227. To take particular epidemics:—small-pox carried off 6 per sons, the half of whom were children ; measles was fatal in 17 cases; scarlatina in 20; hooping-cough in 23, all of these exhibiting a mortality of less than the usual amount. Typhus, of which 35 persons died, shows the ordinary amount of mortality; but it is much less fatal than in the same weeks of 1847-9. On the other hand, diarrhea). continues to increase, as is usual at this period of the year, but its progress is not remarkable; in the last four weeks the deaths from it, for the most part among childree, have been 17, 18, 33, and (last week) 40. The average is 27. A case of English cholera is thus recorded:— O❑ the 4th of July, at 3, Pembroke-place, Upper Marsh, Lambeth, a boy of seven years, the son of an engineer, died of "English cholera (14 hours), dropsy (9 days), effusion into the pleura (12 hours)." Exclusive of consumption, the deaths from diseases of the respira tory organs were only 70, which is less than in any cor responding week of 1840-9, having ranged from 76 to 96. From consumption there were 121, whereas they fluctuated in the ten corresponding weeks from 116 to 152. On the 31 of July, a greengrocer's assistant, aged 18 years, died in St. George's Hospital, to which he had been brought from Kensington, of " chorea (9 days), softening of spinal cord," post mortem. In the sub-district of Saffron-hill, a skin-dresser, aged 43, died from "diffuse inflamma tion of cellular membrane of chest and neck from the absorption of some animal poison (3 days)." A man and a woman died from intemperance. MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS. NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED LN THE WEEK ENDING SATUILDAY, JULY 6, 1950. Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases ... *159 Diseases of Uncertain Seat ... 38 Tubercular Diseases ... ... 168 Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses... ... 112 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels ... 38 Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of Respiration ••• ••• .•• ..• ••• ••• 70 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion... ••• •• • .• • ••• •• • 57 Diseases of the Kidneys, &a. •• ••• ••• 9 Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &e. 8 Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles 10 Diseases of the Skin, &c. ... Malformations... ... ... 3 Premature Birth ... •• ••• ••• 32 Atrophy ••• ••• ••• ••• ••• ..• 25 Old Age ••• ••• ••• ••• ••• 30 _ _ Sudden ... ... ..• ... ••• ••• ••• 7 Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance ... 25 Causes not specified ... ••• ••• ••• ••• 3 DEATHS FROH ALL CAUSES ... _ Popnlatien Enumerated, Deaths in eorre spondiugweek Deaths in the 1841. West Districts... 301,189 North Districts.. 376,568 Central Districts 374,199 East Districts ... 393,067 South Districts .. 503,346 of 1819, 130 196 183 194 367 Week. ... 136 146 ... 119 ... 166 ... 227 Totals... ..... 1,948,369 ... 1,070 ... Males ••• ... ... ... •• • 406 Females ... ••• ... ... 388 Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of ' Paid. Price. Annum. Share. .------ -.-___. I S. d. I s. d. Australasia •.••.. • • •• 243. 40 0 0 40 0 0 253 i BritshNorth American 51. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 - Ceylon ••••-•• • • • • • • 7/. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 - Commercial of London 61. per coat. 100 0 0 20 0 0 - Colonial . 51. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 - Gloucestershire ••• • •• 15/ per cent. - - - lonian - Londn and Westrainstr 61. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 27U - - 13 0 0 - London Joint-Stock ..• 61. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 - Provincialof Ireland.. 81. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 - Ditto, New. ..... •• • 8/. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 - gational of Ireland .. 51. per cent. 50 0 0 22 10 0 - sat. Provncial of Eng. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 35 0 0 - Ditto, New. ••••• • • 51. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 - South Australia •• •. •• 6/, per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 - Union of Australia.... 6/. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 .... Ditto •• • • .... ••• • • • 6/. per cent. - 210 0 - Union of L0nd0n..... 61. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 12% Union of Madrid ..... I - 40 0 0 40 0 0 - INStrizaricE COMPANIES. Dividend Amount Name et Company. per of Paid. Price Annum. Share. -------- - A a. d. £ a. d. Albion ...... • • ...... 31. 10s. 500 0 0 50 0 0 82 Alliance Brit. and For. 7114 s GdEs bs 100 0 0 11 0 0 20% Ditto Marine. •• •• •• 61. per cent. 100 0 0 5 0 0 6 Atlas . British Commercial - 73. 6d. 50 0 0 5 0 0 7 k Clericl,Med.&Gen.Life 5 pi' et.& bs. 100 0 0 lO 0 0 20 31. 100 0 01 10 0 0 62 14s. 50 0 0 i 5 0 0 1474 Eagle ...... ...... .... 6:. 50 0 0 5 0 0 6% European Life -•• • • 434 per cent. 20 0 0 All paid. 15 General ............ - - 5 0 0 5% GI .)tie • • . • • •••• .... • • r cent. Stock. - 132 CiAuxdian Imperial Fire --- •• 121, per cent. 500 0 0 50 0 0 230 Imperial Life --•• • • 12s. 100 0 0 10 0 0 16% Indemnity Marine •• • • 11. sh.Bs bs. 100 0 0 20 0 0 - Law Fire ...........• - 100 0 0 i 2 10 0 2% Law Life............ It. 163. 100 0 o', 10 0 0 43k, Legal and General Life - 50 0 0 I 2 0 0 4% Licensed Victuallers • • - 5 0 0 1 0 0 - Loudon Fire •... •• • • 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 17% London Ship • ••• •• • • 10s. 25 0 0,12 10 0 17% Marine - ........... 12s.per share 100 0 0 15 0 0 10 lied. Invild & Gen. Life 4%1. per ct . 50 0 0 2 0 0 - Yational Lean Fund•• 51. per cent. 20 0 0 , 210 0 - ',rational Life......... 81. per cent. 100 0 0 5 0 0 - Palladium Life P iice nix - .... -3/. p. sh. & bs. - - 145 Professional Life -•• .. 5/. per cent. 6 5 0 010 0 115.61 Pt otector Life.... ... 5.1. per cent. - - - Provident Life........ 11.55. & bs. 100 0 0 , 10 0 0 26 Rock Life ...... .. •• ss. 5 0 0 010 0 6 !Loyal Cullen:o GI. per cent. Stock. - 209 dun Fire. Ditto Life ..... •• • • • 11 . 6 s. = I - 48 tidied Kingdom .... 