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

AMERICAN NEWS.

ARRIVAL OF THE HIBERNIA.

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LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY MORNING.
The British and North American Royal Mail Steam-
ship, Hibernia, which left New York on the 11th,
reached the Mersey early to:day. She brings advices
by telegraph and express down to the following dates:
—New York, July 11 th ; Boston, 11th; Baltimore, 10th;
Philadelphia, 11th; Washington, 10th; Montreal, 9th;
Mobile, 9th; New Orleans, 9th; St. Louis, 9th; Cin-
cienati, 9th ; Quebec, Bth ; Charleston, 9th, Hali-
fax, 14th.
Arrivals out—The British and North American
steam-ship Canada, which was leee heard of at Halifax,
arrived at Boston a few days after, and the Niagara,
belonging to the same line, which left Liverpool on the
30th of. June, had put into Halifax on the 12th lust.,
and, after the usual detention, continued her voyage to
New York.
The advices from all parts regarding cholera state that
it is on the increase. The disease was making terrible
havoc amongst the Delaware and Shawnee Indians, and
in almost every vil! age along the banks of the Upper
Mississippi. People were flying before it in all directions.
The citizens of Ncw Yolk and the leading towns were
fast leaving for the spas, Cataracts, and mountain retreats.
The dismissals and appointments in the Customs, Post-
°ince, and ether departments, consequent on the change
of President, still continue; but President Taylor is not
carrying out his alterations to anything like the extent
of his predecessors.
The effect of disunion in the great democratic parties
in the State has been so apparent in the late Presidential
election as to load to a fusion of the bernburnere and lo-
colocos, alto are about to coalesce. For this purpose
" a Consulting Convention " will be held in Syracuse on
the 15th August, preliminary to a general meeting in
September. Slavery is a subject which will not be in-
cluded in their deliberations.
Several elections to the House of Representatives take
place during 1849, amongst these are—Rhode Island, 1
member ; Massachusetts. 1; Ohio, la iliaryland, 6;
North Carolina, 9; Alabama, 7; Louisiana, 4; Texas,
2; Mississippi, 4; Tem:risco: 1 ; Kentucky, 10; Indiana,
10. The majority of these elections take place on or
about the 6th August, hut several do not come on till
November. The Democrats expect these re turns will
give them a clear majority, in the House at Washington
of 7, whilst the Whigs reckon upon a majority of 2. At
present the relative numbers are—Locufocos, 72; Free
Soilere, 10; Whigs, 83. It is said that Mr. Clay
Rill
give all his support to the Taylor party. That gentle-
man was expected in Washington the day previous to
the departure of the Hibernia from New York. It is
supposed some additional changes' will be made in the
personnel of the Administration. Some of the journals
hint that the mission of Lieutenant Beale to California
was to have Weiler recalled, and Fremont substituted.
Wasen, the celebrated Scotch vocalist, is dead.
A most crowded demonstration had taken place on
the evening previous to the anniversary of American
independence, in the Broadeay Tabernacle, Now York,
to welcome the celebrated temperance advocate
Amongst those who took a prominent part in the pro-
ceedings were Chancellor Walworth, tho Itev. Dr. Cox,
&c. Of the invitati as scut to Father Mathew we notice
some from Boston, New Orleans, Washington, and
others from Canada. The excitement created by his
arrival amongst the lower classes of the Irish almost
borders on profanity. A kiss of the hand, a blessing,
nay a touch of the garment, seemed, in the eyes of those
deluded creatures, to Liven some of those miraculous
gifts which one would imagine laid departed with Prince
liobernohe. 16 a few hours, on ern day, net less than
20,000 people had shaken bite by the hand; and not the
least conspicu.,us in their tokens of admiration are the
ladies of.T-Tees York.
The influx of emigrants at Boston, and the other
khastera parts, fins Ireland and the Continent of Eu-
rope, was said to be much larger than usual.
Desertions from the United States army were becem-
ing very frequent latterly, and some severe measures to
repress them were under consideration.
Eulogies and orations (ceremonies almost unknown in
this country, though very common in France), are
being delivered an the life and public services of Presi-
dent Polk. Amongst the eulogies delivered, or to be
delivered, ere those by Judge Woodbury, at Boston ;
the Hon. Henry S. Foote, at Washington; and the Hon.
James Buchanan, at Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
A mass Convention was to be held at Cleveland, Ohio,
on the 13th of July, to celebrate the anniversary of the
pasiege of the ordinance, prohibiting slavery in the
North-Western territory.
The President leaves the capital in August for the
north, visiting amongst other places on his way, Balti-
more, Harrisburg, Bedford Springs, Pittsburg, Ohio,
Cleveland, Buffalo, Albany, and Boston. On his return
ho will take New York and Philadelphia, arriving at
Washington about the beginning of October. His visit
is said to be for the benefit of his health, and also to
make some agricultural observations, that being a sub-
ject on which he is a decided amateur.
The grain crops, and more particularly that of'
wheat, have been suffering severely by the ravages of
insects, and in many places the frost has done great in-
jury.

