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IN ROTHERHITHE.—A Valuable FREEHOLD ESTATE. The GLOBE DOCK, with the Essential Buildings thereupon; Wet and Dry AT , Docks, large Warehouses, and a Residence. A . uc t ;:l i. o ,o„ T it ki the,h. it ()BINS will SELL by Mart, London, on THURSDAT, the 21st of August, at Twelve o'clock, in One Lot, by direction of THE PROPRIETORS, and exceeding improvable Freehold Property. It is situate in the best part, that is With a IN ROTHERHITHE-STREET, rtONTAGE EXTENDIX4 TO Q 59 FEET:' and an INVALUABLE WATER FRONTAGE ABUTTING ON THE RIVER THAMES, 278 FEET, and in immediate connexion with THE THAMES TUNNEL. This Property is altogether exceedingly desirable as a permanent Investment, but Mr. Robins, in following his undeviating course, must begin by acknowledging that before the contemplated large revenue beconres manifest a considerable outlay must take place, as the Buildings are by no means in good order. The Property, it will have been seen, is very extensive, and in. eludes that which must always be a valuable source of Income, THE WEr DOCK IS 108 FEET BY 52, THE DRY DOCK 132 FEET BY 66. The Rental from these alone will be very great, but there is be sides a Residence adapted to a Ship Builder (this only requires to be ornamented), two smaller abodes, with an oakum loft 35 feet by IS, a mould loft 40 feet by 20, the Saw Pit and Wheel, a Blacksmith's Shop, with CAPITAL AND VERY SPACIOUS STORE.ROOMS AND W AREHOUSE, EACH 71 FEET Also a Counting-house, Warehouse for Mould loft, and Joiner's Shop, and:a very substantial range of Warehouses—invaluable all this W a; manufacturer, engineer, or any one connected with the purposes of steam. The present Rental wilrbe a considerable one, but he must be Indeed very wise and have the gift of prophecy who can foretel to what extent it will arrive within twelve months after the termination of this long peace. Particulars will be ready, with a descriptive plan, fourteen days prior to the sale, and then had, at the Globe Wharf. Rotherhithe; Mr, John Sedr;er, Builder, Globe Dock; Messrs. Ferrer and Parkinson, and Messrs. Cox and Williams, Lincoln's Inn-fields; Mr. Shaw's Offices, Christ's Hospital ; the Mart, and in Covent.. garden. LAST WEEK BUT ONE. ROYAL ACADEMY (51' ARTS, TRAFAL. GAR-SQUARE. The EXHIBITION of the ROYAL ACADEMT is now OPEN. .Admission (from Eight o'clock till Seven), Oae Shilling. Catalogue, One Shilling. HENRY HOWARD, R.A., Secret ry. ROYAL COMMISSION of FINE ARTS. The EXHIBITION in WESTMINSTER HALL is NOW OPEN to the Public Gratis. from Nine o'clock till Seven, except on Saturdays, when it is open from Eleven till Seven, Visitors paying One Shilling. Catalogues, Sixpence. C. L. EASTLAKE, Secretary. NEW DRAMA, BY SIR C. LINDSAY, BART. Published this day, fcp. Bvo., 4s. cloth, L F RED. A Drama. By Sir COUTTS LINDSAY, Bart. London : Longman, Brown, Green. and Longmans. Just published, price 2s. 6d., ITALY, AUST 1: lA, and the POPE ; a LETTER to Sir JAMES GRAHAM. By JOSEPH IVIAZZINI. Strange, 21, Paternoster-row ; Clarke, 13, Pall-mall East ; Mudle, 28, Upper King-street, 13loomsbury-square. Of any of the above may also be had, RICORDI DEI FRATELLI 33ANDIERA, price ls. 6d., by the same Author. rrHE LAW REVIEW and QUARTERLY j JOURNAL of BRITISH and FOREIGN JURISPRUDENCE, No. 4, will be Published on the lst day of August next. Advertisements cannot be received after the 28th instant. London : Owen Richards, Law Bookseller and Publisher, 194, Fleet-street. tlust Published, price 14s. THE LAW OF FIXTURES, with reference to REAL PROPERTY and CHATTELS.of a PERSONAL NATURE, to which is added, The Law of Dilapidations, Ecclesiasti cal and Lay. By STANDISH GROVE GRADY, Esq., of the Middle Temple, Barrister at Law. London : Owen Richards, Law Bookseller and Publisher, 194, Meet-street. MIDDLESEX REGISTRATION.—Free- Traders who are qualified to vote for the County of Mid dlesex, or other Counties, and who are not upon the Register of Electors, are solicited IMMEDIATELY to apply to the League Registration Offices, East Temple Chambers, Whitefriars-street, Fleet-street, where forms will be supplied, filled up, and duly served without any charge whatever being made. July 15th, 1845. IV. 11. JAMES. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., THE WHITE SLAVE; Oa, THE RUSSIAN PEASANT GIRL. By the Author of " Revelations of Russia." " The White Slave is a romance which for dramatic power, pro found and startling thought, bold and efficient ezecntion, and well sustained interest, has few equals in this country."—New Monthly. " The White Slave takes the popular and attractive form of a three volume novel. The story is ingeniously worked out, and the interest so well sustained, that a reader would almost wish, if possible, to finish the work at a sitting. The author's power and vividness of description fully entitles him to take a high place amongst the most distinguished writers of the day."—Sunday Times. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. CAPTAIN CHAMIER'S NEW NOVEL. Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., CPUNT KONIGSMARK, AN HISTORICAL NOVEL, BY CAPTAIN FREDERIC CHAItIiER, R.N. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THE SHEFFIELD, BUXTON, LEEK POTTERIES, AND CREWE RAILWAY. I‘cgistered Provisionally under 7th and Bth, Victo' a, chap. 110. Capital, 600,0001. In 12,000 Shares of 501. each. Deposit, 21. 15s. per Share. NOTICE is hereby given, that a Company is formed in conjunction with the Manchester and Amber-gate, and Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland Junction Railways, and also with another Company forming a line from Stoke to Crewe, and an application will be made in the ensuing session of Parliament for an Act authorising the construction of a railway commencing at or near Sheffield, in the county of York, and passing by way of Bakewell, Buxton, Leek, and the Staffordshire Potteries, to Crewe in the county of Chester. By this line of railway it will be clearly seen tat a grand ,com munication will be opened direct from Hull and Sheffield to the Staffordshire Potteries, Crewe, Chester, and North Wales, direct to Holyhead and Ireland, and must of necessity command a very con siderable through traffic. This line will traverse a district at present totally without railway accommodation. A survey has been made, and the line presents no engineering difficulties of importance. By this line of railway rich fields of coal, lime, and quarries of marble will be thrown open, and also a direct communication opened for the conveyance of the pottery wares into the east and north of England, and for the Sheffield wares into the Potteries, Chester, North Wales, Holyhead, and Ireland, by the shortest route by many miles, which at present are conveyed -round by Manchester, or by way of Birmingham, and considering the slow transit by canals or land carriage, a great saving of expense and time must ensue. The passenger traffic between the eastern parts of England and the Potteris, Chester, North Wales, Holyhead, and Ireland, must be very great in addition to the intermediate traffic. It has been proved by the Manchester and Buxton Company, that Buxton has 20,000 visitors in the season ; Bakewell, 6,000 ; Chats worth, 48,000; Dovedale, 10,000 ; and Matlock, 15,000 ; and which, no doubt, by the proposed railway, will be very much increased. It will also throw open the Collieries at or near N•rton-in-the- Moors, between Stoke and Leek, to the whole line of road from Leek to Buxton, which is much called for. The interest of the Companies in connexion with the proposed line will be considered, and shares reserved for them, and the proprietors of lands on the line. A prospectus will be issued shortly, and in the meanwhile all com munications, as well as applications for shares, in the following form may be made to Messrs. Wilson, Yonnge and Pierson, solicitors, Shef field; Thomas Redfern, Esq., solicitor, Leek; or Thomas Whalley Bolton, Esq., solicitor, No. 4, Elm-court, Temple, Louden : HER MAJESTY'S. THEATRE. TO-MORROW EVENING. Will be performed Mozart's celebrated Opera, COSI FAN TUTTE. Florldiligi, Madame Anaide Castellan ; Dorabella, Madame Rita Borio ; Despina, Madame Rossi Caccia ; Ferrando, Sig. Mario ; Giuglieimo, Sig. F. Lablaohe ; and Don .Alphonso, Sig. Lablache. After the Opera (for the last time) the new PAS DE QUATRE, composed expressly, by M. Perrot, for Mdlles. Taglioni, Cerito, Grahn, and Carlotta Grisi (her last appearance). To conclude with the Second Act of LA GISELLE. Giselle, Mdlle. C. Grisi. Doors open at Seven ; she Opera to commence at Half-past Seven. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Signor LABLACHE respectflilly informs the Nobility, Subscribers to Lhe Opera, and the Public, that HIS BENEFIT will take place ON THURSDAY, JULY 24, Whon will be performed (for the last time this Season) Donizetti's Opera, DON PASQUALE. Norina, Madame Grist ; Dr. Malatesta, Sig. Yornasari ; Ernesto, Sig Mario ; Notary, Sig. Dai Dori ; and Don Pasquale, Sig. Lablache. With other Entertainments, in which Madame Anaide Castellan, Madame Rita Bonin, and Sig. Moriani will appear. The Entertainments in the Ballet Department will include the combined Talents of Mane. Taglioni (her last appearance but two), Mdlles. Cerito, Lucile Grahn, M. Perrot, M. Gosselin, and M. St. Leon. Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box °dice, Opera Colonnade. Doors open at Seven, to commence at Half-past Seven o,Clock. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. LESSEE. MR. B. WEBSTER. THIS EVENING Will be repeated a New and Original Comedy, by Douglas Jerrold, entitled TIME WORKS WONDERS. Goldthnmb, Mr. W. Farren ; Felix Goldthtunb, Mr. Charles Mathews ; Bantam, Mr. Buckstone ; Miss Bessy Tulip, Madame Vestris ; Florentine, Miss Fortescue ; Miss Tucker, Mrs. Glover ; Patty, Mrs. Humby. After which will be repeated a Dramatic SUetcb, entitled THE OLD SOLDIER. Sir Lionel Ruffier, Mr. Brindal ; Master Michael Cramp, Mr. Tilbury; Adam Lethersole (aged 95), Mr. W. Farren ; Buff, Mr. James Bland ; Patience Cramp, Mrs. Stanley ; Helen, Chas Telbin. To conclude with an entirely New Farce, called THE KING AND I. Period, 1691. Sir William Melrose, Mr. H. Roll ; Burchell, Mr. James Bland; Perkin Pyefinch, Mr. Buckstone; Jessie Donald, bliss Juli Bennett. Private Boxes, Two Guineas and One Guinea and a-Halt each. Tickets and daces to be had of Mr. I. T. Archer at the Box-office, ffom Ten till Five o'clock. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHL ITN. DER THE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTF THIS EVENING Will be repeated MARIE DUCANGE. Edward Lascelles, Esq., Mr. Hudsm: ; John Eawdon, Esq., Mr. 0. Smith ; Charles Claude Prong, Mr. 541. 4 ght ; Marie Ducange, Madame Celeste. After which, an Original Terpsichorean Burletta, called POWDER AND BALL; or, St• Tibbs's Eve. Mr. Montgomerie Tibbs, Mr. Lambert ; Captain Kidglove, Mr. Selby ; Jacob oerkin, Mr. Wright ; Mrs. Montgomelle Tibbs, Mrs. Frank Matthews; Sally Knobbs, Miss Woolgar. To be folio •s•ed by THE IRISH ATTORNEY ; or, Galway Prac tice in 1770. Pierce O'Hara, Mr. Hudson ; Jacob Wylie, Mr. Cullenford. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. - UNDER TIIE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY. First Week of a New Farce—Roars of laughter at Mrs. Candle's Curtain Lectures. TIIIS EVENING _ _ Will be performed a New Farce, entitled LUCK'S ALL. Principal Characters by Messrs. F. Vining, Diddear, Keeley, Meadows, Km loch, and Turner : Miss Hicks, and Mrs. A. Wigan. To he followed by a New Farce, to he called AN OBJECT OF INTEREST, in which Mrs. Keeley will perform. After which, an entirely New, Original, and Novel Grand Fairy BALLET DIVERTISSEMENT, entitled LES FEES. In which Les Danseuscs Anglaises will appear. To which will be added an apropos Bagatelle, in One Act, entitled 3IRS. CAUDLE'S CURTAIN LECTURES. Mr. Caudle, Mr. Men clowg, Mrs. Caudle, Mr. Keeley. To conclude with an entirely New Operatic, Dramatic, Chivalric, Fairy, Romantic Burlesque, entitled CINDERE LLA. The Principal Characters by Mr. Keefrar, Mr. A. Wigan, Mr. Frank Mathews Mr. J. W. Collier, Mrs. Keeley, Miss Villars, Miss Fairbrother;Mrs. wooliidgc, Miss Grove, Miss Howard, &c • PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. LESSEE MR. J. M. MADDOX. TkIS EVENING Will be perfemea THE SYREN. Scipio, Mr. C. Horn, Jun. ; Balbaya, Mr. Leifer ; Marco Tempesta, Mr. Allen ; the Duke de Popoll, Vir. Walton ; Zerilua, Miss Georgiana Smithson. To which will b : added A COURT BALL IN 1740. In which will be introduced the Dances as peribrmed at her Majesty's Bat Cos tume, with the Original Musle. To be followed by a New Dramatic Sketch, entitled MRS. CAUDLE ; or, Curtain Lectures. Mr. Caudle, Mr. Compton ; Mrs. Caudle, Mr. Oxherry. To conclude with the Farce of THE THREE CLERKS. Fudge, gam. Walter Lacy ; Trudge, Mr. Oxberry ; Drudge, Mr. Granby; Miss Julia Snooks, Mrs. Brougham ; Mrs. Trudge, Miss Somers. Stage Manager, Mr. H. I. Waliack ; Stage Director, Mr. Emden ; Machinist, Mr. Edmund Bradwell. ASTLEY'S ROYAL A MPIIITTIVATRE. FROPRIETOR' MR. W. BATTY. THIS EVENING Will be repeated a New Grand Ballet of Action, consisting of Mi nta,ry m ance uvres, Daores, Combats, and highly powerful effects, including the sagacious performance of the Dog Hector, and sur prising Leap of the Horse Beda over the Proken and Flaming Bridge, called 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 TEM BATTLE OF WATERLOO. Introducing the Double Company of French and English Artistes. The Em peror Napoleon by Mr. Gornersal, who is engaged expressly for this occasion Box-office open from Eleven till Five. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Zallßant Success of the New Opera Company Second Week of Madame Eugenia Garcia's Engagement. THIS EVENING, Will be performed the Opera of LA SO).TNAMETJLA. Count Rodoipho, Mr. Weiss ; Elvino, Mr. D. W. King, Amina, Madame Eugenia Garcia ; Lisa, Miss Collett. After which MRS. CAUDLE WILL DELIVER HER LECTURES. To conclude with a New Drama, by E. L. Blanchard, Esq., called FAITH, HOPE, AND CHARITY. In which. Messrs. Hughes. Hicks. Bonner, Cowell. Johnson, Heslop, Miss Martin, Mrs. It. Honuer, &c., Re., will perror.n. I'laces erei Private Ilexes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the (lox ‘3`.,f.e. from Eleven to worn-. tt , wyAl, scltuk:V I:A.N.DENS. A DIFFERENT SUBJECT EACH SEASON COMBINATION OF ATTRACTIONS. ROMANTIC GARDENS AND PROMENADE. EXTENSIVE AND ITNRIVALLED MENAGERIE. C0L093.\1. MODELLED REPRESENTATION OF ED I N B URGH . The Acme of Scenic Illusion. The ROCK HARMONICON from Three till Met. ...,.DAYS, TUESDAYS. WEDNESDAYS, and THURS DAYS, - Ind on Am. GRAND CONCERTS D'ETE and MAGNIFICENT DISPLAY of FIREWORKS. Admission, One Shilling. Feeding the Cal itivora nt 11;-,:r-past Five ; Pelicans and Polar Bears at Six ; Concert at Pair/past Six; and Fireworks at Half past Nine On Wednesday, July 23, a Grand Z.Tnion Flower Show by the Royal South London Floricultural Society, on which t o ed cca sexcl ion ausive com of bina the - tion of Attractive Novelties will be presen, Floral Fete. Yesterday morning, shortly atter seven o'clock, an elderly man, named George Spicer (formerly a servant to his Grace the Duke of Wellington, but who, from his advanced age and bodily affliction, had been allowed to reside Hydeley House), was proceding along Knightsbridge • terrace , .park-corner, when he ;•as noticed by some of the neighbotizo to stagger and fall to the ground, When picked pp, he appeared perfect., insensible, and was, without loss of time, removed to St. George's hi?. s P ital, where he expired at half-past twelve o'clock, -a. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning .. 24 minutes after 0 t Evening .. 53 minutes after 0. A THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 18, 1845. e‘ediate cause of the late outrage at Kororaika is said to have been the gradual extinction of trade there—the _site-Lion of the whalers, and the consequent unpopularity into which the local Government had fallen with the i chiefs. We fear that a cause still more effective and deplorable has been the notorious dissatisfaction of our British colonists there with the strange freaks of Lord STANLEY'S nominee Governor, and the consequent apathy with which they have regarded previous insults on the British flag, which, being passed over with impunity by our authorities, appears to have invited, at the hands of the savages, their original perpetrators, a re moval of them. It may be a very egregious absurdity for Europeans to permit their indignation at a Gover nor's absurdities to make them comparatively indifferent to the development of the most unequivocal symptoms of determined and persevering hostility towards them on the part of the rude and turbulent people on whose lands they have established themselves; but when Eng lishmen imagine that they have been not only miserably misgoverned, but also illegally taxed, they are quite as apt to listen as much to the impulses of resentment as to the dictates of discretion or the suggestions of present interest. Now the facts of misgovernment not having been disputed, even by the thick and thin defenders of Lord STANLEY'S measures in Parliament, we proceed at once to the question of the illegal taxation, modified or imposed, and levied in New Zealand by Governor FlTZ ROY—modified by his entire abolition of customs' dues at certain ports ; imposed and levied in the shape of a substituted income-tax on British settlers in the colony. The two questions propounded to Mr. BURGE were these :—(1.) Whether or not New Zealand is subject to the:provisions of the statute 2d and 3d Vic., c. 62 ? (2.) Whether or not, by virtue of such statute, or of Acts relating to the Government of New South Wales and its dependencies, or otherwise, the Legislative Council of New Zealand have power to impose taxes and to esta blish customs ? The Crown, Mr. BURGE remarks, possessed no authority in right as of its prerogative, to grant that form of government now existing in New Zealand, with this power of taxing the inhabitants of the colony, which has lately been exercised by it. An established prin ciple of constitutional law precludes the Crown from im posing on any colony acquired in the way that New , Zealand has been, any form of government invested with powers inconsistent with the rights enjoined by the sub jects of this realm, under the common law of England- Adverting to the precedents of the Governments esta bished in our North American colonies and West India islands, the Learued Gentleman shows that the Crown did not attempt to introduce into the latter, of its own prerogative, their constitution of Governors, Legislative Councils, and Houses of Assembly ; but these were pro vided under special Acts of Parliament, authorising the Crown to make the necessary provisiens for carrying such establishments and enactments into effect. So neither could the Crown attempt, of its own authority, to establish, in New Zealand, its present form of govern ment, giving it, at the same time, a power of imposing taxes, without the express sanction to that effect, by statute, of the Imperial Parliament. It is evident that the Government in New Zealand has exercised such a power. The question is, has any such power been con ferred on the Government of New Zealand by the 2d and 3d Vic., c. 62 ? It is clear that that Act does extend to New Zealand ; though even this fact, but for an ac cident, would still have been ambiguous. Until June, 1839, the Crown had not only not asserted, but had dis claimed any title of prior discovery, and had actually treated it as a foreign country. Our readers will perceive that Mr. BURGE thus con firms the complaint we have so often urged, on this score, against the last as well as the present Govern ment. New Zealand seems, from first to last, to have been with them a colonial nondescript. They were afraid to handle it. They knew not how to administer this great legacy of the enterprise of TASMAN and of COOKE to posterity. This noble island group was nei ther bird nor beast—reptile nor fish—to their bewildered judgments. Now it was caught, how was it to be treated? More perplexity was never caused to the astonished council of a zoological society by the; arrival of the first ornithorynchus" or duck-billed animal, to determine whether it should be classed with "ayes" or " mammalia," the otter or the duck. Mr. STEPHENS himself, in the " memorandum" drawn up by him for the Colonial Minister, had treated of 'it as of a foreign country, and not as part and parcel of the dominions of Great Britain. But, subsequently, the letters patent of June, 1839, did establish the sovereignty of the Crown over New Zea land, by including it within the commission of the Go vernment of New South Wales. Mr. BURGE is, there fore, clear on the first point, that New Zealand is subject to the provisions of theist and 2d VICTORIA, which au thorised