The Sun. — London, England, 1845-07-03 00:00:00

HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning .. 58 minutes after 0 1 Evening .. 20 minutes after 1 NOTICE TO SUBSCi ,IBERS. There was a THIRD EDITION of THE SUN published last Evening, containing— The conclusion of the day's proceedings before the Railway Committees of the Houses of Lords and Connaens. Parliamentary Intelligence of the Evening, being a full Report of the Debates in the House of Com mons up to a Quarter before Seven o'clock. RAILWAY NEWS. Subscribers and others interested in Railways will find a FULL ACCOUNT of the PROCEEDINGS efore the RAILWAY COMMITTEES in the THIRD EDI 7 lON of TUE SUN, reported up to the CLOSE of EACH DAY; it also con tains the DEBATES in BOTH HOUSES of PARLIAMENT up to the HOUR of POST EVERY EVENING, PRICES of RAILWAY SHARES, SPORTING INTELLIGENCE by EXPRESS, and all other NEWS ARRIVING in LONDON DURING the DAY. ORDER the THIRD EDITION, which contains NEWS TWELVE HOURS in ADVANCE. Sun-office, 112, Strand. CAPTAIN CILiMIER'S NEW NOVEL. Just ready, in 3 vols., post Svo., C OUNT KONIGSMARK, AN HISTORICAL NOVEL, BY CAPTAIN FREDERIC CHAMIER. R.N. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Sig. MARIO has the honour to inform his Friends, the Sub- scribers to the Opera, and the Public that HIS BENEFIT will take place THIS EVENING When will be presented (last time this Season), BeMill's Opera I PURITANI. Elvira, Madame Grisi ; Arturo, Sig. Mario ; giccardo, Sig. Fornasari ; Giorgio, Sig. Lablache. The Danseuses Viennoises will appear in some of their Favorite Dances, including the Pas des Miroirs, La Polka, and the Pas des Moisaoneure (being their last appearance). To be followed by a Selection from ROBERTO DEVEREUX. The Principal Characters by Madame Rossi Caccia, Mdlie. Rosetti, Sig. Moriani, and Sig. Barroilhet. Between the Acts Aidlle. Lucile Grahn will appear in the " Pas d'Eoline," supported by Mdlles. Moncelet and Ferdinand. Mdlle. C. Grisi and M. Perrot will appear in the •` Pas d'Giselle," and Mdlle. Cerito and M. St. Leon in the admired " Pas des Quatres from " Lac des Feea," supported by Mdlles. Ferdinand and Demelisse. And, for the Last Time, LA SYLPHIDE. La Sylphide, Mdlle. Taglloni. Applications for Boxes, Stalls, snd Pit Tickets to be made at the npera•cffice, Colonnade. Haymarket. Doors open at Seven, to comme.tee at Half-past Seven o,Clock. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE. LAST NIGHT OF THE SEASON. FOR THE BENEFIT OF MADAME ANNA THILLON. THIS EVENING Will be repeated an entirely new and Original Opera, entitled THE ENCHANTRESS. The Music composed by M. W. Balfe ; the .:lbretto, by M. de St. Georges and Mr. Bunn. Don Sylvio, Mr W. Harrison ; liamir, Mr. Borrani ; Duke d'Aquila, Mr. Weiss; Nugnez, Mr. H. Horncastle; Stella, Madame Anna Thillon. In the course of the Evening Mr. Bunn will address the Audience on the close of the Season. To conclude with the celebrated Ballet of LA GISELLE. The Duke of Silesia, Monsieur Silvain ; Giselle, Mdlle. Louise. Dress Circle, 7s ; Boxes, 5s ; Pit, 3s ; Gallery, 2s ; Upper Gallery, is. Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets, may be obtained of Mr. John Par eons, at the Box-office of the Theatre. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. LESSEE, MR. B. WEBSTER. THIS EVENING Will be performel (by special desire) A CURE FOR THE HEART ACHE. Old Rapid, Mr. W. Farren ; Young Rapid, Mr. Charles Mathews ; Frank Oatland, Mr. Buckstone ; Jessy Oatland, Miss Julia Bennett. To be followed by SOMEBODY ELSE. Hans Moritz, Mr. C. Mathews; Minnie, Madame Vestris. After which will be repeated a Dramatic Sketch, entitled THE OLD SOL_DIER. Sir Lionel Ruttier, Mr. Brindal ; Master Michael Cramp, M. Tilbury; Adam Lethersole (aged 95), Mr. W. Farren ; Buff, Mr. James Bland ; Patience Cramp, Mrs. Stanley ; Helen, _Miss Telbin. To conclude with an entirely New Farce, called THE KING AND I. Period, 1691. Sir William Melrose, Mr. H. Holl ; Mr. James Bland; Perkin Pyefinch, Mr. Buckstone ; Jessie ,Donald, Miss Jull Bennett. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTE THIS EVENING Will be repeated a New Comedy, entitled PEG WOFFINGTON; .or, The State Secret. The Marquis de Mousseux, Mr. Selby ; Baron ;.Stuph, Mr, Paul Bedford ; George Tarleton, Mr. Hudson ; Merestick, Mr. Wright ; Peg Woffington, Miss Woolgar. After which, THE IRISH ATTORNEY ; or, Galway Practice in 1770. Pierce O'llara, Mr. Hudson ; Jacob Wylie, Mr. Cullenford. 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 Gerkin, Mr. Wright ; :Mrs. Montgomerie Tibbs, Mrs. Frank Matthews ; Sally Knobbs, Miss Woolgar. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY. THIS EVENING Will be repeated a New and Original Comedy, in Two Acts, entitled FRIENDS AT COURT. Principal Characters by Messrs. F. Yining, A. Wigan, Diddear, Turner, Collier, and Bender ; Mrs. Keeley, Miss Villars, and Miss Fairbrother. After which, an entirely New, Original, and Novel Grand Fairy BALLET DIVERTISSEMENT, entitled LES FEES. In which Les Danseuses Anglaises will appear. To be followed by a New Farce, entitled LUCK'S ALL. Principal Character aby Messrs. F. Vining, Diddear, Keeley, Meadows, Kin doch, and Tarner ; Miss Hicks, and Mrs. A. Wigan. To conclude with an entirely New Operatic, Dramatic, Chivalric, Fairy, Romantic Burlesque, entitled CINDERELLA. The Principal Characters by Mr. Keel ,- .y, Mr. A. Wigan, Mr. Frank Mathews, Mr. J. W. Collier, Mrs. Keeley, Miss Villars, Miss Fairbrother, Mrs. Woollidge, Miss Grove, Miss Howard, &c PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. LESSEE, 3t R. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING Win be performed Shakspeare's Play of AS YOU LIKE IT Jacques, Mr. Wallack ; Amiens, Mr. Allen ; Orlando, Mr. Walter Lacy: Touchstone, Mr. Compton ; Rosalind, Miss Cushman. After which a New Divettissement, called A COURT BALL IN 1740. In which will be introduced the Dances as performed at her 3lajesty's Bal Costume, with the Oricinal Music. To be followed by a New Dramatic Sketch, entitled MRS. CAUDLE ; or, Curtain Lectures. Mr. Candle, Mr. Compton ; Mrs. Caudle, Mr. Oxberry. To conclude with a New Farce, entitled LOVE IN LIVERY. Lord Sparkle, Mr. Walter Lacy ; Paul Patent, Mr. Compton ; Violet, Miss Emma Stanley. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. M. PIIILLIPPE will REPEAT his WONDERFUL DELUSIONS and INCRiaDIBLE EXPERIMENTS for the LAST TIME TO-MORROW EVENING. There will be no advance of prices, Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is. ; Gallery, Gd. Applications for Places, Private Boxes, &c., to be made to Mr. J. Kerschner, at the Box-office, from Eleven till Four. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. PROPRIETOR, MR. W. BATTY. Immense and overflowing Audiences attend the re-production of the Grand Military Spectacle. of The Battle of Waterloo. THIS EVENING Will be performed TIIE BATTLE OF WATERLOO. Introducing the Double Company of French and English Artistes. The Em peror Napoleon by Mr. Gomersal, who is engaged expressly for this occasion. New Scenes in the Circle, presenting the first talent of British and Foreign Equestrians of the present day. To conclude with the New Grand Pantomime Spectacle of THE GREEK RENEGADE. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. COMBINATION OF ATTRACTIONS. The Four Juvenile Minstrel Brothers and the Rock Harmonicon, Every Day, from Nine till Dusk. ROMANTIC GARDENS AND PROMENADE. EXTENSIVE AND UNRIVALLED MENAGERIE. COLOSSAL MODELLED REPRESENTATION OF EDINBURGH, The Acme of Scenic Illusion. The MINSTREL BROTHERS, from Four to Twelve Years of Age, will perform Select Airs at intervals. The ROCK HARMON ICON from Three till Eight. knd on MONDAYS, TUESDAYS, WEDNESDAYS, and THURS DAYS, GRAND CONCERTS D'ETE and MAGNIFICENT DISPLAY of FIREWORKS. Admission, One Shilling. Feeding the Carnivora at Half-past Five ; Pelicans and Polar Bears at Six ; Concert at Half- ,ast Six: and Fireworks at Half-past Nine. THE WEATHER.-Suw OFFICE, JULY 3 THERMOMETER, Lowest, 55 ; Highest, 70 ; Noon, 75 BATROMETER, 29. 78 -WIND, S.W ____ 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. ; "#.41 7 • 7 n. k. • de e d pt" . \ , :f•-• - 4110*, f, jl,o\ , , 7 tFn , e . l ic ta p aw ki,tch-, Tr . • SECOND EDITION: Otriening c*"nit4 LONDON, THURSDAY, JULY 3, 1845. The House of Lords did not meet yesterday. The Commons assembled at four o'clock. On the order of the day being read for bringing up the report on the Lunatics Asylum and Lunatic Pau per Bills. Mr. T. DUNCOMBZ moved that the report be received that day six months. Lord ASHLEY, Mr. F. BARING, Mr. M. GIBSON, and several other Hon. Members, urged the Hon. Member for Finsbury to withdraw his motion, which was on a division rejected by a majority of 102, the number being for Mr. DuNcomnes motion, 15 ; against it, 117. Mr. DIVETT presented a petition from a gentleman named BARRETT, complaining that an action had been brought against him for evidence which he had given before the Select Committee on the Medical Bill, and praying the House to afford him protection. The petition was ordered to be printed, and to be taken into consideration to-morrow (this day.) The House having resolved itself into Committee on the Field Gardens Bill, Mr. ROEBUCK expressed his determined hostility to the measure, and fk r the purpose of defeating it, moved that the Chairman do leave the chair. After a long conversation the Committee divided, and Mr. RoEnucx's proposition was rejected; the numbers being—for it, 19; against it, 42. Mr. CIIRTEIS proposed that instead of three persons being authorised to call a parish meeting, to put this Bill into operation, six should be necessary. This amendment was, after a short discussion, agreed to. Mr. HENLEY moved, that each requisitionist should be rated at 101., but on a division this was rejected, the numbers being for Mr. HENLEY'S proposition 17, against it 26. The remaining clauses of the Bill were then passed, and the report was ordered to be brought up this day. The House afterwards went into Committee on the Lunatics Asylum and Pauper Lunatics Bill, and 43 clauses were agreed to. The Chairman then reported progress, and the other orders of the day having been disposed of, the House adjourned at Two o'clock. The question touching the claims set up by the Government of Spain, through their Minister at this Court, the Duke de SOTOMAYOR, for the admission of its colonial grown sugars, on terms equally advantageous with those awarded to the free-labour produce of Vene zuela and the United States, is one of a very remarkable character. It has elicited two memorable state