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Charitable Trusts Bill, and as he thought great benefit would arise from passing that measure, he should be afraid of interfering - with it by occupying a night with the Education Bill, and should not, therefore, move the second reading of that bill on the day appointed. With regard to the course of other business, the house would re collect that there had been three very important measures which had taken a very considerable time in discussion— the one, the Income Tax in its present shape; the other, the Succession Duty ; and the third, which stood for com mittee that night, the India Bill. He was happy to think the time was not far distant when the third of these bills would be considered in the other house. (Hear, hear.) He hoped on Monday week, the Ist August, to fix the committee of supply, and, as regarded other business, he hoped the house, considering the lateness of the session, would allow orders of the day to take precedence on Tues days as well as on other days. (Hear, hear.) There must also be several bills fixed for Wednesdays which there was not a chance of carrying to a successful issue this session, and in these cases he hoped hon. gentlemen would give way. He should move, on Monday next, that after the Ist of August orders of the day take precedence of motions ; and should now conclude at once by moving that the house at its rising do adjourn till Monday next. SITTING OF PARLIAMENT. Mr. H. DRUMMOND said, after the remarks which had been made by the noble lord, it was quite clear there - would be no other opportunity of bringing under the con sideration of the house the subject of which he had given notice, and in order to save time he would at once rush in medial res, and state the conclusion at which he had ar rived before giving his reasons. (Laughter.) His object was twofold—first of all, to get Parliament to meet at a more convenient season —(cheers)—and, secondly, to shorten the duration of the session of Parliament. (Cheers.) He believed it was universally admitted that were it not for the voting of the money they would scarcely ever be re. quired to sit at all, and that no Government or Minister in his senses would assemble Parliament but for that pur pose. (Laughter.) And why was the Minister obliged to summon Parliament in this manner ? Simply because the money Was given to him only for a certain time. The time with which the Minister had been entrusted with the money was up to Easter next. Now, supposing the supply had been extended to Christmas, it cer tainly would not have been necessary to meet in Feb ruary, but they might then have met in October. Now he did not see why the time of making up the public ac ccunts should not be changed. He should like to know why, whilst every house of business in the world made up its accounts at Christmas, the public accounts could not be made up to Christmas. The chief officer ap- Vointed to manage these accounts said, "In former times the annual accounts of both receipts and expenditure were made up at various periods—the 25th December, the 31st December, the sth June, the 30th March, and other periods at the caprice of the Government. We are scarcely better off at the present day. It will be impossible to prepare a completely detailed account of the whole receipts and ex penditure of the kingdom, as in France, until a day is fixed for making up all the accounts." The truth of the matter, was that in old times the accounts were made up according to the ecclesiastical and not the civil year. The persons appointed to keep the accounts, being clerks, natu sally made them upto the same period that the ecclesias tical accounts were made up. If the accounts were made up to Christmas the house might meet six weeks or two months before that time, and then hon. members would be able to live in town in the cold weather, and in the country in the fine weather. (Hear, hear.) Instead of which, like most irrational people, and like no other people in the world, and not like ourselves in past times, we spent the summer in London, and the winter in the country. (Laugh ter and hear, hear.) There was another point to which he wished. to call the attention of the house. The noble lord (Lord J. Russell) two or three years ago decided on the appointment of another Secretary of State, coupling that scheme with the suppression of the Lord:Lieutenantcy of Ireland. Now be (Mr. H. Drummond) r objected to suppression of the Lord-Lieutenantcy, believing such a matter ought rather to be determined by the feelings of the people - than by any abstract doctrines. But at that time the'fioble lord "stated that the business of the coun try bad •so much increased ' that there was a demand for another Secretary of State. To show how the business of public offices had increased, he might state that, whilst in the year 1838 the sum paid for letters was 38,0001., this year it amounted to 125,0001. This showed that there were now nearly four times as many letters to answer as there were in 1838, and it was in evidence be fore the committee, that there was hardly time to read the letters, and that the secretaries had to sign the answers as fast as they possibly could. (Laughter.) The Govern ment, however, threw a considerable portion of work on themselves. The reception of so many deputations must materially interfere with the business of the Ministers of State. Then, again, their attendance was required in com mittees. The number of accounts called for by Parlia ment was annually increasing. Beyond that, the time of the Government was taken up. by answering all sorts of odd questions. (Laughter.) Some gentleman, having . read a paragraph in a newspaper, would ask the Govern ment if they could account for it? (Laughter.) Another would say, "Here's an account about a cabman"— (latighter)—and another would talk about the soldiers having got wet at Chobham. Sometimes some 50 or 55 minutes were occupied in areeweling questions of that de scription. (Hear, hoar.) He did not think it necessary to waste the time of the house by answering the objections which had been stated to his plan. In olden times the question would have been asked, " What is to become of foxhunting ?" (Laughter.) He, however, did not think there were so many foxhunters present in the house. In his opinion they ought to return to a common-sense view of the subject, and live in the country in pleasant weather, and in town in winter. (Hear, hear.) THE EASTERN QUESTION. Mr. LA YARD—Before the noble lord answers the re marks made by the honourable member who has just sat down, he will perhaps allow me to ask a question on a sub ject of great importance. It is now some days since the noble lord the member for Tiverton requested me to post pone a motion of which I had given notice, in consequence of negotiations being then in progress. It is understood that those negotiations consisted of a joint proposal from this country and France to the Government of Russia. I consented to the request of the noble lord, and it will be in the recollection of the house that he promised to give me an early day for bringing the subject forward. I have since that day been given to understand that the noble lord the Secre tary for Foreign Affairs, in another place, has stated that he will be prepared in the course of a few days, whether these proposals have been accepted or not, to lay before the public all the pipers connected with this subject. During the last fortnight events of very great importance have taken place in the East of Europe. I will venture to state that, in the whole history of the intercouase of nations, acts so unjus tifiable, so outrageous, so dangerous as thosa which have been committed within the last three months have never before been committed - in Europe. (Hear, hear.) The Government of Russia has sent a large body of troops into the provinces of Wallachia and Moldavia; and not only have they taken military possession of those provinces, but they have actually taken possession of a great part of the civil administration of those provinces; and not only are trey occupied in fortifying the principal towns, but every military station on the Danube. (Hear, hear.) Moreover, communications of a very insulting character have been addressed, not only to Turkey, but I think this house will agree with me when I say to this country also—(hear) — and that those communications have been put forward in a manner totally unprecedented in the history of diplo enacy—(hear, hear)—in a most offensive manner. (Hear, hear.) A kind of crusade has been preached in Russia, anti that event has been celebrated in the most public manner, not in Russia alone, because we learn that a cru sade against a neighbouring power, characterising it in the most offensive terms as " infidel," has been preached in the very provinces of that power, and that the prince of one of those provinces has been compelled to attend a public ceremony to return thanks for this crusade against his own sovereign. (Hear.) What has been the consequence of these acts? The power against which these proceedings have been taken has been put to great expense. Not only have her resources been exhausted but she has been obliged to call for aid upon her neighbours —upon those on whom the population depend for subsistence. (Hear, hear.) It is well known that there is great danger of a general out. break in Turkey, and that it may occur at any. mo ment. I presetnee that the acts' to which T have alluded, which outrage the public laws of Europe, which are calcu lated to put an end to all these treaties on which the peace of Europe is founded, and which have been trampled under foot, merit the serious attention of the Government (Hear, .hear.) There is scarcely a weak state in Europe which does not contemplate with alarm the present state of things. That which has occurred to-day play ' b eerier , ee • to-morrow, and, followi ng th e same coarse, state may, on the sam e t erms, a 4 an- ne r l ow ghb e o rfu ur l jug state weaker than it se lf. W e are told that these "out rageous acts are merely n ego ti a ti ons. I presume that the Government, although evincing a laudable desire to main tain the peace of Europe, and although ready to m a k e every sacrifice for the preservation of that peace, have nevertheless made an unqualified and energetic protest against