The Sun.
London, England, 1846-07-03 00:00:00

SHREWSBURY AND BIRMINGHAM.

The clauses of this Bill (as amended) were gone through
and passed, and the report agreed to.
BIR,WINGHArd, WOLVERHAMPTON, AND

DUDLEY.

The Committee then went through the clauses of this
Bill (as amended), all of which were agreed to, as well as the
report.

BANKRUPTCY.-(THIS DAY.)
( Before Mr. Commissioner Farm.)
The clerk of the Sheriffs' Court for the City of London
handed in a document issued from that Court on a judgment,
and applied under the Small Debts Act for an order of the
Commissioner to enforce that judgment.
The Learned COMMISSIONER said that the document did not
set forth the jurisdiction of the Court.

The Clerk-said that there could be no doubt of the juris-
diction of the Judge of the Sheriffs' Court to extend all over
the City of London.
The Learned COMISSIONER—No doubt he knows his own
jurisdiction, but lam not bound or expected to know it. It
I stirred in the matter, and the Court below had no jurisdic-
tion, I should be laying myself open to an action.
The Clerk said that it was shown in the record that the de-
fendant resided within the jurisdiction of the Sheriffs' Court.
The COMMISSIONER—That is a mere suggestion on the re-
cord, which may, or may not, be true—suggestions on re-
cords are generally false. In the Exchequer, it was formerly
set out that the debtor was indebted to our Sovereign Lord
the King, which was not a fact; suggestions, therefore,
went for nothing.
The Clerk said that if his Honour would suggest what
would be satisfactory evidence of the jurisdiction it should
be adduced.

The Learned COMMISSIONER would not trouble himselt to
suggest what was required. When papers were put before
him he would say whether he would act on them or not.
He woull not in this case.

SECONDARIES'.—(THIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Secondary JAMES.)
EI:WOOD V. YOUNG.

This was an action to recover the sum of 71. 10s., for a
quarter's rent of apartments in Brownlow-street, Hlolbo►rn.
The defendant pleaded that he was not indebted. On the
part of the plaintiff evidence was adduced that the defendant
had occupied the apartments for eighteen months up to
Lady-day last, and the rent was claimed for the last quarter.
Fur the defendant, however, six receipts 'Were' ptit'in, cover-
ing the whole of the period, but the "lattet had been altered,
and it was contended was not in the writing of the plaintiff,
but the evidence slightly went in the affirmative. Another
paper was put in, being an uustamped receipt for 51., which
was rejected as evidence.

The Learned SECONDARY said it appeared to him that the
question was a very simple one, and that was—whether the
receipt was in the hand-writing of the plaintiff ? As all the
receipts had been produced, it could only allude to the quar-
ter in dispute ; the paper for the 5L might probably have been
for a sum paid on account, and that on the payment of the
balance, the receipt, which was a stamped duplicate of the
other, might have been altered.

The jury almost immediately gave a verdict for defendant.
The SECONDARY said that there could be very little doubt
in the matter.

This was the only case.

REPEAL OF THE CORN-LAWS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sirs,--A correspondent of the Mornipg Advertiser signed
"Alfred," calls on the people to erect by penny subscriptions,
a statue of Sir Robert Peel, in the Royal Exchange, to com-
memorate the above glorious event, and complains that no
other Liberal paper have advocated the same course. Now I
like his penny subscription plan, on the principle that ss.
from 60 persons would look better than from one; yet I do
not agree with him that it should be to Sir Robert Peel, for I
beg to state, that while I highly appreciate and feel grateful
for the unexampled boldness of that great man, in bringing
fbrward and carrying this grand measure, I cannot see that he
is entitled to the preference in the hearts of our countrymen.
Then who is ? Why, not one Iran alone, but a body of men,
and I think lam right in saying, aye, and the great ma-s of
the people will also say, that it belongs to that wonderful
society. the Anti-Corn-law League, who broke down the
barriers of prejudice, and opened the people's eyes to the ad-
vantages of such a repeal ; but if there are honoursto be given
to one man more than another, I think the people of England
have too much good sense to do other than bestow them to
the man to whom the honours are due, and I quote from the
IVestminster licv'ew of some months since (and Sir Robert
himself has confirmed it), which points out that man.
"And one at least of that body has won a larger measure
of confidence and respect than perhaps was ever before
awarded, both by friends and enemies, to the leader of a
great enterprise. Calm, indefatigable, inflexible, with sin-
gleness of purpose, never diverted to the right hand or the
left; shrinking from no fatigue, shunning no opponent, and
never yielding to an antagonist an advantage in temper or
argument, reasoning not for effect, but to produce conviction,
and carrying conviction by communicating to the minds of
others, with the evidence of plain facts in plain words, a belief
in his own sincerity, the right champion appeared at the right '
time, the hour came and the man, the man without whom
public opinion would even yet have been so unformed upon
the fallacies of protection, that no Whig or Tory Ministry
could have dared to propose more than a slight or temporary
modification of the existing system. The man who has
given to this generation, by the blessing which, without him,
would not have been realised till the next—and the honest
thanks of all good men be given now, and hereafter the
world's gratitude to Richard Cobden."
When I call upon my countrymen, I call upon the people
of the United Kingdom to come forward with their penny,
and commemorate the event by erecting in the centre of the
Royal Exchange a suitable monument, with a suitable tablet,
to be deeply engraved with the names of those actors who
have figured most in that great crusade, putting Cobden first,
but allotting a conspicuous place on the same, for Sir Robert
Peel, the then Prime Minister, who nobly sacrificed so much
to bring their labours to a successful issue, thus showing the
whole civilised world, from generation to generation, the
men who were their great benefactors.
I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your obedient servant,
Southwark, July 2, 1846. MATTHEW.

