The Sun. — London, England, 1845-07-09 00:00:00

UNITED STATES. DEATH OF GENERAL JACKSON. LIVERPOOL, MONDAY. We have another arrival hereto-day from New York, the Shakespeare, Capt. Cornell, with papers one day later, the interest of which may be summed up in the announcement of the death of General Jackson. _ The following particulars of this event are from the New York papers of the 17th June:— " The event for which the nation had been resignedly looking for some time past has at last occurred, and the venerable Jackson is no more. The news, although it was anticipated, produced a marked sensation in this city. - Many persons immediately closed their stores—Saga, were hoisted half-mast high on the liberty poles— and throughodt the community all seemed impressed with the feel. ing that a mighty man had departed for ever. General Jackson's name has long been associated with the history of this country, and will be now enrolled on the list of worthies who have done the republic no mean service. He had many faults, of which friends and enemies alike made as much as they could ; but he had also many viz tuns, and let them only be remembered now I Amid ,the quite and solemn shades of the Hermitage, and close by the ashes t,f his wife, " After life's fitful fever, he sleeps well.' "The Louisville Democrat, of Wednesday last, contains the following melancholy inteligence:— . _ _ "• The tern of General Jackson's eventful life closed on Sunday, Bth instant, at six o'clock. On Sunday morning the report reached Nashville that he had expired, owing to his having fainted away, in the xtempt to remove him from his chair to his bed. He, how ever recovered for a few hours. " A short time before rib death, be took an affectionate leave of his friends and domestics, retaining to the last his senses and intellect.unclauded. He expired with the utmost calmness, ex pressing the highest confidence in a happy immortality through a Redeemer. '• General Houston landed at Nashvil'e at half.past six on Sunday evening, and set off' in haste to the Hermitage, but was met by the physician, who informed him that the General was no NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. The THIRD EDITION of THE SUN of last Evening contained— The conclusion of the day's proceedings before the Railway Committees of both Houses of Parliament. The Newmarket Races, received by Express. The List of Appointments and Bankrupts from the London Gazette. The latest Market Intelligence. Parliamentary Intelligence of the Evening, being full Reports of the Debates in the houses of Lords and Commons up to a Quarter before Seven o'clock. more. `• We received this intelligence from Colonel J. C. Eldredge, who accompanied General Houston from Texas, and who is now on his way to Washington city. " The simple announcement of this melancholy though long expectcd event wilt excite the deepest emotion in the hearts of the A m erican people. The memory of Jackson belongs to his country. tier history will contain the record of his valuable services, his sterling patriotism, and a nation's gratitude will be his monument. •" The funeral, we understand, was to have taken place yester day morning. " "f he Common Council last evening passed resolutions appro. prate to the occasion, appointed a joint committee to confer with other citizens, and report at a special meeting a plan for a more general manifestation of the public sorrow, in view of this melan choly dispensation of Providence. "' General Andrew Jackson was born March 15,1667, and tiled June 8,1845, in his 78th year." We regret also to announce the death of Edward L. Carey, Eqg , of Philadelphia, who for many years was the senior partner in the house of Carey and Hart, the eminent puh lishPrs of this city. Our advices from Montreal extend to the 15th instant, by which we learn that great exertions were made to push dry goods sales byauction, but little business appears to have been transacted. Freights were still in a dull state, owing to the nivulier of vessels cle . aring being more than was actually re quired for the demand that existed. The Flour Market way dull, and prices remained at 245. to 245. Od. ; Pot Ashes wf re 233. 3d. to 235. 6d. ; Pearls had fallen 3d., and sold at 245. tc 24..4. 3d. The Wesleyan Conference of ministers had terminated their sittings. Great numbers cf emigrants were arriving, ail (,f whom were pushing their way to the west. In comtntrcial matters there is little worthy of remarl:. Ashes s(11 firmly at at 3 dolls. 81 cents. No sales of cotton of importance, but prices very firm. Provisions are in good demand at firm prices. Y ILW ORK. STUCK EXCHANGE, JUNE 16.-6,000 dolt. Ltdiana Etg, 34; 3,000 doll. ditto, dol., 34; 20,000 doni. Peon. s's, c, 741,i ; 12,000 dots. ditto, c, 75; 6 shs Bank New York, 12214; ; 50 Merchant Bank, c, 93; 20 Bank Cont i tolv,,full, 99; 100 Farm Loan, s 3, 31N; 100 ditto, b 3), 34 1 / ., ; 1:70 ditto, s 3, 3.53 ; 900 ditto, b6tn, 36; 50 ditto, A'S, ; 150 Morris Canal, 3014, ; 59 ditto, b9O, 30%; 20 Aia. Ex. Bk., 82; 20 Vicl:sbitrg, 7 1 /, ; 150 R ailing, 53%; 11 . 5 ditto, 545, 53; 75 Canton, 40 3 / 4 ; 75 Mohawk, 56 1 ,4; Nor. and Wor., c, 723( 1 ; 105 ditto, 721( 4 " • 125 Erie It. R.,29.; 5) L. Island, b3O, 71 1 4 ; 50 ditto, 71%; 200 Stoningtqa, 29 1 / 2 ; 50 ditto, s 10, 293 1 ; 20 Housatonic, 23. Second hard.-50 shares L. Island, b3O, 71; 50 ditto, 7014 ; 1.50 Morris, 3011 ; 25 Nor. and Wor., s. 10, 72%; 25 ditto, 8.3, 72%; 15 Laf. Bk. Ciu., IS; 12 Utica and Sch., b 3, 131; 50 Canton, 41. IRELAND. INQUEST AT BALLINHASSIG. The inquest was resumed on Saturday morning. Under tint directions of the Coroner the police force were called in; they went accompanied by their officer, Mr. Kelly. Mr. Walsh—Are these the men who formed the party at Bat linhassie on that fair night? Mr. Scannell—Certainly. Mr. Walsh—Will it Le admitted that the seven persons, whose bodies have been viewed by the jury, died from gunshot wounds find by that party ? Mr. Scannell— This is a most unprecedented course. Mr. Percy (county inspector)—l may state to Mr. Walsh that there can be no doubt of the fact. Mr. Scannell—There is no allegation that shots were fired by any but police, and we admit that what firing took place was under the command of the officer. I cannot go beyond that. Mr. Walsh—Will it be admitted that the firing to the end was with the sanction of the officers ? Mr. Scannell—The general order was given prior to the com. mcncernent of the firing, and it was given under the impression that it was not only justifiable but essentiaL lam not prepared to say whether the tiring was continued to the end with the sanction of the officer. Mr. Walsh— Before the firing ceased did he giveorders to cease? :%Ir. Scannell—No. The CORONER—We may take it that it was under the first order they acted throughout. Mr. Scannell—That may or may not appear in the evidence. The evidence was then proceeded with. The whole day was consumed in the examination of two of the country people—Denis Delany and Patrick Hurley—whose testimony was to the same effect as that given by the witnesses on the previous day. Delany swore most positively that no injury was done to the back of the Dispensary until there were three corpses on the road outside; but subsequently, on his depositions being read over by the Coroner, he corrected himself by saying that he had not, at tho time he saw the bodies, a view of the back of the Dispensary. The inquiry was then adjourned to Monday morning. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY. THIS EVENING _ . Will be repeated a New and Original Comedy, in Two Acts, entitled FRIENDS AT COURT. Principal Characters by Messrs. F. Vining, A. Wigan, Diddear, Turner, Collier, and Bender ; Mrs. Keeley, Miss Villars, and Miss Fairbrother. After which, an entirely New, Original, and Novel Grand Fairy BALLET DIVERTISSEMENT, entitled LES FEES. In which Les Danseuses Anglaises will appear. To be followed by a New Farce, entitled LUCK'S ALL. Principal Characters by Messrs. F. Vining, Diddear, Keeley, Meadows, Kin loch, and Turner ; Miss Hicks, and Mrs. A. Wigan. To conciude with an entirely New Operatic, Dramatic, Chivalric, ?airy, Romantic Burlesque, entitled CINDERELLA. The Principal Characters by Mr. Keel , f, Mr. A. Wigan, Mr. Frank Mathews, Mr. J. W. Collier, Mrs. Keeley, Miss Villars, Miss Falrbrother, Mrs. WOolli:l.ge, Miss Grove, Miss Bovrard, &c REPEAL ASSOCIATION. DUBLIN, JULY 7.—The weekly meeting of the Association, which wok place to-day, was greatly crowded. Mr. O'Connell, accompanied by several of the leading members of the body, was present, and upon his entrance was loudly cheered. Mr. M. O'Connell, M.P., presided. Mr. Davis moved the adoption of a draught of a petition to be extensively distributed in Ulster for the purpose of obtaining fignature3 to it, praying the House of Commons not to pass any tcuching the tenantry of Ireland, without enacting therein a cruse recognising and saving whole the custom commonly called •' the tcnant.right of Ulster." Mr. O'CoNrtat.t. seconded the motion, and denounced any at.. tempt to interfere with the existing tenant right as a scheme of robbery by the landlords. He pledged himself to make every exertion in his power not only to preserve the present tenant-right the people of Ulster, but to extend it to every other part of Ireland. • The petition having been adopted, Mr. O'CoNweia. again rose, and said that he had a few observe; lions to make on the subject of his recent mission to England. He denied that he bad ever made any declaration of total absence from Iris Parliamentary duties, as was asserted by some of the English journals. What he had said was, that be should not go over unless for the purpose of endeavouring to effect some good or to avert erne evil. He was also reported to have declared himself favour_ alt to mixed education, and to have given an opinion to the effect that the political part of the New Colleges Bill would do no harm 1..) Ir. land. Now, both these reports were utterly untrue. As to Mr. Roebuck, he had been complaisant enough not to attack him Mr. O'Connell) since he went over to I. , indon. Now in truth he eared as little for his abuse as for the barking of a cur-dog, and he beggt d pardon of the four footed animal fir the comparison.