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Irt trb Mbttion SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock. TATTERSALL'S. (THIS EVENING.) BRIGHTON STAKES. sto 2 agst Adine (taken). 2to 1 agst Pantomime (taken). 3td 1 agst Jouvence. ST. LEGER. sto 4on West Australian (taken). DERBY. 25 to 1 agst Boiardo (taken). 25 to 1 agst King ''Tom (taken). 30 to 1 agst Alembic (taken). 30 to 1 agst First Lord (taken). IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS—(THIS EVENING.) The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack 4 at five o'clock. The Duke of RICHMOND presented a petition from a public meeting in Sussex in favour of the repeal of the malt and hop duties ; also, a petition from a place in Scotland in favour of the Public Houses (Scotland) Bill. CONVERSION OF SOUTH SEA STOCK. Lord ST. LEONARDS complained that the proposi tion of the Chancellor of the Exchequer with re spect to the Conversion of South Sea Stock, did not give those facilities to suitors in the Court of Chancery which they bad a right to expect. It was said that this measure was brought forward as a fulfilment of a pledge that had been given to himself, but it was no such thing, for instead of the measure being a benefit to the suitors of the Court of Chancery or the Court of Bankruptcy, he believed it would lead to end less litigation, and make the office of solicitor to either court of more value by many thousands a year than it had hitherto been. The Earl of ABERDEEN promised to communicate with his right hon. friend. the Chancellor of the Ex chequer on this subject, and if possible the noble and learned lord's objections should be removed. (Hear, hear.) He had, however, maintained, and should continue to maintain the position that their lordships had no right to after a money bill. It had never been done since the time of the revolution, and their lord ships should pause before they consented to break through the practice. The LORD CHANCELLOR explained the course which had been taken by himself and the other authori ties of the Court of Chancery with regard to,the stock in question. As the matter now stood the parties in terested in the stock would, at the proper time, be entitled to the full a m o u nt of their money , or the option of converting the present stock into a new three-and-a-quarter per cent. stock. After a few words from Lord ST. LEONARDS, the subject dropped. PARLIAMENTARY REFORM. Lord BROUGHAM claimed the indulgence of their lordships while he corrected a mistake which the re porters had fallen into. In what he said upon the elec tion bill he was said to have expressed a hope that the Government would next, session be ready with a large measure of reform ; but the fact was he said no such thing. What he did say was this, that while he ad mitted the necessity for some Parliamentary reform, he expressed a hope that the measure which the Government intended to bring forward would be ajudi ciously framed and well-considered scheme for removing the evils of the present system, and not large or exten sive in its scope. CASE OF THE BARON DE BODE. Lord LYNDHURST moved a resolution to the effect that the claim of the Baron de Bode upon the English Government, in respect of property confiscated by the French revolutionary authorities, had been clearly estab lished, and recommended itself to the earnest considera tion of her Majesty's Government. [LEFT SPEAKING.] HOUSE OF COMMONS—(THIS DAY.) The SPEAKER took the chair at 10 minutes after 12 o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The Lords' amendments to the following bills were considered and agreed to :—Birkenhead Dock Company ; Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereford Railway (Here ford, &c.) ; Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereford Rail way (Taff Vale). The reports upon the following bills were considered and agreed to, and the bills were ordered to be read a third time :—Pauncefort Duncombe's Estate ; Ser gison's Estate ; South Sea Company's Arrangement and Trusts. The following bills were read a second, and ordered to be committed :—Pidgley's Estate ; Rushbrooke's Divorce ; Smith's Charity Estate. CLITHEROE. Mr. HAMILTON brought up the report of the com mittee on the Clitheroe election, unseating Mr. John Thomas Walshman Aspinall for that borough, but recommending no suspension of the writ nor any special inquiry, but suggesting the passing of some act for de fining the law with respect to the service of notices on electors, when a candidate was disqualified to stand for the representation of any place. On the motion of the hon. member, the evidence taken before the committee was ordered to be printed. THE CAB STRIKE. Mr. FREWEN said he had heard a rumour that it was in contemplation to have another cab strike to morrow, and he wished to know if any directions had been sent to the Inland Revenue office to allow persons who had carriages, to let them out on hire without a license, in order that if the strike did happen, the great inconvenience arising from it might be counteracted to a certain extent. _ _ ...... Lord PALMERSTON said he had not heard of any second strike, and therefore, he was not prepared to give a direct answer to the question of the hon. member. He could only say that if the public by a combination of cabmen or cab owners, were again deprived of the use of the vehicles necessary for them, the Government would endeavour to make such arrangements as would tend to obviate the inconvenience to which they would be subjected. TRANSPORTATION BILL, In reply to Mr. V. SMITH, Lord PALMERSTON said he would undertake that hon. members should have a full opportunity of discuss ing the Transportation Bill on its future stages. He might mention, however, that there was a great mis apprehension in imagining that it would entail any great expense on counties. He hoped the Government would be able to make arrangements to save counties from any inconvenience or expense under the bill. ORDER OF PUBLIC BUSINESS. Sir R. H. INGLIS called the attention of the house to the state of the paper for this day, it containing no less than 36 orders of the day, and appealed to the Govern ment to endeavour to thin it by striking out those bills which had no chance of being passed this session. Un less they sit until the end of November, it would be impossible to come to a satisfactory conclusion with re spect to all the bills in to-day's paper. Sir B. HALL said he was just about to make a simi lar request of the Government. He trusted that all bills which it was impossible to pass this session would be withdrawn at once, in order that they might proceed to the consideration of bills of pressing importance which would have to be passed before Parliament rose. The Metropolitan Sewers Acts Continuance Bill stood third on the paper, and as it was a measure of the greatest importanc e to the metropolis, for it would enable an irresponsible commission to entail on the rate-payers a sum of 500,000/. a year, he hoped the Government would endeavour to place it as the first order of the day at some future 12 o'clock sitting. Lord PALMERSTON said he trusted they would be enabled to get t o th e third order in the course of this morning's sitting. JUVENILE OFFENDERS' BILL. Mr. ADDERLEY, i n the bill, said his only object in the second reading of in pressing it now on the a tt e ntion of the house as atoelicit the opinions of hon. m embers on the subject, i andto obt a i n a p l e d ge f rom th e Government to introdu ce a , easure in reference to it during the forthcoming session, boroughs by counties sent bill, was the permissive establishment object of the pre. criminals conjointly, of or boroughs, or by counties and reforrnatory schools for young where they should be taught some industrial trade, instead of being and be supplied with parental care and home influence; gaols,reatment of a great T o h n e e, evil no subject to the rough and unsatisfactory short imprisonment in our common o r , 'c hlllidd which the bill sought to remedy was a less than the existence throughout the count especially in large towns, of an immense class dress, who, by the absence of parental care fell into cri urinal habits o f life ; and he believed that the th eory o i the bill, which was founded on the report of a eon ,. mittee of the House of Commons, was already adopted by the press and the public. Mr. BAINES, as chairman of the committee, which had sat two sessions on the treatment of juvenile of fenders, expressed his entire concurrence in the observa tions of the hon. member. There was no object more important than that lie sought to attain, and there was scarcely any more urgent. He considered that it be hoved Parliament to apply itself to the subject with the least possible delay ; but at the same time he thought it was impossible in the present session to frame a bill which would be altogether satisfactory in point of detail. There