the Crown to:declare it a separate government from that of New South Wales, and to appoint a council. The second question—" What powers the Government, so created by the Crown, under the authority of 2d and 3d VICTORIA, c. 62, possess or are entitled to exercise"— derives an extraordinary importance from the fact that the New Zealand Government has sssumed the power of imposing taxes. Has the Act given to this local Government, under the powers which it has conferred upon the Crown of creat ing it, any such power as this of taxation ? The Act authorises the Lieutenant-Governor and six other indi viduals to form a Legislative Council for a certain colony—such individuals to be nominated by her MA JESTY, and hold office during her MAJESTY'S pleasure ; and the terms are " it shall be lawful for such Legisla • tive Council to make and ordain all such laws and ordi nances as may be required for the peace, order, and good government of such colony." Do these terms in clude any power of imposing taxes ? The cases of our North American and West Indian Legislatures, which do possess and exercise such a power, are not in point. These legislative bodies are composed of the Governor, Council, and a House of Assembly, elected by the free holders of the respective districts, counties, or towns for a - I:id - I:they are returned. Such bodies, therefore, impose taxes on that principle of our common law which makes the imposition of the tax the act of the parties who pay them, or of their representatives. For this Legislative Council of New Zealand to have been au thorised to impose taxes would have been, clearly, to violate this great constitutional principle. But it is obvious that the Crown itself, not possessing any such taxing power, could not delegate it to its own nominees (and the Legislative Council of New Zealand are no other than its nominees). The difference between such a body and the legislative bodies of Canada, of Jamaica, of Newfoundland, and other of our colonies, is as broad and marked as possible. Besides—as Mr. BURGE has well argued—if the Legislature had intended to give any such power to the Crown in the present instance, it would have done so in express terms, not by implication merely; and the rule of law is always to construe, strictly, any statute empowering the imposition of a tax. Mr. BURGE finally concludes that neither in terms nor by implica tion do the enactments of the Ist and 2d Vlc., c. 62, or of the other Acts of Parliament in reference to New South Wales and its dependencies, give any such power to the Government of New Zealand as it has been exer cising, of imposing taxes on the QUEEN'S subjects. If Mr. BURGE'S opinion be a sound one—and we shall be curious to learn who will venture to impeach it— how enormous have been the extent and the consequen tial mischief's of the illegal action of Captain FITZROY'S government ? The colonists have been robbed, first, by the colonial chiefs, and plundered afterwards by the chiefs of the native tribes. The common-law rights of English settlers have been trampled under foot, and English settlers have lost much of the universal attach ment of Englishmen all over the world to their form of go vernment, and to institutions derived from their mother country. What wonder? We are curious to see in what shape the question will be addressed to Lord STANLEY how he came, as head of the Colonial Depart ment, to slumber over the unconstitutional and despotic proceedings of his especially-recommended and accre dited selection of a Colonial Governor The Bill honoured by the title of the Jewish Dis - Abilities Removal Bill, which actually proceeds to the alarming and incredible extent of enabling Jews to be mayors and aldermen in corporate towns, might not unjustly be styled a " Bill introduced by a Conservative Government in 1845 to remove certain disabilities im posed on the Jews by the Conservative party in 1829, and deliberately and designedly continued by the same Conservative party in 1841." The disabilities of the Jews in corporations arise out of the words •` on the faith of a Christian," in the oath pre,cribed by the Act which repealed the Test and Corporation Acts, which words a ere introduced in to the oath in the House of Lords On the motion of the present Bishop of LLANDAFF, not withstanding the remonstrance of Whig noblemen, and especially of the late Lord HOLLAND, who eloquently pointed out and reprobated the effect of these words on the Jewish members of our community. The Bishop of LLANDAFF was silent in the House of Lords on the pend ing Bill for undoing his own handiwork. In 1841, shortly before the dissolution of the Whig Government, Mr. DIVETT, the Member for Exeter, introduced a Bill exactly similar to the present Government measure ; it passed the House of Commons, Mr. GOULBURN and Mr. GLADSTONE vehemently opposing it, and was stranded in the House of Lords. A similar Bill has now been proposed by a Government of which Mr. GUI:U.111:711N is a leadieg member, and Mr. GLADSTONE a principal auxiliary, has passed the House of Lords without a division, and is supported in the House of Commons by the same "Goody " and the same " Gladdy" (as SYDNEY SMITH dubbed this saintly pair) who, in 1841, saw the destruc ti,n of Christianity and our Constitution in the admis sion of Jews to only corporate offices. Mr. DIVETT'S Bill of 1841 was confined to the admis sion to corporate offices only, because there was no hope then of getting more from the House of Lords ; but Sir ROBERT PEEL, who can do as he lists with that august assembly, has not the same excuse for the imperfection of his measure ; he would experience no more opposi tion from his own party if he proposed to remove all the civil disabilities of the Jews than he meets with to his pre sent measure, and he would have from the Liberal party on which he depends for the success of all his measures, a more hearty and vigorous support. And consistency is as much violated by the small measure as it would be by the greater. Is it meant by this Bill that a Jew is fit to be an alderman, but not fit to be a Member of Parliament ? The argument for the Bill is, that a Jew already possesses privileges, which are inconsistent with the refusal to him of aldermanic dignity. He may be a county magistrate, and a deputy-lieutenant of a county, but he cannot under the present law (the Bishop of LLANDAFF'S law) be an alderman of London or Norwich. Inconsistent, doubt less ; but inconsistency will not be got rid of until all civil disabilities alike are removed. The mere removal of one disability only increases the inconsistency. The more privileges you allow the weaker is your case fur withholding what you continue to withhold. Mark the present state of Jewish rights and disabilities. We un derstand that Jews have lately entered the Indian civ 1 service ; and that when once they have entered that service there is nothing to prevent them from rising to its highest honours. On the death, or sudden recal, of a Governor- General, a member of the Council of Calcutta, acts as Governor- General till the arrival of his successor. A Jew may do this ; but, on his return home, he cannot be a Member of the British Parliament. He may run the race of the MALCOLMS and ELPHINSTONES in India, but in the land of his birth he may not aspire to associations in fame with the BURKES and the WYNDHAMS and the CAN SUNOS. He must limit his ambition in England to the mayoralty of his native town, or the honours of county magistracy. Is wealth power ? A Jew may rule the world on our Exchange, but he cannot legislate for his country in St. Stephen's. Sir fIonERT PEEL need not go to the Secretary of the Order of Baronets to learn that the Baronet on its first institution was not an empty title. A Jew may be a Baronet ; the QUEEN has con ferred that honour on Sir ISAAC GOLDSMID, and never was honour better deserved ; but he shall not, says Sir ROBERT PEEL, be a Baron. But PEEL would not be PEEL without half measures and arbitrary distinctions. Madrid papers of the 10th inst. have arrived. The royal decree limiting the freedoni of the press had arrived in Madrid from Barcelona, and was to appear in the official Gazette of the following day. The terms of it are said to be very stringent. Madrid was quiet, but great anxiety was expressed respecting the events passing in Catalonia. It would appear, however, that CONCHA has completely sup pressed the insurrection in that province. The Duke DE GLUCKSBERG had not left Madrid for Bar celona, as has been announced in some of the French papers, bet remained there to act as Charge d'Affaires during the absence of Count BRESSON. The Clamor Publico states, on the authority of a letter from Cadiz, that no amelioration of the treatment of its two editors, who were prisoners in the fort of Santa Catharina, had taken place. The Espanol mentions that the roof of the celebrated Carmelite convent at Seville, one of the most valued historical monuments in Spain, had fallen in, with a large portion of the walls. These journals quote a paragraph from the Gibraltar Chronicle of the 2d, stating that the Governor, Sir ROBERT WILSON, had received official intelligence from Tangiers, of the ratification of the boundary treaty between France and Morocco. The Infante Don FRANCISCO DE PAULA held, on the 10th, a levee in the Palace of Buen Retiro, on the occasion of the feast of his daughter Donna AMELIA FELIPA. It was re marked that the Charges d'Affaires of France and Belgium were among the first to present their homages to the Princess. The Three per Cents. closed at 28 5-16 for cash, and 28L at 60 days; the Four per Cents. at 20i at 60 days; the Five per Cents. at 21i at 60 days; the Coupons at 26; the Vales at 10 ; and the Debt without Interest at 64 at 60 days. The Paris papers of Wednesday have arrived. On the dis cussion of the budget of expenses in the Chamber of Peers on the preceding day, Count MoNTALEmsEnT drew the atten tion of the Chamber to the recent occurrences in Syria, and concluded by asking the Minister for Foreign Affairs the following questions :—Had the Government taken any steps to prevent a renewal of the atrocities which had been perpe trated? Had it chastised at once the authors of the murders and those who had countenanced them ? Secondly, had the Government taken any steps to make the English Ca binet aware how much the conduct of the British Consul at Beyrout in these sad circumstances had differed from the course which humanity would suggest, and from