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[era- or.si- Ito a F the tr for id, a with right were ppre -1 was .on of I pro- That a this until ar reso iment n• the how eariog to b e Ird fo r wor ds sworrl sc'ence. The-y wo;Litiot iSioing duty to th.- citizens of L-ondon it they submitted to the decision which the House came to on this subject. If the quesion were taken up with spirit next session, it would be carried through Parliament. I they did not carry through this great cause they would be doing a great injustice to the cause of civil and religious liberty. It was harsh to the City of London and in the borough of Greenvvieli to allow the question to stand in its present position. Mr. J. EVANS slid that those persons who had re jected the Bill iu another place had merely exercised a constitutional privilege, and he did nut agree with those who thought the Noble Lord at the head of the Govern ment had acted unfairly in this matter. He believed that they were indebted to the Noble Lord for the man ner in which he advocated the principle involved in the Bill for admitting Jews into Parliament. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman then referred to the origin of the oath of abjuration, which wee enacted in the 13th year of William and Mary. In this oath were the words "on the true faith of a Christian." This oath was car ried out by the 9 and 10 Geo. 1., which made it obliga tory on all persons in the country to take it. But then it was clear, from the nature of the oath, that it was only to be taken in the sense most binding on the conscience of the persons taking it, so that a Christian could accept the words in question. and the Jew could take the oath in the form most binding on his conscience, as had been done by the Hon. Member for Greenwich. The House then divided, when there appeared— , For the amendment 50 Against it ... •.. ••• 88 Majority ... ••• —3B MteBETHELL argued that greater injustice could not be offered than the proceedings of the present Govern ment towards Baron Rothschild and Mr. Salomons. He did not know why they, because of their religious feel ings and principles, should be excluded from the partici pation of Englishmen; and for that reason he should object to the original motion. Lord J. RUSSELL admitted that; there was a general feeling abroad in favour of the emancipation of the Jews; but at the same time he wall assured, as was the whole House, that such a measure could not be carried into effect without an Act of Parliament. What occur red? The Master of the Rolls proposed two resolutions. One of those very resolutions was now before the House. After a great deal of discussion, and an amendment by the Honourable Member for Montrose (Mr. Hume), who he regretted to say was absent through indisposition, the House decided by by a majority of 166 to 92, in favour of the resolution which was now before the House. So that the House was now again called upon to affirm that which they had already affirmed. It was not necessary again to argue this resolu lion. Alderman Salo mons having taken a course which, though not the same, was similar to that which Baron Rothschild took, he asked again to take the same course now as then, and to act in accordance with that resolution which appeared upon the journals of that House. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman said, why not take the opinion of a court of law ? He had no objection to taTaing the opinion of a court of law, and they were informed to-day, upon the authority of Alderman Salomons, that he intended to take the opinion of a court of law upon the penalties which he may have incurred under the Act of Parliament. But he could not see how the opinion of a court of law could in any manner influence them as to the fact as to whether a Member had or had not taken the oaths re quired. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman (Mr. Be thell) quoted some cases as if he meant them to form precedents for the course he now called upon them to take. He must say he thought the case of Mr. Wilkes totally inapplicable. The House of Commons in that case proceeded upon its view of its own powers and pri vileges. They choose to say that the author of a libel ought to be expelled from the House, and that after ex- Putsion no Member could properly take his seat. They did not proceed according to the dictation of any court of law. Ile did not agree with the House of Com mons in their view upon that occasion, but certainly that case formed no sort of precedent for the present one. In the Municipal Corporation Act the oath "on the true faith of a Christian" was made necessary before ad mission to certain offices. In 1845 Lord Lyndhurst in troduced a Bill, in the preamble of which this oath was alluded to, for it said, " whereas persons of the Jewish persuasion could not conscientiously make the declara tion contained in the Act," &c.; but according to the opinion now laid down, this proceeding was altogether unnecessary, for the Jew was not required to use all the words of the oath. It was useless to argue the question further. He thought the House of Commons could not do otherwise than assent to the course he pro posed. The question, they were told, was about to be brought before a court of law. If any new light could be thrown upon the subject there, he knew no reason why the House of Commons should not avail itself of it; but with all the information they now had before them, he thought they would overstep the law if they allowed Alderman Salomona to take his seat.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. ANSTEY contended that the speech male by the Noble Lord the Prime Minister only proved that the Hon. Member for Greenwich ought to have been heard at the bar. They had a strong case in favour of the Hon. Member for London and the Hon. Member for Greenwich. He was convinced the feeling of the Noble Lord was in favour of civil and religious liberty.— (Cheers.) He hoped the resolution would be withdrawn at present, and introduced next session under the guidance of a decision of the courts of law.—(Hear.) Mr. JOHN ABEL SMITH rose principally to protest against the conclusion to which the Noble Lord had come, that because the House had come to a resolution last year in the case of Baron Rothschild, that same pre cedent should govern every succeeding case. He thought that resolution was unskilfully drawn. Ho protested against being called upon to vote in favour of this resolu tion, upon the same grounds as he voted in favour of that Proposed last year in the case of Baron Rothschild. He considered that the Honourable and Learned Mem ber for Aylesbury (Mr. Bethell) had made out a decided case for suspending all inter ferenceof that House until the question should be tried by a court of law, as it certainly would be in the "urge of the recess, and that being his opinion, he thought all further procedure in that House in reference to it should stop for the present. No doubt, should the Noble Lord press his resolution to a division, he would obtain a majority in favour of it; but he might rest as sured that the question would be brought again and again before the House; and although he and those who thought with him might that night be defeated upon it, they would take the defeat as auguring that the hour of the triumph of the principle they advocated was not far d istant.--(Cheers.) The House then divided, when there appeared— For Lord J. Russell's resolution 123 Against it .., „, ' 68 Majority in favour of the resolution ... —55 The resolution was then agreed to. CONVEYANCE OF MAILS BY RAILWAYS BILL. The House then went into Committee on this Bill. Mr. BECKET T DENISON objected to the first clause, which provid e d for th e ca r r yi ng o f ma il bags by rilway and the putting them down at the interme diate stations at th e ex p ense o f th e ra il wa y compa nies, the expenses of the same to be determined by arbi tration Mr. C. LEWIS said the measure had been produced for the very purpose of obviating the evil the Hon. Mem ber complained of. Mr. CO `VAN said he had been asked to oppose this Measure on the part of the railway companies, not from any wish they had to impede the transmission of the mails, but because they considered that the present mea sure exacted from them the maximum of service at the Minimum rate of remuneration. He was of opinion that such a measure should not be hurried through the Rouse at the close of a session, and that the whole mat ter should be referred to a Select Committee. Mr. HAMILTON agreed that it was exceedingly Wrong to attempt to pass such a Bill at the close of the session. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said they would be enabled, by the means proposed, to give i ncreased accommodation to the public in the convey ance of mails to small towns, and inste a d of suc h a measure being injurious to railway s, he believed it would be otherwise. After a few words from Mr. BECKETT DENISON and and Mr. MANGLE S , re was an atte m p t , Mr. LOCKE said the present measu re on the part of Government, to get rid of the Bill of :44, which awarded compensation to the railways for services rendered to the Post -office. He should, therefore, sup port the amendment. Mr. LABOUCHERE said the question was, whether the right was so secured to the servants of the Post' °Mee, that that they should be enabled to perform . their duties to the p u bli c on the railways. Th e c ourts oflaw it Scotl an d had expressed it to be their op i n i o n that the servants of the Post-office had a right to travel on r ailways, while the Irish courts had come to a different c onclusion, at the same time that they expressed a wish that the question should be brought under the revision of a court of appeal, or that an Act should be passed to settle,,, th e l aw on the sub j ect. I n po i nt of fact, i n t h e 111 11 before the Committee they were asked nothing but What the courts of law in Scotland had declared thefoat °ffice to be entitled to. Colonel THOMPSON hoped that the House would n ot abandon the principle of reasonable interference, With a view to the preservation of the rights of the colt raunity. Mr. GL ADSTONE did not think the Bill could be sustained simply as a declaratory Act. ....After a few words f rom M r. San d ers, M r. F ors t er , an d Air. Duncan, Lord PALMERSTON reminded the House that rail ways were established for publi c u tili t y, an d it wa s only light that they should be called upon to perform those duties which the Legislature had it in contemplation they should perform when they granted them the Acts on which their very existence was founded. The Bill did not expos e th e ra il w ay comp an i es to any a ddi t i ona l e C : 13 " 83 but simply provided that they sh ou ld p er f or m A mun rt ain duty f or what he cons id ere d a fa i r amount of re eration. Mr, Gn i -, -- ‘ , Oll thought the present attempt of the Go vernment of to hav e t h e max i mum of ser v i ce at th e mini mum T h e cost was most unfair to railway companies. took CHANCELLORexceptions of the EXCHEQUER briefly to some of Mr. Gladstone's statements. M k r.M O'C ONNELL hoped the Irish law courts had tot b een consulted on the law. v k er n y o : Mr. LOCKE Said, if the clause were adopted, it would have a no ienrious effect on railway property. There was where Post-office exactions would stop. Whit was for the service asked of the m , b ut t h ey req uired to be paid . The Committee then divided, when there appeared— For the clause .., 53 Agaitii,t it ... 5G Majority against Government . — 3 The clause was consequently struck out. The House resume d. The Metr o p o li tan Interment Bill was read, a se 3ol d ; to be committed this day (Tuesday). 0 di 13. be C oll' 301° tefer _~ . ~~. ~_ THE SUN, Mr. TT ES moved the second raiding of the New Z,2ale.nO SrAtik , mouts Mr. BROTLIERTON pro!ested against proceeding with an opposed Biil at half-past 0. - to o'clock in tho morning. do should move the adjournment of the House. Mr. GLADSTONE expressed his objection to the Bill being further proceeded with at so l.ste a poriod of the session, especially as the settlers had not been con sulted on the important changes it had proposed to effect. Mr. V. SMITH joined in the objection. He thought it indecorous to press so important a Bill, and recom mended its wiAidrawsl. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER asked the House to advance the Bill another stage. The two first clauses which soma Hon. Gentlemen considered ob jecionahle could be amended or omitted in Committee. Mr. ADDERLEY would oppose the second reading, unless it was distinctly understood those clauses were to be struck out. Afer a few words from Mr. AGLIONBY and Mr. BRO. THERTON, the House divided, when there appeared— Fo . l* the adjournment Against it ... M Majority against —4B Mr. ADDERLEY then moved the adjournment of the debate. Mr. HAWSE expressed a hope that the Bill would be allowed to pass its second reading, as there was really no substantial objection to it. The caANcELLoR of the EXCHEQUER under took that, if the Bill were read a second time now, the Government would tomorrow state its views as to the several clauses. The House again divided, and the numbers were— For the adjournment ... ... 17 Against it „. 34 Majority against ... ... —l7 Tho Bill was then read a second time and ordered to be committed. Mr. NEWDEGATE moved for certain returns re specting thm Exhibition. Mr. BROTHERTON, interrupting the lion. Member, moved that tho House be counted, and fourteen Members only being present, The SPEAKER declared the House adjourned at Half•past Two o'clock. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS. From the Yoke end Proceedings of the House of Commons.) MONDAY, JULY 28. DAVID SALOMONS, ESQ. . _ Order for Consideration of Petitions from Greenwich read ; Motion made, and Question put, " That the electors of the borough of Greenwich be heard by counsel at the bar of this House, in pursuance of the prayer of their said petitions." The House divided : MINORITY—AYES. 75. Adair, Hugh E. Forster, Matthew SalWey, Colonel Aglionby, H. A. Fox, W. J. Soobell, Captain Mcock, Thomas Gooch, Charles Scully, Francis Anderson, Arthur Heathcoat, John Seymour, Lord Anstey, T. C. Heywood, James Sidney, Alderman Armstrong, R. B. Hindley, C. Smith, R. V. Barron, Sir H. Hobhouse, T. B. Smi th, J. Benjamin Bass, M. T. Keating, Robert Spettrrnan, H. J. Bell, Jacob Lacy, H. C. Stuvrt, Lord J. Bethel!, Richard Locke, Joseph Sutton, J. H. Bright, John Lushington, Charles Tennent, R. J. Brocklehurst, John M'Gregor, John Thompson, Colonel Brotherton, J. Mahon, O'Gorman Thompson, George Brown, W. Mangles, R. D. l'ho.rnely, Thomas Clay, James Martin, J. Tothemache, F. J. Cobden, Richard Mitckell, T. A. Villiers, Charles Colebrooke, Sir T. Moffatt, George Walley - , T. Dawes, Edward Morris, David Wall ngley, Sir J. Dawson, T. V. Murphy, F. S. Was n, J. T. D'Eyncourt, T. Norreys, Sir 1). West head, J. P. Duncan, George O'Connell, M. J. WiLlc ox, Brodie Ellis, John Ogle, Savile C. IL Vbrillyams, 11. Evans, Sir Do Lacy Pechell, Sir G. Wits! ,n, Matthew Evans, J. Pinney, William TELLEU.S. E wart, William Power, Dr. I a k ~ Sir B. Ferguson, Col. Robartes, T. J. A. Smith, John Abel MAJORITY—NOES, 135. Archdall, Captain Edwards, 11. Mat nisei!, T. P. Baines, M. T. Egerton, NV. T. Max, yell, J. P. Baldock, E. H. Estcourt, J. B. Mufti ngs, J. R. Bankes, G. Fergus, John Naas . Lord Baring, Sir F. Ferguson, Sir R. Newt legate, C. N. Barrow, W. H. Forester, G. C. Pac ke , C. W. Bellew, R. M. Fox, S. L. Pal•aa• er, Robert Berkeley, Admiral Freestun, Colonel Pant ,r, Bounden Berkeley, H. F. Freshfleld, J. W. Pal. rii :rston, Vis. Birch, Sir Thomas Fuller, A. E. Par ke r, John Blackstone, W. S. Gladstone, W. E. Peel, Colonel Blandford, Marquis Goulburn, Henry Plo\ vi len, W. H. Boldero, George 11. Graham, Sir J. Port al Melville Booth, Sir R. G. Greene, Thomas Fuse y , P. Bowles, Admiral Great - ell, C. Pascoe Reid, , Colonel Brarnston, T. VT. Grenfell, Charles W. Rica.re o, Osman Arise°, M. Grosvenor, Earl Rich as di, Richard Broadley, Henry Gwyn, Howe! Russ el l, Lord John Brooke L or d Hale, R. B. Sand. is •s, George Buller, ' Sir J. Y. Hall, Colonel Seymour, Sir H. B. Burrell, Sir C. Hallewell, E. G. Seymol rr, Lord Cabbell, B. B. Harmer, Sir J. Shelbui •ne, Earl of Carew, W. 11. P. Hawes, Benj. Sibthor p, Colonel Carter, J. B. Headlam, T. E. Somers Ille, Sir W. Chichester, Lord J. Heald, James Spoorrei *, Richard Child, smith Henley, J. W. Staffo re ~ Augustus Clements, Charles Hervey, Lord A. Taylor, Colonel Clerk, Sir G. Hodges, T. L. Thesi; le r. Sir F. Cockburn, Sir A. Hodgson, W. N. Thom ILII, G. Cocks, T. i. Hogg, Sir J. Town; dev, John Coles, H. B. Hotham, Lord Tyrell„ liir J. Collins, T. Inglis, Sir It. Verner', Sir W. Conolly, ThomaS Jermyn, Earl -vyvya n, Sir R. R. Cowper, W. F. Johnstone, James Vyse, 131. H. Craig, Sir W. G. Knightley, Sir C. Waddh tgion, H. S. Cubitt, William Knox, Colonel Walpole 5, S. H. Currie, Henry Knox, W. S. IVatkin t, Colonel Denison, Edmund Labouchere, Henry Wigram, Loftus Denison, J. E. Langston, J. H. William s, T. P. Disraeli, B. Legh, G. C. Wilson, James Divett, E. Lemon, Sir C. Wood, F.l r Charles Dodd, George Lindsay, Hon. COl. Wynn, IL. W. Duckworth, Sir J. Lockhart, A. E. Young, G'. F. Dundas, Admiral Lowther, Colonel TEI ',LEH.% Dundas, Sir D. Lygon, General Hayter, 1 V. G. East, Sir J. B. Mackinnon, W. A. Hill, Lo 11 IM. BARON LIONEL NATHAN DE ROTHSC HILD. Order for Consideration of Petition from Lo.txdon read; Motion made, and Question put, " That this lion 3 3 will hear counsel for the electors of the city of London, in. pursuance of the prayer of their said petition." The House divided : MINORITY-AYES, 41. Agllonby, Henry Forster, Matthew Scobell, (3 aptain Bell, Jacob Fox, W. J. Sidney, .4 ldernaan Bethel!, Richard Hall, Sir B. Smith, J . A. Bright, John Henry, Alexander Stuart, 7.r and J. Brown, W. Hobhouse, T. B. Thompees 1, Colonel Clay, James Hutt, William Thomps of 1, George Cobden, Richard Keating, Robert Villiers, ( Atarles Collins, W. Kershaw, James Wakley,. ' T. Dawes, Edward. M'Gregor, John Walinsl o: .r, Sir J. Devereux, J. T. Mahon, O'Gorman Williams, ,W. D'Eyncourt, C. T. Mitchell, T. A. Wlliyamas ,IL Duke, Sir J. Moffatt, George Duncan, George Pilkington, James TRI ,LEIIS. Ellis, John Power, Dr. Anstey, '1 homa9 C. Evans, Sir De Lacy Salwey, Colonel Osborne,.. Ralph MAJORITY—NOES, 77. Baines, M. T. Ferguson, Sir R. Parker, :r•ohn Baldock, E. H. Freshfleld, J. W. Plowden, W. H. Bankes, G. Fuller, A. E. Portal, 3 elville Baring, Sir Francis Goulburn, Henry Pusey, Pi Wp Barrow, W. H. Gwyn, Howel Renton, J ohn C. Beresford, William Hallewell, E. G. Richards, Richard Blackstone, W. S. Halsey, T. P. Russell, I. ord John Bowles, Admiral Hamilton, G. A. Sanders, ( i-eorge Bramston, T. W. Hustle, Archibald Sibthorp, i Colonel Brisco, M. Hatchell, John Spooner, i :ichard Brooke, Sir Arthur Hawes, B. Stafford, .A ugustug Buller, Sir