attacks like these, and have taken means to prevent them b e ing viewed as a precedent in similar cases hereafter; and it is but an act of justice to this country and to Europe at e ' g that these protests should be placed bef ore t h e public, in order that they may have the opportunity of judging whether they are adequate to the great importance such as we as a nation ought t o h of av t e h m e a s d u e b i le an ct :Li ai n n'ar . order ° that, if unfortunately; such pro tests have net,been made, those members who think as I do should have the opportunity of registering a solemn pro test against a policy which would in that case be inconsis tenttis with the dignity, the honour, and the interests of h country, and, moreover, I will "venture to say, dangerous to the existence, not only of Turkey, but of every weak state on the continent of Europe. (Hear, hear.) Every hour at this time increases the opportunity of Russia. We know what has passed. We know how far we can rely on the assurances she has given us. We know how far we can rely on assurances which have been still more vaguely given, and which show us that Russia is not disinclined to take advantage of the propositions which have been sub mitted to her consideration. If these negotiations can only be prelonged for a few months, our fleets will be compelled either to violate a treaty, the violation of which Russia has declared would be a caves belli, or to return to their winter quarters at Malta. We find that for several reasons Russia will not leave the principalities. W e are told m r g t ip that is not supposed to be unconnected with Government, that R uss i a having made nine icefithApitract for provisions cannot throw up that contract ; 44., s also been insinuated that she will not quit the prifteOities until she has been paid the ..oxpenses of the in" Iv,/ That reminds me of the old east. • "-r,' ern custom, where a great man, after compelling a village to furnish provisions, made the inhabitants pay him a sum of money for the use of his teeth in chewing them. (Hear, and laughter.) I think the Government ought to be pre pared to lay on the table, in sufficient time before the close of the session, those papers which may give the public an opportunity of forming an accurate opinion on this ques tion ; and I trust the noble lord will appoint a day—this slay week or Monday week—for a full discussion of this most momentous question. (Cheers.) Lord J. RUSSELL—In reply to the remarks of the hon. member for Aylesbury, I will state what has been our course of proceeding with respect to that very interesting and important question to which he has invited the atten. tion of the house. (Hear, hear.) The house will recollect that at an early period, when questioned on this subject, I stated that demands had been made by Prince Menschi koff upon the Government of Turkey, which, in the opinion of her allies—England and France—were inconsistent with the independence of Turkey. At a later period I stated, in reply to another question, that her Majesty's fleet had been ordered to leave Malta, and to proceed to Besika Bay, in the neighbourhood of the Straits of the Darda nelles. The hon. gentleman speaks of negotiations. That proceeding hardly comes under the designation of a nego tiation. It was intended as a proof, and it is a proof, how much her Majesty has at heart the independence and in tegrity of the Turkish dominions. (Loud cheers.) But when the hon. gentleman complains that papers have not been laid on the table, and that this house is not in a situa tion to express an opinion on the course of proceeding adopted by her Majesty's Government, I must say that I think of all preparations for war the best is to exhaust every means to obtain peace—(loud and repeated cheers) —that it is not until all the means of negotiation have been tried and have failed, that any Ministers would be justified in placing at hazard that peace which has happily con tinued for s o many years, and by whi c h th e prosperity, the wealth, the commerce, and the liberties of Europe have been so largely promoted. (Loud cheers.) If this is the case , I think the house will agree at once that, while these negotiations are carried on, they can be better carried on from Government to Government than by laying all the papers connected with such negotiations before a popu lar assembly, and exposing them to popular debate. (Cheers.) In so saying I have no doubt I ask much from the indulgence of the house—l have much to ask from the confidence of the house. But I ask it on no party ground. I do not ask it of one party rather than the other. Bat I ask it in full reliance on the patriotism of this house, and on considerations which this house will always give to those persons who happen, at the moment, to be Ministers of the Crown. (Cheers.) . I haie only to ads, that these negotiations, so far from having been brought to a close, have hardly had a commencement at St. Petersburgh. Considering the distance—the necessity of applying at Constantinople to ascertain the opinions and the wishes of the Turkish Government—the communica tions that have taken place between France and this coun try, and the distance again to St. Petersburgh, I think the house will not wonder that these negociations are not in a state to be laid before the house. (Hear.) My noble friend the Secretary for Foreign Affairs has declared elsewhere that as soon as his public duty will permit he will lay all the necessary papers before the Houses of Parliament. I know that there may be some disadvantage in not mak ing public a protest or an answer to papers which have been ostentatiously circulated throughout Europe. (Hear, hear.) A dispatch written by M. Drouyn de Lhuys has, however, appeared in print--a most able, statesmanlike document, containing very convincing reasons, stating facts which undoubtedly weaken, if they do not altogether do away with, the assertions in the state paper to which it is an answer. (Cheers.) Had it been the custom and usage in this country to give papers separately, the present Go vernment would have been happy to produce at once the dispatch of Lord. Clarendon on the same subject, in which he has used a similar line of argument. (Cheers.) But in conformity with the usage always adopted by Parliament, we think it right to reserve that paper until all the papers can be laid before the house. For my own part, I entirely agree with what was stated at a time when I was absent, by my noble friend the Secretary for the Home Department. We are ready to rely upon the forbearance of this house as long as forbearance can properly be given. If we were unhappily to find that these negotiations could not be ter minated honourably and satisfactorily in peace, we should as fully rely upon the patriotism of this house and its de termination to support the honour of the Crown. (Loud cheers.) I will only say further, that the conduct of the Emperor of the French, and of his Government, has been entirely in accordance with that of her Majesty's Govern ment, and that the two powers are united to maintain the faith of treaties—to preserve, if possible, the peace of Europe—to preserve it with the honour of both countries unsullied—to preserve it with the view of maintaining the happiness of Europe and the peace -of Europe. (Loud cheers.) Mr. LAYARD.—The noble lord has not said whether he will give me a day for the discussion. , Lord J. RUSSELL.—After what I have stated the hon. gentleman cannot expect me to name any day. Mr. DICUMMOND.—Nirith respect to my question. Lord J. RUSSELL.— I shall not now discuss the ques tion as to our sitting in winter, and having our holidays in summer. I am one of those who, in some respects, agree with the hon. member. I have, however, observed that whenever the house met at an early period, the session was not found to be a short one. I believe that in another year —I will not say next year —we may be able to finish the session in June or July. (Rear, hear.) CHARTERS TO STEAM COMPANIES. Lord HOTHAM wished to ask the questiGn of which he had given notice, on a subject in which a great many peo ple were interested. Without making any complaint agairst the right hon. gentleman for the course he had thought fit to pursue, he wished to ask him whether he would lay on the table such information as would enable the country to know the particular grounds on which he persisted in granting a charter to the Direct Australian Steam Navigation Company ? Mr. CARDWELL said, that if he wished to be guided by precedent, it was impossible for him to refuse the char ter to the company referred to, which was a company that was competing with other companies that already possessed charters. THE PETERBOROUGH PETITION. Mr. BRIGHT said he understood that in the course of the evening a committee had been nominated, in pursuance of the resolution adopted by the house last night, in the matter of the petition charging Earl Fitzwilliam with having interfered in various elections for Peterborough. It would be in the recollection of the house that, when he moved for the appointment of a com mittee, he endeavoured to follow in all particulars, except in having reduced the number by two, the precedent of the St am f or d case. H e stated that his object in moving that the number of the committee should be seven was that the general committee of selection might appoint five, that he should be chosen as another, and that some other member of the house should be se lected to watch the case for Earl Fitzwilliam. He under stood that the house acceded to that view. He now found, however, that the general committee had nominated seven members, and that he was not one of them, though there might, for anything he knew, be one of the friends of Earl Fitzwilliam upon the committee. Ho was not aware that any of the gentlemen who had been placed upon the com mittee knew anything of the case, and if they did not it would be necessary to have counsel, who were not the best parties to bring out the truth in such an inquiry. He should be very glad, personally, to be excused from serv ing upon the committee, but having moved for its appoint ment upon the understandi ng that he sh ou ld b e c h osen one of its memb ers , h e did think that the course which had been taken by the general committee of selection was not that which the house intended, or which would best