The Sun.
London, England, 1846-07-29 00:00:00

ART-UNIONS BILL,

The further discussion of the report on this Bill was re-
sumed, on the motion of Mr. WYSE.
Mr. GOULBURN opposed the Bill, on the ground that it
would sanction gambling amongst one class of society,
whilst there were laws in existence which pre
vented a precisely similar mode of gambling in a
lower and consequently a less opulent class, and that if
to is system of gambling was legalis d by the passing of the
Bill, there would be nothing to prevent it extending to
other branches of art and maeufscture, and renew-
ing the spirit of gambling in other matters, which
the House had felt it its duty to put down by law.
Mr. MILES supported the Bill, and considered that if
they rejected it, that numbers of artists, who by Vie praise
worthy system of art- unions were now supporting themselves
and their families, would suffer all the evils of penury. He
could not, therefore, anticipate any evil from the passing of
the measure, but the reverse, as it would foster and increase
the taste of the people for the fine arts.
Sir R. PEEL generally concurred with the views of his
Right Min. Friend the Member for the University of Ox-
ford, and, although the Government, he believed, intended to
support the Bill, he was wiliing to remain silent on
this measure. He believed that it would be
an exception from a right principle, and, like
all exceptions, they would reap practical inconvenience from
it. But would it be of benefit to art:? Even if it were, he
doubted if it would be right to encourage gambling by giving
such a power, and so create a precedent from which, as he
had said, they would experience practical inconvenience. But
he considered that these art-unions encouraged and fostered a
spirit of gambling, instead, as had been stated, of
a desire to promote the fine arts, because persons in various
towns throughout the country, who were not actuated by a
love of art, but for gambling, for the 300/. or 400/. prizes
established those art-unions, and considered themselves
patrons of the fine arts. He questioned much, there-
fore, whether the fine arts were encouraged by the es-
tablishment of art-unions--in fact, they rather increased the
taste for cheap and inferior productions in the place of
tellers, which deserved the denomination of fine art.
Mr. WYSE denied that art-unions encouraged gambling,
as they were established for the individual benefit of the
members and for the encouragement of the higher branches
of the fine arts, and the distribution of pictures among the
great body of the people, who, unlike the Right Hon.
Baronet (Sir R. Peel), were unable to possess valuable and
consequently high-priced pictures. Besides, such exhibi-
tions performed their part in refining and educating
the people, and could not, he contended, come
under the definition of gambling. He was at a
loss to understand why so much objection should be
wade to art-unions, when building and other societies were
allowed to exist, against which the term might be applied
with greater truth.
Sir R. INGLIS explained that he considered that pictures
merely delighted the people, and bore but little part in their
moral culture. He repeated that art-unions encouraged
gambling, because money was raised and prizes distributed
by lottery, which was an immoral mode of raising money.
Did the gon. Gentleman remember the case of the Spital-
fields' lcom-weavers,.and the result of their lottery? He
was glad to find himself agreeing with his Right. Hon.
Friend the Member for Tamworth, as to whose attachment
to the fine arts there was but one concurrent opinion on
that side of the House, even before his recent
endeavour to alleviate the sufferings of one gifted pro-
fessor of the fine arts became known. He agreed
with his Right Honourable Friend, that that Bill would
not encourag,s the fine arts. He objected to the prin-
ciple, for even if it would have the effect of procuring
the productions of Raphael and Michael Angelo, he,
for one, would not sanction such by the means proposed by
the present Bill. But lie did not think that it would even
have that effect, but, on the contrary, encourage a bad style
of the fine arts. On these grounds he should oppose the Bill.
Sir WALTER JAMES said that he considered that it
would be unwise to press the Bill in its present form, and
therefore he should give it his opposition.
Mr. EWART said he thought it would encourage the fine
arts if a law, similar to the law of Belgium on this subject,
were introduced into this country. In Belgium lotteries
were discouraged, but were permitted with respect to
the fine arts.—(Hear, hear.) The case stated by the
gentlemen on the opposite side was not made out.
They had not even given an instance of the evils they appre-
hended from the passing of this Bill. For these considera-
tions, lie trusted the House would adopt the Bill.
Sir GEORGE GREY said he thought there was a
double necessity for this Bill. In the first place, it would
show whether these art-unions came within the provisions of
the lottery laws, and to subject themlo such wholesome re-
strictions as would prevent, effectually, gambling as it was
called.—(lle.ar, hear.) The Committee formed to inquire
into these art-unions found that some of the evils com-
plained of did exist, but at the same time that
they were not inherent to these institutions.
They then offered such suggestions as they considered
would have the effect of repressing these evils. He was of
opinion that the Bill would be of advantage, and he would
give it his support.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. HENLEY opposed the Bill.
Lord HARRY VANE said he would give the Bill his
support.