papers —the one from the Spanish Minister in London, the other (in reply to it) from the Earl of ABERDEEN, as Foreign Secretary of her Majesty. The claim advanced on the part of Spain is to have her Cuba and Porto Rico sugars admitted—irrespectively altogether of the consideration of slave or free-labour produce—on the same terms as those " of the most favoured nations? , The demand is based on an article in the treaty of Utrecht, in the year 1713, and the analogy sought to be established with the recent admissions of Venezuela and United States' produce, into the British market under certificates of origin. Now the general proposition into which the answers of Lord ABERDEEN to the several arguments with which the Duke of SOTOMA.YOR endea vours to justify the pretensions of Spain in this affair, resolves itself into this : that the obligation on the Go vernment of Great Britain, under the treaty referred to is, that the "subjects " of Spain shall be treated as the " subjects" of the most favoured nation—not that Great Britain shall treat the " produce" of Spain as she shall be accustomed to treat the " produce of the most favoured nations." This proposition which, on a cur sory statement of it may seem to sound as mere special pleading, is, in fact, a very substantial and well sustained rebutter to the plea of Spain. The remonstrance of the Spanish Minister is certainly drawn with equal temper and ability. But the reply of Lord ABERDEEN does ap pear to us, not only a successful but a conclusive reply. Whether the Duke has not reason on his side, when (speaking of the reasons assigned for the latitude re cently given by the Government to the construction or force of Conventions in the two instances we have just cited), he suggests that certain existing but anciEnt treaties between this country and Spain must have been forgotten ;we will not undertake to say. Our own im- pression is, that to this extent the Spanish Minister is right. The origin and history of Mr. GLADSTONE'S scheme about these certificated growths, his identifica tion with, defeat upon, and retirement a from office on account of it—always a political mystery—seems to admit of no more probable explanation than that, in fact, these anterior treaties to which the Spanish Duke adverts (those of 1658, 1679, 1689, and 1713) had been forgotten in Downing-street or at Whitehall. We are bound to concede to Spain a sort of traditionary credit forgood faith in its observance of treaties, and we are far from wondering that the Duke should skilfully bring the merits of the Spanish Crown in that respect under Lord ABERDEEN'S notice. And we go further. So far as the mere letter of the stipulations is concerned, the Duke proves his case. It is impossible to deny that the rights of Spanish commerce to the favour we have con ceded to that of Venezuela and of the United States, as to bringing sugar into our home market, are forcibly put and emphatically illustrated. Even under the treaty of 1783, which renewed all the conditions affecting the relations of the two Crowns that were comprised in that of 1713, the Duke of SOTOMAYOR is justified in maintaining that these are terms which would include the present demands of Spain, to the extent in which they had been allowed before. But here is precisely the point which Lord ABERDEEN puts in issue ; and we can not see how the Spanish Minister is to escape from it. He demonstrates that whilst the treaties of 1617 and 1713 secure to thesubjects of Spain and England recipro cally, each from the Government of the other the same privileges as were then enjoyed by the most favoured nations ; there were, in respect of the trade of the West India colonies of either Monarchy, no favoured foreign nations. By a reference to the language of the very article in the treaty of 1670, on which the Duke most confidently relies, the Earl of ABERDEEN, with equal diplomatic tact, and more historical accuracy, clearly proves that it was the darling object of each of the two Sovereigns, at, the very date of the instrument, to guard scrupulously against, and sternly to prohibit, the subjects of the other from visiting that part of his dominions. Other stipulations were concurrently in force that expressly excepted them from the scope of any " privileges" accorded to foreign subjects in rela tion to any other countries. These West Indian pos sessions Lord ABERDEEN, therefore, insists, never came within the spirit or meaning of any of these treaties. The force of this reasoning is much enhanced by the facts—First, that in 1814, at the close of the war, it was stipulated, that in the event of the Spanish colonies in America being opened to foreign trade, that of Great Britain should be on the footing of the most favoured nation. But it is an admitted fact between both parties that, up to that time, Spain had not opened her colonial trade. How does the Duke of SOTOMAYOR escape from the necessary inference to be deduced from the circum stance of Spain, in 1814, not having fulfilled, on her own part, those conditions, in virtue of which alone she can exact from us the execution of our contract according to her interpretation? He brings forward the decree of the Spanish Government in 1824, declaring (when she had no longer any power to restrain them) that the Spanish colonies in America were open to all nations. But in the result of their political struggles with the mother country they had in the meantime thrown off the yoke, as Lord ABERDEEN, with more truth than deli cacy, terms it, of Spain. Mr. CANNING, in 1822, having called " his new world into existence," had executed treaties with them as independent States. If, therefore, there had previously existed, either in letter or spirit, a boner fide compact upon this point between the two Crowns, Spain had torn the seal from the bond. She had no longer that to give which she had stipulated in its recital to bestow. This seems to us the short justification of that conduct in the British Go- vernment, which his Lordship has ably vindicated. The Foreign Secretary rather hints at than enters into other considerations to be alleged for the favour shown to the sugar of Venezuela and the United States, over those of Porto Rico and Cuba. Though given under treaty by anticipation only, it might have been intended as an inducement to the former States to abolish slave- trading. In any case, Lord ABERDEEN has clearly fe he imperative necessity of establishing our own cha. racier for good faith and honour in respect of these ne. gotiations, and has done justice to the great duty which it devolved upon him to discharge. On many occasions we have had to call the attention of our readers to the flagrant enormity of the dispropor tion between the legalised costs decreed against offenders over whom the Magistrates exercise summary jurisdic tion, and the amount of damages foucd against or fine levied upon the same parties. But the cases we have hitherto adduced on such occasions are comparatively trivial in the character of their vexatiousness, and the disparity of the penalty to the offence, when put side by side with that which we noticed in our paper of yester day. A poor man was charged on Wednesday last, be fore the Magistrates of the Egham division of the County of Surrey, with having cut down grass of the value of four farthings, on the edge of a ditch upon the farm of one LANE. The man, ROSE, was convicted of having committed damage to the extent of four far things—no doubt an exceedingly heinous offence, and far be it from us to palliate it. If a penny saved be a' penny gained, according to the assurance of the old proverb, a penny insidiously purloined from the sacred purlieus of a man's ditch, must be at least the square of four pennies ; and that is a large allowance. But what was the sum of the costs actually decreed against this formidable agrarian felon who had, out of an overweening affection for his donkey, we presume, clandestinely, but in a moment of reckless sympathy, cut down a part of the valuable growing crop which adorned and gave importance to the brink of a fosse ? Some 150 times the amount of the assessed damage. Thirteen shillings and sixpence was the modest demand, en nomine expensarum, of the enlightened bench, conse quent on damages assessed of the amount of one penny. Within the memory of most living men, we believe that the price of hay has not risen to such a price as it was fetching in the Spring, 71. a load. Supposing that the present season promised no better grass crop than that of last year, and that this rustic plunderer had cut down, that is if he could, so much of the matchless bordering of this inviolable ditch-bank as would have amounted to the equivalent, dried, of a truss of hay ; the Egham bench having ordered him to pay 4s. for the " damages," ought to have sentenced him, on their own rules of proportion, to 150 times four shillings as costs —say 30/. sterlivg. This may seem very absurd to uninformed people, who have never learned to believe with the earlier sages among onr legal commentators, " that the law is the perfection of common sense." But to talk, after this, of agricultural protection ? What is the necessity for it ? Any speculative farmer who has surrounded his homestead, like some retired burgomaster in the suburbs of Leyden, or a rich Landdrost in his canal-encircled domain in Batavia, with a ditch of banks as verdant as its waters, may realise upon a few roods of land a more profitable return than other men can derive in these times from ten well cultivated acres. Let him only leave his gates open o' nights, so that whether " at early dawn or on dewy eve," these wayfaring interlopers may test the quality of the neglected herbage on the borders TI VP SUN ,, LO_N DON, TIITIRSDA.Y EVENING, JULY 3, 1845. of his walks or the edges of his ditches, and he will have sown and reaped at once to some purpose. A bench of county magistrates—perhaps his brother guardians in the union—it may be his landlord or his customers — will feel every just degree of indignation on his account ; every disposition not to wrong the mysterious unknown, whoever he be, who is the party benefited by these un accountable, excessive, overwhelming costs :-13s. 4d. on a decree of 4 farthings damages I There is one re markable allowance to be made, it is true, as a set- off against such legitimate and equitable profit as might otherwise accrue to vigilant trespass prosecutors. Pay ment ought to follow upon conviction. But it does not necessarily follow that conviction is followed by pay ment—either of damages or costs. The Act of Par liament, with singularly ill-judged