MORTALITY OF THE METROPOLIS.—The total num-
ber of deaths registered in the metropolis during the week
ending Saturday, June 27, was 890. Of this number, 834
were from disease, showing an increase in the number of
deaths from disease, as compared with the preceding week,
of 55.

ROYAL THANES YACHT CLUB.—Last evening the
monthly meeting of the above club was held at the Piazza
Hotel, Covent-garden, Lord A. Paget (the commodore) pre-
siding. The treasurer read the financial report from April to
30th June, which showed a balance in the hands of the
treasurer of 574/. 13s. 4d. A motion was unanimousl7 car-
ried that 3001. of the balance should be invested in the Three
per Cent. Consols. A letter was read from the British Con-
sul at Cadiz, intimating that from a communication received
from the director of customs at Madrid, that the Spanish
Government had consented to grant the same privileges in
respect to all Spanish ports to the Royal Thames Yacht
Club as were already enjoyed by the Royal Yacht Squadron.
The several gentlemen proposed at the last meeting were
balloted for and elected, and the Marquis of Stafford, as well
as many gentlemen, were proposed for the ensuing meeting.
The Sea Nymph was withdrawn from the list for the match
of to-morrow.

THE DES TILIICTION OF ST. JOHN'EL—LITERPOOL.
WEDNESDAY.—This melancholy disaster has excited much
commiseration amongst the mercantile community of Liver-
pool. A meeting of the principal merchants engaged in the
Newfoundland trade was held to-day, and it was resolved
immediately to open a subscription for the relief of the suf-
ferers, many of whom were represented to be on the verge of
starvation. We trust this appeal will meet a fit response.
A very curious meteor was observed about half-past
eight in the evening of the 20th ult., at Marieux, near
Autun (Saone-et-Loire). The air was calm, and the at-
mosphere still illuminated by the expiring reflection of the
sun, when a luminous globe, of a violet tint, and appearing
to the eye to be about a yard in circumference, was seen for
the space of a minute, and a few seconds more, falling per-
pendicularly to the horizon, preserving all the time its sphe-
rical form. Although five globules, each of nearly one-fourth
of the size of the principal ball, were successively detached
from it, it did not lose anything of its apparent volume. At
last, when only a short distance from the horizon, it burst
into a thousand particles, spreading to 4 Wide (lama".

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, QUARTER TO TPIREE
The Cotton market at Liverpool yesterday was steady.
Sales, 7,000 bales. Shares were rather quiet—North Stat.
fordthire were in brisk demand.

