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• \ ' -' Vrorettino in Varliament. HOUSE OF LORDS.—MONDAY. The Bill for the Conservancy of the Tyne was read a second time on a division, by a majority of twelve. The Marquis of LA NS o o wNE move d th e or d er o f th e d a y f or going into committee on the Irish Poor Relief Bill. Lord STANLEY repeated the objections which he hnd before raised against the measure, and after some preliminary discus sion the house resolved itself into committee. The let or maximum rate clause was rejected by a majority of 8. The other clauses were agreed to as far as the 16th, upon which, and the three following clauses, a sec.ind division took place, in which Ministers were again defeated, and the clauses rejected. The rest of the bill was agreed to without opposition, and the report of the committee oLdered to be received on Monday (yesterday). HOUSE OF COMMONS.—MONDAY. The house went into committee upon the Small Debts Act Amendment (Compensation for Offices Abolished) Bill, when a formal resolution was agreed to, after a general protest by. Lord D. STUART and Mr. OFRORNE against the principle of granting comnensation to the officers of the Palace Court. The house then went into committed upon the Small Debts Act Amendment Bill, which underwent much discussion and some material alterations. A proposition by Mr. FITZROY, for extending the jurisdiction of the County Courts from .420 to £5O, met with much support, but was negatived upon a divi sion. The Chairman was obliged to report progress, and ask leave to sit again. . The Stock-in-1 rade Bill was read a second time, and the In land Ports (Colonies) Bill, the Commons' Inclosure (No. 2) Bill, and the County Rates, Sze. Bill, were read a third time and passed. The subject of the recent collision between Ribanamen and Orangemen at Castlewellan was noticed by Lord CASTLEREAGH, Sir G. GREY an intimation of the intentions of nrirlt •. in Irelp- 4 the Cibtierhill2iii fespecting.procrimu......_ On the order of the day for the boom to resolve itself into a Cominittee of Supply, Mr. HENLEY moved, pursuant to notice, that a reduction of 10 per cent. be made in all salaries in the departments of Go vernment at home and abroad. He contended that Ft kreai. change had taken place in the condition of !te country since 1831, when the present rate of salaries was fixed. The incomes of the agricultural and producing classes had been depreciated 20 per cent by legislation ; and it was only right that the public servants, whose food and other neces.A.aries had been cheapened, should submit to a reduction. His proposition did not extend to the army and navy, or the law. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, in urging the inex pediency, in the present state of the country, of reducing the incomes of pubic officers, referred to the report of the commit tee of 1831, by which the scale of salaries had been revised, and which had suggested the impolicy of depressing too low the sa laries attached to public employments. The fairest way of de ciding the question was to compare the salaries paid for corre sponding employments in public offices and private situations, and so far as he had been able to ascertain, the latter were bet ter paid ; the certainty of employment in the former affording an equivalent. He believed there woad be no advantage in reducing public cal"ics,—wnich were not higher than was suffi cient to secure adequate services,—hut that, on the contrary, it would be most prejudicial to the public service. Mr. NEWDEGATE supported the motion, arguing that our late mon'aiary and commercial theories had depressed the ex changeable value of the products and labour of the Country; it was, therefore, necessary to accommodate our expenditure to this impoverishing policy, and the money payment of itspublic servants to the real value of their services. After a lengthy debate in which Mr. V. Smith, Mr. Roebuck, Mr. Henry Drummond, Mr. Hume, Mr. Herries, Mr. Muntz, Mr. Cobden, and others, t ok part, the house divided, rejecting the proposition by a majority of 149 to 102. The house then went into committee of supply, and was en gaged upon the Ordnance estimates until a quarter past 1 o'clock, when the Chairman reported progress, having leave to sit again on Wednesday. The other orders of the day having been disposed of, the house adjourned at half-past two. HOUSE OF LORDS.-TUESDAY. The only important question mooted in the house was with respect to the bill for giving a constitution to Australia, which Earl GREY intimated Mould be withdrawn for the present ses Mon- HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TuEsnAT. Lord J. RUSSELL announced that it was not his intention to proceed this session to pass the Australian Bill into a law. Lord R. GROSVENOR moved for leave to bring in a bill to prohibit labour in bakehouses during certain hours of the night. Sir E. N. BUXTON seconded the motion, which was opposed by Mr. LABOUCHERE; and after some observations from Lord D. Stuart, Sir De Lacy Evans, Mr. Duncan, and other hon. Members, the house divided, and the motion was defeated by a majority of 77 to 19. Mr. MACKINNON then proceeded to call the attention of the house to the report of the committee on the removal of Smith field market, and moved that an humble address be presented to her Majesty, praying that she might be graciously pleased to give directions that the report of the committee on Smithfield market should he taken into early and serious consideration. After some discussion, in the course of which Mr. B. Os- BORNE contended that he hon. gentleman had made out no case for dealing with such an amount of property as was in volved in the question of the removal of Smithfield market, Mr. C. LEWIS said he conic' not assent to the motion, although he believed the removal of the market to be very desirable, but assured the hon. gentleman that government would take the matter into its serious consideration. Mr. MACKINNON then withdrew the motion. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—WEDNESDAY. All the business on the paper was postponed, in order to ena ble the Government to proceed with the ordnance estimates in committee of supply, the discussion of which occupied nearly the whole of the sitting. Mr. IIAYTER obtained leave to bring in a bill to appoint commissioners to inquire into the claims over the New Forest and Waltham Forest. HOUSE OF LORDS.-THURSDAY. The Earl of MA LMESBURY called attention to the fact that some persons who had served in the Republican army in Rome had arrived in England recently by means of passports signed by the British Con ul at Rome. It was unusual to give such passports unless the lives of the parties were at stake, which he believed was not the case in those instances. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said that nu instructions bad been sent to our consul with respect to the parties referred to, but he presumed that their lives were considered in danger. Earl TA LBOT drew the attention of their lordships to state ments made by Sir C. Napier as to the insufficiency of our steam navy, and hoped the Government would be able to say that it was not impugned with justice. The Earl of MINTO said that he had the most perfect confi dence in the efficiency of the steam navy, and much regretted that Sir C. Napier had published any such statement as that referred to, which could not in any way benefit the public service. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-THURSDAY. The Lords' amendments to the Encumbered Estates (Ireland) Bill were taken into consideration and agreed to, with some modifications • and a great many met sures of the Government were forwarded a stage. Mr. H. DRUMMOND moved the following resolution—" That whereas a greater amount of taxation is levied upon the people than is required for the good and efficient government of the United Kingdom; and whereas large sums are expended in supporting needless places, extravagant salaries, and unneces sary works and establishments; and whereas the present taxa tion of the country deßresses all classes, especially the labour ing classes, by diminishing the fund for the employment of productive labour, it is the opinion of this house that adequate means should be forthwith adopted to reduce the expenditure of the Government." The hon. ,gentleman contended that the taxation of the country was unequally levied. so as to press un justly on the poor, the duties on articles consumed by them being much higher than the duties upon articles consumed by the rich. It was absolutely necessary to revise such a mode of taxation, and also to reduce the whole expenditure of the state before they could hope to give any material relief to the country. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the whole ten dency tA the measures of the Government for some years back was to reduce the expenditure of the country, and more espe -daily that portion of the taxation which pressed unfairly on the poor, in lieu of which the Government had endeavoured to substitute taxes which were borne as far as possible by the wealth and property of the country. In every way possible the Government was resolved to reduce the expenditure, and feel ing that they had done their utmost, and being resolved to do their utmost in the way of economy, he must oppose the mo tion as a censure upon the Government. Mr. HUME said it was the House of Commons that was to blame, and not the Government, for the want of economy in the public expenditure. He should support the motion of the hon. member for Surrey. Mr. Ewart, Mr. M. Gibson, and Colonel Thomson seve rally sup-orted the motion. Lord R. GROSVENOR moved an amendment which was, he said, so slight a modification of the motion that he hoped Mr. Drummond would accept it instead of his own. Mr. ROEBUCK opposed the amendment, as being an excuse, a shift, and an escape from a very proper motion, which he did look upon as a charge against the Government. The hon. and learned member concluded his speech by a severe philippic against the Government for its weakness, hesitation, and imbe cility whenever it found itself in a right course of proceeding. Lord J. RUSSELL said he feared the hon. gentleman would think no Government strong unless it consisted of himself alone. He thought it was not fair to bring forward such a mo tion at the close of a session, when the greater portion of the members were absent, and when, even if the motion should pass it could not be said to be an expression of the opinion of the House of Commons. He did not look upon the motion as a vote of censure on the Government, but he nevertheless thought it would be very unwise to adopt its Messrs. Spooner and Christopher supported the motion; and after some observations from Mr. Hawes and Mr. Bankes, Mr. Drummond replied; after which the house divided, and the amendment was negatived by a majority of 71 to 68. The division was hailed with loud cheering. The original motion was then agreed to, W; Eit',"friflfiViLi.E obtained leave to bring in a bill to make better provision for the administration of the fiscal affairs of counties, cities, and towns in Ireland ; also a bill for promo ting the public health in Ireland. Mr. Mooag then called attention to the outrages lately com mitted in the neighbourhood of Castlewellan, charging the Orangemen of the north of Ireland as the authors of all that bad occurred, and charging the magistrates and gentry with being alders and abettors in the fatal collision which had taken place. Sir W. SOM ERVILLE said the occurrences were of such re cent date, that their information was as yet imperfect; but one thing there could be no doubt about—namely, that they presented a state of society most lamentable. Every investi gation should be made into the circumstances, and until after that investigation he thought it better not to enter into the details of the unfortunate occurrence. _ . — kiter - ione observations from Captain Jones, Mr. Bright, Sir D. Norreys, and several other members, the matter then dropped. The orders of the day were then disposed of, and the house adjourned. . N. N ... \ . . HOUSE OF LORDS-FRIDAY. Lord BROUGHAM moved the following resolutions, in refe rence to the affairs of Italy :—" That it is the right, and was the duty of the Government to request and to obtain from foreign powers satisfactory explanations of those recent move ments in the Italian states which tend to unsettle the existing distribution of territory, and to endanger the general peace. That it is inconsistent with the general interests and duty of this country to interfere in the concerns of foreign nations, as between their governments and their subjects. That this house regrets to observe in the conduct of the Government, particularly as shown by the papers laid before Parliament, a want of friendly feeling towards allies, to whom we are bound by treaty and by mutual acts of good will." The noble and learned lord gave a succinct narration of the events in Italy for the last two years, visiting on the heads of the Government nearly all the responsibility for the unsettled state of affairs in that country. They had at the outset gone out of their way to proclaim to all the rebel leaders and Republicans in Northern Italy that all but threats had been held out to Austria, while in reality they were addressing . Austria in the mildest and most amicable terms. In Central Italy a French army of 40,000 or 50,000 men, with 120 guns ' was in possession of Rome, and no one could tell how they got there, what they came for, or what they were going to do now that they had got there. Perceiving, also, troops were In the occupation of Ancona and Bologna, he thought it was high time that these warlike operations should be brought to a termination, which it seemed to him could only be effected by a general congress for the settlement of the affairs of Europe. The noble lord likewise condemned the interference which had taken place in the affairs of Naples and Sicily, where, while professing friendship to the King of Naples, instructions had been given to our diplomatic agent to acknow ledge the Duke of Genoa, thus recognising the usurper pro chimed by the rebels to that King's authority. The noble and learned lord regretted to perceive in every act done, and in every word written, a rooted prejudice against Austria mani fested, ' ~ •. The Earl of CARLISLE characterised the resolution as an at tempt to collect into a vote of censure all the various grudges entertained against the Government by the broken sections of parties in the house. He regretted many things connected with the siege of Rome, but the French Government had re pudiated all idea of conquest, or of the acquirement of terri tory, and expressed their intention to retire from Italy as soon as they could do so with honour. The noble lord defended the course pursued by the Government in the affairs of Naples and Sicily, and denied that his conduct was in any way influenced by any hostility to Austria. Much blame had been attributed to Lord Palmerston in all these transactions, but his noble friend, lie thought, might rest his defence upon the fact that, amidst the convulsions of all the nations of Europe, he had succeeded in preserving unbroken the peace of the British empire. The discussion was continued by Lord Heytesbury, the Earl of Minto, the Earl of Aberdeen, the Marquis of Lansdowne, and Lord Stanley, after which, their lordships divided, and the motion was negatived by a majority of 12. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—FRIDAY. The House of Commons, during its morning sitting yester day, read the Pilotage Bill a second time, and advanced several other bills on the paper one stage. In the evening sitting, Sir G. GREY announced that it was not his intention to proceed, this session, with the Juvenile Offenders Bill. Mr. LABOUCHERE also announced that it was not his in tention to proceed with the Railway Audit Bill. On the order of the day for the house resolving itself into a committee of ways and means, Lord JOCELYN entered into an explanation in defence of the Earl of Roden in reference to the unfortunate occurrence at Castrewellan, intimating that his noble relative, having no power to prevent these Orange processions, had used all his infillenc c 1, - ; induce the parties engaged in the one in question to act w;tt forbearance if !molted, Sir G. GREY apologized fee his absence on the preying even ing, and said that the government were fully convinced, he regretted to say, that it was necessary to propose to parliament a bill to put down all party processions in Ireland. There could be no question MI armed processions like the one in question were at common isw illegal, for they necessarily endan gered t_h..S public peace. The most searching investigation should, he assured the house. take place into the whole trans action which had terminated so deplorably. After some observations from Mr. BRIGHT and Mr. HUME, the matter dropped. Mr. HERItIUiI then called the attention of the house to the condition of the public revenue, as stated by . the Chancellor of the Exchequer; and, in connection therewith, to the expedi ency of deriving an addition to the national resources from a fixed duty on the importation of foreign corn. The right lion. gentleman confined himself altogether to fiscal grounds for the assent of the house to his resolution, avoiding every other con sideration which might be naturally supposed to call for such a proposition. He showed the loss which the revenue had sus tained by the abolition of the ditties on corn ; which, if replaced in the shape of a fixed duty, would enable them to deal with other duties which pressed heavily on articles of general con sumption. It might be objected that this fixed duty was get ting in the small end of the wedge, after which it would be easy to convert a fiscal duty into a protection duty. He could only say, that he had no such intention of getting his suggestion received as the small end of the wedge, but entirely on fiscal grounds. It would benefit the revenue and would not keep out corn, though it would have the effect of preventing its being let in at ruinously low prices, which he did not consider to be an evil. It was not in his power to propose any fixed duty. He could only call the attention of the house to the subject, and the attention he had given to the subject would be amply repaid if the house should think he had established strong grounds for increasing the national resources by a fixed duty on c , rn. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said it did not seem to him necessary at present to resort to any additional taxa tion to increase the revenue, but least of all to a fixed duty on corn; even for fiscal purposes. Ile also took the opportunity of expressing his surprise that the right hon. gentleman had so unequivocally abandoned all idea of resorting to anything like protecting duties on the importation of foreign Corn. Mr. SANDARS maintained that a fixed duty would not en hance the price to the consumer, and he supported the sugges tion of the right hon. gentleman (Mr. Herries), not for the purpose of protection, but because of the necessity of finding a new source of revenue under existing circumstances. After some observations from Mr. MITCHELL and Mr. NEW. DEGATE, Mr. COBDEN found fault with gentlemen on the protection benches for dealing in shams, instead of enabling the house to deal with realities. The right hon. gentleman (Mr. [terries) could not suffer the session to close without endeavouring to keep up the delusion of doing something for the farmer, when, in reality, he made no motion whatever upon which the house could express an opinion. People out of doors supposed the right hon. gentleman was to move a fixed duty on corn, but he had not done so, and the empty benches behind him proved that he meant nothing by his speech but to appear to do some thing. if they wished to lay a duty on corn for &cal purposes they should lay a duty on at the mill, and not confine it to foreign torn, and their not proposing this showed that their objeetwas protection. Mr. DISRAELI denied the justice of the charges made by Mr. Cobden against the Protectionist members, and charged the honourable member for the West Riding with a want of reality in the agitation he was seeking to get up for financial reform, while in that house he sat behind the minister as mute as a mouse unless he rose to support them. The object of the sug gestions of his right hon. friend (Mr. Berries) was that the foreigner should, as far as possible, pay the taxes of England, instead of allowing them to fall upon the people. After some observations from Mr. B. Osborne, Mr. Bright, Mr. Wodehouse, Mr. Villiers, Sir W. Jolliffe, Mr. Roebuck, and Mr. Bankes, the subject dropped. Mr. B. OSBO RNE then proceeded to draw the attention of the house to the advance of the Russian troops into Hungary, but at the suggestion of the Chancellor of the Exchequer he post poned the subject until this day. The remaining business on the paper was then disposed of, and the house adjourned. \ "J‘ N , , , ~. - ~ Y N-N N HOUSE OF COMMONS.-SATIIRDAY. The House of Commons met at noon, and on the order of the day for receiving the report of the Committee of Ways and Means, Mr. OSBORNE seized the opportunity to call the atten tion of the house to the war in Hungary. The hon. gentleman ended his speech by a motion for certain papers connected with the advance of the Russian troops. A very lively discussion followed, in which Mr. Milnes. Mr. Roebuck, Lord C. Hamilton, Lord Palmerston, and Lord D. Stuart took part. Mr. usu.:3'lNa ultimately declined pressing his motion, and the report of the committee was brought up and agreed to. Some bills were advanced a stage, and the house adjourned at a quarter past four o'clock. FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. 4 FRANCE. The finances of the republic are in a deplorable state: a floating debt of 395 million 3, and an estimated deficit of 180 millions for the year 1850, are the principal elements out of which the French minister of finance has to con struct his budget. Further applications have been made to the Assembly for authority to prosecute several of its members for the events of June. ENTHUSIASM OF A YOUNG FRENCH SOLDIER.—The Courier de la Somme narrates the following interesting fact :—A young soldier, whose laudable conduct during the affair of June obtained for him the reward of the Cross of the Legion of Honour, was presented to the President of the Republic at the late Amiens banquet. The young man was so well received by Louis Buonaparte that his enthusiasm was uncontrollable ; he threw his arms round the President's neck, and kissed him on both cheeks. The Minister of War and General Changarnier received the same friendly osculation amidst the applause of the spectators. ITALY. RE-ESTABLISHMENT OF THE POPE IN ROME.—On Friday, the French government received the following dispatch from General Oudinot, dated Rome, July 16:— " The re-establishment of the authority of the Pope was proclaimed yesterday, in the midst of the must enthu &astic acclamations of the assembled multitude. ATe Deum was chanted, and prayers of thanksgiving were offered at St. Peter's." Are such a people worthy of any better fate than slavery, both bodily and spiritually ? Garibaldi is on the Neopolitan frontier, where he has beer. joined by another body of fugitive troops, which form, it is said, a body of 20,000 men. The Pope is about to visit Naples. The National announces, that Princs Canino, the son of Lucien Bonaparte and ex-president of the Roruan Constituent Assembly, has been arrested at Orleans, by order of the government, on his road from Marseilles to Paris. FRENCH SYMPATHY FOR THE ROMANS. — General Oudinot and his 50,000 men have got up a subscription for giving employment to the poor of the Transtevere quarter of Rome, and their sympathy has been so much excited that they have subscribed the enormous sum of £4O ! ! The Italian patriots are emigrating in shoals to the United States and to California. The Pope has sent to General Oudinot a number of counterfeits of the keys of St. Peter, in return for the keys of the city of Rome, forwarded to him by the French Commander. The Concordia of Turin of the 16th inst. quotes the following letter from Rome :—" The residence of Mr. Brown, Consul of the United States, has been violated by the French soldiers, who arrested a person in it. The American flag did not t3effice to protect that residence. The wife of the Consul was insulted, and one of the attaches wounded. The Consul having energetically pro tested, struck his flag and left Rome." The negociation between Austria and Sardinia has again been suspended. The delay is imputed to British meddling. The siege operations against Venice have been discon tinued, in consequence of the fatal prevalence of fever and sickness among the Austrian troops, occasioned by the excessive heat and hard work. GERMANY. BADEN. — Baden, with the exception of the fortress of Rastadt, is completely cleared of insurgents, all of whom have crossed the frontier into Switzerland, where they have been disarmed, and deprived of thirty pieces of artillery which they carried with them. At the date of the latest accounts, Rastadt still held out. Letters frcm Cologne of the 17th instant state that the preliminary elections in that town have taken place, and that almost all the men elected are Moderate Constitu tionalists. Very little interest was shown on the subject of elections, and large numbers of voters d ec li ne d exert ing their constitutional right, partly from indiff erence an d partly from fear of giving offence. THE NEW CONFEDERATION.—The Prussian Staab zanzeiger of the 17th announces that the confederation of Prussia, Hanover, and Saxony has been joined by the following German states—Hesse-Darmstadt, Save-Wei mar, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Oldenburg, Nassau, Electo rate of Hesse, Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Saxe-Meiningen, Saxe-Altenburg, and Anhalt-Dessau-Kothen. The same journal contains a rescript, announcing the final estab lishment, at Erfurt, of the " Federal Court of Arbitra tion," determined upon by the triple alliance. It consists of seven members ; three for Prussia, and two each for Hanover and Saxony. RATIFICATION OF THE DANISH ARMISTICE. The armistice entered into by the plenipotentiaries of Prussia and Denmark, with the view of arranging terms of peace, were duly ratified and exchanged by those powers at Berlin, on the 17th instant. No time has been lost in carrying forward these preliminary proceedings, which have received the prompt and earnest attention of both parties, and that augur well for an amicable adjust ment of the dispute, which we hope will be founded upon a just and solid basis. 