The Sun. — London, England, 1847-07-02 00:00:00

RAILWAY SHARES BY PUBLIC SALE. MESSRS. LAMOND and Co., RAILWAY SHARE AUCTIONEERS, beg to thank their Friends 1 and the Public for their continued support and patronage, and to announce that their Public Sales of Railway Shares, &C., take place every TUESDAY and FuIDAT, at One o'clock, at the Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street, London, to which place, favours, cont.ining instructions (with a reference), are raspectfhllY requested to be addressed. All Scrip and Share Certificates must be deposited, the day previous to their being offered ; and advices of results will be Sorwarded by the lint post after the sale, and the proceeds imme diately disposed of according to instrections. Offices. Hall of Commerce. :.London. HER ILAJESTY'S TILLATRE. TO-MORROW Evening, Saturday, July 3, will be performed Belltal's opera LA SONNAMB-CrLA, Amine, Mdlle. Jenny Lind ; Lisa, Madame Solari ; Count Rodolph !Signor F. Lablache • and Elvin, Signor Gardoni. To conclude wit h various Entertainments in the BALLET DE PA.RTMENT, combining the talents of Mdlle. Carlotta Grisi, Wine. Rosati, Mdlle. Cerito, M. Perrot, and M. St. Leon. The free List is suspended, the Public Press excepted. Tile Nobility, Subscribers to the Opera, and the Publie, are re spectfully informed, that there will be a GRAND EXTRA NIGHT on TtiLItSDAY NEXT, July 8, 18i7, when Mdlle. Jenny Lind will appear in one of her favourite characters. To be followed by various Entertainments in the Ballet Depart ment, combining the talents of Mdlle. Cerito, Mdlle. C. Rosati, Mdme. P. Stephan, Mdlles. Cassan, Honore, James, Julien, Lame and C. Gristrenz, , M. Perrot find M. St Leon TELATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Under the Management of THIS Mr. B. Webster, sole Lessee. EVENING (For the Benefit of Mrs. Glover.) will be performed Sheridan Knowles's Comedy of THE LOVE CHASE, Sir William Fondlove, Mr. Tilbury ; Master Waller, Mr. Howe ; Widow Green. Mrs. Glover ; Constance. Mrs. Nisbett. After which Mr. John Parry will sing his New Song, THE LONDON SEASON. To be followed by POPPING THE QUESTION. Mr. Primrose, Mr. Farrell; Miss Blinn, Mrs. Glover; Ellen Murray, Miss Teibin ; Miss Winterblossom, Mrs. W. Clifford ; Bobbin, Mrs. Humby. To conclude with the new comic drama, called THE JACOBITE. Sir Richard Wroughton, Mr. Stuart ; John Duck, Mr. Buckstone ; Lady Somerford, Miss Fortescue. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Under the direction of Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING Will ba produced a new and original comedy, in three acts, called THE TITLE DEEDS. Principal characters by Messrs. Lambert, Wright, Paul Bedford, 0. Smith, Boyce, Munyard, C. J. Smith, Worrell ; Mrs. Yates, Miss Woolgar, Miss E. Harding, Miss E. Chaplin, Mrs. Laws, &c. After which The MAGYAR MULATSAG ; or, Hungarian Fetes. By the celebrated Hungarian Dancers and the Hungarian Instru mental Vocalists. After which an entirely new Petite Comedy, entitled FLYING COLOURS; or, Crossing the Frontier. Captain Sans sougi, Mr. Webster ; Margaret, Miss Woolgar ; Helen de Montereau, Madams Celeste; Justine, Miss Ellen Chaplin. To be followed by the Opera Butte Sketch, called JENNY LIND. Principal characters by Messrs. Wright, Paul Bedford, Lambert, Selby, Cullenford, and Miss Woolgar. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. (Summer THIS Season—Lyce ING um Company.) EVEN. Will be presented a burletta, entitled THE WATER WITCHES. Principal characters by 3leadames Villars, Dickinson, Daly, Arden, Messrs. Oxberry, Vining, Btc. To be followed by A MODEL OF A. WIFE, in which Mr. Wigan, and Mr. Emery will appear. After which a new grand Ballet, entitled THE CONTRA BANDIST, in which the celebrated Spanish Dancers, Sig. Mariano Camprubi, Sig. Juan Alemany, and Signora Dolores Serral, from Milan, Berlin, Paris, /c.c., will appear, aided by Miss Massall, Mdlle. Blonce, and a numeronsUorps de Ballet. To conclude with THE CREOLE ; or, Love's Fetters. FRENCH PLAYS.—MDLLE. RACHEL. Mr. MITCHELL begs respectfully to announce, that the EN GAGEMENT of the eminent Tragiclienne, Mdlle RACHEL, will be commenced on MONDAY EVENING, July 5. The first Six Repre sentations will he arranged in the following order : Monday, July 5. .. • • ......• Les Horaces. Wednesday, July 7.• • • • ... . ..... Marie Stuart. Friday, July 9.• • • • • • • • • Tancred. Monday, July 12 • • • . • • • • • Polyeucte. Wednesday, July 14. • • • • • • BrititIMICUS. Jeanne d'Arc. Friday, July 16... • • • • • • • M. Raphael Felix (brother of Mdlle Rachel, and of the Theatre Fr:unitise), M. Brevanne and M. Marius (also of the Theatre Fran vase), and Mdlle. Rabist (late of the Theatre Francais, now of the Theatre Royal, Berlin) are engaged to assist in these representa tions. Subscriptions for the Six Performances may be arranged at Mr. Mitchell's Library, 33, Old Bond-street ; and the present subscribers to boxes or stalls who may be desirous of continuing them during Rachel's engagement are respectfully solicited to intimate their wish, on or before the Ist July, after which date they will be other wise appropriated. St. James's Theatre, June 21, 1847. FRENCH PLAYS.—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. John Mitchell. The last appearance but One of the celebrated Actor Monsieur BOUFFE. THIS EVE MING Will be pre - iented LES DEMOISELLE A MARIEft on, La Premiere Eutrevue. 21. Dumenil, 31. Dorgebret ; Camille, Mdlle. Duverger. After which the popular comedy, in two acts, entitled LE CHE VALIER DE GRIGNON. Nogent, M. Bouffe ; Le Due Arthur tie Morangy, Ithozevil ;La Baronne de Shaffenbourg, Madame Grassan ; Cecile, Mdlle. Duverger. To conclude with LE G kMIN DE PARIS. Joseph, M. Bouffe ; Amede, 31. Rhozevil ; Eliza, Mdlle. Vallee. The performances will commence at Half-past Seven o'clock pre cisely. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. J. M. Maddox. sole Lessee and Manager. THIS EVENING. Will be presented a comic drama, entitled LOVE'S TELEGRAPH. Arthur de Solberg, Mr. C. Mathews; Count Theodore, Mr. Vining : Princess Blanehe, Madame Vestris. To be followed by USED UP. Sir Charles Coldstream, Mr, C Half Price, 6d. Pit, 6d. ; Gallery, 3d. Admittance, One Shilling. BAROMETER, 30.34.—Wmp N.E.; fine. ,-.THIOPIANS' FAREWELL, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. The celebrated ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS will give their LAST PERFORMANCE, TO-MOREOW Evening, Saturday, July 3. Doors open at Eight o'clock. Prior to their Departure for America, on July 4 th. On which occasion the y will appear fort e first time in white faces. Between the parts the Juvenile "Fairy Minstrels," the TURNER FAMILY, who bad the distinguished honour of performing before her Majesty on Saturday last, will perform some of their most popu lar airs on the harp and violin. Boxes and Stalls at Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street. Mathews. After which the new farce, entitled A SOVEREIGN REMEDY. Captain Pendragon, Mr. Ryder ; Mr. Bottleby, Mr Granby ; Quackit, Mr. C. Mathews; Alfred, Mr. J. Webster; Mrs. Bottleby, Mrs. Fosbroke ; Mary, Miss Marshall. To conclude with a comic drama, entitled "LADIES BEWARE !" Colonel Vavasour, Mr. Granby; Sir Charles Vavasour, Mr. James Viking Matilda, Miss Cooper. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Proprietor and Manager. Mr. William Batty. Cruder the patronage of the Queen, Prince Albert. and the Royal FAmily. THIS EVENING Will be presented a gorgeous Peruvian Drama, to illustrate the historical events of the Spaniards' conquest of Peru, arranged from the original text of Brineley Sheridan's play of " Pizarro." entitled THE STORMING OF QUITO; or, the Warrior of the Sun. Rolla, Dlr. W. West. The extraordinary equestrian performances of La Petite Davidson and the New ,cenes of the Circle, with the whole of the Entertain ments, having been attended with the most complete success, will be repeated every evening. Stage Manager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Under the Management of Mrs. Frances Davidge, Lessee. i n consequence of the success attending the Eminent English V oca lists, they have been re-engaged for Twelve-Nights more, and w ill appear in " M ama," as played at Drury Lane 100 nights. THIS EVENING will be presented the opera of MARITANA. Charles the Second, Mr. McMahon ; Don Caesar, Mr. Harrison; Don Jose, Mr. Stretton ; unmans, Miss Rainforth ; Lazarillo. Miss Isaacs. To conclude with a drama, in three acts, and a Prologue, of the most extraordinary and novel interest, entitled The RAG-PICKER of PARIS and the DRESS-MAKER of ST. ANTOINE. Jean, fir' Perre A Garouse, Mr. Neville ; M. Brrille, Mr. Frede- Webb ricks ; Count St. ntoine, Mr. Tindell ; Marie Di e ddier, M il. H enry ; Mar i e Hoffman,Vining ROYAL VICTORIA ING THEATRE. THIS EVEN be performed, THE SAUCY LASS ; or, the Log of a British Tar. Characters by Messrs. Hicks, Dale, Serie, Bird, Gardner ; Miss Vincent, Mrs. Lee, Miss Burroughcliffe, &c. After which the Fourth and Fifth Acts of MACBETH. Macbeth, Mr. Bantum Rolt. To conclade with The KNIGHT CRUSADER ; or, the Deformed of the Draehenfells Boxes, is. BY PARTICULAR DESIRE, JUVENILE DAY FETE. Extraordinary and novel attraction —the Siege of Gibraltar by Daylight. ROY ILL SURREY ZOOLOGLICA L GA DENS.RNS distin- THIS DAY, Friday, July 2, at the suggestion y guished Naval and Military Officers, the Proprietor has resolved to present the novel feature of the SIEGE OF GIBRALTAR BY DAYLIGHT. It will present features more extraordinary, if possible, than the Evening Representation. Of course, it need not be observed that such occurrences seldom take place at midnight ; so far the vraisem blame will be more perfect, and the various aspects of a Sea Fight, the Wrecks after the Bombardment and the Explosions of the Ships, the Rocks and Town emerging from the smoke, will present a tout ensemble never before witnessed. M.JULLIEN'S BAND will be distributed in the Fortress and ships, and, by appropriate music and cheers, increase the excitement and grandeur of the representation. Preceding the Pyrotechnic display M. Jullien, and his unrivalled and of one hundred Performers, will perform a Selection of Music by native and foreign composers. The Daylight View of th e TOWN AND BAY OF GIBRALTAR, the splendid Menagerie, the Porcelain Tower of Nankin, with all the other attractions of the Gardens as usual. Feeding of the Carnivore at Half-past Three, Concert at Four, Siege of Gibraltar at Six. IHE WEATELER.