— (Laughter.) That was all he had to say about little Roebuck, and he 'would next call attention to -he present posture of affairs. The lion. Gentleman then recounted the steps which he and Mr. S. O'Brien took in the House of Commons in opposition to the New li..nking and. Colleges Bills, and stated his objections in eztenso v, the latter measure, denouncing it as penal, restrictive. and having a tendency to corrupt the youth of the country. He In culcated the necessity of conciliwing persons of all political opinions, and earnestly condemned the system of Ribandism and Molly I‘l4llnrei , m. which is spreading ti rough the country. He adverted to the recent fatal co.lision between the police and the country pi rode .n the county of Cork, where thirteen " innocent" persons lust their lives, and held it up as a warning to all to abstain from tairrage and violence. The loss of life on that occasion had taken place in consequence of the manner in which the policewere armed. Ire his opinion, the Government was wrong to send out the police ,:vary occasion with deatily weapons in their hands. He also EilUiled to the assassination of Mr. Booth, and called upon wretches like his murderer to recollect that the red arm of God's vengeance v.as raised against them, and that, if their crime was unrepented, t heir final doom was as certain as it was horrible to conternplae. He concluded by calling on the repeal wardens to rally with him for tranquillity, old Ireland, and the repeal. A resolution was adopted, to the effecttbat the Rev. T. Maguire's epeech at the Cavan meeting of magistrates should be printed and circulated in Cavan and the adjoining counties. Mr. H. GRATTAN and Mr. J. O'CONNELL addressed the meeting at great length against the New Education Bill. The week's rent was stated to amount to 4071. 7s. DUBLIN STOCK EXCHANGE—MONDAY. This day there was a further improvement in the Share-market, there bting in almost every instance an advance on Saturday's quotations, as will be seen by the following official list of prices : Government Funds—Bank Stock, 210—Three per Cent. Con sols, 99A—Three-and.a.Quarter per Cent. Stock, 1011 I. Miscellaneous—Royal Bank, llailways—Belfast and Ballymena, 61 7—Belfast and County Down, 31 —Cork and Bandon, 5 6i—Dublin and Belfast Junction, Si I—Dublin and Drogheda, 114—Dundalk and Ennis -1 i:len, 3s 3i—Ennkkilen and Sligo, 2i —Great Southern and IVcstern, ‘.”2.--Great Southern Extension, 101 I—The Midland Great Western Railway and Royal Canal Company, 3/ 4 Ditto, Extension to Sligo, 2h ; lri,h Great Western (Dublin to G Away), :4 Kingstown and Bray, 5 Si—Limerick, Ennis, and Eillaloe Junction, 5 54 —Londonderry and Enniskillen, 3/ — Waterford and Limerick, 71 4—Waterford and Kilkenny, 3 2/—, Waterford, Wexford, and Dublin, 11. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. A DIFFERENT SUBJECT EACH SEASON. COMBINATION OF ATTRACTIONS. ROMANTIC GARDENS AND PROMENADE. EXTENSIVE AND UNRIVALLED MENAGERIE. COLOSSAL MODELLED REPRESENTATION OF EDINBURGH, The Acme of Scenic Illusion. The ROCK HARMON ICON from Three till Eiet. And on MONDAYS, TUESDAYS, WEDNESDAYS, and THURS DAYS, GRAND CONCERTS D'ETE and MAGNIFICENT DISPLAY of FIREWORKS. Admission, One Shilling. _ _ Feeding the Carnivora at Half--past Five ; Pelicans and Polar Bears at Six ; Concert at Half-past Six ; and Fireworks at Half-past Nine This day a Ladies' Bazaar and Fete Champetre, in aid of the Butcher.' Charitable Institution will be held in these Gardens. On Friday, Jullien's Second CONCERT MONSTRE. NEW ZEALAND. Fitiztrot-rit, JULY 7.—The ship Midlothian arrived off the ' , tzar(' to-day, - from Sydney, and landed her mails at this lace, and the following report has been sent on shore by 'Hptain MorriMnu •the ?rlorrison. from Sydney, New South reponl—On April 2, in lat. 35 43 S., lon. 177 56 E., )1:e the Mary, of New Bedford, whaler, which reported • three days previohs her Blajes'y's ship 4 North working into the Bay of Islands, New Zealand. Also that the natives there and the crew of her Majesty's 11:;zird and the British troops lave had an encounter, fl-t^-staff bed been pulled down, and the town ilza burnt. About 100 of the natives had been p t i warn fled, and about 18 or 20 of the English. ~, : nn!-under t;io Hazard was badly wounded. The Lriti,h residents bad all left fur Auckland. Quietness had teen restored. . _ _ ;Si dit " The Midlothian also spoke, April 6, in lat. 36 5 S., long. 778 56 W., the inan-of-w.tr St. Lori n , standing N.E." DEODANDS.—Ths - Ort has just, been prepared f r Parliam'ent by Mr. Ilnuverie and Lord Palmerston, for the pur rose of abolishing deodands in all cases, proposes to abolish the xistir.g custom, and enacts that from and after the Ist of t t p.ernber next eri,uing, these shall be no forfeiture of any chat. t .! 3 f o r, or in respect of, the same having moved to or caused the steath of man; and that no Coroner's jury sworn to Inquire, upon tho sight of any dead body, how the deceased came by his death, shall find any forfeiture of any chattel that may have moved to, or caused the death of, the deceased, or any decdand what. ever. The clau-e lastly and further proposes to enact that it shall not be necessary in any indictment or inquisition for homicide to allege the value of the instrument which caused 11. e death of the deceased, or to allege that the same was of no 1,441 e. BRIGHTON, TtE3DAY JULY 8 —The Duchess de ( oi, ny and stfte e s ) est,- relay iteration in the packet 1. ague .or Li.ppe, en route, for Paris. 4 , ) fsi* 4 Ttx,i , t OCX ::31. 2 7:^* , m L s THE SUN, l,()lsi DON, WEDNES()A I EVEN Y The Gaming anal Wager Bill was read a third time and passed. tions of India and other countries add to this amount 10,064,684 Spanish dollars. The grand total for Canton is, therefore, 17,925,360 dols., or 3,883,8231. sterling. Inclosure No. 5, a similar account of quantities and value of merchandise exported from Canton in 164 British vessels of 83,679 tons to various countries. This return is arranged udder two heads, "Raw Produce" (whereof was exported to British India, Great Britain, and British colonial possessions, to the value of Spanish dollars 16,398,950), and " Manufactured Articles" to the value of 526,410 dols. Total exports, 17,925,360 dols., or 3,883,828/. Inclosure No. 6 is a statement of tonnage dues, import and expOrt duties paid by British vessels in the port of Canton for six weeks to Dec. 31, 1844. Adding the last six months of 1343 to the first six months of 1844, the total registered tonnage for one year was 125,192 ; total tonnage dues, 18,4931. ; import sad export duties, 516,4101. ; grand total, 534,9031. Mr. Davis, in his dispatch to the Earl of ABERDEEN, No. 2, incloses "Re turns of the foreign trade of all other nations with Canton." Alluding to these important and curious do cuments, Mr. Dews writes," The manner in which these returns have been drawn up by that gentleman has given eneral satisfaction on their being published." The ge neral statistics of the American trade with Canton for 1844 may be thus stated :—lmports in forty-nine Ame rican veesds (20,292 tons) 2,445,870 dolls. Of this sum, to the value of 46,056 dole., were articles imported from Singapore ; 85,567 dols. from Manilla, Bali, and Batavia ; 8,622 dole. from the South Sea Islands, and from Boston, Mexico, and Lima, in treasure, 1,125,700 Isis.; in all 1,265,945 Spanish dollars. The remaining amount of 4,179,925 dols., or 255,6551., were the value of imports from all parts of the United States, chiefly New York. The total of American exports during the same period was 6,686,171 dols. The French trade re turns a total of imports into Canton of 33,823 dols., and of exports thence, of 37,130 dols. (or 7,3281. 155., and 8,045/. sterling respectively.) Total imports of Dutch trade with Canton 231,708 dols., and of exports (mis printed " imports," at foot of pige 19), 572,186 dole., or, respectively, 50,2031., and 152,5831. sterling. Of the Belgian trade, the exports were 1,9501. sterling, and the imports 13,1121. The Danish exports were—nil. Im ports, 4,3271. 'The value , of Swedish imports was 3,9501., and exports 33,299/. Of the German trade with Canton the imports were to the value of 26,623/., arid the exports to 3,063/. sterling. Frew all these data, which will enable our readers to form a tolerably accurate estimate of the value of the foreign as well as British trade of Canton, only exports and imports for 1844, it results that the total of imports was in value 3,866,037/ e and of the ex posts, 5,528,0221. There is a return from Mr. R. Aecocx, who sub seri es himself " Oflieiadng Consul" at the Port of Amoy, and another from Mr. BALroun, her MAJESTY'S Consul for Shanghai. But neither of these is so com plete or satisfactory as the papers of Mr. F. MACGREGOR, and both are unaccompanied by any memoir or statement. They are, besides, mueh less intelligibly prepared, to the apprehension of the general render. The trade of Amoy would seem to be at present but insignificant. The " grand total" of ships arrived, British, was 12 (of 3,415 tonnage) ; of foreign, 7 ; tonnage, 1,001. Invoice value of cargoes of former, 8,819 ; ditto of the latter, 3,7931. By the returns for the port of Shanghai, the value of the cargoes imported (in the year) appears to have been 501,3551., upon which the duties paid amounted 0 76,460/. Neither number of ships nor aggregate of tonnage is here stated. We recur with pleasure to the papers of Mr. Cons MACGREGOR, as holding out the must encouraging pr spects of the future growth of our trade with the Chinese empire, and demonstrating that the scale of extension it -has already attained far exceeds, as to Canton at any rate, what it has been at former periods, and is based on elements of permanency and popularity in relation to the manners and the wants of the Chinese people. If these assumptions be, as we think them, well founded, it is scarcely possible to anticipate the extent of the market which may, in the lapse of a few years, be realised for our manufactured cottons and coarse woollens. In the sequel of circumstances the most apparently unfavourable, and after the deadly conflict of natural animosities and pre jutlices the most intense, we seem to have now established a decided taste for