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I t the lower buoy opposite St. Katharine's Dock up to the Cu stom - house.—Won by six lengths. Second Heat. George White (Red) 1 Charles Maxwell (Green) 2 Xlijah Barton (Purple) 0 _ . _ Third Heat. George Maxwell . (Pink) 1 Charles Maxwell .... Elijah Barton (Purple) 0 George Whit e Grand Heat. (Red) 1 John White (Lig'it Blue) 2 George Maxwell It was a, very fine race. Maxwell (pink) took the lead, Closely followed by red, and light blue on his quarter. Red then passed the first boat at the Lower-stairs, took the lead, and kept it, winning by about a yard only. .....--____ PAR LIAIIIENTARY DIVISIONS. (From the rotes and Proceedings of the House of Coinntom., TUESDAY, JULY 13. BISHOPRIC OF MANCHESTER, &c., BILL. Order for Second Reading read ; Motion made, and Ques tiOn proposed, " That the Bill be now read a second time :" Ir'Amendment proposed, to leave out the word " now," and at the end of the Question to add the words " upon this day three months :"—Question put,: " That: the: word ' now' Stand part of the Question." The House divided : MAJORITY—AYES, 124. Acland, Sir T. Ferrand, W. B. Morris, David Aciand, T. D. Fitzroy, Henry Mundy, E. 331. Allix, J. P. Forester, G. C. Neeld, Joseph Austen, Colonel Fuller, A. E. Newdegate, C. N. ilarihg, F." :T. Gore, Montague O'Brien, A. S. b aring, Thomas Gore, Robert _ Ogle, S. C. Parrington, Viscount Goulburri. Henry l'acke, C. W. Bennet, P. Greene, Thomas Palmer, R. tte ~.,- a---xls, Lord G. Grey, Sir G. Palmer, G. ktinek, Lord 11. Grosvenor, Earl Palmerston, Vis. eley, Captain Hamilton, G. A. Parker, John Blaekburne, J. I. Hamilton, Lord C. Patten, J. W. Bodkin, W. H. Hatton, Captain Perfect, Robert Botfield, Beriah Heathcote, Sir W. Philipps, Sir R. Bowles, Admiral Henley, J. W. Pinney, William Buck, Lewis W. Hildyard, T. B. T. Plumridge, Captain Buller, Charles Hobhouse, Sir John Pollington, Viscount 1 3 3 1 115, G. S. Hope, G. W. Prime, Richard uatew, W. P. H ern b y, J o h n R e id , C o l one l Chaplin, W. J. Ingestre, Viscount Rendlesham, Lord C hristopher, W. D. In g lis, Sir R. Rus se ll, Lord J. vtristopher, R. Jermyn, Earl Rutherford, A. Clive, Viscount Jervis, Sir John Sandon, Lord Qin, It. 11. Johnstone, Sir J. Somerville, Sir W. Pedrington, Sir W. Jolliffe, Sir WG. 11. Stanley, 0. Corry, Henry Jones, Captain Tollemache, F. J. Ceurtenay, Lord Knightley, Sir:C. Tollemache, John e "vller, V. P. Lascelles, W. S. Verner, Sir W. Craig, W. G . Lefroy, A. Vesey, T. CrIPPs, W. Le 31archant, Sir D. Villiers, Viscount Denison, J. E. Liddell, Hon. H. T. Vyse, H. Deniso n , E. B. Lindsay, Colonel Waddington, H. S. Disraeli, B. Lygon, Gen. Walker, Richard Douglas, J. D. S. 3lacaulay, T. Ward, 11. G. D uckworth, Sir J. M'Geachy, F. A. Wood, Sir Charles P,uticias, Admiral Manners, Lord C. Worcester, Marquis East, David Manners, Lord J. Wortley, J. S. . Last, Sir J. B. Maule, Fox Wynn, C. W. _ 4 brington, Viscount Mildmay, 11. St. J. Egerton, W. T. Miles, Philip W. S. TELLERS. Entwisle, William Miles, William Tufnell, 11. brans, William Monahan, Rich, Henry /*Billion, Sir R. Morpeth, Viscount MINORITY—NOES, 15. Aglionby, H. A. Evans, Sir De Lacy Trelawny, J. S. Aldam, William Hastie, Archibald Wakley, T. liouverie, E. P. Hindley Charles Williams, W. Brothertoa, Joseph Horsman, Edward TELLERS. Collett, John Molesworth, Sir W. Hume, Joseph Duncan, George Thornely, T. Duncombe, Thomas POOR REMOVAL (No. 2) BILL. Order read, for resuming adjourned debate upon Question (Bth July), " That the Bill be now read a second time:"— Question again proposed :—Debate resumed :—Question put. The House divided. MINORITY—AYES, 5. Jolliffe, Sir W. H. Pechell, Captain TELLERS. Morris, David Perfect, R. Fitzroy, Henry Newdegatc, C. N. Christopher, R. A. MAJORITY-NOES, 44. Acland, Sir T. Grey, Sir G. O'Connell, M. J. Adderley, C. B. Henley, J. W.' Ogle, S. C. Agilonby, 11. Hill, Lord Marcus Parker, John Arundel, Earl of Hobhouss, Sir John Romilly, John Blackburne, J. I. Hutt, William Ross, David R. aodkin, William 11. Inglis, Sir R. Russell, Lord J. Brotherton, J. Jervis, Sir John Rutherfurd, A. Buller, Charles Layard, Major Strati, Edward Buller, Edward Macaulay, T. B. Thornely, T. Chapman, lii. M'Carthy, Alexander Ward, H. G. Clifton, J.:T. M'Geachy, F. A. Wood, Sir Charles Craig, W. o. Maule, Fox r Toile, Henry R. Denison, E. B. Monahan, J. W Evaus,:William Morpeth, Viscount ' ' 7l ELLERS. Ferguson, Sir R. Morison, General Tufnell, Henry Glbsen, Thomas M. O'Brien, Timothy Somerville, Sir W. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, TUESDAY.—It is publicly announced that Rear -Admiral Dundas, C. 8., second naval Lord of the Admiralty, is elevated to the post of first naval Lord, vice Sir Charles Adam, appointed to Greenwich. We trust this is correct on every account, and hope that, in a successor to fill the vacancy caused by the elevation of Admiral Dundas, the service will be equally fortunate. The Avenger steam-frigate, Captain S. C. Dacres, Went out yesterday to join Sir Charles Napier's squadron at Spithead. She passed close by the St. Vincent, when Sir Charles hailed her, and said he would come on board and try her rate at the measured mile in Stokes's Bay, Which he did, when her mean rate was ascertained to be 9 1 min. 5 sec. knots. The vessel is hampered with more Weight than she ought to be made to carry, if the prin eiPle of fairness in steamers' weights is to be regarded Its having anything to do with a trial experiment. •To those unacquainted with what dead weight is in a ship's trim, we give the following explanation:— Provisions under hatches for 250 men for 84 days:— Water, 74 tons; coals stowed in bunkers, 409 tons; ditto in engine room, 75 tons. Weight on engines, shafts, boilers, coal boxes, paddle wheels, floats, 1 41 b. spare gear, &c., complete, 400 tons. 2 cH t. Guns and carronades, gunners' stores, &c., on board, 86 tons. 3 cart. 1 qr. 2 lbs. Feet. Inches. Draught of water, forward 44 Lrnrn . o . rs' aft of copper ion 0 al nelght of middlip port sill, forward 5 3 " 14 aft _ One matter we cannot understand i n t h e tr i m o f this steamer, she ha s , p ac k e d up on t h e ma i n d ec k, 60 tons o t patent fuel, no t f or use , b ut f or w h a t n o one could c ar r us, and we b e li eve Sir Charles says she must Y more coals, but where she is to stow them Lo one but the Admiral can see. It is horrifying to re re that, duri ng th e s h or t time of employment yes a r . , 11' daY, altogeth er no t un der weigh more than an hour a half, the thermometer in the stoke-hole rose to 143 degrees. HE LATE COLLISION ON TUE BRIGHTON RAIL WAY.---From further inquiries yesterday, it appears that a "pick up train " arrived at the New•cross station at h e minutes past nine o'clock, and a C ro yd on t ra i n was In n due. The " pick up train" was not able to get away ! time, and a signal was given to stop the Croydon train; that having been done the Brighton excursion tr ain came up, when a collision took place, by which, f romthe r e p ort ma d e to the directors, it appears that so me injuries of a serious but not dangerous character have taken place to parties in the first and second-class carriages of the Croydon train. T wo gent l emen h a d their r ib s b roken, one passenger has received a severe cut over the eye, and another a wound on the leg, and three ladies more or less hurt, but no danger is appre hended in any case. Only one of the parties injured Was taken to Guy's Hospital, and he is doing well. The greatest attention was paid to the sufferers, medical aid being immediately obtained, and as soon as possible they Were sent to their residences in cabs. Mr. Rothwell, one of the printers' committee, had five teeth .a_sooc ' m ocked o ut , and his mouth severely cut. Some females, in the excursion train, received slight injury, but In ve : t r,ge don e to the carriage is trifling. A strict in t k g atle n into all th e c i rcumstances o f the case w ill a e place before the directors and officers of the com pany at the New-cross station. DISTRESSED NEEDLEWOMEN'S SOClETY.—Yester day a meeting, consisting chiefly of ladies, supporters of this society, was held at the Hanover- square Rooms. Lord Dudley Stuart (in the absence of the president, Mr. Alderman Fairbrother) took the chair. The hono rary secretary read a correspondence between the cora- Mittee and Sir G. Grey, from which it appeared that the Right Honourable Gentlemen had refused an interview with a deputation who were to explain to him the great injury done to sempstresses by allowing shirts and other clothing to be made at the lowest rate in prisons and workhouses, and by sanctioning contracts for the making of the uniforms of the police, army, and navy at starvation wages. In his last answer, Sir G. Grey said that his predecessor in office, Sir James Graham, had in 1844 instituted an inquiry into the subject, and the re sult was that the contract system was not to be inter fered with. The honorary secretary said that, had it not been for this system of low wages, one firm in the City Would have given remunerating employment to 2,000 sempstresses. Resolutions were passed in furtherance of the objects of the society, and deprecating the refusal of Sir George Grey to listen to the representations of the co mm i t t ee . The chairman having received the usual courtesies, the meeting separated. HONESTY THE BEST POLICY . —A circumstance o ccurred on Monday evening at t h e assembly griver for cibly by the D uc h ess o f Cl eve l an d, in St. James's illustrating the above adage, and at square, t the same time reflecting muc h cre dit o n an individual named Dennis O'Reilly, belonging to that useful class of persons yclept " linkmen," who has been well known as a constant attendant on the nobility's balls, the Opera, &c., a for had just alighted from their carriage and passed through the hall, when O'Reilly brought in, and handed to one of th e Duke's servants, a massive diamond stomacher, Which he stated be had just picked up outside the door. Inquiry as to its ownership was immediately made, and t he fact having been rumoured about, Lady Pakenham, whose property the valuable article proved to be, dis covered her loss, ;within a few minutes after entering the drawing -room. Sir Hercules, on ascertaining the manner in which the restoration had been made, came to the hall door and called for O'Reilly, who described to the Gallant General where he had picked up the lost treasure. Sir Hercules complimented the old man in riod set t erms on hi s h onesty, and desired him to call at s residence, in Berkeley-square, yesterday morning, to receive the reward of his praiseworthy conduct. The ,k" ° toacher wa s s t ate d b y Si r H ercu l es to b e worth more 'an, 300/. th T he will of M r . O'C onne ll h as j ust b een proved i n e Prer ogat i ve Court here. The personal property is s worn to be under 25,0001., and he has, among other quests, left 1,0004 to Mr. Ray, the Secretary to the ° Pen.' Association. . ruE HOUSE or Scuim,ru.