41. per cent. 20 0 0 4 0 0 39. Universal Life -•• • • lOU pr cnt. 100 0 0 10 0 0 - Victoria Life......... 51. per cut. - I 412 6 47. DOCMS. BIRTHS IN THE WEEK. Males ... 640 Females ... ••• ••• ••• ••• 607 Total ... .... ... ... ...1,247 *ln this number are included 20 by Scarlatina, 35 by Typhus Fever, 40 by Diarrhoea, and 1 by Cholera. STATE OF TRADE. (From the Manchester Guardian.) MANCHESTER, TUESDAY.—The buyers of yarns have manifested an increased disposition for business to-day, and would evidently have operated very freely, could they have done so at the prices of lest week. The spinners, however, have again raised their quotations, and maintained them with the utmost firmness. We may state the realised advance, as compared with this day week, at id. per lb., in all qualities of mule and water, from No. 40's downwards, whether in the bundle, the warp, or the cop. Fur No. 60's and upwards, both single and double, higher prices are also re quired. Although this rise has curtailed the day's transactions, still their aggregate amount has been con siderable. The continued upward tendency in this de partment of our market is attributable to several causes, viz., the growing conviction that cottrn will range high for some time to come; the lightness of stocks both at home and abroad; and the augmented demand which the full employ me nt of the vast weaving power of the district h as l atter l y occas i one l The makers of long 7-Bths printers, o f cloths, T c l ot h s , and domestics ar i e i ti n t w h i a e r g de i n ts i e nr in their t erms . Some improvement f in and up good and medium qualities p diu r m inting and an and also in 0-6 t h S 6 0 ' s bleach ing. For 40-inch 64's hi g her prices are likewise re quired. The sal es o f these various articles are of fair extent, on the whole; but low 7-Bths printing cloths are still neglected, as are also ' light 40-inch shirtin s—in both, however, there i s greater firmnes s. In g the ware houses of the dealers there has Bs. been as active demand for printed and finished goods. ROCHDALE, MONDAY.—We have had a good demand for flannels to-day, and the manufacturers are wanting r ather better prices. The wool market is better, and the dealers are asking higher prices for English wools. Co lonial wool is much the same as it was on the previous Monday. MACCLESFIELD, TUESDAY.—WO have to report a quiet market for goods generally, buyers and sellers hold ing back, the latter for prices somewhat in propor tion t) the present cost of raw material ; and as there seems every probability of things remainine. very firm, we think ere long buyers will make up their minds to CANALS. Names of 4 . (Dividendl ; 1 Names of 6 Dividend Companies. per Price. Companies. I per Price. mAnnum. ..I I Annum. so ..£ m . . 140001 251.41. 2 8 ( 9 8 14 .£ - - ; 1 I A s htn& Oldh 97 j 71. 113 li ac clesteli . 100 21. 10s. 50 B l rnsley •• • • 160, 121. 180 Neatk ......100 , 161. 340 'a r k n k&Abrg 150 j 51. 85 Oxford.... • • 108 201. 185 m R Pe eg ak en F t o ,s r . e . s . t . . 3 7i 3 I , 3 1 1 1 ..1 0 8 5 9 . . N Coventry..iri nix Derby ••• •• 1 00 61. 63 Ro c hd a l e.. .. 851 41. 5034 Ellscare&Chs 133 565. 41 Somrset Coal 150 7/.105. 130 ilrandJ =eta 1091 4'. Iglla 7)14 Do.LkFd St 12 61 is. c. - Grand Surrey,loo 21. Os. 32 Stffrd &W orc 1 4 0 281. 410 Grand Ualon,loo 11. 10s. 24 Shrewsbury.. 1 25 151. - Grantham -1 - _ ...... Stourbridge 201. 290 iC ennt Stwl A , 39 7s. 6d. 514 S evern and .• 145 .., Lancaster • 130 41. 3214 Wye Rail. t 26 21.05• 24 Leeds& Livrp 100 241. 300 Warwick& Leicester .. • • 100 51. 66 lairming. j lOC 41. 6434 Leicstr &Nth 83 41. 4834 Warwick& Loushborogh, 142 701. 510 Napton. } 100 31. 42 Uonmouthslo 100 81. .... Worcztr 8;1 Nintgemrysla 100 - - Birming. j7B 31. 43 sfeltnMwbry 100 - - Wilts & Brks -14 s. 734 LIST or SCOTTISE COMPANIES' PRICEE Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. ---- -- -- -____ X s. d. Z s• d B tick of Scotland 3ritish Linen Company 8/. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 193 3aledonlan Bank City of Glasgow Bank . 61. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 12 1 Clydesdale Bank •••• •• 634 per cent. 20 00, 1 0 0 13 1 Commercial Bank •• •• 71. per cent. 500 0 0 1100 0 170 Eastern Bank •••• •• • • el. per cent. 25 0 0 10 0 9% Edinbic Glasgow Bank 61. per cent. 5 0 0 5 0 51. 5. Ex9hangeßnk of Scot.. 4/. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 8% fsle of Man. Company 71. per cent. 10 0 0 7 0 - •iational Bank. srorthof Scotland Bar t 41. per cent. 20 0 0 5 0 314 Korth British Bank • • - - - - Royal Bank of Scotland 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 133% [Talon Bank of Scotland 81. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 88 Nesters Bank. •••• • • • 71. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 70 Alliance Fire and Life , 8341. pr cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 2014 B. Accord.Lifestad Fire - 20 0 e 010 0 - British Guarantee Ins. 41. per tent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 15., Od 3aledonian Fire Insur. 101. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 , 23 Colonial Life ... .. • • - 50 0 0 1 0 0 1/. Its. City of Glasgow Life U. per cent. 25 0 0 2 0 0 21. 10a Edinburgh Life Incur. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 15 0 0 20 East of Scotland Life _ 10 0 0 015 0 - Eng. & Scot, Law Life 51. per cent. 50 0 0 217 6 , 234 Hercules Insurance Co. 71. per cert. , 100 0 0 10 0 0 - Insur. Co. of Scetind• • 51. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 - Life Assoc. of Scotland 6/. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 11. 18s Wercantile Life 334 per ct. 10 0 0 010 0 ss. 9d. National Fire and Life 51. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 225.6 d North British Insur. • • 6pr cent. 200 0 0 20 0 0 I 2534 North & West of Scot. 61. per cent. 10 0 0 1 00 I - Scottish Life and Guar. - 20 0 0 011 0 - Scot. Mas. and Gan. Life - 0 0 015 0 , - 4zottish Union Insrace. 6 1 41. pr cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 239.0 d Standard Life •••• •• • • 51. per cent. 50 0 0 45 0 9% United Dep. Assurance 51. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 .15s 9d MISCELLANEOUS. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. ------ - L. s. d. Z. a. d. kuetion M 2/. 55. 50 00 I - 25 art.. • • • • • • Australian Agriculturl 11. 100 0 0 1 30 0 0 15 0 0 - knglo-Mexican Mint.. IL 10 0 0 10s. ,10 Ditto, Half Shares. 210 0 - 100 0 0 32 10 0 52 Canada ............. Cl• Per cent. Uppr Canada Bonds 51. percent._ - 89 flity Navigation .. • • - - - 91 -2/ 100 0 0 100 0 0 54 a Gan. Revers. & Invest• p. c.k bat, Equitable Reversionry 5/. pr cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 106 15 0 0 , 14 0 0 26 Gen•SteamNavigation li. 8 $• London Institution .• • - - 178 15 0 - Russell Institution •• • • - 26 5 0 - Peninslr& Orient.Stm. 8/. per ce nt. 50 0 0 50 0 0 7934 Reversionary Int. Soc. 04 Lpr cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 90 Royal Mail Steam •• •• 61 18. 4. p. c. 100 0 0 60 0 0 58% South Australian ... - 11. per share. 25 0 0 25 0 0 19 Van Dieraan's Land.. - 100 0 0 29 0 0 134 CITY OF GLASGOW BANKING COMPANY.—This banking establishment held their annual meeti n g on Thurs day. The report entered fully into the transactions of the company f or t h e l ast year , and declared tho usual dividend of six per cent. The rest now amou nts to u p wards of 120,001. DINNER TO L ORD PALMERSTON. — Sa!uriay, the 20th inst., Club, in hon our o f Vi acoun t P a lmerston. is now fixed for the grand dinner at tho Reform THE NEW MAIL SERVICE TO THE WEST INDIES. SOUTHAMPTON, JULY 6.—On the Gth of May we announced that the Lards of the Admiralty had con cluded an arrangement for the re-organizition of the contract mail service between England and the West Indies and Central America. We have on previous occasions fully explained and developed the necessities for a speedy alteration in the routes of the royal mail steamers—a change impera tive both in the interests of British commerce and for enabling the E ngli4l steamers to meet their American rivals in the steam carrying trade of the Great West on more equal terms. ll4ving been favoured with an official table of the routes now to be pursued, we subjoin for the infor mation of a numerous class of our readers interested in this question, an exact statement of the arrange ments which have been ordered to be at once put in force by the Lords of the Admiralty. It is definitively fixed that the new arrangements (so far as concerns the routes) shall come into opera tion on tha 2d of August. The steamer leaving Southampton on that day will, therefore, proceed di rect to Sr. Thomas and the Isthmus of Panama, in stead of taking the course to Bermuda and the Gulf of Mexico, as heretofore. We must, however, premise that the arrangements for traversing these revised routes must merely be considered as preliminary to the more rapid system of steam communication which will be consummated when the new and powerful steam-ships about to be constructed have been placed upon the main line be tween Southampton and Chagres. The immediate change of routes thus comtemplated, and which are to be performed by the existing steamers, it will he seen, will have the effect of greatly improving the communications to and from the many important parts of the world comprised in this scheme; but it will not be till steamers of much greater power and speed have been completed, and have actually performed the through voyages, that the great and ultimate acceleration of communication can be experienced. Some little modifications in the originally pro posed scheme and of minor points of detail, with re ference to stopping places, have been sanctioned by their Lordships. In affording accommodation, we I believe, the utmost attention has been paid to the in terests of the various colonies and ports, according to their position and relative political and mercantile importance. From the 2d of August next there will be a semi monthly communication opened with the isthmus of Panama and Spanish Main, instead of monthly is heretofore, and the packets will leave on the 2d and 17th of every month for Chagres, raking their course to St. Thomas, Santa Martha, Carthagena, Chagres, and G-reytown (Mos pito). Homeward the route will be precisely the same, excepting that the call at Santa Martha will be omitted. The time to be occupied on the voyage to Chagres is fixed at 23 days and 23 hours, including all stoppages. Homeward a similar period will be occupied. The time allowed at Chagres for preparing return mails, transferring and receiving cargo, inclusive of the time necessary for the packet's trip to Grey Town, will be 14 days 8 hours, making he course of post between Southampton and Chagres 621 days. The voyages to Chagres have hitherto ex r.ended over a space of 35 to 37 days, and the course .f post has been about 80 days, so that at least 10 or 12 days will be the saving in time both on the out trid home trip, and the course of post will in conse iuenee be diminished about 20 days. The tables of routes are calculated upon a sup- Josition of an average speed of nine knots for he main line steamers, and a nearly equal rate if steaming for the branch and intercolonisl Jackets. The stoppages are to be curtailed where practicable, in the event of a necessity arising by reason cf decreased speed on the voyages, bad xeather, or other causes. It remains to be seen .vhether all the vessels of the Royal Mail Company vill be enabled to maintain the proposed average Speed required to enable them to fulfil the work set lown. The mails for the Gulf of Mexico are to be dis 3atched on the 2d of every month from Southampton, bud, after arrival at St. Thomas, will be conveyed, viii Jamaica, by a branch steamer, calling at San Juan Porto Rico), Kingston (Jamaica), Vera Cruz, and Tampico. The same route returning. The time ,ut to Vera Cruz will be 26 days 16 hours ; home, 26 lays 18 hours; time for preparing replies, eight lay a 20 hours—making the course of post 62k days. to case of late arrivals outwards, or detention at Tampico, the stoppage at Vera Cruz is to be cur ailed, so that the ship may leave precisely at the .prointed time. A saving over the old plan of the Mexican mail service is here exhibited of at least ten lays both out and home ; and the course of post is iiminished about 18 or 20 days. On the 17th of each