the respect due to a friendly nation ? Thirdly, had not the Minister for Foreign Affairs acknowledged, since these events in Syria, that the combination of five Powers, which might be of service elsewhere, was of a nature to destroy French influence in the East ? The following is M. GulzoT's reply : "The Minister of Foreign Affairs had to ►ament that the matters complained of by the Noble Peer were unfortunately quite exact. If all the facts were enumerated before the Chamber, the Noble Peers around him would be filled with indignation and grief. These acts had been foreseen in 1841, and the French Government had done all it could to prevent them. But he must be allowed to declare that the Government was then in a poor position to take on itself with authority the part of the Christians in the East. In fact it had recently abandoned them in the struggle which they had to sustain against the pretensions of the Pacha of Egypt, and that had singularly weakened its position at Constantinople, when speaking of the Libanus. France had endeavoured, with the other Powers, to have the ancient modeot government restored, as far as that was possible with the new state of things. Let it not be forgotten that France was treating with an independent State, and that it was a delicate matter to insist with the Ottoman Government in favour of the Catholics of the East. The French Government had for two years tried to effect something in favour of the Christians in the East, and it was then that the troubles alluded to had oc curred. It was quite correct to say that the Turkish authorities had lent their aid to the Druses, and the French Government had pointed out the fact strongly to the Turkish Cabinet. It must net be forgotten that there were two parties in Turkey ; the fanatical one, which hoped for nothing less than the destruction of both Druses and Maronites ; and the conservative one, remarkable for intelli gence and eagerness to adopt reforms. The former it was which, having partisans in the army, had looked coolly on at the evils which occurred in Syria. France could only act by influence in Turkey, and it must be acknowledged that her task was a most difficult one. As to the monastery, where some of the monks were killed, the French Government had demanded punishment on the guilty party in such terms as could not be denied. It was true that in the question now discussed the French and English agents had not been of precisely the same mind, but the English Government wished for the same peaceful termination of events in Syria as France, and he hoped that all differences would be soon found to have disappeared, and the affairs of Syria ameliorated." In answer to M. DE BOISSY, M. GUIZOT entered into a history of the recent negotiations at Rome on the subject of the suppression of the Jesuits, and, in reply, the Count MoNTALEMBERT said that he considered the determination come to as nothing, as the question would return each time the question of public instruction was brought forward. The Journal des Debats has the following observations in relation to this portion of the debate:— " M. de Boissy alluded to the only question which now occupies the public mind—the affair of the Jesuits, and the negotiations of which it has been the subject with the Court of Rome. We, on this occasion, owe our thanks to M. de Boissy, for we should have regretted the session closing without the Government having had an opportunity of giving categorical explanations on the subject. These were yesterday given by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, and we think they were of a nature to dissipate all the doubts and overthrow all the pitiful quibbles which the Opposition journals have been raising during the last few days. It was wished to know why the Government preferred adopting diplomatic negotia tion to legal and material means of repression. M. Guizot explained himself on this point with a force of ar gument and a loftiness of language which will, we hope, suffice to convince the most prejudiced mind. It was asked, with whom the representative of France had negotiated P M. Guizot said, and repeated in the most formal terms, that it was with the Court of Rome, with the Pontifical Go vernment exclusively and directly, that the negotiations were opened, followed up, and concluded. The result of these nego tiations is known, the rest is of little consequence. We have not to concern ourselves with the resources which the Court of Rome thought it its duty to employ to give satisfaction;tl;CO;pialt; and the wishes of France. In a word, we wish to have done with the Jesuits. Instead of having recourse to force, we have obtained all by reasoning and persuasion. Have we, by the account given by M. Guizot, lost anything by this liberal, religious, pacific, and pacifying solution ? Let us rather say that we have gained every thing. The Count de Montalembert evinced more zeal than cool ness in his reply to M. Guizot. We require to callito our mind that the orator spoke under the impression of a legitimate dis appointment, in order not to notice too severely the fresh pro vocations which he has uttered from the tribune. Let M. de Montalembert speak in his own name ; let him speak in that of his dispersed advance guard ; we c an conce ive the gall which he throws into his speech, b u t we w ill not b e li eve , until we have proof to the contrary, that he is the organ of the French clergy; we will not offer that insult to the eighty bishops behind whom he has, nevertheless, dared to place himself, to launch forth his manifesto. If we are so unfortunate as to be deceived—if the war terminated with the Jesuits is to re-commence with the episcopacy, as it is not feared to threaten us with, we will.accept, in spite of our selves, this n ew s i tuat i on, and we will accept it with all its con sequences. But l e t i t b e we ll k nown—we s hall be the first to appeal to the energy of the Government, an d we have the firm hope that it will know how to resist those arrogant pretensions. It is thus we understand the short and energetic reply cif M. Guizot." (hi WednesdAy the discussion on the Budget was renewed, when the Marquis DE BOISSY attacked the treaty lately con cluded with this country on the subject of the suppression of the slave trade. lie complained that, though five English (,fficers had been examined before the negotiators, only three French ones had been called before them. Why, he asked, was this concession made? The Noble Peer also referred to the fact that the eastern coast of Africa was left free from cruisers, thus allowing a disguised traffic in slaves to be carried on- The Duke DE BROGLIE roplied that it was useless going back on a matter now concluded. The Noble Peer, he observed, always confounded the slave trade with slavery. The former had been abolished in the West Indies, because the slaves belonged to only certain masters; but slavery existed in the East Indies, and was, in a certain measure, a religious institution, which England was obliged to maintain. The Noble Duke continued to defend the treaty in the same terms as he had previously employed. The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Wed nesday, at 83f. 15c. ; the New Loan at 83f. 50c. ; the Five per Cents. at 1211. 45c. ; Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,141 f. 50c. ; Rouen, 1,021 f. 25c. ; Vierzon, 737 f. 50c.; Havre, 6351. ; Avignon, 955 f. 25c. ; Basle, 2501. ; Spanish 4ctiyes; 36 3 4 ; Spanish Passives ? 6%. • The following are the rinotation for the new lio. Orleans and Bordeaux. i .4mc. prem.; Bi,U14 , !!11, t 15f., ditto ; es and M , ,n!.?.r.:z.m,15f. ; Paris Lyons ( La ffitte), 20f. ; ditto (Calon), par ; ditte (Ganneron), sf. ; Northern Line (Laffitte), 32f. 50c. ; ditto (Rosamel), 9f. 50c. ; Tours and Nantes (Mackenzie), 7f. 50c. ; ditto (Drouillard), par; 'ditto (O'Neill), 2f. 50c. ; ditto (Jacques Lefevre), par; Lyons and Avignon (Lecointe), 12f. 50c ; ditto (Talabot), 27f. 50c; ditto (Compagnie Meridionale), 5f.; Bordeaux and Toulouse (Mackenzie), par ; ditto and Cette (Espeleta), sf. ; Creil and St. Quentin, par ; Paris and Strasburg (Ganneron),9f. ; Dijon and Mulbausen, par; Dieppe, 22f. 75c. County electors possessing a qualification are cau tioned to send in their claims (if they are not already on the register) before twelve o'clock on Saturday, in order to be good service. If the notices are sent by post, they must reach their destination in the ordinary course of post-delivery on or before the 20th instant, and, that day being a Sunday, there are few places where there are deliveries. It will be seen, by an ad- vertisement over our leader, the Anti-Corn-law League are willing to give information, and solicit free traders to their offices for the purpose. CAUTION TO OVERSEERS.—The New Registration Act requires the overseer to make out and publish, on the Ist day of August, a list of all the new claimants, separate and distinct, from those now on the register, under a penalty of 1001. FORM OF APPLICATION. To the Provisional Committee of the Sheffield, Buxton, Leek, Pot teries, Gentlemen,—l request you to allot me Shares, of 501. each, in the above Railway, and I undertake to accept the same, or such less number as you may appropriate to me, subject to the regulations of the Company; and I do hereby undertake to sign the necessary Deeds and Parliamentary Contract, and to pay when required the deposit of 2/. 15s. per Share. Dated this day of Name in full • ••• • • ••• • • • Residence and place of business (if any) ... Business or profession .. Name, residence, and profession of two Re ferees of respectability •• • •• • • ••• • • • 1845. NOTICE TO SUBSCitil3Ekt. The THIRD EDITION of THE SUN of yester day evening contained — The conclusion of the day's proceedings before the Railway Committees of the Houses of Lords and Commons. The Parliamentary Intelligence of the Evening, being a full Report of the debates in the House of Lords up to the hour of adjournment, and of those in the Commons up to a Quarter before Seven o'clock. RAILWAY NEWS. Sr rib's and others tnterested in Railways will find a FULL ACCOUNT of the PROCEEDINGS before the RAILWAY COMMITTEES in the THIRD EDI7ION 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 NETVS ARRIVING in LONDON DURING the DAY. ORDER the THIRD EDITION, which contains NEWS TWELVE HOURS in ADVANCE. Sun-office, 112, Strand. THE WEATHER.-Suw OFFICE, JULY lB. rHERMONETER, Lowest, 51 ; Highest, 73 - Noon, 72. BAROMETER, 30.17.