--On the 29th of June t e th e small, and now rather dilapidated house in public li , l l Schill er li ve d at We i mar, was purchased at a doll le auction by th e cor p ora ti on o f th a t t own , fb r 5,025 valu e g' being nearly double the amount of its actual much M i ily we not hope that there will be found as ~,_patr Yen otism among the inhabitants of Stratford "Vo4-4. ? AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE .CAMBRIA. LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY.—The British and North American Royal Mail steamer Cambria, Captain Judkins, arrived in the Mersey this morning, at half past ten, with the usual mails from America, Canada, &c., and 135 passengers ; amongst whom we notice the Hon. Richard Pakenham, late her Majesty's Plenipotentiary at Washington. She left Boston on the Ist and Halifax on the 3d instant, and has, threfore, made the voyage in eleven days eighteen hours, including her call and stay at Halifax. Th e Caledonian reached Halifax on her outward voyage on the 2d instant, and proceeded to Boston on the same day. The news of Mexican affairs is not of an important nature, no decisive results having take n p lace either from the advance of General Scott upon the capital, or from the negotiations with which Mr. Trist was entrusted by the Government at Washington. It is said that the expectation was general that the war was wearing itself out, and that peace must soon come as a necessity felt by both parties. In America it is evident that it would be welcomed on any terms. In the latest intelligence from the army it is reported that a deputation from the capital met General Scott on his approach to the city, with offers to ne gotiate. It is added that they were rejected; but upon what grounds we have as yet no information. It can hardly be doubted, however, that the approach of the American army to the capital has given addi tional strength to the peace party. No intelligence of Herrera's presidential election was officially known ; but it was generally believed, and this favoured the peace party. The clergy, too, are understood to oppose a continuance of the war, and have declined further contributions to it. The warfare has assumed entirely a banditti cha racter. The resistance, observes a New York jour nal, seems wholly confined now to the guerilla bands that infest the route from Vera Cruz to the capital, and attack the trains which pass between those points. A large train, under the escort of 800 men, commanded by Colonel M'lntosh, which left Vera Cruz on the 4th instant, was attacked, and obliged to halt for reinforcements ; on the 6th and 7th it sustained some loss in waggons and provisions, mules, and in killed and wounded, the particu lars of which, as far as known, are detailed below. General Scott does not contemplate, it is be lieved, any future regular transportation of sup plies or ammunition from Vera Cruz, but designs to subsist his army in the country itself, pay ing for whatever is taken. He found no diffi culty at Jalapa, and it is believed will have found none in Puebla, in negotiating drafts upon his Government, for which the silver is paid to him on the spot; and thus, as to means, he is rendered inde pendent of supplies from the United States through Vera Cruz. The reinforcements to his army will be able always to make their own way, and it is reason able to believe that before this General Scott is in the city of Mexico, small as will be the moveable columns which, after garrisoning the chief points on the route, he could retain for the occupation of the capital. But he will occupy it more as a pacificator than a conqueror, and will be welcomed by the mass of its people. The business of Mr. Trist, sent from the State Department in Washington, is known to be to bring the Mexicans, if possible, to terms—and those terms consist, as is well understood, in offering to pay for all the territory we desire to obtain—to assume the debts of Mexico to our own citizens, and to let her off without paying the expenses of the war. All these objects might, to be sure, have been obtained at first without any war—by quiet negotiation; but the desire and necessity of peace are so great and so clear, that this country will be content to have it, even on such terms. With Brazil there is a misunderstanding arising from the arrest of some sailors belonging to an American ship of war, and of one or two officers who interfered by force to rescue their sailors from the police. Mr. Wise, United States Minister in Brazil, resented the arrest of these officers, and demanded their immediate release—and while the matter was in abeyance absented himself from a grand ceremonial at the Court, for the baptism of a royal infant. In aggravation of this slight, more over, the transports with the troops on board for California, having touched at Rio Janeiro at that juncture, Mr. Wise ostentatiously attended the baptism, on board one of these ships, of the child of a soldier's wife, born on the passage, and made an address on the occasion, contrasting the two baptisms in a manner that gave fresh offence to the Court at Brazil. Mr. Wise has since, in pursuance of a pre viously expressed determination, returned to the United States. Mr. Tod, his successor, sailed from here in the United States ship-of-the-line Ohio, about ten clays ago, and the confident belief is entertained that this not very dignified squabble will be satisfac torily adjusted. The Brazilian Minister resident at Washington, Mr. Lisboa, who has rendered himself very acceptable in this country by the amenity of his intercourse, is said to be recalled by his own Go vernment, for not having demanded some immediate and categorical satisfaction and explanations of the transactions at Rio. LATMT FROM MEXICO. (From the New Orleans Delta, June 20.) The following highly important intelligence was com municated to us by Lieutenant Floyd and Mr. Williams, of the 2d Pennsylvania volunteers,' who came over in the steam-ship Galveston this morning. On the Bth a small reconnoitering party, together with some citizens and disbanded soldiers, in number about 150, with 75 armed men and 30 mounted, left Puebla for Vera Cruz. This party was under command of Captain Bainbridge, of the 3d Artillery. On leaving Jalapa, and getting near Cerro Gordo, this party was informed that it would not be prudent to go through the pass, as there were about 4,000 Mexicans in the chapparal along the pass. Previous to this the officers who had gone to the rear of the train were fired at from the chapparel at the mouth of the pass; the party was organized and marched through without meeting an enemy, arrived lathe bridge that evening. Whilst they were • bivouacking on the • other side of the bridge, being so fatigued that they were unable to furnish a guard, they were informed that some persons were barricading the bridge. A guard was then stationed between the bridge and the encampment, to prevent the party being surprised. At this time signal lights on the ridges and cliffs were distinctly seen. Be fore daylight the scouting party was sent out, and also a party to clear the bridge, which was done without any opposition. T?e main body of the party then passed c ver the bridge, everything appearing to be safe, all danger being past. Lieutenant Williams and Mr. Frazer were sent back to bring on the train on the other side of the bridge. Just as they were entering the bridge a party of 25 Mexicans appeared on the bridge and fired several vol lies on them. The waggonmaster and four others, who were passing the bridge, were fired on and the whole five killed, and the waggon was captured, which, how ever, was of no great value. After the fire had ceased a party of Lancers appeared on the bridge, and seemed to be preparing to charge,but seeing that Captsin Bainbridge's party were preparing to receive them, wheeled their horses and galloped off. Bainbridge pursued his march in good order, followed by 400 or 500 foot Lancers, who hung upon his rear and flanks for four or five miles, but at a respectful distance. Thus hemmed in, this little party pur sued its way, until it arrived where Colonel M'lntosh had encamped with his large train. The Mexicans who had attacked Bainbridge's party were the same who had compelled Colonel M'lntosh to halt and wait reinforcements. The party remained that night in M'lntosh's camp, and during the whole time the Mexicans kept up a continual fire on the camp, approaching with the greatest boldness very near to our sentinels. On the next day Captain Bainbridge's party resumed its march to Vera Cruz, being joined by Captain Duperu's U. S. Dragoons, who were sent back to get their horses. The company, with its gallant captain, had behaved very handsomely a t th e a tt ac k on M'l ntos h' s camp . In deed,it was generally a d m itt e d th at C o l one l M'l ntos h' s command was saved by th e ga ll an t r y o f D u p eru ' s party. Bainbridge's party co n ti nue d t h e i r marc h to Vera Cruz, where they arrived in safety. In the m eant i me Duperu's party having a long return train to guard, and being threatened by a large