The Sun. — London, England, 1845-07-22 00:00:00

NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. The THIRD EDITION of THE SUN of yester day evening contained— The Betting at Tattersall's up to Six o'clock. The oonclusion of the day's proceedings before the Railway Committees of the Houses of Lords and Commons. The Parliamentary Proceedings of the Evening, being a full Report of the Debates in both Houses up to a Quarter before Seven o'clock. RAILWAY NEWS. Subscribers and others mterested in Railways will find a FULL ACCOUNT of the PROCEEDINGS Wore the RAILWAY COMMITTEES in the !WI f?D EDITION of THE SUN, reported up to the CLOSE of EACH DAY; it also con tains the DEBATES in BOTH HOUSES of PARLIAMENT up to the HOUR of POST EVERY EVENING, PRICES of RAILWAY SHARES, SPORTING _INTELLIGENCE by EXPRESS, and all other NEWS ARRIVING in LONDON DURING the DAY. ORDErt the TEMLD EDITION, which contains NEWS TWELVE HOURS in ADVANCE. Sun-ulfice, 112, Strand. FIVE THOUSAND NEW PROVIDENCE PINE-APPLES. FOR PUBLIC SALE, at Monument-yard, on WEDNESDAY, July 23, 1845, at One o'clock precisely, FIVE THOUSAND NEW PROVIDENCE PINE-APPLES, now landing, after short voyage, in tine condition, ex Highflyer, from Eleuthera. KEELING and HUNT, Brokers, Monument-yard and Pudding -lane. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. THIS EVENING. WI 1 be performed (by desire) Donizetti's Opera LIICREZIA BORGIA. Lucrezia, Madame Grisi. Between the Acts of the Opera will be presented the Divertissement, entitled LA BACCHANTE. To conclude with the Grand Bank of ROSIDA. Doors open at Half-past Seven ; to commence at Eight. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Signor LABLACHE respectfully informs the Nobility, Subscribers to the Opera, and the Public, that HIS BENEFIT will take place ON THURSDAY, JULY 24, When will be performed (for the last time this Season) Donizetti's Opera, DON PASQUALE. Noritm, Madame Grisi ; Dr. Malatesta, Sig. Fornazari ; Ernesto, Sig Mario ; Notary, Sig. Dal Fiori ; and Don Pasquale, gig. Lablache. With other Entertainments, in which Madame Anaide Castellan, Madame Rita Bolin, and Sig. Moriani will appear. The Entertainments in the Ballet Department will include the combined Talents of 31dile. Taglioni (her last appearance but two), Cerito, Lucile Grahn, 31. Perrot, M. Gosselin, and M. St. Leon. To conclude with (for the first time) a New Ballet Divertissement, entitled DIANE. Diane, Mollie. Taglioni (her last appearance but Two). applications for Boxes, stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Bex office, Opera Colonnade. Doers open at Seven ,to commeace at Half-past Seven o,Clock. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. LESSEE, MR. B. WEBSTER. THIS EVENING Will be produced, compressed into Three Acts, Morton's Comedy of A SCHOOL FOR GROWN CHILDREN. Old Revel, Mr. W. Far rep ; Young Revel, Mr. Hudson; Frank Reyland, Mr. Webster ; Lady Stanmore, Miss Julia Bennett; Mrs. Revel, Miss Fortescue ; Dame Reyland, Mrs. Glover. After which, USED UP! Sir Charles Coldstream, Mr. Charles Mathews ; Mary, Miss Julia Bennett. To conclude with an entirely New Farce, called THE KING AND I. Period, 1691. Sir William Melrose, Mr. H. Holl ; Burchell, Mr. James Bland; Perkin Pyeflnch, Mr. Buckatone; Jessie Donald, kiss Ju'i Bennett. Private Bose•, Two Guineas and One Guinea and a-Half each. Ticket; and i'laces to be had of Mr. I. T. Archer at the Box-office. from Ten tilt Five o'clock. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII. LTNDER THE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTI:. THIS EVENING _ Will be repeated MARIEDHEANGE. Edward Lascelles, Esq., Mr. Howe ; John Rawdon. Esq., Mr. 0. Smith ; Charles Claude Prong, Mr. Wright ; Marie Ducange, Madame Celeste. After which, an Original Terpsichorean Bisletta, called POWDER AND BALL ; or, St. Tibbs's Eve. Mr. Montgomerie Tibbs, Mr. Lambert ; Captain Kidglove, Mr. Selby ; Jacob Gerkin, Mr. Wright ; Mrs. Montgomerie Tibbs, Mrs. Frank Matthews ; Sally Knobbs, Miss Woolgar. To be followed by (for this week only) NORMA. Norma, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Adalgisa, Mr. Wright. To conclude with the highly successful and Original Farce, called THE IRISH DRAGOON. Mr. Brown Sherry, Mr. Selby; Paddy Murphy o'Brallaghan, Mr. Hudson. THEATRE LOYAL, LYCEUM. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY. THIS EVENING Will be perfonfied a NeWii:rce,entiiledbllCK'S ALL. Principal Characters by Messrs. F. Vining, Diddear, Keeley, Meadows, Kin loch, and ' nrner ; Miss Hicks, and Mrs. A. Wigan. To be followed by a New Farce, to be called AN OBJECT OF INTEREST, in which Mrs. Keeley will perform. After which, an entirely New, Original, avd Novel Grand Fairy BALLET DIVERTISSEMENT, entitled LES FEES. In which Les Danseuses Anglaises will appear. To which will be added an apropos Bagatelle, in One Act, entitled MRS. CAUDLE'S CURTAIN LECTURES. Mr. Caudle, Mr. Mea dows, Mrs. Caudle, Mr. Keeley. To conclude with an entirely New Operatic, Dramatic, Chivalric, Fairy, Romantic Burlesque, entitled CINDERELLA. The Principal Characters by Mr. Keel',,', Mr. A. Wigan, Mr. Frank Mathews, Mr. J. W. Collier, Mrs. Keeley, Miss Villars, Miss Fairbrother, Mrs. Woollldge, Miss• Grove, Miss Howard, &c PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. LEnSEE, MR. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING Will be performed a Comic Opera, in Three Acts, called THE SYREN. The Duke de Popoll, Mr. Walton; Scipio, Mr. C. Horn, Jun. ; Balbaya, Mr. leffier ; Marco Tempesta, Mr. Allen ; Mathea, Madam Fearon ; Zerlina, Miss Georgians Smithson. To which will bz. added A COURT BALL IN 1740. In which will be introduced the Dances as performed at her Majesty's Bal Cos tume, with the Original Music. To be followed by a New Dramatic Sketch, entitled MRS. CAUDLE ; or, Curtain Lectures. Mr. Caudle, Mr. Compton ; Mrs. Caudle, Mr. Oxberry. To conclude with an Original Farce, in One Act, called LOVE IN LIVERY. Lord Sparkle, Mr. Walter Lacy; Violet, Countess de Haucastel, Miss Emma Stanley. Stage Manager, Mr. H. I. Wallack; Stage Director, Mr. Emden ; MAchinizt , Mr. Edmund Bradwell. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. PROkitIETOR, MR. W. BATTY. THIS EVENING Will be repeated a New Grand Ballet of Action, consisting of Mi litary Manceuvres, Dances, Combats, and highly powerful'effects, including the sagacious performance of the Dog Hector, and sur prising Leap of the Horse Beda over the Woken and Flaming Bridge, called IL DIAVOLO ABRUZZI ; or, The Brigand Chief and the Dog of the Chateau. ew awl Elegant Scenes in the Circle, by the wholt 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. Box-office open from Eleven till Five. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. THIS EVENING, Will be performed the Opera of LA SONNAMBULA. Count Rodoipho, Mr. Weiss ; Elvino, Mr. D. W. King, Amine., Madame Eugenia Garcia ; Lisa, Miss Collett. After which the Farce of "No !" Frederick, Mr. Barker ; Maria, Miss Collett. To conclude with a New Drama, by E. L. Blanchard, Esq., called FAITH, HOPE, AND CHARITY. In which Messrs. Hughes, Hicks, Moaner, Cowell, Johnson, Heslop, Miss Martin, Mrs. R. Honner, &c.. &c , will perform. Placea and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box o llce, from Eleven to hour. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. A DIFFERENT SUBJECT EACH SEASON. COMBINATION OF ATTRACTIONS. ROM ANTIC GARDENS AND PROMENADE. EXTENSIVE AND UNRIVALLED MENAGERIE. COLOSSAL MODELLED REPRESENTATION OF EDINBURGH, The Acme of Scenic Illusion. The ROCK HARMON ICON from Three till Eight. And on MONDAYS, 'TUESDAYS, WEDNESDAYS, and THURS DAYS, GLAND CONCERTS D'ETF. and MAGNIFICENT DISPLAY of FIREWORKS. Admission, One Shilling. Feeding the Carnivora at Hall-past Five ; Pelicans and Polar Bears at gix : Concert at Half-past Six ; and Fireworks at Half-past Nine, On Wednesday, July 23, a Grand Union Flower Show by the Royal South London Floricultural 'iociety, on which occasion a combina tion of Attractive Novelties will be presented, exclusive of the Floral Fete. THE IVEATILER.—Suri OFFICE, JULY 22, THER24O3IETmt, Lowest, 56; Highest, 69 ; NOOI, I. BAROMETER, 30.02. WIND, N.N.E. NOTE.—The figures which follow the 4tortis "Lowest" alit " Highest" denote the lowest and highest state of the Thermometer during the preceding twenty-four hours. All the other observations are made at noon. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning •• 5 nlilltltC4 after 3 Evening •• 29 minutes after 3. tiftnins -11n3 LONDON, TUESDAY, JULY 22, 1845. The Lords met at a Quarter before Five. The Royal Assent was given by Commission to various Bills. The Duke of RICHMOND, on the presentation of their petition, drew the attention of their Lordships to the case of the officers in the Peninsula, who, after being in sixteen engagements, were left without any other de coration than their wounds, while those who had served at Waterloo, India, and China, had been decorated with medals. The Duke of WELLINGTON said that the battle of Waterloo was fought under peculiar circumstances — it was the last of a series, and had produced peace. He bore his testimony to the valour and good conduct of the Peninsular army, but regretted that they should have petitioned the House on this subject. The Marquis of LONDONDERRY considered the prayer of the petition was unconstitutional. The Duke of BUCKINGHAM thought that the prayer of the petition should be granted. The petition was ordered to lie on the table. Lord STANLEY moved the second reading of the Irish Colleges Bill. The Noble L or d addressed the House at great length in support of the measure. A lei ;;tll, ned debate ensued, in the course of which their Lordthips were addressed by the Earl of SHREws- NU', Lord BROUGHAM, the Earl of CARNARVON, the Marquis of LANSDOWNE, Lords CLIFFORD, BEAUMONT, and LYTTELTON, and the Bishop of NORWICH, after which the motion for the second reading was agreed to without a division. _ _ _ The C",,mmons met at Twelve o'clock. Several unopposed Bills were forwarded a stage. On the order of the day being read for the third read ing of the Scotch Poor-law Bill, Mr. ITAsnE complained of the manner in which the Bill had been hurried forward, and moved that it be read a third time that day week. The LORD ADYOCATE objected to any delay. After a bhort discussion the House divided, when there appeared, for the third reading, 33 ; against it, 7 ; ma jority in favour of the third reading, 