—SUN OFFICE, JULY 1. razamoNETz/t, Lowest, 53; Highest. 68 ; Noon, 64, 4TER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. ..us lifter 4. Evening .. 41 minutes after 4. S--__ lintili v. Mantinig .. 19 mint.. • , 4- 1 64. s waus-4 4 . 4 if —IV, 4.0 par, - - :hew. ••• • •zto i• 0, (( 10 . • •,••.:„.- •: • • ' l l Jain -111 ts LONDON, FRIDAY, JULY ; !R47. The Lunatics Bill has been withdrawn, and as , strenuous advocates of a reform in the laws regulating the treatment of lunatics we are rather pleased than otherwise that it is withdrawn. The provision which gave to the bishops and clergy in every diocese the supervision of the lunatic asylums therein situated ought alone to have been sufficient to secure the rejection of the Bill. As was well observed by Mr. WALLET, " it would be an arrangement most disagreeable to the bishops and most unfortunate for the patients." Most unfortunate, indeed ! What chance of recovery would a mad Calvinist have who should be subjected to the superintendence of the Bishop of EXETER? When would a lunatic Roman Catholic recover his reason, if at all times, under all circumstances, a STOWELL, a M‘NEtr, or a AVGHEE, were to be permitted to have access to him? "The framers of this Bill," continued Mr. WAXLET, "seemed to forget that some of the worst cases of lunacy arose out of excitement on the subject of religion," and they seem also to have forgotten that in many instances in which sane persons have been unjustly incarcerated, the clergyman of the parish has been the person through whose active but unauthorised interference such incarceration has taken place. There are instances on record in which the clergyman has gone out of his way to "instruct,' THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY _MORNING, JULY 2, 1847. .-:.—.......... as the lawyers phrase it, the medical men upon whose certificate the unfortunate alleged lunatic has been incarcerated. As a proof of the impropriety of permitting clergymen to interfere in the manage ment of :lunatics we will suppose a case. When JOHN WESLEY founded the society of Methodists his college companions considered him a lunatic. Had they, instead of merely considering him a harmless lunatic, considered him a dangerous one, and de nounced him as such to the authorities—had he been a rich man and worth incarcerating, no doubt he would have been incarcerated, and had the bishops and clergy then possessed the power which this Bill proposed to give them, that incarceration would have been an incarceration for life. Any difference of opinion from the superintending clergyman on theological points will be considered by such clergy man (if a bigot) as proof sufficient of madness, while, on the other hand, if he should be a liberal minded, unbigotted man, the very fear of having such an imputation cast on him might induce him to set at liberty certain religious monomaniacs, the re lease of whom from all restraint would be dan gerous to society. In the opinion expressed by Mr. THOMAS DUNCOMBE, of the manner in which the Lunacy Commissioners perform their duties, we entirely concur; of the necessity of great and sweep ing changes in the law relating to the management of lunatics we have long been convinced ; but we are equally convinced that the Bill in question would tend rather to aggravate than to mitigate those evils, and therefore we do not regret that, yielding to the judicious suggestion of the Home Secretary, Mr. T. DUNCOMBE has withdrawn the measure. We are, however, rejoiced to find that Mr. T. DUNCOMBE is determined to watch the proceedings of the Commis sioners narrowly, and we would beg respectfully to suggest to him that in the next session, instead of in troducing a Bill similar to the one he has withdrawn, it would be more advisable that he should move for a Select Committee to inquire into the laws relating to lunacy and the management of lunatic asylums. The public are not aware of the atrocities practised in many of those asylums—.of the manner in which the present state of the law favours the plots of unscrupulous relations to coerce aged or timid, but perfectly sane per sons, into a disposition of their property contrary to their wishes—of the practical repeal of the Habeas Corpus (by the recent decision of Lord DE/quAN) as far as persons accused of lunacy are concerned. These and many other evils would be brought to light by the ap pointment of such a Committee, and then we should be in a position to devise a measure which, by rendering absolutely necessary a pub lic inquiry into the sanity or insanity of any alleged lunatic, before authorising the detention of such alleged lunatic in any asylum, would afford a sufficient safeguard to the liberty of the subject; while, by abolishing all private asylums, it would secure for those who were really lunatic a humane and judicious course of treatment so long as the disease should last, and a certainty of their rectors on to liberty immediately on their recovery. Another of those important measures affecting in the highest degree the safety of a very considerable number of our countrymen was yesterday brought under the consideration of the House of Commons, and necessarily postponed, in consequence of the ad vanced state of the session, and of the impossibility of any Bill brought forward by a private Member un connected with the Government successfully encoun tering the determined opposition to which it would be subjected by interested parties. The Hon• Member fur Finsbury bad, however, good reason to be satisfied with the impression he made, and the acknowledgments elicited from the Home Secretary as to the necessity for some legislation with a view to the adoption of precautions ca] culated to reduce the number of accidents which have lately taken place in mines and collieries with such appalling frequency and such heart rending fatality. Experience has proved that even motives of self-interest are not sufficient to induce the parties conducting these gigantic establishments to adopt the regulations necessary for the protection of the lives of those employed under their superintendence; an unaccountable apathy appears to be manifested by all, as well overseers as workmen the latter will daily incur risks of the most serious character, they will subject themselves to the chances of a lingering and painful death, rather than adhere strictly to the simple rules prescribed for their governance, and by which these shocking catastrophes might be averted. True it is that the proprietors may lose thousands of pounds sterling by each accident. Their machinery may be damaged, their works stopped. They may, under the Act of last session, be called upon to make pecuniary compensation—so far as any amount of money can be a compensation—to the widows and orphans, or other surviving relatives, of those who have prematurely perished, when the loss of their lives can be in any manner ascribed to negligence or carelessness on their part, or those of their servants. They may thus be reduced from affluence and inde pendence to comparative indigence and penury in one single moment; and yet, so strangely constituted is the human mind,' that they will prefer the pos sibility of such occurrences to submitting them selves to a systent of inspection and super intendence, which, as the Member for Finsbury stated, " should not amount to undue interference with the affairs of the owners, but which would afford security to life and limb to the working people employed." whom they We are convinced that no pecuniary penalties, no civil or criminal consequences, however serious they may be, will ever be sufficient in themselves, to lead to the necessary remedies for the acknowledged evil. In such case, then, it becomes the duty of the nation to interfere, and to insist that everything which may be deemed necessary, or even useful, should be had recourse to. We admit, as a general rule, the im policy of any needless interposition between the em ployers and their workmen, that persons will regulate their own affairs, if left to themselves, far better and in a more eligible manner than if continually inter fered with by Government inspectors ; but there is a point beyond which this argument cannot be carried —a limit within which it must be restrained. In anything relating to the health, the morals, or the lives of the people, there is a paramount claim on the authorities which cannot be evaded or neglected without actual criminality on their part. These claims have gradually been recognised, and a greatly improved spirit is observable in the manner in which the wants, the interests, and the wishes of the less wealthy classes, of the hard-working artizans, by whom the national wealth is created, are now dealt with in the Legislature. The statements made