The Sun.
London, England, 1849-07-24 00:00:00

NEW ZEALAND.

In reply to a question from Mr. AGLIONBY,
Mr. IIAWES stated that ho should be able to 13Y
some additional communications upon the table from the
Governor of New Zealand. He added, that nothing
could be more satisfactory than the present state of the
colony.

RETURN.
Mr. DICKSON moved for a return, in detail, of the
particular items composing each of the several sums fol-
lowing, as certified by the Shannon Commissioners to
have been payable by the county of Limerick, in the
several years following, viz.:-
1843. Spring Assizes

.
Summer Aspizes
1844. Spring Assizes

• £1,596 18 9}
.. 266 16 0
.. 626 15 3
- 22 6 10
.. 292 19 2
.. 2,550 18 0

Summer Assizes
1845. Spring Assizes
lii4B. Summer Assizes

£5,356 17
besides large sums for interest.—Agreed to.
The 'lox. MENDER also moved for a return of I
amount of Stamp duties in Ireland, for each year, coo"
mencing with the year 1840 up to the present time.--
Agreed to.
CONSOLIDATION FUND (APPROPRIATION)
BILL.
_ _

On the motion for going into Committee upon this Bill,
Mr. HUME called the attention of the House to the
manner in which the estimates for prisons and convict
services in Class 111. of the Miscellaneous Estimates were
voted in one sum of 702,5231., instead of fourteen sums,
as voted in 1847 and 1848, by which the usual separa-
tion of the expenses under the several heads of convicts
at home and abroad, of superintendence of transportation,
&c. will not be made, and the proper check and control
be prevented. This he considered was a gross violation
of the rules of the House, because it prevented the neces-
sary cheek and control to this particular account.
He asked to have the vote divided, arid the different
items entered, as much for the satisfaction of Members
as for the audit and check which it would afterwards
become. He did think the House had great ground 10
complain of this innovation.

Sir G. GREY said, the reason why the estimate aP'
peared in the present form was that in so framing it the
Government were adopting the recommendation of the
Committee on the Miscellaneous Estimates, who recom-
mended that the estimate should be presented in a die'
tinet and separate form, and, in accordance with what
the Government believed to be the substance of that
recommendation, the whole of the expenditure bad been
brought under one view.

Mr-. V. SMITH hoped the House would recur to the
old system.

M. HENLEY expressed himself to the same effect.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER inti'
mated his intention of having the information more sub-
divided in future.

Mr. HUIVIE expressed himself satisfied with that inti'
mation from the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the
matter dropped.
THE DEBATE LAST NIGHT.
Mr. HORSMAN complained of a personal allusion
having been made to him during the debate last night,
by the Hon. Member for Dungarvon (Mr. Sheil), wide"
was not justified either by the circumstances of the d,e"
bate, or by anything that had fallen from him (81r.
Horsman) during the debate.
(LEFT SITTING.)
RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.

BRISTOL, JULY N. _
Sroesc Excriawous—The transactions to-day were confined °
Great Western, Quarters, at 5 dis.

LIVERPOOL, JULY 23.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The share market was dull to-day, and Price°
had a downward tendency. The sales are—Lancashire and Yorkshu l
Fifths, 635. 9d. -- Ditto, Preference, 12% Ditto, Fifths 0V.e6,,,
Riding Union), 4% dis.—Glasgow, Perth, and Greenock, pre
once (6 per cent. till 1853), 7% Great Northern (London a',
York Extension), 5 per cent. Preference, 1 dis.—London and North
Western,-133—Midland, Halves, 12% dis.—North British, New 111.
' ference % p.—South-Eastern and Dover,6% dis.—North Union (A:
230—North Staffordshire, 4/. 16s. 3d.—Shrewsbury and Chester ‘,. W. M.), 1 die.—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N. B. purchase"
6 per cent. till 1850, 4 dis.—Belfast and Ballymena, 19%.
MANCHESTER, JULY 23.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The transactions to-day were as folio's! •
Great Northern Preference, 134 dis.— Aberdeen, Preference,
West Riding Union, 4IA dis.—North British, Preference, %.
GLASGOW, JULY 21.
STOCK EXCHANGE —The transactions to-day were as folio,' :"*.‘
Edinburgh and Northern, 10% —North British, Preference, 528.

