The Sun.
London, England, 1846-07-21 00:00:00

THE NEW WORK BY HORACE WALPOLE.
Just published, in 4 rots., Svo. (the first two or last two of which
may be had separately), with Portraits,
HORACE W-ALPOLE'S MEMOIRS
of the REIGN of GEORGE 111. With Extracts from the
unpublished Memoirs of the late Duke of Grafton.
Now first printed from the original MSS. Edited, with Notes, by
Sir DENIS LE MARCIIANT, Bart., M.P.
" All the information given in these Memoirs is sought in vain
elsewhere. They conta:n debates on some of the most interesting
questions of the day ; and these, reported by one who listened to
them, and he a gifted man, well versed in all that passed before the
public eye, and much that might not meet the light, have a value
which it is not easy to estimate too highly. Nor should praise end
here. It is something to obtain the picture of an age fresh from a
pencil often unerring in its touch, always engaging by its subjects,
and brilliant in its colours ; the portraits of the men who held the
destinies of England in their grasp, are here striking from their
truthfulness and vigour."—Times.

broken in upon and nearly destroyed, and he thought
that Members could hardly be enabled to reconcile their
constituents to the maintenance of protection in this in-
stance, and to forcing the farmer, now exposed to com-
petition, to pay a dearer rate for his sugar than he ought
to pay. According to the statement of the late Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, there was every probability of
a financial deficiency in the year 1847-48, and it
was, therefore, extremely desirable to increase the
income of the country, more especially if it be
done without increasing the burdens of the
people. With regard to the supply, not more
than from 8,000 to 10,000 tons of the foreign sugar now
in bond would be admissible on account of the navigatipn
laws. Taking the whole revenue to be derived from
sugar, according to his plan, during the next year
at 4,2oo,oool.—being 725,5091. more than the revenue
which would arise under the present system—this would
at once turn the apprehended deficiency into a surplus,
If the proposed duties should pass in Committee, he
should propose to make the settlement a permanent
one by introducing a Bill making the duties permanent;
anti would propose some other source of revenue to he
made the subject of an annual vote instead of the
sugar duties, so as not to depart from the
great constitutional principle of making a great part of
the revenue dependant upon an annual vote of the House.
He believed that the time was come when it was neces-
sary to alter our colonial system, to relax restrictions, and
to open the colonies to the spirit of commercial enterprise.
If this were done, the connexion between the colonies
and the mother country would be one of mutual benefit,
inasmuch as both would flourish the more from the re-
moval of useless restrictions. The Noble Lord
concluded by proposing a resolution for the
temporary continuance of the present duties for
one month, at the same time laying on the table the
resolution which he should propose for the permanent
settlement of the question, to which, if the House should
agree, her Majesty's Ministers, however short might be
their term of office, would not have administered the
affairs of the nation in vain.

" These long-promised Memoirs have at length made their appear-
ance. They are now first printed from the M.S. copy contained in
the box of papers which came into the possession of the late Earl of
Waldegrave, and were by him transferred to the late Lord Holland,
in the hope that they might have his editorial skill and judgment.
Official duties, however, prevented his Lordship from executing this
task, and at his death he had not even commenced it. Under these
circumstances the Duke of Grafton, on whom, as Lord Waldegrave's
executor, the property of these Memoirs had devolved, consulted
Sir Denis Le Marchant on the subject, who readily undertook the
duty of editor. This he has accomplished in a most satisfactory
manner. These Memoirs are penned in that gossiping anecdotical
vein of which Horace Walpole is so consummate a master, and blend
history with biography in a very attractive manner."—Sun.
Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street (publisher in ordinary to
her Majesty).

THE GOVERNMENT POLICY AND POsITIoN.
THE WEEKLY CHRONICLE will discuss
this important Question fully this SATURDAY NEXT en-
Cuing ; and will also contain LEADING ARTICLES on all the
TOPICS of the DAY, with the fullest details of the
PROPOSED NEW SUGAR DUTIES,
the Monopolist and Philanthropic Coalition against them, and the
prohahle result.
FREE TRADERS should hold themselves prepared for the issue.
Offlee, 337, Strand, and all Newsmen.

THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, JULY 21.
THERMOMETER, Lowest, 57; Highest. 75 ; Noon, 68,
BAROMETER, 29.96.—W1ND S.W., fine.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGETIIIS DAY.
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Mr. GOULBURN would not go into the discussion until
he had considered the plan proposed. The Right Hon.
Gentleman having put some questions as to the details
of the plan,

Lord JOHN RET2ISELL said that he did not propose to
alter the navigation laws at all.
Lord G. BENTINCK would support the motion for a
temporary renewal of the duties; but the protectionist
party would not support any measure for taking from
the East and West Indian interests the protection
which they at present enjoyed.
After a desultory debate,
The CHAIRMAN put the resolution, which was carried,
and ordered to be reported on Wednesday next.
The House afterwards went into a Committee of
Supply ; several sums were voted, and the House ad-
journed at Two o'clock.

In the proposition made overnight by Lord JOHN
RUSSELL for the gradual reduction of duties upon
slave-grown sugar, and the ulterior equalisation of ill
duties upon that article, whether slave-grown or
free-grown, foreign or colonial, we recognise the
commencement of a wholesome competition in com-
mercial reform between himself and his predecessor.
That `proposition may be simply given as follows :
—That whi'e the existing duties of 14i. on colonial
sugar be continued as it is without any alteration,
the present duties of 233. 4.1. on foreign
free-labour sugar shall be immediately re-
duced to 21s. ; that that reduction shall apply
without distinction to foreign sugars generally,
whether the produce of slavery or not; and that, in
addition to this arrangement, the duty of 21s. shall
be reduced periodically until the equalisation at the
termination of five years of all duties both foreign
and colonial. This gradual reduction, according to
Lord JOHN ,Russism.'s plan, is to proceed in the sub-
joined gradation :
From sth July, 1846, to sth July, 1817
1847 1848
1848 ... 1849
1849 1850
1850 lßsl
After 1851 l4s.

Two circumstances are especially observable in
the Premier's explanatory address, namely, the
brevity of its details, and the simplicity of its lan-
guage. As the vehicles for the introduction of this
comprehensive relaxation in restrictive imposts, we
consider those two features of his harangue as by no
means unimportant, and likewise as most ap-
propriate to the occasion. With reference
to the reasons for the proposal of this
measure, they unquestionably required no very
elaborate exposition ; the supply of the com-
modity in question was proved to be inferior to the
demand—the importation charges were shown topress
very heavily upon the population of this country—
while the revenue derivable from this iniquitous and
gratuitous species of taxation tumbled not into the na-
tional exchequer, but into the pockets of individuals.
Nor were those the solitary reasons to be adduced for
the substitution of a more enlightened and more
honourable system in lieu of the one now in
operation—there were others capable of being enu-
merated as plentiful as blackberries, and some of
these we have already ourselves particularised.
With reference again to tie arguments ad-
vanced against the necessity of any alteration
whatever in the mode at present adopted for levying
duties upon various descriptions of sugar, the Premier
was somewhat more explicit, but at the same time
treated them with that cursory condensation of logic
which is generally opposed to a shallow antagonist.
Those, indeed, who pronounce themselves in
favour of the continuance of the differential duties
cannot even assume to themselves the credit of ad-
vancing any even sophistical pleas for the perpetuation
of their favourite system. Their arguments have not
even the negative merit of being sophisms ; and con-
sequently the answers given to those arguments by
Lord JOHN RUSSELL were conclusive, without calling
for any peculiar effort of reason or any
remarkable display of intellectual ingenuity. As to
the equalisation of all duties upon foreign and colo-
nial sugar being considered pernicious, as an infringe
ment upon the so-called protective system hitherto
adopted towards'our colonies, that is a chimera which
has been pronounced such by the genius of British
legislation. The age, and the greatest statesmen of
the age, have declared the freedom of all commercial
intercourse, without exception, to be the only real
and profitable protection which can or ought to be
conferred upon the human family : and a writer in the
Edinburgh Review has happily specified the working
of the pseudo-protection on our colonial possessions as a
balance of profit and loss, which when reduced to
its elements stands thus :—" I make a gain by doing
you an injury, and, in compensation, I permit you to
make a similar gain by doing me a similar injury '
Well may the reviewer continue that such an arrange-
ment seems like "an attempt to embody the lex
talionis in mercantile transactions !" So generally are
these truths now recognised, that the Premier
scarcely devoted even a casual allusion to them, and
we presume that the "deniers of these truths" will
content themselves with that simple expression of
dissent uttered overnight by Lord GEORGE BEN-
TINCH, conscious that any oratorical enforcement of
their very antiquated opinions would be only liable
to
Irtenwdaser
othaleymwsuitphrerha supremely
philanthropicand
ean t
which
has
ridiculous.
unfortunately been employed as an offensive and de-
fensive weapon against any alteration in the existing
plan Lord J. RUSSELL had in reality any necessity
to deal, and upon the flimsy and shameful character of
which philanthropic cant we yesterday took occasion
to dilate. The Premier very felicitously pointed out
that most significant fact in connexion with this outcry
against the patronage of slavery, that the outcry was
only raised when it suited the pecuniary ends of these
would-be charity-mongers ; that there was a violent
storm against the importation of slave-grown sugar,
while' tobacco, and copper, and cotton, and various
other articles, the produce of slave industry, were
permitted to enter our markets without a dissentien

