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London, England, 1849-07-27 00:00:00

Tun SIT NI 1, o -19 po N rninAy EVENING, JULY 2wi, 1849.

'e no change to report. B.3ans,
?s, as un Monday.
LS THIS WEEK.
Barley. i Oats. I Fl Air
20 qrs. I 1,250 qrs. I 1,960 it::
....._ ....___
8,210 370 180 I 10,470 --
Malt, 3,020 qrs.
SIEVIETEIFIEZaD.
Our market to day was very moderately supplied
with Beasts, the general quality of which was by no
means prime. Most breeds moved off steadily at prices
about equal to those obtained on Monday, and at which
a good clearance was effected. The numbers of sheep
were not to say extensive. Prime old Downs, which
were scarce, sold freely at full rates of currency. Other-
wise the Mutton trade was in a sluggish state, at un-
altered currencies—the top figure was 4s per Blbs.
There was a slight improvement in the sale for Lambs,
but we have no advance to notice in value. Prime small
Calves sold at full prices. In other qualities of Veal
very little was doing. Pigs ruled heavy at our quota-
tions. Milch Cows sold at from 141 to 181 each, including
their small calf.

mand; in p:
Peas, and all

Hoes we have
other article

ARRIVA'
Wheat.

English •• •• ••
Scotch .... •
Irish. ........
Foreign •• •• ••

1,290 qrs.

1 IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

(THIS DAY.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The SPEAKLR took the Chair at Twelve o'clock.
_ _ LORDS' AMENDMENTS.

On the motion of Mr. WILSON PATTEN, it was
resolved that the several amendments of the Lords
upon public Bills should be taken to-morrow instead of
to-day.
On the motion of Mr. BROTHERTON, the amend-
ments of the Lords on the Sheffield and Lincolnshire
Railway Enlargement Bill were ordered to be taken to•
morrow.
Other Bills which bad been amended in the Lords
were alio ordered to be taken tomorrow.
ENGROSSING OF PRIVATE BILLS.

Mr. WILSON PATTEN moved that the douse pass
the motion of which he had given notice, to read the re-
'solutions of the House of the 12th day of February last,
respecting the engrossing and c nrolling of Bills, and to
move that the arrangement contained in the, said resolu-
tions (except so much thereof as relates to the expe-
diency of one printer printing the Bills fur both Houses)
shall, ic( future sessions, apply to local, personal, and
private, as well as to public Bills. That this resolution
be communicated to the Lords. That no private Bill be
sent to the Lords, until a certificate is endorsed upon the
fair printed Bill, and signed by one or more of the proper
officers for that purpose, declaring that such printed Bill
has been examined, and agrees with the Bill as read a
third time.
In reply to Mr. BOUVERIE,
Mr. W. PATTEN explained that the standing order
of her Majesty respecting the engrossing of private Bills
would expire at the end of this session, and his object
was to have private Bills printed and distributed in the '
same way as public Bills. It: was, in fact, intended to
do away with the engrossing of Bills altogether.
NEW ZEALAND.

Mr. BROTHERTON and Lord DUDLEY STUART pre.
sented petitions from the inhabitants of New Zealand
praying for a better provision for the emigrants to that
colony.
PROTECTION TO THE SUGAR PLANTERS.

Lord I'ALMERSTON presented a petition from
Spanish Town, in Jamaica, from people of all colours,
stating that the admission of slave-grown sugar had been
highly detrimental to their interests. and praying that
the treaties which had been made with the colonies for
a due protection of colonial produce should be observed.

