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„ZVENING EDITION l inn with it, he should say nothing more than simply move the resolution. The Hon. Mr. SPRAGUE, of the Massachussets Legis - Intare seconded the resolution. It was with no small thifldenee that he attempted to address an assembly like t he present, especially after the talented gentlemen who , had spoken from the United States. He felt that they had an interest in everything that concerned the abolition of slavery. The abolition of slavery in foreign countries ra wit have a strong bearing upon every part of the United States. In America they look to the act of both nations 11 2 an example of what they should do, and the effect of that example was unknown except to those who witnessed In America they were not situated like Great Britain, or France, or Holland.—( Hear.) Those countries could buy their slaves and set them free, but in America that could not be done, as the National Goverment had no controul in freeing the slaves. ouch was the situation of the United States. The Con gress could pass a law for the liberation of the slaves ex cepting Columbia, a small State about ten miles square. Tbase w ho were for the abolition of slavery in Ameri ca, looked to the whole world to throw such an odiousness about it as to induce the slave owners to give up their slaves. Great Britain, he trusted, would exert her moral Influence among the people of America, by their periodi cals and their literary works, and he felt confident if it did Bp, the time would soon come when slavery would be ex tinguished in that country. The worthy gentleman con cluded by seconding the resolution, which was carried una nimously. MAHOMEDAN SLAVERY. Dr. Boweirso then rose to call the attention of the Con vention to the state of slavery in Mahomedan countries. He had been called noon to address the Convention on a subject of' great interest and great importance. He re gretted that it had not been in his power to prepare a for real report on the subject, as had been announcei in the Morning. He was sorry that all he should be at present able to do would be to address to the Convention those desultory and unarranged observations which grew out of the topic he was about to introduce. His first feeling and desire was to appeal to the candour of all present, and to ask them to deal indulgently with them while he led them into lands into which, perhaps, less than any other, atten tion to the abolition of slavery had been directed— into lands where that which existed forty centu ries age existed now, and where would be found those beautiful and faithful stories of Holy Writ, palpable to the touch, and visible to the sight.—( Cheers.) If t hey went into Syria, Arabia , or Egypt , in t h e desert they would find many a parxiarch, with his houses, his camels, his servants, his boatsmen, and bondswomen. ;-(Cheers.) Among those who accepted some of the highest official situations in the East, there were many Who had reached them. through the door of slavery, and Many a Joseph existed there whose history would be well Worthy of study. It was true that Babylon had been swept away, and that in Tyre and Sidon the only activity that existed was in the lizard, and the newt, and the scorpion; but still there was Jerusalem, and Damascus, and Antioch, and Nazarus, and Alexandria, and Smyrna. They were as great and as illustrious as ever.—( Cheers.) The Mahomedan law recognised the law of Judaism, and he was bound to say, in reproach of the Christian character stud conduct, that the Mahomedan oppression was not so severe upon the slave as that of the professing Christian. `-( Cheers.) The law of the Koran recommended the slave to the humanity of the Musselman, and inasmuch ax it did honour to that people, he trusted that he Might be allowed to refer to that which was stated by him Whom they called the Prophet. What did they say? Why, show kindness to your parents, friends to orphans, the poor, the stranger, the traveller, and the captive, for Allah loveth not the pride of vain glory. In another Passage he opens the door to the manumisssion of Mahe- Medan slaves. He says, that unto such of your slaves a desire a written proof that they may redeem them selves from it, if you have found them faithful, give them of your wealth which God has given you. Again, waarry those whom ye possess, who are true believers. Ye are of common origin. Marry them with the consent of their masters, and give them their dower according to Janice ; and if they sin, let them be only punished with half the punishment inflicted on the free—this, because the slave was not supposed to have had the same benefits of btstruction. He was willing to admit that what was right and what was elevated in the Mahomedan law was fi rst taken from Christianity and Judaism ; but he was also compelled to acknowledge that the Mahomedans Obtained more influence by their directions than those did Whose authority was higher and sanction nobler. If they Would allow him, he would refer to a beautiful tradition Ikl rk °lig the Mahomedans , which. had a grea t effect u p on their leinper and conduct. There was a verse in the Koran which " Paradise is prepared for those who bridle their anger, sad forgive men ; Allah loveth the beneficent."—( Cheers.) The 141 7 which every Mahomedan child had heard from his youth, Was to the following effect :—'• H assan-ben-Ali had a slave, 1111 0 threw over him, at table, a dish boiling hot. Fearing his Master's resentment, he threw himself on his kncss before him, and said, Paradise is for those who bridle their anger.' Has :all answered, lam not angry.' The slave added, And who I forgive you,' said Hassan. Allah loveth the b eneficent,' continued the slave. ' I give you your liberty,' l id his master, ' and 400 pieces of silver.' "—( Cheers.) Was tthere not, he would ask, in that tradition, instruction of the most eloquent and beautiful description ? There was one cir rolatance connected with the East that was peculiarly interest 'lll and that was--that there they know of no distinction of Neer, they had no nobility of skin.—(Cheers.) White men 4f the highest rank married black women, and black men fre 'liently occupied the highest socia l and official situations. At the present moment, the Scherif of Mehemet Ali was as black Se a raven. He had over an d over a g ain, on the Nile, seen the N ubian commanding the whi te men of northern Egypt, and again andagain he had seen in the East the black men domineering it 'ler their white dependents, and he recollected on one oeca "° a black man in an Egyptian reg iment havin g had his leg ,„ n ot by Clot Bey, and when he expresse d his sur p rise at t hearing any exclamations of pain , his answ er was, " Do y ou t hink that a black man can bear pain no better than the white mancan ?"—( Cheers.) The slavery of the Eas t was not the , I MVery , of the field, but the household. In the dispen sations of rroildence in those countries where slavery formed part of the social organization, the Divine Being had tempered the wind t O the shorn lamb.—( Cheers.) The slaves were cared for with affection and tenderness in those countries where the people Were swept away in thousands by pesti l e nce of the most cruel character.He knew himself the case of a Mahomedan Go vernor, who of 70 children had lost 69; and the result of such ° e ls currence. often was the cause o f the affections of the Ma oinedans - being placed upon the children they bought, who l 'ecame part of their household.—(Cheers.) The slave there Was not regarded as a degraded being, inasmuch as slavery was 4 °„icipeciiinent to his reaching the highest soc ial elevation.— ( ) He believed that three-fourths of the Divan of Yenstantinople consisted of men stolen in their youths, and who Were wholly unacquainted with their early history, the scenes Z i f l their childhood, or even the place of their birth. Such was e state of things in the last, and very different, indeed, was the Iceidition of the slave there to those who were dependent upon Chri s t ian i i masters; but they must not suppose that from what had stated, that the state of slavery was not deplorable in 4 ''e East. It was the great impediment to civilization, it.struc dft, and civil liberty, and he believed it might be shown that t he present condition of the Caliphat, whose race was run, and 1 . ," destinies accomplished, might be traced to the pollution , the degradati on , the misery, and the ruin which the principles of slavery everywhere introduced. He had spoken of the weak aiels of the Caliphat, because, he thought, out of that weakness, good o rtunit was offered to them of doinr , great good in the L e .. pp° a Chr ) The Mahomedan in 6 fluence, repro. with Mehemet Ali, which want of space compels U 3 to omit. In another part of that report he had stated that he w as confi- ! dent it would be possible, by direct negotiation, to obtain the concurrence of the Pacha of Egypt, the most influential of Ma homedan Sovereigns, and the only one rising in influence. He had no doubt whatever that it would be possible to obtain his concurrence and aid to co-operate for the abolition of sla ver r in Eastern climes.—(Hear, hear, hear.) The sufferings of the black in Eastern Africa were beyond all description. Again and again he had seen the caravans coming over the Desert, the slaves naked and exhausted, and telling tales of those who had perished in the way. In fact the slave trade in that country was the curse of the human race there, but he trusted by the exertions of the Society, and the good sense of the rulers of the different nations of the earth, the time was not far distant when its name would be remembered no longer. Mr. JOSEPH SAMS, of Darlington, proposed the next reso lution. Having sometime ago visited the whole of the inter esting countries to which his friend, the worthy Doctor, had had alluded, he begged to unite 'with him in the statements he be had made as to the state of slavery in Eastern Africa, and to corroborate what he had said with respect to it not being carried on in that cruel manner in which it was in the domini ons of the Christians. He believed that the blacks were a greatly maligned race, for in all his travels he always met with the greatest kindness from them, while, on the other hand, the Arabs had shown themselves to be treacherous in the extreme. The worthy gentleman concluded by proposing the following resolution : " l'hat a Committee be appointed to take into their considera tion the best way of assisting to effect the suppression of slavery in Mahomedan countries, and that Dr. Bowring, William Foster, Rev. James Acworth, Rev. J. Carlisle, be such Com mittee." The Rev. J. ButoirnT, of Camberwell, seconded the resolu tion. Some difficulty had been expressed as to whether that Convention could address the Governments of other nations ; he did not know that there was any rule by which they could be guided in their course, inasmuch as no nation had laid down any plan by which it might be addressed by voluntary societies, but it did not follow from those circumstances that they should not address all the nations of the earth. If it was found that the whole of civilized Europe was in support of their great cause, if it was found that the demand for the extinction of slavery was general—and who could deny that it wasnot ?