The Sun.
London, England, 1853-08-25 00:00:00

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.

Lessee and Manager, Mr. Farren.
THIS EVENING, AUGUST 25,
Wlli be performed THE TIMES. Characters by Messrs. T. Farren,
T. mead, William Farren, H. Marston, G. Cooke, and Shalders;
mesdames Auderton, H. Gordon, E. Turner, and Bartlett.
With SHYLOCK, or, THE MERCHANT OF "VENICE PRE-
SERVED." Shylock, Mr. F. Robson.

To conclude with THE WANDERDWI MINSTREL. Jem Bags,
Mr. F. Robson.

ASTLErS ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.

Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Cooke.

The Best Ventilated Theatre in London.—Excitement exraordinary-
-The increasing demands at the Box-office to witness the memo-
rable spectacle of the Battle of Waterloo, renders it imperative on
the management to announce its continuance till SATURDAY,
September 3, when it must positively be withdrawn, to make
room for the new classical novelty which will be produced with un-
paralleled splendour.—Mr. W. COOKE will, by general desire,
appear every evening on his magnificent charger "Raven."—N.B.
Miss EMILY COOKE will positively appear on Saturday, Septem-
ber 3.

THIS EVENING, AUGUST 25,
And during the week, will be presented (59th night) the success-
ful National Spectacle of THE _BATTLE OF WATERLOO, with
military effects, reviews, terrific encounters, &c.
To be followed by Mr. W. Cooke's original Scenes In the CIRCLE,
introducing Mr. Alfred Cooke (the Premier Rider). as the Spirit et
the Oracle, or the Warrior of the Sun.
Concluding with (91st time) THE CHASE ; or, LIFE ON THE
TURF.
Rox-oftice open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West.

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THIS EVENING, AUGUST 25,
CHUSAN, Splendid MENAGERIE, Grand Military Band, Vocal
and Instrumental. SJoncert.
Marvellous display of THE FEAST OF LANTERNS, brilliant
FIREWORKS, and EXPLOSION of' tiiIINBSE FIRE SHIPS.
Admission, ls.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
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THE WEATIIER.--SuN OFFICE, AUGUST 25.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
67—highest since noon yesterday.
55—lowest this morning and during the night.
69—this day at noon.

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LONDON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 1853.

