The Sun. — London, England, 1840-07-18 00:00:00

EVEViNG _EDITION LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) DEAL, JULY 1,7--Wind W. S. W. moderate.—Sailed the outwp.rd bizrand. Ist L ks ivo,r.poor„ JULY 17.—Wind mo d erate .—A rr i ve d th e J. Jr.ckson, from Berbice; Chatham, Richardson, phi sdr7 Or.leans; Ed. Miar.hall, Montreal ; Shenandoah, Ipbia; and Emelie, Palermo. rir ji„ I .MOUT H , J ULY 16.—Wi n d S . W . to N . N . W.—Ar ai 4° the Harriet, Douthy, from Pernambuco, sailed May Sailed the Junius, M'Bcan, from St. Andrew's, New 4 . 1 r .unswick. Off port, the General Evans, Dare, Madeira. PORTSMOUTH, Jut Y 17. —Wind W. S. W.—Arrived her Majesty's ship Fly, from Valparaiso, sailed March 31, Rio Janiero, May 21, with 170,000 dollars ; her Majesty's Ship Harlequin, Sierra Leone, sailed 6th ult. ; Quebec, Hefted, New York. Off port, Lord Lowther, Yates, Calcutta, sailed from the Cape of Good Hope May 3, St. Helena 17, and Terceira 6th inst. ; Lisia, Rio Ja neiro ; Ellen, Rose, Riga. PLYMOUTH, JULY 17.—Wind S. W.—Sailed the Royal. Consort, for Sydney, New South Wales ; Flora, G'we, Quebec', Sr AELRNESS, JULY 17. Arrived her Majesty's ship No.atilus, from the coast of Africa. COWES, JULY 17.—Arrived the Coquette, Morrison, from Rio Janeiro; Hiram, BP.,elack, ditto; Binney, Hop /tins, Havannah. CARLISLE, JULY I6.—Arrived the Sally, Dutchburn, from Bathurst. CORK, J - dur 15.—Arrived eff port the Patriot, Cobde n , from tke Cape of Good Hope. 0 , 8A !-CtMEE, JULY 16.—Arrived the Somersetshire, from Calcutta ; John Marsh, Hawkins,, front 'Aina, railed the 25th February, St. Helena the 14th 1 %; Caledonia, Liddle, Batavia; and Symmetry, Mack ie-o°d, Ceylon. GLOUCESTER, JULY 17.—Arrived the Speculator, Pope, fro n Quebec. Sailed the Eldor., Moon, for Quebec. Saist.ns, JULY 's.—Sailed the Parsee, Chives, for Cal cutta; and Matthew Plummer, Thu- sby, Rio Jareiro. HULL, JULY 17.—Wind W. by N.—Sailed the Kings ton, Newham, for Miramichi. A PPREHENSION OF A BANK RUPT WHO kIAD ABSCONDED. COURT OF Ia:t.IVICRUPTCY, Jvir 17. (Before Cointr:issioner Sir C. F. Williams.) I N THE MATTER OF 'THE BANKRUPTCY OF CHARLES yVIL. The bankru-,, tiam HENRY BOWDEN. who had abs c o n d e d on th e n i g ht o f t h e 6th6 instant arried on the business o f a c h em i s t an d dreg itiasclt taker t 5 •2: 'a, e B w r a id y ge House-place, Newington-causeway, and with him bank-notes to the amount of A fi e , besides cash and jewellery to a still larger amount. was issued against him at the suit of Mrs. Hannah t ler, of Moorgate-street, and the messenger of the curt was immediately dese p la cards Ached in his pursuit. Large ,describing his pe:sOn and the numbers of the bank 11°tes, were posted earoughout the metropolis and eve r y hinge te‘en and seaport in the kingdom, and the, result was f ~4 P ra.chen si o n at B ristol, on Wednesday last, under the thwoing eircumstP.nces . „„at a, PPeared tlr a t u p on hi s l eav i ng hi s residence he took ".`" °lin, as companion of his flight, his assistant, -named Hus,;"oes, and they first visited Wolverhampton rote, beingrote, able to get cash there for a five-hundred pound aghes despatched the bankrupt to Bristol, while he eed with heavily laden trunks at the former place. On toe evenin g of the bankrupt's arrival at Bristol he happened stroll into an auction-room, where a quantity of jewellery _4" put up f orsa l e, and en becoming a purchaser to some a mount, lie tendered the five bundr':u pound note in pay ttalent. Thi s circumstance, coupled with his very boyish ap arance, excited some suspicion, when it happened that a tu.r. Martin, a s o li c i tor of that city, came in, and having lust r ead of th e a b scond i ng of a person answer thB bls description, he contrived to obtain the number of note, which corresponding with that in the placard, he gave notice of the affair to the police, and the bankrupt , w _ a$ immediately taken into custody without making the kat resistance. When questioned by the superintendent nil freely stated what had occurred, and at once gave up the bank -notes, gold watch, jewellery, &c., in his posses %ion, and was forthwith brought up on a warrant to London vesterday, bd by Mr. y Mr. Ins Tpectoraylor. Boswell, of the B r i s t o l p o li ce , 4ccorapanie Having been this day brought up in custody, he sur rendered to his fiat, when Mr. Hook, of King's Arms yard, attended as solicitor to the fiat. Mr. Taylor stated that the bank -notes and other valu able Property found at the bankrupt's hotel were safe lodge in • at a banker ' s ßristol, awaiting the diree!Lotts *IP Court. of The Learned CommrsaloNee asked what were the debts of the bankrupt, and be said not more thin liooZ And you absconded with bank -notes and other property to fiv e times tbat amount. What could have induced you to take so fooP.sh a step ?.—M7 assistant, Hughes, induced me to do so. I was tired of the business, and he having as nured m e t h at b y going with him to Ireland he could enable e to gel through the C o ll ege o f S urgeons , an d t h ere b y jet to sea, or t o th e E ast I n di es, I ' rea dil y yielded to his ;'4-.4-cations, and we s t ar t e d f or W o l ver h ampton, to get 4m thence to Liverpool and to Ireland ; but, finding we could not change our large notes, we retraced our steps to Wolverhampton, where he (Hughes) remained in charge of the heavy leggage ; and I proceeded to Bristol, when I Was taken as above described, and at once consented to give property I had taken with me. an d r ' Hook and Mr. Taylor corroborated this statement, added that the bankrupt was the son of an officer in this East India Company's service, who, dying when the rtkrupt, Wes — quite a child, left him a considerable sum of T.°, n e eY, of which he did not know the right use, and, having tztounghiiti pvvriotpherH.ughes, that person managed him as he oTbe C ornCssioner then directed that the bankrupt i am ul d Proc-eed with an officer of the court to Wolver an-dPtQn (from whence we hear Hughes has already flown) t hP nee to d Bristol, for the p ro p er ty w hi c h h as b een eto deposite. SI -r• Ord h as paired off with Mr. Rushout for -"e remainder of the session. Ivi ar , Al :r. Otway C ave h as pa i re d o ff w i t h Lord C. xiera for the remainder of the present session. 4 ./ . , Tll E NE W W ELSH BlSHOP.—Various are --`5, lb .reports about the appointment of the new Bishop of St. av 'd'': but one thing appears certain, that men of all political , I , P r o j e i s, who look to the question of principle or justice, agree 'e point, which is, that no person can properly fill the \-t eant E„ who' . , • wh o .., is not a NS elshman in fact, as . well as . in name ; g o , 'an leaspak and preach (his own compositions) in the lan le., ' e ef les as well as in the English tongue. There are 411,''Y eminent Welshmen mentioned as likely to be preferred ; f „it we trust that Ministers will not be found deaf or unmind natilpf Me claims of the principality to a Prelate of their own reed !), but set a proper example, and endeavour to apply a re- Ca, i to the grievances inseparable from long reigns of Anglo -nbrian Dish° T H p HARVEST.—On Ps• -- tI ARVEST.—On Tuesday last, Mr. Ste -I)hens I ,, rt , of the Barton of Park, in the parish of St. Clement, cut they of a field of wheat of seven acres, and expects, if the wea w continue fine, to cut the whole of it next week. The crop, b:...indervand, is a fair one, and is likely from the full and odrY appearance of the ears, to yield well. This is the first BLit that has been cut in this neighbourhood for the season, Lit there is another field that willbe ripe shortly.— West Briton, , (3. AM E.---1 . n -rt_ e prospect s o f th e sportsman ate t'erY favourable this season. Grouse are unusually plentiful, il'OLher result, we suppose, of the early and beautiful spring. o “ess-shire and Sutherland the birds were never more rife 4 -la r t i l .i le hills t'and a gentleman in Skye writes that packs of Oreat se ß: s larg e as pigeons abound on their moors. In the a F 0 e1i0....0, eli o .... o , rest, which the Duke of Sutherland now , ke n e e p s : co:reitenrer for game', the deer are very numerous. hit • er . t ti A n the recent voyage of the Great Western f?Mer to New York, a sailor, in shipping the jib, lost his hold 7 St : fell overboard, the vessel went over him, the engine was pPed, the crew mustered and stationed at their posts, a boat Staneo b vo arid let down, the man half-a• mile astern was rescued, oxight on board, and the vessel put under weigh, and all within .7.7 Iyonderfully short space of eight minutes. The cool and o.Mirale conduct of Captain Hoskin obtained him the highest rnPliments fro hie delighted s n ers —Dorset County Chronicle. in ni Pas e g • Never] have we perused a book which we consider this Y t to i• , Prove more beneficial to the rising generation than or] l tie work of Mr. Curtis. He has, by sending it into the iol'', conferred a serious obli"ation on the young and old. t. 7 able m anner in which he has performed his task evinces a ki j es slenal t ac t an d matured j udgment, which could be derived e from a very extended experience. The crops of corn in this neighbourhood have ~°.''' obtained their full maturity, and a sunny atmosphere 1 a. , (:44, 1 bring on harvest rapidly. The price of corn in Mark :so"_? has of late been advancing. but the markets in the North _ueelseechere do not appear to have kept pace with the London ! abl e lators. re- few d a y s ' h ot weather would cause a conside- i tere - aetion in the corn tra d e; and, notwithstanding any sui%.steil reports to the contrary, we are of opinion that the ,•'g har vest will prove a productive one. —Nor folk Chro n tl r e t y l ~1 intjlelDE THROUGH WANT.—On Wednesday ?