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COMPANION TO THE PEERAGE. Now ready, in 2 vols., ro) al Svo., beautifully printed in double co- hunnz, 21. lOs. bound, - - BURKE'S HISTORY OF THE LANDED GENTRY; A GENEALOGICAL DICTIONARY OF THE UICTITLED ARISTOCRACY OF ENGLAND, SCOT- LAND, AND IRELAND. "A work in which every gentleman will find a domestic interest, as it contains the fullest account of every known family in the United Kingdom."—Messener. henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. NOTICE. JESSE'S NEW WORK. LITERARY AND HISTORICAL MEMORIALS OF LONDON, IS NOW READY, And may be had of all Booksellers, Two Volumes Bvo., with Illnstrations, 28s. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. (Publisher ho Ordinary her Majesty•) MR. In the Press, in 011 G volume Svo., THE HISTORY and ANAT OMY of the NAVIGATION L AWS. By JOHN LEWIS RICARDO, MP. London Charles Gilpin, 5, Bishopsgate-street Without. Just published, 12mo. Price 3s. bds. DIGEST of the LAWS relating to BRIBERY and TREATING at ELECTIONS of MEMBERS to serve In PARLIAMENT and for the better DISCOVERY thereof; illus trated by the CASES decided In the COMMITTEES of the HOUSE OF COMMOIIS and COURTS OF LAW. With an Appendix, con taining the Statutes. By JAMES COOK EVANS, Esq., 01 Lincoln's Inn. Barrister -at - law. London: Thomas Blenkarn,l9, Chancery-lane. GENERAL ELECTION. PUNISIIIIPNT OF DEATH. The COMMITTEE of the SOCIETY for the ABOLITION of CAPITAL PUNISHMENT have the satisfaction to announce that the following Candidates for the Representation of the City of Lon don, and of the Metropolitan Boroughs, have signified their deter mination to Vote for the Abolition of the Punishment of Death : John Masterman, Esq ..Candidate for the City. James Pattison, E5q....... ... The Baron Lionel Rothschild.. Sir George Larpent ••• • • • • • J. W. Freshfield, Esq. • •• • • . William Payne, Esq... • - George Thompson, E5q....... Charles Lnshington, Esq. •• .. C. Tennyson D'Eyncourt, Esq. Charles Pearson, Esq.. • • 11/ 1 , 7 ft If f t Tower Hamlets. ft TO Westminster. „ Lambeth.. Sir Benjamin Hall, Candidate for Marylebone ; and J. Humphery, Esq., Candidate for Southwark, have also always voted in favour of tins measure. --_. Signed on behalf of the Committee, CHARLES GILPIN, 1 Hon. Sees. FREDERIC ROWTON, .5 5, Bishopsgate-street Without, July 26, 1847. WESTMINSTER ELECTION. The COMMITTEE for conducting the ELECTION of Sir DE LACY EVANS and CHARLES LUSHINGTON, Esq., call upon the Liberal Electors to exercise their usual activity and public spirit by giving assistance in their respective Local Committees to se cure the return of those gentlemen, and the Committee remind the free and enli4hteued electors of Westminster, that to maintain their high standing among the constituencies of the empire, men whose private and public character will command the respect of the Legis lature and the nation must be selected as their representatives in the Commons House of Parliament. E. P. BOUVERIE, Chairman. THOMAS PROUT, } Deputy Chairmen. GILBERT POUNCEY, GEORGE HUGGETT, Secretary. LOCAL COMMITTEES. Golden Lion, Dean-street. St. Ann's, Soho • • ...... • St. Clement Danes.. • • • • .. St. Mary-le-Strand • • •... Crown and Anchor Tavern, Strand. Precinct of the Savoy .. • • St. George's Inward ...... Granby Tavern, South Audley-street. St. George's Outward .... Flask Tavern, Flask-row, Pimlico. St. James's ..............Crown, Broad-street. St. John the Evangelist • • Coach and Horses, North-street. St. Margaret's ••• • • • • Storey's Gate. St. Margaret's Outward •• Trevor Arms, Knightsbridge. St. Martin's .... Staunard's Hotel, Upper Wellington. St. Paul, Covens garden .. / street, Covent-garden. Central Committee, 27, Regent-street, corner of Jermyn street, July 26, 1847. RAILWAY SHARES BY PUBLIC SALE. 31 ESSRS. LAMOND and Co., RAILWAY SHARE AUCTIONEERS, beg to thank their Friends and ,he Public for their continued 'support and patronage, and to ennoance ihat their Public Sales of Railway shares, &c., tak, plate every 17EnstEsD4r, at One o'clock, (instead of uesday and Friday, al hitherto), at the 1.10 of Cymmerc.e, Threa,lheectic street, London, to which pl ace, ftvours, ,:ontaintra . imuructions (tyith a reference), are rsr.pectniPy r;r,t,este.l t , be addressed. All ,;orip ant Share cer,,ttcatcs Joust be depooteo, the day previous to their being offered ; ani adrlcee or results will be In-warded by the ffrit post after the sale, ant tin preceadA imme dAte,V dispcs ,,, l of accorr%hg, to instmetions. N.B. Sales and purchases of all descriptions of stock and shares effected by private contract, every day, as usual. ;IA Commerce. Tiueadnec i tee t. T,ondon. HER MAJEATY'S TiIEATRE. THE LAST NIGHT BUT TWO OF THE SUBSCRIPTION. THIS F.VENING (Tuesday), July the 27th, will be performed (tor the last time), Donizetti' Opera. entitled LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR. Lucia, Mad. Castellan; Edgardo, Signor Fraschini; Bidebeul signor Solari ; and Enrico, Signor Coletti. To conclude with the admired Ballet Divertissement (by M. Perro' the music by Signor Pugni), entitled LE JUGEMENT DE PARIS, Comprising " Le Pas des Deesses." Mdlles. Taglioni, Rosati, and Cerito (Les Deesses); Mdlle. Petit Stephan and Mdlles. James and Honore (Les Graces) ; M. St. Leon (Paris) ; 31 , 111 e. Lamoreux (L'Arnour) ; Mdlle. Julien (L'Hymen); Mdlles. Canaan and Thevenot (Nymphs) ; and M. Perrot (Mercure). The Free List is suspended, the Public Press excepted. Pit Tickets may be obtained, as usual, at the Office of the Theatre, price 10s. 6d. each. Applications for boxes, pit stalls, and tickets, to be made at the Box-office, at the theatre. The Doors will be opened at Half-pant Seven, and the perform ance commence at Eight o'clock. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE The Nobility, Subscribers to the Opera, and the Public, are re- Spectfially informed, that an EXTRA NIGHT will take place on THURSDAY NEXT, July 29, when will be performed the highly successful nelr Opera, composed expressly for her Majesty's Theatre, by Sig. Verdi, entitled I MASNADIERE. The libretto founded ón the drama of " The Robbers," by Schil ler. with new scenery, dresses, and decorations. Amelia, Mdlle. Jenny Lind ; Carlo, Sig. Gardoni ; Francesco, Sig. Coletti ; Moger, Sig. Bonche ; Arminio, Sig. Corelli ; 3tola, Sig. Dai Fiori ; Massimiliano, Sig. Lablache. With various entertainments in the Ballet department, in which Mdlle. Taglioni, Mdlle. Carolina Rosati, * and 31dlle. Cerito, will appear. THEATRE ItO YAL, lIA YMA RKE T. Under the Management of Mr. B. Webster, sole Lessee. THIS EVENING Will be performed the Comedy of TIIE CLANDESTINE MAR RIAGE. Lord Ogleby, Mr. W. Farren; Lovewell, Mr. Holl ; Ster ling, Mr. Tilbury ; Brush, Mr. Buckstone ; Mrs. Heidelberg, Mrs. Glover; Fanny Sterling, Miss J. Bennett; Betty, Mrs. Humby. To conclude with the Comic Drama, called A CABINET QUES noN. To be followed by MT WIFE'S MOTHER. Uncle Foozle, Mr. Barren; Mr. Budd, Mr. Holl ; Mrs. Quickfldget, Mrs. Glover; Mrs. Budd, Miss Julia Bennett. To conclude with the new comic drama, called THE JACOBITE, Sir Richard Wronghton, Mr. Stuart ; John Duck, Mr. Buckstone ; Lady Somerford, Miss Fortescue. TREAT ftE ROYAL. ADELPH I. Under the direction of Madame Celeste THIS EVENING Will be produced a new and original comedy in three acts, called THE TITLE DEEDS. Principal characters by Messrs. Lambert, Wright, Paul Bedford, 0. Smith, Boyce, M yaunrd, C. J. Smith, Worrell ; Mrs. Yates, Miss Woo!gar, Miss E. Harding, Balm E. Chaplin. Mrs. Laws, After which (never acted), a New and Original Farce, called HOW TO SETTLE ACCOUNS WITH YOUR LAUNDRESS. Principal characters t,y Messrs. T Wright, Munyard, and Redmond Ryan ; and Misses Woolgar and Emma 'larding. To conclude with a new and original burletta, in one act, by Charles Selby, Esq., called OUT ON THE SLY ; or, A Fete at Rosherville THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. (Summer Scam—Lyceum Company.) THIS EVENING Win be performed a drama, called THE KING'S WORD. • To be followed by a new drama, cat ed TciE NINTH HOUR. Loafs Bagnette, Mr. Emery; Charlotte Menard, Miss Daly. icier which (first time), a new Farce entiflial GUN COTTON Principal characters by Messrs. Johnson, Oxbery, and Turner ; Mrs. Griffiths and Miss Arden. To be followed by anew Ballet Divertissem nt, produced under the direction o:• Mr. F. exinore, caard ;HE ROCK OF BEAUTY, to which the Spanist. Dancers will appear. To conclude with 4 new and original drama, in two acts, entitled .FLEUR DE DVS ; or, Love's Triumph. Comte de Marigny, Mr. Bender, Maurice Vermont, Mr. Murray; Co quadrat, Mr. Oxbeny ; :Pompon Mongflard, Mr. George Wild ; Fleur de Lys, Miss Ellen Daly ; Isabel de Marigny, Hiss Arden. itINCES!x'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREEr. J. M. Maddox, sole I,s:ice and Mu - lager. Tills EVENING. 