as to the selection of a name from a list of Li-
beral Candidates, all of them gentlemen of high
qualifications. The Earl recommended that Mr.
HORSMAN, on account of connexion with the
FITZWILLIAM family, should not be a Candidate,
his son, the Hon. G. W. FITZWILLIAIf, being
Member for the Borough already. Mr. ConNE-
WALL awls was selected. Now, it would have
been higher-minded of the Earl to decline any
remark whatever ; still we may allow that a Peer's
' friendly advice might be taken by gentlemen who
deemed his knowledge of public life better than
their own, without intending to make any corrupt
use of it. There were, however, other facts prov-
ing that the Earl had not been so scrupulous as
his best friends could wish him to have been. We
quite acquit him of anything like deliberate inten-
tion to corrupt, or even• very harshly to override
the popular wish. Any candidate in " the MIL-
TON interest" would, of course, be a Liberal one ;
but probably the majority of Peterborough Libe-
rals,
would like " something more than a Whig',
now, and to the extent of that " something more'
the influence of Earl FITZWILLIAM is most likely
repressive on the Liberal party in the borough.
His Lordship has, we believe, a thoroughly
a oroulagnhdelydchief.
feudal
conception of the deference due to
His offering his son, the
twoHon.o ye. W.arsWo.f age,
to when hardly twenty.-
to the electors of the West Riding of Yorkshire,
and to fill, too, the place of Lord MORPETH, and
be the colleague of RICHARD COBDEN, shows that
the want of
the
first
tuhe considered aristocratic descent to be a compen-
sation for
extreme youth,
th,an d
appropriate
do
he wa
almost every qualificationy
in the kingdom.
We have no doubt, therefore, that Earl FITZ-
WILLIAM has, as strongly as his political creed and
antecedentspermit, much more the feeling that
Peterbofeelinggh ought to go with him, than that
he ought to go with Peterborough. Till
the time of the Reform Bill, indeed, the FITZ-
WILLIAM family had no competitors. They were
the borough of Peterborough, they returned whom
they pleased, and the electors deemed themselves
happy to be represented by the nominees of a
Whig Lord. The Reform Bill, however, although
intended to give the Whig aristocracy the triumph
over the Tory section, ruffled, nevertheless, the
composure of some Whig boroughs too, and Peter-
borough has been contested since that period four
times by Conservatives unsuccessfully, and twice
(successfully at the poll) by Mr. WHALLEY in the
Liberal and independent interest. This was na-
turally a greater offence than the opposition of a
Conservative, and it seems as if the MILTON in-
terest had never been more indignant than with
this Liberal defeat. At least it is now that we
hear electors complain of " interference." Of
personal interference the report entirely acquits
the Earl ; of indirect interference they more than
imply that there was too much. The Crowns
were au old payment of 10s. each to all electors
who choose to apply for it, till the time of the
Reform Bill. The defence was that it had become
an heirloom, which the Earl felt bound in honour
not to discontinue. It plainly appeared, how-
ever, that they were regarded as influencing votes,
since in 1837 the Conservative party' subscribed
to present " Blue Crowns," on account of the dis-
advantage at which they were placed by the FITZ-
WILLIAM crowns. Also, that if any candidate
split his vote he received but one crown, and if
'he voted wholly wrong, none from the Earl. In
February this year it was stated the agent received
orders to pay the crowns irrespectively of votes.
The agents, however, did not pay them to several of
Mr. WHALLEY'S -voters, and no rebuke followed.
Another charge, the raising of rents to the dis-
affected, must be regarded as sustained. The
Earl is the chief landlord of Peterborough, his
rents are acknowledged to be easy, and of course
he has a right to obtain what rent he can. The
fact, however, is, that advanced rent was demanded
of none but those who voted wrong. It was as-
serted to he a merely casual coincidence. The
public, however, can draw but one conclusion.
Proofs of withdrawal of custom are naturally of a
vague and inconclusive kind. We are willing to
give Earl FITZWILLIAM the benefit of that vague-
ness ; but of one mode of interference, that of
aiding a petition against Mr. WHALLEY, there
could be no manner of doubt. Mr. WILKINSON,
who conducted the petition, received 5001. by
cheque from the Earl ; also 4001. and 6001. from
Mr. WALKER, chairman of the MILTON interest
committee. "Nor has it been distinctly shown,"
say the committee, "from whence these sums re-
ceived from Dr. WALKER were supplied." In a
word, there is little doubt that Mr. WHALLEY was
unseated on a petition, the expenses of which were
paid by the Earl, who had counsel's opinion taken
first as to its probable success. The FITZWILLIAM
case is a good one for honest Reformers to study,
because it is by no means a glaringly offensive one.
The Earl inherits the feeling of family influence,
and he uses measures of intimidation, or resorts
to donations in the most natural form ; yet he is
a really liberal Peer. Every candid man, however,
must confess that he was drawn beyond the line
of duty. " Crowns" are but annual bribery,
and easy rents, which should be a wealthy man's
plan for possessing a regularly paying tenantry,
have been perverted into a means of intimidation
or of punishment. Abetting the petition against
a Member of the Lower House, is defended by no
one. Mr. WALPOLE'S Bill would do some good at
Peterborough ; it would make the agents and the
crown-taker more cautious, but the tenants would
be left as unprotected as ever ; nor do we see how
they could be reasonably protected, while the
poll-books recorded their fidelity or their treason
to the MILTON interest.

