The Sun.
London, England, 1846-07-25 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 25, 1846.

Sir ROBERT H. INGLIS, which induce us to antici-
pate an agreeable moderation in the attitude to be
assumed by the Protectionists. Hitherto they have
been maneuvering in a blaze of intense light
or in a gloom of unnatural shadow ; they
have revelled, as it were, in a species of Parlia-
mentary chiar'oscuro—their distortions have been
only the more apparent from the exaggerated
lustre of their diction ; their deformities
have only been more manifest from the meretricious
decorations by which they were bedizened. Now,
however, we are gratified to observe among them in-
dications that they are becoming conscious of their
blunder, and that they henceforth purpose to speak in
moderation, to asperse in moderation, and to protest
in moderation. Such are evidently the intentions of
their principal leaders; and although those intentions
may be occasionally frustrated by the enthusiasm of
some fanatical cadet, we shall cordially anticipate their
fulfilment until we observe a total alteration in their
tactics.

On Monday evening the question will be defini-
tively submitted to the consideration of our legis-
lators, and when we reflect upon the impossibility of
maintaining the present system of differential duties
longer in operation, the rapid approach of
that critical moment cannot but afford an
universal satisfaction. Not only are the con-
sumers of sugar anxious for a speedy and per-
manent settlement of the question, but even
those most interested in the prosperity of our colonial
possessions, the importers and the merchants them-
selves, are equally desirous of such a settlement of
the matter. They feel that some alteration of the
importation duties must take place, and they long to
know what that alteration will be. It is preposterous
for Lord GEORGE BENTINCK to haggle about
the produce of a mere segment of our
colonies, and to insist upon settling whether 60,000,
or 46,000 tons are imported from the Mauritius ;
the great fact is—and there is no gainsaying it—that
the_ cultivators of our colonial sugar-cane are unable
to satisfy the demands of the mother country, that the
annual importation of sugar has been gradually de-
creasing since 1840! Since that year the individual
consumption of sugar throw; hout the kingdom has dimi-
nished nearly twenty-four per cent. Such facts there is
no means of vanquishing. The Protectionists perceive
this; they also perceive their own false position as
cavilling debaters, and they are therefore affording us
every token of a more subdued behaviour in future.

We may consequently anticipate no very pro-
tracted discussions upon the sugar question, but may
look for a rational and satisfactory close of the pre-
sent session somewhere towards the termination of
August. And while we may congratulate Parlia-
ment upon the arrival of this periodical hiatus of re-
laxation, we may in solemn truth congratulate the
country upon the character of the great session which
will then have been brought to a happy conclusion.
What has commenced with the attainment of one ex-
traordinary commercial boon promises to close with
the realisation of another. We have already ob-
tained a free access to the most necessary and the
most nutritious article of food in creation ; we
have every prospect of receiving every facility for the
purchase of another, neither so necessary nor so nu-
tritious as corn, we will grant, hut which is
nevertheless, in our artificial state of society, abso-
lutely requisite to ensure the comfort and the
sobriety of the poorer classes. With no sugar to
sweeten his tea, or to render his coffee palatable, is
there not a lure to the labouring man in the well-
flavoured beverages of the beer-shop and the gin-
palace ? An easier accest to this single article of
consumption would, we are most fully persuaded,
promote to no inconsiderable extent the temperance
of our industrial population. Hence it is that we
are anxious to perceive a reduction in the duties upon
tobacco, since that sober means of excitement forms a
beneficent substitute for the intoxicating effects of
beer, brandy, and other fermented liquors. By such a
reduction in tobacco, not only might the morals of
the community be improved, but the revenue likewise
be materially benefited. It is in these apparently
trivial modifications of our import duties that the
sagacity of a wise Government frequently
consists. The reduction of a few shillings
per hundredweight in a given article tends
_ , . • elzsr,elit;nr, flf a
whole nation. The obliteration of a cipher may
sometimes advance civilisation by half a century.
Such are the simple solutions of some of the most ab-
struse problems of legislation ! Such are the minute
strings which move the colossal machinery of an empire !

Mr. DUNCOMBE last night moved for a Select
Committee, to inquire into the charges contained in
the petition of EDWARD BAKER, late a warden of the
Millbank Penitentiary, in which situation he had con-
tinued from the month of SepteMber, 1842, until
April, 1846. The petitioner preferred serious
complaints against the Governor of that prison,
alleging that great abuses existed both in the
management of affairs, and as regarded cruelty and
oppression towards the prisoners. It will be recol-
lected that Sir PErmt LAURIE, some time since, pub
lished a pamphlet under the singular, but expressive,
title of " Killing no Murder," in which the results
of the system adopted in that prison as to the in-
sanity, deaths, or pardons. on medical grounds, of

the prisoners, and also the state and condition

of the convicts who have been removed to the hulks
after undergoing the discipline sanctioned therein, is
fully set forth and commented on. The worthy
Alderman ascribes the frightful con,equences to the
separate system," which he asserts to be injurious

to the minds of the prisoners, dangerous to their
bodily health, demoralising in its effects, and
burdensome to the country from its great
cost. If any of the above are really the
consequences of the system, it is high time that
it should be abolished, and that some better and
more humane plan should be adopted in its place.
The extraordinary data on which his argument is
founded cannot be controverted, for they are taken
from statistical details contained in the reports of
the Inspectors of Prisons ; and from the very
large proportion of the cases of insanity, so much
greater than that which is found to occur in other
prisons, and also from the extraordinary number of
suicides and attempted suicides, which were mentioned
by Mr. DUNCOMUE last night, it is perfectly manifest

hat there is a screw loose somewhere, that there is

something either in the system itself, or in the mode of
its administration, which requires a strict investigation
(ind an immediate remedy. We,therefore, regret the
decision of the House in refusing the Committee
asked for. We cannot accede to the argument urged,
that to appoint a Committee of the House would be
at once to condemn the Governor. We know nothing
Captaii4 Gmov4s,,atul:we, award. him that which is
the privilege
of every-EngliAmisn—viz., that he is to
be supposed innocent until his guilt is proved, and
in proportion to the weight and magnitude of the
charges, so much the greater should be our reluct-
ance to give credence to the statements; but surely
this is not to be carried to the extent of refusing all