4.3 soon as the territory in Schles wig shall he marked out by ti;►e German and Danish com manders-in-chief for the occupation of the Prussian and the neutral troops, the blockade o f the port., will be raised. \ WEST INDIA. AND AMERICAN MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, Saturday, July 21. The Royal Mail Steam Packet Cornpany's ship Thames, Captain G. Abbott, arrived here at seven o'clock this evening, with the usual British and foreign West India and Mexican mails, in charge of Lieutenant Strover, R.N., Admiralty agent. The mails from the Gulf of Mexico, Havannah, and Nassau, were brought up to Bermuda by the Clyde, and there transhipped to the Thames. On the homeward voyage the Thames experienced fine calm weather for the first seven days, and afterwards strong breezes from the north-west with heavy swell. She brings sixty passen gers, amongst whom are Mr. Ussher, Her Majesty's Con sul in Hayti, Judge Lees from Nassau, Lieutenant- Colonel Baney, Royal Engineers, and Lieutenant Ram say, 48nd Regiment, from Bermuda, &c. The freight list comprises 281 serons cochineal, 51 cases cigars, 10 casks arrowroot, 4 live turtles, and 52 packages sundries ; also the following specie -19,990 dols., on account of the Mexican dividends, and 386,672 dols. on merchants ac count. The total value of specie being only £81,332 sterling. This steamer brings the usual advices and files of papers from various parts of the West Indfes, Mexico, &c. The despatches from Jamaica and Honduras have not, however, reached us, and it appears they have mis carrted between Kingston and Bermuda, owing to the frequent transhipments of the mails from one vessel to the other. The Dee brought the Jamaica mails to Ha vannah, where they were put on board the Clyde, which vessel carried them on to Bermuda, where they were ; l ain transferred t 9 the Thltlnel. TIIE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. THE WAR IN HUNGARY. Buda and Pesth have been evacuated by the Hungarians. An immense force is being collected for the siege of Comorn. A sanguinary conflict is said to have taken place, but this news requires confirmation. The cholera is raging in both the camps. In Transylvania the Russians, under General Luders, have been defeated by General Bern. THE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA INSANE.—A correspondent of the Daily News says, "The Russian Emperor has shown latterly unequivocal .ymptoma of insanity. His head seems to have been turned by the unexpected suc cesses of Russian arms in Hungary. After receiving the dispatches which announced the occupation of Debreczin by CeodajEff, the Czar was found dsncing about his room in his shirt. It is said that he continued for three whole hours to exhibit in this extravagant way the joy with which the news of so quick a triumph had inspired him." A letter from Constantinople of the sth inst. announces the expulsion of the Hungarian Envoy by the Sublime Porte, which was obliged by the ministers of Russia and Austria to insert the following article in the Constanti nople journal of the 4th :—" Baron Splenyi, Captain of Hussars in the Austrian army, who, since the war in Hungary, has joined the rebellious Maygars, and consti tuted himself their agent abroad, has been ordered by the Sublime Porte to quit this capital. He embarked on 25th June in the French mail packet Osiris, w''• intention of proceeding to Paris." The same le' -7 4 , : that considerable ferment prevailed in Ser i ... :L n s intrigues had excited in the country a moral agitation, 1 must produce an explosion 110 remote period, notwithstanding the vigilance and abifity .df 'Prince Alexander. SWITZERLAND.—T.!ne federal conn`l•n`f 'Switzerland has addressed a circular to the different cantons, setting forth that, in consequence of the great . numbers of political refu gees who have sought an - .asylum in Switzerland, the refugees have been divided among the different cantons; and the council calls en 'the cantons to receive them, and to exercise a strict surveillance over them, so as'to prevent any attempt to disturb order, or the foreign relations of Switzerland. The council says that it will neglect nothing to hasten the departure of the refugees, and for that purpose has applied to the French republic to receive them, or at least to allow them to pass through the terri tory, and to the German governments to grant an amnesty as soon as possible. A letter received by a gentleman in New York states that it is Mdllc. Jenny Lind's wish to appear in that city previous to her final retirement from the stage. During the festival of the Eve of St. John, at Madrid, no fewer than 19 persons were stabbed in night quarrels, and the journal which records this fact observes that this number is three more than the average. A SCENE IN A CONVENT.—The Madrid journals state that a young lady, a member of an illustrious family, having been prevented by her parents from marrying a young man of obscure condition for whom she had conceived a violent passion, was sent to a convent, and that there she attempted to commit suicide by hanging and by setting fire to her bed. The smoke having caused an.alarm, her cell door was broken off, and she was discovered in a state of dreadful agony, hanging by the neck with the flames playing aronnd her. 'She was immediately cut down, and prompt assistance being rendered, life was preserved. . . THE MORMONS IN AMERICA.—The Mormons, who, after their expulsion 'from lowa, Missouri, and Illinois, made an exodus to the Great Salt Lake Valley, have pub lished their first manifesto to all their brethren throughout the world. It is a curious document, containing a strange admixture of sense, cant, shrewdness, and impiety, together with many interesting details respecting the region in which they have taken up their abode. They have commenced the erection of a city on a grand scale, which is divided into nineteen wards, .consistin,„_.• each of nine " blocks" of houses, each three-square. They in tend erecting a council house, oridges, bathhouses, schools, colleges, and all the institutions of civilisation. A gold mine was discovered, it is said, by a party of them who had gone on an exploring tour through the northern part of Western California. John Smith, the uncle of Joseph, has been ordained " patriarch of the chinch." The culti vation of large tracts of land had been commenced, and there is every prospect of a prosperous settlementt growing up in this distant region. In their remote settlement they will be joined by their proselytes from every quarter of the world. Seven thousand English Mormons are said to be preparing to emigrate to their new city ; and in the Society Islands, it is said 2,000 converts have been made within the past year. The leaders of the sect are about taking steps to procure a territorial government, and delegates will be immediately sent to Washington to effect the object. SINGULAR ROBBERY AT MADRID —lt was currently related, after the Bolsa, that the house of M. Daniel Weisweiller had been swindled out of 8,000 dollars in the following manner: A man presented himself at the office, stating that he wished to purchase gold to that amount with bank notes, and the premium having been agreed upon, the clerk who made the transaction went with the gold, accompanied by tae usual collecting clerk, to the Calle del Horno de la Malta, where they were to receive the notes. They were shewn into an office, and received by the person who had made the bargain, and the gold, which was in ounces, was duly counted over, and stowed away by the same person in a chest of drawers in the room, which he locked, and then left the room saying that he would go and fetch the notes. The two clerks waited for some time without suspecting anything wrong, particu larly as they had the gold in the same room ; but at length they got alarmed, and called out for him, without any answer, while one went instinctively to the commode in which he had seen the gold stowed away, and gave it a good shake, but, alas ! no chink of gold responded. In fact, the commode had been placed against a partition wall, arranged, doubtless, for the purpose, and the swindler had done nothing more than put the gold in on one side and taken it out on the other, and made off. It was found that he had lately taken the rooms, and put in a few chairs, tables, &c., fitting up a room as an office, with the design, no doubt, of effecting this robbery.—Madrid Correspondent of the Morning Chronicle. THE FOREST FIRES IN NEW BRUNSWICK.—The St . John's (N. 8.) New Brunswicker of the 16th June, speak ing of the fires in the forest of that province, says it has received a letter from Fredericton, under date of June 15, which says :—" There have not been such fires in the woods for many years as there are at present. The river and the streets are completely covered with embers and burnt leaves; persons are now at work carting water to their places of residence, and the engines are in wating— the soldiers are confined to barracks, all to be in readiness in case the fire should enter the town. People are alarmed to a great degree; The smoke in town is so dense that you cannot see the sun ; in fact I can compare the city at present to nothing but a smoke house. I am almost blinded from the effects of it. The Supreme Court, now in sitting, adjourned till to-morrow, the room being so dark as not: o admit of their going on with business with out the use of candles. It is very calm at present. Should the wind spring up there is no accounting for what will follow." In addition to the above, we learn from the Head Quarters that a large quantity of wood, standing and cut. has been destroyed in that vicinity, and that one farmer, Mr. Duffy, has lost several hundred pounds', worth of property in this way. In the eastern section of the province the fires are also raging to a fearful extent. Seventeen houses have been destroyed in Albert county. The woods on both sides of the road between Maguadavic and Musquash are burnt the entire distance, except in occasional places. The Miramichi Gleaner says, ' that the steam saw-mill, owned by Mr. A Fraser, jun. at Chatham Head, was destroyed by fire on the 12th June." ALLEGED EFFECTS OF ELECTRICITY ON THE CHOLERA. —The following is a letter addressed by M. Audrand to the President of the Academy of Paris, respecting his experiments on