The Sun.
London, England, 1849-07-04 00:00:00

Total ... 21,003
'AGAINST THE NORFOLK AMALGAMATION.
(viz., in favour of Mr. Meek's amendment.)

Perscnal votes (111 proprietors)
Proxy votes

2,470
nil

Total 2,470
Majority in favour of the Norfolk amalgmation
(viz, against Mr. Meek's amendment) ... 18,533
Several members of the Committee of Investigation
(including Mr. Cash, the chairman of it,) stated Mr. Meek
was not justified in embodying in his amendment the al-
legation that the committee had authorised any person
to declare to the shareholders that the accounts laid
before them (the committee) respecting the Norfolk
Company, and upon which their report was founded, did
not give a correct view of the income and expenditure of
the undertaking. They declared that such an allegation
was not sanctioned ,by the committee; and Mr. Meek
had been urged to alter the wording of his amendment;
that he refused to do so; and that th committee exceed-
ingly regretted he should have put forth such an
amendment.
A very strong opinion was expressed that by a careful
and economical attention to the management of the rail-
way a very fair dividend might be secured to the
proprietors.
A cordial vote of thanks was given to the Chairman for
the manner in which he had presided over the recent
meetings of the shareholders.
The CHAIRMAN returned thanks, and the meeting
broke up.

Tho Earl of Carlisle left town yesterday for Castle
Howard, Yorkshire.

"Dublin Castle, Jr. 11,11 30.
" Lord,—l have thehonour to transmit herewith,
by corm nand of the Lord-Lieutenant, the enclosed copy
of a let ter reeziv2d from Secretary Sir George Grey,
communcating her Majesty's intention to visit Ireland.
His Ex ,tellcncy has much pleasure in making tbis an-
nouncers lent, which he feels will be a source of gratifica-
tion to iou and your fellow citizons.
"I haw the honour to be, my Lorrl, your obedient
servant, " T. N. REDINCTON.
" The Eight Hon. the Lord Mayor."
" Whitehall, .Twie 27.
"My Lord,—l have the satisfaction to inform your
Excellency, that I have received the Queen's commands
to acquai at you that her 11.1.1jesty hopes to be able, in
the tours.) of the present summer, to fulfill the irrtentiou
which ye is are aware she has long entertained of. 'visiting
Ireland.

The distress, unfortunately still prevalent in that
country, p recludes the Queen from visiting Dublin in
state, as any large expenditure on mere ceremony would
be ill-timed and inconvenient to her subjects. Yet her
Majesty ,loes not wish to let another year pass without
visiting a part of her dominions with which she has for
so long a time been anxious to become acquainted.
" Her :Majesty, therefore, proposes to embark in the
Royal ye aht, :mad to visit in the first instance the Cove of
Cork, and thence to prcceed along the Irish coast to
Dublin. After remaining there for a few drys, during
which her Majesty will be the guest of your Excel-
lency, she will proceed along the Irish coast northward
to visit Bedfast, and thence cross to Scotland. Although
the precis(s time of her Majesty's visit cannot yet be
fixed, it ?rill probably take place as early in August as
the termit katioa of the session of Parliament will permit,
and I foci assured that this announcement of her inten-
tions will be received with great satisfaction by her
Majesty'sanbdjercetgsairndl,remlayn
Ireland.
your
hl agreat a ittrhuftuhl subjects
Excellenc S's obedient servant, "` G. GREY.

"'His xcPllency the Lord-Lieutenant, K.G.'
Mr. Reynolds, the Repeal Member for Dublin, in
moving that the above letters be inserted in the minutes,
threw out .a hint to her Majesty's advisers, suggesting
the policy- of building a palace for the future reception
of the Queen, either in the Phoenix-park or in the ma-
rine subeerbs of Kingstown or Dalkey. This ho looked
upon as a, preliminary step towards the holding of trien-
nial Part laments in Dublin; that is, if in the mean time
they did not succeed in coaxing her Majesty to concede
to her Irish subjects the privilege of legislating for 'them-
selves in the " Old Curiosity Shop" on Burg-h-criay, or
some othyer locality equally hallowed in the ear mory of
the well -plucked citizens of Dublin. The proposition
having bk is n favourably entertained by other members of
the worst iipful body, the motion was passed% with sundry
protestations of a future oblivion of all creed and party
disrinctic us; after which the Council proceeded to
nominate a Lord Mayor for the ensuing year, the
candidates being Alderman Kinahan(Conservative),
and Mr. John Reynolds, M.P. Their Honours then, in
fulfilment of their promise to live henceforwsril in
amicable brotherhood, having badgered each ~ther to
their hearts* content, and a division being called for, the
Lord Mayor announced that Mr. Reynolds, had been
elected by a majority of 18.
THE WZA\THER.—Since yesterday everting, and up to
this hour, thy. rain has fallen in torrents,, and throughout
the night it bl ew a perfect hurricane fr.om the west. The
few accounts .of the state of the crops, which came to
hand to-day., continue to be of the most cheering
description.
MURDER ft TIPPERARY.—Mr. Denis Egan, son of
Mr. Michael Egan, of Ballyilonagh, Monegal, near
Dunkerin, comity Tipperary, was shot on Sunday, the
Ist instant. by the hand of an assassin, while going
to chapel.
THE FUN/ JR.—Three per Cent. Consols, shut; Three-
and-a-Quart er per Cent. Stock, 914; Bank Stock, 192
1914; Royal Bank Shares, 11; City of Dublin Steam-
packet of 1.53.6, 35 ; Waterford and Limerick Rail-
way,