'WM be presented the comic Drama entitled USED UP. Sir Charles Coldstream, Mr. C. Mathews. To be followed by T LIR BARBER BRAVO. After which the new farce, entitled A SOVEREIGN REMEDY. Captain Pendragon, Mr. Ryder ; Mr. Bottleby, Mr Granby ; Qttackit. Mr. C. Mathews; Alfred, Mr. J. Webster; Mrs. Botleby, Mrs. Fosbmke ; Mary, Miss Marshall. To conclude with a new farce, entitled EARLY CLOSING; er .a Night at the Casino. FRENCH PLAYS.—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Lessee. Mr. John Mitchell. • TO-MORROW EVENING win be presented the popular Comenie-vaudeville of UNE DAME DE L'ZMPIRE. Principal characters by M. Dumery, M. Alsxis Leen • M a d a me Ceneau, Madame Orassau, and Mdlle. Ceneau. To Cnisclude with Soumet's celebrated play of vIR-GINIE. Ap. - pins Claudius, M. Raphael Felix; Fausta, M. Rabu , ; Mdlle. Rachel. Reserved seats, Dress Boxes, 7s. 6d. ; Pit, 55.; Amphitheatre, ss. ; -Gallery, 3s. Boxes and Stalls may be engaged at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 23. Old Bond-street, and at the 13°x-office of the Theatre, daily, from IL till 5 ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Proprietor and Manager. Mr. William Batty. THIS EVENING Lord Myron's equestrian spectacle of MAZEPPA; or, The Wild Morse. With all its original effects. To conclude with a favourite Afterpiecc. Entirely new Scenes in the Arena, by the talented Artistes of Ihe Itotahlishment, in the various modes of equestration. Stage Manager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Under ihe Management of Mrs. Frances Dtividge, Lessee. THIS EVENING Will be press.nted Shakspere's tragedy of OTHELT,O. Othello, Mr. George Bennett; lago, Mr. Lyon; Casslo, Mr. Henry Marston; Desdemoisa, Mrs. Ware ; Emilia, Mrs. Henry Vining. To conclude with the comic Drama of PAST FOUR O'CLOCK. Hoses, 23., Pit, Is.; Gallery, 6d. Doors open at Six, commence lialf-prst Six. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. First Representation of SBAKSPERE'3 muTti-PLACE. The Harmonic Rock Band every Evening. On MONDAY, July 26, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. The celebrated Band of the Establishment, seleeted from the Queen's Private Band, the Coldstreams, and the elite of M. Jullien's Band, NT ,11 perform a Grand Selection of Ancient and Modern Music, Daylight View of Gibraltar. Splendid Menagerie. Shakspere's Birth P ace, from Drawings b y Alfred Crowquill. the C e l e b rated narrnoi neon Band will also perform at intervals, con:lading with the Siege of. Gibraltar. Feed big the MAMA, , sat Five; Jullien's Concert, Quarter-pa s t Si x ; Fire ws rkS, QUaArtdorail n-Ntinoeih—eNwo'heoxlet,raOicliel.aSrhglleling. P s a s Ot in London, SUNDAY , AUGUST I . Goods rood "Laces an Bar Life and incidents; engravings of thre e Plate Prizes--The Thames Regatta, ricket, and all the week. Aqueitie Spor:s of the Average sale of Bell's Lye in London. 27,000. A sixpence, or six postage • stein ips, e nc l ose d to Mr. Clement, un•, 170, Strand, will intewe a copy of Bell's Life by return of port to any part oV-Englano, Scotland, or Ireland. -YOIIIC AND NEWCASTLE RAILWAY. — The London , .1311okers' Ci rcu l ars, after naming t h e di ss atisfaction fe l t by many sh are h o l ders in the a b ove c:an ParlY at the tare as of amalgamation proposed with the Berwick it iil way,, and th e i r d etermination to oppose the same S'AyS : 3harelsolder s are provErbialy supine, and prcsiuri on them by the directors; but ;ss financial provisions is gone by, and it ,rk end Newcastle proprietors to look well and see that they are not unjustly bur learn the Liverpool shareholders are meeting on the subject . , bein g determined proposed terms by every means in their cool Riga and St. Peterburgh report a gel in the grain markets. A t hit=s stocks ' o f a ll 4 234 Tiptions were small. In other articles al s o ina e ti v iv prevailed. Exchange had again slightly de clined.. T WEATHFR.—SrN OFFICE, JULY 27. T,;;;} - ,31 . 61WETE11., Lowelt, 55; Highest. 70 ; Noon. 72, BA RoNETEtt. 30.0 --WIND IC.N.W.; fine. IIPIII WAII:R AT I r,NDON-lIP.IDEIF , THIS DAY. Morningi.. 5 mmutes aftPr 1. j Evening.. 30 rninntEs fitter 1 e1ny,..4-A-6,-.--,, ct,... , .., 7 . c,, . . .:,,,....,.. 4 ..., --, 4 ki7i** • . 2: j: . • •):' .. t . k . s , 4 , 41 _ p , „ .... --. ~ rorr 14 g e . . , S loess g ...r, - .41..t. Fti 4._%se ci,.‘10,,,,:„u;..) -.0' .. Sx. 1 ,-- ~. 'e ''-- - .:7 , ' 7,- : , `-nr" 4 6 c . V ~ A EL , -- 1 ., r), --,,,,,,..447- ' • akW tl :74 '4::R our W'L: ,'-‘4"--- , t ,,• ~ -.- _...„, , , j 'THE SUN, LONDON, Obvning Q"= LONDON, TUESDAY, JULY 27, 1847. Elections will come off in rapid succession through out the provinces during the ensuing fortnight. Ex traordinary is the excitement pre'valent already in the different boroughs. The saw and hammer are even now busily plied for the immediate erection of the temporary hustings. Electioneering committees are involved in the toils of preparation. Candidates are roving from house to house, canvassing with unusual assiduity. Party cries are scarcely so numerous as formerly, but the belligerent forces—the popular majority, and the stand-still minority, the Free-trade Liberals, and the Protectionist Tories, the lovers of cleanliness, and the advocates of their own inalienable dirt, the supporters of the Government, and the very "awkward squad" of Lord GEORGE BENTINCK—are confronted upon the various local arenas. Every independent elector must buckle up for the contest as earnestly as if the destinies of the empire depended upon his solitary decision. That is the true philosophy of Parliamentary elections ; that is the only substantial guarantee for success ; that is the undoubted precursor of victory and exultation. Let it not be forgotten—let every Liberal wear it in his heart—let him wear it as an amulet against de feat, and as a talisman for the realisation of his most cherished expectations. A rather motley spectacle is presented by the position of affairs in the principal commercial cities of Great Britain. We shall enumerate them with as much brevity as is consonant with distinctness. Four we have already, namely, in our yesterday's im pression, particularised—London, Manchester, Liver pool, and Glasgow. We have recommended, and will still recommend, the concentration in those dif ferent cities of the Liberal influence for the victorious return of their several popular candidates —RUSSELL, PATTISON, ROTBSCHILD, and LARPENT, for the representation of the first; GIBSON and BRIGHT for the representation of the second ; &Run for the representation of the third ; :MACGREGOR and ilAsm for the representation of the fourth. The qualifications of tho:e eminent candidates are as un equalled as the liberality of their principles is un questionable. Notiiiiig but a traitorous and inex cusable indolence can transform the propitious auguries of their canyn,;s into discomfiture. Nothing hut a superior vigilance among the supporters of their antagonists can divert the suffrages of those distin.. guished constituencies from the national cause to the cause of a Quixotic faction. Unless BIRMINGHAM at last relieve itself from the incubus of Conservatism, in the person of its late representative, Mr. R. SPOONER, and asso ciate Mr. G. F. MENTZ with Mr. W. SCHOLEFIELD, a candidate of indisputable honesty, and a man bear ing moreover in his name the prestige of his father's honourable reputation, the independent elec• tors will be justified in regarding with suspicion and incredulity the nominal liberality of that emporium of our inland manufactures. Mr. MUNTZ, under all circumstances, may count upon a triumphant recep tion from those constituents who have hitherto found him the untiring promoter of every measure calculated to ameliorate the condition of the labouring classes. In Birmingham we are satisfied that the necessity for a currency reformation will not be forgotten. At LEEDS popularity seems to be concentrating around the banners of one Liberal candidate, at least, namely, Mr. JAMES GARTH MARSHALL. Leeds will, doubt less, bear in recollection the necessity of an uncondi tional diffusion of secular knowledge through the agency of national education. Mr. BAINES and Dr. Rom( will at least have done good service to the cause of popular instruction,. by exciting discussion upon a matter of such paramount consideration among a constituency of so much intelligence. From the friction of debates, such as those excited latterly in Leeds, the truth must ultimately shine with reful gence. YORK is still unhappily abandoned to that obtuse section of politicians which, if encouraged, would infallibly stultify all the more generous efforts of a patriotic Legislature. BUCKINGHAM, in like manner, continues a pocket constituency, almost as glaringly as in the heyday infamy of the rotten boroughmongering system. GLOUCESTER Will as suredly return none other than the Honourable Captain M. F. F. BERKELEY, a resolute Liberal, and one of her MAJESTY'S Lords of the Admi ralty, associating with him, Mr. W. P. PRICE, of Tibberton-court, an athocate for popular measures, who appears on the retirement of Mr. J. PHILPOTTS In Captain BERKELEY we cannot distinguish any of