—W1ND, Nora.—The figures which follow the words "Lowest" and Highest" denote the lowest and highest state of the Thermometer during the preceding twenty-four hours. All the other observations are made at noon. 4 2" ) •:' -oz 0 T 111'1 1t1U.N. 10141 • t1111 , P4. • • t SECOND EDITION.. e*ltelthlf( LONDON, FRIDAY, JULY 18, 1845. The Lords met at Five. The Earl of BESBOROUGH brought up the report of the Select Committee appointed to inquire into the alle gations made against the Dublin and Galway Railway Company. The Committee reported that the Company had allotted shares without ascertaining the respecta bility of the applicants. The Dublin and Galway Rail way Bill was subsequently read a second time. The Mutual Surrender of Criminals Bill (France and the United States) was read a third time and passed. The other Bills on the table were forwarded a stage, 06,nd the House adjourned. The Commons met at Twelve. The Earl of LINCOLN moved the third reading of the Commens Enclosure Bill. The Bill was opposed by Col. SIBTHORP and Mr. SHArtmAN CaAwvotty, who divided on the motion that the Bill do pass, but who stood alone in the opposition, the numbers being for the Bill, 48 ; against it, 0 ; the two opponents of the Bill being the tellers, and having no voters to count. The Drainage of Lands Bill passed through Com- mittee. The Lunatic Asylums Bill was read a third time and passed, after the insertion of a clause, made by Mr. H. BERKELEY, and the withdrawal of the 6th clause. The Fisheries (Ireland) Bill passed through Com- mittee. At the Five o'clock sitting, Sir IL PEEL expressed his willingness to devote Monday to the discussion of Mr. C. BULLER'S motion on the subject of New Zealand. The Death by Accident Compensation Bill was read a second time. Mr. AGLIONBY stated that the Bay of Islands, where the recent disasters had occurred in New Zealand, was a settlement under the supervision of the Church Mis sionary Society, and was 400 miles distant from the settlement of the New Zealand Company. Sir R. PEEL then moved the second reading of the Bill for removing the Civil Disabilities of the Jews, petitions in favour of which had been presented from various parties in the course of the evening. The motion was opposed by Mr. PLIDIPTRE, and sup ported by Lord JOHN RUSSELL and other Hon. Members. After a short discussion, the Bill was read a second .me and ordered to be committed. The House then went into Committee upon the Poor law Amendment (Scotland) Bill, and the whole of the clauses were agreed to. Sir J. GRAHAM then moved the third reading of the Bills of Exchange Bill, which, after some slight opposi tion on the part of Mr. WILLIAMS and other Hon. Members, was read a third time and passed. The Bail in Error Bill and the Lunatic Asylum Bill were also read a third time and passed ; and, the other orders of the day having been disposed of, the House adjourned. Upon every fresh occasion on which the anirs of New Zealand—our settlements there, the proceedings of the New Zealand Company, the acts of the New Zealand Goverment—are brought under public notice, we find new occasion for marvelling at the imbecility or the im prudence, the precipitancy or the infatuation, which have marked the proceedings of all the actors in this " strange, eventful history." And yet where the legislative and executive organisation of a new colony was a stupendous blunder, ab ovo, an original mistake, it is little matter for wonder, that, with the lapse of time, it should have become a matured, practical, and dangerous an .malt'. The latest accounts from New Zealand, in the afflicting narrative they convey of the destruction of Kororaika by the natives, and the expulsion of the British residents from the beautiful shores of the Bay of Islands, after a sanguinary conflict in which the Aborigines, making all allowances for their great numerical superiority and even their better fire-arms, must be allowed to have ex hibited the most undaunted intrepidity and self-posses sion;—these accounts furnish nothing more than the rlt•Xt catastrophe in the natural st•cioeoce of such callmi. ties as the massacre of Wairau. %V,. have not been backward to declare our opinion of the enormous re sponsibility which attaches. for past (allures and disasters, to the ill-digested plans of the New Z .aland Company, and the still more culpable manner of reducing them into execution, to the follies of Captain FIT . ZROY, and the infatuation of those connected with him the Councils and the Executive Government of the island. But we have never been enabled to trace the true con nexion of cause and effect, in their relation to events that, in New Zealand, must always confer a melancholy interest upon the history of the last three years, with the authority and certainty that we are now enabled to do, after a careful perusal of the legal opinion re turned by Mr. BURGE, (a Queen's Counsel and a jurist, moreover, of Very considerable eminence), on pertain querries that have been submitted to him as to die construction of the New Zealand Go vernment Act, tilt INnrl §d V4cTot“A,c. 62, Th e ih„. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Carlotta Grisi took her benefit last evening, on which occa sion the marvellous Pas de Quatre, by Taglioni, Cerito, Lu cile Grahn, and the fair benefi,iaire herself, was repeated, and excited even greater enthusiasm than it did on Saturday. The stage, at the conclusion, was a perfect parterre of bouquets ; and when, after the fall of the curtain, the " wondrous four " were led on by Perrot, the flowery shower was renewed. One bouquet of enormous size was thrown to Perrot, a well-de served tribute to the inventive genius of that great artiste. Perrot, however, having bowed his acknowledgments, divided his bouquet into four parts, and gave one to each of the ladies. The opera was Mozart's Cosi fun tutte, with the following strong cast :—Alfonso. Lablache ; Ferrande, Mario; Gegli elmo, F. Lablach ; Fiordiligi, Castellan ; Derabella, Rita Borio; and Despina, Rossi Caccia. Her Majesty and Prince Albert honoursd the theatre with their presence. SECONDARIES.—(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Secondary JAMES.) FARR V. STORES. The plaintiff is a cheesemeuger, in Lambeth, and the de fendant, a baker, in the York-road. The action was brought to recover the sum of 5/. 65., for Irish butter supplied to de fendant. A witness was called who estimated the value of such butter in February last at 50s. per cwt. Some of the jury considered the valuation too low. The SECONDARY said the jury could only go on the evi dence, for if they did not, their verdict would be set aside ; they must not go on mere surmise, or de an act of injustice for the sake of a few shillings.—Verdict for the amount claimed. LESTER V. BOYLE. The plaintiff in this case is a linen-draper, in Sun-street, the action was brought to recover the sum of 31. Os. 9d., for drapery goods. It was proposed, on behalf of the plaintiff, to prove the de livery of the goods to the wife, and her admission of the debt. The SECONDARY said, unless the wife was carrying on busi ness as agent for her husband, her admission was not binding. The attorney said the goods were for domestic purposes. The SECONDARY said, in that case the debt was due from defendant, and the admission by the wife was not sufficient. A witness was then called, who proved an admission by de fendant himself.—Verdict for plaintiff. SMITH V. BRIGGS. This was an action by an accountant for making up defen dant's books. The charge was ss. per hour, and amounted to 91. 14s. It was clearly proved that sum had been agreed on, and that it was a common charge. The jury tho ug ht i t a very h i gh one. The SECONDARY said it was a very usual:one by accountants. —Verdict for plaintiff. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE-(FRIDAY.) Our arrivals this week consist chiefly of foreign and Irish Oats, which have consisted of upwards of 50 , 000 quarters. This supply has, of course, a considerable eftect upon the trade, and lower prices must be submitted to in order to effect sales. The fine weather caused the demand for English Wheat to rule heavy, at barely Monday's quotations. In foreign Wheat next to nothing was doing. Barley and Malt were dull, but not cheaper. Beans and Peas were held at full prices. . _ _ ARRIVALS. Barley. 1,130 qrs. Wheat. 4,310 qrs. English .. • • • • Irish Foreign .• • • • • Oats. Flwr. 3,740 I 3,790 16,930 I - 33,550 3,950 1 2,670 i Malt, 3,850 qrs. SMITHFIELD. Notwithstanding our market of to-day was scantily sup plied with Beasts, the demand for that description of stock was heavy, at a reduction in price of 2d per 81bs. We had on offer 200 Scots from Scotland, 120 Oxen and Cows from Holland, 12 ditto from Hamburgh, and 50 Beasts from Ire land. The numbers of Sheep were by no means large, yet the sale for them was inactive, at barely Monday's quotations. Lambs moved off slowly, at late rates. The Veal trade was very dull, yet we can notice no variation in value. In Pigs very little was doing. Milch Cows sold at from 161 to 19/103 each, including their small Calf. Per Blbe. to sink the offal. s. d. s. d. d. to s. d Inferior Beasts • • 2 4 2 8 Second quality ditto 3 6 4 0 Second quality ditto. 210 3 4 Coarse-woolledditto 4 2 4 8 Prime large Oxen.. 3 6 310 Southdown Wethers 410 i 0 Prime Scots •••. •• 4 0 4 2 Ditto out of the wool Large coarse Calves 3 8 4 2 Large Hogs 3 0 3 8 Prime small ditto .. 4 4 4 8 Small Porkers .... 310 4 2 Suckling Calves, .. 18 0 30 0 Quarter old Pigs .. 16 0 20 0 Inferlor Sheep ••• • 3 0 3 4 Lambs •• • • SUPPLY AT MARKET. Beasts. Sheep. Calves. I rigs. 797 9,850 457 314 75/MWDATE AND LEADMICEritLX.. We had a very dull trade here to day, and prices were no supported. At per stone, by the Carcase. s. d. to s. d. s. d. to s. d. Beef, inferior.— 2 4 2 8 Mutton, inferior .. 210 3 4 middling •... 210 3 0 middling.. 3 6 4 4 prime large 3 2 3 4 prime .... 4 6 410 prime small .. 3 6 3 8 Pork, 1arge........ 2 6 3 6 Veal. ..... ........ 3 8 4 0— small ........ 