According to the latest advices received in this
country from Vienna, the state of siege is at length
about to be raised in Lombardy, Hungary, and
the Venetian territories, Time enough in what
Baillie NICHoL JARVIE would call "ma con-
science !" During the last four or five years the
state of siege has been maintained in those pro-
vinces of the Austrian empire without lenity or
intermission. To such an extent has this system
of political repression been carried by the impe-
rial councils of Schoenbrunn, that all this while
the countries owning obedience to the Em-
peror FRANCIS JOSEPH have been ruled, not
by an olive rod or a golden sceptre, but
by the iron sword of a powerful, inexorable,
and implacable military despotism. Venetians,
Hungarians, and Lombards have alike groaned
under the weight of that formidable authority—
the authority of an alien and infuriated conqueror.
It is'not surprising, therefore, that the success of
the German Legions—achieved in one direction
by treason among their enemies, and in another
by the simple force of good generalship—should
have been followed up by massacre, hanging,
shooting, imprisonment, and confiscation. The
Austrians were too nearly beaten to forgive when
the tide once turned in their favour. Besides
which, they were the less disposed to be magnani-
mous, remembering that that change of fortune
was owing not so much to their own valour as to
the brute force of Russian assistance—the despic-
able poltrooning of the Lombards—the infamous
defection of the traitor GORGEY—the desertion of
the heroic King CHARLES ALBERT and his brave
Piedmontese—the insulation of the veteran PEPE
and his patriotic little band of followers. It was
another illustration, in fact, of that wise aphorism
of NAPOLEON, that whenever the victorious army
at the close of a battle betrays a more than usually
ferocious lust of vengeance, you may be certain
that its leader, at one time of the day, was very
nearly being defeated ignominiously. Austria
could not forget the triumphant rush of the
Magyars from the rallying point of Debreczin up to
the very walls of Vienna. Her rulers could not lose
the remembrance of the fall of BUDA, or of the
rising of Peterwardein. They bore too vividly
and painfully in recollection the driving back of
their soldiers to the northern frontiers of Lom-
bardy—they could not reflect without fury on the
chivalrous defence of the sea-girt Venice—they
could not endure to think for an instant calmly
upon the successive disgrace of aged warriors like
WELDER and WINDISCHGRATZ. So that when once
the change of fortune commenced, they revealed
a thirst for revenge the like of which for cruelty
has happily seldom or never before now been wit-
nessed. The treason of GoRGEY was the signal for
this bitter vengeance in Hungary. The discom-
fiture of the daring band at bay in the palace of
the Foscari was the point of time from which may
be dated a similar outbreak of brutality against
the hapless Venetians. The unexpected triumph
of the valiant old RA DETZKY, the downfall of the
heroic CHARLES ALBERT, that triumph and that
downfall which occurred amidst the roaring slaugh-
ter of the Novara, gave the word for a like dis-
PlaY of implacable phrenzy against the once
more down. trodden and degraded people of Lom-
bardy.
During from four to five years, this lust
of verigean
Vi-
ennese ee has directed the policy of the
Cabinet in its relations with those three
e EMPEROR enormous portions of th of Austria's ill-
gotten dominions. A
this horrible system is announced
length, however, the close of
fm as in actual prepa-
ration. Intelligence front the capital, dated to
the 20th instant,
informsthe state of siege is about to be Us, have said, that
raised as speedily
as possible—a startling announcement
fo. under any
circumstances ; one calculated
rouse
occurrences.
atten-
tion of the surrounding nations
t
toa more than
the atten-
eat.
usually close attention to passing). cu
It revives our sympathy for one least
essa
of the races promised this tardy
of-troubles, social, political, and military. Thant
one the valiant race of the Magyars. To
KOSSUTH in exile the news must come
without doubt as some (however inadequate)
consolation. Supposing, that is to say that
any reliance can be placed upon the accu-
racy of the information---which, however, we
are rather
disposed to question. We doubt,
in a word, whether Austria is in a position to
loosen the chains she has allowed to remain rivetted
during so protracted an interval—added to which
no doubt in the event of their removal, whether
that act of the Viennese Cabinet might not origi-
nate at least another Hungarian revolution.

Although there is a general concurrence of
opinion with respect to the extraordinary advan-
tages attaching to a decimal system of currency,
there is by no means a similar unanimity as to
the mode in which the proposed change should be
carried into practical operation, so as to produce
the minimum of inconvenience during the period
of transition. Many persons whose observations
display great acuteness, combined with consi-
derable practical knowledge of the question under
consideration, have taken exceptions to various
recommendations of the committee, more particul a rly
to those suggesting the pound sterling as the unit of
the new system, and limiting the contemplated cop-
per coinage to pieces of one, two, and five mils, and
thereby ignoring the coin of four mils, analogous
to the penny, which otherwise might be retained
in circulation for a considerable time, the change
of value--only 4 per cent.—being of compara-
tively trivial importance. There certainly appears
to be much weight attachable to these objections,
and as it is of the utmost importance that the
change when effected should be final, so as to have
no further tampering with the circulating medium,
it is exceedingly desirable that the matter should
receive the most ample discussion, and most calm
and attentive consideration, before the measure
for effecting the important alterations should be
-brought before Parliament.