that unconstitutional sycophancy to the Lord of Berkeley Castle, which, in our estimation, utterly disqualifies Mr. GRENVILLE BERKELEY for the re• presentation of West Gloucestershire. Mr. GREN- VILLE BERKELEY is notoriously the nominee of Earl FITZHAUDINGE, and consequently his election must proclaim with a damnirn distinctness the corruption and venality of the iraLpendent electors. For this reason we are persuaded that the Hon. G. C. GRANTLEY F. BERKELEY IS a preferable candidate. Even with a vivid remembrance of hi 3 rather ugly revelations, even with a recollection of his long tailoring scores with STurrz, and his indecorous violence both of vituperation and self-defence, we arf• convinced that the Hon. GRANTLEY BERKELEY is candidate immeasurably preferable to Air. GREN VILLE BERKELEY. The latter is the overt puppet of Earl FITZPIARDINGE, the former is a sort of enthu siastic rebel—one that in the delirium of a political emancipation hitherto unknown to him would almost at a pinch swear fealty to the Charter, and march under the banners of Radicalism. A rebel Liberal free from the thraldom of a peer, is better surely than the passive instrument and pliant mouthpiece of that peer. The one may become the puppet of the populace, the other is the puppet of a nobleman. For I-luLL, Mr. J. CLAY promises admirably. For NOILWICH, Mr. PETO is singularly suited, and for READING, Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD has a brilliant prospect of heading the poll. To-morrow we shall resume our synopsis of the pro vincial elections, and their antagonistic candidates. Meanwhile let two incentives keep alive the enthusi asm of the Liberal electors—two incentives—two words--COURAGE !—ACTIVITY ! It has repeatedly been our painful duty to direct the public attention to instances of the abuse of power. by occupants of the magisterial bench. A more flagrant case has, however, seldom occurred than one reported to have taken place at Wellington on Monday last, and which we have extracted from the columns of a respected contemporary, the Somerset County Gazette. A boy named WINTER, only eleven years of age, was charged with having stolen a few (twelve) apples. The magistrates con sidered the charge proved, and in the exercise of their discretion, tempering justice with mercy, they sen tenced the unfortunate child to "four months' im prisonment with hard labour, to be once privately and once publicly w hipp e d, th e p u bli c whipping to be through the town of Wellington." Can this be c poss ? possible i n merry England in the n i neteen th century Can thi s b e th e resu l t o f t h e i mprove d legislati on th at has talc Parliament ? I s it crediblen t p h l a a t ce tha u t n f d o e r r a reformed mofpunis h. men t, so revolting to everyhuinane . mind, so degrading to the unfortunate s ufferer a , nd o v. injuriou s to health, gaohudrof constitution of have th s . unk . in . a that men in full strength have fallen victims to its effect: spectator-- brief period under the fatal resu ' lts 30 brtlta!iiiir.;* alid th . lnoral:zing one that had practically IK-come obsolete, person fallen into disc-e, is to be revived on the wretched child, and the whole town andpnesigoiniboof a 1 to every e Infliction, hood disgusted, to gratify the caprice of a few ma a i r s . terial Solons ; and with the addition of another flog ging (in private) and four months' confinement, asso ciated with depraved and abandoned characters, who will speedily initiate him in every description of villany, and banish any hesitation or remnants of a better feeling that may possibly still remain ? Indeed, the nature of the 7unishment is such, that if suffend to be carried into execution it must have the most ruinous effects on the future prospects of the poor lad, and consign him to a life of hopeless misery, in constant and unceas ing opposition to the laws. Who is there that would give employment to the criminal who had been pub icly exposed in the town.? who would make an -ffort for the reclamation of the hardened offender, who bore about his person the indelible marks of his degradation? No possible means of earning an honest livelihood would remain open to him, and he would necessarily fall into the snares of those who are ever on the watch for youthful victims, and who would find him reckless and slesperate, a ready in ,truinent for their vile purposes. And all th;s is re quired in vindication of the majesty of the law, for the theft of a few paltry apples by an offender of eleven years of age. Desirable as it is to have our criminal code purged from all unnecessary severity, to have the scale of punishments so judiciously arranged, that crime shall be repressed and a fitting retribution inflicted on the evil-doer, that he may be deterred from future offences, and a salutary example afforded to all of the consequences of guilt—the manner of the administra tion of that law is of still greater importance. It would be better for the people to have cruel and sanguinary laws administered by learned, discreet, humane, and temperate men, duly qualified for the discharge of the duties of their station, than to have the most perfect system of law that ever emanated from merely human wisdom interpreted by ignorant and headstrong men, wholly unfitted either by previous education, or habits of life, for so great a trust. Every error is excused on the grounds of its being unintentional, occasioned by a want of knowledge of, or a mistake in, the law, or by an over anxiety and zeal for the public benefit. 'these may be good grounds for extending pardon to individual justices, but they furnish no satisfactory reasons why the power which has so often been abused should still be continued in their hands. It is a trite maxim, that the value of a legal opinion is what it costs, and that a gratuitous one is literally good for nothing. The same may with greater truth be asserted of the gratuitous administration of the law ; indeed, it may be extended considerably, for it is, generally speaking, not merely good for nothing, but occasions very serious mischief, and is in the highest degree injurious to the best interests of the nation. There can be no satisfactory reason assigned fora perseverance in the present system. The most seri ous difficulty in the way of a change that formerly existed, viz., the great expense that would be entailed on the nation by the appointment of competent per sons, at fitting salaries, to perform the functions here tofore entrusted to justices of the peace, has been re moved by the appointment of county judges. These gentlemen have had full notice that they are to undertake all such further duties as Parliament may choose to entrust them with, and that without further remuneration. Here, then, we find tribunals actually constituted, to which the criminal jurisdiction now exercised by magistrates might be most beneficially transferred. The pre siding judge must be (with some few exceptions) a barrister of seven years standing, responsible to public opinion for the manner in which he may act, and on whose behalf no alleged incapacity or igno rance of the law can be put forward to avert the censure that would justly follow any error in judg ment or indiscreet exercise of his judicial authority. It is no new or untried project, for it has been acted on in Ireland for many years with the happiest re sults. In that country the assistant barrister (a person similarly qualified to the English county judge) presides at quarter sessions, and not merely decides all civil eases, within a cer tain limit, but also tries criminals, and clears the calendar of all but cases of the gravest importance. The system has acted well, and has completely re moved the complaints, that were universal throughout the country previous to its adoption. Why should it not be brought into operation in England also ? A few more sentences such as that pronounced on the child WINTER, and the people will insist on an altera tion ; we shall earnestly hope that it may be maturely considered by the Ministers during the recess, and that a just and comprehensive measure may be in troduced immediately on the meeting of the new Par liament. Letters from Rome of the 18th confirm the intel ligence which we published yesterday of the discovery of a conspiracy of the Serviles, for a general massacre of Liberals, on the 17th, the anniversary of the amnesty. Paid agents were, it is said, to have created an alarm among the multitude assembled on the occasion, and to have thrown daggers at the feet of the soldiers, to induce a belief that it was intended to murder them. Fifty malefactors were to have been let loose from the prisons into the Piazza del Popolo, shortly before the fireworks, in order to occasion confusion. The popular Chief CICERRUAC CHIO discovered the whole on the 15th. The people immediately demanded the suspension of the feast, and the POPE having ordered the immediate arma ment of the National Guard, upwards of 2,000 of the most respectable citizens applied to the authori