were three piints clearly established before the committee, a n d h e was extreme ly g l a d to find that the h member the had introduced them into his bill —first, thatexisting gaols were altogether inadequate for the reformation of' young children ; secondly, that in any mode of treatment utni adopted in regard to these children, it was of the parental importance l that it should be of an industrial char p a a c r t essential to insist on and, thirdly, that it was responsibility. (Hear, hear.) The parent should be made to understand th a t in a he would gain nothing pecuniary point of view by neglecting his childre n , learning them to lead a vicious course of life, and that ai if they became aernw become te would inmates of the proposed institutions h liable for a whole or port ion of their in r i g ht hon. gentleman concluded by secondingflange- The for the second readin g of the bill. the moti on bill, but thought i t WAS of too much i Mr. HENLEY ag reed entirel y in the ob ject of th e bill, be entrusted to the hands of an independent member. He recommended that it should be taken up by the Govern ment ; and he thought as it was only brought forward to elicit discussion that it would be better not to press the second reading, especially as it contained some de tails that were open to objection. Lord PALMERSTON had no doubt the house would be unanimous in giving the bill a second reading, on the understanding that the further consideration of the bill was - to be postponed until next session. The principle which it involved was, in his opinion, likely to meet the ap probation of the Legislature, but as the machinery of it required mature deliberation, he hoped the present discussion would not be prolonged, as there was other 1 business of pressing importance on the paper. He re commended hon. members to read the evidence taken before the committee with attention during the recess ; and next session they would be prepared to enter into the discussion of the subject, with a view to some prac tical result. Mr. HUME objected to the principle of the bill, as being simply an extension of the poor law, which he be lieved had been' productive of very great evil to the country, and opposed the second reading. Sir J. GRAHAM thought it was advisable that the house should affirm the preamble of the bill, which was simply " for the better care and reformation of juvenile offenders." He was of opinion that the time had arrived when it was imperative on the house to take that subject into its serious consideration. Mr. M. MILNES thanked the Government for the manner in which they had received this bill so different from the reception which a similar one had received five or six years ago. He regretted the delay which had suf fered so many young culprits who might have been re -claimed to grow up in confirmed vice ; but this was not a time to complain. - With respect to the observations of the hon. member for Montrose, he felt assured that from whatever source it might be decided to draw the neces sary funds, the proposed measure so far from proving a loss would be a great national gain. After a few words from Mr. DUNLOP, who expressed his wish that the operation of this bill might be extended to Scotland, The bill was read a secod time and was ordered to be committed this day three months. NAVAL COAST VOLUNTEERS. The house then went into committee on this bill. Sir J. GRAHAM entered into a statement of the ob i ; sect of the bill, similar to that which he made on the second reading of the bill. When the Militia Bill was . prepared, he did not believe that so many volunteers would come forward as they had done, while he was cer tainly surprised and gratified at the readiness with which his fellow-countrymen had displayed their ,"military ardour on behalf of their native land. He - was, therefore, in favour of the voluntary principle, both as regarded the navy or the army, and be, therefore, applied the voluntary principle of the Militia Act to this bill without the aid of the ballot, rather than have a system of compulsory enlistment. In our rivers and in the coasting trade there were a num ber of men who would accept the bounty of 6/. a man, which this bill offered with avidity, and to them he should then look for making up the complement sanctioned by this bill. It was proposed in the first instance that 10,000 men should be raised, while it would be stipu . lated that the men should not be taken more than 50 leagues from the British or Irish coast. The men would receive the pay of able seamen in the navy, and they would be called out for five years ; but in case of special emergency they would be obliged to serve for another year, and if the danger continued, and was imminent after that period, then the volunteers would be called out for an additional year, receiving an addition of 2d. a day to their pay, and being obliged to go 100 leagues from the coast. (Hear, hear.) Mr. MACKINNON found fault with the measure because no provision was made in. it for raising the 10,000 in the event of the volunteer principle failing. ' Captain SCOBELL said that, under three Adminis trations, he had protested against the political manage- Inent of the naval service. He thought, however, that the service could not be in better hands than in those of the present First Lord. He strongly recommended and _ _ .approved of the plan of giving bounties, which, he thought, would greatly contribute to the success of the :measure, as it had done to the Militia Bill. That part .of the Bill, however, which proposed, in certain cases, to take landsmen as volunteers would, be thought, not snswer, as it was impossible to instruct them in the 4uties of seamen in so short a time. Sir G. PECHELL, on the whole, approved of the efforts which the Admiralty were making for improving and rendering the navy efficient, but there was room yet for alteration. Some change should be made in the mode of distributing prize-money, while an attempt should he made to rid the service of all defective or ob jectionable excesses. Parliament and the Government .might depend upon it that the soundest policy was to deal with the navy in a liberal spirit ; and he would, therefore, make some addition to the terms proposed by this bill. .Clauses 1 and 2, which provided for the number of men and the amount of the bounty, were agreed to. On clause 3, Sir J. GRAHAM, in reply to a question, said that he had not yet considered in detail the mode in which the proposed measure would be carried out after receiving the sanction of the Legislature, but that probably one commanding officer would be appointed to superintend the training throughout the United Kingdom. The clause was then agreed to. On clauso 4, Admiral BERKELEY objected to the use of the term " invasion." He said Government ought to be prepared to resist an invasion, but not to invite one by thns-publicly proclaiming their apprehension. After a short discussion, the gallant Admiral reluc tantly withdrew his objection, and the clause was agreed to, as were also clauses 5,6, and 7. . - On clause 8, Sir G. PECHELL wished to know if any stoppages -were to take place on the bounty Sir J. GRAHAM replied that he was not prepared to go, into details at present, but no such stoppages were contemplated. . Capt. SCOBELL complained, that while a bounty was given to militia-men, regular soldiers, marines, and now even to naval volunteers, no bounty was allowed to be offered to our regular seamen. He was sure this was not only a cause of discontent, but operated powerfully in occasioning the difficulties experienced in manning Our navy. _ _ Sir J. GRAHAM replied, that the executive had, already the power the gallant officer alluded to, and might exercise it at any time, and to any extent, if thought necessary, but that it was not considered requi site so to do in time of peace. The clause was then agreed to, as was also the remain ing clauses, 16 in number, without discussion. The house having resumed, the Chairman reported the bill. METROPOLITAN SEWERS ACT CONTINU- ANCE BILL. On the order of the day for the committal of this bill, Sir B. HALL said that it was so late, that he hoped the bill would not be now pressed forward, but that a time would be appointed when it could be fully dis cussed. Lord PALIvIERSTON admitted the reasonableness of this proposal, and the committee was ultimately fixed for Thursday at 12. JUVENILE MENDICANCY BILL. In reply to a question from Mr. T. DIINCOMBE, Lord PALMERSTON was understood to say that it was not intended to press this bill beyond the second reading until next session. The house rose a few minutes before 4 o'clock. The house resumed at six o'clock, and was [LEFT SITTING.] CRICKET. THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS MATCHES.- ETON v. HARROW. This match was concluded on Saturday, when the score stood as follows : Second Innings. ETON. First Innings. E. Tremlett, Esq„ c Park, b Church 2 b Walker 9 R. S. Bagge, Esq., b Walker... 