According to a notification put forward previously, by
General Sandford, at the request of the Sanitary Com-
mittee of the Common Council of New York, the usual
military display on the 4th July was dispensed with,
but, save this, all the enthusiasm which usually &MOM-
panies the celebration was manifested.
Several presentations of colours took place in front of
the City Hall, and the great dig, which is about to be
forwarded to Kossuth, the Hungarian liberator, occupied
a prominent position in the proceedings. Procestions,
orations, fireworks, &c., were seen or heard on every
1 side, whilst large numbers of the population set out on
day excursions to the neighbourhood. Throughout the
Union the day was kept a close holiday.
Accounts from the Canadian provinces are much of
the same character as those received by the last steamer.
If anything, the agitation is on the increase, and fresh
troubles had manifested themselves. The League is not
inactive. From being confined to one or two large cities,
it has now spread into every district, and each hamlet
has its own branch, something similar to the lodges of
the Orange confederacy in Ireland.
The contemplated dissolution of the Orange Society
in Canada turns out to be an invention of the Opposition.
That loyal body, in number 45,000, are determined to
increase their strength and unity of purpose, so as to
mako their influence tell on the future policy of the colo-
nial governors. The Canadian Reciprocity Bill, respect-
ing which Mr. Merritt has arrived in the States, is caus-
ing considerable attention in the provinces.
There are no fresh accounts from Mexico, California,
or Texas.

COM IIERCIA L NEWS.
We have very little to notice regarding the state of
business in general throughout the Union, the reports
to hand being of a similar character to those we have
received for some time past. If anything, the tone
of the reports is more depressed, the heat of the weather
and the spread of the prevailing distemper driving all
the merchants from the cities and leading places of com-
merce.

The money market at Now York continues very easy.
Specie was most abundant, and fur all legitimate pur-
poses of business advances were obtainable at moderate
rates, the rates of interest ranging from 4 to 5 per cent.
Very contradictory statements are given reg&rding the
amount of gold to hand
.from California, but one thing
is certain that there is no want of that commodity for
investment.

The market fur American securities presents on ani-
mated and busy appearance. The tenor of the advices
brought over by the Canada, which left this port on the
23d ult., had led to considerable investment in the lead.
ing state stocks, and much firmness, as well as a buoyant
spirit, characterised the business.
Breadstuffs—There was a fair business doing in bread-
stuff's, at firm prices.
Cotton—The cotton market was active, and since the
arrival out of the Canada's news, a large business was
doing.
Provisions—There was not a large business doing in
provisions, the demand being chiefly for home consump-
tion and ships' stores. Prices are at about the same rates
as last noted.
Exchange—There was a good business done in ex-
change up to the departure of the Hibernia, the rates on
London being 108} to 109.

DEATH OF THE CHAPLAIN OF THE TOWER FROM
ASIATIC CHOLERA. Yesterday morning, at twenty
minutes to two, the Rev. Charles Boughton St. George,
clerk, and chaplain to St. Peter's, in the Tower fortress,
died from an attack of Asiatic cholera, under the fol-
lowing very distressing circumstances:—lt appears that
the reverend gentleman seemed in his usual health on
Sunday morning last, and preached his usual sermon to
a large congregation. His voice, which at all times was
perfectly clear and loud, suddenly fell towards the con •
elusion, and it became quite inaudible. After the ser-
mon was over he immediately went home to his parson-
age house, which adjoins the church, and was attacked
with vomiting, purging, cramps, and all the other symp-
toms which are characteristic of an attack of Asiatic
cholera. A surgeon was instantly called in, but the un-
fortunate gentleman gradually sunk, and died at the
above mentioned time. The deceased was universally
respected by ell the officers and soldiers in the Tower,
and bis loss will be felt for some considerable time.
THE SOUFH-EASTERN RAILWAY AND MR. BROG•
DEN.—Sir E Kelly, Mr. Matins, Q.C., and Mr. Bally,
attended yesterday afternoon before Vice-Chancellor
Wigraw, to move for the committal of Mr. Brogden for
contempt of court in not delivering up to the South-
Eastern I.►ailvvay Company the portion of the North
Kent line executed by him, pursuant to his undertaking
given last Monday in court, to deliver up the line on
Saturday last at twelve o'clock, in whatever state it
might Mr. Brogden's solicitor appeared without
counsel, and after objecting that Mr. Brogden bad not
been persmally served on Saturday with the notice of
motion, asked for time to answer the company's affi-
davits. The Vice Chancellor was reluctantly induced
to give him till ten o'clock this morning, the company,
in the meantime to do all they can to serve Mr. Brogden
personally with notice.