F investigation until full and ample proof be given.
If this was the case the labours of such a Committee
might well be dispensed with, the condemnation would
be contained in its appointment, and the House would,
like the inexorable Ithadamanthus, first punish and
then inquire into the complaints. We do not go
the length of saying that the House ought, on every
trivial charge, to subject the accused to the trouble
and annoyance of entering into his defence; but
when there is a degree of probability, a verisimili-
tude, in the charges, when they are brought forward
by a man of unimpeached character, who,
from his situation, has opportunities of know-
ing their truth, and when such• a person pledges
himself to prove their accuracy, before
a Committee, we think that a sufficient ground at
least is laid for a full inquiry and investigation, the
g,

,ranting of which could not be supposed to militate
in any degree against the person or persons charged.
And such an inquiry must be far more satis-
factory to all parties, if conducted before a tribunal
which -cannot be suspected of any partiality, and the
proceedings of which are open to the public, than
any private investigation by :prison inspectors, no
matter how respectable they may be, more particu-
larly when it is alleged that those inspectors are in a
certain degree under the iutluenco of the party
against. whom the accusations aienade.

No charge whatever has been made against the
character or motives•of the petitioner; he held for
more than. three years and a half a responsible
pia), leo ellego that Ivo

obliged to resign in consequence of the oppressive
and tyrannical conduct of the Governor towards
officers and prisoners. The charges are plain and
distinct, and, if well-founded, must be perfectly ca
pable of proof. We should think that Captain
GROVES would himself be most anxious for a full in-
vestigation ; for, until such takes place, the public
mind cannot be satisfied on the subject ; if by a pos-
sibility those charges should he established, the
person who could act in such a manner must be
held quite incompetent and unfit for the discharge
of duties requiring the greatest degree of discretion
and judgment.

The decision of the House appears to have been
greatly influenced by the promise of the Home
Secretary, that a full inquiry should take place
without delay, and his statement that he was
prepared to lay the report of the Inspectors of
Prisons, which contained a distinct answer to
each of the sixteen charges, on the table. The
matter, therefore, is not yet concluded, and on the
result of the promised investigation being made
known, and the report of the Inspectors published, it
will be competetent to any Honourable Member
again to call the attention of the House to the sub-
ject. From the advanced period of the session, and
the delay which must necessarily occur before such
an investigation can take place, it will be impossible
for the matter to be brought to a conclusion until
next year, and the public mind, during that period,
will be kept in suspense on the subject.

From the Roman States the news continues to be
of the most cheering description. The new POPE is
occupying himself in introducing reforms and im-
provements into every department of his administra-
tion. He is daily signing orders for the liberation of
political prisoners. The following official announce-
ment on the subject of railroads was published on the
14th in the Privileged Gazette of Bologna by
Cardinal VANNICELLI CASONI, the Legate who
had just returned from Rome :—" Amongst the im-
portant affairs that have engaged the attention of the
Holy Father since his accession to the Pontifical
throne is the construction of railroads in the Papal
States, for which several projects have been presented.
Pius IX. being desirous of acting with prudence in
this serious affair, which is of the highest interest to
his beloved subjects, has resolved to appoint a com-
mission to examine these projects. His Holiness has
consequently ordered, that if there are other propo-
sitions to make they shall be sent to the Secretary of
State for the Interior, who will receive and collect
them together, waiting the ulterior decision of his
Holiness."

Prince HENRY, of Prussia, uncle to the presen
KING, died at Rome on the 11th.

The greatest excitement had been occasioned in
Kiel, by the publication of the decree of the King of
DENMARK, on the subject of the succession to the
Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein. The students had
met and proposed to burn the obnoxious decree. This
proposition, however, was not carried into effect, but
Professor CHRISTIANSEN, the representative of the
University, was directed to solemnly protest against
the decree in the name of the German people, and
to defend their rights.
The Past Ampt Gazette of Frankfort has the fol-
lowing from Posen, dated the 15th :—" It is reported
here that the Emperor of Russia intends to grant an
amnesty to all the Poles still remaining in Siberia,
who were sent there for the part that they took in
the revolution of 1830. M. KOURNAOFFSKI, who was
arrested and put in prison at ,Sonnenburg, just after
the last insurrection of Posen, for publishing a revo-
lutionary lithographic print, has attempted to commit
suicide by stabbing himself in four places, but he is
expected to recover."

