The Sun. — London, England, 1847-06-15 00:00:00

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Proprietor and Manager. Mr. William Batty. railer the patronage of the Queon, Prince Albert, and the - Royal Family. Spiv did eorrilination of Novelties, in addition to which Mr. Batty km engaged Mdlle. Laurina, the Female Equestrian. THIS EVENING ('rirat appearance of Mr. Nast, late of this Amphitheatre.) pill be pre‘sented a gorgeous Peruvian Drama, to illustrate the historical events of the Spaniards' conquest of Peru, arranged from the original text of Brins'ey Sheridan's play of " Pizarro," entitled THE STORMING OF QUITO ; or, the Warrior of the Sun. Rolla, Wr. W. West. Uneorialled SCENES in the CIRCLE, with a brilliant display of Illers•atr.snihip, introducing the Foreign and British Artistes. ' To conclude with the Equestrian Magical Sketch, THE GOLDEN row ND STEED; or, The Charmed Horse of the Black Valley. Stage Manager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot. .f.s.; Boxes, 45.; tipper Boxes, 3s ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is.; Upper Gallery, 6d. Commence every evening at Seven o'clock, TO CORRESPONDENTS. In reply to a Correspondent in the Isle of Wight, we beg to observe that no actual decline took place in the value of Wheat at Mark-lane on Friday last. THE WEATHER.—SuN OFFICE, JuNs 15. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 49 ; Highest, 66 ; Noon, 59, BAROMETER, 29.6.—W1ND.5.W.; heavy showers. lIIdH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning .. 16 minutes after 3. I Evening .. 34 minutes after 3. privileges. The speech of the Right Hon. THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY is the eloquent vindication of the Government. The intelligence which we published yesterday from America, in regard to the prominent political topic, the Mexican war, entirely corresponds in its character to the prediction we made some time since touching the probable issue of the belligerent opera tions then being carried on in that unfortu nate country. Divided in their councils, with an army badly disciplined, and destitute of the most ordi nary means requisite to ensure success, the Mexican forces have, in every pitched battle with their enemies, sustained throughout successive defeats. The ordi nary tactics of war have been consequently aban doned ; all further resistance to the invaders will be based upon the guerilla system. Of all methods of warfare this is the most frightful. When fanned by the flame of patriotism, it drags its slow length along, with its invariable adjuncts of indiscriminate mas sacre and heartless and wholesale plunder, without producing any decisive result, unless, indeed, the power of the invader be overwhelming, his judgment and energy of a superior character, and the union among his forces unequivocally firm. The armies of the United States are far from commensurate in strength to the object they seek to attain—the virtual subjugation of the immense territory of Mexico ; and the American Generals are already feeling the serious inconve nience of being deserted by large numbers of their volunteers at the critical moment when they require a judicious concentration of all their available strength to pursue their progress triumphantly to wards the Mexican capital. Union, the chief ele ment of success, is therefore wanting to them ; and though they will, in all probability, possess them selves of the metropolis, it will be then that they will find the commencement of their real difficulties. Then only will they learn the force of the saying, le commencement de la fin. SANTA ANNA. and CA NALES have issued proclamations, commanding the male population, from 12 to 50 years of age, to range themselves into guerilla bands for the purpose of putting to the sword every American, of whatever age or condition, wherever and whenever he may be discovered within the frontiers of the Mexican coun try. The Americans will, of course, retaliate in the same way, and the utmost horrors be mutually perpetrated. A reign of terror will super vene. Insubordination and plunder have marked the proceedings of the American volunteers, who, satiated with their predatory gains, and their term of service being expired, are flying homewards, after having created the bitterest feelings of revenge by the cruelties they have practised. Meanwhile the Mexican Congress are averse to all overtures for peace, and have, it is said, rejected a proposition for requesting the mediation of England for terminating the war. This argues confidence on their side that the Americans will yet regret the unprincipled inva sion they have made, in consequence of the detestation in which their conduct is held throughout the Mexi can provinces. Should the war not be speedily concluded, Mr. POLK will be called to a severe account at the re-opening of Congress. The origin of the dispute being so disgraceful in itself, the cost already incurred, and the immense outlay that would be required to secure anything like a decent military occupation of the conquered country, would constitute national evils of sufficient magnitude to induce Jonathan himself to re-consider his ways. The sympathies of Europe are with the Mexicans. Any reverses which may await the policy of America in the prosecution of this war, would be regaided as a just retribution for as iniquitous a proceeding as ever was taken by one nation towards another. Were any country, or colony, desirous of manual labour for the purpose of developing its resources, to apply to any well-organized State to supply their defi ciency, and to receive a reply that they were welcome to numerous bodies of convicted felons which they were yearly in the habit of transporting to some portion or other of their remote possessions, there can be little doubt that the country or colony would feel itself not only averse to embrace the offer, but insulted by such a proposal. People would naturally, and in stinctively dread the contaminating evils that would inevitably attend any attempt to supply their want of labour from such polluted sources ; and yet how op pressive would it not appear if the mother country should insist upon its colony receiving, mien.; volew, the scum and criminal dregs of its own population. Such, however, is actually the course which hrtmane and enlightened England has pursued unchecked for years ! Viewed in the abstract, every nation is bound to punish, and particularly to reform, its law-breakers in the best way it can within its own territories. It has no right to palm off upon another the offscourings of its criminal besom ; and this remark becomes all the more consonant with justice when it is re membered that the amount of crime is, in every country, more or less attributable to bad laws and gross neglect, on the part of the State, towards the wants, physical and intellectual, of the humbler classes, which always constitute the great body of the community at large. Are we ourselves free from such imputations ? Assuredly not ; and that this is the truth is fully borne out by the anxious desire at length evinced to contribute in a variety of ways to the promotion of the educational and moral neces sities of the people, and to introduce an extensive reform in our prison discipline. For though it has been sufficient to punish, the State has entirely failed to correct or improve the moral condition of the prisoner, when he is thrown back upon society at the expira tion of his term of incarceration. The contrary is notoriously the fact, viz., that in consequence of the absence of proper buildings, and regulations essential to a due classification of prisoners conformable to their respective degrees of mental turpitude, the last state of the prisoner has always been found to be worse than the first. Our system has been in this wise : we have first been neglectful, and then we have been severe, and not only so, but we have exercised our severity in the most selfish manner towards other and unoffending communities. We have inverted the order of nature, and violated the first principles of humanity. We have suffered people to grow up in poverty and ignorance; crime has followed, extreme punishments have been resorted to, and, to wind it all up, we have sent the felons by ship loads to become a contaminating curse to lands whose inhabitants, because they are so remote, should, as subject to the British Crown, be treated with greater circumspec- tion and national solicitude for their future welfare. Captain MACONOCIIIE, R.N., has just informed us, in a pamphlet, of the system he pursued whilst in com mand as superintendent of the penal settlement of Norfolk Island. When he first went there, the ap pearance of the convicts he describes to have been the most demoniacal looking that could possibly be con ceived. In three years he completely changed the condition of the convicts, to the astonishment of the Governor himself, Sir G. GIPPS. He gives a general outline of the plan he successfully adopted in the fol lowing terms : ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Cadet th. Management of Mrs. Frances Davidge, Lessee. THIS EVENING " Besides introducing most imperfectly my own sys tem of management among them (for my marks never had a fixed value towards liberation assigned them, which