ties for arms, and succeeded in maintaining public tranquillity. Cardinal FERRETI, the new Secre tary of State, arrived at Rome on the 16th. The people received him with acclamation, and in the evening there was a general illumination. The first act of Cardinal FERRETS was to dismiss and exile Monsignor GaassELom, the Governor of Rome, Allowing him only twenty-four hours to quit the city. M. GRASSELLINI opposed no resistance and instantly set out for Naples. The following placard was posted up in Rome on the day the conspiracy was discovered : " NOTICE TO THE PEOPLE. " Instructions of Cardinal Lambruschini and Cardinal Nardoni, left to the under-mentioned, for the execution of a popular tragedy. " INFAMOUS ACTORS. " _Monsignor Grassellini, governor-general of the police of Rome. " Colonel Freddi, president of the famous military commission at the mournful period of 1844. " Captains Allai and Muzzarelli. " Lieutenants Gianuci, Sangiorgi, and Benvenuti, Lieutenant of Monsignor Grassellini, assessor of the Government. Minerdi, a celebrated spy. " Vincenp Moroni, brother of the Inspector-General of the Post office. " The Chevalier Bertola. " Sergeant Pontini. " Three sons of the notorious spy Galanti; and " Fior Avanti Patoca. " All devoted to the eternal execration of the people." Colonel FREDDI escaped at the moment some Na tional Guards entered his house to arrest him. They found his servants burning papers with so much precipitation that they set on fire the curtains of his bedchamber. Captain MUZZARELLI and BERTOLA were apprehended, and the former would have been murdered by the populace had not Prince ALEX ANDRO Toßnoma and Prince I.IOiPIGLIOSI interfered. The brothers GALANT! had made their escape. Va rious other persons had been arrested, and the disclosures of the prisoners, and the papers seized in their possession, had already thrown much light on the conspiracy. The National Guard was being armed and equipped in all haste, and several princes had offered the ground floors of their palaces to es tablish temporary posts. The troops of the garrison and even the gendarmes, in whom the conspirators placed every confidence, fraternized with the people. Colonel BINI, commanding a battalion of chasseurs, several officers of which were compromised in the plot, had visited all the posts of the National Guard, and declared, with tears in his eyes, that he was to tally ignorant of the designs of those officers. The conspiracy is attributed to the machinations of the Jesuits, assisted by the agents of Austria. Madrid papers of the 20th have arrived. The QUEEN was to hold a levee at La Granja, on the 24th, in honour of the birth-day of her mother, at which the Ministers were expected to attend. The KING has returned to the Fred°, having been refused permission to occupy tha palace at Madrid during the absence of the QUEEN, seeing that he did not choose to occupy it so long as she remained there. Gen. Ros DE OLANO is appointed governor cf La Graill.during the residence of the QUEEN. The Captain• General of Burgos announces that the Queen's troops on the 17th and 18th attacked and completely diTersed the Carlist band of EL ESTU DIENTE. Previous to the attack six of the Carlists, among whom was a parish priest named JIMIA.II URRECHO, made their submission, and claimed the benefit or the amnesty. MADRID BOLSA, JULY 20.—The Three per Cents. wEre done at 261 for cash; the Five per Cents. at 174 for paper; and the Dcbt witht.ut interest at 5i for cash. We have received the Paris papers of Sunday. The greater number of them rt review of sct,ion, which has lasted the ginni.,g of January—a session most barren of results in a legis lative point of view, but most important as modifying the state of parties, and most damaging to the Execu tive, as exposing the wholesale system of corruption by which the Government of France has for years past been managed. The Pres.ve thus sums up the legislative results of the past session : " The session has lasted seven full months, to produce —what ? 1. The ratification of the treaty by which the Minister of the Marine places four steam-frigates, which he had built, at the disposal cf Messrs. Herout and Co. 2. Authority given to the Bank of France to issue notes of 200 francs. 3. Permission given to the Minister of Finance to borrow 350 millions. 4. The budget, and innumerable credits ;" while the Constitutionnel declares that " all the important Acts that the Government has accom plished for several years have borne their fruit all at once, in this year 1847. The seed was sown at other periods, but it is now we have gathered the crop." The first great feature of the session was the self glorification of M. GIIIZOT from the tribune at the clever manner in which he had " done " England on the subject of the Spanish marriages, but when the means in which that grand coup had been accomplished became known, when it was proved that the Minister had not only deceived England by mean equivocations, and Spain by "enormous lying," but that he had also attempted to deceive the Chambers by wilfully garbling official documents, he found that, like all over clever people, he had at length overmatched himself. The im plicit faith which had before been given to the asser tions of M. GUIZOT was shaken ; it was imagined that those charges of corruption which, on his simple denial of them, had heretofore been treated with contempt, might be true; those charges were reiterated, investigation was demanded, and the cor ruption was proved. Is it too much to suppose that but for the proved un trustworthiness of M.Guizoi in the affair of the Spanish marriages, his word would have been sufficient to have shielded his colleague, and M. TESTE would have been spared the disgrace, and M. GUIZOT the suspicion, under which they now severally labour? Thus bath " even-banded justice " commended " the ingred_ents of the poisoned chalice to his own lips?' True, he is now the head of the Cabinet, but it is a Cabinet of which the Currier Francais (and it expresses in this instance the feelings of the great bulk of the educated people of France) thus speaks : " We beg pardon of England, we beg pardon of the restoration ! We insulted them in comparing Messrs. Guizot and Duchatel to Sir Robert Walpole, and to Messrs. de wale and Polignac. We confess our error, for there is not in history any term of comparison for our Ministers. There is no possible parallel to be drawn between the evil our Ministers have inflicted on France, and the evil which, in other times, and in other countries, other Ministers may have done to their country. Our rulers have reached the ideal of corruption. They may 1e proud of themselves. In the present time, as well as the past, they are without equals and rivals. We are beginning to find Sir Robert Walpole less despicable and M. Polignac less odious. Who would have thought so in 1830 ? Who could have supposed that a day would come when we should experience such sentiments and hold such language ?' The Constitulionnel thus describes the effect of the Spanish marriage intrigues— " The Spanish marriages," says our contemporary, " had the effect, at the commencement of the ses.ion, of producing the mutilated and curtailed publication of official documents, which had to be completed afterwards on the summons of England, ihe disclosure of the un worthy jeu de mots by which M. Guizot deceived Lord Normanby ; the disrespect in which our Cabinet is held in the world ; the sacrifice of the people of weak countries everywhere ; the delivery of Cracow to the three Powers ; the threatening of liberal Switzerland by us iu concert with Austria ; the isolation of France concealed by culpable means ; the boasts of .M. Guizot, that he had conquered the Mediterranean, and at the same time Madrid, perpetuating hereditary scandals ; our Ambassador.sent away from Spain, our alliance re viled on the other side of the Pyrennees, a redoubtable question of succession hanging over the future, and the Chamber declaring itself satisfied by a vote with this disastrous development given to the policy of family at the expense of the policy of the State, and of the princi ples of liberty." It then proceeds to comment on the railway jobbing, the frauds and the financial blunders on the part of the Ministers and their subordinates, which have been brought to light by the Committees of the Chambers, the Ministerial corruption as revealed by the recent trials, and the threatened revela tions of still further scandals of a similar nature, as the natural results of a system which depends for its very existence on the abuse of the powers placed in its hands by the constitution. The National has a long article on the affairs of Switzerland, in the course of which it proves that the threatened intervention of M. GuizoT in aid of the Sonderbund is treason to the revolution of July, to which the KING of the FRENCH owes his throne. After stating that in fact the projected insurrection o f th e Sonderbund against the decree of the Diet is an Ultratnontane