monstrous and yet so powerless a chimera ? So ma-
nifest have these grievances become, that their hour of
doom has arrived, their continuance is altogether
impossible even with the powerful support which will
in all likelihood be given for their perpetuation.
Granting, even for the sake of argument, that the Ad-
ministration were frustrated by the present Parliament,
that Parliament would forthwith be dissolved, and an
appeal to the country would then assure the noble
and patriotic endeavours of the Government.

A very interesting discussion took place last night
in the House of Lords upon a motion of the Earl of
Powls, that the St. Asaph and Bangor and Man-
chester Dioceses Bill be read a second time.
The object of the Bill is to prevent the see of St.
Asaph merging into that of Bangor, upon the decease
of the bishop of the former. The motion was opposed
by the Government—the Marquis of LANSDOWNE
taking the lead—and, after a very animated debate,
was carried by a majority of 10; the numbers being,
in its favour, 38; against it, 28. The Marquis of
LANSDOWNE subsequently stated that the Govern-
ment would offer no further opposition to the
measure, but would leave the expediency of
proceeding with it entirely with the Earl of
Powis. So far, then, as the Upper House is con-
cerned, it may be taken that, should Lord Powis
persevere, his measure will pass. The lateness of
the session, and the great measure which Lord JOHN
RUSSELL last night launched for discussion, and
which will be keenly and elaborately discussed, ut-
terly preclude any chance of the Earl of Powts's
Bill being this year passed into a law. There
is, indeed, scarcely a prospect of its being even noticed
in the House of Commons before the rising of Par-
liament. Should it turn out otherwise, we venture
to predict, as well from a general view of the question
as from the fact, that, though the voice of the Govern-
ment did not prevail last night, their opinions remain
unaltered, the Commons would certainly reject the