THE STATE OF HUNGARY

To THE RIGUT HON. LORD VISCOUNT PALMERSTON, M.P.
My Lord,—lf I were cot fully sensible of the many
responsibilities, and of the gravity of considerations at-
tached to the position of Secretary for Foreign Affairs,
I should not venture to address your Lordship in that
official character. I believe the way of access is ever
open in your Lordship's heart, to convey any sentiments
or opinion which are advanced for the purposes of en-
lightened policy, or the extension of the interests of
humanity. In no country is opinion so strong as in
this, in no country' i it so free ; its light is the popular
glory of Englishmen, and the beacon that illustrates the
way of advancement to all the nations of the world. The
sentiments of the people are at this moment awakening
into a general life; the warmest aspirations of humanity
are upon their lips, and they ask from your Lordship a
passport to carry the triumphs of peaceful liberty to
other lands. Your Lordship is looked up to with intense
interest. Every word that is tinted with the hope of a
liberal heart—every generous sentiment that falls from
your Lordship's lips—falls es the dew of Hermon, re-
freshing and invigorating the enthusiasm that is spring.
ing up in generous minds. Great an I free as opinion is
—and opinion has its rights as free—it might be unwise
for every one to trespass his opinions upon the members
of a Government, burdened already, with considerations,
and perplexed with heavy responsibilities. Willingly to
perplex the members of a Government is wickedness ex-
treme when many may be sufferers; but it is a pardon-
able kindness to gently remind, when the nation may be
thereby gladdened and thousands reap the advantages.
Your Lordship has now the opportunity to live in the
hearts of the people, and to earn for the name of
Palmerston a palm of imperishable glory. Not that
Fame should tempt, or hold any inducement, through
the path of wrong; but it must be very pleasing when
it is wrought by deeds of magnanimity reflecting
the light of Liberty as it gladdens and dignifies hu-
manity.
Tyranny and freedom are at war in the earth. Might
has become the invader of right. The triumph must be
either to truth or to darkness. Nations must be bound
in arbitrary restrictions, or claim the happy interests of
commercial freedom. The feud has commenced, where
shall it end? The night will thicken or the day advance.
The time of despotism is nearly over, or the reign of
terror is coming on. The people must achieve the
triumphs of intelligence, or be disciplined to obedience
by the knout.
In your Lordship's hands are the issues of life and
death. Your Lordship is the dictator of peace or war.
The legions of England watch the wave of your Lord-
ship's banner; they are spirits that love mercy, and their
enthusiasm is, that peace and truth, and justice and
righteousness should be secured to all nations. They
see oppression at work, and they aspire to save the
oppressed, or, to slay the oppressors. Listen, my
Lord, to the people of England, for their voice is as of
ono man.
The fate of Hungary is in your Lordship's hands.
There is a brave people nobly struggling for indefeasible
rights. There too is an iron King—uncrowned—a po
tentate that w ill not be their constitutional Sovereign, but
their tyrant lord, violating their liberties with his usur-
pation, and desolating their country with his sword.
lie even asks the barbarians to help him; for he finds it
hard to fight against freedom. The barbarians are with
the destroyer; should not the free nations be with the
free? or shall the bear and the eagle treat as carrion all
the sons and daughters of the fairest inheritances of the
earth? Poland, and Gallicia, and Circassia are in death;
and Hungary, and Italy, and Venice, and Sardinia are
quivering with the touch of a coming desolation. The
destroyer cannot do all at once; but the will is greater
than the present power. Time will serve.
My Lord, the salvation of Hungary is in your Lord-
ship's hands; and with it, too, the destinies of Europe.
And the people of England are in your Lordship's hand
also, to determine the balance. Now is the moment fur
the true balance of power, while humanity, and justice,
and light, and liberty will be as gold in the scale. Be-
ware, my Lord, or the beam will be broken, and the
balance of power be lost for ever.
I know that your Lordship's colleagues might deem
the existence of Austria necessary as a first-rate power,
to stand as a check against another. But does not Aus-
tria herself break the balance, and throw overboard the
faith of other nations, if she weakens herself by her per-
fidy to her people—or becomes subsidiary to another
power—or enters into secret compact with Russia—
whereby the two great powers become bound together
as one, without a corresponding amount of friendship,
and faith, and intercourse with other surrounding
nations? If Russia and Austria are as one—even
against her own subjects—where is the balance of power?
Nations that have not surrendered their privileges yet
may reasonably expect to follow in the fate of Poland,
and Gallicia, and Hungary. Shall the enlightened
powers look tamely on the junction of these two darker
powers, while they are making inroads with their pur-
poses of evil? Is policy blind? Is humanity dead?
Surely both policy and humanity declare it is time to check
the destructive or dangerous amalgamations of the two
most despotic empires in the world, whereby treaties be-
come useless, adjustment a dead letter, and Russia and
Austria (the Pluto and Proserpine) the twain in one of
a hell-born incarnation.
My Lord, the balance of power is broken—Austria is
no longer a great power; she is not great enough to rule
