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

birli Milton SUN OFFICE, Seve* o' Clock. LATEST PRICES OF SHARES, IN BANKS, ASSURANCE. AND OTHER COM PANIES' STOCK. From tie Official List, PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENING. LONDON. TUESDAY, JUNE 15. JOINT-sToes BANXS. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Pries Annum. Share. £ s. d. t s. d. Australasia •• 40 0 0 40 0 0 BritiihNorth American j 51. per Cent 50 0 0 50 0 0 Commercial of London 61. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 Colonial.. ........... 51. per cent 100 0 0 25 0 0 Lordn and Westminstr 61. per cent 100 0 0 20 0 0 26% London Joint-Stock .• • 61. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 Metropolitan Pri - svincialof Ireland.. Si. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 45 Ditto, New.• ••••• • • 81. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 Nst;onal of Ireland .. 51. per cent. 50 0 0 20 0 0 Nat. Provncial of Eng. 51. per cent. 100 0 0 35 0 0 t liitto, •• • • 51. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 Union of Australia•• • • 61. per cent. 25 0 0 2 5 0 0 24 % Union of L0nd0n..... 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 12% CAL 3 1 07.9.1.5. ..., .: ul Dividend! Names of ci) Dividend Names of per Price. :-. Price. Companies. . per Companies. u Annum. i A Annum. --.--. ;£ i £ Aslitn& Oldh' 97 51.55. pe l 70 Monmouthsh 100 101. - Asti by-d-la-Z 113 4/. 1 .- Mntgomrysh 100 51. - Bari isley •• • • 1 160 121. 1 180 Macclesfield. 100 - - Basi ngstoke..' 100, - 1 - heath ••• • • • 100 201. 340 Brkilk&Abrg 'lso' Si. 85 Nottingham. 150 121. - Croinford.... ; 100, 141. - Peak Forest. 78 31 . 40 Dudley 1100' 41. - Regent's •• • • 33 11 . 4 s. 1 8% " Derby .... 'lOOl 6/. i 63 Rochdale ..• • 85 41. 54 Elbunre&Chsll33l 41. I 51 Shropshire . • 12,i 81. Erowash llOOl 321. - Somrset Coal 150 71. 101. 130 Forth & Clydllool 4/. - Do.LkFd St 12 61. p. c. - GraildJunctrilloo l 61. 1 79 Stffrd & Were 140 281. 275 Grand Union ) 11. 10s. I - Shrewsbury..ll2s 151. - Glamorgnsh . 1 1721 13%1. I - Stourbridge..ll4s 20/. 305 11:41.str &Brklyllool - - Strtfrd on Av 79 11. 10s. - Grantham • •11501 121. • - Severn and Huddersfield.l 57; - - W ye Ra d 26 11. Bs. - Sennt&Avul 39' 7s. 6d. 5 Trot & Mr-1 50 301 Lancaster 47' 11. 10s. - sey .. i . - Leeds& Livrp l loo' 341. 505 Thema &M .• ed 19 Leicester - • •1140 101. 75 Worestr &"1 Leic.str &Nthl 83, 4/. 36 Birmlng..s 78 21. 41 Loughboroghl42; 701. , 530 Wilts & Brks 67 11. 11 INSURANCE COMPANIES. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. • --. X s. d. I X s. d. Albion ••••••• • • • • • • • 31. 10s. 500 0 0 50 0 0 74 Alliance Brit. and For. 6 per cent. 100 0 0i 11 0 0 18% Ditto Marine. ••• • • • 6/. per cent, 100 00 1 50 0 5% Atlai . 13s.6d.prsh. 50 0 0 5 0 0 154 Brit;3h Commercial • • 7s. per share 50 0 0 5 0 0 7 Clericl,Med.& Gen. Life 51. per cent. 100 0 0 210 0 20 31. 100 0 0 10 0 0 12s. 50 0 0 5 0 0 - Earle .•• • • • ...... •• • • 6s. 50 0 0 50 0 5% Eng. ik. Scot. Law • ... 51. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 - European Life ••• . . . 5% per cent. 20 0 0 All paid. - Freemasons' .•. • • .... 51. per cent. 20 0 0 3 0 0 Glot,o ..... .......... 61. per cent. Stock. - 128 Guardian ••-••• • • • • • 51. per cent. 100 0 0 36 10 0 47% Iml trial Fire •• • • .... 61. and bonus 500 0 0 50 0 0 220 Imi erial Life •••• • • • • 12s. 100 0 0 10 0 0 14% Ind .mnity Marina .... 11. sh. & bs. 100 0 0 513 1 - L aw Life •••••• • • • • • • 11.55. 100 0 0 10 0 0 - ,eg -A and General Life - 50 0 0 1 2 0 0 - Fm.,:on Fire •••• • • • • 108. 25 0 0112 10 0 145 i London Ship •.••• • • • 10s. 25 0 0 112 10 0 14•3( Marine -.• • • • ...... 51. per cent. 100 0 0 15 0 0 9U Mee. Invlid & Gen. Life 4%1. per et. 50 00 ; 20 0 2% National Lean Fund.. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 1 210 0 - National Life.. ••.• . • • 81. per cent. 100 0 0 5 0 0 - Palladium Life.. ...... 51, per cent. 50 0 0 1 2 0 0 41s xd 'Phoenix- .. .. .... ... 3/. p. et. & bs. - 1 - 185 Protector Life •• • • •• • 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 1 1 0 0 11. 3s. i.revident Life.. •....• 11. 53. 100 00110 0 0 - R,o , : Life.. .. ...... • , 4s. 500' 0 10 0 4% !to: al Exchange 5/. per cent. Stock. - 180 Sm Fire • • ••.•• • • • • • 61.105. - - - .tto Life . • • • • • • . • • 11. 6s. - - - Un . , crsal Life - DOCKS. Dividend Amount 3 tole of Company. i per of Annum. Share. raid. Price. I X 8. d. Commercial .• .. .•. • • 31. per cent. Stock. Eat and West India ... 6/. pr cent. Stock. Ea . Country Lot •lon St. Katharine .... •• • • 5 per cent. ' Stock. Illotosiampton ••..• • • • 2/. per cent. 50 0 0 X 5. d. 104 - I - 0 0r 25 ImiLIT OP SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES. Dividead Amount Name of Company, per of Paid. I Price. Annum. Share. 1 .. — S. d ..£ , Ban': of Scotland Boyd Bank of Scotland 6/. per cent. 100 0 1150 British Linen Company 81. par cent. 100 0 0 200 Commercial Bank Nat' ;nal 8ank...... • • 61. per cent. 10 0 0 13% Unk , :t Bank of Scotland 751 /. pr sent. 50 0 0 88 Western Bank ...... 61. per cent. I 50 0 0 82 Non 't of Scotland Bank 61. per cent. 50 0 61i Clydesdale Bank.... • . 61. per cent. 10 0 0 131.356 East..m 8ank..... • —5/. per cent. 10 0 0 11l Its Cale lonian Bank Mdinblc Glasgow Bank 61. per cert. 50 0 161. 16s City of Glasgow Bank . 51. per cent. 10 00 I 13 Scottish Union Ins. Co. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 '22s. 6d Hercules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. 1100 0 0 10 0 0 I 12% Insur. Co. of Scetlnd— 5/. per cent.t 10 0 0 All paid. k 9% Korth British Incur 5%1. pr cent. ',200 0 0 10 0 0 2654 Cale , !onlan Fire Insur. 101. per cent.lloo 0 0 10 0 0 2256 I:dill!,urgn Life Insur. 61. per cant. ,100 0 0 12 10 0 18 Edii . &Glasg. Railway 1/.los. pers. 150 0 0 50 0 0 68 D. to, 4 Shares • Edit. , Leith, & Grantn 20 0 0 20 0 0 29 GU: w& Ayrshir Rail. 71. percent. 50 0 0 All paid. 6151 Was w & Greencl: Rail. 2/. per cent. •25 0 0 All paid. I 18 1.414 v& Garnkirk Rail. 5/. per cent.' 25 0 0 All paid. I 39% Dun lee & Arbroth Rail. 6!. per cent. , 25 0 0 All paid. , 37 Stallard LifeAssamce.l N. per cent. 150 0 0 I 2 1 0 0 ' 9 .-- WATER—WORKS. Dividend Amount Nine of Company, per of ' Paid. Price, Annum. Share. i £ s. d. East Lond0n...—. Grand Junction ••• • • • 3/. 10s, 41 13 4 90 31. 100 0 0 Vau.N hall ..... ....... 100 West Middlesex . . . 51 .10 x. pr cnt. 63 12 9 121) lILWAY COMMITTEES. (THIS DAY.) HOUSE uF LORDS. Room B. Their Lordships met this day at eleven o'clock, and proceeded with TH7O CALEDONIAN (GLASGOW, GA.TLIIT HUIK, AND COATBRIDGE, BRANCHES TO GLAS GOW AND STATIONS). Mr. M‘Guffie, railway contractor, and Mr. Alexander Black, surveyor, Falkirk, were called to speak to certain borings on the railway, for the purpose of showing that the strata was of such a soft and friable character, that a etc nger would be incurred if the company were allowed to execute their works on the Glat , gow and Edinburgh Railway's tunnel. Mr. Adie, C.E., gave evidence to show that great dander would arise from the construction of the works. The clay they would have to deal with was of a very soft and friable character, and it would, on the admis sion of water, be apt to come off in large flakes. This would be apt to occasion the sides of the tunnel to col laps.) and tall. Mr. John C.E., corroborated the preceding witness's evidence. Mr. ANDREWS replied for the opposition. Tne Committee decided that the preamble was proved, and then adjourned. Room C. EZRNE BAY AND CANTERBURY JUNC TION, The Committee appointed to examine into the merits of this line met this day, at eleven o'clock. The Duke of Duceleuch presided. Mr. HOPE examined several witnesses to prove that very little traffic existed between Canterbury and Herne Bay. Robert Johnson, a van proprietor and driver, was examined, who stated that during the winter weather he obtained no profit from his occupation, and that it was only by the business which he did in the summer months that he was enabled to make a living. The principal part of the visitors to Herne Bay came by water, It was formerly very much visited, but since the opening of the South-Eastern Railway it had declined. The Rev. G. Dawson, vicar of Whitstable, was next examined, who proved that there was a gradient upon the Whitstable line which required three or four runs of the train backwards and forwards to enable it to overcome it. This gradient was not the only one which required such an effort of the engine. Herne Bay had fallen into disuse as a watering place, and the steam-boat service was not carried on well from want of traffic, and he considered that the popula tien of Herne Bay had greatly decreased, partly from the facilities of communication to other places, such as Rauisgate and M a rgate, and partly from the imposition ,of the innkeepers. After a ir cry lengthened argument, the Committee de cided that the Bill had passed. Room D. SWANSEB VALLEY. Their Lordships r b ria et this morning at eleven o'clock ; present, D u k e of Northumberland ( c h a i rman ), M arqu i s of Winch es t er, Earl Io Ric flair& se, Lo r d W rottes l ey, an d L or d Mr. Sergeant KINGLAICE p cned the ea s e o f th e pro mot ,l-s. The line was intendedo to accommodate a rich M in e ral and agricultur a l district, b w ith the port of Swansea and the3e giving it an open i ng South W a l es Ba il N a, y. The length of th e line Nv x aT ing 17 miles, extend ingm from Abererafe , in the co unty of Breco n , r to the 0 Evidence was after wards called f or the _ The room was afterwa rds cleared, and part°t.ers.ea. s ies being admitted, The CHAIRMAN announced that the preamble of the Bill was proved. Their Lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. GROUP VI. EXETER GREAT WESTERN. The Committee were occupied in hearing rebutting evidence on the part of the South-Western Company concerning an alleged breach of agreement on the part of that company with respect to the division of the western districts of the country between the two compa r.4 - ie s . - - d r , lir, AVSTLV addressed the Committee upon this re „,fbuttitiesfyidenee. At the close of his address the Committee adjourned , 7),.011 0.....0„. ~....