TILE WEST INDIA MAIL.
SouTHAmm. ON, JULY 3.—The royal mail steam ship
Tay, Captain, 'C. M. Chapman, arrived this morning at
six o'clock frain the West Indies, with the usual mails.
The latest dates brought by the Tay are—Chagtes,
play 30; Ca ttitagena, June 1; Jamaica, June 9; Do.
merara, June 6; Trinidad, June 7; Barbadoes, June
9; Grenada, June 7; St. Thomas, Juno 14; Fayal,
June 26.
The Tay ri,,lso brings the Pacific mails, received at
Chargres, from Panama, anti brought thither by the
Pacific Corngtany's steam•shin Peru : Valparaiso,
April 28 ; Cupiapo, May 2; Cobia, May 4 ; Iquique,
Muy 5 ; Arias, May 6 ; Islay, May 7 ; Callao, May 12,
&c., &c.

The Tay brings on freight specie of the value of
270,000/, starling, and consists in 1,334.325 dollars
in gold and silver, 6801 ounces of gold dust; 1,71Qi
ounces of silver; 2,900 dollars in plating; 782/. 12s.
British co',n; 1,204 five franc pieces, and a general
cargo, cesisisting of 401 serons of indigo, 131 bales
of sarsp-Arilla, 1 case of tortoiseshell, 16 barrels of ginger
4 barmts of arrowroot, 1 case of cigars, 6 tierces of coffee,
and 50 packages of sundries.
Out of the above remittance are 300,000 dollars' worth
of gold from California, shipped at Chagres, 'some of
which is in very large lumps; but principally it is in
dust and flake.

The barque Mary Elizabeth, of Liverpool, bound to
Santa Martha, was reported to have been wrecked on
the morning of the 14th of May on Punta Uallinas. The
captain and crew proceeded on to Rio Hashe, and but
little of the cargo saved.
In Jamaica everything was still dull, and the papers
are full of extracts from the London and American jour-
nals. There have been several shocks of earthquakes
felt, but little or no damage had resulted from these
alarming visitations. A fire, causing damage to 3,0001.,
had taken place at Montego Bay. Several meetings
have been held against the slave trade and the manner
i❑ which treaties are carried out, and urging the home
Government to use greater endeavours for suppressing
the frightful traffic in slaves. The meeting was of all
parties in politics, and attended by persons of the
highest respectability. The .House of Assembly had
been l'urther prurouged to the 19th June.
At Porto Rico they now find the sugar crop will be
under an average one, the canes not yielding so much
juice as was expected.
The West India Islands continue quiet, and the pros-
pect of the forthcoming crop good, that of Barbadoes
expected to be above the usual average.
llayti still continues in a state of ferment, and people
are actually starving in this fine climate, where any-
thing will grow. The Haytiens have claimed a victory,
but it is everywhere fully believed that they suffered a
great defeat. Trade is nearly at a stand-still, and the
measures of Government are crippling it further.

(From the Jamaica Dispatch of June 9.)
Nothing can exceed the prostration of this once noble
colony. In its export of sugar it has fallen below Bar-
badoes, for its crop this year will hardly reach 30,000
hogsheads; and as the May seasons have failed us, the
prospect for 1850 is very cheerless. Many more estates
must go to decay, as, when the last hogshead for 1.849
has been shipped (which it soon will be), there bbeuat
long period without produce, and, consequently,
little inducheomldenatoofehriyactaipozotsfstswht/ohmtkeereatduvrnans,cbsotiiin
hero
rantod uphold
home,
aro so questionable. The planting and
mercantile interests are depressed beyond example; and
a striking proof of the distress to which all classes have
been reduced, is afforded by the projected emigration of
a largo body of our town tradesmen to the Mosquito
shore in search of remunerative employment, which they
cannot find here. Every one that can seems to abandon
the sinking ship.
Freights.—To London for sugar 31. to 3/. 10s.
Exchange on London.—Jamaica Bank, 90 days, per
cent. pm.; Colonial Bank, 90 days, per cent. pm.