Month the mails for Havannah will be dispatched, and are to be conveyed prom St. Thomas' by a packet calling at Porto Rico, Jactnel (Hayti), Jamaica, Havannah, .nd Honduras. Homeward by the same route. the voyage out to Havannah will occupy 24 days 22 lours ; h ,me 25 days 16 hours ; and, with 11 days allowed for the return correspondence, during which •he packet will proceed to and return from Hon !urns, the course of post will be 621 days. In' the Havannah route no great saving appears at present to be effected over the old plan. Mails made up on the 2d and 17th of each month for Jamaica will be delivered at that colony respec ively iu 201 days. This is a considerable improve• went on the old scheme, which never used to supply Jamaica with its correspondence under 28 to 30 days. The mails for St. Thomas, Tortola, St. Kitt's, ktontserrat, Nevis, Antigua, Guadalope, Dominique, ilartinique, St. Lucia, Barbadoes, Demerara, Berbice, French and Dutch Guiana, St. Vincent, Grenada, Guinea, Trinidad, and Tobago, will be made up and dispatched on the 24 and 17th of every month, and their conveyance from St. Thomas' v rill le accomplished by intercolonial pickets especially appointed for that service. The time occupied in rsacbing Demerara (the extreme point of the route) sill be 21 days 21 hours, homeward in 221 days, a Ittle over three days being allowed for replies, t bus making the course of post 44 days. Trinidad will be reached in 21 days 17 hours, while the homeward trip will occupy 221 days, three days being allowed !for -eplies, thus making the course of post also 4:7+ lays. The saving to the whole of these colonies NM be about a weak each way, as well as shorten'alg he communication with Europe a whole packet. 'no , ntermediate colonies between St. Thomas sand Guiana will, of course, receive and transmit their nails in proportionately quicker time according - o their respective geographical positions, -e.,Ed will havo a greater period allowed for their retry n lorrespondence, while the course of post will rem tin :he same ; thus Barbadoes will be reached in 20 day's, St. Kitt's in 171, Antigua in 181, and so on. For Nassau (Bahamas) a mail is to be made up cm 'he 17th of each month ; the time occupied via St. ['homes being 24 days, and the course of post (32 1 lays. It will be observed by the foregoing that to Ire? 'a Cruz, Tampico, Havannah, Honduras, Hayti, raid Nassau there will be only one mail each month, while - o the whole of the remaining ports, includ; Chagros, Grey Town, Carthagena, and Santa Mart h formerly touched but once a month, a semi-montl uly mail will be maintained. The homeward steamers will be due at Southar aF - on at midnight on the 4th and 19th of every mon Or. The packets arriving on the 4th and 19th will bri n g mails from Chsgres, Grey Town, Carthagena, Sai2l to Ma:tba, Jamaica, Porto Rico, Demerara, and all LE e Windward and Leeward Islands, while the mai Is 'rom Vera Cruz and Tampico will only be receive i 'ny the packets of the 4th ; and the mails from Hay-t Honduras, Nassau, and Havannah, will reach ET rE :- land by the packets of the 19th only. It is provided that in the event of either of the sup - olementary or intercolonial steamers bringing m;til a from the Gulf of Mexico, Havannah, Demerara, Ezc not reaching St. Thomas at the estimated time, th e homeward Atlantic steamer is to await the arrival c. ,f the missing vessel seven clear days, if necessary , ~frpr the hour appointed for her departure fo r Southampton. By the tables of routes it would appear t'ba t Mobile, R-rmuda ' s'. Jago de Cuba, La Guay ra , Puerto Cabell o , Madeira and Fayal, seven pc , rt s hitherto touched by the royal mail steamers, h iv e been excluded as places of call under the new tr - rangements. There can be no doubt that the advantages teas contemplated of a quickened communication t , o and from the West India and Spanish Ameri :an ports will prove of vast benefit to the mere community, not only of this country, but of Europe generally. At the expiration of a year, however, a further improvement rill be effected, by means of which the voyages to St. Thomas, now to occupy 16 days 18 hours, will performed in 12 days, and the Isthmus of PanP Dia will be brought within 18 days of Southampton, in stead of 24 under the contemplated, and 35 d ays under the old arrangements. Jamaica will then be reached in 16 or 17 days, Vera Cruz in 20 days, : trsd all the ports embraced in the scheme will proporti: in ately be brought nearer to Europe. The Pacific mails for the ports of New Grena it, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Chili, are, we believe, to► he made up in London and dispatched by the steau le, )! of the 17th of each month. The Valparaiso m: tits; will be landed at that port in about fifty-eii !biz days, instead of sixty-six days, a 3 at preset at, and the mails from the Pacific will be due a t Southampton by the packet of the 19th of ea .: 1 :1 month. From seven to eight days are at present : tl-• lowed for crossing the Isthmus, but eventually a mu , :la shorter time will suffice when the Panama Railw. has been got into operation, and ultimately, when tl as larger Atlantic steamers are placed on the station, tl )e voyage from Southampton to Valparaiso will be r come in for their usual purchases. The throwing trade is much as heFore; a little more inquiry for some de scriptions has arisen the last few days. The dyers are better employed egair. The raw &ilk market is charac terised by great firmness, and some considerable business was transacted during last we:_k. HUDDERSFIELD, TITESDAY.—The improvement we had the pleasure of reporting last week has been pretty steadily maintained during the week. The market has no: been perhaps quite so lively to-day, although there were a good many buyers. The price of wool has ben advancing. HALIFAX, SATURDAY.--There is no noticeable change in the aspect of our Piece Hall to-day, the chief in quiry being still, as before remarked, for low lastings. Those of a finer quality are scarcely looked at. The yarn trade is brisk; and the quotations have under gone a farther improvement. There is a large stock of wool in the market, as the dealers are buying largely ; but the spinners are indisposed to give the advance which they are asking, and consequently not much is going into the hands of the consumers. LEEDS, TIIESDAY.