3 8 4 0 Lamb. 45 10d to Gs —d. BOROUGH HOP MAREET. We have again to report a very dull inquiry for all de scriptions of Hops here; indeed, so little is passing in them that the quotations are almost nominal. The plantation accounts are very favourable. In the duty very little is doing. Owing to the actual prices being very uncertain, we have omitted them. _ _ _ COLONIAL. The market for British Plantation has been quiet, and the sale are comparatively limited. Prices have been tolerably well supported. Barbadoes at auction has realised 45s for low yellow, and 51s to 52s for fine. REFlNED—Standard Lumps have been 70s 6d to 71s per cwt. EAST INDIA-3,100 bags Bengal sold at 42s 6d to 518; for mid and good yellow, at 52s to 55s 6d for mid and good mid white, and at 33s 6d to 34s 6d for damp brown. This is higher than last week, and the market has been firm. 3,302 bags Madras sold at 44s 6d to 45s 6d 6:r fine bright yellow, at 57s Gd to 61s for fine grainy yellow, at 41s to 43s for low and mid, and at 373 to 38s for brown. 344 bags Mauritius were taken in at 435 to 52s for low, and mid yellow, with cer tificate, brought 49s 6d to 50s for mid strong grey. FOREIGN.—YeIIow Havannah afloat, of mid quality, sold at 27s 6d, and 4,000 bags Manilla at 265. COFFEE.--British Plantation has been very quiet ; Mocha has been in some request, but is to 2s advance being asked, not much has been done. Ceylon, 1,551 bags, only partly found buyers at 47s Gd to 48s for good ord pale, 48s to 4Ss 6d for yellow, and 62s to 718 for Plantation descriptions; 1,380 bags East India sold at 25s 6d to 26s per cwt, and 250 bags Brazil at 30s to 32s per cwt. Some La Guayra was taken in at 52s 6d for fine ord. Cocoa.—Bahia has been taken in at 41s 6d, and Grenada has realised 43s to 46s per cwt. RICE.-686 bags Bengal were taken in at 12s 6d for fine white, there being less demand now. SFlCES.—Pimento has realised very full rates, Malabar Pepper is well supported, and in Ginger there have been a good many sales. SALTPETRE. - There has been a small business doing, at full prices. TALLow.—P Y C is steady at 40s per cwt, on the spot. TEA.-This article does not meet a ready sale, and of 18,000 packages offered by auction, only 1,850 were sold. Congou, Is 3d to is 8d; Twankay, good ord but mid, is 2id to is 3d per lb; and Hyson, 2s 4d to 3s 6d per lb. INDIGO.—The biddings have been tolerably brisk, and fair prices have been realised. THE LATE CASE OF MILITARY FLOGGING.--Last night a meeting of inhabitants of the borough of the Tower Ham lets was held at the Eagle Tavern, Mile End-road, for the pur. pose of taking into consideration the recent flogging of the two men, Seaman and Lawring, belonging to the Grenadier Guards, at Windsor, on Saturday last, under circumstances which ap peared in The Sun of Monday last, and to adopt such measures as might be expedient. Mr. Morris having been called to the chair, as an old soldier denounced in strong terms the treatment the men had received, which was against all law and feeling of humanity, and it was neither a regimental or general court-martial. It was his opinion that a public subscription should be entered into for the purpose of obtaining counsel's opinion, whether an action would not lie against the commanding officer for subjecting them to the lash without submitting the case first to the higher authorities. It was eventually agreed to send a requisition to the Members for the borough, Colonel Fox and Sir William Clay, to call a public meeting of the eleclorsof the borough. - - The Right lion. George R. Dawson, Commissioner of Customs, paid a visit to and inspected the St. Katherine's Docks on Wednesday aftern. , on last, and afterwards proceeded to the London Docks for a similar purpose. These official •isits, on the part of Mr. Dawson, are very frequent, and it Is generally noticed that he at all times exhibits a marked zeal to obtain every possible information on business matters, and also to afford every assistance in his power for the convenience of trade, and the advantage of the public service. - Letters from Rome state that the concordat, signed between the Courts of Rome and Madrid, on the 7th of April last, provided that the Catholic religion should be exclusively and for ever professed in the dominions of the Spanish monarchy; that seminaries for the education of clergymen should be established in every diocese, and placed under the special direction of the bishops ; that the latter should have the exclusive right of wato - over the religious instruction of youth in public schools; that monasteries and convents, still in existence, should be maintained, and those suppressed reestablished at a seasonable moment ; that the clerical property unsold should be restored to the church, and the despoiled religious establishments, and that until then they should be administered by three ecclesiastical functionaries ; that the Spanish Government should assign an adequate provision for the celebration of religious worship and the maintenance of the clergy, which, together with the unsold property, should constitute the dotation of the Church, and enable its ministers to live in a decent and independent manner; that the Church should have the right of acquiring and possessing property ; that no union or suppression of ecclesiastical livings should take place 1 without the permission of the holy see; and, finally, that the es, tates and property of the Church should be held sacred and invio lable. The Pope, on his side, undertook from the moment when a competent provision should have been made for the maintenance of the Church and clergy, to issue a bull, declaring the owners of clerical property purchased previous to the Ist of January, 1845, should at no period be disturbed in its possession, either by himself or his successors. His Holiness added, that he would accredit a nuncio to Madrid for the settlement of minor religl t oma affairs . ; and the peri o d fi xe d for the exchange of cue ratifications of the convention was not to exceed three Months. The objections of the Spanish Cabinet referred to the dotation of the clergy and the sanction of the sale of the Church property, but it was believed that the Pope would not enter into any compromise on the subject. MON ;7 , I lie sales of Cotton at Liverpool t ester ay were Lip a f LIS of 10,000 bales, including 4,000 on speculation, and 1,000 for export; 1,000 bags Egyptial went at 6d. to 6 3 %d. Prices were 1 / B d. per lb. higher than on Friday last. There was a steady market for Railway Shares, but only a small business was done, and prices varied but little :- Birkenhead and Cheshire Junction, 5 ; Blackburn and Pres ton, 21 ; Bristol and Gloucester, 58 ; British and Irish Union, Bs. ; Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 19% ; Caledonian, 10% ; Cambridge and Lincoln, 5% % ; Chester and Birkenhead, 63 1 4 ; Ditto, Half Shares, 31 1 / 2 ; Chester and Holyhead, 15% ; Chester and Preston Brook, ; Churnet Valley, 5 1 / 8 ; Clydesdale Junction, 8%, ; Derby and Crewe, 2% 1 / 2 ; Eastern Counties, Perpetual, 8 7 g ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 76 ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 18% ; New Quarter Shares, 8% ; Edinburgh and Northern, 365. ; Edinburgh and Peebles, 575. 6d. ; Glasgow and Dum fries, 183. ; Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock, 20%; Glasgow and Ayr, 74 1 / 2 ; Grand Junction, Eighth Shares, 22 1 / 2 ; Grand Union, 4s. ; Great W es t ern , 213 ; Di tto, Fifth Shares, .16 1 ,4 ; Huddersfield Canal and Railway, 8 1 4 Hudders field and Sheffield, 6%; Leicester and Bedford, % ; Leices ter and Birmingham, 325. ; Liverpool and Manchester, Half Shares, 105 ; Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 2% 3 ; London and Birmingham, Quarter Shares, 35 ; London and York, 4; Leeds and Dewsbury, 19 ; Leeds and Thirsk, 5% ; Leeds and West Riding Junction, 6% ; Manchester and Bir mingham, Cl;• Manchester and Birkenhead Continuation, 1 / 2 12s. ; Midland Railway, 192 ; Ditto, 40/. Shares, 30% ; Ditto, Consolidated Birmingham and Derby, 150 ; Newark and Sheffield, 2% ' ; Newcastle and Berwick 194',;; ewcastle and Darlington Junction, 56 ; North Staffordshire, 43 ; North Wales Mineral, 15%; Ditto, New Shares, 5 1 /; North Western, 4% ; Nottingham, Erewash, and Ambergate, 21is ; Oxford and Birmingham Junction, 4% ' • Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton, 7 6% ; Sheffield and Manchester, 130 ex int. ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 17 ex int. ; Ditto, No. 2,5% % ; Shrewsbury and Herefordshire, 265. 275. ; Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Cheshire, 76s ; South-Eastern and Dover, 48%; Ditto, New Shares, No. 2, 16% ; Ditto, No. 3,8% ; Scottish Central, 6% ; South Midland, 425. 465. ; Warwick and London, 1% ; Welsh Midland, 68s. 6d. ; West Yorkshire, 5% % ; Worcester and Tring, 265. 1 1 / 2 ; Armagh and Portrush, ; Belfast and Ballymena, 6 1 / 2 ; Dublin and Wexford, 1%; Dublin and Galway, 3%; Great Southern and Western, 22% ; Newry and Warren point, 3 ; Wexford and Carlow, 2 ; Dutch Rhenish, 5% %; Jamaica Junction, 5% 6 ; Jamaica and South Midland, 5%; Northern of France (Laffitte's), 5 ; Ditto (Rosati - 10's), 2% 51s. ; Paris and Lyons (Ganneron's), 2%; Verona and An cona, 2 1%. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JULY 17.-The sales are -Blackburn, Burnley, and Accrington,9%; Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 20 ; Cambridge and Lincoln, 5 1 / i ; Churnet Valley, 5 1 / 2 ; Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding Junction, 7-16 prem. ; Glasgow and Dumfries, 17s. • Grand Union, 1% ; Huddersfield and Manchester Railway arid Canal, 8 1 / 2 ; Leeds and Thirsk, 5 1 / 2 11-16 ; Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester, 19% 1 / 2 ; Leeds and West Riding Junction,6 3 / 4 ; Leicester and Bedford, 15s. prem. ; Leicester and Birmingham, 1 3 / ; Liverpool and Manchester, Quarter Shares, 53%; Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 3 1-16; London and Worcester, Ox ford and Rugby, 1% % ; London and York, 3% 4 ; Man chester, Bury, and Rossendale, 22 1 / 2 ; Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 5% 5-16 ; Manchester and Birming ham, 61 1 % ; Ditto, New Quarter Shares, 7 1 / ; Manchester and Birmingham Continuation and Welsh Junction, 1% ; Manchester and Birkenhead Continuation and Mold, Ruabon, and North Wales, 103. prem. ; Newark and Sheffield, 2 9-16 7-16 ; North British, New Shares, 7 ; North Stathardshire, 4 7 / sa ; North Western, 4% ; Nottingham, Erewash, Amber gate, and Manchester, 2 7-16; Oxford, Worcester, and Wol verhampton, 7 1 4 ; Preston and Wyre, 5 per cent. guaranteed, 32% ; Sheffield and Manchester, Quarter Shares, No. 3, 7 ; Shrewsbury and Trent Valley Union, 1 15-16 ; South. Eastern and Dover, No. 3,8%; South Midland, 2% 1 4; Welsh Mid land, 3 7-16 ; West Lancashire and Coast Line, 265. 