lenity, has provided for the course to be taken with the convicted, in " de fault of payment." Instead of following up the ad mirable principle of apportioning costs after the rate of 150 fold on damages found, by some acts of personal infliction on the delinquent, as it ought in consistency to have done, such as drawing out a tooth per week (from those who have them), during the period of de fault, on King John's graduated scale of Jew-dealing ; or putting them in the pillory once a week, till full liqu on of debt and costs ; instead of this, the Act of Parliament directs, for such defaults, a certain equiva lent of imprisonment, founded on very uncertain rules. In the case to which we are immediately addressing our selves, the very bad, who, having committed damages to the amount of four farthings, is unprepared to pay, in addition, 160 farthings for costs, is most properly con demned to three weeks' imprisonment. Oh, righteous law ! Oh ! paternally treated peasantry ! Oh ! land of equal justice, equal rights, equal penalties ! It must be a source of peculiar gratification to poor ROSE to know that had he been of gentle blood and gentle for tunes he might, on the very first day of next hunting season, have gratified himself by riding over the lands of every , Magistrate on the Bench—and in a gallop over springing corn and young turnips have committed da mages with impunity to the amount of four pounds in stead of four farthings,—followed by no costs (to himself), and no consequences on default of paying damages. Let us hope that he has by this time learned to appre ciate the impartial bearing of; magistrate-made laws on all classes of her Majesty's subjects ; the high protecting duty of agriculturists, who extract, in enhanced prices for their own grown corn, millions per annum frcm the pockets of our indigent,and industrial community,—and the small ditch-edge grass cropper, who robs a farmer in a single night of green forage to the amount of four farthings ! The Levant mail brirfgs intelligence from Constantinople to the 17th, Smyrna the 18th, and Athens and Alexandria to the 19th ult. The rejoicings at Constantinoble on the occasion of the marriage of the SULTAN'S sister, the Sultana ADELE, with MEEIEMET Ald, Pacha of Tophana, lasted for three weeks, and were on a scale of oriental magnificence. The Archduke CONSTANTINE of Russra. was to arrive on the 18th. M. DE NESSELRODE, the son of the Russian Minister, had arrived. The accounts from Syria are unfavourable. The armistice between the Druses and Maronites had been broken and the civil war renewed. The accounts from Alexandria state that the Druses first broke the truce by pillaging the churches and convents, and murdering the priests, and now both partias are burning each other's mul berry and other trees. The consequence is that thousands of people are starving. The King and Queen of GREECE had returned to Athens from their excursion into the provinces. We have received accounts from Madrid and Barcelona both to the 25th ult. The Government continue to issue denunciations against Don CARLOS and his family. A circular had been issued from the Home-office similar to that addressed by NARVAEZ to the political chiefs, calling upon the authorities to take the most prompt and vigorous mea sures against all attempts that may be made in favour of Don CARLOS or his son. The proprietors of the Espectador journal, against whom an action had been brought for libels on the Ministry, were acquitted on the 24th ult., by a jury of twe!ve, ten of whom voted for acquittal and two for a con viction. The verdict was received with loud applause. The Gazette contains an ordonnance for regulating transactions on the Bourse and preventing reckless speculation. It ap pears from this that the stockbrokers are to be liable for all time bargains and are to enter into securities for that pur pose. The Heraldo recommends the speedy return of the QUEEN to Madrid, but the reason is not stated. MARTINEZ DE LA Rost arrived at Barcelona on the 25th. On the previous day M. LEssErs had given a grand entertainment to Generals NARVAEZ and CoNcIIA, and several Members of the diplomatic body, including Mr. PEEL MADRID BOURSE.— Three per Cents., 22 1 / s , for cash ; 32 1 for Account ; Five per Cents., 21 for cash ; 21% for Account. The French Chamber of Deputies have passed the railway Bills for lines between Tours and Nantes, and between Paris and Strasburg. The lease for the former extends to 35 years and for the latter to 45 years. Both Bills were passed by large majorities. In the Peers the estimates for the year were presented by the Finance Minister, and also the Bill for the suppression of the slave-trade by Admiral MACKAU. The Bill granting 18,140,000 f. for the improvement of various harbours and fortresses was passed by a majority of 94 to 4; also a grant of 200,000 f. for the celebration of the July files. The carpenters' " strike" still continues. On this subject the Journal des hebats says :—" The Government has grounds for suspecting that among the 4,000 carpenters who have struck their work, the majority arc yielding to the insinuations and even menaces of a comparatively small mi nority. This, in fact, is the secret of nearly all such coali tions. What has followed? Have they been threatened in their turn—have they been arrested en masse—have any other means of constraint been employed ? No. If any arrests have been made they have been very few, and only in cases where it was necessary to coerce those who dared to proceed to acts of tiolence against such of their fellow•workmen as were unwilling to submit to the injunctions of the coali tion, or those whose turbulence led them to pull down scaffolding. There are in the ranks of the army men who had been carpenters. The Ministry has allowed a few hundreds, not more, to be engaged by the builders, and thus the most urgent works have been carried on. By this means, also, the more peaceable carpenters, who had been kept from their work by threats alone, have become as it were under a protection, and the numbers of those who are thus enabled to resume their employments will increase as their fears are lessened. By this means, in fine, the danger of a general interruption of the progress of building will be gradually averted. The men of twenty different trades con nected with these works may then feel themselves at liberty to earn their daily bread by their honest industry. And this is what some people have had the audacity to call tyranny in the Government. The carpenters will, we do not doubt, very quickly be convinced that they have been completely deluded by the declamations of their pretended friends; and, returning to a right understanding of their own interests, they will be grateful to the Government for its long forbear ance." The " strike" has caused a great demand on the savings' banks. The sums invested on the 29th and 30th of June amounted only to 536,1201., while the amount drawn out was 1,025,0001. The Courrier de rilfrique of the 21st ult. contains the fol lowing intelligence from Oran :—" The negotiations with Morocco, which appeared to have been interrupted, on account of the treaty of commerce being connected with the main treaty, which bad for• object the regulation of the limits of the territories, and the relations of the two contracting powers, have, we are assured, just been resumed on the old basis, and the dread of hostilities appears to be entirely et an end." The Funds, on Tuesday, were rather more firm on the Pay is Bourse. The Three per Cents. closed at 83f. 65c. ; the Five per Cents. at 121 f. 65c. ; Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,167 f. 50c. ; Rouen, 1,027 f. 10c. ; Vierzon, 7501. ; Havre, 840 f. ; Avignon, 970 f. ; Basle, 252 f. 50c. ; Spanish Three per Cents, 39i ex. div. The following are the quotations for the new lines:— Orleans and Bordeaux, 167 f. 50c. premium ; ;Boulogne, 110 f. 50c. ditto ; Troyes and Montereau, 27f. 50c ; Paris and Lyons (Laffitte), 20f.; ditto (Calon), par; ditto (Gan neron), 7f. 50c. ; Northern line (Laffitte), 321. 50c. ; ditto (Rosamel), 6f. 50c. ; Tours and Nantes (Mackenzie), 10f. ; ditto (Drouillard), par; ditto (O'Neill), 5f.; ditto (Jacques Lefevre), par; Lyons and Avignon ( Lecointe), 12f. 50c ; ditto (Talabot), 371. 50c. ; ditto (Compagnie Meridionale), 7f. 50c. ; Bordeaux and Toulouse (Mackenzie), 50c. ; ditto and Cette (Espeleta), 3f. 50c.; Creil and St. Quentin, par; Paris and Strasbourg (Ganneron), 10f. ; Dijon and Mulhausen, par. - - --- MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS.—The number of deaths during the week ending June 28 was 830, exceed ing that of the previous week by 27. There has been a slight increase under the head of diseases of the organs of respiration, and the number of violent deaths is greatly above the average, being more than double the usual returns. The total number is 52, and of these 11 were suicides, 5 from scalds and burns, and nearly all the rest from accidents. Ten deaths by small-pox occurred under 15 years of age, and the remaining two at the respective ages of 38 and 49 years. The fall of rain in inches was 0.62. FOOT-RACE ON IVATERLOO-BRIDGE.—This morn• ing the much talked-of running watch between E. Smith and H. Webb came off over 140 yards of road on Waterloo.bridge. The men were matched for 10/. a-side, and the betting was in favour of Smith at 5 to 4 ; the race attracted a vast crowd of spectators. E. Smith has figured in public foot-races very numerously. has had a fair share of success, and is considered as the elite of tlt pro fession. Webb has several times catered in similar matches. With some difficulty a line was formed through the concourse of persons assembled and the men came to the starting mark ; several ineffectual attempts to start were made, each pedestrian making efforts for an advantage, when ultimately Smith got off at a half yard lead. Webb was quickly up with him, and at 100 yards the men were running abreast. Webb made a struggle for the goal, Smith being on the alert, when after a very quick run race, Webb came in the winner by one yard. THE APOLLO TROOP-SHIP.--It is, perhaps, scarcely necessary to say, in reference to the rumoured loss of this ship, that letters were recived yesterday from Plymouth, stating that the Spartan, Captain Shaperoft, arrived off that port on Monday, after a quick passage from Newfoundland. Her arrival having been made known to Lloyd's agent, he promptly repaired on board to inquire into the reported loss of the Apollo troop-ship. Captain Shaperoft informed the agent that he sailed from Newfoundland on the 17th of June; that during his stay there—upwards of three weeks—he heard nothing about the Apollo or Spartan frigate; and was confident they had not been lost in that neighbourhood at the period spoken of. LAW APPOINTIVIENTS.