the productions of our looms and our mills. " The first year of the new system of trade in its full operation has now elapsed ; and if allowance be made for several inconveniences inseparable from a change so sudden, it must be allowed that the new sys tem works as well as could possibly be expected, consi dering the character and political institutions of the people with whom we have to deal. All monopolies, with the exception of a few, reserved by the Chinese Government, have ceased ; the foreign shipping is no longer exposed to the caprice and extortion of rapacious mandarins ; and the duties both of imports and exports are, in most instances, fixed on so moderate a scale as hardly to offer a sufficient temptation to the regular merchants to evade them." This document, however, is so important and various in its character, that we shall need no apo logy with our readers for recurring to it in a future caper. In the meanwhile, we conceive that the facts ,!ondensed into the following paragraph are fraught with mattter for unmingied satieactien to the British public. They are a noble homage to the spirit of the councils, the energy of the people, and the constancy and intre pidity of the services by which and through whom results so signally encouraging have been arrived at:—" The revenue derived from the duties levied upon British trade at Canton, last year, in conformity with the tariff, will show a total of " taels " of 1,777,524 5 0 8, or, 2,468,784 dols., of which amount 85,351 dols. were levied on shipping ; 821,882 dols. on imports ; and 1.561,551 dots. on exports. Calculating the articles of import, exclusive of treasure, which is duty free, at , 15,500,000 dole , and the value of exports at 17,925.000 dols., the duty computed upon the former will be found equal to 5i per cent., and upon the latter to nearly 9 per cent. ad valorem. Thus, the British trade, at Car. tin alone, supplied a much greater amount of revenue to the Chinese Government tkin the sum (2,084,000 dots.) at which the produce of fie whole of the China trade was estimated by Mr. Trtoet in the veer 1842." • The Documentary Evidence Bill was read a second time, and their Lordships adjourned. The Commons met at twelve o'clock. Immediately after assembling the House resolved itself into Com mittee on the Commons Inclosure Bill. Clauses up to 70 were agreed to, and the House resumed. After the transaction of private business, Lord PALMERSTON rose to bring forward the motion of which he had given notice relative to the right of search. Tb is motion gave rise to a lengthened debate, in the course of which the House was addressed by Sir R. Peel, Mr. ShEil, Sir R. H. Inglis, Sir C. Napier, Mr. Hope, and Captain Peehell. -Sir R. PEEL intimated his refusal to produce the papers referred to, and the House divided, when there app'ared—For the motion, 51 ; against it, 94; ma jority against the motion, 43. The report of the Irish Colleges Bill was brought up by Mr. WYSE. The Field Gard Ens Bill was then read a third time, and the House adjourned at TWO o'clock. From the perhaps purposely ambigious manner in which Sir ROBERT PEEL, on Monday night, spoke to the intentions of Government as to the usual process of " burking" the accumulations of business, in the shape of Bills in progress, but too embarrassing to be carried on to their final stages without much of difficulty or in convenience, we are inclined to look upon the chances of settlement prior to the close of the session, for any given question, as extremely precarious. Among the ques tions which we have no manner of doubt the Ministers would be too happy to bide over, are those which regard the deficiencies of our naval effective service under the present Admiralty ad ministration. By next session we can easily imagine that the Government, under the influence of that " pre sure from without," which (thank GOD !) is not likely to be soon withdrawn, unless the evils it is sought to remedy shall have bec n previously relieved, will have so far amended and reformed the enormous defects of the manning, armament, and construction of our men-of war, steamers, and sailing vessels, as to be prepared with: at least a plea in mitigation ! As it appears to us, howev, r, to be of very great advantage to keep the public attention closely fixed upon matters which so essentially regard ha most vital interests, we take leave to notice, among other "pending questions," which we do not wish to see cushioned, together with the session, the admitted imperfections of our naval preparations generally. For this purpose, we are ne willing to pass over a significant article that appeared last week in the Hampshire Advertiser, in re lation to the evolutions of the "Experimental Squadron? , It repeats the statement we made OR a former occasion on a different authority, that the largest of all the ships in this squadron, the Queen, of 110 guns, had but 50 able seamen on her books, having actually joined the squadron with but 25, out of her complement of 700 men. The boasted increase of the various ships' com plements, which the champions of Admiralty manage. ment as it is had been previously holding up as matters for public applause and thankfulness, has turned out, ac cording to the Hampshire Advm tiser, to consi,t in the addition of a grand total of between 200 and 300 general service men and marines to the whole squadron. " The navy was never so deficient in good seamen as at this moment ; and, in point of naval construction, we are as far behind perfection as we were when the Victory was built. How humiliating is the fact, that in 1815, we are so deficient in right principles upon ship-building, that squadrons are required to bo sent out to sea in order to decide which is the best model to construct upon." When one reads of facts such as these to-day, and learns to-morrow that so slovenly has been the dock-yard estimate of a newly built and equipped man-of-war's immersion, with her guns and stores aboard, that on her first trip she is found to sink beneath her coppering, and occupies the entire labour of a hundred shipwrights in adding a streak or two to her entire sheathing in order to make good so dangerous a defect, one may well be excused for enter taining serious alarm lest, in the bustle, and confusion, and hurry of a closing session, the is arning voices of our naval censors, in and out of Parliament, should be for gotten or slumbered over. Now we do earnestly call upon those Members of the House of Commons who have already done so much good service in apprising the Legislature and the country of the delusions they have been led into by statements vouched, on authority that must have been fully informed of their falsehood, as to the almost perfect condition cf our ships, and their crews, and their armaments, not to allow this salutary agitation on the subject of naval mismanagement to subside out of sight and hearing, together with dropped orders of the day on discarded Bills and indefinitely postponed motions. That agita tion, we trust, will never cease, or even relax, until the reproach of such mal-administration and such palpable practical defects in the most important arm of the public service, be removed. Surely, these are no times for trifling with cardinal faults in the condition of its mat Cl iel, and the establish ment, the discipline, and the supply of the most im portant classes of the staff by which that materiel is to be worked and dealt with. Let us hope that the vital propositions which have been everted, from time to time, by the highest professional authorities for pro viding and keeping up an adequate supply, at all times, of able seamen,—for discarding the present ungracious, harsh, and (we may even term it) suicidal system of " paying off " a man-of-war's crew, after any length of service, however hard, and in whatever climate, on her coining home—and " throwing them off," at the same instant, upon the wide world to shift fa- them selves (as if their constancy, their intrepidity, their for titude and patience, their disciplined skill, and promp titude in discharging all the duties of good seamen and able hands, as that interval had given them—of all the tried servants of tl:e public—no claim upon the equity, the consideration, the generosity, even, of the State, over and above the title to their pay, and certificates up to the date of their discharge)—let us hOpe that these propositions will not be allowed to pass out of the view of Parliament before it rises foi the recess, and that the House of Commons will not allow itself to be mys tified out of the present adoption of these practical and indispensable reforms in the navy, where they can in stantly be carried into execution; and where they can not, that they will in,ist upon positive guarantees fur their being carried into full effect at the earliest possible period. Madrid journals of the Ist instant have been received. The Gazette of that date contains a royal ordontonce, signed by the Minister of the Interior, with the conditions of the pro posed loan for the repair and construction of public roads. The payments would be made in five years, and the contracts concluded on the Ist of September next. It was said that the Gazette would also publish in a few days a new loan to the State by the bank of San Fernando, to the amount of 60,0001. per month for the following six months. These papers contain various rumours respecting the marriage of the QUEEN, the differences between NARVAEZ and CHRIS TINA, and the future movements of the Court, upon which little confidence can be placed. To those who take a deep interest La the only true and permanent source of our national prostlerity—namely, the extension and resources of our commerce—the Returns of Trade" which have just been presented to both douses of Parliament, by command of her MAJESTY, , will be appreciated in all their importance. These re turns are for "the ports of Canton, Amoy, and Shang hai, for the year 1844." The originals were trans mitted by J. F. Davis, Esq., her MAJESTY'S Plenipoten tiary in China, in a dispatch, dated Victoria, Hong- Kong, February 7, 1845, which is No. 1 in this collection. Mr. DAVIS, in calling attention to the exceedingly able paper (Inclosure No. 1 in his dispatch) from Mr. Consul MACGREGOR, remarks, " These returns exhibit a great increase, particularly in cotton goods, notwithstanding the resort of British shipping to the new ports of China ; and I am happy to fiad that the Previous feeling of on the part of the people has completely died - away, the fifth instalment of the in demnity being paid without the slightest popular de monstration." Besides Mr. F. MACGREGOR'S Inclosure No. 1, above referred to, we have other five it/closures, numbered from two to six inclusive, all bearing the signature of the same gentleman. They are all of great importance. No. 2 is a " Return of the number and tonnage of merchant vessels which arrived at, and departed from, Canton in the year ending December 31, 1844, dis tinguishing the countries to which they belonged." From hence it appears that the arrivals were 308 vessels; aggregate of their tonnage 142,699. Of these, 228 were British vessels ; 57 American ; 11 Dutch ; French, Belgian, Danish, and Swedish (2 each); Bremen 1. tonnage of the British bottoms was 111,850 ; of the American, 23,273 ; of the Dutch, 3,878 ; of the Belgian, 1,151 ; and of the French, 751 ; and of other flags, from 290 to 590 tons respectively. Meier head of " Vesse!s Departed," the total number is 296 ; aggregate tonnage, 140,182. Of these the number of British was—(vessels) 228, ton nage, 112,142 ; of foreign, 28,040 ; there were A Inc ric,n, 49 ve,sels ; tons, 21,600 ; Dutch. 