example on a large scale, by substituting five mils
in place of four for the penny in postage, and
wherever else it is payable.
. .

the
"PETERBOROUGH - influence
hands of the Earl FITZWILLIAIVI.
w hSuch
pithy statement of Mr. DOD ; and the report of
in
the
s
the committee obtained by Mr. BRIGHT, though
of the gentlest kind, being little more than a re-
cord of facts, goes far to verify the truth of Mr.
DOD'S " electoral fact." Of few Noblemen are
the public less disposed to believe anything harsh
and tyrannical than of Earl FITZWILLIAM-auy-
thing mean or degrading would be justly held to
be impossible ; and the evidence shows very
plainly that his Lordship was careful to avoid the
.appearanee of evil. It is, however, undeniably
evident that the influence of Milton Ilan was that I
of fear and hope, as well as the unquestionably
legitimate one,of respect and attachment. Earl
FITZWILI4AIdS, opwion, for instance, was taken

There can be no doubt that in one respect the
retention of the pound sterling either as the unit,
or easily convertible thereto, is of great prac-
tical importance. It is, as stated by the com-
mittee, the term in which all contracts of any im-
poitance are framed, the basis on which all our
transactions with other nations rests. Any change
in its actual value, or complication of accounts,
would be so very injurious as to render it any-
thing but an improvement. The adoption of the
present florin as the unit, would, however, not
lead to any difficulty, as the cutting off a single
figure would at once convert the florins into
pounds sterling, and there would then be no ne-
cessity of going beyond two places of decimals, or
below cents, in the denominations of coin. The
value of the English cent, would thus be more
analogous to the similar denominations of other
countries, than if it were ten times more valuable,
as suggested by the committee, and the " mil "
would be altogether avoided. We believe that
there would be very beneficial results arising from
this change, without any practical inconvenience
worth mentioning.

But then it i;said, that this would not meet
the objection as to thd retention of the smaller
coins now in use ; whereas, if we took a florin of
20 pence, it would leave the penny exactly equal
to five cents of the new system. There are many
points in favour of this proposition which will be
found well worthy of consideration. We do not
at present assert that ultimately it will be deemed
more eligible than the existing florin, and it would
be a serious drawback that it would be but the
one-twelfth in place of one-tenth of the pound.
But, still, it should not be dismissed until the
comparative advantages and disadvantages have
been carefully compared and fully and accurately
tested. There is still abundant time to do so be-
fore the reassembling of Parliament, and we trust
that monetary reformers will bestow the attention
on the subject which it so eminently merits.

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the isolation as to money
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this country has hitherto been
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the larger transactions,
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regard of the interests of
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for a time at least, will be
by the changes, and that,
the unit should be of
pound sterling, and that it should the
sto
permit the retention of
.the smaller denominations
of coins now in circulation and most commonly in
use among the less wealthy classes, and
thus to
bring the least possible amount of change in the
transactions in which these parties are concerned.
This last is a matter of considerable importance,
as in any anal alterations it is found that
Con-
the
dealers invariably take advantage of the
sumers, insisting upon an increase of 20 per cent.
in their profits rather than surrender even 4 per
cent. to their customers ; and the report itself
shows that the Government are anxious to set an

THE SUN. LONDON, THURSDAY EVIA_INIG, AUGUST 25, 185 s.

MONEY MARKET

AND
CITY. INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.

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SUN OFFICE, Six o'Clock.

The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were
estimated at 6,000 bales, of which 1,000 American
were taken for export. The market closed steadily,
but tame. The sales comprised 4,500 American
110 Pernam and Maranham, at 6-id. to Bd. ; 250
Bahia at 61d. to 60. ; 500 Egyptian at 61d. to
Bd. ; 500 Surat, at 3d. to 4id. ; and 100 Sea Island,
at Is. 6d. to 3s. per lb. Railway Shares were dull.
The following fepOrt upon the state of the dried
fruit trade is furnished by Messrs. Witherby and
Hanson :

TATTERSALL'S.