by their advocates are no longer sneered at and disre• garded; they at least command the respect ful attention of the House, and although the remedies may for awhile be withheld, they are certain ultimately to be adopted. The Government have evinced an anxiety to do justice to the people; true it is, that an occasional stimulant must be ad ministered, their attention must be directed to the grievance, and the manner in which it may success fully be encountered ; and, this can only be done by the energy and zeal of private Members who, actuated by ti t ;; floblest ambition, desire to ameliorate the con dition of t h e i r feiiow-men, and devote their labours and anxious ur card to the subjects demanding reform. Thentandpressing deniands upon the Ministerial time prevent th e l ea di ng members of the Cabinet from ori ginating investigati on s, and searching out abuses which are not prominent and notorious. A primlifacie case must be made out in the first instance. The public gratitude who may bring to a swneilelessbefuiduteertntointahtieonMitnhiesters re quired measures of reform, but it will be due in a still higher degree to the individual member by whose perseverance and assiduity they have bee been forced upon, and led to the considerationof the ject. In this respect the Hon. Member for Finsbury has indeed deserved well of the country. He has been indefatigable in the exposure of abuses, and his statements, although per haps controverted when first brought forward, have subsequently had their accuracy and justice admitted and acted upon. The Home Secretary, in the pre sent instance, has undertaken that the serious consi deration of the Government shall be given to the sub ject during the recess. He has expressed a hope that they will receive much valuable assistance from the labours of Mr. DUNCOMBE—assistance which that gentleman will, doubtless, be most happy to afford — and tie ilas expressed their readiness, if practicable; )to propose a. satisfactory measure on the subject during the course of next session. Under these cir cumstances Mr. DIINCOMBE could not do otherwise than consent to the present withdrawal of the measure, in order to secure its ultimate and certain success. Madrid papers of the 24th ult. have arrived. The Infante DonFRANCISCO DI PAULO, the father of the King Consort and the uncle of the QUEEN, was summoned before the Cabinet on the 23d; and accused of being a member of several treasonable societies, among others of the " Carbonari," of the " Com munists," and of " the Avengers of Alibaud." The objects of these societies are to destroy the monarchy and to introduce a republic. Don Fuaxcxsco de clared that he was ignorant of the designs of the members of these societies, and promised to cease to have any intercourse with them for the future. All was quiet in the Basque provinces, The QUEEN had gained much popularity by pardoning three Carlists who had been sentenced to death at Lerida. The Bolsa was closed on the 24th in honour of the feast of St. John. We have received the Paris papers of Tuesday. Every day brings to light some fresh instance of 1 corruption on the part of the French Conservative Ministry, and these charges are made and proved, not by their political opponents, but the members of their own party—by men who are to the full as corrupt as those whom they charge with corruption. Who be lieves in the immaculate incorruptibility of such men as M. EMILE DE GIRARDIN ? The letter read from the tribune by M. Guizor, in the debate of the 18th of June, as effectually settled the question of M. EMILE DE GIRARDIN'S honesty as it did that of M. GUIZOT'S honour. Nevertheless M. EMILE DE GIRARDIN continues his edifying revelations, and those revelations continue to gain credence because, from the known character of all parties concerned, it is considered much more probable that they should be true than otherwise It will be remembered that M. DUCHATEL accused M. EMILE DE GIRARDIN of railway jobbing, and the proprietor of La Presse admitted the soft impeach ment. He held certain shares, but he had paid for them, and he retorted by a to quoque, whereupon M. DUCHATEL waxed wrath, and denounced as a ca lumny the accusation that any Cabinet Minister had jobbed in railway shares—" Such a Minister would be infamous." In the Presse of Monday, M. EMILE DE GIRARDIN shows that the firm of CUNIN GRIDAINE and Sons had received 500 shares in a cer tain railroad company, M. CUNIN GRIDAINE being at that time Minister of Commerce, of the Soult-Guizot Government. In the Moniteur Parisien of Monday night appears a letter from M. CUNIN GRIDAINE, stating that he had withdrawn from the general business of his mercantile house at Sedan as early as 1834, reserving to himself only a share in the manufacture of cloth, and that he was a stranger to the other transactions of the house. This explanation is regarded as anything but satisfactory. The Presse says very justly— " M. Cunin Gridaine may have abandoned since 1831 the direction of his old commercial house ; but that does not do away with this fact, that the signature to which allusion has been made was presented to the Minister of Public Works in these terms—Cunin Gridaine, pere et fils." The National thus comments on this very sus picious proceeding : "It will be remembered that the other day M. Du chatel exclaimed in indignant accents, that ' a Minister who should have taken shares in a railway, the Northern or any other, would have committed a shameful action !' ' An infamous action 1' forcibly added M. Guizot, where upon the whole Chamber applauded, and M. Dumon gave very visible signs of cordial approbation. The Pi esse reproduced yesterday the text of the Moniteur, in which this scene is described, and it added :—' What would the Minister of the Interior say, if one were to show him the name of one of his colleagues inscribed for 500 definitive shares (20 coupons of 25 shares, Nos. 6,301 to 6,320) on the register of one of the companies admitted to the concession of the Northern railway, as settled the 22d August, 1845. This does not concern one of the dismissed Ministers.' The accusation this time is precise; the number of shares subscribed, their re spective numbers, the period of the subscription, all is set forth very clearly. Who is the Minister not dismissed who has committed the shameful action—the infamous action? The Moniteur Parisien of last evening informs us officially. The note it publishes is as follows:—' The journal the Presse insinuates this morning (insinuates is charming) that a Minister is inscribed for 500 definitive shares on the register of subscriptions of a company admitted to the concession of a railway. If this journal intended to allude to the subscription of the house of Cunin Gridaine, pere et fils, of Sedan, we are authorised to declare that M. Cunin Gridaine, Minister of Agricul ture and Commerce, is is complete stranger to this subscription. Since 1834 he has abandoned the direction of his old house of business, which has since bolonged to his two eons. He has only preserved an interest of small importance in the affairs relative to the manufacture of cloth, and he has no interest whatever in any of the operations not connected with the manufacture of cloth. The de claration made with honest energy by the Minister of the Interior, in the sitting of the 25th, remains therefore in all its force.' Undoubtedly this declaration is not annulled; but though we read and re-read the authorised note, we do not see in what respect it destroys the accusation of the Presse ; it seems to us, on the contrary, that this note confirms it from point to point. To whom do the 500 definitive shares belong? Evidently the pro perty is determined by the name they bear. What is that name? Cunin Gridaine, pere et fils, of Sedan. Is M. Cunin Gridaine pere the same as the Minister of Agriculture? There is no doubt in that respect. It is therefore to Messrs. Cunin Gridaine, pere et fils, that the shares subscribed for belong. By whom is the operation made ? By the house in which the Minister retains an interest : it is to the firm Cunin Gridaine, pere et fils, that the shares are accorded. If, by chance, they were not paid for, Cunin Gridaine pere would be as much responsible as Cunin Gridaine fits. And if the Minister were, as he says, an entire stranger to this operation, the shares ought to have been subscribed for by M. Cunin Gridaine fill, without reference to the house, and under another name than that of the firm. Whether the Minister de sires it or not, he is bound—legally bound—by the sub scription ; the shares belong to him in proportion to the interest which he has retained in the house. His own name, Cunin Gridaine, pere,;figures as that of one of the proprietors of those shares. Such is the commercial side of the affair. And now look at the date of the subscription—it was the 22d of August, 1845, that the register was settled. There are, therefore, at least two years since the shares were demanded or ac corded. Has the Minister of Commerce been two years without knowing that fact ? Has there been no inventory drawn up in the house of Cunin Gridaine, pert et fits ? Has he been ignorant that this house was engaged in a very different situation to the manufac ture of cloth? Is it possible to suppose that? And if he knew it, how has he allowed his name, Cunin Gridaine, pire, to figure as that of a person interested in a railway? How is it that he has not applied the theory of M. Duchatel? Another reflection will cer tainly occur to every mind. The unbridled competition of the persona who solicited shares will be remembered; such a one demanded 500, and hardly