the kingdoms within her; she is not great as a Govern-
ment with her own people; she has created distrust in
her own capital, and disarmed her own citizens. Her
people have not the heart to subdue the noble Hun-
garians. What then is Austria as an ally? Who forms
the ally if her people are against her Government and
King? Now, Hungary by her victories might justly
have become another Austria, and a wiser Cabinet might
have blended the sovereignty of Vienna under the sove-
reignty of Pesth. For the Austro-Hungarian domina-
tion is an imperial imposture; while an Hungario
Austrian empire might have sprung forth from the crum •
bled state, and have risen to glory as a power, and have
possessed almost matchless advantages to us as an ally.
You cannot, my Lord, but be aware that there are
many reasons, independent of considerations of humanity,
why England should not be a silent spectator of the
sacrifice of Hungary. Austria is dealing treacherously
with Hungary, and seeking to subvert the guaranteed
privileges of that kingdom. This is a violation of
the faith of nations, a disturbance of the order of
things. Austria calls in Russia to help her
in such violation. What if William IV. had,
or her Majesty Victoria had, seized upon Hanover to
destroy its ancient privileges, and had been defeated by
the Hanoverians, and then had called in the aid of
France or Russia to destroy it as a kingdom; could
England have done so without dishonour? Would
France or Russia have lent aid without some secred ob-
ject? What is the object of Russia? Have we not a
right to know? Have we not a right to thwart that
unholy alliance which virtually destroys the balance of
power in Europe? If it shall be found that Austria has
surrendered her position either in arms or compact, have
we not a right to accept a substitute from among the
kingdoms of her people? We have, also, an undoubted
right to know why Hungary is to be destroyed. We
have a right to know why Russian armies are in Hun-
gary. We have a right to know what are the conditions
under which Austria is bound to Russia for her expen-
sive aid. We have a right to prevent the two great
powers from becoming intermutually one—acting in each
other's dominions, and.perhaps soon elsewhere, without
cause er reason to other powers assigned.
My Lord, these considerations weigh heavily on
the minds of tho people. They dread the dark alliance
of two of the darkest powers. They pity, deeply pity,
the Hungarians. They deprecate a war aroused by the
unparalleled perfidy of Austria; a war against the best
part of her own subjects; a war in which another power
takes part in destroying the liberties and constitutional
rights of a country allied to us, without any cause
assigned to us, or even the formality of a declara-
tion of war to the Hungarians a war most
infamous in its execution, not only a brutal sacrifice
of life, in conflict, in shooting prisoners of war, and
knouting of women, but a wanton destroying of the
green fields of corn, and the homes and the dwellings of
the children of men—a war which intimates a design of
Austria and Russia, first, against their own people, and
doubtless might, without much scruple, extend its curses
where the balance of power is sufficiently broken, and
become the destroyer of the liberty around.
The people cannot, without casting off humanity and
all Jove of liberty, refrain from feeling a groat sympathy
for the people of Hungary; nor can they see how Eng-
land can remain a quiet and indifferent spectator without
greatly compromising her dignity and sacrificing:her in-
terest, and lowering the character of the nation fur
sympathy and the love of liberty. The fall of Hungary
would be a cause of deep deploration, and it would awaken
great fears of a Cossack progression, detrimental to the
peace and interests of Europe.
My Lord, the fate of Hungary is in your Lordship's
hands. Thousands there are perishing, thousands here
have sympathy, and aspire devoutly for the salvation of
that great country from the power of the destroyer, and
gladly would they see that bravo and noble nation be-
come our honoured ally in the place of a fallen Austria.
The people of both countries look to you—your own free
people, and the brave, who deserve to be free. The op-
portunity is glorious—the power is your own.
My Lord, arouse the glory of Old England.
Telegraph the following dispatch : " I DEMAND
A SUSPENSION OF HOSTILITIES—tin Austria shall
have justified her proceedings—till Russia shall jus-
tify her deeds and intentions—till England shall know the
TERMS on which the Russo-Austrian Alliance has been
effected—till it be seen if Austria has sold her position to
Russia—till it be seen whether there is not a violation of
the rights qf nations in the secret Austro-Russian league,
and a necessity for remodelling the balance of power.'"
This your Lordship can do, without any undue
offence to any Power ; the right is in the nation to aid
you to do so—policy and humanity imperatively dictate
such a procedure. My Lord, stay the evils of war; fear
not, your demand will succeed; the people will ensure
its results. They will glory if the triumph be one of
peace, and equitable adjustment; but they will not fail to
arm your Lordship with the iron sinews if necessary;
for they cannot but think that it is better to contend for
justice and the rights of others, before liberty be do
stroyed, than to wait for some fresh outrages to be car-
ried nearer to our own homes by the destroyers,—where
silence could no longer be kept without shame, nor in-
difference be cherished without dishonour. My Lord,
take courage; listen to the watchword of the peopIe—
"DEMAND A SUSPENSION OF HOSTILITIES."
I have the honour to be,
Your Lordship's obedient servant,
BELISARIUS.