J. Y. Headlam, Thomas Stuart, J. Bunbury, E. H. Heald, James; Taylor, Cc I. Cabbell, B. B. Henley, J. W. Thesiger, Sir F. Campbell, Sir A. Hodges, T. L. Thornhill., George Cardwell, E. Hodgson, W. N. Vyse, R. M. R. H. Child, Smith llotham, Lord Walpole, Spencer Cockburn, Sir A. Inglis, Sir R. H. Watkins, Colonel Coles, 11. B. Johnstone, James Wigram, :L. T. Collins, T. Knox, W. S. Williamson, Sir H. Conolly, Thomas Lockhart, A. E. Wilson, James Cotton, W. 11. Manners, Lord C. Wood, Sir CharleS Cowan, Charles Maunsell, T. P. Wynn, H. W. Denison, Edmund Maxwell, Hon. J. P. Dick, Quintin Mullings, J. R. Edwards, Henry Newdegate, C. N. Fergus, John Packe, C. W. TELI .EES. Hill, Lard Marcult Craig, Sir W. G. DAVID SALMONS, ESQ. -- - Order read for resuming adjourned Debate on Ame nd ment proposed to Question, " That David Salomons E 4iq., is not entitled to vote in this House, or to sit in this House during any debate, until he shall take the Oath of Abjurat ion in the form appointed by law :" And which Amendm flit was, at the end of the Question to add the words "and til :at this House, having regard to the religious scruples of the H( in. Member for Greenwich, will exercise its undoubted privihi ge in that behalf, and proceed forthwith to cause such alter a tions to be made in the form and mode of administering ti he said Oa'h as shall enable the Hon. Member to take and scib iTiairsiotm:. j scribe the same :"—Question again proposed, " That tb J :se Words be there added :"—Debate resumed ; Question p ut. The House divided : MINORITY—AYES, 50. A gli°nbr, H. Forster, M. Scobell, Captain Barron, Sir 11. Fox, W. J. Scully, Francis Bethel , R. * A Br ic.3 o e ck k le ' (leach, Charles Smith, J. A. • Boyle, Colonel Heathcoat, John Spearman, H. J. Henry, Alexander Stuart, Lord J. Joh n Brotherton, j7,scpt:i Hutt, William Tattered, H. W. Cowper, W. R. Kershaw, James Thompson, Colonel C ur r ie, afor, W. s. Langston, J. H. Thompson, George C Raikes Locke, Joseph Thornely, Thomila Dawes, Edward M'Cull ag h, W. T. Tollemache, F. J. Alartin D e vereux, John T. mt. te. , J ohn Villiers, Charles D'Eyucou rt, C. T. Murphy,bell T. A. Wakley, Thomas F. S. D u ke, Sir James htorreys, Sir D Wahneley, Sir J.. Ellis, John O 'Brien, J. D. Wilcox, Brodie Evans, Sir De Lacy O'Connell. M. j . Evans, John Osborne, Ralph TELLYMAI. Fitzroy, Bon. 11. pllki ngtoi , , Anstey, Thomas: . al ani ___ es Hobhouse, T. B. B L risTine c w ltha rga r ato t, tri A e: . E. MAJORITY--.XOEs , swal A. ; Dunne, Colonet Baines, M. T East, Sir J. Banker, George Lowther, Co . B Ba u rr ill o g w , , S l i N r '. l ll .ran . eiS Ferguson, G. R. Forester, C. Manners, Lord CC. Freshileld, J. W. Morris, David Bellew, R. M. Naas, Lord B B e ir r e e h sf:o s rd ir , W T. illiaM c 1:12 21. 0.0 . uni Booth, Sir R. G. Gore, W. 0. Oswald,. W. ~ 41. James Parker, John Bouverie, E. P. Goulburn, Henry Bowles, Admiral Fuller, A • n E dham Brenaridge, Richard G G r :y h tl a , m ho wel Portal, Melville Buller, Sir Y. Hallowell , E. G. Reid. Colonel Bunbury, E, D. Hamilton, Geo. A. Ricardo, Om in Cabbell, B. B. Hanmer, Sir John Richards, Ri c tiara Campbell, W. F. ilii rw tet e ihe s e l ll' Benjamin Archibald Sandars, G. John Rumbold, C. ii:,. Campbell, Sir A. Russell, Lord. J. Cardwell, Edward H Child, Smith Headlam, T. E. Seymour, Lord Clements, Charles Heald, James S omerville, 131:r W. Cockburn, Sir A. Henley, J. W. Sp ooner, R. Cocks, Thomas S. Hervey, Lord A. Stanfoid, J. F. Coles, 11. B. Ilildyard, T. B. rfliesiger, Sir F. Collins, T. Hodges, T. L. Wigram, Li >fins Cowan, Charles Hogg, Sir J. 'SP. Williamson. six R. Craig, Sir W. G. Hotham, Lord Wood, Sir Charles Cubitt, William Inglis, Si R. Wrightson,, B. Currie, Henry Jones, Captain Denison, E. Labouchere, _Henry TELLZIO. Dodd, G. Lacy, H. C. Ilayter, W. G. Dundas,:Admiral Lewis, G. C. Hill, Lord Al . aretl.9 Dundas, Sir David Lindsay, Colonel [ADVERTISEMENT.] Holloway's Ointment and Pills, a cure of Bad Legs after forty-three years' suffering.— Extract of a letter from Mr. Galpin, of Weymouth, dated 15th May, 1851. "To Professor Holloway. Sir,—ln gratitude to you, and for the benefit of the community, I wish to publish the wonderful cure my wife has obtained by your Ointment and Pills. 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The rainy months are generally barren of news ; trade is always dull during the monsoon, and th 3 stagnating effect of the season is felt even in the police courts, where the average number of cases is always very greatly di minished during the continuance of the rains. "The western frontier of the Punjaub remains tranquil; the adjacent hill tribes are said to be fully employed in fighting among themselves. It is re. ported at Peshawur that another battle had taken place at Balkh, in which the troops of Dhost Ma homed were victorious. Dhost Mahomed's sons were said to have divided the country into four parts, each taking possession of one. Reports of Dhost Mahomed being very sick at Caubul have for some time been current, and rumours of his death have subsequently reached the frontier ; these have not yet been confirmed, but if they be true, the Dhost's eldest surviving son, Hyder Khan, is considered scarcely capable of long maintaining the position his father occupied. "The tranquillity of the ,Punjaub has induced the Governor-General to direct the release of 72 political prisoners who had been sentenced to various terms of imprisonment as rebels. "An event, however, occurred at Umritsir, on the 10th of June, which might have been attended with serious consequences. A drunken European soldier who had been , placed in confinement for desertion managed to get possession of a sword, and with it cut down Jewan Singh, the commander of a Seikh regi ment forming part of the garrison. The death of their commander naturally occasioned much excite ment at the time in Jewan Singh's regiment, but the murderer having been imprisoned to stand his trial, all was quiet again by the following morning. Jewan Singh was a very distinguished Seikh officer, who had done good service to the British Govern ment both before and since the annexation, for which the Government had rewarded him by trebling his pay and presenting him with a sword and dress of honour. "The Bengal military authorities have called on all the regiments of that army for returns of the expenses, debts, and assets of their several messes. \V hen these returns have been received, a committee is to be formed for the purpose of drawing up a code of mess regulations for the Bengal army. The object of the proposed reform is, of course, to discourage the extravagance complained of in Sir C. Napier's final order, but it is feared that the general difficulty of enforcing s umptuary laws will prove a bar to any substantial reform in these matters. It is not in Bengal alone that claret and champagne are now drunk where port and sherry would have been deemed sufficient twenty years ago, and it is hardly to be expected that young men in India should be exempt from the increase of luxury and ostentation which is the prevailing vice of the day among the middle classes of society in England. " Our India railway operations continue to advance rapidly ; twenty-eight miles of the Calcutta line, and about the same extent of that at Bombay, are now in the bands of the contractors, and there is little doubt that next year will see the first sections of both lines completed. " The suspension of the state allowance to the temple of Juggernauth, and some cases which have been decided in accordance with the recently passed Toleration Act (No. 21 of 1850), have given rise to an anti-missionary movement among the orthodox Hindoos at Calcutta. At all three Presidencies an English education is considered by all classes of na tives as the shortest road to wealth, and the only cheap English education obtainable is that afforded by the mission schools. Many thousands of native children are accordingly educated at these institutions, and now and then (though such an occurrence is wonderfully rare) a Hindoo youth is converted, much to the scandal of the native community. Many of these outcasts, on arriving at years of discretion, are desirous of returning to the religion of their fathers, but they have hitherto been prevented from so doing by the impassible severity of the mode of expiating loss of caste (wandering forty-eight years as an as cetic) hitherto insisted on. A great meeting of or thodox undoes has accordingly been held at Cal cutta, for the purpose of substituting a milder form of expiation. It was stated at the meeting that there were fifty Christian converts at Calcutta, who would return to the Hindoo creed as soon as the milder form of penance was assented to. There is little doubt that it will be so eventually. " All things considered, the number of converts to Christianity made in Bengal and Western India is astonishingly small. In the Bombay Presidency there are (according to the almanack) about fifty missionaries of various denominations, yet a conver sion is very seldom heard of. The island of Bombay itself contains an insulated native population of about 500,000, who are remarkably free from caste preju ! dices, and have lived under an English Government for nearly two centuries, yet there are not half a dozen native communicants to be found in Bombay. This result is very discouraging when contrasted with the rapid, extended, and permanent success ob tained by the Jesuit missionaries of the European Power that preceded