the absence of electricity in the atmos phere, as leading to the increase of epidemic diseases— especially cholera, It is at this time exciting much at tention in Paris :—" M. le President—Since the cholera has been raging in. Paris with more or less intensity for three months, I have made daily observations of the action of the electric machine, in order to ascertain if there is not a certain relation between the intensity of the scourge and the absence of the electric fluid, habitu ally spread in the atmosphere. The machine I have used for my daily observations is rather powerful ; in ordinary weather it gives, after two or three turns of the wheel, brilliant sparks of five or six centimetres. I have re marked that since the invasion of the epidemic. I have not been able to produce on any one occasion the same effect ; during the months of April and May the sparks obtained with great trouble, lave never exceeded two or three centimetres, and their variations accorded very nearly with the variations of the cholera : this was already for me strong presumption that I was on the traces of the important fact that I was endeavouring to find. Nevertheless, I was not yet convinced, because one might attribute the effect to the moisture of the air, or to the irregularities of the electric machine. Thus I awaited with impatience the arrival of fine weather and heat, to continue my observations with more certainty. At last fine weather, and, to my astonishment. the machine, fre quently consulted, far from showing, as it ought to have done, an augmentation of electricity, has given signs less and ess sensible, to such a degree that during the days of the 4th, sth, and 6th of June it was impossible to obtain anything but slight cracklings, without sparks. On the 7th the machine remained quite dumb. This new de- ' crease of the electric fluid has perfectly accorded, as is only too well known, with the renewed violence of the , cholera • for my part, I was not more alarmed than ‘.. astonished ; my conviction was complete. I saw only the consequence of the fact already supposed. It may be imagined with what anxiety in these moments of the crisis I consulted the machine, the sad and faithful inter preter of a great calamity. At last, on the morning of the Bth. some feeble sparks re-appeared, and from hour to hour their intensity increased. I felt with joy that the vivifying fluid was returning in the atmosphere. Towards evening a storm announced at Paris that the electricity had re-entered its domain—to my eyes it was the cholera which disappeared with the cause which produced it. The next day, Saturday the 9th, I continued my observa tions : the machine at the least touch rendered with facility some lively sparks. I have thought it my duty, Mr. President, to give immediate information of these facts to the Academy. The question ,to me seems now perfectly demonstrated, that nature has provided in the atmosphere a mass of electricity which contributes to the support and maintenance of life. If by some cause this mass of electricity decreases, or at any time becomes im poverished nearly to exhaustion, what happens ? Every body suffers ; those who carry within themselves a suffi cient stock of personal electricity resist, those who can only live by borrowing electricity from the common mass, this mass being exhausted, perish. This explains clearly, and in a rational way, that not only cholera, but perhaps also all the epidemics, which from time to time afflict humanity, are caused by the decrease of electricity. If this great fact was recognised and admitted in principle, it would he, I believe. easy for medical science, which possesses many means of producing and maintaining electricity, to prepare itself to combat with success, if it should again return, the scourge that now seems to be arrested in its march." POLITICAL MISCELLANY. Great efforts are being made to induce Mr. Baring to stand for the city._ The Carlton and Conservative Clubs are about to raise funds to prosecute the petition against Baron Rothschild. Sir Frederick Thesiger's promotion to the bench is con tingent upon the adoption of some propositions made by Sir James Graham to the Ministry. BOSTON.—The High Church party, it is sa? bring forward either Stanhope Bankes, Esq , • ley Hall, or Mr. Humfrey, the Queen's C' .0( Kearns , According to the Clobe, Mr. Fear , - -41@ci. dares his Intention of retiring from tWontor &- a conference which is to be held 41ife, soon after 6th of next month. AsIL Nottingham, on the TILE NAVIGATION LAN men out of employe tratAer of able sea docks, is now very , -ekt 9pi the Tniig•hbourhood of the relief and assi eo.t.s;i*trable, an the daily claims for Asylum," p Atonte 'made at The "Destitute Sailors' during t' 'much larger than at any former period s).: t‘Ym trier Tor the last '43n years. 4:tAi ottig freights :to and from' nearly all }parts of the continue in a state of depression, and for what bu t begs is done the rates are to a great extent unremunera ave.—Sunderland Times. A rumour prevails that Mr. Hudson is about to resign his seat for the borough of Sunderland, and Mr. H. Fen wick has been announced as a candidate on the liberal side. There is also a rumour that Mr. Wilkinson, who has twice unsuccessfully contested the borough on the same interest, will come forward. Lord Adolphus Vane is talked of as the candidate on the other side. IMPORTANTIfEETING OF ENGLISH AND IRISH REPRE SENTATIVES.—An influential meeting of members of the lower house was held in one of the committee-rooms on Saturday, (the 21st,) to make arrangements as to the future course of action to be pursued by the Liberal party, John Bright, Esq. M.P., took the chair. The meeting was well attended, especially by Irish representa tives, and a definite course was decided upon with regard to the land and church questions in Ireland, and the suf frage question in both countries. THE PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT.—The Spectator, of Satnrday, says, " The Ministerial white bait dinner, the precursor of the prorogation, is appointed for Satur day, the 4th of August. The present session may, there fore, be confidently expected to terminate on Thursday, the 9th of August." The Observer, of Sunday, however, says, " The Ministerial fish dinner, which usually precedes the prorogation of Parliament, will take place at the Tra f Agar, GI eenwhich , on Saturday next, the 28th instant." It is, we believe, arranged that 'her Majesty will not pro rogue Parliament in person. REDUCTION OF PUBLIC SALARIES.—Of the 26 members returned from Lancashire, 12 were absent from the di vision on Mr. Henley's motion on Monday night, for a reduction of 10 per cent. in the salaries of public servants, not included in the army, navy, or law departments. Those gentlemen were Messrs. Grenfell. Birch, Cardwell, Lindsay, Thicknesse, Hornby, Gideon, Fox, Hindley, Walker, Greenall, and Crawford. Of the 14 present, 7 voted for and 7 against the motion. The former con sisted of Messrs. Henry, Strickland, Pilkington, Blair, Walmsley, Bright, and Duncroft ; the latter, of Messrs. Patten, Heywood, Brown, Green, Armstrong, Wilson, and Brotherton. ADMISSION OF STRANGERSTOTHE HOUSE OF COMMONS. —The select committee appointed to consider the present practice of the House of Commons in respect to the ex clusion of strangers have considered the matter to them referred, and agreed to the following report :—That the existing usage of excluding strangers during a division, and upon a notice by an individual member that strangers are present, has prevailed from a very early period of par liamentary history; that the instances in which the pew.r of an individual member to exclude has been exercised have been very rare; and that it is the unanimous opinion of the committee that there is no sufficient ground for making any alteration in the existing practice with regard to the admission or exclusion of strangers. THE DIVISION ON MR. DRUMMOND'S MOTION FOR A REDUCTION OF THE PUBLIC EXPENDITURE.—The votes on this motion, upon which the government were defeated, present a singular jumbling up of parties, Whigs, Tories, and Radicals finding themselves in the same boat, some of them for the first time in their life. The greater portion of the majority against retrenchment consisted of W higs and members and hangers on of the government. The following members from this district voted in the majority, viz. J. Bright, J. Brocklehurst, R. Cobden, W. Ewart, W. J. Fox, L. Heyworth, C. Hindley, J. Ker shaw, Colonel Thompson, J. Tollemache, and Sir J. Walmsley. The following were in the minority, viz. J. Brotherton, Sir T. B. Birch, W. Brown, Lord R. Gros venor, and T. Thorneley. FEELINGS OF LORD GOUGH ON HEARING OF HIS BEING SUPERSEDED IN THE COMMAND IN INDIA.--We Call the attention of every countryman of this gallant but ill-used veteran to the very words of Lord Gough himself, as expressed by him on the knowledge of his being super seded. They have been forwarded to us by a military gentleman, and were taken from a letter written by an officer in Simla to his father in London. Here is the extract :—" Poor Lord Gough ! I never saw a man so downcast as he seemed on learning that he had been superseded in the command of the army by Sir Charles Napier. I am,' exclaimed the glorious old soldier, a fallen man ; and no honours that can now be bestowed on me can hinder my feeling it as an unmerited humilia tion during my remaining few years of a life which has been passed from boyhood upwards in the service of my country—that country which now requites my devotion with the lowering of my reputation before the whole world. This is a blow intolerable, coming too from men the incapacity and misdeeds of many of whom have in flicted irretrievable injury on the country."