SINGULAR IfecT.—A pensioner named Haig, re-
siding in Jedburgh, recently received his Peninsular
medal, with seven clasps. Haig received a musket ball
in his thigh in 019 year 1812, and it is not a little re-
markable that eight days before receiving his medal the
ball dropped out on the opposite side of the thigh, and a
good way below where it entered, thus being in the limb
for 37 years. The ball has been attached by Haig to his
medal—Caleclonian Atercury.

HUNGARIANS AT THE MANSION-

HOUSE.

The following speeches were delivered at the dinner
given by the Lord Mayor on Wednesday to the Irish
Members of the House of Commons, in reply to the Lord
Mayor's proposal of the health of the foreigners who had
honoured him with their presence. They were delivered
after all the reporters had left the ball.
Count TELEKI said—l have been much gratified to
find since my arrival in this country that there is an al-
most universal sympathy for the cause of Hungary. This
has not surprised me, for I was prepared to find that in
this classic land of constitutional freedom an interest
would be felt for the welfare of a nation which in many
of its institutions possesses a great resemblance to your
well-regulated monarchical government. Hungary is
now engaged in a struggle for independence against an
almost overwhelming coalition. I should be wanting in
courtesy to the first Magistrate of London, whose posi-
tion imposes on him a strict neutrality in foreign and
domestic politics, if I were to attempt to enter now upon
the merits of this struggle. Suffice it to say, that my
countrymen are contending only for the same temperate
freedom which you possess in this country, and
which you know so well how to enjoy. If we have been
driven to a resort to arms in the maintenance of our
rights, it has been only after every Effort on our part to
avoid this terrible extremity had been tried and proved
unsuccessful. Whatever may be the result of that
struggle (and I pray God that he will give the victory
to the side of right and justice), the kind sympathy you
have expressed for my countrymen will sink deep in
their hearts, and be recorded with gratitude in the annals
of Hungary.—(Cheers.)
M. Prrizar said—An Hungarian can meet the hospi-
tality and the generous feelings with which this great
nation welcomes him with good conscience; for, while
it is not easy to see how the interests of Hungary, if
God give her strength to get through her present trial,
could clash with those of England, there are a thou-
sand points, and all of vital importance, in which the
interests of the two countries can only go hand in
hand. England is a mighty maritime power, rich in
mechanical skill, whose traders make tributary the
globe; whose manufacturers anticipate the wishes, where
they are allowed to exert their power. Hungary,
.on
the other side, rich in the produce of agriculture, with
a teeming soil and a splendid climate, possesses every
inducement to turn these resources to account, and to ex-
change, under the rule of free trade, the produce of its
fields for the refinement of British industry. There has
been in Hungary an instinctive attachment to England.
We admire the firmness of character, the steadfastness
of purpose, which Englishmen everywhere display. By
all our reforms, both material and moral, the institutions
of England were our Pole star; but few of us have bad
the opportunity of judging of the warmth of English
friendship and the heartiness of English hospitality.
The day I trust is not far distant when more intimate
relations than have as yet been practicable will unite
Hungarians and Englishmen as friends and allies in the
battle of civilization against barbarism—when the ties of
interest to which trade invites shall be ennobled by those
of mutual appreciation of merit, and Hungary shall pay
her
.debt of gratitude to England for encouragement held
out in need, and for aid afforded in distress, with that
fervid esteem and attachment which makes manly
hearts beat in unison across dividing seas and scorching
deserts.—(Cheers.)

THE THUNDER STORM.
Yesterday the metropolis was visited by a terrific
storm, which lasted a considerable period, during which
time the flashes of lightning and peals of thunder fol-
lowed in rapid succession. Shower upon shower of rain
fell, completely washing the streets, and thoroughly
cleansing the sewers. At one period a shower of hail
occurred, and many of the bail-stones were of large di-
mensions. At the same time the wind blew a gale, and
much damage was done to the shipping and small craft
lying in the river.