and Jesuit movement, it thus pro ceeds : " It is important to understand this in order that we m ay be thoroughly aware of the point to which M. Guizot wishes to lead us. This champion of established authorities encourages a revolt of Ultramontanists and Jesuits. The question of Switzerland is no longer a question merely of constitutional right. The language of the Deputies of Fribourg and Lucerm , Faye no doubt on that head. In support of this view we may, if necessary, call attention to the language of the correspondent of the Journal des Debats, in his letter of yesterday. It is a question of a fresh antagonism between the two principles which divide the world. and agitate Europe —of a fight between the spirit of liberty and the spirit of the holy alliance. The at tempt to designate these as the spirit of order and the spirit of disorder is absurd. No one now-a days is de ceivt-d by these used up' worth. One of the orators of the Catholic league has given us a more happy rendering of the spirit of disorder iu accusing it of having given birth to new ideas, and engendered the revolution of July. These are the doctrines of the men to whom M. Guizot proffers assistance. It is to aid a counter-revolution at its last gasp that he talks of interfering in Switzerland. If M. Guizot has made such promises, we beg to remind him that, although Ministers may propose, it is for France alone to dispose." The Afoniteur of Sunday publishes a comparative table of the principal articles of merchandise im ported into France during the first six months of the years 1845, 1846, and 1847, with the amount of the duties received, and the quantities remaining in the entrepots at the end of June of the present year. From this account it appears that the import duties in France have gradually decreased. In 1845 the total amount of these duties was 75,95 9 ,014 f.; in 1846, 74,676,000 f. ; and in 1847, 65,956,675 f. The principal diminutions are in corn, cotton-wool, yarn, and woollens. The duty upon corn, which in the first six months of 1845 produced 2,203,970 E, and in 1846, 7,381,258 E, produced in 1847 only 1,989,836 f. Cotton-wool producedin 1845, 7,576,397 E, and in 1846, 7,057,863 E, while in 1847 it only pro duced 4,764,661 f. The duty on linen yarn, in 1845, was 2,720,674 E; in 1846, 1,542,731 f.; and in 1847, 796,159 f. Woollens produced, in 1845, 4,778,981 f. ; in 1846, 3,231,297 f.; and in 1847, 2,478,700 E The duties on cast iron have increased from 1,611,691 f. in 1845, to 2,818,8191. in 1847. Copper is without any material variation ; tin has diminished one•half; lead has increased, but to a trifling amount ; and zinc has increased, from 11,049 E, the amount of duty in 1845, to 40,9861., the amount in 1847. In sugar there is a slight diminution, and in coffee a slight increase, but none of them are of material im portance. M. PELLAPRA. on Friday sent 10,000 f. to the Pre fect of Police, to be employed in liberating from prison debtors cf the labouring class. He attended the Opera the evening of his liberation. Count BRESSON has been appointed Ambassador to Naples. The illoniteur Algerein, of the 20th instant, an nounces that General BEDEAU took possession of the Government of Algeria on the 19th. The price of flour continued to diminish on the Paris 13ourse on Saturday. None was sold above 921 per sack of 159 kilogrammes, and the ordinary sort only fetched from 84f. to 861. The Three per Cents. were done in the Passage de l'Opera on Sunday, at 77f. 40c. BUSINESS DONE IN FORD'AGrN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCEIANGE,Jutx 26. Boulogne and Amiens, 13', 7 i, —Ceylon, LA—Demerara —East Indian, 14 —Luxembourg, I—Northern of Frlnce, 12 1 4—Orleans and Bordeaux, 516—Paris and Lyons, 41 —Sambre and Meuse, 71,6 MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. rE.'; ill.. EL. The sales of eJtton et Live: 1.00; sterch , .y we; e 2,500 bales, of which 2,300 were American at oft to TO. per lb. The market was very all bet prices were not lower. Shares w,!‘re very quiet, with little or no alteration in priers. In the apcoutlts recewly come to lluni from the C +pe bowl •4, o! it.to interior uncle/ oce:.t&ional y by some of our ootti and 11:.:.! country inch. The statement be:ot e us, in a Graham's Town piper, runs thus:— " 'The public market at this place displayed on Monday morning (12th instant) an unwonted degree of anima tion by the arrival in town of Mr. Ilenry Hartley 'with a large quantity of valuable produce from the interior to the N.E. This trader has been absent about two years, during which period he penetrated as far as the new set tlement of Orisberg, in the parallel latitude of Delagon Bay, besides diverging considerably both to the right and left of that point in the course of his perambulationy. The account ho brings of the circumstances of the Dutch emigrants in that country is, upon the whole, favourable. The produce brought by him to this market consisted chiefly of ivory and ostrich feathers, about 6,000 lbs. of the former being sold at an average of 4s. 4d. per lb. The best of the ostrich feathers realised the handsome price of 6/. Bs. per lb. There were also a good many rare birds and curiosities, among which may be classed some cotton rags of native manufacture, showing that the value of the cotton wool and the art of weaving it into useful fabric, are not alto gether unknown to the natives of this part of South- Eastern Africa. This specimen of their manufacture was coarse in texture, and the material harsh and wiry, wearing, however, the appearance of great durability, and of having been manufactured with considerable care and ingenuity." In the Money and Stock Market to day there is rather more buoyancy, the decline in the price of grain, and the certainty of its going much further, as there ,will shortly be new samples of wheat in the market, serv ing to impart confidence. It is possible, however, that there may be a few sales of stock on account of the rail way companies which are still gradually withdrawing deposits from the Court of Chancery. Consols have been 88?- 3 for Transfer, and 887 to 89 for Account. Ex chequer-bills have been marked Bs. to lls. premium. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been 901 i; Bank Stock has been up to 1961 to 198. The Foreign Securities have been dull. Spanish Five per Cents. have been quoted 21i to 22, being scarcely so good as yesterday. Mexican are dull at 198; Brazilian New are 831; Dutch Two and-a-Half per Cents. have realised 574; and French Three per Cents. 77, with the Exchange at 25 50. The Railway Share Market is but slightly better, in the absence of any bargains of importance. isRITISII FUNITh. ONE CLOSING O'CLOCK. YR 'ES Bank Stock .. 1965{, 198 198 Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities 88% 89g 89% three per Cent. Consols Annuities 88 %%a 88% New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anns. 90% 4 90% Long Annuities, Expire Jan. ii, 1860 .. 9% 1-16 9 1-i t. Ditto, 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859 .. India Bonds, 1,0001. .. 5 Ditto, under 1.0001. .. 5 Consols for Opening, Aug 26. .. 89 88% Exchequer Bills. 11,01. 20. 1,0001... 8 11 p 5001. . Ditto, Small 11 p 14 p 10 16p 16 p ONE CLOSIN' FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICEs Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent .. 84% Ditto, New Bonds, 1829 and 1839 .. 83 834 Grenada, 1 per Cent .. . Ditto, Defiared .. 3% 3% Mexican Bonds, 1846, 5 per Cent .. 19% 19% Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent .. .. 22 21% 21% Ditto, for the Account .. 21% 22 22 Ditto, Three per Cent .. —315 E Ditto, for the Account • • 31% Dividends on the above payable in London. French Rentes, 3 per Cent .. 77f. —c. 77f. —c. Exchange .. 251. 50c. 25f, 50c. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cent .. 57 4 57 '4 Ditto. I per Cent. Certificates .. 90% 90% BUSINESS PRICES OF CLOSING I AID. DONE AT PRICES RAILWAY SHARES. ONE O'CLOCK. Amber., Notting., Boston, and Eastern Junction 2% 11A • . • • 1% Birmingham and Oxford Junction 10 .... 16% 16% Boston, Stamford, & Birmingham 5 .... 5% 5% Caledonian Ditto, Half Shares 7,'hestpr and Holyhead 32%.... 25% ..... .• • 25% eastern Counties . .. 20 .• 20 1931 •.• • .. 19h Do. Perpet.. 5 per Cent. No. 1.61. 13s. 4d. % p.... •• .. p Ditto, ditto.. .. No. 2. 61. 13s. 4d. % p.... •• • % p East Lancashire . 20 .... 18% 18% Great North of England . ..100 ....236 .. • • •..... 230 Ditto, New 301. .. • 30 68% . .. 65% Great Western _ 85 ........ . 114 Ditto, Half Shares .. .. 50 .... 68% 67% .... 67% Ditto, Quarter Shares .. .. 15 .... 19% • • .....• • • 19 Ditto, Fifths .. .. 20 .... 27 .... • • .... 26% Ditto, Xew 171, .. .. 7 .... 10 ..... 934 Hull and Selby .. .. 50..106 106 Ditto, Half Shares .. 25 .... 52% 52% Leeds and Wadford •• 94 .......... Leicester and Bedtord 16s. .......... dis . London. Brighton, & South Coast 50 .... 5 I 34 % . . 54% Do. Pref. Convert. 5 per cent. 50 .... 53 1 h ........ • • 542 London an North-Western .. 