THE CROPS IN THE WESTERN DISTRICTI
BRISTOL, JULY 23.—The wheat harvest will have
generally commenced by the latter end of this or earl
next week, and the prospects of the growing crops are
most favourable. In Somerset and the west of paged'
with the exception of being thin on the wet clays,
zsO
where the dry weather, coming after the wet, has been
too much for the plant, the wheat is very promising.
Ia
the neighbourhood of Teignmouth the crops, both of
corn and potatoes, are looking splendid. The barley
crop in Wilts look promising, as is likewise the case 0°
the best lands in Somerset. Oats are both good in 0111
dition and forward, and the hay crops have seldom been
more abundant. At this period of the year we liar°
generally, for a few years past, heard great complaints
relative to the potato blight, but this year, with here
and there an occasional exception, the potatoes sre
healthy and entirely free from disease. The reap"
showers of rain have been of essential service to thesh
and also to the peas, for which apprehensions were en-
tertained, owing to the lengthened continuance of dry
weather. The winter beans will be a large crop,, and the
spring sown ones have not looked so well for yeeo'
Mangoldwursel is a partial failure.
ROYAL ARTILLERY. -- Captain Grant's troop Of
Royal Horse Artillery is placed under orders to march
from head-quarters at Woolwich, to Leeds, on the 30th
inst., to relieve Captain Lake's troop; and the latter
will move to Newcastle-upon-Tyne to relieve Captain
Gilbert's troop at that station. Captain Gilbert's troop
proceeds to Dublin to relieve Captain Dupuis' troop, or-
dered to return to' head-quarters at Woolwich. As the
troops will march by easy stages the relief from Wool-
wich to Leeds will occupy ten days, from Leeds to New-
castle seven days, and it will be upwards of a month
from the departure of the troop from Woolwich until
the return of the other from Dublin. It is intended to
increase the strength of the Royal Horse Artillery 13. c&
year by adding two additional guns to each troop of tha
seven at present formed, which will enable the authori-
ties to retain two troo
to ps at head-quarters, having thee
six guns each, equal the three troops now stationed
at Woolwich; and keep up the strength of one troop at.
Leeds, one troop at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, one troop a"
Dublin, and one troop at Limerick. The spare troop,
when the augmentation is made, is expected to be sta-
tioned at Brighton, or near that part of the coast.
CnEatonius GARDENS.—Yesterday a series of fetes
in aid of the funds by which the school of the Lictaied
Victuallers is supported was commenced at these gar-
dens, and although the weather in the early part of the
day was unpropitious a very numerous company was
assembled later in the evening. The ascents of Mr'
Gale in the balloon were postponed till to-day and to-
morrow, on both of which days he will take his aerial flights,
and display his peculiar properties of ascending and de'
scending on a rope-ladder, &c. There were yesterday
the attractions of the aquatic tournaments, the exhibition
of the largest horse and the smallest man in the world,
tfihrienwgosrwkso,r
tthhebesitnogrmseienng. oTf
hMe owuhltoalne,waansdivemliaanryranogtheedr,
and it is but justice to the proprietor of the gardens to
say that he has made every exertion to secure a benefi-
cial result to the charitable efforts of the society for
whose advantage the gardens were opened.
GRAND TRUNK AND STAFFORD AND PETERno•
ROUGII RAILWAY.--Yesterday the Master in Chan-
cery, Brougham, having gone through the list of original
subscribers to this scheme, issued his order in Chancery
for a levy or pro rata contribution, under the powers of
the Act, of ss. per share, to pay off the outstanding
debts of the concern. This order applies to the larger
proportion of five hundred original allottees, and to
16,685 shares; but as a large number cannot be got at,
the letters of application in many instances having been
returned with endorsements of " not known, dead, or
gone away," the probability is that not more than one-
half the amount will be realised. The official manager
still retains instructions to trace out all not forthcoming
parties. At the next meeting all who accepted shares
by paying deposit and taking scrip, are summoned to
attend. The cases of the provisional committee, who
had shares allotted without applying, and paid no depo-
sit, but sums by the way of compensation, to get rid of
liability, remain to be investigated, to see whether they
can be fixed. It is also to be determined whether the
suit now pending against the secretary of the company,
fur forging 1,5121. worth of scrip, and against the di-
rectors for breach of trust, shall be proceeded with. The
pro rata contribution of ss. per share applies to all those
parties who, having signed the deed, afterwards received
back 235. 6d. return out of a deposit of 21.25., and sur-
rendered their scrip.

BIRS. -
On the 18th inst., at Milton-TH
house, Pembrokeshire, the
lady of T. H. Dury, Esq,, of a son.
On the 18th inst., at Bath, the wife of Gerard L. Brooks,
Esq., of a son.
On the 18th inst., at Brompton, the wife of Alfred S.
Wigan, of a son.
On the 20th inst., at Windsor, the wife of Capt. Cochrane,
late Rise Brigade, of a son.
On the 20th inst.. at Rayne Rectory, Essex, the wife of
the Rev. Richard N. Blaker, of a (laughter.

DIE
On the 19th inst., at Margate,D.
aged 55, Mr. Bartholoinevi
P. Drout, of Surrey-hall, Lower Tooting.
On the 19th inst., at Ware, John Edward, eldest son of
Cass, Esq., of Ware, Herts.
On the 20th inst., Ann Antonia, wife of the Rev. T. S. E.
Swettenham. rector of Swettenham, Cheshire, and aunt to
the Earl of Winterton.

On the 20th inst., Frances Jane, the youngest daughter of
M. T. Turpin, of Brighton.
On the 20th inst., at Newcastle, Staffordshire, Sarah, only
surviving daughter of the late Rev. C. Lee, of Bristol.

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