could alone make their accumulation really im portant), I sought generally by every means to recover Me men's self respect, to gain their own wills towards their reform, to visit moral offences severely, but to reduce the number of those that were purely con ventional, to mitigate the penalties attached to these, and thus gradually awaken better and more enlightened feelings among both officers and men. I built two churches—got a catechist added to the establisnment to assist the chaplain—almost every Sunday during all my four years read the service myself, with a sermon at some one or other out-station—established schools—dis tributed books—gave prizes for assiduity—was un wearied myself in my counsels and exhortations wher ever I went—and went everywhere, alone and un attended, showing confidence, and winning it in return. I also gave every m an a sma ll garden, which was a boon to the industrious, but none to the idle." SI • W 1 Ibe presented Auber's opera, entitled FRA DIAVOLO. Lord Alleash. Mr. Herucastle ; Fra Diavolo, Mr. Harrison ; Zerlina, Miss itainforth. ♦RQr Whleh Dtbdin's eemedietta of THE QUAKER. Steady, Mr. L der; Lubin, Mr. lorncastle • Gillian, Miss Isaacs. To , onslude with the nautical drama of 1111,1k2E•EYED SUSAN. WWI tre, Mr. Scott; Rlue Peter, Mr. florncastle ; Susan, Mrs. H. Vtuti,g ; Dolly Mayflower, Miss Terrey. lt^'•ca.ca. 4 ~ P lt , 1 3.; Gallery, 6d. Doors open at Slx, commence a ns, t•pr Rt ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. THIS EVENING Sill be p•rformed a THIS EVENING by Timbal], called JANE PAUL , ; or,,,the Victim of Perisecutimona M Jana Paul, Miss Vincent ; , r. Bird ; Hedzehog noel Faul, J ack, Mr. Mlc Mr. IIIcka; Necker, After WitiLlß THE SPECTRE BRIL;EOTtOOM, eoriclUcie with the celebrated drama of TILE SLAVE. Gambia, m r ni c ks; Ze li ntia, Boroughcliffe. • jo ",, li.; Half Price, 6d. Pit, 6d. ; G a ll ery, 34. ROYAL. SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS trifler the patronage of her 3lstjesty, his Royal Hlghttam p rince Albert, the Queen Dowager, Sce, t)pest every 3fornt, Tuesday, Wednesday , and Thursday. .nission, One Shilling. TlintD VIZIZIE OF M. JULLIEN'S ENGAGEMENT. No Extra Charge ! TIIIS EVENING, Juno 15. Th - Pre l r has mush p l ea sure in announci n g to the Subscribers, op Anat. urs ustc, andthe public, that he has succeeded in resengag. XP* M. JUL ,Ilsr_t and the Principal Solo Performers of his unrivalled 'AM, iiaeluding Richardson, Baumann, Barret, La zarus, Prospers, 001411,t, mind Her liconli, for a limited number of nightections. Wh hick, with with Nis. 130/SFREY'S Splendid Band, aided by a sel tbe principal bands in the Metropolis, will form an orchestra of One Nattered Performers. Th, proprietor begs to announco that he has, at a considerable si t owie, erected a new Entrance, and a magnificent Walk, with ftower borders, statues, and a Central Fountain, in front of the Rape' Pictorial Representation of icier TOWS AND BAT OF GIBRALTAR. Ttw managTxie sontains many specimens, including the Giraffe, Galata, &a. Tho Pwmenade Concerts, conducted by G o df re y. A Mmimitotic' al the Porcelain Tower of Nantin. The G o thi c Bridge ugs. The grand Pyrotechnic Display, representing the SIEGE OF GIBRALTAR. ighow•-ig the commencement of the Bombardment, partial destruc -000 st the Town, and Blowing up of the uttering Very much of what Captain MICONOCHIE en forced in Norfolk Island to reform the convicts should be pursued in this country by adequate insti tutions. Once imbue with self-respect, and you do more than anything else to lay the axe at the root of crime. When, however, crime is nevertheless per petrated, we should endeavour to reclaim the criminal in the manner above adverted to. And seeing that the Government have evinced their anxiety to establish their convict discipline upon a similar basis, we hope and believe that the results will prove commensurate with the humanity and wisdom by which their efforts are at present characterised. Madrid papers of the Bth have arrived. - The Faro states that a plan had been formed to THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 15, 1847. organize a Carlist outbreak on a large scale in all the provinces of Spain. The plans of the Carlists have, however, been effectually thwarted by the arrest of General ALzoe at Bayonne. It is rumoured that negotiations have been entered into with the KING, the object of which is to induce him to join the QUEEN at La Granja. Letters from Catalonia state that the sudden return of General PAVIA to Barcelona was caused by the discovery of a Carlist conspiracy in that city. Since his return seven persons have been arrested and con fined in the citadel. MADRID BOURSE, JUNE B.—Three per Cents., 30-1 ; Five per Cents., 18i. Exchange on London, 49f. 10c. We have received the Paris papers of Sunday. A second edition of the Commerce states that Queen CHRISTINA had just arrived in Paris. The Journal des Debats states that the Committee on the affair of M. EMILE DE GIRARDIN were to meet on Monday to consider the report of LA VILLE, that the report would be printed and distri buted to the Deputies on Tuesday, and discussed in the public sitting of the Chamber on Thursday. The National expresses a hope that the debate on the affairs of Portugal will not be permitted to pass over without a demand for explanations from M. GuizoT on the subject of the contemplated interven tion of France in the affairs of Switzerland. "In says b th e e p N re a v t e i n o te na d i, and we must repeat " the designs of th e S Switzerland, " i tz Ministerserl a nd m ay ,yet how important it is to the honour and the interests of France that the Chamber should interpose to detach M. GuizoT from the policy of Austria." After denouncing the intervention in Portugal, the National proceeds :—" But intervention in Switzer land would be treason and infamy of, if possible, a deeper dye. The guilt of this intervention is aggra vated by everything that is culpable in the choice of accomplices. What the Minister dares to accomplish in Switzerland is to act in concert with Austria to forward the views and promote the interests of the Absolutist Powers. Is it not suf ficiently disgraceful to have delivered to the Cabinets of 'Vienna and of St. Petersburgh, Poland, Cracow, and Switzerland ? It is impossible that the Chambers, whatever may be their composition, can permit M. GUIZOT to force France openly to enter into this Holy Alliance of hangmen." The report of M. RENOUARD on the Cubieres affair was to be read in the Chamber of Peers, and distributed among the Members on Monday. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, JUNE 14. East Indian, 1 / B —Namur and Liege, 3 % - -Nortbern o France, 12—Orleans and Bordeaux, 64—Paris and Stras bourg, 4%—West Flanders, 33%. HOUSE OF LORDS.-(THIS DAY.) Their Lordships sat in a Committee for Privileges to-day. The Peers in attendance were, the Lord Chan cellor, the Earl of Shaftesbury, Lord Brougham, the Marquis of Bute, Viscount Strangford, the Earl of Radnor, and Lord Sudeley. plained the law to the jury, they, after a few minutes' consideration, found a verdict for the defendant. BANKRUPTCY.-(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Commissioner HoLaoYD.) DEEDS OF COMPOSITION AND DANIERUPTCY.—IN RE CLA- RIDGE. This bankrupt, who hadcarried on business as a wine merchant in Southampton-row, came up for his certifi cate. Mr. LAWRANCE, who appeared on behalf of the bank rupt, said that although the debts appeared in the sche dule to be very heavy, yet, as regarded 6,9001., they could hardly be deemed debts. In 1844, Mr. Claridge, finding himself to be in difficulties, made an assignment of all his property to trustees for the benefit of his cre ditors, and under that deed the busines was dis posed of, and the estate paid 13s. in the pound, but as Mr. Claridge had not got a release from his creditors it had been deemed advisable that the dif ference between the 13s. and the 20s. in the pound should be put to the bankrupt's debt. It was clear that the creditors were at that time satisfied with the bat k rupt's conduct, and not one of those creditors or as signees appeared to oppose. Ile (Mr. Lawrence), there fore, had with confidence to submit that this was a case in which his Honour would feel it just to allow the certificate. his Ilortouß said that, although there was no opposi tion, there was matter on the face of the balance-sheet which precluded him from granting the certificate in stanter—the bankrupt's expense; had been treble the amount of his means. Mr. LAWRANCE said that, unfortunately for the bank- rupt, he had entered into the assignment. Under a bankruptcy it would hare been different. The expenses, certainly, were high, but not higher than the bankrupt thought justifiable, for he had joined a Mr. Day ; but as it was a matter of doubt how far the old debts might be brought against him, it was deemed advisable that he should only appear in the capacity of clerk, although, at the same time, he was, in fact, to receive his share of the profits, which ho might reasonably anticipate to have been 1,0001. a year ; but circumstances overturned his hopes. A tradesman opposed for a small debt of 6/. ; and another, who was a creditor for 350/. under the same circumstances, said he sympathised with the bankrupt, who, he thought, had been painfully deceived in his expectations. His HONOUR said that, notwithstanding what had been urged in favour of the bankrupt, he could not grant the certificate immediately, and must suspend it for six months. Mr. LAIVRANCE—Under :the circumstances, there being no opposition, your Honour will grant protection? His HONOUR—For a month, with liberty to apply again. CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY OLD COURT. (Before the REcoaDER,) Currixo AND WOUNDING..