„,,_,...•. , ~~ '441 " i za GROUP VIIL This Committee met at the usual hour this morning; Mr. Young in the chair. SOUTH DEVON AMENDMENT AND EX- TENSIONS. Ur. Sergeant KINGLAKE opened the case for the pro moters of this Bill, which was to authorise the South Devon Railway Company to make a branch from Tor quay to Brixham of eight miles in length, and to ex tend the main line from a point near to a place called Crabtree to Tavistock, so as to form a direct railway communication between Plymouth and Tavistock. Several witnesses were examined in support of the Bill, and the Committee adjourned. GROUP X. This Committee met at the usual hour this morning, Lord Clive iu the chair. EASTERN COUNTIES (ILFORD TO TIL BURY FORT AND SOUTHEND). - The Committee were engaged the whole of the day in hearing general evidence in favour of this Bill. The Committee adjourned at four o'clock. GROUP XXIV. CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD (HOLYHEAD EXTENSION). The Committee met at the usual hour. Mr. ALEXANDER was heard in reply on the whole merits of the case. The room was then ordered to be cleared, and the Committee decided that the preamble of the Bill was proved, subject to certain amendments introduced by the Committee. GROUP XXX. The Committee met this morning at twelve o'clock; Mr. Corrie in the chair. GREAT NORTHERN (ISLE Or ARNOLD= EXTENSION). Mr. Sergeant WRANGHAm suggested that the counsel on the other side ought to be called upon at this stage to say whether they had got the assent of the Admiralty for their crossing the river Dun with the competing line. Mr. JAMES said it was premature. Negotiations were then going on with the Admiralty, and their consent would be produced in the course of the evidence for the competing Bill. The CHAIRMAN decided that the promoters should continue their evidence in favOur of the Bill. Mr. J. Blackburn, farmer of about 700 acres of land in the neighbourhood of Stainfirth, said there were 900 inhabitants in the township on about 2,000 acres of good alluvial soil, productive of grain, &c. Their market was Doncaster, which was reached by the Dun, and was attended by factors from Wakefield, Barnsley, Sheffield, and other places. These factors sold the grain by weight, 601bs. to a bushel, and bought it by the im perial measure, whatever it might weigh; and as the corn there weighed considerably more than 601b5., that went to the middleman as his profit. The farmers or the public were thus losers by the difficulty of getting to the markets of Wakefield and other places. A direct line was required in the district, as produce was brought at present at an expense of 3s. per ton, but the railway would effect a saving of 2s. a ton on 1,200,000 tons a year. Very much injury was sustained by driving their fat cattle to market. A saving likewise would be effected by the railway on the carriage of coals which were brought from the Barnsley and Silkstone fields. Altogether, upon the matter of carriages, there would be a saving of 14 per cent. on the rental, besides what might be saved in travelling. Similar evidence in detail was called in reference to the other townships in the district of the line. The Committee then adjourned till to-morrow. GR OUP XXXIX. THIESS. AND LEEDS EXTENSION, The Committee assembled this morning at twelve o'clock—Lord Charles Wellesley in the chair—when they proceeded with the consideration of the short Ex tension Branch of the Thirsk and Leeds line, which is about two miles in length, and is intended to unite Durham with the Bishop Auckland Branch, for which a Bill was obtained last session. Mr. Brown described the engineering qualities of the line, the principal feature of which is a double bridge across the river, over which there are to be two road• ways, one above the other—the upper one for railway purposes, and the lower one for the ordinary traffic of the district. STANDING ORDERS COMMITTEE. HOUSE OF LORDS.-(TFHS DAY.) The following Bills were decided to have Complied with the standing orders : Liverpool Gas. Eastern Counties Railway (Nlaldon, Witham, and Brain- tree Rallwav Purchase. \ . Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland Junction Railway Deviations. East Lothian Central Railway. Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham Railway. Peterborough and Thorney Line. Chard Canal and Railway Extension. The following Bills were postponed till Thursday next: Scottish Midland Junction Railway (Amendment and Branch to Laurencekirk.) East Lincolnshire Railway. SALE OF RAILWAY SHARES BY AUCTION.—(THIS DAY.) The tone of the Share Market was healthy to-day, in the absence of any great demand, and there was a consider able improvement in the prices of Railway Shares at the sale by Messrs. Lamond and Co. The following are a few of the principal sales : South Staffordshire £l 19 0 Derby, Stafford, and Worcestershire .... 010 6 Shropshire Union and Canal 2 4 0 South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4 4 15 6 West Riding Union Louvain hla Sambre 0 19 0 Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston 1 7 6 Birmingham and Oxford Junction ..... 16 19 0 Eastern Counties ...... ........ ........ 20 10 0 Eastern Counties, York Extension 6 15 0 East Lincolnshire Great Northern ... London and Blackwall 7 12 0 Reading, Guildford, and Reigate 5 3 0 COURSE OF EXCH, Amsterdam ......C.F. 12 6 Ditto, at sight Rotterdam .... • • 2 U l2 636 Antwerp LNGE.—(THIS DAY.) Gibra1tar.......... •• .. Leghorn ........••.... 30 GO Genoa ............ •• 26 Hamburgh .. • • M.D. 13 13 Altona ...... ..... Paris, 3 days' sight .. • . 25 45 Ditto, • • • • .. • 25 95 Marseilles •••.•- . • .. • . 26 Venice • • • .... Naples .... • . 40 Palermo, per oa .. 120 Lisbon.... .......... 5142 0p0rt0.... • • • • .. •• Rio Janeiro Bourdeaux Frankfort on Maine.... 1223 Petersburgh, 3 Us • • Berlin . • Vienna, effec.flo. ••• • • 10 S Trieste, ditto.... • • .... 10 8 Madrid .• .. • • ........ 47 Cadiz .. Bahia . . I tuenos Ayres ........ New York, 21 days' sight Philadelphia .......... PRICES OF BULLION, PER OR. Foreign Gold in bars.. X 3 17 9 New Dollars • ... • • 0 4 9N Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0 i=pardsh Doubloons .. 0 0 0 Sliver in bars ...... • • 0 4 11% Bilbao.. • • • • . • . Barcelona MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current of June 15.) SUGAR.—To-day merchants manifested greater firm ness, and there was a considerable falling off in the amount of sugar off,Ted for sale, whilst buyers operating with increased fret dom, produced an advance in the value of all kind of both slave and free-labour. There was an extensive demand for West India Musco vado of all kinds, and for every purpose, whilst the rates paid exhibited an advance on those of Friday of Cod per cwt. A public sale of 150 hhds of Barbadoes Sugar went off with briskness, at a rise on t , :e quotations of the last auction of is per cwt. REFINED.—Tw day prices further gave way for Le finrel goods, brown Lumps selling at 59s to 60s, and Standard Lumps 60s 6cl to 61s per cwt, but at these rates the home trade were induced to take several par cels. Bonded Crushed Sugar is cheaper, but at 33s a good business has been done in first quality. MAUBITIIIS.—This afternoon there was no public sale of Mauritius Sugar, but privately several parcels were sold at prices 6d to Is above those that existed on this day week. EAST INDIA.—This afternoon a good business was done privately in Bengal, and white sorts fetched an advance on the prices of Friday 6d to Is per cwt. None was offered at public sale. FOREIGN.—To. day there was no public sale of Foreign Sugar, but privately exporters and the home trade were buyers to a fair extent, paying stiffer rates. COFFEE.—This afternoon Jumaica Coffee did not meet with much attention, and 3 casks 79 barrels Mountain, at public sale, were sold rather under valuations. TEA.—Alldescripticns of Congou can easily be ob tained privately upon previous low terms, still the pur chases made have been of little moment, and there is a plentiful supply. The market for Green is in an inac tive state, and the tendency of prices is yet downwards, whilst there is a large quantity on offer. Scented Teas have been operated in with caution, and lower rates are accepted, whilst the supply is on the increase. At public sale 15,000 pkgs have been offered, of which only 1,800 were sold at easier rates. Importers are sustaining heavy losses upon the importation of Teas. RICE.—To-clay there was a further diminution in the demand for East India Rice. At public sale 6,001 bags of Madras were offered, but a part only, and at prices showing a decline on those of Friday of is to is 6d per cwt. SPIRITS.—The market for Rum has presented a brisker appearance since our last report, and prices have assumed an upward tendency. To-day several purchases were made in all sorts of Rum, and buyers were compelled to pay 3s 2d to 3s 3d for procf Lee war&, 3s for East India, and 4s 7d to 6s 3d for low to very fine Jamaica. Wool,.