—he could not con ceive the Government that would be bold enough to reject their addresses.—(Cheers.) The Resolution was their put to the meeting and was declared by the Chairman to be carried unanimously.; The Rev. J. BENNETT proposed the following resolution : " That the very grateful thanks of the Convention be pre sented to Dr. Bowring for the valuable service he has rendered this clay in his faithful translation of the addresses of the French gentlemen composing the deputation from that country." Mr. J. SAMS seconded the resolution, which was carried unanimously. The SECRETARY informed the gentlemen present that the business of the Convention for to-morrow (this day) would be, First, the consideration of the state of the free people of colour in Canada; the state of things in connection with slavery in Cuba, and also the slave-trade generally. It was also ex pected that the Reports of the Committees onßritish India, and Danish Slavery, would be made to-morrow, (this day). The Convention adjourned at half-past Seven o'clock, till to morrow, (this day,) at Ten o'Clock. PARLIAMENTARY Di VISION. (From the Potes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.) MONDAY, JUNE 15. CLERGY RESERVES (CANADA) BILL. Order for Second Reading read; Motion made, and Ques tion put,—" That the Bill be now read a second time :"—The House divided : MAJORITY—AYES, Acland, Sir T. D. Gore, 0. W. tcland, T. 11, Goulburn, Henry Aglionby, H. A. Grattan, Henry Aglionby, Major Greenaway, Charles Alston, Rowland Grey, Sir G. 3aines, E. Grimsditch, Thomas 3aring, F. T. Harcourt, G. G. Barnard, E. G. Hawes, B. Barry, G. S. Heathcoat, J. Berkeley, Hon. H. ,lector, C. J. Berkeley, Hun. C. Henniker, Lord , Bernal, R. Hill, Lord A. M. C. ii wes, T. Hindley, Charles Blake, M. J. Hobhouse, Sir J. C. Blake, W. J. Hobhouse, T. B. Blewitt, Reginald Hodges, T. L. Bodkin, John James Hodgson, Richard Bowes, J. Hoskins, K. Briscoe, J. I. Houldsworth, T. Brodie, W. D. Hume, J. Brotherton, J. . 4 Humphery, J. Browne, R. D. Hurt, Francis Bryan, George Hutton, R. Buller, E. Ingham, Robert Burroughes, H. James, William Busfeild, William Jervis, J. Chalmers, P. Lambton, 11. Clay, W. Langdale, Hon. C. Collier, John Lester, E .C. Crompton, S. Lushington, C. Dalmeny, Lord Macauley, T. B. Dashwood, G. H. Marshall, W. Denison, W. J. Marsland, H. D'Eyncourt, C. T. Marsland, T. Duke, Sir James Martin, Thomas B. Duncombe, W. Mildmay, P. St. John Dundas, Sir R. ;:lilness Richard Eastnor, Viscount Morris, David Eliot, Lord Nicholl, J. Elliot, Hon. J. E. O'Connell, I). Evans, G. O'Connell, M. Evans, W. O'Connor Don Ewart, NV. O'Ferrall, More Ferguson, Sir Robert Pack e, C. W Finch, Francis Paget, F. Fleetwood, H. Pakington, J. S. . Fort, John Parker. J. French, F. Pechell, Captain Gaskell, James Milues Pendarves, E. W. Gisborne, T. Phillpotts, J. Gladstone, W. E. Protheroe, Edward Gordon, Robert 152. Pryme, G. Posey, P. Ran don, J. D. Rice, E. B. Rich, Henry Rickford, W : Roche, W. Rolleston, L. Rundle, J. Russel!, Lot d .Tohn Russell, Lord Charles Rutherford, A. .. Sanford, a A. Scholefield, J. Scrope, G. P. Seale, Sir J. H. Sheppard, T. Smyth, Sir H. Somers, J. P. Stanley, Hon. W. Stansfield, W. R. C Stewart, James Strutt, Edward Stuart, Villiers Sugden, Sir E Talfourd, 'l'. Noon Tancred, 11. W. Teignmouth. Lord Thornely, Thomas Tufnell, H. Turner, Edmund Turner, William Vernon, Granville Vigors, N. A Waklcy, Thomas Warburton, H. Ward, H. G. White, A. White, Colonel H. Williams, W. Williams, W. A. Wilshere, W. Wood, C. Wood, G. W Wood, B. Wrightson, W. B. Wynn, C. W. Yates, J. A. Young, John TELLERS. Manic, Hon. Pox Smith, R. Vernon INORITY—NOES, Jackson, Serjeant Kemble Henry Knight, H. G. Liddell, H. T. Litton, Edward Lockhart, A.M. Loath: r, 'olonel Mackenzie, Thomas Maunsell, 'l'. P. Monypenny T. G. Parker, It. T. Pease, Joseph Perceval, Colon►► Bailey, Joseph Bell, Matthew Blemierhassett, A. Buller, Sir J. Y. Burr, Higford Courtenay, Philip Estcourt, T. G. B. Fill - tier, Sir Edward Glynne, Sir S. It. Gore, 35. Plumptre, J. P. Richards, R. Itushbrook, Colonel Rushout, George Shaw, Frederick Sotheron, 'l'. k Stanley, E. Vere, Sir C B. Williams, Robert Grant, Sir A. C. Hepburn, Sir T. B. Hughes, W. B. TELLERS. Inglis, Sir It. H. Pringle, A. FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 15th day of June, 1840, present the QUEEN'S Most Excellent Majesty in Council, It is this day ordered by her Majesty in Council, that his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury do prepare a Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving to Almighty God, for His late mer ciful preservation of the Queen from the atrocious and trea sonable attempt against her sacred person, on Wednes day the tenth of June; and that such form of prayer and thanksgiving be used in all churches and chapels in England and Wales, and in the town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, upon Sunday the twenty-first of this instant June, or so soon as the Ministers thereof shall receive the same, and to be continued for thirty days afterwards. WILLIAM L. BATHURST. WHITEHALL, JUNE 13. The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignity of a Baronet of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland unto Sir Thomas Wiltshire, K. C. 8., Colonel in the Army, and serving with the rank of Major-General in India, and to the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten. Commission signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County o: Cornwall. C. J, W. Ellis, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant, May 27. BANKRUPTS. avant.-( .sneers. 'ated by th e sword and the book, was passing away , the JOSIAH CRUTCIILEY, licensed victualler, Tooley- street, Christi an powers were sovereigns of Constantinople and the Southwark , to surrender , June 23, at half - pas t eleven, and Ottoma n Empire, and not the Sultan, and he trusted that some July 28, at one, at the Court, of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, offi tPiPeal would be made by that meeting in order to show them cial assignee, Basinghall - street ; Harpur , Kennington - c ross, 14 influence they possessed and exercised, and if there was, Surrey. believed that influence would be found not to ROBERT STOCKDALE, merchant, Crosby-square, have been exercised in vain. He was quite convinced that if, London, June 26, and July 28, at twelve, at the Court of Bank at the present moment, the influence of the Christian powers ruptcy. Belcher, official assignee; Kearsey, Hughes, and ,_.was properly used at Constantinople, something might be ob- Thomas, Bucklersbury. 'allied. They were all interested that day in the statements JOHN FROST, innkeeper, Basinghall. street, June 23, at tf Monsieur Cremieux, an Israelite without guile - (Ch eer s) - one, and J uly 28, at eleven , at the Court of Bankruptcy. txt he f e lt b oun d to say that the persecution of the Jews at G reen, Aldermanbury, official assignee; Newbon and Evans, Damascus was far stronger than he had represented. Wardrobe-place, Doctors'-commons. He should perhaps bring the persecution home to their BENJAMIN and THOMAS TATTERSALL, corn - alinds by relating a fact, of which he was an eye-witness, merchants, Liverpool, June 2.9, and July 28, at two, at the of what took place in the Holy Land. He was a visi- Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool. Lowndes and Robinson, Liver tor to th e G overn or of Nabous, the capital of Samaria , p ool ; Norri s , Manchester ; Taylor, Sharpe, Field, and Jack the Sychem of the Old Testament, and the Lycar of son, Bedford-row, London. the N ew-that spot on w hi c h the Samaritans, for there JOHN BELL, worsted-manufacturer, Ishoft, Yorkshire, Were still Samaritans in that country, to the present hou r wor- June 30, at four, at the Cou rt -ho use , Bradford , and July 28, shipped the God of their Fathers on Mount Gherezin, that spot at nine, at the Commissioners' Rooms, Leeds. Hawkins, Where the Saviour uttered these words, " God is a spirit, and Bloxam, and Stocker, New Boswell-court, Lincoln's-inn, Lon they who worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth." don ; Wells,_ Bradford. It Was a t t h e h ouse o f the Governor of the capital of Samaria that JOSEPH TAYLOR, coal-fitter, Middlesbrough, York he was livi ng w h en he saw a beautiful child brought in , per - s hire, Jul y 7 a nd 28, at ten,at the King's Head Inn, Darling leans eight or nine years of age. He had been purchased by th e ton, count y of Durham. Lever, King's-road, Bedford-row, ~..overnor of Shiraz for 7,000 piastres , or about 701. sterling. London; Peacock, Darlington. The boy knew nothing of his early history ;he had bee n stolen DUNCAN JOHN CAMERON and ALFRED BAR probably by the Turkish officer who had sold him, his condition BER, dealers in malt, Shire-green, Yorkshire, at eleven, had nothing in it distressing, for the recollection of his friends June 27, and July 28, at the Town-hall, Sheffield. Newmans, and his family had passed away, and he had been received into Barnsley ; Hawkins, Bloxam, and Stocker, New Boswell the bosom of an opulent family. But no doubt many present court, London. Would ask what reference this had to the proceedings at SAMUEL SOMERVILLE JACKSON, wool and oil- Damascus? Why this--that this demand for slaves probably merchant, Liverpool, July 3 and 28, at one, at the Clarendon led to the loss of children, and consequently to the misery which rooms, Liverpool. Keightley and Banning, Liverpool ; Walms could be much better imagined than described. Throughout l e y, Keightley, and Parkin, Chancery-lane, London. the whole of Syria children were constantly lost, their parents GEORGE BEA URIONT, clothier, Pudsey, Yorkshire, were robbed of them by one perfidious pirate or another, who June 26, at twelve, and July 28, at two, at the Commission.