—Mr. Sergeant Shee is to receive a patent for precedence, Mr. Montagu Chambers Is to be appointed Queen's Counsel, both of the Home Circuit ; and Mr. Robert Allen of the Oxford Circuit la to be created Sergeant. at. Law. CALCUTTA NEWS. (From the Morning Herald.) The Overland Mail from India, bringing the Government dispatches, has arrived at Marseilles. The intelligence which this mail conveys we were enabled to anticipate on Tuesday last, with the exception of the news from Calcutta, which we have now received by extraordinary express, and hasten to lay it before our readers. The letters from Calcutta come down to the 13th of May, from which we learn that on the 9th a destructive fire broke out in the office buildings of Messrs. Macvicar, Smith, and Co., which, with all they con tained, were entirely destroyed, books, papers, and all. The fire soon seized the premises of Messrs. Sewers and Co , ad joining, which quickly shared the same fate ; here, for tunately, a portion of the books, property, &c., was saved. Messrs. Kilby and Co., also were sufferers, but principally in household furniture. How the fire originated was not known. The loss of Macvicar, Smith, and Co. is estimated at about 2 lacs of rupees. The total loss of all, including the build ings, is estimated at about sor 6 lacs. Such a fire, it is be lieved, has not occurred in Calcutta since it was taken by Surg-00-dowlah in 1756. (From the Bengal . Hurkaru Price Current.) CALCUTTA, MAY 10, 1845. EXPORTS. The Precursor, with Londoa dates to the 24th March arrived on the 4th instant, but the advices received were not such as ma terially to affect our market for country produce. The business transacted has been moderate, though in some of the more bulky articles the reduction in the rates of freight have caused shipments to go forward rather more freely. Prices of all the chief staples of European export remain with hardly any change to notice. Indigo—No intelligence has reached this during the past week of the occurrence In the Mofussil of anything likely to affect the crop unfavourably, nor have we anything new to add to our last report. Sugar—The new crop of Benares continues to arrive in small quantities, and meets with ready purchasers as it comes to hand. Exports from Ist to Bth instant—Great Britain mds. 48,790. Raw Silk—Demand for this important staple continues to show no symptoms of improvement, and the quantity disposed of during the past week is extremely limited. Silk Piece Goode, Corahs—Our last report requires but little alteration. Transactions continue large, but all except the very best qualities, which are still scarce, are to be had on somewhat easier terms. Sales during the week are to a fair amount. Saltpetre—ln our last we noticed a better inquiry for this article, and during the week a large business has been done, both for the home market and America. Shell Lac and Lac Dye—Prices of shell lac have declined, and there is little of good quality now remaining in the bazaar. The dye continues in good demand, though during the past week we have not heard of any large sales having been effected. Hides—There is no change to note in these goods. Superior descriptions are in fair demand, but prices of all the lower qualities are somewhat reduced. Exports continue large. Jute—Shipments continue to go forward to some extent, chiefly on native account. The value of fair cleaned remains without alteration. Linseed—Extensive transactions for American account are still in progress, and the high prices nowiltomanded prevent all opera tions for the home market. Safflower—Arrivals of the new crop of Patterghatta continue to be bought up freely rather above our last quotations. Rum—We do not hear of any sales on the spot, but shipments are going forward freely, being from the Ist inst., 33,344 gallons. Cotton—We have to notice a partial resumption of shipments to China and the eastward. New Banda has been sold at Sa. Rs. 11.5 to 11-6. Old ditto at Sa. Rs. 10-2 per maund. Opium—The bazaar has continued in the most excited state, and prices havebeen driven up nearly Co.'s Rs. 100 per chest during the week, and to all appearance are still on the rise. Freights—Tonnage has not varied during the week, and our last quotations are unaltered. To London and Liverpool—Saltpetre, 4/. 15s. to 4/. 17s. 6d. ; sugar, 41. 17s 6d. to 5/. 2s. 6d. ; rice, 51. to 51. ss. per ton of 20 cwt. ; rum, 5/. 10s. to 51. 151. per tun of 4 hhds. ; hides, 5/. to Si. 5s ; shell lac and lac dye, 41. 10a. to 4/. 15s. per ton of 50 c. feet ; hemp and jute, 41. 10s. to 41. 15s. per ton of 5 bales; indigo and silk piece goods, 51. per ton of 50 c. feet ; raw silk, 51. per ton of 10 cwt. To Mauritius—Rice, Co.'s rs., 1 10 to 1 12 per bag; light f r eight, Co.'s rs. 25 0 to 30 0 per ton. To China—Cotton, 3 dolls. per bale; opium, 8 dolls. per chest. IMPORTS. Cotton Piece Goods—The market continues to improve gradu. ally, and prices of nearly all staple goods suited for the season are firm with art upward tendency. Shirtings—Grey are saleable at a shade above last week's prices, while bleached descriptions fully maintain their previous value. Madapollams—Grey of good quality have been sold to a mode rate extent, but low reeds are In but limited request. Jaconets—Fine white have been largely sold at an advance of two to three annas per piece, while inferior descriptions remain without change. Fine grey are also wanted, but of all common qualities the stock is so large that no improvement upon the previous low value can be noted. Lappets—There has been more inquiry for the finer descriptions of these muslins, and prices may be:quoted I to 2 ans. higher, though the amount of sales is not extensive. In the common kinds there is no change, • Lappet Scarfs—Demand for these goods continues very limited, and prices remain without improvement. Book Muslins_ln these goods a large amount of business has been done during the week, and prices may be quoted 3 to 6 pies per piece higher for the low qualities suited for Rangoon. Mull Mulls—There has not been much done in these goods, and in prices no change can be recorded. Printed Goods—The demand noticed in our last for these fabrics has been continued, and for some styles a further advance of about two annas per piece has been paid. Sales have been considerable, and the market has an upward tendency. Coloured Goods—Turkey red twills are in fair demand, and prices well supported. Good stout Turkey red plain cloth, of 24 inch, are wanted, and would command high rates. Mule Twist—There is no material alteration in the demand for yarn. No. 40 fully maintains its previous value, and though 50 and 80 are rather dull of sale, our quotations of last week require little alteration. Turkey Red Twist—There is no change whatever to record. Orange Twist—A few transactions in this yarn are reported. Woollens—We have heard of no sales of any importance during the bygone week. Metals—Transactions Continue on a very limited scale, there being apparently no demand from the Upper Provinces. Copper—There is a moderate demand fur sheathing, a little above our last quotations, for local purposes, but for all other kinds the market is dull. Spelter—A further decline has taken place during the week, 1,500 mds. having sold from co. rt.. 10-10 CO 10-12, and we doubt whether sales to any extent could be made without submitting to a further reduction. There seems no disposition at present among the natives to speculate in this metal, and from the Upper Provinces there is at present almost no demand. Iron—The market for this metal remains in much the same state, there being few sellers except at a much higher rate than speculators (now almost the sole buyers) are willing to give. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The sales of Cotton at Liverpool, yesterday, were 10,000 bags, including 2,030 on speculation, and 500 for export. Prices of mid American wei e full %d. per lb. higher than on Friday last, and all other kinds commanded full rates.-There was an active demand for Dover shares, at advanced prices.- Bardon and Bantry, 1 ,4 ; Birkenhead and Chester Junction, 12% %; Blackburn, Burnley, and Accrington, 94; Black burn, Darwen, and Bolton, 54; Blackburn and Pre s t on , 21 ; Belfast and Ballymena, 6%; Belfast and County Down, 3 5 / • Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 16 1 / 2 ; Caledonian, 114 ' 3,1 a Cambridge and Lincoln, 965. 3d. 4% ; Chester and Birkenhead, Half Shares, 304 ; Derby and Crewe, 3 1 / 8 ; Dublin and Belfast Junction, 84 7'% ; Dublin and Wex ford, 1 3 / 4 ; Dublin and Galway, 3%; Dublin Extension to Sligo, 3; Dundalk and Enniskillen, 3% 1,1; Eastern Coun ties, 21% ; Ditto, New Shares, 12% ; Ditto, Perpetual, No. 2, 245. 6d. ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, New Quarter Shares, 9 ; Edinburgh and Peebles, 2% ; Glasgow and Dumfries, 19s. 6d. 19s. 9d. ; Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock, Half Shares, 9% ; Grand Junction, 238 ; Ditto, Half Shares, 119; Great Grimsby and Sheffield, 4; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 3 / 4 ; Goole and Doncaster, 265. ; Hudders field Canal and Railway, 8 1 / 2 %; Lancaster and Carlisle, 47 ; Limerick and Ennis, 3% ; Limerick and Waterford, 7 1 / 2 7 ; Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, Hs. 9d. 2% ; London and Brighton, 75% 76%; London, xford, and Cheltenham, 1 ,4 ; London and Windsor, 225. ; Londonderry and Ennis killen, 3%; London and South-Western, 83 ; London and York, 3 3 4 765. 3d. ; Direct Northern, 3%; Leeds and Dews bury, 16 IA ; Leeds and Thirsk, 6% 3 4 ; Leeds and West Riding Junction, 965. 6d. 965. ; Manchester and Birmingham, 59%; Manchester and Birmingham Continuation, 1% ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland, 3 1 / 2 ; Manchester and Leeds, 171 ; Ditto, Half Shares, 78 ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 26 2,! 3 / 4 ; Ditto, Sixteenth Shares, 19% ; Matlock and Midland, 5 1 / 4 ; Midland Railway, 188 ; Ditto, 40/. Shares, 29% 3 % ; Newark and Sheffield, 2; Newcastle and Darlington and Lancashire Junction, 1 19s. 6d. ; Newry, Banbridge, and Belfast, 795. ; Newry and Enniskillen, 3% 3 % ; Newry and Warrenpoint, 225. 