—The trade have manifested little desire to operate at the public sales which commenced on Thurs day last; the Colonial declared being large, importers have been anxious sellers, and accepted prices lid to 2d per lb under those of the previous auctions. Other sorts of Wool 'net with little attention, and rather lower rates are taken. of ( s i o tts t . h — er l n 'r t i7 il s , c a o s n l t h in e u re e t is o a gi g v o e o w d a s y u f p o p r ly al , l b d u es t cr 7 i o pt t i t o m n s s at publi c sale were all disposed of. There has been little business transacted in Cod Oil. Seal has been operated in with caution although th ere i s a d es i re on the part of merchants to meet the trade. For Sperm the market has a dull aspect, whilst the supply is good, and mer chants are desirous to realise at 841 to 861 for fair and fine quality, but few contracts have been concluded since our last report. The arrivals of Fish Oils have been to a fair extent since last Tuesday, and an im pression exists that prices have not yet arrived a t their lovi est, point, although the consumption is good The home and export te d n e d ina d t has been Palm en has --been Olive purchased . Oil, and prices still whilst th e supply is prices e n eovrincoedth freedom,e advance. Privately a good small, tnd w THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 15, 1847. business has been done, and the raies paid have been 38s to 40s for good and fine, and 34s to 47s for low to mid dling. Of Cocoa Nut the supply i 3 not sufficient for the wants of the trade, and prices in consequence range high. At auction 90 casks from Navigators Island were sold. The market for Rapeseed Oil is looking quiet. The supply is good o f B r i t i s h, an d of Foreign there are further arrivals. Linseed Oil has been in excellent re quest on the spot for home consumption, whilst shippers have been buyers to a fair extent. TALLow.—A further advance has taken place in the value of Russian on the spot, and the demand has been very good from both the soap trade and the candle makers. The rates paid have been 50s 9d to 51s per cwt for fine Petersburgh yellow candle. For home made the demand has been active, and prices have im proved to 50s to Ms nett cash; although there is a large supply. Other kinds of Tallow are wanted, and prices keep on the advance, whilst the market is less freely supplied. THE LONDON GAZETIT. (THIS EVENING.) Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Berkshire. George Henry Elliott, the younger, Esq., to be Deputy- Lieutenant, June 5, 1847. Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Forfarshire. Thomas George Earl of Strathmore, to be Deputy-Lieu tenant ; David Graham Drummond Lord Ogilvy, to be Deputy-Lieutenant; Lord John Frederick Gordon llally burton, M.P., to be Deputy-Lieutenant; Richard Gardner, Esq., to be Deputy-Lieutenant ; William Macdonald Mac donald, Esq., to be Deputy-Lieutenant; John ,Ramsay L'Amy, younger, Esq., to be Deputy-Lieutenant ; June 5. Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Suffolk. • East Suffolk Regiment of Militia—John Cobbold, Gent. to be Lieutenant, vice Richardson, resigned, June 10. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. Trinity Term, in the Tenth Year of the Reign of Queen Victoria. Friday, the 11th day of June, 1847. This Court will, on Saturday, the 3d day of July next, hold a Sitting, and will proceed to give Judgment in certain of the matters standing over for the consideration of the Court. THO. WILDE. WHITEHALL, JUNE 11, 1847. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Frederick Charsley, of Amersham, in the county of Buckingham, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. Meyer Abraham Seckel and -- Hillery John Banerman, watch manufacturers, Duke-street, Aldgate. BANKRUPTS. Charles Gilman, oilman, Canal-terrace, Camden Town, to surrender June 22, at one, and July 27 at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basing hall-street; Lacy and Co., New Bridge-street. John Evans, paper stainer, Pump-row, St. Luke's, June 22, at half-past twelve, and July 27, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Cannan, official assignee, Bir chin-lane, Cornhill ; Weeks, Tokenhouse-yard. Edward Edmnnds, hosier, St. George's-place, Knights bridge, June 25, at one, and July 28, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Belcher, official assignee; Reed, Langford, and Marsden, Friday-street, Cheapside. Edmund Lord, flannel manufacturer, Rochdale, June 29, and July 20, at eleven, at the Manchester District Court. Fraser, official assignee, Manchester; Hunt, Rochdale ; Cragg and Jeyes, Bedford-row. Abraham Thomas, cart owner, Liverpool, June 25, and July 23, at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court. Turner, official assignee, Liverpool ; Cornthwaite and Co , Old Jew chambers ; Pemberton, Liverpool. John Fox Kemp, grocer, Uxbridge, June 24, at one, and July 28, at half-past one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Tarquand, official assignee, Old Jewry. chambers; Bell and Co., Bow Church-yard, Cheapside. Henry Dircks, manufacturer of malt and hop extract, Winsley-street, Oxford-street, June 24, at half-past one, and July 28, at half-past two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official-assignee, Coleman-street; Robinson, Queen street-place. Thoinas Shipman, jun., William Birks, and Benjamin Shipman, lace manufacturers, Nottingham, June 18, and July 16, at ten, at the Birmingham District Court. Bittle ston, official assignee, Nottingham ; Wells, Nottingham. James Hollings, staymaker, Portsmouth, June 25, at eleven, and July 28, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Follett, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Lofty, Potter, and Co., King-street, Cheapside. William Gideon Churches, Blackwell Hall factor, June 23, at two, and July 21, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Coleman-street-buildings; Dickson and Overbury, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry. James Robinson, perfumer, Manchester, July 1, and 16, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Hobson, official assignee, Manchester; Abbott, Charlotte-street, Bedford square, London ; Atkinson, Saunders, and Atkinson, Man chester. Thomas Jagger, victualler, Birkenhead, Cheshire, June 25, and July 16, at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court. Turner, official assignee, Liverpool; Gregory and Co., Bed ford-row ; Fletcher and Hull, Liverpool. John Longman Shepherd, tavern-keeper, Basinghall-street, City, June 29, at hag-past eleven, and July 27, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official as3ignec, Frede rick's-place, Old Jewry; Buchanan, Basinghall- street. William Broster, joiner, Tranmere, Cheshire, June 25 and July 16, at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court. Bird, official assignee, Liverpool; Gregory and Co., Bedford-row; Fletcher and Hull, Liverpool. William Worsey, dealer in stone, Forebridge, Stafford, June 23, at eleven, and July 15, at twelve, at the Birming ham District Court. Christie, official assignee, Birmingham ; Bowen, Stafford. George Gilbert, leather cutter, Folkestone, June 22, at two, and July 21, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Coleman-street-buildings; Stenning, Archibald Dunlop, land agent, Lower Belgrave-place, June 24, at eleven, and July 21, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basiughall-street ; Phillips, Basinghall-street. Anthony Atkinson, share broker, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, June 18, at half-Fast ten, and July 23, at half-past one, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court. Baker, official assignee, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Crosby and Co., Church court, Old Jewry ; Hoyle, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS EVENING.) HOUSE OF LORDS. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Wool sack shortly after five o'clock, when the House was very fully attended by Peers, and there was a very numerous assemblage of ladies in the galleries. After the presentation of several petitions by Lord BEAUMONT, and after the Marquis of LANSDOWNE had laid on the table two minor reports, AFFAIRS OF PORTUGAL. Lord STANLEY rose to make his promised motion— That the House was of opinion that the interference of her Majesty's Government in the affairs of Portugal was unnecessary and uncalled for—and said, that from the course which had been pursued in the present session of Parliament by those who had been unable to repose perfect confidence in her Majesty's advisers he was quite sure that they would have the credit of modera tion from their opponents. If they had been unable to support some of the legislative measures which the Ministers had brought forward, they had on no occasion suffered their objections to degenerate into factious opposition, but, on the contrary, had, whenever occasion had offered, taken the opportunity to support rather than to oppose the Government—and that whenever they hail felt it their duty to propose amend ments to the measures, those amendments bad been framed so as to show their effectual desire not to embarrass her Majesty's Government. Such had been particularly the case in the great and important subject which had chiefly absorbed the atten tion of their Lordship's during the present session. And if several of the measures, which had chimed their Lordships attention, had, from peculiar reasons, been d ec id e dl y o bj ect i ona b le to those with whom he acted, and if the results of those measures appeared to be fraught with these difficulties to a remarkable, if not to a dangerous ex t en t, a ll h ad been particularly careful not to increase the difficulties of the Ministry by any expressions to which they might give utterance in the statement of their opinions. If he might adduce an instance, he would allude to the course which had been adopted by this country with respect to the affairs of a great and neigbhbouring nation, in which he was himself deeply interested.