(THIS EVENING.)

ST. LEGER.
5 to 4 on West Australian (taken).
4to 1 agst Sittingbourne (taken).
11 to 2 agst Rataplan (offered).
7 to 1 agst Cineas (offered).
CESARE WITCH.
1000 to 20 agst Defiance (taken).
1,000 to 20 agst Newminster (taken).
1000 to 20 agst Rosalba (taken).
DERBY.
1,000 to 25 agst Meteora, (taken).

" Until this week when three cargoes of new currants
have been reported from Patras, there had been no
direct arrivals for a month past. The Continent appears
to be stripped of nearly all its stock, but every fresh ad-
vance in price here still brings forward small stray parcels
of 1851 fruit. The clearances continue nearly on a level
with those of last August, having been 340 tons for con-
sumption from Ist to 19th inst., against 370 tons from
Ist to 19th August, 1852, reducing our London stock
on 15th inst. to about 4,000 tons. At this period in
1852 we were receiving largely from the Continent,
from whence we continued to be heavily supplied till
the end of the year. As this cannot be the case this year,
and as 'the direct arrivals will consist of new fruit, with
very little old, it is obvious that the scarcity of old fruit
will be seriously felt towards winter, and that still higher
prices of both kinds must be the result. The Board of
Trade returns for the first 6 months of this year show the
consumption of the United Kingdom to have been 6,010
against 9,070 in 1852, or a falling of off 3,060 tons in six
months, which is less than might have been expected,
considering that in the former period prices ruled from
28s. to 365., and in the latter from 60s. to 85s. per cwt.
Moreover, the clearances of May and June last were
partly checked by the uncertainty respecting a reduc-
tion in duty. Our report of 6th inst. advised an ad-
vance of ss. per cwt. on good old Fruit, owing to ex-
tensive purchases by the trade. The Market remained
inactive until 17th inst. when worse intelligence than
any previously received respecting the crops, led imme-
diately to large operations in good and fine Fruit on
speculation. The result has been a further advance in
such descriptions of 6s. to Bs. per cwt, at which the gro-
cers have disposed of the principal portion of what they
had previously bought with a view of holding for
the autumn demand. Ordinary 1851 fruit and new fruit
have been quite neglected ; of the former there is none
to be had below 80s and 84s. The clearances of raisins
for consumption have proceeded latterly on a reduced
scale, limited principally to black Smyrna raisins. The
Board of Trade returns for the first six months show a
comparative deficit of 475 tons in the consumption of
the United Kingdom during the first six months of this
year, which arose from the stoppage of clearances during
six weeks, but which will have been made up under the
reduced duty. The market has been quiet for some
time past, but the consumption is expected to be
large."
The steamer Valetta with the overland mail
arrived at Marseilles this morning. This vessel
appears to be running at an unusual speed, and is
a proof of what modern improvements can accom-
plish. Her rate upon the present occasion has been
equal throughout to 14 knots an hour.
The English funds have been very steady, and
there has been the same wont of life in the market
as for some days past. Even the Eastern news is
too vague to justify speculators in investing. Con-
sols have been 981 to g for transfer and account.
The New 3 per Cents. have realised 1011 g ; and
the 3 per Cents. 99 to i• Exchequer Bills have
been quoted 2s. premium.
Foreign Securities have been inactive, and
scarcely so firm. Grenada Active Stock has been
at 23, and the Deferred at 10 to which are
slightly lower rates. Equador Bonds are 51, and
Venezuela 38k. Portuguese Four per Cents. keep
at 45. Spanish Bonds are nominal. Russian Five
per Cents. have been up to 1181. The Dutch
Two-and-a-Half per Cents. have realised 64g.
The last week's railway receipts, ascertained up
to this day, are in round figures as under :

DERBY RACES.

(THIS DAY.)

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

INNKEEPERS' PLATE.

Pastrycook
h by Drayton

Three ran.
CHATSWORTH STAKES.

Gladiole .

Four ran.

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THE PENINSULAR MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY MORNING.