- sold them to slavery and the Jews-the unfortunate Jews were ers'-rooms, Leeds. Few, Hamilton, and Few, Henrietta-street, always branded with the name of the robbers. When a child Covent-garden, London ; Booth, Leeds. eras lost in that country it was immediately referred to some JAMES and HENRY NOBLE, cloth finishers, Halifax, Itnh;4:- . ly Jew. Christian and Musselman both agreed that the June 23 and July 28, at eleven, at the Northgate Hotel , Hall- Jew was the child robber, and it was in consequence of those fax. Rickards and Walker, Lincoln's Inn-fields, Londcn ; charges that the persecution of the Jews at Damascus Barber, Halifax. had its origin. -(Hear, hear, hear.) But then what was JOSEPH MILLICHAMP, wine and spirit merchant, to be done? Was such a state of timings to continue in the Birmingham, June 27, at two, and July 28, at eleven at the Holy L an d? Were those usages which probably were in New Royal Hotel, Birmingham.' Chaplin, Gray's Inn-square, existence before the time of Ab raham ne ver to be r emo ved? Lon d on ; R ichards and Motteram , Birmingham. Did it not become the Christian powers to do something to put RICHARD DOBELL, timber-merchant, Whitech p - an end to such abominations - s om e thin g to elev ate the to ne road, Ju n e 26, at two , and Jul 28, at one ae July at the Court of of the Mahomedan mind -something to s h ow t h at , in th e Bankru p t cy. Lackington , Coleman-street-buildings, official abolition of slavery, all natio n s and reli g ions had a common assi g nee ; Tucker, Bank - chambers, Lothbury. interest, and were bound and determined to unite in common ROBERT ALEXANDER, printer, Liverpool, June 26 "•operation for so holy a purpose ? His belief was, that much and July 28, at two, at the Clarendon Rooms, Liverpool. Yin- Laight be d on e if the proper means were resorted to. cent and Sherwood, King's Bench-walk, London ; by her Majesty's Government, When h e w as honoured by a mission to the East Drane, Liverpool. he had to bring the whole ROB ERT WEAR, D y er, Leed s , June 23, and July 28, question o f slavery to the notice of the present ruler of Egypt. at twelve, at the Commissioners'-rooms, Leeds. Fidder, Ite n ee d no t d esc ribe it to the meeting of the slave-trade. He Sergeant's-inn, Fleet-street, London ; Barr, Lofthouse, and need not tell them bow much of money or how much of blood Nelson, Leeds. was scattered over every track over which the slave passed. JOSEPH POMFREY AUSTIN and THOMAS WEST tte h a d seen s l ave ry at its birth-place, and he believed that it COTT, paper-manufacturers, Bristol, June 30, and July 28, 'night be checked there, if that Society directed its energies at one, a t the C ommerc ial Rooms, Bristol. Hol me , L o f tus, aright. It might be attacked in its cradle, and if it were, he and Young, New Inn, London ; Holmes, Bristol. wa s sure that that Society would be found to be a Hercules FRANCIS CHILD, attorney-at-law, Cannon-street, City, strong enough to strangle the serpent of slavery. -( Cheers.) June 24, at one, and Jut , 28, at eleven, at the Court of Bank- Ile looked upon Eastern Africa with p eculiar interest, because ruptcy. Johnson, Basinghall-street, official assignee; Green he believed the means of action there were far greater than wood, Wigmore-street, Cavendish-square. in the Western States ; and while he earnestly desired that DIVIDENDS. every effort should be made in the Gambia of the West, he At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. could not but think that the East presented greater facilities J. and J. J. Ashley, ba n k e rs, Regent-street, July 9, at and gr ea t er p rom i s e of important results. One portion of eleven-R. Waring, grocer, Luton, Bedfordshire, July 7, at Easte rn Af r i ca , as th e y were aware, w as Christian, and a half - past twe lv e - R. Clarke , dealer , King - street , Covent-gar large portion of it was alahomedan ; hut Christian and Ma- den, Jul y 7, at one-H. H. Carter, wine merchant, Spring horne44-an, as they were, he was bound to say that the I field, Essex, July 7, at twelve-F. Langan, wine merchant, Christianity was that of a barbarous nation , and that if they Regent-street, July 7, at one. wished to see Christianity in its higher excellence, they must In the Country. assist it with all the development of mind and ii.te llect ; and B. John, general shopkeeper, Narberth, Pembrokeshire, July that country certainly offered some elements to work up on 22, at ten, at the Mariner's Inn, Haverfordwest-J. Hitehman, Me had occas ion to represent to the Viceroy of Egypt, accom- shopkeeper, Aberdare, Glamorgaushire, .July 23, at two, at the anted by Colonel Campbell, that it would do his Commercial-rooms, Bristol-H. and G. RPKinn, woollen igh ness much honour, and elevate his name among drapers, Liverpool, July 7brev ,a lr at twelve, Pontypool, elve,a Monmouthshire, tthe Clarendon-rooms, European nations, if he would endeavour to check Liverpool-B. Bh, the a t roc ity committed by troops who owned him as ; Oct. 12, at one, at. the Three Salmons Inn, Usk-.J. Edwards, their Sov ere ign.-( Cheers.) He held in his hand a report cabinet maker, Liverpool, July 8, at one, at the Clarendon which, as Lord Palmerston had had the kindness to permit it rooms, Li ver p ool. to be communicated to Mr. Fowell Buxton, with reference to CERTIFICATES.-JULY 7. his own exe r ti ons , he might be permitted to read at the present R. Ford, scrivener, Shrewsbury, Salop-S. Hewlings and meeting. He would on l y call th e ir attention to a fragment of C. W. Wisbey, bill brokers, George-yard, Lombard-street that report, which represented what took place at the interview M. Potter, blanket manufacturer, Earles Heaton, Yorkshire between Meh emet Ali, Col. Campbell, and himself. The J. and C. Mould, cheesemongers, Newgate-street-F. Leggs, worthy Doctor then read part of the report of this interview builder, Birmingham-D. Davies and R. F. Cox, coal owners, THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 1840. Lydney, Gloucestershire—C. Hart and T. Lewellin, woollen warehousemen, Newgate-street:—J. Unsworth, calico printer, Brindle, Lancasbire—H. R. Fanshawe, jun., manufacturer of Caoutchouc, London-wall. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. G. Dickinson and A. Clement, carpenters, Bath—J. Fan. court and N. Pratt, upholsterers, Nottingham—W: Burstall and G. Cowper, coal merchants, Liverpool—S. Cooper and W. Hyde, linen manufacturers, Barnsley, Yorkshire —J. Grimshavr, J. James, and J. Barker, commission agents, Manchester—W. Mole, J. Bickers, and S. Appleford, silversmiths, Little Warner-street, Clerkenwell—G. and J. B. Carey, lace manu facturers, Nottingham—G. Chismar and B. Treacher, corn factors, Muscovy-court, Trinity-court, Tower-hill--J. and A. Shepherd, victuallers, Red Lion, Liverpool-street, City—J. and W. Tigar, hatters, Beverley, Yorkshire—G. Sewell and J. Collin, surgeons, Romford, Essex—R. Lancaster and T. W. Thompson, newspaper agents, Fleet-street—W. and G. Leeson, ivory turners, Birmingham—J. Dunning and T. Hemingsley, cut nail manufacturers, Wolverhampton—J. Edgcomb and H. Blakesley, manufacturers of furniture fringes, Watling-street — W. Spinks, M. Spinks, and J. Harris, milliners, New Bond street—G. and T. Corker, carpenters, Edmonton—T. Salter, T. Sherwood, jun., W. C. Haigh, and J. Atkinson, worsted piece manufacturers, Little Horton, Yorkshire. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. WILLIAM WEBSTER, merchant, Dundee, June 20 and July 15, at one, at the British Hotel, Dundee. WILLIAM MERCER, Writer to the S , gnet, Edinburgh, June 22 and July 13, at eleven, at the Royal Exchange Coffee house, Edinburgh. CHARLES INGRAM, gunmaker, Glasgow, June 22 and July 17, at twelve, at the Chambers of E. Railton, writer, Glasgow. METROPOLITAN PATENT WOOD PAVEMENT. From the experience had, there seems very little doubt that wood pavements will come into general use in the capital and all great towns. The easiness of draught, the absence of noise, the exceedingly small quantity of wear and tear, give it a superiority over every kind of paving yet used for carriage roads. Nor do these qualities appear to have any per contra set-off in expense, or the rapid wear of the blocks. So far, indeed, from it, that there is every reason to believe, from the experience already had, that ordinary fir blocks will last for many years in their natural state if well laid, at an insignificant annual expense of repair. And if they were to be Kyanized, there is no telling to what term they may endure, for the wear appears to be ex ceedingly small. The principle of wood pavement being once admitted, the next question is, as to the best form of blocks and best method of laying them down. In the first spe cimen laid, at the east end of Oxford-street, the blocks were independent hexagons, about nine inches long, and six diameter, the grain being vertical, and the bottom a well prepared Macadamised ground. This stood so well, after twelve months' trial, as to bring the wood into immediate reputation. Still it was evident, from the partial subsiding of the blocks, that some improvement was wanting. Though, as a whole, the pavement stood the test of twelve months wear ex ceedingly well, there was evidently a want of what may be called coherence or bond of aggregation of the road. Each block stood alone ; each had to bear the weight as it came on it, and there, was no means of calling in the assistance of its neighbours. If, therefore, every one was not equally strong or equally well sup ported, it naturally gave way, and left the road here and there in hollows, which, though not very glaring, were obvious enough after a shower of rain. From the smoothness of the surface also, in greasy weather, became exceedingly slippery. Succeeding this was another attempt in the Old Bailey of the same kind, which did not succeed. Another similar one in Broad-street, St. Giles's re quired considerable repairing immediately after. At length, in the summer of 1839, a plan was pro posed by a foreigner (we believe the Count de Lisle), in which he proposed forming the blocks in a peculiar rhomboidal shape, by what he calls " a new section," or " stereotomy of the cube." Without following the author through all his details of superiority of this new section, as he calls it, we shall here describe it, and show, as far as we can perceive them, the practical advan tages of his plan. Description.