_q_us,est was held before Mr. Baker, at the Dolphin, Long horeditch, on the body of William Harrison, aged fre. o ,oilie, a confectoner out of employment. It appeared f I.4‘":l:lkt:ia.etteervliyd,e:aesOf deceased's wife that he had been out o holy ;ghee Christmas last, and during that time, but particu much depressed in mind, and of strange To , e " c r• On Tuesday morning last he left home for the pure Z V irn :g tlleyeokfing e mployment, remarking as he went that he „ going about. She herewet out to work in a . sho h rt e verl ea "er, and on returning to room at nine o'clock in t e tvi t h i c i ? , she found him on - the floor weltering in his blood,. li e . Is throat cut from ear to ear, and a razor beside . hint. NI , t 'dis quite dead. On Friday last, it appeared, he applied. , .oreditch workhouse for relief, but, as it was not his parish, w.weor,'")t an and was told if he came next day that he would get receivedand foud. He did come, and, after breaking stones all day, tlitiotliti a two -pound loaf in the evening. Some of the J l ury, aeeount, wished to fasten a charge on the parochia l a e u n - t Act es O and inveighed against the new Poor-law Amen( m i afi'sor dithers, on the contrary, contended that the melancholy z ` o "id not involv e a charge against either, and the Coroner cva-rres'ing himself of the latter opinion, and thinking that it rot s want that deranged the poor man's mind, the Jury at last ',AP:tied a verdict of " Temporary insanity." we Ati extraordinary degree of delight was, on dne sdaY, the B t h instant, eXperienced at a splendid party gi k lv en by L ady Bateman, n'? at her mansion in Portman-square, v,..?has tver the asonishin g vocal performances of Miss Louisa Vinning, '"y aptly been named the Infant Sappho. This tio. ll who is not yet four years of age, has, on various occasions, 'nzig the last three months, exh'bited her extraordinary btanl.e.nt at the parties of many of the Nobility and Gentry, and tc...Ocy_no received the plaudits, long and loud, of the first-rate olessors, will, it is understood, very speedily be introduced to ilea ntice of her Majesty ; and we venture to predict that she twfronn theret astonishing precocity of genius displayed by her, e-eoicleive most flattering marks of her Majesty s favour and +, ouragement. IN . • 1,..„ SOLV ENT DEBTORS' COURT.--Mrs. Mary tiriliams, who lately kept the celebi ated boiled-beef house in th e Old Bailey, was oprosed, on her application to be dis f _arged under the Act, by Mr. Robert Cooper, a silk-manti turer in N lilk-strect, Cheap:ide. She was supported 11) Mr. b oo ke• The insolvent was declared a bankrupt last year, and a , oO.t. forty of her present creditors had proved under the fiat. tie-4 dividend of ls. 7d. had been paid. She had entered into a I.l:rnorthe r of li a bi lities for her son, LI, wellyn Watkins. lebts and liabilities exceeded 8,000/., and nea r ly th e w h o l e ord been i ncurred on account of her son. The insulven was ered to b e discharged. LITERATURE PERSONAL NARRATIVE OF A VISIT TO GHUZNI, KABUL, 6-c. Whittaker, London, 1840. The most interesting portions of this volume are those which record some of the sayings and doings of the late Runjit Sing, who seems to have been an oriental despot of very original character—that is to say, fond of broad humour, and more particularly of practical jokes 1 de void of anything like pride or ostentation, except . when state purposes made display neces:: - „ r y ; a n absolute monarch, yet without (I:..celty ; and as shrewd a politician as any '.'eat the tut India Company —to whom he r l , l ways professed great attach ment—has ever to deal With. Mr. Vigne, the author of t h i s.vark,hashad many opportunities of form ing an , c!",imater 'off' Runjit Sing, and has giv e n u s a f a ir enou'h nati on of his public and private character, which, considerieg the gem ral run of Eastern potentates, may; on the whole, be pronounced favourable. Here is one of his Highness's cecen - ,7•icities : " One day a favcurite dancing girl tied his hands toge ther, most likely at his own request, she thinking it, no doubt, an excellent joke to have done so. Runjit then sent in a hurry for twe of his principal officers, or Sirdars, who kapidly obeyed the summons, thinking that business of importance was to be discussed, and feigned the ; greatest horror at seeing their master with his hands tied. Runjit then asked them what punishment ought to be inflicted upon the person who had dared to tic his hands 1 A heavy fine was the reply ; and Runjit made the girl refund him several thousand of his rupees for her temerity ; all of which, and more with them, she was quite sure of receiving again afterwards I and then then got fifty thousand rupees a-piece from hie two Sirdars, for the honour of untying him I" Speaking of the course of.11;;Iicy recently rut sued in India, Mr. Vigne says., enat he never denbted the cor rectness of those measures which it became necessary to pursue by tending the late expedition to Affghanistan ; and .'.;acts, in allusion to th e ra i s i ng o f th e s i ege o f H erat, " this has entirely changed the aspect of affairs in the East, and saved the British empire in India from conse quences, the extent of which cannot be Contemplated, but. of which enough could be foreseen ttl enable us to pronounce on the possibility of their seriously, for a time, affecting its very existence. England has now the vantage-ground and if she hold her own, and a tight hr.nd be kept ov er th ose un f ortunate di ff erences of opi nion by which the diplomats, under the meridian of the Indus, are so notoriously agitated, she may snap her fingers at Russia, and have nothing to fear on the score of successful invasion." Mr. Vigne is an intelligent writer, but his volume is of . rather too slight and sketchy a character too carry any very great weight with it. THE OLD HOUSE INTEREST. The perfection of an abstract principle consists in its being applicable to the explanation of the most minute phenomena, yet capable of being extended so as to em brace the most extensive and complicated. It should be like the elephant's trunk, as described by the showman —" able to uproot a tree or pick up a pin." Lord Se grave enounced a principle of this kind in the debate on the Chimney.sweepers Bid. The cruelty of exposing children of tender years to violent deaths and to certain disease, by forcing them to tasks nauseous in themselves and frequently requiring exertions beyond their strength, was denied by none of the speakers. But the Noble Lord observed, " That in many old houses it would be almost impossible to alter chimneys in such a manner as to render it practicable to dispense with the assistance of boys ; and if this Bill passed into a law, property in the country would be placed in a, state of great danger.' His Lordship has with singular felicity crammed into these few words the quintessence of aristocratic objection to any innovation whatever—th eventual danger to "old houses." Try his P.;,,phtliegm upon any question of reform that ma" occur, it will be found to fit. The repeal of Corn-laws is opposed, because it would en d :.nger " old houses" and " pro perty in the co:.,utry.a Church reform is opposed, be cause it :flight bring down an " old house" about our Grapple with the Bank of England question, and there it no saying how many " old houses " in the City rnay be shaken. If John Thorogood be not kept in prison, what chance have " old houses" (of prayer) to be repaired ? Throw " old houses " into one scale, and sound policy, justice, and humanity into another, the latter must kick the beam. It will serve materially to abridge the tedium of Parliamentary debates, if Lord Segrave's enunciation of this ail-sufficing argument be adopted in future, In time it may be even further abridged. " There is an old house in the way," will at once arrest the progress of the most determined innova tor. Lord Segrave is the Aristotle, or Duns Scotus, or Raymond Lully of the " old house" of which he is the prop and ornament—he has invented an argument uni versally applicable.—Spectator. SPANISH REFUGEES. CABRERA AND BALMASIDA.—The Conslitutionne has the following :—" The France has stated that the Spansh Government had demanded the extradition of Balmaseda and Cabrera, and that if the ministry did not grant it, it was ow i ng to hi g h i ntervent i on . The re i s signal falsehood in these lines. Is is true that the Spanish Government has demanded the extradition of these two chiefs, and the odious acts of which they have been guilty explain the demand; but it is false to say that the Ministry have for a single instant con templated a compliance with it. However cruel may have been the conduct of Cabrera and Balmaseda, in the course of the civil war, the actions with which they hav e so il e d th e ir names were political and within the rights o f na ti on s recognised by France, and this alone shelters them from extradition. When the demand of extradition was addressed to the President of the Coun cil, he did not hesitate an instant to reply, No. There was nothing of the intervention spoken of. The asser tion of the journal to which wa reply is a ea:umny. Others have pretended that some Foreign Governments have protested against the demand for extradition. This is also false. No Cabinet has interfered in it. According to the free and spontaneous decision of the Govern ment, Cabrera and Balmaseda will not be given up to Spain, but they will remain in Prance ; and if we are asked, by what right this is done we reply, by the right which has provided precautions against Don Carlos, and in pursuance of the duties imposed upon the French Government by its alliance with Spain. This state of things will last as long as the security of constitutional Spain shall require it. No intervention of what( ver nature can change the resolution of the Government on this subject. As to the thousands of Carlist soldiers who have entered France, the Government will treat them with the humanity which is due to men of all parties who seek an asylum on our territory." " The interview of Balmaseda with the Minister of the Interior," says the Temps," appears to have made a strong impression upon all who witnessed it. This man, who is of a very energetic character, spoke with profound contempt of Don Carlos, who, he says, has neither the qualities of a king nor of a man. He also spoke of Cabrera as a ferocious and rapacious per son. I have been severe,' added he, but it was always from necessity. I have ordered women and children to be shot ; but they were taken with arms in their hands ; whereas Cabrera was cruel without necessity. He has appropriated to himself the greater part of the contri butions which be imposed. As to me, let my soldiers be interrogated, and they will say that I never appro priated to myself a single maravedas of what I de manded in their name. Look at my threadbare and torn trosysers—at my coat, which is in rags—and at my purse, which contains only z3oofr. ; but I regard myself in poverty as superior to Cabrera with his riches and covered with public execration.'" • FALNIOUTII HARBOUR IMPROVEMENTS.