It is with pleasure we are enabled to state that the em-
nloot's of several of the wholesale houses of the City of
London have commenced a subscription towards the testi-
monial to Sir Robert Peel, the limit being strictly confined
to one penny per head. It has been just suggested to us
that it would be well if the principal parties employed in the
wholesale trades should meet and form a Committee irre-
spective of the partners of the firms, and set the affair afloat.
It must, however be observed, that day by day and hour by
hour, the current of public opinion is setting stronger in
favour of the proposition. We have seen some lists this
morning commenced in the way we have stated, numbering
from 50 to 60 names. In order to facilitate
the collection of funds, a plan has been sug-
gested
which we think admirable. It is that cards
should be printed, having on the one side the words
"Testimonial to .Sir Robert Peel," and on the other lines suf-
ficient to carry sixty names. A treasurer having then been
appointed, the remittances could be easily forwarded, and if
numbered from one to ten thousand (or more, if necessary)
the various localities throughout the United Kingdom, in
which lists were opened, would most readily be informed
when the lists of subscribers are finally completed. It ought
to be mentioned that there is an opinion in the City that
should the funds raised be more than sufficient for paying
the expenses of a suitable statue to Sir Robert,
that the surplus ought, in fairness, to be applied
to the creation of a scholarship in the City of London
school rather than at Oxford or Cambridge. Thanks
are certainly due to the correspondent of the Morning Ad-
vertiser for having first suggested the modus operandi by
which it will be proved that the middling and the lower
classes do appreciate the exertions of Sir Robert Peel in so
successfully carrying out his bold and grand measures. And
may we give a hint to the ladies? Why should not they
be "up and stirring" in so good a cause, by making purses
among their relatives and connexions? thus showing that
they admire the measures of a man whose desire has been
to increase the happiness of the family circle by an increased
amount of food being given at a less cost than at present.
The monthly report of Messrs. Wilkinson and Jewesbury
states that the demand for Colonial products during the
past month for hone consumption has again been exten-
sive, especially as regards sugar, coffee, and tea, in which
the Board of Trade returns exhibit for the first four months
of the present year an increase of 10 per cent., with a fair
prospect of a continued increase.
The English Stocks are steady, with a moderate business
doing; Consols, 95% 1/2 ; New Threesand-a-Quarter per
Cents., 963/4 to 97; and the Three per Cent., 95%
Bank Stock has been firm at 206 to 206,4. Exchequer-bills
have been quoted I ls. to los. premium.
The Foreign Investments have been neglected, but they
have remained at nearly the previous rates. Spanish Three
per Cents. are now marked ex-dividend, and realise 35%
to; 3/4. The Five per Cents. have been 24%. Brazil Bonds
were quoted 84% to 85. Portuguese Three per Cents. have
been at 473/4, ex dividend. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per
Certs. are at 60.

Railway Shares have been dull. An improvement of a de-
cided character is expected should Government resolve
to pro:iibit all railway calls where the works
are not commenced within twelve months. The
shareholders of the Dublin and Galway Railway Company
appear to be confident, even now, of obtaining a reversal of
the decision against them—justly considering it, as they do,
to be of a very extraordinary character, fur if the profitable
part of a line be given to one company, no other will subse-
quently come forward to execute the less promising portion,
thus destroying the entirety of a scheme which would have
paid. The Foreign Railways are quiet.

BRITISH FUNDs. ONE CLOSING
O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Bank Stock .. .. .. • • • • • • • • 206 206%
Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. .. 95k, 3A% 95%
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anne. 96% 14 97 97
1 ong Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, Ib6o .. 10 3-16 4 10
India Bonds, 1,0001. .. .. .. .. .. 20
Ditto, under 1,000/. .. .. .. .. 25
South Sea Stock .. .. .. .. .. ..

Ditto Old Annuities .. .. .. 93 ;74 - 93%
Consols for Opening , .. • • .. .. .. 95%. 95%
Exchequer Bills. 13id. 1 kid.
I,oool .. %,... • 11 15 pm. 15
Ditto, Small ,—, .... 15 —— pm:, 'l5

ONE

LOSING

FOREIGN 'UNDS. O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bones, 5 per Cent .. 81%. 85 85
Chilian Bonds, 6 per Cent .. . 96
Mexican Bonds, 1837, to per Cent ..
Ditto, Deferred
Portuguese Three per Cent

1G j

Ditto, for the Account 47.1 i ex city 43

Ditto, Small .. .. .
Ditto, 4 Der Cent .. .. .. •• 45% ex dlv
4r,}4
Russian Bonds .. .. .. .. .. 111
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent .. ..

Ditto, for the Account 24% 24,1
Ditto, Three per Cent .. 35% ex div 30%
Ditto, for the Account 35% ex div 35%
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch Two-and-a-Ilalf per Cent .. GO GO
Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 03% 94 94%
PRICES OF BUSINESS CLOSING
DONE AT
RAILWAY SHARES. PAID. PRICES.
ONE O'CLOCK.