—Let C D, Fig. 1., be a square, A. m -- P. -- 1 ' , -1 \ ~ \ ••, I '':‘‘... ''' , 1. 4 :,... s.- en .11 c 1, and let the base D C be bisected in E. From E draw A E and complete the parallelogram A BF E, which will be the longitudinal section of his block, the transverse section being a square. if now perpeddiculars be let fall from the obtuse angles E, B, on the opposite sides, A, B, E, F, they will cut the diagonal from the acute angles, A, F, in points, P, Q, which will be the points of connexion or tic for the adjacent rows of blocks. These rows are so placed that alternately they run or lean the same way, but adjacently the opposite. Thus, if we suppose the row of blocks (Fig 2), A B H I, B C G , a, C 9 - C D F G, all leaning towards the north, the adjacent rows on each side of it, as C B I H, D C H G, E D G F, will all lean towards the south. _ By this means the two pins a, h. of the block, C B I H, coin cide respectively with the holes in the blocks A B H I, and BC G H. So that if they are thus pinned, every block of one row breaks the joints of the adjacent rows, and is pinned to the two whose joints it breaks. Hence there is formed a continuous and compact body, in which the pressure is distributed over a considerable surface. If we examine more minutely the properties of these blocks, we shall find a peculiarity in their shape, as thus pinned together, which gives them the power of distri buting the pressure much superior to that of the up right hexagonal blocks. In the hexagonal blocks a weight upon any one block is wholly supported by that block during the entire time the wheel or body is pass ing across it, if unconnected to the other with pins ; and if it is connected, then nearly the whole pressure, if the ground beneath it is at all yielding, w►ll be borne by the pins, which must of course tend much to break them. But it we take one of the present blocks, in no instance can it have to sustain the whole pressure for more than over one-half of its surface. For if wo re fer to Fig. 1 we shall see that the block A B F E sus tains the whole pressure only when the weight is be tween m and B. When between m and Ait is partly supported by the preceding block by a direct pres sure of the one block upon the other. The mere keeping of the two blocks, therefore, together, which the friction of the subsoil does almost alone, would cause a distribution of the pressure over the greater part of two surfaces instead of over one. But the method of pinning them and breaking the joints really spread the pressure over a great number of them, and that without any great strain upon the pegs, for the friction of the sub-earth beneath helps much to diminish this strain in the way we have before alluded to. Hence by dividing the pressure over a large range of the blocks longitudin ally, the co-operating aid of an equal number on each side of this row is called into action by means of the pegging system, and the individual pressure therefore is much extenuated, as well as the strain on the pegs. Indeed the whole body has somewhat the property of a solid, every part being united to the other by the manner of breaking the joints by contra-running rows, and pin ning them together. It is thus in a great measure in dependent of unequal hardness of subsoil, and must pre serve, much better than the other methods can, a more even surface. In the hexagonal blocks the grain is perpendicular to the road ; in these it is parallel to the sides of the blocks, and therefore somewhat oblique to the road. It is said this has been found preferable, and that horses do not slip so much on this sort of road as they do upon the other blocks. If this be the case, it is curious and highly advantageous property, of which, however, we do not see any physical reason. We have, at different times, paid some attention to this, and certainly have observed, or fancied we have, much less slipping upon the specimens laid down after this plan than after the other plans. This, however, may be in part occasioned by a groove cut longitudinally along the blocks, which, if so, another groove, cut transversely, would be a still farther safeguard against slipping. _ .. - It may be supposed that there would be some diffi culty in shaping these blocks, but there is really none. The blocks are cut in long square lengths in the direc tion of the grain, and the figure is given at once, with out waste, by cutting them o ff i n t h e proper o bli que angle. The joints are of course, therefore, be tween the blocks far more perfect than it is almost possible they can by any expense be made in the hexa gonal shape. Our readers will thus see that the great advantages of this plan consist in accomplishing by a simple and easy cut figure in the blocks, and proper pinning, a greater uniformity and distribution of bearing, a much more even surface, and consequently a less wear and tear, and less annual expense in keeping the road up. We have heard that so conscious of superiority in the diminished wear are the parties connected with the undertaking, that they decline laying down a pavement unless they also are permitted to contract for the keeping of it in repair. The patent, is now in the bands of a company, an d it seem s by the interest excited in its favour, that ere long it will become almost the sole and only plan of wood paving not only throughout Londan, which there is little doubt will, in a few years, be nearly all paved with wood, but in other large towns of the United Kingdom. We have just heard that an order for one quarter of a mile of this plan has been given for the town of Manchester. Our intention was, in the present number, to com pare the expense of this sort of pavement with others, for which we have collected some materials, but we find we must defer it to our next.—Railivay Magazine. VHE HON THE IRISH SOCIETY OF LONDON v. THE LOUD BISHOP OF DERRY. The Court of Common Pleas at Dublin, on Monday last, unanimously set aside the verdict pronounced by the Jury in this case, in favour of the Bishop of Derry, on the 7th of May last, giving the defendant the costs of the trial, but not of the motion for the new trial or the argument. The Court afterwards fixed the new trial to take place at the bar of the Court of Common Pleas, on Monday, the 9th day of No-. - ember next. The question is a very im portant one, involving, as it does, the right of the Society to the advowsons granted to them with their other estates in Ulster, by the charter of King James the First, on ae plantation of their portion of that province. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. ASCOT-HEATH RACES. The meeting now in progress, being the third under the auspices of the present Sovereign, commenced yesterday, under highly-favourable circumstances. The list teemed with sport, the weather was propitious, and her Majesty, in full reliance on the loyalty of her subjects, had anno u nce d her intention to participate in their amusements. With such powerful induce ments, it was fair to anticipate a full attendance ; in this, how ever, we were in some measure disappointed ; it certainly was large and fashionable, but it did not quite reach the standard we had fixed. Many of the visitors, we believe, had reached the neighbourhood in the course of Monday, and several lodgings were let, but the greater portion of those present arrived either by the Great Western Railway, or the various coaches and omnibuses from Piccadilly. By elevb o'clock the streets of Windsor were thronged, and in another half hour there was a general move for the Heath, which, covered with dust, and under a broiling sun, the majority had reached in time for the arrival of the Queen. The Grand Stand, improved in a variety of re spects, and more particularly in the elevation of the seats in the principal floor and on the roof, was patronised by a great number of the nobility, and the precaution of obtaining tickets in advance having been generally adopted, the inconvenience complained of last year was avoided. The general fitting-up of the course was as of yore ; of refreshment booths there were more than enough for the wants of the company, nor was there any lack of those devoted to gaming; the " knights of the garter," the thimble-rig gentry, and every other description of thief usually found on a race-course, were to be met with in all directions ; and, in despite of the vigilence of the police, their time-honoured avocations were as successful as ever. The arrangements for clearing the course and the maintenance of order were entrusted by Lord Kinnaird to Mr .Hibbard, and it is but justice to him to say that they were admirably carried out; he was ably seconded by the police under Superin tendents May and Grinsell, Inspectors May, Field, and Hick man. Mr. Commissioner Mayne was in attendance at the Queen's stand. At one o'clock the approach of the cavalcade from the Castle was heralded by the shouts of the spectators, and in a few mi nutes it passed up the New Mile • it consisted of seven carriages and four and a pony phaeton, with outriders and mounted door keepers, the whole headed by Lord Kinnaird. In th.' first car riage were her Alajesty, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, his Roy al Highness Prince George of Cambridge, and his Serene Highness the Prince of Leiningen ; in the others were the Duke and Duchess of Leinster, Duke and Duchess of Somerset, Marchioness of Normanby, Earls of Albemarle, Erroll, Ux bridge and Countess, and Morley ; Lord and Lady Palmerston, Lords Lilford, G. Lennox, and A. Paget ; Lady M. Hay, Lady F. Cowper, Ladies Eleanor and Constance Paget, Hon. Lady Murray, Hon. Miss Cocks, Hon. Miss Lister, Sir F. Stovin, Sir E. Bowater, Hon. C. A. Murray, Col. Cavendish, Col. Wylde, Col. Cornwall, Mr. Seymour, &c. Immediately after alighting at the Royal Stand her Majesty appeared at the window, with Prince Albert, and was greeted with waving of hats and handkerchiefs, and deafening cheers, from every part of the course; nothing, in short, could more strongly demonstrate attachment than the feeling shown by all clases. Her Majesty and the Prince remained in front of the Stand nearly the whole of the time they were on the course, and entered heartily into the spirit of a scene which possessor local and other attractions of the highest order. Their depar ture for the Castle took place immediately after the race for tile Vase, amidst the cheers of the spectators. A cursory glance at the Grand and Jockey Club Stands enables us to subjoin the names of the principal visitors : Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, Duke of Rutland, Duke of Dorset, Marquis of Exeter. Earl and Countess of Chester field, Earl and Countess of Lichfield, Earl of Jersey, Earl of Stradbroke, Earl of March, Earl Bruce, Earl and Countess of Southampton, Earl of Wilton, Earl and Countess of Sand wich, Earl of Oxford, Lord G. Bentinck , Lord John Fitzroy, Lord it. Grosvenor, Lord Andover, Lord Rosslyn, Lord Vil liers, Lord Charles Manners, Lord Kelburne, Lord Tenterden, Lord W. Paulett, Lord Maidstone, Sir Hugh Campbell, Sir John Shelley, Sir Gilbert Heathcote , Hon. Gen. Grosvenor, Hon. G. S. Byng, Hon. Col. Anson , Hon. Captai n n e, R A ou ir s : j Hon. W. Rous, Hon. G. Fitzroy, Hon. J. Vill iers , Hen. Woodhouse, Hon. C. Forrester, Col. P e el, Col. Wyndham, Mr. G A r i e r v . i p lle o , rt A m lr a . n T , A N l V r ,:its E o t n w Payne, a lin, Mr. I'. Gardner, Mr. Shelley, Mr. Hungerford, Mr. G. Walker, Mr. Forbes, Mr. Hawker , M r. Newton, M r Newton, jun., Mr. G. Mills, Mr. Shifton, Mr. Robertson, Mr. Gregory, Mr. Clive, Mr. Ladbroke, &c. Little need be said in the way of introduction to the sports ; it will be collected from the following details, that it was plen tiful enough to satisfy an Alderman's appetite. The Trial Plate of 501. added to a Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each, two years a feather ; 3 yrs 7st 41b ; 4 yrs, Bst. I3lb ; 5 and 6 yrs, and aged 9st 41b. The new mile. Seven Subs. Duke of Rutland's Flambeau, 4 yrs (Robinson) I Hon. G. Byng's Barrabbas, 4 yrs 2 Mr. Dixon's Camelius, 4 yrs Colonel Wyndham's Pestonjee Bomanjee, 5 yrs 4 Duke of Cleveland's c. by Emilius out of Farce 3 yrs 5 Mr. V. King's Ruby, 6 yrs Betting-6 and 7t04 on Flambeau, 4to I against Pestonjee ( t), and 7to 1 against Barrabbas. Pestonjee made the run ning for half a mile, and was then headed by Flambeau, who went on with it to the end, and won easy by two lengths. The Ascot Derby Stakes of 50 sovs each, h ft, for three-years old colts Bst 61b, fillies Bst 31b. From the Swinley post in. 10 subs. Sir G. licatheote's Bokbara ........ ...... ......(Chapple) 1 Mr. Greville's Perseus . Mr. Wreford's Warden Lord Albemarle's Cambyses Betting-5 to 2on Wardan, and 6to 1 agst Cambyses ; the winner not mentioned. Perseus took the lead, and with War dan in attendance, was in front to the second road near the turn, where Wardan passed him ; at the distance Bokhara went up, and the three ran nearly head and head to the Grand Stand, where Warden gave way ; the struggle here was beau tiful ; Bokhara winning by a neck only. The St. James's Palace Stakes of 100 sovs each, h ft ; for colts, Sst 71b ; and fillies, Bst 41b. Old mile. 3 subs. Lord Exeter's Scutari, by Sultan . ...(Darling) 1 Lord Albemarle's Exit, by Varnish Betting-6 to 4on Scutari. Exit cut out the work at a goodpace to the turn, when Scutari passed him, made the rest of the running, and won easily by two lengths. The Ascot Stakes of 25 toys each, 15 ft, and only 5, &c., with 100 sovs. added ; the second to receive 50 sovs. of the Stakes. Two miles and a half. 45 subs., 24 of whom de clared. &c. Capt. Williamson's Darkness, 3 yrs, sst 41b (Percy) 1 Mr. Robertson's Little Wonder, 3 yrs, 75t... Hon. S. Herbert's Arctic, aged, Sist 131 b 3 Mr, Morgan's Quo Minus, 5 yrs, Bst 131 b Capt. Gardner's Anna Boleyn, 5 yrs, 7st llb 0 Lord Exeter's Hellespont, 3 yrs, sst 71b .. 0 Mr. V. Corbet's Jenny Jones, 4 yrs, Bst 41b. Betting-6 to 4on Little Wonder-5 to 1 agst Quo Mimus —lO, and at starting, 7 to 1 agst Darkness--and 10 to 1 agst Jenny Jones. Arctic made play at a slow pace, followed by Darkness, the third and fourth p os iti ons b e i ng filled by Helles pont and Anna Boleyn; Little Wonder and Quo Minus lying in the rear. They ran in this order till near the turn into the straight course, where Hellespont dropped off ; and Little Wonder and Quo Minus joined the first rank. At the distance Darkness took up the running, and, with Little Wonder in at tendance, went on with it to the end, winning cleverly by a length ; Arctic a middling third ; Quo Minus fourth. The pace was good for the last three quarters of a mile. Sweepstakes of 50 sovs. each, h. ft. ; for 2-year old colts, Bst. 71b. ; and fillies, bet. 31b. Three quarters of a mile. 11 subs. Lord G. Bentinck's The Cornet, by the Colonel (J. Day) 1 Sir G. Heathente's f. by Defence, out of Nannette... stol on the Co:net. A head and head race to the Grand Stand, where The Cornet went in front, and won easy by two lengths. The Gold Vase, given by her Majesty, added to a Sweep stakes of 20 sovs. each ; for three-year-olds, ist. 31b. ; 4 yrs, 9st.; 5 yrs, 9st. 71b. ; 6 yrs and aged, 9st. 91b. ; mares anti gelding allowed slbs. ; horses that never won above the value of 501., or received 1001. for running se cond, allowed weight in the following proportions :—Three year-olds, 41b. ; 4 yrs, 71b. ; 5 yrs, 121 b. ; 6 yrs and aged, 181 b. Matches not to be reckoned as winnings ; the winner s of the Derby and St. Leger, in 1839 and 1840, 101 b. extra; winners, in 1839 and 1840, of the Oaks, Ascot, anti Good wood Cups, Riddlesworth, 2000 guineas, Newmarket Stakes, Port and Claret Stakes, and the second horses in the Derby and St. Leger 41bs. extra. (13 subscribers.) Mr. Pettit's St. Francis, 5 yrs. Mr. Etwall's b. c. by Mulatto, out of Melody, 3 yrs. Lord Exeter's Amurath, 3 yrs Lord Lynedoch's Jeffy, 3 yrs 4 Betting.-5 to 4on the Melody colt-2 to 1 agst St. Francis —8 to 1 agst Jeffy—and 10 to 1 agst Amurath. St. Francis made the running at a slow pace, Melody colt anti Amurath waiting on him to the straight running, where Melody took the lead and kept it to the distance ; here the lot closed, and a splendid race followed with all. The struggle terminated in favour of St. Francis by a head—Melody and start Amurath made a dead heat for second, and Jeff y was not a neck behind them. He 9 r st lN , la lb je ; st s y's yr P s, la i t o e st of ; 1600yrgs nuaindeasag;e(3oirosotldssi. ,r olds, 7st 21b ; 4 I at rs 0 (Cotton) 1 yll a u g s s w uHityiolgus, three and orf tfooulr r 4 ou y i r i s d a . h . d . 2 Lord the Albemarle'sNew-mile P c o h s e t to agst Domino. ALlorr.dLcithcheswt:earlfid'esldli,sylGluaDsgm,:b4nloiayninrc.s:. '' . ................. ... ............... 3 a distance and a half from the lengths behind until within d , fhe race was beautifully finished, chair, where he challenge however, struggled on, and 1 e had won, Domino, Grand Stand Betting-7nomiooma made to 4 al o l on the Domino, ruo oiu g 3, astonishment of the beholders to the Gambia was beaten off. Hyllus making so gallant eht .rs of w i o t u th o a u t t a h t e t p h o e st e b n y d a o h f o t a n d e . sponding with if, complete before eery plan of an no unei then ag g ai nst w e i a n e n h er h s r b s y e u th m e b e c r a , rd c , or vi r . e a adopted, with - oneset success; it would be a still greater im provement for were also exhibited. h Majesty will entertain largo dinner We understand that er parties this eveni n g and to-morrow. No Cup betting. verne nit , the figures of the horses GRAND CRICKET MATCH. Brighton, Tuesday, June 16. SUSSES• NOTTI NGHA M. First 1nning5........... 225 First Innings Second Ditto Sussex having beaded their oponents more than one hundred runs, the Nottingham men were put in on the runs. Consequently Suss cx beat single inning and 61 runs. A strong body of mounted police are to proceed to New Zealand, under the command of Lieutenant Smart, of the 2-th Regiment. — Colonial Gazette. PERILOUS FEAT AND NOVEL WAGER..— .Sunday morning a man of the name of Joseph Calthorp, 95 years of age, undertook, for the wager of a sovereign, to jump from London-bridge, at the centre arch, into the river, and swim from thence to Greenwich in anhour and a half. Accord ingly, at the early hour of four in the morning, w h en the tide was about halt ebb, he made his appearance on the bridge, and, stripping, leaped from the parapet. A minute ' had scarcely elapsed ere he re-appeared above the water, and, striking out, proceeded on his task to Greenwich, which he accomplished in an hour and twenty minutes, being ten minute within the given time. He did net appear• to be in the least exhausted on his reaching Greenwich, and got into the boat which accompanied him without assistance. He then dressed himself, and was rowed back to Tower-stairs. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. (From the Globe.) _ _ Lord Stanley, last night, receded from his declared purpose of bringing on his measure for Irish disfranchise ment on a night appropriated by the invariable custom of the House of Commons to Bills brought in by Members of the Government. His Lordship—a cir cumstance not very usual with him—called discretion to his aid, and acquieSced in an arrangement, by which the necessity of taking a vote on the question of prece dence was rendered unnecessary. Lord John Rus sell proceeded with the Canada Reserves Bill, and Lord Stanley's Bill for disfranchising a large propor tion of the Irish Electors, by placing numerous obsta cles in the way of their exercising the franchise with which the law has invested them, stands for Friday next. The remonstrances which have been addressed to the Liberal members, on the absence of so many of their number on recent important divisions, have had the desired effect. The attendance last night was ex pressive of a determination on their part not to allow a repetition of neglect to give even a temporary ad vantage to their opponents. To this, in all probability, was it owing, that Lord Stanley yielded the point far which it would have been vain to contend. (From the Standard.) Last night in the House of Lords, Lord Lyndhurst put to Lord Melbourne the significant question whether it was the intention of Ministers to introduce a Bill for ' correcting the errors in the boundary clauses of the Irish Municipal Bill. Lord Melbourne replied that it was not. We 'nave already explained to our readers the position in which this refusal places the Municipal Bill. The course which Ministers have thought proper to pur sue is, to say the least of it, extraordinary. In the first place they introduced the Irish Municipal Bill imper fect, that is, without certain clauses regulating the boundaries of boroughs, which are necessary to pre vent an unfair pressure of taxation on some of the suburban districts of these boroughs, and they then proceeded to embody these provisions in a separate bill; so that their course of legislation was to have two bills passed in the same session on the same