measure.
It will be in the recollection of our readers, that in
1835 a Commission was appointed, comprising many
of the bishops, to consider the state of the Esta-
blished Church. They reported, inter alia, that it was
not advisable to increase the number of bishops, but
that it was desirable, by a union of certain sees,
to constitute bishoprics in parts of the country
where the want of spiritual superintendence
was severely felt. They especially recommended
that a bishop should be appointed for Manchester,
and that this object should be accomplished by
uniting the dioceses of St. Asaph and Bangor.
This arrangement subsequently met with the
approval of Parliament, as well as many others
of an admirable description, the general ten-
dency of which was to equalise the labours
and to produce, as far as was practicable, a
due proportion of emolument among the bishops.
We hope, therefore, that a comprehensive scheme of
ecclesiastical reform, which has been so cautiously
entered upon, and hitherto been found to answer so
well, will not be disturbed by the piece-meal legisla-
tion of the Earl of Powis. The bishopric of Ripon
has been established by virtue of the Commission
already alluded to, and is answering all the
wholesome expectations that led to its for-
mation. Earl GREY admitted there was an
improved feeling in the country towards the
Church, and greatly attributed it to the reforms
effected by the Church Commission. Would it not
then be the height of impolicy to make a retrograde
movement, when the work of ecclesiastical reform is
progressing so favourably ? By the present ar-
rangement Manchester will continue to be
without a bishop till the intended union be-
tween the sees of St. Asaph and Bangor shall have
been effected by the death of one of their bishops.
Ten years have already elapsed since it has been
determined that Manchester ought to have her epis-
copal want supplied; and, comparing the importance
of that city and its teeming population with the dis-
trict proposed to be annexed to the see of Bangor, it
is greatly to be lamented that financial considerations
have alone necessitated a procrastination.
It is observable, as the Marquis of LANSDOWNE
well reminded the Earl of Powis and their Lord-
ships, that Wales has already largely participated in
the reformatory fruits of the Commission, and
has realised a balance in its favour of two
thousand pounds a year. Whilst this benefit
was accruing a very obsequious silence was
maintained. "It was an odd coincidence," said
Lord LANSDOWNE, "that the Principality of 'Wales
brought forward this question just at the time that it
had received the maximum of all it could receive—
(Laughter)—and when the whole of those proceed-
ings were finally carried into effect, as recommended
by the Commissioners." Wales has made no scruple
of partaking in a reform affecting the whole of the
Church of the United Empire, but when the time
may soon arrive that, for the general benefit, a merely
titular sacrifice must be made, they put forth a cry
of "reckless spoliation," and dream that the bare fact
of a particular bishopric being very ancient, ought
to prevail against the solemn deliberations of
Parliament, sanctioned years ago, and that a
measure, matured under the advice of nu-
merous spiritual heads, should be at once
flung to the winds. The duties attendant upon a
union of St. Asaph and Bangor, and their extent of
area, would, as alleged by Lord STANLEY, in some
instances, when compared with other sees, be ten-
fold less. Again, since the Commission was issued,
the population of the proposed diocese of
Manchester has added to itself a number greater
than that of the entire population of the
united diocese of St. Asaph and Bangor. That
St. Asaph is a very ancient bishopric is undeniable ;
but the respectable age to which Old Gatton and
Sarum had reached, weighed as a feather in the scale
of reason when the Reform Bill was proposed
to Parliament. Some people are rather venture-
some in their appeals to antiquity, and oftentimes un •
wittingly supplying materials for astonishment that
things have been suffered so long to go on without
reform.

A good deal was elicited, in the course of the dal-
bate, with respect to the opinions of some of their
Lordships, touching the important questions of whe-
ther there should be an augmentation in
the number of bishops, and also whether
new bishops should have seats in the
House of Lords. Upon the first point, we think
their Lordships will do well to bear in mind the
advice which the Duke of WELLINGTON tendered to
them some time ago. His Grace recommended the
Church to complete;the work ofits own internal reform,
before they invited the country to incur any addi-
tional burdens for the support of the Establishment.
The Church will, therefore, act wisely in limiting
her efforts, for the present to the prospering of her
Uponow n
the
second handiwork,
point,alrea wedyauspiciously in progress.
imagine that the general
tone of Lord LANSDOWNE'S observations, and especially
the distinct avowal of Earl GREY, will be read with great
and may do something to
grtheatiEficstaat
biolnishbeyd
Cthhuosrechw;ho are warmly attached to
pre-
dicted that her MAJESTY'S silence the calumnies of those who confidently
would
present advisers
strive to weaken the Protestant hierarchy. " With
respect to giving new bishops a seat in
the House of Lords, his own opinion
was, that if a new bishopric were created,
the prelate should take his seat on that bench. He
attached a great value to the presence of bishops in
that House." Such was the language of Earl GREY,
a member of the Government, who, more than any other,
it has been flippantly promulgated, is inimical to the
religious Establishment of this country.
Th

ie Coroner's inquest on the body of FREDERICK
JOHN 'WHITE, the unfortunate soldier of the 7th
hussars, who came by his death, as it is alleged, ih
consequence of the severity of the punishment in-
flicted on him on the lath June last, resumed IN
sittings yesterday, and heard evidence on part of the
case, viz., on the fact and nature of the punishment,
and the health of the ill-fated young man before and
after the flogging.
A question was also asked by Dr. BOWEING, in the
House of Commons, on the same subject, which
called forth an explanation from Mr. Fox
This must be considered as the defence of the mili-
tary gentlemen responsible for the punishment, and
arraigned at the bar of public opinion, for
their participation in the shocking transaction ;
it must, therefore, be looked on with some
degree of suspicion, but we feArle,ply Assert