26. Sir J. GRAHAM moved the second reading of the Games and Wagers Bill. Mr. HAWES, Mr. C. BERKELEY, Mr. WAKLEY, and several other Members, having expressed their opinion that the Bill pressed unfairly upon licensed victuallers, Sir J. GRAHAM said that if the Bill were read a second time, pro forma, he would consider the objections which had been made to it, for the purpese of obviating them in Committee. The Bill was then read a second time. The House re-assembled at Five o'clock. In answer to a question from Mr. HAwES, on the sub. ject of the report of the South• Eastern Railway Com mittee, Sir R. PEEL stated that Captain BOLDERO and Mr. BoNnem had resigned the offices which they respectively held, and that their resignations had been accepted—that Mr. WRAY had been called upon by the Secretary of State for the Home Department to explain his conduct in relation to the matters alluded to in the report of the Committee, and that Mr. HIGNETT had been dismissed her MAJESTY'S service. Captain BOLDERO, who seemed greatly affected, then entered into a lengthened explanation of his conduct ; after which the House was addressed by Lord J. Rus- SELL, COl. SIBTHORP, and Mr. WARD, and the subject dropped. Mr. C. BULLER then brought forward his motion on the subject of New Zealand, which gave rise to a length ened debate, in the course of which the House was ad dressed by Mr. G. W. Hopi, Mr. ROEBUCK, Lord J. RUSSELL, and Mr. LA.BOUCHERE, after which the debate was adjourned. The orders of the day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at Two o'clock. The adjourned debate on the New Zealand question last night will, as a matter of course, prevent the case of the Danish claimants from being discussed this evening. The delay which has taken place in bringing the case forward has, no doubt, arisen from the various other matters to which Mr. ILLwEs had to give his attention, but it has been unfortunate for the cause that he should, as a matter of courtesy, have given precedence to Lord PALMERSTON'S motion on the Cuba sugar on Tuesday, the 15th inst. This is the more to be regretted, as, owing to the session being now drawing to a close, many Members have gone out of town, and only the usual working majority of Ministers remain. The question must, therefore, be post poned till early in the next session. In the meantime, claimants must not despair—they have only to persevere, and, notwithstanding the unjust opposition of the Govern ment, they must ultimately succeed. We are glad to find the protest entered by us, in a former paper, against the tone assumed by a very distinguished periodical on the merits and bearings of the Oregon ques tion corroborated by an able and influential Contemporary. In an article on this subject, on Saturday last, the Times attributes, fairly enough, its due weight to any political statement of the Edinburgh Review, as having been for many years a recognised organ of Whig opinions. On the same ground, we shall require no apology, we believe, with our readers, for resuming and concluding the notice we have pro posed to take of this remarkable—and perhaps eventful— controversy. In arguing the case for the title of Great Britain to the territory in question, we shall assign the rea sons that appear conclusive to us against the disparaging estimate which the Reviewer has formed of that title ; and those reasons will probably be found equivalent to a demoli tion of the title which has been so broadly affirmed by the Government of the United States. In order to form a comprehensive estimate of the general outlines of the controversy, let us see what the territory is over which " the very doubtful advantage of sovereignty " (to use the Reviewer's words) is claimed; what are the leading epochs and events in the history of its discovery, and partial occupation, from the first accounts that we possess of those matters to the present time ; what the titles respec tively advanced to this territorial sovereignty by Great Bri tain, and by the United States, are. We shall thus be enabled to arrive at conclusions founded, at least, on evidence common to the two parties, and upon which the mind of every reader will be competent to form its own unbiassed judgment. The north-west coast of America, in its broadest geogra phical designation, may be said to be possessed, rather than occupied, between the shores of the Arctic Ocean and Ist, 23, or about the southern extremity of California, by Russia, England, and Mexico; the boundary of the United States territory is in the vicinity of these vast regions. Their territory is inland only, comprising all that is east of the Rocky Mountains from lat. 49 to 42 deg., from which latter parallel it runs in a south-easterly direction, until it reaches the rivers which form the boundary of the Texas. All that is south of the 42d parallel belongs to Mexico. The Russian boundary begins at the southernmost point of Prince of Wales' Island, lat. 54.50, thence tending N. W. and W. to the Arctic Ocean. Between the limits thus assumed as the boundary of the United States on their extreme N. W. fron tier and the 42d parallel on the south,—lat. 54'40 on the north, and the Rocky Mountains on the east, lies the Oregon country. The whole of the Oregon coast lies between the 42d degree and 48th degree N. lat. It is about 650 miles long, of 550 miles average breadth ; contains about 360,000 square miles, or more than three times the surface of the British islands. The northern part of the coast above lat. 48 is protected by many islands, the largest whereof, Vancouver's Island, is two-thirds of the size of Ireland. The only use hitherto made of it, until within these four years, has been as a mart for the purchase of furs and skins, although it cannot be doubted that both its rivers and its coast fisheries, which are eminently productive, will prove very profitable substitutes for its commerce in peltry, at no distant day, when the fur animals shall have become exhausted, or have removed far from the lands on which they are the objects of incessant and reckless extirpation. In the meantime the expansion and facilities of British trade with China render:this commerce an object of especial importance, independently of all State and political considerations whatsoever which attach to its possession. Of this commerce the great Colombia River, whose sources are in the Rocky Mountains, and whose em bouchure is, or about, 46.18 N., is at once the seat and, as it were, the port. The leading epochs and events in the history of its disco very may be thus succinctly stated. There seems no valid authority for disputing the fact that our illustrious DRAKE, after getting a glimpse of this coast in lat. 43 N., ran up it to lat. 48, in the year 1580. No steps were taken by this country to improve that discovery, and for nearly two centu ries the north-western coast of Africa remained unvisited. It was in 1774 and 1775 that two expeditions to explore it were dispatched by BUCARELLI, Viceroy of Mexico. In 1774 the Commodore JUAN PEREZ MARTINEZ, was the first European navigator who anchored in San Lorenzo (after wards called King GEORGE'S Sound, and did no more. In 1775 HECETA, the commander of the expedition, discovered the mouth of the Colombia River, and explored adjoining portions of the coast. In 1778 Captain Coors explored the whole coast of the Pacific, up to the 48th degree, followed at intervals by Captains BERKELEY and DIXON, Lieut. ME.A.np...s, Captain VANCOUVER, and Lieut. BROUGHTON. " Mamma and BROUGHTON (we are told by the writers of a very able and well-reasoned paper in the Foreign Quarterly), the former at Nootka Sound in the north, the latter on the Co lombia River on the south, taking possession of the territory in the name of the Sovereign of England. Now the Go vernment of Spain never made any settlement north of Cape Mendocino, in lat. 49-29. They abandoned the country, after the voyages of PEREZ and HECETA, just as we abandoned it after the voyage of DRAKE. They neither occupied the country, nor annexed it to their territories, nor took formal possession of it. In the meanwhile we had taken possession of the country in a legal and formal manner, and we were the only power that did take formal and legal pos session of Oregon." The facts connected with this posses sion taking are so strong that we cannot imagine how the Edinburgh Review can have brought itself to advance a doc trine so dangerous and a mistatement so palpable as this— namely, " During his voyage in 1794 VANCOUVER, we trust without instructions was guilty of an assumption of sove reignty more ridiculous than even the average absurdity of such transactions. He first took possession in the name of England of all the country from 39.20 to the Straits of Fuca, and afterwards from these Straits to the 59th parallel. That is to say, the treaty to superintend the exe cution of which he was dispatched (by order of his Sove reign) having stipulated that the whole coast should be open to settlement by England and Spain, he took exclusive possession of nearly the wh )le on the part of England. Now the Oregon question being one essentially of preferable title, this is to treat a matter which may one day involve the pacific relations of mighty States with absurd levity, to say the least of it. But let us see how grave and pregnant a fact does this act on the part of VANCOUVER, become when connected with its pre cedents. What were those precedents? The Spanish Govern m en tbe ing alarmediby the continued residence of that en terpris. ing officer, Lieutenant MEARES, and his companions at Nootka Sound (in 1788), where they were trading with the natives, after having built for themselves a large sloop upon the coasts, dispatched MARTINEZ with three armed vessels to dismiss the English interlopers. MARTINEZ, on his arrival at the Sound (in 1789) erected a fort, seized MEARES'S ves sels and sloop, and sent off some of his men towards Europe in the American ship " Colombia," Captain GRAY, and sent the others to San Bias as prisoners. Spain demanded satis faction for MEARES'S intrusion into her north- western settlements. England would not allow the fact of the intrusion, and insisted on reparation from Spain, be cause she had thus taken the law into her own hands. The two countries took up arms, but after some expensive preparations on either side, an indemnity was given by Spain to 111Eauns, and the future was provided for by the Conven tion of the Escurial, known as the