Madrid papers of the 18th have arrived. The
Heraldo, in an article on the subject of the QUEEN'S
marriage, proposes that Don FRANCISCO D'Assls, the
eldest son of Don FRANCISCO DI PAULA. as a candidate
for her MAJESTY'S hand, in preference to his brother,
Don ENRIQUE. Don FRANCISCO, it appears, has
bean specially invited to the royal banquet
to be given in honour of the birth-day of
the QUEEN-MOTHER. The Liberal party con-
sider that the object of the QUEEN-MOTHER,
in thus annarentl
v fiveeriTr Dm Fre iworwn isto ex-
cite a jealousy between him and Don ENRIQUE, and
to create dissensions in the Liberal party by starting
two candidates. While Dcn FRANCISCO, however, is
thus ostensibly put forward as a candidate for the
QUEEN'S hand, an intrigue is, it is said, going on in
Paris under the auspices of MARTINEZ DE LA ROSA,
to bring about speedily, but quietly, a marriage be-
tween the QUEEN and the Duke of GENOA, the
second son of the King of SARDINIA. It is true that
of late his Sardinian Majesty has exhibited
slightly liberal tendencies, or to speak more
correctly, has had something like a personal
quarrel with Austria, and is endeavouring
to rally an anti-Austrian party around him, but the
base treachery of the Prince DE CARIGNAN of 1821
has never been forgotten or forgiven, and an alliance
with his son would justly disgust the whole Spanish
nation. The •Trapani alliance seems to be completely
given up, Prince DE Cann!, who had been sent as
Ambassador from Naples to Spain for the purpose of
forwarding the views of Count TRAPANI, has been
recalled, and M. ANTONINI, late the Neapolitan Am-
bassador at Vienna, has been accredited to the Court
of Madrid.

MADRID BOLSA, JULY 18.—The Three per Cents.
were done at 34i for ca-h; the Five per Cents., at 21 ;
the Debt without Interest, at Ga; the sharea of the
Bank of San Fernando, at 390; and those of Isabel,
at 203.

We have received the Paris papers of Thursday.
The .31oniteur Parisien of Wednesday publishes
the following as the official defence of the Northern
Railroad Company, against the attacks of the
papers :

" The Courrier Francais persits in affirming that an acci-
dent happened on the 12th, on the Northern Railroad, and
that, in consequence of a land-slip, an engine and six car-
riages went off the Fails. The Company affirms that, since
the unfortunate event of the Bth, no engine, no carriage
has run off the rails. From the 9th the working of the
road has presented none but simple incidents, unavoidable
by the best regulated services, and which have not occasioned
any misfortune. On the 11th, a piston of the engine, No. 42
(a new engine), broke, and the beechen used in clean-
ing the boiler came off, and the water and steam escaped.
This occurred at the Arras station. The passengers may
have been frightened, but they did not run the slightest
risk. On the 12th, a regulator got out of order between Mon-
tigny and Somain, on the line between Valenciennes and
Douai. The only result was a trifling delay. The statement
of the land-slip on the 12th is as incorrect as that of the
sinking of the ground to which the accident of the Bth has
been attributed. Since the Northern Railroad has been
opened there has not been any land-slip, nor even any indica-
tion of it in the causeways to give any evidence of such slips.
The railway was not given up to the company by the Go-
vernment until after the two chief engineers, who had the
direction of its construction, had declared by a report under
their signatures that it was ready for public use. The re-
port for the first section, from Paris to Amiens, is signed
by M. Onfroy de Breville; the report for the second section,
from Amiens to the Belgian frontier, is signed by M. Busche
Independently of the watching, and the ordinary superinten-
dence of the road, the company, from the time of its open-
ing, has specially appointed to the keeping up of the road a
number of cantonniers, much exceeding the usual propor-
Bessitdaetisentehde
tsuperintendents
o raknmdenwaftocrh watchmen, therekilo-
metre
btiaovne.
been
teenr
aotf
embankmentsa al l
olepae gn ui
openings
oc
fee
rorraediuil
tnwtgian3t.gs:o .the nature of the
grotiti ground,
a n id' ht ebse e()
These arm ae
ppre-
cautionsn
will continue them as long as they may appear to be useful,
whetherutaakr
am' even for a longer period. To augment the safety of
the service, and although a far greater speed presents no
danger, the company has fixed provisionally the speed of the
trains at from 28 to 32 kilometres :(7 to 8 leagues) an hour.
The railed way on which the accident of Fampoux took
place had been disarranged to a small extent by the effect of
the accident; it was immediately repaired with the greatest
care, and the public service has been re-established. Thus
the mistake which was committed in departing from Arras,
and which some journals comment upon with a marked ex-
aggeration, was without peril. The following were the
facts :—The train had passed over this line of rails for a dis-
tance of from 600 to 800 metres only, when the engineer per -
ceived the mistake, and put back. The head of the Arras
station had set off at the same moment on the other line of
events, the first superintendent would have stopped the train
rails, with a reserve locomotive, to inform him of it. At all
before it could have passed the first kilometre.'

The Courrier :Francais of Thursday republishes
this official defence, and appends to it the following
observations:—

"We insert this letter without comment. To whom is it
necessary for us to demonstrate that it proves absolutly no-
thing against ;the precise and positive assertion which we
have made respecting the bad construction of the road, the
bad organisation of the service, and the numerous accidents
by which the public has been thrown into a state of conster-
nation ? The Ministry and company are at issue, and
their respective agents and engineers
.affirm that neither
have anything to reproach themselves with! Who can they
hope to convince by such testimony? For ourseives,we have
said much, we have said all that could be said, on both the
company and the Ministry ;—it is useless for us to add that
we maintain our assertioanhhet o
scWer
to give
those little importance iTip.odretaßn9ctehtOs.
the denegations of the c
child? We wait with confidence the result of the in-
quest, being but too certain that our convictions will be
confirmed." -

dace tha torri&a catestropho of the gt,4 of

._,„,

July on the Northern Railroad, there has been
scarcely a single French line on which accidents
have not occurred. On Wednesday night one on
the trains on the Paris and I:ouen line was nearly
burned. A lamp which lighted the mail-waggon
having got out of order, the spirits of
wine which it contained fell on the table,
and set fire to some papers laid upon
it. The clerk of the post-office, after vainly endea-
vouring to extinguish the fire, opened the window
and called for aid, but his voice not being heard and
the flames increasing, he leaped out of the waggon
and broke his leg. The train, however, soon after-
wards stopped, and the fire easily extinguished.
A letter from Port-au-Prince, of the 17th June,
announces the settlement of the differences between
France and Hayti, and the return of the French
Consul to Port-au-Prince on the 16th of June, where
he was received with a salute from the fortifications, and
with enthusiasm by the people. The following is an
extract from the letter :