100 ....175 .. •• • . .. 175 Ditto, Quarters L. and B. 12 .......... atto ditto, New Shares .. 2 .. • ••.. • • 1134 Ditto, Fifths .. 2 .......... 16% London and South-Western 411. 65. 10d... 67 •• .. •.. 67 14 Ditto, ditto 405• .. 4 .. 4!A Lynn and Dereham .. 20 .... 19 g% 19% alaneliester and Leeds .. 82 — Ditto, half Shares .. 38 .... 45 .. • - 45 Ditto, Sixteenths .. .. 6! • • 7% Ditto, Thirds ( Reg.) .. • .71. 45... .. % M dis... '4 dis. Manchester, Buxton, & Matlock 425. — % 51Idland ..100 ....124 123% 124% 124% Ditto, 501. Shares .. .• .. 6 .... 9;4••..• • . • • • 9% Newcastle and Berwick • . .. 20 .... 28% 2814 Ditto, New .. 5 .... 9% 9% North British .. 25 .... - Ditto, Extension .. %.... %. . • s ix .North Staffordshire .. 7% .... 10M % 10% Reading, Guildford, and Reigate 5 .... Scottish Central .. . .. 20 .... 27% % • • 57 % Shrewsbury una Birmingham .. 3;4 2% So ith Eastern and Dovor .. • . 3334•• 36 35 .. • • 35% Do.. New (do. 33/. 6s.Sel.) No. 2. 17 .... 15% .. . 15% Do.. New (do. 101.) .. No. 4. 6 1 4 .... .. •••• • • • • 5 4' , uth Wales .. . .. 15 .... • • .... •• • • Ii South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and Goole .. .. • .. .. 2 .... 1% ...... • • I West Riding Union • • .. 41.25..... % dis %p • • 16 p West Cornwall .. .. 4 .. 1% . • 13,„) York and Newcastle .. .. 25 .... ••••• • • • • • Ditto, Extension .. • . .. 10 .. 15% .. •• .. l6 York awl North Midland .. .. 50 .... ••••• • • • • Ditto, Extension • • .. 25 .... 41% .... •• • . 4l !4 Do. E. and W. Riding Eaten 15 ...- 26%........ • • 26% FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Boule.)gne and Amiens .. 'to .... 13% •-.. • • • 13% East In fiat. .. Namur and Liege .. • . .. 12 .• 6% •- • • ••• • 614 Orleans and Bourdeaux .. 6 .... • • 534 Paris and Lyons .• .. 8 • • ••••• • • • • • 4 Paris and Rouen .. 20 .... 38 .• .. JOINT-STOCK BANKS. London and Westminster .. .. 20 .... 27 .. •• • • 27 Ditto, New • • • • • • • • 13 •• • • ••••• • • • • • 19 M MINES. Real del Monte, Unregistered 2M 214 to-7.4 Dtt t 0 11 At GOO D Vti 001) RACES (THIS DAY-BY EXPRESS.) The Craven Stakes of 10 soy's. each, &c. Wilderness Outpost Ziska bolted Won by half a length. The Gratwicke Stakes of 100 sovs. each, &c. Red Hart Clementina Montpensier Ilalo Won in a canter by two lengths. The Lavant Stakes of 50 sovz. each, &c. Nectar De Witt Five ran. Won by a neck. Stultz is scratched for all his engagements. LLOYD'S SIIIPPING-(THIS DAY LONDON, JULY 27.—Wind N.W., light breeze, and fine clear weather. POBTSMOUTII, Jut,y 26.—Wind N.N.E —Arrd. H.M.S. Iris, Penang. Sld. Southampton, Calcutta. Off port, Roslin Castle, Sadler, Quebec; Hugo Groteus, New York. OFF PORTLAND, JULY 22.—Sanpareil, Havannah. Arrd. Margareth, Surinam, for Amsterdam. OFF HAYLlE.—Victoria, Martin, Quebec. MUMBLES, JULY 24.—Arrd. Eagle, Parnell, Quebec. LIVERPOOL, JULY 26.—Wind N.N.W., moderate.—Arrd. Eliza, Snell. Mobile ; Mary .Kenny, Paters, Baltimore; Roanock, Kelly, Baltimore ; Isaak Walton Woodhead, Montreal. Sld. Benard, Rio Grande ; Isaac Newton, Clark, Boston; Wioifred, Calcutta; Georgiana, Africa ; Maria, Eulalier, Havannah ; Sarah, Cape Briton ; Sir R. Peel, Quebec. Off port, Caledonia (ship). MARYPORT, JULY 26.—Sally, Ditchburn, St. John's, N. 8.; Jane, Restigouche. Conic, JULY 24.—Wind variable.—Arrd. Davenport, M'Kenzie, New York. Sld. Indian Queen, Barbadoes. Off port, Martnion, Lean, Baltimore for Limerick. The wreck of the brig Napoleon, timber laden, waterlogged, and bowsprit only standing, was passed, 20th inst., about 150 miles W.S.W. of Cape Clear, by the Logan, arrived here. DEAL, JULY 26.—Wind N.E. by E., fresh.—Arrd. Latitia, Lewis, Baltimore; William Foster, Kiliick, Nassau ; Resolu tion, Gales, Quebec; Indefatigable, Rickmers, New York, and sailed for Antwerp. Arrd. from the River and sailed, Emma Watts, New York; Nestor, Calcutta; Emerald Isle, Cape and Madras ; Arena, St. Thomas. Arrd. Thomas, Vaughan, St. John's, N.B. Gt. JU CE mit, JULY 26. Wind N. W.—Arrd. Alvarado, Ames, New Orleans. BRIDGEWATER, JULY 24.—Arrd. William Miller, Quebec. PORT TALBOT, JULY 25.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Richard Cobden, Fuller, Wallace, N.S. SWANSEA, JULY 26.—Wind N.E.—Arrd. Eagle, Quebec. OFF DOVER, JULY 26.—Ina, Quebec. HULL, JULY 26.—Wind Douglas, New York. BRIGHTON AND CONTINENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY.—A friend of ours embarked on board the Brighton, belonging to the above company, on Sunday morning, at BlaLk wall, at a quarter before seven, and, after a pleasant voyage with a strong easterly wind, and going close to the various ports, and remaining at Newhaven upwards of twenty minutes, were landed at Briihton before six o'clock, and started for London by 6 30 train, and arrived inLondon at 8 15, performing the voyage and journey within 13i hours, a circumstance, we may assert, unprecedented. TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 27, 1847. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS I AIY.) .7.:.7i.. - ..... ...,:':.J:).-,:..:i-.:;;,-,-x;f,-,' !!3MITHFL:LI3.—(.. , :a , 8/ to 41; Ncw 1 to 3/ 5, , ; U 1 Clover, 4/ to 51; New ditto, 31 t, 41; •:11,1 Straw, 11 12, 1, 11161 per Lail. A fu'l average t-ind a steady deinand CumBIAILAND —OM Meadow niy, 313 i to 41; New 21iis to 31 Sc; Ciovtor, 41 To -it 18.; New ditto, 3t to 'lt; at:d 1/ 12., to 11 163 per low]. Supply ,1:41 ti;t; 0•• . , 32 41 1215:. :•(.; 3i ; 4/ 41; I/ Ig pc:- ~.‘, . z.i.):2l•duii, at tne (1,1 . SUGAR —The mac ket fur British Plant;lticii is with out to,unation, only about 300 hlids having been sold at previous rates, including 120 hhds Bsrbadoes, by auction, which brought 39s 6d to 46s 6, , for mixed low to goad yellow. The public sales Lave con,igted of 4,317 bags 28 casks Mauriiiui, and 1,598 bags Bengal. The Mauritius all sold at full prices, particu larly the better dcrcriptions, which, in some Instances, showed a tendency upwards; low to ;tile yellow brought 37s to 47s ; but the Bengal was held for higher prices, and only a few lots were disposed of, at 45s 6i to 46', for good whites Be flares. The quantity of British PlAitation landed last week at the East and West India Docks, was 1,515 hhds 174 tierces 277 barrels; there were taken for home consumption 1,904 hhds 259 ti. roes 414 barrels. The stock in the same places is .15,839 hilds 2,282 tierces 3,727 barrels. _ _ COFFEE.-55 casks 15 barrels Jamaica sold at 40s to 45 for low to good ord. IZum.—The quantity landed last week at the East and West India Docks, was 986 puns. 105 hhds. There were taken for home consumption 202 puns. 8 hhds, and ex ported 124 puns. The stock in the same places is 11,536 puns. 1,373 hhds. BICE. 857 bags Bengal sold at 18s 6d per cwt. for mid white, being barely previous rates. TEA.—There is a firm market for this article, and the consumption is large. COAL MARKET.—Mommy. Adair's Main Buddle's W. Hartley 16s 6d Carr'& Hartley Chester Main l6s Od !lasting's Hartley l6s 6d Itolywell Main New Tanfield l6s Odj Ravensworth'sW.Hart 16s 3(11 Townley Wylam Wall's End, &c Barnards Brown's Gas lledworth Hilda Riddell's ..... ...... 16s Walker Eden Main l7s 6d' Belmont l7s 6d Braddvll's Hetton Haswell lBs 9d Keepier Lambton Stewart's IWhitwell Hartlepool 'Hudson's Hartlepool l7s 3d High Thornley Thornley Adelaide .South Durham l6s 9d Seymour Tees ~ Whitworth lss 3d .Cowpen Hartley [LW. Hartley Netherton 16s 6d ilSidne) 's Hartley Is-97 sold. 178 arrival; CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) The Lord Chancellor sat in the Old Hall Lincoln's [on to day. It is generally understood that his Lord ,hip will now sit every day till about the sth or 7th of text month, when he will rise for the long vacation. POYNDER V. THE GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY This else came before his Lordship upon appeal trom the judgment of the Vice-Chancellor of Engiand, deli vered yesterday, granting an injunction restraining the defendants—the Great Western Railway Company— :rom making their railway over the land belongicg to the plaintiff in St. Mary's, I•lingtou, or from continuing ,n possession of the land. From the statements in the nip it appeared that the company gave the plaintiff notice in February last that they intended to take the land, whereupon the plaintiff appointed a person to value :.he land, and the sum amounted to 1,3381 While the negotiations were proceeding, the company, without notice to the plaintiff; applied to two justices, under the powers in their Act, fur the appointment of a surveyor, who valued the land at 9501. The company, after this, delivered to the plaintiff a bond under their common seal, and signed by the solicitors of the company, for the payment of the said sum of 9501., with a condition hat the bond should be void if the company and their solicitors should on demand pay to the plaintiff, or should on demand deposit in the Bank of England, the amount of such purchase money or compensation us should be determined upon, under the powers of their Act of Parliament. Upon the bond was endorsed a