Mr. B. ESCOtT said he must call the attention of the
House to one fact before dividing on this subject. It would
be highly unjust to several persons who had got their bread
under these institutions if they were suddenly to be deprived
of them.—(Cries of "Divide.") Upon that ground alone, if
upon no other, he would give the Bill his support. •
The House then divided, when there appeared—
For the motion
, Against it
Majority
Tne House then went into Committee on the Bill, and the
clauses were agreed to.
PRISONS (IRELAND) BILL.
On the motion for the third reading of this Bill,
Mr. F. FRENCH made a few observations.
Mr. PIGOTT explained that the object of the Bill was not
to effect any alteration of the nature apprehended by the
Hen. Gentleman, or lead to the increase of expense which he
seemed to suppose.
The Bill was then read a third time.
THE GRAND JURY CESS BOARDS (IRELAND) BILL.
This Bill was read a third time.

MANDAMUS (IRELAND) BILL.
This Bill was also read a third time.

(LEFT SITTING.)

THE LATE FATAL ACCIDENT OFF VAUXHALL-BRIDGE.
—An inquest was held yesterday at the Feathers, Dean.
street, Westminster, before Mr. Bedford, on the body of
Catherine Rathbone, aged three years, daughter of George
Rathbone, shopman to Mr. Wyld, of Charing-cross. The
deceased was drowned by the upsetting of a boat, in which
were nine other persons, off Vauxhall-bridge, on Saturday
evening last. George Maynard, employed at the Vauxhall-
bridge-pier, said that on Saturday, evening last he saw a
skiff, in which were ten persons, drift through the bridge,
and strike one of the piles which protected the pier. The
skiff then rebounded by the force of the shock, and came
in contact with the paddle-box of the Lightning steam-boat.
Witness called to the persons in the skiff to keep their seats,
but they all stood upright, and the consequence was that
the boat upset, and tkey were all immersed in the water.
The deceased and a young woman, her aunt, were drowned.
The captain of the steamer was not in any way to blame.
Several other witnesses gave a similar account of the
accident, after which a verdict of "Accidental death" was
returned.