Nootka Sound treaty, dated 28th October, 1790, By article 1 the buildings and tracts of land on the north-west coast, of which British subjects had been dispossessed, were to be restored; by article 3 subjects of England and Spain respectively were not to be disturbed in navigating or fishing in the Pacific or the South Seas, or landing on the coasts of those seas not alread y occu pied, for purposes of comm erce w i t h the natives, or inmakin settlements there. By article 5, in a ll p l aces on the north west coast, to the north of the parts efthatcoast th al e re i a u d b. y occupied by Spain (that is of ltd. 38 ), wherever 4 • 5 - `" .4r . , • hi 4 ' 7- • ""..'" DRoir • TEE SUN,'LOND . OII, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY _22, 1848. jects of either nation should thereafter make settlements, the subjects of the other were to have free access. Now the title of Spain at this time was good against all the world but Eng land ; the title of England was admitted by Spain to be good, in virtue of this treaty ; and the admission was fortified by the fact, established in MEAREs's - case, surely, of occupation as well as discovery and possession. When Captain VANCOUVER arrived out in Nootka Sound again to take possession, no " tracts of land" were to be discovered. He was offered it hut, which he refused. Leaving the sound in possession of the Spaniards, he took possession of the coast in the way ridiculed by the Edinburgh Reviewer, in what we contend, on the contrary, was a wise, bold, and just conformity to the spirit of his instructions and the rights of his Government. The Foreign Quarterly ob serves upon it :—" By this legal and official act the country was annexed to the British Crown for ever. The act was notified to the whole world : it was published under the sanction of Government in VANCOUVER'S narrative—every body knew it, nobody disputed it. If Spain regarded this act or declaration of sovereignty as an infringement of her rights, she would have remonstrated or protested ; but she did neither the one nor the other. On the contrary, she abandoned from that hour the shores of the north-western region, and has never appeared upon them since." We intreat our readers, here, to remark, that this act of sovereignty was done, •ot by a private individual, but by a recognised agent of the Crown. It, therefore, satisfies the very condition insisted on by the Edinburgh Reviewer in stating the law of nations on this point. " The acts by which sovereignty is acquired must be the acts of a Government, not of unauthorised individuals. The acquisi tion of sovereignty is a grave act No title ip, therefore, given, by the discoveries made by private adven turers. If they make settlements, these form no portion of the territory of the state from which the unauthorised settlers have proceeded. If they into treaties, such trea ties give them no right against either their own Government, or any other." Now, in this case, the act of sovereignty was made not only by a distinguished officer of the Crown, and under the orders of the Crown, but enforcing the conditions of a treaty negotiated between that Crown and another sovereign power. In all these respects the pretensions of America are UTTERLY deficient. No public officer has even yet taken possession, on her behoof, of one foot of land in Oregon ; no public servant of the United States has executed any treaty touching any part of the Oregon. Out of the five conditions, therefore, which the jurist, who writes in the Edinburgh Review, insists upon as those by which alone sovereignty over an unoccupied country can be acquired, namely, " Discovery, Settlement, Contiguity, Treaty, and Prescription," we have thus demonstrated that England claims—and holds, too, by Settlement, Treaty, and Prescription. Half a century since we had complied "with all the legal and solemn conditions by which new territories are annexed to the dominion of the Crown." As to the title by discovery, it is eighty years ago since a Spaniard— lIECETA—so far as the Colombia River is concerned, demo lished the possibility of the United States ever establishing it (though they set it up), by being the first European to find it and to enter it. At that time (1775) the Americans knew nothing about the river itself, or the whole of that territory through which it ran. It remains only to complete the conditions of the British title to Oregon to speak of "contiguity ;" and, with this head, we shall close our argu ment in support of the title of England to the Oregon,—we dare hope not without having established it to the conviction of our readers, unless there shall be a superior title set out in the claim of America, as expounded by her own Presidents, state officers, and diplomatists. Any such title we pledge ourselves to disprove by the irrefragable evidence of the documentary papers, &c., which tkey have brought forward to establish it. "On the other hand," (we quote here from the Foreign Quarterly), " if any political or international ♦aloe can be reasonably attached to proximity of position and comparative facility of access, the short and easy transit which we can command from the remotest point of our Canadian possessions to the shores of the Pacific, in vests us with geographical advantages which it would be impolitic, not to say fruitless, to contest. Whatever be comes of Oregon, the English, who hold so vast a stretch of country due east of the mountains, and who have long wielded direct sway over the disputed territory itself, through the nu merous locations of the Hudson's Bay Company, must al ways exercise an inevitable influence over its destinies. If Oregon were ceded to the United States to-morrow, British in fluence must still predominate from the source of the Colombia to the sea ; a state of things which, so far from producing any practical benefits to the Union, would be attended by disastrous consequences, sooner or later." It remains only now to examine the pretensions affirmed by the United States, first in respect of their amazing claim to the discovery of the Colombia River by Captain GRAY ; second, their derivative title under treaty with France, and through France from Spain. A letter from Constantinople, published in the Augsburg Gazette, says—" The Grand Duke CONSTA-NTEIE leaves to morrow for Italy; he will not visit Greece. The Prince has not accepted the presents intended for him by the Porte. Of all the members of the diplomatic corps, M. LECOY is the only one he has given audience to." A Frankfort journal states, from Athens, June 26, that a proposition made by M. Cor.Errt, to send a deputation to Constantinop compliment the Grand Duke CONSTANTINIt and invite hini.ipTisit Athens, had not been acceded to by the Ministry, as it was considered inopportune to make any public demonstration in his favour, under the existing state of affairs. The KING, it is said, will send one of his aides de-camp with an autograph congratulatory letter. We have received Madrid papers to the 14th instant. The decree against the press, which is censured by even some of the Ministerial journals, appears to have produced a deep im - pression. On the 15th all the editors of the periodical press were to meet, in order to agree as to the best course to be pursued. The meeting was expected to present considerable interest. The lier aldo, the organ of the Ministry, expresses its ap proval of the decree, in defence of which it reproduces the ar guments of the Ministers in their report to the QUEE:4/. The accounts received from Barcelona state that the move ment is entirely put down. The conscription was proceeding with. MADRID BOURSE, JULY 14.—Three per Cents., 28 for cash, and 28 9-16 for Account ; Five per Cents. for Ac count, 20%. The French papers of Sunday, which arrived this morning, are chiefly filled with comments on the recent decree issued in Spain against the press. The Presse alone (the organ of CnrusTlNA) ventures to defend it. The Journal des Debats, and all the other journals, speak of it as putting the seal on the reactionary movement of the Spanish Government. The Opposition journals speculate on the approaching dissolution of the Chambers. The Presse, however, states, and appa rently from authority, that there is no intention to dissolve the present Chamber immediately. Don CARLOS and his consort are stated to have left Bourges on the 17th for Greoulx, accompanied by M. DR FINAN, Aide de-camp to Marshal SOULT, the President of the Council and Minister of War. LATEST FROM AMERICA. (EXPRESS FROM LIVERPOOL.) LIVERPOOL, MONDAY NIGHT. The Joshua Bates, which left Boston on the 2d inst., ar•• rived here this evening, and bring papers from that city till the same data, but their contents do not add anything to the accounts previously received. The accounts respecting the crops are rather encouraging. Harvest operations had com menced in several districts : the wheat is said to be of good quality, and a tolerable yield. CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) The Lord Chancellor sat in Lincoln's Inn-hall to-day. HILLS •. CIOLE-JUDGMENT. The Loa• CWANCELLOR gave judgment in this ease, which came before his Lordship some time since upon appeal from the de cision of the Vice-Chancellor of England refusing to grant an injunction to restrain the defendant from acting otherwise than according to the agreement formerly entered into between him and Hills, and also for buying acid from another person than Hilts. It appeared that Crole had obtained two patents for the purpose of purifying gas, and the result of that purification was the production of muriate of ammonia and the sulphate of ammonia. The plaintiff and defendant entered into an agreement, the effect of which was, that Crole was to purchase all the acids from Hills, and Hills was to purchase all the ammonia from Crole; and there was an additional stipulation that all parties to whom licenses were granted were to purchase their acids from Hills, and Hills was to purchase from them all the ammonia. Hills having the option of supplying sulphate of ammonia, or muriate of ammonia. Subsequently, a more modified agree. ment was entered into, which, it was contended had been put an end to, and the plaintiff filed his bill to have the original agree ment specifically performed, and also for an injunction in the meantime. The Vice-Chancellor of England refused to grant the injunction, and his Lordship, considering that judgment correct, ordered the appeal motion to be dismissed, with costs. The Court, after disposing of one or two other cases, proceeded to hear the further arguments in the part-heard case of Taylor v. Wylde, which occupied his Lordship the whole morning. The other Equity Courts were occupied the whole slay with cause petitions of no general interest. SHERIFFS' COURT.