13 b Stewart 7 H. Hoare, Esq., c Digby, b Stewart ~ 0 st Digby, b Stewart.. 13 G. Dupuis, Esq., b Church 0 b Church 0 A. Hayter, Esq., c Foster, b Walker. l3 st Digby, b Stewart 11 F. Northey, Esq., not out lB c Knight, b Stewart 8 Hon. M. Rolle, b Park 1 run out 4 J. Yorke, Esq., b Park 0 c Knight, b Church.. 12 J. Pinney, Esq., b Walker 1 b Park 2 E. Wodehouse, Esq., c Church, b Stewart 4 b Park 8 C. Marrillier, Esq., c Knight, b Stewart 0 not out. bl, 1-b 2, w 3 6 w 4.. Total 5B Total 79 Second Innings. RAIL WAY INTELLIGENCE. THE COMMITTEE ON RAILWAY AND CANAL BILLS. THE REPORT. (Concluded from the Sun of Thursday.) Your committee, therefore, believing that neither ge neral rules, without security for the steadiness of their application to varying circumstances, nor zeal and ability in any tribunal acting upon less than Parliamentary au thority, will secure the desired result, recommend to the house that the mode in which railway bills are now dis posed of by Parliament should be reconsidered, with a view of ensuring the, better application of uniform and consistent principles to a subject so essentially requiring to be dealt with in a comprehensive spirit, and of which the decision so materially affects the present and future advantage of the whole community. Your committee have considered how this object might be best attained, and have received from Mr. Speaker his opinion upon the subject in a letter which will be found in the appendix. Sustained by so high an authority, your committee recommend the institution of 4. standing committee for the consideration of all railway ♦nd canal bills, somewhat resembling in its constitution he committee which was formerly known in the House )f Commons as the committee on petitions for private bills. It seems to your committee that the labours of such a permanent committee might, by judicious arrangements, be rendered far less onerous than would at first be sup posed. It appears that the following committees upon railway bills have sat during the last seven years, viz. : In 1846 64 committees have sat for 867 days. 1847 62 635 „ 1848 54 1/ 176 „ 1842 11 ,) // 73 „ 1850 15 71 113 „ 1851 14 131 „ 1852 15 IP 137 „ giving, if we exclude the abnormal' years 1846 and 1847, an average of 14 committees in each year, and nine days for each committee. Your committee anticipate that, from the securities which they suggest should be taken against merely speculative projects, from the confidence which the knowledge of the appointment of a standing committee would give to railway property from the enunciation of general and clearly-defined principles upon which the legislation shall in future pi•oceed, and in conformity with these principles the speedy establish ment, by the decisions of the standing committee, of a more uniform practice, many of the most difficult ques tions would disappear, and the whole pressure of railway business upon Parliament would be materially light ened. Your committee strongly recommend that in future no mere adventurers shall be permitted to obtain the sanction of Parliament to bills embodying schemes which they have no intention of carrying into effect. but purpose using as a means of extorting advantage from the bona fide undertakers of rail Way enterprise in the district ; and that in the new lines hereafter to be formed for the accommodation of districts not now suffi ciently supplied, a full investigation should be made by the committee of the probable effect of those lines upon the existing communications, in order that in each di vilion of the country that arrangement may be adopted which will most conduce to general facility of inter course by railways throughout the kingdom. In cases where no opposition was recorded, as in bills for simplifying the financial arrangements of the com panies, for making increased accommodation at stations, or short branch lines the expense which now attends the passing of such bills might perhaps be diminished. In contested cases, careful arrangements should be made, by which established railway companies, and municipal or other public bodies, might raise the ques tion of public advantage ; and in order to secure the fairness with which this issue should be raised and tried, some provision might be made for the payment of costs, in case of an illusory, vexations, or unwarranted opposition. The question of admission to locus standi upon public grounds would be decided in every doubtful instance by reference to the standing committee ; and if the nature of the case disclosed did not correspond with the alle gations on which the locus standi was conceded, the parties would be liable to costs. No landowner, petitioning only as such, alleging no general public ground, and not liable to the provisions as to costs, should be heard • upon the general question of public advantage ; but in such cases the inquiry should be limited to such investigations as the com mittee might think it right to institute into the nature of the residential or other damage which the proposed scheme would entail upon him. In minor cases it is probable that the most satisfactory and economical course to the landowner, and most convenient to the committee, would be a reference to some competent person, who might institute a local inquiry, and upon whose report the committee would proceed. These local investigations, if conducted by competent engi neers, would afford an opportunity for deviations from the line laid down upon the plan, by which the objec tions of landowners might be obviated with great con venience and at small expense. In disposing of the cases of public interest, raised in the manner to which reference has been made, the standing committee would probably proceed as follows. Having adopted a principle of territorial arrangement, they would divide the bills into groups, and distribute them to separate committees, composed of, or at least presided over by, members of their own body, assigning to each division of the kingdom such members as happened to b , o free from personal interest in, or par liamentary connection with, each district respectively ; reserving for the consideration of the whole com mittee questions of general principle, and making such arrangements as might be requisite .for the schemes which intersected the divisions. The sub . committees, thus arranged, would proceed to analyse the questions in contest in their respective districts, and to hear the parties by council, agents, and witnesses, in the manner they might think best calculated for arriving at a deliberate judgment. It is possible that in soma cases all parties might be satisfied, and the comr#3.ttee might think it expedient to refer to some eminent engineer the decision of some difficult and com plicated question, and be guided in their finding by his report ; as in the controverted question of the Liverpool waterworks, the dispute which had lasted for years, and occasioned great inconvenience, was disposed of by re ference to Mr. Stephenson, who, first examining the sub ject as an enigineer, and then, hearing all parties in open court, issued his award. • But however this might be, the finding of the com mittee, and that alone, would be the authority under which any scheme would receive the sanction of Par liament. If, at a future period, by the increase of traffice and the observance of the rules laid down by your commit tee, the profits of the several companies should appear to Parliament to render necessary a revision of their respective tariffs, it will at all times be in the power of the permanent committee to deal with those ques tions ; and to attach to the bills which come before them such conditions as may appear to be required by a due regard to the public interest. The railway department would be in possession of much information which would be valuable to the com mittee ; and they should present at the commencement of the session a comprehensive report upon the general nature of the schemes for the year, together with de tailed rworts upon the provision contained in the seve ral bira. For all questions which it might be found convenient to dispose of in the way of reference, the agc,ncy of the department would at all times be avail able whenever the committee should require it. The practice of proceeding before separate committees has led to other evils which your committee think it would be possible to obviate, such as the canvassing by agents for votes upon the different stages in the house ; the accu mulation in the statute-book of differing and anomalous provisions, the repeal by private legislation of public and deliberately considered enactments, and the general un certainty and confusion arising from these circumstances. The appointment of a permanent committee would mani festly tend to the removal of many of these evils. Mr. Rowland Hill attended before your committee to explain a