EVENING CONCERT. A few evenings ago Mrs.
Stephen Chambers gave another delightful concert at, her
house in Soho-equare. She certainly deserves to large
extent the admiration with which her genius filled her select
and fastidious hearers, Selberberg was even better than on
the preceding occasion • his violin seemed an animated being.
Miss Ellen Lyon sang very sweetly; but the chief attraction
of the evening consisted in the admirable compositions, ad-
mirably performed, of Mrs. Stephen Chambers herself.
OREPRESENTATION of TYRONE.—There are already symp-
toms of opposition to Lord Claude Hamilton, by the Orange
party. It is said that they will start as a candidate Mr.
Verner, son of Sir William Verner, one of the present Meni.
boa kikaaag4 Goiatar.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 7,000
bales, including 1,200 for export, and 800 on speculation.
The rest was American, and sold at 4d. to 5%d. per lb. The
market was very firm.—Shares were firmer. There will not
be any open businessThr the next three days, in consequence
of the sisit of Prince Albert to this important port.
The division of last night upon the Sugar Duties Bill has
been the subject of conversation, and, we may add, delight,
in almost all commercial and banking circles this ino!nlng-
The great que tion at stake is held to be settled, as it is not
exilected that in the face of a majority ofl3o in favour of the
Premier's proposition, any alterations will be made of im-
portance, either in Committee or in the higher branch of the
Legislature. The benefits which must accrue to mercantile
ares by the settlement of the corn and the sug d
of t
ar utifla
a scarcely to be calculated upon. The current ract?.
!via now flow with an evenness which the oldest merchant
in London scarcely presumed to dream of at She close of 'the
Ow e
year 1845. It is true that a few of the leading firms
of
City s,LI hold That the principle of protection ougbt not
be broken through, and give way to what is called new'
fangled commercial policy. But- what better
_test Can vf
have of the feelings of the manufacturing classes of thgf
opinion upon the settlement 'of the. sugar duties, than the
acknowledged fact that their orders for goods have fallen on,.
owing, no doubt, to some latent apprehension Oat the lea
joi ity in the House of Commons would have been much less
than it is, and have led to a bold effort on the Part °,
the L 'rds to strangle the Bill ? This is now (lc
mitered entirely out of the question. The
sales. advertised (Ur this day of foreign and colonial Mai.%
are light, but the forthcoming sales of foreign sugars, virLa„,
we learn will be somewhat extensive, will best show theilie
fluence upon the market by the decision of last night. A' c
are also advised that at Hamburgh, at Rotterdam, and he
Amsterdam, very considerable quantities of sugar wl",-;
shortly announced fur sale, and by the results a fair ealetilf
tion may be made of the diffeience which, under ther„,
proposed system, will exist between the markets of the v°-

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK•
(From the Official List.)