-(THES DAY.) (Before Mr. Under-Sheriff BURCHILL.) RAIMISON V. OREINWOOD. _ _ The plaintiffs in ti;lsacti; are founders and engineers, and the defendant is a builder, in Portland-town. The claire was for the balance of an account for goods sold and delivered. The original amount of the demand was 484 55. 5d., but the defendant had paid 401., and a further sum of 41. into Court, disputing the balance as being overcharge. The items consisted of stoves and numerous other articles. The UNDRIL.SHERIFIP said it was next to impossible to do jus tice by evidence given in this way before a Jury. In such a case it would be much better to refer the matter. Mr. Cooper, for the plaintiff, and Mr. Thomas, for defendant, assented. Mr. Cooper, however, insisted that the costs should abide the event. The UNDER•SHIRIPP asked whether they did not usually? Mr. COOPER said No. Referees generally acted on what they considered equitable principles, and made each party pay his own costs. The reference was agreed to as proposed by Mr. Cooper. FLETCHER V. ROGERS. This was an action brought to recover the sum of 91. 55., the balange of an account for work and labour done, and the hire of a horse and cart. The plaintiff was formerly a soap.boiler in Whitechapel, but gave up business, and became Journeyman for the defendant, who resides in John street, Hoxton. Mr. THOMAS, for the defendant, contended that the amount already paid was all that was due, and that the plaintiff Lad so ad. !rated on being dismissed, but, afterwards, in very gross language, said he would be revenged. The charge for the horse and cart was Bs. a day, although it was only used jointly with defendant, and there was a further charge for stabling. He had charged 21. 2s, a week for his labour, although hs discharge arose from his Igno rance, by which defendant lost wtween 301. and 50/. Plaintiff had paid him at the rate of 30s. a week up to the day of his dis charge, when he made out his bill and gave a receipt. Witnesses were called who deposed to those ACM The plaintiff had been paid 71. 7s.—Verdict for the defendan.. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The sales of Cotton at Liverpool were 8,000 bags, including 2,000 on speculation and for export. The market was firm, and:prices were steady at Friday's quotations. There was an active business doing in Railway Shares, and generally at higher prices. Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction, 51. Is. 3d. ; Birmingham and Gloucester, New Shares, 3 1 4 ; Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 24 1 / 2 25; Caledonian, 10% 18s. ; Cambridge and Lincoln, 5 ; Chester and Birkenhead, 64 ; Ditto, New Shares, e 0 34 Ditto, Half Shares, 31% 3 4 ; Clitheroe Junction, 334 4 ; Derby and Crewe, 2% Bs. 6d.; Dundee and Perth, 68s. 6d. 3 1 4 ; Eastern Counti e s, Perpe tual, No. 2, 245. ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 79 1 / 2 ; Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock, 20 1 / ; Grand Union, 335. 6d. ; Great Grimsby and Sheffield, 61s. 6d. ; Huddersfield Canal and R a il way , 914 % ; Huddersfield and Sheffield, 6 1 / 2 % ; Kendal and Winermere, 4 ; Leicester and Bedford, 48s. 635. ; Leicester and Birmingham, 1 ; Liverpool, Orms kirk, and Preston, 61s. 6d. ; London and York, 44 ; Direct Northern, 3 % 2%; Leeds and Dewsbury, 23 ; Leeds and Thirsk, 51 4 1 ,4 ; Leeds and West Riding Junction, 7 1 / 2 14 ; Lynn and Dereham, 21% 51s. 6d. ; Manchester and Bir mingham, 61% ; Manchester and Birkenhead Continuation, 1%; Manchester and Birmingham Continuation, 1% 2 ; Manchester and Leeds, 175 3 / 4 176; Matlock and Midland, 71% 1‘ ; Midland Railway, 190 1 ,4 189 1 ,4 ; Ditto, 401. Shares, 301,4 29 1 / 2 • Newark and Sheffield, 2% ; North Kent, 2% ; North Union (A), 176 1 ,! 177 1 / z ; North Union (B), 113 1 / 2 ; North Staffordshire, 51 % ; North Wales, 2%; North Wales Mineral, 17% 3 / 4 : ; Ditto, New Shares, 5%; Nprth Western, 4%; Nottingham, Erewash, and Amber gate, 495. ; Oxfiisdd., Manchester, Worcester, n.c t e: Shrewsbury, ee wr saebnxudr int.; :s Wolverhampton,weitr.Shrewsburyan d Che shire, and s 4 h e i r r e e , Sheffieldf ° 4 r ; ' S h Shrewsbury wsb ury and Trent Unio Y t:, 415.; ' 50 3 1.11,h- Eastern and Dover, New Shares, No. 2, 17 1 ,6 1 %; South Midland, 43% ; Trent Valley Continuation, 365. 375. ; Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole, 19 1 4 ; Welsh Midland, 675. 665. ; West Yorkshire, 6 1 / 2 7 1 4 ; • Worcester and Tring, 1 1 / 2 275. ; York and Carlisle, 3 3 4 ; Belfast and Ballymena, 6 3 / 7 1 ,4 ; Cork and Bandon, 6%; Dublin and Belfast Junction, 8 1 4 1 / 2 ; Great Southern and Western Extension, 12 ; Limerick and Waterford, 6% 18s. 9d. ; Londonderry and Enniskillen, 3%, Midland Great Western and Clonmel, 33, %; Newry and Enniskillen, 3 1 4 ; Newry and Warrenpoint, 3 ; Dendre Valley, 2; Dutch Rhenish, 8 1 ,4 %; Jamaica and South Midland,s7/ s % ; Northern of France (Laffitte's). 5 1 4 ; Ditto (Rosamel's), 525. 2%; Paris and Lyons (Laffitte's), 595. 3L ; Ditto (Ganneron's), 2%; Verona and Ancona, 38s. MANCHESTER. STOCK ExcHANuE, JULY 21.-The sales are -Blackburn, Burnley, and Accrington, 9%; Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 24 1 ,4 ; Clithero Junction, 4 1-16; Direct Northern, 2% ; Eastern Counties, 21 1 ,4 ; Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding Junction, 10s. prem. ; Glasgow anti Dum fries, 20s. 21s. ; Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal, 9 %; Leeds and Thirsk, 5%; Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester, 23 25; Leeds and West Riding Junction, 7 1 / 2 ; Leicester and Bedford, 2%; Leicester and Birming• ham, 2; Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 3 1, %; London and Worcester, Oxford and Rugby, 1% 1 / 2 ; London and York, 4 5-16 51 / 2 ; Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Mid land, 6 % ; Manchester and Birmingham, 62 1 / 63 ; Ditto, New Quarter Shares, 7%; Manchester and Bir mingham Continuation and Welsh Junction, 1% 2% ; Man ckester and Birkenhead Continuation, Mold, Ruahon, and North Wales, 4s. 6d. prem. - Midland Railway Consols, 401. Shares, 30; North Staffordshire, 5 3-16 %; Nottingham, Erewash, Ambergate, and Manchester, 2 3 / 4 ; Oxford, Wor cester, and Wolverhampton, 714; Preston and Wyre, 32% 1 4 ; Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction, 1%; Shrewsbury and Trent Valley Union, 1% •, South. Eastern and Dover, 48 ; South Midland, 3 1 21 % ; Southport and Euxton, 2 3 4 ; West Lancashire and Coast Line, 1% prem. ; West York shire, 6% • Pg ; Worcester, Shrewsbury, and Crewe Union, 353. 365. ; York and Carlisle, 3% ; Dutch Rhenish, 5 1 4 prem. ; Manchester Fire and Life Assurance, 11 1 ,4. The Overland Express is the only arrival we have to-day, and the accounts relative to the state of trade are much the same as those last to hand. Perhaps, on the whole, they do not describe them as being so active; but this is not remark able, because the best season had passed. Caution in making shipments of goods to India ought still to be repeatedly en forced as the best, and, in short, only means of keeping the markets in a healthy state. The colonies have exhibited certain signs of revival of prosperity, which cannot but be cheering. The Directors of the Union Bank of Australia made a very able report to their shareholders yesterday, and, withal, a very impartial one ; and from the statements in it there is every reason to conclude that our southern colonies will soon be again free of their embarrassments. The bank is, itself, by the good di vidend which it continues to yield, the best proof that there are the elements of renewed confidence and prosperity, if the Australians will but refrain from speculation. The Public Securities are to-day without any particular alteration, and with a fair business doing. Consols have been 99 to 1 / 2 for present Transfer, and 99% 1 4 for Time. Exchequer-bills have receded to 56,. and 535. premium. Bank Stock is worth 210 1 ,4 to 211 1 ,£. The New Three-and a• Quarter per Cents. have been 102% 1 / 2 . The Foreign market is very dull-not a bargain is officially noted either in Spanish or Portuguese. Mexican are at 37%, being steady ; Colombian have been 17 3 / 4 •, Buenos Ayres, 48%; and Brazilian 91, being steady. Venezuela Stock is at 44%. Dutch Two-and-a Half per Cents. have been 62 1 4 %. Shares are not quite so good this morning, with one or two exceptions. Manchester and Leeds are higher, and also Churnet Valley ; but Cambridge and Lincoln are lower. Croydon are firm. ONE CLOSINI, PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES. Bank Stock ... 210 1 211 1 ,/ 4 211 1 ,4 3 per Cent. Reduced 3 per Cent. Consels Annuities 991 43 99 1 4 New 3 1 4 per Cents ..1024% 102% Long Annuities toexoireJan.lB6o 11% 1 / 2 11 1 A Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 ... 11% 11 1 4 India Stock India Bonds, 1,0001 — Ditto under 1,0001... . South Sea Stock Ditto New Annuities Bank Stock for Account 21 1 211 Consols for Account ...... Exchequer Bills, 1,0001., I%d 56 53 pm. 53 Ditto 5001. . Ditto Small — _ pm. 57 CLOSING PRICES. ONE PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. Brazilian Bonds Ditto Small Ditto, New, 1829 and 1 839„, BB Ditto, Small BB4 Do. New, 1843 _ _ Buenos Ayres Bonds 6 per Cent. 481/ 2 Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent..... . .,,,,, 101 Columbian Bonds, ex Venezuela 17 3 / Dutch Exchange 2 1 / 2 per Cent 37% Ditto, Account _ Ditto, Deferred _ Portuguese 5 per Cents. — Ditto, Converted _ Ditto, Account — Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. Ditto, Account ........... 26% Ditto, Passive Ditto 3 per Cent. Ditto Account Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent 4 4 1 /2 Ditto. Deferred Belgian 4 1 ,4 per Cent. _ 88 1 4 88A 86 481 / 2 101 17 3 / 4 37% 36% 20% 65% 65% 261 6% 37 % 45 13 3 / 4 100 Dutch,, 2 1- Per Cent PRICES OF PAID. A ONE O'CLOCK. 3 41 LWAY S;HARES CLOSING PRICES. Bri'ton, Lewes, & Hast. 20 Bristol and Exeter Bristol and Gloucester... 30 ..... 5914 6 0 Caledonian C 3 ambridge and Lincoln 1 1 / 2 .-- 4%% 4 Chester and Holyhead... 