bill, which has been approved by successive postmasters-general, for conferring on the Post-office greater powers in its dealings with the railway compa nies. Your committee think it is reasonable that the companies should afford to the Post-office, at the same charge as would be paid by private individuals for simi lar services, every assistance which might add to the convenience of the public. They think that no railway should have any claim to be considered as fulfilling its obligations to the district in which it is situate, which fails to facilitate in this way the postal communications of that district. Your committee have considered with care the sub ject of safety. The numerous cases of fatal accident which occurred during the past winter, and the judicial investigations which ensued upon them, invested this portion of their inquiry with particular interest. It appears that the following is the proportion of the acci dents to passenger trains which have occurred during the last four years : Mileage open 1849, 6,031 ; 1850, 6,621 • 1851, 6,890; 1852, 7,336 ; first six months of 1853, 7,512. Number of passengers carried 1849, 63,841,539 ; 1850, 72,854,422; 1851, 85,391,095; 1852, 89,135,729. Number of accidents to passenger trains 1849, 44 ; 1850, 60 ; 1851, 60 ; 1852, 65 ; first six months of 1853, 40. _ _ . . _ „. Number of passengers killed and injured by causes beyond their own control by the above accidents 1849, 78 ; 1850, 175 ; 1851, 363 ; 1852, 381 ; first six months of 1853, 128. Number of servants of railway companies killed and injured by the above accidents 1849, 34; 1850, 31 ; 1851, 20 ; 1852, 54 ; first six months of 1853, 29. Your committee have directed their attention to the different practice which prevails between the application of the criminal law to railway accidents in Scotland and in England, and have examined as witnesses the Lord Advocate and the Solicitor-General for Scotland. Upon an examination of the returns it does not appear that there is any difference in the relative proportions of ac cidents favourable to Scotland ; the statement of aver- ages for the last four years, in England, Scotland, and Ireland, being as follows : Mileage open in England, 5,192 ; in Scotland, 939 ; in Ireland, 588. N s n u o m t l b a e n r d f 8 passengers i c n a r l r r i e e i d a i n n d E , 5 7 8 1 3 a n 8, d 8 , 6 6 9 3 . , 025, 023; in Number of accidents to passenger trains in England, 47 ; in Scotland, 8 ; in Ireland, 1.75. Number of passengers killed and injured by causes beyond their own control by the above accidents in Eng land, 217 ; in Scotl an d, 32 ; i n Ir e l an d, 5. Number of servants of companies killed and injured in the ab ove accidents in England, 31 ; in Scotland, 2.5 ; in Ireland, .75. In Ireland, where the traffic is light, it will be per ceived that the cases of accident are very rare. A distinction of law which prevails here, and for which no very pound reason is apparent to your committee, is not admitted in Scotland ; viz., that an accident aris ing from culpable negligence is not generally the sub ject of criminal proceeding, unless it is followed by the death of the person injured. If it be right, as doubtless it is, that the culpable negligence of rail way managers resulting in death to a traveller should be manslaughter, there seems no good reason why the same negligence, resulting in • serious injury or in risk of life or of limb, should not constitute a crime. Your committee have ascertained • that a bill now before the Upper House contains a pro ) vision which, if adopted by Parliament, will assimilate • the English to the Scotch law in that respect ; and as this provision is applicable not only to railways, but to steam-ships, and generally to all cases of risk to human life, it appears to your committee more suited to general criminal legislation than to a measure which might ema nate from a committee whose inquiries are confined to the subject of railways only. But your committee submit to the house that it would be very desirable, with a view to the more effectual working of the law as it is in Scotland, and to the law either as it is or as it may be England, that more effec tual provision should be made for the direct individual responsibility of those who conduct the traffic on the railways. Your committee consider that, in every case, some one managing director, or other officer appointed by the company, should be held responsible for the safe conduct of the traffic, and that he should be invested with such authority as might be necessary to enable him to conduct it with efficiency and safety. Subject to this authority other persons, each responsible for his own de partment, as a resident engineer for the state of the line, and a locomotive engineer ior the efficiency of the rolling stock, should be appointed, in order that, in case of acci dent resulting from culpable negligence, the person in whose immediate department that negligence had oc curred, might be known. When the accident was the re sult of breach of regulation, the inferior officer guilty of such breach would, of course, be the person responsible ; but a review of the accidents which have recently oc curred, and of the legal proceedings and official corre spondence connected with them, satisfies your committee that. the absence of any sufficient code of regulations, in other words, reprehensible negligence on the part of those whose duty it is to lay down such regulations, has been a frequent cause of evil. In some instances the de fective state of the lines themselves has caused the acci dent ; and in many instances when accident has not actually occurred, it has appeared in evidence that suffi cient assurance is by no means afforded to the public for the proper state of the lines. The very unusual weather of the last winter may be admitted as one of the reasons of this defective condition of the railways ; but it is to be feared that a much more operative cause has been the smallness of the dividends paid to the unguaranteed shareholders, their pressure upon the directors, and the consequent endeavour of the boards to carry retrench ment to the utmost limit. It is obvious that considera tions of public safety should not yield to a desire for economy ; that true economy is not promoted by the neglect of necessary repairs ; and that if the pressure of shareholders operate prejudicially, some provision should, if possible, be made by law which would ensure to the directors and to the travelling public a remedy against these evils. Your committee anticipate that the neces sity for registering a managing director or other respon sible officer would tend to ensure the appointment of an individual whose official reports could not safely be dis regarded by the board, and whose positive requisitions for purposes of repair the shareholders could not readily dispute. It would thus tend to erect a class of profes sionai men of high position, under whom the discipline and management of the lines might be expected to acquire consistency, and to attain to a greater degree of safety. The existence of a public prosecutor in Scotland is a circumstance bearing directly upon the difference between the stringency of the Scottish and that of the English law in regard to railways. As this is a matter of general law, your committee do not pro pose to discuss it at much length. In England ex perience is adverse to public prosecutions, which, being alien to the ordinary practice of the criminal law, have been regarded with disfavour, and have usually failed to obtain the conviction of the parties arraigned. Your committee are, however, of opinion, that even if the general law remain unaltered, there might be cases in which the railway department of the executive government might with advantage direct the solicitor of the Treasury to watch the proceedings at an inquest, or to conduct a trial at law against the persons guilty. It must at the same time be remembered, that at present the companies generally afford every facility to the officers of the Board of Trade for inquiring into the causes of any accident which has occurred ; and that if proceeding by the Treasury solicitor is contemplated in any case, it will be nessary to give to the executive more stringent powers of investigation than those with which they are invested by law. Your committee find that it has been the practice of the railway department to urge upon the companies, in the way of advice, the adoption of measures which from time to time have appeared to them advisable, as tending to diminish the risk of danger : but that they have no power of compelling the companies to adopt them against the judgment of their own officers. In the month of January, Captain Simmons, the secretary of that depart ment, was commissioned to examine the railways in France and Belgium, with a view of ascertaining the precautions taken in those countries for ensuring