3d. 28s. prem. ; West Yorkshire, 5% 15-16 ; Whitehaven and Fur ness, 2% % ; Worcester, Shrewsbury, and Crewe Union, 1% ; York and Carlisle, 3%. The Pine trade may be said to have become permanently established now, thanks to the perseverance of those engaged in it, and the fact deserves the more notice, because it is an encouragement in opening new sources of foreign trade, especially in articles of foreign consumption. This week Messrs. Keeling and Hunt have sold no less than 11,000, besides the auctions of other parties; and there is little doubt but that eventually Pines will become, as the common phrase goes, almost "as plentiful as blackberries." Now the more plentiful food of every description becomes, the nearer we shall approximate to the practical development of free-trade principles; and it is not merely luxuries, but articles of primary necessity that we hope ere long to see more completely within the reach of all classes-poor as well as rich. We do confidently believe that as yet it is scarcely known what we may not obtain from abroad, in the shape of food, and in a manner too that will but little affect the agricultural interest, which has not the ability to supply our population to the full ex ' tent of its wants. The mercantile markets generally have been tolerably steady this week, and articles depending more directly on the prosperity of the manufacturing community, such as wool and indigo, have gone off briskly at very good prices. There is an improvement to-day in the Funds, and there is a steady business doing. Consols realise 98% to 99, and for the new Account day, August 26, 98 to %. Exchequer bills have been 545. to 565., and India Bonds 71s. premium. Bank Stock has been steady, at 211. New Three-and-a- Quarter per Cents. are 102% to %, and the Three per Cents., 994 The For to 1.. eign Stocks are generally better supported. Spanish Five per Cents. realise 26% %, and the Three per Cents. 37 to 37%. Portuguese Old Stock is 85% to 86. Columbian Bonds have been marked 17% to 18. Dutch 'Ewo- and-a. Half per Cents. are 62 to 1 4 ; and French Five per Cents., 121, the exchange being at 25f. 60c. Shares generally are good, and the principal transactions have been in Blackwall, South-Eastern, Midland Counties, and Eastern Counties. There is more doing in the foreign lines. East India have been % % premium. issttITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Bank Stock.. 211 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 99 1 41, 3 per Cent. Consols Anns 98%% 99 98 3 / New 3 1 4 per Cent. Annuties 10 2 1,E % Long Annuities Expire sth Jan. 1860 11 7-16 1 / 2 Do. 30 Years, Expire Jan. 5, 1860.. 111% India Bondy 1,0001 — Ditto under 1.0001 7l South Sea Stock ll2 Consols for Account Exchequer Bills. 1 3 4 d. 11,0. 1,000/. 500/. ... ........ .. ..... ... .. - pm. Ditto Small — PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent.... 46 47 Columbian Bonds. 1 7 34 18 :Danish Bonds 1825, 3 per Cent.... 90 1 4 Peruvian Bonds, 6 per C en t 3 3 14 Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent B 5 l /2 86 Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent,1840 Ditto Passive Bonds 6 l /2 Ditto 3 per Cent 3 7 14 37 French Scrip, 5 per Cent l2lf. —c. Exchange. Dutch 2 1 / 2 per Cents Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 99. 4 lA PRICE OF SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE. Armagh, Coleraine, Portrush 1% l, ...... to Bristol and Exeter Bristol and Gloucester Caledonian Ditto Extension Cain bridge and Lincoln ...... 1 %2 Churnet Valley Coventry and Leicester - 1 1 4 15/ _ . entry b. - •••••• l'irect Northern Dublin and Belfast Junction 2 1 / 2 B4 to Eastern Counties Do. New 4/. 16s. 7%%... to Eastern Union ._,... .... Ditto Extension Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 .. 76 Great Western Ditto 1 ,4 Shares 5O ll 7 Ditto Fifths Lancaster and Car1i51e......... 20 ...... 48 .. London and Birmingham ...100 London and Blackwall 161...10 9% 10 1 / s to 9 3 / 4 London and Brighton London and Croydon... 13/. 15s. 9d.... 22% to 23 London and South Western.. 41% B O l /2 to Ditto New .. London and Y0rk........ 2 l /2 ... 3% to 4 Lynn and Ely Lynn and Dereham Manchestei and Leeds Ditto Sixteenths ... ..... ... :31 9 3 /4 to Manch, Buxton, & Matlock 22s ...... 4 1 4 3 1 4 to Midland 100 192% to 191 Ditto New 2 3 0 14 29 3 % to 30 Newcastle & g Darlinton Junc. 25 — t. Ditto New Brandling Newcastle and Berwick Newry and Enniskillen North British Ditto New 1 .. ... 7%...... to 7 Norwich and Brandon lO ... Ditto, New 1 Oxford and Worcester 2 l /2 6%%... to Perth and Inverness Portsmouth Direct Preston and Wyre Richmond and West EndJunc. 1 Rugby. Worcester, and Tring I Scottish Midland South Eastern and Dover ... 33% 4 7 3 /4 to Ditto New, No. 1 8 Ditto New, N 0.2 7 .. ... IG 3 / 4 ...... to 17 1 / 2 Ditto New, No. 3 2 l/ ... 9 South Wales Welch Midland 2 l /2 3 % IA V, to Wilts,Somerset,& Weymouth 21/2•••••• 51/2 Y fork and North Midland ... 50 1133/4 .. .to ..... to R Ditto, Extension FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Bordeaux and Mediteranean 2 East Indian Great Northern of France (Laffitte's) 4 ...... 5% to Do. Do. (Rosamel's) ... 2 . ......... Jamaica Junction .. Do. South Midland Junction 1 Orleans and Bordeaux ... .. 4 Paris and Lyons(Laffitte) ... 2 Sambre and Meuse Verona and Anco na 1 West Flanders JOINT STOCK BANKS. Australasia London and Westminster ... 20 LI.OYD'S Sri IPPING.-(THIS DAY. LONDON, Jvx.y 18.—Wind W.S.W., light breeze and fine, „ Juix 17. W. Wind s.W. to S.W.—Arrd. Galway Ark, Fuse, Cape of Good Hope ; Neptune, M`Kenzic, Callao ; Robert Sterikcr, St. Kitt's ; Ocean Queen, Quebec ; Albion, Wear, St. John's, New Brunswick. Arrd. from the River, Elizabeth Buckham, Bar ley, Launceston ; Frederick, With, Cape of Good Hope ; Jane, He seltine, St. Thomzts ; Margaret Leadbitter, Honduras ; Princess Alice Maud, Hunt, St. John's, New Brunswick; Pleiades, Richebucto. JU.A.Y 17.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrd. 16th, Gentoo, Lake matt, Quebec. Sid. 7th, her Majesty's ship Omer, on a cruize, LBEktrout., JULY 17.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrd. Glentlarugh, Kissack, Saldanha Bay ; Bumps Ayres ; F rances, Barbadoes ; Calcutta ; Homer, Dale, Alg,ort Bay ; Aim, Cooper, Ann and Emily, Delano, Sierra Leone ; Franco B arnes, Ellington, Cork, Jam a i ca; Tom Moore, BuenosMan ciu tiles , A B y a r r e i s )a ; tl o C e a s t ; har N i e n , e , , C G4 3, 1 , 1 zariiita; Metoka, New Orleans ; Sheffield, Smith, New Qt leans; P .--' ienar ra , Gham, New Orlean s ; Louisiana, Poßer, New Orleans; Milton, Gorham, Savannah ; Adonis, G lx , Ch ar l eston ; Garrick, Trask, New York ; Lady Young, Syd4ey ; Arethusa, Que bec ; Ann Johnston, Lima ; Andrews, --; Briton's Queen, Smith, amt Baron of Bramher, Flinn, quebee; Milton, Ellis, Montreal, Ore BEacin . HEAR, 4 1, i ,13 . - :=Zodiacus, St. Thomas's, forAltona. OFF LIVILEIIA3IPT9N, JULY 16 . —Elizabeth Holderness, Pridgen, Ridwbucto`; CharleSton; Cattermole, New York for Bremen. SoVrilami7o:4, JULY 16.—ArN, Matneluke, Stewart, Miratnichi. 17th, Avou ste44ler, West Wits. ":}"WvOTIT, :IT-r.v wcle,, Cold, !•zingapore; Cato, Bosdo. , •. , L s Atkl ; - , cLynE, JULY I6.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Monkey, Grant, t ' g Southampton, Cuba. ell, 3lur. DUBLIN, JULY 16.—Wind N.W. to S.S.E.—Arrd. John B pity, Qu, bee. Std. Oberon, Jobson, Quebec. WATraroßn, JULY 15.—Arrd. Erin, Quebec; Thistle, clitt°' Coos, JULY 15.—Wind N.W.--AITd. Margaret, Mill, bland ; Liffey, Cuthbert, Barbadoes ; Brazil:11, K e mp, St. . 1° Now Branswick. Off, Leila, Higgins, New York. ra 3oll Limmticx, JULY 15.—Wiad W.N.lV.—Arrd. Governor, Go Quebec Sld. Symmetry, Jones, Boston. GALWAY, Jr 1. r rd . St amfordhatn, Greenock, . 1 • , Quebe c ' BELFAST, JULY 14. — Arrd• George Guildford, Scorfield, OFT ABERDEEN, JULY 13.—Lord Seaton, Talbot, Quebec• LEITH, JULY 16.—Arrd. Emerald, Kyle, Miramichi. LEITH 11.0 ADS, JULY 14 AND 15.—Arrd. Mary Louisa, Calcutta; Alfred Thompson, Quebec ; William Dawson, 13eve' ditto; Thomas Bell, ditto. DO . ScannonouGn, JULY 16.—Arrd. Trade, Plewes, Queb ec ' 17 ' gene, Kiek, Miramichi. BRIDLINGTON BAY, JULY 16.—Arrd. Huron, Sshlanba BaYroicig. HULL, JULY 17.—Wind W.S.W.-16, Myrtle, Halliday, 311ra Sld. 16, Rose, Wotif, Quebec. Paternolisitipetri, RAIL - WAY COMMITTEI3S. (THIS DAN.) HOUSE OF LORDS. WEST LONDON LINE. The Committee having adjourned from Monday last to th~9 he in order to give time f or an arrangement between counsel t ° io matured, met this morning at half.past eleven, Lord Broughlrnbo, the chair. The other members present were the Earl of Sc ar rough and Lords Hawarden, Sondes, and Gage. Mr. AUSTIN stated that an agreement had been made t . the 41'6 that a Lord clause relating to the tolls should be omitted. BROUGHAM was doubtful whether such an omission v, Bill be considered as an alteration in a money clause ; if s o, the ore wou , d be thrown out. The Members of the other House very capricious, and it was impossible to say what they %W ad on. eider a violation of their privileges. Ay Mr. Thompson, Secretary to the West London Corillo n Y6 io e , then called to prove certain transactio ns a t a meeting of th e _ e ob. tors of the Company, with ref e r e n ce t o a c l a use to which s ow jections g had been made. .pd to th e It havin been agreed that the Bill should be reported House this evening by Lord Brougham, the Committee rose s before twelve o'clock. CORNWALL RAILWAY. ,roUgh Their Lordships met at eleven o' f clock, the Earl o Ellen" — in the chair. ' • Mr. Woolmer, Mr. Levinden, a farmer, and Mr. SheP ~h erdt rsi ~,, woollen merchant, were each examined in favour of the " line, and against the projected Cornwall one. triae °I Mr. John Clench, of Exeter, hotel.keeper, knew the mord Exeter very well. Nearly the wh o l e o f th e tra ffi c going West from Exeter went by Launceston, B o d m i n , an d Oakhatill o " „ . f oss eler was the great focus for the western traffic. The witnel ' p ot an idea of the amount of traffic by public conveyances in °s or os , of the county by stating, from authentic traffic tables, that W od to the traffic from Plymouth to Falmouth (65 miles) ilin e n e j to 20,843/., that from Exeter to Falmouth ( I 00 miles) stin eun ft jitle 53,324/. in the same space of time. Thought the cents; av d would very much tend to promote the interest of CorliWat line Devonshire. A strong feeling existed i n f avcu r of a dir ect from Falmouth to Exeter. tra p tee Some other evidence was given of a lik e na t ur e, and the it tables were handed in, in the discussion of which the COI N or were occupied for a considerable p a rt o f th e d ay , but the des which possess no feature of novelty or interest. (LEFT SITTING.) THE SCOTTISH MIDLAND RAIL „ n • fr The Committee re.assembled at e l even o ' c l oc k this in n— Tof and proceeded to hear the exami na ti on o f w i tnesses in suPP °r th 811. Mr. Baird, M.P., was the first witness examined, and sPe l ‘ eg t e t od; rally as to the advantages which would accrue to the iron from the construction of the proposed railway. 