—(Hear, hear.) It did appear to him to be inconsistent with the first principles of justice, a violation of all international law, and in contravention of positive pledges already given by this country to the various European powers. lie found that their interference in the internal affairs of Portugal had been undertaken in a manner not only at variance with the rights of that independent nation, but also in a spirit, he must say, far from that of impartiality between the two contending parties; and when he believed that the admission of the principle upon which this interference was based was likely to place this country in a position of serious embar rassment, he did feel that it was their duty no longer to be silent upon the subject.—(Hear, hear.) It was their Lordships' duty to vindicate themselves in the eyes of the country, in the eyes of Europe, and in the judgment of the present time and the judgment of posterity, and to free the world from the impression that they participated in the principle or approved of the course which had been pursued by her Majesty's Go vernment in relation to the internal affairs of Portugal. It was their Lordships' duty to take care that their silence shonld not subject them to misrepresentation, and they could only fulfil that duty by expressing an opinion as ono branch of the Legislature of this Great Empire, upon this most important subject, and in his judgment, the present was emphatically the time when that expression of opinion ought to be given to the world. No vote of their Lordships could interfere with the existence of that treaty—it was a treaty binding upon this country, and the Government themselves in laying that treaty upon the table of the House, had announced to their Lordships that they had performed their func tions, and they appealed to this House for their judgment—they challenged their decision, having offered a fair and a full exposure of all the facts ; and they asked their Lordships to pro nounce their judgment in the matter, and whether they had rightly, wisely, and discreetly, exercised the trust which the constitution had placed in their hands.. His charge against the Government—for he did not dis guise that it was a charge which he brought against the Government —was, that the treaty into which they . had entered, was a violation of the principles of international law, a violation of the great fundamental principles, .that it is repugnant to the spirit of all the treaties into which this country had entered ; that this mode of interference was not impartial, and that the execution of the treaty in good faith, as ho doubted not it was their desire to execute it was diffiieult, if not altogether impracticable in itself, and likely to lead this country into a perpetual labyrinth of complication, and threat ening the most serious embarassments to the diplomatic and foreign relations of this country.—(Hear, hear.) He could not conceive any people more closely esta blished and univer sa lly recogn i se d. That with respect to the domestic and internal arrangement of any state no other country had a rsght to interfere in any way, but least of all by f orce o f arms ; an d t h e on ly qualification of that universal principle was, that whenever the so called domestic or internal affairs were in their nature likely to endanger, if not the instutions, at least the great interests of that country. He trusted that he should be forgiven if he adverted to ciraumstances which were in the memory of their Lorships, and within the limits of what may be called their own time, for the purpose of showing the unvarying and constant course of precedent and policy adopted by statesmen of the present century of all shades and distinctions of politics. In France, during the internal commotion which had prevailed in that country during the last century, England did not feel herself called upon to interfere. In 1792, when the French revolution was at its height— when the Sovereign was deprived of the exercise of his regal functions—and when the events of that period excited feelings of alarm throughout Europe, the language from the Throne in this country with reference to those events was, no doubt, the language of apprehension and of alarm, but it was the language of nonintervention. —(Hear, hear.) The Noble Lord here read extracts from the speech from the Throne at that period—" that this country entirely abstained from all interference with the internal affairs of France." And afterwards, when the King of France was brought to the block and judi cially murdered, the war which ensued was declared, not by England against France, but by France against Eng land.—(Hear, hear.) During the long period of dismay which followed, even up to the time v hen Charles X. was obliged to give up his throne, did they ever dream of interference.—(Hear, hear,) No, it was never thought of, and in the speech from the throne at e'no stat s i u n e g h that th e Ki ng regar d ed w i th pleasure prin c i p l e was enunc i ate d . It concluded convocation of th e C ortes. At a somewhat earlier period the great prin c ipl e o f non -i nterference was laid down by his Noble and G a ll an t F r i en d on t h e cross-benches (the Duke of W e lli ngton ). Wh en that time, by th t i e at the congress of Verona, he addressed a memorandum to the French Ambassador, stating that he bad availed himself of every opportunity of recommending to his Majesty, wholly to abstain from all interference in the internal affairs of Spain, because he believed that any interference could only place that monarch in a worse position, and prevent him from promoting the internal amelioration of that country.—(Hear.) . One other great authority—one with whom, in many respects, he differed in political opinions —one to whose memory he looked with affectionate reverence—one whose opinions Noble Lords opposite were bound to receive with great weight, and one for whom those who differed the most with him in political opinions, he did not in his life, and would not now hesitate to declare that he Was a statesman keenly anxious for the welfare of his native country and of other nations.—(Hear.) In the year 1830, when negotiations were entered into with the five great Powers of Europe, in pursuance of the obligation of a treaty, for the purpose of settling the arrangement between Belgium (which was then vir tually separated from Holland) and Holland. The speech delivered from the throne on that occasion an nounced in distinct terms the principle which he was anxious to lay down to their Lordships the principle adopted by the advice of Earl Grey was non-interference with the affairs of Belgium as contrary to the laws of nations, and by that advice Earl Grey waa enabled to strengthen his Cabinet. They could not justify interfer ence on the part of another country on the pretence of danger, and he would go further, and say, that if the Belgians had adopted a republican form of Government, instead of a monarchy, he did not think it would be justifiable to interfere, nor would he consent to such interference." Such was the language of Earl Grey, and at what time ? Why the revolution was not twelve months old ; the con stitutional, vet nevertheless revolutionary throne of Louis Philippe was barely established ; and Republicanism was neither dead or asleep in France. (LEFT SPEAKING.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair shortly before Four o'clock. REPORTS. The following Reports were brought up, and ordered to lie on the table:— Caledonian Railway (Purchase or Lease of Wishaw and Coltness Railway). • Leicester Wat( rworks. London (City) Improvements. York and Newcastle Railway (llartlepool Dock and Railway, and Great North of England, Clarence, and Hartlepool Junction Railway Lease and Purchase). York and North Midland (East Riding Canals Purchase). The reports on the following Bills were further con sidered and agreed to:— Chester and Holyhead Railway (Extension at Chester and Alteration of Levels). East of Fife Railway (Markinch Deviation). Edinburgh and Northern Railway, Saint Andrew's and Newbiirgh Harbour Branches and Road Crossings (Newport Railway Extension). Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding Junction Railway (Burnley and Colliery Branches). Great Northern Railway (Deviations between Gains borough and Doncaster). Guildford Extension and Portsmouth and Fareham Railway. Huddersfield and Manchester Railway (Deviations and Alterations in Oldham Branch, &c.) Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester Railway (Ossett Branch and Dewsbury and Morley Stations.) Leeds and Thirsk Railway (Harrogate and Pateley Branch, &c.) Leeds and Thirsk Railway (Branch from Melmerby to Northalli rton &c.) Leeds and Think Railway (Eaglescliffe and Stillington Ex elision.) London and North-Western Railway (Lease and Pur chase of the Huddersfield and Manchester Railway awl Canal, and the Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester Railway). Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway (Ash ton Canal Purchase). Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway (Branch to Chapeltown and Thurgoland Coal Branch). Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway (Shef field Canal Purchase). Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway (Junc tion with the Midland Railway rid Barnsley and Branches therefrom). Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railways (Sta tion at Sheffio.'d, and Branch to the Sheffield Canal). Midland Railway (Extension of the Nottinghani and Lincoln Branch at Lincoln). Midland Railway (Masbrough and Normanton Stations Enlargement). Tyne l)'(')cks. Wear Valley, Bishop Auckland and Weardale, Wear dale Extension, and Wear and Derwent Railways and Shildon Tunnel Amalgamation. Westminster and Part of Middlesex Sewers. York and Newcastle Railway (Wearmouth Dock En largement). York and North Midland Railway (Knottingley Branch). THIRD READINGS. The following Bills were read a third time and passed: Airdrie and Bathgate Junction Railway. Ashton Gas. Edinburgh and Northern Railway (Improvement of the Ferry between Ferry Port on Craig and the North Shore of the River Tay), Edinburgh Waterworks. Glasgow, Airdrie, and Monkland s J unc ti on R a il way (Cowlairs - Branch). Kilmarnock Police and Improvement. London awstlleDeebrnts.Railwa y (Birmingham and London d o n a ( n C d i t North S m - Lichfield Law, &c.) London and North Western Railway (Kenilworth to Berkswell, Branches and Extensions, &c.) Lynn and Ely, Ely and Huntingdon, and Lynn and Dereham Railways Amalgamation. Strathtay and Breadalbane Extension Railway. York and Newcastle Railway (Pelaw, Tyne Duck, &c., Branches). EASTERN UNION RAILWAY. On the motion of Captain G LADSTONE, it was ordered that the report from the Committee on the Eastern Union Railway (Branch from ➢ianningtree to Harwich) Bill be taken into consideration upon Thurs day next, provided prints of the Bill, as amended in Committee, shall have been deposited with the door keepers on or before this day. LIVERPOOL, MANCHESTER, AND NEW- CASTLE-UPON TYNE JUNCTION RAILWAY. Mr. ENTWISLE moved, on consideration of the re port from the Committee on the Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle upon-Tyne Junction Railway (Burnley Branch) Bill, that the Bill be read the third tame on Thursday.—Motion agreed to. The llox. MEMBER also moved, on the consideration of the report of the Liverpool, Manchester, and New castle-upon-Tyne Junction Railway (Alteration of Main Line and Hawes Branch) Bill, that the Bill be read the third time on Thursday.—Motion agreed to. MIDLAND RAILWAY. Sir JAMES EAST moved, on consideration of the report from the Committee on the Midland Railway (Extension from near Leicester via Bedford to Hitchin, and to Northampton and Huntingdon, and Enlargement of the Leicester Station) Bill, that the Bill be read the third time on Thursday.—Motion agreed to. LONDON BRIDGE RAILWAY TERMINI. Captain PECHELL moved, on consideration of the report from the Committee on this Bill, that the Bill be read the third time on Thursday.—Motion agreed to. The GALLANT CAPTAIN also moved, on considera tion of the report from the Committee on the South- Eastern Railway (Widening of the Greenwich Railway and Arrangement and Enlargement of the London bridge Station) Bill, that this Bill be read a third time on 'Monday next.—Agreed to. BIRMINGHAM AND OXFORD JUNCTION RAILWAY. On consideration of the report from the Committee on the Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway (Devia tion of the Line, &c.), Mr. C. RUSSELL moved that the Bill be read a third time on Thursday next,—Agreed to. The reports upon the following Bills were further con sidered, and the third reading ordered to take place on Thursday next : Lancashire Railway (Deviations and Rawtenstall Coal Branch). South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and Goole Railway (Pcni stone, &c., and Purchase of Sheffield, Rotherham, Barnsley, Wakefield, Huddersfield, and Goole Railway, Dun Navigation, and Dearne and Dove Canal). Great Northern Railway (Deviations between Gains borough and Doncaster). Guildford and Reigate Railway. London and Blackwall Railway Improvement, and Branches to the St. Katherine and London Docks. York and North Midland Railway (Hull Station and Branches), North British Railway (No. 1). Northern Counties Union Railway Deviation. Oldham Alliance Railway. Midland Railway (Gloucester and Stonehouse Junction). Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Dudley Railway (Stourbridge and West Bromwich). LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY (BIRMINGHAM AND LICHFIELD LINE, &c.) This Bill was read a third time and passed. LONDON AND NOR 1' II- WESTERN (KENIL WORTH TO BERKSWELL, BRANCHES AND EXTENSION). This Bill was read a third time and passed. EDINBURGH WATERWORKS BILL. This Bill was also read a third time and passed. RAILWAY BILLS. Mr. R. HODGSON moved that - the reports from the Committees on Railway Bills brought up on Monday, the 14th June, be further considered on Friday next, pro vided the breviates of the amended Bills be laid on the table and the prints of the Bills be deposited as re quired by the standing orders. Tho motion was agreed to ; the particular standing orders to which it referred were ordered to be suspended. EDUCATIONAL GRANTS. Mr. CHAPLIN presented a petition from the inha. bitants of Salisbury, complaining of the exclusion o the Catholics from participation in the Governmen grants for education. SMITHFIELD MARKET. Mr. CRIPPS preanted a petition from the Butchers' Company, praying to be heard by Counsel before the Select Committee on Smithfield Market against its removal. IRISH EMIGRANTS AT LIVERPOOL. Lord SANDON Fresented a petition frOm Liverpool, praying the House to allow some provision to be made out of the poor-rates for the wives and families of those parish officers who had died of fever and other contagious diseases, which they had caught by attendance on the Irish emigrants at Liverpool. HEALTH OF TOWNS BILL. Mr. MACKIN NON presented apetition from a meeting held at Exeter Hall in favour of the Health of Towns Bill. STATIONERY RETURNS. Mr. HUME said that on the Ist of June he had moved for certain stationery returns, which were ordered, but he since found that the officers were unable to give the returns in the form then specified. He wished, there fore, to change the terms of that motion, and to substi tute a different form in which the returns could be made to the House.—Agreed to. CEYLON. Mr. B. DENISON gave notice that, on Tuesday, the 29th instant, he should move an address to her Majesty, with respect to the dismissal of Mr. Robert Langdale, one of the judges of the island of Ceylon. CURRENCY. Mr. TRELAWNY rose to bring on the following motion :—" That one mode of diminishing the present pressure would be to commence a gradual abolition of all restrictions on banking ; that this would relieve a considerable quantity of that part of the capital of the country which consists of gold, unnecessarily locked up in the coffers of banks on account of the arbitrary limitation of issues, and the want of a smaller denomination of paper cur rency suitable to the purposes of retail exchange. That all promises, not fraudulent or otherwise immoral, ought to be allowed by law, whether promises to pay gold or other commodities; and that any State inter ference, devised for the purpose of influencing the terms of promises, with reference to the ability of parties to keep them, only weakens the force of the qualities by means of which men protect them selves, whilst such interference is costly, incon venient, and void of real security. That, whilst the issue of inconvertible paper would be no remedy for the present pressure, and would be mis chievous in itself, any hopes of checking speculation in one particular direction would be illusory, because there would still be wanting a power of preventing the diver sion of capital into other foreign and domestic channels." The llon. Gentleman was proceeding to deal with the subject, when Lord J. RUSSELL interposed, and trusted that the Hon. Gentleman would, as other Hon. Members had done, allow the adjourned debate on Portugal to have precedence of his motion. Mr. HUME intimated that there would no doubt be a discussion on the currency on Thursday, on the motion of an Hon. Member, and that it would be advisable that those interested in the question of the currency should deter the expression of their opinions until that evening. Mr. TRELAWNY said the currency-laws were in a very unsatisfactory state ; and he was, therefore, anxious that no time should be lost in bringing it pro minently before the attention of the House. He should, however, defer to their wishes, and withdraw his motion. The motion was accordingly withdrawn. ECCLESIASTICAL CHARITIES. Mr. E. DENISON rose to move the appointment of a Select Committee to inquire into the composition and management of the English ecclesiastical charities. He believed the Noble Lord was prepared to grant the Committee for which he had moved, and, therefore, it would be unnecessary for bim to make any further ob servations. Sir R. INGLIS said that whoever would undertake the conduct of the Committee, would be most self devoted. His Hon. Friend seemed to conceive that the House would not be adjourned before the 15th of Sep tember. CUSTODY OF LUNATICS. Mr. DUNCOMBE obtained leave to bring in a Bill relating to the custody of lunatics. Mr. Aglionby and Mr. Cabbell were ordered to take charge of the Bill. CORN IMPORTATION. Sir R. INGLIS said thatwith reference to the Corn Importation Bill, he was anxious to have an opportunity of discussing its provisions, and he desired to know when such would be afforded. Sir. G. GREY said that, in consequence of the ad journed debate upon Portugal, and the press of public business, he was unable to name an early day. HEALTH OF TOWNS. Captain PECHELL wished to know was it intended to go on with the Health of Towns Bill on Thursday next, in preference to the Prisons Bill. POOR-LAW ADMINISTRATION. Sir G. GREY, in answer to the preceding question of the Gallant and Hon. Member, said that it was the in tention of the Government to go on with the Poor• law Administration Bill on Thursday, before the other orders of the day. Mr. B. OSBORNE said that be understood that a correspondence had taken place between this Govern ment and those of France and Spain, which, if produced, were likely to give an entirely new complexion to the intervention in the affairs of Portugal. He wished to put a question to the Noble Lord, in order to ascertain whether he was prepared to lay