safety. As respects some of the lines, where the traffic is light and the speed is low, no fair comparison could be insti tuted with the lines in England. But of the Great Northern of France, Captain Simmons says, that in mileage, traffic, speed of trains, and many of its natural circumstances, it may fairly be compared with some of the principal railways in this country ; that the line was not superior in construction, nor better maintained than these lines ; that it was deficient in signals, and yet that, so far as he could ascertain, accidents were rare. This be accounted for by the observation that the line was always kept clear and the police regulations were good. The rules by which railways are governed in France have been laid before your committee in cxtenso, and will be found in the appendix to their report. It will be evi dent, from reading them, that however suitable some of the provisions may be for adoption by the companies, as an example, yet that their institution by the executiue government, in detail, and their enforcement by law would involve a great change in the relations between private enterprise and the government as they have here tofore existed under our free institutions. To what ex tent it might be expedient to adopt such a change your committee have been assisted in considering by reference to the report, to which your committee have before re ferred as having been recently presented to the Ameri can Congress upon the same subject. In that report it is observed " If these views show the necessity of supervision, we are next to inquire in what manner it should be exercised. Should authority be given to interfere with the details of railroad management, to regulate the running of trains, to arrange time-tables, to appoint and remove or otherwise punish employes, for neglect or violation of duty, &c. ? It if possible that instances may occur where interference of this kind might be necessary, but the committee can see many reasons why recourse should not be had to it, at least until it shall become apparent that the object in view cannot be obtained by other means. The working of a railroad requires the accurate arrangement of a great variety of details, and a prompt discharge of all the duties assigned to the several departments of its management. To divide the authority from which the regulations neces sary to effect these objects must emanate would give rise to confusion and embarrassments, engender bad feeling and hostility on the part of companies, take from the officers their responsibility, and 'eight result disastrously for the safety of the public." It is evident that in any system requiring strict and efficient discipline, the responsibility for the conduct of servants must rest upon those who appoint and pay them ; and as this duty cannot be transferred from the principal officers or directors of the company to the exe cutive government, it is essential that nothing be done to relieve from the legal responsibility which attaches to them those in whom practically the power of insuring efficiency will vest. Of all the clauses which have led to accident, un punctuality is the chief ; the collision of passenger trains with goods trains and excursion trains has been the chief occasion of the serious loss of life which has recently occurred ; these goods trains and excursion trains being uncertain in their times, and consequently causing derangement in the general traffic. On the Continent it is possible for the executive government to guard effectually against this evil, for goods need be only forwarded when the loading is sufficiently full to suit the convenience of the company ; and passengers can be refused admittance when the engine is loaded as heavily as the rules of the line permit. But in this country, although the observance by the officers of the company of rules calculated to ensure safety is an ob ject to which they should be held by the legal conditions of their office, inasmuch as they have it -in their power to increase the weight of their engines and the number of trains ; yet if such conditions were enforced by the direct action of the executive government upon com panies reluctant to observe them, the consequence would be delay and obstruction of the traffic, and serious in convenience to the public, and under such circumstances the company would relieve themselves from the blame by casting it upon the interference of the government. It seems, therefore, more suitable to the exigencies of the case, that the managing directors of the several lines should be required to act under a more direct sense of individual responsibility, and with the knowledge that the legislature will not consider the companies as fulfill ing the conditions of their relation towards the public if they fail to supply all reasonable convenience to the district in which this line is situate. The production, before the coroner, at the time of an inquest, of the registers in which the arrival and de parture of the trains at the different stations is recorded, would substantiate the fact of punctuality or unpunctu ality in the arrival of the trains. It would be right that access to these registers should at all times be open to the officers of the railway department, and that false entries or other particular in such registry by any servant of the company should be punishable at law. It is neces sary for the ordinary routine of business that records should be made by the working engineers of the state of the rolling stock ; and from these records much useful nformation may be gained for the prevention of acci dents arising from the inefficiency of that stock. There is one point connected with the management of railways to which public attention has been much di rected—viz., the possibility of connecting the guard with the driver of the engine. Your committee find that the want of this communication has been a subject of correspondence beti;een the railway department and the several companies. One mode of effecting it, by an arrangement of the guards who accompany the trains, and the addition of wooden platforms with hand-rails to the carriages, is so plain and easy, that it would long ago have been adopted, but for the necessity which it is stated that it would have entailed upon some of the railway companies of changing the arrangement of their stations in connection with the turn-tables. These ob stacles, so apparently minute, have been sufficient to prevent the introduction of an obvious good ; and from the system of interchanging carriages between different companies, it is necessary that all should adopt the same plan, in order to secure to the public the full ad vantage of its use by any one. Captain Simmons has laid before your committee a memorandum, which will be found in the appendix, on the mode by which this communication is accomplished on the Continent ; and the committee of the railway clearing-house have also produced in evidence their proceedings on the subject. It is satisfactory to your committee to report that, after full investigation, the committee of the clearing-house have adopted a scheme which they declare to be from diffi culty, and assure your committee that they are about to carry into immediate effect on the railways which be long to the clearing-house. Your committee, therefore, think that any of the officers of any of the railway com panies who neglect hereafter to employ so obvious a means of diminishing the risk of accidents;may justly be held to be without excuse. For the purpose of carrying into practical effect these general views, your committee recommend : _ [The recommendations were published in The Sun o: Wednesday.] NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE RAILWAY. The ordinary half-yearly meeting of this company was held on Friday at the railway station, Stoke-upon-Trent —the deputy-chairman, Mr. Brodrick, presiding, in the absence of Mr. J. L. Ricardo, from prolonged indispo sition. The report for the past half-year, the substance of which has already appeared in our columns, was read by Mr. SAMUDA, the Secretary. The CHAIRMAN, in submitting it for adoption, said it would be unnecessary for him to trouble them on that occasion with any lengthened remarks. At their last meeting, it would be recollected, the award of Messrs. Stevenson and Hoye relative to the amalgamation of the line with the London and North-Western, was laid before them, and it had since been carried into effect. The report alluded to the suspension of the amalgama tion bill, together with all others now before Parliament, by a formal resolution of the house until the report of the committee appointed to consider the general ques tion of amalgamation, and of which the President of the Board of Trade was the chairman, had been presented. That report had within the last few days appeared in a very voluminous form, and the suggestions it contained would no doubt meet with the