17s. ; North British, Half Shares, 6% ; North Kent, 34 585.:9d. • North Wales, 2%; North Wales Mineral, 15%; North Vestern, 865.; Oxtord, Worcester, and Wolverhampton, 6 1 4 %; Preston and Wyre, 32 1 4 ; Sheffield and. Manchester, 130: ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 16 3 / 4 ; Shrewsbury and Herefordshire, lls. ; ; Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, and Birmingham, 3 3 / 4 ; Shrewsbury, Os westry, and Cheshire, 414 South-Eastern and Dover, 49 50% (Ditto,!New Shares, No. 1,19 1 A ; Do., New Shares, No. 2, 17 1 / %; Ditto, New Shares, No. 3, 10 9 3 4 ; Scottish Central, 6 4 ; South Midland, 435. 425. ; South Wales, 5 1 ; Warwick and London, 1 • Welsh Midland, 3 3 / 4 ; West York shire, 3%;: Dendre Valley, 6s. ; Jamaica Junction, 4% ; Jamaica and South Midland, 395. ,• Northern of France (Laffi ; tte), 5% Ditto (Rosamel), 2% Os. ; Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux, 11% % ; Paris and Lyons (Ganneron's), 2% ; Verona and Ancona, 435. MAarcausrriin STOCK EXCHANGE, JULY 2.-The sales are -Barnsley Junction, 7 ; Birkenhead, Manchester, and Cheshire Junction, 11% •, Blackburn, Burnley, and Accring ton, 9% ; Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, 5% ; Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 16 3 / 4 ; Cambridge and Lincoln, 5% ; Chester and Holyhead, 16 1 / 2 ; Clitheroe Junction, 3 11-16 ; Derby and Crewe, 3 ; Eastern Counties New Shares, 13 i Erewash Valley,' 334 ;: Glasgow and Dumfries, 21s. 235. ; Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction, Quarter Shares, % ; Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal, 8% 7-16 ; Lancaster and Preston, 54 1 / 2 ; Leeds and Thirsk, 7% ; Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester, 16% 1 4 ; Leeds and West Riding Junction, 4% % ; 'Leidester and Birmingham, 1% 1 4 ; London and Windsor, 1% ; London and Worcester, Oxford and Rugby, 1 1 / ; London and york, 3 .7 / 4 i Manchester, Bury, and Ros sendale, 17 1 4 ; Manchester and Birraingbarn, New gilarter Shares, 7 5-16 %; Manchester and Birmingham Continuation and Welsh Junction, 1 13-16 ; Manchester and Leeds, 176 ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 25%; Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland Junction, 3% ; Midland Railway Consols, 40/. Shares, 29% 3 / 4 ; Newark and Sheffield, 2% i NeweastlP, D14111a111: and Lancashire, 3 / 4 prem. ; North British, New Shares, 74 ; North-Eastern, 4s. 6d. prem„. North Staffordshire, 3 15-16; North Western, 4ii I Nottingham, Erewash, Ambergate, and Manchester, % 3 4 prem, ; Oxford, Worcester, and Wolver hampton, 6% ; Sheffield and Manchester, U 9 ; Shrewsbury and Trent Valley Union, 174 ; Smith-Eastern Dover, No, 2, 17 1 A ; Ditto, No. 3, 10 11-16; Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole, 19s. ; Welsh Midland, 3% ; West Yorkshire, 4 334 ; Worcester, Shrewsbury, and Crewe Union, 10 prem. Messrs. Ferguson and Taylor, of Manchester, report that "As respects the staple products of this district, there has been an active business doing throughout the month. Calico printers have been lessfully employed at the works, owing, in a great measure, to the lhnited extent of the demand for the lighter styles expressly prepared for the spring and saintlier home trade; but during the past month they have bought rather freely of grey cloth, and the stocks of the finer makes, which began to accumulate in Mav, have been cleared out. Prices have advanced from 1 1 / 2 d", to W. per pieee, and the business of the month closes With the higher rates firmly maintained, and at the same time exhibiting a further tendency upwards," There are no ship arrivals to-day bringing later news, The very unanimous expression of disapprobation yester day at the meeting of Mexican bondholders against the firm of Lizardi and Co., shows that the view taken of their con duct by the majority of the public press is in accordance with the feeling of most of the bondholders. 'We will make no remarks at present on this subject so important to vast nom - bers in this country, as the question will probably be de • cided without delay in an English court of law. The Funds are rather firmer to-day. Consols bring 99, and have not been done lower. Exchequer-bills are 555. to 575. premium. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. are 102 to 4. There is nothing particular to notice of the Foreign Bonds. Spanish Actives have been lower again, viz -27%, and the Three per Cents. are flat at 38%. Portuguese Con verted are 65%. Colombian have been 17% to 18. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. bring 62. The Share Market is quieter, but prices are firm. South- Eastern support advanced rates, Brighton are good, London and York have receded a little, and Cambridge and Lincoln are much the same. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 991/11/84 New 3% per Cent. Annuties 102% 102% Long Annuities Expire sth Jan. 1860 ll% 7-16 India Bonds 1,0001 Ditto under 1.0001 69 Consols for Opening Exchequer Bills. I%d. I%d. 1,000/. - 5001. - .. ... 57 55 pm. Ditto Small - PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Columbian Bonds. 17% 18 Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent - Ditto Converted Ditto for the Account Russian Bonds. 1822, 5 per Cent 117% Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent,lB4o - Ditto for the Account. Ditto 3 per Cent - Ditto for the Account. Belgian 4 1 / 2 per Cent 98% Dutch 2 1 / 2 per Cents Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates PRICE OF SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE. Aberdeen - Birmingham and Gloucester 100 133 131% to 132% Bristol and Exeter - Ditto New ... 2 ...... 12 1 4-- to - Caledonian 5 - Ditto Extension 2 2% to - Cambridge and Lincoln ...... 1% 4 % 3 /4 % to - Chester and Holyhead Churnet Valley - Clydesdale Juncti0n............ 5 - Coventry and Leicester - Cornwall - Direct Northern ; 2 l/ 3 l/.%... to - Dublin and Belfast Junction 2 1 / 2 7 3/ to - Dublin and Galway 2 /2 33 Eastern Counties - Do. New 4/. 16s B l4 to 77s' Do. Perpet. 5 per Ct. No. 1. 6/.13s 4d 1% to - Eastern Union Ditto Extension - Edinburgh and Glasgow ..... 50 .. - Ely and Bedford 1 % 2% ..... to - Great North of England ..... .100 - to - Ditto New 2 - Great Western Hull and Selby ............. . ... 50 10 5 14 to -- Ditto Quarters .... ......... 12 1 / 2 ...... 21% - Lancaster and Car1i51e......... 20 ...... 46 1 / 2 .. .. to - London and Birmingham ...100 - to - Ditto 4 Shares .......... 2 - London and Blackwall 16% 9 IA to 10 London and Brighton 5O - London and Croydon... 131. 153. 9d.... 21 3 / 4 % to - London and South Western.. 41% - to - Do. New consolidated Bths.. 12 - Ditto New 2 l /2 1 5 14 to - London and York 2%...... 3 1 / 2 5 ,4- to - Londonderry and Coleraine:- 2 1 / 2 4 ...... to - Londonderry and Enniskillen 2% 4 to - Lynn and Ely - to - Manchester and Leeds 76 .. ... - - faDitto Quarters - Manch, Buxton, & Matlock 22s - Midland 100 ......187 1 / to - Ditto New - to 29 Midland, Birm., and Derby...loo 146 - Newcastle & Darlington ,:r um. '25 ....-- - - Ditto New Brandling Newcastle and Berwick - Newry and Enniskillen ...... 2 1 , - Newark and Sheffield North British 25 1 / 2 to - Ditto New 1 .. 7 - North Kent - to - North Wales l4 2% to - Norwich and Brandon - Ditto, New 1 Oxford and Worcester 2 l /2 6 - Rugby, Worcester. and Tring 1 - Shrews.,Wolver., Dud., Birm. 2 1 / 3% %... to - South Devon l5 - South Eastern and Dover ... 33%...... 49 Ditto New, No. 1 8 - Ditto New, N 0.2 7 .. ... 174...... to - Ditto New, No. 3 2 l /2 ...... 914% 8% t o 9% South Wales - Trent Valley and Holyhead Junction ... 1% 2% to - Welch Midland 2% 3 % 1 / - to - York and North Midland ... 50 - - Ditto Selby Ditto, Extension - FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Boulogne and Amiens 6 ..... 11 to - Great Northern of France (Laffitte's) - Do. Do. (Rosamel's) 2 - Namur and Liege... - Orleans and Bordeaux ... .. 4 ...... 11 1 ,4% to - Parisand Lyons(Ganneron's) 2 ... .. 2% to - Sambre and Meuse - Tours & Nantes (Mackenzie) 2 - Verona and Ancona 1 JOINT STOCK BANKS. Australasia - London and Westminster ... 20 - Union of London lO - EXETER ELECTION. EXETER, JULY 2. The Conservatives of this city were [laced in a most perplexed and difficult position, by the announcement made so unexpectec ly on Monday morning, of Mr. Teed's intention to withdraw from the field. Still. Monday passed and nothing definite was done. At last Sir John Duckworth took pity upon them, and consented to offer himself as a candidate. This morning he commenced a personal canvass. The High-Sheriff has fixed the nomination for Monday, and the polling for Tuesday. ABINGDON ELECTION —The Ca ndi , lxtes are the Attorney. General, and General Caulfield on the Liberal side. The nomination takes place on Monday, and the polling on the follow. ing day, GAMES AND WAGERS.—The Lord President's Bill " To amend the law concerning games and wagers" (which has just been printed by order of their Lordships' House) repeals that part of 33 Henry VIII., c. 9, which declares any game of mere " such as bowling, coyting, cloyshcayls, half bowl, tennis, or the like," to be an unlawful game, &c. The Bill further de clares that, in order to prove any house or place to be a common gaming.house, it shall be sufficient to prove " it is kept or used for playing therein at any unlawful game, and that a bank is kept there by one or more of the players exclusively of the others, or that the chances of any game played therein are not alike favour able to all the players, including among the players the banker or other person by whom the game is managed, or against whom the other players stake, play, or bet." The power of justices is to be exercised under warrant to enter any such house. Additional penalties are proposed to be imposed, not exceeding 100/. or six months' imprisonment in a house of correction, on gaming.house keepers. Proof of gaming for money, &c., is not to be necessary in support of informations for gaming. The police superintendent may search for instruments of gaming, and witnesses are to be in. demnified from all prosecution, &c. It is proposed that public billiard tables shall be licensed from Michaelmas next. The Bill proposes further to repeal 16 Charles 11., c. 7 ; 10 William 111., c 11 ; 9 Anne, c. 14 ; 11 Anne, c. 5 ; 5 and 6 William IV., c. 41 ; and part of 18 George 11., c. 34 (sections 3 and 8, making persons liable to indictment for winning or losing at play, or by betting at any one time 10/., or within twenty.four hours 201) Actions and informations are to be discontinued, and cheating at play is to be punished as obtaining money by false pretences. Wages are not to be recoverable at law, and convictions, &c., are not to be quashed for informaltty, &c. DEMOLITION OF THE ROYAL STANDARD BY TIIE Wu:in.