re ceipt by the cashier of the Bank of England for the 9.30/., with a statement that the sum had been placed co the account of William Russell, Esq., the accountant general of the Court of Chancery, to the credit of ex parte the Great Northern Railway Company, to the account of Thomas Poynder. The company took pos. session of the plaintiff's land on the 12th of this month, and commenced making their works upon it, and another notice was served upon the plaintiff, that the company would require more lands belonging to him. Upon the case coming on before the Vice-Chancellor of England, it was contended for the plaintiff that the pro ceedings they had taken were informal ; that upon the appointment of a surveyor, under the order of the jus tices, the land to be surveyed ought to have been defi nitely stated: that the torte of the bond was wrong, as ►t contained the words " on demand;" and also that the notice served upon the plaintiff was not in the terms au thorised by the Act, as it stated that the company in tended, at the expiration of three weeks, to enter upon the lands referred to in the plan annexed, such land not being more than 200 yards distant from the centre of ,he railway, and being required by the company for the several purposes thereinafter mentioned, some or one of them. Oa behalf of the defendants it was submitted that they had acted in strict conformity with the terms of the Act of Parliament. At the conclusion of the arguments the Vice-Chancellor of England, in giving judgment, said upon the first objection, that in the appointment of a surveyor, the land intended to be taken was not speci fied ; he did not see that the Act required anything of he sort. It was for the justices to take caro that the valuation was made of such land as was in dispute ; but the Act did not require that the laud should be specified. Another objection had teen raised as to the sufficiency of the sureties to the bond ;• but he did not think there was any question about that. since the bond had been given, and the money actually paid. The receipt upon die bond stated that the money was placed to the credit of the Great Northern Railway Company ; and it had been contended that this was wrong ; but he could not :ee that there was any substantial objection to it, .us .the money was to the account of the plaintiff; and there fore it was a literal compliance with the terms of the set. The next objection was upon the word " demand." dis Honour would not say that this was wrong, but he would reserve his judgment, and determine te point auother day. As to the form of the notice, which stated i,kisl the company intended to. take the plaintiff's land for the several purposes mentioned, some or one of hem," he thought that was contrary to the terms of the Act. The notice ought to specily the purposes for ,vhich the land was required, otherwise the owner would lave the burden thrown upon him of considering all the •litnrent questions that would arise as to how tar other •ands mignt be equally good tor the purpose. His Honour, therefore, granted an injunction as to that part of the case, and from that decision the present appeal was brought. Mr. bolt and Mr. Dennison were counsel for the appellant; and Mr. J. Bann and Mr. Craig appeared for the plaintiff. The arguments occupied the Court, the whole morning. VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY. (Before Vice-ChaneellorsWlGßAm.) THE DUKE OF BEAUFORT V. MoRIIIS.—JUDGMENT. llis kit:dour Vice-Chancellor \VIGRaM gave judg neut to-day in this c hich was argued before him some time since. Tne bill was filed by the noble plain tiff for the purpose of obtaining an injunction to re strain the defendant Lam sus s±ring the water of his alines from flowing into that of the plaintiff. The Duke and his eldest son, the Marquis of Worcester, are the owners of a coalmine in Glanaorganshire, called the Landore mine, situated in the centre and lower part of basin-shaped tract of land. On one side of this mine, and adjoining it, is Another called the Pentre mine, be tonOng to Mr. George Byng Morris, beyond which is ,nother, the property of Mr. Phillips, and beyond it another, called Cae Grebos, of which Mr. G. B. Morris is the proprietor. On the other side of the Landore mine, and adjacent to it, is the Drew's Pit mine ; be yond it flows the river Tawey, and beyond the river lies another coal-mine, called Llysnewydd. Diew's pit and Llysnewydd colleries belong to Mr. Morris. The same gentleman was, until the year 1845, lessee, under the Duke of Beaufort, of the Landore mine, and, during his pos session of it, communications existed between his several mines, so that the water contained in them poured into :.he Landore mine, the bottom of the basin, and was iheye pumped up by e powerful engine. Since the expi ration of the lease of the Landore colliery, in 1845, Mr. Morris has continued working his mines at Cae Grobas and Llysnewydd, and the Duke com • plained that water continued to pour from the new workings through the old communication into the Pentre pit, and thence into the Landore pit. The noble plaintiff also complained that the communi cation mad.: between the Llysnewydd and Drew's pits not only brought down to Landore the water of the former mine, but also that, by reason of its passing under the Tawey, that river would probably break through its bed, of a loose and gravelly nature, and flow into the Landore colliery. The engine at the latter pit had not been worked since December, 1845, when Mr. Morris's lease expired, and that mine was filled with water, which the Dake of Beaufort now desired to pump out, but which he thought it imprudent to do until he had compelled Mr. Morris to stop all communications between his mines and that of the plaintiff. To accom plish this object, and also to restrain Mr. Al orr i s f rom m aking any new communications, the prese n t su i t was instituted. Shortly atter the bill was filed, an injunction was granted by Lord Lyndhurst to restrain Mr. Morris from working his mines to that of the detriment of the noble plaintiff. On the cause coming on for hearing before the Vice- Chancellor Wigram. it was so ug ht to make that injunction perpetual. His Honour, after going through the facts of the case at considerable length, stated that, after great consideration, the only course he thought he ought to pursue would be to retain the bill for a twelvemonth, giving liberty to the plaintiff to bring such action as he might be advised, the defendant in that action to make certain admissions ; the injunction granted by Lord Lyndhurst to be con tinued in the meantime ; and as to Sir John Morris, the bill to be dismissed with costs. In the Roll's, Vice-Chanc--ii,:r or England's, and Vice- Chancellor Knight Bruce's Court, nothing particular oc curred during the whole morning. A sale of about 100,000/. of silver by the Bank of England to purchasers for the continent took place a fom days back, and had some effect in supporting ihu foreign exchanges op Friday last. BANKRUPTCY.—(THIS DAY.) (ieLreJjP. t;oinoussioner UOOI.IIOI O O. IN RE lIEWSON. This insolvent, who had caviled on business as a schoolmistress', came up for her final order, which ba d heel: adjourned on the ground that she had, by zt'l pro pertY. her " goodwill" of the school disposed of d within the reetr,ieg of the Act, so that sits w as debarr e from obtaining her final order. , e l lt ivred Co,;KE cpl,2.arcd I)7' 1!•.,..(1; vunt, ie, ca7ri,-1 cre:btailie inzt:j , r, ii;;;,much to "c -lel: h r roc-immoutiation led to the co;.•tinuance uat, Filteen pupil,: had continued, and, as a Pie ml- the she was to receive 5/. 10s. each, being, in text , - `urine y due. She had not, however, rece ived that reellet,) but 270/., which she had received she had paid al v ly r divers creditors, and she had some pupils who ,ha",;`; i -e to paid, and from circumstances she hail been coreP e " e- , i st waive her claims. The Learned Counsel said it u l t i i - 0 surely be more beneficial to the creditors to accee t co , imiolvent's proposition to pay by degrees than t 9 Cour t, cerate her. There was a relief in the Insolv ent a deserving insolvent was rescued from inveterate er' ditors. tile His Hosoutt said, that individual] the case re T w b he hard ; he regretted that in administering the ' Li t ; de' should give pain to one who really did not apPee' r serve it. He always held the Learned Counsel's 01)'n and argument in respect, but he must decide ac cord ing_.„ the present law, which the future law would avei dth° o 7ld cessity of his carrying out in this Court. liebe re dismiss the petition, and all tangible property turned to insolvent. ) SURREY SESSIONS.