Bank Stock .. .. 209
Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities • . 96%3a
Three per Cent. Consols Annuities .. 96% 95%
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anns. 98% 97%
Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 .. 10 7-16
Ditto, 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859 .• 10 3-16
Ditto, 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 .. 10 3-16 %
India Stock .. •• 262
India Bonds, 1,0001 • • .. • • •
Ditto, under 1,0001.
South Sea Stock .. • • .. • • • • • •
Ditto, New Annuities. . • • • .. 94%
Consols tor Account • • .. • • • • • • 96% NI%
Exchequer Bills. d. I%d.
1,000/. .. 912
5001. .. 912 —1);..
Ditto. Small .. .... 912
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS A.T ONE O'CLOCK.
Granada, 1 per Cent. .. • • •••
Ditto, Deferred •• • • • .
Portuguese Thre.: per Cents. • : 46%
Ditto, 4 per Cent .. 45% 443¢
Russian Bonds, 5 per Cent •• • • 112%
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent. • • •• 26
Ditto, Passive Bonds • . %
Ditto, Three per Cent .. • • .• • .36%
Ditto, for the Account • • • ; 36%
Dividends on tile above payable In London. •
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Ceuta. 59%
Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates .t • 94%
BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE' O'CL°eg'
• RAILWAYS. PAID. rzu. SKASE'
Amber., Notting., Boston, & EastrnJii. 2% _ 1_ .. to
Birmingham and Oxford Junction .. 2 6% •• • • to
Bristol and Exeter .. 75 85 _ to --
Ditto, New .. .. 5 9%.... to --
Buckinghamshire 425. 34% dis. to '—
Caledonian .. 20 13% % .. to
Cornwall and Central Devon 2%.. • • 1%36.„ to --
---
-Derby and Crewe .. 6% /‘
Direct Manchester (Remington's) .2% to --
Direct Northern •• ••••••2%•••• -4 k% • • to --
Eastern Counties .. 14/. 16s. Od 24 .. to
Ditto, New • • .. • • • • 10/. 16s. Oil pto --
Do., Perpetual, 5 per Ct. No. 1, C/ 13s. 4d %.% pto
Ditto, ditto .. N 0.2, 61. 13s. 4d %P• • to
Ditto, York Extension .. • . .. 10s. .. • • 1% %• • to --
East Lincolnshire .. ••' • . • • to
Exeter, Yeovil and Dorchester 5%
Goole. Doncaster, and Sheffield, arc—. 425. dis. to
Grand Union (Nottingham and Lynn) 1%.. • • too --.5s
Great Western .. 85 l5l •• • • t
Ditto Half Shares •• • • • • • 50 •• •• 85 ••• • to
Ditto, Quarter Shares • • .. ..10..22% 235( 22% to
Guildford, Fareham, and Portsmouth 5
Leeds and Lradford .. • • .. •• 26
Leicester and Bedf•Jrd • • • • • • 225. a4 dis. to --;,3
London and Birmingham.- • • —lOO . • 232% 231% to
Ditto. Thirds .. • • 32 73% -7:
I Otto, Quarter Shares ..
Ditto. Fifths
Lo..don and Brighton
London and Blackwall
.• 161. 13s 4d.
and Croydon .. .. 131. 15s. 9d. •• • •
22
50 65%36 _ to
London 23% .. to ---
Ditto, Guaranteed Five per Cent... 9.
London and South-NI/eaten 411. 6-• 1°•••• • ,75Y•...
1010,411 and York 2% •• • • !I4 to
London, Salisbury, and Yeovil :•. • • ."' ••
to
Londonderry and Coleraine :. 10 •• • ' 3%•• ••
Lynn and Dcreliam 1- .• 1172 • • to
Manchester and •• •
.. Leeds 82 ....117 .• ▪ to
Ditto, Half Shares .. • 38 53 543 to a
Ditto, Fifths .• .. • • • • .. 3 1 o •• ▪
to
Manchester and Birmingham .. •• 40 .... 87 • • to --
Ditto, Quarter Shares (A) .. .. 4 .... 15% ••••• to
Ditto, Quar.er Shares (11) .. 4 .... 15% •• to
Ditto, Quarter Shares (C) .. 1 "N..% t P
Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock •. 425. •• • • 1 p•. • • to
Manchester and Southampton .. • . 2 .. • • 17012• Midland to
Ditto, New .. .. 24 .... 39% •• • • to --
Newcastle and Darlington junction . • 25 4434 •• • to
Ditto, New .. .. • • .. • • 1 .... 10%
Ditto, New, Brandling 25 _43 .. • • 4434
Newcastle ..'7L
% Newcastle and Berwick .. • • .. 15 .. 28 %•••• to `1
Newark, Sheffield, and Boston .. • • 2%.... to
3--J%
North British .• .. • • .. 25 ...• 37 •• • • to
Ditto, Carlisle Extension .. 1% •• ;• 334 %
• • to
North Staffordshire .. 425. ... • 3% pto
Oxford, Worcester, & Wolverhampton 12% .... 8 •• • • tO
Preston and Wyre
.. 25 3536 . • • tO
Ditto, Half Shares .. • • • . 2% .... to
Richmond . 10 18m to
Scottish Central .. 12% .... 19% %• • tO --
Shrewsbury and Birmingham .. 236 to
Shropshire Union . ..• . 425..... die. to --
South Midland ' • .. 425. % p.. to
South Eastern and Dover .. 3336 45% to
Ditto, New, No. 2 .. •10 1636 to
Ditto, New, No. 3 .. .. • • • • 15 •• .. 21 to ---
Ditto, New, No. 4 .. • • • • • • 2% •• •• 3%% to --
--
Vale of Neath 2 .... 1 .... to --
West Riding Union .. . • • • 425.•. • . 2% p.. to
Wisbeach and St. Ives •2 3)6.... to --
York and Carlisle .. _ %.... to --
York and North Midland 50 to
Ditto. Extension .• 20 .... 4034 to --
Ditto East and West Riding Extension 1 .... 1336 W