—Yesterday morning, at the usual hour of hoisting the royal standard on the triumphal arch opposite Buckingham Palace, there was but a small portion of it left, it having been nearly de.. molished by the wind on Tuesday afternoon. The flag having become fixed on the top of the flagstaff, when the wind was blowing with violence, the greater part of it was torn to ribbons. ROYAL BOTANIC SOCIETY, REGENT'g PARK. The last flower show given during the season by this Society took place yesterday. The rain drizzled down abundantly enough, though not sufficiently to prove the old adage that "it never rains but it pours." The exhibition was, however, well attended, and, owing to the judicious arrangement for entering and passing through the tents, the company m e t and separi,ted with ou t th e slightest cause for complaint, The band of the Royal Horse Guards (Blue), and the Ist and the 2d Life Guards, played some favourite airs during the exhibition. One novelty on this occasion was the competition for the prizes of fruits. The show of grapes, melons, pines, &c., attracted general attention ; and the stove and green-- houseplants, the orchidaceous plants, and the roses, bath cut and in pots, were as usual extremely line ; the collections of the cut roses being beautiful, and more than ordinarily numerous. The principal exhibitors were Lady Antrobus, Miss Traill, Mrs. Law rence, Mr. Rucker, Mr. Norman, and Mr. Cook. Among the nurserymen, Messrs. Luccombe and Co., and Messrs. Price, of Exeter, and others. Before the admission of the public, the Queen and her illu s t r i ous guests the K i ng an d Q ueen o f t h e Belgians, the Duchess o f Gl oucester, and th e Duke of Cambridge, arrived io Vi6W the flowers and grounds, at which time the weather was for. tunately very propitious. THE MAY MEETINGS. — An unusually large arnout,t has been placed to the credit of the religious societies by the last May meetings. The following are the principal sums raised : Church Missionary, 105,249/. ; British and Foreign Bible, 85,817/. London Missionary, 82,8761.; London Missionary (the Jubilee Fund), 21,000/.; Religious Tract, 54,1041. ; Wesleyan Missionary, 109,188/. ; Colonial Missionary, 3,388/. ; Irish Evangelical, 2,641/.1 Foreign Aid, 5,480/ ; British Retormr.tion, 1,514/, ; Home Mis- London School Union , 9 , 5 61/. ; British and sionary, 8,600/. ; Primitive Methodist Mi ss i onary, 2,567/.; London altogether to more t h an h alf a F C o it r y ei A g l n is s si a o i r l i o , r 9 s: s 2 7 ,o 9 7 l . 2 ; l.—amounting million sterling. l'he Union of Saint Germain-en- Laye announces that the journeymen carpenters on the atmospheric railway have returned to their work. LIVIVD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, JULY 3.—Wind S., fresh breeze and cloudy, with rain at times. DEAL, Jura - 2.—Wind, A.m., S.W., fresh breeze; P.M., E.S.E., moderate.—Arrd. Rifleman, Davies, South Seas ; Diana, Garrick, South Seas ; Princess Alice Maude, Hunt, St. John's, New Bruns wick. • Arrd. from the River and sld. Ida and Emma, Diedericksen, Rio Janeiro ; William and Alfred, Lawrence, Antigua ; Rosebud, Winn, Algoa Bay. Std. Calcutta, Ross, Hobart Town ; Veer Gibroi ders Jaski, Batavia ; Andromache, Skelton, Bombay ; John Hardy, Slaughter, Jamaica ; Helena, crick, Halifax ; Junior Martin, Quebec. Remain, Jane, Buckland, for Launceston, refitting* windlass; Nunez, Flight, for Alexandria. PORTSMOUTH, JULY 2.--Wind S.W. to ii.S.E.—Arrd. Aurelian, Brown, Quebec. ' Sid. Bucephalus, Cape of Good Hope and Calcutta. PLYMOUTH, JULY 2.—Wind S.S.W. to E. by S.—Sld. her Majesty's ship Spy, Valparaiso. SOUTHAMPTON, JULY 2.—Sld. Thames steamer, West Indies. FALMOUTH, JULY 2.—Wind S.S.W., moderate.—Arrd. Ist, Ayrshire Lass, Brown, Port Republicain and Bermuda, sailed from the latter port the 30th of May; 2d, Sylvia, Hooks, Pernambuco. Off port 30th ofJune, Jane, Valparaiso. SWANSEA, JULY I.—Arrd. Johanna, Wilson - , Valparaiso, in 109 days ;:Countess of Bective, Silverson, Cuba; Michael Williams, Cuba. LIVERPOOL, JULY 2 —Wind W.N.W., light.--Arrived Juliet, Thompson, Calcutta; Gazelle, Shepherd, Saldanlia Bay; Kathleen, Oldfield, Sierra Leone ; Heraldo, Vaccenees, Savanilla, with main mast sprung, and loss of foretopmast, having been in contact with an American ship, Bellonajampico ; Bengal ,Cook, Meteor, Stevens, and Tamerlane, New Orleans ; Azabella, Rice, Mobile ; Peare, Bur rowes, Mobile; Cumberland, Power, Apalachicola; Helen Augusta, Henny, Apalachicola; Alliance, Savannah; General Parkett, Gowen, Charleston ; George Canning, Kidd, Charleston ; Era, Posbora, New Zealand ; Neptune, Quebec ; Countess of Mulgrave, ditto ; Todeaferro, Azzapardi, and Valember, Reed, Alexandria. Sld, Tarolenta, Smith, New York ; Yorkshire, Bailey, ditto ; Colombian, Barker, Boston ; Coromandel, Stouter, Quebec. 2d.—Off port, Coquette and Exchange. Put back, Clara, for Trieste, leaky having been on the banks ; Irlam, for Barbadoes. It blew a gale last night at W.S.W. DUMFRIES, JULY I.—The Jane, Rhodes, of and from Glasgow, for Leghorn, has been on shore: about three miles to the south of the lighthoute in the Solway Frith, with seven feet water in the hold, and expected to be a total wreck—crew saved, CORK, JUNE 30.—The Albion, Morrison, of Shields, out 48 days from Quebec (qy. for Quebec). was spoken, Bth inst. off Gaspe, having on board five of the crew of the brig Ecilior (qy. Auxiliar) of Shields, lost in the ice 25th May, in lon. 48, the rest of the crew being on board the Eagle. LIMERICK, JULY I.—The Ellana, Rowland, hence to London, drove on shore on Sad Island in the river during a heavy gale at W.S.W., but is expected off without damage when the gale moderates. KINGSTOWN, JULY I.—Several vessels drove into the harbour entrance this morning. PWLLPELLI, JULY blow a heavy gale from S.S.W. last night, which increased furiously towards morning. The American ship Glendower, Parsons, arrived in Port 3ladoc on the 29th ult. to load, went on shore on the bar there this morning at ten. The life-boat passed here at 7 r.m. 10 P.M. Wind S.W., moderate. CLYDE, JUNE 29.—Sid. William Watson, Cunningham, Valparaiso; Catherine Boland, Porter, Jamaica ; Pomona, Newfoundland. MARYPORT, JULY I.—Wind S.W., strong gale.—Arrd. Dove, Pol lard, Cardiff, strained and leaky, having grounded outside the south pier this morning, and been assisted off. YARmouTti, JULY 2.—The Waterloo, Blackler, from Newcastle to Skimouth, is in the Reads, leaky, and will come into the harbour to discharge. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) 1311. Y MAILIKETS. SmminELD.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 31 18s to 4/15s ; useful do., 41 16s to 5/ 8s; fine Upland d o ., 5/ lO s to 5/ 16s; Clover Hay, 41 lOs to 6l; Oat Straw, 1118 s to 2/ ; Wheat Straw, 2/ to 21 2s per load. Both Hay and Straw sold freely at full prices. CUSIBERLAND.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 41 to 4/ 16s; useful ditto, 4117 s to 5/ 8s ; fine Upland ditto, 5/10s to 5118 s ; Clover Hay, 4/ lOs to 5/ 18s ; Oat Straw, 1/ 18s to 21; Wheat Straw, 21 to 2l 2s per load. Supply moderately good and trade firm, WIIIIIIAPEL.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 3115 s to 4/ 10s ; useful ditto, 4/ 12s to 5/ 5s ; fine Upland ditto, 5/ 8s to 51155; Clover Hay, 4/ 103 to 6/; Oat Straw, 11 18s to 2/ ; Wheat Straw, 2/ to 2/ 2 per load. A fair, average supply, am-i a 4teaily demand. Aow Meadow Hay sold freely at from 31 lOs to 418 s per load. MEAT IVLASLIEETS, SOUTHALL, JULY 2.—We had a fair average supply of fat stock on sale in to-day's market, while the general demand ruled steady, and last week's quotations were firmly supported. Beef from 3s 4d to 4s 6d ; Mutton, 3s 8d to 5s ; Lamb, 5s to 6s; Veal, 3s 8d to 4s 8d; and Pork, 2s 10d to 4s per 81hs, RomFoRD, JULY 2.—Prime beasts, sheep, and lambs, commanded a steady sale, at full rates of currency. Other wise, the trade was inactive. Beef, from 3s 4d to 4s 6d; Mutton, 3s 6d to ss; Lamb, 4s 10d to 6s; Veal, 3s 8d to 4s 8d; and Pork, 2s 8d to 3s 8d per 81bs. . Suckling Calves, 18s to 28s ; Quarter-old Store Pigs, 16s to 208; and Milch Cows, with their small Calf, 161 to 191 each. LEWES, JULY I.—Beef from 3s 6d to 4s 8d ; Mutton, 3s Bcl to 5s ; Lamb, 5s to Os ; Veal, 4s to 48 10d ; and Pork, 3s to 3s Bcl per 81bs. Supply limited, and trade firm. Coal. MARICET. Prices per ton at the close of the market :—Buddle's West Hartley, 15s; Chester Main, 14s 3d; Hasting's Hartley, 14s 6d ; Holy well Main, 14s • Nelson's West Hartley, 14 s 6d ; New Tanfleld, 13s 6d; Ord's Redheugh, 13s; Ravensworth West Hartley, 15s; West Hartley, 15s; Wall's-end•Bewieke and Co., 14s 9d ; Hilda, 14s 3d ; Eden Main, 14s 9d ; Brad- Hettnn, V6s 6d ; Hutton, 16s 9d ; Lsmbton, 16s fid ; Pemberton, 14s 3d ; Russell's Hetton, 15s 6d ; South Kelloe 15s 9d ; Adelaide, 15s 9d ; Coke, 24s ; Derwentwater Hartley, 141; Hartley, 14s 6d; Lewiss Merthyr, 21s 3d; West Hartley Netherton, 14s 61—Ships arrived, 7. CORN AVERAGES. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN For the Week ended June 28, 1845, made up from the Returns of the Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in England and Wales, per Imperial quArier, I WHEAT. I BARLEY. i OATS. 1 32s E I BEANS. I PEAS. 3d PRICE .. 47s Ild 29s 7d 233 2d ld 39s 3d 38s DUTY. .. 