voice being heard. Then again, with equal
felicity, the Noble Lord exposed tho inefficient
and hypocritical character of this compact, to refuse
the purchase of slave-grown sugar, under the pre-
tence of discouraging slavery, by explaining the
mode in which the restrictions of that compact
are obviated—the slave-grown sugar being disposed of
in Hamburgh, or Petersburgb, or elsewhere, and thence
introduced without obstruction into our English
markets May not that slave-grown sugar be ren-
dered accessible to our insular purchasers with infi-
nitely more facility, by being colonialised, instead of
being passed through the continental markets—by
being carried first to the Cape of Good Hope, instead
of to Hatnburgh ? There are a thousand means of

evading these unnatural restrictions, and that they
are evAded notorious, Why, therefore, Laaint4iu so

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 21, 1846.

that even supposing it to be correct to the utmost
extent, there existed no such necessity as could pos-
sibly justify the degrading and brutalising exhibition.
As to the offence, it was doubtless a grave one, and
the preservation of military discipline loudly de-
manded that it should be checked in a strong
manner ; but would not a sufficient example
have been made by a long continuance of
incessant drill, and close confinement, together
with the stoppage of the ordinary liberty and comforts
iof the delinquent ? We doubt not that such a course
would have been found fully as efficacious for the pre-
vention of a similar offence. The regiment was not
in such a situation as to make its safety dependent
on a prompt and vigorous example. Neither
could the soldiers be said to be in
such a state of insubordination as to
render such a punishment necessary. At all events,
if such was the case, it speaks trumpet-tongued
against the efficacy of such a system, for it was
sworn in evidence before the Coroner "that the punish-
ment in that regiment was more severe than in any
other in the army;" and the witness stated "that he
had seen an extraordinary degree of punish-
ment in the regiment while on service in America."
The heart sickens at the description given of the
revolting exhibition. The whips, or cats, with
handles eighteen inches long, with a number of
thongs about the same length knotted, and three of the
five produced in court stained with the blood of our
fellow. creatures—of those who had devoted them-
selves to the service of their country—who had left
home and friends, and given up their own
liberty for the public service. The cats, too,
that were used on the occasion, it appeared,
were those with dark handles, in which the
thongs and handles were heavier, the cords and knots
thicker and larger than the other. The farrier, by whom
the lashes were laid on, was changed at every 25 blows,
in order that the stroke might be administered with
sufficient strength and vigour, and a new cat brought
into operation after the first 100 lashes. In other
regiments trumpeters, who are boys, are selected as
the floggers ; but in the happy ith Hussars, this duty-
devolves upon the farriers, men whose arms are, from
the nature of their avocations, hardened and
strengthened, and who are therefore enabled
to strike much harder. There is no mercy
for the wretched sufferers. The instrument of torture
was flourished twice in the air between each blow,
which was delivered with all the power and force of
the striker, as it was sworn that if he did not do so,
he would be liable to be punished hitnself. It is not
astonishing that there was a great discharge
of blood before the whole was completed,
which ran down over the victim's over-
alls, or that several of the men dropped
down fainting. The men who would fearlessly have
braved the hostile ranks were unable to sustain the
horrifying spectacle of pain and anguish inflicted on
a fellow- creature. When all was terminated, the
mild and merciful Colonel Wnere steps forward and
speaks actually of the brutality of the conduct of
the poor young man, and at that moment utters fur-
ther threats as to what he will do on a future
occasion, even at that moment speaking of a re-
petition of the punishment, in the event of another
offence. In what light does he think his own con-
duct, in standing by with folded arms, not interfering,
although he had it in his power to lessen the
punishment, will be regarded by any man of
common feeling or common humanity ? Whether
will his victim or himself be thought to have acted
in the most brutal manner ? Alas ! how often
shall we speak of the mote in the eye of our brother,
and little regard the beam in our own ? One witness
says, in speaking of the appearance of the unfortu-
nate man's back after the lashing, "I can't compare
it to anything but to a person who had been cut to
pieces." It is needless to descant upon the harrow-
ing details given in evidence of the discharge of matter
from the wounds, the complaint of the burning pain in his
chest on the second day after the flogging, the boils
breaking out on the injured place, the description of
these pains in the chest and back to the surgeon of
the regiment, who attempted to cheer him by
saying that he had been punished for no disgraceful
crime, and his admission to the deceased that it was
to the punishment he owed his illness. Is it—
can it be possible that our countrymen, who
have so willingly contributed, who have made
such sacrifices, for the abolition of slavery and its
attendant lash, will consent to a greater degree of
barbarity being sanctioned at home at our very
thresholds, because a regiment has the misfortune
of having a martinet for its commander ? We
feel that such is not the case, and we
cannot doubt but that the irresistible voice
of public opinion will loudly demand the
abolition of corporeal punishments, and the re-
moval from command of men who so grossly abuse
the power entrusted to their hands, should such a
result follow, WHITE will not have died in vain.
His sufferings and death will ransom many of his
brother soldiers from similar inflictions. Had not death
ensued, the public would have heard nothing of the
abominable cruelty perpetrated ; the veil of mystery
which hung over the proceedings could not be re-
moved by anything less weighty than the death of a
•ictim. Thousands of cases more wantonly and un-
mercifully inflicted, might be found if the annals
were searched, and the causes of the various punish-
ments fully investigated. Take that of the other
victim, MATTHEWSON, who had been but seven
weeks in the regiment when be attracted
the attention of the humane Colonel WHYTE.
We give his own sworn evidence verbatim, it
requires neither note or comment on our
part; but we do say that if he has truly stated the
cause, the strongest advocate for the necessity of
military flogging must admit that its infliction in
such a case was never contemplated, and that the
man who would demand and sanction such a punish-
ment for such an offence is a disgrace and stain to
the service. We trust that an inquiry will take
place into the management of the regiment that will
afford an opportunity to Colonel WIIYTE of satisfying
the public as to the manner in which he has dis-
charged his duty as commanding officer. The fol-
lowing is the evidence of the man MA.TTIIEWSON,
via.:—