us in Western India. " The latest Mauritius papers received exult in the flourishing condition and progress of that colony. The revenue for the first quarter of 1851 had amounted to 90,0001., which was upwards of 42,0001. in excess (or nearly double) of the expenditure. The whole cost of police, justice, troops, and pen sions for the quarter had not exceeded 6,8001., while more than double that amount had been appropriated to the construction of new roads, immigration, and the promotion of agriculture and commerce gene rally. The flourishing condition of this colony is mainly due to the abundant supply and superior character of the free labour obtained from the ad jacent island of Madagascar. " The Australian papers are filled with the details of elections, which seem to be as ardently contested as they are in England. The grant of public money for the support of a State Church seems to be gene. rally objected to, and it is expected that the new Le gislature will greatly restrain or abolish altogether this application of the revenue. " The Bangalore Herald states that Sir G. Berke ley will most probably leave India in October or November next, and that Major-General Aitchison will in all likelihood succeed him as Commander-in- Chief. " There is little moral doubt remaining that the murderer of Lieutenant Johnstone, of the 3d Madras Light Cavalry (who, it will be remembered, was shot through the back in broad day, while seated with his wife at table in his own house), was a ci-devant Ilavildar in that regiment, who had been reduced to the ranks by Lieutenant Johnstone. The worst feature in the case is the manifest ill-feeling of the regiment generally. The murderer and an accom plice were seen running out of Lieutenant John- stone's compound, and are well known in the rag meat, yet none of the troops will come forward to identify them. Lieutenant Johnstone was the adju tant of the regiment, and was generally unpopular, owing to his want of consideration for the high caste feelings of the native troopers, who consider them selves all gentlemen, and will not submit to anything that t'iey im:gine one gentleman should not take from another. " The N izam's territories are much as usual. The Niaam himself continues besieged, as it were, in his palace by thousands of unpaid soldiers clamouring for their arrears, who debar access to and egress from many of his palace gates ; his own officials are thui obstructed. On a complaint made to him lately by one who had thus with difficulty reached his pre sence, he remained silent, and could suggest no re medy for this insult; many of the soldiery, however, think it better to pay themselves than to waste their time in dunning their insolvent master. Two hundred of these, on the Ist of June, attacked and plundered the house of Syed Ali, a Fakeer of great sanctity and enormous wealth, being the spiritual adviser of the Nizem and half the opul:snt men and nobles of the city. The town police haying attempted to interfere were tied up and severely be: seen, and the plunderers got off with their booty, whi oh is stated to have been immense. "The fort of Dharoor has at last been razed to the ground, notwithstanding the urgent remonstrances of the Nizarn. The Governor-General has given orders that all f or t s t h at have fired o n the contingent should be similarly t rea t e d. Th e d tls t ruc ti on o f a ll the forts in the Niza m ' s t err it or i es , an d a l so th o se in the kingdom tranquillity o f of Oude, wou ld veinyitnuch conduce to the both these ;States. It is strange that a measur e s o o T g b d e e r l eapyoerdt.of such obvi.ous advantage should be of General lE i nser's intended resig nation is contradicted ; he is; strongly in favour of a commission after the Mysoi me at of the llizam's affairs. re T m i o le del ex fo p r u t ls h i e c , m arr o an f gtbee t all-powerful. A ra b mercenaries would b e great boon to the c ountry_ are at presen " The principal news from B om b ay i s o f ship wreck. On the 11th of Juno. the Atiet Rohoman, a ship having on board 350 pi Jgrims returning from Mecca, was wrecked on the isl. Ind of Kendery, while attempting to make the herb( ;sir in rough weather. Nearly 200 of her crew perislod. On the same day the barque Charlotte struck o n :a reef at Jingocra, to the south of Bombay Harbo pry and became a total " ' TUESDAY wreck, her crew, with two exceptions, saving them selves on rafts. The Charles Forbes, of Bombay, was also lost on the 28th of April in the Straits of Malacca. Owing to the recent cases of shipburning, underwriters at Calcutta and Bombay now decline taking risks on ships manned by Lascar seamen. This has occasioned nar.th inconvenience, as there are not sufficient European seamen for manning the ships that were about to sail. Five of the crew of the late Ariel have been committed for trial for in cendiarism. _ _ " Colonel Ogilvie, the Judge-Advocate-General of the Bombay army, died at Poonah on the 18th inst. Colonel Ogilvie had served in India for half a century, and no officer had ever a higher character, or was more universally liked and respected. Major Towns hend, of her Majesty's 833 Foot, died at Kurrachee on the 2nd of June, and Lieutenant Doune, of the Engineers, at Poonah, on the 16th. " Dr. Carr, the Bishop of Bombay, has intimated his intention of resigning his diocess. "By the latest accounts from Hongkong, the pro gress of the rebellion in the southern province of China appears to be still unchecked, but there is great difficulty in obtaining authentic intelligence from the disturbed districts." EVENING, GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Five per Cent. Transfer Loan Us. 114 to 115. Five per Cent. L: - an, 1825 26 1074- to 108 per 100 Sien. Five per Galt. Lean, 182930 107 to 1073 per 100 Sicca. Five per Cent. Loan, 1841-42 105 to 105 A. --- Four per Cent. Loan, 1832-33 95f per 100 1 Siena. Four per Cent. Loan, 1835-36 921 per 100 Co.'s. Four per Cent. Loan. 1842 43 92 par 100 Co'a. PRICES OF BULLION. Sovereigns each • ... 10 1-16th r. ... per Bank of England notes 108:. ... per £ Spanish dollars ... 220 r. to 222 r. ... par 100 German crowns ... 211 r. to 2111 r.... per 100 Sycee silver ... 103, 2 3 -r per 100 tolas Gold leaf (range of quality) ... 16 3-16ths r per tola. Gold Ingots, according to touch , 158 r. for 97 tch.... per tola. FREIGHTS. To London ... 2/. 17s. 6d. to 3/. per ton. To Liverpool ... 21. 10s. to 24 15s. per ton To Clyde ... 3/. ... per ton. To Calcutta ... Rs. 215 ... per rass. To China ... Rs. 14 ... ... per candy. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. BOMBAY. ARRIVALS. June 7—The India, from Liverpool 10th of February; Helena, from Zanzibar 17th of May; John Moore, from Liverpool 13th of January, and Belfast Ist of February; Victoria, from Singapore 28th of April. Juno 12—The Emperor, from Liverpool 10th of February. June 13—The Teazer, from Calcutta 25th of April, Signalled the Coromandel, from Moulmein to London, out 28 days, in latitude 0.22 south, longitude 93.25 east. June 14—The Mohassur, from the Mauritius Ist of June. June 15 —The St. Abbe, from London 28th of Fe bruary, and Madeira 16th of March; Selinatullah, from Jeddah 19th of April. June 16—The Futtel Rahimon, from Juddah 30th of April; Sovereign, from Liverpool 15th of February, Kingstown Dublin Bay 21st of February. June 17—The Julia, from Juddah 6th of April; Anne Mitchell, from London 22d of February; Marion, from Greenock 27th of February; Inconstant, from Liver pool 21st of February; Hon. Company's steamer Bere nice, from Buahire Ist of June, touched at Bassadore and Muscat, which latter place she left on the 12th inst. at 8.30 P.M.; Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's steamer,llalte, from Hongkong 24th of May, Singapore let of June, Penang 3d of June, and Point de Gallo 13th of June at 7 P.M. June 21—The Good Success, from China 18th of April, and Singapore Bth of May; Victory, from New Zealand 26th of April. June 22—The Margaret Skelly, . from London 14th of February, and Cape Town 15th of May. June 23—The Thomas Campbell, from Greenock 12th of March, June 24.—The David Malcolm, from London Bth of March. DEPARTURES. June 7—The Sesostris, for Aden. June 13—The Memnon, from Whampoa; James White, for Hull; Bilton, for Liverpool. June 14—The Richard Cobden, for Liverpool. June 16—The Bride, for Woosung, in China. June 17—The Kalmia, for Liverpool; Faize Allum, for Singapore and Siam; Elizabeth, for Liverpool. June 19—The Singapore, for Point de Galle, Penang, Singapore, and Hongkong; Anne Armstrong, for China; Feroze, for the Laccadivea. June 20—The Rajahswarree, for Calcutta; Anne Armstrong, for China. June 22—The Emperor, for Liverpool; Beloochee, for Liverpool. June 23—The Tinto, for London; Sir Howard Dou glas, for Liverpool. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. (From the Calcutta Overland Price Current, June 12.) With the mail per Haddington, which arrived on the 2d inst., we are put in possession of London dates to the 24th of April, the mercantile intelligence of which is thus far of a less unsatisfactory nature than its predeces sors were for some time past, by some indications of the re-establishment of confidence, and the consequent tendency to more firmness on the part of holders ar resting the downward progress of prices. This news has hitherto remained without having any material effect upon our produce market, prices for most leading staples ruling much the same at the time of our last issue, with rather more business doing, though wanting that general spirited activity calculated to impart to values a rising tendency. Our import market continues, we are sorry to say, in the same unsatisfactory state in which the last mail left it. In fact our market for cotton goods has become somewhat worse, and indeed, until the uninterrupted and heavy flow of imports becomes checked, we can see no prospect of improvement. Large sales of heavy goods are daily made at constant downward tending prices. This tendency of the market is increased by the large quantity of damaged goods thrown upon it through the medium of unreserved public auctions. So large a number of ships arriving with par tially damaged cargo has not been known for several years. A sale of no less than 600 damaged packages belonging to one firm takes place to-day. The only point in favour of importers is the rate of exchange, which has in the course of the month given them an unexpected advantage in remitting of 2to 4 per cent. Grey shirt legs continue to sell on a large scale, but at a further small decline in value. White shirtings have been placed to a greater extent than of late, but at most unsatisfac tory prices, and in some instances at the same rates at which the unbleached article sells for. White figured shirtings are in better inquiry. Nothing is being done in cambrics. White twills remain in limited inquiry, and as depressed as ever, but their season is now near at hand. Grey madapollams move off pretty freely, but stocks in first hands are accumulating; 3,000 pieces of white have been placed at 2r. sa. 6p. The sales of grey jaconets have been less than they were last mail; white medium qualities sell, but at poor prices; finer fabrics meet with little attention. All descriptions of lappets are extremely difficult of sale, and the inquiry is chiefly directed to the power loom sort. Large sales of book muslins have been made for export to Ran goon and Moulmein per steamer. Mull-mulls remain dell. Turkey red goods are but in moderate demand. The season for prints and chintzes has not yet commenced A fair amount of business has been done in mule twist, but at lower rates. Turkey red yarn has also given was a trifle. The copper market is not brisk, but the value of the metal has been pretty fairly maintained. Trans actions in iron have been very limited. 4,300 maunds spelter are reported as sold at Ct. Rs. 6-10 to 6-12. Lead and tin plates are without report of sale. Our money market has continued to develope more ease at unchanged rates of discount, while the extreme pressure in the bazaar seems by slow degrees to subside. The transactions in home exchange have not been ex tensive, and rates have ruled at 2-14 to 2 for six months' sight credit bills, and 2-1/ to 2-1-B- for document draughts; many sellers have for some time hesitated to negotiate, in expectation of getting better terms. Yes terday, however, American credit paper was more freely offered, and we heard of sales at 2-18, which rather easier figure has had a corresponding effect upon docu ment bills, as evinced by the favourite class of them being less easily placed at 2-11, at which they were pre viously more current. Freights have declined about 7- 6 per ton. Freights—Several ships have come in, and exports going forward on a very moderate scale, the rates of freight have given way to the extent of about 7-G shil lings per ton:— To LONDON. TO LIVERPOOL. Xs. d. £s. d. £s. d. £s. d. Saltpetre 310 oto 0 0 0 3 0 oto nom. Sugar ... 310 o—3 15 0 3 0 0— 0 0 0 Oilseeds ... 4 5 0— 0 0 0 4 0 0— 0 0 0 Hides 4 0 0— 4 5 0 4 0 0— nom. Jute 315 0— 0 0 0 312 6 0 0 0 Raw Silk 410 0— 0 0 0 4 0 0— 0 0 0 Indigo and Silk Piece 410 0— 0 0 0 0 0 0— 0 0 0 Goods... Shell Lac 4• 0 0— 4 0 0 0 0 0— 0 0 0 Lac Dye... 4 5 0— 0 0 0 0 0 0— 0 0 0 Ram ... 415 0— 0 0 0 0 0 0— 0 0 0 To MAURITIUS. Rice ... Co.'s rs. 1100 to 1 12 0 per bag payable there at 50 cents. To CHINA. Dolls. Dolls. ... 3 oto 34 per bale to Whampoa. .. 7 0 —l2 per chest. MONEY MARKET. CURRENT VALUE OF GOVERNMENT SECURITIES, BANK Cotton Opium STOCK, &C. Transfer Five per Cents, Rs. 6 8 0 to 7 0 0 pm. New Fives ... ... 3 0 0 to 3 8 0 pm. Sicca ditto ... par. Co.'s Rs. Four per Cent 10 0 0 to 10 8 0 dis, Sims Rupees ditto ... 12 8 0 to 0 0 0 dis, Bank of Bengal Shares Co.'s R 3. ... —.2,250 0 0 premium. Agra Bank ditto ... 25 per share dis. Simlah Bank nearly par. Bonded Warehouse Shrs. Co.'s Rs. 200 each. Steam Tug Company ... If 400 „ s alea}il®, India General Steam Company -....—.. New Oriental Life Insur ance Company ... 200 „ noinquiry II It 550 „in demand (From the Bombay Times.) REPORT ON THE STATE OF THE BOMBAY MARKETS, FROM THE 7TH To THE 9 4111 JUNE INCLUSIVE• TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 24. The money market begins to assume the usual easiness of the dull, or monsoon, season, and money is very abundant in the Bazaar. Government Securities and Bank Shares look upward in value, and may be quoted at—Transfer Loan, 115; New Fives, 105 to 1051; Sicca Fives, 107 i to 108; Company's Fours, 92k; Sims Fours, 962. Bank of Bombay Shares, 20 to 21 per cent. pre mium; Oriental Bank, 15 per cent. discount; Com. mercial Bank, 10 per cent. discount; and Agra Bank par. Since our lest report little change luta taken place in our import market. In exports more has been doing —chiefly in cotton. Cotton piece goods, in consequence of the setting in of the monsoon, have been neglected, as is generally the case about this season of the year. The only article in any inquiry seems to be 45-inch grey shirtinge, the stock of which is small—except the low middling qualities of lappets, which aro in good request. Fancy goods are dull. Exports—Cotton Wool—For a few days following the date of our last report the market was very quiet, and on the decline, when a firmer tone was given to it by some purchases being made by Dhollera and Compta to the extent of 4,000 bales, at 90r. and 88r. respectively for Great Britain, and better accounts from China being soon after received, a rise took place in prices. Native shippers have made purchases to some extent for China, while all transactions for Great Britain seem almost entirely to have ceased, as under the circumstances might 100 expected. Opiunt—Until the receipt of advices from China on the 18th instant, the market continued quiet. Higher prices were asked, but transactions have been limited, in consequence of the inferiority of the article. Only 896 chests were taken to China by the last steamer, and 1,05 G chests by the brig Bride to Woosung. Freights—Our stock of tonnage has been materially increased by recent arrivals, and rates of freight have in consequence fallen. For Great Britain very little is offering, the rise in the price of cotton having put a stop to shipment. To London, 21. ss. per ton; to Liverpool, 21. ss. to 2/ 15s. per ton, according to requirement of cargo. To China freights have been as low as 12r. per candy; but since better accounts for cotton have been received, they have gone up to 14r. to 15r. per candy, whichat a large amount of tonnage has been engaged. Exchange—The rate on London for first-class bills may be quoted at 23. lid., and first-class local bills, 2s. lid. to 2s. lid. for documents. EXCHANGES. On London—at 6 mouths' sight, per rupee, 2s. lid. for document bills. G months' sight per rupee, 2s. 1/d. for credit bills. On Calcutta—at 60 days' sight, per 100 Rs. ... 1001 30 days' sight ditto ... 100 At sight ... ditto ... 101 i On Ma Bras—at 30 days' sight ditto At sight ditto On China—at 60 days' sight, per 100 drs., 214 r. to 215 r. BANK AND OTHER SHARES. Bank of Bombay ......R.1,000 each, 1,000 paid up, 201 per cent. pm—sales. 1,000 do., 500 do., 15i per cent. dis. Commercial Bank ... 1,003 do., 500 do., 10 per cnt. ds. Agra Bank ... 500 do., 500 do., 1 per cnt. pm. Bank of Madras ... 1,000 do., 1,000 do., 22 per cent. premium. Apollo Press Com. ... 12,500 do., 12,500 do., 15,700. Colaba Press Com. .... 7,000 do., 7,000 do., 15,000. 'Colaba Land Com. ... 10,000 do., 10,000 do., 7,000 now. Bombay S. N. Com. ... 500 do., 500 do., 50 per cent. eliS.