- The moorings are b ,, ing laid in the inner harbour, and the float ing wharf will be ready for use in three weeks. Two of the largest class steamers in the world may then take in coal along side, and not touch the ground, at lowest spring tides.— West B DREADFUL OUTRAGE.—A shocking murder was recently perpetrated at Leipsie, Delaware. A coloured man with his wife, who was a mulatto woman, bnt extremely light, arrived at that place, when a rumour was circulated that the woman was white with a black husband. A band of villains, headed by one named Henry Clark, visited the vessel, dragged the wretched woman from the cabin, outraged her person, then covered her body with an inflammable material, which they set on fire, and left her to die in horrible torments. One of the crew of the vessel, named Fox, became States' evidence, and revealed the names of the r( st of the gang. Some coloured men, it is stated, also participated in the diabo lical outrage. Clark was arrested, but succeeded in making his escape. The details of this affair are appalling indeed, and the citizens of Delaware owe it to themselves and to the laws of the country to make an untiring effort to bring the offenders to justice. Fiends could not have consummated a more diabo lical outrage. In a Christian land, and among a civilized people, it is indeed disgraceful.—New York Express. SIR THOMAS LANDER'S ALPINE MASTIFF.— To give you an idea of his strength, I may tell you an anecdote which happened a good many months ago. He took a particular fancy to one of the postmen who deliver letters here. It was the duty of the postman I now allude to, besides delivering let ters, to carry a letter-bag from one receiving-house to another, and this bag lie used to give to Bass to carry. Bass always fol lowed that man through all the villas in this neighbourhood where he had deliveries to make ; and Ile invariably parted with him opposite to the gate of the Convent of St. Margaret's, and returned home. When our gate was shut here, to prevent him from following the postman, the dog always leaped a high wall to get after him. One day when the postman was ill, or de • tained by some accidental circumstance, he sent a man in his place. Bass went up to the man, curiously scanning his face, echilst the man rather retired from the dog, by no means liking his appearance, and very anxious to decline all further acquain tance with him. But as the man left the place, Bass followed him, showing strong symptoms that he was determined to have the post-bag. The man did all he could to keep possession of it. But at length, Bass seeing that lie had no chance of getti ng possession of the bag by civil entreaty, raised himself on his hind-legs, and putting a great fore-paw on each of the man's shoulders, he laid him flat on his back in the road, and, quietly picking up the bag, he proceeded peaceably on his wonted way. The man, much dismayed, arose and followed the dog, making, every now and then, an ineffectual attempt to coax him '.o give up the bag. At the first house lie came to he told his fears, and the dilemma he was in ; but the people comforted him by telling him that the dog always carried the bag. Bass walked with the man to a the houses at which Ito delivered letters, and along the road, cam (to the gate of St. Margaret's, when he dropp vg ,and inakin his bow to the man, he returned hoax THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, J JULY 18,1840. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen held an Investiture of the Most Honehrabli Military Order of the Bath yesterday after:loOn, at Buck - - ingham Palace. The Knights Grand Crosses of the Order Inr!vcd soon after two o'clock at the Palace, and baying been robed in their mantles by Mr. Hunter and Mr. Ede, and wearing their collars, passed into the Green Drawing-room. The Knights presettt, were, his Royal Highness the Duke of Suss;,, Acting Grand Master of the Order, his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, the Marquis of Anglesey ; Lord Hill, Viscount B eres f o rd, Viscount Com , Vet - mere, Viscount Strangford, Sir George Murray, Sir Hussey Vivian, sir William Lumley, Sir Robert Gordon, Sir Willoughby Gordon, Sir Charles 13agot, Viscount Palmerston, Earl of Minto, Sir George Walker, Sir William Clinton, and Sir Byam Martin. The Knights having been called over, were ushered to the presence of her Majesty in the Throne-roort, the Queen wore the Mantle of the Order, and his Royal Highness Prince Albert ;also wore the Mantle and Collar: Lieutenant-General Lord Keane was introduced be , tvreen the Earl of Minto and Sir Hussey Vivian, Bart., the two Junior Knights present, and was invested by her Majesty with the ensigns of a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath. Admiral Sir William Hotbam was introduced in like manner, and was also invested by the Queen with the en. signs of a Knight Grand Cross. The officers of the Order assisting at the ceremony were Mr. Algernon Greville, path King of Arms ; Mr. W. A. Blount, Genealogist ; Mr. Betty, Gentleman Usher of the Order t and Mr. Albert Woods, Deputy Secretary and Registrar. The officers wore their mantles and ehaira, and carried their badges. M , jor-General Sir Neil Douglas *as introduced by Sir William Woods (Garter King of Arms), Officer of Arms attendant MI the Knights Commanders of the Order, and was invested by the Queen with the ensigns of a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath: Vice- Admiral Sir John W est *as conducted to the Queen by Sir William Woods, and her Majesty having re ceived the Sword of State from Sir William Martins, Gentleman Usher, was pleased to confer upon him the ho nour of Knighthood, and afterwards to invest him with the ensigns of a Knight Commander. Rear-Admiral Sir Charles Dashwood, Rear-Admiral Sir John Wentworth Loring, Rear-Admiral Sir Robert Barrie, and Rear-Admiral Sir James Adlyar, were also introduced to the Queen by Sir W. Woods, and had the honottr of being invested by her Majesty with the ensigns of knights Commanders of the Bath. Her - Majesty's Honourable - Corps of amtlemen-at- Arms attended in the Throne Room during the ceremony commanded by their Lieutenant the Hon. Sir Edward Butler. At the Court Lieutenant- General Baii•on. do. Luck, on a Special Mission from the King of Prussia, had an audience of the Queen to take leave. His Excelimicy was introduced by Viscount Palmerstob, G. C. 8., her Majesty's Principal o.ccretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and to nAtteted by Sir Robert Chester, Master of the Ceremonies. The Court Ras attended by Lady Barham, Lady in Waiting, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, the Lord Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, the Mister of the Horse, the Captain of the Honourable Corps of. Gentle men-at= firms ; the Vice- Chamberlain, the Captain of the Yeomen Guard, the Treasurer of the Hottsehold, the lion. Colonel Cavendish, Clerk Marshal, Colonel Buckley, Equerry in Waiting, Colonel gouverie, Equerry to Prince Albert, Mr. Janes Bunco Curling, Clerk of the Cheque to the Hon. UorpS of Oebtleinen-at-Arms, the Groom of the Robes, Sir enjamin Smith, Captain Seymour Sadler, Equerry in Waiting, Master Chichester, and Master Byng, Pages of Honour in Waiting. Viscount Palmerston and the Lord Chamberlain had audiences of her Majesty. The Earl of Listowel and Mr. Rich were the Lord and Groom in 'Waiting. The Yeoiinch of the Guard lined the Grand Hall. TIA., Queen's Guard of the First Foot Guards, with the Band of that Regiment, was on duty on the Palace Lawn. Her Majesty and the Duchess de Nemours took an airing yesterday afternoon is an open carriage and four. Viscount Melbourne had an audience of the Queen yesterday. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Duke and Duchess de Nemours honoured the German Opera with their presence last evening. The Royal Suite included the Hon. Miss Paget, Countess d'Oraison, Earl of Listowcl, Mr. Rich, General Colbert, and Colonel Bouveric. The Duke of Sussex visited the Duke de Nemours yes terday afternoon. Hi; Royal Highness the Duke de Nemours gave audience yesterday at Buckingham Palace to the following Foreign Ministers :—Baron Bulow, the Prussian Minister, Count Bjornstjcrna, the Swedish Minister (attended by Count Morner, Secretary, and Baron Bjornstjerna), Count Mandelsloh, the Wurtcmberg Minister, M. Van de Weyer, the Belgian Minister, Baron de Cetto, the Bavarian Minister, M. Dedel, the Netherlands Minister, Count Pollen, the Sardinian Minister, Baron Munchausen, the Hanoverian Minister, Baron de Moncorvo, the Portuguese Minister, Prince Mavrocordato, the Grecian Minister, Baron Brunow, the Russian Minister, Baron Gersdorff, the Saxon Minister, the Austrian and Sicilian Ministers on Special Missions, M. de Hummelauer, Austrian Charge d'Affaires, Commandeur Marques Lisboa, Brazi lian Charge d'Affaires, Mr. Murphy, Mexican Charge d'Affaires, G. Capece Galesta Dci Duchi di Regina, Neapolitan Charge d'Affaires, and Count Bille Brahe, Danish Charge d'Affaires. His Exellency Mons. Guizot, the French Ambassador, attended by the Secretaries of his Embassy, attended his Royal Highness, at the reception of the Corps Diplo matique. _ . Lieut.