body of Lancers, halted at Santa Fel!h ere they were charged by hailgarnegatmlyasny upe o r f io t r h f e o e r n ee e , m which they gall an tly re pul s ed, them selves. It was said, however, a t n h d at su so ff m er e in o g f n o o hr lo w ss aggohs were cut off, and th e drivers were taken prisoners. Captai nkilled D and three pe ru arrived wounded.safelyi r Vera Cruz, having lost three On the day Captain Bainbridge's party left M'lntosh's with a force of The two camp, General Cadwallader had arrive hundred men, and two howitzers. com mands were then joined, making in all ab ou t en hundred men, with two howitzers , under command s General Cadwallader and pus h ed on towards the Na. of tional-bridge. General Cadwallader occupied the heights commanding the bridge, from which the enemy had; fired on Captain Bainbridge's party, where he was at-, tacked by a large force of the Mexicans posted on th e ridges and chapparal, and some hard fighting was car ried on for several hours, the Mexicans losing more than one hundred men, and General Cadwallader losing some fifteen killed, and thirty or forty wounded. The Mexicans were repulsed, and the bridge was successfully passed by General Cadwallader, who was on his way to Jalapa. Since the above was written, we have learned that in the affair between General Cadwallader and the Mexi cans, at the National-bridge, the company of Lieutenant Blakey, of the newly-raised Voltigeurs, with two howit zers, charged the barricade, and swept them with a few charges from the howitzers. On passing through, how ever, Lieutenant Blakey received a heavy fire - from the enemy on the ridge, which commands the road, by which he sustained a loss of one killed and four wounded—the Lieutenant himself being wounded in the leg. They also lost several horses. The heights -were then charged on the right and left of the road, and gallantly carried—the enemy flying from before him in great con fusion. When General Cadwallader had passed the bridge he was attacked by a large party of Fueriilas, who kept up a continual fire on his men for a long distence at Cerro Gordo. It was thought, from reports of hearing firing, that the enemy had madeji stand in great num bers, though no apprehension was entertained for the safety of General Cadwallader's command, who was moving in a bold and steady manner, the only way to deal with the Mexicans. General Scott was at Puebla at the last accounts.' The editors of El Acro Iris had received dates from .the capital to the 2d of June. Santa Anna had a second time sent in his resignation of the Presidency ; Congress had not, however, up to that time, accepted it. He had also made a formal resignation of his office as Com mander-in-Chief of the army, which, like his resignation of the Presidency, remained in abeyance, Congress not having acted on either. Rejou, and five other generals, whose names are not given, have been arrested and sent to the different states for confinement. The estimated loss of Colonel APlntosh's party is about 4,000 dolls.' For miles the road is covered with empty boxes and bacon sides, which had been captered by the enemy. There are no preparations to defend any point be tween Puebla and the capital. All the odds and ends of the army are collected in the city, about 20,000 in number, but. are poorly armed and' miserable material. The gallant Captain Walker has commenced his work of retaliation on the guerillas. On the morning of the Bth instant he started with his command from Perote, on an expedition of some distance into the interior. During the expedition he sueceded in capturing nineteen guerillas and an alcade. He has employed them in cleaning the streets and the sinks. A letter had been received in Vera Cruz on the 15th instant, previous to the sailing of the Galveston, direct from the head-quarters of General Scott, stating that General Scott had issued orders for the removal of the government from Vera Cruz to Tuxpan. This change was said to be in part owing to the sickness in Vera Cruz, and because communications could be more easily kept up between Tuxpan and Puebla than between the latter place and Vera Cruz. COMMERCIAL. (From the Courier and Inquirer.) NEW YORK, JUNE 30.—The business of this country is active and prosperous to a rare degree. All pursuits are thriving, money is abundant, and the prospects of the growing crops most promising. The news by the Cam bria, of the 4th instant, the latest we yet have, disap pointed speculation, and brought down all prices for bread stuffs. The fall of flour may be stated at least one dollar per barrel between prices now and those ruling imme diately before the Cambria's arrival; and in wheat and Indian corn a fall of about 20 cents per bushel. The rate of exchange upon England continues steady at from 6 to 61, and unless it falls below that, coin will not be brought from abroad. The receipts of flour and grain from the interior continue large, and we are more and more confirmed in the view we have uniformly taken of this subject, that the stock in the country is larger than we can find means of transporting to the seaboard for shipment. Freights are moderate, and con sequently exportations steady and large. The wheat harvest in the Southern States has com menced, and looks well. The hot weather of the last few days has greatly advanced the Indian corn, which was planted late, and now, unless most unseasonable weather should occur in August, an enormous crop of this grain may be safely counted on. The potato, too, which to a much greater extent than ever before has been planted in the Eastern and Middle States, looks very well. It is, indeed, too early yet, before the plant has blossomed, to speak with confidence of its exemption from disease, but thus far the vines, as we learn from all quarters, look well and vigorous. The credit of Government continues good, and the price of United States stock, and indeed of other sound stocks, is high, with a steady demand and upward ten dency. The great accession to the wealth of the country by reason of the large and profitable exportation of bread-stuffs, and its general diffusion, are nowhere more strikingly illustrated than by the fact that all the money needed for carrying on the war, some thirty millions, in addition to the ordinary revenue, had been furnished by our capitalists, and the stock bears a considerable premium —a premium that will be still further enhanced if peace should ensue. Very considerable railroad enter prises likewise find the requisite capital; that, for in stance, of completingsthe Erie Railroad to connect New York, through its south-eastern counties, with Lake Erie, near the confines of Pennsylvania; and two new and very important roads, the one parallel with the Hudson River, between New York and Albany, and another to connect New York with New Haven, and thus complete an inland line of railroads between this city and Boston. These are expensive works, yet for all these the capital has been found without apparently diminishing or injuriously diverting capital usually em ployed in commercial and business operations. The immense accession of foreign immigrants will not be felt as an evil, at a moment when the demand for labour is constant and heavy works are in progress. The sickly condition in which some of them arrive has indeed occasioned solicitude about the public health, but the precautions taken at this port, certainly, and neces• sarily at other ports, will at once present the best security for the recovery of the sick, and against the spread of the disease—ship fever. Upon the whole the picture we are enabled to present of the condition of our country is most satisfactory; and come but peace with Mexico, and we shall be indeed most fortunate in all our relations. Cotton—The buoyant feeling which manifested itself on receipt of the Cambria's advices of the 4th inst. has subsided, and a dullness or rather a tone of indifference (on both sides) now exists. The transactions will continue light until the receipt of later advices. The stock on sa l e at the annexed quotations is vcry small, and the sales average about 500 to 600 bales per day Upland and Florida. Mobile and New Orleans. Ordinary-10i 10} Middling-10:1 to 11 11 to 1l Mid. fair-14 to 11t 12 to 12i Fair-12 to 12 4 12 to 13 Good lair-124 13/ to 14. Ashes—Pots are firm at 4 dolls. 87ic., and in demand, whilst Pearls are dull at 5 dolls, 50c. to 5 dolls. 62p. Salteratus is held at sp. cash. Flour, &c.—A considerable decline has taken place in bread-stuffs since the departure of the steamer of the 16th inst. At that time Western Canal Flour ranged from 8 dolls. 75c. to 8 dolls. 87c. Since the arrival of the Cambria prices have gradually declined to 6 dolls. 87P. to 7 dolls. 12P. for Michigan and Ohio, and 7 dolls. 124 e. to 7 dolls. 25c. for Genessee, at which large sales have been made. The transactions this morning have not been extensive, but holders are firm. Southern flour is dull at 7 dolls. 25c. Rye flour is held at 6 dolls, to 6 dolls. 12ie. Corn meal is in fair demand at 4 dolls. 50c. for-New York State, and 5 dolls. for New Jersey. The market is well supplied with Indian Corn. The sales since Saturday last amount to 160,000 bushels, closing at 96c. to 98c. for northern yellow, 94c. for western (flat), and 86c. to 90c. for mixed lots. The supplies of Wheat have also been extensive, and prices have given way. Sales of white Ohio are made at 1,58 dolls. Genessee may be quoted at 1,75 dolls. A sample of new wheat from Charleston was exhibited yesterday, and 400 bushels offered at 2 dolls., without finding a pur chaser. Rye is held at 110 c. per 561bs. Barley, 70c. to 75c. per 481bs. The exports to Great Britain since the Ist of Sept., 1846, are as follows: — Flour, barre15...2,213,124 Corn, bu5....14,743,041 Corn meal 691,890 Oats Wheat, bu5.....2,243,937 Barley Provisions are firm. Sales of new mess pork are made at 16 dolls. to 16 dolls. 25c., and of prime at 13 dolls. 371 c. to 13 dolls. 50c. Primo mess beef brings 20 dolls. 50c. to 21 dolls. 