" This great and difficult question is now terminated. The
negotiators, who have at length settled the affair, have been
engaged in it for a long time, and have found it exceedingly
difficult. The propositions made on the part of the Govern-
ment by the President were twice rejecter?. The English
Consul, Mr. Usher, and the Vice-Consul, hare been very
active in settling the question, and the final settlement
is in a great measure owing to them. The conditions
upon which the affair is arranged are, first, an indemnity of
5,000 gourdes for the injury done to M. Dubrac ; second, in-
demnity for damages done to other French subjects; third,
the Government of Hayti to write a letter, asking the French
Consul to resume his functions; and, fourth, a salute of
twenty-one guns to the Consul on entering the port, and the
French frigate Thetis to return the salute."

The Algiers papers of the 17th represent the
country as completely tranquillised. M. SALVANDY,
accompanied by Marshal BUGEAUD, had returned to
Algiers highly delighted by the reception he had met
with in the Provinces.

The Paris Bourse was much firmer on Thursday
than it had been for some days previously. This may
be in some measure referred to the circumstance that
rumours, which had been in circulation on Tueb,da)
respecting a respectable banking-house, were ascer-
tained on Thursday to be totally devoid of foundation.
The Three per Cents. closed at 83f. 20c. ; the Five per Cents.,
1211.70 c. ; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,268 f. 65c. ; Rouen,
9681. 75c. ; Havre, 6751. ; Great Northern, 697 f. 50c. ; Avignon,
8721. 50c. ; Vierzon, 6101.; Bordeaux, 532 f. 50c. ; Troyes and
Montereau, 363 f. •, Basle, 2151. ; Fampoux, 4101.; Paris and
Strasburg, 482 f. 50c. ; Tours and Nantes' 495 f. ; Paris and
Lyons, 503 f. 75c.; Spanish New Deferred, 14; ditto Domes-
tic Debt, 32%; ditto Passives, 5.
The following are the quotations for the new lines:—
Lyons and Avignon Detinitives, 475 f. ; Bordeaux and
Cette ditto, 4721. 50c.

MARSEILLES, JULY 18.—Marseilles and Avignon, 86E
25c.; Northern, 703 f. ; Paris and Lyons, 525 f.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE

LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Jta.V 24.
Boulogne and Amiens, 121/4—Bordeaux and Mediterranean, 1%
—Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cette (Espeleta), —Dutch Rhenish,
634 —East Indian, F.—Northern of France Constituted, 123 i —Or-
leans and Bordeaux, 73%—Paris and Lyons Constituted, 5%—
Paris and Strasbourg Constituted, 4 —Rouen and Havre, 2634.

RAILWAY COMMIT rE ES

(THiS DAY.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.
Room A.
CO lINVTAX.X. •

This Committee re-assembled to-day at eleven o'clock.
Mr. JAmEs addressed the Committee on the part of the
petitioners, contending that the course of the railway
through the town of Bodmin was so injurious to that place,
as to be tolerated only by an amount of public good, which
was not by any means established by evidence. lie also
contended that Bodmin, from its importance (notwithstand-
ing Mr. Brunel's evidence), the sessions being held. there,
and a large amount of business transacted there, was the
place where the line should be laid out if a central commu-
nication were contemplated. He then adverted to the gra-
dient of 1 in 37, which he felt assured would never have been
sanctioned by. Parliament at a period when legislation on
railway matters had arrived at its present perfection.

CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.)
The Lord Chancellor sat in the Old Hall, Lincoln's Inn, to-
day. His Lordship was occupied the whole morning with
lunatic petitions.

ICE-CHANCERY:HIS DAY)
(Before the VICE-CHANCELLOR of ENGLAND.)
RAILWAY DEPOSITS.
His HONOUR ordered the deposits paid into Court, in the
Manchester and Midland Junction Railway, and the Leeds
and Thirsk Branches and Extension Railway, to be paid out
to the parties.

BLARE V. WALLSCOURT.
The further arguments in this part-heard case occupied
his Honour the whole morning.

BANKRUPTCY.-(THIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Commissioner GouLnunN.)
__ IN RE GILES.

INTEREST ON MORTGAGE DEBT;.—In this case the bank.
rupt had carried on business as a lodging-house-keeper, at
Worthing, Sussex. An application was made for the Learned
Comrnisvioner's opinion as to the inr.r.At nayable on mort-
gage deDL3. IL appearea that the money had been taken with
interest, which had not been paid for years, and in making
up the account a rest was made each year and interest charged
thereon.

The Learned COMMISSIONER held that compound inters
could not be allowed.

An application was then made for the bankrupt's certificate,
which had been suspended by Mr. Commissioner Holroyd.
until a sum of money which had been paid in preference bad
been refunded, which had been done.