15 Chichester and Brighton 20 Churnet Valley Coventry and Leicester 1 1 4 Direct Northern Dublin and BelfastJunc. 2 1 / 2 B l% ix s B l /2 Dublin and Galway..... 91," 3 1 4 10i 3N, Eastern Counties 14/. 165...... 20 1 / 2 20 ... 2 0 3 /4 Ditto New 4/. 165. 6%% 6 6 l /2 Ditto Perpetual, 5 per Cent, No. 1—.5/. 13s. 4d. 11,4 l l /2 Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 Great South. and West. (Ireland) Ditto Extension GreatNorthof England..loo . 22 12% Ditto New 2 ...... 33 ........ -- - 21533 _ Great Western BO ......216 215 Guildford, Fare'm,Ports. 2 4..... Hull and Selby Do. Half Shares Lancaster and Carlisle... 20 London and Birminghna (Stock) Do. 1 4 Shares London and Blackwall. 161. 13s. 4d lO% lO London and Brighton... 50 London and Croydon, 131. 15s. 9d. 23% 23 Do. New 133 4d I I4X. 1 %3 Do. Guaranteed 5 per Cent. Loud. & &Western 411 6s 10d...... 81% 82 81 Do. New London and York 2% 5% 'A % Londonderry & Coleraine 2 1 / •:.• •—•— Lynn and Ely Lynn and Dereham 1%...... Ni anchester and Leeds... 76 ......176 Do. % Shares • Do. Quarters 2 ...... ...•....••.• .. Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock 22s. ...... 5% 3 % 1 4 54 Midland 100 . • ,. ,.190% 190 189% Do. New Midland Great Western (Irish) Newcastle and Darling ton Junction 25 ...... 58 % 571 / ••• —57 1 A Do. New Brandling lO ...... 41%... ......... ... 41 Newcastle an d B erw i c k 1% 1 9%36 1 9 14 Newpt & Abergav enn y 2% 2% 2% Newry and Enniskillen. 2% ..... 3% 3 1,1 North British Do. New North Staffordshire 22s. ..... Norwich and Brandon lO Do., New ... ..... ..... 1 Nottingm., Erewsh. Val ley, and Manchester —••••— Oxford and Worcester... 2% 7 l / 14•••••• ...... Portsmouth Direct ...... 2 1 / 2 — Richmond and West End Junction Rugby, Worstr, & Tring 1 Scottish Central Shrews., Wolverhamp., Dudley, and Birm 2% ... 4%. ... South Eastern & llover33/ 2s 4d... 47% % ...... •• • Do., No. 2. Do., No 3 .. ... 81 4••• •••• ..... South Wales 2 l /2 Trent Valley and Holy head Junction W elch M idiand York and North Midland 50 Do. Extension 7IA 82 144 5 ,Y ig 173 79 1 h ..... 1014 2 5 1 / 2 21/.2 21 3 % FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Boulogne and Amiens... 6 Dendre Valley. ......... .. 2 ...... Great N or th. o f France (Laffitte's) Do. do. (Rosamel's) 2 Jamaica Junction l% Do. South Midlnd. June. 1 Louvain and Jemeppe... 4 ... . 45 474 Namur and Liege Orleans and Vierzon ... 6 Over Yssel 413 s 4d — Paris & Lyons, Laffitte's .-.: Paris and Lyons, Gan neron's, ... .. Sambre and Meuse .... 4 ...... 7 5 / ( 4 7 l /2 Tours and Nantes, Mac kenzie's Verona and Ancona 1 West Flanders JOINT STOCK BANKS. Provincial of Ireland 25 Union of Australia Union of London SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. (PROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.) I have attended Liverpool races now for many years in succes sion, and I think I never witnessed a fuller attendance of com pany than were present last week. The sport, if not first-rate, was still very respectable, and 1 doubt not, after the comments which have been so properly made by the press, that an alteration will be made in the time of declaring the acceptances for the Cup. There is only one drawback, I am aware, attending the Liverpool Races, and that has been felt by almost every person I am acquainted with. 1 allude to the danger experienced in returning from the cot.rse to the town. The getting back from Epsom is nothing to it : and I can only estimate the danger by comparing it to that which is experienced by a passenger going or returning from London to Gravesend in a steamer on a Sunday, when eighteen hundred people are crammed into a vessel capable of holding only four hundred with any degree of comfort. The Croxteth Stakes was remarkable more for the re-introduc tion of the Lancashire Witch Into the racing world, than any thing else_ Upon her making her appearance she was much scrutinised, and the result of the race showed that the odds laid against her were not done so without great reason. Few mares have fallen orso much fromitheir two-yr-old running as MrsA'orihington's. Trueboy, the favourite, displayed again his "favourite trick" of " shutting up" directly he was called upon. It will be a long time, I think, before his friends will trust him with any more money. The winner was not mentioned in the ring, and is a nice looking illy. For the Mersey Stakes, Princess Alice was again beaten, much to the chagrin of her backers. Luminary is the first of Launcelot's stock that has been out, and her success will, no doubt, give her sire a lift in the estimation of breeders. In the Plate that followed, the stable companion of Rowena played a very creditable part. It is somewhat remarkable that nearly all the Slanes that have yet been seen in public have been winners. For the Cup Nat brought Lothario in (as I told my readers last week he would) in front of sixteen others, including Hesel. tine's crack Winesour. A great many apologies are made for this horse's defeat, but I never imagined he had the slightest chance. Although he was run against, surely in a race of two miles there was time enough for him to reco►er his position. Rowena's place at the finish, and the running of the Slane colt, deservedly raised Rowena in the betting for the Goodwood Stakes, and makes Daw son's lot a dangerous one to stand against. In the Derby Handicap, Sweetmeat, another of my selections, followed up her success at Ascot, beating Godfrey and eighteen others. Lothario was very foolishly started for this, and although much inconvenienced by being hung upon, yet was only beaten by a length and a head. After this they took 18 to I about him for the stakes. The Stanley Stakes were won by that game little animal, Mid lothian, beating, among others, Pluto, Hope, and the Lancashire Witch. Hope, my favourite, next to Pluto, was the favourite, at 7to 4, but was not even placed. Had the distance been longer I think Pluto would have won. Lord Warwick's Yardley has at last won a race for his owner, and beside putting a gcod stake in his pocket, caused a handsome salver to be added to the family plate chest. I know not who is the author of the inscription engraved upon it, but I must say, a better one I never perused. Such a tes timonial must have been most gratifying to his Lordship. The Ironmaster's runiiing to.day completely destroyed the hopes of his numerous hackers for the Goodwood Cup. The Liverpool St. Leger was a most exciting race. Under an impression that Mentor would not run, I selected t'antasa for my winner, and he was only beaten a head, after a race three seconds and a half faster than the one between Ithuriel and Red Deer, last year. The betting, after it was over on the Doncaster St. Leger, was most unaccountable, Mentor being backed at 8 to 1, and the Welsh horse at 20 to 1. I expect to see the latter's position, however, materially improved before long, The Baron, I hear, is gone to John Scott's to get that improvement he so evidently re quired ; had he been ever so fit, the manner its which he was ridden was sufficient to have destroyed his chance of winning. The Newton Meeting, which may not inappropriately be termed the Goodwood of the North, commences tomorrow, with every probability of good sport. For the Gold Cup twenty-three horses have been left in, and the following are their respective merits : Robert de Gorham has the top weight, 9st, assigned to him; had he been obliged to have carried the Tower of London, it would have made no difference, as he broke down a fortnight; ago at Carlisle, and is now for sale. The Shadow, Bst 91b—looking at her running last week for the Queen's Plate—is too much stumped up to make me think she has any chance. Trueboy, Bst 91b, cannot be trusted for sixpence. Aristotle, Bst 81b, if all right, ought to run very forward. Winesour, Bst 71b, I cannot have, after his exhibition last week. Ratan, 7st 121 b, will find the weight too much for him, and Semiseria, 7st 81b, the distance too long. Parthian, 7st 71b, I think, will beat all the others. Erebus and Juvenal, I consider, have no chance. Cataract's legs Ido not think will last him for such a distance as this. Little Hampton is well in, and will run in front. Fitzallen, 3 yrs, 3st 31b, after his long rest, will, if he starts, have, I imagine, a very fair chance of putting into his owner's pocket the money he cost him at Chester. Sinbad, Cock Robin, Agriculture, April Noddy, and Winyard, I think, will not start, so entering into a discussion of their merits is use less. After a careful examination, therefore, of their qualities, I think, in the large field that will be sure to start for it, Parthian Rill be found first at the winning post, and Constable, Little Hampton, and Fitzallen in close attendance. In the Drawing. Room Stakes Thalia can hardly find one superior to herself. The St. Leger will be a nice race between Pluto and Fitsallen, and will be won by the former, as the distance suits him better than it did at Liverpool. The Golborne Stakes seems booked to Lord Harry. For Sir John Gerard's Cup I prefer most Parthian and Godfrey . July 22, 1845. TELEGRAPH. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUP. Sm,—The meeting at Newton, under the stewardship of Sir J. Gerard and Mr. Legh, commences on Wednesday with the Lyme Park Produce Stakes, which will, in all pro bability, be nothing more than a " walk over" for Lena. The Gold Cup, out of thirty-eight nominations, has twenty two acceptances; out of these about eleven will run, whicL, I suppose, will be the following, viz :—Winesour, Parthian, Juvenal, Cock Robin, Semiseria, Lightning, April Noddy, Little Hampton, Sinbad, Pedometer, and Trueboy. I shall look to Mr. Meiklam for the winner, expecting to see Little Hampton and Winesour close up. The Drawing-Rosin Stakes to Thalia, Proserpine handy. On Thursday the St. Leger Stakes will bring a crack field of four to the post, viz. !—Hope, Pluto, Fitzallen, and Iron master, who will ❑o . doubt pass the chair as I have placed them. The Golborne Stakes look well for Lord Harry or The Traverser, Brutus and Thalia being the next best. The late running at Liverpool for the St. Leger has dis closed a " great fact," and which ought to be borne in mind, with respect to the Doncaster St. Leger. and that is, that Mentor, in first-rate condition, could barely beat Pantasa " a head," the latter animal being just now considerably too stout to run such a distance with ease to himself. I shall, therefore, advise my readers to give an eye to Pantasa for the great northern event.