—Cork Exa miner. MR. GLADSTONE AND THE PEEL PARTY.—There is a rumour that Mr. Gladstone either has split, or is inclined to do so, with the Peel party. Most of them are now disposed to go over to the Whigs—Sir James Graham and Lord Lincoln leading the way. But Mr. Gladstone not only refuses, it is said, to be drawn any further through the mire, but has made signs of a longing desire to quit their ranks altogether, and re-enrol himself in those ranks in which Mr. Disraeli is so distinguished a commander. It is whispered that Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Disraeli have already come to some understanding as to the course to be pursued for the future ; and many are sanguine enough to believe that, by another session of Parliament, they will be united and agreed in their conduct of a vastly-in creased and reinvigorated party, others from the ranks of the Peelites following Mr. Gladstone's example. His re fusal to vote for Mr. Disraeli's late motion was nothing— it only saved appearances for the present. As to Sir Ro bert himself, it is not likely that he will again take any ac tive part in politics—in party politics, at any rate—which are, after all, the only politics that can be made practically available for carrying - out, upon principle, any great con stitutional policy.—Oxford Herald, CUNNING, BUT DETECTED.—A bill is now waiting the leisure of the Commons under a guise not at all likely to attract the public attention. It is entitled " Poor-law Union Charges Act Amendment ;" and it is further ex plained to be " a Bill to continue an Act of last session of Parliament, for charging the Maintenance of certain poor persons in unions upon the common fund; and to make certain Amendments in the Laws for the Relief of the Poor." Few will guess that among " the certain amend ments" tacked to the bill there is included a clause of the following grave import:—" And bo it enacted that the guardians of any parish or union may expend, with the order and subject to the rules and regulations of the Poor law Board, but not otherwise, any sum of money, not ex ceeding the sum of £l5 for each person, in and about the emigration of poor persons having settlements in such parish or any parish in such union respectively, without the necessity of the rate-payers and owners of property therein meeting and giving their consent to such expendi ture.". According to this clause the guardians, who can not give a loaf of bread to an able-bodied man out of doors, or authorise a day's work to be done out of the walls of the union at the joint expense of the rate-payers of a parish, may spend £l5 in sending a man to New Zea land, and levy it on the rate-payers without so much as asking their leave ! SINGULAR CONFESSION OF A LEAGUE ORATOR.—The following is an extract from a speech delivered in the House of Commons, in support of Mr. Feargus O'Con nor's recent motion for the Charter, by Mr. W. J. Fox, the hon. member for Oldham, freethinking lecturer at South Place Chapel, Finsbury, and formerly paid agent to the Anti corn-Law League.—" Of all modes of go vernment which ever existed, he thought that the very worst which to a certain extent had prevailed in this country—he meant the accomplishment of improvements only by means of agitation. It withdrew men's minds from the topics on which they might most wholesomely be employed, and created professional agitators —men who lived on that work, and were ready to stimulate the people for their own purposes. From time to time it had occasioned a danger of breaches of the peace, and caused bitterness between class and class, and utterly destroyed that unity of feeling which ought to exist between the representatives and the constituencies from which they emaneed." Such is the remarkable avowal of a dema gogue who first became known to his present constituents by his professional exertions in the service of the Anti eorn-Llw League, and would never, therefore, have gained admission to the house, but for the part he took iz that very agitation which he new so strongly and justly aprobatss Wahefield Journal, LAW INTELLIGENCE. -*- LIVERPOOL DISTRICT COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner STEVENSON.) IN RE JOSEPH ASPINALL- - IMPORTANT TO SHARE- BROKERS The bankrupt was formerly a sharebroker in this town, and the present was a meeting for the proof of debts. Mr. FORSHAW appeared in support of a claim made by certain sharelmkers of this town. Mr. BARDSWELL objected to the proof on behalf of the bankrupt. He said his objection was that, inasmuch as the claim which had been presented arose out of a diffe rence between the sale price and the then price of certain railway shares which had been negociated between the parties, it could not be maintained. He contended th a t the difference between a debt worth so much to day, and not worth so much on the morrow, could not be held s- 6 proof against the estate in the present instani and that the debt could not be admitted 'unless it could be proved that actually some commodity had passed as between the parties, which was not so in the present case. Mr. FORSHAW, on the other hand, cited the ca ' e of Moffat v. Tate, in reference to a t ea t ransact i on, i• A ll' 1 the defendant was held to have a claim, as in t ,, 4 W IC ,a 0 present case. Mr. BARDSWELL then replled at gm -0 length. He contended that the case of Moffat v. T gous; and, as to the custom which , Act 'wits not anala and recently by Mr. Justice r he stated that it had been held ..ektl been referred to, . ky the learned j udg es, the stock exchange might' ,etSwell, that the custom of but it was not. law in tb Mr. Commissions ...0 aP IteW on the stock exchange, lordship's court. which presented ' .'erievEtrsoN said that the question an actual sale •EPAI to him was. whether the sale was of the trad' or Ykit. 'lie was inclined to take the custom of Bail:" ,P., , ,,a say it was an actual sale. In the case Lord AP.. Butterworth, cited before the learned judges, (.: Muttun and Mr. Baron Rolfe had held that a prin. . t gol! 'An instruct: d a broker to buy or sell goods must , (sz:lboun'd by the rules of the stock exchange. He must, 7 therefore, treat this as a transaction as bearing upon the present applicant according to the usual custom as adopted m such transucti,ms. It did not uppear to him that there was such an objection to the proof tendered as that offered I by Mr. Bardswell, and it must, therefore, be received. PRISON TREATMENT OF DEBTORS.—CIaUSe3 are in serted in the timall D_-bts Amendment Bill to prevent the practice of rutting the hair of debtors committed to the House of Correction. Where the priQon is at a distance, the debtors may be confined in a neighbouring gaol, sub j,ct to such regulations as may be laid down by the Home Secretary. DIVORCE.—HARTLEY V. HARTLEY.—This case, which will be familiar to the local reader, came before the Con sistory Court on Wednesday. Dr. Addams said it was a suit for a divorce, promoted by the husband against the wife for having committed the act of adultery with a Mr. Thompson, who was an engineer on one of the railways. The act was said to have been committed at Liverpool, where Mr. Thompson took a house for the purpose of carrying on the illicit intercourse with Mrs. Hartley. These was no oppesition to the suit. The court, in con sequence, signed the divorce. The new law affecting the registration of voters came into practical operation on Thursday last. Hitherto taxes and 000 r rates due on the sth of April were required to be paid on or before the 20th of July ; but by the act 11 and 12 Vic., cap. 90, it is declared that after the Ist of January, 1849, no person shall be required, in order to entitle him to have bis name inserted in any list of voters for any city, town, or borough in England, to have paid any poors rates or assessed taxes except such as shall have become payable from him previously to the sth of Jan. in the same year; and that no person shall be entitled to be on any such list of voters unless the poors ra es and assessed taxes, payable from him previously to the sth of January, shall be paid on or before the 20th day of July next following." On Wednesday, at Oakham, Mr. Justice Coleridge held a maiden assize, and was, in consequence, presented by the Sheriff with a pair of white gloves. The knowledge that there was little business formed a sufficient excuse for his lordship excusing a thin attendance of grand jurors, but at the same time afforded opportunity for some re marks on the projected abolition of that body.