promote the ends of justice. He was not at the present moment certain what step to adopt with the view of re verting to the intention of the house ; but he should con sider, between that and Monday, what course he ought to pursue in the matter, and should then state his determi nation with regard to it. MR. HENRY AND THE NEW CAB ACT. Lord PALMERSTON—I may take this opportunity of answering the question which was put to me yesterday with reference to a police case at Bow-street, under the new Cab Act. On inquiry I find the circumstances to be these. There came before the magistrate at Bow-street a person who had hired a cab, and who desired that a dif ference which had taken place between himself and the cab man with respect to the exact fare to be paid should be settled in the police court. The magistrate upon carefully considering the case decided that the cabman had made an overcharge. He told the cabman that, if he desired to have the ground measured, he was ready to do so, but that in that case the usual practice would be followed, which I think is to require each party to put down ss. The fare, if I recollect ri g ht, was 4 s. 6d ., an d th e amoun t de manded was 59., or soreething more: Mr. Henry informs me that the cabman declined the Measurement, not be cause he had not ss. to pay, but.because he generally re fused that mode of settling the dispute. Upon that the magistrate sentenced him to a fine of 40s. for demanding more than he was entitled to by the act, and the fine not being paid, he was committed to prison for a month. The fine, however, has since been paid, and the cabman is now at liberty to drive over the same distance and demand the same fare if he chooses. (Hear, hear.) NEWSPAPERS STAMP DUTIES BILL. This bill, as amended, was ordered to be read a third time on Monday next. MAYN 00TH. The question of which notic e h a d b een g i ven b y Mr. 9P o oner, with reference to the appointment of a commis sion to inquire into the system of education pursued at Maynonedooth, was, at th e request of Lord J. RUSSELL, post p until Monday. 1 Sir C. WOOD sTaindEhellnNtoDlA the intentions of the visions of clause 32, regu late the appointments to committee on this bill. T ha oervii:esrb:eilimfeeoeyetrbnotpthflwetLiairtLeuh re g of assistant-surgeons. It ernbrace7l7lt, diffe rent questions, which he hoped would in discussion, but kept quite distinct an regard to the pro :ill:Use o was a s explainingt o hto Addiscombel,vainthd erefore, three ponvbeiriument not is be confounded. • The house then went respect to Haileybury, the proposition of the Government was, that all the admissions should be open to petition. On the other hand, the I.on. member for pcoer fract proposed to omit all that part of the clause, andtt: retain the present system of nomination unchanged; while the proposal of the hon. member for Montrose was, that one-half of the admissions should be by nomination and the other half by public competition. The first question, - therefore, upon which the committee would have to de cide, was whether the admissions to Efaileybnry should be by public competition or by nomination. The Govern ment, was determined to adhere to its proposal, and he should therefore resist the amendment of the . hon. member for Pontefract. IVith rssTect, Tiotvever, to the next question—the admissions to the military seminary at Acidiscombe—he had received, since the bill war.: presented, Bum strong representations from members of the Indian committee and others, of the high character and brilliant services of persons who had gone through Addiscombe, and served in the engineering and artillery services of the East India Company, that he had resolved to abstain from in terfering in any way with the present mode of admission to that seminary. (Hear, hear.) He should therefore pro pose to omit all that part of the clause which had reference to the admissions to Addiscombe, retaining in his own hands, and even increasing, the power of the Board of Control of prescribing the examinations both upon enter ing and leaving the college, and of appointing the ex miners. With regard to the third question—the appoint ment of assistant-surgeons—he proposed to retain the clause as it stood, opening the military medical service of the company , to public competition. The Government also proposed that the appointments to this service, as well as those to Haileybury, should be open to natives of India. (Hear.) Mr. HUME expressed his satisfaction at the resolution to which the right hon. baronet had come relative to the admisssions to Addiscombe, and hoped he would adopt the same course with respect to the civil servic3, He beiieved that the civil service was composed, on the whole, of men of the highest character, and well acquainted with the habits and customs of the natives, and he felt convinced that if a door should be opened to competition to the ex tent proposed by the bill, a very great risk would be en -countered. His suggestion was that one half of the can didates for admission to the colleges should be chosen by competition, and he would therefore move to insert after the word " appoint," in the third line of the clause, the words, " half the number of." (Hear, hear.) Sir H. MADDOCK could not agree with the amend ment of his hon. friend who had just sat clown, for he thought that it would lead to extraordinary confusion if they admitted one-half the students into a college who were nominated by their friends, and another half com posed of persons who had gained that position by their individual attainments. He felt himself bound to record his vote in favour of leaving the whole of these appoint ments open to competition. Mr. V. SMITH said that as this was merely an experi ment which they were about to make, he agreed with the hon. member for Montrose (Mr. Hume) that after the ex periment should be made on a small scale at first, and ex tended subsequently if it proved successful. Competition in this country was a source from which we derived so many advantages, that many appeared to forget that it might not be adapted to all cases and all circumstances. He doubted very much that academical distinctions was any test of that ability which was so particularly desired in the Indian service, and though he admitted the patron age of the company had been, in some cases, exercised in a manner which was vulgarly called " jobbing," yet it must be recollected that there was a noble and advanta geous use of patronage, and that, on the whole, no fault could be found with the manner in which it had been dis pensed by the Court of Directors. Lord STANLEY supported the principle of test by competition. He believed that in by far the greater ma jority of cases, the honours attained in l a t er lif e h a d b ee n proportionate to those which had been achieved in early life. While, however, he did not thi n k th a t th e y could adopt, on the whole, a better or fairer test than competi tion ; yet, he must admit, that little good could resat from the application of such a test to boys of 17 or 18 years of age, and he should suggest that the lowest age of the candidates for examination should be fixed at 20 or 21, that being the usual period of life at which academical honors were generally taken. An accidental superiority at the age of 17 or 18 might be more fairly attributed to cramming than to any spontaneous proof of ability, and this would generally occur if the examinations were to be merely for entrance into the college, which would confine thatthe c t a h n e di m d e a eh tes h t e o tte t r ho p s lae eofweaeld h youth e f t u e l d a e g fm e. e H th e e thought that the much better plan would be to define the qualifi examinations. s to e which w ere requ i s it e for admission into the civil the th e ap ex p Mr. R. J. PHILLIMORE also supported the clause, but t s h erv os i e ce w,h anti distinguished h ti a n vi gu ng is h d e o d neth so, themselves to sel g v i e v s e ei said that he could not agree with the noble lord (Lord Stanley) as to the benefits to be derived from unlimited competition in a case like this. Competition involved the very great evil of " cramming," and many an infant Ros cious had turned out an ancient scene-shifter. He consi dered, however, that this system would abolish a great many of the evils which were inseparable from the former one, and he was consequently in favour of the proposition made by her Majesty's Government. The hon. member concluded by saying he would support the clause. Mr. ELLIOT said it would be impossible for a widow coming home from India to educate her sons so as to qua lify them for an appointment as proposed ; and he thought that that was a consideration which his right hon. friend should take into account. Mr. NEWDEGATE said it appeared to him that they would lose the' parties possessing excellent qualifications for office by the course that was proposed. Mr. FITZGERALD believed that, in accepting compe tition in lieu of nomination, they would best secure the beat amount of merit for the civil service in India. Sir H. WILLOUGHBY having said a few words, Mr. HUME replied, when the committee divided, and the numbers were— For the amendment.... Against it .. Majority —s4 Sir CHARLES WOOD, in reply to a request made by Mr. BLACKETT, said ho could not consent to postpone the next clause, merely because hon. members were not pre sent. Mr. OTWAY expressed his satisfaction at the conces sions made by the President of the Board of Control, by which natives of India would be eligible to situations in the civil and medical service of India. After a few words from Sir H. MADDOCK, Mr. BRIGHT wished to know if the President of the Board of Control intended to fix a salary for the directors, and if so, he should be glad to know th e amoun t. Sir C. WOOD.