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THE EDINBURGH REVIEW, No. CLXXIIL, Will be published on Wednesday next. CONTENTS :- 1. LIFE Ittr ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISE. 2. DYCE!S BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER. 3. BROWNE'S WHALING 4. LIFE OF LORD SIDMOLTTHCRUISE.. 5. ROBIN HOOD. 6. M.R. DISRAELI'S TANCRED: THE EMANCIPATION OF THE JEWS. 7. STEIN AND HARDENBERG : PRUSSIAN AGRARIAN LEGISLATION. 8. MRS. QUILLINAN AND MRS. BUTLER B OOKS OF TRAVELS. 9. EASTLAKE'S MATERIALS FOR A HISTORY OF OIL PAINTING. 10. WHAT IS TO BE DONE WITH OUR CRIMIN and C. ALS Black. ? London : Longman and Co. Edinburgh : A. ILSON'S SCOTTISII ENTERTAIN MENTS, MUSIC HALL, STORE-STREET, BEDFORD *WARE. On MONDAT EVVriNG, sth of July, at Eight o'clock, Mr. WILSON 'will give ONE MORE PERFORMANCE, when he will sing many of his most Popular songs. Jacobite Songs.—" Come o'er the Stream, Charlie"—" Wha wadna fecht for Charlie '—" The Stuarts of Appin." Songs by Burns.—" Scots wha hae wi' Wallace bled"—" Go fecht to me a Pint e Wine." Song by Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd. —" The Address to the Skylark." Songs by Sir Walter Scott.—" Pibroch o'Donald Folut"—" Jock o' Hazeldean." Songs by Campbell.—" The Sol dier's Dream" — Daughter." Old Songs and Ballads.—" Get up and Bar the Door" — " Hame Al cam our Gudeman at E'en"—" An thou wert my ain thing" — " Al lister M`Allister"—` The Land o' the Leal." Ticket, 25.; Reserved Seats, 2s. ed. ; Private Boxes for Six Per. sons, 155.; for Eight, ." Lord Ullin's RAILWA.c. SHARES BY PUBLIC SALE. ESSE.S. LA MOND and Co., RAILWAY M9IIARE _UCTIONEERS, beg to thank their Friends and the I' b:ic foe ; their continued support a patronage, an to announce the'.. their Public Sales of Railway Shares, &c., take place every TIITADAT and FRIDAY. at One o'clock, at the flail of Commerce, Threadneedle-street, London, to which place, favours, containing instructions (with a reference), are respectfully Tzquested to be addressed. 4-111 Scrip and Share Certificates must be deposited, the day previous to their being offered; and advices of results will be forwarded by the first post after the sale, and the proceeds imme liately disposed of a^ , -)rding to instructions. Offices. Hall 01 Commerce, Threadneedle-street. Lor.don. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. TO-MORROW Evening, Saturday, July 3, will be performed Bellini's opera LA SONNAMBULA, Amina,l.l:e. Jenny Lind ; Lisa, Madame Solari ; Count Rodolph gignor F. Lablache ; and Ely ino, Signor Gardoni. To conclude with various Entertainments in the BALLET DE PARTMENT, combining the talents of Mdlle. Carlotta Grisl, Mdlle. Rosati, MdP.e. Cerito, M. Perrot, and M. St. Leon. The Free List is suspended, the Public Press excepted. The Nobility, Subscribers to the Opera, and thr.; Public, are re spectfully !wormed, that there will be a GRAND EXTRA NIGHT on THURSDAY NEXT, July 8, 1847, when Mdlle. Jenny Lind will appear in one , f her favourite characters. To be followed by various Entertainments in the Ballet Depart ment, combining the talents of Mdlle. Cerito, Mdlle. C. Rosati, Mdme. P. Stephan, 'Mdlles. Cassan, Honore, James, Julien, Lamo' reux, and C. Grisi, M. Perrot, and M. TVEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Under the Maingement of Mr. 'A. Webster, sole Lessee. THIS EVENING (Fer the Benefit of Mrs. Glover.) Will be performed Sheridan Knowles's Comedy of TILE LOVE CHASE, Sir William Fondlov% Mr. Tilbury ; Master Waller, Mr. Howe ; Widow Green, Mrs. Glover ; Constance. Mrs. Nisbett. After which Mr. John Parry will sing hi; New Song, TILE LONI:ON SEASON. To be followed by POW' ING THE QUESTION. Mr. Primrose, Mr. Farren ; Miss Iliffln, Mrs. Glover ; Ellen Murray, Miss Telbin ; Miss Winterbiossoin, Mrs. W. Clifford; Bobbin, Mrs. To conclude wi , h the new comic drama, called THE JACOBITE. Sir Richard Wroughton, Mr. Stuart ; John Duck, Mr. BUCltStOrle Lady Somerford Miss Fortescue. TIII.A.TRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Coder the direction of Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING Will b produced a new and original comedy, in three acts, called THE TITLE DEEDS. Principal characters by Messrs. Lambert, Wright, Paul Bedford, 0. Smith, Boyce, Munyard, C. J. Smith, Worrell ; Mrs. Yates, Miss Woolgar, Miss E. Harding, Miss E. Chaplin, Mrs. Laws, &c. After which The 31:.GYAB MULATSAG ; or, Hungarian Fetes. By the celebrated Hungarian Dancers and the Hungarian Instru mental Vocalists. After witch an entirely new Petite Comedy, entitled FLYING COLOURS; or, Crossing the Frontier. Captain Sans sourli, Mr. Webster ; Margaret, Miss Woolgar ; Helen de 3lontereau, Madame Celeste ; Justine, Miss Ellen Chaplin. To be follywed by the Opera Buffa. Sketch, called JENNY LIND. Principal characters by Messrs. Wright, Paul Bedford, Lambert, S.' by. CuPentord, and Miss Woolgar. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. (Summer Season—Lyceum Company.) TIIIS EVENING. Will be presented a burletta, r ntitled THE WATER WITCHES. Principal characters by Mesdames Villars, Dickinson, Daly, Arden, Messrs. Oxberry, Vining, &c. To be followed by A MODEL OF A. WIFE, in which Mr. Wigan, and Mr. Emery will appear. After which a new grand Ballet, entitled THE CONTRA BANDIST, in which the celebrated Spanish Dancers, Sig. Mariano Camprnbi, Sig. Juan Alemany, and Signora Dolores Serra', from Milan, Berlin, Paris, &c., will appear, aided by Miss Massall, Mdlle. Blonce, and a numerous Corps de Ballet. To conclude with THE CREOLE; or, Love's Fetters. FRENCH PL AYS.—MDLLE. RACHEL. Mr. MITCHELL begs respectful' y to announce, that the EN GAGEMENT of the eminent Tragidienne, Mdlle RACHEL, will be commenced on_MONDAY EVENING, July 5. The first Six Repre sentations will be arranged in the following order : Monday, July 5. .. • • • • • • Les boraces. Wednesday, July 7.- • • • • • • Marie Stuart. Friday, July 9.. ... ....... Tancred. Monday, July 12. Wednesday, July 14. .. Friday, July 16... •• • . • Jeanne d'Arc. M. Raphael e'elix (brother of Mdllc Rachel, and of the Theatre Irrancaise), M. Breranne and M. Marius (also of the Theatre Fran caise), end Mdlie. Rabist late of the Thatre Francais, now of the Theatre Royal, Berlin) ar ( e engaged toe assist in these representa- Lions. Subscriptions for the Six Performances may be arranged at Mr. Mitchell's Library, '33, Old Bond-street ; and the present subscribers to boxes or stalls who may be desirous of continuing them during Rachel's engagement are respectfully solicited to intimate their wish, on or before the Ist July, after which date they will be other wise appropriate. 4. St. James's Theatre, June 21, 1347. FRENCH PLAYS.—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. John Mitchell. The last appearance but One of the celebrated Actor Monsieur BOUFFE. THIS EVENING Will be presented LES DEMOISELLE A MARIEft ou, La Premiere Entrevue. M. Dumenil, M. Dorgebret ; Camille, Mdlle. Dnverger. After which the popular comedy, in two acts, entitled LE CHE VALIER DR GRIGNON. IsTogent, M. Bouffe; Le Due Arthur de Morangy, M. Rhozevil ; La Baronne de Shaffenbourg, Madame Grassau ; Cecile, Mdlle. Duverger. To conclude with LE GAMIN DE PARIS. Joseph, M. Bouffe ; Amede, M. Rhozevil ; Eliza, Mdlle. The performances will commence at Half-past Seven o'clock pre cisely. , TIHOPIANS' FAREWELL, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. The celebrated ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS will give their LAST PERFORMANCE, TO-MORROW Evening, Saturday, July 3. Doors open at Eight o'clock. Prior to their Departure for America, on July 4th. On which occasion they will appear for the first time in white faces. Between the parts the Juvenile "Fairy Minstrels," the TURNER FAMILY, who bad the distinguished honour of performing before her Majesty on Saturday last, will perform some of their most popu lar airs on the harp and violin. Bows and Stalls at Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. J. M. Maddox, sole Lessee and Manager. THIS EVENING. Will be presented a comic drama, entitled LOVE'S TELEGRAPH. Arthur de Solberg, Mr. C. Mathews; Count Theodore, Mr. Vining : Princess Blanche, Madame Vestris. To be followed by USED UP. Sir Chailes Coldstream, Mr, C. Mathews. After which the new farce, entitled A SOVEREIGN REMEDY. Captain Pendragon, Mr. Ryder ; Mr. Bottleby, Mr Granby ; Quackit, Mr. C. Mathews; Allred, Mr. J. Webster; Mrs. Botileby, Mrs. Fosbroke ; Mary, Miss Marshall. To conclude with a comic drama, entitled "LADIES BEWARE 1" Colonel Vavasour, Mr. Granby; Sir Charles Vavasour, Mr. James Vining; Matilda, Miss Cooper. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Proprietor and Manager. Mr. William Batty. Fa,ler the patronage of the Queen, Prince Albert, and the Royal Family. THIS EVENING Will be presented a gorgeous Peruvian Drama, to illustrate the historical events of the Spaniards' conquest of Peru, arranged from the original text of Brinsley Sheridan's play of " Pizarro," entitled THE STORMING OF QUITO; or, the Warrior of the Sun. Rolla, Mr. W. West. The extraordinary equestrian performances of La Petite Davidson and the New , cenes of the Circle, with the who'e of the Entertain ments, having been attended with the most complete success, will be repeated every evening. Stage Manager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Under the Management of Mrs. Frances Da.vidge, Lessee. In consequence of the success attending the Eminent English Vocalists, they have been re-engaged for Twelve Nights more, and will appear in "Maritana," as played at Drury Lane 100 nights. THIS EVEV E NING will be presented the opera of MARITANA . Charles the Second, Mr. McMahon ; Don Caesar, Mr. Harrison; 'Don Jose, Mr. Stretton ; krarttana, Miss Rainforth ; Lazarillo. Wait Isaacs. To conclude with a drama, in three acts, and a Prologue, of the moot extraordinary and novel interest, entitled The RAG-PICKER of PARIS and the DRESS-MAKER of ST. ANTOINE. Jean, Mr. Webb; Perre Gareuse, Mr. Neville; M. Berville, Mr. Frede ricks; Count Si. AlltOille, Mr. Tindell ; Marie Diddier, Mrs. Henry Vining ; Marie Hoffman, Ms. Ware. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. THIS EVENING Will be performed, THE SAUCY LASS ; or, the Log ird of Gard n a Brit e i r h Tar. CharacterS by Messrs. Hicks, Dale, Se B, Mies Vincent, Mrs. Lee, Miss Burroughcliffe, &C. After which the Fourth and Fifth Acts of MACBETH. Macbeth, Mr. Bantura ROIL To conclade with The KNIGHT CRUSADER; or, the Deformed of the Draehenfelle. Boxes, la.; Price, 6d. PH, 6d. 3d. BY PARTICULAR DESIRE, JUVENILE DAY FETE. Extraordinary and novel attraction—the. Siege of Gibraltar by Daylight. ROY Ai SURREY zooLooLic kL GARDEN'S. THIS DAY, Friday, July plashed Naval and Military th present the novel feature of the e Proprietor has resolved to 0;Lae1.,,,t the suggestion of many dlstin- SIEGE OF GIBRALTAR BY DAYLIGHT. It will p r esent features more extraordinary, if possible, than the Evening Representation. Of course, it need not be observed that such occurrences seldom take place at midnight ; so far the v, , ,i.prn blance will be more perfect , and the various aspects of a Sea the Wrecks after the tionibaidment and the Explosi ons of the Ships, the Rocks and Town cmerg ln g from the smoke, will present a ens emble never bcCore witnessed. tout M.JULLIEN'S BAND will be distributed in the Fortress and Ships, and, by appropriate music and cheers, increase the excitement and grandeur of the representation. Preceding the Pyrotechnic display M. Jullien, and his unrivalled Band of one hundred Performers, will perform a Selection of Mutic by native and foreign composers. The Daylight View of the TOWN AND BAY OF GIBRALTAR, the, sp l en did Menagerie, the Porcela in Tower of Nankin, with all the other a tt r actions of the Gardens as usual. of the Carnivore at Half-past Three, Concert at Four, Siege of Gibraltar at Six. Admia mice. One Shilling. SACRED H.t rvIONIC SOCIETY. - The celebrated composer, Spohr, arrived in London on Wednesday, having come to England at the invitation of this Society, a on to conduct a series of performan ces. He will pp ear of Babylon will be pro duced. The r e sult of Friday Tv xt, when The thFealelon-cert lately given by the Scotch, was a profit of Society, in aid o f th e distressed 1,102/. 10s. SOUTH SEA HousE.—Yesterday a quarterly general court of proprietors of South Sea stuck was held at the company's house in Threadneedle-street, for the pur pose of declaring a dividend, Charles Franks, Esq., the sub-governor in the chair. The minutes of the last court were read and confirmed. The secretary read a statement of the company's ace, Wits for the past half. year. The Chairt , nan, after refer. ing to those accounts, and explaining an error in them with respect to a date, waved that a dividend of one and three-quarters per the company's stock for the half ` • , 'sr en of July. The motion was agreed .- - . it e ' . *len announced to be payable on the • / . - . - - ~ 4,,V#V, v nment dividends. There being no ‘C; " . f .. 47 . eit 5; , ,,...fi.1,..431 . t r , i t s he o c r ou t r h t e adj ß ou o r y n al adjourned. Caledonian Z 4 rr:yTrnf;'Jii 't pers, viited the free exhibition of 0 ' yptian Hall. --=.7--..c 1_ NI. 3 8 THE SUN, LONDON THE WEATHER.—Strs Omc r., JULY 2. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 52; Highest . 69 ; Noon, 59. BAROMETER, 30.32.--WIND N. ,E.; fine. 111,3111 WATER AT LONN-BRIDG ,E THIS DAY. Morning .. 19 minutes after 4 . Evening • .41 minutes after 4. ....,-....-.....-..-- ..--.---.--- + Ze, N• i , ', A i mil -NA, p .--91 . ; s ' ' c l ..,, d. ''' g r it s• ‘4...a14 ---- j., , ,4 , A ' ;! 1,. 0 ... A :reiri:7 - ..% , • AZ% - .‘ .. of% ' pis tr , ~ 1 „- --... , ~. l •'' ~- 1." 1 ' ' . - -,!--.?: • ••• -^ rg:s... SECOND EDITION. treara LONDON, FRIDA: 1. JULY 2, 1847. Centralization is a word abhorred in the vocabulary of Englishmen. We syn: , ,pathise in that abhorrence. Yet we are decidedly in favour of the system of cen tralization as applied to lthe sanatory reform, In this we protest that there is not the slightest contradiction or the least perceptibi.e approach to inconsistency. Detesting centralizati on as an instrument of a partial and one-sided, and, in the majority of instanees, despotic legislation ; detesting it from the dismal ex periences afforded by the French Revolution; despis ing and rejecting it as incompatible with the great principle of civil liberty, we are yet willing, we are yet eager, we are yet most desirous to waive all our antipathies to the political influence of centralization and to see that influence turned to the moral and phy sical amelioration of the multitude, by the establish ment of a central commission for the improvement of their sanatory condition. We only abhor the system of centralization for its prejudicial operation as a political weapon. For,'inasmuch as it may be applied without endangerment to the remedy of many social abuse:, we do emphatically and cordially maintain the 'advantage of its application to the scheme pro pounded by Government in the Health of Towns Bill, now passing triumphantly through the Lower House of Parliament. So extraordinary is the majority awarded to Lord MORPEIH'S measure by the popular representatives, so unanimous are the Commons in hastening the pro gress of this benevolent Bill through the Legislature, that we are immeasurably more than sanguine as to the immediate and practical commencement of the most necessary of all innovations—the innovation upon an uncleanliness that generates disease, and an economy of space and comfort which generate both disease and immorality. Before the present Parliament is dissolved the labour of love and charity will be begun. Before the new Parliament has assembled at Westminster, the tendrils of health and virtue will have already begun to vegetate, tending at once to the elevation and adorn ment of the people. This is the true EscuLArius : here may the worship of lIyGETA be revived without any of the degrading consequences that flowed from an idolatrous mythology. Here throughout the land, in the city as in the homestead, in the hamlet as well as in the parochial " close," in the village green as well as in the pestilential rookery, the footsteps of UaDINE will be traceable — strewing the ground as it were with moral flowers, and fertility, and fragrance. Utopia will in some sort be realised—Atalantis will no longer be a fantastic vision—Arcadia will be reduced from the romantic to the natural--when the frouzy rabble of yore is contrasted with the cleanly population of the nineteenth century a population rendered cleanly by statute, and restored from debility to health according to the forms of law. Society will be based upon a nobler foundation than the golden sands of Cathay, when the rod of the sanatory commissioner, like the wand of the Prophet, has made the waters spout from the granite, and afforded a perpetual moisture where there was formerly a continual drought. Better than the jewelled pavements of El Dorado will be the systematic hollowing of our streets with drains, and the free admission of light and air to the hitherto darkened and pestiferous tenements of our populous towns and cities. When the opposition which is evinced by a ludi crously small minority to the admirable Health of Towns Bill, introduced by one of the leading mem bers of the Administration, is considered, it only enhances our conviction of the universal joy with which the measure is regarded by the really sensible members of the community. It is insisted by its antagonists that this Bill will interfere unconstitu tionally with the rights, the prerogatives, and the authority of bodies corporate. We acknow ledge that it does abstract the rights and prerogatives of certain local authorities ; but it only abstracts them when centuries of mis management have shown the incompetence of those authorities to fulfil the duties upon the implied con dition of fulfilling which they were originally in vested with those rights and prerogatives. Those corporate bodies have exhibited their incapability of ensuring to the persons subject to their local legisla tion the very necessaries of existence, such as pure air and wholesome water, and of guarding them against the demoralising accessories of a filthy and promiscuous habitation. Seeing that disease and demoralisation are the only conspicuous results of these independent authorities, the State is resolved, if possible, to effect a comprehensive reformation by organizing an appropriate body with a central com mission. To speak plainly, the Government is de termined to effect a reduction in the periodical Bills of Mortality by the introduction of a permanent Bill of Sanatory Improvement. The third report of the Irish Relief Commissioners, which has just been published, has excited the anger of many of the Irish Members. They conceive that a charge has been made affecting the honour and character of the people of that country, and imputing to the gentry of Ireland, as a body, the grossest mis conduct, if not dishonesty, in their proceedings, as members of tile several relief committees, when car rying out the provisions of the Relief Bill. Such at least was the view taken by the Member for Mallow in bringing the subject before the House on Wed nesday ; and several others appeared to coincide with him in that opinion. With this impression it is not surprising that an anxious desire should exist on their part to exonerate the really innocent from