obtained 50. With the modest premium of 400 f , these 500 shares represented a clear profit of 200,000 f. We know not to what number these 500 shares was reduced when the fusion took place between all the companies; but, what ever it was, there was always a profit of 400 f. per share. This bait violently excited speculators; and can it be believed that the name of Cunin Gridaine, pere, was without influence in obtaining what it demanded for the house of Sedan? Can it be believed that in this respect the quality of Minister appeared indifferent? In what ever point of view we place ourselves, the official note fully leaves the accusation in existence; and the words of M. Guizot and M. Duchatel fall like a heavy weight on their colleague who calls himself Canin Gridaine, pere, at Paris, and Cunin Gridaine, pere et fils, at Sedan." MM. CUBIERES, TESTS, PARMENTIER, and PAL LEPRA were interrogated on Monday by M. le Presi dent LEGEGNEUR, one of the Commissioners appointed by the Court of Peers to assist the Chancellor in conducting the trial. It is reported that General CUBIERES has made a statement to the CHANCELLOR and M. PASSY which seriously implicates one of his Ico -accused, and will completely establish the charge of corruption against him. Tranquillity has been completely restored at Mul house. Considerable gloom prevailed on the Paris Bourse, on Tuesday, for which no political reason was assigned. The Three per Cents., which closed on Monday at 77f. 50c., fell at one time to 77f. 30c., at which price they left off. Shares were also out of favour. A trifling fall (2ff.) took place, on Orleans, in Northern, and in Lyons shares. Havre, Vierzon, and Avignon shares fell respectively 51. The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Tues dayc. , Shares,th e i Five ,26B f p . er7Csce.n;ts. Rouen,ll7f 7 , 0 6 c 5 . r ; ; the nav O r r e - , Vierzon, 5901. ; Bordeaux, 505 f. ; Boulogne, 4051. ; _Basle, laofifs.a;tßGa7ir7lerfa.ota3odNorthern, 5661. 25c. ; Avignon, 678 f. 75c. ; 183 f. 75c. ; Paris and Strasburg, 4201. ;Tours and I\antes, Bordeaux and Cette, 456 . 25c. ;- Spanish Actives, 2901 4 13 : nu 5 a f s . i aI ;I nN P ,E a ri s s s and Do L N y E o n l s ,s44of .FOREIGN; Lvons and Avignon, 442 t. Joc. ; RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, JUNE 30. Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cette (Constituted), 2—East h—Great Wes tern , Bengal, 1 / s —Luxembourg, 1% —Northern of France, 10 5 / B —Paris and Lyons, 5 1 / 2 —Paris and Strasbourg, s—Rouen and Havre, 253/4. JERsBY•—Sir Charles Ogle, Commander-in-Chief of the Portsmouth station, arrived here on Sunday after noon, and on Monday proceeded on a general inspection of the island. He left about nine o'clock this day for Guernsey, proceeding thence to En g land,—Jersey Times Wpodisp MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS• 1 (From The Sun of Last Night.) The Cottun market at Liverpool yesterday was very animated. There was an advance of 4d. per lb. in the , quotations cf American, Surat, Brazil, and Egyptian, the sales amounting to 18,000 bales, and including 12,000 bales of American at Gld. to i 4d., 1,000 of Per nambuco at id. to Sid., 2,500 Surat at 4d. to 51d. Speculators took 6,000 bales American, and 1,600 of other sorts. In Railway Shares, as usual, when cotton speculation thrives, business was not so brisk. Accounts from Borneo state that the pirates in that quarter had again been very troublesome, and that they had made a descent upon the Island of Lepar in 22 , proas, and with 300 men, but were fortunately beaten back b with some loss. The advices from various parts of the Continent con tinue very favourable in respect to the grow ing crops, and in the more southerly countries harvest operations are going on vigorously. The state of business is still gradually improving, al though not yet brisk. Money for commercial purposes has been rather more in demand, but the payment of the dividends may shortly be expected to afford ample funds. The English Stock market appears to be in a very uncertain position, as far as Bulls and Bears are con cerned. Neither seem disposed just )et to operate, though the inclination certainly appears to be to invest rather than to sell. The operators for a rise look for support and encouragement to the prospects of a good harvest, the easy manner in which the payments have hitherto been made for foreign corn imported, and the bare possibility of bullion for the purchase of stock being received from Russia. The opposite party reason, of course, per contra, that our harvest is not yet secured, nor are the supplies we shall need yet paid for, and that the Russian operation has long since been concluded by the taking of a portion of the new loan con tracted for by Messrs. Baring, and the drawing of bills of exchange. Indeed, the Bears even insinuate that there is enough of the new ioan yet in the hands of parties wh o will be glad, at existing rates, to deliver it on the account day. It is of course impossible for us to decide when " doctors dis agree." Consols are now quoted 89 to The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents are 91 to 4. The Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities are 89i to Exchequer bills have been voted Bs. to 12s. premium. East India Bonds are lOs. premium. The Foreign Securities are very dull again. Spanish Five per Cents. have reali.ed 21. Nothing has beer. done in Portuguese. Brazilian Old Bonds have been at 84; Mexican are worth 191 to 19i; llute,h Two-and-a- Half per Cents., exdividend, have been 57i to 4. The Railway Share Market is not quite so active, but holders are firm and the jobbers are short of scrip. BRITISH FUNDS. CLOSING PRICES. 89% 91% 9 1-Di 10 p 10 p 89% ONE O'CLOCK. Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. .. 89 % % New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anne. 91% ong Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 .. 9 1-16 India Bonds, 1,0001. .. 10 p Ditto, under 1,000/. .. • • • • • • Consols for Opening, July 16 .. • . 89 ya Exchequer Bills. l 3 Ad. 2d. 1,0001... 12 8 p 5001. -.— 10 14p Ditto, Small •• •• 16 15 p ONE FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent .. .. 84 Ditto, New Bonds. 1829 and 1839 .. 83 Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent .. 35 Danish, 3 per Cent -• • • •• .. 85 Mexican Bonds, 1816, 5 per Cent .. 19% Ditto, for the Account • • • . 19 1 4 Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent .. .. Ditto, 4 per Cent .. • • • • • • Ditto, for the Account ...... Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent • • .. Ditto, for the Account • • • • Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch Two-and-a-lialt per Cent .. 57 % %ex div 58 Li Ditto, for the Account .• • • • • 57% BUSINESS CLOSING PAID. DONE AT ONE O'CLOCK. ruicEs OF RAILWAY S LURES. CLOINu riticEs. Amber., Notting., Boston, and Eastern Junction .. 2% •• .. 1% %•• . . Birmingham and Oxford Junction 10 .•• • ..... 17 1 4, firming., Wolver., and Dudley • • 10 .• .. 14% •• • .... • 14% firming., Wolver.,& Stour Valley 8 8%..' •• • B. a. % Buckinghamshire .. 61. 4s . 30 Caledonian Ditto, Half Shares 2% 2% 24 Eastern Counties .. .• 20 .... 21 21% Do. Perpet., 5 per Cent. No. 1 . 61. 13s. 4d. ••••• • •. • • Ditto, ditto.. .. .. No. 2 . 6 /. 13s. 4d. % p.... p Ditto, York Extension .. .. 7% •••.• • . • • 7% East Lancashire .. .. 20 .•.. ••••.. • • • • Ditto, New ........ 10 .. •• ..... Ditto, ditto New Scrip • • .. 1••••1%•• • • • • • • • • 1% East Lincolnshire .. 6 54 7% ex int. • • Lint. Great Northern • • • • .. 6 .... 4%.... • • 4% Do., London & York Extension 2% .... 1% • • Great Southern & West. (Ireland) 32 A, .... 3054 ex int 30% x.l. Great North of England . ..100 —.237% .. • • Great Western .• • 85 .... • .....• Ditto, Half Shares ..50 .... 74 Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% .... 18% 18 ZDitto, New .. .• 4% .•• • • Lancaster and Carlisle .. .. 50 .•.. .• • • Ditto, New .. .. 7% .. • ••••• • • • • • Leeds and Bradford .. 40 .. 88 •. • Liverp., Manch., & Newc. Junct. 254 .... % .••• • • • • London, Brighton, & South Coast 50 .• .. 56% 55% 5654 Ditto. Consol. Eighths .. .. 10 .... 14 ...... •• • • Do. Pref. Convert. 5 per cent. 50 .• .. 55 London and Greenwich— 121. 15s. 4d... •. . 9 .. • ..... • • London an North-Western • • 100 ... 182 184. ..... Ditto ditto, New Shares • • .. 2 . ••13% It •-•• • • • • Ditto, Fifths • • • . .. 2 .... 17% ••••.. • • • • Ditto, 10/. Shares M. &B. (A) 5 •• • • ... •• ~ Ditto, 10/. Shares M. &B. (C) I ••• • •••• • • • London and South-Western 411. Gs. 10d... 6754 67 ... • Ditto, New .. • . 2754 ••••• • • • • Ditto, Scrip • • .. • • .. S .... 5 ...... •• • • Manchester and Leeds.. 82 .... 10354 Ditto, Half Shares .. • . 38 .... 4654 .• • ••• • • Manchester, Buxton, & Matlock 445. -- • • • . -• • Midland ..100 .... 131% 131 .••• • Ditto, New ~ .• .• .. 36 .• .. 45% .... •.. • • Ditto, New .. •. .. 6 .... 10% .••• .. • Newcastle and Berwick • • .. 20 .• .. 295;14 • • .... • Ditto, New .. • • .. 5 •.. 85g.. • • Ditto, Extension • • .• .. 10 .... 10% North British • • • • • • .. 25 •••• • • . Ditto, Half Shares .. • • .. 1254 1564 .. • • • Ditto, Thirds .. • • .... North Staffordshire • • .. 754 10 3 4 3 434 .. •• • Oxford, Wor'ster, & Wolverhamp. 27% .... 1914 ..... • Preston and Wyre.. • • .. 25 .... 38 37% •• • • Ditto, Half Shares (A) .. 85( 1 .... 13 .... Reading, Guildford, and Reigate 5 .... 536 65% Shrewsbury and Birmingham .. 354 •••• • • • • Ditto, Class 11 • • • • • • • • 3 •• .. 2% • ••• • • • Shropshire Union .• •. .- 4 .... 254 %••• • • • South Staffordshire • • .. 21. 