—l am, Sir, yours, &c., Tuesday. THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF. TATTERSALL'3.—YESTERDAT. GOODWOOD STAUB. 5 to 1 agst Kent's lot—taken 10 to 1 agst Mr. Johnstone's Pythia—taken 13 to 1 agst Mr. A. W. Hill's The Libel 14 to 1 agst Mr. Meiklam's Lightning 15 to 1 agst Lord Stradbroke's Boarding-school Miss—t. 16 to 1 agst Sir J. Hawley's Venus—taken 16 to 1 agst Mr. Payne's Queen Mt.b 18 to 1 agst Mr. Etwall's JEgis-20 to 1 taken freely 20 to 1 agst Lord G. Bentinck's John o'Gaunt 20 to 1 agst Lord G. Bentinck's Miss Elis 20 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Lothario 22 to 1 apt Mr. Parr's Europa 22 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Wee Pet 22 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Laird o' Cockpen 25 to 1 agst Lord Howth's Warp —taken 30 to 1 agst Mr. Treen's Una 40 to 1 agst Mr. Cuthbert's Queen of Tyne—taken The horses quoted may be divided into two classes—viz., those in and those out of favour. The first comprehends Boarding School Miss, Venus, .iEgis, Lightning, Miss Elis, the Laird o' Cockpen, and Wee Pet. It is right to add, how ever, that the odds taken by the Wee Pet and Laird o' Cockpen Commissioners were 20 to 1, two points less than were offered later in the day.—Very little was done on Pythia, and the dis position to lay against Rowena, Queen Mab, John o' Gaunt, Warp, Lothario, and Una, was unmistakable. GOODWOOD Cur. 5 to 1 agst Mr Vane's Valerian 13 to 1 agst Mr. Gulley's St. Lawrence 15 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Refraction 15 to 1 agst Mr. A. W. Hill's Ironmaster Offers to take 20 to 1 about My Old Hack. The following affiche met our eye on entering the room : " Mr. Forth has declared that Faugh-a-ballagh will not start for the Goodwood Cup, and states that he does not expect he shall have anything out of his stable to run for it." The an nouncement was made officially by Messrs. Weatherby. Al though not formally declared, Stomacher, of course, dis appeared. Of her ailment we have heard nothing, and of Faugh-a-ballagh we only know by report that he has been under a suspicion of lameness for a considerable period. Va lerian, who was first noticed at Liverpool, became first favourite at 5 to 1 (takers of 6 to 1), and a few bets were made in small sums about St. Lawrence, Ironmaster, and Refraction. We give the prices as nearly as we could make them out, hut cannot pledge ourselves to their entire accuracy. 9 to 2 agst Mr. Gratwicke's Merry Monarch 5 to 1 agst Mr. Gulley's \Veatherbit 9 to I agst Mr. St. Paul's Mentor 20 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Pam 50 to I agst Mr. Painter's The Pacha—taken 50 to 1 agst Major Yarburgh's Red Robin—taken Very little done. DERBY. 30 to 1 agst General Shubrick's Brocardo—taken 33 to I agst Duke of Richmond's Tug Net 50 to 1 agst Lord Verulam's Corumba colt. CRICKET. THE GENTLEMEN V. THE PLAYERS OP ENGLAND. The assemblage of persons admirers and participators in the yesterday visited Lord' s t o w it ness t hi s match, noble g Ns'er a e m p e re who setited with such a treat as h as se ld om upon any previous occasion awaited them. The finest play in every branch of the game was exhibited. The following were scored : PLAYERS Lillywhite, b Bathurst Barker, b Taylor Martingell, b Mynn Pilch, c Nappwr, b Bathurst 44 Guy, b Taylor 6 Bushby, b Taylor Sewell, b Dorrington,l) Taylor Box, b Taylor Ilillyer, b Myrna Dean, not out Byes 7, wide (11lynn) 3, no balls (do.) 7 17 —127 20 GENTLEM EN. J. A. Anson, Esq.. not out ll C. G. Whitaker, Esq., not out Byes 3, wide (Dean) 1.... 4 —24 The match was resumed this morning at eleven o'clock. MARKET NEWS.--(THIS DAY.) tEEAY TAATOICETS. SMITIIFTELD.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 31 15s to 4/15s; useful do., 41 16s to 51 8s ; fine Upland do., 5/ 103 to 5/ 15s ; Clover Hay, 41 lOs to 6/ ; Oat Straw, 11 18s to 21; Wheat Straw, 21 to 2/ 2s per load. A fair average supply and a steady demand. CuunERL-Nn.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 4/ to 4/ 18i ; useful ditto, 5/ to 5/ lOs; fine Upland ditto, Si 129 to Si 169; Clover flay, 4/ lOs to 61; Oat Straw, 11 18s to 2/ ; Wheat Straw, 2/ ls to 21 3s per load. Trade firm at the above quotations. WHITECHAPEL—Coarse Meadow Hay, 3/ 18s to 4/ 183; useful ditto, 5/ to 5/ 8s ; fine Upland ditto, 51 103 t• Si 15s ; Clover Ihy, 4/ lOs to 6/ 69; Oat Straw, 11 18a to 2/, Wheat Straw, 2/ to 2/ 3s per load. Supply good and trade rather dull. New Meadow Hay sold freely at from 3l lOs to 418 s ; and New Clover 4/ to 4/ 16s per load. COAX. zw.a.zix ET. Prices per ton at the close of the market :—Chester Main, I4s ; Davison's West Hartley, 158; New 'Canfield, 13s 6d ; Smith's Pontop, 13s ; Taylor's West Hartley, 14s 6d ; Tan field Moor, 16s ; Tanfield Moor Bates, 13s 6d ; West Wylam, 14s 9d; Wylam, 14s 3d; Wall's-end Killingworth, 15s; Wharncliffe, 15s 9d ; Eden Main, 16s 3d ; Braddyll's Hetton, 17s 6d ; East Hetton, 15s 6d ; Haswell, lis 9d ; Hetton, 17s 2d ; Lambton, 17s 3d ; Stewart's, 17s 9d ; Hartlepool, lis 6d ; Heugh Hall, 163 ; Kelloe, 168; Adelaide, 16s 9d ; Barrington Tees, 14s ; Brown's Deanery, 16s ; Richardson's Tees, 15s ; Tees, 173 ; West Tees, 15s ; Graigola, 21s ; Hartley, 14s 6d ; Morgan's Stone, 22s 6d ; Eden Hartlepool Cinders, 23s.—Ships arrived, 43. PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS. MONDAY, " JULY `)1 • The Epping Railway (No. 2) Bill was read a third time and passed. The Lords' amendments to the Wear Valley Railway Bill wei e agreed to. Message from the Lords,—That they have agreed to Fal mouth Harbour Bill, without amendment; Liverpool and Bury Railway (Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool Railway and Bury Extension) Bill; Westminster Improvement (No. 2) Bill ; West London Railway Bill; Newport and Pontypool Railway Bill, with amendments; Foreigu Lotteries Bill, with an amendment. That they have passed a Bill, intituled "An Act for re lieving high constables from attendance at quarter sessions and assizes, and from certain other duties, and for amending the laws relative to jurors and juries." Also a Bill, intituled " An Act to authorise the sale of set led estates of the most Hon. the Marquis of Donegal! in Ire land, in order to pay off mortgage and other incumbrances." Also a Bill, intituled "An Act for vesting certain lands and other hertditaments devised by the will of Sir Thomas Coxbead, deceased, in trustees, upon trust to sell the same, and to grant leases thereof for building and other purposes." Also a Bill, intituled "An Act for authorising the sale of certain portions of the real estates devised by the will and codicils of John Bowes, late Earl of Strathmore, and for au thorising the purchase of other real estates, including lands held for long terms of years, to be settled to the uses of the said will and codicils, and for extending the power of grant ing mining leases given by the said will, and for other pur poses." NOTICES GIVEN AT THE PRIVATE BILL OFFICE. Manchester and Leeds Railway,—Third reading, Wednes day, July 23. London and Croydon Railway Enlargement,—Third read ing, Wednesday, July 23. Select Committee on Group X. adjourned till Wednesday, July 23, at two. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen and Prince Albert took a drive in an open pony phaeton on Sunday afternoon, in the grounds adjacent to Os borne House, Isle of Wight. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice were taken airings on Sunday afternoon. Yesterday the unfavourable state of the weather during the forenoon prevented her Majesty and her Royal Consort taking their accustomed early walk. The Hon. and Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay took his departure yesterday from Osborne House. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke of Cambridge and Prince George left town yesterday morning for Paultons, near Romsey, Hants. A deputation, including Mr. Masterman, M.P., and Mr. Alderman Copeland, M.P., had an interview with Sir R. Peel yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-street. Mr. Higham, Secretary and Comptroller-General to the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday at his official residence in Downing-street. Mr. Timm, Solicitor to the Stamps and Taxes, had also an interview with the Right Hon. Gentleman yesterday. Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office from the Governor of Jamaica, and also from the Governors of the other West India Colonies. Lord Wharncliffe, Lord President of the Council, arrived in town yesterday from the Isle of Wight. The Attorney-General and the Solicitor-General had an in terview with Sir Robert Peel yesterday. LITERATURE. NAVAL AND MILITARY SKETCH BOOK. The present number of this delightful periodical is quite equal in interest and variety to any of its prede cessors. The illustrations increase in beauty every month. The view of the entrance to New York is a perfect gem. ECONOMY; OR, A PEEP AT OUR NEIGH. BOUItS. Our neighbours referred to here are the good people of Guernsey, a place, says the author, where you can live on 3001. a year, sumptuously, and on 2001. a year sparingly. This, it must be admitted, is a very imper fect des•miption of what may be considered sufficient for domestic expenditure. In this country, which some people say is the dearest in the world, many thousands live not sparingly but very comfortably on 2001. a year, and many on a less income ; but the mystery is soon cleared up by a statement which all can understand, for in Guernsey, she adds, 3001. a year will go as far as 1,0001. in Englaud. It appears, however, there are some little drawbacks. " /No one keeps their (his) car riage—the thing is rare—a sort of show—a Mr. Sams driving into town, cven to see such a thing, an airing in a fly, where you can vic.y your bounds all round, is really quite sufficient for a drive." And then people lose their taste for wine when they become naturalised— " the gusto disappears." This many would consider a cala mity, for which no cheapness could compensate, and but few Englishmen, we suspect, will risk the experiment. Here is another drawback :-- "At the drapers we find every thing dear. They get their goods from England, and the carriage of such goods is no doubt carried out in the price of them ;—and beside this, there is little taste, and less choice, to be found in any of these es tablishments : they are, in short, inferior sort of shops al together to those of the same class we meet with in England. .