—(THIS D il. re e John Usher, William Reeves, and Thomas Parher*/ t he indicted with stealing a copper, the proper t y I I Soth-Western Railway Companha tiM e t appeared that the prisoners d been for glee f empl.)yed in pulling down houses on the new ,n°-;o railway from Nine Elms to Hungerford-bridg e • r from evening of the 10th instant they removed a O:Tr,: sot. the rear of one of the houses, but were caufh t in tpe The jury found them Guilty, and the Court sa te° them to three months' imprisonment each. glass , John Lloyd was indicted for staling a lookleg" . the property of William Franklin. g A sod The prosecutor is a furniture-dealer at Richnolt: Wss about one o'clock in the day of the 20th instant to seen by one of the guards of the Richmond Ra"7:so, enter Mr. Franklin's shop and steal the looki e g" g s - es., Prisoner denied being near Mr. Franklin's pretelntbo The jury found him Guilty.—Sentence, three m, imprisonment. a ete James Dohegy,l7, and John Barry, 18, Wer e ini dse el for stealing some ivory bagatelle balls from the h e ' r orid. Simon Hone, beer-shop keeper, Southwark-bridge: lig of They were seen to enter the house on the et pre' the sth instant, and immediately after they left the perty was missed. They were pursued, butll'e) their escape in the Mint. viet ioss The jury found them Guilty, and previous eell' e d for being proved against them, they were tran s P (/ ' seven years. yV BO W-S TREE T.--(THIS DA 1r b . 14 4 2 Charles Abbot, an unemployed servant, wit 9 " c o 1- „ 8 with stealing a dozen of wine and some tabl e 11„- 6 0 1 0 property of the Rev. Mr. Stonestreet, of 35, street, Bedford-square. 11.111 ;ng It appeared that Mr. Stonestreet's butler ~Viten ill, the prisoner was temporarily employed le P-000- This morning a dozen ot wine, which had been reboot from the cellar, was discovered packed UP 11 r in the prisoner's pantry. The bottles were ril, l ' ' tb 0 11 , in the prisoner's linen, and in some table r toAels, Mr. Stonestreet's property. The 11(11335. : to directed to a person who was said by the prtso Lis lanlady. „ea till The A pri,oncr made no defence. He was 00" this day week. THAMES.—(THIS 1)--4- 1( '204$ 11 : THE DAGENHAM MURDER.—APPREHENSIO', eseiV, GEANT PARSONS.—This morning considerah,,„neefc merit was created in the neighbourhood of o'Z f os i fa rumour being circulated that Sergeant Parsons,' ~ee,,„ of the K divi•sion, and for whose g pp ehension (r" had been offered by Government was i in cu. sl At irb er making inquiries at the Thames Police statie ° ' o reb ele t -pare, Srepncy, we found the rumour of the 6 1 14 0t .k ). 0 sion of Parsons was perfectly correct, he bei e v e v en fr- th e s lime lodged in the station-house, having' ". 0 is into custody, and brought up from Liccolnsbirber ce charge of a sergeantof the K division, an d I t by' ~s.e r' stables. He will be conveyed to Ilford g ac) " efOc e " geant Fook of the K division, assisted by other e AS P CITY OF TORONTO AND I) AY.) r ed HURON RAILWAY.—(THIS hold e he The adjourned general meeting of the shar e- s o f he company was this day held at the °ice company, 13, St. Helen's-place. Fra nks, The chair was taken at 12 o'clock by the chairman of the company. , e aing The Secretary read the advertisement CO n' meeting. , read a The minutes of the last meeting hav i ng been ~ as 911 ; 1' d confirmed, The CHAIRMAN stated that the pr esent • u rpo -- he journed meeting for the Bth of July for th e l i : ; ts of to affording an opportunity to have the a c i ec4l . o :lol4,, e - e , company audited, printed, and circulat ea 0 shareholders. The accounts had aec° l- " e ' n - ,Zreird':o( each of t a h n e eir sh a a c r o e p h y ol o d r ers t . he a F a ro a m i . la tb d e beheanian—ce-sheea4ll the accounts so prepared, it appeared that the rercie deposits received by the company of ss. Per dilute td on 7,978 Shares was 1,9941.10. - ' The exPen' - e v already amounted to 1,686/. 55., leaving a bi lit/ !,, e rso . j bands of their bankers of 3081. 55.. The dire pew company recommended that, inasmuch as all tbe e a S e d ' Y ff had been. already incurred by the comp ool' be d remaining liabilities did not exceed 70/.; G ,i t t atit tore expenses would be merely nominal, it "'it tr e o; desirable to dissolve the company, but t o alloWo ere l it its position, in order to see what cours e the „;10S1 would think it right to adopt with resp ect to 1"..• ed British North America. nt e O O / 1) 0 1 Mr. W. HAWES thought that as "the pros t he I had dwindled down to a mere offshoot Or „: Canada Company, it would be much better them 11;7 terests of the shareholders at.once to relieve- . 0 00° the pressure of an unknown and indefinite liabilities by a dissolution of the eompanY• 00 61 0 The CaAIRMAw said that, although the;P re cosl e " ing was called strictly for the purpose e f Lo a e di s 4o l the financial report of the committee , ltr - LefebLer. wish to shut the door to any ,discusliar 1 17th,cor. arise upon the Hon. Proprietor's reenark, s • c (d_.; to the company being an " offshoot ".. 14 1 - „, ▪ - e fr i CoMpany, he distinctly disclaimed that ''r fact, and that the Canada Company wet° 'Toe • 00 interested in the concern as the propose "y r pass through their lands. He believed that " t og s l et: constructed in Canada would be beneficial tQ t he Company. With respect to the nature c''' t he f fr ment in railways in Canada, especially ili.oooldV part of that country, he believed that th e Y,. t he ample remuneration. He had heard W I % t. had been estimated at as much as 20 Per e fi e ",so et e l, Mr. flAwEs would be perfectly sateow" be p directors' recommendation not to dissolvedlto lie to pass, if he could receive their assuran outn,b, ther call should be made until a lull stater course to be taken should be laid before b holders. t eat e f !, The CuArnsrArr had no objection to g iv e t i e camer h Mr. IlAwes then wished to know 'she"' o f ib ° " ,ol intended to be adopted when the bal ance efP ea 11/ puny, amounting to about 300/., had h een the directors. 1 '611 111 ; The CHAIRMAN said that the balance L e n se- h oe t i hand would be sufficient to meet all the "r e ed we company for the next two or three years , ~t e rs 0 0 0 5 time there would be no doubt that the dir e " feta to be in possession meethe N n i o r.t n hs e ei c l sc e su s t e y onvt f e o ed r x o . and the course of the proposed line. B°, l . 4 t er ° expense, aaee t nn h esd e tei snmgo rf a.tnhjye. intentions cfßuo r: atootpofeaxrat sh;e.:6: : ;e icent l i :wn t: adoption of the accounts as audited, whic h A D ; after a few remarks, unanimously agreed to I - he report of the directors, read at • , to" the Bth of July, was also received and 0 0 ;0e The thanks of the meeting were then " 13/ chair, and the n b Is o, ( e; ot e THE WEIGHT AND SIZE OF Pool, .25:59i'f010,11 an Act of Parliament passed in the efj fe c ; and 11th Viet., c. 85). and which ".ill ta' - n e l e fro pi ti l e :, Ist proximo, the present restri:. - Aed we i g h l no d post, of sixteen ounces, will be remove re d o t, day mentioned the Treasury are etarr e ly the Pee l' b r e maximum weight of letters to be st ir ettat . ,: r slA l l order to prevent packets of an unwl e '4l jett e Vie " 0 13 ; Convenient size being transmitted. " ' f ee P 9 forwarded, conveyed, and delivered, hY • Tr eas' ,4 o , formity with any such warrant (of the i o we; re stl' o also in conformity with, and under, ar o , ant l ei ber orders, conditions, limitations, rtgal a , ll° , d o ' f. wh ar3 osl l, P et tions, as to form, size, or dimensions teet he fo 6 ; o f proportion to the weight or otherwie,e•e6 igioneret." General, with the consent of the Core"' im e dire sale rare and ancient c.: - .•ins, the property ales s `f svh, 4 l took place at the auction-r00035,-0) gel E 11 :t Sotheby and Wilkinson, the prices of Wa n (2 0ee /. were as follow :—A silver crown Pie, ce „,..de • - l',, s ' v iee`, lector,M SieAsLtl" s or Treasury, ANCIENT shall cf beth, 1/. 11S.; a ditto of James or:4;Nms.t--iPIYe etc)stelarnafllo);..e:.ss°,ll, a ditto of Charles 1., 21. Is. ; a twenty i - ,ed• a,i), 1 1 of ditto, 1642, 3/ ; a crown, half•crovro, a broa . o ge',l 7 / Cromwell, 3/. 75.; a gold coin of ( li t" ;, ;03 , "ip 51. ss. ; a sovereign of Edward Vie l os ' o t, Richardll. 3s. ; a sovereign ° .. 113 . Or' Qii?en seated, 2/. 55.; 1688, 71. 103.; a gold coin of Costa' 4 e e ve ee, 1/. 4s. ; &e. r 13 On . wic,tl 3 . ,' ' REDUCTION IN THE PRICE 0- brett day a further reduction in the price tbosevihiP a five-guinea Plec4ipe r by the bakers throughout the mete o af 7 ,l.,, tec bts9, 'rated cheap bakers selling the 41b. Beth, irt%oetol' some vicinities—the New-cut, Lagi ee ea d l' t be &c.—it is selling at 6id. The best br d 6, otte and 9}'l. Rye, or farm-hou se bread • '6 n ein' ft 0 0 0 not weighed. • of a 11() tP " John," inquired a dominie roues " What is a nailer ?" " A me n wh a ° tailor saiipt who John. "Very good. What is ~ f Oloa . who make t: tails." " Oh, you stupta w ake a id jj wi g) do7niiiie, biting his lips,' " a Ina". he w i f t Mould, boy° " Yes, master," returned John. de they " our put tails to the coats ho •• boo John y 0 u're a° jackets." " Sit down, f th e Ili 1, maternal parent." sing e , 3 1 113/ CP , OLD COURTSHIP.--Since the pas co- ~.„„ Debts Act, the usual advice when Oh n court biol. another owing him money is, " oe ° tenhani Chronicle. ' ~.y