every imputation of so grave an offence, and to fix the guilt firmly and unequivocally upon those who have acted in so disgraceful and scandalous a manner. There appears, however, too acute a sensibility on the part of those who have generalised the charges contained in the report, who will insist on their uni versality notwithstanding the express limitation Of the censure. The finance committees have honourable testi mony borne to their merits. They are stated "to have, with very rare exceptions, acted with zeal and intelligence, correcting in many instances errors of system introduced by the relief committees." No per sons connected with these bodies, therefore, can have any possible grounds for complaint, while in the class more immediately impeached the Commissioners admit " that i n a great number of dis tricts the charge is not applicable." Where there are so many wholly exempted, it cer tainly betokens an extreme degree of sensi tiveness to insist that any particular persons are included, an d t o f e el that it is necessary for their vindi ca ti on t h at th e y should specially be exonerated. It wou ld ex hibit a much highe r feelin g if they relied on their unimpeachable characters as an amply sufficient ans wer . Th ere i s, however, a reas on why, in justice to the pe o pl e of England as well as of Ireland, the matter should not b e su ff ere d to rest in its present state, but should receive that full and perfect investigation which its importance requires. Large sums have been devoted to the relief of Ireland, our own hard-working and over-toiled arti -. zans have consented still to bear the burden of heavy and oppressive taxation , i n ord er that their starvingeay b re thren in the sister kingdom might be f e d they made the sa crifice willin g l y , and without hesita tion, hut fully aware of the additional difficulties they themselves would have to encounter. They knew that the tax on light and air must on that account at least be continued for a longer period than might otherwise have been the case—that they must postpone for a considerable time the hope of obtaining many of their humble comforts at more reasonable prices, and such as would bring them within their means of purchase. The y have a right, therefore, to know that their liberality has not been imposed upon. Those who have acted in the manner described by the Commissioners should be exposed to the public odium, and, if their offences are legally cognisable, they should receive the punishment they so richly deserve, and should be driven with contumely from the ad ministration of the trusts they have betrayed, the duties they have violated, and should not be suffered to remain in any branch of the public service. A public board, consisting of gentlemen who have deservedly obtained the confidence of the country, who could not desire wantonly and unne cessarily to inflict a stigma upon any person or body of persons, or consent to sign their names to state ments of so serious a nature, which they had not in the first instance thoroughly sifted, and which they did not conscientiously believe to be well founded, have stated the several difficulties to which they have been exposed in attempting to carry the wishes of the Legislature into execution. In setting forth the various kinds of abuses practised they have detailed cases of the greatest criminality, although of different degrees. They state " that demands have been made in a wholesale way of rations for a greater number of destitute than there are individuals in the entire population of the disctrict." This they state to have occurred in " several cases, and for several thousands in excess." Now there are no terms too strong to describe this wholesale peculation and robbery. Surely the law is sufficiently stringent to reach the parties guilty of such infamous and dis graceful conduct. It would almost amount to a par ticipation in their guilt to shelter and protect them. In others, although the parties may only have been guilty of negligence or of giving a tacit sanction to the . insertion of improper parties on their lists, and there fore involved in a much less degree of criminality than those to whom we have just alluded, yet per sons who could see their own or their neighbours' servants, labourers, or wealthiest tenants, who from their circumstances would have been well able to support themselves without any assistance, partici pating in the relief intended only for the destitute, have proved themselves wholly unworthy of the trust reposed in them, and should forthwith be removed from the several committees. The same may be said of those who encouraged intimidation, or who did not resist it when assailed with sufficient energy and courage. Wherever the party incul pated has been entrusted with the commission of the peace it is still more necessary to remove him from the position for which he is so unfitted. For these reasons, therefore, and not because it is required for the vindication of the Irish character, we conceive that the investigation should take place. Let the guilty parties receive their well-deserved exposure and punishment. We ex tend to our Irish brethren generally the same justice that we demand for ourselves, viz., that we believe them individually innocent until their guilt shall be satisfactorily established ; and, therefore, there can be no necessity for their acquittal of that which is not laid to their charge. A letter from Tunis, of the 14th., says— " For several days the money market of Tunis has been in coma otion, from a report that it was the inten tion of the Bey to issue paper money. Twenty contra dictory versions were in circulation , but the following. appear to be the facts of the case. At the approach of the oil crop, which holds out every prospect of being a fine one, and which will giro rise to important commer cial transactions in the regency, the Government of the Bey has endeavoured to prevent the falsification of money, and to remedy at the same time the present dearth of specie. To attain this double object it has thought fit to order a new coinage to be made of pure silver, which will no longer afford the same facilities to forgers as the present currency, and in addition a sum equal to the issue of the new coinage is to be created in treasury bills, pay able to bearer, which shall be a legal and obligatory tender amongst all the inhabitants of the regency. These bills will bear all the marks necessary to demon strate their authenticity, and in order to throw obstacles in the way of their being forged, offices are to be esta blished in all the commercial centres to verify their iden tity; in order also that these bills may enjoy the full and entire confidence of foreign merchants, the local treasury will be always ready to give specie for them, on payment of a discount, which is said to be fixed at 4 per cent. This disecunt, whatever may be the rate established, is not a speculation on the part of the local government. It is for the purpose of preventing, by means of the loss which would attend it, the immediate exchange of these bills, which, if it were to take place at'par, would be speedily returned to the Government, and thus deprive it of the resource which it was desirous of creating by issuing them. The Government hopes, besides, that when the commercial interests shall be convinced of the Wise delay and the prudence observed in the creation of this paper money, confidence will not fail to be mani fested, and that private banks will be formed for dis counting at a more moderate rate than that fixed by the Government the notes which the holders may wish to change. To complete the advantages of this measure, the Tunisian Government, as soon as it shall see paper money taking the position that it has a right to hope for, is decided on fixing in an invariable manner the value of money, by giving to French money a legal rate of currency in its states, so as to put an end to the sudden and enormous fluctuations which the exchanges continually experience, and which depend on the varia tions in the crops. But all these modifications would be useless, if the Tunisian Government, in creating a paper which is to repose essentially and exclusively on credit, should not endeavour to inspire that credit by the only means proper to inspire it—namely, by the prosperity of the country. This prosperity can only be promoted by a radical remodelling of the system of administration. This is what the Government of the Bey appears to be convinced of, for it is decided on the gradual abolition of monopolies, and on giving the widest encouragement for the development of agriculture, the true wealth of the regency, by disembarrassing it of all the obstacles which Now beset it. These measures, of which we can announce the early execution, in securing for his High ness the Bey Ahmed the approbation of all civilised governments, will give a permanent credit to his new financial system, and confidence to all persons who have commercial and other interests in the Regency of Tunis." Madrid papers of the 25th ult. have arrived. The Gaceta publishes a dispatch from General CONCHA, dated Braganza, June 16, stating that he expected to arrive before Oporto on the 22d or 23d. Another dispatch announces the arrival of Brigadier BELESTA,:with a corps (formic, at Chaves. _ _ The Carlist chiei . EL ESTUDIENTE, has surprised the town of Belorado, and seized some arms and 2,000 reals in money, the property of the municipality. The QUEEN is expected to proceed forthwith to St. Ildefonso, and hopes are entertained that her MAJESTY will be joined there by her husband, with whom Don FRANCISCO DE PAULA, his father, had a long interview on the 23d. The Three per Cents. were done at 291 i f for cash; the Five per Cents. at ; the Debt without Interest at 54 ; and the Coupons at 15. We have received the Paris papers of Wednesday. The Due DE BROGLIE was to leave Paris on that day for London, to enter on his duties as Ambassador. The Comte DE JARNAC, who has been staying at Paris for a few days, was to leave that city at the same time, for the purpose of resuming the exercise of his functions as chief secretary to the English Embassy. The election of a Deputy for the fourth arrondisse ment of Paris, in the place of the late M. GANNERON, commenced on Tuesday. There are four candidates in the field, namely, Messrs. MALGAIGNE, BER TRAND, H. SAY, and FLANDIN. The number of voters was 858, and the votes were as follow :—M. MALGAIGNE, 317 ; 111. BERTRAND, 229 ; H. SAY, 197 ; and M. FLANDIN, 105 ; lost votes, 10. As the absolute majority of 430 votes was obtained by neither of the candidates, there was to be another ballot on Wednesday. IL FLANDIN has retired from the contest in favour of M. H. SAY. The Budget of the Minister of the Interior was voted by the Chamber of Deputies on Tuesday, and the discussion on that of the Mini s t er o f Commerce and Agriculture was commenced. IN.I. LEON FAUGHRIt intends to propose, as an amendment to this Budget, to vote a credit of 40,000,000 f. for the construction of railroads, instead of one of twenty millions, as proposed by the Committee. The Government has originally asked for sixty millions for this purpose. The Go vernment have entered into a convention with the Lyons prn ipa Railway l Company, of which the follo w in g are the provisions " In case the expenses which the company will have to ap u shall f e . the xc e c d n t s eession now fixed at forty -one y ears and ninety days by the royal or d o nnance of 1845 shall be e xtended to a cer ,ththee linel length tgli 0 c i i n t c al , r n for ow tfihxeceds at establishment o of millions, p ta e i n n d n it u u m re b . er of years, in propor tion to the increased ex " The number of years shall be determined, a year after tip ; conc l us i on o f t h e wor k s o n the following basis:— the eager. a shall re main comprised between 200 and 216 millions of , but ivr -urn of a millio n no augmentati n shall be made in the . which the co m p any shall ' have expezitled beyond the 21 6 there shall be a ccor d e d t o it an aouitiouai yea r in the said length, w i t h out, however, in any case the duration going beyond 99 years. "The works relatire to the passage through Lyons , FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 2, 1847. shall be executed by the State for a sum of twenty-four millions, which the company shall be bound to pay into ' the treasury. " The company shall be bound to open to the public the first section of the line, from Paris to Tonnerre, at the latest on March 1, 1849. "The Government is authorised to make an arrange ment with the company by which the company will cease to be bound to make the branch line from Dijon to Chalon, but the arrangement must be made within one month from the passing of this law. "The company binds itself to reimburse to the State, on the production of the settled accounts, the amount of the expenditure of all kinds which shall have been made. "In the event that the Government should think proper to re-purchase the concession, if the re-purchase shall be made within the first fifty years, the annuity to be paid to the company cannot be below 54 per cent. on the capital expended, even if the produce should be below thet sum. If the re-purchase shall take place beyond the period of the first fifty years, the annuities shall be at' the rate of 81 per cent. interest on the capital expended, even if the net produce should be above that sum." Mr. BERRYER has declined, on the ground of ill health, to undertake the defence of M. PARMENTIER before the Court of Peers. The Spanish Generals LINAGE and Mmutsstu hare left Paris for Madrid. The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Wed nesday at 77f. 40c. ; the Five per Cents., 117 f. 80c. ; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,267 f. 50c. ; Rouen, 963 f ; Havre, 643 f. 75c. ; Great Northern, 565 f. ; Avignon, 677 f. 50c. ; Vierzon, 587 f. 50c. ; Bordeaux, 505 f. ; Basle, 183 f. 75c. ; Paris and Strasburg, 418 f. 75 c. ; Tours and Nantes, 405 f. ; Paris and Lyons, 4385 75c. ; Lyons and Avignon, 440 f. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 456% 25c.; Spanish Three per Cents., 35 ; ditto, Domestic Debt, 27i ex div. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE JUL? 1. Central of France (Orleans and Vierzori), 1758 —Ceylon, ./. 2 —Dutch Rhenish, 4 1 / 1 —East Indian, %—Great Western Bengal, 14 —Namur and Liege, 4—Northern of France, 10% -Rouen and Havre, 25:Y 4 —Sambre and Meuse, 71,C. MPERI A L PARLIAMENT. (THIS DAY.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair at Twelve o'clock. COMMERCIAL RELATIONS WI I2H PRUSSIA. On the motion that the order of the day be now read for the second reading of the Navigation Bill, Lord G. BENTINCK said he would take that oppor tunity of putting the question of which he had given notice to the Noble Lord the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, with regard to the commercial relations between this country and Prussia. On the 4th of June last there appeared in the Globe newspaper a paragraph, stating, on tha authority of a foreign journal, that the Prussian Government had received dispatches from the English Government, announcing that if the Prussian Government and the Zollverein persisted in not renewing the treaty of international commerce between them and England, the English Government would find itself compelled to use reprisals. The foreign paper to which that referred being the official organ of the Prussian Government, he (Lord G. Bentinck) felt it incumbent upon him to ask the Noble Lord R hether that report was correct, and whether he had found it necessary to have recourse to a threat of retaliatory measures upon Prussia, if Prussia persisted in her course of protective duties in order to take care of the industry of her own countrymen? Lord PALMERSTON said he did not remember having seen the paragraph to which his Noble Friend alluded, but he had no hesitation in saying that that para graph was entirely incorrect. The state of affairs was this :—There was concluded between Great Britain and Prussia in 1841, a treaty by which certain ports between the Elbe a..d the Meuse were to be regarded according to the navigation laws of the ports of those states. Tnat treaty might be put an end to at the end of ~ he present year by a notice on the part of the Prussian Government. That notice had been given the English Government ; intimating at the same time on the part of Prussia and the Zollverein that Prussia and the Zoll verein were dissatisfied with that treaty, because it originated upon a real p r i n ciple of reciprocity, which the navigation-laws of England did not accord to the vessels of Prussia and the Zollverein, and that all the advantages were on the side of England, and to the vessels engaged by her, and it was intimated that if Great Britain persisted iu her navigation systems Prussia and the states of the Zollverein would think it their interest to establish differential duties of 20 per cent upon the manufactures and produce of Great Britain. Such was the state of the case. He could assure his Noble Friend there was no threat of retaliation on the part of Great Britain to compel Prussia to do anything which she thought contrary to her interests, but it was, on the contrary, a statement from Prus sia and the Zollverein, that if Great Britain did not relax her present system they would enforce diffe rential duties, and put an end to the treaty of 1841. To that communication an answer was returned to the effect, that the treaty was of little advantage to Great Britain, and, therefore, it was to her a matter of comparative indifference whether the treaty was allowed to exist or expire. That communication could hardly be said to be exclusive; and that was the only reply that he could make to the question of his Noble Friend. There could, however, be no possible objection on the part of the Government to lay before the House the Prussian intimation of the conclusion of the treaty, and the reply of the British Government.—(Hear.) Mr. nurr admitted that the reply of the Noble Lord was most satisfactery, but at the same time he felt bound to put the questions to him of which he had given notice. He wished to know, in the first place, whether her Majesty's Government had received an intimation from any of the states of the North of Germany that they have in contemplation to impose differential duties on British vessels importing into Germany the produc tion of countries other than the possessions of her Ma jesty, unless Great Britain would so far abolish her na vigation-laws as to allow German vessels to import pro ductions from all parts of the world into the United Kingdom ; and, secondly, whether the Noble Lord was aware of any negotiations going on for the purpose of inducing the Hans Towns to unite with the States of the Zollverein, in an arrangement to impose differential duties on the ships of all nations, which do not accord to German States the same privileges of navigation which the German States extend to them. Lord PALMERSTON said that he had already answered the first question of the Hon. Member. With regard to the second questi▪ on, it was certainly true that the Prussian Government had been in commuication with the Hans Towns, with a vi▪ ew as he (Lord Palmerston) understood —he spoke only from information, having received no official communication on the subject to induce them to unite with the Zollverein in an ar rangement to impose differential duties on