. .• .. 24 19

FOREIGN RAILWAYS. -
Dutch Rhenish .. .. 6.. % 554 to 6
East Indian .. ss. _ to
Namur and Liege .. . 6 .... 2h.. to ---
Orleans and L'urdeaux .. 6 .... 8 to --
Over Yssel • • .• .. 4/. 3s. 4d... 2% dis to --
Paris and Lyons Constituted .. 5 .... 5 .. to
Tours and Nantes Constituted .. .. 5 .... 5 •. •• to
West Flanders
JOINT-STOCK RANKS. - • .
Commercial of London .. 20 .... 23% •• • • to

•-
.
• MINES
Real del Monte, Unregistered .. .. •• •• 3%•• ••• tO

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(THIS DAY')
LONDON, JULY 29.—Wind this day at noon E.N.E, light sib'
clear sultry weather.
DEAL, JULY 28.—Wind S. to S.W.—Arrd. Jeannette, Batavia, Sll,l
,4
sailed for Rotterdam ; Schoon Verbond, Drager, Batavia, and ,
- for Amsterdam ; Eliza, Ichaboe, and sailed for Hull ; Minol
Lundgren, Boston, and sailed for Hamburgh ; Empress, sandfor ;
Boston ; Plicades, Quebec. Arrd. from the River and sailed GO'',
Britain, Swinburn, Montreal. Ski. Camillus, Spragge, Demerol.u'
Herald, Pullen, Baltimore.
iP
PORTSMOUTH, JULY 28.—Wind S.S.E.—Acrd. her Majesty's eit
tb
Mutine, Cape of Good Hope, sailed 30th May, and St. Helena
ult. Sid. Benjamin Greene, Lane, Mauritius.
POOLE, JULY 28.—Sid. Mercury, Haytor, Quebec; Delia, Queue.
PLYMOUTH, JULY 28.—Arrd, Dahlia, Tozer, Quebec. The Pr--
Regent, on shore in Whitsand Bay, is discharging. ,
FALMOUTH, JULY 28.—Wind S.—Off port Brothers, Quebec, 1.0
Teigninouth.
LIVERPOOL, JULY 28.—Wind William r
Friend, Macao, sailed 11th ult.; Bona Dea, Miramichi; RePtso
Sandes, New York ; Hero of Acre, Quebec ; Hells, Quebec, if:
sailed 6th inst. ; Emma, Barkley, Montreal. Sailed 27th Wandc a,
i,
Dixon, Richibucto ; Duchess of Argyll, Phillips, Calcutta: Keol.
~;
Ni,„a
Wise, Lima ; Black Prince, Martin, Lima ; Octavia, Reed, 21,:
Janeiro ; Douglas, Page, La Guayra ; Corsair, Atkins, Barbadof,,
William Rushton, Fester, Havannah ; Duke of Wellingtori;LaWsr,
Honduras ; South Carolina, Hamilton, New York ; Huron, Wei:li;
Boston ; Princess Royal, Dugniel, Dalhousie ; St. John, XL'" •
Quebec; Oregon, Reed, Quebec; Covenanter, Paterson, Queo,
Argyle, Brackband, Quebec; Mary, Frame, Montreal. Off Ps'
Bosphorus, Paraiba; Parsee Merchant, Quebec; Waterloo, tr°i;
New York ; Ben Nevis, Chimbarazo and Niagra.
WHITSTABLE, JULY 27.—The Mary Ann, Bell, for Weymouth, 11l
put back, dismasted, off Brighton 25th inst. EXETER, JULY 27.—Arrd. Ruth, Corrigall, Miramichi. Sid., -tn .
Elliott, Gascoigne, Quebec; Amethyst, Carter, Quebec.
GUERNSEY, JULY 26.—Wave, Houquez, Havannah.
PADSTOW, JULY 27.—Arrd. Clio, Quebec ; Voluna, Quebec.
BIDEFORD, JULY 28.—Sid. Friendship, Anderson, Quebec; go
ton, Day, Quebec; Jane A. Milvain, Weakner, Quebec; Civw-"
Bale, Miramichi.
BRISTOL, JULY 28.—Wind W.N.W.—Acrd. Ottawa, Drynall, ,-,
11,14.
bee ; Lord Canterbury, Bruce, Quebec ; Victory, Kent, Quebec.
Thomas, Lawson, St. John's, New Brunswick.
GLOUCESTER, JULY 28.—Arrd, Five Sisters St. John's, N. ..• e,
PORT TALBOT, JULY 26.—Wind W.-Sld.Emma Searle, (Ill&
CLYDE, JULY 26._x, Waterwitch Stewart, Chusan ; 1"60V
Turner, Quebec; Chusan, Clark, St. John's, New Brunswick ;
lew, M`Lellan, Montreal. Put back, Carron, Flood, Demerara.
WATERFORD, JULY 26.—Arrd. Balwar, White, Quebec. 27th
diva, 11'Grath, Quebec.
SMELS, JULY 27.—Lady Peel, Williams, Calcutta.