1853. 1852.
North Western
South Western 18,981 14,556

Brighton 15,094 12,746
Midland 27,486 24,069

South Eastern.

22,118 18,887

Lancashire and Yorkshire 22,471 21,137
Great Northern ___ _ 18,174 14,073

York and North Midland, Newcastle

and Berwick, and Leeds Northern 32,358 28,508
Caledonian and Edin . and Glasgow.. 16,353 14,320
The Railway Share Market is slightly in favour
of buyers, and there is not much doing.
The Joint-Stock Bank Shares have been rather
weaker, and also the Land Companies. The Gold
Mines are neglected.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.
(From the Official List.)
Business done.
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 994 9
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities .... 9Bg,
New 3} per Cent. Annuities lOl4
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860
Consols for Account Bth September 9Bl I
Exchequer Bills, ld.
£lOOO
2500 2 p
Small lp ld

PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent
Equador Bonds
Grenada Bonds, Ex. Dec., 1849, Coupon 23
Grenada Bonds, Deferred
Peruvian Bonds, 43 per Cent. B5
Peruvian Deferred 3 per Cent.
Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent.
Russian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Venezuela Bonds, 3.4 per Cent.
Ditto Deferred, 1 per Cent l6.k
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch Exchange, 234 per Cent. ....... ......
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates .... , 9Bi

THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols g
Ditto September Account

AUSTRALIAN EMIGRATION.—SOUTFIAMPTON, August
24.—The fine East India ship Herefordshire, com-
manded by Captain George Richardson, left the river
yesterday for Sydney, With a full complement of emi-
grants, comprising 370 statute adults, equal to 450
souls, the whole consisting of railway excavators (ac-
companied by their wives and families), intended for
the service of the Sydney Railway Company, to whom
they are under agreement to work for two years, at ss.
per'day. A favourable feature in the aspect of Austra-
lian emigration is the large class of ships now chartered
and employed by the Emigration Commissioners. The
Herefordshire is a noble frigate-built ship, of 1,354
tons register, or over 1,600 burden, belonging to Mr.
Fergusson, of London, well known for her rapid pas-
sages while engaged for conveying troops to and from
various parts of the world. The use of such large
and roomy ships is of immense advantage to the
health and comforts of the emigrants during their
long voyage. The sleeping berths being arranged on
the main deck, the ports, in such a ship as the Hereford.
shire, can always be kept open if necessary, and thus
adequate ventilation is secured. On board the Here-
fordshire, the arrangements seemed to be of the best de-
scription in every respect, and all the members of this
large party, crew, passengers, and emigrants, consisting
of nearly 450 people, seemed contented and happy at the
commencement of their arduous voyage. Just prior to
departure the emigrants were addressed respectively by
Mr. Smith the government emigiation agent at this
port, and by the Rev. Mr. Scotland, the chaplain of the
Southampton depot. Their attentive demeanour d uring the
delivery of the two excellent addresses delivered by these
gentlemen proved how much the advice conveyed to
them was appreciated, and they testified their satisfaction
at the measures adopted for their comfort by repeated
and hearty bursts of cheering as the steam tender
left the side of the vessel for the shore. 154 Bibles and
220 prayer books, besides tracts and other religious
works, were gratuitously distributed among the people
going out in this ship by the Rev. Mr. Scotland, who,
in these matters, acts most indefatigably as the agent
of the British and Foreign Bible and the Christian
Knowledge Societies. The Herefordshire takes out
nearly 1,200 tons of manufactured goods of all sorts for
the Australian markets, at rates of freight varying from
80s. to 90s. per ton. Her voyage will doubtless be
a remunerative one to her owners, and nothing has
been or will be left undone by her popular and gentle-
manly commander to contribute to the happiness and
welfare of the large number of people committed to
his charge. The surgeon of this vessel, to whom the
official care of the emigrants is intrusted by the
commissioners, is Dr. Thornton, a gentleman of consi-
derable experience in the management of this description
of business, having already made two voyages of a
similar nature to Australia. The Herefordshire is the
only emigrant vessel yet dispatched from this port which
has not embarked the passengers in the Southampton
Docks. This arises from her being a heavy teak-built
ship, of a draught of water exceeding that of ordinary
ships of her size, and the owner, therefore, demurred to
permitting her to go into the tidal basin. It is right,
however, to state that ships of much larger size con-
stantly enter and leave these docks ; for example, the
West India, Peninsular, and American steam-ships of
sizes varying from 2,000 to 2,800 tons, and in 1851 the
United States' frigate St. Lawrence, of 50 guns (a ship
far surpassing the Herefordshire in tonnage), came into
the docks with all her guns and stores on board, to dis-
charge her cargo for the Great Exhibition.
SMOKELESS FURNACES.—A patent under this title
has been recently secured by Mr. Lee Stevens, which
for simplicity and effectiveness is well worthy of public
attention. The invention consists in an arrangement
by which the hot cinders from the fire box falling on a
grate underneath are there turned to account in heating
a current of air, which, passing into the furnace, pre-
vents the generation of smoke. Two favourable
examples of the workinc, of the patent were exhibited
yesterday, and gave great satisfaction to those who wit-
nessed them. The arrangement is applicable to all
furnaces, and involves only a, trifling expense. It has
the advantage of striking at the root of the smoke nui-
sance, and preventing instead of curing it.—Times.
Chicory is now made to resemble the coffee-berry.
The chicory is ground, and made into a stiff paste, and
in this state is so moulded as to resemble the real berry.
The imitation is so perfect as to deceive the keenest
eye. I