Th! Masters have appointed Messrs. Birkbeck and
Ernest official managers, to wind up the affairs of the
Laccastei- and Newcastle Railway; and Mr. Jay to wind
up those of the 111,tropolisan Railways Junc6,n.
A Sentm.AsTic SINECURE.—The Blackburn Gram-
mar School must be rather a snug thing. "The present
master, the Rev. J. Bennett," says the Preston Chrohicle
"has no sehc:lars except his own two Sons! No assistant,
though receive's the same stipend as his predecessor,
who had to pay three.
Earl Grey rettuned to town yesterday from his resi-
dence at Datchet.

THE VACANT JUDGESHIP.
I On considering the claims of the various leading
counsel at the Common Law Bar to fill the seat on the
btnch vacant by the death of Mr. Justice Coltman, it is
impossible not to be struck with the face, that there are
some half-dozen who stand pretty nearly on the same line
in point of profess onal pretensions. It is no doubt the
duty of a Minister to bestow high judicial posts which
involvG no political functions, and cannot in any way in-
fluence the future prospects of his party, on pre-eminent
merit, even if such merit should exist alone in the ranks
of his political opponents. But as the case stands just
now between the Whig Government and the leading
counsel at the Common Law Bar, there exists no diffi-
culty of this kind. From amongst the lawyers who have
adhered throughout the course of their career to the
Conservative party, and those who have remained
staunch to the cauee of progression, it would be easy to
name three cr four on either side who might be
appointed to the vacant judgeship with perfect
propriety. C'ceteris paribus, then, we may pre-
sume that the choice will fall on a barrister
who has through life belonged to the party
of the Ministry actually in power. Now, of the gentle-
men who full under this category there is no one whose
appointment would give greater satisfaction to the
country, or meet with a readier acquiescence in West"
minster-hall, than that of Mr. Sergeant Talfourd. The
first point' no doubt, for consideration in such a case as
this, is that of professional qualification. We feel per-
fectly justified in the assertion that Mr. Sergeant 'fat-
fourd is to the full as sound eel.' careful a lawyer as any
ono of the other gentlemen who are talked of for the
post. lie has been iii the practice of his profession for
very many years in the presence of the public and
the bar, and the best test that eau be given of his
legal ability is, that he has during that time had a
good share of business in Westminster-hall, and has
invariably transacted it with signal success. As
Crown lawyer his knowledge and qualifications are in-
disputable, and the records of the Common Pleas will
show how frequently and how well he has borne his
part in civil cares, and that before the judgment-seat of
so pre- eminent a magistrate as the late lamented Chief
Justice Tindal, and in the presence of so sound a lawyer
cc Mr. Justice Maule, and of one so acute as Mr. Justice
Cresswell. Of Sergeant Talfourd's legal qualifications
there can be no question. They have been too long and
too shrewdly tested to admit of hesitation or doubt.
If we turn to other scenes, we shall find Mr. Sergeant
Talfourd to have come before the public in a manner
that removes him from the category of " mere lawyers?'
In the Senate and on the stage his name is as well known
at in Westininster-hall. We cannot see why the mental
qualifications which have enabled a man to attain
honourable distinction as an orator and a poet should
stand in the way of any other oldies he may derive from
a long, laborious, and successful professional career. It
may be, on the other band, that these distinctions afford
something like a guarantee that a man will bring to the
bench the inspirations of an enlarged and cultivated
mind. Even a legal judgment is none the worie for
bsing derived from such a source. We do not say that
as a lawyer Mr. Sergeant Talfoned has any pretension
to stand en the same line with the great Lord Mansfield;
but we cannot forget that this first of English judges was
distinguished for his exquisite taste and great attain-
ments in literature as for that splendid series of judg•
ments which has inspired the lawyers who have sue-
ceed.,(l him in Westminster hall with an almost super-
stitious reverence for his name. In a word, we feel it
will be a great disgrace to the country if the author of
lon stands in the way of Mr. Serge ant Talfourd. The
appointment of this learned gentleman to the vacant
judgeship would be felt as the well-deserved reward of a
successful profeesional career, and as an honour suitably
bestowed upon a very distinguished man.—limes.
[We most cordially agree in every word of the above
well-merited, and not more merited than just, tribute to a
good man, as well as a sound and constitutienal lawyer.
—ED . Sun.]