—James Loftus Brock, aged 57, a lieutenant on half-pay, was placed at the bar, charged with feloniously cutting and wounding Ann hi s wife, with intent to do her some grievous bodily harm. The principal witnesses against the prisoner were his wife and two sons, by whom the offence was fully proved. The prisoner, who displayed considerable acumen through out the examination of the witnesses, at the conclusion of the evidence, made an incoherent statement, and spoke a great deal concerning St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans. The RECORDER summed up, and The jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty, on the ground of insanity. The prisoner was ordered to be confined during her Ma jesty's pleasure. MARLBRO'-STREET-(THIS DAY.) Richard Bermingham, a diminutivive urchin about twelve years of age, was placed at the bar charged with stealing seven pounds of flour, the property of the go vernors and directors of the poor of the parish of St. George's, Hanover-square. William Sullivan, task-master at St. George's Work kouse, stated that the prisoner was an inmate of the workhouse. On Saturday last he received information that some flour had been stolen from the bakehouse, and that the prisoner and another boy, who has since ab sconded, had been seen with a bag of flour in their pos session. An inquiry was instituted, which led to the flour being discovered concealed in the coal-box, in the tailors' shop. The prisoner was then given into custody. James Filby,`a pauper employed in the tailors' shop, proved finding the bag of flour produced, concealed in the coal•box amongst the coals. William Mills and John Rust, inmates of the work house, proved seeing the prisoner coming from the bake house with the flour in his possession, they followed him to the tailors' shop, and saw him conceal it in the coal box. The prisoner denied taking the flour, the other boy took it, and gave it to him to hide away. Mr. BINGHAM committed him to the House of Cor• rection for one month, with hard labour. Benjamin Kebble was charged with assaulting Mr. Thomas Medhurst, 1, Denmark-street, Soho. It appeared that on the previous night the complainant was walking up the Quadrant, when the defendant rushed from behind one of the pillars, and, without the least provocation, struck him a violent blow on bis chest. The defendant was proceeding to further acts of violence, when a constable arrived and put a stop to his pranks by taking him into custody. Police-constable Mould 123, said be was on duty in the Quadrant on the preceding night, when his atten tion was called to the defendant, who was annoying every person that passed. Witness watched him, and seeing him strike the complainant, took him into custody. _ _ A friend of defendant's informed the magistrate that the defendant was not right in his mind, and had lately been discharged from St. Luke's Hospital. Mr. BINGHAM said the defendant must find two sure ties to keep the peace for three months. THAMES.—(THIS DAY.) William Balls, a cab driver, and Margaret Balls, were charged with having attempted a felony and with assaulting the police in the execution of their duty. Police•constable H 199, stated that last night he was on duty at Cannon•street-road, St. George-in-the• East, and as he was passing the Red Lion Tavern, he was in formed by a Mr. Jervis, a respectable cheesemonger, re siding in the Commercial-road, that the two prisoners whom he pointed out had attempted to pick the pockets of an old man who was drunk standing outside the tavern. Witness went up and told them to go away and leave the old man alone. They declared they would not let him go, and when he endeavoured to sepa rate them from the old man, they attacked and kicked him severely, but another constable coming up they were ultimately conveyed to the station-house. This evidence was corroborated by H 18, who as sisted in taking them into custody. He added that Mr. Jervis was not present. Mr. BALLANTINE said he should remand the case till Thursday next, and directed the officers to take two summonses to require the attendance of Mr. Jervis and the old man. He inquired if the prisoners were known? Roach (the gaoler) said the woman had been at this court before, charged with having attempted to stab the man ; and the man had also been in custody charged with biting off a sailor's ear.—The prisoners were then locked up. Margaret Mahony, who was charged on suspicion of having robbed Mr. Enfield, landlord of the City of Car lisle public house, Rosemary-lane, of 35 sovereigns and some silver, the particulars of which have already ap peared in The Sun, was again brought up for exami nation. The only additional evidence was the fact that the prisoner had been seen with a purse similar to the one of which Mr. Enfield had been robbed. She was again remanded for a week. THE GRAND REVIEW IN HYDE-TARK.—To-mor row morning a review will take place in Hyde-park, which will be honoured with the presence of her Majesty the Queen, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, his Imperial Highness the Grand Duke Constantine, his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge and Prince George, their Serene Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Saxe Weimar with Prince Edward and their respective suites, his Grace the Duke of Wellington, and a very numerous and brilliant staff of general officers, &c. Amongst the regiments on the ground will be the Royal Horse Guards (blue) from Knights bridge-barracks ; the first regiment of Life Guards, from Regent's-park barracks ; th e secon d reg i ment of Life Guards, from Windsor ; six battalions of Foot Guards, consisting of two battalions of Grenadier Guards, two of Coldstream Guards, and two of the Scotch Fusilier Guards, the 61st Foot (Rifles), &c., with a s t rong detach ment f Horse and Foot Artillery from Woolwich, and several pieces of cannon. The ground will be kept by the metropolitan police, assisted by the 12th Royal Lancers, from Hounslow barracks. The police will assemble in the Park shortly after eight o'clock, and the troops at nine o'clock. The review will commence at ten o clock. Yester day afternoon the regiment of Rifles, 800 strong, from Chi chester, marched into the neighbourhood of the metropolis, and were billeted at Kensington and Hammersmith, where they will remain until Thursday. Other regiments are ex pected to arrive in the neighbourhood of the metropolis in the course of this day, it being intended that the review shall exceed in splendour any that have taken place for several years. CANTERBURY.--During the past week, the wind having been E. and N.E., has prevented the hops from show ing so good an appearance as they did a week back. We hear of honey-dew, &c., having visited them, but the planter is anxiously looking forward for genial weather, when the plant no doubt, will resume its healthy colour. BOSTON, STAMFORD, AND BIRMINGMAM RAIL wAY.—At a special meeting of the shareholders in this com pany held at 18, Abingdon -street yesterday, Mr. T. Ma caulay in the chair, the following Bills were submitted and approved, viz. :—To make a railway from Peterborough to the Stamford and Wisbech branch at Thorney ; a railway from Wisbech to Wisbech-harbour, and to construct works in the harbour ; a branch from Wisbech to Sutton-bridge, and another to Sutton St. Mary, and to improve the harbour at Sutton-bridge ; also to enable the G rea t N ort h ern Rail way Company to ease or purchase the East Lincolnshire ; the Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham ; and the Amber gate, Nottingham. and Boston Railways. GAMING IN THE ARMY.—We have been informed on competent authority that his Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge, commanding the troops in the Dublin district, lately intimated his intention of withdrawing his name from the list of members of the Hibernian United Ser vice Club, unless an immediate stop was put to the gam bling which had been carried on there for some time, and which had led to the ruin of several officers. His Royal Highness also stated, that every general officer serving in Ireland intended to follow the example set by himself in this matter. It gives us sincere pleasure to be enabled to add, that the committee of the Hibernian United Service Club promptly acceded to the Prince's wishes, and have ie deter mined to discountenan ce gam bli ng w ithin the walls the club by every m eans i n th e i r power . The promptitudes erving of and e decision of Prince G eorge on thi s occasion a re the highest praise that it i s in our power to bestow.—United Service Club. THE HAwTnoßN .— The bloom of the hawthorn was never known to be more beautiful than is the case at the present moment. In many instances m the trees are one mass e of ths most delicious of bloom, throwing around a perfume character imaginable.