—Since our last repot tha market has been well attended, and tke cloth trade in general still continues active. Stocks are very low in tit" makers' hand, the clothiers being very busy with orders for the merchants. There is a fair average businesi doing in the warehouses. PRICES OF SHARES IN BANKS, ASSURANCE, AND OTHER COM COMPANIES' STOCK. From the Official List. PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENING. LONDON, TUESDAY, JULY 9. zonaT-sTocx BANHS. Name of Company. X s. d. $5 0 0 50 0 0 Z. s. d. 60 0 0 40 0 0 X 5. d. :PA.NX: A. 8. d. 18 0 0 20 0 0 150 0 0 31 5 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 40 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 2 10 0 49 0 0 90 0 0 50 0 0 10 0 0 Dividend per Annum. East and West Inala 61. pr cent. East Country London .... . Ditto Bonds.. • • 41. per cent. it• Katharine .. 4 per cent. Ditto, Scrip • . •• . • Ditto Bonds.-- • 4341. pr cent. Southampton 21. per cent. II 2.1 D G: Dividend per Annum. Name of Compsny. Charing -cr055...... •• Southwrk • • .....• .. Ditto Nw of 7% P.C. Waterloo .. • • .... • • •• Dttt' Old Ann. of 81. Ditto Nw ditto of 71. Vauxhall .... ... Av. 1 255. per 11. 45. Od. 11. Is. Od. Amount of Share. £ s. d. Stock. 100 0 0 Stock. Stock. 50 0 0 Amount of Share. s. d 100 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 - 70 10 3 w.eerzire,-WORKS Dividend Name of Company. per Annum. Amount of Share. X s. d. 100 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 Amount of Share. X. s. d. 40 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 75 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 40 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 East London..•• •• • • • • Grand Junction • • ! 41. per cnt. ECent.......... • • •• 3L 10e. Lambeth .. ••••• • • • • • 51. per cnt. New Rivr Lndn Brdge ! 21.108. Vauxhall .•••• . •• 51. per cnt. West Middlesex • . • 61. Oi. pr =LI GAS-MIGHT AND ca Name of Company. British • • • • • • • • •• •• •• Ditto rrovincial.• .. Brighton .• • • ........ City of London .. • • •. ContinentalConsolidat. Equitable - • • • •• .. •• •• Imperial • • .... • • .... independent .......•• London•• .... ...... Ditt0.......... •• •• Do., Paul. Preference Phcanix • • • • • • • • • • • .. Ratcliff •• •• • .. ••• • • • United General ...... Weatminster Chartered Ditto, New ........ Dividend per Annum. 1/. Bs. duced to under forty-eight days. We regret very much to observe, that to correspond with the bi monthly mail to be ee ivered. at and brought from the Isinnus of P,inatna, no arrangements ha yct been made for an add.tional communication with the South Pacific ports, for which only a monthly mail is to he made up. Unless a more rr.-quent communication be speed:l:y. opined by the British steamers between Valparaiso alzd Panama a :inc cf American packets will be established, which will absor'o a large amount of the traffic and mail service. As many represtna• thins on this subject have been made by the mor chants connected with the trade of the west coast of South America, we trust that no very long, time will elapse ere a fortnightly mail to and from the Chilian and Peruvian ports will be provided. A semi-monthly communication with California will now be opened, and mails, passengers, and mer chandise can henceforth be transmitted by the West India steamers on the 2.1 and 17th of every month. For San Francisco letters can be sent in about 55 days via Panama, and a like period will be occupied on the return voyage.. • Passeng , rs for California will have the option of proceeding by either the Panama or Nicaragua route, as the packets will regularly ply to Chagres as well as to Grey 'Town, the ci-devant San Juan Nicaragua. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. NEW COURT. (BA)r 41 the COMMON-SERGEANT.) Henry Page, 36, bricklayer. was indicted for felo niously intermarrying with Emma Claike, otherwise Smith, his wife being then and now alive. Mr. Charcock delendtd. Mrs. Martha Page, the prisoner's mother, proved his first marriage on the 6th of April, 1834. at St. John's :he Evangelis,, Waterloo-road, to one Ellen Ragan, by whom he had two children. He lived with her until about two years ago, when, in consequence of her dread fully dissolute habits, he was compelled to be sepa rated from her, r.nd made her an allowance of 6s. per week. Evidence was then given to prove that on the 10th of February, 1848, some one of the name of Henry Dick• son was married at All Saints, Poplar, to ono Emma Smith, but it could not be proved that the prisoner was the man or that Emma Clarke, who was the❑ in the dock behind the prisoner awaiting her trial for having committed bigamy with him, was the woman referred to in the register. The woman Clarke was then brought out of the dock into the witness-box, and having been sworn, and cau tioned not to say any thing to criminate herself unless she pleased, said that she knew the prisoner from his coming to her husband's house, tied that her husband always enc uraged their acquaintance. The COMMON• SERGEANT—DA anything ever occur between you and the prisoner at church? You need not answer unless you like. Witness—No ; nothing ever did. The COMMON -SERGEANT said there was an end of the case; there was no evidence to prove the prisoner was the man married at Poplar Church. An acquittal was then taken. Emma Clarke, 30, married, was then indicted for bigamy with Henry Page, alias Dickson, her husband being then alive. It was then proved that she was married in February, 1842, to her husband Clarke, who is now alive, but the same difficulty arose in proving her to be the party mar ried at All Saints, Poplar. The police-officer said he saw the prisoner at her hut band's house on the 17th of June. She was recovering from an illness. She told him that she was married iu 1848, at All Saints, Poplar, to the prisoner Page, she in the name of Smith and he Dickson; that the only per sons present wero the clerk and the pew-opener as wit nesses to the marriage. Mr. CHARNOCK having briefly addressed the jury, dwelt