—I do intend to bring up a clause fixing the salary of the directers. Mr. BOITVERIE (the Chairman of the Committee) sug gested that Mr. Bright's question did not arise out of the clause before the committee. Mr. BRIGHT thought on a measure of this kind great latitude might be allowed. His question had not been answered. He should like to know, then, what the amount of the salary would be ? Sir C. WOOD said he had already expressed his inten tion of bringing up a clause on the subject. Mr. BRIGHT—WiII the right honourable baronet say what the salary is to be ? Sir C. WOOD said he would do so when he brought up the clause. Mr. PHILLIMORE thought they ought to know what the salary was to be. Mr. OT WAY was of the same opinion. Mr. BLACKETT wished to know, now that the pa ' tronaee was to be restored to the directors, upon what ground their salary was to be raised ? Sir C. WOOD said he never, at any time, had mixed up the question of patronage and salary, in respect to the di rectors of the East India Company. This might be a good time for him to state, that hejhad had a consultation with the chairman and deputy chairman of the Board of Di rectors, in reference to the statement made by the hon. member for Manchester, relative to the conduct of a di rector, touching the sale of an office within his patronage. These gentlemen said they were satisfied that the hon. member for Manchester would not have made the state ment in question unless he believed it to be a correct one ; at the same time they felt bound to declare that they did not believe that any director of the East India Company had been guilty of the conduct charged against him. The Board of Directors further authorised him to state, that they would spare neither pains nor expense to prosecute the persons charged with the offence in question, and with this view they called eipon the member for Manchester to put it in their power to prosecute the party to conviction ; or, if they could not obtain a conviction, at least to hold up to public scorn the person who had been guilty of the improper conduct in question. (Hear.) Mr. BRIGHT said his authority on the subject referred to, was his honourable friend the member for Lambeth (Mr. Wilkinson.) Before his honourable friend made a statement, he would just repeat what he had said the pre• vious night respecting this matter. He said that a near relative of the hon. member for Lambeth had been offered an appointment in connection with India, and that in the oourse of the discussion that took place between the par ties, allusion was made as to what would be expected from the relative of the hon. member for Lambeth, in the event of the appointment taking place. He, however, finding that he would be obliged to make a declaration that he had not given any money for the appointment, declined to make the declaration, the negotiation terminated, and he did not get the appointment. He had only to repeat, that he had the account from the honourable member for Lam beth. That honourable gentleman was in the house last night when he (Mr. Bright) referred to the matter, but he did not say so, not having been authorised so to do. Mr. WILKINSON, after observing that, as the conversa tion which gave rise to the statement made by his hon. friend (Mr. Bright) was a private one, he was taken by surprise. That was one reason why he did not address the horse last evening on this subject. And the reason that induced him to be silent last evening, was that he had not then autho rity to corroborate the statement of his hon. friend. The fact was, that the person to whom the proposal was made was his brother. The transaction took place about Octo ber last ; but as his brother had given his word of honour that he would not divulge the name of the person who had made to him the offer of the appointment in question, he could not make it public. (Oh.) His brother had a desire that his son should go to India. The friend said he could get him an appointment, stating what would be required for it, His brother did not think there was anything wrong in his paying a sum of money for the appointment, and he consented to pay for the appointment, and he was very much pleased to have an opportunity of doing so. He was, however, subsequently shown the form of declara tion which he would have to make in respect to the appoint ment, and finding that ho would have to declare that he had obtained it without purchase, he refused to proceed any further in the matter. • " Oh," said the person offering the appointment, " you don't pay to the person having the appointment in his gift—the appointment is given to me, and as you only give your money to some indigent person, you can safely make the declaration in question." (Hear, hear.) His brother however, declined t o a d opt this course, and the negotiation terminated. He (Mr. Wilkin son) would only observe that the person who proposed to sell the appointment was a highly respectable person in the city of London, and one who, if he s a id h e h a d i t to sell, wag beyond all doubt in possession of it for that purp ose . Lord JOCELYN said the question at issue was a most painful, one. A stigma had been cast upon the whole Court of Directors by the charges made, and it was the duty of the hon. gentleman to give up the name of the particular party who was specially liable to the charge. Sir R. INGLIS was bound to say that the hon. member for Manchester did not refer to any director in this case, and the impression left upon the house by the hon. mem ber's statement was, that the whole transaction might have taken place without a guilty knowledge'on the part of the person having the appointment. Lord J. RUSSELL expressed his regret that the hon. member for Manchester, with such information as he had, should have made the charge he had last night, because, on the one hand, they were placing the Government of a great empire in the hands of these gentlemen, in whom they ought to repose the greatest confidence, and on the other hand, if it were to go out to India that any of them would dispose of his patronage for money, their power might be seriously diminished. After all that had taken place, it seemed to be but a private conversation that had taken place between two persons, neither of whom had any authority to make any such proposition. He did think that the hon. member for Lambeth ought to have considered more odiously before he made such a charge against the Court of Directors, who, apart from individuals, stood b Sir . J. H ro o a nG having i d t n h o a t r not olv e power n h l a y d a a sk director,edfor consideration an so high in the estimation of the public. (Hear.) as liable as the ma w n styp could be punished for engaging in a transaction so for an appointineie t Ah o manreceived it. asked Now, for the th in appointments, for Lambeth hadi h whom the brother of the hon. mem berjust as punishable as communicated, was just as base and thine • and this gentleman who had done the same took knew well that hz e ith t whom this conversation base, but illegal and dishonourable,because.e,cti o n w was not haa only this t o r nayeg t c h waskerd 39 audacity to propose a way in which he might evade the law. (Hear.) That transaction was base, because it tended to implicate an honourable body of men. He thought that the name of that gentleman ought to be given to the chairman, in order that if an y i n di v id ua l were guilty, he might be punished and exposed as a swindler, for having endeavoured to sell what he had no right to. Mr. BLACKETT thought that these reflections were un just. It was the business of an hon. member placed in a position of responsibility to give a great public scandal to tins house ; and he showed courage in having ventured to do it, and equal honour in refusing to divulge any names, without the permission of his informant. Mr. MANGLES said the hon. member for Manchester showed courage in one way, but not in another; because he made the charge to thr ow di scre dit upon the Court of Directors, but he had not equal courage in taking the re sponsibility of enabling them to throw off that discredit. The hon. member for Manchester had spoken of the traffic as notorious, but they had never screened any delinquent; and he would pledge a prosecution, even although the guilty party should be a member of their own body. Mr. WILKINSON said that the party who came to his brother professed to be in communication with a director, but he did not say he was a director. (Cheers.) He did not make the statement, and was therefore not responsible for it, but he knew his brother's word of honour had been given not to give up the name, and therefore he could not name him. (Hear, hear.) Mr. PHILLIMORE said that the hnn. member for Lambeth had studiously guarded himself from saying that it was a director'from whom his brother had this commu nication. Mr. MASTERMAN deprecated the throwing out such insinuations against such a body of men as the Directors of the East India Company. He thought the hon. mem ber for Lambeth was bound to induce his brother to use his influence to get rid of the pr om i se o f secrecy. Mr. BRIGHT said that, when the honourable me m b er for Surrey (Mr. Drummond) charged the house with being " a mass of corruption," h e hoped at least that they w ou ld not have cheered and laughed at the charge. Now, last night they were discussing the value of the directors' patronage, and although it was not the practice to say that the patronage of the Archbishop of Canterbury or the Prime Minister was worth 60,0001. or 100,0001. a year, yet it was extremely common to hear it said that the patron age of a director of the East India Company was worth 10,000/. or 12,0001. a year. There was not a man who never said an indiscreet thing, and he perhaps was not an exception, but he had made no charge against the direc tors. His object was to show that this patronage was worth something, and that by one mode or other it did directors another commonly i n t trafficdid not of these- p a P p asa p sse o f i t n rho t am m t appointments, t , but that these appointments were bought anti sot I was as clear as that the company existed, and he had given a case. His object was to show that these thins were trafficked in, and that he had shown, and he objected that the responsibility of the body invited the offences which he was anxious to prevent. He ought to have apologised to the hon. member for Lambeth for having made this statement without his permission ; but he believed what he had said to be true, and he defied any one to say that he had sacrificed the public interest in mentioning this incident. After some farther conversation, clause 32, as amended, was agreed to. Mr. RICH moved a clause giving greater practical effi ciency to the 87th section of the Act 3 and 4 Will. 4, c. 85, which declares that "no native of her Majesty's Indian territories, nor any natural born subject of her Majesty, re sident therein, shall