on the table copies of any dispatches, dated May the Ist, -authorising Colonel Wylde to threaten Count Das Antes with the armed interposition of the British Government? Lo - rd J. RUSSELL said that he believed all the papers containing instructions to Colonel Wylde had been laid upon the table. Mr. BANKES said that, in the event of the re solutions proposed by the Hon. Member for Montrose being negatived and the proposition of the Hon. Mem ber for Finsbury being carried, he proposed to move as a resolution, " That this House laments that her Majesty's advisers had taken upon themselves the responsibility to recommend an interference, by force of arms, on behalf of one of the two parties now engaged in a civil war in Portugal, without there having been some communica tion from her Dlajestrupon the subject to her faithful Commons." Lord JOHN RUSSELL said that ho hoped the Hon. Member for Finsbury would agree to bring forward his motion after the motion of the Hon. Member for Mon trose had been decided by the House. To decide the Hon. Member's motion as an amendment would reader it liable to misinterpretation ; and he hoped the Hon. Member would consent to move it as a separate resolution. Mr. T. S. DUNCOMBE said that he had no objection to the adoption of such a course, under the distinct understanding that he should not withdraw his motion. Mr. TRELAWNEY wished to ask the Hon. Member for Finsbury, whether by the words of his resolution, "an armed interference on behalf of Portugal," he meant an armed interference with the constitution of the country? Mr. HUME objected to this. The House was engaged in a discussion on the question, and not upon words. He objected to the question, which entirely turned upo❑ words. Mr. TRELAWNEY again rose amidst general cries of " Order," and began to repeat his question, when, Mr. BERNAL rose to order. Mr. T. S. DUNCOMBE—I am not the Minister of War for the country !—(Loud laughter.) PORTUGAL-ADJOURN - ED DEBATE. On the order of the day for the adjourned debate, Sir DE L. EVANS said that he could not detain the House at any length, but he would state his opinions briefly and precis e ly u p on th e subject. He begged leave to say, in reply to the statement of an Hon. Member, that it was a mistake to suppose that the civil war in Portugal was provoked by her Majesty's Government. The fact was that the war in Portugal had not been caused by the Government of the Right Honourable Gentleman or by the pre sent Government, but when the present Government came into office a civil war existed in that country. He believed that there was no doubt that a civil war was raging in Portngal for the last two years. The Hon. Gentleman to whom he here alluded, inquired if the people of this country had added anything to their military reputation, or obtained any advantage from their interference in this war. He did not mean to say that any commercial treaty had been obtained by the course adopted by her Majesty's Go vernment in their interference in the civil war of Portu gal. But that interference had led to the important results that had taken place. As to adding to their military renown, it cou ld not b e supposed that the trans cendant m i litary reputation of thi s country could der i ve any additional lustre from an engagement in this contest. Various statements had been made by Hon. Members of the superiority of the British troops, and the higher abilities of British officers, but he (Sir De Lacy Evans) could refer to the victories achieved by General Espartero,as being unsurpassed by anything effected by British arms upon the continent. The Noble Lord the Member for Lynn and other Hon. Members spoke in a florid and exaggerated strain of the evils to which these civil contests had exposed the countries of Spain and Portugal. They described these countries as degraded in their population, and almost ruined in their agricul tural wealth, as destitute of trade and of commerce, and they traced these evils to the effects of the civil warfare that had prevailed there. (LEIT SPEARING.) SCULPTURE FOR THE BRITISH MUSEUM.—Several packages of Assyrian sculpture, intended for deposit in the British Museum, have arrived aethis port in the vessel Gre cian, from Bombay, and have been landed from the importing ship and delivered, by the special directions of the Treasury, free of duty. A letter from Rome of the Ist instant announces the return of the Pope on the previous day from Subiaco, where he went to take possession of the Abbey, of which he has appointed himself the Superior. An immense crowd went a distance of several miles to meet his Rohness, and ac companied him t 9 139 ate. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION:HOUSE. A foreign Jew, named Morris Fryer, was brought before Alderman Musgrove, charged with having stolen a great number of gold and silver watches, diamond rings, &c., tne property of Hersch Landsberg. Mr. Daniels attended as solicitor for the prosecution. The prosecutor said—l reside at No. 5, New-street, Bishopsgate, and am a dealer in jewellery. The pri soner lodged in the same house. I had deposited in a travelling-box sixty-five or sixty-six gold and silver watches, several diamond rings, pins, and brooches, and other property of considerable value. I saw the pro perty safe on the 25th of May, at five o'clock in the afternoon. The prisoner saw the contents of the box at the same time, and asked me when I was going to the country. I told him it was my intention to go next morning. Soon afterwards the prisoner, another per son, and m) self played cards in my room. We went out together at the same time, and I left my box locked in the room, but the door of the room was not locked, there being no key to it. When we left the house, the prisoner and the other man asked me which way I was going, and when I told them they went in a cot trary direction. Upon my return, at nine o'clock, I missed the travelling box which I had deposited in a blue bag. At eleven the prisoner returned, and I gave him into the custody of an officer. Miss Parish, daughter of Mrs. Parish, of No. 5, New street, Bishoptgate, landlady of the house in which the prosecutor and prisoner lodged, stated that after they left the house about five minutes the prisoner came back and went into the prosecutor's room. Witness knew that he entered the prosecutor's room in consequence of the peculiar noise made by the opening of the door. He went out afterwards. Mrs. Parish, mother of the last witness, said she heard the steps in the prosecutor's room after prisoner returned to the house, and expressed surprise at so odd a circum • stance. John Sullivan, a boy 13 years of age, stated that he saw the prisoner come out of the house on the evening in question, and, joining another man, turn round the corner and pass away rapidly. The man who accom panied the prisoner took off his hat and put on a cap. The prisoner had with him a blue bag, which appeared to be at the bottom four- cornered. Both of them ran as fast as they could, and witness followed them, but they got down a court, and witness lost sight of them. Witness went to the Compter afterwards, and from amongst twelve persons easily picked out the prisoner as the man he had seen with the four-cornered blue bag. He observed that the prisoner and the person who ac companied him appeared to be frightened when he saw them on the day the robbery was committed. Tollet, a porter, who was in the Compter when the prisoner was charged, deposed as to the remarkable con duct of the prisoner there. The prisoner upon that oc casion stated, that if he was discharged, as he expected would be the case, he would try the weight of the box, and that if it were broken up it would not produce more than half the value of it. The prisoner said he knew nothing at all of the goods, and that all his conduct towards the prosecutor was in fluenced by nothing but fair and honourable feeling. The ALDERMAN said the evidence, although merely circumstantial, was such that he considered it to be necessary to send the case to a jury. Mr. Daniels said the prosecutor had every reason to believe that all the property had been melted down by this time, so that there was no chance of the recovery of any part of it.—The prisoner was then committed for trial. GUILDHALL. Mr. Watson, a baker, 167, Fleet-street, was summoned before Sir Chapman Marshall for refusing to weigh a 21b. loaf at the desire of a customer. John Raymond, of Stanhope-street, Clare market, stated, that having purchased a loaf at the defendant's shop, which he found to be two ounces -short of weight, the nest time he had occasion to call he requested the person who served him to weigh the loaf. This he re. fused to do, saying, the best bread was never weighed to the customer, but was weighed before it was put into the oven, with a due allowance for the loss that would occur during the baking. This was on Friday last. There was a beggar m the shop at the time, and he re quested him to take notice of what had occurred. Upon weighing the second loaf it was found to be an ounce and a half short. Mr. Watson said, he was sorry the complainant did not produce one of the alleged deficient loaves—not that the misfortune to send out a light loaf might not happen to any tradesman. He had carried on business in F►eet street for above nine years, and his character had never been impeached in this way before. His son, who was an inexperienced youth, had served the complainant, and his son's statement was that the former asked if the bread was weight, and not to have it weighed. He could rely on every word his son said. The ordinary course he took was to weigh the loaves before and after they were baked, from time to time, to ascertain the loss of weight in baking, and render the weighing of the bread before