SHERIFFS' DINNER TO .THE
Y JUDGES. esterday afternoon Mr. Alderman Finnis and Mr.
Goodhart, Sheriffs of London and Middlesex, enter-
tained her Majesty's Judges to a sumptuous banquet in
the Cloth-Workers' kleli, Mincing-lane. .Mr: Alderman
and Sheriff Finnis occupied the chair, supported on his
right by his colleague, Mr. Sheriff Goodhart. There
were present of the guests, the Right Hon. Mr. Baron
Parke, lion. Mr. Justice Pattesoa, Hon. Mr. Justice
Coleridge, Hon. Mr. Justice Cresswell, Hon. Mr. Jus-
tice Williamg, Mr. Sergeant Lewes, Mr. Sergeant Chan-
nel', Mr. S,Tgeant.Marphy, Mr. Sergeant Clarke, Mr.
Sergeant Halcomb, Mr. Sergeant H. G. Jones, Mr. Ser-
geant Bellasis, - Mr. Sergeant Bain, Mr. Sergeant Wal-
linger, Alderman Sir J. Key, Bart., Mr. Alderman
llumphery, M.P., Mr. Alderman Hooper, Alderman Sir
G. Carr.-,11, Mr. Alderman Farncomb, Mr. Alderman
Mw.grove, Mr. Aldermen Moon, Mr. Alderman Challis,
Mr. Alderman Carden, John Masterman, Esq., M.P.,
Wm. Cubitt, Esq., M.P., John Chevalier Cobbold, Esq.,
M.P., the High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire, &c.
The usual loyal and constitutional toasts were pro-
posed, and the health of the Judges having been given
by Mr. Alderman and Sheriff Firmly, who lamented the
unavoidable absence of the Lord Chief Justice, who was
detained by a heavy cause,
Dlr. Baron PARSE returned thanks. He said it was
not with unmixed pleasure he stood before them to re.
turn thanks; for he felt that he owed his enviable posi-
tion, not to his own merit, but, as the phrase went, to
circumstances over which he had no control—(Laughter)
—to the fact that he wee the senior, net only of the
judges present, but that lie was the senior of the whole
Bench.—(Loud cheers.) lie thought, however, they
would agree with him that he had a hopeful family.—
(Cheers and laughter.) He was sure they all deserved
the kind expressions which the company had been
pleased to pay them; for himself, he could only say that
he had made it his study, during the whole time he had
been on the Bench, to endeavour to discharge pis duty;
and if; in'ffoing that, he received the applause and ap-
probation of- his fellow-countrymen, nobody could be
more gratified than ho was.—(Loud cheers.)
Several other appropriate toasts were drunk, and the
company did not separate till a late hour.
T

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METROPOLITAN REFORM ASSOCIATION.
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object being to show that it was " a falling nation,"
through a multiplicity of causes, of which the principal
was the freedom of trade. After striking off uras of
rhetoric, the main and indeed almost the g -
only argument
in the speech by which the motion was introduced, was
founded on the facts% that the exports showed a larger
quantity of goods sported, while the- values attached to
them were less. And this reduction in prices the mover
uncereeaonioualy stated, as evidence of an equal amount
struck off from the receipts of the working classes. So
that the !argument of the landowners is this:—Allow us
to lay a tax upon your workmen's food, and then you
shall sell your goods dearer as needs you
must, and the difference you shall set down as
gain. Your workmen too, shall carry the amount of
the bread-tax to our shops, and when they give it in they
shall make a bow and say, " Thank you, gentlemen, for
this increase to our wages." The manufacturers are not
to find out that they sell less when the prices are raised
by the bread-tax, and more when it is removed; and the
workmen are not to find out that they have less employ-
ment and consequently less substantial wages in one case,
and more in the other; but both are to be dazzled by the
glory of carrying un additional threepence in the shil-
ling to the corn-grower for bread, and are to believe that
practically they have eaten and enjoyed the value. Such
" unmitigated nonsense," to borrow a phrase from the
mover in his energetic moments, do the supporters
of Protection now stand upon, and with such a stock in
trade do they present themselves before the public.
It is fortunate that the country has had such substan-
tial doses of common sense from the League in its day,
as to be in little danger from the figures eitht r of rhetoric
or of arithmetic thus put forward by the League'a suc.
censors on the boards.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer made a reply which
demolished iu detail the position of the assailant; and the
debate was finally adjourned.
On Tuesday the Member for Nottingham moved hie
Resolutions for what is denominated the People's Charter.
There was not much about the Resolutions which was
calculated to invite adherents, and the mover himself
seemed hardly to know whether he supported them all
or not. The Member for Cambridge was diffuse upon
what he called " extreme democracy," and the phrase
was taken up by the Government; the fallacy about
the whole being that the thing called extreme de-
mocracy was avowedly something which was to be co-
existent with a powerful monarchy and a powerful
aristocracy. So that the demand for what was called
extreme democracy, amounted at most to no more than a
man's asking to have his own corner, when there were
to be three in a post-chaise. Suppose the popular party
were to raise an outcry of " extreme aristocracy" be-
cause there is no mixture of commoners in the House
of Lords, or of "extreme monarchy" because there is
not a Mechanics Institute joined in Commission with
the Crown;—what extreme simpletons they would be
considered! The division amounted to tolerable proof
of the necessity there is for giving the people more
power in the People's House ; consisting only of
13 against 222. But it must not be forgotten, that
the th bate drew from the Prime Minister an abne-
gation of the delarations attributed to him on the sub-
ject of finality, and a pretty distinct admission that the
suffrage, before long, must in one way or other be ex-
tended.