-General Baron de Luck, on a special mission from the King of Prussia, and Aide-de-Camp-General to his Majesty, was presented to Prince Albert yesterday, by Viscount Palmerston, to take leave. The Princess Augusta received visits yesterday from the Duchess of Kent, the Duchess of Gloucester, the Dukes of Sussex and Cambridge. The answers given yesterday at Clarence House to the Nobility and Gentry was, " The Princess Augusta has not passed a very good night, but her Royal Highness is not worse than yesterday." The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge had a dinner party last evening at Cambridge House. Among the company were the Princess Lieven, the French Ambas sador, Duke of Rutland, Marchioness of Londonderry, Countess of Jersey, Viscountess Palmerston, Lord Emlyn, Count Nesselrode, M. de Vandeul, and Count Nostitz. Lord Foley, Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gen tlemen.at- Arms, inspected the Corps on Wednesday, in St. James's Palace. The mess of the Corps afterwards together at Richmond for the last time this season. Colonel Buckley, Equerry to her Majesty, we regret to state, met with an accidi nt yesterday afternoon, by a fall from his horse. Miss Burdett Coutts gave her first grand assem bly, on Wednesday evening, when the whole of the interior of the mansion in Stratton-street was thrown open. The five saloons were illuminated in a style of extraordinary brilliancy, with wax tapers placed in costly chandeliers, &c. The in. terior hall, the staircase, the corridor, &c., were decorated with flowering shrubs. The concert commenced at eleven o'clock. There were present, their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Princesses Augusta and Mary, and many illustrious personages, both English and Foreign. APOTHECARIES' HALL.—Narnes of gentle men to whom the Court of Examiners granted Certificates of Qualification on Thursday :—Rich. James Pye Steele ; Charles Patton K cele, Southampton ; William Charles Walker; John Good, Lymington, Hants ; George Goodivin, Ashbourne, Derbyshire; John Davies, Coleshill ; John William Edmonds. AWFUL STATE OF WATERFORD.—CITY CA LENDA it.—Prisoners for trial, 0 ! ! ! Waterford Chronicle. SOUTH-EASTERN (LONDON AND DOVER) RAILWAY.—A special general meeting of the proprietors of this railway was held on Thur s d a y, a t th e Company's offices, in Coleman-street, for the purpose of confirming the forfeiture of some shares, the calls upon which had not been paid up. The Chair was taken by T. W. Tyndale, Esq. The for feiture of the shares in question having been unanimously con firmed, and power given to the Directors to dispose of them, a very interesting conversation took place, front which it ap peared that, since the late general meeting, the whole of the line from Godstone to Redstone-hill, where it joins the Brigh ton line, has been put under contract at prices varying from 14- to 16 per cent. under the Parliamentary estimates, and that, exclusive of this portion of the line, there are 760 men em ployed on the works between Folkestone and Dover, and 580 in the Tunbridge district. It was stated that Mr. Stephenson, the eminent engineer, has recently become a large holder of shares in the Company, and that, having closely inspected the works, that gentleman's opinion of them is most favourable. There was, it was also stated, reason to believe that the pro jected railway from Paris to Lille and Calais would speedily be carried into effect, which would, of course, contribute greatly to the prosperity of the London and Dover line. A special vote of thanks having been unanimously'passed to the Chair man and board of Directors, the meeting separated, the pro ceedings having apparently given very general satisfaction. STATE OF GALICIA.—" The permission de manded by the States of Hungary," says a letter from Vienna, in the Suabian Mercury," to be allowed to employ the na• t ional language in all official reports, has also been asked for by the States of Galicia. The reply was, that the Polish language might be used in all their internal relations, but that for official documents they must continue to place a German or Latin ranslation by the side of the Polish text." THE WEATHER AND MARKETS..--ThiS iS St. Swithin's Day, a day remarkable in story for its portentous effects on the harvest. It commenced raining about twelve, accompanied by a cold and very high wind. The rain con tinues at this hour (five o'clock) to come down heavily, and with every appearance of continuing. At our Corn Exchange yesterday there was a moderate show of farmers' wheat, and a good deal offering by the merchants, particularly from but, North of Ireland. The latter sorts brought 28s. a barrel, the there was more offering than was bought—as the millers are rather fearful of the expected largo supply of new potatoes which will certainly pull down the price of inferior flour. The article is yet in good demand, and may continue so for four or five weeks.—Dublin Pilot. ROBBERY.—About eight o'clock on Friday evening two respectably dressed min went to the shop of Mr. Toilet, in the Strand, and looked at sonic rings ; after some time a third person came to make some enquiry, who no doubt was connected with them, and when they acre gone, his daughter missed three gold rings, one a large plain gold ring, and other articles of jewellery. One of the men was dressed in black, with crape on his hat, very much marked with the small-pox, the forefinger of his right hand much flattened, and shorter than the others; the other in brown surtout, and rather stout. IHE EXPEDITION TO ST. HELENA.— —A letter from Toulon states that a young literary man of Paris, who was desirous of publishing a volume upon the ex p e di t i on to St. Helena, engaged himself as a musician to sail on b oar d t h e frigate, under the name of George Daniel. The officer second in command, having, however, suspected from his manner th a t he was in a superior station of life to that to which he prof esse d to belong, and after some conversation with him, broke off th e engagement. AL Wyle, a marine painter, was also compelled to leave the ship, Genera IGourgaud, his relation, not being able to allow him to remain ; and it was not until he had re ceived orders from Paris by telegraphic despatch, that the son of General Bertrand was allon ed to go en board. A mob has paraded the streets of Mallow, for some days past, headed by a man with a loaf of bread, steeped in blood, on a pole.— Tipperary Constitution. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. l• P . T 1 e h'ghes" rice of Brea RIC d EOPBRE ne 11-1 t is 1(d for the 41b. 1.,c , f11 Bread may be h a d at BJ. - -- --- PRICE 3 OF SEEDS. Per Cat. Per Quarter: •• —s Fs 705 New English Red Clover...sos BCs l St. Fcin N O r ld w i F i u t s :; , , ig D4t D •o i, : t . o ; .... .. .. ...— . 2 0 ti .. ,s i 7 - s %e ey G c ra r s a s s, . . _ ._ . a s _PI s — O s s 01 a Di to Di to ........,_s s —s Linseed, for fe ilia,; ...—z 488 5 s .t-ew White Clover ..... .40s ses 65s'Dit o, for sowing '.... .. s CO 70s O O Nl, l ( d iwu lt rte t o , c: D i.l ... ... ......... ~...,,., ...... .... .. ........ —ths 23 - 6 4 1 CH DLt in t a o :y for c , rush i , g .., .. . 0. - 2 5 s :16 4 ; 2 6, 5 .s 48 4 ,6 f:: 'Fr follurn -. • ',...., - t :10s 3 r*,' Pet Bushel. English Carraway ...... —s 50s 51;White Mu5t...rd....14s Od to 16s Or Foreign Ditto ....... .-. .. .—s 48s 51s BroWn Ditt0.........15s Od to 20s' d Coriander ... ............. .—s lOs 14s Tares ........ .......... Cs Od tc 706 d P dICE J.F OIL. hype Oil, brown, rer ton £36 10 Dito,' relined • . • ' • :3B 0 Linseed LiOil . : . :;• . Rase - - - .. 2,4 1 0 . : ....... , . , ...... 1••••,..•4. s ake ed Oil Cake at the Mill (per 1000) 331.5..il 13 10 ~ per toil • 7 0 . , PRI . E OF TALLOW, SOAP; &c. pet 1121 b. Torn Tallow ... .......... A 2 13 t Melting Stuff • 2O G i 6 0 tel.oW Rusai t White .... Soap Ditte ........ i ......... ... 0 C Graves ........ .• .. 0 0 0 Good Dregs 0 5 G PRICE OF RAW FAT, per stone of Sibs. Price of T. (as stated by the Tallow 3lelters) 3s. ed. COAL MARKET. s arrived s . nce last market-day, 33 Adait's s, d. - .. . ....... ...... . ........ 18 0 Bell, Robson & CU. Hartley 18 0 Buddlc's West Hartley...... 26 o Hlywell Ma n .................. 19 0 Russell's High Main ... .. . 18 0' Tantield MOM'. .................. 21 3 rainley Wylarn • ............ 19 3 Wa d Pewiel e and C 1 fi Walls Etid Clennell .. ... 4... 18 Wails End Gosforth ..... 2 1 6 Walls End Hilda ............... 6 Walls End Hotspur ........ 19 W a ll s End Killingworth 8. d, Walls End fgeWmarch 2O 3 INV: E. fltaddyll's Het= cal 3 Walls End Hettorl Walls End Lambton Walls End S cwart's Walls E..d Whitwel, 2l 9 Walls End tlarietz., . . ... al 9 Walls End Clarence Hetton 19 6 Walls End Evenwood ll 6 Walls End:South Durham , 21 6 Walls trid Ten loi :2 0 Blythe% l6 6 Fordel Prathouse l9 9 Howard's Netherton 18 0 (From the London New Price Current of July 17.) &amt.