Amber., Notting., Boston, and
Eastern Junction .. .......... 1
Birmingham and Oxford Junction 2 .... 31A %........ 3%
Bristol and Exeter .. 75 .. 82 .• 82
Ditto New .. .. 5 .. • • 9 9
Buckinghamshire .. 425. .... 34 dis.— dis.
Caledonian .. .. • • •• • • 10 •• • • 914 %•••• • • • • 934
Ditto, Half Shares .. 1 ..... 1
Ditto, Extension . • .. 2% .... 1% 1%
Direct Northern .. .. 2%,•.. 1% 116
Eastern Counties .. .. 141. 165..... ••• • • • .... 241,4
Ditto New .. 10/. 165.... • 7% P••• • • • 7% p
Do. Perpet., 5 per Cent. No. 1. 61. 13s. 4d. . ...... a
p
Ditto, York Extension 105..... 1%4
Eastern Union .. 25 . . • • --
Do. Ipswich & Bury StEdminids 9 .... 7M .. 7M
Edinburgh and Glasgow .. .. 50
Ditto 34 Shares .. .• .. 10 .... _ 1714
Ditto, Quarter Shares .. 12% 18
Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester.. .. 1 - 1
Great North of England . ..100
Ditto, New .. .. 5 .... ...... „, 58%
Ditto, New .. . 1% •• • • 18 • • 17%
Great Western 85 148 1471% •
Ditto, Half Shares .. 50 , 83 .. ~ • 83
galite,,Ftfths •.., 20 .... 32% . 32%
' Guildford, Fareha,n, sD.rortsmethk. -• • 4% •. - •
Leeds and 'Brad tbii • • - .... 62 .. •.. . .... 02,
London e.n t 131rniingham . • • iOO .. 222 •• • . ..... .. 222
London and Croydon .. • . 13/. 15s 9d... 221,E 221 A
London and Greenwich .. 121. Iss. 4d. 9
London, Hounslow, & Western .. 2 % ..........
London and South•Westerii..4l/. 6s. 10d... ...... • . 78%
London and York .. 2% • ..• 1% 11,4
Manchester and Leeds .. • • 82 .... ......
Fifths .. 3 .... 113 i • • ... 1134
Ditto Extension 425. •• 2% p.. ••• • .. 2% p
Manchester, Buxton, & Matlock 425. •• .• saint p p
Ditto, New .. 24 •• 38
Ditto, Birmingham and Derby 100 ....1223e .......... 122%
Newcastle and Darlington J Inlet. 25 .... _
Ditto, New . .. • • .. 1 .... % ........ 93/
Newcastle and Berwick .. .. 15 .. • • 251 A .......• • • 25
North British .. • • 22%.... .. ••.•• • .. 29%
Ditto, Carlisle Extension .. 11A . .....
Ditto, Dalkeith 25
Ditto, ditto .. .. 5 .... 6 .. 6
Nunn Kent and Direct Dover • • 2% .......... 1%
North Staffordshire .. • • . • 425. 4p•• • • •• • . 4 p
Scottish Midland .. 10 .• .. . 6%
Shrewsbury and Birmingham .. 2%.... 2%3y......
Shropshire Union 428. .... • • ..... • .. clls.
south Eastern and Dovor • • • 33% .. • • 40% .... ...... 40%
Ditto. New (iss. at 321.) No. 1. 16 ... 20 .......• .• 20
S ?nth Wales ..
West Riding Union .. • • .. 425. p••.. • • 2% h
Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth 5 .... 5 dis ...... • • 5 ills
York and Carlisle .. 2% 1% ....... 134
York amd North Midland 50
Ditto, Half Shares .. 25 .... 48 •• • • 43
Ditto. Scarborough Branch .. 25 .... 47% 45 .. 48
Ditto. Extension . .. 15 .... 34 • • ........ 34
Do. E. and W. Biding Eaten.— t• • • 12 11% • . 1214
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Central of Spain .. 2 .... 1% 1%
Lyons and Avignon .. .. 2 ....
and Liege .. • • .. 6 .... 3%.. •••• • • • 334
Northern of France Constituted.. 5 131, % ••• • • 13 1,4
Orleans and Bordeaux .. 6 .... 9LA
Paris and Lyons Constituted .. 5 .. .......• • • 5%
Paris and Strasbourg Constituted 5 .... 41A
Sambre and Meuse .. .. 8 ....
West Flanders „ 6•
JOINT-STOCK BANKS.
• • • • .. 40 •• • • 20% .. 20%
MINES.
Real del Monte, Unregistered •• • • 3 ••• • • • •• • 3%

Australasia .. ..