subject, containing inconsistent, not to say contradictory, provi sions. This was in itself strange enough, but this was not all. These provisions they did not include in a Bill by themselves, but they sent them up to the House of Lords, tacking to them provisions relative to taxa tion utterly unconnected with the main object of the Bill, so that the Lords could not adopt these boundary provisions without, at the same time, assenting to a measure neither in reason nor fact connected with them. (From the Courier.) We remember reading some years ago in the Journal du Commerce an able paper on the contagion of suicide, which was distinctly traced to the mental disorder pro duced by the excitement of fearful example, and known as insanity. In this country we often see the effect pro duced upon others by the infliction of self-murder in some remarkable manner ; thus the death of the female suicide who threw herself from the Monument was fol lowed by another death from the same cause and at the same place, and by another from the top of a lofty tower or spire in the country. Great crimes against the lives of others operate in exactly the same manner ; a kind of mania for murder becomes epidemic. Witness the murders that followed the horrible crime of Thurtell, or more recently those which arc clearly to be traced to the murder and suicide in Clerkenwell. The murder of a nobleman, and the notoriety acquired by Courvoisier, may have exerted considerable influence on a mind pre disposed to the kind of insanity which we are consider ing, and Oxford may have derived his first impulse from that melancholy event, and the final one from a morbid determination to exceed the valet in regard to notoriety. PUBLIC BUILDINGS in GLASGOW. While, by the erection of new and elegant buildings, the city is rapidly stretching itself to the north, south, and west, we are glad to observe that its adornment within is not neglected. Several public edifices of con siderable architectural beauty are just on the eve of being completed, and others are in progress, which will, i n a high degree, ornament their respective localities. On Wednesday, the woikmen began to lay the foundation of the New British Linen Com pany's Bank, a building which, we arc given to understand, will, when finished, be every way worthy of the site it is to occupy under the shadow of our noble Exchange. The new Western Club is rising up a rich and splendid piece of ' architecture, and promises to be one of the greatest at tractions in the leading thoroughfare to the west end of the city. The Union Bank in Virginia-street, and the Western Bank in Miller -street, two fine buildings, have, to a considerable degree, relieved the dulness that has long pervaded those streets ; and we believe there is some expectation that the Glasgow and Ship Bank will, ere long, adorn the top of the former street with an elegant edifice. The Clydesdale Bank has just been opened for business, and its very handsome exterior has tended not a little to ornament the lower part of Queen-street. Internally the arrangements of this Bank, and its splendid decorations have excited general admiration, and display at once the taste and the munificence of the Company. The tellers' room, in particular, has been fitted up with great care —the ornamental work almost approaching to the gorgeous. The whole of the rooms, indeed, have been finished off in a superior style, and do great credit both to architect and tradesmen. We understand that the same architect (Mr. Hamilton) has bees em ployed on almost all the buildings we have referred to : he has the merit of the Clydesdale and Western Banks, and the Western Club, and is also employed upon the British Linen Bank, just commenced. We need not say that we rejoice to find, when movement to the west-end has become so fashionable, that the ornament of the city within the royalty is not neglected by our public-spirited citizens.—Glasgoto Argus. HOP INTELLIGENCE. (From the lVorcester journal.) WORCESTER, JUNE 11.—The blight has become gene ral in this plantation ; and in a communication which has been forwarded to us it is stated that the gardens were never looking worse. The duty is talked about at 10 or 12.0001, , but there are no backers. Prices were up 2s. to 31. on Saturday, but the business done was not very ex tensive. On that day nineteen pockets were weighed, and during the week seven. HEREFORD, JUNE 8 —lt is generally thought that the " strong" paragraphs in the Papers on the state of the hop plantations are the production of interested parties, and in tended to influence the market. However this may be, such is not the case with the writer of the notices under this head, since he is unconnected with the trade, and derives his information either from actual observation or from persons likely to give accurate accounts. The public will not therefore expect extravagant views from this place. One writer says, " The Wor cester plantation is considered to be more infested by ver min than was ever known at so early a period. This dis trict and Essex have now a sufficient quantity to destroy the whole crop !"—Mercy en us I—then there will not be a single hop this year. What is to become of the poor pickers? Hitherto they have managed to earn a few shil lings in the autumn, but now this will be out of the ques tion ; the Union workhouses will be besieged with appli cants, and not one-tenth will be able to gain admit tance. I know not what the writer means by the " Worcester district ;" but in this county, where at least three times as many hops are grown as in Worcester shire, the prospect is not by any means so bad as ho represents. During the whole of Friday we had heavy rain, and this, combined with the high winds, has for a time at least dislodged the fly. Many of the hop-yards look very well, and certainly something like a crop is yet expected. Respecting the forwardness of the season, it is a fact that in some places wheat was in ear last month, and no wonder therefore that the vermin are already so abun dant. With respect to the fly, it cannot be considered very formidable, but that it must come as well as the bine itself, and therefore no measures are taken for its extinc. tion. A year or two ago a gentleman, supposing that the insect might deposit its ova, or eggs, upon the poles, adopted the plan of scorching them before using, but the suggestion has never been generally acted upon. MAIDSTONE.—The blights and close weather of the past week have caused an immense increase of fly and lice in the parishes lying under the rag-stone hills. From the Suttons to East Peckham inclusive the lice completely cover some leaves, and are very numerously scattered upon others. In this immediate district, however, the bines have grown during the week with astonishing rapidity, and certainly arc not invested by one-tenth of the number of insect vermin, which are to be seen in the parishes above named. In the " flower of Kent " ground the bines have in many instances nearly reached the tops of the eighteen-feet poles, and all the neighbouring well-culti vated grounds have been equally distinguished for vigour and rapid growth. A few days hot weather and a thunder cotm would dg much to recover the grounds that are now suffering. SINGULAR CIRCUMSTANCE. —On Thursday last, Mrs. Bell, the wife of a mason residing at the Broomiclaw, heard the cries of a child on the stair leading t o her house, and on going out found a person, habited as a sailor of the better class, sitting upon the stair with a child on his knee. lie stated that he was waiting for his wife, who had gone to the south site of the river, and that the ch ild had got impatient on his hands; on which Mrs. Bell invited him into her house, and took the child for the purpose of queting its cries. The sailor now appeared as if drunk, stated that he was master of the brig Margaret, lying at the Broo mielaw, and proposed to go out to look after the mother of the child. In doing so, he thoppFil, as if by accident, two one-pound no tes upon th fl e oor, which Mrs. Bell picked up, and restored to him. Be then left the house, and has not since returned, leaving the child under the rare of Mrs. Bell. She has awe i nqu iry after the brig Margaret, of which lie spoke, but finds that there is no such vessel at the Broomie law, and, by a reference to the Tonnage Office, has ascer tained that no vessel of that name has been in the harbour during the last two y ears. This p art of the story, there fore, turns out a fiction. The child, a fine healthy boy, about six or eight months old, was dressed in rather a superior style , a circumstance which, taken in connection with the father's appearance, and the dropping of the pound notes (now thought to be intentional), has left the present custodiers of the infant to form high notions of the respectability of its parentage. Mrs. Bell has given notice of the circumstance to the police ; but in the event of the parents not claiming the child, declares it to be her intention, though she has two children of her own, to bring it up. She has, in the meantime, provided it with a nurse.— Glasgow Argus. THE MARE ETS (front the London New Price Current of June 16.) SUGA R. —For British Plantation Sugar a good demand has prevailed, and former rates have been maintained. New Bar badoes went off at 74s od to 74s 6d for low middling to fine quality. Jamaica, of low dry brown and dark quality at 6Ss ; Demerara, low middling yellow 68s 6d ; Nevis, low middling and middling grey 69s to 70s ; Grenada, St. Kitt's, Antigua and Jamaica, rather better 70s to 71s, good to fine 72s to 755, and nothing was sold of low dry brown quality under 65s 6d per cwt. This afternoon there was a great demand for all descrip tions of West India, and the prices paid were fully equal to those of Friday, upon which terms some of the mer chants were not disposed to sell, in consequence of the in creased deficiency there is expected to be in the com parative stocks next week. At public sale 100 hhds new Barbadoes were offered, and sold readily at full former rates, middling to fine quality fetched 72 to 74s per cwt. REFINED.—To-day there was an active demand from the grocers for Refined goods, and prices advanced to 90s 6d to 91s for standard lumps, and 86s 6d to 89a for low and fine brown lumps ; one house has refused 90s for standard lumps, to be delivered in a ,month. Treacle sells freely, common at G6s 6d to 37s ; patent and the best old make at 38s to 40s. Pieces ansl Bastards go off well. Bonded Crushed Sugar was in good demand, first quality at 34s 9d, second do 34s 6d per cwt : other articles are fully as dear. MAURITIUS.