20s Od 9s Od 6s Od lOs 6d 4s 6d 5s 6d FRENCH THEATRE, ST. JAMES'S. The enterprising lessee of this theatre, Mr. Mitchell, took bip benefit last night, and we were glad to see that he was rewarded, as he deserved to have been, by a full and fashionable house, Her Majesty and Prince Albert did him the honour to be present. The Queen and her Consort arrived about half-past eight o'clock, and did not leave till the last piece was over, about half-past eleven. ITer Majesty appeared to take the greatest interest in each of the three pieces presented, which consisted of Les Gants Jaunes, L'Homme Blase, and Passe lfs'nuit, the second piece being the ex. press choice of her Majesty. The royal party, to all appearance, en joyed the clever acting of M. Arnal and his associates to the utmost. Besides the illustrious company in t he, Royal box there were pre. sent—The Duke and Duchess of Montrose, Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, Marquis of Douro, Lord de Lisle, Lord George Paget, the Baroness Brunnow, Marquis of Titchtield, Lord and Lady Dinorben, Lord William Graham, Countess of Essex, Lord Duncannon, Countess of Cardigan, Lady Grey, the Belgian Mi. nister and Madame: Van de Weyer, Earl and Countess Fer_ rers, Earl and Countess Craven, the Baron Talleyrand, Lord Gifford, Lady Harriet Bentinck, Marquis Clanricarde, Sir George and Miss Talbot, Sir Henry and Lady Meux, Lady Goldsmid, Lady and Miss Quentin, Lord Sidney, Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, Sir Edward Colebrooke, Hon. Mr. Percy, Sir Joseph Copley, Lord and Lady Mahon, the Baron Kol. ler, Lord Aylmer, Lord Somerton, Lord Cantalupe, the Earl of Chesterfield, and Sir William and Lady Georginia Codrington. Mr. Mitchell well deserves the patronage of the public, for, undis mayed by the difficulties which surrounded him at the outset of his undertaking, he has succeeded in establishing an annual series of French performances; thus furnishing an entertainment which has long been wanted. His management is conducted upon the largest scale; and his engagements assume an importance not infe rior to those of the Italian Opera-house. He has obviously spared nothing in the way of enterprise to ensure excellence of special re presentation and completeness of general effect; his exertions have consequently not been overlooked, and patronage of the highest kind has been showered upon him. ERITIT REGATTA. The great meeting at Erith, at which the gentlemen of the various aquatic clubs and the crack" London water men will again have an opportunity of exhibiting their prowess, will take place on the 10th instant. The regatta has been, as usual, got up on an exceedingly liberal scale, and the following brilliant entries give promise of first-rate sport A Presentation Cup, value seventy guineas, for four-oared boats; gentlemen amateurs.—The Neptune Club, the Herne, the Ariel Cutter Club, the Thames, the Royal Artillery, St. George's Boat Club, the Thetis, the Arganauts, the Leander, the Nautilus, the Guy's. Three fine heats must result from such a first-rate muster. Four-oared race with London waterrnen, for a purse of 30/. for the first heat, 201. for the second, 10/. for the third, and 5/. for the fourth. Another race, with watermen at Erith and below, for libe ral prizes, and a grand sweepstakes match with gentlemen, complete the very attractive bill of fare. MONEY MARKET. Since the last summary per Precursor nothing has occurred to alter the state of our market far the past week. The supplies thrown into it by Government bills seem sufficient for all monetary demands. Government securities are rather more in demand. The New Five per Cent. Loan Is rising in value. Exchange is rather improving. months' date about the ruling rate. We may quote la, lOid. at ten Bank Stock firm, and little disposition to sell. RATES OF INTEREST ♦ND DISCOUNT. BANK OF BENGAL. — Discount on Government acceptances (within three months), 4 per cent. ; discount on private bills and notes, 7 per cent. . . Interest on loans, on deposit of Company's paper, 6 per cent. ; on deposit of opium and salt, 6 per cent. ; on deposit of metals and indigo, 6 per cent. ; on deposit of other goods 8 per cent. UNION Balm—Discount on Government acceptances, 4 per cent.; on approved pri►ate bills (at two months), 7 per cent. ; on ditto at two to four months, 8 per cent. Loans and credits, on Government paper, 6 per cent.; on Bengal and Agra Bank Shares, &c., 7 per cent. ; on metals and indigo, in bonded warehouse, 6 per cent. ; on other goods, ditto, 7 per cent. 18 p ; er g l o O gold a 15 8 a 16 8 per sa. wt.; Price of Bullion, &c.—Sycee silver, Company's rup ees, 1 04 12 a 10 6 5 I. C ; om Ch pa in n a rs go r ld up b e a e r s s , , Company's rupe es, )5 8 a Spanish dollars, Company's rupees, 221 10 a 221 12 ; Mexican d ' u . st, vi dollars, Company's rupees, '221 2 a 221 4, per 190 ; Sovereigns, Company's rupees, 11 2 a 1 1 4 ; Madras gold Mohurs 16 4 a 16 8 each. MONEYS IN THE EXCHEQUER An Account of Moneys in the Exchequer, or remaining to be raised, on the 28th June, 1845, to complete the aids granted by Parliament for the service of the years 1343 and 1844. In the To be Exchequer. Raised. #: s. d. £ s. (1 Consolidated Fund, 7,392,0441. ; per Act 6 and 7 Vict., c. 99 Consolidated Fund, 6,969,856/. 10s 3d. ; per Act 7 and 8 Vic., C. 104 218,228 9 4 907,201 13 9 - £1,125,430 3 1 EDW. CARDWELL. Whitehall, Treasury Chambers, July 1, 1845. , M. Remilly's amendment, proposing a tax of 15f. per alumna on dogs, was distributed yesterday to the Deputies. We find that it is modified by the exemption of all dogs used as guides by blind men ; dogs employed in tending or driving cattle; dogs used exclusively as watch-dogs at farms, manufactories, and houses and buildings in iso:ated situations. —Gal/gnaw'. The Duke de Montpensier arrived at Tunis on the 21st ult. in the steam-frigate Corner. Mme. de Montgolfier, the widow of the celebrated aeronaut, died in Paris on the 30th ult. in her hundredth year. DUBLIN STOCK EXCRA.NGB, JULY I.—Three-and a-Half per Cent. Consols, 931 for Account; 981 for Money— Three-and.a Quarter per Cent. Stock, 101 i I—Grand Canal Stock, 94. Railways—Belfast and Ballymena, 6a 6—Bandon and Bantry, 1 a—Cork and Waterford, la—Cork and Youglial, 3 Cork and Passage, 1 prem.—Dublin and Belfast Junction, 8a 1 — Dublin and Droghada, 108 10 9—Dundalk and Enniskillen, 31 Great Southern and Western Extension, 1 1a —Midland and Grea Western Railway, and R. Canal Company, 4a 4—Ditto, Exten sion to Sligo, 21—Dublin and Galway, 3I —Killarney Junctions 2a—Limerick, Enniskillen, and Killaloe Junction, 5 4i—London. decry and Coleraine,4—Ditto and Enniskillen, 3a—Newry, War. renpoint, and Rosstrovor, 3i a—Waterford and Limerick, 7 71 Ditto and Kilkenny, 3 4 —Wexford and Carlow, 2—Waterford, Wexford, and Dublii, 7 11 2. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston entertained at dinner last evening at their mansion on Carlton House terrace, the Earl of Besbororgh, Lord and Lady Cottenham, Lord and Lady Beaumont, Lori Sudeley and the Hon. Miss Tracy, Sir John and Lady Easthope, tir John and Lady Charlotte Guest, the Right Hon. H. and Mrs. Dbouchere, Mr. Stanley, and Mr. Fox Maule. REPRESENTATI)N OF WEST SUFFOLK.—Strange as it may appear, the vacancy in the representation of West Suffolk has existed nearly a fortnight, and-we are within a week of the elec. tion ; yet, up to this nornent, it appears a matter of uncertainty who is to be THE candidate. The Whig party have made no move ment; it rests, therefore, with the Conservatives to determine upon whom the choice ihall fall.—Bury Post. ELECTIONEERING MOVEMENTS.—It appears that we are to have an electioteering canvas from Capt. Sutherland of Udale, who threatens tt contest with Mr. Loch for the representa tion of the northern btrghs at the next election. We are in formed that Mr. Matheion, of Achany, is prepared to offer himself for the representation o' Ross-shire, and that he will be opposed by Mr. Mackenzie, of Sratwell, it being generally believed that, in the event of a dissolutiol, Mr. Mackenzie of Applecross, the pre sent Member, will not stain stand for that county.—John o'Groat Journal. BODY OF A GENTLEMAN FOUND IN THE THAMES.-- Yesterday morning, at an early hour, the body of a well-dressed man was picked up floaing down the river with the tide off Rat. cliffe. On being secure' and brought ashore at Stone-stairs, the wearing apparel was searthed, when there were found four or five sovereigns, a silver penci-case, and two or three cards, from which it is supposed that his name is Willis, residing in the vicinity of Islington. The body not. lies in Stepney Old Church dead.house, awaiting a coroner's ingttst. HOUSE OF LORDS.-(THIS DAY.) The House sat today to hear Scotch appeals. The Peers pre sent were Lord Brougham, Lord Cottenham, and Lord Campbell- CUNNINGHAME V. beLEOD, The further arguments in this part-heard case occupied their Lordships the whole morning. CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) This being the second seal after Trinity Term, the Lord Chan cellor took appeals and motions today. On his Lordship taking his seat, Mr. Sergeant SHEE having received a patent of precedence, and Mr. Montagu Chambers having been appointed Queen's Counsel, were called within the bar by the Lord Chancellor. EXPARTR VAN SANDAU. His LORDSHIP stated that in the case of Mr. Van Sandau he had considered it from time to time with great anxiety, and after that consideration he was of opinion that he Ought not to interfere in the present stage of the case unless Mr. Van Sandau consented to put an end to the suit. If he went on with the suit, his Lordship could not tell on what scale the jury would dispose of the damages, and until he knew what the jury would do, he could not dispose of the different orders that had been made; however, Mr. Van Sandau would consent to put an end to the suit he wo ild dispose of the various orders the next day he sat. Mt. Van Sandau need not state at that moment what course he would pursue ; he had better consider of it. Mr. BAGSHAWE said that the trial stood on the paper for Satura day, and Mr. Van Sandau elected to go on with the trial. The LORD CHANCELLOR—Very well. You must take care to have an accurate account of what goes on at the trial. Mr. BAGSHAWE—Certainly, my Lord, we shall have a short-hand writer to take notes of what occurs. ROLLS' COUR'F.-(THIS DAY.) The MASTER of the ROLLS took motions to.day, it being the second seal after Trinity Term, but no case of any particular irate• rest came before the Court. VICE-CHANCERY. -(THIS DAY.) (Before the VICE-CHANCELLOR of ENGLAND.) His Honour the VICE-CHANCELLOR of ENGLAND took motions to-day. THE MAYOR ♦ND CORPORATION OF CHESTER V. THE CHESTER ♦ND The arguments were not concluded when our Evening Editiop went to press. (Before the Vice-Chancellor KNIGLIT BRUCE.) Motions, it being the second seal, and the arguments in the cast of Pannell v. Hurley, occupied the Court the whole day. (Before the Vice-Chancellor WIGRAM.) His Honour took motions and causes to-day, none of which pot" sessed any points of interest. QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.) (fittings in Banco, before the full Court.) POE AND STAUNTON.