9 ee.,s , is ; 'e.g.., 3,013 ; ire net:, - 2 ; tonnage, 632 ; Belgian, 2 ; tonnage, 1,151; Swedish, 2 vessels; tonnage, 581 ; Da nish, Hamburgh, Bremen, Russia, 1 vessel each ; ton nage from 219 to 320 ; British, 228 vessels ; tonnage, 112,142. The next inclosure (No. 3.), is an extended detail of No. 2. luclosure No. 4, is " A return of the quantities and value of merchardise imported into the Port of Canton " in 206 Bri t i•Ji vessels (of 184,322 ton:), and 96 Hong-Kong (of 5,774) during same lot. real. This is a most gratifying statement, seeing that under the three heads of British manufactures and staple ar ticles, manufactures of cotton, and miscellaneous articles, raw and manufactured, the estimated value in Spanish d.)llars is no less than 7.860 676 Spinish d,,llars, On the Ist the Three per Cents. closed at 30 1 4 for cash, and 33 1 4 at 50 days ; the Five per Cents. at 21 at 60 days ; and the Debt without Interest at 6 1 / 2 for cash. The Paris papers are chiefly occupied with the result of the negotiations relative to the Jesuits, and though divided iu opinion as to the parties to whom credit is due for the settle ment of the question, they agree, with the exception of the Legitimatist journals, as to the benefits which it is likely to confer on France. These Carlist papers display the most bitter disappointment, and vent the rage of their party in loud complaints, not even sparing the infallil.le father of the Churth The Quotidienne says :—" Such is the catastrophe of M. Roast's negotiations. By dint of genuflexions in the chapel of the Jesuits at Rome, he has obtained the dispersion of the Jesuits in Paris. Thus M. GozoT is as grand as the Duke DE CHcas*uf.„ with this cliffer6ce, that CHOISEUL did not count the beads of his rosary to gain the bull of CLEMENT XIV. But in this, as in all other political affairs to be de cided by the power of the POPE, there is a worldly influence which cannot at all times be comprehended and judged of. This is not a question of dogma essentially touching the con science of the Catholic ; it is a governmental affair affecting only political liberty and constitutional right. There is no thing, therefore, to prevent our declaring that the Papal de. cision, so far as it concerns our civil state, our constitutional principles, our purely legal organisation, is a fault—an enormous fault, the consequences of which must very shortly be felt either by the Church of France or by tho- Holy See itself." This journal in another place, on the authority of letters from Rome, contradicts the statements made in the Govern ment papers, and says the note published by them is founded on a scandalous equivoke. Concessions, it is true, have been made, but not of the nature of those stated. The Constitu tionnel claims all the merit of the affair for its patron, M. TniEns, to whom the Journal des Debate, in a style peculiarly its own, pays the following ironical com pliments : I. We have not the slightest desire to triumph at the expense of the Jesuits, who for the moment have ceased to exist, still less at the expense of the Church of France, which will soon recognise, we are persuaded, that the Government has never better served the real interests of religion than at present. Besides, every one cannot triumph at the same time, and we see that 117. Thiers has already claimed all the honour of the nego tiation. It is the illustrious chief of the Left Centre who did all ; the Ministry has only been the humble executor of his high behests. We expected this. For sonic time past M. Thiers has been marching from one success to another.- A few days ago he negotiated with England, and obtained the suppression of the right of search ; at present he negotiates with Rome, and obtains the suppression of the Jesuits. But what is truly awkward is, that M. Thiers is not a great politician except when he is not Minister. Whew he is in the Opposition he assures the liberty of thought, Ole repose of the country, and the secority of the territory. By what fatality does it come to pass, then, that when he is in power he does precisely the contrary ? Was it in . 1840, for instance, that M. Thiers assured the repose of the country ? But however the matter may be, we shall willingly allow the illustrious chief of the Lett Centre to trium, h. That does no harm to any one. We shall have nothing to say to the policy of M. Thiers, so long as it shall b, .worked sot by NI fluizn•; and if this position is to M. Thiers' t 14:~ l 1 we reciimmeLd hit.; 20 keep it. 'He hug all the glory of (:•.i 1 J02 . ;;13/ wittailit any of the anxiety. lie belioiiiA his opinions without his hietorical labouis being int e rrupted. We in a single year tur Ile single pert of Canton. Yrodue- I tliUmPhing' know no lot more enviable. It is not by fear, we are told, that M. Thierilifluences the Government. We can sasily imagine it. We know well to whom M. Thiers causes fear ; it is not to the Go vernment, but to the majority, to the country. The majarity and the country consider M. Thiers far better in Opposition, and M. Thiers appears to be of the same opinion. Every one, therefore, is satisfied ; and truly it is a most fortunate thing that so great a statesman should be at the same time so great a philosopher." According to some of the journals sixty-two mas:er car penters have yielded to the demands of the journeymen, and have agreed to pay them five francs a day, in consequence of which about 500 had returned to work. The KING and QUEEN, tL•e Duke and Duchess DE NE MOURS, the Duke and Duchess D'AUMALE, the Prince and Princess AUGUSTUS DE SAKE COBURG, and the young Prince of WURTEMDURG, had left Neuilly for Trianon, where they have taken up their residence. The Duchess of ORLEANS. h the Count DE PARIS, and the Duke DE CIIARTRES, had also arrived there on Friday. On Sunday the weather was oppressively hot at Paris. At six in the morning FAHREN HEIT'S thermometer marked 68 in the shade, at noon 86, and at two in the afternoon 90 degrees. The genial weather has had the best effect on the crops, and art abundant harvest is confidently anticipated. The Funds had been more firm on Monday than they had been for fur some time. The Three per Cents. chased on that day at 83f. 40c. ; the New Loan, at 83f. 65c.; the Five per Cents. at 121 f. 55c. ; Orleans Railroad Shares. 1,140 f. 50c. ; Rouen, 1,030 E; Vierzori, 740 f. ; Hacre, 837 f. t,Oc. ; Avignon, 970 f. ; Basle, 248 f. 75c ; Belgian Two -and- a-Half per Cents., 66%; Spanish Three per Cents., 38. The following are the quotations for the new lines . - Orleans and Bordeaux, 175 f. premium ; Boulogne, 118f.75c.; ditto Troyes and Montercau 22f. 50c. ; Paris and Lyons (Laffitte), 20f. ; ditto (Caton); par; ditto (Genneron), 5f • Northern Line (Laffitte), 32f. 50c. ; ditto (Rosamcl), 6f: oc. ; Tours and Nantes (Mackenzie), Bf. 50c. ; ditto (Drouillard), par; ditto (O'Neill), 2f. 50c. ; ditto (.Jacques Lefevre), par; Lyons and Avignon (Lecointe), llf. 50c ; ditto (Talabot), 25f. ; ditto (Compagnie Meridionale), 5f.; Bordeaux and Toulouse (Mackenzie), 50c.; ditto, and Cette (Eveleta), 4f. 25c.; Creil and St. Quentin, par ; Paris and Strasburg (Ganueron), 10f.; Dijon and Mul house, par. MARSEILLES, JuLv 3.—Marseilles and Avignon, 1,005 f. ; Boulogne, 620 f. ; Orleans and Bordeaux, 670 f. ; Vierzon, 760 f. ; Avignon and Lyons (Talabot), 5351. ; ditto (Sebastiani), 512 f. 50c. ; ditto (Compagnie Meridionale), 502 f. 50c.; Bordeaux and Cette (Espeleta), 502 f. 50c.; Tou lon, 497 f. 50c. LYONS, JULY 4.—Avignon and Marseilles, 972 E, end of July ; Paris and Oilcans, 1,167 E, ditto; Paris and Rouen, 1,025 f., ditto; Orleans and Vierzon, 738 f, ditto ; Orleans and Bordeaux, 665 f., ditto.; Boulonge, 610 t, ditto. DUBLIN AND GALWAY RAILWAY. —A petition from Mr. James Pim, jun., was last night presented to the House of Lords, containing numerous allegations of non-compliance with the standing orders and other matters which would vitally affect the further progress of this Bill The petition Las been referred to a Select Committee of their Lordships for investigation and report, and as some of the allegations impeach the validity of the Parlia mentary contract, and would thereby affect the whole proceedings which have taken place, the report will be looked for with much anxiety by all parties interested. MONEY and CtillfilEßClAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREP. The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 8,000 bags, including 4,000 on speculation. Prices were well supported. A fair business was done in Railway Shares, and prices were looking up. Armagh and Portrush, 2%; Bandon and Bantry, 295. 