—" I am sorry to say," observed his lordship, " that in some parts of the country an opinion is gaining ground that Grand Juries are unnecessary. That is a very erroneous opinion, for I take the institution of Grand Juries to be one of great value, and which ought to be kept up. I dare say you have heard that a bill is now before Parliament, or is likely to be introduced by a high legal authority, for the purpose of abolishing Grand Juries as regards the Central Criminal Court of the metropolis. I own that I very much regret that there should be such an intention. I may speak with greater freedom on the subject now, as it has not yet become the law of the land, and I cannot help saying that I look upon it as a very unconstitutional mea sure ; for if the bill should pass into law it will depend on the decision of one individual—an individual appointed by the Crown, paid by the Crown, and removeable by the Crown—as to whether any person shall be prosecuted or not. There will be an end to all inquiry by the ancient institution of the Grand Jury, and it will depend on a police magistrate whether any prisoners shall or shall not be put out on trial." A HINT FOR MR. HUDSON.—An anneal i'ac nf cam° 11111JUI tblll e In connexion with Joint-stock Companies was decided on Tuesday in the House of Lords. A party having become a shareholder in the Forth Marine Insu rance Company claimed to have his liability set aside on the ground that the law officer of the Company, also a shareholder, had deceived him with regard to its position --the concern, owing to the concealment of its losses by the directors and the distribution of the premiums as dividends, having actually lost £95,704 beyond its paid up capital of £lO,OOO at the time he became a shareholder. In the opinion of the house, however. the Company could not be considered responsible for the representations of its law agent, who neither in that capacity nor as a share holder and partner could be authorised to make any statements regarding its affairs, all powers to that effect being vested solely in the directors. The appeal was con sequently dismissed with costs and the judgment of the lower court confirmed. In the course of the discussion, however, the following statement was made by Lord Campbell, which is of peculiar importance at the present time. After remarking on the difference between the transactions of an Insurance Company and a Railway Company, and that in the present case there was no proof that the dividends had been paid out of capital, as the premiums whence they were made had been actually re ceived, and there was simply a false estimate of probable future losses, his lordship observed that " he would state his opinion in reference to the conduct of directors who, with a view to raise the price of shares in the market, ventured to declare dividends out of the capital of a Com pany instead of out of the profits. Supposing a Company was not worked to a profit, and a dividend were made and was made out of capital, it was quite clear that a gross fraud was committed, and the directors making such a dividend were not only liable to a civil action, but were, in his opinion, guilty of a conspiracy for which they might be indicted." In these views Lord Brougham fully con curred, remarking that there was good ground in such cases for having recourse to a much severer proceeding than a civil action." MONEY SHOULD INCREASE WITH THE WEALTH OF A NATION. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SlR,—Any question seems to have an interest for the people of this country except the grand and vital one,— " What is money, and what are the true principles upon which the instrument of exchange should be issued ?" If money should come into existence as fast as wealth is created, does not a gold money, which cannot increase, account for that stagnation of trade, or stoppage of pro duction, which is the great complaint of the times ? The problem that we must solve, if we wish not to be eaten up by poor-rates and criminal expenses, is— " Wanted a money that shall increase with production, and be cancelled pari panu with consumption." _ J. H. COURT AND FASHION. Her Majesty, the Royal Family, and the Court, still remain at Osborne House, in the Isle of Wight, and during the week the Queen, the Prince-Consort, and the junior members of the Royal Family, have taken tl eir accustomed out-door exercise in the grounds and on the beach. Siz Itabert and Lady Peel were on a visit to her Majesty for several days. THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO IRELAND.—The preparations for the reception of the Queen in Dublin are proceeding vigorouiy. Triumphal arches are to be erected in Bagot street and Nassau-street. A procession has been arranged, and those who form it will wear scarfs of sky blue and pink, the blue to distinguish the citizen, the pink to be worn by the inhabitants of the county of Dublin who will join in the respectful demonstrations. As the Queen will not prorogue parliament in person, she will embark on Thurs day, the 2d of August. The stay at Cork is not to exceed twenty• four hours ; and from thence they proceed direct to Dublin. It is probable that the royal squadron will enter Kingstown harbour on the 7th of August. The Dublin Evening Post of Saturday says, " We have autho rity to announce that the levee and drawing-room will be held in the course of the week beginning with the sth of August, and that notice will be given of the days as soon as it is possible to fix them to a certainty. We are fur ther authorized to state, for the information of ladies and gentlemen who propose to pay their respects to our gracious Sovereign on those occasions, that, as the Queen can have but one rule for her court, wherever it is held, the presen tations in Dublin will be regulated by exactly the same rules as in London : namely, that no person can be pre sented except by some one who has personally been him self or herself presented to the Queen. Ladies, of course, by ladies, and gentlemen by gentlemen ; and the names must be sent in three days previously to the Lord Cham berlain, (the Marquis of Breadalbane,) at Dublin Castle." Her majesty has signified that she will visit Glasgow on her way from Ireland to Balmoral. HEATON PARK.—Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge is expected to visit the Earl of Wilton, at Heaton Park, in September next. A numerous party of noble and distinguished guests will assemble at the man sion of the noble earl to meet the illustrious visitor. MARRIAGE OF LOLA MONTES.—This extraordinary lady, whose connection with the late events in Bavaria will be fresh in the recollection of our readers was married on Thursday to G. Stafford Heald, Esq., of the 2nd Life Guards. The ceremony took place first at the French Catholic chapel, in King-street, Portm n-square, and afterwards at St. George's Church, Hanover-square. Mr. Heald is a very young man, not having long attained his majority. He is, we believe, related to Mr. Heald, M.P. for Stockport, and possessed of a very large fortune. His income is stated N be about 4 14 ,090 per annum. Globe. July 24_, i 2; UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAIi . 6°l 111••••••••••••••• rdinSi t° The Archbishop of York intends to hold his o for the future on the Sunday following the B o ° or dins• of the spring and autumn in each year. Bisnet"...rf Han, therefore, will be held on Sunday , Fe w 1850, at Bishopthorpe.—Leeds Intelligence'. . atO ifr PRFFERMENTS.—Rev. W. B. Kernpson , A., I.' w s of Stoke Lacey, to be one of the diviniry lec r t u r a o Bromyard, in the diocese of Hereford.—Re deny' . ,£277, to Wheathill R., Salop, dio. Herf. • wita' — pat., Rev. J. Churton. IC _ deaner Ordination at A- Rev. E. Bickerstetlito be rural dean in the ‘• Bu A rn t h th am e . Bishop of Durham ' _ .• hp Ole , roe Rev. James Turner, 1 5 .- 61 : 0 ,00 , of Sunderin• • - B. A —_... ,VG ordained priest ; and JosePoSyege . ---, and Joseph Smithard, 8.A., of Univeraal ""' b el Ourham, were ordained deacons, and have s'Ace j. licznsed by the Bishop for the curacies of Sjunderll7l: ME CHURCH UNION.—II iS geed., 4, on o utb th e Union Society, " upon Consideration, that two of her Majesty's judgP".„ who had le r e_ L cor ist , _..e . tiiand, on Sunday_llo...:;oo. names and influence as vice-',residents in the T ' „ht i t have the m ' ti obe right to withdraw themselves from a position" ° coming their judicial character.—Christian Titnifes,;l4 CONSECRATION OF ALL SAINTS CHURCH, P''' D IP BRIDGE.—On Saturday morning the consecratien.belo new church, which has been erected on the sited, foe residence of the Earl of Listowel, was celebratetobill ceremony, at which a great many of the residePtfistioil° and gentry were present, was performed by the '''' London. ciP ro te e UNIVERSITY OF LONDON .