sanction of Parliament. The only clause, however, affecting the proceedings of that company was the fifth, providing that no amalgama tion of different companies should be sanctioned, except in minor and special cases, where it clearly appeared to the committee that the true and only object of such amalgamation was improved economy of management and consequent advantage to the public. Assuming the recommendations of this report to be adopted by Parliament, he thought there could be no doubt but that the house would recognise the amalga tiou of the North Staffordshire line with the London and North-Western Company, as one of the special cases contemplated, but more especially since it could be shown that the only object of that amalgamation was to secure economy of management and consequent advantage to the pubiic. He did not, therefore, enter tain any fears for the ultimate fulfilment of the project. In the meantime the business of the company would be conducted as it had hitherto been, by its own ordinary machinery, acting under the suggestions and advice of the joint committee of the two companies. In this al• tered relation of the company, therefore, its policy, po litically speaking, and its accounts, financially speaking, became a matter of simplicity. The latter, they would find, were stated generally in gross amounts, although they were, as forinerly, kept in details in the company's books ; but, inasmuch as they were now to consider themselves in their practical guaranteed fund entitled to 3 per cent. dividend, these details, which before were interesting, and, in fact, necessary, now became a matter of comparatively no importance. The chairman then congratulated the proprietors upon the augmentation of traffic which had taken place as referred to in the report, but more particularly as regarded the transit of goods ; and having referred in terms of regret to the absence of Mr. Ricardo, concluded by moving the adoption of the report. - Mr. BRAMLEY MOORE seconded the motion, which was approved of unanimously. The bIiAIRMAN then declai•ed a dividend of ss. 3d. on each ordinary share, being at the rate of 3 per cent., less income tax, the same to be payable on the 21st of August. A vote of thanks was afterwards accorded to Mr. S. P. Bidder, late general manager of the company, for the efficient manner in which he had conducted the affairs of the company during the lengthened period he had occupied that situation ; and the meeting broke up. The business did not occupy more than half an hour. PARIS AND ROUEN. —The half-yearly meeting of this company was held at Paris, on Thursday, M. de l'Esp6e in the chair. The report entered at considerable length into the subject of the proposed amalgamation of the Western and North-Western lines, and stated that although the Government approved of the amalga mation in principle, yet there were certain details with respect to the construction of additional branch lines in Brittany, to be arranged with the compa nies before the Government would sanction the amal gamation. In order to bring matters to a conclusion as soon as possible, the amalgamation committee had offered to execute the lines of Brittany on the conditions of the law of 1842, that is, the State purchasing the land and making the earthworks and works of art, and the company laying down the perma nent way, and furnishing the rolling and stationary stock, but no decision had as yet been come to on the proposition. It is believed, however, that the amalga mation will not meet with obstacles of a serious nature, and that it will be carried into effect. The capital ac count to the 30th June last showed that 67,437,830 f. (2,697,5131.) had been expended. The revenue account for the half-year ending 30th June last, showed that 5,067,020 f. (202,6801.) had been received, and 3,151,168 f. (126,3261.) expended, leaving a net profit of 1,908,852 f. (76,3541.) Out of this sum is deducted 12,500 f. for the sinking fund ; 900,000 f. interest to shareholders ; one tenth, or 99,635 f. to the original projectors ; and 896,716 f. to the shareholders, or 25f. per share, leaving a balance of 939 f. for the next half-year. The receipts showed an increase of 491,278 f. over the corresponding half-year of 1852. The whole increase in the expenses was 143,073 f. Resolutions were passed, adopting the report and accounts ; re-electing the retiring directors, Sir J. Easthope and Mr. William Reed, and declaring the dividend of 25f. per share payable on the Ist of August. The meeting then separated. ALLEGED CHILD-MURDER AND BURNING OP I'HE BODY. On Saturday, the attention of Mr. Ingham, the pre siding magistrate at the Thames police-court, was called to a charge entered on one of the police sheets against Sarah Liepman, a Jewess, of No. 32, Cable-street, Welklose-square, for wilfully concealing the birth of an illegitimate child, and destroying the body thereof by fire. Police-Sergeant Foay, No. 7 H, an officer of the de tective force, said, the prisoner was only delivered of the infant On Friday, and that she afterwards burned it ; and he found a portion of the remains in the fire place in her parlour. He took the woman into custody on Friday evening, and, by direction of a surgeon, who examined the charred remains of the infant, he conveyed her to the delivery ward of St. George's workhouse, in Old Gravel-lane, St. George's-in-the-East. The woman was in a very weakly condition, and it would be some time before she would be in a fit state to appear. Mr. Ingham marked off the police-sheet " sent to the workhouse," and directed Foay to bring the woman be fore him on her recoverd, and collect the necessary evi dence. The prisoner Liepman is the widow of a Jew, and the mother of three legitimate children. For many years past she has dealt in old clothes and kept a " dolly shop." Her neighbours had lately observed her altered condition, and suspected the cause, but on being taxed with it by her acquaintances she stoutly denied it. Her only servant and attendant was a poor Irish girl, named Bridget Toomly. On Friday morning, Mrs. Liepman appeared in much pain, and occasionally groa ne d h eav il y . Her servant proposed to call in a doctor, but she re fused to receive the visits of a medical attendant. In the course of the day she frequently sent her servant out on frivolous errands, and appeared very uneasy. About 9 o'clock at night, Mrs. Liepman again sent her ser vant out upon an errand. The girl returned sooner than her mistress expected, and upon entering the parlour, was horror struck at observing the head of a child roasting on the top of the fire. Her mistress, who was greatly agitated, begged of the girl not to divulge what she had seen, and offered to give her half a sovereign to keep the secret. The girl, however, left the house almost immediately, and communicated what she had seen to some acquaintance. The police were immediately ap prised of the affair, and Serjeant Foay proceeded to the house, where, on entering the parlour, he discovered the head and other parts of the body of a child partially consumed on the fire. Several pieces of human flesh adhered to the coals. Foay lost no time in collecting the remains of the infant. The head was burnt to a cinder, but the features can be distinctly traced, and some portions of the skull are perfect. The small pieces of flesh adhering to the half-burnt coals would not weigh more than three or four ounces. Two pieces of the child's skull were found on the hearth-stone below the grate. Dr. Ryan, a medical gentleman, residing in Leman-street, Whitechapel, was sent for, who pronounced the head to be that of a child, and upon an examination of the woman Liepman, discovered that she had recently been delivered of a child. Foay immediately took the mo ther into custody, and, in consequence of her weak state, she was conveyed in a cart to the workhouse. The cart had no sooner drawn up at the door of the prisoner's house than an eager desire was manifested by a mob of 400 or 500 persons to take summary vengeance on the woman ; and she was no sooner brought out of the house by the officers than a loud yell was set by the people, and stones, bricks, and other missiles were thrown, and she would doubtless have been sacrificed to the fury of her neighbours, if the police had not zealously exerted themselves to save her. A large stone, thrown at the woman, struck Sergeant Foxy on the head, and inflicted a severe contusion. The cart drove off amidst the groans and execrations of the bystanders. On Ser geant Foay acquainting her with the fact that she was charged with the wilful murder of her child, and de stroying the body by burning it, she made no reply, but soon afterwards said to him that she was tired of her life. It appears that about 9 o'clock in the morning the cries of a child were heard in the prisoner's room, and it is supposed that she gave birth to the infant about that time, and afterwards murdered it and placed the body on the fire, with the view of .consuming it, and destroying, if possible, all evidence of her guilt. Dr. Ryan, on being called in on Friday night, said he was of opinion that she had been delivered of a child about twelve hours previously, HARROW. First Innings. Lord Garlies, c Dupuis, b Mar- 2 b Hoare 5 4 b Bagge 3 rillier Hon. R. Stewart, b Bagge C. D. Crawley, Esq., c Dupuis, b Manißier 3 c Bagge, b Hoare..... 