1% ; Barnsley ' Lancashire, Junction, 7 Is. 3d. • Birkenhead, an Cheshire, 5% ; Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, 5 1 1 4 ; Blackburn and Preston, 20%; British and Irish Union, 10s. 6d. ; Belfast and Ballymena, 7 63/ 1 ; Bolton, Wigan, and Liver pool, 16 1 4 %;- Caledonian, 11% ; Cambridge and Lincoln, 4 3 4 ;. Chester and Birkenhead, 61% ; Ditto,• New Shares, 51 1 4 ; Ditto, Halt' Shares, 30 1 4 Clitheroe Junction, 3% %; Clyt, s.dtile Junction, 8%; Cork and Bardon, 6 1 ,/, ; Derby and Crewe, 2% ; Dublin and Belfast Junction, 8% %; Dun dee and Perth, 3%; Eastern Counties, Perpetual, No. 2, 1 1 / 4 ; Edinburgh, Leith; and Grantham, 18 ; Edinburgh and Peebles, 3% %; Ely and Bedford, 2%; Glasgow and Dum fries, ; Glasow and Ayr, 72 ; Grand Junction, Eighth Shares, 22%; Great Southern and Western ' 21 1 4 ; Ditto, Extension, 10% % ; Huddersfield Canal and Railway, 8 1 4 ; Lancaster and Preston, 59%; Ditto, Three-quarter Shares, 35 ; Leicester and Bedford, ; Leicester and Birmingham, 335.; Limerick and Waterford, 6% %; Liverpool and Man chester, 213 ; London and Birmingham, Quarter Shares, 35% 3 / 4 ; London and Brighton, 75%; London and Wind sor, 1%; Londonderry and Enniskillen, 3%; London and York, 4 ; Leeds and Dewsbury, 18 3 / 4 16s. 3d. ; Leeds and Thirsk, 6% ; Leeds and West Riding Junction, 4 3 % 98s. 9d. ' • Manchester and Birmingham, 59% • ' Ditto, New Quarter Shares, 7 ; Blanchester and Birmingham, Continu ation, 1% • Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland, 74 ; Man chester and Leeds, 172 ; Ditto, Sixteenth Shares, 94 ; •Matlock and Midland, 5% 1 %; Midland Great Western and Canal, 3% ; Midland Railway, 187 189 ; Ditto, 40/. Shares, 29 1 / 4 ; Newcastle and Berwick, 19% ; Newcastle and Dar lington, New Shares, 364 %; Newcastle and Darlington, Lancashire Junction, % 13s.'; Newry and Enniskillen, 3%; Newry and Warrenpoint, 18s. 1/. ; North British, 25% ; Ditto, Half Shares, 71. 61. 18s. 9d. ; North Union (A), 173 ; North \Vales, 51s. 6d. ; North Western, 88s. 9d. 4% • Nottingham, Erewash, and Ambergate , 465. 6d. ; Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton, 6 18s. 9d. ; Preston and IV3ve, New Shares, 3%; Sheffield and Manchester, 129%; Ditto, Quer-. ter Shares, 17 ; Shrewsbury and Herefordshire ' 9s. ; Shrews bury, Oswestry, and Che s hi re , 81 s . 6d. ; South-Eastern and Dover, 48 1 / ; Ditto, New Shares, No. 1, 19 1 4 ; Ditto, No. 2, 17 1 4 1 / 8 ; Do., No. 3, 8 3 4 ; South Midland, 1 3 4 325. ; Waterford and Kilkenny, 2 ; Welsh Midland, 3% 71s. 6d. ; \Vest Yorkshire, 3% 765. 3d. ; Worcester and Tring, 325. 335. 6d. ; York and North Midland, 114 ; Dijon and Mul • house, 3s. ; Dutch Rhenish, ; Jamaica and South Mid land, 2 1 / 2 495. ; Lyons and Avignon, 51s. ; Northern of France (Laffitte), English, 5%; Ditto (Lebeuf), 2% ; Paris and Lyons (Laffitte), 58 ; Verona and Ancona, 2%. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JULY 8.-The sales are -Blackburn, Burnley, and Accrington, 9% 1 / 2 ; Blackburn, Clitheroe, and North Western Junction, 1% prem. ; Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool,l6% ; Clitheroe Junction, 3 9-16 14 ; Derby and Crewe, 2%; Eastern Counties, 21%; Erewash Valley, 31 Glasgow and Dumfries, 17s. 6d. 18e. 6d. ; Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction, Quarter Shares, %; Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal, 8 1 / 4 Leeds, Dewsbury, and Blanchester, 19 18%; Leeds and West Riding Junction, 5 1 4 ; Leicester and Bir mingham' 1 9-16 ,• Liverpool , % Liverpool, Crmskirk, and Pres ton, 2% ; London and Windst.r, I%; London. and York; 4 ; Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, d Midland, 5 1-16 1 ; Manchester and Birmingham, New Quarter Shares,7 3-16 %; Manchester and Leeds, Sixteenth Shares, 9% n Newcastle, Durham, and Lancashire, 15s. N o rth Staffordshire, 3%; North Union (A), 172 ; Nottingham, Erewash, Ambergate, and Manchester, 18s. 9d. prem. ; Oxford, - Worcester, and Wolverhampton, 6 1 / 4. ; Preston and Wyre, 32; Ditto, Half Shares, 3 5-16 %; Preston and Wyre Extension, 2; Sheffield and Manchester, Quarter ,Shares, 17 1 /, ex int. ; Shrewsbury and Trvnt Valley Union, 1% ; South Eastern and Dover, No. 1, 18% 19; Ditto, No. 2, 17 1 4 %; Ditto, No. 3, 8 3 4 ; Trent Valley Continuation and Holyhead June tion,2 1-16 2; Welsh Midland, 3% 'll- 16 ; WestYorkshire,4 Worcester, Shrewsbury, and Crewe Union, V% ,365. ; Newark and Sheffield, 2; Paris and Lyons (English), 2%. - There are various arrivals to-day from different „quarters, principally Australia and the Cape of Good Hope, • but they bring nothing of prominent interest. The date from Sydney is March 18. The commercial markets were steadier. Graham's Town papers of NI ay 1 state that the .Seers conti nued to be very dissatisfied at Natal, and that beyond the Orange river the Griqua native tribes and the farmers were very much embittered against each other, and likely to have frequent conflicts unless our troops acted very decisively in favour of the Griquas. This being dividend day at the Bank of England there is a very full attendance of annuitants, and not much business is doing at present, owing to the more attractive employ ment. Consuls are flatter, having been 99 to 1 4. Bank Stock is 210% to 211. The New Three-and-a-Quartet per Cents. are 102% %. The Dews from Mexico to-day is considered better, and there is above half a million sterling to be invested in stock and 1,000,0043. in Exchequer-bills. The premium on the latter continues at 575. Spanish Bonds are very well supp or t e d, th e Fi ve per Cents. being 271 h are and the Three per Cents. 38 1 4 A. Mexican are marked 37 1 % %. Portuguese Four per Cents. are at 65. _ In Shares there is more firmness, and with a moderate bonii fide business doing. ONE CLOSING PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES. Sank Stock 2l O l /2 211 211 3 per Cent. Reduced 3 per Cent. Consels Annuities 9 9 1 /4 59 %4 New 3 1 % per Cents 1021h% 1025,E Long Annuities toexDireJan.lB6o 11% 1 / 2 11 1 / 2 India Bonds, 1,0001 7O 70 Ditto under 1,000/. South Sea Stock Ditto Old Annuities Consols for Account ... 9941 A 99% Exchequer Bills, 1,000!., PAd.... 57 pm. 57 Ditto 5001. • pm. DittuSmall • 59 57 pm. 57 ONE CLOSING PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES. Brazilian Bonds — Ditto, New, 1829 and 1839..... ! —8 8 M Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent 100 100 Columbian Bonds, ex Venezuela 18 17% Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837 37% 37% Ditto, Account 37 -i - 37 Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents Ditto. Account ..... ... ...... 33 Portuguese 5 per Cents Ditto, Acco,ti-t 65 . , /4 Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent .. 65 65 Nuasian Bonds ...... 117% 117% Spanish 5 per Cult. 1840 Ditto, Account Ditto, Passive Ditto 3 per Cent. ... .. Ditto Account Dutch, 2% par Ccnt Ditto, 4 per Cent., Certific 99% 99 1 4 CLOSING PRICES OF PAID. A ONE O'CLOCK. p it icEs . It AMWAY SHARES Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush ..... Birrnin. and Gloucester. 100 Ditto 1 / 4 Shares - Bri'ton, Lewes, & Hlat. 20 134% Bristol and Gloucester... 30 Caledonian Ditto Extension ...... 21/2..... 22 Cambridge and Lincoln 1 1 / 2 ...... 41'1 4 ! . 2 Cliceter and Holyhead... 10 Clydesdale Juncdon ..... 5 -7 : ft, 4 Coventry and Leicester 1 1 / 1 ...... Direct Northern Dublin and BelfastJunc. 2% B l/ 8.. •••...... F . • Dublin and Galway..... 2% . 3l4i . Dundalk & Ennialipen 21/ 3 14 „A Eaqurn Counti , ?s ...... 14/. 161...... 21 ,i 14 ... Ditto New ............ 4/. I 6 7Vx s. .: - -- - - .... 7 1 / 2 Ea.,,tern Union ... - llittO Extension . ... 1% - ............. . 2 1 Edinburgh and.Grlasgow 50 Ditto New 1 4 Shares... 2 1 / 2 ... ............................ ; 2 : 4 Ely and Bedford Great South. and West. .. _ ----- (Ireland) ......... ..... 10. ...... 21 1 I)itt. , Ex.tetision ;,,,, I , Wester , ' .205 , 0.1 ... ... 2 14 4 .1.5V 1 liuj.ll.:',. ~, ,- I....uamer andCarlisle..; 20 L - ndon and Birminghtn (5t0ck)...244 Do. 1 4 Shares - 37 Ltoadon and lilackwall. 161. 13s 4d 9 l / 2A, 9% ondou and Bright ,m,.. 50 London and Croydon, 131. 15s. 9d. 22 1 % 2. 23 14 Do. Ncw l3s 4d — • ...... ... . 1 bald. & S. Western 411 6s 10d Bl Do. Consolidated Bths 12 1!0. NeW London and York 2%...... 3 7 ; 3 ,: i . London, Salisbury, and Yeovil .-- - 2IA 2 1 --- 214 i 2...... , 'Y2 . Londonderry- and Ennis killen 21: "2 Lynn and Ely Manche:ter and Bimini. 40 Do. Quarters Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock 225....... 4 3% Midland 100 ...187 1 / 189 187 189 189 Do. New MiWand,Birm.,Derby...loo 149 147 147 Midland Great Western (Irish) New castle and Darling ton Junction 25 ...... 54 1 / 6.. ....... ... .. 531 Do. New Brandling Newi , as:le and Benvick 11% 1914 Newry and Enniskillen. 2% ...,.. 3 1 / 2 1 A 31% North British Do. New North Kent North Staffordshire 225. North Wales Norwich and Brandon... 10 Oxford and Worcestzr. 2% 6 14 . 6 Portsmouth Direct 2V, Rugby, Worstr, & Tring 1 Scottish Central Shrews., Wolverliam p., Dudley, and Birm Shrewsbury and Trent Watley Union South Devon... l5 25 Smith Eastern & Dover 33/ 23 4d... 48 Do., .No. 1 8 Do., No. 2. - 17 Do., No. 3 South \Vales ••• 2 1 / 2 W s . Waterford and Kilkenny I Welch Midland Wilts, Somerset, & Wey mouth Yarmouth and Norwich. 20 i ork and North Midland 50 ll2 Do Selby Do. Extension FOREIGN EA.ILwAys. Boulogne and Amiens... 6 Great North. of France 2 1 ,4 . .... 3N % ... (Laffitte's) - 4 Do. do. (Rosaniel's) 2 Jamaica J unction 1 1,4 3% ......... .: ... Do. South l'ilidlnd. June. 1 Louvain and Jetneppe... 4 .. . 5 1 4... ........ ... Namur and - Liege Orleans and Borde.ia N... 4 Paris and Lyons, Gan - neron's, ... .. ............ 2 l'aris and Orleans 2O 45 45 Paris and Rouen Strasbourg and Bale ... 14 Verona and Anconi..... 1 JOINT STUCK BANKS. Australasia Union of London lO — 4 Ni I 1 40 1 ,,f 10 214 NIARKET 7/E iv zs--(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE-WE ONES DAY, Our market to-day was again very scantily supplied with English Wheat, yet, owing to the tine weather for the grow ing crops, the demand for that article was in a sluggish state, at Monday's quotations. In foreign Wheat, free as well as in bond, very little was doing, yet previous rates were sup ported. Barley, Malt, and Oats were a slow inquiry ; but the value of Beans and Peas was maintained. English • • • • • • Irish Foreign .• • • • • Wheat. 2,080 qrs, ARRIVALS. Barley. 