— The Queen ba s Ateg t° l this university a new charter which is likely to ex—,. n uo 6 , interest and attention. By the new charter the:e 0 , will be empowered to confer the respective de ; - ( 1, 0 (ls' or Doctor of Laws, on any persons who have gr t e Lo os, , Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts, Bachelor 0 1 .blia, ° Oxford, Cambridge, Durham, Trinity College D 4 1 any other university in the kingdom. _ RAIL - WI? AFFAIRS. d io * lwo . eXtde"dt „ The branch of the North-Western from Skipton to Ingleton is, we understand , be opened on Thursday next. a na We believe that possession of the Lancast er d Cat . ' le ton Railway will be given to the Lancaster an Railway Company in a few days. we T y he we N e lan e c p h e e n s e t d er, fe S r ou p t e h Jbliuencttrieoffin,eaennd ATlhteriresodbosai:st,rvg. line connects the Manchester and Birmingbain..bty field and Lincolnshire lines in Manchester , wl` . verpool and Bolton Railways. Off ef l, 4 CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY. -- T A ,., - 11 0 week ended 15th July, 1849: Coaching trawl,' cot Os. lid. ; parcels, £64 14s. Bd. ; goods 0 0.0,: £l5O is. 10d. ; steamboats, .4182 18s. : total,X 2l ,-. o oe exclusive of toll from Shrewsbury and Chester v .06 and payment for the conveyance of mails. ....0i5 11 ,, CLITHEROE BRANCH LINE OF RAILWAY. „ which is to be in di re ct c o nnec tion with°Zinged Blackburn, and West Yorkshire R a ilway, isms tosl progress towards completion. On Monday , thei. Cooei the arches of the viaduct at Cob Wall was li., e ,Yi e o 01 0 fident hopes are entertained that the lice will at the latter end of the year. o r t NOVELTY IN RAILWAY TRAVELLING. --^ a d. ei shire and Yorkshire Railway Company, in iv - we' ll , encourage travelling by their line, have dete r tr ocalt h e charging females and children, during the sum t hot!,, only half price. It is believed by the director s tra p, l l result will be a large addition to the passenger d ; to tl i l asmuch as wives will now compel their hu , ha ° t h a ot themselves and families much more frequently , 11." 11 ' did before to excursions by railway. r MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND LINCOLD7-, 1 WAY.—This great undertaking has at length „ e- day pleted, and was opened by the directors on 3il e ':d,y; r e p The line was opened for general traffic on Tile,u;bro to. there is now, for the first time, a direct and, of est e d, railway communication between Liverpool °oi l / M is d ot and Great Grimsby on the eastern coast , ° to "Pi , The length of the direct line from Manchester t he Grimsby is 1101- miles, and this is exclusive of rof t o ff ous branches. The cost of the companY's Sheffield, including stations, &c., is ou an ;LOOP Id 1, a mile. iof ljl e THE YORE, NEWCAST LE , AND B E RWICK- ,bern o r way Commissioners have reported against the ',(l Mr. Hudson for am a l gama ti ng th e Newcastlewith'of lisle and the Maryport and Carlisle Raill°3a Vt r o above company, and gu aran t ee i ng th e m a " x ; ,,b; ,n interest or dividend. They believe that it ° Ton Pot injurious to the public interest if the a malgam at e 11°4 posed by the bills for that pu r p ose , n ow before tt ot tb„ of Lords, were sanctioned ; and they consider hate bills should be rejected by Pa r li ame nt. Thel,eats c ° rived at the conclusion from th e f ac t s a nd arg il- 01. 4 5' tamped cTAß i N n Ano t h ßn e DE s t nN t a lA t v e ßt m oyic e i t cE O OE f AT, tI:NAeGN COMPANY. THE promoters ac t ile ` elir3. : oB s r ,o t r TLE, he E above company, held in York on Friday las t ;,',. Odle(' solved to institute legal proceedings against ","' a rcils h ',d on the following charges That he hag 'sod, ;of 2,345 shares of the Sunderland Dock CowlP 3 ,!*„' sc led ito - to t c h h e ar N ge o d we th a e st m le to o n t d h e Berwickc o m an y rinco,iat w fnoirih i addn ix t ees h rto4o o ehaon u awan: t dvil e cobte,l ; r: sanction. 2. That he had taken for his owt or eh yl l, zed a ° ro ba,l re.n,eu a prone ot 4,145 704. e s—Pl ' Hudson had been interested in a contract for the to himself o,etf:i43tltolheeBgte,icsileoo. company, o k fo f n r o ir , w , o n n wo r t a r o k il s s b poses, epsa,y which o s r a l land to the t wt Aaa h e l e n e ev rcy t e . :x tent of 4 0 11 3 0 ' tt ad aP°P.ich he rsj ir ea ce ql ; eq 14r I ; to hi" since interest.) The meeting came to the unanira ° o - ,j'iso"„.o sion to institute civil proceedings against Dir. " r ; e d:" the restitution of their funds, which he is e lls ,.,,Ceil,)e having misapplied. In the course of the 1? - ,, t of (5 1 several very severe animadversions on the coge%olo r ;.• directors were made by various speakers, g ri "-fol t ,j(elt others by Mr. Wylie, of this town. who spoke 8 ' a P"b1 0 —I quite agree with the observations that It from the Lord Mayor, and I think' it w ould be owe to adopt the report at once. The report of ib e bilit x 9 gation Committee is characteri se d by immens e - 'eV well as by good sense and honesty o f purpos e. is ple tO that the great feature in that report is, that L t oitt ce p iP what it professes to be, a report from the r°',. 0f,e,,,f0r be left to the shareholders to give their Yerw c , - 1 111 0 It is as a shareholder and one of the public ths"..t. the purpose of giving my approval to that re do not going to excite any angry feelings, but I u e ,,o' fiet would be inconsistent with our duty to o ursel l ipet, B l l o p w u a b s l i c pu a b t li l s a h r e g d e : if, the heei te fir t s e t d ti t in o l ec , e p a t ire ) i ct f t a t this i st e o t p h o e r t was our true and honest opinion. (ApOlg u i ss jo one, shall not shrink from doing so; and e more willingly, because the dir ec t ors are tiler If `tt t be ~ and will hear what I have to say face to fae, e ;t I i'!„ c l had not been here, I would not have said w' r ,rt, to do now. I adopt the language of the re P:oirif eel' say, at once, that I think those gentlemen ( o `, l directors) have been guilty of great dislinae s 'ai . lrd them their conduct has been characterised bY;iitle,e' ot ency, which was disgraceful to them as A g ie r e (Loud cheers.) I tell them that it is even g - t ;ft e- bos"e the country that gentlemen moving in their 4 0,A life, having name and reput a ti on a t s t a ke, s filitrp o 'tP, prostrated their public duties to their priva",ccnfo; s l h f o u the l d position , h I would directors, ould notby h n a o ve fa sa ul i t d o a f w th e e r i d rs a , ,4oarobbs9tut-: 1 , 4 10 - ,r0. ; ecircumstan s, had been placed in their prese P t he o ;o" have commiserated their condition ; ;not s th en e t e , eb l ee m rv u i s e t ee d y es w pi i s t e h w it h . ie ( h Ch th e e e y rs. h ) man and to that, I must confess th a a v t We it Ph; i s nna g le , a t igrfit°e° Iv; them for ever.—A Shareholder: They are e disgrace to their country. V s 1 0 DIMENSIONS OF THE BRITANNIA AND CON" dr- f oi —The detail of construction of the tubes for th e CO oer Bridge is n il of respects similar to that of thed o oe , tubes, the thickness of the plates, the heigh ts . ' the ss lo (l dimensions being in both cases in a certain rat w tt iog. 0 4 / with their respective lengths • the mode of ric e t toP , _ o the ratio of the sectional arena of the top an" ; b „,eO l on also in both cases identical. The principal "`"- the tubes for the two bridges are as follow BRITANNIA. c 4,4 feet Total length of each tube 1,524 feet Total length of tubes for both lines 8 4 2 3 „ of railway. 3,348 ~ 4 01 ' Greatest span in the clear 468 ~ 20 6' Height of tubes at the middle 3O ~ Height of tubes at intermediate piers 27 ~ ofp Height of tubes at ends 23 J , 1 4 „ Extreme of width of tubes l4 ft. 8 24v.0(1fi, Number of rivets in one tube 882, 000 4E' o ',, i , Number of rivets in the whole bridge 1,764,00 0 . laridu g g - froj, It will be borne in mind that the Britannia vided into four spans, the two principal est e " e itlie`oth` the pier on the Britannia rock to the piers on ran a. spans se extending n a g n dfrobmeintgh these ech smaller46l feet pi e n; s t g e eb s ecor 'ta b i . e c oo l l ments being each 230 feet in the clear. I" e , e difit e the centre pier is 45 feet, on each of the inteiT'oos. lin e ' 32 feet, and on the abutments 17 feet b W e d in " r oe s whole length of the Britannia tubes, if,r a f o th, ' t b • would be about three-fifths of a mile. i rl so° ides'ke the tops have the form of a parabolic curve , sor F is Britannia tubes there is also given on the I° b e tol e het l o " camber," or rise of from 9 to 10 inche s f a cils i- o‘ points of support on the piers. This addition to its nearly equal to the deflection of the tub" thl?dae mss ?Cr • bri tle' weight, so that it is expected, when this b 4 ~itir4t pleted, that the lower side of the tubes will P t otsg'",,o! l ,, fectly horizontal line. In works of such Yas_, 001 4 to',, it is difficult to ascertain with perfect ac curgur bu t t e s ir of materials consumed in their constructig n ,' t he g lowing calculations have been made w ith Cogs care:— ; Summary of computed weight of Brito n n ,./ 11 0 Bridges. .$ e v ° U . 11.:11 4-7. fc E 4 ton' 30 6 / t on s tonitoll " jav , 1 Britannia tube, 274 ft. long ... 450 7091 10 1 760 • • 1 00 3 Britannia tubes, 274 ft. long.. 1350 327 1 2 , 39 1q . 70; 1 Britannia tube, 472 ft. 10ng... 965 I ,t 1 1 7 52: • 1E", 3 Britannia tubes, 472 ft. long.. 2895 su :l - 70 1 Tubover Tube over p p i i e er r:3 3 2 f 2 f t. t. 10ng.... 10ng 64 10ng.... 64 2 6 -4u l 10 Tube Frames & beams for Britannia .. .. I,* 6,97 > 4 6 G. 14242 1 ! 11,A _____.--- -- 11 I ) - 94 • 160 16% ° 9 ,, • i m o— / 4 1 6 9 I"' • : v " - -:gg/ -;'-' 6 -- r:10 - ~,j 41 s , 3 410 Total weight of Conway.. 11548 34" j 'L..'" .--- - , 6 50 ',. hiinchbogti --- — II - 07 1 874-of ire ;40 workW Total of both bridges ... '7336 1 157 8 ; 1 ~' tons f in round numbers the value of the above stated at Xsoo,ooo.—Fairbairn, an Me -4 `" when fixed Pern l gialler h ves b a ri g d i g li e n s d , total of nearly 13,uv - • ~,I 0 be Total weight Britannia. 1 Conway tube, 424 ft. long .... 1 Conway tube, 424 ft. long .... Frames & beams Air Conway.. July