the ships of all nations that did not accord to German States the same privileges of navigation which the German States extended to them. As he (Lord Palmerston) had been informed, a person had been sent from Berlin to Hamburgh, Lubeck, and Bremen, to in duce the Hans Towns to become members of the Zoll verein. He understood that Hamburgh and Lubeck had no desire to adopt ,the course suggested, and although Bremen appeared rather favourable to the corporate system in Germany, yet he (Lo r d Palmerston) was not aware that any opi▪ nion had been expressed by Bremen to accede to the request to unite with the Zollverein for the purposes before stated. NAVIGATION-LAWS. Lord JOHN RUSSELL then moved that the Navi gation-laws Bill be read a second time. Lord GEORGE BENTINCK rose to oppose the motion. He did so because he thought the present mea sure was a pretext to undermine the present navigation laws. Since the suspension of those laws, innumerable vessels, in all parts of world, had been waiting for freight, and could not get it. (LEFT SPEAKING.) PRINCESS'S THEATRE. A Sovereign Remedy was produced here last evening, and it ie indeed, a so vereign remedy for the blues, more efficacious even than Tom D'Urfey's Pills to Purge Melancholy. It is administered by Dr. Charles Mathews, who declares it to be the only human comforter and regenerator. It produces continuous roars of laughter during the whole time the patient is subjected to its pleasant operation ; and, judging from the effects pro duced last night, we think we may venture to state that the Sovereign Remedy will be in nightly course of aclmi nistrstion at the Princess's for months to come. CORK COUNTY ELECTION. The Cork Reporter of Tuesday announces the r3sult of the first day's poll. At six o'clock the numbers stood thus: — For Leader .......................... For Power .......................... Majority ................... 220 ~ 241 ~ -2 THE COURT, &c.—On Saturday the royal carriages for the use of the Queen and the Prince Consort during the installation of his Royal Highness as Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, will b e forwarded to Cam brisige by the Eastern Counties Railway ; and on Mon day next, at half-past eleven in the forenoon, her Ma jesty and the Prince, and their suite, will leave Buck ingham Palace for the Tottenham station of the same railway, where a special train is ordered to be in readiness to convey them to the terminus of the same railway, and at the terminus the royal equipages will be in waiting to convey them to the apartments which have been prepared for that purpose in Trinity College. Her Majesty selected the Tottenham station, in order to avoid the crowd and bustle of the London terminus at Shoreditch. After the installation and the fetes attendant, the Queen and Court will leave Cambridge (supposed on Wednes day next), and return to Buckingham Palace, and remain there until the breaking up of Parliament, when her Majesty, the Prince Consort, and the Court will proceed to Osborne House with the Royal Family ; from w hence about the second week i n August, her Majesty and the Prince will pay their promised visit to the Marquis of Abercorn's hunting seat, Arverykie Lodge, at Luo•gan, in Inverness-shire. It ha s n u t yet been decided whether the royal trip to the Highlands will be made by land or by water. A.PPROACIIING MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—The nuptials of Lady Alexandrina Vane, second daughter of the Marquis of Londonderry, with the Earl of Portar lington, has been delayed in consequence of her Lady ship having been indisposed from the measell;. Her Ladyship has nearly recovered, and went out for a ear riaee airing for the , first time on Sunday last. SHOCKING ACCIDENT.—Between one and two yes terday afternoon, as a poor man, employed from motive; of charity by Mr. Hayes, dairyman, Horseferry-road, We*Jbinster, was riding on the shaft of one of his master's wash carts, in the Victoria-road, he fell off, and one of the wheels passed over his head. He died almost , immediately. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The Cotton market at Liverpool was very firm again yesterday. Sales 8,000 bales, including 800 bales of American for exportation and 900 on speculation. There were 5,000 bales American sold at 6fd. to 7fd. The advance since last Friday is estimated at Id. per lb.-A good business was done in Shares, but prices were scarcely supported. There are no late arrivals to-day from any quarter, with the exception of the usual continental mails. These are ell very satisfactory in reference to the crops, and the weather and the markets. At Odessa, up to the 18th ult., the prices of grain were declining, and very large supplies were arriving, and still expected, from the in terior, the rains which had fallen having afforded ex cellent pasturage for the cattle while on the journey to the port. At Bremen corn was cheaper, and at Riga wheat was at lower rates, though rye had fluctuated, and was not so decided in its tendency. In the Stettin market, on the 25th instant, grain was flatter, and the supplies large. The weather at Berlin, on the 26th ult., was most auspicious. A letter from Naples states, under date of June 25th, that 800 ships had passed there, mostly laden with grain, and bound to Leghorn and Genoa. Throughout the kingdom of the Two Sicilies the crops were excellent. The Corn market is decidedly lower again to-day, and with every appearance of a further decline. The supplies are most abundant as regards foreign grain, but there is still only a short quantity of English. The dullness of the West India market has become a matter of special remark lately, and there appears to be no difference in this respect either here or at the out ports. Abundant supplies and foreign competition will no doubt afford the readiest solution of this state of affairs in the face of steady consumption, and we have already seen the result in the fall of one or two houses of good standing in the sugar trade. The following extract from a Bristol report is not very encouraging:- " For West India sugar, which is now comparatively cheaper than other descriptions, we continue to expe rience a steady consumptive demand, especially for those kinds suitable for the pans, but the prices have again retrograded, and must be quoted ls. to 2s. under the rates current at the date of our last report; importers generally have been free sellers throughout the month, and the market has been well supplied with samples, but this remark applies more particularly to West India descriptions, as the holders of Mauritius have mostly I withdrawn their stocks from the market for the present; the stock of Bengal is nearly all in second hands, and the business is consequently limited. " Purchases of good working sugars continue to be made in London and Liverpool by our refiners, as this description is still scarce here; the refined market has been flat, and prices have given way 2s. to 3s. per cwt., 595. to 60s. being now the average value of a refining, against 625. to 635. at the end of last month. Treacle has also declined in value, the best make having been sold for forward delivery at 245. , and syrup at 265. For Crushed and Pieces the demad continues good, and those descriptions, especially the former, command com paratively high prices." The English Funds are extremely dull, and there is a slight disposition to sell. Consols for Account have been 894 to 884. As we get towards the 16th inst. the state of the account will probably develop itself more clearly. The Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities have realised 894 to 898. Exchequer. bills are maintained at Bs. to 12s. premium. The Foreign Securities have been without much varia tion. Portuguese Four per Cents. have been quoted 34; Spanish Five per Cents., 21 to 4 ; and the Three per Cents. ex. dividend, 324. Mexican Stock, for the account, is at 194 to 4. Dutch Four per Cents. are 891. Railway Shares have been rather in favour of buyers, hut holders are not inclined to de business. Eastern Counties, Great Northern, Midland, South-Eastern and Staines, and South-Western, are firm. Caledonian, North-Western, and the French lines, are a shade lower BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 India Bonds, 1,0001. • • • • • • Ditto, under 1,0001. .. 5 p Consols for Opening, July 16 • • • . 89% 88% Exchequer Bills. I%cl. 2d. 1,000/. •• •• - 12 811 p 500/. •• •• •• - •• •• 15 9 1513 Ditto, Small .. • • - .• 19 10 17 p PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent • • • • - Ditto, Small • • • • • . .• .. 85 Mexican, 1846, 5 per Cent • • • Ditto, for the Account .. • Portuguese Bends, 5 per Cent. • • - Ditto, Four per Cent • • • • .. 30% Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent. • • 21% dtto, for the Account .• .. 21 Ditto, Passive Bonds • • • • Ditto, Three per Cent ......- Ditto, for the Account • • 32% ex div Dividends on the above payable In London. Dutch Two-ard-a-Half per Cents. - Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 89% BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE. Birmingham and Oxford Junction • • 10 .• .. 17% .• •. to - Birmingham, Wolver., & Stour Valley 8 .... 9 .. . to - Bristol and Exeter • • • • 75 ••• • - .... to - Ditto, New • • • • .. 15 .• .• 14 .• .. to - Caledonian • • • • • • •• 35 29% %%to - Dublin and Belfast Junction .. 15 •• .. 234.... to 3 Eastern Counties • • • • •• • • 20 .. • • 2156 21 to 21% Ditto, York Extension .• • . .• 7 35 •• 7%.... to - East Lancashire • • • • • • .. 20 .. • • - to - Ditto, New .. • • . • .. 10 .... 10 •• • • to - Ditto, ditto, New Scrip .. • • .. 1 % 1% %.. to - Edinburgh and Glasgow • • .. 50 .•.. 69 .... to - Great Northern .. • • .. 