—sales, Gr. Ind. P. R. C0m.... 50 do., 27 4 5 paid. 99 99i Oriental Bank JULY THE SOLAR ECLIPSE. A sad disappointment yesterday awaited the learned and scientific, as well as the lovers of the marvellous, who had anticipated the gratification of witnessing the rare and interesting spectacle of an almost total eclipse of the sun. It is a subject of no ordinary regret, that the unpropitious and clouded state of the heavens should have denied to the vast multitude of metropo litan observers who were preparing to profit by an event so seldom occurring, and yet so replete with matter for contemplation and instruction, the opportu nity for turning it to intellectual account. There is no question that the celestial phenomenon which oc curred yesterday belongs to a class which, more than any other, tends to realise to ordinary apprehensions the great truths of astronomical science. An eclipse, beyond all other marvels, serves the purpose, as it were, of a popular demonstration of the accuracy of those wonderful calculations by which the movements of the heavenly bodies are ascertained for hundreds of years beforehand, and laid down with unerring cer tainty and precision. Most persons must have experi enced the vague and misty effect occasionally produced on the mind by reading or listening to astronomical lectures, in which not only millions of miles, but distances altogether immeasurable and indefinite, are talked of with a familiarity that often amazes still more than it enlightens, leaving the mind ultimately in a mere state of confusion and bewilderment. We arc not sure, indeed, that a doubt is not sometimes suggested, whether the grave looking gentleman wbo propounds such astounding reve lations touching the motions of the vast bodies in space— " Cycle on epicycle, orb on orb"— is not under a dreamy and mysterious delusion, and pre tending to tell us infinitely more than he really knows, or, if put to the test, would be able to prove. Certainly, to the popular mind, there is all the difference in the world between giving perchance a listless ear to the re lation of such marvels, and the palpable evidence pre sented to their sight by the actual occurrence. The maxim of Horace— " Segnius irritant animum demissa per aurem, Quam gum aunt oculis subjects fidelibus"— will apply to the facts of astronomy at least as fell& tously as to any others coming within the range of the senses. The truthfulness of these profound. deductions is by such evidence removed from the dim and distant re gion of theory to the sphere of undeniable fact, and the mind is gradually prepared to grapple with and admit the other truths of this sublime science. Instead of being viewed, as formerly, by our ancestors as the forerunner of plague, pestilence, and famine, may not an eclipse rather be regarded as one of the grandest of astrono mical lectures, delivered by Nature herself, with the human race for an auditory, the heavens for a theatre, and the sun and moon as the philosophical apparatus by which her operations are illustrated? On the effect of such a phenomenon in ancient, and even in more recent times, on the minds of men, nay of whole nations—arising from the groundless, though per haps not altogether unnatural, superstition that con nected those purely physical effects with impending evil and the wrath of heaven—we need not now dilate. With the advance of science and the abundance of information daily diffused at our public institutions, in a popular though philosophical form, such unfounded alarms have vanished like owls at the approach of daylight; and the announcement of an eclipse, instead of driving our worthy citizens to their collars for refuge against the an ticipated horrors attending it, serves rather to attract them to every spot where it may be seen to the best ad vantage. Tho dubious appearance in the early part of the day, and the cloudy and more threatening aspect it after wards assumed, doubtless prevented many otherwise eager sight-seers from availing themselves of those lo calities which are sufficiently convenient for the less curious or less favoured mortals, who have neither the desire nor the means of transporting themselves from Marylebone or Cheapside to Christiana, Konigsberg, or elsewhere, in the zone within whose range the luxury of a total eclipse was doubtless enjoyed. On Nunhead-hill, however, and other elevated spots in the vicinity of the metropolis, a few stray observers were stationed, de sirous, like ourselves, of witnessing the effect of the pre dicted obscuration on the surrounding country; but as far as the purpose of observation was concerned, we might as well have confined our astronomic survey to the precincts of our own dwelling. We confess to hav i ng expected to see a liberal sprinkling of peripatetic Galileos proffering their tubes for a moderate charge, or troops of amateur astronomers-royal learnedly sweeping the sky through the medium of pieces of smoked and co loured glass. At Greenwich the gathering was at first considerable but scarcely so great as might have been expected. The Astronomer Royal at Froderichsvaem, Mr. Hind at Gothenburg, most of our men of scientific eminence abroad—the Observatory itself was deserted; whilst many of the mere tight-seers who early in the day oc cupied the hill, being disheartened by the clouds, or damped by the rain, left prematurely in despair of be holding the phenomenon which they had hoped to view. And the result, it must be confessed, did not belie the wisdom of the philosophers nor falsify the instincts of their disciples ; for whatever may have been wit nessed by the professors who have gone to Sweden and Norway, no important observations were made by their deputies whom they left here. The un learned felt, therefore, some disappointment. In the first place, the weather was most unfortunately hostile to the wishes of the amateur watchers, clouds impeding their view, and following each other in such rapid succession as to forbid more than a glance, and to refuse time for anything like a sufficient observation; in the second, the coincident appearances were by no means so extraordinary as had been predicted—in short, they were not, to the unassisted vision, extraordinary at all. The actual mathematical certainties of course came true. The eclipse was duly noticed, and, as far as visible, veri fied to the letter the calculations on which it had been announced. Between 2.20 P.M. and 2.25 it was first re marked; at 3 5 it might, for a moment or two, be well seen; but at 3.10, the greatest phase, it was lost to sight altogether. But the wonders of 1842 were not repeated; tho " fairy tales of science , " as Tennyson , borrowin g from Lord Brougham, has phrased it, proved themselves mere fictions. Yet the English still love the marvellous, though they have ceased to fear it. For upwards of two hours the scrutiny continued, appare n t l y with but little result. To the naked eye, however, the clouds, which were obstacles to those provided with the necessary op tical instruments, were occasionally an assistance, as the lighter of them answered particularly well the purpose to which smoked glasses are generally applied, and helped to heighten the effect which, to some extent, they had produced. Atmospheric changes worthy of n o t e th er e were none; the wind blew slightly till the rain fell, and then moderated, as in the ordinary course of things it naturally would. Such were all the observa tions which, outside, i t was possible to make; unfortn tunately, in the absence of Professor Airey, there was no information from within our national observatory to be had—a circumstance which the professor might have prevented, and which the public will regret. Besides the naturally elevated positions of which we have spoken, those which art has raised were generally occupied for the occasion, On the Monument and from 29, 1851. St. Peal's many coetemplated the spectacle, hilst others a the eit:zeus, aeerse to extravagance, availed theai selves of Tower-hill, as an aceessioa situation, combiu log general economy with its local advantagea. At Highgate, es elsev,-here, the re was scarcely a per ceptible ehang-a in the appearance of the day throughout the whole period of the duration 0/ the eclipse. A slight darkness did, it is true, come on about ten minutes before three, and lasted some thirty or forty minutes, but so trivial was the amount of additional obscurity, that but for the knowledge that the sun's disc was at that time actuilly bring eclipsed, we venture to say that the change would have passed almost, if not en tirely, unnoticed by unscientific eyes. The weather for some time previously had threatened rain, while sombre masses of clouds of various forms and hues slowly drifted up, until the whole face of the sky was more or less covered, and a dense mist, as the rain continued at intervals to fall, gradually occupied the lower districts. About the time of the commencement of the phenomenon a slight degree of sultriness was apparent, which, how ever, was succeeded in about thirty minattes by a de cided fall in the temperature. The only peculiarity in the appearance of the sky was a vast cloud running for many miles perfectly parallel to the horizon, and at no great elevation, the sharply defined and lurid outline of which strongly contrasted with the narrow strip of light grey vapour of corresponding extent. In Manchester and other parts of the country, from which we have accounts, the phenomenon proved to be comparatively a failure, through the inauspiciousness of the weather. At the time of the junction of the shadow with the sun's disc, rain fell in a deluge, and the heavens were overcast for a considerable time. The sun was subsequently seen when the shadow had passed a con siderable space over the face of the orb , but Electing clouds of darkness soon intercept ed the visi on , and it was g but seldom it appeared for more than a minute without some untoward interruption. At the period cf the close of the phenomenon the sky was quite overcast, and not a vestige of the sun was to be seen. There was no dark ness beyond that which was caused by the threatening clouds. Beyond these atmospheric appearances there was no thing to indicate to the unaided vision that one of the most singular results of the laws that govern the bodies composing our solar system was at that moment being produced. In fact, the whole spectacle, if such it might be termed when so little was to be seen, was provok ingly deficient in all that was marvellous or even striking. No sign of anything unusual iu the economy of the heavenly bodies was visible from the locality we have mentioned, save at about twenty minutes before four o'clock, when a faint glimmering in the sky exhibited for a moment the sun's pale and watery disc, shorn of half his size end all his splendour; but in another instant the clouds again closed over it, and remorselessly denied a