by reason only of his religion, place of birth, descent, colour, or any of them, b e di sa bl e d f rom holding any place, ffice, or employment under the said company." He quoted the opinions of Mr. Macaulay and Lord Lansdowne in support of his views. The Court of Directors had excited considerable prejudice against them by not paying due attention to this matter. How was the native to come over to Haileybury. He contended that the present act was an aggravation of the late act, so far as the natives were concerned. His right hon. friend was "keeping the promise to the ear, and breaking it to the heart." At the present moment the natives, by their education and general ability, were more than ever fitted for public em ployment. The right honourable gentleman gave some details as to the present state of education in the col leges and schools frequented by the natives of India. The higher classmen of our Universities had looked forward to the highest offices in the Church and State ; but the Indian youth, after all his training, looked forward only to an office from which a young civilian thought it very hard if he was not promoted within two or three years. They were Europeanising the minds of the young natives, and yet they were refusing them now as a boon, what they would hereafter be compelled to submit to have taken forcibly from them, He would not ask the Government to make them councillors at once, he merely asked that they should establish some college or university, or other means by which the Indian in India might have the same access to the service as an Englishman had. It was a great injustice to force the native to be at the expense of coming from his own land to our rigorous climate to study here, and to suffer the imputation at least of losing his caste. It was a mockery to say that this was offering him just faci lities for entering the covenanted service. He hoped they would not take the narrow ground as to whether this or that word would best fit into the amendment ; but that they would consider by what means a free and liberal ac cess could be given to the Indian service. No one having seconded the amendment, it was nega tived without a division. The clause was then agreed to. Clauses 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, and 39, were also agreed to. Mr. RICH, recurring to the amendment he had proposed as regarded the third clause, thought it somewhat unhand some of the Chancellor of the Exchequer not to reply to him. Lord STANLEY also said he considered the amend ment one of the most important which had as yet been made. The intention and object of the Government ought to be to place the natives of India in a proper state in re gard to these colleges, in which they could get information. Under the present system, they could not do so, and it was therefore necessary that something else should be done in that respect than was proposed in this bill. Sir C. WOOD said that it was the intention of the mea sure to confer upon the natives of India the benefits which the hon. gentleman had pointed out, so far as education was concerned. On clause 40 being proposed, Sir J. HOGG suggested that the clause should be omit ted. Sir C. WOOD consented to omit the clause, which was negatived accordingly. Clause 41, the last in the bill, was agreed to. The house then resumed, the Chairman reported progress, and obtaine leave to sit again on Monday for the purpose of considering the new clauses. ENCUMBERED ESTATES (IRELAND) BILL. On the order of the day for going into committee on this bill Mr. WHITESIDE moved that the bill be committed that day week. The - SOLICITOR-GENERAL for IRELAND hoped that the house would not refuse its assent to the proposal that it should then resolve itself into a committee on that bill. (Hear, hear.).. Mr. I. BUTT said he thought that the debate ought to be adjourned at that late hour. Lord J. RUSSELL said that all government intended to do was to go into committee, leaving the consideration of the clauses for a future day. The amendment was withdrawn, and the house then went into committee pro forma. The Patronage Exchange Bill, the Colonial Bishops Act Extension Bill, the Thames Embankment Bill, and the Turnpike Trusts Arrangements Bill were read a third time and passed. The order of the day for the second reading of the Burial-grounds Bill was discharged. The report on the Customs, &c., Act was brought up and discharged. Mr. MACIARTNEY was moving for some returns, of which he had given notice, connected with the permission given by the Admiralty to certain yacht clubs to carry certain signals, when An Ha. MEMBER moved that the house be counted, and, there not being forty members, the house 'adjourned at twenty minutes past two. POCKET BOROUGHS OF THE PEERAGE. Boroughs. Number of Patrons. Electors. Arundel 2OB Mike of Norfolk. Woodstock Marlborough 271 Marquis of Ailesbury. Horsham Thetford 2OO Duke of Grafton. Ripon Lisburn Bandon 209 Earl of Bandon. Dungannon Chichester 757 Duke of Richmond. Newark 867 Duke of Newcastle. Durham - 1,157 MarquiS of Londonderry. Helstone Penryn and Falmouth 906 Lord de Dunstanville. Cockermouth 355 Colonel Wyndham. Malton Morpeth 415 Earl of Carlisle. Ashburton 236 Lord Clinton. Armagh 3lB The Lord Primate, Tavistock Totnes Calne Wilton _ 219 Earl of Pembrok e . Dorchester - 432 Earl of Shaftesbury. cL H au u rdn n la t o i rw ngd on o n • ... :..: : . . . Stamford 450 Earl of Powis. Richmond 861 Marquis of Anglesey. Montgomery . 1,003 Lord Clive. • MILITIA ESTIMATES.—A' report from the select com mittee of the House of Commons appointed to prepare the militia estimates for the year ending 31st March, 1854, has been printed. The following are the heads of the expenditure :—Charge for raising and training the militia in England and Wales, 86,666 in number, 319,490/. • disembodied allowances of the perma nen t staff in Great Britain and Ireland, 93,6001.; 2,538 in number ; disembodied allowances of 314 subalterns, 13,0001.; reduced allowances of 53 officers, 3,9001.; re tired allowances of 256 ditto, 16,350/. ; ditto of 54 local militia adjutants, 3,8001.; charge of 1,884 out-pensioners of militia, 28,0001.; of 47 out-pensioners of local militia, 600/. Total force, 91,812 ; estimated charges, 478,470/. The number of the force for the year ending 31st March, 1853 , was 57,746, and the cost 386,715/. OUR STREETS. ---The wood for our street pavements having nearly worn itself out, owing, in a great mea sure, to those monstrous railway vans, and the thou sand-and-one omnibuses, and given way to the more noisy and durable granite, might it not be desirable to consider some means of continuing to us one certainly ad mirable quality which the wood afforded over the stone pavement, and for which was chiefly recommended, viz., its noiselessness, so that persons reserved the wear and tear of their lungs till they reached the wood. So intolerable have our great leading thoroughfares become from the incessant din of wheels, iron grating upon stone, that tradespeople are compelled to close their doors in the hottest weather, and be stifled with the gas in the coldest, to hear or converse with their customers, or with one an other. Now, without being in the least way interested with the noiseless-wheel scheme, I cannot help thinking that some such means might be adopted ; and, if so, ought to be enforced by legislative enactment, so far as our public conveyances aro concerned ; and could we but add a circuit—not central—railway to carry off the heaviest traffic, we might clear our streets of both noise and nuisance.—The .Builder. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 23, 1853. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE of YESTERDAY. DOWNING-STREET, JULY 18. The Queen has been graciously pleased to give orders for the appointment of Henry Barkly, Esq., some time Go vernor of the colony of British Guiana, to be an Ordinary Member of the Civil Division of the Second Class, or Knights Commanders of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath. CROWN-OFFICE, JULY 20. MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT PARLIAMENT. County of Cornwall (Western Division)—Michael Wil liams of Trevince, in the county of Cornwall, Esq., in the room of Edward William Wynne Pendarves, Esq., de ceased. ADMIRALTY, JULY 19. Corps of Royal Marines—Second Lieutenant George Naylor to be First Lieutenant, vice William Hutchinson, cashiered. COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY THE LORD-LIEUTENANTS. Colonel Charles Leslie, K.H., to be Deputy Lieutenant, July 1,5. loyn,l North Lincoln Militia—Major Richard Ellison, to be Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. Charles Henry, Eger ton, resigned ; Captain Weston Cracroft, to be Major, vice Ellison, promoted; Edward Farr Broadbent, Gent., to be Assistant-Surgeon, July 19. West Somerset Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry—Thos. Belsey Tomlin, Esq., to be Captain and Adjutant, vice Maher, resigned, July 15. Royal Gloucestershire Regiment of Hussar Yeomanry —Frederick Newton Dickenson, Gent., to be Cornet, vice Calthorpe, promoted, July 30. (This article is substituted for that which appeared in the Gazette of the 19th instant.) Regiment of Royal London Militia—Lieutenant John Harrison Allan to be Captain, vice James Berkley, re signed, July 12. BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED. Francis Harrisson, grocer, Chelmsford. BANKRUPTS. Stephen Davey, builder, Brighton, to surrender, July 30, and September 2, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Cannan, official assignee, Aldermanbury; May and Sweetland, Queen-square, Bloomsbury. Edward Thomas, builder, Ebury-street, Pimlico, July 30, and September 2, at half-past 11, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Cannan, official assignee, Aldermanbury; Gooday, Bruns wick-square. Alfred Horlock, steam-engine manufacturer, Northfleet, Aug. 3, at one, and Sept. 6, at half-past two, at the Court, of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Sambrook court ; Lindsay and Mason, Basinghall-street. Matthew Pothecary, dealer, Martin, Wiltshire, August 5, at half-past twelve, and September 2, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Bas inghall-street ; Bishop and Son, New Bridge-street, Black friars ; Hannan, Shaftesbury. William Raining, grocer, Cheltenham, August 