—Derby Mercury. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. There was a firm market for Cotton at Liverpool yesterday, with prices unchanged. Sales 5,000 bales, of which 700 American were on speculation. The sales included 4,000 bales American, at 61(1. to 7id. per lb. There was an animated demand for Shares, princi pally for Midland, North Stafford, North-Western, York and Newcastle, and Dover half. The advices delivered yesterday afternoon, and brought by the Britannia, serve to show what inter ested speculation will do, in inducing people to form opinions. The American journals by the previous ar rival, generally represented that upon the re-opening of the navigation, abundant supplies of grain would be forwarded to the sea-board for shipment, but the private letters written by several leading firms, threw consider able doubt upon this view of the question, and we have to thank them in part for the subsequent rise in corn. Intelligent and impartial Americans, however, with rthom we have had the pleasure of conversing, inti mate generally their belief that we shall receive very large supplies of food from the opposite shores of the Atlantic; and as freights ruled lower when the Britannia left, shipments will be facilitated. The accounts from Canada are satisfactory also in reference to the supplies we may expect, especially as American grain from the in terior will be allowed to pass duty free through the British possessions if re-exported within six months. This will attract a carrying trade of some im portance to Canada, and benefit both the merchants and the shipping interest, without, as is hoped, damaging to any extent the position of the Canadian agriculturist. Some effect upon prices appears, however, to be likely. The Canadas, however, must look for strength and growth to the development of every branch of industry, and, assuredly, its shipping interest ranks high. The Upper Canada Mining Company is said to be commencing operations on the Canada side of the Lakes this spring, under most favourable auspices. The loca tions upon Lakes Huron and Superior are known to be very rich in mineral wealth, and strong hopes are enter tained of the presence of coal on Lake Huron. Exploring parties have already gone forward. There are late accounts from Australia. The Sydney advices are to March 2, at which period the weather was brilliant, trade steady, agriculture flourishing, and the whole colony looking more prosperous than for a long time past. There is rather less doing in Stocks to-day, but the quotation are firm, and have even further improved a little compared with yesterday. The beautiful weather, increasing supplies of foreign grain, ease in the money market, and the anticipation that trade will gradually expand, all conduce to excite a buoyant feeling, and an impression that nothing but a good harvest is wanting to bring us back to a state of confidence and pros perity. Consols have been 88 to 88+ for July, and Exchequer-bills have touched 7s. and 100. premium. Bank Stock has been at a rise to 196 and 197. The New Three-and-a• Quarter per Cents. have been quoted 89i to 90. The Foreign Stock Market has been very dull, bu looks firm. Portuguese Four per Cents. have been 32 1 to 33. Spanish, Mexican, &c., are merely nominal Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. have been 584 to 58 and Belgian Four-and-a-Half per Cents, 95. Railway Shares have been higher again. BRITISH FUNDS. ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock .. .• 196 197 Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities 88% 88 85 }i New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anns. 8931% 90 Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5,1860 .. 9 1-16 CLOSING PRICES. 197 88 89N 9 1-16 Ditto, 30 years, Oct. 143, 1859 .. 87 15-16 8 10-16 India Bonds, 1,0001. .. 6 Ditto, under 1,0001. .. .. 6 3 Consols for Opening, July 16 88N Three per Cent. Consols, Scrip .. •. . par t.xchequer Dills. I%d. 3d. 1,0001... .... 7 10 p 5001. 11 14 p Ditto, Small 12 18 p ONE O'CLOCK. FOREIGN FUNDS. Equador Bonds .. Mexican Bonds, 1846, 5 per Cent .. Ditto, for the Account Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent .. .. 4 per Cent .. • • • • 33 Ditto, for the Account •323! Russian Bonds .. .. Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent Ditto, Three per Cent .. -- Dividends on the above payable in London. Belgian Four-and-a-Halt por Cent .. 95 Dutch Two-and-a-hall per Cent .. 58% 34 % Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 90 89% Ditto, Bonds .. • • .. 89% PRICES OF BUSINESS CLOSING DONE AT RAILWAY SHARES. PAID. PRICES. ONE O'CLOCK. Birmingham and Oxford Junction 10 .... 16% 17 Buckinghamshire .. 61.45., 1 di5....... • . 1 dis. Caledonian .. .. • . .. 35 .... 304 30 Ditto, Half Shares .. 214 • ... 1% • Chester and Holyhead 2734.... 21 ... ..... Eastern Counties .. 20 .... 20% %% Do. Perpet., 5 per Cent. No. 1.61. 138. 4d. Ditto, ditto.. .. No. 2. 61. 13s. 4d. 4 p.... Ditto, York Extension 7)4 .. . . 6%.. • East Lancashire .. . • .. 20 .... Ditto, New .. .. 10 .... East Lincolnshire Edinburgh and Glasgow .. 50 .... • Ditto, Half Shares .. .. 15 .... 21)4 • Ditto, Quarter Shares .. 12%.... 16% .... • Ely and Huntingdon 15 Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester .. 2%.. 14 .. Great Northern 314 .• • 2 .. •• . Do., London & York Extension 2% .... 1% Great Southern & West. (Ireland) 30 .... 24% Great North of England . ..100 Ditto, New 1%.... 18)4 • • Great Western .. 85 ..•.115 ...... • Ditto, Half Shares .. .. 50 .... 68 Ditto, Quarter Shares .. 12%.... 17% • • Ditto, Fifths ••• .. 20 .... 2634 27)4 .... Ditto, New .. 4% —•••• . • • • . Hull and Selby .. .. • •. 50 _lO4 .......... 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Bristol and Birm. ..••ix per Cent. .. • • • • 100 .. .. • Newcastle and Berwick .. .. 20 .... 28 27 27% Ditto, New .. • • • • • • 5 •• • • 7!4!t•••••••• 7 % Norfolk..loo ....126 126 4 Ditto, Extension .. 10 .... 9%. North British 25 .... 32)4% •••• • • " % Ditto, Half Shares .. • • • • 1 2 % ••• • ••••• • • • • • "Zi Ditto, Extension • • • • • • % ••• •• • ioq r.% • • • • • • Ditto, Thirds .. - • • 412 North Staffordshire • . • - • • •n,• • • • —2% North Western • • .. • • • • 4 2 3(i Oxford, Wor'ster, & Welverhamp. 22)4 .... 14 .. Preston and Wyre.. • • .. .. 25 • • • • • Ditto, Half shares (A) .. )4 8 •. . 32 3 Reading, Guildford, and Reigate 5 •• • • 5% .•• • • • Shrewsbury and Birmingham .. 3%.... 3%, _ 3 34 Shropshire Union .. . South Eastern and Dovor .. • • 33%., • • 36% • • 36)4 Do.. New (d 0.3.7/. 68 3d.) No. 2. 12 .... 11% ll :5 4 Do., New (do. 1014 .. No. 4. 5..••4%•••• • • • • • • 4% West Riding Union •• • • .. 4/. 25..... dis par.. par Windsor, Staines, &S. 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Skr GIORGI st,mrsors OVERLAND JOURNEY ROUND THa WOILD. 2 vols. Svc, VIII. LORD LINDSAY'S LITTER S on the lIOLY LAND. Fourth Edittoe. 1 Tol., 10e. Cl. TIM JIMA:TIT at CAMBRIDGE: By Sir GEORGE STEPHEN. 2 rob. - X. 110CHELICIA ; or, EVLIND in the NEW WORLD. Edited by BLIOI WARBURTON, Esq. 2 vols. XI. MADAME D'ARBLAY'S DIARY and LETTERS. VOLS. VI. and VII., somplettng the Work. XII. HORACE WALPOLE'S MEMOIRS of the REIGN of GEORGE TUB SECOND. Second Edition. 3 vols. svo., with Portraits. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. To be had of all Booksellers. RAILWAY SHARES BY PUBLIC SALE. MESSRS. LLMOND and Co., RAILWAY I Bri r kitE AUCTIONEERS, beg to Wank their Friends sod the Fablie for their continued support and patronage, and to announce that their Public Sales of Railway Shares, &c., take place every TIIIIIDAY and FRIDAY, at One o'clock, at the Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street, London, to which place, favours, containing instructions (with a reference), are respectftilly requested to be addressed. Ail Scrip and Share Certificates must be deposited, the day previous to their being offered ; and advice, of results will be f)rwarded by the drat post after the sale, and the proceeds isune skately disposed of according to instructions. Offices, Hall of Commerce. Threadneedle-street. London. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. TIILIS BVZICING, Tuesday, (by the Queen's eommand), will be representa4 Beillui's opera of NORMA. Xerma, Mdile. Jenny Lind ; Adalgisa, Mdmo. Barron! ; rolllone, illgiaor Frani:tint; Oroveso, Signcr Labiache. To *anemia with a Selection from the admired ballet of LA ESMERALDA. La Esmeralda, Mdlle. Carlotta Grist ; Pierre Griugoire, M. Perrot ; Iraand, Venafra ; Clopin Trouillefou, M. Geuriet. At the Ballet a PAS by Mdlle. Rosati. The fall number of Tickets of Admission to the Pit having been disposed of, it is respectfully announeell that no money will on this vocation be taken at the Pit doors. The doers open at Seven. The Opera to commence at Eight. The NebillsY, Subscribers to the Opera, and the Public, are re- SpectfUlly intbrmed, that there will be a grand EXTRA NIGHT on THURSDAY next, when will be prlcented A Grand Dramatic and MiscellaneoTs Entertainment, comprising So talent ef Mdlle. Jenny Lind, Mesdames Vietti. Montenegro, and Cattellan ; Signori Lablache, Staudigl, Coletti, F. Lablache, Corelli, Monello, Superchi, Frasehini, and Gardoni. Including Selections from Haydn's oratorio of the CREATION, mid Cimarosa's opera of IL MA. f RINIONIO SEGRETO, and from the works of Mozart, Mendelssohn, Spohr, Rossini, Donizetti, Verdi, 3Leyerleer, and Beethoven. On this occasion also will be sung Select SWEDISH MELODIES, br Mdllo. Jenny Lind. The Entertainments in the Ballet will comprise theents of Mlles. Carlotta Grist, C. Rosati, and Cerito, M.M. St. Leon and Perrot. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT• GARDEN. THUS EVENING, June the 15th, will be performed Rosstal's opera buffo IL ISARRIERE DrSEVIGLIA, Principal characters by Madlie Alboni, Mdlle. Bailin', Signor aalvi, Signor ROTICOIII, Signor Rovere, and Signor Marini. To sonelade with a new grand b LESCAUT.aIIet, in four tableaux, entitled MANON Manon beseaut, Mdlle. Fanny Elssler ; M. de Grieux ; Sig. Casati ; Le Marquis de Granville, M. O'Bryan. Also a Pas de Trois, by Mdlles. Baderna, Bertin, and Domelisse. Tickets, Stalls, and Boxes to be obtained at the Box-office, Bow street ; and at Cramer, Beale, and Co.'s, 201, Regent-street. The Doors will be opened at Eight o'clock, and the performance Commence at half past Eight o'clock. GRAND MORNING PERFORMANCE, ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN, On FRIDAY, Juno 18, when will be performed Rossini's STABAT MATER; On which °session Madame Orisi, Madame Persiani, Signora Corbari, and Mdlle. Albdhl ; Signor Mario, Signor Salvi, Signor Tamburini, Signor Roneoni, Signor Tagßaden, and Signor Marini will sing. A MISCELLANEOUS CONCERT. In the mune of the morning Rossini's La Carita, by the whole Strength of the company. Ileethoven's Grand Battle Sinfonia will be performed by the Orchestra, under the direction of M. Costa. PRICE, OF ADMISSION. Pit and first Amphitheatre Tickets •• • • .... £0 7 0 Pit Stalls ...... .• First Amphitheatre Stalls .... •• .. •• ••• • • • 010 6 Second Amphitheatre Stalls .. •• .. •• • ....... 0 5 0 Grand Tier Boxes • 4 4 0 Pit and First Tier Boxes •• •• .• • • ......... 3 13 6 Second Tier Boxes . ...... •• •• 2 12 6 Third Tier Boxes.. 2 2 0 fourth Tier Boxes ............... ..... 1 11 6 Second Amphitheatre Tickets .............. 0 3 6 Gallery Tickets Tickets, Stalls, and Boxes, at Cramer, Beale, and Co.'s, 201, Regent-street; and at the Box-office, Bow-street ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN. The Nobility, Gentry, and Subscribers are respectfully informed that a GRAND EXTRA NIGHT will take place on THURSDAY BE; t, June 17, when will be repeated Bellini's opera of NORMA, Norma, Madams Grisi ; Adelgisa, Corbari; Polllone, Signor Sal rt Oreveso, Signor Marini. To be followed by the First Act of Rossini's Opera IL BARBIERI: DI SEVIGLIA. T o Principal characters by "%Wile. Alboni, 3ldlle. Bellini, Signor talvi, Signor "lemon', signor Rovere, Signor Polonini, and Signor To copclude with the new grand Ballet, in four tableaux, entitled _MAN - 017 LESCAtIT. Tickets, Stalls, and Boxes, for the night or season, to be obtained at the Box-office, Bow-street; and at Messrs. Cramer, Beale, and Co.'s, 201, Regent-street. • THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Under the Management of Mr. R. Webster, sole Lessee. THIS EVENING WWI be perNrraed the new Comedy, called TEMPER. Sir Marma• Mao Topple, Mr. Farren ; Sir Charles Tempest, Mr. Hudson ; God. trey. Mr. Tilbury; Emerson, Mr. Webster; Cyril Tempest, Mr. Rowe; Lndy Tempest, Mrs. Seymour; Mrs. Herbert, Mrs. Glover; Flormee Wilmot, Mrs. Fortescue; Miss Fildlng, Mrs. Ilumby. After which The MAGYAR 311LATSAG; or, Hungarian Fetes. ry the celebrat'ed Hungarian Dancers and the Hungarian Instru- Luc ttal Yocaliits. _ _ . . .... T i be followed by a new comic drama, called TIIE JACOBITE. Sir Richard Wroughton, Mr. Stuart ; John Duck, Mr. Buckstone Lady Somertord, Miss Fortescue. Ti eonclude with an entirely new and original farce called WHO DO THEY TAKE ME FOR? Colonel Templeton, Mr. Howe ; Terence O'Reilly, Mr. Hudson ; Mrs. Dorrington, Mrs. Seymour; Iflas Pruience Pickings, Mrs.HumbY. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII. Under the direction of Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING Will he performed the original Drama, called THE FLOWERS OF Tllli, ; a Gipsy Story. Cheap John, Mr. Wright; Ishmael, Mr. 0. Smith ; the Kinchin, Mr. P. Bedford ; Leybourne, Mr. Worrell ; Cynthia, Madame Celeste ; Lemuel, Miss Woolgar; starlight Bess, Mrs. Fitzwilliam ; Lady Agnes, Miss Harding. A der which an entirely new Petite Comedy, entitled PLYING COLOURS; or, Crossing the Frontier. Captain Sans souci, Mr. Webster ; Margaret, Miss Woolgar ; Ilelen de Montereau, Madame Celestis ; Justine, Miss Ellen Chaplin. To be followed by the Opera Buffa Sketch, called JENNY LIND. Principal characters by Messrs. Wright, Paul Bedford, Lambert, Cullenford, and Miss Woolgar. RENCH PLAYS.—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Lessee. Mr. John Mitchell. TO-MORROW EVENING Second appearance of Monsieur Bouffe, Will be presented a new vaudeville, entitled LES FLEURS A3IIME ES. Characters by MM. Pascal, Tourrillon, Priston, Mdlles. Duverger, Vallee, Leyder, &c. After which t,he comedic of LE PERE TURLITTITTIT. Rigaud, Bonffe, Rose, Mdame Grassau ; Adele, Mdlle. Vallee. Te concldo with LE GAMIN DE PARIS. Joseph, M. Bouffe ; Arn^Cle, M. Ithozevil ; Ellaa, Mdlle. Boxes, Cs. ; Pit, 3s. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, 3:.; Gallery, 2s. 'Rail,' and Stalls may be engaged at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Ilona-street; and at the lloi-office of the Theatre, which is open daily from Eleven till Five, e.TriIOPIAN IiERENADERS, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. In consequence of the increasing success which attends every re prescitatien given by the celebrated ETIIIOPIAN SETtENADEIts, Tell, Harrington, White, Stanwood, and Germon, they will repeat their usual lENTF.RTAINMENTS at the above Theatre, THIS ETENING, and every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Vs - ening. Doerp of an at Light o'clock. They will also give a DAY TY.RFORMAN(JE on Wednesday Morning next, commencing at nalt-past Two. Thursday next will he for the Benefit of Mr. White. Bwvoe and Stalls et Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street, pad it the Box-office of the Theatre. - - PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. J. M. Maddox, sole Lessee and Manager. TUN EVENING. 11 ill be presented GUY 31ANNEMNG. Henry Bertram, Mr. Barker ; Dominic Sampson, Mr. Compton ; Luey Bertram, Mist 4nr , 9 Romer ; Julia Mannering, Miss Emma Stanley. After which a new comic drama, entitled "LADIES BEWARE Colonel Vavasour, Mr. Granby; Sir Charles Vavasonr, Mr. James Vining; Matilda, Mrs. Stirling. To conclude with a Drama, entitled THE KING AND THE rrev.R. Principal characters by Messrs. Hughes, Walton, Barker, Wynn, Delavantl, Granby, Miss E. Stanley, Miss G. Smithson, and Di les Marshall. britidll2,l LONDON, TUESDAY, JUNE 15, 1847. Gladly do we announce the amendment introduced to the attention of Parliament last night by the Hon. Gentleman the Member for Finsbury, in reference to the conduct pursued by Government towards the people and the SOVEREIGN of Portugal. The amend ment suggested by Mr. DUNCOMBE is one precisely in accordance with the spirit of Mr. Husm's motion, and in every way compatible with the principles enunciated by ourselves as to the propriety of an armed interference. According to the word ing of this amendment, the House of Com mons will pronounce it to be " the duty of the British Government to endeavour by every just means in their power to secure to the people of Por tugal the full enjoyment of their constitutional rights and privileges." Beyond the gratification experienced at the introduction of a proposition like this, a pro position which will afford a brilliant testimony of the sympathy with which the Legislature of these islands regards the blessedness of a liberal and mode rate sovereignty, we are in a particular manner re joiced at Mr. DUNcoMBE'S proceeding, as it elicited from the lips of Mr. MACAULAY an explanation of the sentiments by which his colleagues have been ac tuated throughout towards Portugal—an explana tion at once so comprehensive, so terse, so masterly in arrangement, and so conclusive in argument. If the Right Honourable the Paymaster of her Majesty's Forces does not absolutely vindicate the necessity for the subjugation of the insurgent forces of the Junta by our squadron of surveillance, he, at least, testifies in an unanswerable manner to the humanity of the views by which the Cabinet of England has been instigated to the adoption of such violent mea sures; hg . confirms the opinion we expressed on Thursday evening, that the Ministerial arrangements have been characterised throughout by the most perfect good faith and simplicity of intention. In the speech delivered last night by the Right Hon. THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY it was elo quently explained that the relations subsist ing between England and Portugal are of un usual antiquity—dating as far back as the days of the BLACK PRINCE—and, in like manner, have continued for centuries of a character so earnestly indicative of a common friendship, as to be invested, according to the