125... % dis.. • • South Eastern and Dovor •. • 33% .. • • 3754 •••• • • • • Ditto, New (ice. at 32/.) No. 1. 20 .• 2134 22 .. • • South Wales • • . • . • • • .. 10 .••• • • • South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and West ItidingUnion • • • • • 4/.25... %P• • • • Windsor. Staines, &S. Western .. 425. •• • 214 Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth 20 • • • • • • • York and Newcastle .. .. 25 •••• • • • _•• Ditto, New............ 0 •.•• • • . Ditto, Preference .... 12% 3 4 • . • York and North Midland _ .. 50 sB x, Ditto, Extension • • .• .. 25 435 e ••• • •• Ditto. Preference • • .. 6 .... 1654 .. ••• • • Do. E. and W. Riding Extol 10 23% 24 .. FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Central of France (Orleans and Vierzon) • • • • • • • • •• 14 .... 1754 .. • • Ceylon . • . • • • .• 55, _ • % % Dutch Rhenish • • • • .. .. 7 .. 4.4 ••.. • • East Indian . • • .. ss. ••• • • • Great Western Bengal .. S s . Namur and Liege .. • . .• .. 10 3% 4.• • . Northern of France • • .. • • 8 .... 10% % ... • Rouen and Havre . .. .. 2 0 .... 2574 .. •• • • Sambre and Meuse • • .. 14 .. ••• • • • JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Commercial of London • • •• 20 .... 22 ••• • • • MINES. ▪ 2 . 2% . % dis. ▪ 37 Real del Monte, 17nrealstered —.. .... ...... HABEAS CORPUS. 2%P [We insert the following letter as an act of justice to one who has been hardly dealt by, and from re; pect to the son of a great man. We do not, however, agree with the writer in his conclusions.] TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sta,—There is no end to the outcry that this is a " land of liberty" whenever an infringement is made upon the privileges of any of the great men whose pedigrees state that their ancestors " came in with the Conqueror," and, in fact, whether the ancestors "came in" with William I. or William 111. the cry is equally loud, and generally successful, in vaunting and insisting on the forms of laws to secure liberty, which forms were established or re-established by the Saxon ancestors of the bulk of this nation. Now I, one of the bulk, have been in prison seven years, charged with being a rebel and a contemner of the laws, but without having been convicted or tried. My keeper having certified on the return to my habeas corpus to the effect that I had been tried and convicted, I was remanded to his custody. I brought my action on the case for a false return; he pleaded " not guilty," and no o'her plea, and Lord Den man, on Saturday, the 19th inst., before a jury of the country, held that the return must be assumed to be true until it was proved to be false, and that the onus of proof lay on the party making the charge. Now what would be the proof of the truth of the return? Simply the warrant in the keeper's office. What would be my disproof of the return? Nothing but the same warrant, which I must produce by subpce is of one of the detendant's own officers. I should like to know how I could prove that that warrant was falsified? I cannot put leading questions to my own witness ; but he, the willing witness against me, is open to leading questions in the shape of cross examination by the defendant, and cross-examination affords the best evidence. In the times of Charles 1., so much abused for tyranny, corruption had not sunk so deep that jailers would cer tify matter not in their warrants of commitment, as appears by the Petition of Right (3 C. 1., c. 1, s. 5); but it this doctrine that the party complaining of the return has to disprove it, had then sprung up, the judges of Charles might have been spared the difficulty and odium of remanding persons, as stated in the Petition of Right. who by the returns appeared to have been committed illegally on vague charges by the Lords of the Privy Council. If this doctrine is now law, the result of course is, that the return is never to be supported on oath, and that I am debarred from cross-examination of the agents of the officer on whose unsworn statement I am detained, sad that therefore I have no remedy but the troublesome one of indictment at common-law, in which I may be a witness. I think, Sir, that this being a matter in which public liberty is concerned and common sense the test, the press is the proper quarter to appeal to; and therefore, not on individual but on public groundsrecti, I hope the press w the respond to this appeal by ding its n subject, not only in England, but in Ireland and Scot land. Lord Denman observed that his opinion was given in the absence of any authority for my view of the point ; but I h , pe that the precedent in this case will end by becoming such authority, on my motion for a new trial, and on the public opinion expressed through your dis cussion of the question. I have the honour to be, Sir, Your most obedient servant, WM. COBBETT. Queen's Prison, June 22, 1847. Wednesday a ballot was taken at the East India House for the election of a director, in the room of Major. General Archibald Robertson, deceased. At six o'clock the glasses were closed and delivered to the scru tineers, who reported that the election had fallen on Mr. Wilnom Joseph Eastwick. COURT CIRCULAR. WEDNESDAY. The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by their Majesties the King and Queen of the Belgians, took an airing yesterday in an open barouche and four. The Equerries in Waiting, Lord Alfred Paget and Colonel Bouverie, attended on horseback. their Imperial Highnesses Prince Peter and the Princess of Oldenburgn visited th-ir Majesties the King and Queen of the Betians yesterday at Buckingham Palace. His Majesty the King of the Belgians visited his Im perial Highness Prince Peter of Oldenburgh yesterday at the Clarendon Hotel. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess' Royal, the Princess Alice, and the Princess Helena walked and rode on ponies yesterday in the garden of the Palace. The Queen had a dinner party yesterday at Buck ingham Palace. The company included their Majesties 'the King and Queen of the Belgians, her Royal High. ness the Duchess of Gloucester, their Imperial High nesses Prince Peter and the Princess of Uldeeburgh, his Royal Highness Prince George, his Excellency M. Van de Weyer, the Lord Chancellor, the Duke and Duchess of Northumberland, the Countess Vander straten, Lady Georgiana Bathurst, the Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne, the Marquis and Mar chioness of Douro, Viscount and Viscountess Palmer. stun, le Comte de Lalaing, M. de Koudriaffsky, Major de Moerkerke, and Dr. Carswell. The band of the Coldstream Guards was in attendance during dinner, and performed the following piec es:— Sr lection from Mose in Egitto Rossini. NV alta—Olga, or the Princess Jullien. Glee—" Mynheer Van Dunck" Sir H. R. Bishop. Grand March, composed by her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent. Polka Labitzky. Her Majesty had afterwards an evening party. The following had the honour of receiving invitations:—The Portuguese Minister and the Baroness de Moncorvo, the Baroness de Brunnow, the Duchess of Sutherland and Lady Caroline Leveson Gower, the Duke and Duchess of Bedford, the Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn, the Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesbury, the Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricarde and Lady Emily de Burgh, the Earl and Countess Spencer, the Countess of Westmoreland, the Earl and Countess of Shelburne, the Earl and Countess of Lincoln, the Earl of Liverpool, Viscount and Viscountess Canning, the Bishop of Oxford, Lidy Alfred Paget, the Dowager Lady and the Hon. Miss Lyttelton, the Right Hon. Sir George and Lady Grey, the Right Hon. Sir James and Lady Graham, the Right Hon. Sir Charles and Lady Mary Wood, the Right Hon. Sidney and Mrs. Herbert, Mr. George Edward and the Hon. Mrs. Anson, General the Hon. Arthur Upton, Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps, Colonel the Hon. Sir Edward Cust, Sir Robert and Lady Gardiner and 'two Misses Gardiner, and Colonel Charles and Mrs. Bentinck. A concert was performed during the evening. The following was the programme:— PARTE PALMA. Overture (Prometheus) Aria--“ Dove sono," Mdlle. Lind (Let Mozart. IVozze di Figaro) Air—" Non piii andrai," Sig. Lablache Mozart. Tema con Variazioni—Pianoforte and 1 Beethoven, violin, Mrs. Anderson & M. Sainton Canzonette—" La Festa," Mdlle. Lind Geraldy. PARTE SECONDA. Kruges Marsch—(Athalie) Aria Napolitana—Signor Lablache. Fantasia, violin—M. Sainton Sainton. " Der .Neugierige ' " Lieder " Der Muller and der Bach," Schubert. Mademoiselle Lind....... Mrs. Anderson preiide.; at the pianoforte. Her Majesty's private baud attended under the direc. tion of Mr. Anderson. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and Prince George, and their Imperial Highnesses Prince Peter and the Princess of Oldenburgh, visited her Ma jesty the Queen Dowager yesterday at Marlborough House. A deputation from the parochial schoolmasters of Scotland had an interview yesterday with the Lord Pre sident of the Council and the Earl of Minto, at the Privy Council office, with reference to the recent minutes of the Committee of Council on Education. Mr. W. Sandom and a deputation from Deptford, re. specting the Health of Towns Bill, had an interview wi Lord Morpeth yesterday, at the office of the Commis• sioners of Woods and Forests, in Whitehall-place. Captain Denham, R.N., had an interview with the Earl of Clarendon on Tuesday. Dispatches were sent off last evening from the Colo nial-office for the Governors of New South Wales and South Australia. Lord John Russell had a Parliamentary dinner-party last evening, at his residence in Chesham-place. The Astronomer Royal and Mr. Airy had an inter view with the Right Hon. E. Strutt on Tuesday, at the office of the COW mi*sion3rs of Railways in Great George street. The Chevalier Bunsen, Prime Minister, had an inter view with Viscount Palmerston yesterday, at the Foreign-office. Colonel Brereton, C. 8., has arrived in town from Canton, and had yesterday an interview with Earl Grey at the Colonial-office. Mendelssohn. THURSDAY. The Queen and Prince Albert rode out on. horseback , yesterday morning, attended by the Hon. Miss Dawson, , Colonel Buckley, and Lieut.