0 C. Church, E sq ., b B agge '2 R. Digby, Esq., c Northey, b Marrillier W. Davey, Esq,, c Wodehouse, P. Km ht Eagg e 3 b Bagge , Esq., c W odehouse, b Hoare ..................... 18 a Marrillier, b Hoare 34 V. Walker, Esq:, .c . b Marrillier. ................ 0 b Bagge 0 A. Park, Esq., c Rolle, b Bagge 3 R. Currie, Esq., c Rolle, b Mar-• rillier ............................. 0 not out l6 Z. Forster, Esq., not out.. '.. t; not out 4 1-1) 2,1%. 9 ll b 1,1-b 1, w 14, u-b 2 .............. 18 1 c Northey, b Hoare.. 4 Total . 53 T0ta1...... 85 hog. R EPR ESENTATIVE MUNICIPAL CONT ROL IN THE AI F.- the course of an addre ss made on Frid - a. E. by Sir B. Hall, at the Marylebone Vestry, the h baronet gave strong reasons for believing that th ere is . an intention on the part of the Government to t a k e steps for giving to the people of the metropolis a m uc h larger amount of representative control, if not even municipal rights, at no distant period. The hon. baronet urged the metropolis to be up and doing, by preparing a bill on so important a subject. THE LATE FIRE AT WINDSOR CASTLE.--On Satur day an estimate, in a Parliamentary paper, was p rinted, showing that 4,0001. is required for the extension and completion of the fire-mains at Windsor Castle, THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 1, 1853. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BRIGHTON RACES. ARRIVALS.—Jouvence, Poodle, Convulsion, Tamer lane, Wmckfield, Sylphine, Bonnie Bairn, Sanita, Mrs. Nutting, Margaretta, Jovial, Blanche filly, Guava, Lucy Banks colt, Auchinleck, Azael, Coleraine, Dabchick, Herbert, Oxu s , Garforth. WEIGHTS for the NURSERY STAKES. T.Y.C. st lb Bribery Sine que Non 8 3 Jack Frost Winkfield 8 0 Worthless Student Kennyside Hero Twinkle Village Lass Mouser 7 6 IVoodyeates 7 6 Epaminondas Royalist Clio Victorine 7 4 Uncleared WEIGHTS for the G Age st lb Hungerford 5 9 5 Nabob Pharos Bushranger Jouvence Snowdon Dunhill 3 7 10 Herbert a 7 10 Zephyr 4 7 4 William Rufus WEIGHTS for the MAi Vingt-un 7 1 Adelaide Basquine Bracken Joan of Arc 6 13 Margaretta Cyrus 6 11 Jovial St. Spero 6 10 Bonnie Bairn Brigadier 6 7 Kitty Clover 6 7 Health 6 5 Blanch filly 6 5 Beauty paid Age st lb Ephesus 5 9 4 Daniel O'Rourke 4 8 10 Frantic Conmore • 4 8 3 Faux Pas . Kilmeny 5 8 0 Rataplan 3 8 0 Richmond 4 7 10 Eulogist 3 7 9 Lascelles 3 7 9 Sauita 4 7 8 Lapidist 4 7 7 Sextus 3 7 7 Preslaw 6 7 6 Tamerlane 3 7 6 Trousseau Thornhill Dulcet a 7 2 WEIGHTS for the Age st lb Vermuth Ephesus 5 9 4 Adine 4 8 13 Daniel O'Rourke 4 8 10 Nabob Frantic 4 8 9 Conmore Rataplan Richmond 4 7 7 Eulogist 3 7 6 Lascelles Homebrewed 4 7 4 Preslaw 6 7 4 Trousseau Milesian 3 7 3 Dulcet ,AND STAND PLATE. Age st lb Convulsion Rhingrave 4 7 0 Beverlac 3 6 13 Sandhurst 3 6 13 Lambay 3 6 13 Allington Coleraine Mrs. Nutting Mayfly INE PLATE. T.Y.C. Catspaw Rhingrave Milesian Puritan Homebrewed Henrietta Spark Snarry Dagobert Age st lb .. 3 7 12 .. 4 7 0 3 7 2 .. 5 7 1 .. 4 7 0 .. 4 6 13 .. 4 6 7 .. 4 6 7 .. 3 6 7 Guava 3 6 10 Heriot Handsome Doe 6 6 7 Madame Landeau 3 6 6 Signor Veluti 3 6 6 Appleton 4 6 4 Bracelet 3 6 7 Young Norval 3 6 4 'AVILION PLATE. Age st lb Sanita, 4 7 3 Hirsuta, Puritan Hambletonian Snarry Rhingrave 4 6 7 Spark 4 6 7 Catspaw 3 7 8 Sextus Tamberlane Golden Plover Dagobert 3 6 9 Madame Landeau 3 6 7 Katty Darling Bracelet 3 6 0 CONDEMNED CONVICTS. Serah Baker, who was sentenced to death at the last Stafford Assizes for the murder of her child, and who, on account of the deplorable and pitiable circumstances of her case and condition, was strongly recommended to mercy by the jury, has been respited during her Ma jesty's pleasure, with a view to a commutation of the capital punishment to transportation for life. John Roberts, who was left for execution at the recent Carnarvon assizes by Lord Campbell, for the murder of a youth on a mountain near Conway by shooting him through the head, has made a confession of his guilt. He declares that he had no previous determination to destroy the lad, and that the murderous idea only came into his head when they reached the mountain. The execution is fixed for Wednesday, the 10th inst. The extreme penalty of the law is to be carried into effect, on the 13th instant, on William Flack, who was convicted on Thursday at the Ipswich assizes of the murder of Maria Steggles, the aged housekeeper of Bac ton rectory. The convict, who is only 18 years of age, appears but little concerned at his approaching fate. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. CUSTOM-HOUSE, JULY 30. ENTERED INWARDS.—The Condor, from St. John's, N.B. ; Cordelia, St. Lawrence ; Sarah, Cronstadt ; Of Chafee, Quebec ; John and Isabella, Dantzic ; Gode Ver wachtong, Nykiobing ; Ellen, Rostock ; Robert, Dantzic ; Clara, do. ; Aphrodite, do. Dorothea, do. ; Elizabeth, do. ; Peter Bary, Kanebeksimonde ; Neander, Da,ntzic ; Christina Maria, Soderham ; Clarendon, Trinidad ; Iris, Uleaborg ; Branch, Wolgast ; Sovereign, Stettin ' • Flora, Holuasond ; Great Britain, Stettin ; Elizabeth, Ystad. ; Eleanor, Garrucha, ; Ernst, Bjorneborg ; Datharisia, Calcutta • Maria, Thisted ; Mary, Wo]gast ; De 4 Sods kinde, Wismar ; Fredericho Christiana, Aarhuus ; Dovro, Hudikswall ; Tyskoner, Wasa ; HofTmong, Lerwig ; Pa triot, Dewar Odde • Eliza Ann, Wismar ; Lucifer, Memel ; Juno, "Wyck ; Helene, Sudwesthorne ; Elizabeth Cathe rine, Dram ; Victory, Gothenburg ; Helen, Oporto ; Johanna, Ibrail ; Harmonie, Stettin ; Nautilus, Gothen burg ; Tucker, Memel ; Argus, Terceira ; mgheden, Dram ; Maria Wilhelmina, Rostock ; Hebes, Sonnesund ; Johannes, Stettin. ENTERED OUTWARDS FOR LOADING.—The Bounty, of Providence, for Caen ; Anna Maria, Konigsberg • Emer dale, New South Wales ; Queen, C a p e o f G o od Hope and Calcutta ; Protector, Madeira and Demerara ; Rother, Algoa Bay ; Eolo, Messina ; Ida, Hamburgh ; Irene, Ade laide ; Hannah, Pernambuco ; Pearl, Montreal ; Windsor. Port Philip ; Speculator, Lisbon ; Mercury, Alton. CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGO.—The Sutcliffe, far Antwerp ; Jane, do.; Meridian, Cherbourg • T wo B rodres, Dantzic ; Ocean, Demerara ; Zango, St. Thomas, &c . ; Nephew, Caen ; Hopper Gothenburg ; Patrick Henry, . Breeze, New York ; Montague , Havre ; Elizabeth, Caen • Lord ' Dalhousie, Calcutta • Vidal', Christiana, szc. Dunkirk ; Sylph, St. P e tersburgh ; Joshua, Port' Philip. LivrapooL, July 30.—The Washington, which sailed yesterday for Melbourne, has returned to port. The Robert was spoken July 9, lat. 34 N., long. 44 W. VESSELS SPOKEN WITH. The Tynemouth, of London, from Arracan, April 26, 29 S., long. 41 E. 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A y le e x a s r . s ,St i u nd ar e t s , o A ri r b c a h b d ie eac o o g n on o y f Ross, from S d k y ib s. pe r p e s e ia n - be I' n — er;otness, asthma, cou g h , const i pat i on, :flatu lency, spasms, sickness at the stomach, and vomitings, has been removed by Du Barry's excellent food. Maria Jolly, Wortham Ling, near fuss, Norfolk."—Copies of testimonials of 50,000 cures (including those of Lord Stuart de Decies, Major-General Thomas King, Drs. Ure, Shorland, and Harvey) gratis. In canisters, with full instructions, Ilb., 2s. 9d. ; 21b., 4s. 6d. ; 51b, 11s. ; 121 b., 225. ; super-refined, 51b., 225. ; 101 b., 335. The 101 b. and 121 b. carriage free. Barry Du Barry and Co., 77, RegOntrotreeta st lb [ADDINGTO. - The following are the pri to-day : i WHEAT. BARLEY. was. 130 51 0 a Fir5t........,....... 59s Od 35s Od 26s Od 45s sdSecond .................. 56s 3d 34s scl 24s 2d 43 5 od Third .................... 48s Od 31s Od 21s 60. 429 00 1 Total quantity of wheat in market, 305 qrs., 2 33 0 0 0 72 7/1 barley „ 28 qrs. 2 ,„° 0 00 if I/ oats Yt 364 qrs.,' 2 ‘" ®id ,K 00 ~ ,f beans 7, 66 qrs., u" DALKEITH GRAIN MARKET—JULY 28. . , Qrs. B es t. C urrent. Infel c r i o, 292 Wheat 60s Od 437 Oats 26s Od 48 Barley 30s Od. 8 Peas & beans 45s Od Average of wheat, 2/. 15s 61d. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, JULY 30. STOCK EXCHANGE. — The share market has been ro.