50c. . The rates of freight aro to Liverpool for cotton id. per lb; flour and turpentine, 3s. to 3s. 6d. per barrel; grain, 10d. to I Id. per bushel. To London, 3s. 6d. to 3s. 9d. per bbl. for flour, and other articles in propor tion. To Havre, nominally for cotton to cents per pound; flour 75c. per barrel; grain, 20c. per bushel; ashes, 8 dolls. to 10 dolls. per ton. POSTSCRIPT. The transactions at the Stock Exchange this morning were not extensive. Treasury notes (Sixes) sold at 1071; Pennsylvania Fives improved Long Island Rail road /s, and Stonington Railroad 1 per cent. There was a good demand for Foreign Exchange at quotations, say-- On London On Paris On Amsterdam On Hamburgh On Bremen 78 The North River Bank has declared a dividend of 4 per cent., payable on the Bth of July. The Governor of Kentucky has given notice that the six year bonds of the state of Kentucky will be redeemed on presentation, upon the first Monday in August. All bonds then payable and not presented for payment will cease to bear 6 per cent. interest, and will after that day bear an interest of 4 per cent. per annum, until presented for payment. CANADA. (From the Montreal Herald, June 28.) We have little to record in the political world beyond what will be found in our report of the proceedings in Parliament. Attempts h ave b een ma d e in both Houses, by her Majesty's Opposition, to throw her Majesty's Canadian Cabinet into a minority, but with equal want of success. In connexion with this subject, we may mention that the Ministry have laid on the table of the House a translation of certain correspondence which passed be tween them and Mr. Caron, the late Speaker of the Legislative Council, relative to the reconstruction of the Ministry, so as to admit some gentlemen enjoying the confidence of the French Canadian population to the Executive Council. The course of the negotiations, judging from the correspondence, seems to have been this: Lord Elgin first addressed a memorandum to Mr. Caron, requesting his advice as to the best means of forming a coalition Ministry, containing gentlemen who have the confidence of the French Canadians; saying, that he desired no sacrifice of principle, but expressing his hope that personal and party differences would, if any such existed, give way to patriotism and the public good. Upon this basis Mr. Caron entered upon the negotiation, and in order to be quite sure of his ground he proposed several questions to the Ministry, among which was this— hether there were any person whom there would be no use to propose on his side? He was answered that there was no objection to any person. It was then arranged that as the Cabinet is composed of seven mem bers, three gentlemen from Upper Canada should be named, and three from Lower Canada, the seventh place being the Provincial Secretaryship, occupied by Mr. Daly, to be filled afterwards by the G overnor - General, with the advice of the six. This seems to have been I understood as a bargain on both sides, but suddenly Mr. I Caron signified t o the Ministry that th ey must exclude Mr. Daly from any participation in the Government, and that he had four pet sons who would then join the Government. As the whole affair was based upon the rejection of personal or party dislikes, and still farther, as the seventh member of tho Cabinet was to be the choice of the two parties, this of course ended the business. Since the commencement of the session, however, Mr. Caron has stated that, in consenting to take office with the Conservatives of Upper Canada, be fully expected to pave the way for the return to power of their opponents, the Upper Canadian Liberals, with whom the French had all along acted; so that, when he had got his majority of four in the council of seven, the first thing would have been to oust the colleagues with whom he pro fessed to co-operate. Yet, though the declaration was made in the face of both Houses of Parliament, for the Assembly had adjourned, and most of its members were below the bar of the Upper House, Mr. Caron's friends still clamour about what they call the insincerity of Ministers. • Beyond these occurrences little has been done of public interest in either branch of the Legislature; but a great number of private Bills have been introduced, and advanced one or more stages. Among these are several Acts for allowi ng b an k s to i nc rease their capital. The Inspector-General has given a brief outline of his financial scheme. He proposed to take advantage of the British Possessions Act to discard all differential duties; to reduce several tonnage and other duties now levied ITT' vessels coming from sea to Montreal and Quebec, hying the charges which the produce is applicable to upon the consolidated fund; to extend the facilities now granted to importers of all kinds of goods to pass them through our waters for re-shipment; and to reduce the tolls on the canals to the lowest point to which they can be brought consistently with a proper regard to the revenues of the provi nce . I t i s p ro posed, in addition to these reforms, to reduce all duties on raw materials to the uniform rate of 1 per cent. ad valorem; and though this was not menti one d b y t h e I ns pector-General, we areinformed that me asures are t o be taken to recipro cate the intercoloni a l t ra d e , f ree o f all duties, which the Legislature of Nova Scotia, by a recent Act, has pro posed to the sister provinces. Seven German vessels have arrived in the river and at Montreal, under th e p rov i s i ons o f recent British sta tutes and orders in Council. These, we believe, are the first vessels bearing a foreign flag that have ascended the St. Lawrence since the conquest. The emigrants, who daily arrive here come in dread. ful plight. The deaths at the emigrant sheds are fear fully numerous. Twenty-five deaths a day have been about the average a t th e s h e d s . Great dissatisfaction prevails at this pouring out of paupers upon us, and however reasonable thi s f ee li ng cer tainly is, it has given occasion for a great d ea l o f nonsense to be talked about the cruelties of the English aristocracy, &c. However, the thing, to say the least of it, is moat disgraceful. A remonstrance from the House of Assembly is to go home by this mail to the Imperial authorities. COURT CIRCULAR. His Royal Highness Prince Albert presided yester , day afternoon at a meeting of the Commissioners for promoting and encouraging the Fine Arts in the re building the Palace at Westminster. His Royal Highness arrived at the New Palace at three o'clock, attended by Lieutenant -Colonel Seymour. The Commissioners present were the Marquis of Lans downe, the Earl of Lincoln, Lord Colborn e , Viscount Mahon, the Right Hon. the Speake r , an d Sir Robert H. Inglis. The Secretary, Mr. Eastlake, was in attendance. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, the Princess Alice, and the Princess Helena, took their accustomed airings yes terday. The Queen and Prince Albert honoured the per formance at her Majesty's Theatre yesterday evening with their presence. The royal suite consisted of the Countess of Mount Edgecumbe, Hon. Miss Murray, Hon. Miss Macdonald, Baroness de Speth, the Earl of Morley, Colonel Buckley, and Lieut.-Colonel Seymour. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge also ho noured the performance at her Majesty's Theatre last evening with her presence. His Royal Highness Prince Albert visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of . Gloucester yesterday, at Gloucester House, and the ir Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge at Cambridge House. The Countess of Mount-Edgecumbe has succeeded the Countess of Desert as the Lady in Waiting to the Queen. The Earl of Morley has succeeded the Earl of Ducie as the Lord in Waiting to her Majesty ; an d M r. R. Ormsby Gore has succeeded Sir Edward Bowater as the Groom in Waiting to the Queen. Sir William C. Ros-, R.A., had the honour of taking the last sitting, yesterday, for a likeness o f h er R oyal andwere por trait Highness the Princess Alice ; painted by c omman d o f the Queen. Her Majesty and Prince Albert honoured Mr. T. M. Joy, b r l am es Napier, Pal his graciously pleased to e xpress th e i r approbat ion . s ß i u r ck c in h g a The Duke of Cambridge visited her Roy a l Hi g h ness the Duchess of Gloucest er y esterda y at Gloucester b o yf inspecting, Rear Admiral t it House. A Deputation from the Great Western Railway Com pany, consisting of Lord Barrington, Captain Bulkeley, Mr. Mr. He nry ndi y Cr. W . C ook, O. Henry Mr. John Ro berts,had an interview with Viscount Morpeth yesterday, at the Office of her Majesty's Commissioners of Woods and AMlfrre.dHenry Fowler , D a rvill, a Forests, in Whitehall place. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—The Queen and his Royal Highness Prince Albert honoured the perform. ance with their presence yesterday evening. The royal suite included the Countess of Mount Edgecumbe, the Baroness de Spaeth, the lion. Miss Murray, the Hon. Miss Macdonald, the Earl of Morley, Colonel Buckley, and Lieutenant-Colonel Seymour. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge also honoured the theatre with his presence. His Royal Highness Prince Waldemar of Prussia, attended by Baron Laner, was also present. The Duchess of Cambridge's box was occupied by Miss Burdett Coutts and a large party, including Sir Frede rick Trench, Mr. Samuel Rogers, Miss Burdett, Mr. Cave, &c. Amongst the company were, the Duke of Wellington, the Prince Louis Napoleon, the Prince Troubetskoi, the Marquis and Marchioness of Douro the Marquis of Huntley, the Marquis of Clanricarde, the Marchioness of Westmeath, the Countess of Powis and Lady Lucy Herbert, the Earl and Countess Desart, the Earl of Cardigan, the Baroness Brunnow, the Hon. Miss Irvine and Mademoiselle Olga de Lechner, the Chevalier Correa de Sa, Viscount Dungannon, Viscount Clifden, Lord and Lady Lyndhurst and the lion. Misses Copley, Lady Willoughby d'Eresby, Lady Brougham, Lord Sandys, Lord Saltoun, Lord Macdonald, Lady Col borne and the Hon. Mi ss C o lb orne , L or d Adolphus Fitz clarence, Lady Fit zro y S omerset . Lady Shaw Stewart , Baron Nicolay, M. C. d e K ou d r i a ff s ky, Sir Alexander , Lady, and the Mi sses W oodfor d , Sir E. Codrington and Miss Codri ng t on , Si r J. Wilson, Sir R. Price , S ir G. and Lady Palmer, General the Hon. A. Upton, the Hon. J. Brown, th e H on. W. Bathurs t, the Right Hon. Mr. Arbuthnot, Colonel an d Mrs. Leeke, Colo nel and Lady Laura Meyrick, Major Buckley, Capta in Blanc, Mr. H. De Burgh, Col. Ki Wynno William s , M r. BroadgWood, Mr., Mrs Mrs a nd Miss W. Mr. Errington, Mr. B. Baldwi n , ma,. , Mr. and Miss Holf ord, Hon. G. Byng, Sir H. Meux, &c.c. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, C O VENT-GARDEN: Their Royal High nesses t h e Du k e an d Duchess of Cam bridge, her Royal Highness the Princess Ma r y of Baden and the Marquis of D oug l as , oc cupied her Majesty's, s box at the Royal Italian Opera on Tuesday evenin g . Their Royal Highn esses were attended by the Baroness Hammerstein, Baron K o ll er , and Baron K nesebeck. There were also present the Duke and Duchess of Beau fort aid Lady Blanche Somerset, the Dowager Duchess of Bedford and Lady Rachel Russell, the Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesbury, the Marquis of Donegal, the i Countess of Lincoln, E ar l G rosve nor, Earl Dela warr, the Countess of Portarlin g t on , E ar l Compton, the Countess of Orford and Lady D oro thy Walpole, La D'Orsay and the lion. Mr s . Norton, Count dy L Harriet ouis de Noailles, the Earl and C oun t es s of Wilton, the Countess of Hopetonn, the Dowager Countess of Glasgow, the Earl and Countess of Harrington, the Countess of Ches. terfield, Viscountess Newport and the Hon. Mrs. Anson, Viscount Canterbury, Viscount and Viscountess Castle reagh and Lady Georgiana Codrington, Viscoun a t Dup plin, Viscount Cantalupe, Viscount Maynard and the Viscountess Polling- Hon. Miss Maynard, Viscount and Lady Ernest Bruce Lady w a llscouli and.... Mr._ Lock, Chichester, Lady ard Lord Foley and the Hon. Miss Fole Lor i ci ny cf d an Lady ton, Lord Bateman, Lord and Lady Suffield, Lord and Lad Elizabeth Frances Gordon, ady Georgians Greey Right Hon.izabeth Dawson, Lady Augusta Baring, th . Willi a m paulett, Grabam, Sir Wm. and Lady de Bathe, Capt. de Bathe, Sir Henry Webb, Sir Michael Shaw Stewart, Sir Charles James and Lady Graham, Sir Belhngham and Lady P A a . 1 andai ci ni , Lady Hon. Spearman, Kent, Sir Jasper and Lady Atkinson, Sir Chas. Ibbotson, Hon. gh E O J r t e . Macdonald, scu:e,andmr Sir s. Sir Henry Paulet, Sir C. Marshall, Sir William Gordon Cumming, Sir G. and Lady Baker, Baron Austen, Baron ratocernmaii d n a Se,nches ter at 25 minutes past occurred rnegd evening. o o n f t 3 h 6 e M wTa a b n ge c g h oe e nn s s -: Henry Baring. BO FRIGHTFUL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.— BOLTON, JULY across the rails, when about yin s g tation, but not till the engine Manches ter e 2 i rhn . —iecehAr and leftov f er ay Bolßoltontonline, dreadful f g u fe o l wereO n withf ouannd oelyt reaching the Salford station it ineto, the ee head without the rails; w heels of three of the eleven, swwi xssas milesfo closeu a n a df w ur tephswooanmt the it e th t . he Salfordi w n ( i) g hn e l waggons were . returningegd at the coal and about three yards further.l and on the other side the rails, the legs and the lower part l of the body. It andnebdaerrcl where the e at coveredofshocksiauwn at i e t ae h nk blood. daye e s proved to be that of a pits, the property, of the ,enap o At eleven o'clock trustees of the late Mr. Fletcher, of Clifton• he left a beer. house house in the neighbourhood,. rather forward in liquor, in in company with his wife, but as he had to keepw atch ; left him that night, the latter and returned home. The man must have got over a fence, in order to cross the line, which was s omewhat nearer th an t h e way he ought to have go ne ; and as lie was in th e h a bi t, when not sober, of lyi n g down, and resisting all attempts to rouse him, it is very probable that he had lain himself down on this occasion, and thus met with so y melan h l ' c o a fate. DISTRESS IN CAPE BRETON -- APPREHENDED FAMlNE.—Summer is at hand, and what are the hus bandman's prospects? The cattle everywhere dying in hundreds—the farm horses too feeble, from starvation, to perform the labour of ploughing ; and, lastly, more than three-fourths of the farmers in the country wholly destitute of po tatoes or ain for seed. The conition of the country is frightful; nor is the a b ove pictured over coloured or exaggerated. The island is menaced, if not immediately, at least prospectively, with the horrors of actual famine. Upwards of 200 cattle, w e are informed, have died from want of food in the settlement of Middle River alone. m an y farmers in other parts of the coun try have lost their live stock.—cape Breton Spectator. CLERICAL DISPUTE. Two clergymen of Easter Ross, having the same surname, the one the parish minister of the Established Church, the other of the Free Church of Scotland, were lately brought into collision, by letters intended for one of them having been sometimes received and opened by the other. In consequence of a special case of recent occurrence, the minister of the Establishment complained to the Sheriff; and demanded an interdict in reference to the future. A litigation ensued, and the result, which will be seen from the following judgment of the Sheriff- Substitute, affirmed by the principal Sheriff, J. Jar dine, Esq., advocate, is, we think, interesting and in structive : " Tain, 19th May, 1847. " The Sheriff-Substitute, having considered the closed record and productions, finds it admitted that the letter from the Rev. Mr. Forbes to the petitioner, referred to in process, and which originally bore the address, The Reverend Mr. Campbell, the Manse, Tarbet,' was opened by the respondent; but finds that, when the letter came into the respondent's hands, the words, the Manse,' had been deleted from the address, though still plainly legible, and that the respondent, in the admitted cir cumstances in which the said letter was delivered to him, might naturally have conceived from the address thereon, as alto ed, that the letter was intended for him ; finds, that the address originally written on the said letter— viz., the Manse, Tarbet,' was the proper address of the petitioner, as being the minister of the parish, and not that of the respondent ; sad that the respondent is not entitled to open letters bearing that address ; therefore. c 'ntinues the interdict ; but, in the whole circumstances of the case, and particularly in respect of the unaccorn modating spirit in which both parties appear to the Sheriff-Substitute to have conducted the negotiation for an extra-judicial settlement of the point in dispute, as exhibited in the correspondence produced, finds neither party entitled to expenses, and decerns. (Signed) " R. S. TAYLOR." " Tain, sth July, 1847. " The Sheriff-Substitute having advised with the Sheriff, who has considered the two several minutes of appeal (numbers 20 and 21 of process, together with the previous proceedings, dismisses bDth appeals, and ad heres to the interlocutor complained of. " R. S. TAYLOR." " NOTE.—While the Sheriff agrees with the Sheriff- Substitute in the opinion expressed in his note as to the unaccommodating spirit' displayed by these two reve rend gentlemen, in a matter which, by a little forbear ance, might surely have been adjusted without legal proceedings, he cannot help regretting such a spirit in those whose peculiar duty it is to inculcate Christian charity and forbearance on all who enjoy the benefit of their ministration ; and he hopes he may be forgiven for observing that moral duties are alway enforced with most effect when precept is illustrated by example. (Signed) 64 J . J." GERMAN LEGENDS of the DEVIL. In many countries of Germany there exists monu ments which tradition attributes to the devil. Near Al. tenburgh is a rock, which the united efforts of five hundred men could not move, the devil put it on his head for a hat, and carried it in triumph through the fields. In the church of Gorlar, there is a hole in the centre of the wall which can never be filled up. The Abbot of Isulda and the Bishop of Hildisheim were disputing about precedence, and so great was their pride, that they came to blows in the church. The devil entered by this hole in order to prevent any reconciliation and keep alive the rage of the combatants. Many similar traditions, current in other countries, at once present themselves ; Ireland has its Devil's Bit, its Devil's Punch-bowl, &c. But these legends of the devil seem to offer to view a singular feature of the human mind:—the way in which it can caricature an object of fear, render it absurd and grotesque, without at the same time trembling one de gree the less before its own ludicrous creation. The devil of the middle ages is a being tricked, played upon, bargaining for a soul as a farmer for an acre of land, and, strangely enough, always keeping faith, always strictly adhering to his part of the compact, while monk and peasant make it their boast to overreach and outwit him. The malice attributed to him is in little keeping with the simplicity which makes him lose in almost every transaction his gold and his pains. Like some mighty crag, around which the clouds grope and shape into many a grotesque form; the fearful adversary of man, seen through the legends of the middle ages, appears no longer, as in the awful colouring of Scrip ture, a being whose mysterious power is only surpassed by his soul-destroying malignity. Who would imagine that the term Old Nick applied in derision to Satan, had in its first origin a far different meaning, borrowed as it is from the title of an evil genius among the an cient Danes ? Keysler mentions a demon worshipped by the ancient Germans and Danes, under the name of Nocca or Necken, styled in the Edda, Nikur, which be derives from the German ungen, answering to the Latin necare, to slay, kill, or hurt. Countless