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.)

LONDON, JULY 3.—W ind S.W., moderate breeze, and fine.
DEAL, JULY 2.—Wind W. to W.S.W.—Arrd. Hernielin,
Cronholm' Bahia, and sailed for the Baltic; Comet, Paraiba;
Hercules, Madigan, New York, and both sailed for Antwerp;
Glasgow, St. John's, New Brunswick; Heart of Oak, Stoker,
Miramichi ; Junius, Quebec ; Symmetry, Newfoundland.
Arrd. from the river and sailed, Dauntless, Putt, Ceylon;
Eclipse, Davis, Madeira; Northumberland, Griswold, New
York. Put back, Helen, for Demeraa ; Apollo, for Quebec.
OFF BIUGHTON, JULY 2.—London, Trinidad.
SOUTHAMPTON, JUNE 30.—Arrd. John Thompson, Bad-
cock, Quebec. Sld. July 1, Tweed steamer, West Indies;
Forth steamer, West Indies.

OFF FALMOUTH, JULY I.—Hermann, Baltimore.
BRISTOL, JULY I.—Arrd. China, Turnbull, Quebec.

MARKET NEWS. -(THIS DAY.)
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CORN EXCHANGE_FRIDAY,
The present we€k's arrivals of English Wheat having been
very moderate, the show of samples of that article here was
small. Still, however, owing to the immense quantities of
Fersign pressing on the market free of duty, the demand was
exceedingly dull, at a decline in the quotations of quite is
per quarter. Foreign Wheat commanded very little atten-
tion ; yet, as the holders were tolerably firm, we can notice
no alteration in value. In Barley very little was doing, at
late rates. Superfine Malt was quite as dear. In other kinds
very few sales were reported. Oats, Beans, and Peas, the
supplies of which were large, met a very dull inquiry, at
barely stationary prices.

ARRIVALS.
BarlAy.
540 qrs.

Wheat.
English •• •• •• 3,020 qrs.
Irish •• ...... -
Foreign ...... 15,190 _

Oats 1 Flour.
130 qrs. 1,310 sks .
9,390
2,450
—.

520
Malt, 2,460 qrs.
SMITHFIELD.
The supply of beasts was again moderately extensive. The
attendance of buyers being somewhat on the increase, the
Beef trade was firm, and previous rates were well supported.
We had on offer 80 Oxen and Cows from Holland, while the
number of foreign Sheep and Lambs embraced 340, and of
Calves 9 head. From Scotland 40 Scots came fresh to hand.
The number of Sheep was tolerably extensive, yet the Mutton
trade was very steady at extreme currencies. The same ob-
servation may be applied to Lambs, the general quality of
which was good. In Calves a large business was done at an
advance of 2d per 81bs. Pigs were dull at late rates. Mitch
Cowes were selling slowly at from 161 to 191 each. Suckling
Calves, 18s to 28s ; and quarter old Store Pigs, 16s to lOs
each. Beasts, 723 ; Cows, 141; Sheep and Lambs, 11,250;
Calves, 482 ; and Pigs, 280.
NEVITGATIJ .a.ND zruunirnuizz.

We had, a steady general demand, and prices were well
supported.
BOROUGH NOP MARZET.

From some parts of Kent our accounts respecting the bine
are not quite so favourable as last week; but from Sussex
and Farnham they are very cheering. Hence the demand
here is inactive, and prices are with difficulty supported.
The duty is backed as high as 140,0001. Sussex Pockets, 51
5s to 616 s ; Weald of Kent, Si 12s to 6/ 103; Mid and East
Kent, Cl lOs to 8/ lOs per cwt.

COLONIAL.
SUGAlt.—The markets for British Plantation has been
very quiet, and there is an almost entire suspension of busi-
ness, owing to the uncertainty about the duties. Prices
have been full 6d per cwt lower. Refined Standard
Lumps have been 69s 6d to 70s per cwt. East
India-1,500 bags 13,:ngal sold at Gd to is decline, low
to good bright grainy yellow 47s 6d to 555, and brown
low 38s per cwt. 14,700 bags Madras have been
put up, but only partly sold at 6d to Is decline; good mid
damp bright yellow, 46s 6d; low mid and mid, 42s to
45s 6d. The rest was taken in at 45s to 50s 6d for low to
good yellow, and A 514 6d to 538 tox finc. Blauxititui liatj