felicitous expression of CANNING, with a sort of romantic colouring. Rendered remarkable by this venerable and ardent complexion, the cordial understanding between the two countries becomes in a manner more entitled to be considered as a matter of the most delicate and estimable importance. It is scarcely, however, by allusions to the pageantries depicted in what may, without extravagance, be termed the emblazoned chivalry of the Chronicles of FROISSART, that any extenuation can be discerned for the employment of military or naval armaments for the reconciliation of a foreign people and a foreign monarch. It is scarcely by:reminiscences of the gorgeous reception of the Portuguese ambassadors in the fifteenth century at the Court of the King of ENGLAND, in the pre sence of the renowned JoHN of GAUNT and of the puissant EDMUND LANGLEY, that any satisfactory reason can be discovered for the extraordinary course adopted by the present Government in empowering Sir WILLIAM PARKER to impel the revolted popula tion of Portugal to a pacification through the iron logic of his vessels• of-war. Had Mr. MACAULAY restricted himself to such a line of argument, how ever brilliant or heroic it might have been in its abstract bearing upon the discussion, it would have left the disputed principle as questionable in point of justice or propriety as it had appeared to many to be from the very commencement. But the Right Hon. Gentleman the representative of Edinburgh assumed a more cogent and comprehensible ground of argument, and by the earnestness with which in his exordium he stigmatised the Government of the Cabrals and their creatures as despotical and as in famously subversive of the natural and constitutional rights of the Portuguese, he prepared even those who were most disposed to regard the British Ministry as reprehensible, to coincide with the abstract principles which had animated the official dispatches of Lord PALMERSTON. Cordially and readily do we acknowledge the speech delivered last night by Mr. MACAULAY to be conclusive ; and in uttering this acknow ledgment we are by no means waiving a single one of those liberalising principles which we have all along endeavoured to advocate as the only ones consonant with the enlightenment of this generation and the generous character of our glorious constitution. Mr. MACAULAY, indeed, maintained the sanctity of the very principles to which we are alluding with the recapitulation of sincerity and in the language of unaffected eloquence. Speaking of the sentiments by which all representa tive Governments should be influenced in similar cir cumstances, the Right honourable Gentleman de clared that no doubt whatever could exist but that the rule condemnatory of interference in the internal concerns of a foreign country is a sound general rule ! He maintained that the Minister who so interfered would invest himself with a terrible responsibility ! that the throne of Portugal had unquestionably been encompassed, for a considerable time past by evil coun cillors ! that acts which he was compelled to designate as cruel had disgraced the Portuguese Go vernment ! and that no human doubt could exist but that " circumstances had occurred which justified the Portuguese people in receiving with distrust the as surances of the Portuguese Government !" In a later portion of his harangue Mr. MACAULAY asserts yet more distinctly, "If I be asked what the origin of the Portuguese war was, then, Sir, Ido not hesitate to say that I believe it was caused by the acts of the Portuguese Government." Coupling this declaration with the fact of Mr. DUNCOMBE'S amendment (that it becomes " the duty of the British Government to endeavour, by every just means in their power, to secure to the people of Portugal the full enjoyment Of their constitutional rights and privileges"), having been cordially welcomed by the Paymaster of her Majesty's Forces, we cannot but augur happily for the consequence of what very naturally appeared (before the utterances of those avowals) to be a most ominous proceeding. From the threatened interference of France and Spain in the disturbances which had continued so long to desolate the Portuguese provinces, Mr. MACAULAY maintained that the matter had changed from a purely internal question to a strictly international question, and that therefore the Ministry are justi fied in resorting to an armed intervention. Upon the inflexible humanity of England during her di plomatic correspondence with the Cabinet of Lisbon Mr. MACAULAY spoke most effectively and forcibly. Observe, he exclaims, the process of the arrangement about the amnesty promised to the insurgent chieftains. First, MARIA DA GLORIA says, " Agreed that there shall be no capital punishment, still some persons must be sent ou t t o th e co l on i es ?" E ng l an d repl i es to that, No They shall not be consigned to a cruel and miserable exile; they shall not be sent to Africa ; they shall be sent to Paris ; they shall ha ve their milreis re gularl y itser t transmitted, l and G overnmen t will add somethingtheir. incomes ! " Not one mile out of the Portuguese ° r 14 '7 ! " Let them be exiled for eighteen months? " oi ? e ! Iv " For fourteen ?" Not one ! "F or only ten one ! Those are the humane determinations°, not upon which the Cabinet ha ve alread y proceeded. Beyonduon those, we have now a guarantee that the mi nistry will endeavour to secure to the Portuguese people the full enjoyment of their constitutional ri ghts and THE TRACEY PEERAGE. The examination of witnesses on behalf of the claim ant to this peerage was resumed to-day, an d occup i e d their Lordships the wh o l e morning. QUEEN'S BENCH.—(THIS DAY.) (Sittings at Nisi I'rius at Westminster, before Mr. Jus tice WIGHTMAN and Common Juries.) LIBEL—HOUGHTON V. BILVERLOCIE. • Mr. Humfrey, Queen's Counsel, and Mr. Charnock, appeared for the plaintiff; and Mr. Sergeant Talfourd for the defendant. Mr. HUMFREY stated the case to the jury. He said this was an action brought by Captain Houghton, a half pay navy officer, to recover compensation in damages from Mr. Silverlock, proprietor of the Nautical Standard and Steam Navigation Gazette, for the publication of an anonymous letter signed " Camperdown," which made serious and utterly unfounded charges against him. It was right that he should state that the plaintiff would rather have brought his action against the author of the document, but as the defendant refused to give his name up, he had no other alternative than to bring it against the defendant,. whom he admitted to be a respectable gentleman. Captain Houghton had been upwards of forty years in the navy—he was a subscriber to a so ciety called the Royal Naval Charity, a society of the most exemplary and excellent kind society to which all naval officers, from the admiral down, he believed, to the lowest officer, subscribed. It had been established for the purpose of affording assist ance to the widows and orphans of naval officers, and even to naval officers, in the hour of need ; it could not, therefore, be called a charity, but a mutual assurance society, as it was supported by mutual subscriptions, the officers paying a certain sum, according to their rank—some paying 55., and those in the higher ranks a larger sum. He might also mention that some of the highest officers of the navy had not felt themselves de meaned by seeking aid from its funds. A Miss Hoare, the daughter of a distinguished naval officer, and a lady of highly exemplary character, sought aid from the funds of this society, and her case was supported by Sir Sir Edward Codrington Earl Cadog an , an d part i cu l ar l y by the plaintiff. In the majority of cases of this kind there were generally rivals, who sought, for the purpose of promoting their own aggrandisement, to depreciate the merits of their opponents ; and much on. such occasions was written which the authors subsequently regretted having penned. (The Learned Counsel then read the alleged libel, which extended to great length. It simply impugned the mo tives of Captain Houghton in advocating the cause of Miss Hoare ; charged him with having subscribed to the society bat " five annual shillings ; " of having re ceived charity from it in the season of adversity, and called it " no bad speculation," as he had received pounds for every shilling he had subscribed, and expressed sur prise that the managers of the institution should allow a person who had been a recipient of its funds to sit by their sides and vote away its money ; and, further, that a petition which he had presented with respect to Miss Hoare had been refused. It was dated the 23d of August last year, and was headed "The Royal Naval Charity and Commander Houghton," and was signed " Camperdown.") Now the plaintiff had sought the name of the writer—he had said, " Give me the name of the writer, justify the charges, or make an apology ;" but when his application had been refused, he considered it duo to his character, due to Lis friends and to his messmates, to institute these proceedings. It appeared that Miss Hoare had during the last four or five years been an applicant to the society, but that she had up to the time the letter was published been unsuccessful. The sub scriptions were arranged on a graduated scale according to the rank of