are the legends in which Satan is repre sented as cheated and foiled by some clumsy artifice. When the cathedral of Aix-la-Chapelle was building, money was wanting, and the burgomaster was obliged to suspend the work, to the great dismay of the citizens, who took pride in the rising church. The devil came to their assistance ; he proposed to fini s h a t hi s own ex pense the building, on condition that the first living creature that entered it should be his. The bargain is struck, the work begins, the devil's money builds the church, and soon it is completed ; not a pane of glass, not a gilded cornice left un finished. Now comes the point, who is to pay the devil ? Nobody seems particularly anxious to be the man. The bells were rung, a great holiday given out ; all in vain, not a soul would go near the church ; the priests themselves kept at a respectful distance, and those who had mortal sin on their con science would not go within sight of it. At length a senator of the town, a man of sense, and ever since venerated as a saint, devised a mode of outwitting the devil. He had a wolf caught in the forest, and brought on Sunday morning to the door of the church ; the hells were rung, the great door was thrown open, and two men let loose the wolf into the body of the church, where the devil, who was lying in wait, seized upon him ; but suddenly perceiving that he had got nothing but a wretched wolf, he shook the brazen gate of the temple with such fury that be broke it. The next day the priests entered the church in full procession, and the people quietly flocked in to prayer. We meet another story, as creditable to the devil's simplicity of character. A peasant of Hesse was in great want of a barn, but could not afford to go to the expense of erecting it. One day while walking in the fields, and turning in his mind how he could accomplish his object, he saw an old man coming towards him, who said, " I know what is upon thy mind, and I undertake to build the barn between this and to-morrow morning at cock-crow, if thou, on thy part, will give me a trea sure which is thine, though as yet thou knowest not of it ; if the cock crow before the barn is finished, I shall have no claim upon thee." The peasant who knew very well all his possessions, thought he had made a very good bargain, and run' in delight to tell it to his wife ; but his wife said to him, " Unhappy one! What hest thou done? lam pregnant! This is the treasure the devil spoke of, and thou hast given up our child to him." Meanwhile the devil has set to work; thousands of labourers hew the stones and saw the beams. In a few hours the foundation of the barn is laid, and the walls built. Already the doors turn on their hinges, the shutters are put up and the roof covered in. Only one or two tiles remained to be added, and it was still night. The peasant's wife, who had anxiously watched the progress of the work ran into the poultry yard and imitated so well the crowing of a cock, that instantly every cock awoke and began to crow. The devil fled in a rage, and never could the tile wanting be put on; placed there in the day, it was taken away at night by some invisible hand.—Sliarpe's Magazine. ANOTHER ASTRONOMICAL DISCOVERY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir,—l beg leave to make to your astronomical readers the earliest possible announcement of a verifi cation I have been enabled to make of the existence of a satellite of the planet Neptune, my suspicion of which was announced in my letter to you, published in the Times of the 14th of October last. At about a quarter before 2 o'clock on the morning of yesterday, I viewed the planet with the 20-foot equa torial, when it appeared in the field accompanied by some smaller stars, whose position I shall endeavour to de scribe. The planet was north—following a star of the 10th or 11 th magnitude, which I shall call (a), at an angle of 28.7 degrees with the parallel, and distant from it in right ascension about 11.2 seconds. A much smaller star (b), perhaps the 12th magnitude, followed (a) at a distance of 11 seconds, and made an angle with the parallel northwards of 32.3 degrees. The planet was, therefore, situated very near to the star (b), distance by estimation about three diameters of Neptune, and very nearly south of it, but a little follow ing. On the parallel, following (b), and slightly more distant from the planet, was a far more minute star (c), which though a very faint object, was yet indisputably visible. On turning the telescope about the same hour this morning to the same point of the heavens, no trace of the minute star (c) could be discovered, and the planet then occupied a position in the line joining (a) and (b), and about four-tenths of their distance from (b). The atmosphere this morning was much less favour able, and, indeed, it clouded over before I had time to do more than ascertain the non-existence of the star (c) is a veritable satellite of the planet ; and I shall embrace every available opportunity of observing it, with a view to ascertain its distance and period of revolution. I remain, Sir, your obedient servant, WILLIAM LASSELL. Starfield, Liverpool, July 9. GOOD SIGNS OF THE T IMES .—We were the other dayinformed by a gentleman who had last week jour neyed through Moray, Banff, Aberdeen, Kincardine , Forfar, and Fife Shires, that the crops in these counties, never in the memory of man looked more luxuriant. Our informant states that in many places there is a double crop. At most of shipping ports as be passed along, he learned that most of the vessels he saw in harbour and the offing were laden with foreign grain. At Dundee, on Friday last, he noticed a large cargo of foreign oats put up in lots of 400 quarters each, which was slowly sold by auction at 245. 9d. per quarter. It seems that the millers of that district, in consequence of having their granaries and stores stocked, did not appear at the sale. One of the parties who had bought at the above mentioned price, fearing that a further reduction would soon take place, only offered on the day following his first purchase, 22s.—Ross-shire Advertiser. LOOK AT IT AGAIN.—A labouring man of the parish of Bradworthy was last week working in a field, and dug up a coin; h o looked at it, and threw it d own thinking it of no value , bu t from curiosity picked it up I again, and on ru bbin g it found it to be a guinea James 11., dated 1658 . A few years since a guinea of the same the same date MIS found in a similar w a y in THE HEALTH OF CHELTENHAM (From the Cheltenham Free Press.) A most extraordinary representation has been con veyed to the world in the reports of the Parliamentary proceedings in the daily papers, to the effect tha t , our beautiful town—the " Queen of Watering Places •' had a per centage of deaths greater than in any other town in England ! How such a mistake could have arisen, we stop not now to inquire, but it is essential to our very existence that we should take the earliest oppor tunity of contradicting and disproving the assertion. The staple commodity of our town is health ; and blessed as we are with a salubrious atmosphere, we know of no town to which invalids may resort with greater expectation of life than to Cheltenham. It is from the knowledge of this fact that our town has become the resort of invalids, who with wasted constitutions flock here from all parts cf the world, to spend the remainder of their days amid the repose and other appliances of health which Cheltenham so pre-eminently affords, This, of course, to an important extent increases the per-centage of mortality, the number of deaths being reckoned, but the statistical tables saying nothing of the numbers who come here sickly and return to their homes with recruited health. None but a most perverted imagination would spy that this is any reflection up on the healthine ss o f our town. As well might it be urged that as a greater proportion of sick persons, while under the care of medical men, die, compared with the deaths among a number of healthy persons who have not thought it necessary to apply fur medical assistance, that this should be a w arn i ng to the sick and infirm ' against ever resorting to medical aid! Any one who calmly considers the matter must tit once see the utter want of foundation to such an argument. Even Lord G. Bentinck must have known it, when, fur :he sake of rais ing a laugh against a political opponent, who was strug gling against his Lordship and his small knot of Filth- Conservatives, he uttered his most slanderous " warning to invalids." With the frogs in the fable, we may say to his Lordship, " This may be fun to you, but it is death to us;" aye, and it may be death to those who, while suf fering under sickness, are deterred by your jokes from resorting to a town where above all others they have the probability of their health being renovated. The popu lation of Cheltenham, at the time of the census in 1841, wits about 31,400 ; it is calculated that throughout the country the increase of population every year is about 1 per cent.; at this ratio the population of Cheltenham in 1846 must have been about 33,000. The average number of deaths in Cheltenham in the years 1844, 1845, and 1846 (which last was a sickly year through out the country), was 662. Dividing 33,000, the number of the population, by 662, the number of deaths, we obtain the rate of mortality—one in fifty. Compare this with the rate of mortality of other towns in 1844, which is the last year to which we have the complete official returns, and which was we believe about an average year :—Brighton, 1 in 44 ; Bath, 1 in 41i-; Bristol, 1 in 36 ; Clifton, 1 in 43 ; Worcester, 1 in 42 ; Birmingham, 1 in 361 ; Man chester, 1 in 32 ; and Liverpool, 1 in 30, and then say whether Cheltenham is not pre-eminently healthy. In all large towns where masses of individuals are assem bled together in a confined space, it is hardly possible to prevent some deterioration in the expectation of life as compared with that of those who inhabit healthy rural districts. When, therefore, we consider how large a number of the lower classes are crowded together in the badly drained and ill-ventilated portions of the town', when we consider that in Cheltenham we have a large Workhouse establishment to which the poor of the country districts are sent, that we have numerous lodg ing houses occupied by vagrants attracted here by her reputation for charity which the visitors of Cheltenham have acquired, that we have a general hospital and dispensary at which the afflicted from the surrounding neighbourhood are relieved, we are astonished at the healthfulness of the superior districts to which our visitors resort, which overbalances all these disadvan tages, and gives an average of only twenty deaths among a thousand persons. We only regret that it is not in our power to furnish a return showing the rate of mor tality in those superior districts alone; we believe it would challenge comparison with that of any spot on the habitable globe. HERRING TRADE. (From the John o'Groat Journal.) WICK, JULY I.