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RAIL WA Y tA It Ai A I,t E TS,
BRISTOL, JULY 23,
STOCK EXCHANC.E.—The transactions to-day were confined tO
Great We..t.-rn, Quarten, at 5 dis.
• LIVERPOOL, JULY 23.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The share market was dull to-day, and priceS
had a downward tendency. The saves arc—Lancashire and Yorkshire,
Fifths, 635. 9(1. -- Ditto, Preference, 12% Ditto, Fifths (West
Biding Union), 4% dis.—Gla,gow, Perth, and Greenock, Prefer-
ence (6 per cent, till 1853), 7% Great _Northern (London and
York Extension), 5 per cent. Preference, 1 IA dls.—London and North-
Wettern,-133 idland, Halves, 12% dis. —North British, New Pre-
ference, % P.—South-Eastern and Dover, ti% dis.—North Union (A),
230—North Staffordshire, 41. 16s. 31—Shrewsbury and Chester (N•
W. 31.), 1 dis.—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N. E. Purchasee),
6 per cent. till 1850, 4 dis.—Belfast and Ballymena, 19%.
NCHESTER, JULY 23.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—Th _MA e
transactions to-day were as follow
Great Northern Preference, 114 dis.— Aberdeen, Preference, % P.--
West Biding Union, 4% dis.—North British, Preference, %•
GLASGOW, JULY 21.
STOCK EXCHANGE —The transactions to-day were as follow:--'
Edinburgh and Northern, 10% —North British, Preference, 525.
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—ispa'chss from the Governors of the West India
Colonies were received yesterday at the Colonial-office.
Dispatches were also received yesterday at the Colonial-
office from the Governor of New Zealand.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Lady Mary
Wood returned to town yesterday from a visit to Mr.
Jones Loyd, at Wickham Park, Kent.
STNICS, JULY 18. Arrd. Hope, Fotherick, St.
John's, New Brunswick, for Newcastle.
TUE CROPS IN TI ; E WESTERN DISTRICT:"...
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 Dorset,
with the exception of being thin on the wet clays, and whore the dry weather, coming after the wet, has bon
too much for the plant, the wheat is very promising. In
the neighbourhood of Teignniouth the crops, both of
corn and potatoes, are looking splendid. The barley
crop in Wilts look promising, as is likewise the case on
the best lands in Somerset. Oats are both good in con-
dition and forward, and the hay crops have seldom been,
more abundant. At this period of the year we have
generally, fdr a few years past, heard great complaints
relative to the potato blight, but this year, with here
and there an occasional exception, the potatoes aro
healthy and entirely free from disease. The recent
showers of rain have been of essential service to them,
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 years.
Mangold wurzel is a partial failure.
ROYAL ARTILLERY. Captain Grant's troop of
Royal Hcrse 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 etution. 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 next
year by adding two additional guns to each troop of the
seven at present formed, which will enable the authori-
ties to retain two troops at head-quarters, having then
six guns each, equal to the three troops now stationed
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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,
fireworks, the storming of Moultan, and many other
things worth being seen. The whole was well arranged,
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 PETERS°.
notion Ranweer.—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,
for forging 1,512/. 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 2t 25., and sur-
rendered their scrip.

B11:771S,
On the 18th inst., at Milton-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 Rifle Brigade, of a son.
On the 20th inst.. at Rayne Rectory, Essex, the wife of
the Rev. Richard N. Bhker, of a (laughter.

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

On the iiothlnst.',Trances Jane, the youngest daughter of
M. T. Turpin, of Brighton.
On the 24th inst., at Newcastle, Staffordshire, &nal], only
nrviving daughter of the late Rev. C. Lee of BristoL

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