—The West India Sugar market has presented a quiet appearance during the week, the demand from the grocers has been very limited, bath for brown and yellow deseriptionsohey buying barely ample for their immediate wants; and for refining purposes few sales have been made, the merchants however remain firm, and have refused to sell excepting at the rates previously established ; in a few cases lio*ever as Is usually the case in a flat market a slight reduc tion has been submitted to; but it is not stifficient to warrant us to alter our quotations, the purchases for the three mar.. ket days have amounted to only 1,100 hhds and tierces, including 59 hhds 25 tierces new Barbadoes at auction, which sold heavily, and former rates Were barely main tained—fine yellow went at Bds to 85s ed, good eas 6d to 845, low to middling 81s to 82s 61 per cwt E by private treaty berbiee of low brown quality has been disposed of fineali i. yellow ss tie ratherlicB.ll7:and d a better under n ee greyish rs '79si nothing Antiguaof dry, qua=iae There being some doubt entertained by the trade as to whether Government Will make any alteration in the duties pn ,Poi7eign ,usiar this lesition, na.itied the m ar k et t or West :nom Sugar to be quiet again to-day, and the demand from both grocers and refiners was very limited, the pur chase§ not eteeeding 400 hhds stud tiefdes,l but the ritcr chants remain firm, and the rat e s established on Pride,- last were fully supported at the close of the market for all de scriptions. The sales for the week amount to 1,500 hhds and tierces. The accounts from the West Indies by the packet this morning are of an unfavourable tenour with re spect to the Sugar crOpS. REFINED —Refined Goods at rather lower rates. Standard Lumps at 1098 to 110 s. ilambro Loaves and Tittlers 1103 to 116 s; brown lumys 1053 to 1083; single loaves 1083 to 1093 per cwt. treacle 435 to 43s 6d for common, 443 to 45s for Patent, and 463 to 47s for the:best old make. Bastards at late rates. Crushed is held at 353; Loaves 141bs 383, 101bs 393, and 61bs 41s to 42s per cwt. Treacle sells well at 14s. Pieces and Bastards at 19s to 283 per cwt. For 250 tons Dutch Crushed Sugar at Amsterdam 31s has been refused, 31s 3d being wanted. MAURITIUS.—Previous rates have been maintained; the stock when compared with that of last year shows the great deficiency of 105,389 bags, the deliveries have been large, still exceeding those of last year. EAST INnia.—Bengal at rather lower rates, fine white sold at 86s 6 1 to 88s, good 85s 6d to 86s, low middling and middling 849 6d to 85s, ordinary greyish white 82s Gd to 83s, middling yellow 80s, damps and washed 84s to 86s 6d per cwt. Manilla good yellow at 253 6d, and low at 24s per cwt. Java taken in at fine and very fine grey at 26; Gd to 28s, but chiefly at the latter figure, and damaged 24s to 27s per cwt. FOLEIGN.—YeIIow Havannah at 255, a floating cargo has been disposed of at this port at 241 9d per cwt. Brazil has maintained previous rates, white Bahia at 275. Foreign Muscovado, from Bermuda, taken in at 25s to 28s for good middling to fine bright yellow, and good brown 223, Porto Rico at 255. MoLAssEs—ln West India, former rates have been maintained. Barbadoes at 45s for middling quality middling St. Lucia at 41s ; ord Tobago 40s p er cwt. This afternoon 98 puns St. Kitts at auction sold at steady rates, viz. 41s, and one low 41s 6d—the quality was fair. COFFEE.—There has been an increased demand from the home trade for clean descriptions of British Plantation, and an extensive business has been transacted this week at a further advance of 3s to 4s; unclean sorts have been in much better request, and prices have also improved 2s per cwt. This afternoon the demand was active for Coffee for home consumption : the public sales were well attended, and consisted of 1,196 bags of Ceylon, 200 casks, 44 bar rels, 20 bags British Plantation, and 503 bags 160 bales Mocha. British Plantation nearly all sold at a further advance of is to 2s; Jamaica low middling went at 113 s to 118.3, fine fine ordinary 101 s 6d, good and fine ordi nary 94s to 100 s, ordinary 79i 6cl to 80s; Berbice middling 115 s to 122 s 6d, fine fine ordinary 102 s ; Ceylon was all dis posed of Is 6d to 2s above the rates of yesterday, good or dinary pale greenish went at 86s 6d to 87s 6d, good ordi nary pale 88s, fine ordinary 91s to 92s 6d, fine fine ordinary coluury 93s 6d to 965. Mocha was taken in above its value, viz. fine yellow poddy and much mixed and dusty 98s to 100 s, good fair greenish poddy and dusty 10Us per cwt. RUM, BRANDY AND HOLLANDS,—For Jamaica Rum there has been an increased inquiry and nearly all the parcels of fine quality offering have been eagerly bought up at a further advance of lzd to 23, the lower descrip tions are Id higher; 250 puncheons have been dis posed of 30 to 36 per cent. overproof at 6s to 6s 6:1, and fine marks at 6s 8d to 6s 10d. Leewards are held for ,;d to Id advance, but little dem an d h as ex i ste d ; t h e sa l es are proofs s t o a tl3os over 7 d 3 t to 9d d s tBod 45, , 3 to 2 4 to p i e s r cent over 30 to 36 over fi ne quality 563 d to 5s 8d The arrivals h ave b een 600 puns since Friday. only op4vse erirgd proofla s tl ol o on4 p .s u 3 ni dTB , Brandy has suffered no further depression, but the demand has been limited. Geneva has sold steadily at Is 10d to Is lld for export. For British Corn Spirits the demand has been good at 10s 2d per gallon. TEA.—The demand for Free Trade Tea for actual con sumption has considerably improved since we last wrote, and some disposition has a l so b een ev i nce d on the pa r t o f speculators to purchase ; th e merchants h ave displ a) c d more firmness, and pri ces h ave improve d f o r all de scriptions. The monthly sale declared for next Monday contains the small quantity of only 6,480 packages, but it is expected that it will be increased to 12,000 packages by other sales to follow. In the speculative market there has not been much business doing, but there arc not sellers of Company's Congou under 2s Id cash, being an advance on former rates of 2d per lb. Since the public sales there has been an active de mand for Free Trade of all descriptions for actual con sumption ; the rates established thereat have been fully maintained, and in some cases a small advance has been given for black; the Trade generally appear disposed to get into steels at existing rates. The deliveries are on the increase, and last week amounted to 444,000 lbs. To-day a go o d d eman d h as prevailed for Free Trade Tea; prices h ave f ur th er improved, and now rule Id above those of the public sales: several large parcels were dis pond of for cash and for actual consumption—for common Congou 2s 01-d to 2s Id was paid, and for Twankay 2s to 2s trd. In Company's Congou there was a fair business doing at 2s id cash. This afternoon the market closed firmly for Tea o f a ll sorts; Company's l 's e C ss dongesoiuro evincedo n'Changeouwatsbe part of the2s Id cash, b u t there trade At the quarterly sa l e of Eastlndiawlric of h ge and n attendance countryd fine few ship_ p iNu t r o oo b . u_y. rr a c b o uy e m r s me n f r c o ed m o t e T c u o e s u d ri a n y o , o t t h , e b r t a o s m a l bre par ties were present ; the merchants submitted to a reduc tioning on descriptions, i)ri lsal e 6to 9d o s rates of 3d n t o middling6d on good and defe c ti ve d o . 6d to 9d on good and fine consuming do., and 6d on ordi , nary and low do. r, To-day 697 chests, including 15 withdrawn, have passed the sale, the quality of the marks which ca me on was chiefly middling and defective; the biddings were very languid, and alth o ugh proprietors boug ht in 260 chests, prices ruled 6 1 to 9d, and in many instances Is und er l ast sale's rates; of 3,160 chests which hav e passed the sales, nearly 2,400 have been actually sold. Spiess.—Pimento , co arse g quality at 2:id to 2d; one lot fair middling, 3,i shippin cl; . a bett er l ot was taken in at 3,-}d per lb. Pepper has been in good r equest privately, and rather higher prices have been r paid for Sumatra, com mon stalky and dusty realizing 3gd, under which nothing is to be had, For Cassia Lignea stiff prices asked ; 75s to 76s offered for middling quality, and in most cases re fused ; for good sorts the home trade have been compelled small parcels. to pay 79s to 80s for sma . _ G inger has main tained former rates. This afternoon .13 / bags Pimento at auction all sold at 2d to 3,fd for good ordinary and mid. dling quality COCOA. —rrhii afternoon there was an increased demand for British Plantation ; 175 bags Trinidad at auction sold Is to is 6d above former rates; fine red went at 56s 6d to 575, good 555, middling dark 52 6cl to 53a per ewt. OILS.— In common descriptions of Fish Oils former rates have been fully maintained ; for Seal and Southern large demand has existed for export, the former has sold freely, Pale at 26/ lOs to 261 15s, and yellow and brown at 241 lOs to 251 15s ; at auction 250 tuns of the latter went r2adily at 23l to 241 153 for low mid dling to fine quality, , and superior Pale at 25l per tun. Cod has moved off steadily at 281 10s to 28/ 15s per tun. Some parcels o f Pale Seal have been sold for arrival at 25/ 15s to 261 per tun. Sperm first quality at 95/ to 95/ 103 per tun. For Linseed Oil some parties are not inclined to sell at the rate of 24s 6 d per cwt. Rape has maintained former rates. Olive has undergone no change. Palm at 361 lOs to 371105. This afternoon 274 casks Palm at auction partly sold at 361 lOs to 37/ for fine quality. TALLow.—Russian Tallow on the spot at rather hialre prices, 52s to 52s 3d having been currently paid for P. Y. C. of first quality. South American of middling and good quality at 48s to 50s 6d per cwt. For delivery in the last three months 52s 3d per cwt. This afternoon there was a fair business transacted in P. Y. Candle or, the spot; and to arrive in the last three months ; prices were steady at 52s for the former, and 52s 3d for the latter purpose. Rice .-Bengal has been less in request, and by private contract few purchases have been made, owing to the fa. - •akcn place in the weather; •+ auction, rottrable etange %limn uaa holders hak,o refaced to submit to loiver rates Eowc.er, 7Lib bags,fient. tatliet Chedp,er, ifkid white sold At Mi to 133 6d. The demand for Javd hat also abated and the operations have been confined chiefly to the public sale of 1,740 bags, at which prices gave way 3d per cwt; clod white went at lls to 12s, low to middling Ss 6d to lOs per cwt. Carolina has secured a fair sale for home use, at 34s to 36s per cwt. This afternoon the demand was good for Bengal, and 1,363 bags at public eale sold 6d higher ; middling white fetched 13s Gd to 149 per CM. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. (7110 M THE DAILY PAPER! OF YESTEItDAY.) From the Globe.) The Times invariably shoWS itself alike unprincipled, whether as a friend or an adversary-.,equally hollow whether in its oppMitlon or advocacy. Within the last few days the " thunder" of PrititingAmismquare wag dircettd against the National Society, and the " weaker= headed portion of the clergy" who joined with it in op , posing the introduction of Government inspectors, by whose reports to the Committee of Council the public would be informed of the due application of the Parlia mentary funds appropriated to Education. The inter.; vention of the Times, and the fury with which it as.. sailed the Society and its " weak-headed " auxiliaries, afforded ground to suspect that the native good sense of the British people had prevailed over the sense less clamour excited against the Government by a comparatively few interested partisans, who had pre vailed on a multitude of empty-headed, long-tongued dupes to produce a senseless din against a plan of which they manifestly knew nothing. This proved to be the fact. The heads of the Church had interposed to prevent its real interest from being sacrificed to clamour ; and by giving their consent to the reasonable requisition of the Committe of the Privy Council, effec tually silenced those who vainly fancied they had the undoubted sanction of the whole Bench of Bishops to their proceedings. This accounted for the sudden con version of the Times from an assailant into an auxiliary ; and transformed Lord Ashley and his adherents, lay and clerical, who were previously the wisest and best friends of the Church, into as many " weak dupes," whose zeal in opposing the government plan of national education had " wrought nothing but mischief to the Church !" (From the Standard.) In the House of Ccmmons, Mr. Duncombe and Mr. Wakley both opposed with great earnestness the second reading of the Bishup of Carlisle's (Prebendary of Fins bury) Estate Bill. The object of the Bill is to dispose of Church property with the consent ()fall the parties con cerned, and apply it to the endowment anew churches ; the Whole artionnt of each endowment not exceeding, in fact,3ooi. One cif the reasons assigned in the advertised series 7 f resolutions entered into bk certain Dissenters, Mr. John Wilki Art-hong others, for rejoicing in the defeat of Sir Robert Ingli4's Church 'Extension Bill. was as follows :—" Because, lotirthly4 the funds of the ' Established Church, duly managed and applied, would Meet any necessity which could be proved id exist." No sooner, however, is a " due application and management" attempted, for the purpose of effect. ing the good here referred to, than it IS opposed with the utmost vehemence by these anti-Church patriots and theit representatives in Parliament. Nor is this determination to embarrass and obstruct the promoters Ot every measure calculated to produce the result recommended in the above resolution Of recent origin. Tne warmest friends of the Chtirch, the most dignified of its members have cheerfully adinitiA from time to time that advantageous changes (with a view td equalise the distribution of certain temporalities the Church) may safely be made, and the Royal Commis sion, issued with the concurrence of the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of London, proved beyond dispute the anxiety of the Church itself to make such changes and equalisation of endowments as circum stances might from time to time admit. (From the Courier.) Hitherto we have not said anything on the subject of Mr. Kelly's Bill for the abolition of capital punish ment. In fact, we have been restrained by the serious and even awful considerations which are involved in the question. Crimes against property only should not be visited with death, unless we are prepared to say that money, houses, or ships are of greater value than human life. But yet as arson, and wilful destruc tion of vessels, endanger life, we ought must assuredly to pause before we relax the safeguards of society. Mr. Kelly would abolish the punishment of death in all cases short of actual murder. By the burning of a house or the sinking of a ship lives may be lost, and the party so causing death is amenable for murder. This was the particular case of Smithers a few years ago ; he set fire to his house ; in the upper apartments there were several lodgers of whom some were burnt to death, and the incendiary was indicted, convicted, and suffered for the murder. We are quite aware that this is special pleading ; but it does appear to us that some species of arson, or rather some degrees of that horrid crime require restraints of more severity than Mr. Kelly apparently contemplates. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, JULY 17. The Lotto CHANCELLOR. took his seat on the Wool sack at Five o'Clock. Lord LYNDHURST presented a petition from a Newspaper Society praying an alteration of the law of libel. Lord DUNCANNON moved the first reading of ,he County Constabulary Bill.—Agreed to. SPANISH BONDS. The Earl of ABERDEEN had a petition to pre sent, to which he wished to call the particular attention of her Majesty's Government. It appeared that in 1822 a convention had been entered into with the Spanish Government for compensation for certain outrages and seizures of vessels and property, and a mixed Commission was appointed, which, however, led to no satisfactory result. In 1828, when he (Lord Aberdeen) had the honour of holding the seals of the Foreign-office, a new negotiation was opened, and seeing that there was no chance of obtaining the full amount claimed, he had recommended to the parties to accept the sum of 900,000/., in lieu of claims amounting to nearly two millions, which had been proved and regis tered under the Committee. That sum of 900,000/. was paid, 600,000/. in money and 300,000/. in bonds. These bonds were issued and secured by a treaty en tered into with the Spanish Government, and they were further ratisfied by an Act of Parliament giving them a security which no other Spanish paper could possess. In 1836 the dividends on these bonds ceased to be paid, chiefly- owing to the remissness of her Majesty's Government. Six dividends had now become due, and under these circumstances the petitioners seeing that through the perseverance of a Noble Marquis in that House, the claims of the Spanish Legion had been set tled, and were in course of payment, prayed the House to take their case into consideration. He did not mean to deny the justice of the claims of the Spanish Legion, but he thought these parties had an equal right to the interference of the Government. Those persons had laid out their money on the faith of a treaty, and they were equally entitled to the inter ference of the Government as the members of the British Legion. It was a breach of engagement on the part of the Noble Viscount to say that the claims of the Legion should be liquidated in preference to all others. The Noble Earl concluded by presenting the petition, which prayed the interference of the House to procure the liquidation of their claims. Lord MELBOURNE rose, but was for several minutes inaudible in the gallery. We understood him to say, that with respect to the facts of the case, his Noble Friend had stated them correctly, and he (Lord Melbourne) freely said that he would abide by his for mer statements. In addition to other circumstances, he thought the state of that country in itself was a sufficiently reasonable ground for the cessation of these payments without referring it to any want of energy , in her Majesty's Government. Tho s e cl a i ms h a d been strongly urged upon the Spanish Minister here, land also on the Spanish Government at Madrid in the spring of this year, to which it was replied that they were really so pressed by the exigencies of civil war which it was of such paramount necessity to put an end to, that it was even for the inte-est of the creditors of Spain themselves that all the resources which they had should be applied to that object, which evidently was to that country, as it must be to every other, the first object of attention. In his (LordM.'s) opinion, it was impossible not to feel the force of that argument, and he did not think his Noble Friend had exhibited an inclination to make sufficient allowance for a Government placed in such a situation. It was easy for his Noble Friend to say this was a small sum and Spain was a large country, but they did not know the difficulty there was in pro ducing small sums in a country exhausted by civil war. The rich man little understood the difficulties of the poor one, and he must say he thought upon the whole, the Government of Spain had shown great energy and disposition to meet their engagements, and were only prevented doing so by that necessity by which all per sons on all occasions must be compelled to yield. His Noble Friend said he was quite sure the justice of these claims would be admitted, and that they ought to be satisfied, and that the Government was not justified in paying more attention to the claims of the Legion, but the claims of the Legion had something in them of a temporary nature, which perhaps these claims had not. He did not say that this was a just argument, but he could conceive some reason why that should be the case; but at the same time it was i m possible in the difficult affairs of a distracted and convulsed nation to preserve that exact regularity of transactionr which might be maintained in time o f peace. There was reason to hope that now these difficulties had ter minated ; but it was at the same time quite impos sible that all their effects should cease at once ; and the resources of the country become available for all purposes without delay. But they expected a better state of things, and a more regular course of procedure, and then it would be the first duty of her Majesty's Go vernment to make the necessary regulations, and, doubtless, the Spanish Government would see to the satisfaction of these claims, which were undoubtedly just, with as little delay as the stat e of the country I would permit. Earl of ABERDEEN wished it to be under ' • t good the British Government were responsible for this treaty, and that it was the's' cluty to s e e th e amount was paid_ Viscount MELBOURNE presented several peti tions against the Bill. The Earl of WINCHILSEA presented a petition on the subject of the reduction of the duty on Foreign Fruit, and gave notice that early in the next Session he should move that the petition be referred to a • Select Committee. The Duke of RICHMOND presented several pe titions to the same effect from the market gardeners in Surrey, Middlesex, Kent, and other places. He thought the fruit•growers were an extremely ill-used body, and unless the Bill had been smuggled through the Parliament it never would have been allowed to pass. Viscount STRANGFORD moved for certain re turns relative to the warehousing of goods in inland towns, preparatory to the Bill on that subject being ' iyrought under the consideration of their Lordships.