—Little has yet been done in the fish ing.—On Weduesday morning, Donald Bain again brought ashore a cran ; but attempts made by others were unsuccessful, until this morning, when the same individual brought ashore upwards of 12 crans of capital fish. Another boat had about 7 crans, and another 5. We believe they have been sold at 265. per barrel, and part at 245. This has created quite a stir amongst the fishermen, and a good few will go to sea to-night in con sequence. The fishermen inform us that Reiss Bay is " full" of herrings, but that they are still small, and the nights are yet rather clear. They are, however, in high hopes of success at the proper time. On the 18th ultimo, the first shipment of herrings, caught by the Belgian boats at Scalloway, was made by 11. N. M. Cerberus, consisting of 90 barrels. On the 22d, the schooner Marie Louise took off 100 barrels for the same destination—Hamburg ; and several other shipments have since been made. By advices from Ham burg, we learn that the Alarm had arrived, from Stor noway, with 202 barrels ; the Albion, from Wick, with 146 barrels, which had been sold at about 255. per barrel. Up to the Bth ult., 613 barrels of Lews herrings had ar rived at Stettin. of which about 280 had been sold. Old Scotch herrings were selling at about 5i dollars, with but little demand. During the past week, GOS barrels of herrings have been landed here from the Lews, Lochbroom, and Scal loway, making a total import, since the 10th of May, of 3,667 barrels. since last report, two vessels have cleared out, with cargoes for the Continent, consisting of 620 barrels. All the local boats have returned to the Lews, to make the necessary preparations for the home fishing. They have been pretty successful. They left some FOC boats still prosecuting the fishing with considerable suc cess. Some of these have made a good season of it, both in the capture of cod and herrings. Considerable importations of salt have recently taken place, and more is daily looked for. Several cargoes of Norwegian billet-wood have also arrived. STORNOWAY, JUNE 21.—The fishing, since the 15th instant, has been rather backward—the fish keeping out to sea, and in deep water. Unless the present week is more favourable, the greater portion of the stranger boats will proceed home. There was a good fishing at the Sound of rortree, in Skye, last week--frum six to ten crans per boat, of tine herrings. Captain Setwell, commissioner for the island of Harris, is, at present, in conjunction with Government, furnishing all the poor fishermen in that island with cod and ling fishing materials, so as to en able them to make a living, as there is no other employ ment for the numerous inhabitants. ZETLAND.—At Seanoway, for the past week, the highest boat had 40 trans. Amongst the Belgian crews, the highest boat, on Friday night, had 50 trans. These boats had more or less every night, and it may be safely said that they are taking the meat out of our mouths. DESERTIONS FROM THE NAVY.—We have been informed on undoubted authority, that within the last five years our men-of-war on the South American station have lost from desertion above 2,000 seamen, and it has been ascertained for official purposes that the American men-of-war on the same stations are more than half manned with English men-of-war and merchant seamen. We are likewise in formed that the Admiraliy have now under their consideration an arrangement for increas ing the pay of all petty officers in the navy, and that they are at present in close corres pondence with the Port Admirals on the subject.' With regard to the preference shown by British seamen for ether than their Queen's service, whilst we deeply when we consider onsid to er a t h h in e r d e i g tfe re re t n i n t e we nf ca p n a n y ot g w iv o e n n de i r n at th i e t, British seamen in comparison with the pay given in the American and other services. Even the Brazilian which so recently left Plymouth, could find the best English seamen, who freely entered, when at the same time our own ships fitted out could not obtain enough hands to put to sea with. The reason is obvious, and the remedy simple. The Brazilian gave 31. 12s. per month f or "A. B.'s," the British navy only gave 345. per month for "A. B.'s." At this moment the St. Vincent, Howe, Victory, Vengeance, Odin, and Scourge, at Portsmouth, and indeed nearly every ship on the home station want hands, but how are they to be got when other services so considerable outbid us in the desire to possess them ? —Shipping Gazette. PROSPECTS OF THE GROUSE SEASON.—We regret to have to state that an epidemic has been prevalent in the moors this season, which has caused great havoc among the grouse and other hill birds. It broke out soon after the hatching season, and is generally attributed by the shepherds to something in jurious in the young shoots of the heath, the bilberry, and other mountain plants upon which the grouse feed, arising from some atmospheric influence last year similar to that which affected the potatoes. The disease, l.o which attacks old and young birds indiscriminately , l a s n and the nature of croupe, or inflammatory sorell y prevalent cuts off the birds in a short time. It is c already caused, the ensuing season is p on high and low grounds, and from t . he e ir u e e n a a t e le for many years. to st" be ct t io h n e ago two hives worst p erifio, —Perthshire sportsmen Courier. which has been few days CASE FOR LAWYERS. — of bees, situated in this neighbourhood, but about half a rd and the other westward, when both its way northward, Lively about the sa me time. The one swarm was making met at right angles. On getting disentangled, the one was augmented by about two-thirds, while the o ther wat p E p A o proportion.—Elgin o ß n m . — s g C E u G r e o r L . G E ed 71 the south side of th e h ar b our ed is the extrao rdinar y rock noticed by Cook, which forms x e t A toh o rt t i:i NARY saine Y OF KERGUELF.N ISLAND.—On so c onspicuous an object in his accurate drawing of this place. It is a huge mass of basalt much more recent than the rock on which it rests, and through which it seems to have burst in a semi-fluid state. It is upwards of five hundred feet thick, and rests upon the older rock at an elevation of six hundred feet above the level of the sea ; and it was between these rocks of different ages that the fossil trees were chiefly found, and one excee-ling seven feet in circumference was dug out and sent to England. Some of the pieces appeared so recent that it was neces sary to take it in your hand to be convinced of its fossil state, and it was most curious to find it in every stage froth that of charcoal lighting and burning freely when put in the fi re , t o so hi g h a d egree o f s ilicification as to e scratch glass. A bed of shale, several feet in Weknss, which was found overlaying some of the fossiltrees , t naa w probably prevented their c arbonization h lava poured over them. A still moreisthe numerous e xtraordinary feature in the geology of this island seams of coal, varying in thickness from a few inches to four feet, which we found imbedded in a tra p rock.— R0.:..9's Voyage of .Discorery CORONER'S INQUEST. Yesterday an inquest was held by Mr. Baker, st the George the Fourth public-house, Vincent-street. Old. street-road, on view of the body of Caroline Lawson, EL widow, found dead in a cab, and upon suspicion of causing whose death an Irishwoman named Moriarty, alias Ma. earthy, is now under remand from Worship -street Police court. Several additional witnesses were now examined, and their testimony tended to render the death of the de ceased even more mysterious and doubtful, if possible. than that before given. It was distinctly proved that the deceased eas perfectly sober and in sound health when she quitted her home at four o'clock on Saturday last; and it did not appear that she bad either seen or spoken to the woman Macarthy since the preceding Tuesday (when Macarthy threatened to be revenged upon her for turning her out of her house, in consee quence of her nearly biting a lodger's finger off) until about nine o'clock on Saturday night, when the deceased entered the house of a publican with whom she Was fl (painted, in Ilolborn, and was shortly after followed in there by the prisoner Macarthy, apparently topacify and get rid of the latter, who was quarrelling with and at• tempting to strike her; she called for some spirits, but drank none, and then left with a female friend, and wer t to another public-house, where they called for a pint of porter; but as :soon: as it was drawn Macarthy followed her in again, using most disgusting language, and swear in that she was determined to go to the deceased's house that night, although the latter refused to admit her, and the deceased accordingly quitted this public-house also, leaving the beer on the counter, without drinking any of it, and Macarthy remained behind. It was now about ten o'clock, and at that time the deceased and Macarthy entered a third public-house, in Gray's Inn