LAMBETH.—The storm in this part raged terrifically
for upwards of an hour; and shortly before two o'clock
the lightning descended the chimney of the house be-
longing to Mr. W. Tucker, No. 7, Duke-street, Stamford-
street, and tore away &portion of the parapet wall. The
electric fluid then came in contact with the bell wire,
along which it travelled like a sheet of flame. The
occupants ran out into the street, crying out " The house
is on firel" The lightning also passed down the chimney
of the premises belonging to Mr. Joseph Shirley, eating-
house keeper, at a time when a number of persons were
dining in the parlour, who rushed out en masse into the
street, believing the building to be in flames. The
engines of the West of England and London Brigade
promptly attended, but fortunately their services were
not required. It is most extraordinary that no one
received the least personal injury.
COMMERCIAL-ROAD EAST.—The lightning struck a
stack of chimneys belonging to No. 13, Thomas-street,
Commercial-road, in the tenure of Mrs. Ann Haines.
The electric current then took a downward direction,
ripping up the brickwork as far as the back kitchen.
The building at the same time was shaken to its very
foundation, and the inmates believing it to be on fire,
ran into the street calling for the engines. Mr. Fogo
and Mr. Mackay, immediately upon receipt of the infor-
mation, each started to the place with an engine, but
fortunately the building had not become ignited.
WHITECHAPEL.—The effects were terribly felt in
West-street,. North-street, Whitechapel, where several
houses were shattered, and nearly reduced to ruins.
One fatal and melancholy case occurred in this street.
About a quarter past two o'clock, Thomas Johnson, a
cabinet-maker, 21 years of age, was talking at his
own door with a young man named Callow, when
both were struck down by the electric fluid. Callow
crawled a little way from the spot, and contrived to
gain his feet, but fell again with a sensation of numb-
ness all over his body, but particularly in his legs.
An alarm being immediately given, Johnson's father
hastened down, and found his son stretched a blackened
corpse. The fluid struck him on the right side, tearing
open the sleeve of his coat, and cutting his shirt as it
with a shears. The scene, when visited by our reporter,
was one of extreme desolation and wretchedness. On a
rude stretcher, near the window, lay the lifeless remains,
looking more like the corpse of a man of fifty than of
twenty-one—so extraordinary was the change produced
by the manner of death. His father, heart-broken, sat
on the only chair in the miserable apartment, whilst the
poor neighbours who came in with prompt humanity,
knowing the wants of the poor family, dropped halfpence
liberally into the old man's hat. The deceased had been
for a long time out of employment, and both he and his
young wife, who is now in the last stage of pregnancy,
had to endure many privations. The inhabitants of the
house No. 22, in the same street, had a most providential
escape. The lightning struck the western gable, shaking
the whole edifice, and riving the roof almost in two. At
the same time a young woman, named Ellen Wells, who
was sitting near the fire-place on the ground-floor was
violently dashed into the passage, a distance of about
seven yards, sustaining little or no injury, but what fright
occasioned. She was, however, deluged before she re-
covered herself, the rain rushing in like a cataract from the
severed roof. The house was struck in several places,
one stream of the fluid tearing its way through the par-
lour wall, within a foot of the young woman's head.
Those in the next house, No. 21, had also a fearful visi-
tation. Thomas Webb, a shoemaker, with his wife and
three children, were sitting at their employment, when
the electric matter dashed down the chimney, tearing
away the fireplace, the floor, and ceiling, and escaping
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to the London Hospital in a state of utter blindness,
that the shock had deprived him of reason. In several
Tower Hamlets districts, tho destruction of property
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was immense. The long drought had rendered the
people negligent of the state of the roofs and gutters, the
consequence of which was, that sudden and heavy
lodgments of water broke in, in many in
stances, through two and three floorings. The fluid
played a curious but very alarming freak at the
corner house, No. 17, New-street, back of St. Philip's
Church, near the London Hospital. From all that can
be ascertained, it would appear to have entered at the
lower part of the house, where it roamed about ad libi.
turn, taking it more leisurely than is its usual habit. It
then visited every apartment in the house, running
rapidly along the walls, and ringing the bells, until it
finally escaped at the top window, which it shattered to
atoms. Mrs. Malley, the lady of the house, though
much alarmed, happily escaped unhurt. The police are
momentarily reporting new casualties, the result of this
terrible visitation.