— Agreed to. Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition from Chest& against the Weaver Churches Bill ; also a pe tition from n roaster chimnoy sweep at Macclesfield, against the Chimney t3Weepers Bill. The Earl of WICK 1,0r, 7 wished !o move for a copy of the instructions given to fir Geofge Arthur when he undertook the government of Upper Canada as successor to Sir F. Head ; coptes of the instructions issued to all the Governors, had been mu:red for, and laid on the table ; and he had no hesitation in s:Zting that his object in moving for that return was to do jus tice to Sir Francis Head. He believed that the publi cation of the despatch would do justice to Sir F. Head, and enable the public to judge of his merits. He trusted that the Noble Viscount would not refuse to produce the paper, unless its production would be de trimental to the public service. Lord MEL BO U RN E did not think that the production of the despatch was necessary for the vindication of Sir F. Head's character, and there were reasons, on ac count of which it would be an unpleasant duty to him to comply with their Lordships' order to lay it on the table. No motion was made, and the matter was dropped. LAW OF EVIDENCE (SCOTLAND) BILL. The LORD CHANCELLOR moved tile second reading of the Law of Evidence (Scotland) Bill. The Elrl of HADDINGTON objected to the Bill. It had been represented to him, by persons who were well acquainted with the feeling of the people of Scot hind, that the measure would be most detrimental to the interests of the country, and go far towards shaking the confidence of the people in the administration of justice. He would also state that the Faculty of Ad vocates were decidedly opposed to the Bill, which, in fact, had been called for by no parties whatever, and on these grounds he would move that the Bill be read a second time that day six months. Lord BROUGHAM understood that the Faculty of Advocates approved of some portions of the Bill, and he saw no reason why it should not be passed into a law. The Earl of ABERDEEN thought the Bill was entirely useless and uncalled-for. He himself bad pre sented many petitions against it, and he hoped the further consideration of the measure would be delayed, at all events, for another Session. Lord DEN MAN contended that the princiele of the Bill was just ; it ought to be passel into a law. Great exp,-‘ -se and delay was frequently created, in conse quence of unig.-2.!sions about the inadmissibility of a wit ness. His opinion yr.:. !bat no interest ought to dis qualify a witntsa lot giving oviu• 'Lnce. He should give the measure his most decided support. The Marquis of NORMANBY also support,. Bill. `-d the The LORD CHANCELLOR briefly replied, and strangers were ordered to withdraw, but no division took place, and the B II was read a second time. SALE OP BEER. Lord WIIAIINCLIFFE moved the second read ing of the Sale of Beer Bill. The Duke of RICHMOND suggested that the Bill should be referred to a Select Committee. Unless that was done, they could not do justice to all the parties concerned. If they passed it in its present state they would make a different and more stringent law for the parties who paid the highest taxes. Lord PORTMAN thought the Bill was realty eood fur nothing. The Bill was then read a second time, and ordered to be referred to a Select Committee. The Report o❑ the Settled Estate Drainage Bill was received, and the third reading fixed for Monday next. Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS, Jui 17. The SpEAKEe took the Chair shortly before Four. On the motion of Sir G. GREY certain alterations were made in the Standing Orders, in conformity vrith the recommendations contained in the second Report of the Select Committee on Private Business. CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY. Sir G. GREY brought up the Report of the Com mltee on the Chester and Holyhead Railway Bill. FARNHAM RECTORY BILL. Mr. DARBY brought Up the Report on the Farn ham Rectory Chapels' Bill, and moved certain amend ment, Mr. HUME said that as they were altering the standing orders relating to private business, he thought it was essentially necessary that they should introduce some alteration to prevent bills relating to public pro perty, which church property undoubtedly was, from passing as private bills.—(Cheers.) This was the more necessary when they found that the most valuable pro perty, such for instance as the Southampton estate, which was of the value of two millions, had been passed away by a private Bill for a paltry consideration of 300/. a year. That property had been passed away by a private Bill, and had been conferred by the Minister of the Crown of that day upon his brother.—(Cheers.) He would submit that it was fit and proper that her Majesty's Ministers should take the subject into their serious consideration with a view of preventing such abuses for the future. If that pro perty, extending from St. Giles's to Highgate, and out of which the granter had realized more than a million and a half had not been passed away in that manner, they would have had ample funds for Church pur poses without any necessity of applying to Parliament for assistance. He knew nothing of the merits of the present Bill, but he protested against Bills relating to Church property being considered as private Bills. Sir R. INGLIS knew hardly which most. to admire, the naivete of the Hon. Gentleman or his ingenuity. His naivete in assuming, as it were, e concessu, that Church property was public property, or his ingenuity in making a Bill relating to Farnham Rectory an occa sion for introducing a question relating to the disposal of certain Church property upwards of eighty years ago by the Duke of Grafton, who was then the Prime Minis ter of the Crown.—(Cheers.) He supposed that pre sently the Hon. Member would be making some allu sion to the disposal of Church property in the time of Henry VIII., and telling her Majesty's Ministers to take some measures for the prevention of the recurrence of similar abuses. Mr. J. JERVIS complained of his being still left ignorant of what the amendments might be. Mr. KENIBLE said that the evidence was but a repetition of that which had been taken, in 1837 and 1838, before the Committee on Church-rates. He did not think, therefore, that any additional information could be received from its publication. Mr. AGLIONBY said that in ordinary cases it. was not necessary that evidence relating to pri vate Bills should be printed. The case, however, was then different, as the Honourable Gentleman should have known, from the notice he had that the amendment would be opposed. He would there fore move that the evidence taken before the Committee should be printed, and that in the meantime the further consideration of the question should be postponed. Sir R. H. INGLIS said that he thought it would be more convenient that the former amendment should be first disposed of. It was proposed by the pre sent Bill to prevent the Archdeacon from renewing cer tain leases or taking fines for the renewal, which would amount to between 11,0001. and 12,000/. The Bill professed to be opposed by two of the lessees, but what, he would ask, had become of the other two ? Wh y the truth was that they were content with the Bill be, cause it gave them compensation. Such being the case, when the proper time arrived he should move the ornis sion of the clause that recognised the expediency of granting compensation. He would oppose the motion of the Hon. and Learned Gentleman. Mr. R. STEUART, as a Member of the Com mittee, b eg ged to say that he hoped the paper s wou ld be printed, as the question was an exceedingly im portant one. Mr ORDE was anxious that the evidence should be printed, because the House would see there was no evidence before the Committee to warrant them in granting compensation for the loss of leases. After a few words from Mr. SMITH and Mr. DARBY Mr. JOHN JERVIS, a s representat i ve of a con stituency much interested in Church property, felt it his duty to resist the introduction of an entirely new and most dangerous principle. He wanted to see the evidence, in order that he might see whether it war ranted compensation or not. Capt. PEC HELL had taken care to make himself well acquainted with the whole facts of the case, so much so that the Right Hon. Baronet the Member for the University of Oxford named him the champion of the lessees. Now it was in that character that he prayed the House to have the evidence printed. He would appeal to the Speaker if it was not usual to have the evidence laid on the table when the Committee had made such important [alterations in a Bill as they had done in that before the House. Strangers were then ordered to withdraw. The House divided : Ayes llO Noes 73 Majority against Mr. Aglionby's amendment .