The Learned COMMISSIONER said he could not grant it on
a mere application, but must have the minutes of the Com-
missioner. The case was ultimately adjourned to go before
Mr. Commissioner Hoiroyd.
TIME FOR GIVING NOTICES UNDER THE BANKRUPT ACT.
In a case where a party was summoned under the Bank-
rupt Act, with a view of making him a bankrupt, an objec-
tion was taken as to service of the notice. It was urged, that
by the 29th Rule of Court four days' notice must be given,
which, it was contended, must be taken to mean four clear
days.
The Learned COMMISSIONER said there was another clause
which appeared to be frequently overlooked, in which it was
declared that in all cases where any particular number of
days was mentioned in the Act they should be taken exclu-
sive of the first and inclusive of the last, except it should fall
on a Sunday, Christmas-day, Good Friday, or other day ap.•
pointed for a public fast

MARLBRO'-STREET.-(THIS DAY.)
John Miller, a smart, well• dressed youth, was charged with
picking the pocket of Wm. Johnson, Esq , barrister-at-law,
residing at the York Hotel, Blackfriars-bridge, of a hand-
kerchief, under the f Bowing circumstances :
Between 7 -and 8 o'clock last evening, as the prosecutor
was passing along Holborn, near to St. Giles's Church, the
prisoner lifted up his pocket and took out his handkerchief,
which he secreted about his person. The prosecutor was un-
aware of having been robbed, but a gentleman who had
witnessed the transaction having informed him of his loss,
the prisoner was seized on the spot, and the stolen property
found in his possession.
Mr. HAnnwtoc (to the prisoner)—Do you wish to say
anything.' in your defence? Prisoner-'--I have nothing
to say.
Mr. Johnson said, that as he had a great pressure of pro-
fe3sional business coming on at Winchester, Hampshire, he
should wish that the prisoner might be summarily dealt
with. He believed the prisoner was not known to the police.
Wilks, the gaoler, said he had been committed from this
Court, and convicted of felony at the Old Bailey.
Mr. HARDWICK said, as the case was so clear, and with
the fact of the former conviction, he must send him fur trial,
and no doubt he would be sent out of the country.
FORTUNATE PRESERVATION OF A LARGE SUM OF MONEY.
—A person, who gave the name of Francis Garland, of gen,
tlemanly appearance, not wholly recovered from a heavy de-
bauch, was charged with being drunk and incapable of
taking care of himself.
Inspector Aggs, of the C division, stated that between
twelve and One o'clock this morning, the defendant was
brought to the station-house by two gentlemen, perfect
strangers to him, who had found him insensibly drunk, lying
on his back in Regent-street, surrounded by prostitutes and
bad characters. His right hand was full of sovereigns, and
about him he had thirty-nine more, and also some Bark of
England notes.
The defendant said he had drank till he completely lost
his senses.
He was fined 55., which of course he paid with alacrity.

WESTMINSTER-BRIDGE.--We understand that this
bridge sank on Wednesday considerably. Sir Howard
Douglas predicted that it would sink, in' a pamphlet which
appeared some time ago, but the piers have subsided further
than he anticipated. The Committee have resolved unani-
mously on pulling it down.
BURN'S COMMERCIAL GLANCE FOR THE FIRST Six
MONTns OF 1846.—We have here, in a simgle sheet the
whole statistics of the cotton manufacture of Great Britain
during the first six months of 1846, arranged in such a
manner that a glance will aff Ord any information on the sub-
ject that may be required. Mr. Gladstone, during-the time tbat
lie presided over the Board of Trade, gave orders that " this
very useful publication," as he justly termed it. should ue
regularly taken in for the use of the Board ; and every mer-
chant should follow this example. A counting- house can
no more be said to be completely furnished without Burn's
Commercial Glance, than an attorney's would be without the
Law Almanac. Sir Robert Peel, Lord John Russell, and Mr.
Goulburn, have each borne testimony to the merits of this'
very " useful," " excellent," and " valuable" document.
CAPE of GOOD HOPE AND NEW ZEALAND.--POST-
OFFICE NOTICE.—The following was yesterday issued at the
chief office, St. Martin's-le-Grand.—Notice:—Mails will be
made up for the Cape of Good Hope and New Zealand, to be
forwarded by her Majesty's ship Inflexible. All letters in-
tended to be so forwarded must be addressed " by her Ma-
jesty's ship
postage of one shilling not exceeding half an ounce,.and so
Inflexible," and will be liable to a packet rate of
Gn in proportion. No charge will be made on newspapers.
The
Inflexible is expected to sail from Devonport about the
29th instant.
A SURVIVOR or THE ROYAL GEORGE.—Several aged
seamen have lately died, for whose memory it has been
claimed that each was the last survivor of the fearful tragedy
of the sinking of the Royal George, at Spithead, in 1782.
Notwithstanding so many " last survivors," however, we
have the satisfaction to state that another vet lives,—that a
hale and worthy tar, 'B7 years of age, named Michael Gould,
now residing in Poole, was on board the Royal George at the
through a port-hole.
The circumstances of-Gould, who
moment of her going down, and with several others was most
providentially preserved by escaping
has no pension, have re-
cently been submitted to the Board of Admiralty, and Cap-
tain Hamilton' the secretary to the First Lord, was promptly
instructed to forward -a guinea for the immediate necessities-
of the worthy old sailor, which he did in a letter full of kind
remarks and inquiries.—PoOk Herald.
The Lower House of Bavaria have voted 24,000 florins
(2,0000 as an instalment towards the purchase and trans-
port of the Numismatic collection of the brothers Longo, of
Messina. It contains some of those unsurpassed gold me-
dals (basso-relievos) of -Agrigentnni and Syracuse—pat-
terns of the fines; art-tage ever exhibited by num—The

MONEY and CONTMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The Cotton market at Liverpool yesterday was firm, sale
6,000 bales. Shares were quiet.
The usual weekly return from the Bank of England, gives
the following result, as compared with the previous state-
ment :

A decrease ir. the circulation of 126,1551, or to 29,139,905/.
An increase in the Rest of 21,597/., or to 8,504,138/.
A decrease in the Public Deposits to 3,162,6961., or of
326,720/.
A decrease in " other securities " of 761,3291., or to
15,328,3971.

A decrease in the stock of bullion of 92,469/., or to
15,770,1971.