been dull. Foreign—•A good deal has been done in slave
grown at 2s to 3s advance in some cases : yellow Havannah,
23s to 245; and Bahia, brown and white, 21s Gd to 255; for
cargoes afloat and at auction, 1,546 bags chiefly went at 6d to
is advance; low to good yellow, 21s to 245; mid and good
mid white, 293 to 305. Rio went at 18s to 21s for brown and
yellow, and at 21s 6d to 25s 6d for low to good white.
COFFEE.—There has been very, little done in West India
samples, but Jamaica have realised rather fuller prices, love
mid, and mid, 75s to 101 s, and good and fine ord, 458 6d to
60s per cwt. Ceylon has been sold at 41s 6d to 42s for good
ord, at 42s to 59s 6d for good and fine ord to tine, at 54s to
58s for pea-berry. Mocha, mid greenish, has realised 51s 6d
to 52s 6d per cwt, and Bahia has been taken in at 36s to 38s
per cwt. Rio, fine and pale colory, brought 355. Costa
Rica has been taken in at 38s to 488 for good to f fine ord,
and at 52s to 57s for low mid. 2,258 bags Java were taken
in at 32s to 42s for ord to fine ord.

RlCE.—There has been a good deal doing in Bengal, and
prices have ranged from lls to 14s for mid white to good bold
Patna grain. Madras went at lis to 13s 6d and 14s per cwt
for white, and at lOs 6d to lls for common yellowish.
SAT TVETRE.—Bengal has been sold at very full prices.
SricEs.—Pimento has been sold at 3%d per lb; Cassia
Lignea and Pepper have been quiet.
Rum.—Proof Leeward., has been sold at 2s 2% to 2s 3d.
per gallon.
TICA.—The market is dull. Common Congou is 10d, and
low to fair Twankay Is ld to is 3d per lb.
HEMP.—Clean is 31s per cwt. The delivery last month
was 814 tons.

TOBACCO.—The market has been rather more active lately,
and prices have continued steady.
TALLow.—P.Y.C. is 42s per cwt. on the spot.
INDlGO.—Privately 2d to 4d per lb. advance has been
obtained, the accounts being unfavourable. The quantity
declared for the next sales is 15,199 chests, but holders are
expected to withdraw a good deal.

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I

ARMY

PRIZE-MONEY.

The Account of Unclaimed Army Prize-Money (formerly
made by the Deputy-Treasurer of the Royal Hospital at
Chelsea), from January 18, 1809, to December 31, 1845,
directed to be annually laid lefore the Houses of Parlia-
ment by the Act 2 1, ill. IV., c. 53.

Dr.
To Cash arising frdln Forfeited and ti-n‘.
claimed Shares of Prize-Money,
Grants, &c.
To ditto arising from the Dividends, or In-
terest of Moneys invested in the Pub-
lic Funds or other Government
Securities

£1,305,319 1 10

By Cash refunded to Claimants £671,326 2 5i
By Expense in executing Acts from Jau
18, 1809, to December 31, 1845 57,689 1 OA
By Sums paid for the Royal Hospital, in
diminution of the Annual Vote 572,331 14 51
Balance (vide Memorandum below) 3,972 3 10i

£1,305.319 1 10

MEMORANDUM.—AIthough the balance upon this Account
appears to be as above stated, yet there is in the Three per
Cent. Consols, 100,0001. Stock, invested on account of Army
Prize• Money, the interest whereof is included annually iti
the Parliamentary estimates, and is applicable to the par
ment of prize claims; and when the amount thereof, in ad.
dition to other sums received on the same account during the
year, exceeds the claims paid, the balance is taken by the
Paymaster-General as an appropriation in his accounts. The
difference between the above balance, viz., 3,972/. 3s. 100'
and the 100,000/. Stock in the Three per Cent. Console,
arises from the investments in that stock having been made
when the funds were very low, and from the sales thereout,
as occasion required, having been from time to time effected
when the prices were considerably higher.
RICHARD NEAVE, Secretary.
Royal Hospital, Chelsea, June 25, 1846.