BIRTHS.
On the 25th inst., the lady of Dr. Cross, Leicester-01We'
of a son.
On the 25th inst., at Gatehouse, near Ryde, Isle of
Vligh6
the wife of James Norton Smith, Es_q., of a daughter. ar,
On the 25th inst., at Ladham blouse, Goudhurst, it"
Oakden, of a son.

MARRIED.
On the 25th inst., at Woodmansterne, Surrey, by the A,
C. I. S. Crawford, Rector, Mr. Patterson Boyle, of Oxf°74
street, London, to Lavinia, eldest daughter of Mr. John Prs
late doorkeeper of the House of Commons.

lED.
On the 13th of May, in the East Indies, Captain Ge°rge
Hart Dyke, of the Bengal Artillery.
On the 15th inst., at Lucerne, the Hon. Caroline ..--v.cl_,bert.
wife of Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. John St. Vial
Saumarez.

On the 20th inst., at Derby, R. W. Haden, Esq. ;en
On the. 22d inst., at Castle Fraser, C. N. Fraser, DV.*.n.ci,
On the 24th inst., in Upper Harley-street, George A,
the son of Edmund Pepys, Esq., aged 4. C.
On the 25th inst., Anne, second daughter of the Bel'
WOnlb the 26teleloved, of York. wih inst., at Stratton-park, Mary Ursula, fe of
Sir Thomas Baring, Bart., aged 72.

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tinent and in Mincing-lane. - -
Late accounts have come to hand this morning frnratb,ne
Car.e of Good Hope. The dates received at the Jerinia4:::„
Coffee-house are to the 29th of May. The Kaffirs Act;
n-
gradually retreatin into their own country, not desiring b
meet the force of Colonel' Somerset, which was in rapid Mar
against them. 1-111-
We have been favoured with the circular of Messrs. ~
kinson and Jewesbury, containing much information relat.i%
to the results of the indigo sales just concluded. The Aria
cipal purchasers were foreigners; but there was also a t i
good attendance of buyers from our own manufactild,
districts. The average of prices realised is higher from
lb.,
to 9d. per lb. on liengals, Madras and Kurpahs 3d. per tc,
and 2d. per lb. on other samples. For Bengal line blue, 6s•
6s. 7d. per lb. was readily paid. this
Conscls for the Account have improved to 96% -
morning; but at the present moment the price is scarcer
so high. The money value is but 957. Exchequer;l3,lll,4
are at 9s. to 12s. premium, Bank Stock at 209, and 11/''
Stock at 262.
Not much business was transacted in the Foreign 13°,13,
Market to, day. The Grenada Deferred were sold at 41;
the Portuguese Three per Cents. Converted at 46%; l'l;
Four per Cents. were heavy at 44%; Spanish Actives at lei
the Three per Cents. at 361/8%; Dutch Two-And-a. Half P
Cents. at 59N ; and the Four per Cents. at 943/.
The Railway Share Market is rather more firm.