710 qrs. Oats. I Fln.tr. 640 2,570 1,020 I - Malt, 2,460 ors. 800 --- 4,580 I -- CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) The Lord Chancellor sat in Lincoln's Inn Hall to-day. EXPARTE VAN S&NDILU. The LORD CHANCELLOR upon this case being called on inquired what had been the result of the action ? Mr. BAGSHAWE said that the action bad not been tried in con sequence of Mr. Jarvis, Mr. Van Sandau's leading counsel, having advised him that the best course to be adopted would be to request the Lord Chancellor to dispose of the whole matter, both at law and in equity, without a reterence. Any order that his Lordship might make Mr. Van Sandau . would cheerfully submit to. Mr. SWANSTON said that his client would be most grateful to his Lordship if he would decide the whole matter. As to the action, they were quite willing that a stot processus should be entered ; if, however, any proceedings ware taken with respect to the costs at law, then his client must request that their common-law coun sel might be heard. The Loan CHANCELLOR said he would dispose of all the ques, lions, except the question of damages, without a reference, but wi.h respect to them a reference must be directed to the Master. Mr. BAGSHAWE was willing .to accede to any arrangement most readily on the behalf of Mr. Van Sandau. The only question now was, on what day the Court would decide it? The LORD CHANCELLOR would let the parties know in a few days when he would give his opinion. He thought it would be better for him to decide the different proceedings that had been raised in that Court, and then to hear Mr. Jarvis and the other common-law gentlemen on the question of costs, if it was necessary. The question of the damages Mr. Van Sandau had sustained must be decided by the Master upon a reference. Mr. BAGSUAWE observed, perhaps Mr. Van Sandau might be in clined to give up the reference. The Loan CHANCELLOR thought the parties had adopted a most wise course. • Mr. BAGSIIANVE wished it to be understood that all Mr. Van Sandau's counsel agreed in the propriety of the course suggested by Mr. Jarvis. Appeals occupied his Lordship the remainder of the day. ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.) The further arguments in the part.heard case of Lord Nelson v. Lord Bricport occupied his Lordship the Master of the Rolls the whole day. • RAILWAY NEWS. Subscribers and others Interested in Railways will find a FULL ACCOUNT of the PROCEEDINGS I)..fore the RAILWAY CWIMI7 TEES in the EDIIJON of TUE SUN, reported up to the CLOSE of EACH DAY; it also con tains the DEBATES in BOTH DOUSES of PARLIAMENT up to the HOUR of POST EVERY EVENING, PRICES of RAILWAY SHARES, SPORTING INTELLIGENCE by EXPRESS, and all othcr NEWS ARRIVING in LOADON DURING the DAY. 01DE7.1 the TZIIEV.D MUITION, which contains NEWS `Z`VIELVE HOUE,S in Z.DVIIIICE. Sun-cif - lice, 112, Strand. ELEG INT AND INSTRUCTIVE PRESENT. Just ready, in small Bvo., price 7s. 6d. hound, 'HE ENGLISH GENTLEWOMAN OR, HINTS TO YOUNG LADIES ON THEIR ENTRANCE INTO SOCIETY. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. WANTED, in the Entering Department of a large Warehouse in the City, an ACTIVE YOUNG MAN, fully competent to assist in giving down sales. One who has filled a similar situation in a Lace or Haberdashery house would be pre ferred. Apply, post-paid, to A.B. and Co., 24, 3111 k-street, City. THE LEICESTER, ASIII3Y-DE • LA-ZOUCII, BURTON-UPON-TRENT, and STAFFORD JUNCTION RAILWAY. (Provisionally Registered.) Offices, 29, Moorgate street, London. Capital, 900,0001., in 18,000 Shares of 501. each. Deposit 21. 15s. per Share. The List being closed, NO FURTHER APPLICATIONS for Shares can be received. The Provisional Committee will make the allot ment as soon as a proper examination of the letters of application can be effected. By order, GEORGE ARDEN, Secretary. 29, Moorgate-street, London, June 30, 1845. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE, Sig. PUZZI respectfully - informs the Subscribers to the Opera, his Friends, and the Public that HIS BENEFIT will take place TO-MORROW EVENING. On which occasion will be presented (for the first time this Season) Donizetti's celebrated Opera, ANNA BOLENA. Henry VIII. Sig. Lablache ; Percy, Sig. Moriani ; Smeaton, Signora Brannbilla (her first appearance in that part) ; Anna Bollena, Madame Grist ; Jane Seymour, Mdlle. Rosetti. In the course of the Evening a DIVERTISSEMENT, in which will re introduced the admired " Pas de Six" de "Kay a," by Mdlle. Lucile Grahn and M. Perrot, supported by Mlles. erdinand, Cassan, Demelisse, and Moncelet. "La Manola," by Mdlle. Cerito and M. St. Leon ; and the ad.nired " Pas de Giselle," by Mdlle. Carlotta Grisi (her last appearance but three), and M. Perra. After which a Selection from Bellini's Favourite Opera of LA SONNAMBULA. The principal parts by Madame Anaide Cas tellan, Mdlle. Roset ti, Sig. F. Lablache, and Sig. Mario. To c aielude with, by general desire, for this occasion only, the admired Ballet o 1 LA SYLPHIDE. La Sylphide, Taglioiti; Elite, Mdlle. Petit Stephan; James, M. Perrot; George, M. Toussaint. Applicatkms ler Bans. Stalls, Ind Pit Tickets to be made to Sig ruzzi, 38, Jermyn-street, St. James ; and at the era-Colonnarle. ors open at Sece_i, to comme .c 3 at Half-past Seven o,Clock THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. LESSEE, MR. B. WEBSTER. THIS EVENING '.V 111 be repeated a New and Original Comedy , by Douglas Jerrold, Intitled TIME WORKS WONDER..;. GoldthLmb, Mr. W. &men ; Felix Goldthumb, Mr. Charles Mathews ; Bantam, Mr. Buckstone ; Miss Messy Tulip, Madame Vestris ; Florentine, Miss Fortescue ; Miss Tilekvr, Mrs. Glover ; Patty, Mrs. Humby. After which will be repeated a Dramatic Sketch, entitled THE OLD SOLDIER. Sir Lionel Ruiller, Mr. Brindal ; Master Michael Cramp, Mr. Tilbury ; Adam Lethersole (aged 95), Mr. W. Farrell ; Buff; Mr. James Bland; Patience Cramp, Mrs. Stanley; Helen, Miss Telbin. To conclude with an entirely New Farce, called THE KING AND I. Period, 1691. Sir William Melrose, Mr. H. Holl ; Burchell, 111 r. James Bland; Perkin Pyeflneh, Mr. Buckstone; Jessie Donald, Miss Jul Bennett. E'rivate Boxes, Two Guineas and One .Guinea and a-Half each. tickets and laces to be had of Mr. I. T. Archer at the Box-office, f •om Ten till Five o'clock. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELT-STY. THIS EVENING Will be repeated a New Comedy, entitled PEG WOFFINGTON; or, The State Secret. The Marquis de Mousseux, Mr. Selby ; Baron Stuph, Mr, Paul Bedford ; George Tarleton, Mr. Hudson ; Merestick, Mr. Wright ; Peg Woffington, Miss Woolgar. To be folio red by THE IRISH ATTORNEY ; or, Galway Prac tice in 1770. Pierce O'Hara, Mr. Hudson ; Jacob Wylie, Mr. Cullenford. _ _ After which, an Original Terpslch.rean Barletta, called POWDER AND BALL ; or, St. Tibbs's Eve. Mr. Montgomerie Tibbs, Mr. Lambert ; Captain Kidglove, Mr. Selby; Jacob Gerkin ' Mr. Wright ; Mrs. Montgometie Tibbs, Mrs. Frank Matthews; Sally Knobbs, Miss Woolgar. To conclude with the highly successful and Original Farce, called IRISH DRAGOON. Air. Brown Sherry, Mr. Selby; Paddy Murphy O'Brallaghan, Mr. Hudson. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. LE, , SEE, MR. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING Will be performed GUY MANNERING. With additional Music 4Jolonel Mannering, Mr. Archer; Henry Bertram, Mr. Allen; Dorhinie Sampson, Mr. Compton ; Julia Mannering, Miss Emma Stanley; Lucy Bertram, Mdlie. Helen Condell ; Meg Merrilies, Miss C'uslunan. After which, a New Divertissement, called A COURT BALL IN 1740. In which will be introduced the Dances as performed at her Majesty's Hal Costume, with the Original Music. To be followed by a New Dramatic Sketch, entitled MRS. C AUDLE ; or, Curtain Lectures. Mr. Caudle, Mr. Compton ; Mrs. Caudle, Mr. Oxberry. To conclude with THE WIDOW BEWITCHED. Mr. Clement Furulval, Mr. W. Lacy ; Mrs. Lorimer, Mrs. Stirling. Stage Manager, Mr. H. I. Wallack ; Stage Director, Mr. Emden , 4achinisi. Mr. Edmund Ilradweil. JAMES'S THEATRE.-FItENCH PLAYS. bldllc. ELIZA FORGEOT has the honour to acquaint the Nobility, Gentry, Subscribers to the French Plays, and the Public, that HER BENEFIT will take place THIS EVENING On which occasion the eminent Actor Monsieur Arnal will perform In two New Pieces, The Performances will common 'e with the favourite Vaudeville , bl . MICHEL ET CHRISTINE. ' Stanislaus, 31. Oudinot ; Michel, M. Lienard ; Guillaume, M. Bizot ; Christine, Millie. Forgeot. After which (Fint time in th!s Country s , LE CARLIN DE LA MARQUISE. Juvenal. 31. Arnal ; Madame La Marquise de Langeac, Mdlle. Forgeot. To conclude with (for the First Time UN BAL DU GRAND MO:11)E. Narcissa Bichonneau, Monsieur ..I.rnal. Daring the Piece Mdlle. Forgeot and 31. Silvain will dance (by desire) La Polka des Salons. Boxes, Cs. ; Pit, 3a. fid. ; Amphitheatre, 35. ; Gallery, 2s. Doors .rill be opened at Seven o'clock, and the Performances commence t Half-past. _ ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPIIITix , ATRE. PRO?ItIETOR, MIL W. BATTY. THIS EVENING be repeated a New Grznd Ballet of Action, consisting of Mi litary Manoeuvres, Dances, Combats, and highly powerful effects, called IL DIAVOLO ABRUZZI; or, The Brigand Chief and the Dog of the Chateau. New and Elegant Scenes in the Circle, by the whole of the French Equestrians. To conclude with THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO. Introducing the Double Company of French and English Artistes. The Em peror Napoleon by Mr. Gomersal, who is engaged expressly for this occasion. • The Manager, ever anxious to gratify all classes of the puhlic, and in order to accommodate those who are unable to attend at an earlier hour, has arranged that this national and most successful Drama shall be performed as the last piece. Box-office open from Eleven till Five. DA.VIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. IMMENSE ATTRACTION-COMMENCEMENT OF THE OPERA SEASON. THIS EVENING, Will be performed the Grand Opera of LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR. Lucy Ashton, Madame Eugenie Garcia ; Alice, Miss Collett ; Edgar, Mr. D. W. King ; Colonel Ashton, Mr. Weiss; Arnold, Mr. Barker; Norman, Air A. Harris; Allan, Mr. M`Mahon. An increased Band and Chorus from the Theatre Royal Drury-lane. After which, THE WATERMAN. Tom Tug, Mr. Barker. To conclude with a New Drama, by E. L. Blanchard, Esq., called FAITH, HOPE, AND CHARITY. In which Messrs. Hughes, Hicks, Honner, Cowell, Johnson, Heslop, Miss Martin, Mrs. R. Hornier, &c., &c , will perform. Placer and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box o Bce, from Eleven to Pour. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We believe the shares and half shares referred to by a cor respondent, who writes from Christchurch, were issued at different periods. In a few days, however, he will receive a more satisfactory answer. THE INEATHEIL-SuN OFFICE, JULY 9 rHEMIUMETE.U., Lowest, 55; Highest, - 72 ; Noon, 66. BARMACTER, 30.1.--WIND, S.W. Nom.—The figures which follow the words "Lowest" and Ilight3t" denote the lowest and highest state or the Thermometer during the preceding twenty-four hours. AU the other observations arc made at noon. f[!.;!1 WATER AT I.O.VDON-filillAW THIS DAN'. Slorning '• •35 minute. 4 Evening •. 52 e . after 4 .4b LONDON, WEDNESDAY. JULY 9. 1345. The T, ,, rds rri , )t f.s. Five o'cle , 4l:, Tile Arre6twrni, ui V1:4866 Bid VICE-CHANCir.:RY.-(THIS DAY-) 5% 30 1 4 112 78% 20 51.4 4 2% 51,1 The Vice-Chancellor of England was occupied the whole day with motions and causes of no interest; the Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce took bankrupt petitions and causes; and the Vice- Chancellor Wigram, after disposing of Morris v. Howe, proceeded to hear the arguments in Forsyth v. Ellis, which occupied the greater part of the morning. ABINGDON ELECTION. At four o'clock on Tuesday the poll closed, when the num hers were : '1 he Attorney-General General Caulfield .............. .. Majority 151 .... 126 EXETER. ELECTION. SPATE OF THE POLL. NINE _O'CLOCK. 271 I Briggs TEN O'CLOCK. 553 I Briggs ELEVEN O'CLOCK. Duckworth TWELVE 0'( LOCK. Duckworth ..... ONE O'CLOCK. Duckworth ...... 1.0f6 I Briggs TWO O'CLOCK. Duckworth EXETER, TUESDAY. 5 P.M. FINAL CLOSE OF THE POLL.--1 he High Sheriff has just declared the -tote of the poll as follows : Duckworth -Briggs ity At the e'ection in April last Major-General Briggs polled 529, so that there is, in less than fifteen months, an accession of t 9 voters to the free•tradc cause, amongst a constituency entirely dependent on ttre agricultural interest. 7he tumher of electors in the city is 2,653, so that a number, namely, 1,395, exceeding in amount all who recorded their votes in favour of the successful candidate, reutain unpolled. We wish, for the credit and consistency of Exeter, we could-justify as easily as we can account for this self-disfranchisement of the Exonians. The truth is, that the old Whigs, the friends of Mr. Divett, the supporters of Lord John Russell's fixed duty, are fixed in the determination of neglecting their own duty, and are not }et prepared to follow their great political chief in his lib(ral and enlightened views on trade and commercial policy. The aristocracy and squirearchy of a wide range of neighbourhood have resorted, without disguise and without shame, to the usual " influences" they so well know how to apply ; but, despite all their terrorism, the Liberals might have won the election had they been only true to themselves. Duckworth Duckworth 430 497 FIRE IN BARBICAN.—Last night, between eleven and twelve, a fire was discovered raging in the basement floor of the house of Mr. Tim, linendraper, &C., No. 57, Barbican; but it was ingeniously got under by the firemen, who cut a bole through the floor above, and played water upon the flames from the West of England engine. The damage was considerable. FIRE AT BLACIMALL.—EIGIIT HOUSES BURNT.— Last night a fire broke out, in one of the house in Folly-row, near the Folly- house, Blackwell, and which destroyed eight houses, the abode of nearly forty persons, who have lost the whole of their furniture, and in some inatances the greater portion of their wear. ing apparel. The first discovery was made between the hours of sewn and eight, by one of the occupiers named West, a poor water. man, whose attention, it appears, was directed to the chimney of his habitation, by noticing flames issuing out of the same. Ile immediately got upon the roof and endeavoured to subdue the fire, which was then confined to the chimney In that, however, he was foiled, for the door of the room having been left open, and the wind blowing strong from the south-west, the flames and sparks were driven upon the roof, which, being composed of thatch, was very speedily in a general blaze. As soon as the fire became visi. blein the Iliglestreet, mounted police were dispatched for the aid of the engines. With all possible expedition the parish engines were drawn out, but from the peculiar situation of the blazing premises, they were unable to get sufficiently near to render the least assistance. Meanwhile the fire, unrestrained, con tinued to burn with the greatest intensity, completely light ing up the river as far as Greenwich and Woolwich. The engines of the London establishment from Schoolhouse-lane, Wel:close and Jeffrey.squarrs stations, with Crookland, the fore. man of the district, were remarkably quick in arriving, but un fortunately the distance of the road from the fire prevented them froth getting to work in anything like time to stop the ravages of the tire. To get to the spot the engines were obliged to be taken r.cross the marshes of the Isle of Pegs. When matters were at length adjusted one engine was effectively worked; but the only good that could be done was the putting out the bodies of solid tire lying scattered along the grouril. By nine o'clock the whole clump of houses, eight in number, were nearly destroyed, very little more remaining than the bare walls. The whole of the oc cupiers, bard-worleing people, have thereby been bereft of every. thing they once possessed The following are the names of the sufferers :—James West, Joseph West, and Joseph Taylor, water men ; Joseph West, a gardener; JOlll3 bidden, a sawyer; James Moore, captain of the Emma; William Leonard, police inspector; and Joseph Lund. We kern from unquesionable authority that the Noe. Louis M'Lane, of Baltimore, formerly Minister Plenipo tentiary to the Ccurt of St. James's, has received from Mr. Presi dent Polk the appointment to the same post, and that he will shortly succeed his Excellency Edward Everett, the present Mi nister. Mr. N'Lane W as fi. , r firm. Secretary for the United St a , ee, but Yt,ighed 1,6 tare in Corm - querxe of an L . ne , Tyiniz out the views of the ti:eu Brcbiikut, tis hi putt assiit in General Jackson.—Pat: - • RA IL WAY - 011 I (THIS D,IY.) HOUSE OF LORDS. TITLE CORNWALL Maxxoar r • of The Committee met this morning at ex +,-- ven o'clock, t he Ell M eriborough in the chair. f the essrs. Nethewy and Veale were called by the promo ters 0. Bili. Both gentlemen are traders resident in Cornwall. Thve gave evidence in favour of the line, which they thought we tt en id oe very beneficial to the people of that county, more especial l y inhabitants of Truro and St. Austel. The present cost of Orr; was very treat, arid much time was consumed in 44. Th .„, 0 0 would also benefit the pilchard fishery on the coast, in wh iel " business was done. , A .001 Mr. Drew, mayor of Lcistwithiel, said the line wou ld • - benefit the agricultural district bordering on that town, by the me cilities it would create for the carriage of I:me, &c. All t he bitants of Lost.withiel were in lave., i ,f the Bill. lig? line w greatly benefit the mining trade of Cornwall. Cross-examined—W r. F as - a ehareholdtr in the line. , the Oil Mr. Elliot and Mox gave evidence in favour 0. byi The latter witness stated that the population of Plymouth doubled since the war. (LEFT SITTING.) WIErOItD, WORCISTZZI, .11,141) 17,70Z.VZ*. RA7II.:TON. THE BATTLE 01? THE GAUGES. , ar The Committee met to-day at eleven o'clock. Members °( ,..,j - ph mittee present, Lord Auckland, Chairman, Lords &shout], . , . Zetland, and WU chester. ..,a 0 The cross-examination of Mr. Mathews was then resu"'", of favour of the London and Bamingham scheme, but notholo importance was further elicited. s Mr. Barker, Iron and coal toaster, of South Staffordshire, WS-Aro p tit examined. He said he was connected with one of the largeld ", in the district, being an establishment that made one.fourtil of the the malleable iron in the district. The make of iron in third' 0 0 of South Staffordshire he represented to be 9,000 tons of P 4.0. weekly, being nearly one-third of all the make of Great 1 311 0 00 The whole make of pig iron for the United Kingdom was 3 2 1 0, tons weekly. Of this 10,000 tons were made in South B pd 9,000 tons in South Staffordshire, 7,000 toss in Scotland, to o the remaining 3,000 tons in Derbyshire and 5 100 :111 At present they had great difficulty in competing as the Scotch ironmasters in shipments to the Continent, aTion, from the high rate of carriage and the imperfect accorou gxl „, 4 ol l He had heard the evidence of Mr. Mathews, and agreed wtt lips respecting the superiority of the present line over the riwoit proposed. He could speak, however, definitely respeetil.ope portion from Dudley to Wolverhampton, in which space ts'iron• under consideration accommodated the greater number of works. He had seen the machine at Paddington for transb t . of goods, and was perfectly satisfied with its efficacy for theln irr eie Cross.examined by Mr. HOPE—He was not able to exPla in oot process exactly for the transhipment of goods proposed', s ees would be better done by the engineer. From what he 1 14 " t he of it, however, he was satisfied it would be found efficient f !, f ,if , purposes required. The princip a l markets of his fi rm were to t pool, Manchester, and Hull. He did not send so much to „ P . ' j or London. He understood that the tonnage on the broa d 'll O c narrow gauges were to be the same, and in that case, 5 0 ' 'f s eti , Bristol was concerned, it did not matter much which line they " l e He was satisfied that competition was beneficial in recloc ti ] ; i3it. rates of carriage. Before the opening of the Liverpool a n "„ o ol , mitighain line, the carriage of lime was 20s. per too to Li",;' ) 1 0 , It was now taken for 10s., and he thou g ht it might be s t i ll Mr. Thorneycroft, ironmaster, of Wol v erh a mpto n , was el a p. generally with respect to the merits of the two cowpetiog en C 1 His evidence was principally confirmatory of the evidence Mr. Mathews yesterday. He admitted that the new line 10 '' b os don was necessary, in order to force the London and Billed / 4 00 Company to accommod a te th e p u blic b e tte r th an th e y bad big' done 0 10' The cross-examination of the witness did not e li cit an y 'h. ; °. - cular (LEFT SITTING.) DUBLIN AND nslia'AST TT.TNCTXO 72, A I .14" W r of The Select Committee on this Bill re assembled this ra ° „ c ur soon atter eleven o'clock, and proceed e d with th e e vidence in 00 of the case for the promoters o f the D u bli n an d Belfast Junes Rai Sir lway, P r"e Wm. Somerville, M. P. for Drogheda, was called t 0 f tl)e that the majt.rity of the people of that town were in favour °' Proposed railway Sir Johr ^' [aid 01 tlia .. John M`Neil, the eminent engineer, who had 1-- ire• proposed line, proved that it was one of the most important i n ginl a land, inasmu c h as i t too k i n t h e great stream of traffic 0 0 00 to the north and to the south. The length of the lirie, to Drogheda to Portadewn was 56 miles, and fromDrog be i d j to Navas 17IA. Calculating from Dublin the trunk line W 0 O le' 7i miles lung, b ut th e i n l an d li ne wou ld b e e i g ht o r ten ,pd longer. 