PRICE OF BREAD.—Wednesday the 41b. loaf was re'
duced from Bcl. to 7d, by the best bakers, and from 61Ad.
51/2d. by the cheap bakers, in various districts of the ale'
tropolis.L

The Earl of Eglinton has purchased the spacious
mansion of the Earl of Lovelace, in St. James's-square. The
sum stated to have been given for the property is 14,000 E
LAMENTABLE DEATH OF A MEDICAL STUDENT,„
Yesterday Mr. T. Wakley, M.P., and a highly-respectable
, jury, assembled at the-Cock Tavern, Phoenix-street, Claree;,
• ' don-square, Somers-town, to prosecute an investigation ill,
the lamentable circumstances attending the death of 0,
George Francis Webb, lately residing in the above street
The deceased gentleman, who was in his 26th year, was
medical student. Mr. G. Olive, of Soho-square, said that
.t 1
was distantly related to the deceased, and last saw him alit
be
Monday, 29th ult. Witness knew that he had /I,"T
on very ushappy terms with his wife, and had formerly eC,
hibited a very unsound state of mind. On that day be es'
pressed to witness a wish to go abroad, in a somewhat dl
sponding manner, and intimated that he cared very lit";
what became of him. Witness was aware that he had bee
in the habit of taking opium whenever depressed in spirit"'
and also considered that he was labouring under some sP°l
cies of insanity. Mr. John Wrentmore, surgeon, stated th
on being called to attend deceased he found him lying j
the bed; there was a bottle by his side which had contaiohe
morphia. The usual antidotes were administered, but Pot
never rallied, and, sinking gradually, he expired at ab°
, half-past one on the following morning. The jury, aft bit
short consultation, returned the subjoined verdict :—" .11:0
the deceased died from the effect of morphia, but in 1"e;
state of mind he was at the time he took it there was n
sufficient evidence before the jury to enable them to decide.
, Lord Alvanley is improving in health at Bath. to
) ANECDOTE OF LOUIS PIIILLIPPE.—On Friday, "V",g
the King was stopping to change horses at Essonne, on
way back from Fontainebleau, an elderly woman, rushls
through the escort at the risk of being trodden to death
ist'l
the horses, reached the door of the royal carriage, and, he.,
seen by his Majesty, presented to him a small piece of pan,
which he received. The carriage immediately aftersttrif
drove on, but a very short time had elapsed before an ortl7. 01
officer returned, and delivered to M. Cullion, sub-prefect
Corbeil, who had been in waiting for the King, the brie
woman's petition, in which were several pieces of gold, wgteil
were immediately delivered over to her- The petition PI 0
, • that she was a travelling peular,
? who had fallen sick skid
public. house, and incurred a debt of Bf., which she r„„.
not pay, and as a guarantee for which the publican Pftetsd'
,tained her dog, who was her only companion and Tole.
The fact was, she owed the publican 18f., but she heui(iii%
in her purse, and she could not, she said, deceive the ber
by asking for more than she actually wanted to ee'rbeil
debt. It is gratifying to add that the sub-prefect of Co „,
ascertained that the woman bore an excellent character'
Galignuni. 00r
THE OBSTIYATE BARBER.—We mentioned to
f ° ,
O readers, some weeks ago, that the whole of the pile „est
buildings at the upper end of John-street and Prince's-51401
was to be immediately pulled down, and that a heated
edifice, to be devoted to business purposes, was to be m
ere
on the site. The tenants of the re,pective houses w
elt
settled with, and they quitted the premises forthWiths'bef
' save one, an unflinching barber, who occupies a little e
at the corner of John-street. The demolition of the fP.
miles has gone on from day to day, but the barber renew
fixed as his poles, for he has two of them elevated as
bleins of that rigidity of determination on which Cesar pit Of
himself when he spoke of the north star as emblematic of
his resolution. The houses have been tumbled to heoriO
rubbish, and four stories have been taken from above 01
head, but the barber has stood unmoved amidst the
sot
of rafters, the wreck of gables, and the crash of bll'iot
Though his cabin has smoked like an Esquimau
from the stoppage of his chimney, though clouds oforor,
verised mortar have swept past his doorway, and his to
now reduced to a hut, is scarcely, save in fronw
be distinguished from the masses of ruin to which it 1110
tains, still the barber has not been induced to stric's, tee
poles. Thus, like the banners of Macbeth, which flouted
sky to the last, they project forth, as if in defiance of thews
most havoc that bricklayers' labourers can effect. Al! eV
valiant resistance is worthy of a better cause. The u
JO
a die
l when he heard that the tenements were sold, and that
site would be wanted, set the purchaser at defiance, he,"
shop as a fief to which he was entitled without doinght4aoo'
and now is determined not to quit without compeotp
An offer, we are informed, has been made to him, Wl'Lrati'
refuses to accept, and, in return, he has named his 'cow
which are deemed so exorbitant that they cannot 12% re'
plied with. The barber has held out till not one bri`tcollo,
mains upon anothe save those which compose his ova' seer;
What will be the next move we known not, but we u'-rtelo
stand that early this week he will be constrained to J
and change his quarters.—Liverpool Albion. e
ASYLUM FOR FEMALE ORPHANS, WESTMINST S-
ROAD.—Yesterday at noon a quarterly Court the Goll;'
dians of the above excellent charity was held in the
~00/
room of the institution, to receive the report for the IV
quarter; Mr. Williams in the chair. The report havinfbega,
presented, which showed that a bequest of 100/. had eeto
given to the asylum by a lady of the name of Wanes, toe
500/. had been invested in the Three per Cents., a 13'°04
was submitted that a guardian giving a donation Of tp
guineas should be entitled to the presentation of a end
time institution during the life of the donor, exclusive of bed
other benefit. The Rev. Mr. Curling observed that be Willies
to know whether he would be entitled to any vote?
_noel
Chairman said that he would not. Mr. Forrester Pr°so
an amendment that that the donor be allowed 1(14 vial
The Chairman put the question, when the amenchot'd sO"
lost by a large majority, and the report was receive d the
adopted. Thanks were then voted to the Chairmset.
Court broke up. Ore°
BARBADOES.—A WHOLE FAMILY POISONED:"... h Of
children and their mother were poisoned on the SOL,',Ip
April by eating of cassava (jatrepa manihos), not roll; 4;1
prepared. The cassava had been sliced since the 6' 00
March, and dried, but the whole of the watery poison 0,01
not appear to have evaporated. On the 30th a tes,
some was prepared in a farinaceous state, made into oe, „tie
and eaten by the family at breakfast. At three o'clock the
of the children died, and the other two in the course Of
evening. Hopes were entertained of the mother's reoe'ted,
The roots of the cassava, if eaten raw or improperly tree re'
are poisonous to man and animals ; but when properllPia
pared by heat they yield a valuable article of food, forP',,,esO
a principal article of subsistence to the Indian and Europe
inhabitants of South America. But, though the juicessea
w
quick and mortal poison, the antidote is always at band,
nothing more than clay, or common earth and water. r the
THE DOG-DAYS.—We now understand the use o'eest
basins in Trafalgar-square. They were evidently n
meant to be ornamental, but they promise to becolnerfett
tremely useful. During the late warm weather we °beet the
several dogs standing on their bind legs drinking out oft
basin. The dogs like to have their water like ginger' ere
" fresh from the fountain." There is no doubt the basins test
kept as large preventives against hydrophobia, and We, ta;eo3
say, ugly as they are. we only wish there were more of tiog
in the metropolis. Notices should be written up, direc_ to
the canine species to Trafalgar-square, with directiotr:ji
avoid confusion, that "they are to sit down with their hpilee
towards Pall mall, and to take up with their tails on s rt/
with the lion's at the top of Northumberland Llcalee•
Punch,
al
DESPERATE CIIASE.—On Monday evening, Pd °-
officer George Foden, being on duty at the north e,117,/to
Birkenhead, was sent for to oppose the terrors of the Ism'
the half-drunken violence of a brute, who was cruel,' spot,
ing his mother and sister. On the officer reaching the, her
the ruffian turned round, struck the representative olieelo,
Majesty a violent blow, and immediately took to his the
The officer, having formerly been a sort of champion.l.,neece
pedestrian world, immediately followed, and a splendluptiVe
ensued. Neither the culprit nor the officer seemed to mese,
the best of it, when the former, after several artful °erste
turned short into Corporation-road, and made a deep eat
attempt to escape by leaping the immense excavation 00
making in that street for the construction of a sewer't: bled
jumped short, but fell on his feet, and speedily scrade the
out; his pursuer was not so fortunate, for having res_ yea'
longest leap and cleared the drain, he was unable t?Eig ret
his footing, and fell backwards. On the chase
dingtlrsd
Burned, the ruffian had a few yards start; but fin se_
his pursuer was yet on his trail, he took to the waif vise ;
contrived to escape by going through Wallasey Poo"o
genuine moss-trooper. This was too much for the.citid...tvrao,,
of the.. policeman, who, being_ a raw recruit, 0015 :;ati -
spoil las new suit, and the fellow made good his rw4—
Liverpool azurkr,