—.37 EVENING EDIT' IN. _ , - - On the amendments proposed by the Conlittee being put from the Ch a i r , Sir R. H. INGLIS moved the omilsitqtr - of—ceitain wo:ds• - any de c i s i on on t h e su bj ect, as t h e Af r. 111.1 ME said that th e H ouse was perfectly tlit- 4 been printed, an d H onoura bl e a able m e n t d o m e c n o t m s e had to n.: j i lfrobers could not poss;Ny_be aware of the nature of that oa which they were caliez_i to decide. Mr. AGLIONBY..said the mist:;.Re into which the Hon. Member for :Kilkenny had fallen, tilzt the amend ments had not been printed was a natural one. The Hon. Gentleman, the Member for the University of Cam bridge he believed was the only Member of the House who had been in possession of a copy of them, until within the last five minutes. He (Mr. Aglionby) had applied to one of the agents for the Bill for a copy of the amendments five minutes since, and the agent had replied that he had not seen a copy. Since then be had procured a copy. He thought this was a fair ground for asking that the further con sideration of these amendments should be post poned to some future day. He hoped the Govern ment would give their support to the recommendations of the Committee, and that the amendments of the Hon. Baronet would be rejected. Mr. B. WOOD regretted that the evidence was not then before the House, because he did not think the real question connected with the Bill was fully understood. The Bill provided for one Canonry being taken froto the number intended to be suppressed, for the purpose of giving it to the Archdeacon of Surrey. He was ready; to admit that the Archdeacon was not benefited by the exchange. In fact, he believed he was injured by it, but then it must be borne in mind that he had been but very recently appointed. He was satis fied the Noble Lard the Secretary for the Colonies had know!: the whole merits of the question before he proposed the r, tension of the Canonry, he wou ld i never have adopteu that course. Th e Right Member for th e Univer sityec true ; two Honourable Baronet the . of Oxford had stated that tLis was an appli c ation made by only two lessees. It was ptleftly only had gone before the Committee. 1: was not for him to say why the other two had not presenised them selves, but it was the duty of the Committee to attend to those who had come forward. Had the Noble Lord been aware of all the facts of the case, he would never have consented to such an arrangement. If the House looked carefully at the whole question it was impossible that this Bill could pass. Those who were so fond of standing up for the clergy ought to be consistent and to act on principle. Now they prevented one Bishop from raising poor livings above 300/. a year, while they were giving to another Bishop 1,400/., who was residing in a parish with a small population. Why should this dif ference be made, more especially when there was a cler gyman in the parish who did all the duty for 400/. a-year He now came to the real question before the Horse —(lronical cheers from the Opposition)—which was whether this clause should stand part of the Bill or not ; that was the real question, and he should say very little upon it—(lronical cheers and loud laughter)— but it was not to be supposed because he said little, that he did not feel sensibly on the subject. He thought the claims of the lessees honest and just. The Bill had been described on its introduction as patriotic, liberal. and pious ; as to its piety he would say nothing, but if it were patriotic, it ought to be good, and if it were Jibe ral. it ought to be just ; now, this usage had long pre veiled, and it was not just that it should now be violated. Captain PECHELL rose amid cries of " Question' and said, if Hon. Gentlemen would not listen to argu ments on both sides, he should move that the debate be adjourned. The Hon. Baronet had mistated in say ing the vicarage of Farnham was in the patronge of the Bishop of Winchester, for it was in the patronage of the Archdeacon of Surrey. He was surprised the Hon. Baronet should be the first person to act in oppo sition to the recommendation of the Committee. The i%ommittee had dealt very fairly by the lessees, but the k on. 21aronet objected to the compensation they re commendet: to those who had fought the battles of the d offer every opposition i n hi s p ower Ctohtuhrechß.i Bill, for vo:. 1 t ; hpure: se of protecting the interests of the lessees. Mr. HUME protested against, the measure, as in jurious to the claims of others, and dealing unfairly with them. The Honourable Member co.ncluded by moving the adjournment of the debate till some of her Majesty's Ministers were present.—(Laughter.) Mr. J. STE WART would vote for the adjournment of the debate, unless some satisfactory reasons were given for the course that had been adopted. There had not been a single speech made on the subject on t h e 01 :: ‘ , . , r side of the House, which he thought was not treating a su i, j et of such importance fairly. Sir GREY wu tld vote for the adjournment of the debate, as he had not hard one word from the lion. Baronet, the Member for 0xi`..7(3, why he should vote for the recommendation of the Col"lmittee• Strangers were then ordered to witi,": l / a wl and the House divided, when there appeared— For the adjournment.. ... Against it Majority against the adjournment --46 Oa our reentering the gallery , we found Mr. HUMS u p o n his legs, moving that the other Orders of the Day should be read. The SPEAKER made some observations which were inaudible in the gallery, upon which ' Mr. HUME moved that the House should ad journ.—(Cries of " No, no;') The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER rose amid much laughter. He was anxious to save the time of the House by proceeding with the public busi ness ; and he thought that. as the Bill had been dis cussed for some time, some arrangement ought to be come to, in order that the other business might *be pro ceeded with. He would therefore suggest, whether it. might not be possible for the Hon. Baronet to moverhis amendments in a future stage.—(Hear.) Mr. GOUL BURN could not accede to the sue gestion of the Right Hon. Gentlemen, because it was, evident the course that had been adopted was for the of defeating the Bill without entering into its merits. ----- Mr. HUME had no factious objects in view in the course he had pursued—he wished to know from her Majesty's Ministers if they thought it right to increase. an already valuable living to 1,4001. a-year, when there were in the county so many, the incomes of which were totally inadequate to the support of a minister?— ( Hear, hear.) He would put it to the Speaker whether he had ever known a Private Bill discussed after seven o'clock. Mr. AG LIO NBY would support the motion for the adjournment. The CHANCHELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, in order to save time, would propose that the question should be adjourned till Monday—(Cries of " No") , upon the understanding that the question should then be fairly discussed, and upon a pledge on the part of the Government not to interfere with the discussion by bringing forward public business.—(Cries of " Na.") Captain PEC HELL thought they ought to pest pone the debate till they received further information. Mr. A. SMITH would support the adjournment of the question till Monday. Mr. KEMBLE said if those on his Bide of the House were to be met constantly by delay wizen they happened to be in a majority, it would be their duty either to retire from the House or to see whether it would not be incumbent upon them to follow the same tactics.—( Cheers.) That was not the proper time to discuss the principle of the Bill, but on a future occa sion he would be enabled to show that the principle Iva,v a fair one. The compensation clause was carried by a majority of 3 to 2, so that it had no great weight—it. settled a principle which was declared by the Church Lessees Committee to be right neither in law nor equity, Mr. GOULBURN wished very much to save the: time of the House. There were only two courses open —either to allow them to go on with their amendments. --(No, no)—and have the discussion on the third reading, or adjourn the discussion till Monday, and then. discuss the Bill upon its merits ; to either course he would willingly agree. Mr. B. WOOD and Mr. , KEMBLE severally ex plained, but amidst such cries of " Divide, divide," time it was impossible to hear one word they said. Sir GEORGE GREY said many of the Hon. Mem bers opposite appeared not to understand the state of the question. It was proposed to adjourn the discus sion of the question of compensation till Monday, when the question would be fairly discussed, and met with no factious opposition. Mr. GOULBURN did not see that the offer was not a fair one, if the House allowed it to be fairly un derstood.—(Cries of " Adjourn.") Mr. T. DU NCOMBE said the interruption which the Right Hon. Gentleman met with came from hist own side of the House—his friends would not be bound by him. Mr. KEMBLE understood the proposition to be that they should take a division upon the compensation I clause, that the opposition to the Bill should then cease, and be allowed to pass.—(Loud cries of "No, no! . Sir R. INGLIS said many Hon. Members had de cidedly dissented from the offer to proceed to a fair dis cussion of the Bill on Monday. They had already spent three hours in fruitless discussion—if they wsre to be met with the same sort of opposition on Monday ) it would be useless to adjourn the debate. Mr. HUME said his pre - position was that, upon Monday, they should take a division upon the principles of compensation, and, if beat upon that, then another division upon the third reading of the Bill—against the Bill itself.—(Cries of ' Go on," and " Adjourn.") Mr. LABOUCHERE thought the proposition of the Hon. Member for Kilkenny a fair one. Of course it was not to be met by any factious opposition, but only one division would be taken upon the third read. I i n g of the Bill. Strangers were ordered to withdraw, but Lord JOHN RUSSELL rose, and said he thought the proposition of the Hon. Member was a very fait one, and one which he had a perfect right to make, and as he understood it, it was agreed to by the leaders among the promoters of the Bill.—(Cries of " No, no," and " Adjourn." He had heard what was stated , e—would the Hon. 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