The subscriptions for the relief of the sufferers by the late
fire at St. John's, Newfoundland, are proceeding satisfacto-
rily. Among the names received this morning by the Com-
mittee is that. of Lord Stanley. At Liverpool, and other
principal places largely connected with trade and commerce,
the lists have been pretty well filled. Still, however,
much remains to be done to meet the pressing demands
of the unfortunate individuals who have lost their all by
the fire.

We have most satisfactory accounts this morning from the
country relative to the crops. Harvest is expected to be
general in Lancashire next week. The wheats are heavy,
and of generally fine quality.
There are not any colonial arrivals announced in the City
this mornipg..
There is a shade of improvement in the Consol Market
this morning. Money transactions Lave been somewhat
frequent for this, the last day of the week. For the Three
per Cent. Consols 953/ has been just paid, for the Account
96, for the Reduced Three per Cents. 96%, for the Three
per Cent. Annuities of 1726 97% 34, for India Bonds 255.
premium, for Exchequer-bills 14s. premium, and for India
stock 262.

A very dull demand has existed to-day for all the Foreign
Funds. The only bargains have been in'Chilian Deferred, at
53; in Danish, at 881 A ; in Peruvian, at 39%; and in the
Dutch Four-and-a-Half per Cents., at 961/2.
The Railway Share Market has been very heavy this
morning, but still there is a fair amount of business in pro-
gress.

BRITISII FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities • • 963 96
Three per Cent. Consuls Annuities • • • • 9558 %
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Aims. 97% .34
Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 .. 10 5-16
Ditto, 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 .. 1014
India Stock • • .• • • .• .. • • 262
India Bonds, 1,0001. .. .. • . .. 25
Ditto, under 1,0001.
South Sea Stock .. •• .. • • •• • . 106%
Ditto, New Annuities .. 94%
Consols for Account .. • • .. • . 95% 96
Exel.e.itier trills. I%d. I%d.
1,000/. .... 10 14 pm.
500/. •• •• 14 10 pm.
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Chilton Bonds, 6 per Cent. • • • .
Ditto, lfeterred • • .. 53
Danish Bonds, 3 per Cent .. .. 8832
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cent .. • • 39%
Dividends on toe above payable in London.
Belgian Four-and-a-Half per Cent. 96%
BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Itamwairs. PAID. PER SHARE.
Aberdeen .. • .. • • • • •. 15 .. • . 831 .... to
Amber., Notting., Boston, & Eastrn 1 .. to %
Birmingham mid Oxford Junction • • 2 ...• 51,4 .. • . to
Caledonian .. • • • • • . 20 12%•.•. to 1318
Ditto Half Shares .. .. • • • • %.. •• to
Chester and Holyhead . • .. • • .. 22% .. • • 26% .... to
Direct Northern . • • • .• .. • • 23 .... 1 .. ••to
Eastern Counties .. • • • • 14/. 16s. 0d..... 24 .... to
Ditto, New • • .. • • • • 10/. His. 06..•.. 7% p.. to
Ditto, York Extension • • .. 105..... 1%.... to
Great North of England .. .. 100 .... .... to
Ditto, New • • .. • • • • .. 10 .... 433 .... to
Great Western .. 85 .... to
Ditto, Quarter Shares .. 10 .... 22 .. .. to 21%
Guildford, Fareliam, and Portsmouth 5 .... 53% to
Leeds and Bradford .. 26 .... 66 .. • • to 69
Leicester and liediurd •• 225. ...• dis. to
Leicst., Tam., Bin, & Trent Val.Junc. 425. .... I dis... to
Liverpool, Manch, and Newt:. Juliet. 2% •• • . 1%14 .. to
Loudon and Birmingham ..100 .... 2303! •• • • to
Ditto. Quarter shares • • • • 2 .... 32% •• .. to
London and Blitelm all • • 161. 13s. 4d. •• • • 8% .. to
~00iniddoonn
aanndd Csorando
in
•
•
London and York 2% %.• • • to 134
e.s; e r 2.1 413111. 615 a 5..1906d.. 2738 •:
•:
too
--
Ditto. Half Shares • • • • • • .• 2% •• • • N••• • to
London, Salisbury, and Yeovil • • • • 2% •• • • %..•• to
Manchester and Leeds • • . • • 142 •• • • ••. to
Ditto, Firths .• .. • • . • .. 3 •• .. 10% •• .. to
Ditto, Sixteenths .• • • • • 614 tO •
Nianehester and Binning-ham .. • • 40 .... 85% • • to 86
Ditto, Quarter Shares (C) • • .. 1 .. • . 11% • • to
Manehester, Buxton, and Matlock • 425. •• • • %p•• to 34 p
Si anch,•ster and Southampton .. • • 2 .. • • 114 .. • • to
Midland • • • • .• • • • • • .100 ••..149 .. to
Ditto, New • • • • • • • • • • 24 .... 38344 to 39
Ditto, Birmingham and Derby • • 100 —l2O •• ••to
Neweastre and Darlington J uuction .• 25 •• • to
Ditto, New .. .• • • .. 1 • .. 12 .... to
Newcastle and Berwick .. • • •• 15 .. • 271,4 .•• . to 26%
North British •• .. • • 25 •••• 3534 to
Ditto, Carlisle Extension • • • 114 , • 3 -••to 2%
Ditto, Dalkeith .. • • .• 25 .... 3:5 .... to
North Staffordshire' .. • • 425. .... 314 %pto
Northampton, Banbury, & Cheltnam. 2 ... 138 .... to
Oxiord, Worcester, & Wolverhampton 123 .... 736 .. • • to
Portsmouth Inrect •• • • • • • • 3% • • .... to
Preston and Wyre .• • . • • 25 .... 35 . .. to
Shropshire Union . .• 425..... 114 dis. to 1 dis
South Midland • .. • • •• 425. .... 4,434 pto
South Eastern and Dover • • • • 33%...• 443 .... to 45
Ditto, New, No. 2 .. .. • • • • 10 1G ... to
Ditto, New, No. 4 .• • • • • •• 2% •• • • 31,43.. to
South Wales .. .. • • • • • • 5 • • 134.... to
West Riding Union ........425.....234..p to
York and North Midland .. .. • • 50 .... •• .. to
Ditto. Extension .. .. 20 .... 4114 •. •to
Ditto East and West Riding Extension 1 .... 14 .. to 14
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens .. • • .. 14 .. • • 12 .... to
Namur and Liege .. • • • • 6 .. • • 334 .... to
Northern of France Constituted .. 5 .... 12% .. .. to --
Paris and Lyons Constituted • . .. 5 .. • . 51/4 %% to
Rouen and Havre .• . .. 20 .... 27 .... to
Strasbourg and Bale • • ~ • . .. 14 .. • • 73s .to
MINES