6 4%34 ex int. to - Great Southern. and Western (Ireland) 32% 30% x. int. to - Great Western • • . • .• 85 ... 121 .. .. to 123 Ditto, New • • • • • • .. .. 4% .. • • .• .. to - Leeds and Thirsk • • • • • • •• 26 •• • • - •to - Do.. do.. Preference, 6 per Cent • . 3% •• • • 3 .... to 314 Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport 2 •• .. 3% •• • • to - Liverpool, Manch, and Newc. Junct. 236 •• • • %••.. to - London and Blackwall .. 161. 13s. 4d. •• .• 7% ••.. to - London, Brighton, and South Coast • • 50 •• -.56 1 % 55% to 5655 Ditto, Consolidated Eighths • • .. 10 •• .. 14% •• . • to - London and North-Western • • • . .. 100 ....18314 •• .. to 18255 Ditto ditto New .. • • .. . 2 .... 1356 ••.. to - Ditto, Fifths • • • • .. . .. 2 .• .. 17%.... to - Ditto, 401. Shares •• M. and B. .. 40 :... 7014 ... to - Ditto, 10/. Shares • . M. and B. (C) 1 • 756 •• • . to - London and South-Western 411. 6a. 10d. •• • • - .... to - Ditto, New Consolidated Eighths •. 40 .. .. 50 •••• to - Ditto, New •• • • .. .. 27% •• • • 32% ••.. to - Ditto, Scrip , . • • .. • • • • 5 •• • • 4%8 •••• to - Manchester and Leeds . • • •• 82 .... 104 ••.. to - Ditto, Quarter Shares • • • • • • 14% •• • • 1836 •••• to - Ditto, Firths • • • • • • • • • • 6% •• • • 11% ••.. to - Ditto, Thirds (Reg.) • • • • • • • 7/. 48... • • % p.. to - Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock -. 425. .... 14 dis.. to - Midland .• •• • 100 ....132 130.. to 132 Ditto, New • • • . • • .• .• .. 6 .... 103614 • . to - Ditto, Birmingham and Derby ..100 ....102 .... to - Ditto, Consols Bristol & Birmingh. 6 per cont. .. • • • • • • ..100 ....130 .•.. to - Newcastle and Berwick .. .. 20 .... 29%14 .. to - Ditto, New • . • .. .. 5 •• • • 8 ••• • to 8 14 Norfolk • • .. • • .. .• .. 100 • ..126 • • • to - Ditto, Extension • • • • .. .. 10 •• .• 105 ••• • to British • • • • .. .. 25 . • 32% ••.. to - Ditto, Quarters • • • • • . •" • 3%.• 4% ••.. to - Ditto, Extension • • • • • %• • . % to 34 North Staffordshire • • • • • • • • 10%%.• to .- Oxford, Worcester, & Wolverhampton 2736 •• .. 19% to _ Reading, Guildford, and Reigate • • 5 •• •• 53 % ••.. to - Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A) • • 3 35 •••• 3% to - Ditto, ditto (13) • • • • • • •• 3 •• • • 23 %.• to - South Staffordshire •••• • • • • 2/. 12s. • • % % dis to - South Eastern and Dover • . .. • • 331.25. 4d. 38 .. • • to 3735 Ditto. New (do. 15/.) No. 4 • • •• 5 •• • • 4% •• .. to - So u th Yorkshire, Doncaster, & Goole 2 .• .. 1 3 q to - Windsor, Staines, and South-Western 425. • • 238% p to - erork and Newcastle . • • • .- • • 25 •• • • - .... to - Ditto, New • . • • .. .. •. 10 •• • • 1756 ••.• to - Ditto, Preference • • • • • • • • 8 .. • • 12 136 .. to - York and North Midland .. .. • • 50 •• .. - .... to - Ditto, Preference .• • . .• • • 6 .• .. 163 y ••.. to -.- FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Central of France (Orleans & Vierzon) 14 .. 1756 ••.. to - Dutch Rhenish • • .• .. 7 . • 4 ••.. to - Northern of France . • .. 8 • • 10%3636 to - Paris and Strasbourg • • • • .. 8 .• 43 4. ••• to - Rouen and liavre • • •• . .. 20 .• .. 2536 •••• to - Sambre and Meuse • • • • .. .. 14 .• .. 7%.... to - JOINT-STOCK BANKS. London Joint-Stock • • • • . .. 10 .• 14135 ••.. to - London and Westminster • • • . .. 20 .• 26% %..to - Ditto, New .. 7.• • • 1234 •••• to - •• 89 M%% .. 91A. 19% MINES Real del Monte. ITnregistered .. • • .... 3U .. to LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DA LONDOM, JULY 2.—Wind nE., moderate breeze and cloudy. DEAL, JULY I.—Wind N. 8., fresh breeze.—Arrd. B. Bohlen, Mencke, H ava nnah for Antwerp, reported to be leaky. Arrd. from the River and sailed, Minerva, New Zealand ; Calcutta, Hobart Town ; Cicilia, Port Philip ; Col lingwood, Calcutta; John Sims, Aden; Catherine Greene, St. Kitt's k Pearl , St. Do min g o ; Lancaster, Barbadoes ; Os bert, Dominica; Ontario, New York. OFF RYE, JUNE 30.—Lovely Mary, Newfoundland. PORTSMOUTH, JULY I.—Wind N.N.E.—Sid. Pomona; New York. COWES, JULY I.—Wind E.—Arrd. Superb, Roes, Havan nah. Sid. Lady M`Naughton, Adelaide, South Australia. STUDLAND ROADS, JUNE 30.—Arrd. I. 0., Lee, New York for Antwerp. FALMOUTH, JULY I.—Wind E.—Sld. Monte Camelo, Per nambuco. LiviaßpooL, JULY I.—Wind variable and light.—Arrd. Standard, Fawcett, Demerara; Helvellyn, Matanzas; Sarah Hand, Bailey, New Orleans; Commerce, Henry, Virginia; Village Girl, Woof, Philadelphia ; Blue Bell, Pictou. Sld. Louisiana, New York; George Stevens, New Orleans; New York, Dropper, (New Orleans ; Margaret, Quebec ; Runny mede, St. John's, Newfoundland. Sxacw, JuNx 27.—Arrd. Douce. Davie, Kenny, New Orleans. 28th, Pekin, Norfolk. Sld. Cushna, Philadelphia. CORK, JUNE 29. Wind E.—Arrd. Robert, Richardson, Norfolk. Sld. Wm. J. Duggin, New York. Arrd. 28th, James Fagan, Philadelphia; Ocean, Roul, New York; Susan, Crouch, St. John's. LEITH, JUNE 29.—Arrd. Emily, Brock, Callas. YOUGHAL, JUNE 28.—Arrd. Gratitude, New York. CAERNARVON, JUNE 29.—1 t is reported that this bay is covered with wreck, and several pieces have been brought in to-day, apparently belonging to a very large vessel. NEWPORT, JULY I.—Wind E.—Put back, Racer, Power, from Penarth to Quebec, leaky and with fore and mainmast heads sprung. FALSE SIGNALS OFFISRES— THE RICHMOND, MILFOR O. Admiralty, June 30th, 1847. Sir, —I am commanded by m y commissioners of the Admi ralty, — to transmit to you herewith, for the information of the committee for managing the affairs of Lloyd's, a copy of a letter from Lieutenant Dolling, agent on board the contract steam-ship Hibernia, relative to her being called out of her course on the homeward passage by the Richmond, of ?ail ford, supposed to have been in distress, but merely required to be reported, and my Lords request that the committee will take any steps in their po we r to prevent the recurrence of an incident so disadvantageous to the publicservice, and so likely to produce inattention to signals of distress. I am, Sir, your moot obedient servant, (Signed) G. J. WARD. ' Wm. Dobson, Esq., secretary, Ll o yd' s . (Copy.) —I beg , Liverpool, June 28th, 1847. Sir to acquaint you, for the information of the Lords of the Admi ra lty, th a t on J une 19th, in lat. 45 N., lon. 57.27, observing a vessel firing guns, which I supposed to bo of distress, I requested the captain of the Hibernia to close with her, and on doing so we found her merely required to be reported, in performance of which duty we lost two hours. The name of the vessel was the Richmond, of Milfonl, ..n Eoglioh barqu e. ' I have the hcnour to he, acc. (Signed) S. U. DOLLING , Li..uicnant, Acting Admiralty Agent. Commander Bevis, Superintendent of her fila,)esty'd mails, Liverpool. • MARKET N : HIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE-FRIDAY. Very limited supplies of English Wheat havo been received up to our market this week, yet several of Monday's unsold samples were on offer. Owing to the immense arrivals of foreign, the demand for all kinds of Wheat of home produce was excessively dull, and scarcely any sales were effected, notwithstanding the factors offered all qualities at a decline on Monday's currencies of fully 5s per quarter. This makes a total fall from the highest point of not less than THIRTY-SIX SHILLINGS per quarter! Upwards of 50,000 quarters of foreign Wheat having come in, that article was very dull, and fully 4s per quarter lower than on Monday last. Barley—the supply of which from abroad was tolerably good—sold heavily, at a decline of from is to 2s per quarter. In Malt, next to nothing was doing, at late rates. The Oat trade was very heavy, and prices receded is to 2s per quarter. Beans were a mere drug, and quite 2s lower, while Peas and Indian Corn were 2s cheaper. Flour was offering on lower terms. ARRIVALS. Barley. I Oats 1 Flour. 20 qrs. 300 qrs. I 3,220 skv. -- 1 and 46,150 1 9,560br1s Wheat. English • ..... 2,750 qrs. Irish. Foreign 8,810 Malt, 3,960 qrs. 81YLITICWIELD. Our market being but moderately supplied with Beasts (the quality of which was very inferior), and the attendance of buyers somewhat numerous, the Beef trade was firm, at fully, but at nothing quotable beyond, Monday's prices. There were on offer 350 Beasts, 780 Sheep and Lambs, and 83 Calves from Holland and Germany; as also, 200 Scots from Scotland. The num bers of Sheep were rather limited; hence the Mutton trade was steady, at late rates, and at which a good clearance was effected. Lambs moved off freely, but the highest quotation for the best Down qualities did not exceed 6s per 81bs. The sale for Calves, though the supply was good, ruled firm, at full currencies. In Pigs very little was doing. Milch Cows were heavy, at from 161 to 181 each, including their small Calf. Per 81bs. to sink the offal. s. d. to s. d. s. d. to s. d. inferior Beasts 310 4 2 Second qualityclitto 4 6 4 8 Second quality • • 4 4 4 6 Coarse-weolled ditto 410 5 0 Prime large Oxen 4 8 410 Southdown Weller 5 2 5 4 Prime Scots Large coarse Calves 4 0 4 6 Large Hogs •.•. •. 4 0 4 6 Prime small ditto Suck"ng Calves lB 0 28 0 Quarter old Pigs —l, 0 22 0 Inferior Sheep • . SUPPLY AT MARKET. Beasts. I Sheep. Calves. Pigs. I 1,022 9,360 476 300 MEV:MATE AND LXIELDENECILIM. We had a slow sale here, at our quotations. At per stone by the Carcase. s. d. to s. d. Beef, inferior.. 3 8 310 ! Mutton, inferior • • middling • • 4 0 4 2 t middling.. prime large .. 4 2 4 4 prime •• • • prime small .. 4 4 4 6 Pork, large • • •• • • Veal.. ••• • .• ...... 310 5 0 small . ... Larcb. 5s to ha 10d. a. &tog. 310 4 2 44 4 8 410 5 0 310 4 6 48 5 0 BOROUGH HOP MARKET. Notwithstanding the prevailing easterly winds, the accounts received from the plantations to-day are very satisfactory; hence the demand for all kind of Hops is exceedingly heavy, and last week's quotations are with difficulty supported. In the duty next to nothing is doing. Sussex pockets, 41 5s to 41 163 per cwt; Weald of Kent pockets, 41 12s to 515 s ditto; Mid and East Kent pockets, 51 12s to 71 7 s ditto. SECONDARIES.