—This afternoon the demand was active, and the whole of 7,216 bags at public sale found ready buyers at prices fully equal to those of last week ; fine yellow fetched 73s to 73s 6d, good middling and good 70s to 725, middling 693 to 69s Gd, low 68s to 683 6d, fine brown 67s to 67s 6d, good 66s to 66s 6d, low and middling 60s to 65s GA, very ordinary 56s per cwt. EAST INDIA.—For Bengal previous rates have been maintained. At auction 3,538 bags were all disposed of, good to fine strong bright yellow at 69s to 70s Gd, low middling to good middling white 70s to 725, good 72s 6d to 73s 6d, and one lot very fine 795, damps and washed realized 68s to 72s 6d per cwt. Manilla at 22s to 22s 6d for low and middling yellow ; for Siam former rates pre vail. Java has maintained its former currency. To-day, for Bengal, prices are rather stiffer. _ FOREIGN.—To-day there was no variation in prices, but there was little passing in any sort ; some floating cargoes are offering: Brizil white at 25s 6d to 265, brown 21s to 225, and yellow Havannah 24s per cwt. COFFEE—There has been an increased inactivity in the West India Coffee market since our last report; unclean sorts have been totally neglected, and prices are uncertain ; the trade have purchased very sparingly of all clean sorts, although the merchants have been willing to submit to a reduction on former rates of full 2s, unclean kinds have been offered 3s to 4s under previous rates. This afternoon the home consumption Coffee mar ket remained in the same dull state as has been the case for some weeks ; but prices underwent no fur ther decline of moment ; the operaticns were con fined to the public sales, which consisted of 170 casks British plantation, 156 bags Ceylon, and 1,013 bags Java. British Plantation of clean quality sold at steady rates, viz. Jamaica middling at 110 s to 1103 6d, low middling 105 s to /06s 6d, good and fine fine ord. 90s to 101 s ; the unclean sorts, of which a large portion con sisted of that offered, were chiefly taken in at low rates. Ceylon sold is under last week's rates; ordinary pale went at 80s to 81s, good ordinary 82s t fine ordinary green 84s 6d.—Java fetched former rates, but a part only was sold at 57s Gd to 60s for good pale quality. RICE.—For Bengal, prices have suffered no further depression, excepting for the lower sorts, which must be quoted 3d to 6d per cwt cheaper : low white at I Is, middling Ils to lis 6d, good middling 12s to 12s 6d ; of fine clean white sorts the supply is short, and 13s to 13s 6d has been paid by private contract for home use. Java at lOs to lls Gd for middling to fine white. Madras taken in at 9s to lOs for ordinary yellow quality, a few lots were sold at 1 Os. Siam bought in 9a per cwt. Carolina for home use at 34s to 36s per cwt. TEA.—The market for Free Trade Tea has been quiet during the past week. The Monthly Tea sales which commenced yesterday were brought to a conclusion early this morning ; they have been but thinly attended by the trade, and although the quantity offered was small, amounting to only 18,208 pkgs. equal to 1,093,698 lbs. ; still it has proved more than adequate to the demand, the trade not being disposed to pay former rates, and the biddings throughout the sales were very dull for nearly all descriptions; the merchants, however, generally were not disposed to submit to lower rates, and bought in and withdrew large parcels. To-day the market was in a dull state for Free Trade of all kinds, and prices have still a downward tendency. Common Congou for cash must now be quoted at is 10141 to Is l Id, and Twankay 2s per lb. In Company's Congou scarcely anything was done, but parcels for cash are not to be had under 2s Oid per lb. This afternoon there was rather more inquiry for Free Trade Tea, the late reduction in prices having caused the trade to be more anxious to do business ; and the mer chants arc less desirous to sell. Common Congou is now with difficulty to be had at Is lid, and Twankay 2s cash. In Company's Congou not much passing, but no sellers on 'Change under 2s id per lb. TALLOW.—For Petersburg yellow Candle on the spot the trade have been obliged to pay a further advance of Is to Is Gd, and first quality has been selling currently at 51s Gd to 525. For delivery in the last three months 52s 61 to 52s 9d, being is 6d to is 9d higher than on this day week. Town Tallow has been in active request. This afternoon prices were firm at 51s 9d to 52s for P. Y. C. on the spot, and 52s 9d to delivery in the last three months. MoLassEs. —Previous rates have been maintained for West India ; fine Antigua 393 to 39s Gd, common Montser rat, at 36s per cwt. _ This afternoon 50 casks Mauritius Molasses at auction sold at 42s per cwt; more doing in West India privately. Rum, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.— In West India Rum a fair business has been transacted at previous rates for all sorts ; of Leewards 250 puns have been disposed of, proofs at 3s 7d a 3. 7id, 2 to 4 per cent over 3s 8d a 3s 84-d, 6 to 12 over 3s 9d a 4s, 15 to 20 over 4s 2d a 4s 6d, 25 to 30 over 4s 9d ass 3d, 33 to 38 over, fine 5s 4d ass 7d. The sales in Jamaica have been 200 puns, 25 to 28 per cent over proof at 5s 8d a 5s 10d, 29 to 36 over 5s 11d to 6s 4d, superior marks 63 6d a6s 8d per gallon. For Brandy rather lower prices have been submitted to. For Cognac, first brands of the vintage of 1836 os .5(1 has been accepted in hhds, in puns 5s 3d, ditto 1837 hhds 5s 3d, puns bs Id, ditto 1838 hhds 5s Id puns ss, do 1839 puns and hhds 4s 9d a4s I Id. Bordeaux is 2s 9d per gallon. Geneva for export at Is Ild a 2s ; fine quality for home use 2s 4d a 2s 6d per gallon. British Corn Spirits lOs Id per gallon. 'ro-day there was less demand for Rum, but prices are firm, and proof Leewards are not to be had under 3s 7d per gallon. On.s.—For common Fish Oils, prices have again slightly improved, in Pale Seal large sales have been made at 261 5s to 261 103, and brown aria yellow at 241 to 251 10s, and in Southern at 231 15s to 251 for low to fine quality ; Cod 271 15s to 281. Pale Seal for arrival at 25l 15s. Southern at 24/ to 241 103 for low mid to good quality. For Sperm 951 is the nearest quotation for first quality for small parcels; there are sellers of a large quantity at 931 lOs to 941 per tun. For Linseed prices are firmer, on the spot 25s 3d; for delivery in the next two or three months 25s 6d to 25s 9d per cwt. Palm at 351 to 35l lOs per ton. This afternoon 388 casks of East India Cocoa Nut bought in 40s per cwt. THE PEERS AND THE KIRK. The sensible view taken of the Veto Question by their Lordships generally in two brief conversations in the House of Lords, forms a striking contrast to the false light in which it is regarded by most of our London contemporaries. The Spectator and the Sun have had a few able articles on the subject, but the other London journals seem to be groping completely in the dark ; and we are sorry to confess that the Ministerial Chronicle and Globe are by far the most ignorant. It is truly pitiable to see these latter journals, day after day, publishing the grossest mis-statements regarding the state of feeling in Scotland, and retailing, at second hand, the tritest fallacies of the Non-Intru , ionists. Is there no kind friend near to whisper to them that the people of Scotland do not approve of every project that is taken up by the Lord Advocate and the Whiggliug clique of Edinburgh ; and that the Caledonian Mer cury, whatever favour it may have among Govern ment officials in London, has a smaller circulation than at least a dozen of Scottish newspapers that take the other side on the Church question ? It may be all fair, for aught we know, to turn the anticipated failure of Lord Aberdeen's Bill to party purposes, but we can assure the Chronicle and the Globe that the Liberal Churchmen of this district, although they laugh hear tily at his Lordship's attempt to please the bigots, are quite disposed to give him credit for a sincere desire to heal the breaches in the Establishment, and think him a much wiser man than the Lord Advocate. Before alleging that the opponents of the Non-intrusion hum bug are confined to the slumberous cloisters of St. An drew's and Old Aberdeen, the Globe would have done well to recollect that a large majority even of the Edin burgh Town Council scouted the Non-Intrusion Pro vost's claim to represent them at, the Assembly, and that most of the other burghs in Scotland displayed the same feeling.—Aberdeen Herald. • CURIOUS FACT.—About three weeks ago, when the drought was at its height, and had continued nearly three calendar months, the barn or stream at Glenluce fell so low, that the salmon, after spawning, lacked a sufficiency of water to float them over a gravel bank adjoining the bridge, on their way to sea. In this dilemma, their range of pool room was exceedingly limited, and there they were forced to remain for days, thicker by far than " three in a bed," prisoners in a piscatory tolbooth. Although all of them might have been liberated on a bill of health, there was no physician to grant the necessary certificates ; and matte's at length assumed so alarming an appearance, that the tacks man, and others, from humanity, as well as interest, swept the pool gradually by nets, and in that way conveyed the imprisoned fish to a mill-race hard by, where they again remained until rain fell. The first onzinffs out of the sky convulsed the mill-lade with delight. It was curious to note the regularity with which one fish escaped after another, each ir.stinetiwly waiting its opportunity, and offering no obstruction, in the shape of mobbing or over -troweling, to the ultimate deploying of the whole body. One onlooker says the emancipatory movement went forward as gradually as the ticking of a clock ; and perhaps it would be no exagge ration to of say that a whole colony finny people'experienced as much der ; Light on reaching the sea, as the inmates of the ark did on laud ing on Mount A rarat.