'the severest curve was twenty-seven chains radid h o ef the steepest gradient 1 in 100. There would be a viaduc t of the Boyne of about 400 yards in length. He estimated the c v " jet the main line at 630,5451., and the branch at 117,0271. lie , or contingencies down at 74,7571. He estimated the workipb penses at 30 per cent. upon the, expected annual revenue. or The witness was cross-examined by Mr. M. Cusatreslts ' 4 O ( di e siderable length, with a v i ew o f showing that the necessities tpe country called for an inl an d i nstead of a coast line, and 015 works of the line were of a very elifficult character. 1;00g This closed the case fo r th e promoters of the Dubl i n and Junction line. lO C _ hi, Mr. CHAMBERS then applied f or an ad j ournment, sr they had been taken so much by surprise by the very slid": 0 0 pointment of the Committee that they h a d not h a d t i m e to get witnesses over from Ireland. colt Mr. MURPHY resisted the application, and eventually the mittee decl.ned to grant it. OAF! SITTING.) BOUSE OF COMMONS. GROUP A. theyONTOMDEX AND R,YE W ATS' 1 0 ss- 03 Or. :C Chairman taking his seat this morning, the cro nation of liPt e Mr. Smith (who w a s exam i ne d on t h e part o f the above .d yesterday) was resumed by Mr. JouNsoN , when it apPear— the population of Rye was about 4,000. • OPted The witness was then re-examined by Mr. BELL &BIS, but no point of importance. Mr. BELLASIS then put in a letter from Major Curtis, a * A wet near Rye, to the Poor-law Commiss i o ners, p o i nt i ng ou t the "—goy of building a workhouse at a certain spot known to be ver/ o e healthy, so much so that he himself intended to pull down all !musts which were near the place, and which he was about to ,10 down, as persons living in them were in danger of ague.dill letter was produced to prove that the houses which this l in op destroy, and on account of which he petitioned against this e were of no value. • Os Mr. BELLASIS then called Mr. Salmes, a farmer and grasi e o ,;elf spoke to the advantages to be derived from this line. He P oloa had now a large quantity of corn, which he would send to 1 ., 4 61 if there was a railway to send it by. Has no shares in the Pr s P ro tf line, but has a very good opinion of it, and intends to gets s, O l, tbe Bill passes. Thinks Rye would support two lines of rei e d. and that if this Bill were to pass, the line would certainly O CC ke Mr. Thonias Smith, a sheep salesman at Smithfield market,'lr A to the injury done to sheep by being driven long distanel, sheep had been known to lose six or ei g ht ic unes in W i g WO being driven from Rye to London. Sh ee p o f ten h a d their sbot t for , dislocated from excessive driving. He was no relation to th e do n, mer witness, Mr. J. Smith, but he sold sheep for him in 134 and had frequent dealings with him. Mr. ltees, miller, at Bennington, spok e t o t h e expense of cu' t he ing flour from that glace to Stapleh urs t , w h ere the sta tion of South-Eastern line is, and wh ere i t i s necessary to send i, to order to have it conveyed to London. To convey 800 al w 7A 1 0 Staplehurst cost 321. The same number would be convey t he Tenterden for 61. 4s. The witness spoke at some length ea - quantity of flour which would be sent to London if there was way. (LEFT 8 rrr i No.) GROUP X. LONDON AND YOTLIE LINE. s „oh This Committee resumed this morning at the u ual Viscount Courtenay in the chair. d to Mr. Pickersgill, under examination by Mr. WEasrea, del' 4 % or his being a survey or an d architect, and having lately made tiortl, vey of the statio ns as l a i d out by the London and York And Midland Railway. 'I he former would be most inconvenient. ing as it would five lines, and obstructing the traffic in the n ear ed bourhood. The witness here produced a model of the prof position and construction of the stations as scheduled. 5n3 Mr. John Oliver, examined by Mr. WEBSTER—Is a fit.— er O O, auctioneer, having resided at Staintorth more than 1- 90 0 and is, therefore, fully acquainted with the nature of tb e v edr navigation. In 1833 the ach of the old stone b r id ge was real' la in order to enable light vessels safely and easily to pass unde r : B 44, this altered and improved state it remained till Octobert' to when the a rc h way was aga i n removed, and a platform 1115"Vii' swing, affixed •to the top of the bridge. Sibe e bi latter change, a vessel with standing masts, went tbf o ,4e. Previously suck a circumstance was unheard of and impracfl e 'l l ot In the capacity of parish officer of Brandwith, he had occasion' 01 year, to complain to the Commi ss i oners o f t h e D on navigab°- „ the diversion of the roads. Mr. J. Lee, a waterman, resident at Thorne, examined b / o ld WEBSTER—Proved the existence of three fix e d b r id ges over ti , ' i, river Don between Goole and Thorne, and six over the new gallon, some of the latter having been altered during W oe s year. The depth of the river is a b out 5 feet, and craft of b et 1 , - si/ 60 and 65 tons are the largest th a t can b e got up, and t h es e have to leave their masts behind ever since the opening of the bridg es (LEFT BITTING.) • Her Royal Highn ess th e D uc h ess o f K en t an d • t he Prince de Leiningen have arrived at Vienna. RELIC OF NELSON.—An interesting relic of Nei ° has been discovored ; an d some i nterest also attaches to the uj , „ s rs; ner in which it has b een secure d to the nation. Sir Harris Nteiod in his laborious researches for editing the hero's dispatche s, 06 satisfied himself th a t th e coat an d wa i stcoat w hi c h N e lson w when he fell at Trafalgar were carefully preserved. I D purStl e e of the Admir a l' s di rect i ons, t h ey were g i ven, w i t h sev eral ° t things, by Sir Thomas Hardy, his Captain, to Lady Herat ° ; late her t! ey were transferred, under peculiar circumstances, to S o , alderman of London, and they remained in possession of the e l i be man's widow. The ::ady is not rich, and she asked 1501• f or e , relic. The sum being beyond his own means, Sir Barrie tt , mined to raise it by subscription, in order that the coat and j e i s eil coat might be deposited, like tha coat which ost wore at the battle of the Nile, in Greenwich HespitaL r t "., A view, he put the proposition in writing, and hail it print ce circular. Before issuing the circular, he sent a copy to :de Albert, who immediately desired that the purchase might be w ipe; for himself, as he should feel " pride and pleasure" in pre ee Lpre the precious memorials to Greenwich Hospit a l. Si r Harris ru — or • took them to the royal purchaser on W e d nes d a y, an d we 0 0 0 . stand that the Prince manife s t e d a very fine feeling on the 00 ~ - etP sion. There is kind and gener ous w i s d om i n t hi s a ct ; . o ' ,. 1 0 thing could so help to identify the Queen's husband with th e ve tish people as such little tributes to their maritime prid e ' will coat is thus described in Sir Harris Nicolas's circular; an d ess l be seen that it has an histori ca l va l ue :—" The coatthe °P.-1 0 uniform of a vice admiral, lined with white silk, with lace ° ll cuff's, and epaulettes. Four stars—of the Orders of the B eth e t o' Ferdinand and Merit, th e C rescent, an d S t. J oach i m— ere on the left breast, as Nelson habitually wore them; which 400. proves the story, that he purposely adorned himself with pi s ~0 0 1 rations on going into battle. The course of the fatal ball is w or e by a hole over the left shoulder, and part of the epaulette is t` away; which agrees with Dr. Sir William I! eattie's e eC°-- 1000 Lord Nelson's death, and with the fact, that pieces of the b° he r and pad of the epa u lett e a dh ere d t o t h e b a ll , which is now r 0 10 Majesty's posses s i on . Th e coat an d wa i stcoat ar e stailw w several places with the hero's blood."—Spectator. L 3st SUPPOSED SUICIDE IN THE SERPENTINE.'" C so & evening Mr. Bedford held an in q u es t a t th e M a lp a s Arnie, h 00. street, Grosvenor-square, on the body of a female uo kn iev ett Richard Henry Webb, a g r ocer , sa id t h at b etween t e n and o'clock he heard cries as Lf a woman in distress, appareo tl ioll. ceeding from the Serpentine on the north side. Witness tt:, t p. ately ran to the spot wh e n ce th e soun d came, and he then set'ere deceased in the river. Th e Roy a l H umane S oc iety's bo atl ua terr brought to the spot, and the deceased was taken out of the 'OlO and conveyed to the Mceiving.house in Hyde.park, and Phi ow a warm bath. M r . Willi ams, S uper i n t en d ent o f the Il i !!! And mare Society, said that the deceased was very poorly cm. , A that a battle nny was all the mo'ey she had upon her Pere °ll ; hilst pL;.nbreker'e duplicate fell from her pocks. leto the boa t . U:e toe.: were geeing, deceased e.l.hore. r, eou,elt I °Vl ol ,old been nude, the deceased was still ueknown. VerOiC t-- drowned. Orp The Sr o'clo c k . Le ave v s tltoli ng tt7NATI All toe