it was sent out to customers unnecessary. It was only necessary to ascertain the rate of loss by baking at intervals of a few days. He offered his son as a wit ness, and to call bis neighbours to speak as to his cha racter. The complainant said, he did not see why the best bread should not be weighed as well as any other. He complained for the benefit of the public. The defendant had no rcales in the shop for weighing bread. Mr. Watson, with some warmth, stated that this was not the truth. He should like to know how the com plainant got his living. _ _ _ - The complainant replied, that was irrelevant. He got it as honestly as Mr. Watson. Sir C. MARSHALL said he might inflict a fine not ex ceeding 405., but he would rather avoid disgracing Mr. Watson by any fine, if possible, as he had conducted his business as honestly and as respectably as his neigh 'sours for many years, if that might be inferred from the absence of any complaint. Mr. Watson did not deny that the best bread was liable to be weigh( d at the re quest of a customer. The complainant had dhne his duty in obtaining a summons under such circumstances, and ought not to suffer any loss on that account. He would abstain from inquiring further into the case if Mr. Watson would pay the costs and give the complainant some compensation for the loss of his time. He pre sumed such a circumstance would - never occur again at Mr. Watson's. Mr. Watson assented to this arrangement, and gave the complainant ss. for his loss of time. ASHRURTON.—EIeetion matters appear to interest the inhabitants of this borough but very little. Many years, we believe, will pass away before such scenes as was wit nessed at the elections of Charles Lushington, Esq., and Mr. Jardine, opposition at that period being very great with both Whigs and Conservatives. This borough has returned Re formers for many years, and now in the person of its repre sentative, James Matheson, Esq. Let the election come when it may, his return is sure. Ashburton may well be proud in having such a man as Mr. Matheson for their repre sentative. Long may he continue, we believe, is the heartfelt wish of all classes of persons in the town.—From a Corre spondent. THE LATE EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE. The young woman who committed suicide by throwing herself under the express train of the South-Western Railway. near Wandsworth, on Wednesday morning, was 19 years of age. Her name was Frances A. Arney. Her parents reside at Barton, near Gosport. She left home to go to service at Southsea, about three weeks since. On Saturday last she was suspected of having robbed her mistress, and her boxes were searched, but nothing was found. The suspicion preyed upon her mind, and on Sunday she left the house upon the pretence of going to church, but did not return. Her mis tress received a letter from her the next day, in which she said that she had been disgraced by having her boxes searched ; that she would never return either to her place or family, but that she would take arsenic. An inquest was held, when the above facts came out in evidence. The jury returned a verdict, "That the deceased died from injuries by a locomotive engine striking her, she being on the line of the London and South-Western Railway, being at the time in a state of temporary mental derangement." SHAKSPEARE S HOUSE.—The preient proprietors of the place of our great poet's birth are, it appears, com pelled to sell it, by the terms of the will of a former owner. The house is a freehold, and is valued at something like 2,0001. This valuation has been formed on the number of visitors. In 1846 it was calculated that something like 3,000 people had visited the house, though not more than 2,500 had entered their names in the bout( kept fur the purpose. The house will be sold by auction in the course of the sum mer, and one or two enthusiastic Jonathans have already arrived from America, determined to see what dollars can do in taking it away. The timbers, it is said, are all sound, and it would be no very difficult matter to set it on wheels and make an exhibition of it. We hope and trust that no such desecration awaits it. Wholly irrespective of Shakspeare, as one of the few existing examples of an English yeoman's re sidence of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, it merits to be pre served and retained among us. CASUALTIES OF WHALE CATCHING.—The Facto has on board 2,lso):arrels black, and 35 barrels spermr having taken about 180 barrels since leaving Sydney on. the 19th September last. The following vessels have been reported by her. At Stewart's Island, December 7, 1846, the Fortitude, barque, of Hobart Town, Cap tain Bailey, one month out, clean ; lowered after a large sperm whale, off Solander's Island, on the evening of the sth, and killed him, but lost sight of the barque, so remained by the whale all night (the three boats). At daylight the weather was very bad ; they saw the ship to leeward, distance three leagues. Captain Bailey left the whale with the two boats, with the intention of going on board. When within three hundred yards of the vessel a sea broke into the boat and capsized her. They saw this accident from the ship, but lost their presence of mind, and were consequently unable to render any assistance. As soon as the mates arrived alongside with the whale, the people on board informed them of the accident, but knew not where to direct them in search of the captain. When at last they did find the boat, the captain was delirious and nearly dead, and dr ea df u ll y bruised, having been in the water three hours. All t h e rest had perished. Singular to say, the capt a i n was t h e only man in the boat who could not swim. The mate left the whale, and took the barque into Paterson's River, Stewart's Island. She was spoken off the Solan ders, December 26, Captain Bailey much better, able to go on deck ; and again, January 11, 1847, the captain able to go in his boat.—Sydney Morning Herald. BEAUTIES or- NATURE.—IIOW beautiful to the eye in a past ora l reg i on, the silent green dissolving snow- wreat h s that yet and hills the from heart em seemed bleakest create deso lation. e s o . a linger at their feet ! A few warm sunny days, and a the few sweet ty seasonand moeflstpinrgingnioguhttos,f havewinter's believe that ouch brightness to itness of verdure n• could We e ce en ly shrouded in the snow, blending a h r itilee havean sscarcely itself, as it now does, so vividly with the deep blue of heaven. With the revival of nature our own souls feel restored ; happiness becomes milder, meeker, a n d ; richer in pensive thought while sorrow catches a faint tinge of j o y, an d reposesitself on the quietness of earth's opening breast. Then is youth rejoicing, man hood sedate, and old age resigned. The child shakes his golden cur l s i n his glee—he of riper life hails the coming year with temperate exultation—and the eye that has been touched with dimness, in the general spirit of delight, forgets, or fears not the shadows of the grave. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT . HO OF 6(1,1 I MONS, June 14. • for a Mr. DUNCOMBE presented a petition , p ra y ing repeal of the ratepaying clauses of the Reform Act. PORTUGAL—ADJOUR NED DEBATE. Mr. BORTH WICK resumed the adjour ned debate, Ho regretted that the present ques t io n did not come fore the the House for discussion at a mu ch earlier periQd' The Nob'e Lord said, that in the then state of t h e liege" tiatiens he could give no direct information, but that the interference, if made, would be effectual for the protection 01 the Queen, and fur thst eilso of the Briti sh residents in Portugal. The Noble Lord had given the same reply, and this was all the information which titter the House or the country could obtain until a Fro ( ' newspaper published the protocol on which all interference was founded, to all Europe. I°, ° the foreign politics of the country he (Mr. Borthwiesti had always, to use the words of a Right Hon Frio , . near him, adopted the plain and open course preserib 1 by the eonstitu'ion. This was what he had adviseud when her Majesty was about to pay a visit to a foreig_ potentate, but neither in that instance nor t o this had the Noble Lord adopted such a eou rs He could not but blame the Government for interfer!! purs ued 11i,.. pith the affairs of Portugal until they had usual constitutional course of taking the opinion sod ad usual vice of that House upon the subjset, as Air. Canning " 1 ,. in 18e6os hen a similar interference a as asked by Furor The Noble Lord said that it was necessary to interioewre for the interests of Portugal and of this country. N 4 if it should be proved that the result of this interterrn, had not been attended with these benefits, but, on the con' trary, tended to alienate the aflections of the Portuguese, people from this country, and to disturb th ileace a nd Europe, what then would bi came of the argtiloe r !" the course of conduct pursued by her Mei est Y su vernment? He wished to know frig the Noble Lord t at the head of the Foreign Affairs whether the prse a _ prisoners of war in Portugal, who had been in ores under Sada Bandeira, were not entrapped into their present position ? He hoped the Noble Lord would giv i on this pint, by giving it the means to form a correct judgment oc. them. It was to this description of violation of sys tei ments, it was to the present description of the sad ebed. and enable the House 0 law that tho Queen of England's name name of Parliament was asked to b e atts de. The lion. Gentleman then proceeded to relate , I P, ice tail, the political intrigues which had lately taken Tol_,, in Portugal, under the influence and direction of . Ul l . Cabral, remarking that those intrigues produced °_ir.