Real del Monte, Unregistered ..
COURSE OF EXCHA
Amsterdam ......C.F. 12 8

Rotterdam .. 2U. 12 9
Antwerp.. 26 15
liarnhargli ....MI 13 15%
Altona ..
Paris, 3 days' sight .... 25 80
Ditto, 3 months...... 2G 10
Marseilles • . •. • ... 26 15
80uri1eaux......... • • 26 15
Frankfort on Maine.... 122!(2
Petersburgli, .. --
Berlin .
Vienna, effec. tlo.. •. • • 10 12
Trieste, ditto • • .... 10 12
adi id ............ 3534
Cadiz • • •.. ........ 36!.
Barcelona •
Seville.. • ..... • • • • • ...

NTGE.-(YE STE RDAY:
Gibraltar .. • ....... • • .. -

Genoa .. • • • ...... . • 26 15
Milan ..
Venice
Naples ..
Palermo, per 0z.... . 119%
Lis . 53

)porto ......... • • .. •.
itio Janeiro ........ •• 21

Bahia
A3-res

N'ew York, 21 days' sight

Philadelphia .... ..

MCI'S OF BULLION, PER OZ.
Foreign Gold in bars ...£3 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin •• 3 17 5
New lbaubloons .. 0 0 0
New Dollars ••..• • • . 0 4 914
Allver in bars ...... • . 0 4 11%

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, JULY 25.—Wind this day at noon S.W., light
bre,ze, and fine clear weather.
DEAL, JULY 24.—Wind A.M. easterly, P.M. S.W.—Arrd.
' from the river, Hebe, Anderson, Falkland Islands; Auriga,
f. Hunt, Hobart Town; Chieftain, Cape of Good Hope; Han-
nah, Lunt, New York; Susan, Quebec; Attica, M'Lallan,
Cadiz ; Libra, Gibbons, Oporto. Arrd. from the river and sid ,
[ Volusia, Finlayson, Demerara; Coxon, Morgan, Miramichi;
Entaw, New York. Sid. Rob Roy, Graburgh, Cape of Good
Hope; Hope, Underhill, New Zealand; Achilles, Burrell,
Port Philip; Augustus, Adelaide, South Australia; Rattler,
Goldsmith, Hobart Tuwn ; Neptune, Stuart, Sydney, New
• South Wales; Arab, Sumner, Ceylon; Sumatra, Duncan,
ditto ; Vectis. Baker, Zanzibar ; Richmond, Furbee, Algoa
Bay ; Tory, Rowe, Ascension ; with rest of outward bound.
OFF BniGarrort, JULY 24.—Seppings, Deane, Jamaica.
LlVEttrooL, JULY 24.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Liverpool,
Jamaica; Swallow, Steele, La Guayra ; Carolus, Stover,
New Orleans; Schoodiac, Gran, Mobile.; Irvine, Rowey,
M,,bile ; Hudson, Page, Mobile; Columbia, Rowland, Phila-
delphia ; Mersey, Jolmstone, New York ; Active, Si. John's,
New Brunswick ; Acorn, Grundy, iramichi ; Courier,
Montreal; Hazard, Trieste; Dawn, Gibraltar. Sld. 23(1
Action, Duly, New Orleans. 24th, Eleanor, Smith Mon!.
mein; Royal Mint, WiLiarns, Bombay ; Chimborazo, White,
Arica; Robert IVliitewav, Whiteway, Arica; Eliza John-
ston, Donaldson, Pernanibuco ; Rhode Island, Washburn,
Providence ; Carolina, Lovett, Yarmouth, N. S. ;.Juno,
Moran, Quebec ; Margaret, Black, Quebec. Off 24th, Ida,
Porto Rico; Mayflower, St. John's, New Brunswick; Satel-
lite, Quebec; Margaret, —. The Swithamley, Jennings,
from Calcutta to this port, was on shore in the Hooghly 3d
ult., and bilged. A ,4rque, with wreckers alongside, was
seen on shore neat: Florida Light-ship on the 22d ult, by the
Hudson, arrived here. The Claibone, from New Orleans to
this port, very leaky, and intending to put into New York,
was spoken on the 26th tilt; in lat. 31, lon. 80, by the Hud-
son, arrived here.
STOCKTON, JULY 23.—Arrd. Queen, Clark, Miramichi.
LYTHAM, JULY 24.—Arrd. Elizabeth Moses, New York.
TRURO, JULY 22.—Arrd. Roslvn Castle, Sadler, Quebec.
POOLE, JULY 23.—Sid. Rose, W. Kenly, Quebec.
ToitcwAv, JULY 22.—Arrd. Cousens, Gray, Miramichi.
ThooN, JULY 21.—Arrd. Athol, Currie, Dalhousie.
BELFAST, JULY 21.—Arrd. Wellington, Carry, St. John's,
New Brunswick ; Warrior, APlntosli, Miramichi.
BIDEFORD, JULY 23.—Arrd. Rover, Forbes, Miramichi.
EXMOUTH, JULY 23.—Arrd. Eliza Liddle, Clerk, Dalhousie.
GRANGEMOUTH, JULY 22.—Sid. H. Porcher, Quebec.
PENTLAND FRITH, JULY 17.—Arrd. Joannor, Drysdale,
St. John's New Brunswick ; St. Laurence, Tullock, Quebec.
LtruErtAmrrox, JULY 23.—Arrd. Swallow, Grey, Quebec.
MAavroirr, JULY 22.—Arrd. Henry, Malkinson, St. John's.
Put back, 23, Atlas, for repairs.
BIDEFORD, JULY 24.—The Friendship, Anderson, sid. yester-
day for Quebec, but put back in the evening, with damage,
having been on shore on the bar.
PORT LoaAN, JULY. 21.—The Maiden City, reported on
shore in the Mull of Galloway, has been got off to-day, and
proceeded to Greenock, to repair.
PORTSMOUTH, JULY 24.—Wind S.S.W. to N.N.W.,
P.M.' 5.W..-- Sld. Ellenborougb, Close, Cape of Good Hope;
Earl of Durham, Clarkson, Aden; Nautilus, transport, Sur-
lien, Ascension; Tuskar, Robertson, St. John's New Bruns-
wick; Sir John Falstaff, Rowell, Quebec.
TEIGNMOUTIL JULY 24.—Arrd. Leander, Pearce, Miramichi.
SALCOMIIE, JULY 24.—S1d. Ida. Robertson, Miramichi.
BRISTOL, JULY 24.—Arrd. Coronation, flume, St. John's,
New Brunswick.
GLOUCESTER, JULY 24.—Arrd. Solway, M'Lellan, Quebec.
Sld. Ireland, Harris, Quebec.
HOLYHEAD, JULY 23.—Arrd. Martha, Owens, Quebec.
WATERFORD, JULY 22.—Arrd. Thistle, Thomas, Quebec. I
23d. Oronoco, Flaherty, ditto.
CORK, JULY 22.—Arrd. Kate Kearney, Belcher, Jamaica.