—JUDGMENT. Lord DENMAN gave judgment in this case. His Lordship said that this was a motion for a new trial, on the ground of misdirec• tion. The action was originally brought against the defendant for • the infringement of a patent nipping lever, intended to sins plify the turning of ships' windlasses. No question was raised as to the utility of the invention. The Learned Judge on the trial, in summing up, had told the jury that though the applica tion was new the plaintiff did not claim the invention of the nip ping lever; and it was contended on the part of the defendant that the old lever applied to a new purpose did not constitute a right of patent, and his Lordship seemed to be also of this opinion. In the present case the means for applying the old invention to the new purpose was what was termed a sliding box, and that being also a novel invention, the Court was of opinion that the patent must be supported. The Learned Judge in the original case had told the jury that it was not necessary to inquire if the sliding box was a new invention, but from this opinion the Court entirely dissented. They thought the jury had been misdirected by the mode in which the case had beers stated to them, and they were agreed therefore that the rule for a nor trial should be made absolute, in consequence of the mode in which the case had been put to the jury. St. Schuld Sch., 3 Bills. Money. % per Cent ...... •• .. 100 1-12 99 7-1 2 Pruss. English Bonds, 1830, 4 per Cent:. Exchange on London, 2 months • • •• • • 6 25n 6 25% —Prussian State Gazette. June 28. BELGIAN I' UNDS.—BRuisELs, Jura- 1. Actual Debt, 2;., per Cent Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent-... Ditto Three per Cent.... • ..... • • • • • ... Ditto Thirty-seven Millions, ditto ...... Ditto, ditto, 1840.. "••• • • • • • 103 hi Ditto, ditto, 1844 „ ............ 102 Ditto of the City, 1832 101 Bank of Belgium.. • • • • 102% . • • • • • 636 —Brussels Papers, June 1. SERIOUS ACCIDENT DURING THE then WIND.--" On Tuesday, about noon, a youth named William Bassett, re siding in White-street, Snow's-fields, was proceeding along the cast end of George -road to dinner, when a small flower-pot was blown from one of the windows, which struck him a violent blow on the top of his head, causing him to fall insensible on the pavement. He was removed home, and subsequently to the hos pital, where he now lies in a very exhausted condition. THE LATE Ma. Somus.—Yesterday being the day appointed for the interment of the remains of Mr. Somes, the late celebrated and wealthy shipowner, at the family vault in Old Stepney church, the vessels of all nations lying in the docks and river had their colours lowered half-mast high, out of respect to the lamented and universally esteemed gentleman, FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE RECENT 1. - tEview,—Last evening Mr. Bedford held an inquest at St. George's Hospital, on the body of George Giles, aged 43, a linkman, of Edward's-place, St. Marylebone. Joseph Wood, a chimney-sweeper, said that on Monday last the deceased was in Hyde-park, with a couple of chairs and a board, which he converted into a stage for the accom. modation of persons wishing to witness the review. In order to ascertain if the platform was sufficiently strong, he stood upon it, and then gave a sudden jump, when the whole fell to pieees, and one of the side spars of a chair penetrated the body of deceased to the extent of nine or ten inches. The spar having been pulled out of the deceased's body, he was removed to the above institution. Mr. R. J. Spittan, one of the house-surgeons, said that deceased. when admitted, was severely injured in the rectum and other parts of the body, which was quite sufficient to cause death, which event took place on Tuesday last. Verdict, " Accidental death." The Duke of Wellington received a large circle of military officers last evening at dinner at Apsley House, Covers were laid for upwards of twenty guests. His Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, General Viscount Combermere. G C,8., and G.C.H., General the Marquis of Londonderry, G.C.B. and G.C.H., Lieut.-General Lord Fitzroy Somerset, K.C.8., Lieut.- General the Hon. E. P. Lygon, the Hon. Colonel H. F. C: Cavendish, Colonel Alexander Reid, Lieut.-Colonel J. 111`Douall, Lieut.-Colonel Berkeley Drummond, Colonel Home, Lieut.- Colonel C, F. R. Lascelles, Lieut.-Colonel Boldero, Lieut.-Colonel Ferguson, and several officers on duty at the review on Monday ware of the circle. THE CHARLTON FETE. —The fete champetre, which was to have taken place on Tuesday, was postponed until yesterday, in consequence of the inclemency of the weather, and the defection of Batty's troop of men and horses, who would not leave the entrenchments at Astley's. The weather, however, was very un favourable, but about four o'clock the rain ceased, when t'e Viennese dancers, and the Ojibway Indians, with the P.:iormers from Astley's, and Herr Joel from Vauxhall, elw.lged f rom t h e ir dripping retreats on the t en t e d fi eld, and Commenced their re spective capers for the amusement of the moist spectators. it was stated that upwards of 10,000 tickets had been sold ; therefore it is to be hoped that the Royal Neat Dispensary did not lose much by the inclemency of the weather. SUICIDE BY A PATIENT IN ST. BARTHOLOMEW's HOSPITAL—Last night Mr. J, Payne held an inquest in the board room of St. Bartholomew's Hospital on the body of Edward Welsh. aged twenty-six, a shoemaker, who committed suicide in the insti. tution by cutting his throat with a razor, from fear of losing his leg. Marla Davis, one of the nurses, said that the deceased was brought into the ward about three weeks ago, having a bad knee. About a quarter past twelve o'clock that morning while witness was attending to a patient, she heard a noise like the gurgling of a person's throat. On proceeding to thebed she observed a quantity of blood upon the floor. Witness immediately called up the sister, who sent fur Mr. Moore, the house surgeon. Mr. George Welsh, coffeehouse keeper, the deceased's brother, said that the deceased about six years ago re ceiv ed a blow on his knee with a hammer, which gra dually got worse, and latterly he was unable to walk. He was at Guy's Hospital three months, and was removed to this institution from that hospital, Witness supported his brother, who was fear. ful that he should not be able to earn his livelihood. Mr. C. H. Moore, house-surgeon, said that deceased had divided all the prin. cipal arteries, and that the wound was very extensive. Verdict-- " Temporary insanity." SINGULAR DEATH FROM A LEECH.—Yssterday, a man named James Vials, aged twenty-five years, died in Guy's Hospital, under the following singular;circumstances :—Last Wed nesday week the deceased, who was a groom to a gentleman re siding at Dulwich, was engaged in dressing a horse, when the animal severely kicked him on the right arm. Medical assistance was pro cured, and leeches were ordered, four of which were applied to the wound. In a short time three only of them could be seen, but it was supposed that the fourth had fallen off, and had got away, The deceased was the following day conveyed to the hospital. The wound and arm soon began to swell in a most unaccountable manner, when Mr. Forster, the house-surgeon, observed there was a slight discharge of matter oozing from the orifice. He deemed it prudent, in consequence, to open the arm, when, to his great surprise, he found the missing leech inclosed in the flesh, and quite dead. The leech must have crawled into the orifice of a very small wound in the arm, and it could not be seen. After the leech had been extracted from the arm, deceased went on very well for a week, when symptoms of inflammation of the veins ensued, which terminated with death. It is the opinion of the medical attendant that he has died from the effects of the wound having been Poisoned by the long presence of the leech within it. A CHILD DROWNED.— Yesterday afternoon Mr. Wakley, M.P., held an inquest at the Red Cap, Archway, Upper Hol. loway, Islington, on the body of Wm. Payne, aged two years. The deceased, who was playing in a garden, was reaching to touch a small fruit tree, when he lost his balance and fell into an adjoining ditch, where he was smothered before assistance could be afforded. Verdict..." Accidental death." HOLYHEAD RAILWAY COMPANY, Mr. BETHELL moved in this case upon notice, on behalf of the Mayor end Corporation of Chester, for an injunction to restrain the Chester and Holyhead Railway Company from carrying their line, AS they proposed to do, near the Chester race-course. The application was supported by the affidavits of several individuals, all of whom stated if the proposed line was carried out it would have the effect of ruining the race-course, which had existed for more than a century. DUTCH AND FLANDERS NiAILS. THE HAGUE, JUNE 30.—The First Chamber of the States- General having agreed to the address adopted by the Second a C ir h a a i m rs b o e f r tiiniethmeloenveynoifngsusirtitninamg Surinam, it twheas2psrthestetfaJledine relative to the the 27th by a deput a ti on o f b o th Chamters. to ' the King on His Majesty having received tht address returned the following answer : " Noble and Mighty Lords, " I feel the most lively Interest in the condition of the colony of Surinam. If the measures already ordered and prepared by me should require to be followed by a legislative measure, I shall pro pose it with confidence to the States-General." Tin anus, Juin 28.—1 t is said that his Majesty the King intends shortly to pay a visit to her Majesty the Queen of England. In the united sitting of the two Chambers to-day the ordinary session of 1844.1845 was closed, in the King's name, by the Mi nister of State, who has the direction of the affairs. AIE.LA-CHAPELLE, JUNE 28.—A petition addressed to the King was sent yesterday to Berlin. The object of this petition Is to ask for the extension of the system of prohibition in favour of the na tional manufactures, which are in ai ktate of distress. There are 2,000 signatures to this petition; Other petitions to the same effect have been signed in sereral cities in this province. DUTCH ~- UN DS.—AMSTERDAM, JUNE 30. Actual Debt o, 2% Mney. Bill s . per Cent.. •• •• .. • • • hitto, 3 per Cent .......... • • • • .• • •6• 78 78% Ditto, 4 per Cent.... ••.•• • • • 100% 101 Amort Syndic, 4y, per Cent. . Ditto, 3% per Cent........ •• •••• • • • 93 94 Commercial Company, 4% per Cent • • 156 156% East India Loan, 4 per Cent.. Exchange on London, at sight .....• • • 12 30 Two m0nth5............... 12 25 On Hamburgh, at sight ...• 35 81% Two m0nth5........... On Paris ........ •••• • • .• 57 25 Two months. PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, JUNE 27. ....".... RAI] Their I Lord Radr. 0x..a.54 w . e S T P l h v h h re i ol P hill ips clock Roche, statin the Committi Mr. MERR the consent of The CHAIR A discussic The Ccmm raernbers we r t G , h e ac Y to . AIR' Deal line t al t) ° , 7 b ee r ni e li n:a o t r ti 44,_ ember. + o wned till ,p 'a ll i T t ;Vite o i r n arn• it: G se i b r. nre g iz o ds e : . the ee t his dai of Lincoln ge ex tent of abo we ' to o k ~ e • oer i man,rinr whol; Miles°ln the wi • an d aha Mul l th . 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