-Colonel Seymour. Lord John Russell had an audience of her Majesty yesterday, at Buckingham Palace. The Queen and the Queen of the Belgians took an airing yesterday afternoon, accompanied by Prince Alfred and the Princess Mice, in an open carriage and four. Colonel Buckley attended on horseback. His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out on horseback attended by Lieut. Colonel Seymour. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Helena, walked and rode in the pleasure-grounds of the Palace. Prince Alfred and the Princess Mice, accompanied by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, took an airing in an open carriage and four. The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by their Majesties the King and Queen of the Belgians, honoured her Majesty's Theatre with their presence last evening. The Royal suites consisted of the Countess of Desert, the Countess Vanderstraten ' Lord Byron, Major de Moerkerke, Col. Buckley, and Lieut.-Col. Seymour. The Hon. Miss Murray and the Hon. Miss Macdonald have succeeded Lady Caroline Cocks and the Hon. Miss Paget as the Maids of Honour in Waiting to the Queen. Colonel Buckley has relieved Lord Alfred Paget (Clerk Marshal) in the duties of Equerry in Waiting to the Queen, and Lieut.-Colonel Francis Hugh Seymour has relieved Colonel Bouverie in the duties of Equerry in Waiting to his Royal Highness Prince Albert. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Gloucester and the Duke of Cambridge visited her Majesty the Queen Dowager yesterday at Marlborough House. Tneir Imperial Highnesses Prince Peter and the Prin cess of Oldenburgh visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester on Wednesday, at Gloucester House, and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, at Cambridge House. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, attended by Lady Augusta Cadogan, honoured the Earl and Countess of Wilton with their company at dinner last evening, at their residence in Grosvenor-square. Commander Rubidge had an interview with Earl they yesterday, at the Colonial-office. The Commissioners of Metropolitan Improvements had a meeting at the office of the Woods and Forests in Whitehall-place. There were present Viscount Mor peth, Lord Colborne, Sir Charles Lemon, Sir Robert H. Inglis, the Hon. C. A. Gore, and Mr. A. Milne. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had a general meeting yesterday at their office in Whitehall- Place. Captain Russell Eliott (Royal Navy) had an interview wish Sir George Grey yesterday at the Home-office. Mr. Wickham, Chairman of the Stamps and Taxes, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exche quer yesterday at his official residence in Downing- street. Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from the Colonial-office for the Governors of the West India Colonies. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean arrived on Tuesday last at their beautiful residence, Key Dell, in Hampshire, after a peasant voyage, by the splendid ship the Swit zerland, from New York. These favourites of the public have made a double professional tour of the United States, hitherto unattempted by any of our theatrical visitors. Their success, by all accounts, has been immense. SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY. The celebrated composer, Spohr, arrived in London on Wednesday, having come to England at the invitation of this Society, to conduct a series of performances. lie will appear on Friday next, when The Fall of Babylon will be pro duced. The result of the concert lately given by the Society, in aid of the distressed Scotch, was a profit of 1,102/. 10s. NARROW ESCAPE OF THE GRAND DUKE OSCAR OF SWEDEN.—A letter from Elsineur (Denmark) of the 21st gives the following account of a narrow escape of Prince Oscar of Sweden:--" The Swedish frigate Eu , Y6nie, on board of which t he Duke Oscar Frederick, third' son of the King of Sweden and Norway, serves as sub lieutenant, has narrowly escaped being sunk. In the afternoon of the 19th this vessel, which came from England, and which, favoured by a strong north wind, entered the sound with great rapidity, ran against a three-masted Norwegian ship, the Glommen, which was anchored in the little bay of llornbeck. The shock was so violent, that all the prow of the Eugenie was destroyed and two of its masts were broken, and fell on the deck. Fortunately no one was either injured or killed on board the frigate, everybody haying hastily descended to the interior of the vessel on seeing that a collision was Ine vitable. The Danish steamer Hjerte, and the war steamer the Smeloi, forming part of the Russian fleet, hurried to the assistance of the Eugenie, and towed her up to off Elsineur, where she will be repaired. Prince Oscar Frederick disembarked at Elsineur, and after hay ing stopped some hours, took his departure for 'lasing borg, in Sweden. The Glommen has also sustained very great damage. At the mcment of the accident there were o:dy five or six men on board, two of whom re c( ived contusions." CARTHORSES FROM BELGIUM:A sale of Belgian carthorses twit place at Di3EOl3'S repository on Friday last. They resembled in a great measure the Suffolk horses, having small heads, high crests, and very g ood legs. They are more active than carthorses of English breed usually are, and a judicious cross would probably greatly improve our native stock. Mr. William Scrope Ayrtoll, Registrar of the Court of Review, has been appointed Commissioner of the District Court of Bankruptcy at Leeds, vacant by the resiratien of the late centnassigher, 74 18 8% 7y, 66% 32% 5 103% 4654 p!.T. 10Y4 29% 614 15i 2% 10% 19y1 37 SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S.—THUItsDAy. Altogether a very slack day, not, however, without a few changes, of which a brief notice will suffice. They occurred in the Goodwood Stakes, and materially preju diced two of the Irish , bred horses, Plover and Burgundy, the former r,cPding to 20 to 1, and the latter to 50 to 1, but not before he tia,i been b ;+;kt , d for til,• part of 2001 at 20 and 25 to 1. Slut z Mis, Hale e.ere in good favour, the mare, who wen at Winchester on Tuesday, rising to 18 to 1. l'ne Hero was a shade worse than on Monday, but with this exception, the Cup bet • ring tallied pretty closely with Aloeday's quotations. Miss Sarah and Conspiracy are declared nut to go to Goodwood. A strong feeling in favour of Red Hart and Mr. Martin, and a ' uitiest the Farmer's Daughter and Black,ll wart* 'or the St. Leger, but the prices gene rally as before. Cle-ing quotations : GuuDWooD STAKES. 9 to 1 agst Lord Chesterrielu's Stuitz —taken 12 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Vampyre 14 to 1 agst Mr. Isaac Day's Milliner 16 to 1 agar Mr. Sainsbury's The Questionable 18 to 1 agst Mr. W. Sadler's Miss lids 20 to 1 agst air. Baker's Plover 25 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Hydrangea 30 to 1 agst Col. Anson's Martext 40 to 1 agst Mr. Etwall's i-Egis 40 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Lothario 40 to 1 agst Mr. Scholefield's Tommy Moore 43 to l agst Mr. Lilly's Glory 40 to 1 agat Mr. Ru inson's Merpeth 40 to 1 agst Mr. Gully's Tantivy—taken 50 to 1 agst Mr. Whaley's Burgundy—taken 50 to 1 agst Mr. Clark's Miles's Buy. GoODWooD cur. sto 2 agst Mr. J. Day's the Hero—t. and aft. offd. 8 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Eryx—taken and att. offd 10 to 1 agst Mr. Ainuont's Fitz Einilius—taken 10 to 1 agst Lord E. Russell's Dulcet—taken 16 to 1 agat Duke or Richmond's Halo 20 to 1 agst Mr. Whaley's Bur g undy—taken 25 to 1 agst Mr. O'Brien's Mentor—taken 1000 to 15 agat Sir. Penrice's Asch•Asch ST. LEGER. 11 to 4 agst Mr. Pedley's Cossack—t. and aft. offd. 6 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Van Tromp 10 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Red Ilart-12 to 1 t. 12 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Mr. Martin—taken 12 to 1 agst Mr. Pedley's Foreclosure 18 to 1 agst Mr. J. Day's The Farmer's Daughter 22 to 1 agst Mr. Stephenson's Black Dwarf DERBY. 1000 to 30 agat Mr. Mostyn's Surplice—taken 1000 to 25 agst Col. Peers Sesostrts—taken ' 1000 to, 25 agst Mr. Payne's Glendower—taken. WINCHESTER RACES.—We hear that the decision o the Judge (an amateur) fur the Produce Stakes, on Tuesday, excited a good deal of surprise ; the specta tors, with scarcely an exception, giving the race to Miami by at least half a length, the Judge awarding it to Tantivy. LIVERPOOL CUP.—AII Mr. Greville's and Mr. Payne's horses are struck, except Geraldine. WINCHESTER RACES—WEDNESDAY. Handicap Sweepstakes of 5 aovs. each, with 25 added. Three quarters of a mile. Gentlemen riders; jockeys allowed to ride by carrying 61b extra. (7 Subs.) Mr. Elwes's Alessen. er, 4 yrs, lOst 7ib...