The Sun. — London, England, 1853-08-04 00:00:00

Afte r re rr iv led bf of ' e wbl e 10 1 .7, > y the irkio wed which eates l erter. s obr The with deb usaia e under Lin 33° , n t a. th clar." S ° Ca' be re a tbe L. oriao' l )rieir , op eat Fro ity c'' BRIGHTON RACES. (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) GRAND STAND PLATE. Hun gerford LICENSED VICTUALLERS' PLATE. Tomboy 1 ORDER OF RUNNING. 2. o—Stand Plate. 2.3s—Licensed - Victuallers. 3.1.5 Cup. 4.3o—Pavilion. 6.lo—Sussex. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS—(THIS DAY.) The SPEAKER took the chair at 12 o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The following bills were read a third time and passed :—Pauneefort Duncombe's Estate ; Sergison's Estat e ; South Sea Company's Arrangement and Trusts. NEW WRIT. On the motion of Mr. HAYTER, a new writ was ordered to he issued for the southern division of the county of Stafford, in the room of Major-General the Roc- Geo. Anson, who had accepted the Chiltren Hun dreds. • PETITIONS. Mr. MIALL presented a petition from Sydenham, in favour of the opening of the Crystal Palace on Sun day. Mr. BUTT p resen t e d severa l p e titi ons i n f avour o f Ten Hours' Factory Bill. BEDFORD CHARITY ESTATE BILL. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL moved the second reading of this bill, the object of which was to remedy certain abuses co nnec t e d w ith th e a d m i n i s t ra ti on o f th e funds of this charity, which amounted to 12,0001. a rear- He stated that it had been approved by three successive Attorney-Generals, and had been carefully inquired into by a committee of the House of Lords, and had been approved of by the Lord Chancellor, Lord St. Leonards, and Lord Redesdale. Sir J. WALMSLEY opposed the bill on the ground chiefly that the new trustees of the fund were to be ap appointed by the Lord Chancellor for life, and moved that it be read a second time this day three months. Sir F. THESI GER supporte d t h e bill. The house divided and the numbers were— For the second reading Against it 8 Majority be The bill was then read a second time and ordered to committed. AGED BISHOPS. 14 r- PHINN inquired whether the Government were prepared t o t a k e i nto consi d era ti o n any measure for affording relief to bishops who from ill-health or age ',ere unabl e t o di scharge t h e i r d u t y , i n th e same way as at present w h en they were su ff er i ng f rom men t a l infir rimy. Lord J. RUSSELL said the Government would take 12ito c onsideration any suggestion likely to put an end `'° anY evil o r i nconven i ence w hi c h m i g ht a t presen t b e O BUSINESS ON WEDNESDAYS. Lord J. RUSSELL expressed a hope that the Go vernment orders of the day would be allowed to have P r ecedenc e on "Wednesdays. (Hear, hear.) PHINN said he had a motion on the paper for it w i t h respect to the inspection of nunneries, but as was not likely to lead to any practical result this See S i °ll--he having been informed that some hon. mem bers had determined that no decision should be arrived 41s—he was willing to concur in the suggestion of the noble l ord. 1., 1 r• NEWDEGATE intimated that he would oppose the withdrawal of the motion. There was a very strong Cling on the subject in the country, and he thought 1 „. -n • 'members should have an opportunity of giving ex pression to their opinions with respect to it. After some further conversation, the subject dropped. (LEFT SITTING.) COURT CIRCULAR. • I ler Majesty has been pleased to stand sponsor to the t inf ant son of Earl and Lady Constance Grosvenor yes i?rclaY morning i n th e pr i vate c h ape l i n B uc ki ng h am v alaee. Th ere were present the Duchess of Sutherland, the Duke and Duchess of Argyll, the Marchioness of Zestrninster, Earl and Lady Constance Grosvenor, Lady _ goes Grosvenor, and the ladies and gentlemen in ail ing on the Queen. The baptismal service was per gained bY the Rev. Lord Wriothesley Russell. Her jes at , tY named the infant Victor Alexander. The other t:ezourenfsre the Duke of Sutherland (represented by (represented of Argyll) and the Marquis of Westminster Countess Earl Grosvenor). d'G r i - " nLe ss of , accompanied by the Duchess eans and the Prince Y de Joinville, visited her Ma jesty a t Elickin gliam Palace. teit _ r li e , e r to in s ce Albert, attended by Captain the Hon. Dudley , visited the Photographic Institution in Bond- Yesterday. tA meeting of the committee for considering the sub- Eet of the Wellington College Testimonial was held at ingh am Palace y es t er d ay at f our o ' c l oc k , an d was ittt ended by Prince Albert, the Duke of Buccleuch, the !4 ' ) of Aberdeen, Lord John R usse ll, Viscount Hard ?, Lord Raglan, and the Hon. W. P. Talbot. The 44 of Derby was unavoidably prevented from being pre sent by a severe attack of the gout. t o T " Queen, attended by the Hon. Mary Seymour, a drive in an ope landau and four yesterday after 111),eecik°: Colonel Bouve n rie was in attendance on horse ener Maj es ty held a court , yesterday afternoon at Cr own Palace to receive the Crown Prince and Crown Princess of Wurtemberg. G . ' Crown Prince and Princess arrived at the palace li°6lll..afautersix o'clock, attended by Baron Brunnow, the b 31 Minister, the Countess Sturmfeder, dame d'hon p-e1;1' to her Imperial Highness, Count Zeppline and el°nel de Berlichingen, and were received on alighting baiting,(3rntheir carriage by the ladies and gentlemen in toyal and her Imperial Highness were intro eed to th e presence of the Q ueen b y th e E ar l of Cla- S eil°n, , her Majesty's Principal Secretary of --,Thte for Foreign Affairs. Queen was ' attended by the Countess of Gains n,-"gh, the Hon. Matilda Paget, the Hon. Mary Sey oo the Marquis of Ormonde, Lt.-Colonel the Hon. udl eY de Lord Charles Fitzroy, and Captain the Hon. Ros. ll o ri °ne Albe r t ro d e ou t on h or seback yesterday after neattended by Captain the Hon. Dudley de Ros. t,i' l l e t !' Majesty had a dinner party yesterday evening at of e lr igham Palace. The company included the Duchess 4ent, Earl and Countess Granville, the Marchioness s, s y eattninster, Lady Augusta Bruce, the Baroness de g e th, the Earl and Lady Constance Grosvenor, the 4. Lo r d W riothesley Russell, the Right Hon. W. E. T l ,Mrs. Gladstone, and Sir George Couper. o b i ''s Countess of Gainsborough has relieved the Mar 4:_tless of Ely in her duties as Lady in Waiting to the L i ,, e en, and the lion. Captain de Ros has succeeded tAilt•-Colonel F. H. Seymour as Equerry in Waiting -r-ritice Th Albert. e 13„_ e, Duches s o f K ent, atten d e d b y L a d y A ugusta 4,ir the B aroness Speth, and S i r George Couper, y e : e d at her residence, Clarence house, St. James's, T k er day, from Frogmore. y eB ," e -Duchess d'Orleans visited the Duchess of Kent „cerday, at Clarence House. nel Sibthorp, M.P., had an interview with I.r,ount Palmerston on Tuesday at the Home-office. s ay esPatches were sent from the Colonial-office yester ieso the Governor of Malta and the Lord High Corn " 3 loner of the lonian Islands. &r rrhe Mi nisterial whit e b a it dinner—the invariable fore - r of the close of the parliamentary session— '''ed for the 13th instant. •- , Ve s t A Ai; 131 p er ' o e r r . o a r Y , R t u h s e Grand . he daughter Prince of Royalth of w urtenab Russia, _., and ed at Woolwich in her Majesty's LB:.3.l;c:rw-V iVir.g' They were received at the royal Dockt itad bY 13aron Brunnow, y the Russian Ambpssador_: . . . :ii:zzadore Superintendent H. Eden, Col. Ro r b ri " , Brigade Mcajoßr.'BiKnfhallm,"annrCrnapatnclainerßltdfdttenhlle, Pie rtillery, Flag Lieutenant G. E. K. Gore,. o Tli;' ard fla g shit), and other officers of steamerlishmenhte. mterval of ground between the and t fi rl l;:igng °f the princess was covered with green baize salute was fired on her Imperial Highness on shore from a field battery of the Royal Ar e_ s:y stationed in the Dockyard, and a guard of honour, ,s,ll,_sting of 100 rank and file a the Woolwich division e l Itoyal Marines, with the band and colours of the w'irtti,,linder the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Jolliffe, co Captain Rider and Lieutenants Freeland, Dela 15i..,. , and Lane, presented arms, the band playing the "lona' Anthem. THE CREMORNE BAL MASQUE. The most brilliant fete that has ever been given in those gardens, or perhaps in any other place of al fresco ~ligateeernet, took place last evening to the unqualified ht of an immense assemblage. The gardens were hav e ua d with the most tasteful splendour, and we never seen a more striking collection of elegant ter°asottirdtnineasityhan were displayed on this occasion. An ex• was excited by the marvellous feat performed by the Italian Brothers, Le Saut de Rivierc, and the air resounded with plauds this un equalled specimen of gymnastic daring. That fireworks Were of peculiar excellence, and a universal call was made for Mortrana who was well deserving of the honour. bancing was kept up with the utmost spirit, nor could that© be possibly congregated a more joyous throng, or one, it is scarcely necessary to say, more unexception ably orderly, for the decorum invariably observed in Crernorne Garden s is proverbial. Bosisio's orchestra 'was kept in continual requisition by the votaries of Terpsichore, while the celebrated Hungarian band played a selection of their most admired pieces. A t tet o'clock the circus was thrown open free, and the enjoyment of the spectators at the achievements of its powerful troupe of artistes was unbounded. P 1 --LE...VTARY RECEPTION OF A RUSSIAN 1 1 '' PRINCESS. Cam . SHARE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) BRITISH RAILWAYS. RAILWAYS. Closing Prices Yesterday. Basiness done 1 this day. 50 Aberdeen ....... Ambg. Nottng. Bost. & Eastn. June....... Birmng. Wolverh. & Stour Va11ey......... Birkenhd. Lanesh. & Cheshire Junct...... Do. Chesh. & Birk., -- 27 5a 5a 9a 104 9 7 d £5O do £25 18i ,Do. , £2O 100 Bristol & 100 all Chester & Holyhead all Cork and Bandon all Cork, Black. 4 t, Pass 45 [Dublin &ilelfastJune all Dundee Perth &Aber . Been Junction all Do. New ....... all East Anglian (X. 25 L. 20 - 3 —24 d 102 104 67 674 21 —22 i 194 - 8 - 9 5$ - 4 12 - I 2 i & E. & L. & D.)...., all I Do. , alts E. & H.) all !Eastern Counties.. all !Eastern Union, Class A. late E. U. Sh Do., do.. Do., B. & C • East Lancashire East & West Ind.Dk & Birming. June Edinburgh & Glasgow Ediub. and Peebles lEdinb.Prth.&Dundee IGlasgow & S.Western Great Northern Stk Do., A. Stock Do., B. Stock 'Gt. Sth.&West.(lre ) Great Western Irish South-Eastern Lancaster & Carlisle Do., Thirds Lancash. &Yorkshire Do., Fifths Do., Wst. Riding Un. Leeds Northern Liv.Crsby.&Southpt. London & Blackwall Loud. Tilb. & Sthend. Lond.Bright.& S. Cst. London &N. Western Do. Fifths Do. ,10/.5h.,M&8...0 London & S. Western Do., Do., £4O Lundrry.&Coleraine Lndndrry. & Ennisk. iManch.Shef.&Lineln. 'Do., Man. & Lin. Un Midland Do. Birming.& Derby Midland G.West.(lr.) Do. 6 Shares Newcastle &Carlisle Newmarket IDo. Bury Extensions !Newpt.Aberg.&Htfd. 'Newry & Enniskillen Newry Warrenpoint Rostrevor Do., New ..... • • Northn. Counties Un North British .. ..... North Devon, No.l Do., No. 2. ........ Dc., a A Deferred Do., 2 B Guaranteed North Staffordshire North Western N. & S. Westrn. June. (Oxford Worcester & Wolverhampton Scottish Central Scottish Midland -IShrewsbury & Birmg. Do., L. & N. Westn. Guaranteed Stock Shrewsby. & Herefd Shrewsby. & Chester (Nor. W. Min.) Do. Halves, do Do. Oswestry Shropshire Unior South Devon South Eastern South Wales.. S. Yorksh. River Dun' 44 - 46 .i - 3 4 72 - 74 53 - 56 72 - 74 29 . - ii 4 -- 85 53 -- 54 133 - 135 1106 -- 1116 89 -- 896 7 -- 76 102 -- 105 16 -- 17 p 766 -- 77 1 4g -- 34 -24 d 141 -- 15,1 all all IA all 0 7 it. 100 R. 100 8i 103 —l6lxd 1141 115 2 2ip lip 891 lo I it. 1100 4 - 5d 5 4d 11 13 18 20 281 29 .. —d 701 71 41 43 5 all I ;5 all 'it. 100 81 4 e l - 'it. 100 '. 100 SO 47 15 174, ;t. 100 1 6 46 ;5 176 ... 55 57 4 3 id 2i - 3 8 - 9 51 - 53 ft. 100 5 all 2i d 32 -33 A it. 100 - .6 16 .6 111' 8 all 8 8 n 17i 9 all .0 10 it. 100 7 iict 8 9 ... - - PI 50i -- 93 -- ;t. 100 ;t. 100 it. 100 it. 100 60 - 69 71 li idis .0 9 63 all 18 -- 20 9 -- 10 13i -- 14 , 34 -- 3id 19 -- 21 70 -- 71 36 -- 37 I 13 -- 14 .3i l all !O all !O 6:12 O all ;t. 100 O all '0 15 16 :5 , 20 D 0......... ....... ....... 1 Stockton & Hartlepl. Thames Haven Dock and Railway.....„.. Vale of Neath. . Waterfd. & Kilkenny Waterford&Limerick !West C0rnwa11........ IWmbled on &Croydon 25 - 27 2i 14 15 4 - 9 31 - 32 - 10 17 O all O all 14 .0 21s. LO 1 W00df0rd........ ft. 100 York Newctl.&Berw ?,5 20 iDo. Extensions ?,5 14 1 Do. G.N.E. Purchase it. jlOO York &N. Midland 74 d GB B 69A' 8 -- 2i 2 d 58A S9 AI 58A PREFERENCE SHARES. St. 100 'Aberdeen - - .. • St. all Do., No. 2,7 p. c... ... - - •• • St. 100 Bris. & Ex. 4p. c. St. 103 - - 105 20 5 IDo. 4p. c. Shares ... ... --- •.. St. 100 :Caledonian £lO ....... 106 108 107 15 all iChester & Holyhead Guar. 5 3 / 4 per cent... 191 -- 204 64 64,Cork &Bandon 5 3 / 4 p.c. g 4d. 64 all Dundee Perth&Aber deen Junction 64 6g 3 3 / 4 all EastA nglian (£3los) 6 per cent. 4 -- 41 5 all Do. (£5) 7 per cent 5 5 3 / 4 74 . 2 Do. (£7l7s) 7p. ct A — 14 p 6 all Eastern Counties Ex -1 tension, sp. c. No.l 1i 2 p 6?, all Do. No. 2 lg 11- p 10' all IDo., New 6p.c. St lli 15 14i 20 all `Eastern Union, Scrip Guar. 6 per cent 2 0 3 /4 21 St. 100 lEastLancash. 6 p.cts• ... ... 5 all Edinb.Prth.&Dundee 5 3 / 4 per cent........... ..• ..• St. 100 Glasgow & S.Western guar. 5 per cent. ... ... •.. St. 100 Great North" 5 p .c. 129 130 1294 St. 100 Do. sp. c.,Redeem., at 10 p. c. prom .... 112 114 113 64 all Gt. Southn. &Wcstn. (Ireland) Eighths... 81 84 50 6 Gt. Westn. (Berks & Hants Ex. sp. c.).. 6 71 St. 100 G. West. fixed 4 3 / 4 p c. 102 3 / 4 1031 16 6 I Lan. & York. F. £2O, 4d.—4 pm St. 100 IDo., 6p. c., Stock... 150 152 St. 100 London and Brighton Guaranteed sp. c... ... •.. St. 100 Do. Pref., sp. c. St. ... ... 50 all Do. Convertible, sp. c., 1852 . ... ..... .. . ... -- ... St. 100 Do. New Guar. 6 p.c. 152 --f 155 150 50 5 London &S.Western, 12. 124 L C o o n n ci . on T d h e i 3 3 / 4 4 n rd; & Coler - 3 / 4 Shares ...... 12 3 / 4 all Loudy. & Ennis. 3 / 4 Sh 13 14 25 all Manch. ,Shef. , & Lin., 4 Shares, No. 1-- 8 9 10 all Do. Now, :210 lOl 11 6 3 Do., £:1 12 3 / 4 all IMarypt.&Carl. 4p c. ... •• • 12 3 / 4 all Do. 4 3 / 4 per cent....... P 12 1000. St. 100 'Mid.Cousol. 6 p.c. St. ... ... St. 100 Do. Cousol. Bristol & Birm. 6 per cent.... 149 151 164 5 Do. Pref. 4 3 / 4 per cent. 4 4p St. 100 Norfolk Extension... 114 llti St. 100 Do. Pref. 5 3 / 4 per ct...' 118 122 St. 100 Do. Way. Val. 5p c ... •• • St. 100 North British ll5 117 20 all North Staffordshire ... •• • St. 100 Oxford Worcester & Wolverh. £15,6p• e• ••• •.• 15 15 Do 2 2 3 / 4 8 all Shrews& Birm. N. G lO4 10 10 all Shrewaby. & Chester (Nor.W.Min),B p. c. 17 3 / 4 18 10 10 Do. 5 per cent. 25 all South Devon 1 4 3 /4 15 3 / 4 10 14 Do. New par i P 1.0.6 all S. Eastern (Reading Ann.,) of £1 Os.ld. 26 26. 20 all S.Yorksh.4p.c.Gelar. 19 3 / 4 20 3 / 4 5 3 Waterfd.&Kilk.6p.c. g Id St. 100 York Newcastle and Berwick,4 p.c.Pref. 102 104 17 SDo 5l 51 25 10 York& N. Midland H. k S. Pnrch par 4 p 10 par FOREIGN. 10 4 Antwerp&Rotterdam 11 1 d 5 3 Belgian Eastn. June. 1i 20 8 Bezien to Graissessac 1 Ad 71 a 20 all Charleroi & Erquelin. 14 —l5 20 10 Dijon andßesancon A 1 p 20 8 Dutch Rhenish 2 lid 20 all East Indian 4 5p 25 20 1 Do. Extension 1 5 all Gt. Indian Peninsula 1 2ap 20 10 Gd. Juuct. of France 1i 2 11i 20} all Gt.WesternofCanada Shares id p 5 3 Lucca & Pistoj a 5 p.c pref — id 20 15 Luxembourg 7 71 10 10 Do. (Railway) 4 —4/ 5 2 3 ID Do o. . ................ 10 4 Do. 6p. ct. pref..— 20 9 Lyons & Mediterrau. • P 20 7i Madras ............... —28 p 20 all Namur & Liege (wit. inArest) ............. 71 7 i 50 all Do. (ex interest)......... •.; „ 16 all Northern of France.. 3 4 1 3*g on Do. 201. 3 p. c Bds. 20 all (fmy.B.&Ams.Shs.) —14 i 10 all NorwegianTrunkPref 8 9i 20 10 Paris and Lyons l6i —16 i 10 all Paris and Orleans 45 —46 20 all Paris and Rouen 43 —4 4 20 all Paris and Strasbourg 361 -- 36 30i g 20 4 ParisCaen & Cherbrg. 4 -- 6 101 7i puebec & Richmond id 20 all Rouen and Havre l9 —2O 50 2 IRoyalSwcdish — id 20 all Sambre and Meuse 8 8i 20 2 Sth-Eastrn. of France 20 6 Southern of France 5 20 2s. Upper India Scrip— P pm Si all West Flanders —4 10 10 Do. 5 per e. Pref dis 20 10 Western of France 9 -- 9A 10 2 West. o f S w itzerland 20 9 Ataland, . 1.4 3 = 2 Paid >t. 'lOO 86 4 all a 1 28 all ~1 15 ;Mall it. 1100 HE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 4, 1853. LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Leasing Closing Prices Business Shr. \Paid. Renwste. Compans. Yesterday. this day. 50 all Bedford and London & Bletchley. .. N. West ••• 301 all Birm. & guara ntee.... Gt.Westn. 301 all Do. withoutgr Do ... 301 all Birm.Wolv. & D u dley guar. Do — 30/ all Do.wthtguar. Do — St. 100 Buckghamsh. L.IzN.W lO7 109 50 all Clydesd.aleJc. Caledon 542 55/ St. 100 E. Lincoln gr. 6 per cent. Gt.Nrthn. 150 152 25 all Glstr.& Dn. Fr i Gt. Westn 33 31 100 all Hrtlpl. Dk. SeYk. New. Railway & Berw. ••• 50 all Hull & Selby Y. &NMd 113 1144 25 all Do. 4 Shares. Do 56 57 122 all Do. / Shares. IDo 27. 28? 13i all Lon.&Greenw S. Eastern 141 —l4-Ix4 20 all Do. Preference Do 26 27 20 100 Lowestoft gr. 4 per cent. Norfolk 9B 100 20 LllO Do. 6 per ct. 52 all Manch. Bxtn. I,&N. W and Matlock & Midld 3 31 50 all Middlesbro' & Stckton & Redcar Darlingt. 00 all Midld.Bradfd Midland.. 108 110 50 all Northern and Easternsp.c. E. Count. 65 67 65 50 all Do. 6 per ct. Do - ••• 50 all Do. Fixeds pe Do .. _ . •.. 25 all Prest. & Wyre L. &N.W. &Ln&Yk 122 12 Do. Shares. Do — St. 100 Roystn.&Hit. GtNorthn 150 152 St. 100 Do.Shepth.St Do 150 152 25 18a Shef•Rothand Lancash& Goole g. 5 p.c. Yorksh. • • 12 92 S. Staffordsh. M.MClean 1 d 50 all WearValleygr Stockt. & 6 per cent... Darlingt. ••• 25 all Do. Do 32 33 St. 100 Wilts&SomrstlGtWestn lo3k --1042 1 1 all )s. all LO 2 !O 5 1 all 1 all 1 all 1 all 1 all 20 13.5 35 24 - 1 LO all it. all ' all 5 all !O all 2 all 3 all 1 all 1 all 1 all 1 all LO 9 1 all 1 all 5 1 1 all 10i 1 all .0 7 !8i all 1 all 1 all 1 all 1 all JOINT-STO I Australasia British Colonial Bank and Loan Company British N. American Chrtd. Bnk.of India, Austral., and China Chrtd. Bnk. of Asia. Colonial _ _ 5 5 )0 25 )0 20 Commercial of Lond. English Scottish and Australian Chrtd London Chrtd. Bnk of Australia London and County London Joint Stock Lond.and.Westminst National Provincial of England D 1 122 0) 221 ;5 all ] ld • g d 5 a d 8 d P ._ 4 7 _ -- 41 2 -- 3 32 -- 34 d p 47A -- 484 10-- 1 } -11 A 60 -- 70 7i -- Sip 21 11 d 14 —l6 i— 4 P 11 d t d id p Do. New National of Ireland 'Oriental Bank Cor poration Provincial of Ireland 'Do. New LO I all 5 1 1 5 25 :5 all 38i 10 32 5 5 4 4 !O 1 1 1 L 5 14 ?O 14 !O 5 1 all LO 3 ?0 Royal Australis. Bkg, and Gold Imp. Co South Australia Union of Australia IDo. New Union of London Union of Madrid # Id par 6' 74 ad d Ap 22 24 73 4 5 pax 6 8 d d d d BANKS. 81 - 82 - d- pal ad par— A p 2 - - 211) , . - ... - 49 if i 11 i d— par I 44 46 72i —73lpcdl 8 8i oUs - 34 1 i ). - - lip' i )0 60 5 25 1 all 5 2 26A 5i 6 32 i ..• - ia --: TP 38 I 40 16 - 17 MARKET NEWS-(THIS DAY.) GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN For the Week ended Aug. 4, 1853, made up from the Returns of the In,pectors in the different Cities and Towns in England and Wales per Imperial Quarter. witEAT. !BARLEY] I OATS. RYE. BEANS. PEAS. 52s 7u I 29s 7.1 22s 21 36s 3d 40s 5.1 37s 10d THE SIX WEEK'S AVERAGE. BARLEY. I OATS. I RYE. BEANS. PEAS. 29s 4d 20s lld 34s 7d I 40s 3d 36s Od DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN. WHEAT. BARLEY. 1 OATS. RYE. BEANS. I PEAS. I Is Od Is Oil is Od is Od ls Od lis Od QUANTITIES OF GRAIN SOLD LAST WEEK. Wheat, 87,469 ; Barley, 1 , 862 ; Oath, 9,435; Rye, 36 ; Beans 2,356 ; Peas, 287 quarters. WHEAT. 49s 4d EAST INDIA HOUSE. A special general Court of the East India Company was held, by adjournment, at their house in Leadenhall street, yesterday, for the purpose of considering a mo tion submitted to the Court on Friday last—viz, "That this Court concur in the views and opinions expressed the Court of Directors in their minute of the 29th of July, regarding the Bill for the Future Government of India ;" Mr. R. Ellice in the chair. The CHAIRMAN said, before he requested the minute to be read, or called upon Mr. Mackenzie, who was in possession of the Court, to proceed, he wished to state that, in answer to a question put to him by Mr. Sulli van at the last Court, whether the minute referred to in the motion was carried unanimously. instead of saying that it was so, he ought to have stated that it was carried nentine contradicente. Mr. HOLT MACKENZIE said, when he last addressed the Court he expressed almost sufficiently the general opinions he held with respect to the bill that had just passed the House of Commons, and certainly his objec tions to the bill remained as strong as ever. He could, however, scarcely expect, in the face of the decision which had already been come to by the Court, that any attention would be given to his opinion, op posed as it was to that which the Court entertained. He could not adopt the language used by an hon. baronet at the last general meeting, and say that the bill continued the government of India in the hands of the East India Company. It, hi the first place took away from the Government of the East India Company that position which it had held as an independent body, unconnected either by personal obligation or by party ties with the Administration of the day ; and it further took from the Court of Proprie tors the power of election of all the directors. It reduced the number of directors from 24 tc 18, and then proposed that one-third of that reduced number should be ap pointed by the Crown. That being the case, he could not accept the language of the resolution proposed by the chairman. Besides, he had tie strongest objections to the mode in which the Legislature proposed to con stitute their body—namely, that a body consisting of 30 gentlemen should exclude 15 of tleir number. He con tended that it belonged to the proprietors, and not to the Court of Directors, to choose who should remain in direction. No doubt many of the present directors would voluntarily retire. It was true it was not easy for a man to persuade himself that he was past work. He remembered only one example—Sir William Grant, when Master of the Rolls, who, at the ago of 70, r etired, amid the general lamentation of the bar and the public. He believed many of the present directors would follow that honourable example. Another question was the intrusion of nominees into the Court. To that he very strongly objected, because he thought it would be fatal to the independence of the whole body, and would give rise to a great deal of unpleasant feeling in the discussion of matters whenever the Court was called upon to resist the course of the Minister of the Crown, because those gentlemen nominated by the Crown could not act with the same independence as those who were elected by the proprietors. They were to be nominated for short periods, but to be eligible for re-election. How could they expect gentlemen so appointed to act as a barrier to the encroachments of the Crown ? If there were to be nominees, it was quite :ndispensable that they should be appointed for a fixed ?eriod, and should not be open to re-election. Upon these two points, there fore, be was quite at issue with the Court of Directors. He felt strongly the importance of a numerous Court of Directors, and he was astonished to see the reasons assigned by Sir C. Wood for limiting the number to 18. This was done by the mere motion of the Government, without any inquiry or any reference to the test of ex perience. • There was no recommendation of any com mittee of either house to sanction it. It was a notion adopted by the Minister of the day without that delibe rate consideration and discussion which so important a measure ought to have received. Sir C. Wood in his last letter expressed Es surprise that any person should recommend so large a number as 24, considering the Court of Directors in the only light in which it could now be viewed, that of an executive council of government. Now hr (Mr. Mackenzie) did not know what was the meaning of "executive council." If it meant the Board of Control ae would admit that 24 was an extravagant number, but if Sir C. Wood meant a council, or a senate appointed so advise on the affairs of a vast empire, the question took quite another shape. He should say 24 in the latter case was not only not too large, but was in fact too small. Since he left India they had acquired two great kingdoms, and were likely soon to acquire another. When he looked at the duties of their different departments, which had been well summed up by Colonel Sykes in his late speech, he could see work for six separate committees, and for more than 24 directors, and he should rejoice to see their number ex tended, that both in and out of Parliament they might form a barrier to protect the President of the Board against popular folly, or the power of self-will, or the subserviency of political friends, and, to be able to do it, it was important the Court should possess the weight which lumbers gave. When speaking of the magnitude of the business to be trans acted by the Court of Directors, they should consider how vastly India had been increased since the last char ter, both in extent of territory and in number of popu lation, as well as in the amount of business arising from new elements having been introduced. They were just commencing a system of railways, projecting large public works, beginning the great task of educating the people, and of establishing a new judicial system. In Lahore, in Berar, at Benares, and even in Bombay Pro per, there were different races, different languages, and different religions which required attention and manage ment to save those countries from being thrown into a state of disturbance. Sir Charles Wood referred to what he called experience derived from similar cases, but he (Mr. Mackenzie) knew of no such similar case in existence. There was no instance of any other empire consisting of a series of great kingdoms. Our British colonies were in an entirely different posi tion. Referring again to the constitution of the Court of Directors, the hon. gentleman contended that it ought to consist of a considerable number of men entirely inde pendent ; but he did not think it necessary or desirable that they should be all working men. There ought to be some men of leisure, but of sufficient knowledge, so as to be able to give advice as to what ought to be done by the working men. The chief defect of the Indian Go vernment arose from its members being perpetually at work, so, that, in fact, there was no time for deliberation as to any particular acts, still lass for those large and general views by which alone a system could be safely and advantageously worked. The great increase in the public press of India demanded the strict attention of the Court of Directors. They s aw already what had been the effect of the pre ss . (A Proprietor—" The salt duty.") It would require to be watched ; but not merely with a view to its suppression ; it must be looked to for instruction as well as warning. In what be bad said he had confined himself to the que stion of the home Go vernment, which ought to be settled before they entered upon the discussion of the Indian Government. With re gard to the appointment of an Executive Council, that ought to be introduced with great care. He could wish that the wisdom of the House of Lords would refrain from legislating on that point at present, and confine themselves to that which was most urgent—the Government—leaving all that r elated to luh future measure, when the Government and Parlia ment could have advice from th e Court of Diredctsourschoar from some other court, if it w ere p ossible to fin body equally worthy of confider.ce. Withreg c ar o d ur t t o , the resolutions he had formerly s ubmitted to the begged to say it was not his intention to propose them for adoption. But he t hou g ht it would be premature for the Court to declare an y opinion upon the bill in its present stage, especially an opinion in favour of it, when their wish and hope was that the bill would obtain very co nsiderable modification in the House of Lords. He should not be able t o take an y further part in these dis cussions ; he therefore had thrown together some reso lutions, which he proposed to substitute for those which he read on a former occasion. The hon. gentleman then read the following resolutions : " That the consideration of the question now submitted to this Court by the Court of Directors be postponed until the bill shall have finally passed through both Houses of Parliament. That the Court of Directors be requested im mediately to prepare and present to the House of Lords a petition submitting . to their Lordships the views of this Court on the following points " 1. The arbitrary reduction of the number of directors. " 2. The objectionable mode of effecting that reduction. " 3. The intrusion into the direction of persons not chosen by this Court, to the extent of ono-third of the whole body. " 4. The denial to the Secret Committee of any right to advise the Ministers of the Crown on matters belonging to the secret department, and the omission of any efficient check to the power of the President of the Board of Con trol in that department. " That this Court is clearly of opinion that the number of directors elected by the proprietors or other popular constituency should not be less than the present number of 24. " That, if it be thought advisable to discontinue the present system, under which six directors retire annually and to appoint the directors for a term of years, with the privilege of immediate re-election, the choice of their 24 directors ought to remain with the proprietors. " That this Court cannot admit that it is open to the charge of being wanting in a due appreciation of public servants connected with the East, but, aware of the diffi culties of a canvass of so large and scattered a consti tuency, and, in deference to the opinion of the H ouse o f C ommo ns, they have no desire to object to the additi on o f new{ means to facil itate the admission of retired public servants into the dire ction of Indian affairs, by the addi tion of six persons not chosen by the general body of pro prietors, provided that suhpers ofon the be chosen by some agency independent o f the Minister " That the select ion of directors by the om Minister of the Crown is rendered peculiarly open to objection by the shortness of the term for which some are to be appointed, and by their being rendered re-eligible after the expiration of that term. " That all Parliamentary provision relative to the Go vernment abroad be postponed until the whole subject of legislation for India shall have been maturely considered with the aid of the home Government, fully organised in such manner as Parliament shall see fit to determine." Those were the resolutions he would now submit to the Court. He had left them very general, because he be lieved the details had better to be left to the Court of Directors. Sir T. COLEBROOKE se conded the resolutions, and lie did so in order to texpress hs strong opinion as to the objectionable character of the bill. He should prefer, rather than attempt les4islate in the spirit of that mea sure, that the Courtsohould altogether decline the task by undertalting the government of imposed upon them India. They might retain i the government of India in form, but most certain y . they would not do so in sub stance. The moment it was passed the government of India would gradually escape from their hands, and fall into those of the Crown. Although entertaining this strong opinion of the measure, he thought it would be premature to come to any definitive decision upon it while the measure was pending before Fara- ment. But he hoped the Court of Directors were not so enamoured with the bill as to adhere to their an nouncement in the original motion of it being their inten tion to accept the bill such as it was. He hoped the alternative proposed by Mr. Mackenzie would meet with a favourable consideration. He thought the difficulties attending this question would have been considerably diminished if the inquiries in Parliament had been con cluded before legislation was attempted. Much of the difficulty out of doors was owing to the ignorance of the public on the question. This would account for many of the attacks to which they had been exposed from various quarters. Sir C. Wood in his last letter in timated a doubt as to whether that Court could claim the actual administration of India, and if the Government really entertained those doubts, then they had utterly failed in their duty to Parliament upon the great ques tion they had undertaken in proposing to continue the government in a body in regard to whom they enter tained those doubts. But while the Government ex pressed those doubts, he on the other hand would say that much of the wonderful success which had attended the government in India, had been owing to the form of the home Government, and to the fortunate accident of its having been placed in a double mould, and one part being a check upon the other. It not only brought various minds to work upon the measures of Govern ment, but it made an important impression on the ser vice of India itself, when it was known by those en gaded in that service that a fortunate rise in their career was independent of political parties. Those were the reasons why he had always been attached to the exist ence of the double government, and why he deprecated centring the government in the Crown. It would make the Governor-General far too powerful for any subject to be made, and, relying for support on party connection in this countrp, he would establish a despotism in India of the most serious character. (Hear.) Mr. LEWIN would not discuss the merits of the bill, but he wished to express his objection to placing the framing of the petition in the hands of the directors ; by doing so it was placing themselves in the hands of the Philistines, for the Court of Directors had brought forward a proposition entirely assenting to the bill. To place a petition against it in their hands was therefore absurd. To show how far the directors deserved to be trusted, what had they done in Parliament ? Why, they had supported the Government. Sir J. Hogg voted against the proprietors, and in favour of Ministers. He attributed this to a sort of bargain between them. (" Oh, oh !") The directors would get quite as much as before in point of patronage ; the proposition, there fore, on their part, that the Court of Proprietors should accept the bill was a most extraordinary instance of modest assurance. (Hear, and laughter.) The clause relating to the quorum would have the effect of destroy ing the Court of Proprietors ; and the natives of India would be much more grievously affected by it, for they would thereby be deprived of any exponents of their grievances in that court. Mr. HumE wished to call the attention of the Court to their actual position. The House of Commons had passed the bill, and if the Government adhered to what they had intimated, it would have been much better if they had come forward in a manly way, and had stated that the time was come when, finding that the Government of India had been mismanaged, they were determined to take it out of our hands. With all- they deference to the Court of Directors, he considered the proposition to ap prove the bill was altogether premature. Although he highly respected the House of Commons, yet there were two branches of the Legislature, and it would be better to pause and see what the opinion of the House of Lords would be on the second reading of the bill. He had had great experience as a Reformer, and one rule which he always adopted was, that before proposing reform he re quired that the evils of the existing system should be pointed out. He never advocated change for change sake. There ought always to be good reasons assigned for any proposed change. Had this been done in the present instance ? Had the East India Company been shown to have misgoverned India ? The opinion of both Houses of Parliament was in their favour, and through out the whole speech of Sir C. Wood, when he introduced the bill, his effort was to impress the house with the fact that the Government of India had been well conducted. Having, then, the favourable opinion of the two houses ' of Parliament, and of the Cabinet, what could any man suppose when he, nevertheless, found that the whole efforts of the Government were now tending to destroy that very body by taking away their independence and making changes in a system which they had hitherto so ably carried out ? What could any man suspect but that there must be some covert object in proposing a measure of that nature ? The bill took away the popular ele ment from the Government of India by substituting nomination for election. The system of nominees was against the whole spirit of the company's charter, which was intended to operate as a check upon the Board of Control. That system was introducing Parliamentary interests into the Court, and giving the Minister of the day greater power, and thereby destroying the popular interests. It was by election alone that the indepen dence of the court could be maintained. Therefore he trusted the House of Lords would protect them. The bill was not yet an act of Parliament, and he would sub mit to the court that they ought not to come to any re solution in the way of expressing an opinion on the bill until it had been passed by the House of Lords, when they would be able to judge of its whole scope and ten. dency. He would, therefore, recommend that a peti tion should be drawn up and presented to the House o' Lords. Whatever the result might be it would show that the proprietors had done their utmost for preserv ing their constitutional rights. The petition ought to be presented without delay. The complaints of the pro prietors, as well as of their directors, were expressed in a very fair way in the resolutions submitted by Mr. Holt Mackenzie last court-day. He (Mr. Hume) had changed these resolutions into the form of a petition, and con cluded by praying their lordships to preserve the effi ciency and independence of the Court of Directors, and especially to amend the clause as to the appointment of nominees to the Court of Directors. That was the sub stance of the prayer, and, if complied with, the principal evils of the bill would be removed. The petition, which embodied Mr. Mackenzie's reso lutions of Friday last, was then read. Mr. AYRTON commented upon the letter addressed by the Chairman and Deputy-Chairman of the Court of Directors to the President of the Board of Control on the Ist of July, and said that, instead of maintaining the constitution of the Court of Proprietors, no sooner had the Minister of the Crown laid down an ascending scale which would put power into their own hands than they made a suggestion which would totally nullify the Court of Proprietors. If there was one point to which the Court of Directors ought to have called the attention of the Government it was the insuffi cient strength of the Court of Proprietors, but instead of that they took it upon them to state that that Court was unfit to have the Government of India put into their hands, and they then made a suggestion, if it should be considered desirable that the constitution of the Court of Directors should be altered—and what was that suggestion ? Not that the Government should nominate the directors, but that the directors should nominate their own members, subject to the approbation of the Board of Control, thus transferring to them that power which they held to be so objectionable when given to the Government ; so that, in point of fact, the only alternative, with a view to remedy existing abuses, was to take all the power out of the hands of the pro prietors and put it into their own. (No, no !) Why, if they considered that Court wanting in weight and in fluence, why did they not suggest that there were ele ments in its constitution which ought to be removed— elements entirely inconsistent with its political character, however they might have accorded with its commercial character—and that old women and girls, provided they possessed the pecuniary qualification, constituted part of that Court? He was not astonished that the Court of Directors had not taken more trouble in regard to the bill, for it would render that Court still more close and secret than at present : and he considered that the prac tical result of the reduction of the number of directors would be to enable those gentlemen to re-elect one ano ther, so that it would be impossible for the proprietors to introduce any new director except at great intervals of time. He saw some remedy for this evil in the sys tem of nomination by the Crown. But what would be the aspect of the Court then ? Why, men who had not been in India for 20, 30, or 40 years, would be the elected members of the Court, while men who had just returned from India, and who were intimately ac quainted with the present condition, feelings, and opi nions of the people, would be from time to time nomi nated by the Crown, and thus a division would exist in the Court, which was to he greatly deprecated. The CHAIRMAN said, the object of the Court of Di rectors in submitting the minute to the Court of Pro prietors was to place fairly before them the question as it affected the Indian Government and people. They had been accused of being promoters of the bill, but the correspondence would sufficiently refute that charge. As to the petition to the House of Lords, of course, if there was any wish on the part of the Court of Proprie tors that a petition should be presented, the directors could have no objection. At the sa me time he hoped the terms of the petition would be le ft to the Court of Directors, as there were certain exp ressions in it which required modification. No doubt the Court of Prop i pe tors had suffered in this cxperimentum, crucis, as w ro7th a e s the Court of Directors - but t o sa y that the powe proprietors would be altog ether nullified respecting the quo rum not to be justified. T he clause p was . anexpres m b fault o r w e i t n h u , m • b e r u e t u h s l e y t h a t o t u e g n h d t e d i t . rNwould proprietor cause the n o rh swfound ou court l d g r t te h ea i t nk of noticing that there was not a quorum, present, unless the ghost of the Rajah of Sattara's case should rise up among them ; and then, if any gentleman did take notice of there not being a quo rum, it would serve to put an end to repeated mo tions before the Court which tended to diminish its cha racter more than anything else. The Court of Directors had said in their correspondence all they could say. No ired the eo of Crgood.s o t u h r e t opinionof It Direc tors, was,e e r pos sess o he Cu e obstruction would be thrown in the way of the course which the proprietors de sired to take though h e feare d t t ha w t t ae i s i rrw l t, ea ea lipl t ph p war e se t o i u t te i h o nd n ed e d w cz o o u u a th fte l r d am v b cot e f a pte hr y rr aoprite t c l l o t h to e rs rah , e a s t u h r e e that popularity which they once did. As to popu larising the Court of Proprietors, th a t, of course, did n of doing. H e Court of Directors never had a n y id ea should be very sorry if they had. Sh ould any measure for effecting such a result be carried, he hoped the pro prietors would carry it themselves, and not press it upon of of Directors. trongly advocated the policy of maintaining the power of the Court of Proprietors. It was the only opinion channel through which public piriion . could be brought to bear on the Governme n t of India for the benefit of the native population. With respect to the bill, he saw great embarrassments likely t o aris from it to the government of India, and he thought Sir C. Wood had not acted honourably in giving suc h insufficient reasons for such mighty changes. Mr, SuurvAli said that when the chairman moved the 124 6 0 71 7 73 I 50 25 84i 5 I 25 pm 761 i i 1141 i 21 89i 8i 70i i & 32i i MINES. ,Agua Fria lAnglo Californian Australasian Australian Australian Cordillera Australian Freehold Ave Maria Baden (Gd. Duchy of) British Austria. Gold British Iron Brazilianlmp. (issued at £5 pm Do. Cocaes & Cuiada Do. St. John Del Rey Carsons's Creek Cobre Copper Colonial Gold Copiapo . Copper Min. of Eng. Do. Pref. 7A p. cent. English and Austin. Copper Smeltg. Co General Great Nugget Vein Great Polgooth Lake Bathurst Liberty Load. &Californ. Gold Quartz Crush. Co Mariquita Mexican&S.Americn. New Granada Nouveau Monde Port Philip Quartz Rock Rhymney Iron Do. 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WHITECHAPEL.—OId meadow hay, 4/ 55 to Si ]ss; new ditto, 2/ lOs to 4/ Os ; old clover, 4/ lOs to 6/ 6s ; new ditto, 3/ 10s to 4/ 10s ; and straw, 1/ 8s to 1/ 17s per load. Supply moderate, and trado firm. MEAT MARKETS NEIVGATE AND LEADENHALL.—OnIy a mode usi ne ss was transacted hero to-day, as follows: ateßeef, from 2s 10d to 3s 10d ; Mutton, 3s 6d to 4s 10d ; Lamb, 4s 10d to 5s 10d ; Veal, 3s 6d to 4s 8d ; Pork, 3s Od to 4s Od per Sibs, by the carcase. SOUTHALL, AUG. 3.—Beasts moved off slowly, at drooping prices ; all other kinds of stock ruled steady at this market to day, at the quotations of this day week. Lamb,f 3s 4d to 4s ;Veal, utton, 3s 8(1 to 5s Od ; Lamb, 4s 10d. to 5s 10d 3s 8d to 4s 8d ; Pork, 3s Od to 4s Od per 81bs, to sink the offal. ROMFORD, AUG. 3.—The general demand ruled steady, as follows :—Beef, 3s 4d to 4s 4d ; Mutton, 3s 10d to 5s 2d ; Lamb, 5s Od to 6s Od ; Veal, 3s 8d to 4s 8d ; Pork, 3s 0(.1. to 48 2d per 81bs. Quarter old store pigs, 20s to 25s each. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(TRIS DAY.) LONDON, Aug. 4.—Wind this day at Noon, N. by E. ; light breeze, and fine clear weather. DEAL, Aug. 4 (9.28 a.m.)—Wind, E.N.E. ' • light, and fine. Passed — Mad r e , from London, for Constantinople ; Marie, London, for Melbourne ; Lady C. Gust, to the westward. Anchored—lrene, frnm Marianople, for Lon don ; Hanibal, from Kertch, for London ; Robert, from St. John's, for London. FALMOUTH, Aug. 3.—Wind, N. Arrived—Mermaid, Pernambuco. Off Port—General Hewitt, Sydney, N.S.W., with 29,336 oz. of gold. PORTSMOUTH, Aug. 3.—Wind, S.S.E. to S.W. Sailed — Monarch, Calcutta • ' Delia, Quebec. GLOUCESTER, August 3.—Arrived —Sarah Ann, St. John's, N.B. BRISTOL, Aug. 3.—Wind, N.N.E. Arrived—British Queen, Quebec. Sailed—Banner, Melbourne ; Victory, Africa ; Eureka, Philadelphia ; Chase, New York ; Broosa, do. ; Grand Turk, do. ; Humboldt, do. ; Mary Ann Peters, do. . HARWICH, Aug. 3.—The Jeune Rose, Seaham for Leg horn' has been assisted in leaky, having been on the Gun fleet Sand. LOWESTOFT, Aug. 3.—The Orbit, of South Shields, has come off the Holme Sand with assistance' making water. SUNDERLAND Aug. 3.—Wind, N.W. Arrived—Ma riner, Miramichi. LERWICK, Aug. I.—Wind E.S.E. Arrived -- Ilebe, Greenl , nd.-1131.'s steamer s Argus and Tartarus, H.M.'s cutter Victoria, and the Atalanta (Dutch war schooner), left this harbour yesterday in quest of a seemingly-suspi cious vessel seen cruizing about the N. and W. coast of Shetland during the past week.---The Xanthus, from the coast of Iceland, is reported to have returned to Balta Sound, having only one fish of about 8 tons. KINSALE, Aug. 2.—The Hamburgh vessel Andreas, laden with mahogany, for London, went on shore this morning on the rocks west side of the Head. Lost rudder, and received other damage. She subsequently floated off, and WAS taken to Qum:lawn. THE OMNIBUS PROPRIETORS. minute the other day, the Court of Proprietors were sur prised to find that not only had the directors determined to drink, but that they were eager to press this poisoned chalice to their lips. They had described the bill as an unsavoury dose, and yet, without knowing what the amendments might be, they suggested their acceptance of it. At this moment, he knew not in what position the court stood. The CHAIRMAN said he had a motion, and an amend ment had been moved upon it. At the same time, if the court wished to adopt a petition to the House of Lords, he should be prepared to assent to it. After some conversation on this point of form, the chairman withdrew his motion ; and the amendment of Mr. Mackenzie consequently fell to the ground, and then Mr. Hume's motion, that a petition be presented to the house, became the question before the court. Mr. LEWIN asked whether, if the petition were agreed to, the Court of Directors would subscribe to it 'Mr. WIGRAM—The petition will bear the seal of the company, and it will be the petition of the Court of Pro prietors, and not of the Court of Directors, as directors. Sir J. HOGG vindicated himself against the charge made by Mr. Lewin of his not having supported the interests of the proprietors in the House of Commons, and said that he and the other directors who were members of Parliament had in every discussion endeavoured to main tain the powers both of the Court of Directors and of the Court of Proprietors, and to preserve the existing system unimpaired. There was one good point in t he bill. It continued the government of India in the East India Company ; and however mutilated the Court of Directors were by that measure, and however injured in their constitution and in their independence, still they had all the powers and all the privileges that appertained to past Courts of Directors in their full extent, and un impaired. He wished to press this upon the Court. It was for them to make their election between the govern ment of India being continued in the East India Com pany according to the provisions of the bill, or of its being vested in the Ministers of the Crown—(no, no) — with a council of five or six. He did not mean to say that that was his wish, but they must come to that con clusion, whether they liked it or not. That was the only alternative. (Hear, hear.) Mr. WIGRAM strongly recommended the Court of Proprietors to take what they could get. The fact that the government of India was continued in the East India Company covered a multitude of sins in the other parts of the bill. After some further observations, Mr. M. SMITH (a director) expressed a hope that this discussion might not proceed further, as a groat majority of the Court appeared ready to support the petition. Mr. Serjeant GASELEE protested against the discussion being put an end to on the mere dictation of the hon. director. He was opposed to the petition, and believed that the House of Lords would treat it with contempt. The hon. and learned gentleman continued to address the Court for some time amid much noise and confusion. Some verbal alterations having been made in the peti tion, the question that it be adopted, and the seal of the company affixed, was put and carried all but unani mously, one hand only being held up against it. The Court then adjourned. THE EASTERN QUESTION. (Front the Times.) It is evident, from the tone assumed by the Gov ern ment on Tuesday evening in both Houses of Parliament, and more especially by Lord Clarendon in the House of Lords, that as we approach the final crisis of this Eastern negotiation the confidence of her Majesty's Ministers in its successful termination does not increase. On the contrary, the conduct of the Russian authorities in the Principalities can only be regarded as a fresh proof of the indifference of the Imperial Government to the rights established by treaty in those provinces ; and a Power which appropriates the revenue of a foreign territory, professedly held as a temporary deposit, and in time of peace, is obnoxious to the charge of a ctual spoliation. Vhat can be expected of the forbearance or justice of a State which has advanced thus far, and with such entire recklessness, on the old track of aggression and rapine ? Or what confi dence can be placed in the assurances of Russia, when every fresh incident that comes to our knowledge affords increased evidence of the avidity with which she fastens on her prey ? It was a question whether the honour and the public interests of Europe required that the decisive resistance to Russia should be made when her armies crossed the Pruth, or whether room should still be left for further negotiation. The Cabinets of Western Europe decided, we think wisely, in favour of the latter and more temperate of these courses. The result has been that we have obtained, to a much higher de gree than we had before, the concurrence and assistance of the German States, and that all the world has seen the earnest and undeniable anxiety of the British and French Cabinets to avoid hostilities thus wantonly provoked. But beyond this it is impossible to go, for in the present state of affairs in the East it is certain that if Turkey were compelled to yield an abject submission to the demands made upon her, she would be convulsed by internal agitation even more fatal to her existence than the attack of a foreign enemy, and Russia would cease to be the aggressor only to become the protector of her victim. The nature of the case and the state of public feeling in the East determine, there fore, the extent to which concessions can be carried. Beyond a certain point they would become more dangerous than war itself ; but, short of that point, there is no great reason to suppose that they will in duce the Emperor Nicholas to lower his demands, to withdraw his armies, and to lend himself in good faith to the pacific termination of this dispute. Some of our contemporaries, and most of the con ti nental journals, have been misled by the importance attached to the negotiations going on at Constantinople, and to the intelligence brought from Turkey by the Ca radoc and the Chaptal. In reality, nothing has been done at Constantinople, and we are not surprised at it ; but, as we stated on Tuesday, the true seat of the nego tiations is Vienna—where Austria takes the leading part in the conference. But here, again, our contempo raries are misinformed when they state that the ultima tum of the conference was despatched on the 24th or 26th of July to St. Petersburg, and that the Emperor's answer may be known here on the 10th of August. The last proposals of the conference were not despatched from Vienna till Sunday or perhaps even Monday last, and they were sent to Constantinople before they would reach St. Petersburg. If a direct answer is received from both Courts at Vienna with the least possible delay, the in terval would be about a fortnight ' • but if, as is probable, a communication has to be made from Constantinople to St. Petersburg, the delay may be even longer. In the meantime, the demand of the British Government for explanations as to the extraordinary and oppressive con duct of the Russians in the Principalities will arrive at St. Petersburgh almost as soon as the proposition from Vienna, and will convince the Emperor that the time is past when the mask in which he has hitherto shrouded his policy can still be worn. We have a right to insist on knowing upon what pretext these provinces, with which we have most extensive commercial relations, are thus virtually incorporated in theMussian empire. The internal measures of the Russian Cabinet are all of a warlike character. On the 20th of July a ukase was published raising a levy of seven men per 1,000 on the population of the eastern half of the Empire, which is supposed to amount to 23 millions. At the same time the arrears of men (three per 1,000) who had been ex cused on the last levy are called up, so that in some dis tricts the conscription will amount to 1 per cent. Some pressure has begun to be felt for money to support these enormous military preparations, and the Executive Go vernment applied to the Minister of Finance for permis sion to use a portion of the gold reserve deposited in the fortresses of the Crown. But this gold is the basis of the Russian paper currency, and the Minister of Finance raised strong objections, which were not for the pre sent overruled, to the appropriation of any part of this fund. The Emperor then applied to the Sacred Synod for a loan of 60 million roubles. That holy body expressed heir readiness to obey at all risks the Imperial commands, but alleged that they were the depositories of the property of the Church for the most sacred purposes, and held their purse-strings closed with ecclesiastical tenacity. Thus far these facts undoubtedly indicate the financial weakness of the Russian Government ; but, on the other hand, it must be remembered that if war were declared, especially if it assumed the cry of religious supremacy, not only would these efforts be made, but far greater sacrifices would probably be obtained from the enthu siasm of the people. Nothing, meanwhile, is neglected which can influence the ambition and national pride of the Russians, and even the language of public docu ments is passionate and arrogant in the extreme—at present, however, we are told, without much effect upon the people, who do not believe their church t o be in any danger at all. But the more the Emperor Nicholas assumes this tone in his own dominions, the more does he lower and con tract his influence on foreign States. All his attempt s to impose his policy on th e C ourts of Vienna and Berlin have failed ; and even at the min or Courts the i n t r i gues of the Russian dipl omat i sts have not been more suc cessful. Of these the most ni port is Denm ar k, be cause she com man d s the entrance lpo of the Baltic, and of undoubtedly owes a debt ra e tttude to Russia for her supp or t t h roughout the 7t Schleswig-Holstein war. But th e independence late Denmark is even more closely connected with her relations to the Western maritime Powers, and no state is more interested i n th e ma i n t enance of strict neutrality, in the event of hostilities. We discredit, therefore, the asser tion that the Russian government has succeeded in es tablishing its hold upon the Court of Copenhagen, and the statement that the Danish government have pro ceeded, under Russian influence, to abrogate or impair the constitution of 1849, is wholly inaccurate. The Danish government have caused a bill or draught project to be published, containing some modifica tions of the constitution now in force ; but this bill is to be submitted to the discussion and vote of the Chambers when they re-assemble, and it has not been promulgated by Royal authority. To Den mark, as well as to all the adjacent parts of Europe, t i be present crisis is of vital importance ; for, though t n t s quarrel commenced upon the Bosph orus, the solution i may receive will determine whe ther or not Russia is t in o . make the rights of foreign States subordinhat Pretensions terests or her ambition ; and, since suc have been manifested , th e p eace and indepeideneeoftheef world can only be pr eserved by the firm adherencei all other Powers to the measures rossibiiity the authority of law, and to set bounds to the p of aggro: lA.—The General Hewett, Gat enb y , ha s A II STRAL arrived from New South Wales, whence she sailed the 25th of March, with 29,336 ounceswh of . gold, valued at 117,300/. The Mar y Bannatyne, ich sailed on the Bth of April, brings 440 ounces. The Surinam is also reported having left Sydney the . 2Bth of February, b u t it appears she has no gold on freight. (Front the Morning Chronicle.) It is now the turn of the Omnibus Proprietors to get up a " movement ;" and next week we suppose we shall have indignant dustmen agitating for the restora tion of their bells, and reduced watermen petitioning for the abolition of twopenny steamers. Nor will the great apple-stall interest, nor the brethren of the crossing, long abstain from carrying their grievances into the lobby of the House of Commons. The elder sweeps will doubtless call for a repeal of that iniquitou s law which robbed them of their younger allies ; and, fi na ll y, the professional rogues and vagabonds of the metropolis will meet to consider the present depressed state of their line of business, and to petition Parliament for a restoration of the balance of power which was so se: riously deranged, five-and-twenty years ago by the substitution of overpowering Rowans and Maynes in the place of the more manageable Charlies. The ephe meral glory of bursting forth suddenly into a full blaze of type is undoubtedly very gratifying to our stable worthies, even though they may not feel themselves quite at home in interpreting the columns in which their eloquence and wisdom are embalmed ; but, alas ! the public are always craving for novelty, and two or three days have sufficed to satiate them of Jarviesm. The joke of yesterday becomes the nuisance of to-day ; and the fellow who is simply ridiculous to-day will be an intolerable bore to-morrow. If, therefore, the omni bus interest, or the cab interest, or any other in- terest that has any fearful grievance to 111;1e public, will take our advice, they will lose no time in letting us know what they want. Another week may be too late. The world will turn in disgust from the pro found thoughts of Jones and the burning words of Smith ; and then, painful as it will be to ourselves, we shall have no alternative but to reject the reports of their doings, or, at all events, to accept them only as advertisements. And now let us see what these omnibus gentlemen are grumbling about, and what is the cause of their new born sympathy for their rivals. Although the " back fare " clause of the Cab Act was the only grievance of which the owners and drivers of the vehicles in question could honestly complain, it was obvious, at the outset, that it was not the true cause of their dissatisfaction. Nor were they insuperably averse to the sixpenny fare, coupled as it was with extra sixpences for extra persons and extra time. But they could not stomach the pro visions which secured an easy and expeditious remedy for their extortions. " Call the fare sixpence, if you like," they said in their hearts ; "abolish back-fare, if you please ; make, in short, what laws and regulations you fancy; but don't be so shabby as to give our customers the means of ' pulling us up,' if we endeavour to mitigate the excess ive rigour of your code." Here was the pinch of their case. The former tariff allowed them only Bd. per mile ; but lives there the man who can boast of having insulted one of their community with the tender of such an un- English fare ? Parliament had spoken of eight pennies and four pennies ; but had not the cab-drivers, by the judicious use of their tongues and fists, immutably gra duated the scale in shillings and sixpences ? And if they succeeded in imposing this modification of the Act on grown-up and sturdy men, at what point did their ra pacity cease when they had to deal with an infirm old woman, or a young mother burdened with a brace of over-fatigued children, or a helpless stranger stranded. at Billingsgate, with half-a-dozen outlandish trunks and boxes ? The cabmen of London, it was notorious, had taken th e l aw into theirown hands • and. they had succeeded in doing this simply because the Legislature had provided no efficacious means of preventing them. The unlucky traveller who dif fered in opinion from hi s d r i ver pre f erred a little impo sition to the glorious uncertainties and less glorious delays of the law. The man of b us i ness found it aless evil to pay a rogue an extra shilling than to waste two or three days in summoning and prosecuting him, and in measuring distances pro bono public° ; while, to un protected females and helpless foreigners, the dread tri bunals of British justice were more terrible than all the oaths, outrages, and overcharges of the hackney ruffians. But how could this systematised extortion con tinue when tables of fares were to be hung up at every stand, when distances were to be measured and recorded beforehand, when the number of the driver's badge was to be delivered to the customer at starting as a security for civility and honesty, and when any complaint might be instantly and finally redressed by the nearest magistrate ? The palmy days of the trade were gone for ever, unless some device could be discovered for rendering such regula tions inoperative. That device, however, has now been found, in the shape of a right of appeal from magisterial decisions. Such is the demand of the cab-owners, echoed by the omnibus proprietors at their meeting of last Monday ; and, as will be seen from the Parliamen tary notice-paper, Lord Dudley Stuart has undertaken to advocate this claim of the combined interests. " The appeal, the whole appeal, and nothing but the appeal, is the demand of these bold Britons ; and the omni bus people illustrate the necessity for it by the hard case—which will doubtless rank next to the great Phillips case in the causes celebre,s of Cabbery—of no less a personage than the veritable proprietor of an omnibus being sent to prison for a month, for pushing off his new cushions the feet of some Yankeely-disposed traveller, who had refused to comply with a request to remove them. What records of human injustice and wicked ness would be so harrowing as the Newgate Calendar, edited by the inmates of that respectable establish merit We own that we give but imperfect credit to Cranbourne Hotel reports of cab and 'bus decisions. The lion tells us, in Lafontaine's fable, that he would probably have had— -- le dessus, Si mes confreres savaient peindre. And it is not improbable that the "unjust judge " may have his own version of the cushion case. What is this appeal wanted for ? Are the metropo litan magistrates so ignorant of law that they cannot put a sound construction upon an Act of Parliament which even a cabman can understand ? Or are they so inexperienced in the art of sifting truth from falsehood that they cannot be trusted to pronounce a con clusive judgment upon questions of disputed distances and alleged misconduct ? If any tribunal can be competent to deal with such subjects, it is the police court. The men who preside there have had a legal education ; and, as practising barristers, they have acquired in Westminster-hall and on circuit some knowledge of human nature, and a rapid insight into human roguery. And to whom are we to appeal ? To the Quarter Sessions ? To the quiet country gen tlemen of Middlesex and Surrey, who meet occasionally in petty sessions to impose a ss. fine on the village drunkard, or to send a pilfering tramp to the tread mill, and who muster at rarer intervals, but in more formidable numbers, round Sergeant Adams or Mr. Puckle, to help them to transfer the metropolitan thieves from our gaols to houses of correction, peniten tiaries, and hulks ? Or shall the appeal be to the Supe rior Courts of Common Law, and thence, of course, to the House of Lords ? Shall we invite the "plain" Camp bell, or the acute Jervis, or the grave Pollock to mea sure the distance between the Spotted Dog and the Bell and Horns, or between Petticoat-lane, and Smithfield Market. Shall we bring the profound learning of' a Parkc and the vigorous intellect of a Manic to bear upon the momentous questions which daily arise in deciding the legal character of the peculiar words and gestures of the gentlemen of the whip ? Is this the modest proposal of Lord D. Stuart's clients 1 It matters not—any appeal is utterly out of the ques tion. If Parliament were disposed to grant it, we would suggest the simpler course of repealing alto gether every act which in the slightest degree controls the conduct of our street-drivers. What the public has so long demanded, and at last obtained, is effectual pro protection from pillage and insult ; but an appeal will not only restore, but aggravate tenfold, those very de• fects which made the former law a dead letter. If the delay, trouble, and expense of summoning and prose cuting deterred men smarting under the sense of wrong t fr i coen: whatbring redressil]impudentg will they h o e r y e extortionate tiiiialio;:a.neteaemxcpste,cirnelisnntdsr whiche s toj jus tice, a p d o i s s e a t i li c e a n t i jo t n o l t i h i e o d w el t lttab y lz v , antpaytrebla fare—how submissively willhebow to any jeers, practical jokes, or even rough pokes_ and pushes—in reference to being detained f or a week at the Guildford Quarter Sessions. It is needless to add that the drivers and owners of our public carriages will of course have an ample common purse defraying the expenses of those rare appeals which chivalry or infatuation will leave for The clause which Lord D. Stuart proposes to intro duce into the Hackney Carriage Bill would be the Magna, Charta of ruffianism, and we trust that neither the Go vernment nor the house will consent to it. We are not surprised that the omnibus-men petition for it, and make common cause upon it with the cabdrivers. Like their brethren, they chafe and fret, poorfellows, at the shackles which fetter them down to decency in language and be haviour, and they naturally pray for any enactment which will relax the magistrate's hold over them. But in this hold the public see their only safety—they are resolved to have prompt punishment for misconduct- - cheep• expeditious, and accessible justice in every clisr!tle Let the omnibus gentlemen, therefore, keep cl u t?": We advise them not to attract too large a share of P .?" attention, lest some inconvenient questions rheseprecoting themselves should arise. Let them look to t p 11 these wn fares, tongues, and conduct. If they within the limits of moderation, they ha ul soon come. h y . ee e - ne a thing to fear—but, if not, their day of reckoning w FlBSesterday morning, at half past,frWhthite.DESTßUCTlVE policeman on duty was going his 3 o'clock, as the aH s e e a d 8 n i T o a k v e e ri i s i s u i l l T 8 back part of theh Rodneyoccupation of Mr. R. Elliott, licensed rounds, he discovered,ds chapel road, in . t e t victualler. and sent for the engines. In the meantime it • tualler. Without a moments delay he aroused the inmates, ascertained that the skittle-ground was on fire, and lw>easforaesetehe engines arrived the destructive element had communicated to the billiard-room and kitchen. Water wa s obtained in abundance from the East London Com pany's main, and the engines got into admirable play. The fire was, after much labour, subdued. The damage i s considerable—viz., skittle-ground, billiard-room, kitchen, and contents destroyed, and part of the roof off. The building was insured in the Sun, and the con tents in the Monarch Office. SUPPOSED SUICIDE OF A FEMALE.—Yesterday morning the body of a female was found floating in the river Thames, near the Limehouse-cut, which, on being brought ashore, was found to be quite dead. The unfortunate female appears to be thirty years of age, and about five feet three or four inches high, and of middling stature. The dress consisted of a chocolate-coloured gown, black stuff petticoat, alpaca side-lace boots, black stockings, and a green plaid shawl. The body was removed to the Moor's Arms public-house, Bromley, where it is awaiting the coroner's inquest. is ly the tken and real Trot now for A lent, NG' r pt stiol 000 p , b waso sy l c e .: re 1 ' 1 " ,itte- --~_ 1