‘ The thing which you expect to find at every turn—a French shop—and a French person—is the greatest rarity to be seen in the island. At first we fell into the same mistake com mitted by most of the new-comers; and misled by the foreign look of the people behind the counters, we addressed them in French : and, frightful to say ! at the same time our re marks upon them in English." W o may add, the place is noted for its excellence in fish, such as turbot, brill, and mullet, but they are not so reasonable as on the coast of Devon, and salmon, which sells at Teigninouth for sevenpence the pound, costs in Guernsey one shilling and threepence. Butcher-meat is not cheaper than in England. Where, then, is the eco nomy ? The following extract shows that the mode in which taxes are raised is not the most agreeable The Queen's revenue consists of the great tithes of all corn, grain, and flax, the growth of the island, and in some parts the chart:part is also levied—first the tenth sheaf for tithe end the eleventh for champart, when the fief belongs to the crown: chempart implies that part reserved by the lords of the manor and fiefs, by way of chief rent, which is generally let out or farmed at certain rates by private individuals. The chief rents, and rents paid in corn and money, with the customs, anchorage, tonnage on vessels, wrecks at sea, amercementa of court, forfeitures in estates, goods, chattles, &c., constitute the chief revenues of the crown in Gurnsey." THE ILLUMINATED MAGAZINE. This Magazine appears under a new editorship, and we are glad to say it has resumed its original appearance a' t) sire, &c. his more worthy of the title than it has been for some months past, as its illustrations are many of them of very high character as works of art, and are dis persed throughout the Magazine a ith no niggard hand. The opening article, " Illustrations of the genius of the late Thomas Hood," profusely illustrated as it is with wood cuts from the chefs d'ceuvre of that lamented philanthropist, philosopher, and wit, is of actual perma nent value, and is alone worth more than the price charged for the whole Magazine. RAILWAT BANK IN Li VE RPOOL.—It was stated pretty confidently, on 'Change and elsewhere, on Saturday, that it is the immediate intention of the sharebrokers and other influential men of the town to form a new bank here, to be called the Railway Bank of Liverpool. The name sufficiently indicates the interest upon which, if started, it will mainly rely for business and support. —Liverpool Albion. MISS JULIA I3ENNETT'S BENEFIT. —We observe by the Haymarket bills that the benefit of that fascinating actress, Sliss Julia Bennett, takes place to-morrow, on which occasion the sterling old comedy of She Stoops to Conquer will be revived. After which M. Leopold de Meyer, who has in the handsomest manner volunteered his services, will perform a grand fantasia on the pianoforte. We have no doubt but that the house will be crowded, as every admirer of histrionic talent will be anxious to embrace the opportunity of showing his admiration of the talents of this very accomplished young artiste. THE LONDON COFFEE AND EATING-HOUSE KEEPERS' ASROCUTION.—Last evening the annual general meeting of the members of the above association was held at Anderton's Hotel, Fleet.street, for the purpose of receiving a statement of the proceedings of the Committee during the past year, and appoint. ing officers for its management during the ensuing year. Mr. Curtain having taken the chair, the Secretary read the report. The Association, it stated, was proceeding prosperously, the receipts having exceeded those of aly former year by 401. The excursion to Rosherville Gardens, the ball at Willis's Rooms, and the dinner, which had been undertaken by the Corn. mittee as a means of increasing the funds, had resulted favourably. Amongst the donations were the following;—Colonel Sir de Lacy Evans, 101. 10s. ; Sheriff Sydney, 101. 10s, ; Mr. Kinton, 101. 10s ; Mr. Binmore, Si. ss. ; the Morning Advertiser, 10 1 . 10s, ; The Sun, 214 ; the Dispatch, 51. ss. ; and the Lrod Mayor, 51. ss. During the year 2001 more had been added to the funded pro perty, making the whole now amount to 1,6001. The Com mittee had placed another pensioner upon the funds. and hoped soon to be able to give relief to a much larger extent than at pre sent. The receipts within the last year amounted to 3431., and the expenditure left a balance in favour of the Society of 331. The report was adopted. The demise of Earl Grey and Viscount Canterbury MOM two vacancies in the governorship of the Charterhouse, BANKSIDE REGATTA. The race among the watermen at Bankside yesterday, for a new boat and•some good money prizes, given by the inha bitants of the Clink Liberty and its vicinity, was through out most spirited, and afforded much amusement to a vast assemblage of persons, who were congr gated on London, Southwark, and Blackfriars bridges, Bankside, and the craft moored off there. The race was with six scullers, in three heats. - - --- First Heat—John Hicks (yellow) 1 ; Alfred Harris (brown), 2; John Harrison (pink), 3. The watermen started in this and the succeeding heat from Mason's-stairs, round a boat moored off the Phoenix coal-wharf, up round Messrs. Horne's road, and down to Thames-street-stairs, the distance being repeated. Harrison took the lead at a rattling pace, but could not hold it, and gave place to both the other men just above Southwark-bridge, Hicks then drew away and kept it. Won by four lengt Second Heat.— 4atthew Weed (green), I ; James Bush (red), 2; William Knight (blue), 3. It was a capital race; Knight led, followed by Bush, Weed being in the rear of the others. He, however, soon mended his position by gallantly rowing by the of hers above Thames-street-stairs. The race was kept up in the most spirited way, however, to the last, and won by half a length only. Grand Heat.—Bush, 1 ; Hicks, 2; Hatris, 3 ; Weed, 0. Bush went away with the lead, closely pressed by Weed, who went to work very prettily, and bade fair to get the first " place, when, cm passing undoe Soutl. 04 - light boat in which he was rowing shipped a great dea water, in consequence of the wash occasioned by two stew and and he was soon after obliged to give in. ST. JOHN'S (WESTMINSTER) REGATTA. , 0 6 The annual contest amongst the watermen plying;iy I lorseferry and the Middlesex side of Vauxhall - bridgeo,4j),, of whom !Ave, both in the past and present daY, wished themselves as scullers and oarsmen, came oily etd, day, and was most respectably and numerously atteno„, The prize was a purse of sovereigns, as usual, subscribed at, the principal parishioners • and the race was three hea'' Ibe with sixteen pairs of sculls (two pairs in each boat). „,/ distances in the preliminary heats was from the HorseTe, up to Mills's, at the end of Thames Bank, down the lklid F . sex shore, round a boat moored off the Houses of r343-t ment, and back to the Horseferry. After the two 11, 1 heats the grand heat was closely contested, and the prize won by W. Meekeff and J. Goatby, of Horseferry•sta" sporting red colours. 'so •••• HER MAJESTY'S NAVY. 1 ,5 SUPPLEMENTAL ESTIMATE OF HER MAJESTY NAVY, FOR THE YEAR 1945-46. rot An Estimate of the Amount required to provide for sum s t""' ,I, come in course of Run - lent in the Half-year ending ono ",,,-ree March 1846, on account of the Retired Allowance '"0 hundred Captains in her Majesty's Navy, commencing on th e Octobe, 14. 1845 ; viz. VOTE Nor a AND RETIRED PAY OP OFFICERS 0 T°s NAVY AND ROYAL MARINES. For the Retired Allowance of three hundred cap tains in her Majesty's Navy, for the Half.year commencing on Ist October, 1845, and ending on 31st March, 1846, at the rate of ss. 6d. a day to each beyond the amount of their existing Half. pay, 15,056/. ; but of which one-half only there of will come in course of payment in the n 0 v period; viz. The whole charge amounts to the sum of 7,5281 TOS• HADDING- W. G0RD 014 , 45 • , Ad m ir a lty. July 1 5 , ale The attention of the Admiralty has not now been called fasio first time to the growing inefficiency of the Admirals' List, ' ri , I , is from the advanced age of the officers filling the highest rayesr, the service. This evil, necessarily increasing from Yea r t° tics , has created great anxiety ; suggestions have been made f rom hs ye to time with the view of providing an effectual remedy, and nd been successively rejected, because on examination it wa5 ., -u t of that they did not meet the exigency of the case. The °b)..titil these proposals has been to bring officers still in possession of le- R. and vigour nearer to the flag, by providing for the honou r° o irg tirement of those at the head of the captain's list, and thus OPe the succssion to the highest rank to youger men. t For th e is purpose proposals have been made at differes tini for the retirement of 100 and of 150 ca pt a i ns ; b u t it was d nr ed the number of officers of that rank who had attained an a dva left age was so great, that the retirement proposed would " 1 , - , the matters much as they were Wore ; and that the succession 0,0 Mag would have still devolved upon men as old, or pearl's those now occupying that rank. r t ° ,, e The total number of captains now on the list is 714; 7. 376 are above 55 years of age ; a m ong w h om 50 are a b° Leef , and 205 above 60; 171 are between 55 and 60, and 13 8 tg '" dof 40 and 55; and nine only under the age of 45 are to be foot' a seniority higher than 1827. uI 4 The retirement of 100 captains from the top of the li lt W :rt remove officers averaging 67 years of age, to bring up e ther° raging 64. Ivan Ced " Admiralty, July 21, 1545. If even 200 were retired, the average age of those sad` f o ra the top of the list would be 60 ; either of s u c h schemes, there would leave the evil untouched. This short statement is decisive as to the impolicY of re :1;13 0 100 or even 200 officers, with the view of bringing the fig; the reach of a junior class of men. Ot Former suggestions, moreover, went merely to the retirett e , ,,, of the number proposed, and to the m a i n t enance o f a Retired 6 ,01 1 100 old captains, to be recruited from th e Eff ec ti v e List in t, DI vacancies. They left all the causes in f u ll opera ti o n overloading the Captains' List, have created the existing e vi o, tl O There is, however, no conceivable meth o d , cons i s tent " 1 51 ,1 01, practice of the service, of so disen cum b er i ng t h e li s t of cal% peg the old and more infirm members as to bring efficient 0 % '/ their flag, but by resorting to the principl e o f re tir e ment ; 311 e ller necessary to make that retirement so large as to prove rea ll l. te d io tive, accompanying the project with o th er p rov i s i on s cale ° '" ic tiO prevent the growth of similar evils hereafter. In the that any scheme of retirement, to be eff ec t ua l, s h ou ld be ° ;or 300 officers, it is now proposed that there should be 3 i It t 0 List of 300 captains, of 55 years of age and upwards , "410‘ creased half-pay, power being given t o th e Ad m iralty ° s o' t infirm officers of 50 to retire, if the number required of al, e rO l 55 should not be found willing to do so , an d th a t the ° l `. - e PI retiring should be placed on a sepa ra t e li s t b e tween Officers' and Captains' Lists. 