__ l4lse s o f lower to-day, but we had a very small amount of bus"o doing. Quotations were reported as follows :—Ch e , h ire and Birkenhead, 20A ; East Lancashire, 1811 ; Lanct" - • and Yorkshire, 78 ; London and North Western, 116 A; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 29i ; Midlancb,* South Eastern and Dover, 21i; York and North land, 30g. MANCH, JULY 30. i 00' STOCK EXCHA NGE. --- There ESTE was no alteration n 26 t or tions, but only on e t ransaction took place. East shire, 18i. BIRMINGHA, JULY 30. t o .da 9 0 STOCK EXCHANGE— This market was firmer and the demand for. stock is rather better. BIR7IIS. OF A SON. . At Twickenh am , on the 29th July, Mrs. 11. A. go at J 3011" On the 25th ult., at Harwich, the wife of Franc is fort, Esq. OF A DAUGHTER. On the 29th ult., at Thorndon, the Lady Petro. ; c o of On the 29th ult. at O a k-l o d ge , S ou th ga te, the w'" Samuel Sugden, Esq. MARRIED. f p, onli , ic s ., On the 27th ult., i n Bi rr par i s h c h u rch, b lip, 0 daughter of the late Richard Clarke, Esq., of Du .i nvent William Armstrong, Esq., of her Majesty's 16th Ff. of Foot. -- p DlED. Portland n On the 26th ult il at 8, tont William Harve On the 27th y arry, Esq.. gli, ult. at N 42, George-square, Edinbur 0, orge-square, Japes M`Laren On the 26th '1 Esq. d-terrace, Southstol) 010 3 aged 92. u t., at Wokingham, Mrs. Susanna Bro _..—......!...- VO LONDON: Printed and Published by MITI DO V of No. 112, St ra nd, Printer, at The Sun Office, l a )" wog Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in gle C° Atiddlena, Monday, August 1, 1853, NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, JULY 31- We have much pleasure in noticing the promotion ° I Mr. Charles Burney, second master of her Majestflo steam-vessel Dasher, to the rank of master, R.N. is a highly creditable act of Sir James Graham. have no doubt but that Mr. Burney has received ti mark of Admiralty favour for his indefatigable exertit 41 1 in making hims e lf acqua i nted with the pilotage o f t . dangerous part of the coast, the Channel Islandsr ; b i s the first and only naval officer who has ever pawed 19 ' fore the Commissi oners o f Pil otage at Jersey, 1)V •d which, he is the only p erson w h o has ever passed 23: general pilot for the wh o l e coast, t h e p i lots there t , out licenses as local pilots only. We are informe , 3 t latterly Mr. Burney has on several occasions assist A cl i t `i; Commissioners of Pilot age i n t h e exam i nat i ons o f for the coast. thn The Blenheim, 60, s crew - s hi p, C apta i n W . H. derson, C. 8., was und er or d ers to leave Kingr '°``. Dublin, on Thursday last, for Spithead, to rejo i 1 111 : fleet for the review. Sh e sa l u t e d t h e E arl of St. G, v: ll° ' ogt 6 on Sunday last, on his em b ar ki ng f or Holyhead, r - 4 ,1 ; a t to London. The Count ess o f St . G ermans arr bred Kingstown on the 26th, and was conducted to 6, t targ e t of the Blenheim fr om h er s t a t e carriage by Lieu er)3°, George G Clarke, of th a t s hi p , which her Excelle tic 34. spected under the es cor t o f C apta i n Henderson which the Countess visited the Royal St. George 'yacht Club. The regatta was carr i e d on w i th great 01311:l, The naval boat race was won b y the launch rifo Blenheim, and an interesting snatch between the Pi o Marine Artillery an d th e roya l M ar i nes of the s b won in good style by the latter. ter We regret to rep or t on acc id ent of a serious chra ‘c on board the Duk e o f W e lli ng t on. The maintopgsd 119 t ,/: yard was bei ng h o i s t e d up on F r i day morning, 14 tobme rope gave way and the yard Caine down on ° with a tremendous crash, breaking quite through it the accident five men were seriously injured, the r connected with the yard having caught and cru smu t them. One man was very badly wounded, having b° „, legs broken, besides having sust a i ne d sun d ry i n j u riiS" the bead, &c.; a, The Agamemnon, 81, C a pt a i n Si r T homas Haiti 31' C. 8., rejoined the Spithead fleet on Friday evening • ,„ The Antelope i ron s t eam vessel, Lieutenant-I mander Young, was docked yesterday for examin• On the water leaving her bottom was found thick'rl4l, cumbered with barnacles of a very large growth, adhered so ten ac i ous l y t o t h e i ron that some had • t° o out off with a chisel. The Vulcan steam-troopship, Commodore Von Mo came into harbour yesterday morning. The Prussian frigate Gefion, 48, Commodore S der, and her tender, th e corvette Amazone 12, P e ": tenant-Commander Schirmacher, will refit in this. bad bour, and then proceed to the Mediterr anean , to de- ,3e reprisals for an insult to th e P russ i an flag committ 'I e, the Moorish coast. It i s ex p ecte d that his Royal a ins, ness Prince Adalbert, Lord High Admiral of the P r° e . sian navy, will visit these ships while lying at this F ° THE SPITHEAD FLEET. The ships, having shifted berths yesterday, are. Il e gor l moored in the following o r d er , w hi c h w i ll be a gu i, 1 6 1 visitors and watermen WEST. Sidon Odin Leopard Vesuvius Banshee Prince Regea t Duke of Welling .. 16 ton 131 ..12 London 9O 6 Agamemnon 9l ~ 2 Ajax 5B ... Encounter l4 EAST. Hogue Edinburgh ..»•• 46 Arrogant --- • 21 Highflyer - • Her Majesty will pass through the fleet on Tuesi on her return to town for a few days, when a very ib i ;; liant specta c l e w ill b e presented by the firing, mate ] yards, dressing ship, cheering, &c. The review o f take place aft er h er M a j esty ' s return to the IsT.O Wight, in about a fortnight. PLYMOUTH, JULY 3 4 ,, n , The crew of her M a j es t y ' s s hi p Queen, 116, Carole F. T. Mitchell, will b e p a id wages on Monday, and.. gcor is appointed to leav e th e S oun d on Wednesday,- j„ Portsmouth. The Q ueen i s 100 men short of her /31'; piement. - The brig Philomel is to be commissioned by W ill i ; mander West on Monday, when she will be taken dock to have her copper examined. The Vulture steam-frigate, Captain Glasse, retur o e to j last evening from Pembroke, where she has bees , 00 assist the Caesar. Four came l s , eac h to susta i n tons, are to be made for floating this ship; the first. ' l43 r , completed on Th urs d ay . I t i s suggested by some l' e c l sons that one of the ways is broken, and the butte" coming against the Caesar's bottom, caused her to st °Pi Her white streak is b en t, an d s h e is completely hogg There is not yet sufficient depth of water to ascert the extent of leakage. The merchant ship Vimiera, Captain Neatby, ,s, pointed to sail with the Government mails for the ( ift Colonies, from this po r t on th e sth o f August, l e Gravesend at 5 30 p.m. on Sunday, and beating d Channel against strong westerly winds all the way, chored in the Sound at 1 30 p.m. on Friday. SHEERNESS, Jour 3 0 ' to . The Barracouta, 6, paddle-wheel steam-sloop, (71) ,„r mander George Parker, got up steam this day, and P ceeded to Spithead to join the squadron lying ther e '. t he The Tribune, 30, screw stea m f r i ga t e, Captain of Hon. S. T. Carnegie. has completed the adjustulerti P f° f her compasses at th e S w i ng i ng -b uoy ; her orders sailing p i a on , b i a n v s e p e c t o arrivedro or machinery from th the afloat,lm i a h l t F ! , s . arrive 3fr. h ur iA for the purp ose of proceeding in the T r ib une , i n or , ', / to ascertain th e powers and efficien^y of her maehing under vari ous c i rcumstances during her passage rot 13 from h ere to S pithead. She is expected to leave ° 0 Monday morning next. er The Miranda, 14, screw steam-sloop, chief engire e Mr. Rob er t Nicoll, is ordered t o b e t a k en i n t o d o ck , mediately, for the purpose of being fitted with Gram) patent cooking and sea water distilling apparatus. The Cuckoo paddlewheel steam-vessel, under chale pro tent. of Commander Robert Jenner , of the Hora t ; has returned f rom th e east coast (last ' from Yarmoned with volunteers for general service. In consequence o f the strict regulations of the Admiralty for the height,' boys entering the service, a great number of stout s growing boys have been rejected, much to their dial pointment. The C uc k oo h as proceeded to Dover, otl, much disappointment has also been experienced therfi I( a fine sturdy set of lads, but unfortunately of rather !(),. stature. These lads when put under the standard' out their shoes are found wanting a quarter of an' after their thick curly locks are clean swept off their t 017; knot by the keen shears of the ship's corporal, and re; be seen wending th e i r wa y t o th e i r h omes. It i s 1' general opinion of naval officers of considerable e) . :r ee rience that it would be more a d van t ageous to the se r generally that the only res t r i c ti on s h ou l d b e for age (.4i), 14), leaving it to th e di scre ti on o f the officer to no such boys as appea re d h ea lth y an d v i gorous ; the hale would come in due course of time. WOOLWICH, JULY 3 C l r APPOINTMENTS. Master Edward M'Kenzie (1852) to the Philollo4 St brig, at Devonport. Surgeons--Williarn Hannant (1851) to the Phil o P James Campbell (1852) to the Plumper, screw stems sloop, at Portsmouth. Paymaster William C. Brnwn (1851) to the Philogic Clerk C. H. Wells to the Philomel. Clerk's Assistant F. Le 13. Bedwell to the St. Ge °l / 6 120, guard-ship of ordinary, at Devonport. COUNTRY MARKETS. I N--JULY 29. tei ces of grain at our rIV- v.