TUE BOROUGH.—WhiIst the storm was at its height,
a loud noise was heard as of an explosion in the imme-
diate vicinity of the Borough-market, which was suc-
ceeded by a fall of some heavy substance upon the roof
of St. Saviour's Church. The alarm was occasioned by
the lightning striking the south-west pinnacle of the
clock tower, dislodging a piece of stone near the base,
about sixteen inches square, which was shivered into a
thousand pieces, and sent flying in sundry directions.
Those pieces which fell on the roof passed not merely
through the slating, but also through the external ceiling.
The churchwardens, who were at the time holding a
meeting in the vestry-room, were somewhat alarmed, but
upon making minute examination it was found that the
damage done to the sacred edifice was not very extensive,
but it is as yet impossible to tell whether the pinnacle
will have to be taken down or not. No part of the inte -
rior of the church or of the Lady() Chapel sustained the
slightest injury.
TUE STRAND.—At the time of ono of the heavy claps
of thunder, a cry was raised that the electric fluid had
set fire to the premises of Mr. Harland, a boot and shoe
maker, No. 3, Holywell-street, Strand. The firemen,
with their engines, soon attended, when they ascertained
that a fire-ball had gone down the chimney, sending the
soot out of window like a body of flame. The damage
done to the premises was inconsiderable. A daughter
of Mr. Hart, of No. 7 in the same street, was struck down
by the lightning and severely shaken.
THE PARKS.—The trees in the ornamental parks
were many of them considerably damaged by the elec-
tricity, and some of the branches were shivered, but
not were wholly destroyed.
The state of the thermometer during the day was
maximum 65, minimum 49; and at noon, about an hour
before the storm set in, the quicksilver stood at 63. The
barometer at the same period was 20.63.,

GUN AND PISTOL STOCKS.—A vessel arrived off
the Tower from Rotterdam, has brought 13,150 gun-
stocks and 350 pistol-stocks, comprising the entire cargo,
consigned to order.
TEIG Nmounr. —On Tuesday evening, whilst a child
about six years of age, named Evans, was playing on
the beach, it got possession of a small flat fish, which it
attempted to swallow, but in doing so was unfortunately
suffocated before assistance could bo procured.
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CommissloN OF SEWERS.—At a special u
yesterday, Mr. Woolrych, of the Inner Temple, was p
pointed order clerk, is the room of
za erotsrlett, held
re-
signed.

COURT CIRCULAR.
OSBORNE, THURSDAY.
His Royal Highness Princa Albert, attended by Lleut.-
Colonel Seymour, Equerry in Waiting, and Lieut.-Col.
Hon, C. B. Phipps, embarked at Osborne Pier yesterday
at a quarter before eight, A.. 31., on board the Fairy, and
was conveyed to Southampton Docks, where his Royal
Highness was received by H. Compton, Esq., John
Mills, Esq., Cornelius Stovin, Esq., and Gooch, Esq.,
the directors and authorities of the South-Western Rail-
way, by which his Royal Highness proceeded to Dor-
chester. The Mayor and Corporation of this town had
the honour of presenting an address to his Royal High•
ness at the railway station.
The Prince was then escorted from Dorchester to
Weymouth by the Dorset Yeomanry, under the com-
mand of the Earl of Ilchester, and after receiving an
address from the Mayor and Corporation of Weymouth,
his Royal Highness embarked in the Victoria and Albert
Royal yacht, and landed at a temporary landing•place,
erected upon the site of the intended breakwater at
Portland Island, where he was received by Admiral Sir
Bidden Capel, Lord Frederick Fitzclarenee, &c. His
Royal Highness then laid the first stone of this national
work, the details of which were explained by Mr. Ren-
dell, the Chief Engineer, and Mr. Coode, the Resident
Engineer.

The Prince was then conveyed in a carriage prepared
.
for the purpose to the cnvict establishment, which his
Royal Highness inspected very minutely. His Royal
Highness was shor,n over the establishment by Colonel
Jebb, Captain Whitty, and the other authorities of the
establishment.