MARKET NEWS. —(THIS DAY.)
COVENT-GARDEN.
New Potatoes, 5s to 12s per cwt; Pinet, 'English, 7s
to is per lb; ditto Colonial, is to 4s each ; Forced
Orleans Plums, 8s to 10s, ditto Green Gages, 7s to 103 per
punnet; Raspberries, 6d to 10d per pottle ; Hothouse
Grapes, 3s to 6s, and Cherries, 4d to 8d per lb ; Peaches,
35s to 45s per doz. ; Lemons, 7s to lOs per 100; French
Beans, 8d per basket ; Cabbages, 6d to is per dozen ;
Greens Is 6d to 2s 6d per dozen bunches; Celery, is, and
Horseradish, 2S to 3s per bundle; Spinach, 6d to Sd per junk;
Cucumbers, 2d to Is each; and Melons, 2s 6d to 6s each;
Carrots,3s to 4s, and Turnips, is 6d to 3s per dozen bunches;
Apples, 2s to 3s; Pears, 2s to 4s; Gooseberries, Is 3d to
2s 9d; Currants, 2s 6d to 5s Od ; Peas, 2s to 4s; and Wal-
nuts, for pickling, 3s per half sieve.
HUNGETiroItD.
Each kind of Meat, the supply of which was tolerably good,
moved off* steadily, at full prices. Otherwise the demand
was in a sluggish state.
NEW GATE AND LEADEINNALL.
Prime Beef; Mutton, and Veal commanded .a steady sale,
at very full prices. In all other kinds of Meat compara-
tively little :was doing. Beef, from 2s 6d to 88 ; Mutton,
2s 10d to 4s ; Lamb, 4. 8a to 5s 8d ; Veal, 3s 4d to 4s 4d ;
and Pork, 3s 6d to 4s 10d per Sibs, by the carcase. Geese,,
4s to 6s; Ducks, Is 9d to 2s 6d; Pigeons, 4d to Sd each;
Surrey Fowls, 6s to 10s; ditto Chickens, 58 to Gs; and
Barn-door Fowls, 3s 6d to 6s per couple. Fresh Butter, 10d
to Is 2d per Ib.
NEWPORT.
''''Ber„f, km} 2.11 W to- 410 '6(l i -414ttop,
_al to is; 464 a,
_ . _

53 to 5s 10d; Veal, 3s 6d to 4s 6d; and Pink, 4s to 4s 10d
per Blbs.

BILLINGSGATE.
Full average supplies of Fish were on sale here, yet the
demand Was steady, at but little variation in prices.

WLICITECHAPEZ.

Beef from 2s VI 10 Ed; Mutton, 2s 84 to 4s; Lamb,
4s 8d to 5s 8d ; Veal, 3s 111 to is 4d; and Pork, 3s 8d to
4s 10d per 814 s.

=READ.
The prices of Wheaten Bread In the metropolis are from
8d to Bii4d; of Household ditto, B%d to 71,0 per 41bs loaf.

HIM MARKET.
Market Hides, 561 b to 641 b, 3d per lb ; do. 641 b to 721 b,
3d; do. 721 b to 801 b, 3d to 3%d; do. 801 b to 881 b, 3%d
to 4d ; do. 881 b to 961 b, 4d to 4%d ; do. 961 b to 1041 h, 4%d to
5d ; do. 1041 b to 112113, 5d to 5:4d. Calf Skins, each, 48 to
6s ; Horn Hides, I3s ; Lamb Skins, 28 to 2s 9d; Shear..
lings; 10d to Is.