on the fat that the only evidence against her was the statement made by her when on a bed of sickness and which she nuw denied on oath. The COMMON-SERGEANT haviog summed up, The jury acquitted her. THIRD COURT. (Before Mr. Commissioner GURNEY.) James Cole, 24, polisher, was indicted for stealing a watch, valued at 221., from the person of William Perry. Mr. Parry defended. The prosecutor, who is well known to the sporticg world as the Tipton Slasher, the pugilist, said that about half-past four o'clock on Monday morning he was at the bar of the Red Lion, in the Strand, drinking, and several more besides the prisoner were near him. Some one began to :psr at him, when a female pressed herself against him, and almost immediately feeling his watch snatched from his pocket, as ho thought by the prisoner, ho seized him, and immediately his watch and chain fell to the ground at his fact. Mr. GURNEY said it was not sufficiently clear that the prisoner's was the hand that took it, and directed an acquittal. Henry Wright, 20, barman, and Carciline Davis, were indicted for stealing sea'eral sums of money from John Plowman, the master of Wright. Mr. Robinson prosecuted. It appeared that the prosecutor keeps the Three Compasses in the Wandsworth-road, and the male pri soner hid been a short time in his employment as a barman, during which period great deficiencies had been found in his takings. Having set the police on the watch they found out that the woman, who either was his wife or lh with him, was in the habit of coming and putting down a small coin in payment for something, and received from the prisoner more 'change than she was entitled to; and in the pre3ent instance they took her at the,bar of the house, having received 22. 11d. in change for Is. The jury, thinking the woman had acted under the guidance of the male prisoner, acquitted tier, and he was found Guilty, and sentenced to twelve months' im prisonment. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. Yesterday the young man who described himself on a former examination as a determined Chartist, was again placed at the bar before Mr. Alderman Salomons, for further examination on the charge of sedition. Mr. Maule, the solicitor for the Home•office, attended on the part of the Government for the prosecution, and stated that he appeared by the direction of the Secretary of State for the Home Department, to request the Al derman to deal with the case summarily, by binding the prisoner over to keep the peace towards her Majesty and all her subjects. _ _ _ After a recapitulation of the facts already published, The ALDERMAN said, it is my intention to bind you over to keep the peace for twelve months, and to order you to find bail for your good behaviour during that time in two sureties of 1001. each, or one of 2001., and to enter into your own recognisancos of 2001., more to the same effect. Prisoner—l'll consider about giving Lail. He tas then removed from the dock evidently much disappoin►..ed at nut being sent fur trial. The court was very much crowded, and the result appeared to give general satisfaction to those present during the exunination. SOUTHWARK. A young man of respectable appearance, who refused to give his name or address, was brought before Mr. A'Beckett for re-examination, upon the charge of ut tering a forged cheque for the payment of 250!., with intent to defraud tte Southwark branch cf the London and Westminster Bank, Wellington-street, London bridge. _ _ The evidence taken upon the former examination, which has already appeared, having been read over, Mr. Alullens, of the firm of Bush and Mullens, fir the prosecution, addressed the magistrate, and informed him that since Monday, the day on Rhich the prisoner was taken into custody, it has been ascertained that his name is William Thorns, and that he was formerly a clerk in the employ of Messrs Gooch and Cousins, woolstaplers, of London-wall, in the City. It was also found thst he lived with a family who resided at No. 5, Red Lion-street, Whitechapel, at which house were discovered several documents of im portance in elucidation of the present charge, as well RS of a forgery to the amount of 721.; which he had committed on the firm in whose employ he had been in London-wall. This latter circumstance he (Mr. Mul lens) mentioned with a view to show that the prisoner must have been well aware of the consequences of the act he had so recently committed, that cf uttering the forged cheque for 250/. on the London and Westminster Bank, purportir g to be in the handwriting of Mr. Davis, the woolstapler, of Bermondsey, who kept an account with that establishment. Ho (Mr. Mullens), however, should not on the present occasion enter into the evi dence of the case of forgery alluded to, but should at a future period be enabled to establish that charge, as well as that of uttering the forged cheque on the day in question. Mr. A'Beca.ETT, addressing the prisoner, who seemed much distressed at the situation in which he Ras placed, asked him if he had now any objection to disclose his name alt• r having heard the statement just made by Mr. Mullcns? The prisoner merely shook his head, but made no reply. T. J. Snook was then called into the witness-box and examined—He stated that he is a clerk in the employ of Messrs. Gooch and Cousins. woolstaplers, London wall; that he knew the prisoner, who was also a clerk in the same firm, but left his situation atout twelve months ago. A paper was here shown to the witness, found at the prisontr's residence; it %as a written cer tificate of his character given to him by Messrs. Gooch and Co. at the period ho quitted their employ, and the handwriting was proved by the witness. Michael Hayil,,n, of the City police, stated that on the preceding day he went to the prisoner's residence, 5, White Lion-street, Whitechapel, and on instituting a search of the apartments ho occupied he found the do cument and papers produced, consisting of a cheque bock and also a pass-book belonging to Messrs. Gooch and Co., together with a cheque for 1,000/. There were also some papers on which an imitation of the handwriting of Mr. Dar's appeared; and the witness also discovered the.forged chelua