5, and September 5, at eleven, at the Bristol. District Court. Miller, official assignee, Bristol ; Abbot and Lucas, Bristol. John Evans, hotel-keeper, Toy Hotel, Hampton Court, August 3, at twelve, and September 6, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Sambrook oourt, Basinghall-street . ; Jones, King's Arms-yard, Cole man-street. John Ireland, draper, Kingston-upon-Hull, August 3, and September 7, at twelve, at the Leeds District Court. Carrick, official assignee, Hull ; Sale, Worthington and Shipman, Manchester; J. and H. Richardson, Leeds. George Eland Pinder, grocer and tea-dealer, York, Aug. 9, and Sept. 5, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Henry Philip Hope, official assignee, Leeds ; Fry and Losley, Cheapside, London ; Rawson and Best, Leeds. DIVIDENDS DECLARED. Thomas Salkeld, of Basinghall-street, warehouseman, second dividend of 7id. in the pound, payable at 24, Basing. hall street, on any Tuesday. Joseph Henry Dunne and John Venables, of 9, Craven street, Strand, shipowners, a dividend of 20s. in the pound, payable at 24, Basinghall-street, on any Tuesday. John Francis Bricknell Cabburn, of Cumberland-row, King's-cross, St. Pancras, licensed victualler, first dividend of 3s. in the pound, payable at 24, Basinghall-street, on any Tuesday. William Robinson, of 49, Grand Junction-terrace, Edg ware-road, upholsterer, first dividend of ss. in the pound, payable at 1, Sambrook-court, Basinghall-street, on July 23, and three subsequent Saturdays. Jacob Jenkins Nicholas, of Newport, Monmouthshire, timber merchant, third dividend of 2s. 6d. in the pound (in addition ,to 14s. in the pound previously declared), payable at 19, St. Augustine's place, Bristol, on any Wed nesday. _ Chiistian Bruce Reid, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, brewer, first dividend of is. in the pound, payable at the office of Mr. T. Baker, Royal Arcade, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, on any Saturday. Samuel Cole Harrison, of Sunderland, Durham, linen draper, first dividend of 3s. 6d. in the pound (on new proofs), and a second dividend of 2d. in the pound, payable at the office of Mr. T. Baker, Royal Arcade, Newcastle-upon- Tyne, on any Saturday. John Skidmore, of Sutton, Cheshire, pasteboard manu facturer, first dividend of 4s. 104 d. in the pound, payable at 7, Charlotte-street, Manchester, on any Tuesday. Eden Clark and Henry Bleakley, of Chorlton-upon-Med lock, Lancashire, ironmonger, a further dividend of ls. in the pound, payable at 45, George street, Manchester, on Aug. 2, or any Tuesday. Richard Battersby (of the firm of Battersby and Telford, of Liverpool, ironfounders), first dividend of is. 6d. in the pound, payable at 9, South Castle-street, Liverpool, on any Monday. INSOLVENT PETITIONS. William Reynolds, of Aston, Warwarshire, pearl button manufacturer—Samuel Sheffield, of Birmingham, patato salesman—William Le eson , o f Ti p t on, St a ffordshire, car rier's clerk—Abraham Shaw, of Dudley, Worce s t ers hi re , tailor—Ben jamin Di m mock, f Rowley, Staffordshire, green grocer—Edward Lee, of Lower-town, Devonshire, cord wainer—Wm. Burren, of Clatham, cab driver—Wm. Plow right, of Cliffe, Kent, blacksmith—John Tippen, of Chiches ter, Sussex, general smith—Henry Earwaker Stone, of Poling, Sussex, baker—Charles Harding, late of Colehill, Dorsetshire, out of business—William Marsden, of Bolster stone, Yorkshire, tailor—Charles Besley, of Laira, Ply mouth, superannuated clerk —George Bull, of Bristol, re tailer of beer and tobacco—Joseph Mortimer, of Hudders field, Yorkshire, waste dealer—George Wilkinson; of Huddersfield, Yorkshire, musical preceptor—David Chand ler Wilkinson, of Chestergate, Cheshire, shopkeeper— William Cave Legg, of Carisbrooke, Isle of Wight, baker —Henry White, of Leicester, carver—James Nayler Sands, of Leicester, watch maker—William Cowdrey, of Brighton, tailor—John Pownall, of Chapel-en-le-Frith, Derbyshire, shopman. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. John Orrell and John Godfrey Phipps, of Cheltenham, surgeons—William Jennings and. James Jennings, of New Windsor, Berkshire, common brewers—Robert Fowler and Joseph Phelps Fowler, of Rollington, Dorsetshire, farmers —Thomas Sheldrake, John Mumford, and John Everitt Chapman, of Stowmarket, Suffolk, wine merchants (so far as regards the personal representatives of Thomas Shel drake)—Thomas Shackell and John Care, of Bath, car penters—. William Chilton and Benj am i n H o ld ga t e, o f Manchester, plumbers John Wingfield, Alexander Bell, George Turnbull, and Thomas M. Staig, of East Greenwich, Kent, cement manufacturers—Ann Sharpies and John Tunnah, of Bolton-le-Moors, Lancashire, cheese factors—Richard Brown and Joseph Hunter, of Burton-in-Lonsdale, and Settle, Yorkshire, cotton spin ners—Edmond Sharp and John Indermaur, of 2, Devon shire-terrace, High-street, St. Marylebone, attorneys— Thomas Russell and William Nathaniel Bowen, of New port, Monmouthshire, ship brokers—James Lever and Stephen Rhodes, of Farnworth, Lancashire, joiners— Clement Taylor and Thomas Jull, of Maidstone, chemists —Lawrence Piccope and Christopher Parkinson, of Booth fold, Lancashire, woollen manufacturers—William Francis Askham and William Robert Moreton, of Eckington, Der byshire, surgeons—Joseph Napoleon Bland and Henry Van Voorst, of 72, Watling-street, City, wholesale per fumers—Thomas White, sen., and Ebenezer White, of Hartley . Wintney, Southampton, grocers—Samuel Makant and Charles Watson, of Oakenshaw, near Bury, calico printers—John Wilson Hawksworth, Joseph Ellison, and Joshua Moss, of Sheffield, North America, and Canada, merchants (so far as regards Joshua Moss)—Frederick Brown and George Clack, architects—Henry Shaw and Walter Blackett, of 47, Mortimer-street, Cavendish-square, house agents—James Cowgill, Benjamin Jessop, and Joseph Hopkinson, of Huddersfield, fancy woollen manufacturers (so far as regards Joseph Hopkinson)—Thomas Leigh, William Cawley, and Richard Capper, of Ashton-under- Lyne, drapers (so far as regards Thomas Leigh). BANK OF " An Account pursuant to the Act the Week ending on Saturi ENGLAND. 7th and Bth Victoria, cap 32, for day the 16th day of July, 1853. 'AILTMENT. Government debt .... 11,015,100 Other securities ...... 2,984,900 Gold coin and bullion 17,530,701 Silver bu11i0n...... • • 19,154 lIMUN DtP, X Notes issued ........ 31,549,855 £31,549,855 I X 31,549,855 M. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier. Dated the 21st day of July, 1853. BANKING DEPARTMENT. Proprietors' capital .. 14.553,000 Rest ............ .... 3,240,220 Public deposits tin eluding Exchequer, Commissioners of National Debt, Sav ing's Banks, and Government securities (in eludg. Dead W eight Annuity) ...... 13.757,333 Other securities...... 13. 64,310 N ' test • ..... 7,661,795 Gold and silver coin .. 473,493 Dividend Accounts) 2,332,814 Other depost s ...... 13,4,2,004 Seven Day and other 1 1 1 11 8............•. 1,408,893 434,95 , 4 931 £34,956,931 It. MARSHALL, Chi e f C as hi e r. Dated tho 21st day of July. 1853. - PRICE OF SUGAR. The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed from the returns made in the week ending the 19th day of July, 185 3, 18 245. 31. per hundred weight, exclusive of the duties of C us t oms paid or payable thereon on theim portation thereof into Great Britain. A FLOATING DWELLING ON TEE RIVER DON, AT DONCASTER.--A bout eighteen months ago, a boat be longing t o an organised gang of persons, commonly designated "The Trent Pirates,' used to ply on the river Trent for the purpose of affording an easy mode of escape to those persons, who some time ago committed serious depredations in the neighbourhood of Epworth, Butterwich, and Gainsbro'. The police of the district becoming aware of the manner in which these men effected an escape, assembled one evening, and succeeded in capturing the greater part of them, and they were ultimately sentenced to various terms of imprisonment. Their noat was then sold to a labourer, who, with his wife and four children, have occupied the cabin as a dwelling for the last 12 months, it having been moored during that time in Mill Dyke. Although the cabin is not many feet in circumference, it has been used as a dwelling for six, where all domestic work has been per formed, and the birth of a child took place. The mother died this (last) week in this place under most pitiable and destitute circumstances.—Doncaster Gazette. PRICE OF BREAD IN PARIS.—Tho Presse publishes a table showing the assize price of bread in Paris for every year since the commencement of the present cen tury up to this day. The highest price was in 1847, for during a short period of that year the 2 kilogrammes loaf (four pounds) cost lfr 22c., and during a great part of that year the price varied from 90c. to 94c., whereas in 1851 the price during a period of three months was only 50 centimes. The price now is 80 cen times, which is the highest Atice for the last twelve years with the exception of 184 and 184 r. RAILWAY BETURN. TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE PAST WEEK Miles 01-ened,l 1853. , 1 NAME OF RAILWAY. Receipts. 11111 TISH. - - Aberdeen .. • •• Belfast and Ballymena •• •••• •• •• •"' Belfast and County Down— •••• • • • • -• Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Bolton, Blackburn, and West York Bristol and Exeter .......• •• •• •• Ca 1 ed0nian.,........... •• Chester and Cork, Blackrock, and Passage •• •• •• Colt and Ba n d on Dublin and Belfast Junction •• • •• •• • Dublin and Drogheda.... •• •• ' Dublin and Ki ngstown •• •• •• •• Dunde and Arbroath •• • •• "" Dundee, Perth. and Aberdeen Junctim Dundalk and Enniskillen.... •• •• •• •• East A.0gi1an........ East Lancashire .. . • • • Eastern Counties a n d • • • Eastern • ... .. Edinburgh and Gla scow •• • Edinburgh, Perth, an d Dundee . Exeter and Cr e dit ors .......... • Furness Railway ... • Glasgow. and South-Western •• •• • • Great Northern an d E . 1,........ Great Southern and western (Ireland) Great Western .................. Irish South Eastern Lancaster and Carlisle• • •• ..... Lancashire,trill Yorkshire.... Leeds Northern .. Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport.... London and North 14 esters ..• London and Blackwell Gondol, Brighton, and South Coast.. London and South We5tern......... Londonderry and Enniskillen Manchester, Buxton, and atatlock, &c. Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Manchester and South Junction.... . Maryport and Carlisle Midland •• •• • •• •• •• ••• •• •• •• '• •' Midland Great Western (Irish) •• • • .• Moriklands .. • . • • •-• '• •• •• Newcastle and Carlisle.. • •• North British •• ••• • •• •"• •• "'• North Starloritshire •• • • •••• •• North-Western •• •• •• •• •• •• •••• Scottish Central ..............•• .. • Scottish Midland •••••••••• •• • •• shrewsbury and Birmingham •• Shrewsbury and Chester ............ Shropshire Union .. •••• • • • • •••• • • • South Devon.• •• •• ..••• •••• •• •• •• 'tout h 7, satern...• •• •• •• •..••• '• South Wales .. •• •• •• •• •• •• •• South York., Doncaster, and Goole Waterford and . Limerick •• ••••.• •• w est Cornwall • •• •• •• •• Whitehaven Junction .• " York and Newcastle, and Berwick & York and North Midland & Leeds 26% 85% 199►4 94.4 6% 20 171% 188 3193 i 184 131 653% £1,662 676 285 1,882 4,920 8,870 4,579 203 1,024 1,280 1,446 516 731 €97 5,652 16, , 87 2,257 4 428 2,' 65 413% 577 240 57 , ) 4 858 10 604 5,822 20,4.17 132 4,582 18,2ti4 5 , 3 52,087 1,624 15,0 9 14,332 293 7,40 674 617 22,7' 7 2,478 b 5 2,•4U8 3,58 1854. 1,765 B'ls 2,U2 i 616 Sii 1,744 268 2,402 5,431 10,F45 5,246 217 193 1,540 1,813 1,645 551 834 78' f. 45 7 17,818 7,6.54 5 98 2 785 616 16.250 6 948 26,401 631 2,129 17,W4 2,43 1,248 2,fi44 9&0 490 462 233 225 5,459 20,073 541 56.514 1,720 15.20 17,658 455 24,437 7,913 702 26,584 3 065 934 3 .77 3,933 1,328 2,295 799 1,96, TOZEIGN Dutch Rhenish ...• • . NI aria Antonia Montereau and Troyes . Namur and Lie ge .• . ....... Northern of France •• •• •• •• Orleans and Central* Paris and Lyons .... •• Paris and Rouen. ............ Paris and Strasburgh .• .• .• Konen and Havre... • Western of France 22 , 7 19,045 4,720 1,568 3,267 1,169 676 538 247 1,820 217 918 1,029 22,875 19,164 13,971 8,192 14,0:09 3,384 2,479 26,905 1,878 993 1,171 25,704 26,718 15,887 8,992 21,278 3,851 5,9,38 • The receipts include the trunk on the Orleans and Central, 0, leans and Bordeaux, and Tours and Nantes lines. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. NOTICE TO MARINERS. FIXED LIGHT ON ISABEL POINT, BRAZOS SANTIAGO, TEXAS. Her Majesty's Government has been officially informed that a fixed light is now established on Isabel Point, at the entrance of the Brazos Santiago, in let. 26 7 N. and long. 97 16 W., o f G reenw i ch. The tower is painted white, and the dome and lantern black. From-the deck of a steam-vessel it may be seen at the distance of 11 miles from the bar, and when it bears W. by N. (magnetic), it may be safely approached on that bearing into eight fathoms water. It is visible 15 miles in any direction seaward, but the nature of the coast renders it necessary to be cautious in running for it on any other than the above hewing. A moving beacon light, intended to mark the entrance of the harbour, will be exhibited at the south point of Padre Island, and will be visible at the distance of 10 miles from the bar, in clear weather. It is a moveable framework, painted black, plainly visible by day, and stands in lat. 26 6 N., and long. 97 12 W. LIGHT ON APE . The light on C a p e Otway, C Bass's OTWAY Straits, lat. 38 51 S., long. 143 29 E., having been complet e d, an d li g h ted on the 29th August, 1848, a light is burning, and will continue from sunset until sunrise. The Reef of Cape Otway is one-half to three quarters of a mile distant, bearing S.E. to S.S.W., and extends a m il e an d a quarter westward. The lighthouse is erected on a cliff, 251. feet 6 inches above high water mark ; the supporting column is 45 feet high, and the lantern 7 feet high: From high water mark to the centre of the light is 300 feet. The light is a revolving catadioptric of three groups of lamps, each group contain ing 7 lamps ; the entire revolver showing a flash of light of 3 seconds' duration, and 50 seconds of darkness. It is estimated that the light will be seen 8 leagues. CUSTOM-HOUSE, JULY 22. ENTERED INWARDS. The Marchiena, from Rostock ; Princess Radili, Naples ; Resolution , Dram ; E m ily, Stettin • Emerald Isl e , Q ue b ec ; Johanna Margareth a , Newharlingerseil ; Marys, Rouen ; William Frederick, Ordon ; Alfred, Malaga ; Quatre Salonica ; Annie Morice, Civita Vecchia ; Cornelius;, Portland Bay ; Fair Christina, Sudwesthorne ; Maria Christine, Hamburgh ; Ledaal, Odessa : Heatherbell, Ibr ail ; Emanuel, Weile ; Abaeltino, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Maria, Catania ; Cuthbert Youn g , C ons t an ti nop l e ; Teneriffe, Licata ; Jan dine, Oporto ; Occidenten, Leghorn ; Thomas Snook, Accra • Amelia, Oporto • Geelong, Adelaid e ; B ounty of Providence, Caen ; Frethiof, Ale: cam iria ; Especulator, Seville; Carl, Wolgast ; Junior, Boulogne; Falcon, Ram burgh ; Aspen, Rouen ; Pandore, Adra ; Theodor Beh rend, Pugwash ; Sobriesky, Odessn, ; Rebecca, Stettin ; Waverley, Sierra Leone ; Samson, Zante. ENTERED OUTWARDS FOR LOAD ENG.—The Justyn, for Sydney; Thet;s, Stettin ; Ratclif F, Port Philip ; Mar garetha, ilarburg ; Joshua, Port Philip ; Courants, Singa pore ; Trio, Antwerp ; Camilla, Launceston. CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH CAR GO.—The Bwelia, for Malaga ; May Queen, Hobart Town ; Bertha, Rio Janei ro ; Harbinger, Cape o f G oo d H ope ; Gambia, Sierra Leone ; Eclipse, Madeira ; Nautilus, Maui? tins ; Lionne Clemen tina, Mavre. LIVERPOOL, Ju r,v 22. The William and Marie arrived a t this port from Cadiz, with part of the cargo of the Berkeiley, stranded in Cadiz Bay. The emigrant ship Falcon, Captain Taylor, hence to Australia, was in con t ac t w ith th e Z u li e k a, from Akyab to Bremen, in which the latter .sustained considerable damage, and, being leaky, had to throw part of her cargo overboard. The Falcon sustained v ery little damage. The Ann Kearney, hence to Quebec, was spoken July 6, off the banks of Newfoundland. San Carlos (a. s.), hence, at Messina; Elizabeth and Tidy, hence, at Ilelvoet. The Frankfort (s. s.) sailed for this port July 11, from Leghorn. VESSELS SPOKEN WITH. -- --- The Stag, Mauritius to London, May 17, lat. 33 S. long, 26 E. The Dundee, Dundee to Port Philip, the 21st, lat. 34 S, long. 16 E. The Vigil, Port Philip to London, July 11, lat. 40 N. long. 29 W. The Lanarkshire, the 16th, lat. 47 N. long. 15 W. The Lavinia, Liverpool to St. Thomas's, July 10, lat. 41 N. long. 13 W. The Strive, London to New York, July 16, lat. 48 N. long. 11 W. Tho Earl of Hardwicke, Sydney, N.S.W., to London, May 10, lat. 55 S. long. 66 W. The Francis Walker, Calcutta to Australia, April 11, lat. 5 N. long. 91 E. The John Wall, Bombay to Liverpool, May 11, lat. 23 S., long. 10 E. The Flora, Bombay to Liverpool, the 14th, lat. 31 S., long. 33 E. The Thomas Rayden, Shanghai to London, the 28th, lat. 26 S., long. 7 E. Tho Hercules, Liverpool to Australia, June 15, lat. 5, long. 22 W. adlifornia, same Rockingham Africaini,andtan,tndoon The Chieftain and mm day. The Jam. Preterzoon Boon, Liverpool to Melbourne, July 15, lat. 42 N., long. 11 W. The Wide Wave, Liverpool to Bombay, Ju ne i i, lat. 9 same to day N., long. 23 W. The Patriot Queen, Calcutta to Liverpool, July 11, lat. 40 N., long. 29 W. The Salem, Liverpool to Quebec, July 4, lat. 48 N., long. 38 W. The Francis, Newcastle to Quebec, I - 1 1.1 Y 18, lat. 59 N., long. 11 W. The Wm. Nicholson , Swansea to Cuba, J u l y 7, lat. 41 July 5, lat. 42 N., l ong. 14 W. lla, Cardiff to Cub a , W The Anti N. long. 17 The Falcon, Liverpool to Australia, June 13. The Byron, Lima to Cowes, July 9, lat. 45 N., long. 15 W. The Jan Pieters, Liverpool to Melbourne, July 13, lat. 49 N., long. 8 W. The Sarepta, Cardiff to St. James's River, 19th June. The Prince of Wales, Liverpool to Boston, July 4, lat. 48 N., long. 33 W. The Win. Wilberforce, July 4. The Bosphorus, Bristol to Quebec, J u ly 9, l a t. 50 N., long. 21 W. The John Taylor, July 15, lat. 42 N. long. 3 W. tat. The Renfrewshire, Calcutta to Liverpool, May 5, 35 S., long 23 W. The M ary A nn, outward bound, June 12, lat. 7 N., long. 25 W. COUNTRY MARKETS. LIVERPOOL—JuIy 22. The unsettled weather causes excitement in the grain market, and considerable transactions in wheat and flour have taken place since Tuesd.ty, at an advance 03 1 day's rates of fully 2d per bushel on wheat, an d is Per barrel and sac k on flour. Indi an corn i mprove d Ed per qr. , with a steady i nqu i ry for feeding purposes. Oats fair sa l e , and dearer. Oatmeal steady. Yeas scarce, and is per g r i higher. Beans a l so ra th er dearer. Barley scarce, an much inquired for. WAKEFIELD—JULY 22. Wheat meets a steady sale to-day at an advance of le per qr. upon the rates of last week, but for other aortathere is scar ce ly any d emand, and no improvement in Pict Grinding barley is fully as dear. Beans steady. Oatsau" shelling fetch full prices. EDINBURGH GRAIN— JULY 20. Total Supply and Sales. Wheat 912 qrs so ld 880 qrs Barley ll9 qrs so ld 101 V Oats 758 qrs so ld 690 qrs Beans 72 qrs sold CO qrs Average of wheat - £2 17 2 11-12ths Ditto of Barley Ditto of Oats Ditto of Beans DUBLIN —JULY 21. White wheat, 26s to 31s Od ; red ditto, 25s Od to 29 , _ A ga; barley, 13s lid t o 16 s 6d ; oa ' s, lOs Od to 13s Od ; raPeou'l 003 Od to 00s per brl ; oatmeal, lls Od to 138 Od ; baker flour, 14s Od to 20s Od per cwt ; Indian corn, 28s 6d to 3 1 ' p.m 480 lbs. INVERNESS.—JULY 19. CORN.—Wheat, per quarter, weighing 621 b per bush el ' 52s Od to 53 s Od ; b ar l ey, di tto, 541 b ditto, 28s Oil to 2981,`" Oats, ditto, 421 b ditto, 20s Od to 21s Od. MEAL.--Oatmeal, per imp. boll 15s 6d to 16s 8d ; second, 00s Od t o Os Od.; barleymeal, U s 6d t o Os peasemeal, 15s Od t o O s Od ; b ran, per stone, Os 7d to O ,M ai Ist flou r , p er 280 1 b, 408 Od to 42s Od ; 2d ditto, 308 u 1 6,1 32s Od; oa t mea l , b est, per st. of 141 b imperial, 1' a to is 8d ; ditto second, Os Od to Os Od ; b ar l eymea l to Os Od ; p easemeal, is 6d to Os ; Ist flour, 2s 9d ' 3s Od credit ; 2d ditto, 2s 3d cash, 2s 7d credit. BRISTOL SUGAR —JULY 22. We have ag a i n h a d a fi rm market, and a fair amount of business has been done, at pric es fully as high as at 1 0 , week's market. Besides West India, there have been 09 ; clearances of foreign. Th e refined market is a l s o stead:,', manufactured goods'me e ti ng a rea d y sale, at fully preT iv rates. The market is nearly bare of rum. COAL MARKET—Aux 22. Prices of Coal per ton at the close of the market :-- 0. d,l s. 1 Bate's West Hart1ey......16 9 Hetton lB Carr's Hartley l7 6 Haswell 18 Chester Main 16 6 Kepier Grange l7 Smith's West Hartley ...17 6 Lambtou l7 Dean's Primrose l5 9 Russell's Hetton 17 Howard's West Hartley Stewart's 18 Netherton 17 6 Plummer l7 Longridge's Wst Hartleyl7 t Hetton Lyons Main l7 North Percy Hartley ...16 9 Backhouse 17 Redheugh Main 15 6 Cassop l7 Tanfield Moor Butes 18 0 Hartlepool lB Wallsend, &c. Heugh Hall . 