( Mr. Osbaldeston) 1 Mr. Pryce's Buscot Buck, 6 yrs, lOst 2 The following also ran ; —Mr. W. Etwall's Loogstoek, 5 yrs, lOst 131b—Mr. P. P. Roll's Solace, 5 yrs, lOst—Mr. R. Boyce's Colleen Bawn, 5 yrs, lOst 21b—Mr. Gully's Wee - Bit, 3 yrs, 9st 21b, and Captain Delme's Silver Eel, 3 yrs, Bst 21b. Betting-5 to 2 agst Messenger, 3to 1 agst Wee-Bit, 3to 1 agst Colleen Bawn, and sto 1 agst Silver Eel. Won by a neck. The Two Yrs Old Stakes of 10 sous. each, and 25 added; for colts, Bst 91b; fillies and geldings, Bst 61b. T.Y.C. (14 Subs.) Mr. Dixon's Do-it-again, Bst 61b (A. Day) 1 Greville's Milo, Bst 91b 2 Mr. Bristow's Sponge, Bst 91b 3 to 1 on Do-it-again. Wou cleverly by a length ; Sponge beaten off. Post Match, 50 soys. Sat 71b each. Three-quarters of a mile. Captain Delme's Panic received forfeit from Sir J. B. Mill's Black Doe. Match, 100, h ft. One mile. Captain Delme's Silver Eel received forteit from Sir J. B. Mill's Pet of the Herd. The Winchester Stakes, of 10 soya. each, h ft, and 10 added. Heats one mile. (11 Subs.) Mr. A. W. Hill's The Cur, 5 yrs, Bst 71b ..... ...(Nat) 1 1 Mr. Bristow's Lethargy, 3 yrs, Est 91b 2 2 Misdeal, 9st, Fugitive, Bst 41b, and My Mary, Bst 71b, also ran. h ' Even and 6t04 on The Cur. Won easy. THAMES CONSERVANCY BILL. The public can scarcely be aware of the extraordinary powers which the Corporation of London are seeking under this Bill, now in Committee in the House of Commons. They seek new taxing powers on the public by imposing a toll on every steam• boat of one halfpenny per ton per mile above bridge. They ask power to take all lands over which the tidal waters flow, and if the owner of adjoining property questions their right, to put the Attorney-General in motion against him; and by their Bill they will destroy all the securities granted by Parliament on existing piers on the Thames. NATIONAL EDUCATION IN IRELAND. The thirteenth report of the commissioners of National Education in Ireland, for the year 1846, was issued on Monday morning. It is addressi±d to the Earl of Clarendon as Lord-Lieutenant, being thi: first import ant public document in which his Lordship's name has yet appeared since his appointment. The commissioners state that, at the close of the year 1846, the number of schools in operation was 3,637, and the number of pupils in attendance therein 456,410. The increase upon the year 1845, was 511 schools, and 23,566 pupils. The increase of pupils in 1845 over 1844, was 37,294, and the commissioners attribute the diminished amount of increase in 1846, as compared with that of the previous year, to the prevailing distress having compelled parents to obtain employment for their children upon the public works. Grants had been promised toward a the building of 335 additional schools, amounting to 11,501/. 17s. 6d., by which accommodation will be afforded for 31,461 additional pupils. During the year, 85 schools had been struck off the roll, and fourteen suspended for various causes, such as the houses being unsuitable, want of local contributions, inability to procure sites, transfers to other places, and other reasor is. The model schools in Marlborough-street, Dublin, continue to be numerously attended and efficiently conducted; the total number on the rolls stated to be 1,368. In all the schools, the arrangement for the separate religious in struction of the children of different persuasions, and of the teachers in training, are described as being carried on with punctuality and satisfaction. The salaries for the year amount to 44,1771. 1 ls. 6d., thus, taking the total number of teachers to be 4,000, the average amount is only ill, to each, but the commissioners say they ought to be augmented. The maximum at present is 201., and the minimum 81. per annum—low enough, certainly, for any degree of efficiency. The commis sioners also express a hope that the arrangement which has recently received the sanction of Government for giving retiring pensions to meritorious teachers in Eng land, will, as soon as possible, be extended to Ireland. During the distress that lately afflicted the country gratuities were awarded to the poorer teachers, in ad dition to their ordinary salaries ; and in this way, 3,000/. were expended by permission of the late Lor Lieutenant. The yearly interest of Lord Morpeth's do nation of 1,0001., is in future to be awarded in gratuities varying from 11. to 31., to szhoolniasters in each of the 34 districts, who are most distinguished by the order, neatness, and cleanliness observable in themselves, their scholars, and their school-houses. The demand for the school-books of the commissioners is increasing greatly, especially in Upper Canada, where a similar system of national education has been recently established. In connexion with the ordinary schools, there are 99 work ' house schools, and five agricultural model schools ; and it is intended to establish a school at the fishing station, near Galway, the pupils of which are to be instructed in navigation. Many other details are given in the report. Appended to it are a statement of the year's accounts, and a great number of tabular reports and returns, illus • crating the state of education in every province, county, and town in Ireland. LOYAL UNITED FRIENDS.-00 Monday last the anniversary of this highly-respectable social body was celebrated at the H;ghbury Barn Tavern, Islington, when about 330 members sat down to a dinner, which, whether for quality or quantity reflected much c a r u e e d n it ti t a l the host, Mr. Hinton; Mr. James Burns, rdnednas past president of the No. 7. presided and were chair man, as did Mr. P. S. P. Wells, apHnuedaytPhr,esve.nst S. P. curs, supported am nn among y w a n ( numerous i b c o n d d y p o . f a s. p s as p t . Smart, P. S. P. Cobb, and P. Hill, p. Bu 11, Waterlow, P. S. P. Shearing, P . 7,..PiaDimenarr,i7., P. s i P. P. Addison, P. P. Edmunds, P. P . P. P . mur. P. P. Clowes, P. P. Watson, P. P. P. Treasurers Cook, B enwe ll , den, Gre P. anden, P. Smart, Y. Williams; p a ,h, Brown, and Hudson; Presidents Burgess, Colls, L ee , Dongray, Nutchey, Burnett, and Watson. Atter a mple justice had been done to the good things provided by the liberality of the steward,:, the cloth was with drawn, when the chairman, Mr. Burns, gave in an ap propiate speech, " the Queen," which was received with great applause; as was the "health of his.Boyal Highness Prince Alber t and the rest of the R,oyal Fatnily." The next toast from the chair was " Prosperity to the Order of Loyal United Friends," in doing w hich, Mr. Burns stated that the ord er cons i ste d o f a bove 12,000 members, among whom were many personssueseoi: to the Gift Funds of great respectability. P. P. f huller then gave acknowledged by P. S. P. the Order," was s peech, Air. Heath informed the Heath, in a ver y thi b ut o oe u aas g tt h many thousand pounds was dis pensed I. d eiant hand, y e t and the were GiftG ift company that al Funds poasease u ed very much to the satisfaction of the members. i m n or s e ick th n a e n ss pensed annually_dt conducted edhcetalths of the chairman and deputy were then given amid great cheers, and, after several other friends had addressed the company, and some very amusing songs sung, the company adjourned to the pleasure grounds of this rustic place, but re-assembled at eight o'clock, when a ball commenced, which was kept up with good spirit until nearly midnight when the party, which included more than 600 lovely ladies, broke up, evidently delighted with the day's proceedings. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. --OXFORD, JUNE 30. —This morning Mr. Francis Turner Palgrave, scholar of Baliol College; Mr. George Herbert Curteis, 8.A., scholar of University College; and Mr. William Ince, 8.A., of Lincoln College, were elected Fellows of Exeter College. At the same time the Rev. George Eveleigh Sanders and Mr. Samuel Joseph Hulme, 8.A., scholars of Wadham College, were elected Probationary Fellows of that Society; and Mr. Walter Waddington Shirley, commoner of University College (son of the late Bishop Shirley); Mr. Starling William Day, Bible clerk of Wadham; and Mr. James Davenpoit Dully, were elected ocholus of Ow ogiao Society. KING'S COLLEGE. Met; I RIBUTION OF PIUZE6. , The distribution of prizes among those students who had distinguished themselves at tte recent examination in Kim's College took place on Wednesday afternoon in the theatre of the ins'itution, Lefore a numerous and highly respectable auditory. The A: chbis‘,op ;0 Ca tit-rhery presi:led, aid near hi we ~b,e, e. el ; i. It sy , I Iliglthess t , l(, Link , of C.:interi,ese, lee Arebbtsh , efe of D,,blin, the Bishop of Lichfield, ttie i Bishop of Oxford, L "I'd Rlelstock, and a considerable number of clergy er.en of the Established Church. The Rev. Dr. ,I ELF, the Print! pal of the College, opened the proceedings by offering, iu the name of him self and his colleagues, their grateful acknowledgments to his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, who bad, on such occasions as the present, appeared now fur the . fourth time within those walls, and at very consider able . inconvenience to himself. (Cheers.) He could assure his Royal Highness that the words of en couragetnent and warning which on each occasion hz had condescended to offer to the students had not been without their fruit ; indeed no one could li- ten to those words without emotion and benefit. He would venture to observe that on an occasion like this there was considerable danger lest, in attempting to give an estimate of the prosperity of the college, he should fall unwillingly into exaggeration. With such a brilliant assembly as this, presided over by his Grace the Primate of all England and Visitor of this college (and long might he continue to rule the Church, and to visit this college in the same spirit in which he had for so many years done), and in the presence of the illustrious Prince, and of so many noble persons, and more particularly in the presence of that distinguished Prelate, whom it was his (Dr. Jelf's) honour to succeed, and whose principles it was his endeavour to bellow, whose memory lived, and would live, not only within those walls, but in the hearts of many grateful generations. and whose name within those walls would never be received without the strongest feeling of grati tude—under such circumstances, it was almost a natural thing that those called upon to express their approba tion of the student's conduct should be led unconsciously into what was something very like high flown panegyric. There was also a co-responding danger on the part of those that received that approbation, that they might be led to think more highly of themselves, of their attainments, and even of their in dustry, than they ought to think. Both par- ,II ties ought to bear this constantly in mind, and en deavour to keep as far as possible within the bounds of moderation.