1 00, ith, That this list should be allowed to diminish, by dea , and be horeafter permanently maintained at that number. 010 (That general promotions should no longer be resorted t ° , o l: means of recruitissg the list of admirals, but b e re pl a ced 11 ; , of continuous promotion, as death v a ca ncies ar i se on thatl O general promotions be reserved for the celebration of I°l° national events. That the Flag Officers' List s h ou ld b e li m i te d t o 150, 04 oci .o pro Captains' List to 400, to he retained at those numbers by P`" to every vacancy. This limitation is intended to be pet b 1 applied to a state of peace, but it is impossible to say W exigencies of a war might require. It is not proposed to place the officers wishing to Va. , '" ,g ,P" , of the immediate advantage of thi s pl an on a re ti r ed , r'"0,o 1, 0 `; but it is intended that those retiring fr om th e 14 s . 6d. list 1, at once be permitted to assume the titl e o f R ea r-Adtn" - 0,1t; that the remainder should be permitted to a ssume the sst ee •,,ill the period when they would have obtained th e flag by senior they continued on the Active List. s' I , It is recommended that the officers retiring should reser v e a day in addition to their present rates of h a lf - p a y, and to into: which they would become subsequently entitled had they en the present Active List. Thus, officers retiring 10s. 6d. and 12s. 6d. lists would receive 165. and 18s. resPi, until the period when, had they remained o n th e Active I ' l l ' 4 , 0 1 would have been entitled to the half-pay of 12s. 6d. a rid when their retirement would be increased to 18s. and ii• At present the 100 senior captains receive 14s. fld•o f t he pay, the 150 next in seniority 12s. 6d., aisd the rest A tains' list I Os. 6d. ;4,04 In consideration of the gre a t c h ange propos ed, which P throughout the whole list a nearer approximation to the f leg 'ol l : by reducing the number of captain s from 714 to 400, s hert4 tiO time during which each officer will have to remain on the c h i OP; list, while at the same time it greatly i ncreases his chance s °,O ployment, it is thought that the number of officers to re e f i , 0 highest rate of half-pay, should be r e d uce d f ro m 100 to g"' that those to receive 12s. 6d. should not exceed 1011. t oil' To the widows of the retired officers it is proposed to , " tit icd, sions of 1101. per annum, and to th es e o f th e o fficers ° j olt.' assume the rank of rear.admiral th e p ens i on o f a testa v.Sdow. t be Should any great national event re n d er it r i g ht t o grant ofa general promotion, it is proposed that the two limite d op e j increased in numbers should be gradually re d uce d to the l' c oric te r ,i already specified, by a recurrence to th e p r i nc iple of r e promotion, instead of filling up every vacancy , an d that ,-10 rule should apply to any temporary increase in the " u OP" ' captains created by promotion awarded f or brilliant o f , guA considerable srvice. . I e derable additional expense will i n th e first 10 D er necessarily incurred by the retirement of the large riurn ro ce°,4 officers proposed, which expen se , h owever, w ill b e in Pi to „4 annual diminution, as the officers whose vacancies are o e filled up, die off the list, whilst savings to a large amou nt ' of " from various causes hereafte r s p ec ifi ed, will, by the operet'e r, proposed plan, gradually By a calculation founded n e t he average tables of In ert :ecl iit u, ; re li is assumed that the Retire List of 300 captains will f to 100 in about 17 years d ; consequently, the expenie ° g, ! ' e rent, which in the first year will amount t o a bout 30,°, diminish annually till in the 17th y ear i t w ill b e re d u ced `": t s mere than 10,0001., which will be the permanent r h e 'l e quirod to be maintained. And f ur th er, as the 9.00 ° ' ‘g :ll will thus be removed from the R e ti re d Li st, w ithout '/,,,t Cs placed, will not contribute to promotion on the Acti ve es, cg t , PA-t the usual promotion of one officer for every three vaeaj i annually increasing saving will acc rue , w hi c h i n the • will amount to above 5,000/. per annum. th e te A further saving will also result from the reduction of e i S$ of Flag officers to 150, from the'number at w hich, of la t r o it has been maintained, and to w hi c h it wou ld b e re't° A another brevet promotion. fo r d d In addition to these savings, th ere arc some ot h er s W- 1 e ffr i t a considerable item in the calcul a ti on o f t h e savings te,b,e,,(o,,,'Ct, by the adoption of the fore g oi ng p l an ; t h e genera l result' 1 , 0 will be, after a few years, an excess o f sav i ng o ver (4 1 amounting to many thousands per annum. t 06 :P It is believed that the terms on w hi c h t hi s ret iremen t 1 ,0.1 are consistent with that due rega r d t o economy w hich sh e- tie r mate every public department in th e conside ra tion of al l4 o t i° e ,l involving an expenditure of public m oney, an d a t the la, offt'r sufficiently liberal to induce the officers to w h om they 4r" el to accept them. Such is the plan of retirement which, after a full ftonsid er n - c i 0 1 all difficulties, has met the approbation of the Admiralty, a miss that deppartment, recommended to the f avoura ble consid e r s the Government and Parliament. , l o ta 4170 ~,t It is quite impossible to calculate with certainty on its ° founded as it is upon the principle of voluntary retirenn nt ' pht rh promises to be as effective as any plan can be made, f r i ze , , 4 % the principle of compulsory retire men t i s necessar ily exe' u Its superiority to former p r op osa l s cons i s t s i n the gre at it ee°,",; it withdraws from the Effective Li s t, an d th e pre caution s mends, in order to prevent the recurrence of a state ° f its and stagnation hereafter similar to that which nowe , O t 'Lo 0/1' mate adoption, however, must be depe n d en t on the reeeP" ve r the It officers interested may give to the plan. is too obvious to require explanation, that unless thef,loell, required (or nearly so) should acc e pt th e o ff er ma de to theut cov little good would be effected, and the country wo uld b e r o y heavy charge for incr ease d d ea d we i g h t, w i t h out deriving t r responding benefit. tot a' ot e It is only necessary to refer to what has been said of t " - t pe' t if l proposals, and the reasons for rejecting them, arising frn °l s fen i ' fit of the Captains' List, to show that by no retirement les s c o re d / than that proposed can we hope to see a class of men a ti ,? - ife,, r pe the head of the Captains' List. who, from their time ° `. ce in likely to be fully qualified for the active duties of se t° t ti highest ranks of the profession. :„,, 'et Unless, therefore, we can remove f rom the CaPts”id U O l pe number now proposed by volunt ar y re ti remen t, it t ie ,sf advisable to persevere with th e pl an ; b u t i n th a t case it - tir es 'O. duty of the Government to consider what ulterior M eld , Ott ic :•si be necessary in order to provide f or an e ffi c i en t list of 03 ',,00 a' , A vote in supplement of the pre s e n t nava l es timates, half 'OO to 15,0001., the estimated cost of the retirement for tri o D ie o f commeLcing the Ist of' October will be necessary t ° e fifeteti Admiralty to take the first step:towards carrying their ar'"i r" 0 - 0 mo n into effect. Should it not succeed, no p or ti o n of the will be expended. It is therefore for a conditional vot e G TO' the naval department will h a v e t o as k. HADD /I4 DA - c t b FEMALE CONV ICTS FOR V AN DIEMEN'' The Woolwich Company's steam-packet Fairy brough i ." o ,sle S t river, from Millbank P e nitenti a ry, on S a t ur d a y, l°° 'lets, and put them on board the Lloyd, hired eon' ea' 4 , present moored opposite the Royal Arsenal, Woolwi° l ''is/e° 1 ,4 0 female convicts only for Van Diemen's Land. T he co ° os o ' Company's steam-boat Nymph brought down 190 fe tn " do tin l / yesterday, and embarked them in the Lloyd for the man ia THE UNITED STATES.—LIVERPOOL, J lj . c l' e a iti v re The packet-ship Montezuma, Captain Lowber, ar tly o „of t Mersey last evening, bringing advices one day later, intejliS number of passengers. These advices contain n ° , __ ft , 4' worthy of notice, neither do those received from Calxus) 1' l : 0 Alechi's chessmen in ivory, bone, and w • i ° o ' Delod Lesdenhall.street, the best and cheapest, which maY a '- t ,oarl o % o ' his backgammon, draught, and chess boards, cribb 3 S e o ,alv, pegs, cushioned bagatelle tables, Pope Joan boards , eo ing . , o eft,' desks, pocket-books, writing and envelope erica, ni n e s, Woli u tea..caddies, table cutlery, Sheffield plated ware, Perk clothes, hair, and tooth brushes, combs, razors, strop s, rbVie, Q ti of all articles first-rate, L t ter 0 DP.STRUCTIVE FIRE :AT b oaeali shortly after eight o'clock, a fire of a very alarming P oA CIr discovered burning upon the premises belonging t° Tan' r r eW i t ; cabinetmaker and carpenter, situate in Bath pla ce ' ° i t s, square, Fir,bury. Whilst the neighbours were eng ar or tosb ° ` ' ing water on the fire, it extended to the adjoining w o,Aket'oelfcs the occupation of Mr. Rynar, a French bedstead, podt; stock in trade deposited therein was of uite as 11 vi e lef t the i ct nature as that in the premises of Mr. Hall; and - camp 1 • of ten minutes both buildings and their contents t pe' e t °fp enveloped in flames. The firemen were unable to yricl Ag iS mastery ever the flames before half past nine o'cl ° Voo fore both workshops were gutted, and the w hole 0 ' trade consumed.