-(THIS DAY. The Court was occupied the whole of the morn ing in hearing a case respecting the price and quality of some cheese—it was totally devoid of interest, and was likely to last all the afternoon. INSOLVENT COURT-(THIS DAY IN RE THOMAS 'WOODHOUSE STEVENS. This insolvent, who was opposed on the part of seven Chinese merchants on the ground of fraud, appeared for judgment. The debts exceeded 23,0001. Mr. Commissioner PHILLIPS said, in giving judgment this morning, that the case had occupied his attention for some time, and he was not at all clear that he was right in arriving at the conclusion he had, namely, to give the insolvent the benefit of the doubt he had en tertained. He had, however, the satisfaction of knowing that, if he erred, he erred on the side of mercy. Toe insolvent was opposed on the part of several Chinese mer chants, from whom he had obtained large quantities of teas, in respect to whom it was of the utmost importance, in the present state of affairs with this country, that the good faith of our merchants should be kept. The op position was on the ground that the insolvent had con tracted debts without an intention of paying them, or, in cther words, that the goods had been fraudulently obtained; but he (Mr. Commissioner Phillips) did not think that he could safely come to that conclusion. In the course of the case an other point had turned up which the counsel for the insolvent had urged on his behalf, and that was that he had twelve months to complete his contract with the Chinese merchants. He, however, could not forget, that the insolvent had realised a large sum, *hich undoubtedly belonged to his creditors, from whom he had obtained the goods, but he had thought proper to spend the money on himself anti family. Feel ing, as he did, that he could not conscientiously come to the determination that at the time the insolvent obtained the goods he had no intention to pay for them, yet it was impossible that justice could be done in such a case by an immediate discharge. It was a case for the full exercise of the discretionary clause. The judgment was that the insolvent be imprisoned for a period of six months from the vesting order. DO W-37C1tD1:1T.—(TIII3 DAY.) Henry Johnson was placed at the bar before Mr. Henry, charged with forging a certificate of the Court of Examiners of the Apothecaries' Company. Mr. Bundle, on the part of the Apothecaries' Company, explained the nature of the certificate granted by the Court of Examiners. It was such a certificate that the prisoner was charged with forging. The prisoner had been a candidate for examination, but the Court refused to examine him, as he was under 24 years of age. Evidence was given that of two documents produced one was a genuine certificate of the Court of Examiners, end the other was a forgery. Mr. Salt, engraver and printer, of 19, Great Turnstile, Lincoln's Inn-fields, said that, on the 24th of May the prisoner , enterect his shop; and said, " Mr. Salt, I want a plate engraved," at the same time showing him the genuine certificate produced. Witness took the order, and agreed to get the plate ready in the course of ten days, fixing the price at 101. 19s. The name of the person licensed was to be left blank. The prisoner called again several times before the plates were finished, and on one occasion left a deposit of 41. Yesterday the prisoner again called, and witness gave him the plates, twenty proofs, and the original certificate. The prisoner gave him a 51. . note. Being asked to put his name on the note, he wrote, " J. Hunter, High-street, Gravesend." He had given the name Hunter on the first occasion. Witness had given infor mation to the Apothecaries' Company in the first in stance. Daniel Forrester apprehended the prisoner. He had in his possession the plates, proofs, and certificate, and Mr. Salt's receipt for 81. I9s. Mr. HENRY remanded the prisoner till Tuesday next. An application was made to bail the prisoner, which Mr. Henry refused. MARLBRO'-STREET-(THIS DAY.) James Hunter, a well-dressed man belonging to the swell mob, was charged by Mr. George Mount, No. 8, Broadway, Ludgate-hill, with picking his pocket of a pocket-book. It appeared that on the previous night the complainant was standing opposite the royal entrance of her Ma jesty's Theatre, endeavouring to catch a sight of the Queen as she left the house. The prisoner, who ap peared to be fresh from the country, placed himself be hind the complainant, and entered into conver sation with him. Complainant, however, did not much like the appearance of the prisoner, and kept a sharp eye upon his movements. Complainant shortly after felt the prisoner's hand fumbling at his coat pocket, whereupon he turned sharp round to the prisoner, who in the most unconcerned manner possible asked him if the Queen was coming. Complainant did not answer him, but walked away some littte distance from where he had been previously standing. On looking round he saw the prisoner close behind him dodging his movements. Complainant then stood still for a few minutes, when he felt the prisoner take the pocket-book from his coat pocket. He turned quickly round and confronted the prisoner, who had dropped the book on the ground. Ile then taxed him with the robbery, and having called a constable, gave him in charge. The prisoner denied the charge, and said that he was a very respectable tradesman: but, unfortunately for the prisoner, there were several constables present who proved that he had seen repeatedly convicted on similar charges. Mr. II :ARDWICS committed him for trial. BRIERLY HILL.—ALARMING FIRE.-011 Wednes day night, beta een nine and ten o'clock, a fire broke out at the extensive chainworks belonging to Mr. John Parkes, of Nine Locks'-lane, in this place, which threa tened great destruction. It appears that a boiler, which had lately been cracked, and was used to melt pitch to black chains, exploded with a tremendous noise, and a great quantity of pitch communicated with the fire. Fortunately there was a chimney near the spot, and up this the flames rushed with great violence, a l a rming the inhabitants of the neighbourho o d. A q u antity of wood work used in (the process of chain-making or blacking and some brickwork were destroyed, but no very consi derable damage was done. The &re was put out with ashes, which were applied so plentifully as to effectually smother it Worcester Chronicle. AN INNOC ENT C ONVI CT --A highw a y robber y was committed in the early part of 1846 by four persons, near Hertford, and three were taken into custody and tried at the February assizes held there, and being all found " guilty," were sentenced each to 15 years trans portation. William Bowers, one of the persons con victed, declared his innocence of any participation in the crime after sentence had . been passed upon them; but the testimony:of his fellow-convicts was of a doubtful na ture,onv o t w in i n g to their silence on the subject previous to ic Another of the guilty parties having been co recently taken, confessed to the chaplain of the Herttord Gaol that William Bowers was innocent of being a :par ticipator in the crime of which he was convicted, and named the other person, still at large; and it having now been satisfactorily established that Bowers was really innocent, a free pardon for him was received from Sir George Grey, Secretary of State, by Mr. Master man, Governor of the Warrior convict hulk, at Wool wich, yesterday, and the prisoner was immediately libe rated. The poor man appeared greatly delighted with tie prospect of his immediate return to his wife an,i three children, from whom Le has been separat?cl durii.g tho last 16 months, and hi 6 ease is one deserving tk.. consideration of the authorities at Hertford, to enable him to become again a useful raemberof soeiety.when his innocence has been proved. . THE INDIAN ARMY. The discussions which have of late occurred on dui merits of a peace or war policy for India have cause/ more than ordinary attention to be bestowed on the state of the armies of India, as to their strength, efficiency; and expense, compared to that in which they formery - existed, and to the condition of the Exchequer. Erma these it appears that within the last 10 years we have added about 20,000,0001., or about ono-fourth, to our debt, and been living regularly at the rate of 750,0001: to 2,000,000/. sterling above our income,—no fear` exhibiting a balance less unfavourable than the smaller of those just named. Our gross annual income is believed at present to be about 25,000,0001. ' The total amount of our military charges exceedi 14,000,0001. a year. The armies of India, exclusive of Queen's troops, mustered 168,477 just before the Affghan war began: they went on increasing at the rate of about 10,000 a year, till in 1844 they mustered 250,030 81,553 men, and nearly 700Europeen officers, being added to its strength. From this date to the time when the recent reductions began, 25,000 more had been added to • their ranks—making a total addition of about; 1 10 )° 013 men, or something above the entire Royal army of LIZ' land. Including Queen's troops we had on our muster roll, on the Ist of January, 1847, considerably above 300,000 men. The Bombay army alone has betwixt the dates we mention been augmented by above 40,000 men. Of the total augmentation, 24,000, maintained at the cost of above 1,000,0000/. sterling annually, have been specially raised for service in Sinde-18,00 0 continue up to the present moment to be quartered in that country=- 24,000 were required