—(Loud cheers.) He should be doing injustice to himself and the students if he did not express his approbation of their conduct during the last year.—(Cheers.) In many respects that year was full of gratifying recollections. Exceptions to good conduct perhaps there might have been, but either accounts of them had never reached him, or they were so slight that they passed away entirely from his recollection.--• (Cheers.) From his colleagues and his friends they would hear a detail of what had been done in the two departments of general literature and science , and the applied sciences. Ho would content himself with a general statement. He must make his acknow' ledgments to the students of each department for their study of divinity, which was the great basis of our pro' sperity, and he trusted that on this basis they might look forward to many years of increasing prosperity. The total number of students exceeded a thousand ; but his hope for the future did not rest on an increase of numbers, but was based on the conviction that there was every depart of the college a true spirit of relicrion• without which all science and all knowledge were in vain—without which, the classical scholar, with all his knowledge of literature ; the phi' losopher, with all his scientific acquirements ; the engineer, with his practical application of the principles of science ; the physician, with all his is skill ; and what was still more, that highest of all de partments, the divine, with all his knowledge of cow troversial theology, were all as " the sounding braes ~ and the tinkling cymbal."—(Cheers.) Having observed , that the opportunities afforded in King's College for ', studying literature, medicine, jurisprudence, philo4, sophy, and theology, was equal to that of any 0; the ancient colleges in the world, the Reverent' 1,,, Gentleman eulogised the industry, talent, and humble' mindedness of the divinity students to whom ne 'i prizes were awarded, as it would be out of place !,' to incite them to such motives. As distinctions , z were, however, desirable, he thought it essential to the ; welfare of the college, that as regards divinity students there should be such a foundation as would correspon d to the system of our ancient colleges, and it would b e soon in his power to lay before his Grace some plan for effecting that object. It was also in contemplation t° establish within the college a residence for the variou s classes of students, in order that they might not 00 1 1 have the advantage of instruction, but also of colleg e discipline, college enjoyment, college comforts, privt: leges, and associations. When that was accomplished , he should then think the college was approaching the fulfilment of that destiny which he trusted God's prod . deuce would ultimately bring to pass.— (Cheers.) Th,. Rev. Gentleman concluded by presenting his Grace wit: a list of the gentlemen who had obtained prizes. 0 - announcement of their names was followed by loud elr plause. The following gentlemen were then severally intl . ?' duced to the Most Rev. Prelate by the Professors in their respective departments, and received prizes from the bands of his Grace: — DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL LITERATURE AND SCIENCE'i Divinity—George Rawlinson, Edwin Ward, Sarel l o e f Flood Jones, Charles Edward lladow, Edward JO Auriol, Samuel Green. Classics—James Fitz James Stephen, Henry W 9 ' lll Henry John Riddle Poole, Albert Barff. Latin Prose—Henry Thomas Griffith. English Verse—Charles Henry Pearson. Mathematics—John Stuart Jackson, Wm. Middlet° Snell, George Heppel, James Scott, Francis Harris. English Literature—James Fitz-James Stepn e y' Charles Edward Johnston, James Seller. English Essay—James Fitz-James Stephen. Hebrew—Robert Williams, Peter Goldsmith Medd- French—Edwin Ward. German—William Middleton Snell, Henry Maccl e nald Maughan. Literary Union—Alfred John Church. DEPARTMENT OF THE APPLIED SCIENCES. Divinity—Wm. Bulstrode. Mathematics—John Hicks, Thomas Balton, John e t° Gawler. lee Natural Philosophy—Henry Whitcombe, Che t ' lanes Spencer, George Schilling, Thomas Bolton. Arts of Construction—John Phillips Nunn. Manufacturing Art and Machinery—George Fill' et ' William Norton Lawson, George Wells. Surveying—William Norton Lawson, Alfred Arfi li ,. % ; Francis Bowyer Miller, William Frederic Laxton, 11 0 " e li tr e i a c t a il l . Drawing—Samuel Bl un d en D an i e ll, P ei Ch G ar e l o e m s derick Augustus Buryett. I T hi a i nl n i l iaNm Hick s,oNrt G 00 rot oenor Lawson. e a 1 v Fuller. o n , C .l%,Gt h ei n e o m le,r, i ga s y ltor—William yvv— J i vi o l Work•room—Clem en t A ugus t us S co tt, Henryhori Heath. John Hiclte e o Y SCHOLARS.-1847. DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL LITERATURE AND sciE 4CO' Classical Senior, Alfred John Church. Classical Junior, Edward James Auriol. Mathematical Senior, John Stuart Jackson. Mathematical Junior, Hugh Cowie. DEPARTMENT OF THE APPLIED SCIENCES. Senior Scholar, William Norton Lawson. Junior Scholar, Charles Innes Spencer. ASSOCIATES. r eDEPARTMENT OF GENE RAL LITERATURE AND SCIE- re Joseph Ince, William Rogers, Edwin Ward, Theod ° Chambers Wilks, Robert Williams. DEPARTMENT OF THE APPLIED SCIENCES. George Fuller, George: Wells, Henry Whitcombe, Liam Norton Lawson, John Phillip, Nunn. Nor Certificates of Honour—George Wells, William... - ton Lawson, Henry Whitcombe. Certificates of Approval—John Phillips Nunn, Alfr ea Vaux, John Samuel Fairrie. The Duke of CAMBRIDGE, in moving a vote of th sol‘, to the Archbishop of Canterbury for presiding, l e pressed the great satisfaction he felt on account of t h e testimony borne to the conduct, ability, and disciplinto of the students ; but it was particularly g ratifying him to find that literature had been combined wil y religious education. He trusted that the religious ciples which they were taught in that college w° ll guide them through life. —(Cheers.) The Bishop of OxFoRD briefly seconded the moti° ll ' and The Archbishop of CANTERBURY, in responding ~ he should have no difficulty in admitti ng to or d e rs 0 - ; didates who had gone throu g h th eir course o f tbeoPb a , in King's College, a n d w h ose goo d con d uct an d P, r ", ficiency were att es t e d by th e P r i nc ip a l a nd the Mastw The proceedings then terminated. To be sold, without reserve, the Protectionists 61 ' the approaching election.—Punch. brand, SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY. -- Wednesday a of this railway, about nine miles in length, and exteS 0 ing from Minster to Deal, was opened by the Chair Of t, and Directors of the company with the usual cereoi4. vies. The stations along the new li n e were h an d so rs e ;',l decorated. The whole population of the neighboarbo assembled to celebrate th e event ; h uge fl ags were see; fluttering in every direction ; shops were shut and bull, ness suspended ; and, i n f act, i t was a comp l ete h o lidsi . At half-past four o'clo c k a p u bli c di nner t oo k place," the Town-hall of D ea l, every corner o f w hi c h was oe pied. In the absence of the Mayor, who was prevent!, by illness from being present, his deputy filled the chil l " and was supported by Mr. M‘Gregor, chairman of t h. company, Lord Clinton, Mr. B. Harding, Captain Tilldal, Mr. Macli s e, R.A.,, M r . C. Di c k en s, Mr. J. Stuar t '" Mr. Herbert, secreta-..y to the company, Mr. C. Eras t i eon, the Honourable S. Lushington, Mr. Browne, s e Mr. Walter, superintendent of the company. An ~, cellent dinner was provided on the occasion RI, the landlord of the Royal Hotel, and the corapan/ having done: ample justice thereto, proceeded by a stle:( cession of app ro p r i a t e to a sts to celebrate the event ",,,f the day.. Many speeches were made in the course the evening upon the benefits likely to accrue to De s r i from railway communication, and all present appea sanguine in their expectation that their ancient port awakening to a new existence. Mr. MiGregor, to Pi, knowledging the kind manner in which he and his con leagues had been received, shortly reviewed the positi?., in which the company now stands with respect to 1 1 projects before Parliament and the question of dire% communication in Kent. His observations drew for t ; the warmest approbation. It was past eight o'clof, before the directors and their friends left Deal v . 7, special train on their way back to London, but their t o parture did not close the festivities of the evening. Va rapidity and ease with which the new line was pass e , over, both going, and corning, furnished satisfac tory evidences of the, solidity with which it has been 01 ' strutted. ,