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arrived, with dates from Gibraltar, 16th ; Cadiz,
17th ; Lisbon, 19th ; Oporto, 20th ; and Vigo,
21st inst. She brings 101 boxes grapes; 298 boxes
lemons ; 42 boxes eggs ; and sundry merchandize.
The adrid was detained 24 hours at Vigo by a
fog, and has experienced strong north-east winds
whilst coasting the bay.
Lisbon letters of the 19th announce the closing
of the Cortes, on the 15th, by Royal decree.
The p:ospects of the country were very unfa-
vourable, owing to the rapid and general spread of
the grape disease ; the grape shipments by the
packets will not, it was expected, reach more than
10 per cent. of the quantity usually shipped.
The screw steamer Albatross was to leave Lisbon
for Liverpool on the 19th. Two English frigates
and a steamer were off Lisbon on the 18th instant,
steering south.

Exchange on London was quoted 51k, with a
scarcity of money, and bills over three per cent.
Stock (New) were 44 to 42 ; Bank of Portugal
Shares, 137 to 133 milreis discount ; Lisbon Bank
notes, 2i per cent. discount.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.-(THIS DAY.)

(Before Mr. Commissioner Fonblanque.)
Important application for discharge from custody after
refusal of protection.

IN RE MILES AND MILES.
These bankrupts had carried on business in the Mile-
end-road as drapers, and the certificate was suspended
for two years—no protection to be granted for six
months.

Mr. Plews (Lawrance and Plews), now applied for the
discharge of one of the bankrupts who been taken in
execution, and now in the Queen's Bench Prison. The
bankrupt had kept out of the way for 15 months, and
then obtained a situation, but was arrested. It was
contended that after the six months had expired the
bankrupt was entitled to protection, or if in custody, to
his discharge, there being no condition in the order of
the Commissioner that the bankrupt should imprisoned
for that time before protection should be granted.
His Honour—What is the operative meaning of the
word "refusal" of protection—the order is that the cer-
tificate be refused for 2 years, without protection for
six months ?

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Mr. Plews—But the protection is only refused for six
months, and a bankrupt is al ways at the mercy of his
creditors for that time, and when that period has expired
he is entitled to protection.
Mr. Mason, for the assignees, opposed the application
on the ground that the bankrupt had kept out of the
way, in contempt of the Court, and the other bankrupt
had absconded. He contended that there had been an
evasion of the act, avid that the bankrupt was not en-
titled to his discharge.
His Honour agreed. The refusal of protection would
be a mere nullity if such applications were granted. The
refusal of protection was intended as a punishment, and
a mode of affording creditors facilities. It was not in-
tended that a bankrupt unprotected should be allowed
to come in and surrender one day before the limited time,
and the day after apply for his discharge.
Application refused.

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