01 Mr. Smith, of D eans t own, sa id t h at t h e laying d own of th e fa tly. along the quay at Glasgow would greatly facilitate th e ! b d 0 He spoke also as to the stone about Glasgow, which he des''' t had being very good and o f fi ne qua li ty. T he trade o f 6114., ° 0, 0 06 been for several ye ars on th e i ncrease, and was like ly to i" still further. b t to Mr. Aikman, of Gl asgow, was o f op i n i on that t h e ra il, 0 1 0 0 be laid down on a lev e l w i t h th e quay, and the traf fi c to and w ith the harbour would not be obstructed by them. One b"t' wit) two waggons on the r a ils, wou ld d o more wor k than six W s :, ad the ordinary carriages. H e spo k e a l so as to t h e co al tra exports. 6 11° ' •Mr. Gibbs, who was connected with the shipping trade n• gow, corroborated the testimony of a previous witness. (LEFT SITTING.) 0 WAKEFIELD, PONTEFRACT , AND •^ dzoo RAILWAY. Iteg" The Committee on this Bill, consisting of Lord 0n . .,7t0 (chairman), Lords Polwarth, Tenterden, Sudeley, and Du' met this morning. Yi lP' Mr. George Hudson was called an d exam i ne d b y Mr. A- 1-P ved i He was connected with the Y or k an d N ort h Midl an d, and thewhiell and Selby lines, and he kn ew th e s t a ti on at Normanton ,deOCB was used by three comp an i es w ith out t h e s li g h test incon" - 0 ,1 0 being felt. He thought central stations of great in l P" t i P giving an opportunity t o p assengers t o di verge to any Par t °, a land. The witness p rocee d e d at great l ength to ex plain I. ' o o ference of rates charged by the North Midland CompanY cri . ' their rivals of th e M anc h ester and Leeds line. He wll - tainly undertake to supply the districts between Wakefield ciently as the present Company, and at lower rates, because b penditure in the first instance would be so much less. The witness was cross-examined at great length by Mr. 00' but he adhered pertinaceously to the opinions expressed in "is mination in chief. (LEFT SITTING. ) oxrcnzi), WORCESTER, AND 1,1170 30 r HAMPTON RAILWAY. The Committee resumed its sitting to-day at eleven 0t."' 16 ( „%. tb. Auckland in the chair, when the exami na ti on o f ev idence " opposition was continued. wful °f t Mr. Thos. Webb, g l ass manu f ac t urer, o f Stourbridge. got examined. In comparing the T r i ng li ne w ith th e O x ford. b e e d his decided preferen ce t o th e f ormer, as i t was best calcul_ 4 3t t est serve the trade o f th e t own an d ne i g hb ourhood, and had the amount of population on it. 51 Mr. Timms of W --reet° _is, 01 iorcester, deposed that he was a VI" oar the Tring line, which, i n hi s op i n i on, would give more acclva,ter° Lion to that city than th e sect i on proposed by the Grea t Company. shpt Mr. Wooley, ironmonger, of Ringby, Mr. Paxton, :lan d 1 0$ 1 and farmer, of Bicester, Mr. John Gaze Ma Mayor of Bati b t r !„' Mr. Jakeman, carr i er, o f t h e same place, severally gave evi°'- t C he ilt to the superior accommodation the Tring line would give t° respective localities over the rival line. sa e Mr. Joseph Steerie, of Oxford, said that the narrow g oer. scheme was in much greater favour at Oxford than the e t There was a large corn trade in Oxford ; the amount wh i _. ci d , o r north, principally to Birmingham, was about 50,000 clue" v l - 0 0 0 10,000 tons. There was likewise a considerable trade in woe!' ". fl e the trade in the north they had considerable trade in the SOUtcPO.OO. considered the break of gauge at Rugby would be of great i n et nience to the Oxford coal and corn trade. The constunP"" coal alone in Oxford was 50,000 tons annually. (LAPT furriNo.) GROUP X. 00 0' DIRECT NORTHERN STREET EXTENSION'. v . 60 114 This Committee resumed to.day at the usual hour, • Courtenay in the chair. Mr. Paine, C.E., wh o was exam i ned yesterday by - m the owner of property in Shepperton.street, corrected an in a ' - which he had made in stating that the error in thee otr e re tions of the Farri ng d on-s t reet Extension was outside the ore' line. The witnes s a tt r ib ute d hi s mistake to the erroneous :iroSt sentation of Mr. Webster's plan, and now positively decla re otec t the deviation of ei g ht f ee t two, as mentioned yester d a y s e " - within the limits. °°l Mr. Wakeling, th e ves t ry c l er k of Clerkenwell stated tha t - he o. wished to call wit nesses to prove the injury which the co nstrueere' of the line w ou ld enta il on the rates and trade of the district "00 presented. The promoters of the Company had scheduled 468 Igog. to be taken down, the average annual rent of which is ss w ots o year each, and th e t o t a l amount of rates 1,4161. The pa ria h f the suffer from the d es t ruc ti on o f t hi s property, and the trade ~°,4rig, district bei ng a l most, exclus i vely that of watch manufact'oota would be considerably injured, both by the vibration arisingloot the passage of t ra i ns on t h e cont i guous l i ne, and from the d ig ' bid; removal of the workm e n, by th e d es t ruc ti on o f t h e h ous es Ia they reside. nti fsr Mr. Hux, examined by Mr. WAKELpro—Is a watch In a tb ird toter of Percival-street, Clerkenwell, employing more tha n _ ic i n iti hands, all of whom reside in the immediate hich of the projected line. If, however, the houses in o they now dwell are taken down for the constructionfro the railway, the trade would suffer g b reat inconvenience y oe the removal of the workm en . The vibration cause d ftsc . transit of carriages on the li n e wou ld ser i ous l y a ff ec t the n l4-icor' tore of watches ; i n f ac t, h e th oug ht no c h ronometer w ould g" redly within 50 feet of a railway. r „ ct , Mr. W. rConnell, examined by Mr. WAKELING, a r a i deafr chronometer maker of Gloucester-str ee t, corro b ora t e d the ev pt of the preceding wit ness . The fluid body in the wer. to pendulums would be seriously injured by the vibration e n of railway, as it would oscill a t e an d d es t roy t h e a ccura c y observation so necessary for the regulation of chronomete rs ' esse Mr. Lockwood, an escape men t ma k er an d w h ee l c utter, similar evi of dence. 'l l/e Mr. William Mason, a printer and publish e r, guardian the poor, and auditor of the parish of Clerkenwell, depose d tG „,infi rate of the 468 houses sched u l e d f or th e use o f t h e ra ilway 7. to ra upwards of 1,5001 . He consid ere d th e ra il way wou ld be far ale beneficial to the district, and in that opinion he was joir,ed universal resident population. i asi o This having closed the case of the parish of Clerkenwell the line, Mr. WEBSTER called rebutting evidence. wop fd Mr. Terry, overseer of the parish, deposed that the line d the travel through the very poor es t p ar t s o f Cl etkenwe ll, ap b ut compensation for any deterioration. in the rates would be DIP trifling. He considered that the railway would co ld preve the condition of the parish, as it W oo afford a readier means and a greater inducement to the P° °r ' i ill , were receiving relief; to remove to other districts. T he l igieS , paupers would more especially a v a il th emse l ves o f th e se la c : and the number of casual poor would be materially diminish.'o 13/ Mr. Smith, a watch and cl oc k maker, under exarain at rot Mr. WEBSTER, assured th e C omm itt ee that, when he v i ' ke re friend at Poplar, he never found the sli g ht es t var i at i o w t " nd be, gularity of his watch by the vibration o f p ass i ng omn ibuses, a d oll therefore, interred ithat the transit of trains would be eg harmless. addre ss Mr. HILDYARD, at a quarter bef ore t wo, rose t o e f S. t oe h , Committee on the case of th e F arr i ng d on-street E x t e nsien d nog then closed. He assured th e C omm i ttee that, though he had 00 , intended to speak at any length on the subject, it was his fi lla o ser viction that it was th e most i mportant element in the whole t° and the only feature which his opponents had never atterePoo4 contravert. On a f ormer occasion, when he e dd : he the Committee on b e h a lf of the Direct Yorthern Lia7oert had anticipated a s a vi ng o f 80 0,000/. in that, over the o ther ' wo ve so far as the antagonist schemes between London and lari' vee d concerned. But since th e ev id ence h a d b een o f late 3 " ,, 1. t old in course of the F arr i ng d on-street case, that saving of 800, 0 9 0 Y o ng been swelled to 1,300 , 000/ . ; and although the London and y eti could put forw a rd th e i r 9 3 4 miles, which they Pl .° o ver would be the amount of saving effected by their g ua o , ' its rivals, yet, on the whop, the Farringdon-street E,rteneof would, as he pledged himself to show, have the Elve n ` ' t heir shortness of time, i n consequence o f t h e super i or ity et 00, gradients to those of th e L on d on an d Y or k . And, 3 °I the distance between certain densely populated P a : ;don' the metropolis and the t erm i nus o r th e Fall' to street Extension was considerably shorter than t ha fr oto the station of the competing scheme. The distanc e e d a London-bridge to the terminus in Farringdon street, O n vote saving of no less than 1,738 yards in favour of that poin t ; iyor o Blackfriars bridge, 1 mile 51 yards in favour of the sam e ; yo rss Waterloo-bridge, 1,351 ; an d f rom W es t m i ns t er- b r idge, 9 7 favour of the Farringdon.strcet terminus. (LEFT SITTING.) T t° , HE RIVER P LATE . -L IVERPOOL , J ULY I - P i 0- advices inform us that the En g li s h an d F reae r t Orr', of $ _ - mediation had been accepted by the Montevideo]) al!:,t i oritie'•oll MORE CANDIDATES THAN ELECTOR", -NO le SS or sta fifty-seven candidates have made a PP liea ti r :n for the Au dlt io tofi of the Oxford an d W orces t er s li s t r i ete is but thirty-eight, W ' ...ile the number of e- lAi The r ( ordered 1 They third ti rr tec LE This I The E t " 4, rea T he ri a third t t This Lot Moni The i Tlai3 r r t i tilt tk ••• _ _°t, ts r to e r r , A teur ti 3) tl eui l , .'''hit/ let A , ni 40t11 t kp ' qe: