The Sun. — London, England, 1853-08-10 00:00:00

MPP I T ale; E tred oer the I tee Lear' ti t irb 7C. re Won SUN OFFICE, Six o'Clock. W OLVERHAMPTON RACES. (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) WROTTESLEY STAKES. Vaultress ............ 1 S ister to St a ff or d ............................................................ ........................... 2 Four ran. FOAL STAKES Whalebone.. .walked over HOLYOAKE STAKES. Alp. Black . Doctor . Rasaaroni Five ran. READING RACES, (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) ProentionE.."IIIAMPSTEAD STAKES. --- Five ran. ABBEY STAKES. Vi xen .. Five ran. Oet kvia BERKSHIRE STAKES. Six ran. .1 ~ 2 ~ 3 1 at w. ST AFFORDSHIRE RACES. (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) TRIAL STAKES. 11 11,2 61)° Y filly ................................ ........ --uunerator ....................................... Three ran. Ir. NO RTH STAFFORDSHIRE STAKES. Five ran. STATE OF TRADE. I ,(Pr°74 the Manchester Guardian of This Day.) 41.0 ° RESTE R, Aug. 9.—The loss of stre n g th which VeeParket sustained from the middle to the end of last h yti : , Mainly in consequence of the apparently increased th 0 1 „,.. 11e ,n0e of war, has been regained to-day, chiefly ei,,°, a diminished apprehension on that score. The set e- i7ip fine weather, appears now to have fairly has also exercised a favourable influence upon the er , -es e of the d a y. S p i nners has e, therefore, again a pne decidedly firm at the late highest rates ; indeed, Pit l : de ning tendency is perceptible in some yarns. h ow -Ps for domestics form an exception to this extent, Whi d e a v er, they may be had l i d. per lb below quotations taro were so extreme at the scarcest moment as to be Y realisable. Spinnings for India are rather more matelred after, though still dull. For some other foreign e:eta there is rather more doing, and also for home ed:A Tll P ti °o ; but the day's transactions have not !exh procC a moderate amount ; indeed, the degree in wh h i Wi so uee rs are engaged would prevent its being ot e h r exi gt ;• In goods, prices are exceedingly firm ; and the oertOg e ngagements in most kinds, together with t eat, inty of a general advance in the rate of wages, gold s" I r a° makers to ask an advance. Even 40-inch RtTeinu shirtiugs for the East are firmer. teaoa'-',PRitspiziai, August 9.—There is still a good de to' for suitable goods, and rather more has been done nexuarrkehall this morning, having had a few buyers in the both f actio ns . from London and the north ; but the trans lo the cloth hall are scarcely an index of the k e t , the makers being employed so well to order inpePs the various stalls very bare, the goods being nearly i ve j ae 'ulY deli vere d di rect f rom th e m ill t o the merc h an t' s f° ar r the On the whole, there has been a fair market the tim e of year, and the rather favourable news from kat 114 s given an increased firmness to the market. CANADA AND THE UNITED SATES AS WHEAT EXPORTING COUNTRIES. TREMENDOUS CONFLAGRATION. (THIS DAY.) One of the most extensive fires that has occurred in the metropolis for a considerable time broke out this morn ing shortly before 1 o'clock, and, at the hour this report was written (10 o'clock), it was far from being entirely extinguished. The damage already done must, at a moderate estimate, amount to upwards of 10,0001. ster ling. The premises in which the disaster commenced belonged to Mr. Kirkman, pianoforte-maker, in Dufure place, Broad-street, St. James's. The flames were not perceived until they shot forth in a huge body, en circling the greater portion of the extensive works. The engines of the Brigade and West of England Office were soon on the spot, as well as the Royal Society's escapes. The fire-mains in the neighbourhood having been drawn, a plentiful supply of water was procured, and vast streams of the antagonistic element were distributed over the blazing pile, but without making the least im pression upon the flames, which speedily communicated to the premises of Mr. Sibley, a sil versmith, the St. E,dward's Catholic Infant Schools, both in Dufure-place, and also to the premises of Mr. Lloyd, tailor, No. 55, Poland-street, Mr. Veal, No. 56, in the same street, Mr. Abbott, No. 57, Mr. Leslie, carpenter, No. 58, and Mrs. Lewis, No. 59. The scene at this period was one of fearful grandeur, for the whole of the West-end was brilliantly illuminated, and thousands of burning on flakhe es were drifted by the wind , and kept falling up t houses a long distance off , to the danger of igniting them. The firemen, under the direction of Messrs. Braidwood, Staples, and Connorton, kept to their work, but in spite of their exertions the work of destruction continued, and several hours elapsed before the least impression could be made upon the fire, and not until Mr. Kirkman's premises were nearly destroyed, and the whole of the other premises before alluded to seriously burnt. A number of firemen are still obliged to be kept lrk, and there appears very little chance of getting the fire wholly subdued until a late hour this evening. The principal part of the loss will fall upon the Imperial, Law, and Westminster Fire Offices. Three of the fire men of the Brigade were so injured by the falling of a wall that they were obliged to be conveyed to their houses. 26 -- 27 lioo Aberdeen . ........ 8i .mbg . Nottng. Bost & Eastn. June all Bi r mng. Wolverh. & Stour Valley 28 Birkenhd. Lancsh. di Cheshire Junet_ _ all Do. Chesh. & Birk., £5O & £25 Cons 184 Do., £20........_ 100 B r istol & Exeter__ 00 C a l e donian.— . ... .' a ll Chester & Holyhead all Cork and Bandon.... all Cork, Black. & Pass. 45 Dublin&BelfastJunc all Dundee Perth &Aber deen Junction ....... all Do. New all East Anglian (£25 L. & E. & L. dr D.) , all Do., (£lB E. & H.).. all Eastern Counties.... all Eastern Union, Classl A. late E. U. 5h.... 86 Do., do.. . ........_ all Do., B. di . C....' ' ***** 1100 East Lancashire all East & West Ind. Dk. & Birming. June.... 100 Edinburgh & Glasgow 161EdInb. and Peebles... I 100 lEdinb•Prth.&Dunde 100 Glasgow &S. Western 100 Great Northern SU - - 100 Do., A. Stock 100 Do., B. Stock ..... 1100 Gt. Sth. &West. (Ire.) .00 Great Western 11 Irish South-Easters all Lancaster & Carlisle 11i Do., Thirds. ..... 1.00 Lancash . &Yorkshire 16 Do., Fifths 114 Do., Wet. Riding Un. all Leeds Northern all Liv.Crsby. &Soutbpt. all London & Blackwall 7 Loud. Tilb. & Sthend. 100 Lond.Brig,ht.&S.Cst. i 100 London &N. Western 12 Do. Fifths 1 Do. ,10/.5h.,M&8...0 100 London & S.Westerr 426 Do., £5O 34 Do. £4O , • ...... all L u Adrry.&Coieraine l all Lndudrry. & Ennisk.l 100 Manch . Sher. &Lineln. 4 Do., Man. &Lin. Un. 1 100 Midland 100 Do. Birming. dr Derby 176 Midland G.Westar.) 176 Do. 6 Shares ... .....• all N e wcastle &Carlisle.. 100 Newmarket 4A Do. Bury Extensions 17; Newpt•Aberg.& ll tfd 7i Newry & Enniskillen all Newry Warrenpoint l & Rostrevor 100 N0rf01k............ all Do., New ..... ....' 36 Northn. Counties Un 100 North British .. N 16 North Devon, . 0.1 116 Do., No. 2.. ..••••••• all Dc., 6 A Deferred 8 Do., 6 B Guaranteed 176 North Staffordshire all North Western 10 N. &S. Westrn. unc. 100 Oxford Worcester & Wolverhampton..... 100 Scottish Central ...... 100 Scottish Midland...... 100 Shrewsbury & Birmg. 100 Do., L. & N. Westa. Guaranteed Stock... 9 Shrewsby. & Herefd. 5 all Shrewsby. & Chester (Nor. W. Min.)...... i all Do. Halves, d 0....... all Do. Oswestry ...... ... 66 Shropshire Union.... all South Dev0n.......... . 100 South Ea5tern......... 1 all South Wales..... I 15 S. Yorksh. River Dun I 5 Do. 161 Stockton & Hartlepl. i 20 Thames Haven Dock ) all Waterfd. & Kilken n y ) 17 Vale ad o Railway N ea t ) all Waterford&Limerick ) 14 West Cornwall ) 21s. Wmbledon &Croydou .0 1 Woodford.. .......„, • t. 100 'York Neweti.&Berw 5 20 IDo. Extensions ..... ~ 5 116 Do. G.N. E. Purchase, St. 1100 York &N. Midland.. 5} - 54 9i 104 9 7 d 20 221 34 24 d' 102 104 67i 681 21i —22 i 194 20, iP 8 - 9 5a _ 5; 31) 3j 12t - 13 43 - 45 31 - 'lli- 53 - 72 -- 28 -- - 53 - 54 134 - 135 110 - 112 89k - 90 7 - 103 - 105 17 -18 p 4 - 41.1 3j - 3 ti 15 -15 k 16 -- Itp 102 —lO4 td 115 -- 1154 1 2 -- 2ip Igp 88A -89 k 6 -- 5 dl 5 -- 4 d 1 . 11 -- 13 18 -- 20 28} -- 29 - 71i -71 i 40 - 42 - ..1,548 PREFERENCE SHARES AMERICAN SECURITIES. ahThowe following • 1831e.the Canada Jour . na,, wheat, both statement from ti l, rh ° eUnited States exports.s ofunbdreeradthsteuffnsamsienceef statement comprise , wheat and flour Value. 133Fears,3 ... ..................................... 9 13 4 u 4 5 1 h , e 0 1 9 e 0 10,461,715 5 4 4, , , 9 64 7 442 4 6 , :6 1 1 2 082 3 2 4,560,379 1834 ..................................................... 44 4 : 4 2 801 : 3 1 : , 80 7 9 0 69 8 1 1835 ................................ 3,944,742 1836 ................................. 2,529,062 3,574,561_ 18371838 ................................................................. 2 1 :2 6 0 1 7 0 :4 8 9 9 6 8 3,014,4 7 r 4 3,617, 6 188 ............................. : .. 3,712,080 7,069,3 . 9 ............................... 11 198 365 11,779,09 8 1 18418" ......................... 8 ' 447,670 8,582,527 . ............................. ~237,968 8,292,308 1842 ................................. 1 ., ~ „,„55 4,027,182 89 1 84 a" •-. ......................... 47,0751:8- 7,23325,3728 1 8 8 44 ' . : ..... - ...................... 6,365,866 18445 e. ................................ 13,061,175 1353;316803:1461 ' '' .............. '''' "'A 431 --) -0, 11347 ...................... 22,61', - 15 863,284 18 848 ............................................ 12,6036175:659790i 49 ................................ 12, 1:1 7 _, , 0 7 3 4 7 2: 4 3 3 1 0 5 1,850 ........................... 7,53 , ~,, 11,543,063 'B5l. ............................ 11,028,3 v ' .... 397 against 9, 1 bushe s. a r ,T ii , e er increa . s in.tlie.expollsoo2fBl, 1851 over those of 1831, l Als , la y . trifling •being , b been a li i 4.l_ e ,or an increase in 21 years of 1,687,307 bushels. kr „" e e quantity grown there has u ea n r ci ly ue a s l t l i 13 t au gmentation ; but it has d n as la y the home consumption ; an file:, Ino Years,n ea h r . l w y ea k ßut ez h t ga p sw a chbeieewehniththtehwe brought that unquestionably consumptionabsorbed d a eg p ie e t.i rio ef wheat -growing t_tiv next o tw r eeanstoynyteoareso,ncslhuedwe theatnhat considerable exports iwill,nere increase 21 ether their present amount. In y the fiduurtgatitohneslwasltii ~,,,,e -United States exports exhibit,.. .t-ars, there is evidence of an ability to fu g r r n e i a s t h emer r han the ordinary supplies on . somee prices. The year t i eY, or on the temptation ,e 6 Witnessed a great increase, occasioned famine e rn d abrkyett,he underfree e i4 sion of bread-stuffs into the English The famine y e ar Peration of Peel's free trade measures. f ir : otit : of 1847 dniotuebdledsttaliteeso.rdiTnahreyy exports . e of 2 b 2 re ,o a o d o st , i o iff oo s Ilu e re l e " .. :_, ~.w i a ei3fgw,yheeaart t ; e b e u n t e t . h h e al s f u t b h s a e t q a u m e n r e t o u f e n a e t l . fall in shows s ff t i h n a every i ti k trecixpurtation of 1847 was a convulseeactlffnoertt, hwelisiecsh. t i„, il larY times, and at ordinary prices,l p: orta ez .f b l r t ea s d eems a safe hconucluitseiodnsttaiteens,htahvaet rtehaethee_xd stuffs from t e n "eniethi • na ng like their maximum point ; and that in ordi fur!' times there is not likely to be muc fa h et i u n r c e r s ea t s h e e i r n e el: 111.e • The increase of domestic manufactures pro. eates a home consumption equal to the i exllpetoirtto.f breadstuffs, and thus prevents an augmented , ion. t'lf bile the United States' exports of breadstuffs ei a ri p t : ar to have reached something like their hi "Ports of these articles from Canada a g re he much as seer f ew years, and now are about one-half ase flour to t hose of the United States. Reducing det:oupbling nshels, at the rate of five bushels to the barrel—the abovernle adopted in the case of American flour in the to tble—the exports of Canadian w ea , t s from 1838 1852, both inclusive, have been as follWhoewat. _ 1 11 8 88 3 44 901 ............................................................................................................................... 12;73 6 93176038 Bushels.: " 018 230 0963 1838 ............................. 249,471 11 1 1 : 8 8 888 44 4 4 : 3 4 6.... ...................................................................................................... 1 ................................................................................ - ................................................. 1 22 1 33 ;3 5856 9 5 9844 0 3 7357 : :: 9 0 3132 1 9 : 22 8 2 8 604 ....... • 1845 ..................................... 3 , 12 7 -- ,3 , 57 1847 ............................. 2 248,016 1850 . . .......................................... --, ,5,896 1851 ...................................... 4,21 1852 ............................................ 5,49 6, 718 ~,,j_t aP:p . e . a - rs .. . 13.. ;th . e . . 8. - 13 . 0 . V . e .- state - m - ent . th"at In 1852 were about eighteen times gre at as iey w ere in 1838. They have doubled four times that our exports o 4 fifteen years, or more than once in every now Years for the last fifteen years. They the much as the exports of wheatare from -e Unit e States ; and at the present ratio of i ncrease *---doubling in every four years—our exports of wheat 'Will, in 1 856, be equal to those of the United States. shel.There is no known reason why our exports of wheat not continue, at their present ratio, for some fi nest There have recently been opened some of the V ieSt Wheat-growing tracts in the country. These set einets are fast passing that stage when they witness set a sumption greater than the production ; and will in future make large additions to our exports. Other new settlements will shortly be opened ; but there is no rea son to suppose that they will, in their early stage, cause 411 ,,Y such i ncreased consumption as to curtail the amount Si°'' "Ports ; and in a few years every new settlement dll:rust add it s quota to the exports of the country. Be sides the extension of settlements, thei e is another source ef increased roduction now beginnng to ber eeptible : we p allude to the measures i taken in e so p me tf the o ld er settlements to increase the produc iens of a g i ven area of land. Whatever the Reneral avera.ge yield of wheat may be through out the province, it is a matter of individual observation that l ands which us e d t o yi e ld a b out 20 bushels of wheat to the acre now yield 40 and even 50 bushels. 'lle i mproved m e th o d s o f f arm i ng which brings about these increased producti ons are s il ently making their ''''ay in many of the older settlem en t s , and must make their effects apparent in the increase o f our exports of breadstuffs. From all the circumstances it is obvious that Canada is destined to become, in al few years, the greattst wheat exporting country on, the Continent of ikinerica. It appears by the last advices from New York, that the Secretary of the Treasury is carrying out the resolu tion adopted by the United States' Senate in April for procuring a statement of the amount of American Se curities held abroad, and has addressed a circular to the various incorporated companies throughout the country, mentioning the particulars he requires. The resolution of the Senate was to the effect that the return should, as far as possible, include not only State stocks, but railroad bonds and shares and all other kinds oorf invest ment, and although, owing to the large prop roactionsults of th e se securities that are payab le to bearer, the reh to that may be arrived at c an scarcely even app accuracy, they will furnish the means of forming a rough estimate which will be extremely valuable for general purposes. After quoting the resolution, the cir cular proceeds as follows : "In order to ena ble me to comply, so far to you if you as practicable, w ith the above resolution, I will be obliged will communicate to this department, " Ist. The amount of capital stock of your company, theamount actually paid in, and the amount, so well as can be ascertained, held by foreigners residin , be yond the bounds of the United States, on the 30th June, 1853. " 2d. The whole amount of bonds, if any, issued by your company, and the particular amount, so well as can be as cert,ined, held by foreigners residing beyond the bounds of the United States on the 30th June, 1853. " As the resolution requires the report to be presented at the commencement of the next session of Congress, yo ur attention to this request , a t as earl y a day as you can make it convenient, will confer an obligation on this depart ment." QUARTZ GOLD IN CANADA• There is every reason to believe that the world will soon be as much startled with the discoveries of gold in Lower Canada as it has these discoveries have been made, although for certain reasons a remarkable de gree of mystery and secrecy has been thrown over the affair ; but the fact is nevertheless undoubted that the existence there of quartz gold to an alarming extent is fully ascertained. It will be recollected that Mr. Logan, the provincial geologist, in writing to a Montreal paper in refutation of a stock-jobbin, rumour to which we have before referred, expressed ;doubt whether the gold in Lower Canada will reward unskilled labour ; but he m akes no denial of the existence of quartz gold, which can only be successfully worked with scientific appli ances. The company recently incorporated by the le gislature is preparing t o work the gold min es in Lower Canada which are known to exist ; and there is every probability that the result will create no little sensation and astonishment. It is impossible to regard the discoveries of gold in Lower Canada, in ever so great abundance, with un mixed satisfaction. Our population has just now its hands full without gold mining. All the available un skilled labour finds abundant demand in the construc tion of railroads and other works ; and a gold mania just now would arieet the course of improvement and unsettle everything. It would retard the advancement of those gigantic enterprises which are just going into successful operation, and take from agricu ltural opera tions the chief incentive to their prosecution. A mania of gold hunting, if the business were tolerably success ful, would create so violent an action on the labour market that the prosecution of any great public or pri vate enterprise would become impossible. We should be able to complete no great schemes of railroads for years. The high stakes, the excitement, the feverish hope of sudden wealth which gold discoveries create, are too much for weak heads and strong enthusiasm. Gold mines are iu no sort essential to the prosperity of this country ; its present sources of prosperity are more certain and subject to fewer accidents and contingencies. I Life has fewer risks, and health less impediments to encounter. Under all these circumstances, it will scarcely be possible to view the discovery of gold in Canada at this particular time otherwise than as a calamity and misfortune. —Toronto Herald. '~-- s THE HUDSON RIVER - I thank God I was born on the banks of the Hud son ! I think it an invaluable advantage to be born and brought up in the neighbourhood of some grand and noble object in nature—a river, a lake, or a moun tain. We make a friendship of it- —we in a manner ally ourselves to it for life. It remains an object of our pride and affections —a rallying point to call us home again after all our wanderings. "The thin old whichter," we have learned in ou r childhood," says a wri "grow up with our sou ls, and unite themselves to it. ' So it is with the scenes among which we have passed our early days ; they influence the whole course of our thoughts and feelings ; and I fancy I can trace much of what is good and pleasant in my own heterogeneous compound to my early companionship w ith this gasm,lorioul s river. In the warmth of my youthful enthu si lmost to used to clothe it with moral attributes, and a give it a soul. I admired its frank, bold, honest, cha racter, its noble sincerity and perfect truth. Here was no specious, smiling surface, covering the dangerous ous sand-bar or perfidiou s rock, but a stream, deep broad, and bearing with honourable faith the barque that trusted to its waves. I g loried in its simple, quiet, ma jestic, epic flow ; ever straightforward. Once, indeed, it turns aside for a moment, forced from its course by opposing mountains, but it struggles bravely through them, and immediately resumes its s traightforward marc h. Behold, thought I, an emblem of a good man's cours e through life, ever simple, open and direct, or if overpowered by adverse circumstances,ecovers h his onward e deviate into error, it is but momentarily, he soon r and honourable career, and continues it to the end of his pilgrimage. — Washington Irving. EARL OF ZETLAND.—We understand that a pub, dinner is to be given to the Earl of Zetland by his tenantry, feuars, and others, in the new hall, Grange mouth, on Friday next, the 12th current. Mr. Forbes, of Callendar, and several other Scotch members of Par liament, are expected to be present.--Scotsman. BATTERSEA-PARK. —Yesterday, a short, act, which lately received the Royal assent, was issued to provide for the purchase and extinguishment of all rights of common and lammas and other commonable rights over the site of Battersea,-park, in the county of Surrey. It is enacted that the Battersea-park Commissioners are to pay 1,5001. to the churchwardens of St. Mary, Batter sea, to be applied to such purposes as a vestry, to be convened for that purpose, shall direct, and thereupon all rights of common are to cease and determine. TELEGRAPHIC CONVENTION BETWEEN ENGLAND, FRANCE, BELGIU M, AND PRUSSIA.—The vote of 30,0001., just granted in committee of supply by the House of Commons, is intended to defray, to March, 1854, the expense of laying down an independent line of telegra phic wires from London to the Continent, and to enable her Majesty's Government to join . a convention recently concluded between Fraime, Belgium, and Prussia, for regulating the tra,nsmission ?f messages by electric tele pra,ph, and lately entered into by Messrs. J. and J. Brett, inventors of t he submarine telegraph, with those nations ' on behalf of the European ie T . Telegraph Compan re y. V IE NNA.—The ad vises from Vienna m arkable statement of the downward a course the deficit each year from that period has been in sterling as . follows, namely, 706,0331. in 1847, 4,511,064/. in 1848, 12,190,5801. in 1849, 5,344,7331. in 1850, 6,222,.363 . /. in 1851, and 5,344,733/. in 1852, making a total in six years of 34,461,260/., or an average of 5,743,610/. per an num. There seems, also, ev er y probability that the difference between revenue and expenditure will be equally disastrous in 1853. TUSCANY. —A concession has just been granted by the Tuscan Government to Messrs. Gandell Brothers, of Paris, for a railway of 80 miles , from Florence to Areazo, the frontier town of Tuscany next to the Roman States. By its connection with the Northern and Cen tral lines, it will open an uninterrupted communication between the northern States of Italy and the Roman dominions, and proposals have been submitted to the Pope for its extension to Rome, a distance of about 200 gules, 2t - t. 100 Aberdeen ...... ..... .. it. all I Do., No. 2,7 p. c... it. 100 \ Bris. & Ex. 4 p . c. St. \ !O 5 'Do. 4p. c. Shares ... ;t. 100 Caledonian £lO ,5 all (Chester & Holyhead, Guar. 51 per cent 1 Cork&Bandon 51 p. c.l Dundee Perth&Aber deen Junction EastA uglian (£3los) 6 per cent.... ....... . Do. (£.:5) 7 Per cent Do. (27175) 7 p. ct Eastern Counties Ex tension, 5 p. c. No.l Do., No. 2 Do., New 6 P. c. St Eastern Union, Scrip Guar. 6 per cent E as tLancash. 6 pets. , Ediub.Prth.&Dunde 51 per cent.. ....... Gl a sgow & S.Western guar. 5 per cent Grea t Northr sp. C. Do. 5 p. c. , Redeem., at 10 P. c• Prota • ••. Gt. Southn. &Westn. (Ireland) Eighths... Gt. Westn. (Berks & Hants Ex. 5 p. c .) .. G. West. fixed 41 p c. Lan. & York. F. £2O, Do.p. c., Stock... C 6 London and Brighton Guaranteed 5 P. e.., I Do. Prof., s p. c. t. Do. Convertible, sp. Do. New Guar. °p.c. London & S.Western, Con. Thirds LondondeiTy& Color AShares 1 Lowly. & Ennis. 1 SI 4tauch.,Shef., & Liu., i Shares, No. 1 Do. Now, £lO lAlarypt.&Carl. 4 p. c. Do. 41 per cent 61 64 64 .01 331 all 5 all 7 / 1 2 6t all 6V all .0 all ',O all ;t. 100 5 all ;t. lioo ;t. 100 ;t. 100 611 all It. 100 6 6 ;t. 100 3t. 100 ;t. 100 i 0 5 [2l 12 L2l all n all 6 all 3 \ L2A all L2l all L 2. 1 0 11 . "it. 100 St. 100 Mid.Consol. 6 p.c. St. Do. Consol. Bristol & Birm. 6 per cent.... Do. Pref. 44 per cent. Norfolk Extension... Do. Pref. Val 54 per et... Do. Way. .5 p c North British .... ..... North Staffordshire.. Oxford Worcester dz Wolverh. £15,6 p. c. 5 100 it. 100 - St. 100 St. 100 Do ................ N. Sh r ews& Birm. G Sh rew sby. &Chest (Nor. W. Min),B p. c. Do. 5 per cent South Devon Do. New S. Eastern (Reading Ann.,) of £1 Os.6d. S. Yorlish.4p.c.Guar. Waterfd. &Kilk . 6p. c. York Newcastle and Berwick, 4 p.e.Pref Do York & N. Midland H & S. Purch ;t. ►ioo .5 15 8 all .0 all ,C 0 10 15 all LO 1: 0.6 all FOR: --- Antwerp&Rotterda m Belgian Eastn. June. Beziers to Graissessac Charleroi & Erquelin. Dijon and Besancon Dutch Rhenish East 1ndian............ Do Extension..... Gt. Indian Peninsula Gd. Junct. of France Gt.Wcsternof Canada Shares ... ........... ,Lucca & Pistoj a, 5 p.c. prof .................. (Luxembourg.......... Do. (Railway) ........ Do. ................. Db. (Canal) ......... , Do. 6 p. et. pref..„ Lyons & Mediterran Madra5................ Namur & Liege (with , i n terest) ............. Do. (ea interest) ...... Northern of France.. Do. 20/. 3 p. c Bds. (fmy.B.&Ams.Sh s. : NorwegianTrunkPre: Paris and Lyons.... Paris and Orleans... Paris and Rouen..... Paris and Strasbourg ParisCaen & Cherbrg., i Quebec & Richmond Rouen and Havre..... Royal Swedish ......... Sambre and Meuse... Sth- Eastrn. of France 1 Southern of France.. Upper India Scrip... 1 West Flanders ........ D Do. 511 per c. Pref... () Western cf France ..• 2 West. of Switzerlan d 9 Z°10,11(111, ......... ~..• - 105) \lO5 . 101 19i -20 i I Ail 61 - 6i 4 - 44 5 .- 54 - lip 1i - 2 p p 14 t 15 128 7_ 129 1 - 12 - 114 8 2 1 ...... •72 l— lo 7 i , 150 __.4162 3i - 4 10 - 11 13 - 14 8 - 9 lot 11 I —1) 1 149 - 151 i - ip 114 - 114-x 1 118 - 122 .15 - 117 244 - 251 10i - 10 17i 18 PI 14 15 Par P 251 - 26 194 - 20; 103 - 105 ri - Si Par— i P IGN. 4 1 di —l* 1 1 : 1 1 5 P la th 2t t - I d 7 7 4 11 14 Icl 11 - 7 E - 1 14 -- 14 71 1 1 184 47 —49 44 4G 381 4 -- 5 1 3 / 4 ld 20 21 id N 9 5 6 p 41 --4 t - die 10 100 201 i d 3 2 d DON, W EDNESDAY EVENING-, AUGUST 10 , 1853, E SUN, LON SHARE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) Sbr. Paid RAILWAYS. Leas i ng Closing Price Business this Compass. this day. St. 100 BurAglaamsh.lL. &N.W. 1.06 —lOB 50 all ClydesdaleJc. Caladon... 534 5 4 1 St. 100 E. Lincoln. gr 6p. cent Gt.Northn 150 152 25 all Glstr.&Dn.Fr fit.7restn 33 34 100 all Hrtlpl. Dk. & Yk. New. Railway & Berw.. ... • • 50 all Hull & Selby Y.&N.Md. 113 114 25 all Do. Shares Do 56 57 12 all Do. i Shares. Do 27i —2 8 ti 12 all Lon.&Greenw S.Eastern l4i —14 i 20 all Do. Preference Do 26 27 St. 100 Lowestoft gr. 4 per cent... Norfolk St. 100 Do. 6 per et... Do — 5} a ll Manch.Bxton. Lu. &N.W. and Matlock & Midld. 3 3} 3i 50 a ll Middlesbro' & Stckton & Redcar Darlingt. ... ... 100 all Midld.Bradfd Midland... 1.08 109 1091 50 a ll Northern and Eastern sp.c. E. Count.. 55 67 50 all Do. 6 per ct Do sd all Do.Fixedsp.c Do .• . ... 25 all Prest. &Wyre , L. &IN. W &Ln& Yk ... „ 12i( 1.1. Do. i Shares. Do .l St. 100 Roystn.&liit.lGt.Northn 150 152 St. 100 Do.Shepth.St.Do l5O --152 25 188 Shef. Roth. &' Lancash.& Gooleg.s.p.c Yorksh . . __ ... 12 9. S. Stallordsh.. MrMClean .14. i d 50 all WearVatoygr Stockt. & 6 per cent ... Darling . ... 25 all Do . Do 3t 5i St. 100 Wilts&Somrst Gt.Westa lo2i —lO3l BRITISH RAILWAYS. p,id 1 RAILWAYS. Closing Prices this day. Baldness done I St. this dsy 50 MINES. 1 ' all Agua Fria i 1 p 2 g e LOs. all Anglo Californian ... 6 p i ii 10 2 Australasian ld par 20 5 Australian ll -- 21 2/ 2 (I t 1 all Australian Cordillera a 4 cl.' a 1 all Australian Freehold. a d 1 1 1 all Ave Maria i 1(1 1 all Baden (Gd• Duchy of) / a 'par 1 all British Austria. Gold 1 / d ( 20 13.5 British Iron 7 - 9 2 35 2e41 Brazilianlmp. (issued at £5 pm 3l 41 1 30 all Do. Cocaes & Cuiada 3 4 1 3 20 15 Do. St. John Del Rey 311 321 1 1 Carson's Creek lel par 40 all Cobre Copper 47i —48 i 5 1 Colonial Gold i iP 1 i ... 14 Copiapo. lO —ll 10a St. all Copper Min. of Eng. 55 —65 25 all Do. Pref. 7 a p. cent. 61 —7l p 5 all English and Austin. Copper Smeltg. Co. 21 2 d 20 all General. 2 all Great Nugget Vein i i p 21 3 all Great Polgooth . li i d 1 all Lake Bathurst. id Par i 1 all Lond.&Californ.Gold Quartz Crush. 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Bnk of Australia - 2/13 50 20 London and County ••• ••• x d 50 10 London Joint Stock ..• ..• 100 20 ILond.andWestminst ... ~. d 100 35 N op a fo ti lE o .a n tn a igo l lnan Pr •••vincial 4,n 50A 50 20 10 Do. New — ". 50 221 National of Ireland .. • ... 25 all Oriental Bank Cor. 100 25 Provincial of Ireland ... ... 10 all Do. New — ... 5 1 Royal Australn. Bkg and Gold Imp. Co ls d— par 25 25 South Australa 44 46 _ 25 all Union of Australia 72 73xd 72 111 x a 2A \Do. New 8 Eq 50 10 Union of Loudon , ... ... x d 40 I all Nuion of Madrid ....I ... ... 1 MISCELLANEOUS 100 35 Australian A.gricult. 32 31 334 20 10 Australsn.Pcific.Mail ... ... 10 7 Australn. Royal Mail .., ... 50 381 Brit. American Land 64 67 100 324 Canada 5 5 Crystal Palace l/ 2 p 61 4 4 Crystal Pal. of France 1 1 p 20 1 Eastern Steam — ... 1 1 Electric Teleg. of Ir , ••• ... 15 14 Gen. Steam Navigat ••• ••• 20 14 General Screw Steam ..• ••• 20 5 Irish Beet:oot Sugar ••• ••• 1 all Nat. Pat. Steam Fuel . ••• 10 3 Netherlands Land ld par 21 20 76 NAIL ofEuropeSteam ... ••• 50 all Peninsular& Oriental •.• ... 50 25 Do. 100 60 Royal Mail Steam 25 25 South Austral. Land 37 39 1 all Submar. Telegraph.. ••• _ ••• 5 2 Univeral Emigration and Colonization.... • Ina 28l Vau Diemen's Land 16 17 16i al7 72 20 691 70 691 110 5 G 0 i6O 4 125 I 25 IMPERIA lAMEN T. should be, and from a consideration of the habit, the taste, and the health of the men the board were induced to give the preference to rum. The matter had been brought be fore various Boards of the Admiralty, and they had all concurred in the opinion that the preference ought to be maintained. With respect to the correspondence which had passed between the Board of Admiralty and the re presentatives of the distillers of the United Kingdom, upon that subject, he had only to observe that if the upon that should wish for its production, he (Sir J. Graham) eould have no objection to accede to his request. Mr. J. D. FITZGERALD wished to ask the right hon. baronet whether he would be prepared to lay before the house a copy of the medical report which had been made upon that subject. He understood that the question had been referred by the Board of Admiralty to the medical officers of the navy, with a view to ascertain whether in a medical point of view ruin possessed any advantage over home-made spirits. It was stated that the report of those officers was in favour of native spirits, and that, in their opinion, rum contained deleterious qualities which those spirits did not possess, while it did not contain their good qualities. There was no doubt that the movement against the existing practice in the royal navy had origivatedwith the distillers of the United Kingdom ; but those gentle men were perfectly justified in seeking to obtain the abolition of a monopoly which was a direct infraction of that principle of unrestricted competition which had of late years been adopted in the commercial policy of this country. (Hear.) Sir J. GRAHAM said that that was not a q uestion of free trade or of monopoly ; it w as mere ly a question of what was most conducive to the discipline and the com fort of the men in her Majesty's navy. He was not aware whether the question of health, as regarded the use of any particular kind of spirits in the royal navy, had been under the consideration of any medical officers. But he should say that if the Board of Admiralty were not competent to decide a case of that kind, or if their decision was to be set aside by the House of Commons, the sooner the board was abolished the better. (Hear.) The vote was then agreed to. ROMAN CATHOLIC CHAPLAINS OF PRISONS. s The vote of 407,6071. for the government convict esta blishments at home having been read, Mr. LUCAS said he found that there were 16 govern ment prisons in the United Kingdom, eight of which were in Great Britain and eight in Ireland. He also found that the systems of prison discipline enforced in the two cowl \ tries varied very materially in one important point. He referred to the provision made for the religious instruction of prisoners. Upon that subject one arrangement was Ireland,aindopEtengdlainndand another and a totally different one ha was a question which had recently become one of very greatly increased importance, because it appeared that for the future the system of transporta tion was to be entirely, or almost entirely, abolished, and that convicts should, in nearly every case, undergo their punishments in prisons. Under the system of transporta tion to the colonies, the principle of perfect religious equality had been adopted, and all convicts had received religious instruction from clergymen of their own faith. That practice had been established by the present Earlearl of Derby when Colonial Secretary, aud that noble had, in the year 1847, delivered a speech in which he had. expressed his gratification at the good results which had been attained by the adoption of such a course. But as the system of transportation was about to be abo lished, he (Mr. Lucas) wished to know whether that mode of conducting the religious instruction of convicts which had worked so well in the col nies was to be introduced into the government prisons in Great Britain. He said in Great Britain, be cause he was aware that the practice which had prevailed in the penal colonies had long since been adopted, and was at present in force in Ireland. In the Irish government prisons the arrangement was this—and it was one so sim ple and reasonable that nobody must wonder how any other had b een a d op t e d elsewhere—that prisoners when first placed in the gaols were entered professed, according to the re ligions which they and prisoners of every re ligious denomination received the ministrations of chap lains, whose salaries were paid by the state. In the votes for the Irish prisons there wer a e n l d nV re ude t v e ot a es for l Church of England, Roman Catholic, principle of y pe r rfe a ct e religions s ; and so completely was the equality carried out in the Irish prisons, that Roman g Catholic chaplains gave certificates of good conduct to Roman Catholic prisoners just as Protestant chaplains g ave certificates of good conduct to Protestant prisoers. In the Irish prisons no temptation whatever was held out to Roman Catholic prisoners to practise hypocrisy. But, in the English prisons, the case was very different, and there the Protestant chaplain alone was known to the law. In those prisons a Roman Catholic or a Presbyterian convict might ask for the services of a Roman Catholic or a Pres byterian clergyman, and his request would be complied. with ; but the only person whom it was his interest to con ciliate and from whom he could obtain a certificate of good conduct was the Church of England chaplain. That was a fact which appeared in the evidence of the Rev. Mr. Kings mill, the chaplain of the Pentonville prison. That rev. gentleman stated that many Roman Catholic prisoners entered their names as Protestants from a feeling that it would militate against their interests to have it known that they were Roman Catholics. He (Mr. Lucas) had further to state, that in the Government and the county gaols of Great Britain the Roman Catholics had no service on Sun days. This was a matter of extreme importance ; and as her Majesty's Government had taken the whole manage ment of the prisoners at home into their hands, he hoped the noble lord would assent to the claim which he now urged. (Hear.) Lord PALMERSTON assured the hon. gentleman he had no need of making apology for having brought this matter—one of great interest and deep importance—before the house. Ho had also to thank the hon. gentleman for the courtesy with which he had communicated his views to him (Lord Palmerston) in private on this subject. He begged to state, in the first place, that, with regard to the ditlerence to which the hon. gentleman adverted as exist ing between Roman Catholic and Protestant prisoners, it might be accounted for by the fact that the convicts in the colonies included all those who carne from Ireland as well as England. He (Lora Palmerston) had issued directions to the prisons to the effect that, upon the committal of a prisoner, he be immediately called upon to state what re ligion he belonged to, and that his declaration in reply thereto should be taken as an indication of his religion. Beyond that, he admitted that the prisoner who made the declaration ought to be made to know that nothing in re gard to his treatment in gaol would depend upon the par ticular religious persuasion to which he might belong. The prisoner would be equally sure of having religious instruc tion given him by the clergyman of his own creed ; and also the prisoner should know that all testimony as to his good conduct whilst in prison should proceed from his own religious instructor. (Hear.) What was their object in the treatment of prisoners ? Reformation as far as possible. How could that reform be effected if religious consolation were attempted to be given to men by the clergy of an op posite creed? (Hear.) If a man, a Catholic, on entering prison, called himself a Protestant, he commenced by hy pocrisy, and the man's heart was hardened a ga i ns t all in struction owing to the conflict he had to endure with his own previously imbibed opinions. (Hear.) Instruction to such a man was scattering seed on a sterile soil. In that way, the Catholic, instead of spending his time in receiv ing instruction, s pent it in theological controversy. (Hear.) It was evident they would defeat their own object if they did not give to persons of all religious denominations in struction in that shape, and coming from that quarter, which might render it most useful. (Hear.) The hon., gentleman (Mr. Lucas) had moved for certain returns, to which motion he (Lord Palmerston) readily acceded ; and he should further say he deemed it his duty to carry into effect those views which he had explained in reference to the Government prisons. (Hear.) There should be reli gious instruction given to the Catholic and Dissenter, as well as to the Protestant ; and the clergyman imparting that instruction should have the respect and reward at taching to the adequate discharge of those important duties. (Hear.) With regard to the county prisons he could not say that some legislative alteration might not be necessary. To what degree or extent the Secretary of State had control over them, at present he was not pre pared to say ; but, if necessary, legislation would be in troduced on the subject. (Hear.) He hoped that state ment would be satisfactory to the house. He thought they should not convert their gaols into proselytising schools, or arenas of theological controversy, but make them places for sound moral improvement. (Hear, hear.) Mr. J. BALL hoped the treatment of juvenile and adult inmates of English workhouses would not be overlooked, as they stood as much in need of spiritual instruction as the inmates of any of our gaols or prisons. The report was then agreed to. WAYS AND MEANS. After a few words from Col. NORTH, who thanked the right hon. gentlemen on the Treasury bench for the kindly manner in which they had acted towards the militia, The report was brought up and agreed to. METROPOLITAN SEWERSL. ACTS CONTINUANCE BIL On the motion for going into committee on this bill, Lord D. STUART wished to know whether it was pos sible for Parliament to continue that which had no existence? Lord PALMERSTON wished t ln o imo in fit f m o t r oa m ut h hine i t s oonmobnli woman e p f o r t i e e : I CI t w h oam t, s e n x i ce nto ptin m g ari th , e th tr e a r n e s w fo a rm s n at o io of Parliament. (Laughter.) Parliament, therefore, had power to continue that which had no existence. (Laugh ter.) He (Lord Palmerston) originally intended t o re strict the borrowing pow er to 500,0001.--nam e ly, 400,0001. in addition to the 100,0001. a l rea d y borrowed. ' Ir l. ow ever, on the representations of his hon. friends the me tropolitan members, he now proposed to diminish that sum by one-half—namely, 200,0001., exclusive of the 100,0001. already borrowed. The locality of the Hack ney-road was to be included in the improvements, but, owing to this reduction to the borrowing power several important works would have to be left untouched until next session. He now begged to move, " That it be an in struction to the committee that they have power to make provision in the Metropolitan Sewers Acts Continuance Bill as to monies borrowed, or to be borrowed, under the said acts." (Hear, hear.) Sir B. HALL complained that the noble lord had taken a course hardly just or fair to the people of the metropolis. The noble lord brought in his bill on the 14th of June, and it being understood that it was to be a m ere continuance bill, it was read a second time without opposition — n o person dreaming that it contained a borrowing what (Hear, hear.) He wished to inform the house wh . t as the history of this commission. In 1848 an act wa tub to abolish the commission of sewers, but an act_ , ~. 1 11 sequeutly passed to continue it for two yelFs e , c s• l ±..".„_ n _ the greatest dissatisfaction prevailed at _,ll. _ Turgreaw°' t ; and management of the commissionodit. as" , they had the proper had power of levying a tax upon power than almost any other similar th ....a power to levy . sterling, the amount of 1 9,500,000/. sterling, and the rate found that from of inspecting the not a single the part of the with annuallyrate- amounted to no less th o an n The honourable p oi a l y t e a r n s. y fewer oaf linterference p entry had been ml ceded to detail several important then procee gentleman the minutem month n b t h o o k o of f O t c h t e o l c i : i n . : l S; c E s te e °rt' b u3 o 2f o sni: k tydY' s ' °: . l7-815l , transac ti ons that of ad whch ken there place was f not the slighte commi st sinners of severs' h ta i beore and instanced in one the s case a sum minuteof 10,000/. w hich had been borrowed, a which the or memo randum, secretary could give no information whatever. This was the coniniissiou which had existed up to the present day, and which it was now proposed to continue for some further indefinite period. He reminded the house that the noble lord the member for Colchester had some time ago given a positive pledge that a bill would be brought in early in the present session for the purpose of doing away with the existing commission. It appeared that the debts and liabiliti es o f thi s c ommission had gone on gradually incr eas i ng, and now amounted to no less a sum than 174,186/. With regard to the expense of manage ment, that also had shown a regular progressive increase, until it had reached no less than 35 per cent. on the amount expended, But, at all events, they ought to see that the works executed, which had cost the public so large a sum, had been well executed. The present commission had executed only one great work, the Victoria sewer, and it HOUSE OF LORDS—(YESTERDAY.) BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.—THE NAVAL REVIEW. In reply to a question from the Earl of DONOUGII MORE, The Earl of ABERDEEN was understood to say that it was not considered necessary that the house should meet on Wednesday, and as the business for Thursday was only of the ordinary character, and was not likely to occupy much time or occasion discussion it was not proposed to adjourn over that day. LANDLORDS AND TENANTS IN IRELAND. The Duke of NEWCASTLE moved the second read ing of the Landlord and Tenant (Ireland) Bill, the Tenants' Improvement Compensation (Ireland) Bill, and the Leasing Powers (Ireland) Bill. In the course of a long speech explanatory of the objects of these measures, his grace chimed for them the support of the adherents of the Earl of Derby, on the ground that they had been introduced by his government, and expressed his assu rance that were the noble earl present he would not op pose them. He disclaimed any party object, or any other object than the welfare of Ireland, in introducing these measures, and entreated their lordships to allow them to pass the stage, not as a preliminary to passing them necessarily in their present form, but in order that they might have the full consideration of the house. The Marquis of CLANRICARDE urged the neces sity of postponing the bills until next year, on account of the many difficulties at present in their way—the late ness of the session and the necessity for attentive and deliberate consideration of their provisions. With re gard to the hills themselves, he urged various objections. Without opposing the second reading, he proposed that the bills should be referred to a select committee. The Earl of MALMESBURY would not object to going into committee on the two firstnamed bills, be cause they yet retained some of the spirit of Mr. Napier in their provisions, but he urged them to reject the third (the Leasing Powers), with which Mr. Napier had no thing to do, and which Mr. Napier condemned — as Lord Malmesbury showed by reading a letter from that gentleman. Lord RODEN condemned the bills generally and re commended the straightforward course of rejecting them altogether. The Earl of WICKLOW was for giving fair conside ration at any rate to the Leasing Powers and Landlord and Tenant Bills during the present session. Lord ST. LEONARDS, without denying that the late Government had intended to legislate for Ireland in the form proposed, maintained that the present state of the bills must now be taken into consideration. The Earl of ABERDEEN confessed that it was not without some concern that he observed the feeling which manifestly prevailed in the house on the subject of these bills. He had hoped that the time was come when, after the lapse of many years they had arrived at the point at which it would be possible to bring this difficult and ex citing question to a conclusion. There could be no doubt that these bills, whether they were or were not precisely so, were in fact substantially the same as those introduced by the late Government ; and this circum stance had naturally given him ground to expect that they would be readily brought to a successful conclusion. He perceived that the reverse was the case. He re gretted the feeling that evidently prevailed among the majority of their-lordships, but he assured them most ex plicitly that her Majesty's Government, in taking up these bills had no other desire than the benefit of Ireland. It appeared that the feeling was against them, and that being the case, he did not wish to press them. He would, therefore, accept the proposition made by the noble marquis, and he advised their lordships to concur with him in the second reading of these bills. If they agreed to that, he on his part, and on the part of the Govern ment, would undertake that, at an early period of next session, the whole subject should be taken into con sideration in their lor:lship's house, with the view of seeing whether it could not at last be settled. Mean while these bills should go no further. (Hear, hear.) Under these circumstances he would abstain from dis cussing their merits, and would merely observe, in con clusion, that he tho u g ht the p ro p osition made by the noble marquis should be accepted by their lordships, and especially now that they had the undertaking which he had given them. (Hear.) The Earl of MALMESBURY was as anxious as was the noble earl himself that at the earliest period of next session the question should be considered again, and that bills analogous to these should be brought forward. He would suggest that these bills and other important measures should be introduced into that house in the first instance, and that they should not be called upon to consider them at the end of the session. The Earl of RODEN declined to divide, and after a few remarks from the Earl of DONOUGHMORE, in approbation of the course the Government had taken, and expressing a hope that the question might in another session be satisfactorily settled, the Landlord and Tenant Bill was read a second time. The Duke of NEWCASTLE hoped the noble marquis did not intend to press his motion to refer the bills to a select committee as it was obvious no practical result could follow at this late period of the session. The Marquis of CLANRICARDE assented ; he was perfectly content with the arrangement suggested by the noble earl at the head of the Government. The other two bills—the Tenants Improvements Com pensation (Ireland) Bill, and the Leasing Powers (Ire land) Bill, were also read a second time on the under standing that all three bills were to be withdrawn for the present session. The Merchant Shipping Bill, and the Drainage of Lands (Ireland) Act Amendment Bill, were severally read a second time. INCUMBERED E TI TA ANCE ESTATES (IRELBILLJ.ND) ACT CON NU. - _ On the motion of the LORD CHANCELLOR, The Commons' amendment to this bill were agreed to, after a remark from the Earl of DONOUGHMORE, who objected to the alterat ion made in the second clause. The Poor Relief Act Continuance Bill was read a second time, as was also the Duties on Horses let for Hire Bill. The amendments to the General Board of Health (No. 3) Bill were reported and agreed to. NAVAL COAST VOLUNTEERS BILL. This bill passed through committee. LIBERATED AFRICANS BILL. This bill went through committee. LAND TAX REDEMPTION BILL. This bill passed through committee. NEWSPAPER STAMP BILL. This bill was read a third time and passed. CONSOLIDATED ANNUITIES BILLS. This bill was read a third time and passed. GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL. The report on this bill was brought up and agreed to. BELFAST MUNICIPAL BOUNDARIES BILL. This bill was read a third time and passed. REGISTRAR OF PRIVY COUNCIL BILL. This bill was read a third time and passed. CRIME AND OUTRAGE (IRELAND) BILL. This bill was read a third time and passed. DUBLIN CARRIAGES BILL. This bill went through committee. PASSENGERS ACT AMENDMENT BILL. This bill was read a second time. TURNPIKE ACT AMENDMENT (IRELAND) BILL. This bill passed through committee ; and The house adjourned at half-past 10 o'clock. INTREPIDITY OF THE HAWK.—One instance of the daring intrepidity of the hawk, when pressed by hunger, occurred at the parochial school-house at Maderty, one day last week. It happened while a favourite canary was enlivening his auditors with his native song, that a hawk darted with the speed of lightning through a pane of glass in the kitchen window, to the dismay of three tailors, who were busily plying their avocation in close proximlty. The bold intruder, however, missed his aim, and with the broken glass, fell with a sudden clash into a tailor's lap. It would be difficult to determine whether the hawk or the tailors were most surprised by this unexpected occurrence. One of the tailors in an instant sprang to his feet with that elasticity for which his fraternity is remarkable, while another gave utterance to certain un earthly sounds, indicative of expiring nature ; the third had scarcely time to unplait his legs when the noise reached the ears of other domestics in an adjoing apart ment, which caused them to rush to the scene of action, and who, when they beheld the uproarious confusion, at once concluded it to be " the de il among the tailors," until the cause of their excitement was discovered en deavouring to retrace his way through the shattered window. He was, however, speedily secured, but not until he had broken other two panes of glass in attempt ing to make his escape.—Pertle Courier. SINGULAR CASE OF LOCKJAW.—A man died at Led bury, on Tuesday week, under rather remarkable cir cumstances. Freeman, the constable, was on duty in the market about 11 o'clock, when his attention was called to a man named D. Jones, who was standing bythe side of his cart, containing potatoes, peas, and beans, which he had brought for sale. When the constable went up to him he was in the act of recovering a halfpenny from the inside of his cart, in order to give change to a woman, who first give intimation as to his condition, and was groan ing badly. The poor fellow told Freeman that he had had a stroke, and in something like ten minutes he became insensible. What followed was thus detailed to the coroner, on Thursday, when an inquest was held at the union workhouse :—" I at once ran for Mr. Griffin, the surgeon, and in the hurry I saw Mr. Dunn, surgeon, coming down the street, and he came to him. He at first did not think him in danger. He had a little water, and afterwards Mr. Dunn ordered a draft from Mr. Meacham, the druggist ; but he could not take it ; his jaws were closed. By Mr. Dunn's directions, I took him up to the union house, where the body now lies. Mr. Dunn told me it was a case of lock-jaw, and that it was a very bad case. As soon as the deceased was conveyed up here Mr. Lewis, the union doctor, saw him. He told me there was no chance of his recovery. lam of opinion that as soon as the deceased was taken with lock jaw he became insensible. The deceased, after he was taken ill, said, 'Oh ! Lord, kill me ! ' and his last words were, Oh, God ! ' (three times). Deceased seemed to have a second attack, when his jaw became closed and he be came insensible. His eyes were almost closed." The jury found "That the deceased died by the sudden visi tation of God."—Gloucester Chronicle. CURIOUS SITUATIONS FOR THE NESTS OF BIRDS.— In one of the flower baskets on my lawn (the bark having cracked a nd become partially separated from the wood), a blue titmouse has profited by the opening ; and, passing throug h a p assa g e of some length behind the bark, has found sufficient room for its nest, and is rearing its young successfully. In the neighbouring church of Buttermere a wren has filled one of the divisions of a window with its cosey domicile, and is sitting on its eggs at a distance of not more than 2 feet from the elbow of the preacher when in his pulpit. But the most curious situation for a nest is the following : In the garden of a neighbour, a lady had placed a flower pot over a patch of sweet peas ; and on removing it, to ascertain the progress of the flowers, was surprised by the sudden escape of a bird from within. It appeared that a titmouse (the Parus major, Joe Bent, or Ux-eye) had entered through the bole at the top of the i n verted flower-pot ; had formed a nest on th e ground • an d was then sitting on ten eggs ! The bird subse quently became accustomed to visit ors , and would allow the flower-pot to be tilted, so th a t she might be seen on her eggs within. The nest i s now fill e d with eight or nine little tits ; and it would be a matter of curiosity to watch how, in the first instance, they will escape OM from their confinement, as som e s kill and accuracy of movement must be necessary in order to pass through the only outlet, the small hole, which is some nine or ten inches above, and which is only just large enough for the passage of the pareut.—Kidd's Journal from Nature. HOUSE OF COMMONS--(YESTERDAY., SUPPLY.—REPORT. The report of supply was brought up, and the various votes were read at the table. THE SUPPLY OF RUM IN THE NAVY. On the vote for the Naval Coast Volunteers, Mr. F. FRENCH said he wished to ask the right hon. baronet the First Lord of the Admiralty whether he could assign any reason why rum s hould be the only spirit se lected for consumption in the navy ? In the ”arnlB4tol one ex t ra ordinary preference which wa s thus g ive article of colonial produce had been brought under the no tice of the House of Commons ; and the Admiralty autho rities had then given the house and the public reason to understand that they were about to introduce some other spirits besides rum for the use of British sailors. Since that time, however, the question had not a g ain been mooted.. It was certainly a very surprising fact that free-trade Minis tries, which had carried the principle of unrestricted com petition so far as to accept tend ers for supplying the Bri tish navy with foreign beef,. pork, and bread, had endea voured to prop up the colonial monopoly in supplying the same navy with rum. The parties whose interests he was then advocating did not ask the Board of Admiralty to take British spirits at a higher rate or of a worse quality than the colonial spirit. On the contrary, they con tended that they would supply a better article at a lower price. An application had lately been made to the board to the effect that sailors in the royal navy should have the same privilege extended to them in that m atter which was enjoyed by sailors in the mercantile nav y, and that they should be allowed to use rum, ( r o ther spirits, just as they themselves might prefer. 111t)it that application had been met by a decided refusal , and immediately after it h a d b een ma d e a con t rac t had been entered into for the supply of 30,000 gallons of rum for the Royal navy, and there was at present a contract be fore the public for the supply o f an a dditi ona l quantity . He had been informed th a t th e s pi r it w hi c h was supplied to the Royal navy was what was called " the sweepings"sat t h e rate of the rum in the ma r k e t, an d th a t it h a d been sold of 2s. id., while the price of good rum varied from 2s. 8d to 3s. But e ven a t th e p r i ce o f 2 s . ld ., he believed that better article could be obtained from the manufacturer of British spirits. It was evident that the public in general preferred British spirits to rum ; for while the annual consumption of the former in the United Kingdom amounted to 24,000,000 of gallons, the annual consumption of the latter amounted to only 4,000,000 of gallons. He wished to know whether the right hon. baronet could offer any explanation of the course taken by the Admiralty upon that subject, and also whether he would have any objection to lay before the house the correspondence which had taken place with respect to it between the Board of Admiralty and the representatives of the distillers of the United Kingdom ? Sir J. GRAHAM said he should plead ignorance of t he meaning of the term sweep i ngs ' , of rum, to therefore, give gentleman had referred, - and he could Totlefurfthei,r give any explanation upon that point. say, that he doubted whether that question had had been put to him in consequence of the existoefritcneeoßf Royal Navy,dee ort promote the comfort of the sailors . in a desire to promote whether it had not had its origin the interests of the distillers ao(fithelUonniteedalinegrdtoomßeutot, however that might be,.he h h at w o aa n y that it was the opinion I, the bon. gentleman, 4 of the Board of Admairnalty orth attoitthwe oduialdeipnlionteboefctohneduinceivne, to the good that therd shoofulthdeb M t's ships. There was, service,an issue of more than one description n board of her aies y of spiritsbut one kind of spirit distributed on board those therefore, • • a de but once a day, at a n that distribution was m sird Then came the question of what that spirit o'clock. HEALTH OF LONDON DU.RING THE WEEK, ( From the Registrar-General's Report. ) The number of deaths registered last week in the - metropolis wag 991 ;in the previous week it was 1004. E In corresponding weeks of the years 1843-52, exclusive of that in 1849 (when cholera raised the total mortality of the week to 1909), the numbers ranged from 801 to 1135. With the exception of the infant part of the population, who suffer as usual at this season, the health of London appears to be comparatively good. In the returns of fatal diseases the chief feature is the progress of diarrhcea. The deaths referred to this complaint in the last 6 weeks are 28, 34, 54, 73, 81, and 110. Of the 110 persons to whom it was fatal 64 were males, 46 were females ; and of the whole number 78 were children under one year. Only two children died last week of small-pox ; only 16 of measles (though in the previous week the number was 34) ; while 33 died of scarlatina --showing an increase of 10 on the previ ous week's return. Mr. Jordon, registrar of the Belgrave sub-district (St. George, Hanover-square), who registered the death of one child from dysentery, and that ,of another from diarrhcea, states that dysentery of an obstinate form prevails among children in his district. The following four deaths from cholera were registered in the week : In the sub-district of St. Mary, Marylebone, at 4, Paradise -buildings, on 6th August, the son of a shoe maker, aged 12 months, " cholera infant= (2 days)." In the west sub-district of Greenwich, in Albion street, on 2d August, the son of an engineer, aged one year, " cholera infantum (4 days)." In the workhouse, Bishopsgate, on 31st July, the widow of a tin-plate worker , a g ed 77 years, died of " choleraic diarrhcea (13 days), fever (10 days.)" At 5, Queen's-road, Holloway, on 4th August, the son of a labourer, aged 8 weeks, " cholera infantum (60 hours)." At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29.876 in. The reading of the barometer decreased from 29.85 in. at the beginning of the week t o 29.69 in. by 9 h. p.m. on August Ist ; increased to 29.86 in. by 9 h. a.m. on the 3d ; remained at this reading with slight variation till 3 h. p.m. on the 4th ; increased to 30.08 in. by 9 h. a.m. on the 6th ; and decreased to 30.03 in. by the end of the week. The mean temperature of the week was 61.6 deg., which is slightly below the average of the same week in 38 years. The highest temperature occurred on Monday, and was 77 deg. ; the lowest was 46.5 deg., and occurred on Friday. The greatest difference be tween the dew point temperature and air temperature was 18 deg. on Monday ; the least 1.2 deg. on Wednes day ; the mean difference of the week was 10.2 deg. The highest temperature of the water of the Thames was 65.2 deg. on Thursday and Friday. The wind was in the south-west on the first three days ; on Wednesday it changed to south ; it was afterwards in the north, and calm. MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS. ....-- - NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IN THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, AUGUST 6. Zymotic Diseases Diseases of Uncertain Seat Tubercular Diseases Diseases of the Brain. Nerve s, and Senses ll9 Diseases of the Heart and B lood-vessels 27 Diseases of the Lungs and other Organs of 97 Respiration Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs 71 of Digestion Diseases of the Kidneys , &c. Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus &c. Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles 1 Diseases of the Skin, &c. 2 Malformations Premature Birth and Debili t y 32 41 . 22 Atrophy Old Age , 4 Sudden Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance 23 Causes not specified DEATHS EBO3I ALL CAUSES .. --- . Population Deaths in corre- Deaths Enumerated. sponding week in the IsM of 18 . 'i2. Week West Districts ...... 376,427 13 141 North Districts ...... 490,396 Central Districts 393,256 East Districts 485,522 267 South Districts ...... 616,635 - - 2,362,236 Totals Males Females 1,124 BIRTHS IN THE WEEK. Males Females Total Loss OF THE EAST INDIAMAN THE CITY Of POONAH.- This fine vessel, one of Mr. Green's, of Blackwall, has been recently wrecked on the beach off Saugor, about 95 miles from Calcutta. She left that port early in May, on her homeward passage to England, with a rich cargo on board aril several passengers ; and on her arrival near the Saugor Lighthouse, near the entrance of the Hooghly, she brought up some distance from the shore. The weather at the time was particularly fine, scarcely a breath of wind stirring, the ship riding apparently in perfect safety. About midnight, however, there came upon the vessel a tremendousrolling sea, which swept her from her anchors, and before the pilot who was on deck at the time was aware of any danger, the ship was actually carried high up on to the beach, where the waters left her. Neither the crew nor passengers sustained the least in jury. According to the last accounts received by Mr. Green, there appears to be not the slightest probability of the ship ever being got off, unless carried off by such an extraordinary action of the waters that swept the City of Poonah on. She was freighted with a most valuable cargo, consisting of 750 chests of indigo, 68 bales of raw silks, 2,700 pieces of silk goods, 6,219 bags of saltpetre, 3,769 bags of sugar, 2,095 bags of jute, 468 bags of shellac, and a vast quantity of other articles, the produce of the East Indies, in all, value it is said of upwards of 100,0001. It is understood that the whole of it will be saved. The City of Poonah was rated nearly 1,000 tons burthen, and has made some rapid passages be tween London and Calcutta, She was uninsured. VIOLATION AT 111ISSON.—A shocking case of cruelty occurred at Misson, a small agricultural village in North Nottinghamshire, on Thursday evening last, which is likely to terminate fatally. During the hay harvest a girl aged 15 years, the daughter of a poor labourer re siding in the village, had been : employed. in making hay along with three men in a field id Misson. On the eve ning in question, about seven o'clock, two of the men had occasion to leave the hayfield with a load of hay which they were taking to the stackyard, and thus the girl and the accused (George Smith), a labourer, were left there alone. After they had been gone a short time Smith proceeded to take improper liberties with her, which she resolutely struggled to resist. He kicked her violently, threw her upon the ground, and committed the offence with which he now stands charged. On the return of the two men to the field, the poor creature was found lying upon the grass in a state of insensibility, and her clothes torn almost off her back. She was im mediately removed home, and Mr. Nelson and Mr. Slater, surgeons, were called in. After some medicine had been administered to her she in a short time rallied, and the facts of the case were briefly, but with great dif ficulty, extracted from her, she being scarcely able to speak. Smith was immediately a pprehended, and taken before Mr. James Lee, one 'of the magistrates at East Retford, and rema nded to a future day, to await the issue of the girl's fate. She had not been able to eat, sleep, or stand since the occurrence, up to Monday, and no hopes whatever are en tertained as admits that he threw her upon the ground, but denies the com mission of the cap ital offence ; hut the evid against him is perfect and incontrovertible, there having been no one in the field at the time besides himself and his un fortunate victim. FATAL ACCIDENT.—An accident of a frightful nature happened on the 21st ult., which proved fatal to a young child, aged five years, the son of Mr. P. Williams, Ynyssau, Pumpsaint, in this county. It seems that on the day in question he was playing with another child in a garden at Dolan Cothi mill. In a short time after they went to the garden, a little girl, the miller's daugh ter, ran to her father and told him that the little boy was un der the grindstone. Without losing any time he hastened to turn the water off the wheel that worked the grindstone ; and on proceeding to the spot he found the deceased between the grindstone and the wheel, the stone broken in two places. The unfortunate boy was taken out, but the vital spark had fled. A corone trhe 's inquest wa s held on the body the following day, at Dolau Cothi Arms, before S. P. Lewis, Esq., coroner, and a respectable jury. Verdict, "Accidental death." —Carmarthen, Journal. NEW PATENT LOCK.—A new lock peculiarly appli cable for banking purposes is stated to have been in vented and patented - by Mr. Francis Whishaw. It is urn an entirely new principle, electro-magnetism being the agent employed, so that very great security is con sidered to be gained, without the multiplicity of parts of which most other locks are composed. The most simple form of the invention is a plate of soft iron at tached to the door, which when shut is in contact with the poles of an electro-magnet, the fastening and open ing of the lock being effected by the making and break ing of the circuit, and any number of locks throughout a house may be secured or opened at the same instant. — Times. BRADSHAW'S RAILWAY GUlDE—lmproved / —lt is worthy of the especial notice of all travellers nowa days that their old "guide, philosopher, and friend," Bradshaw, has come forth in its new number (the instal ment for this current month of August) with the merit of a most appreciable and really long-desired improve ment. This improvement we may at once briefly remark has reference to the time table department. It facili tates to the traveller in quite a remarkable manner the connection of the various junctions with the main lines, and their different branches. And so easily ! The ar rangement being simply effected by numbers introduced in the station columns of the pages—these numbers n i of any Brad shaw eneone's comprehension. will explain having reference (by page) to divers connections with other lines, thereby pointing out each route continuous l y . A glance noticeable as not the least n thisTh el clearlycnh cae change a ,e t thei: on the e w instantunb e to among our recent railway imprevements. St. St. St. St. 1 5 Z 10 20 20 20 20 10 20 10 20 68 71 8 sst. 73i 29i 9 101 11 89 77 i 11f 102 i 115 k 14* 89 ma 130I 30 20 71i i i 1 2 3 57 i P 30 3 3 - 9 52 - 54 31 --- 2 d 1 33 i i p 93 9 „ 5 61 - po 60 62 69 'a il _. pis 18 20 9 10 131 —14 i 19 -20 id 714 72.3 35 —3 6 i 13 .- 14 2 .. -: ii 2i 2i 14f - -8; .1 - 32 - 10 69 70 7id 24 lid GO 61 21i 51 501 95 li 2 353. 47"2 (,701. r,31.1 t er ea ly 6 ' Tb° 1851, 1