for 250/., which the prisoner presented for payment at the London and Westminster Bank on Saturday last, but which was rejected by one of the clerks, who made a memorandum of the cause cf his re fusal on the face of it. The prisoner, it will be recol lected, called again at the bank on Monday and produced the letter, inclosing another cheque for 250/, which havinc , excited the suspicion cf Mr. Kingsford, the mana ger, led to the prisoner's apprehension. Mr. A'BEcKETT asked the prisoner if ho wished to put any question to either of the witnesses, or to make any statement in reference to the charge, giving him at the same time the usual caution. The prisoner, however, still maintained the same silence he had exhibited on his tint being taken into custody, and only shook his head. lie was committed fir tzial to the Central Criminal Court, d to the supported from the bar to the cells a t the rel r and app , ared F o weak that he was oblige court. ec..c.).iya, .r t :i t A o : o :::), I N TEL LI CTEIC,;4, Cirr . i oaTsmouTH, J tax 10.--The Vengeance, •, I tti .....enry IVack wood, wits paid off al° l3 g l " e ia:n SrS , IT t'.el' e t o 1) 1 1 , 1 L : f c 3 a l ! r e i tt g e i r s s s i o t:e n ; c m d 7. i t (l t ° r P i s ( i:O c r7 r l f ;y lr: C 7, re e1 : 31112 ' 32 a. ti , esr ll V rli e ti:ll. ' 0: -,,, Fairy revel col.t, lll;ster-Goinniall°oeiros p_ci4, will out f ,c go e harbonv to-morrow to try her ec, ler xo !' Leieg reporter', ready for the r,,eeption ( 3t . 4 0 0 ' ll p t a h ; h nt screamer f J , zty• The Elfiii went out te-1, for a similar 1 4 '; 0 1 tried in the " present use " o s g to;e l hnouse ia the d W. today by Mr. Finch= Master-Shipvirightitstiod to inte . ent-r4ngineer, ositioa ,I danger afloat. ' s°' t 0 'Y g A aud volitlt'itil 1)6 im . rtie contrivance is as simple a or - 1i 1 o st :t l :;:es n4 of an alarm iu tuici P I°P' o 5 0: 11 " ;glued, and seems to possess far greater P°A.redlh the rails ay steum-whistle. is or.- to o the ,Lords of the Admiralty. One of to tb e : r t. u The Maidstone Indiaman sailed today, vessel Flamer, about to be mniiisioned at thi °l) . - st 0 ' 01144 Cape of Good Hope. al Murray,\ cl i,. eelr :a APPOINTMENTS. 1%.00013.‘60i WoOLWICH, JULY 10 —Commander A- - . :00or 0 4 11 0 e 0 A .. t i h ; (1847), to command the Niger. 8, 41 00 ,0 or3e power, commissio::ed this daY ° ' to fur service on thE Coast of Africa. 1 0 , ( , 1 Lieutenant Frederick J. P r otheroe (18 ''' ' Ni M ge a r s . ter George 11. Forster (1848), to the ''",. viger• 4) Paymaster and Purser Watson W. rartnete' (18' to the Niger. Clerk Alexander Jefferys (1845), to tho Nig e f f. Master's-Assistant T. U. Chown, t J the Ng' Gunner J. Attwood, to the Niger. Bswf. - „itt John Patterson, to the Niger' Gi at rpecter James D tvidson, to th e Nieero• nuts EXAMINATION FOR THE MEUL''' Pr SERVICE. la be°,l dr A list of the Masters and Mates in the r os e t r i c o a s ep l i j il vice who have voluntarily passed an exam eachtaitivd certificates of qualification for the ele • s , s ,, Pr assigned, under the regulation issued b ": of Trade r ade since the 31st of May last:--- il oli f fs°! MASTERS. FIRST CLASS CERTIFICATES.--GeOrge W''.-6110 {ltd.4 c kleohau, John Guthrie, Philip Clendon, j ° ,, JO; riester, Charles Thomas Searle, Janie% KKe y , P i jil Walmsley, George Cissock, es Johnson3ras Stewart, John Kennedy Freyer, James Meikle, 00,4 'art, William Clough, Richard P ai g e ' ll itcw oli' Steward, Henry Holblack, jun•, Alotenderpos „lirei John S. Byrne, Andrew Nicoll,•James Nee i ho AR,O W SECOND CLASS.—John Arthur Brett Jo-chri,svel, ade (quafied for steam only), B a lp ar a ci 4 ° i ' ' it William Henry Moore, William Clough , " " -P e w -ilit re Henry John Woolcott, David Napier, Ge °l•l4 " 05° . 0 Frederick John Wilson, Ede and Blisclan°rey WiLlllll Faldo, Robert Clouszow, John Bohan Mart'll:foieo Bacon Ransom, Alexander M'Neil Boyd, Ge orge '1e- '', - e 11 0 John Brown., Peter Crellie, John Show, ,„; 0 4 ,,,y Bradshaw, William Taylor, William V re a c ilr y Peter Campbell, George Biltou L.e, John 6136- iso' rigge. D CLASS.—Edward Stamp, D ig r d THIRD bard, E dm.u.ad Wins tanle George ' - ' 4-°l3° y, te ssl Emmett. t. ) ell 0 , The certificate granted to Richard Cornefi bolf of April, by 'the Liverpool Board, has beer' /4'3 4or MATES. P.' FIRST CLAss CERTICATES.--AleXander - 11 1 ;1 co teath, James Hill. rr 0 5 , ° , Lti 6 SECOND Joie!' :en 0, 'CLASS.—Thomas Hybert, - 13° L q-Vr, Good, David Grant, Richard Thomas Edtgarcclifieriej if . 4 fo rh r steam only), Walter Bevan Cooper, F3e'r A g leoff ~,. orndick, John Marshall Gillies, Dsoi` l ,, mo t : ji oP ' -....1na1, Samuel Bishop Sheard, William hl i r aol i$ Barry el , :hman King, John Robert Snow , O rli.- Aeff 'Ls Chees man. ja tne3 L,... T e n s i t a ce n r C e, r,.. v ss ii . l — ia W m iiilloialsm,e.Henry lilenil7l At, ' , a ittC o DENIS LV Al' . Board of Tra ......... 2 ... ..........., Whitehall, Jul 6, 18 0. ItX°lr4ll.. TIIE COUNTRY MA c iaon 4. LIVERPOOL, JULY 9.—There was a good & twi ce 0 ) the an weather being broken, coupled with the Ova°, tr ib e 0 4 ' 1 , 0 %yesterday., has occasioned rather an anim a te r a o p 4 e , ' o ' a d ts y the d W ema lle i dearer. Spring earn no change. Indian Co ra the ,td ° lie r ,' at is 0 3 d d e t r o at 4 e. 1 per 701bs, and fieu to o .4 LEEDS, JP.I.Y 9.—We had a good arrival o ', „ r ie,o: k lewe td ; :eo t ki h n. the trade is more buoyant than of late anu ar r o r 1, 4 1 evA.arsreTieailiauiple.y asA b n e a ro d r v e ac ; ce of wiNthEouwt Friday's rates, and fully 2i from tu te stlP oft i twib d auneiyael oats and shelling s dt . IS) , ' At Qv- ,it. 0. English and for this morning we experienced a ' di/ sale for al. """i, to ; y n e :C gn oß w l ea l% t an t x r E e y a a JULYee 90.f--frio.,-0710.:),t1.! jolt Is to 2s per:fl:rates( yr the rates of Sitturday_ last ' . a . Falnouar advance a Ind th e IEII CO I sack more moiney. In all kinds of spring c 0 41 variation to quote. number cme o nearlyshcow ls„ Toesooso fi quality w as middling, and an advanceon of 6d Pe r m ola . icl 3 &cab trade was more active, at rather, l ' o to and lambs , - B"" m a rs ; a eae N a i l : : : s o e e W si n t : nC;plAaebrBSi ueo h l c t a t .L.:t. with saihdt t ehoee CATTLE n o t note a decline MARKET, f 6, i 00. el mutton, •p w th a e s dull, and part remained ,°;tter P 6 :s' , Th e V A I id, lamb, 5d to 6d per lb. EDINBURG/ I MEAL MAR - .1 is 9. -- :: 1 11 1. 