—Dumfries Courier. A great improvement has taken place at BhA heath and Greenwich on Sundays, from the suppression of donkey ridi ng ; t h e f ormer , instead of being frequented by noisy and turbulent assemblages, was last Sunday a scene of quiet decorum, and the new restriction of the Magistrates is much approved of through the neighbourhood. Captain Hardy's company of the 45th has left Monmouth for Newport. All trace of the late C:.artist conspi ' racy is obliterated, and things restored as if the fatal occurrences of last year had never happened. EVEN ING EDITION. ARRIVAL OF THE 13RITISIT QUEEN. She arrived at Portsmouth at eight o'clock yes terday morning, but brings no news of particular importance. She had on board 180 passengers, and made the voyage in 15 days. The papers we have seen are to the Ist inst., and notice dull markets at Philadelphia and most of the principal cities in the Union, for the staple articles, the craps being likely to prove most abundant. United States Bank Stock had been quoted as low as 70 to i. The exchange on London was S to 8i per cent. premium. NEWS FROM THE UNITED STATES. (Extracts from the New York Papers.) LATE AND IMPORTANT FROM CENTRAL AMERICA. By the arrival of the brig Patsey B. Blount, Cap tain Pederson, which left Belize, youth America, on the 13th of May, we have received a file of Belize papers, from which, and from diitain Pederson, we learn the important news that General Morazan, who had held the Presidency eight years, by the choice of the people, and usurped it for the last four years, has been defeated, and driven out of the country. It appears that after he had captured Guatemala, and been driven out by General Carrera, he retreated, and his army was annihi lated. On the sth May he, with twenty-seven followers, fled to Libertad, on the Pacific—where he embarked in the schooner Ysalco, for the South, destination not known. This is a most important event. For the last four years Morazan has kept the country in a state of civil war, the States having dissolved the confederacy, and there was, in fact, no Government. The different States will now organise anew, choose a President, and persons and property will be secure.—New York Paper of May 29. MONEY MARKET-CITY NEWS. FRIDAY, MAY 29, P.M. The amount of Exchange that will go by the Queen will be large. We already hear of very great sums pur chased at 107 - a 108 per cent. on London, which is about per cent. below the last steamer. The amount of specie going to Europe from Mexico is very large. A million and a half of dollars arrived at Ha vannah, a few days since, on the way to Franca. The Mechanics' Bank of Baltimore has declared a divi dend of three-and-a-half per cent. for the last six montirs. The Philadelphia Inquirer of yesterday states than notes are now paid out by the United States Bank in payment of cheques, and that cheques arc not now, as heretofore, marked "good." A Bill, taxing brokers and banker, passed a final read ing in the Pennsylvania Legislature on Wednesday last. The brokers in Philadelphia are taxed ,200; in Pittsburg $lOO ; and in the county $5O. The joint resolution for a revival of the state tax on real and personal estate again came op on the same day, and the question being imme diately taken on the proposition to lay on a state tax, it failed—yeas 42, nays 47. The Hank Reform Bill was also brought up, and the first section relative to proxies ; the second, prohibiting banks from holding other than State and United State Stock, and the third, prohibiting the issue of post notes. were agreed to without a division; the fourth provides that banks shall receive at par the notes of other specie paying banks, and was agreed to by a vote of 54 to 34. So bank notes are made a legal tender, by resolve of an anti-bank Legislature. The Improve ment Bill recently passed by the Legislature, makes an appropriation amounting to $3,000,000. It contains a provision which requires the United States Bank to loan to the State $4,000,000 at 4 per cent. under the penalty of a forfeiture of its charter. This measure was devised and advocated by the members who recently denounced the Bank as an Insolvent Institution, and utterly unworthy the confidence of the people of Pennsyl vania. ° Now, either such members acted basely and hy pocritically then, or they are so acting now. If they believe the Bank is insolvent, they must also be lieve that she will not be able to loan $4,000,000 at 4 per cent. interest, and with a law in force compelling her to resume specie payments on the 15th of January next. The Inquirer thinks that this provision was inserted to work the repeal of the Charter of the United States Bank, many of the Members who voted at the time believing that the Bank would refuse to loan the $4,000,000. We learn that notes are in circulation on the Manches ter Bank, Mich., altered to the Manchester BanK, Vt.— the latter a solvent, and the former a bankrupt institution. At Philadelphia, for the week ending Saturday, money continued plenty and could be had for prime paper at low rates. The sales of Bark for the week amounted to 230 hhds. No. I, $3O; No. 2, $2B a 29 ; 2d quality $25 per ton ; Spanish Oak bark $l4 al4 50 per cord. Coal continued depressed, and the sales limited. Of Coffee, the stock was light, and the sales only in small parcels, Rio at 10; a 111 cts., Laguayra 11 111 cts ; Cuba I+ a 11;_ Matanzas 10i, part cash, and part 6 mos. Old Coffee sold at 18 eta. 4 mos. Of Cotton the sales amounted to 500 bales; Ten nesee 8a 9 cts, cash a 4 mos; Uplands 94 cts cash, and 101 4 MO3 ; Mississippi and New Orleans 9; Alabama 81 a 9+. Mackerol No. 1, Halifax and Massachusetts in spection, $l2 al3 ; No. 2, 10 a 11; No. 3, $4,76 a 6 per barrel. Codfish full stocks and limited sales. In the Flour Market there was but little ani mation during the week, and at the close prioos declined ; sales on the Delaware for expert 475 at 4 70, and some parcels $4 62i; Brandywine. 4 87+; Western Flour 4 37 a 4 25 ; this decline emend buyers for shipment to come into market, and all that could be had under 4 37+ was taken. Rye Flour de clined, $2 75 a 281; Corn Meal, $l3 50 in puns. ; $2 81 a 2 87+. For Grain the demand was large for export. Pennsylvania Wheat to the extent of 30,000 baskets changed hands at 93 a 96 cents; and 1500 in stove at 95; Rye 49 a 50 afloat on the Schuylkill; Yellow Corn, round 50 a 53 ; white 46 ; oats 28 ; southern 26 ; sales of Kentucky hemp at $135 a 130. Rio Grath) hides, as they run, 14 a 14- per lb ; Tampico, 11 cents 4 months. Honey, Cuba, 47 cents, four months ; horns, Rio Grande ox, $7 per one hundred ; Lead 41 cense -6 mos; Missouri, 44 a 4+; Molasses, New Orleans, 25, 26 a 27c, 4 mos ; Rosin 1,75 ; Spirits Turpentine, in lots, 31 cents ; Sperm Oil, limited sales ; Lieset‘d, 59 cents ; Pork, Western Mess $15,50 cash ; 13,50 a 13,75; Hams, 10 cents; Lard, No. 1. 10 cents; Flaxseed 1,12 a 1,15 per bushel; Bordeaux Brandy 1,27+ a 1,30; Rochelle 1,40; N. E. Rum in bbls 31 ets. In Sugars an animated demand--advance of cent obtained; New Orleans 5 to 6+; Port Rio, 7 a ; inferior 5i ; St. Croix 9 cents, 4 a h mos ; brown Havannah box it- a 7+ ; Trinidad 7+ a7+ ; Matan zas 8i for brown, and 111 white, and Brazil B+, all 6 mos. In Teas, but little doing and a decline in prices. Whiskey, stock light; bbls 22+ a 23 cents. ; hhds 20 a Wool, 2,000 lbs. good common worsted, 9 50 0 2 4 a a n t d 3o o 21. Wool, per lb. Freights to Liverpool, Cotton ato id. per lb. ; Flour 4s. 6d. a os. per bbl. ; Wheat, in bulk, Is. per bushel. Exchange on England 12+ to 14+ per cent. prem. ; on France 4,97+ a sf. The operations in bills of exchange to-day have been larger, and varying from 1071 to 108. The purchasas have been mostly to pay interest. Very few bills have gone out for the purchase of goods. Passengers from Boston report that the steamer Uni corn, via Halifax, was signalled before they left. If this is correct, she will have an extraordinary passage, as she was to sail from Liverpool on the 16th in;t. The North American Trust and Banking Company Stock has fallen down to 33 and 34 per cent. This is the lowest point this stock has ever touched before, ex cept once. The Bears, who have been selling out on time, and who are interested in the stock going down, will, if they succeed in getting differences, make large sums. It is but a short time since this stock sold at 60, and it was then said it would go up to par. Sinoe then it has been renorted they have negotiated large urns in Europe, and still the stock falls. The public who are not in the secret do not understand this sudden► decline. The Board of Directors of the Bank of Augusta, Georgia, on Wednesday last, declared a dividend of $4 on each share from the profits of the Institution for the pedt six months. The Patapsco Bank of Maryland at Ellicott's Mills, has declared a half yearly dividend of three per cent. These papers contain an account of the loss of the Poland, a New York Packet, bound for Havre, which was set on fire by lightning on the 16th of May, crew and passengers ail saved.. SALES AT THE STOCK EXCHANGE, Maly 28. 200 Illinois Sixes 7l SHARES. 25 United States Bank s3o 7 52 do. 55 North American Trust cask 85 50 do. cash 33 25 Delaware and Hudson 50 do. cash 73 125 do. n w 23 30 D s r , (yr, hawk nu:sgkt.n Railroad o a d Dock R :ilo k i Bank ra a Railr 47 20 d o. o 10 1 10 strs) ' 6* 34 Boston and P rov id ence R a il roa d 25 • 14 175 Harlem Railroad 150 do. 40 ... . 50 do. ............................. s 30 40} 29 Atlanti c I nsorance . Company SALES AT TIIE SECOND BOARD, MAT SO. SHARES. A 10 North American Trust 150 Harlem Railroad s 30 40i 20 Boston and Providence Railroad 5... 93 TORNADO AT NATCHEZ. E n t yated N A Tenaz, MAY 8 , rfrom a gentleman in Natchez, to IA friend infriendlB4 o .—The in mine of yester d ay , of the awful destruction b y the tor nado which swept over this city , ca nn o t con v ey to you Extract ofs city,a le any idea of the devastation that has been occasioned by it. Natchez is overwhelmed—the whole lower town is gone, except Sands' cotters, and T. M. Falconer's store. The loss of life in that quarter has been great—the extensive buildings of the Railroad Company are a heap cf ruins; as is also the greater part of the town. The lighthouse, and dnellings around it, with the Planter's Hotel on the bluff, were blown entirely away. I stood upon nn eminence this morning, overlooking the whole city. The sight was heart-rending; and it presented, in comparison, as dis mal a picture as did New York after the memorable fire of 1535. While I write, the town bell is ringing, to assem ble the citizens, for the purpose of deliberating upon what course of action may be best to be pursue-d. The people are houseless Berlow's Hotel is like an hospital. 1 have been there and have witnessed tha ex cruciating pain of poor fellows undergoing surgical ope rations, in the extraction of splinters from their bodices setting of limbs, &c. The sight of crushed bodies—As