the officers, in order to prevent any invi dious distinctions. It was true that the plaintiff had re ceived aid from the funds, but it was under the following circumstances:—Upwards of 20 years ago he lent his yacht to a friend, who steered to a foreign port, where he took on board a quantity of smuggled cigars, but it was captured by a revenue cutter and condemLed, and a sum of 204 was voted by the society to the plaintiff for the purpose of redeeming it, but no imputation could rest upon him in this respect—i n fact, his promotion, and his long standing and unblemished character, were a sufficient answer that no imputation rested upon him. It was most discreditable for the editors of newspapers to publish anonymous charges of this kind, and to re : - fuse to give the names of the writers; it was equally dis creditable to publish charges which he was not in a po sition to justify. _ The Learned Counsel having proved the publication of the paper, and that the defendant was its registered proprietor, called Captain Redford, R.N., who stated that he had been fifty years in the navy, that ho was an old subscriber to the institution, that he had met the plaintiff at its meetings, and that he was an active member of it. lie was not acquainted with him privately. Mr. Eardley Hathray, clerk to Mr. Chard, the naval agent, proved that his employer had paid the plaintiff's subscription to the society for somo years; it was now los. 6d. This was the plaintiff's case. Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD then addressed the jury on behalf of the defendant. He said no evidence had been adduced to show that any application had been made to the defendant to deliver up the name of the writer of the letter, or that he bad refused to justify the charges it contained, or to apologise if they were devoid of truth. It appeared that the lady, notwith standing she had the support of Lord Cadogun, Sir Edward Codri ngton, and the plaintiff, had been unsuc cessful from y ear to year ; and as the pla i nt i ff took part in a disp u t e d question, he must expect to be prepared to bear criti c i sm ; but the letter complained of was simply a reply t o a l etter which had appeared in the paper from Capt a i n Houghton, referring to the case of Miss Hoare : he had invited notice to himself as the supporter of the claims of that lady, and ought not to (have been too thin-skinned , when his motives were canvassed. He had styled himself as one of the oldest and most benevolent of the subscribers, and from what had occurred it seemed that he was not so much entitled to such a reputation as ho himself seemed to believe. Surely there could be no thing very wrong in stating that he had! received aid from a fund which he had himself assisted to create ; and it was true that he had received far more from that t , fund than he had contributed to it. Then, no doubt, the writer of the letter had seen a list in which the name of the plaintiff appeared as a subscriber of 55., for at a former period he had subscribed that sum. Why, if every publication of this kind were to justify an action, an action might be brought for libel against the printer of every placard or squib published at the ensuing general election. He did not justify an editor with holding the name of the writer of a libellous article, but if he refused to do so, or was unable to do so, he was the person who should be held liable, and therefore he did notcomplain that he had been proceeded againstas the responsible manager of the paper. The letter, how ever, did not appear to have been written by a person of education, as it contained grammatical mistakes—the word " adverse" being used for " obverse," for instance —showing that the editor had not given it that attention which it demanded, and that it was inserted inadver tently. _ _ M. Justice WIGIITPIAN having summed up and ex- FOREIGN RAILWAYS. 7p 88 1 % Far 32% 111 P 674 19% Sys, 21% 13.), 1 18% 115 54N 179 23% Boulogne and Amiens 20 .... i• ••••• • • .. 16% Luxembourg .. .. 6 .. . 1% • • .• • .... I} l / Northern of France • • • • • • 8 .• •• ••••• • • • • • 12 1 4 Namur and Liege .. .. • • .. 10 •• .. 3N •• .. Orleans and Bourdeaux .. 6 .... • • ...... Sambre and Meuse .. 14 .... 7% •.••.• .• • • 7% 111. E 5. Real del Moats, Unreristered .... 3 • . LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY). LONDON, JUNE 15.—Wind S.W., light breeze, with passing clouds and rain. DEAL, JUNE 14.—Wind S.W. to S.S.W., fresh and squally.—Arrd. Vixen, Douglas, Port Philip; Marlborough, Webb, Calcutta ; Helen Mary, Winn, Ceylon ; Urania. Bergh, Jamaica; Ceres, D'Auvergne, Honduras. Arrd. from the River and aid. Wellesley, for Madras; Renown, Laun ceston. COWES, JUNE 14.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Malcolm, Watson, Pernambuco. LIVERPOOL, JUNE 14.—Wind S.W., fresh.—Arrd. 13, Martha Harrison, Cole, Newfoundland. 14, Willi am Russell, Pernambuco. Sid. Ninfa, Havannah ; Victoria, Grisley, Havannah ; Commerce, Bailey, &vanilla ; Magnificent, Verrill, New Orleans; Envoy, M'Ket terick, ditto; Bridgtown, Wilson, ditto. Ski. Luna, Grenada; Madonna, Moulmein ; Rockshire, Montreal. The New York, Cropper, from this port, put back to New York 21st ult., after being on shore on the S.W. Spit, but without apparent damage. The Yarmouth barque was fallen in with, 19th ult., off Cape Henlopen, a derelict, and subse quently went on shore and bilged. The Alhambra, Lock hart, of Dublin, hence to Valparaiso, foundered 7th April, lat. 38 long. 20 ; crew saved by the Queen Mab, arrived at New Orleans. The cask of palm oil picked up yesterday is said to have belonged to the Oberon, from Sierra Leone, 20th Nov., to this port, and not since heard of. SKIEr.Ds, JUNK 14.—Wind S.W.—Sld. Adeline, Quebec. OFF PORTSMOUTI, JUNE 14 . — Northumberland, Gres w old, New York. EXMOUTH, JUNE 11.—Arrd. Eleanor' Barbara, Rio Grande. PLYMOUTH, JUNE 14.—Wind S.S.W.—SId. her Majesty's steamer Growler, Coast of Africa. FALMOUTH, JUNE 14.—Wind variable. —Off port, Grace, Lima for Hull ; Commerce , Manilla for Liverp oo l. Tiernan, BRISTOL, JUNE 14.—Wind W.—Arrd. St. Vincent, Fur low,Jamaica. oflioli, Glide, Halifax, Nova ELFAST, JUNE 12.—Wind S.—Arrd. Warrior, T' Baltimore ; John Eddy, New York • Revenger dit p to A . RT S 3 l i d o . o C T if o e J r d u a N l E e, LbTech;ew was pdaisScotia.passed on shore on the Spanish coast b y the J rived here. John and Mary, MARKET NEWS.—(THIS DAY.) HAY DIAZZILZTEI. SMITIIFIELD.--Meadow Hay, 215 s to 3/ 14s ; Clover ditto, 3/ as to 4114 s ; and Straw, 11 6s to 11 12s per load. Both Hay and Straw were in good supply, and heavy demand, at about last week's quotations. CUMBERLAND.—Meadow Hay, 21 8s to 31 16s; Clover ditto, 318 s to 4/ 14s ; and Straw, 118 s to 1/ 13s per load. A full average supply, and a dull trade. - WIIITECHAPEL.—Meadow Hay, 2/ 5s to 31 145; CieYe! ditto, 31 5s to 41173; and Straw, 11 Gs to 11123 per load• Trade dull at the above quotations. COLONIAL. SUGAR.—The market for British Plantation i s firm, about 750 hhds havirg been sold at steady prices. The I Olio sales have comprised Lou bags Mauritius, which Old at fall prices, viz., 40s to 46s for low to good grey. of British Plantation landed in the Port of Lond T o h n e t q b u is an Y tel ; l has been 31,969 hhds 3,970 tierces, against 24,692 hhds 07; tierces last year. This return is to May 31. The in l P (l ,l of Haviinnah, Porto Rico, Brazil, and East India, have e. greatly increased. The home consumption of British Pla n : tation has fallen off this year, but in Mauritius and Das! India there is an increase. The stock of British Plantatceerion in London on the 31st ult. was 17,582 hhds 2,237 .tier being more than double the quantity held at the Fame time last year. The stocks of Havanna!), Brazil, Mauritius, An East India are much larger than last year. COFFEE.-1,450 bags Ceylon realised 37 s t o 378 6d, f EE ° . r 1,13 good ordinary native, being Od lower. The quantity o 59 tish Plantation landed' in London to the 31 st ult. /vie hhds 958 bris and bags, against 1,216 hhds 788 brls and . be to the corresponding period of last year. Th e quantity,e , h b e has fallen off, as well as that of Ea st India. ,;1.,P,,He home consumption generally has increased a little. stocks are below those of last year. the Rum.—The quantity landed in LOndon this year, to Q 43 31st ult., is 8,072 puns 3,106 hills, against 7,544 pans 3,_ blids at this time last year. The home consumption M been 3,910 puns 1,461 hhds, being an access of about T o ' c i puns and 300 hhds compared with the corresponding Peinig of 1846. The stocks are 11,751 puns 3,473 hhds, ega po 12,157 puns 3,030 hhds at the same period of last year. market is buoyant, owing to the contract announced. SA LTPFXRE.-230 Bengal realised the previous value, Y"' 28s 6d to 29s fcr 8 per cent. refraction. 311°t Sricms.-100 bags Black Pepper sold at 3d for g Malabar. t, and TALLOW.—P.Y.C. is 50s 9d to 513 per cwt on the spo Town 535. but little. TE .A.— T he demand is moderate, and prices var y C.rroN.