for it nearly the whole of the present year. The total reduction at present proposed to be effected falls: somewhat under 40,000 of all arms, leaving on the muster roll above 7 0, M men, in the highest state of efficiency, more thia. l we could boast of from 1831 to 1838, when we had the vast armies of Sinde, Gwalior, and the Pune jaub—all since extinguished—to watch. So utterly ' senseless is the clamour at home in reference to the tin& • wise diminution of our defence, that at no time in one history was our army ever so strong, or so little likely to be called on to take the field, as in the beginning of 1847. The want of European officers is being retnedied in the only way . within the power of the Compnny; " now so greatly in debt. The native regiments have been reduced in Sepoys by a fifth, and have, of course, in proportion to the number of native soldiers on the muster roll, become by this much stronger in European officers, an extra captain having been lately added, and, as already stated, some seven hundred officers in all since 1837. The reasonable part laf it is, the vast majority of the army is well satisfied with all this; did they entertain the views ascribed to them by their professed advocates and admirers, they would indeed deserve more than the censures their severest critics have bestowed on them. Nearly evetY one of the statements just made may be verified by official documents within the last three months laid entire before our readers. The British army in India at present could cope with any force in the world " in courage, discipline, or strength, without more aid from England than is usually accorded. The only - grounds it has for apprehension of severity or injustice are those which arise from new and expert.. ' sive wars crippling the treasury to an extent which might compel reduction, even were this accompanied by the abandonment of those of our territories the revenues of which are unable to meet the charges they occasion us. This rests with Cannon-row, not Leadenhall-street. The Court of Directors would give us peace and plenty, would her Majesty's Ministers but allow them.—Bombay Times. • THE LATE VISCOUNT A SHBROOK.—The will of; the Right Hon. Henry Jeffry, Lord Viscount Ashbrook, • of Castle Durrow, Kilkenny, and of Old Windsor, Berks, has just been proved in London by his son, Viscount Ash brook, his son-in-law, Wm. Wilson Campbell, Esq., Major-Gen. James Claud Bourchier, and Edward White, Esq , the executors. The personal estate in this country was valued at 35,0001. He executed his will in 1842, and there are four codicils, the last dated June 6, 1846. • All his unsettled estates he has directed to be sold, in& eluding his mansion-house, called Beaumont Lodge, once the iesidence of Warren Hastings; the land in the parish of Egham, purchased from the Crown, with the other freeholds in Egham and Thorpe, and all other his estates in the counties of Surrey and Berks, together with the manors, towns, castles, and estates in Ireland, the trustees first offering the same to the tenant for life or in tail of the Castle Durrow estate:- the produce arising from the sale of these estates, and. the conversion of all real and personal property to be held in trust, one moiety for his daughter, Mrs., Campbell, and her husband, and then to the children of her first marriage ; the other moiety to hiB son-in-law, Mr. Every, and the children (except the. eldest son) of his late wife, his Lordship's claugh-. ter. His daughter, the Duchess of Northampton, takes no interest under the will, having received 15,0001. under the marriage settlement. There are a few pecu niary bequests, and to each of his executors 2001.; the plate, pictures, and furniture to the Viscount; the dia• in,,nds his Lordship had previously divided among two of his daughters. His Lordship's death was very sudden, on the 4th of May last, then in his seventy-first year. The title was conferred on the first Viscount in the. reign of George 11., 1751. 'flu CROPS IN AMERICA.—We have made it our business to read, carefully, the accounts of the growing crops throughout the country, since the opening of spring, and we have arrived at the conclusion that the prospect of the husbandman of reaping a plentiful, harvest is decidedly good. To be sure, the lateness and cola n Asa of th a season and the hail-storms, have in some places destroyed the young cotton , and tobacco plants, but the ground which these occu pied has been generally replanted with corn, or something else equally as good for the sustenance of. man. In the west and south west, the prospect of an abundant yield was never better, and if the wea ther be propitious that prolific part of the country will give an unlimited yield. The immense drain upon this country for food for the past year, and the prospective demand for the surplus of this year's harvest, stimulated many of our citizens, who never made two blades grow where but one grew, to leave their regular business and embark in agricul ture. This, with the fact that our farmers have planted on a larger scale than they ever did, will give the world an insight into the immense agricultural re sources of the United States. We shall still continue to watch the progress of the crops, and record from . day to day their advance to maturity. It is the most important and interesting intelligence that we can pre sent to our readers.—New York Herald, June 1. BIRTHS. On the 22d ult., at Margate, the lady of Le Baron Elphege Van Zuylen Van Nyevelt de Gaesbeke, of Bruges, of a daughter. On the 27th ult., the lady of Captain Kuper, C. 8., R.N., of a son. On the 27th ult., at the Castle House, Donnington, New bury, Barks, the lady of H. P. Best, Esq., of a son. On the 28th ult., in Queen's Circus, Cheltenham, the wife of Mr. J. Waite, of a son. _ _ On the 29th ult., at Standon Rectory, Staffordshire, the lady of the Rev. Joseph Salt, of a son. On the 29th ult., in Chester-square, Mrs. James Fletcher, of a daughter. On the 30th ult., the wife of H. B. Clarke, Esq., of St. John's-wood -road, of a son. On the 30th ult., in Swinton - street , G ra y' s Inn-road, Mrs. Lovell, of a son. On the 30th ult., in Tooley-street, Southwark, the widow of Mr. George Allen, of a daughter. On the 30th ult., in Eastbourne-terrace, Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park, the wife of R. W. Moore, Esq., of a daughter. MARR, On the 29th ult., at St. Botolph's, Bishopsgate Without, Mr. Henry Taylor, of Saffron Walden, Essex, to Louisa, youngest daughter of Mr. S. T. Day. On the 29th ult., Barnet S. Phillips, Esq., of Chester terrace, Regent's-park, to Philippa, daughter of P. Samuel, Esq., of Bedford-place. DIED. On the sth ult., at Halifax, Nova Scotia, the Rev. William Cogswell, A.M., aged 37. On the 26th ult., at Islington, Henry Buckler, Esq. On the 28th ult., at Fareham, Hampshire, Sophia, relict of the Rev. H. Forester, aged 86. On the 28th ult., in Montagu-square, Mrs. Elizabeth Heron. On the 29th ult., at Islington, Amelia, wife of John Jeaf freson, Esq., aged 65. On the 29th ult., at Maidstone, Caroline, the wife of C. Hoar, Esq., aged 57. On the 29th ult., in Montagu-square, Mrs. Emma Cheere. MONTHLY MILITARY OBITUARY.. Lieut.- General—tir Colin Campbell, K.C.8., Colonel of the 72d Foot, London. Major-General—Archibald Robertson, East India Com pany's Service, London. Lieut.-Colonels—lrton, Rifle Brigade, London; Cowall, Unattached, Portarlington ; Sir G. Temple, Bart., Unat tached, Baden ; R. Fraser, formerly of the 83d Foot, and Fort Major of Jersey, Hounslow. _ _ _ Captains—Hendry, late of the Royal Marines; Baynez, Unattached, Brussels; Ellis, Joseph, Unattached, Aberdeen; Ellis Dixie, halt-pay York Chasseurs, Isle of Man; Murray, East India Company's Recruiting Service in London, Dor chester. Lieutenants—Owen, 90th Foot, Cape of Good Hope; Car tayne, half-pay Bth Dragoons; Wohler, half-pay Artillery German Legion, Hanover. Payma,ter—Tierney, half-pay 43d Foot, Dublin. Quartermaster —Carr, half. pay, 87th Foot, Newport, Wales. COMMISSARIAT DEPARTMENT. Assistant Commissary- General J. T. Goodsir, halt-pay, New South Wales; Deputy Commissary-General A. Bishop, Ireland. MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.— DT. D. Campbell, half-pay Ar tillery, Boulogne; Groskopff, half-pay Surgeon Foreign Medical Staff. Hanover ; Bocca, half•pay Hospital Assistant. QUARTERLY N4VAL OBITUARY. FLAG OFFICERS. Admirals—Sir Davidge Gould, G.C.B. (Vice-Admiral of the United Kingdom), Man Dobson, Stephen Poyntz. Rear-Admiral—John F. Maples. Captains—Hon. John Rodney, Thomas G. Willis, Geo. Augustus Sainthill, Henry Compton, Henry Drury. Commanders—George Tupman, John Cririe, William Cotesworth, John Bowie, Robert Woodd, James Alwater, Thomas W. Nicolls, William J. Innea. Lieutenants—John Potts, Arthur Sheakspear, Henry Jen kins, William H. Savage, enry A. Bates, Thomas Kendall, Thomas Wallace, Caleb E. Tozer, John W. Moore, Henry J. Hill, William Butler, William H. J. Lowe, Wm. T. Turner. Masters—Richard Hildyard, Robert Nelson, Richard Skin ner, Samuel Douglas, Richard G. Wills, John G. Nops. - • ------ ROYAL MARINES. Brevet •Major—. Thomas Sheppard. Captains—Patrick Fottrell, John H. Mallard. Second Lieutenant—Edward B. Hodges. Second Master—Henry J. Cunningham. IIII;ICAL OFFICERS. Surgeons—Bernard Kiernan, Nathaniel Poulden, William B. Carlyle, William A. Bates, William Porteous (a), James Sym e. Assistant Surgeons—Samuel Wicks, Charles D. A. New man, Daniel Coulter, M.D., Daniel Mcßride. Paymasters and Pursers—James Street, James S. Wells, Thomas Mends, Robert Lewer. London : Printed and Published by MWtDO YOUNG, ut .r o. 112 Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, N 0.112, Strand, in the Precinct et . the SAW, 111 the County of hilddleson, irgay, July 2,