second glimpse. How it happened that, in spite of the haziness and clouds, which would of themselves tend to obstruct the sun's rays, and thus increase the darkness arising from any other source, the obscuration of 82-100ths, or nearly 9-10ths of its surface, assuming the correctness of the calculation, should have produced so inconsiderable a diminution of light, is a problem which we will not attempt to solve. Last evening, at the Polytechnic Institution, Dr. Bach hoffner repeated the interesting and instructive lecture on the solar eclipse which he has lately delivered at this institution, combining therewith the result of his actual observations during its progress. Ho stated that he had been unable to observe it with any degree of aecuracy for more than a few moments at brief intervals, before the highest degree of obscuration had been attained—in this respect being no more fortunate than less scientific, though, doubtless, equally curious spectators. The num ber of his auditors, and the attention with which the lecture was listened to, betokened the interest felt in the subject, despite the untoward circumstances which had attended its development. A lecture, accompanied by illuminated diagrams illus trative of the expected appearance of the eclipse, was delivered by Major Parlay, at the Gallery of Arts, Sloane-street, where arrangements were made for view ing its progress, after the lecture, in the garden at the rear of the house, through a telescope stationed there for the accommodation of the auditory. After what we have stated, however, it is needless to mention that the effect of the arrangement was almost neutralized by the adrerse skyey influences above referred to. Nevertheless, at times, for a few moments, the shadow of the intervening body was clearly defined through the fast-moving clouds that passed over the sun's face, sufficient to give a correct though fleeting idea of the effect actually produced. These fitful appearances, it should be stated, occurred prior to the greatest degree of obscuration being reached, for, after that period, the darkening clouds presented an impenetrable barrier to further observation until nearly the (doze of the phe nomenon. Notwithstanding the obstacles which have marred the success of home-observation, there cart be no doubt, from the careful arrangements that have been adopted by numerous sevens, British and foreign, who either reside in, or have purposely visited the reld.ons where the eclipse will be fully visible, that we shall speedily receive the fullest and most accurate descrip tion of its attendant phenomena that science can furnish. -Chronicle. COURT CIRCULAR. OSBORNE, MONDAY. Her Majesty, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, with the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended Divine service yesterday morning at Whippingham Church. The usual suite was in attendance on the Queen and Prince, and Lady Augusta Bruce, Lady in Waiting in attendance on her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent. The service was performed by the Hon. and Rev. F. P. Bouvcric. _ _ _ Sir James Clark arrived in the afternoon from London. Earl Granville remained on a visit, and had the honour, with Sir James Clark, of being included in the Royal party at dinner. Mr. Lemaitro had an interview with Lord John Rus sell yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-street. Earl Granville arrived in town yesterday from Osborne. The Marquis of Lansdowne returned to town yester day. Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office irom the governors of the North American colonies. THE GREAT EXHIBITION. Yesterday 3,1941. 13s. was taken at the doors, and 67,170 persons entered the building. Of these a very large party came from the town and neighbourhood of Reading. The eclipse of the sun which took place yesterday seems to have inspired the Executive Committee with formidable apprehensions of the diminution of light which was likely to take place in consequence. From an impression that the 67,000 visitors who flocked there would have to grope their way through a darkness hardly visible, they had all the gas lamps in the interior put in requisition . Some amusement was caused by this excessive amount of precaution for a great transparency like Mr. Paxton's palace of glass. The South-Eastern Railway brought up a special train from Reading, enaged by Messrs. Barrett, Exall, and Andrews, engineers, of the Katesgrovo Iron-works, con taining about 1,200 persons. Upwards of 230 of these were the clerks, workmen, and boys employed by that firm, each cf whom had been presented with a free ticket to convey them to the Great Exhibition. They were brought by steam-boats from the terminus to West minster-bridge, where they formed into procession, and, headed by a band of music and banners, marched to the Exhibition, singing in chorus some spirited and appro priate verses, entitled "The Working Man, the words of which were written, and the music arranged, by one of themselves. The party wi ll again visit the exhibition tomorrow, as will also a body of 2,000 persons from Woolwich. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. so cordially agree with the remarks of a " Lytitimate Railway Invester," contained in a letter published in The Sun of July 24, that I ling to add my test i m ony to the advantages . derived by railway proprie tors from your well-timed advice, not to sacrifice their property to the Bears, ,justly so called. Like your cor respondent, I have invested a portion of my property in railways, amongst others in Midlands, aid I feel the greatst confidence that the present depression in these shares arises from temporary causes only—the usual traffic on that important ling being diverted; the fact being, that excepting to London there is very little traffic, nearly the whole setting in one current, to the neglect of the lateral traffic. This will, however, soon cea , e, and we shall see Midlands 201. to 251. per share higher than they are at the present time. If the Bears fail to alarm the timid holders, their trade is gone. Your obedient servant, HABIUS CUNCTATOR. July 26, 1851. RIVAL STEAM-BOATS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir,—A statement having appeared in your journal of July 19, respecting a new steam-vessel, called the Tourist, in which it is said that she has " beaten the Jupiter (belonging to this company), hitherto consi dered the fastest boat on tha Thames," I am requested, through the medium of your columns, to deny that the Jupiter has ever been beaten in spud by any vessel, and that, to set at rest any doubt on this bead, the pro prietors of the Jupiter are ready, on any day that may be agreed upon between themselves and the proprietors of the Tourist, to try their comparative speed by run ning either from Brunswick-wharf or from Gravesend round the Nore-light and back. Your early insertion of the above will oblige, Yours, &‘ediently, W. Donsos, Secretary. Star-office, Gravesend, July 24. LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH -COAST RAILWAY. Traffic—Week ending July 26,1851 ... £l3, 403 866 D Traffic —Week ending July 27, 1850 16 Total of the half-year, to this date, 18a1 ... 53,564 13 Total of the half-year, to this date, 1850 47 ,855 0 Total number of P a ssengers—Week ending July 26,1851 89,431 . ••• "' 1 . 1,331 111 P ass engers .. Goods ••• ••• "' ••• 2,535 17 6 Total... ••. £13,866 19 5 Total miles.oPe", 1851, 173 1 / 4 ; ditto, 1850, 171 1 4. L on d on Terminus, July 28, 1831. SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY. Gross traffic receipts for passengers and goods, week ending July 26, 1851 ••• £20,014 6 6 Ditto, July 27, 1810 ••• 15,010 4 7 Increase in 1851 ... ... £5,004 111 London Terminus, July 28, 1851. LITERATURE. A LITTLE EARNEST BOOK. Eg William Wilson. Dartoo and Company. Several circumstances have caused us to look with ro ordinary complacency upon this charming little effusion. It is on a favourito subject, namely, on Poets and Poetry. It is written throughout in a wood of graceful and modest appreciation of all that is really beautiful. It is in itself, moreover, an agree able blending of prose and versification. Added to all which considerations, it is illustrated with some choice tailpieces by Kenny Meadows, awl some exquisite wood engravings by Alfred Crowquill ; w hil e th e entire volume is rendered yet more attractive by the circumstance that it is dedicated by permission to Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, one of the most illustrious authors in the whole range of our national lite rature. Speaking of the last-mentioned cir cumstance in his preface, Mr. Wilson re marks very emphatically, that "he ventures, with especial pride, to call the attention of his readers to the dedication, for he considers himself honoured by the permission kindly and delicately granted to in scribe this little book to the greatest of our living authors," adding gracefully enough—" Great names with hallow song." It will be difficult for even the most cursory reader of the work before us to deny the intelligence of its author, sprinkled as every page is with so many evidences of his eclectic taste, and with so many proofs of the originality of the fruits of his meditation. In one part of the very opening chapter it is observed by him very finely, that " God always utters His eternal truths in poetry throughout His Book." As a definition of poetry itself we find it called a little further on