—There is rather a good market still. POLISH BENEVOLENT SOCIET The Poles inhabiting London, sensible of their yer . l painful position, which i ncrease s more and m ore, bcD materially and morally, an d desirous of aff ording each other a mutual succour, having put asid e their poi' ,,, tical differences, have formed amongst thelssel"s . benevolent societ. The Polish Ben y evolent Society takes care of the chg ; dren, of the orphans, widows, aged, lame, an d h i : firni e dueS °: their brethren • and it has principally in view th e of Lion of the children, in order that with a k" w ' s redge the English language they may also acquire a kne w d its of their paternal ton gue , k now the natioal that disasters, rtie irse P as also to prepar e th e m for sotheir they may b 3 enabl e d t o support themselves an parents honestly. of j of This society has elected a commission COW e 0" oaf • five members--The Rev. Dr. Zi en kievrics, An g i rr Dr. Vwainski, M.A., th e Citi zens - Pruszeynsh i t rewicz, and Ruzynski. It h a s authorised, by mass to date, the persons aforesaid to act in their nettle, 1 1 0 is appeal to all those who may feel disposed to aid the the realisation of this object. , he so' The commission, in executing the orders 0" e oet ciety, has seen at first the necessity of mekinglrid s of statistic of the Polish refu ge es residing in E n gt - age their marriages, children, or phans, widows, a n joy After having brought thi s l a b o ur to a close , the 00 mission has found that there are in England aba n don Polish refugees, 160 married, 317 children, in ~ of alone 209 chilren, forty of whom up to the, - 1 of ten years are not baptised, and those are the chnu'i e rs, gentlemen and enemies of the faith of their fo! ‘tow s There are besides 13 orphans, 20 aged, and owl/ a— . and infirm persons. the This Polish Benevolent Society is honoured bY names and patronage of eminent individuals, 0 14 : 0 possess influence. Th e comm i ss ion is employ! it executing the will of the Benevolent Polish Socleti i t he collects funds for the school, and for the want! Cf dist orphans, widows, aged, and sick. We are of opirn° t hat it will ere long publish it s u lt er i o r proceedings, an it will persevere in its noble efforts. LAW IN TELLI GEN CE. JUDGES' CHAMBERS, June 14. (Before Mr. Justice COLERIDGE.) DUNN V. LIND. W e In this action, b roug h t by Mr. Bunn, of Dr ol l ov er Theatre, against Mademoiselle Jenny Lind, to reccutr compensation in damag e s for an alleged breach of e tract, a summons wa s obtain e d at the instance (it ' h fendant, calling on the plaintiff to show cause " ; .t commission should not issue to examine witoestould Berlin, and why, in the meantime, all proceedingst"v, not be stayed. The summons was granted on Sa unV o , and to-day Mr. Lewis, of the firm of Lewis and Ifditt attended to show cause, and Mr. Jennings app support of the ap. Mr. r LEvris informed his Lordship of the nature Of :ol action, and said he had to apply for an adjournoteP the summons for a period of three months. f o r 011 Mr. Justice C O LE R IDGE inquired the reason i adjournment, remarking that the parties whom it the wished to examine by a commission might die ' ll meantime. Mr. LEWIS said the action had been set down for b t e b re e adjourned sittings atter the term just ended, b 0 ! t og was no probability of its being tried until th e 11 to• after next term, and therefore there could be 0° bit; diate necessity for a commission. The plaintiff, a s , t os Lordship was aware, would h ave t o join in the Or ° fa of the commission, or he could apply rate for a septi t t he mission; but it was thought advisable, seeing r sD cause could not be tried some mont h s ,' to apP I Y iu- so d adjournment of the application for three mord for this additional reas o n—th a t t h e ce lebratio - m - ine poser, Meyerbeer, whom it was p ro posed w by the commission, was confid e ntly e xp4cted "i the in London in time to be examin e d on the trial 0 action. la ° cell' Mr. JENNINGS, in reply, complained of the d c Y ar y be sioned by the parties on th e o th e r side. In Ja eil wo had offered to appe a r t o an y su it, but the action 0 oar layed for some months, an d now it was sought I siun a further &lay. pOt Mr. LEWIS (interposing) said the defendant iv* within the jurisdiction of the Court till recently.iecio. Mr. JENNI NGS pr ocee d e d to rema rk that the . the tion was only delivered on th e sth of June ins re; t he pleas were delivered on the 9th, issue was joine _ en for 11th, and notic e o f tr i a l was , on the s , me day, V e ofr. Ks ton sittings in L on d on a b out to co mmence• on as Jennings) had therefore applied for the cow° is s hoe soon as he possibly could, an d h e had an affi d d e e v f dant' e ing its necessity. It was requ i s i te for the _ t f is En' case thst the Earl of Westmo re l a nd, her Fiber eyerci voy to the King of Pru ss i a , an d the coter r e d:hip ha d beer should be examin e d, an d, as his l'edelayed fur observed, if the pre s e n t a ppli ca ti o n We s „., e 'd of th eir three months, the defendant m i g ht be deP" evidence. . b e his LORDSHIP intimated that the Par ties f°e examined, although the cause might . some months. po that there wa tte Mr. LEWIS reminded his Lordship oula doubt that one of the witness (Sleyerbeer) n , to in London in time for the trial; and as the dista Berlin was now so short the Earl of Westmoreland 1n440, not be 1 a bt arrive and thereby save the expense of the commirroji Mr. JENNINGS further urged that the plainttu to • delayed his action, and that he was not in a situatio n ask for any postponement. Mr. LEWIS said theta might be reasons for dels, an action, such as ascertaining the success of a par'' against whom it was to be brought. hid Mr. JENNINGS remarked, in a nswer , th at he ‘'',st offered to appear. There was no d ou b t f rom the '- that the success would be the highest ever achieved. be Mr. Justice CoIa:RIDGE requested the affidavit to read on which the application was made. * is Mr. JENNINGS proceeded to read his own affidel"tl. which lie stated that th e E ar l o f W estmore l a nd .n Meyerbeer were previously to, and at the commence: l :j o t of the suit, resident an d st ill res id e d at B er li n ; a?' 'in. he had been informed, and believed, that they had ilen tention of visiting this country. They were (Airi, f os nings added) the parti es t o th e agreemen t, and most essential that they should be examined by a co mission. had His LORDSHIP thought that no sufficient ground - t ba. been shown to adjourn the application for three 1 011 00 Mr. LEWIS said he was entitled to time to answe r affidavit. His LORDSHIP thought that time should be grante After some remarks on the time to be afforded , n os His LORDSHIP said he should adjourn the goo:" ,Ijr for a few (Jays, and an adjournment was accor dl* ordered. The damages in the declaration are laid at 10,00 4 /Co BIRTHS On the Bth inst., at Bulstrode-street, the wife of pr. IP' Professor of Materia Medica at King's College, of a ,., 3° ,. roa d ' On the 11th inst., a t B runs fi e l d H ouse , Finc" „ / Mrs. T. J. Miller, of a son, still-born o f Great 1105 g Rev.On the the Ilth inst., Mrs. David Edwardes, street, Covent-garden of a son. f o A th le e x l a 2 n t d h er in D s o t ug i l n as U , o p f p a er so il n a . rley-street, the lady MARRIED. ,„ Sr , On the Bth i ns t., a t S t. James's, Paddington , the Diegb- M. Bonn or , Vi car o f Ruabon. Denbighshire, to Ellen , u" - ter of the late John Wood, Esq., of Worthing. h 10 11 On the 12th i ns t., a t St. George's, Bloomsbury, .100 Walton Harri s , E sq ., t o A nn, re li ct of t h e l ate Thomas Cocksedge, Esq., o f Th e Hills, Bury St. Edmund's. pi" On the 12th i ns t., at St. James's Church, Paddingtottlio , ward Lawson, Esq., to Mary Ann, only daughter of Wil sr X• Miskin, Esq., surgeon, of Broad-street, St. John's, S"ti___2,l-w--". On the 11th inst. at at Pa D is l l E ey D ,. Mr. John Gibson, jive°, Paisley Barracks. • On the 6th inst. , at Hammersmith, near Lond o° ' Ludwig Calmann, aged 41. Wif e On the Bth i nst., at German-place, Brighton , Amelia,. 4. of Major-G enera l Si r Patrick Ross, Governor of St. Hel eil dot On the 10th inst., at Hampton-court Palace, Allah eH r son of the late Lieutenant-General Sir J. Maclean, IC.C• On the 10th inst., at Peckham Rye, Mr. Alfred SAllll,l,,re On the 10th inst., Susannah Mann, the wife J. B.' . dith, Esq., forme r ly of Clifford, Herefordshire. Henri On the 11th inst., at Gerrard's Hall, Basing-lane , Edward Dibbin, aged 3s. anew On the 11th inst., at Hyde-park-place West, sr - Smith, the widow of t he Rev. Henry Smith. nffora On the 11th inst., in Bishopsgate-street, . 1 Hawkins, aged 35. f dye On the 11th inst., at Tonbridge-wells, Mary, widoW ° late Rev. John Thornton. .„ a On the 11th inst., at New-grove, William Bayn e, afjle• Magistrate and Deputy-Lieutenant of the county of sex, aged 86. y On the 12th inst., at Ham-common, Surrey, Bridgman, Esq., surgeon. ,•• 003 P On the 12th init., Sir Richard Plasket, K. M.G., 0 ' ton House, near Torquay, Devon. On the 12th inst., in Gray's Inn, John Perry, Egg I IS. s Lon4en : Printed ant Published by MURDO YOUNG. °I ..y4.21 Strand, Printer. at The Bun °Mee, No. 112, Straz.d, in the 1 of the Savoy, in tte County of Middlesex, Tue2A-,. " I P j r 4 4 11171 V °1 11 1 1 h ar: tra is:l he] , ye rnber Is Loildc pR Vdth 448 , c "Oat u Alt he ikt the he t , romei he wilt % be to, Oa.. ..... A' " 4 41 "ert r°44 B Vit tirs ri let 0I 414 s _. i k h nd -.ll3 qQi 4ge iJr taNito 411 F