„ and eventually content throughout the whole country, Costa Cabral was obliged to retreat from Duke of Pahnella was then called into office , c oc a pd proclamation and proceedings of that honest °i l e a erce in u ad all but restored tranquillity and revived eein the Portugal, when the Queen acting t oe unde i r eso advice ot the Cabralists, drove that patriotic N o e e ls from her Councils, and re lacin him by the who office. d the of Saldanha, and the creaturesPg of Cabral , !lee succeeded in bringing that unhappy country to bee sent lamentable condition. The - Noble Lord e t f head of the Government had represented tha t stale ' °" at tics' things to be the result of the proceedings of three h r oaf who had possession of the country, nadu'lY' r . l ; t e e; and attached to the cause of the Queen —the sPu- - ' but those who followed the fortunes of Don o g uel; r) /Heart h es ' that representation was not correct. --s be the The true cause of the discontent evinced the v . people of Portugal was produced by (!la se)t rannical intrigues and unblushing bere The Hon. Member for Cork was a repealer, bat! tha t was never any objection made to taking the vote ei T i to Hon. Member on subjects which came before the li te o d to of the House, neither was it fur a moment atte w P to be. be insinuated that the Government were inclined _ tha t come repealers. The case was decidedl y parallel le u Lor d of Portugal in the present instance. Th e S ab 'blooll had said, that had the Junta of Oporto succeeded, would have flowed in the streets. 'Th e re was " O ibull ree* tion at all for such a charge, neither wa s there aquatire son for supposing that more acts of cruelty or it i i bad already been committed by that party of Noble Lord called the constitutional party e' sta ted tugal.—(Hear, hear.) The Noble Lord ha 3 ti ii o t 'pted that by the course the Government had a such an end would be put to despotism. It was a s ° dead thing. All that he had secured was the ghost 0. ti nt iea constitution. The charter of 1826, of whic h ille by had been made, had been gambled and frittered al l e l e it s a thousand Acts. Why, the Queen herself was fi e" and fortune itself, and she had violated her promises bet pledges to the people as often as she had rose froilloto rest, He wished to know from the Noble Lord , po of the Government intended to bring back the Pri san- tbere' Torres Vedrat o and whence they intended to bring t e een They talked largely of an amnesty, but they didLor d ° .tbe know where those prisoner. were. The Noble OO, Member for Lynn knew positively that theY s in'i• already bOund to, if not arrived at, Angola. fb e e-a or t° riners were to have been sent to the Agfor e 's feles. adeira, or to some other place rather than `''',, t itell of t his was communicated in secret to the represemorter her Britannic Majesty in Portugal, but it " s tet ted wards discovered by Mr. Southeron, and coPilli e h n ' t tbe to the Noble Lord the Foreign Secretary, tr il l ' 0 0 ! engagement entered into was not to be kept ' Payee, the prisoners were sent to Angola. The reaso".o a t ou for this breach of faith was the interference of v ° ,7, tbe on their behalf. He would ask, then, when thi s ;drs s t case with regard to the prisoners of Torres weet• what guarantee had they that any other elig m a g e be 0h; with regard to the affairs of Portugal, w" e. marl served by the Queen of that country ?—( 11e11 , • :, pie ° A What security did the Noble Lord giro the P a pe ete Portugal that their liberties would be a e u -r lit new that the insurrection was said to be ' as o ri He (Mr. P. Borthwick) said in his tiger'le hs the House of Commons that no intimation whe ,geli been given to Das Antes that hostilities ' til d be ri V I. vso mes e against him by time British force. The Non' 7 ut 1 , read several extracts from the instructionwshssertnee°l.l3bl:ii Colonel Wylde, to show that no notice been given him that such were the intentiona lo. th e en 0 0 tish Government, and no such instructions ba be ge de . out to him by the Noble Lord.—(lieer , bear) ede au -; nied that the Noble Lord had made any suc h c fee v e cation, and he now called upon him to get op wa d e d, had the conduct of Colonel Wylde, who, he maintain Ole used a threat to Sa Da Bandiera which was conteageer.) in its nature and false in its foundation.—(llea' iseince 0- the s . .. of Orange and that of the There was no similarity between the cases 1 . i n the one ease the people sought the Poncee t 0 bec . or s - to were disuni deresdte, monarch ; in the other, the people The peopl e : ill su ch whom should be the sovereign. united and distracted, and whilst the cou ntry w: Queen ortugal _ the ir a state it was impolitic in the for th is country to interfere. In 1830 tithe peopletbis B cow] tri rose and deposed their sovereign' but I constitution. interfered to re-establish the rnonarchia difference he, Of this he did not complain, because the a , es wall/ tween the case of Belgium and of Portugal w " tit i being Wisest degr o e f _eigioo3 great. The interference being looked upon with jealousy, and as a wantolli, n otig mill, called for act by a vast mass of the people of K° tioo °' they would find that it would result in the lessen e t bs the country, in the annihilation of her trade, sod his bloodshed of her people. In order to illustrate ti a t argument, the Hon. and Learned Gen impolitic, a a _d 00. demist% refev.evot, some e length to the works of Grotius and „, ° s tiie g importance was f r o of m 0 panp t o h s e ae m ldli , an to e t e ba th t e .t l of England " The and Portugal was admitted by between haew : O h l ? this ri i i; at: il I° , l V e r i every olie , to rd. by no one with greater force tit an the N ''.• Noble . .. a ell There was no r g eater fallacy in the Noble Lord'sr 0 than that the interference of thisooto country would P_ r o bitc i and strengthen our alliance with Portugal, but the si Os which it had in view was opposed to the will ° f The people, anti therefore could end of it would be this —either to that ( . 'n_c i ~,f its end destrectioen_h.o. Crown, the establishment of a republic in Port E; t esn the absorption of that country by Sp a in—an aci of would be against the whole vile - •• t o f which thi s „so had pursued for centuries. He P de l m y ed that there - t° w e d o g r roundfor believing that the Miguelites iott e etiss the gantse a conspiracy for the purpose of sti"",, - ode sovereignty of Portugal. Louis phinstoe We — Are the throne of France , - --, r„„ to 15 - because he was pieebi - e le" - m ° utterance and to support the doctrines of the P e°l ph" support popular principles ; and was it not rein ° p ee l that he should have lent himself to this interter one to but there was nothing in the documents to lea d Gtes t believe that France would have interfered 4' en s° for Britain had declined. He a 1 " d to the s ' ll°-5 d the length to which his Po apologised de, 00 r address had exten co te 9 conclusion begged to ask the Noble Lord, the e aiont ibl ° of State for Foreign Affairs, upon the broad unrio,e s ' of the principle of the law of nations—upon a koevviergoef arr s i the state erect alliance and amity subsisting between Britain and Portugal, with a view to the Pr s toe iti benefit of Europe, and of the main cape of' that... so ff he could l t ; o of and that friendly and close alliance , ho w the course which he had adopted the pe o p le the Prte:i outraged humanity, in the name of the people 0' olio, gal, who had been deprived of their liberties, Itesti, o f her D 45 J,,.00 0 upon the Noble Lord the • • representativ e ons" be to stand up in his place, and to vindicate this te 3 to exception—for he tLord Palmerston) admitted I , fo' AA o ur ;0 an exception to the general rule which gu i d e fac ts' reign policy. He asked him to show by some eh o ne _ addition to that already published not even in the e t e -be of the Noble Lord at the heed of the Gorernlneed b ile asked him to explain the necessity that bad ago t ole to depart' from the universal rule—from the goer 0. SO ~f of diplomatic practice at a loss to know why they protected the s' 4 " hear', Portugal rather than other tyran t-- (, bets All any All the heirs, save one, to the Crown of Spat" , re tad married to persons beneath their rank, and ".' p e e dda prevented from inheriting the Crown; one re bat 0 0 that was the Duke de Montpensier; and wu no tbit i g r wanting to render his claim complete? Whio b r a d efe tt but the severance of Portugal and Spain; and i al fl •°- been the policy of this country to prevent rortug ties, being absorbed by the latter country; and wl l V'talte li. should we desert the course which we had e at eye r te o. He would again apologise for having occupied O tion of the MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE OF -,-House. bet-r. do99.ese a Lb° Messengers from the House of L ords brong certain Bills, which were bid upon the table the House. bi e H Mr. CRISTIE defended the course takeL l o ie tb a Government, which had taken meas ures to l?u n ',eV; Queen's consent to the terms of the constitutlel e e 1 • : t i they consented to interfere. The Hon. lid e o asi t „r Wycombe demanded more for the people that''", ferh-t for by the Junta, and his notions of liberty We n ' 0 -a O A 'O l than those whom he represented, for he sat , „ otig i m he desired was, the charter of Don Pedro in ' t r tt eot '; e : integrity.—(Hear, hear.) The Noble Lord di tin o f nt ber, ~.„ o terfere to give ore party a triumph over So u s e c horib o f order to restore peace to Portugal; end I ' co °- ,t aiding ar.d abetting despotism in s noth e d : i geif l o was as unfounded as if it were tea tit aS si b n et the Presbyterian gentry of England who foug_o the Crown, in order to obtain Oonstitutionsti 117, Eh 411 1 (lea •