lane, kept by a Mr. Jessamy, apparently on somewhat friendly terms, and there, as deposed by Mrs. Jessamy, the deceased only drank two very small drops of brans 7 in stateds Smithfield, diluted wi t h water, and left with Macarthy at ten minute or a qu ar t er past eleven, seeming quite sober then also! About half an h our or three-quarters after that the tsi a) e Puddick, s the o u k s e e e a p n e rd called l l an e d ee w omen,i g:h o as u s e for some soup and some eatables ; but, though Macarthy devoured her share, the deceased ate nothing, but sat looking about her, and was shortly afterwards noticed by Mr. Puddick to be choking or strangling, and alto gether so dangerously ill that he carried her out into the street, and having placed her against the railings, ran in for a tumbler of water, on his return with which he found • the deceased lying on her back on the ground, to which she had just been knocked, with a blow on the back of the head, by a man who was seen leaning over her, and suspected to have been attempting to rob her, and he ran away immediately he was spoken to, and some silver rolled out of the deceased's bosom. At the time that these distressing circumstances were occurring to her friend in the street, the prisoner Macarthy remained in the eating-house, never once inquiring about or looking after her, and displayed such heartless indifference to the woman's fate, that Mr. Puddick ran in, and, re proaching her for her conduct, desired that she would go out and see to her, on which the prisoner exclaimed that the deceased was an artful —, and nobody could do her any harm very easily. She did, however, at length go out, and after shouting for the police, using vile language, and conducting herself otherwise very in decorously, assisted in placing the deceased in a cab, which a young man named Thomas Gearing, who was accidentally passing, and recognised the deceased, pro cured for the purpose, Gearing taking his seat on the box with the driver, and Macarthy riding inside with the deceased. On reaching two streets off the deceased's residence, the prisoner stopped the cab and got out, and just before doing so the deceased was observed to be sitting up in the cab, whether alive or dead was not known, but on opening the door to lift her out, she was found to be a corpse, lying at the bottom of the cab, and with her head doubled up either against or under the seat opposite that on which she had been sitting. The evidence, which was so far as consecutive as could be expected, only went to prove that the deceased had partaken of nothing, since she was known to be perfectly sober at nine o'clock, but two small glasses of brandy, before spoken of, up to the time of her death ; but Mr. Coward, the divisional surgeon, now stated that he had performed a post mortem examination of the de ceased's body, and on so doing had found the stomach nearly filled with porter, and the internal parts very flaccid and weak, and exhibiting signs of inflammation, in his opinion produced by the beer which had been imbibed, and the brain so much surcharged with blood s that he had no hesitation in saying—as there was no wound at the back of the head, on which the deceased had fallen when knocked down by the strange man in Smithfield, nor sufficient injury on any other part of the bode to otherwise account for it—that she must have come by her death from apoplexy. Several of tho jury wiihsurprise remarked on the total discrepancy between the medical testimony and that given by the other witnesses ; and one in particular drew attention to the discolouration spoken to by the police as existing round the deceased's neck, as if pro duced by fingers ; but The CORONER said that this discrepancy between the medical and other evidence was of very frequent occur rence, and that it was impossible for non-medical persons to account for it ; and, having related several instances of a like description, which would be somewhat ludi crous if not arising from such serious occurrences as death from poison and such like events, expressed his opinion that the death was involved still in very great mystery, not unattended with suspicion ; and he would therefore advise the jury to return an open verdict, which would still have a field for further investigation. The jury, after considerable consultation, ultimately coincided in this advice, and the verdict returned was, " That the deceased was found dead in a cabriolet, but by what means she so came by her death there was no evidence before the jury to prove." The inquest appeared to excite a great deal of interest, and ihe house where it was held was in .onveniently crowded towards its termination. HORRIBLE MURDER and SUICIDE. Last evening, between the hours of four and five, a tearful tragedy was enacted in Hickman's Folly, Ber mondsey, by which the whole of the neighbourhood has been thrown into a state of painful excitement. The ah f following oe may ai been pintparticularsthereforeef r c or o me n lie e pd c er e su d opn w os • n i t r h eass the ibne d gi insigtnr strictly ie i e n ti g i; c u a asc s e e .: cu l ra t e ap :---- pears that a cooper named Griffin resided with the Feo youngll3- . For o s m o a m n e , his tim ewipteastanaddafuagmhillyeraott No. 6in Griffin's, ann named Matilda, 19 years of age, had been correspond ing with a person named Henry Parker, about 21 years oeage, who lodged in the same house. During the past few days Parker had accused the young woman of being attached to another person, and added, on more than one occasion, that rather than any one else should gain her affections, he would lay violent hands, not only on him self, but also on her. Nothing particular, however, was thought by her of the threat held out, but her mother had frequently cautioned her, and told her if she broke off the correspondence, to keep away from him, as she feared he contemplated something dreadful. During yesterday the young woman was at home nearly the whole of the day, and Parker was noticed to go in and out of the house more than usual, yet nothing transpired during the morning to excite the suspicions of any party. About a quarter to four o'clock the young woman was singing, as she proceeded up stairs, the well known ditty, "There's na luck about the house, There's na luck at a'," little imagining what was about to follow. About an hour and a half afterwards the people living in the place were alarmed by hearing loud screams proceeding from the upper part of the house. Mr. Cremer, who occupies the parlour, immediately hastened up stairs, but as he proceeded along he met Mr. Griffin's little buy, who was crying out, " Oh, ray sister is killed." On going into the back attic he discovered an appalling spectacle. Upon the floor were lying the bodies of Matilda Griffin and Henry Parker, literally covered with blood, which was then issuing from both their throats. Mr. Cremer immediately ran out to obtain medical assistance. In the space of a few minutes Mr. Martin, surgeon, of Ber mondsey, arrived, and a t once pronouncedlifeas found lying by the side of Parker, with which the in bo th cases extinct,. A razor covered with blood _ ee d had been N! that the man first accomplished. There can be no doubt cut the young woman's throat, and a fterwards added to his crime that of suicide. d in answer to an woman, whilst talking v a M e r e s i . d C . " Oh! pretty well; but inquiry as to how she f e lt, throat cut." She, no doubt, at I am going to have d It is not a little remarkable that the unfortunate the first instance was made by Mrs. The discovery in who feeling suspicious daughter ' being upstairs at her s Griffin, s te,irs rather longer than she expected, went to look that period allude . tmoysome threat held out by Parker. after when, on entering the room, sh e f oun d the, bodiesas p r eviously described. Mr. S u perintendent Evans, of th e M division of police, p Sergeant u Hormsby, and several officers immediately re pairedj couldt u h d a i t ei t o h bu e es l keptyc r , ow w • d of r , uol n md unnnothitiei allownr i g n g th esaenvhyeoruoasnl house. hundred np oeccite e e r ed : to the place, and it was w i th the greatest diffi cultyp v s m o ei n r t i, the family to enter. The young man who committed the dreadful deed was in the linendrapery line, but his place of business could not be ascertained. The two bodies have been taken in charge by Mr . Slow, the coroner's officer, who will keep possession of them until after the inquest is held, A report having been circulated that Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smiths were amongst the parties likely to contract for the proposed loan of 1,000,9004, to be raised by the Spanish Government by . an istme of Treasury bonds, it is • important to mention_ _without A. delay that the statement is wholly er roneous. M . se, Smith, who is doubtless the party. intended to k have been alluded to, bas no connex ion with the ban and it is, moreover, extremely, doubtful even if he, way e l moment ti s iit e r u y la t suchlon. dealings as to ll damage the consent of the firm to which he . belongs, will ulti mately and n i d l i prudence reputation The position ith the sou o ld f (ii a lo S t v e l, p ,,, i : l ai I t o i c in i o s em m h : m t c y r i o e t hf d a h . ainitlmdtphiscasetuolalf:ty(ti:ot) hurvtilhosistor lid ' at once have prevented . the possibility of their names being confounded with such a proceeding.-7'imes. Smith, Payne, MONEY MARKET.—The premium on gold at Paris is 14 per mille, which, at the English Mint price 'of 31. 17s. lOid. per ounce for standard gold, gives nn exchange of 25.50 ; and the exchange at Paris on Lon ' don at short being 25.40, it follows that gold Is 0.39 per cent. dzarer in Paris than in London. By advices from Hamburgh the price of gold is 4314 per mark, which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 104 d. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13.81; and the exchange at Hamburgb on London at short being 13.9, it follows that gold is O. per cent. dearer in London than in Samburghi I