17 Gosforth • 17 0 Kelloe 17 Harton l7 0 South Hartlepool Lawson l6 6 Tees lB Riddell l7 0 South Durham 17 Framwellgate l7 0 Woodhouse Close .16 Eden Main .17 3 Cowpen . ....... 17 I i ly 6 Belmont 17 3 D erwen t water Hartley .1 Ship at market 124 I Sold 122. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, JULY 22. d uij STOCK EXCHANGE.—We have had an extremely 0 and inanimate ma r k e t t o -d ay for shares generally, and # closed flat, at rathe r b e l ow yesterday ' s quotations :—Ch,... ter and Holyh ea d, 22a ; Eastern C oun ti es , 13 ; East la cashire, 18i; Midland, 71i ; Caledonian 101. Shares, 1" MANCHESTER, JULY 22. brisk 0 41 1 STOCK EXCHANGE.—The mar k e t h as b een and prices were firm. The sales were :—East Anglitr ier per Cent., Preference Stock (B), , li ; Kendal and Winder' mere, 151, 41; Lancashire and Yorkshire 77i; Man e- • ter, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 294 ; ditto, Preference (VI II % teed 73 per Cent.), Dip i; Midland, 71i ; North Brit' sil ; South-Eastern, 21 11-16. BIRMINGHAM, JULY 22. STOCK EXCHANGE.— The Railwa Share Market tinues to improv e , b u t th ere was little business dono r , ' 'Change to-day. Th e con ti nued increase in the traffic 14 turas renders prices firmer, and there is every reaso_., ll l b lieve that after th e d ec l arat i on of the ensuing half-y am dividends there will be a further increase in railway tiP" actions. BRISTOL, JULY 22. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The mar k et to-day was dull. a t .4.00 Western were c l one a t 90 ; and amongst the closing no' were Bristol and Ex e t er , b uyers 102, sellers 1024 ; ( M, or s t e h l ,sellers r a i n ( ; I, l‘l lu d y lt e tn rs d 6 , obr s e e r l s le 7 rs i oi , s . n 72 ia ; u' Y b o u rk " and SEABOILVE MAILS. (N signifies that the mails are sent from the General Post-olfd by the night—and Mby the morning -dispatch ' --- •••• os the morning -dispatch.] ~..., ; CO UN TR I ES. Day wim t m a d e u , F ront what When • in General Post. Fort due i n Ottic e, London.'i , Dispatched. Fng ......0 ,la til , M r A merica(hyllrit.pack)N E very Frida . America (by United Ste. y ... Liverpool . r a -b ' packet) ...........N ,July 26 .... •• • . Liverpool ... Au g ' 2 America (by U States r pa c k e t) ...... —— N Aug. 3 .......... Southampton ) JUl y 27 Australia (via Soullt•I ' ampton) ........ M Sept. 4 .....• .• .. Southampton ; Ditto (via Marseilles) N Sept. 8 ' Ditto (via Cape of l•ood , I i Africa (West V* ope ... ....... ..NA 4 ........ London .....uce„, Coast)..Nl23r n d gust of the month. Ply mouth ..'July .; Alexandria.......... N,B , 9 , 24, & 30 of in Dover .. .... 'July 2, Alexandria ........ .. 31' 4t h & 20th of mon. Southampton July 2 Bahamas ...........31 2 nd of the month Southampton Aug. 1 ` "el g iuni • • • • . • N I) ailY ............IDoverDaily , 6 Brazil ......., ~ ~ „ 31 9th of the month .. !Southampton Aug. 1 d Buenos Ayres.. ...... 31 9th of, he month.. Southampton Aug. , id Cape of Good Ilone ...Nll4th of the month Plymouth .. July ` Cape of Good Hope •• IC Plymouth I 26 Cape de Verde ......Nll4th of the month Plymouth .. July - Ceylon (see India) I I 46 Ceylon,. ~ ~.... „, ..N 14th of the m on th P lymouth .. July - - a t Channel Isles ........N Mon ~Wed ,&Frid. Southampton Tu. fit' Chill. ... .. ~ ~ ,„ ~ ..31 j ...(1&17t11 of month Southampton Aug. 1 China (see Indi a ) , Constantinople ......N 7 ,8,17,21,&27 ofrn Dever .... .. 'July 2 ? Constantinople ........,4th & 20th of mon Southampton July 2 ,4 cont. of Europe 111 & N Twice daily ...... Dover ...... Twice,'" Egypt (see India) Olt ,d2a011,372.7 °fut. Southampton July 26 o F r r e a e n e c e e Gibraltar ..... ••• • • ... • • . • ... Mit , tal & 17th of mon. Southampton Au f• 1 a n I & 3 1 14 : 7 , Twice 11 ..... Dover ...... I Ticked Haniburgh ...... —N i Tuesday & Fridayl London ..„ ~ Tues. ' Greytown invannah • • • • • • • • • • . ‘,l 2nd of the monthlSouthamptorr Aug. !hal Holland .......... NI, W ednesday & Sat. London M on.'i i'• - Honduras .... •••• . . 3 1117th of the month Southampton Aug. 16 , India (vlaSoutlnunpt.)3l4th & 20th of mon. Southampton July 2 ; (see India) India (via Marseilles) 3E Bth& 24th of monthl Dover ..., .. July 31 lonia , ' Isles (sea India)! i Pi Ireland .... • • „NI &N I Twice daily ...... Holyhead .. Twice(„- a 3F7, 9, 17, & 26 of m. Southampton July 2' 4 Madeira ............ 31 , 9 th of the month 7.outhampton Aug. I: Madeira • . • ~, • • • • •• .. ls, ~.,3rd of the month Plymouth .. July 28 Malta (see India) Malta ...... , . ..../.,-; 7,17,19,28. 30 of ni. Dover ...• .. ' JuIY 16 Mauritius (see lad . la) I I Mauritius ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Nil4th of the month Plymonth ~ July 26 Wake. ..., ~ •... ~3 2 211,1 of the m ont h . 'Southampton Aug. 1. Naples ..... ........N,Athihth2sthoftnon.Dover ~.... July 2a New Granada —— —3112 d 17th of month, Southampton A u 4. 1 0 New Zea1and.......... By private ship ..j Various ports Uncerta Papal States ........N 'th I h Has thotinon. , Dover ...... July 2 , 2 Peninsula .......... M • thi7th2Btholmon 'Southampton July 214 Peru ..............M id & •z7th of mon I , outhampton Aug. 1 Pert Natal ...........N l l4th a the month Plymouth .. .THIY „ 26 „ Sicily .. .. •••. .. Nlsth I‘, th2sthotmon, Dover .. .• • • July i t,' Tuscany ..........N,,Stl,lsth2sthofnion. Dover ...• julY '''„'' Venezuela .. .. .. .... 31:2d & i 7 th of month Southampton Aug. 1 Van Diemen's Land eiee: I Australia) .. , ..... West Indies • • ...... 111j2d & 17th of month Sonthar,m4m, ...... 1 2d do 17th of month;, ,Southampton l A ug. 1 • NThen any ofthese dates fall on a Sunday, the malls will ba dlspatche on tho following day, with the exception of the India Southampton), and the Malta, both of which will be dispatched tUd day preceding. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—The Earl of Alborough and Trot loway's Pills.—An astounding cure by this miraculou s medicine after every other means had failed. See el' tract from his lordship's letter, dated " Villa Messina, Leghorn, Feb. 21, 1845. To Professor Hollowaf; Sir,—l beg to acquaint you that your pills have effected a cure of a disorder in my liver and stomach, which e' the most eminent of the faculty at borne and all over the Continent had not been able to effect —n a y, not even th e waters of Carlsbad or Marienbad. (Signed) ALDO uouciu." These wonderful pills will cure any disorder,: of the liver or stomach —Sold (al so Holloway's ()ie . ; ment) at Professor Holloway's Establhment, 244, Strae°' London ',and by a ll medicine venders throughout ti le kingdom. BIRTBS. On the 20th inst. OF A SON. , at Hereford-squar e , Old B rom Pt° T l, Mrs. R e ddi e. On the 21st inst., at St. Olave's RectoSouthwark'the wife of the Rev. L. M. Humb er t Southwark' OPENING OF THE FIRST RAILWAY IN NORWAY.— Letters from Christiania of the sth July mention the opening of the Norwegian Railway (the first line in troduced into that country) on the 4th instant, the in K i i l n e g s :s a b n i d rt l l v i- o d u a l y d . t c r o a m ffi p c let i e n d aconfesiwsts days, when when large accumulations of produce were expected to .1M RRI ED. der beTrie.adseyctfioorn Miosen Dike is On the 21st inst., at St. Mary's, Paddington, John 1' 0 taking, from Christiania to the i , - 42 miles, Jamesunder- eldest Fellow of Brasenose-college Oxford, to " 13 the whole of which will be finished by the end of Cato- Rania len, di ttlhter of the late Rev: T. B. Ashworth, ber, bringing, it is said, about one-fifth of the property of Grasmere. Westmoreland. and 25 per cent of the population of the kingd om f or On the 18th inst., the Rev. J. M. Carver, M.A.,feollo the first time into direct communication with the capi t a l an d l ate class i cal lecturer of Queen's-colleze, Cambridge' and seaport. , to Eliza, youn ges t d aughter of 'William Peek, Esq . ' of D IABOLICAL OUTRAGE.—EarIy on the morning of ; Clapham-common. Thursday last, some miscreants, who h ave not yet b een I -- ______---- detected, and whose motive is a mystery, placed a I DIED, quantity of large stones for several y ar d s a l ong th e rails I At Wiesbaden, on the 18th inst. after a short ill ness ' in a deep cutting of the Waterford an d Kilk enny R a il - I John Craig Freebairn, Esq , of Can . tray, Inverness, 13 " N• way, at Knockmoylan ; and ano th er h eap o f stones in the 44th year of his age. . upon the rails on a bridge a t a s h ort di stance further : On the 2'4th in s t., a t hi s res i dence, Tattenhall, Cheshire , on. Providentially the first train was drawn by a very : Samuel Bromfield, Esq. aged 81. powerful engine, whi c h scattered the stones before it, On the 17th inst. at' his iesAence, Crowcombe , De° and no damage was susta i ned, beyond a smart shock, T aunton, Somerset, 'George Buckn.ill, Esq. .....• by those who travelled by it. The Railway Company v _______ --------------Gtj , has offered a reward of 101. for the discovery of the ruf fians who perpetrated the outrage, and we sincerely hope LONDON : Printed and Published by MURP_ ce . v..., they may be brought to the punishment which they so 9f No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun . ol9l 9 county Of Strand, m the Precinct of the Savoy, in the cent richly deserve, --Ariacttn Moderator, • . Middlesex, 15aturday, July 23,1853, OF A DAUGHTER. On the 22d inst., at Marlborough-pl ace , St. j o h n 's-1 0° ' Mrs. Alexander Boyd. On the 18th inst., at the Rectory, Routh, Beverley', the Wife of the Rev. H. Moister. T= oa.c, Clair, by sir, f th e , llorges, cap i r th e , all. l , Liner'l°. U( Twet Of Tens, °f /.Ive.s. itt„ 441( ."46.raL A u m . l gener a' vriGineYC~t Pr e tc '', rotl bb, "13.; - L „tke: on, s , Ser 4t, 8 nom attlili Gen •—____ 14 ( For p, f or wi 4nVIO Wat ,__ ' ,Cr ] sp a for w, 1° eon, „, f rorn gorq; 2 . Mc TI/ ic'4ktt %)ad, 44