44 F , the meal marks A to-day 17 sacks oatmeal, each W el l - /9 6 1 . V., Jtor3,,,Ao9coltsdatsolf,o,4o Hill imperial, which sold thus :-1 at 1/ lOs a Od, 3 " Q ", 301 1 0 0 1 0 13 at 118 s Od average price of the whde 1 1 " p ot- , which Sour, which sold at 28s. 3 sac ks , s', wheat h .t. l p h sttN s rd o aßi l y rtu d t,R4o, itll thus : —milyat ANDI l e , s a T n ß d A 2 W at 1 1 ‘ 1 1 1: 14 5 ,1, 1 ,1 ,' 6 st J e il lo P i t i fli 6701 65 t0 " Oat bags oatmeal and 9 o 7 Hay, from, ls% to Is 2d per stone t fs o ob 7 d s a : 6 1 e d yb raa per r:e ! : e madtiptltlo f i 6, i s : pe t : eon r : vi 1 0 ' DALicErrrs MEAL MARKET, JULY 8.--- Tb da e y te e 11 j,4 51 , 1 1 s t al e es se ready; o atmeal up 6d per bag on th e top, ar ce.,f 2 h ,s p e e o r n b d a p t r.c i e n , fe a r n i d or ls ci fi u d art o t a y ;thebLolweyeniste;alofo:llll) 64 r or i o O de L er e . al , per sack, of 280 lbs. First s 27 e s e° o ll d d /^ 16 : 1, i ar eymea , per ditto imperial 2 1 7 7 5 s 6 6d a o ss 0 01 , i l l il B 1 1 - • Peasemeal , ••• Od '""" 0.1 1 Flour ... '•• ... ••• --s —s Od s 0 Pot barley —s Od —6 ••• ••• Buddle's (3afr W. t; . ••• Chester Main C H O a AL rtley M AI3itsK6EdIr:RMYbtOs:s.F.D.!:"""...:, ;rl°i• D E aasvieAWd'a.l.ll34-tleY ]3s 6d Lumley .......... : .. .. 1 6 ) 1,. wßayvieans:o.i.r..3o.l4, , s t aw H in a ll. r . t . le . y 1 1 1 3 0 2 s: 9631:11tuiceshwsellirltit's:".0:".°113.... •....... i I 4 P- 1 Walker's Pthnro . sa . Ta ' a . r . t . 1 13 is s 00dd Bentley ••• ............. :1..: :: 1 0 nneld Moor .... l2s 6dCaradoc ..... •• 4" .0 IP' i ... , I3s 3d' Denison ............. ....... 1 61 0 Wall'a End, &c. Acorn Close _ 0 1,.. 0 133wieke and Co. Elm Park 13s Od ' [(Aloe. ............. .. ... . i v Gosforth .... Harton ... . l3s 3d South Hartlepo .. ... A A Heaton ...... l3s 6d West Hetton ........ ..„ !' 4 ,!" 1 Lawson ... .. l2s 9: Whitworth ............. . ; j I r 4 Walker . l2s 9d Adelaide Tees •,..• .0° 0 Eden vain Lambton Primrose ~ Braddyll H etton Haswell .•''' - - 9 g tiaras., Scarborough l3s 9(11 Ships at Tm Sidney's arket, 129• Scarborough. l3s 9diSidne3 6..*-- 21...."1iPeat:L1arket ..... :2 n. 2 . 9 .. : .. .... ,iii , ' -4115 P RAILWAY SHARE M ili ligi BRISTOL, JULY 10. 0 .46;1 9 0 t if j STOCK EKE IITANGH.—The market tviourel „,,...w ei lail) only alterations in price we have to notice,e',oo,,p „./' Exeter, 64 4-- Ditto, New, 12 dis. —Great i'v ee 4 S,( l 'l , ' 147 —Ditto, New 17/. Shares, 7 die.—Midllorale ~ j) cent. (Birmingham and Gloucester), 123--rfr. per cent., 1% p.better 11 LIVERPOOL, JULY 10. . t / STocit Exc HANG& —The share market Ire' io llo i l i ig , at the quotations. The transactions were,a9dis.."%ili,ilr,i cashire arid Yorkshire, Consol. Fifths 9 .1 /.3 -- Sel l o6 l' Shares, 9 1 4 dis.—London and North-Western' , 24 ' ot , i 13-16 p. Midland, 31 1 /0 Ditto, Hel ves : (I'l e ‘ fi d South-Eastorn and Dover, Consolidated Stoe: 0 ( 11 t# MANCHESTER, JuLY l u. es d 0 0 0 1, STOCK EX CH ANGE. - The share m arket ff fle d co s the amount of business being small , and Cl local lines, but prices were firm. ar l° 1 BIRMINGHAM, JULY 10,.• re 0 j / STOCK to —Basiness in this el e port i c i O F very flat to-day. The only transactions 4 4 , North Staffordshire, 11 die.—youth Staffordshire' As ,il r YORK, JULY 9. tn „clai d t, 5 0 STOCK EX CHAKGE.—The transactions ''' , o r ce' ,),' follow : - Leeds and Thirsk, Preference , __ 6 i „,P - elni f ~ —York, Newcastle, and Berwick G. N. II ''' Ilr 'ti ° 1 York and North Midland, 15/ : 3s._________„9d. r Iv lil, tuAil [ ADVEATISEM ENT.] —The most r i lt a r CIO ;ol i f j for the Cure. of Indigestion, Stomach and '''''- t r °l 4 4 ? ing a a e .s are Hollowr.y's Pills.—Captain Smith, resid 0 1 ara ,ii i had resided the greater part of his life at see'o e reti iiit ?., ' able portion of that time in warm climates , often t° r e , , , from a liver complaint and indigestion, an d biin !lot' /I''' extent that be thought it was impossible for, s b s' it , ' i , He followed_ the advice of medical men l' ih ne eci,', l tt° i, l O . abroad, lout without benefit ;he then r e l i efeotne o '7o o r loway's Pills , and soon experienced so mush severed in taking ' them for a few w eeks, whets, e ° sto health perfect's) , restored . —Sold by all druggocloe'/' fessor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, ...,...,' , ______----- ( BIRTHS. the 4 ; OF A SON. , biro , ,to 4 . On the 7th inst., at Heybridge, Stafforne A the Rev. Wyr iter homas Blathwayt. w oo e On the 7th inst., at rackley- Rectory, Il esr 0 0 ' wife of the lt , 3v. L. A. Sharpe. jug Onthe Btl L inst., at Upper Avenue-road' (; i the wife of tl ugh Adams Silver. r 3 OF A DAUOIITKIL 0, g . iji On the W inst., at Walthamstow, E s° or Dorman T ; vslir. wife / e On the :itlt inst., at Richmond, Surrey ,the i Baker Rob errs, Esq., solicitor. fo r r et!' / 4, MARRIED. On the LA inst., at St. Leonard's-on "S e t 3 i ; P 1i1Y .0 . 9 . I son of AL!. Peter Banks, of Hastings, .., - ,,'61' 0 ',, o , p daughter oic:Mr. Samuel Chester, of St. L eo Joseph s V On the 4 tli inst., at Bolton, CUmbeilrlanvd, vi e - r , to a . eldest son c f Joseph Dixon, Esq., of -ti., e vfl itiche r ',II' Susan, old est daughter of the Rev. i' o 4 . Clarborne. rot ° 0 1 DIED. r lott e- fs c f On the fith inst., at his residence, Clie - ty 's ,t , worth, Cho irle s Barrett Esq., of her g a i es- ' ti er ( 4 Whitehall, aged 58. ' of fi° -° ~,,,!" Cu the 6 thl inst., Jehn Sharp, Esq" - tier ut e fj," oi r aged 83. On the 64h inst., at her seat, Ascot daughter of ole late John Ferard, Esq ,e f ' U- - 6 'lt Surrey. _4'o Is . ----, place, Bled / . London: ..'rir tted and Published by bi - " Ofti t: ' or' No. I W , , strand, Printer, at 71 4 8 " s in th e Styria. in -.:3, a Precinct of the ei; ,, is" osl ' '- Middlesex* ~ Thurs lay, July 11, 1 850 ' : LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 11, 1850. 4 . 11. Paid. Paid. Paid. Paid. Pric4 Price 15 2 16 2 24)4 Price, Price.