epigrammatically, but no less truly, The Beautiful. " Poetry," says the writer, " may be termed The Beautiful, as that is the source, or fountain, of all true and living poetry—the Palpably and ideally beautiful—the beautiful in thought and in action." Further on he exclaims, in a tone of enthusiasm, " The Poet is ever inspired by beholding the smile of GOD in nature." Of Nature he speaks also in terms of befitting admiration. "All nature," he says, " is a beautiful and wonderful poem, and the imagination to which it gives wings is above and beyond reason." Yet beautiful and wonderful though the poem of nature is to his comprehension, he is forced, immediately after that declaration, to ac knowledge that " the mightiest poem in creation is man. , , His reflections upon this subject flood his whole soul with an exquisite and all-embracing hu manity, insomuch that he avows with some solemnity that even in regard to those who are apparently the most vitiated and debased, " Not to recognise the Divine in the human is not to know God." It is nobly and accurately proclaimed in another chapter that " the true poet is ever the advocate of freedom," a fact exem plified in a thousand instances from the idylls of Theocritus to the songs of Longfellow. Everywhere, in the loftiest and the lowliest places alike, our author finds some object with which to sympathize, some theme capable of exciting his enthusiasm. On the mountain top, under the shadow of a tree, by the margin of a stream, leaning against a country stile, wandering along the sea shore, he discovers new sources of delight, and new causes for the outpouring of his admiration. Occasionally his otherwise lucid and scholarly diction may be blurred with some awkward coinage, as where (p. 57) he speaks of Shakspere's " aloneness." Sometimes, again, as in the very title of his volume—" A Little Earnest Book upon a Great Old Subject"—he is guilty of somewhat reprehensible affectation. But altogether the work under notice is so evidently the utterance of sincerity, that it is impossible not to be charmed by its simplicity both of manner and expression. As ex amples of Mr. Wilson's rhythmical ability, we may give the sonnets addressed by him respectively to Shakspere and to Bulwer Lytton SONNET TO SIIAKSPERE. Mighty upraiser of the heart of man! A stream of thought and fancy clear he winds, Through feeling, gaining mastery o'er all minds; Guieing and ruling as no otivA. cap. Well may we deem that thou art God-inspired— Great Nature is tl)e plaything of thy choice, The Beautiful speaks in thine every voice, The light of thy great mini the Globe has fired. Oar own dear Stmlisperel Poet of the World! We should do all to use thee for our goed,— Spread through all lands thy wondrous mental food— Whose power shall cease not 'till Time's wing be furled. Most comprehensive soul of any clime; Subjector of the Universe, and Time! SONNET TO SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON, BART. Grand and impassioned is thy lofty mind! By Nature much inspired thou hest been, For God, the Beautiful, thou there hest seen; And felt His very breath upon the wind. Both Poet and Philosopher art thou Knowing what dear twin Sisters meek are they; With thoughtful eyes, effulgent as the day!— And glory-lit with Truth each spirit-brow. Full of high beacon-thoughts thy works arise, Shedding far down the Future rays benign; Thy soul has ever starward turned its eyes, Gathering from thence bright gleams of the Divine. Rare Prophet-minds—of aye-enduring might— Raise up the World with their immortal light! In the latter effusion it would have been somewhat less distressing, because somewhat more grammatical, to have remembered the real gender of Poet and Philosopher. Unless they were epicene they could not possibly be called twin sisters. Poetry and Philosophy might have been thus symbolized cor rectly, but neither of them are mentioned. Better than his poetical, we like Mr. Wilson's prose allusions to Sir Bulwer Lytton, were he observes— " Of all living authors, Bulwer—the English literary Universalist—has the most perfect power of garbing his beautiful thoughts grandly. It is distinctly one power to think grandly, and another to possess the artistic ability to utter grandly. The one power perfects and refines the other. Bulwer casts, as it were, a halo round his every thought by his singular and intuitive know ledge of the genius and purpose of language. Yet he is always within the reach of a Mind He avowedly ad dresses himself to all minds. It would, therefore, be ab surd to term his writings mystical because they are original, powerful, and refined. Ho may safely rest his fame as a poet upon his great poem King Arthur.' " Sir Bulwer Lytton's illustrious contemporary, Charles Dickens, is thus spoken of by our author, further on in his volume— ' Speaking of the heart of the child, and the head of the man ' irresistibly reminds us of one great living Poet, who has never published verses; but it has been the fate of few, if that of any mon, while living, to dwell in and to influence so many hearts, as Dickens." Two brief sentences, also worthy of quotation, are those where it is said that " Poetry is the Poet's Religion," and where, in elucidation of the thought, it is remarked that the Poet " knows that Philosophy is the sister of Faith, and that Faith is Poetry." As a lovely little supplement or appendix to the volume, there are two chapters entitled " The Story of the Poet Lover—an Outline." These, with the preceding portions of the volume, cannot fail to obtain for the author an estimable , though it may be a restricted popularity. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. BRISTOL, JULY 28. STOCK EXCHANGL—The share market was depressed to day, with a decline in prices from our last quotations. The transactions were as follow : Great Western Original Shares, 83—Ditto, New 17/. Shares, 144 3 -11.1idland, 6 per cent. (Birmingham and Gloucester), 128% ex div.—Taff ' Quarters, 37. LIVERPOOL, JULY 28. STOCK EXCHAT.SIOK. —The market was less firm to-day. and prices were a shade lower than on Saturday. The hetrans actions were as follow:—Birkenhead, Lancashire, and shire, (late Cheshire and Birkenhead), 13%4 —East . uam , Lanca shire, I44—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 494 —. 1,49 ,n" mid _ North-Western, 1231 2 —Ditto, New Quarters. land, 41 Ditto, Halves, 20 3 4 dis. Dover, 22 1 4—York and North Midland, 18•,s —V 1 Rouen, 25 1 ) 2 MANCHESTER, JULY 28. limited, was and day STOCK EXCliAliGE.—The business to- .. The transactions were as South-South and prices had a downward tendency. follow :—East Lancashire, 14 3-16— Great Northern, 17— London and North-Western, 122 W _ 2 '4,;,. 61. Preference, 9-16 , BlanchestEr, Sheffield, Birmingham, Quarters (C), and Lincolnshire, 27 t 115'—cEastern -. Ches Chester , / 8 , outs- Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and ri n ' e s j s ulY transacted2B. and Dover, 22,Ffi. 4 —Di t y t b o Au , confined to local stocks. Railway BIRIV [ IN and closed at about STOCK EXCUANOF entirely to-day was almost d by Lo n don cl rices, ptices, quotations the same rates Asia the metropolis. There was little or no thing doing. .------.--------_____ were guided Tue Na" ]louse OF COMIII -- ()N s . -- remodelled, and is now completed, ready for occu- This chamber has beenthe acoustie effect of the changes has been but pa r- Pt i°a : • s yet. The ceiling has been brought down sor the centre, and instead of being flat over the whole tinny Lrit 6 0 , f p ee n t „ i L l , as before, is sloped down OR all sides. The upper half of the windows, which formerly had a central transom, is thereby put out of si g h t, and as this lessened the light con siderably, ti:e cilia have been cut down about a foot. The side galleries have been made wider, and are coved beneath, to throw out the sound (we should not advise speakers to stand ut-Oer them, nevertheless). A very considerable in crease of accommodation has been gained in the division lobbies by the addition of one large and two small oriels. The gallery for the public has been enlarged, and accommo dation is now afforded for about 4(30 Members. Retiring rooms, too, have been provided above the division rooms. The reporters' gallery, at the Speaker's end, is so arranged, temporarily, that each reporter has a separate stall, with a door at his back ; so that he is able to come and go rapidly, 1 and without disturbing any other. They have a private staircase and two retiring rooms, with desks, where they may arrange their notes or refer to books and papers. The ven tilation and warming of the House is, as our readers know, under the . - e hot-water plate in the House for his feet, and . so t hitsv menh Ministers and the leaders of the Opposition. 1 building. —Builder. u w il o d r e k r. laying the tile pavements throughout l‘i l n the Lacy (formerly Miss HAYMARRLT.—Mrs. Walter e a l t en t , h i this s t i h .h e e at re Hunch.for I T le a x y i n f t Roland for an Oliver; t i" l 9 hu h r a s s d a a n y n : whenou D i i announced ds she : v • ifirst performb erefi t H ' claim upon the her husband and by ft , 1 Mrs. Lacy ought to be sure of should not for — e e t li back,a supported n i Mariain both ffathvoeumriotsets.asgrateful regard of l her associative eers,Nvh o variedtaba bumper m (neve rpteal e house ot mindu ° fe , _ t d al i apart howflaetdm icharmingifa3:: from li 1 o f yearsth e i ago) r one theatrical ver satile, clever, a, bliss Taylor, of Covent-garden Theatre.