His Royal Highness, after partaking of a luncheon at
the house of the Governor, Captain Whitty, proceeded
to the site of the Chapel intended for the use of the con-
victs, to which his Royal Highness waa pleased to pre-
sent a handsome Bible and Prayer-book. During his
visit the Prince announced to one of the convicts at
work, Gomer, that her Majesty had been graciously
pleased to grant him a free pardon.
At 4 P.M. his Royal Highness returned to Weymouth
in the Victoria and Albert yacht, attended by George
Bankes, Rig., the Hon. Frederick Villiers, and Colonel
Freestun, the Members for Dorsetshire and the Borough
of Weymouth, and from thence was escorted, as before,
by the Yeomanry to Dorchester. After again proceed-
ing by railway through the New Forest to Southampton,
his Royal Highness embarked in the Fairy, and arrived
at Osborne at half-past 7 P.m.
The Queen and Prince walked early this morning in
Osborne Park.

His Ho)al Highness the Prince of Wales and the
younger members of the Royal Family walked and rodo
as usual.

Ilis Excellency the Chevalier Bunsen arrived at O.
borne yesterday afternoon, and was included in the royal
dinner party.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at
the Foreign-office. It was attended by Lord John Rus-
sell, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lansdowne,
the Earl of Minto, Sir George Grey, Viscount Palmer-
ston, Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir
Francis Baring, sir John Hobhouse, the Earl of Carlisle,
and the Marquis of Clanricarde.
The Council sat an hour and a half.

A deputation from Liverpool, including the Mayor of
Liverpool, Mr. Rushton, and Mr. Ferguson, accompanied
by Sir Thomas Birch, Bart., M.P., had an interview with
Earl Granville yesterday, at the office of the Board of
Trade.

The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had
a general meeting yesterday at their office in White-
hall-place.
The Marquis of Lansdowne, accompanied by the Earl
and Countess of Shelburne, returned to town yesterday
from Wilton-house. The Marchioness of Lansdowne
proceeded from Wilton•house yesterday to Bowood Park,
Wilts.

HER MAJESTY'S VISIT TO IRE-
LAND—THE ROYAL SQUADRON.
The royal yacht Victoria and Albert, Captain Lord
A, Fitzclarence, G.C.H., with her Majesty, Prince
Albert, and the Court on board, attended by the steam
squadron, will probably leave Cowes on Wednesday, the
Ist of August, arrive at Cove on Friday, leave that
anchorage on Saturday, and arrive in Dublin Bay on
Sunday, her Majesty and the Court probably landing on
Monday morning. After remaining about tour days at
Dublin, the yacht and vessels will proceed on to Belfast,
and thence to Greenock, when the Fairy's services will
be again in requisition to tako the Queen and Court to
Port Glasgow, 3.:c. It is also probable that the yacht
squadron will then return to their respective ports, as it
is conjectured the royal party will return to London by
land.

The Victoria and Albert has returned to Portsmouth
to prepare for her cruise. She will not go down to Cowes
until Monday next.
Her Majesty's yacht steam•tender Fairy returned to
Portsmouth yesterday morning, and coaled; and, under
command of Mr. Welch, left in the evening, at four
o'clock, for the Cove of Cork, where she will await the
arrival of the royal yacht squadron, when she will be
required to take her Majesty and Court up to Cork.
Her Majesty's steam sloop Sphynx, Commander
Hewlett, has returned to Portsmouth from Portland, to
prepare for attending the royal yacht.
Her Majesty's steam-tender Fire Queen, Master
Commander Allen, returned from Portland yesterday
afternoon, to prepare for the cruise to Ireland and
Scotland.

Her Majesty's steam-packet Vivid, Master Com
mander Smithett, is ordered to proceed from Dover tt,
Portsmouth on the 30th, to be in readiness to accompany
the royal squadron.
Her Majesty's steam-sloop Stromboli, 6, Commander
Lord A. W. Beaucletk, is ordered to Portsmouth from
Portland for the same purpose.
Her Majesty's screw line-of-battle ship Hogue, 60,
Captain Macdougall, is ordcreld to proceed from the Nore
to Cork, calling at Portsmouth on her way.
Iler Majesty's steam-vessel Black Eagle (Admiralty
yacht), Master Commander Couk, is ordered from Wool.
with to Portsmouth to embark some persons of her Ma-
jesty's suite, to accompany the royal squadron.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TATTERSALL'S.-YESTERDAY.

With the exception of the Maid of Masbate, to whose
retreat allusion was made in oar last, and Clermont and
Fernhill, who were quoted at au improvement, the price:,
on the Goodwood Stakes underwent no material change;
business was miserably dull. The same remark ma)
be applied to the other events to come off next week, thi
investments generally being in small sums, and the
alterations too insignificant to call for any notice.