"By the Coroner—l was punished for insolence to a ser-
geant, in calling out Halloa 'in a stable. He did not
come in and call me. When he came in he said, What do
you mean by answering that way ?' It was Sergeant
Temple. I said, I did not know who called me;' but he
continued reprimanding ine, and I said, Do you want me to
go down on my knees to you ?' He then ordered me on
fatigue duty. I was then taken up before Colonel Whyte,
and he ordered me into a week's solitary confinement. I
asked him what way I was to answer, and he ordered a court-
martial for insolence to my commanding officer, and I had
100 lashes. When I went into the hospital the doctor
never came to see me until the next morning. I went into
the hospital at half-past twelve o'clock. White, the deceased,
dressed my back. Saw the surgeon the next day at half-
past ten o'clock. He ordered me nothing more than luke-
warm water to my back for six days. Came out of the hos-
pital this day. My back is not well now, properly speaking.
Had boils on my back and pains in my side, back, and chest,
the same as White complained of. Had great pain in my
chest the next morning, and difficulty of breathing, attended
Twhitrhee poarOinfurDdl3a'y
came to the sides. It would sometimes leave for two or
sbancfkterNwvaesrddsretshseed,
painleft the chest and
but White's was not.
draw breath; it feels as if something was running into my
ft
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to
hmee
ebvaecit
naggsa, i
whenli ald
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dionwe,nd ciannde
sides. Did not mention it to the surgeon."

The Gazette of Zurich publishes a letter from
Berne, dated July 13, which states that the Council
of the Constitution had that day terminated their de-
liberations, and that the project for the new constitu-
tion had been adopted by a majority of 88 Members
to 9 who voted against it. It was reported at Berne
that in Lucerne all the inhabitants liable to military
service, and even the landstrum, had been called out.
The Executive Council of Berne had dispatched an
officer to Ilatwyl to ascertain the real state of affairs.
At Geneva, on the 16th, an act of fraud on the part
of the Jesuit conductors of the institute of Onex was
discovered: They bad assumed the title of members
of the Aumteh ti:title to which they had
no right whatever, and the head of the academy has,
by a public protest, given a formal denial to
-Jr
assumption of it,

favourably than was expected. Printed cottons and
woollen stuffs found numerous purchasers. Manu-
factures of cotton and wool mixed, which at the
commencement of the fair were very heavy, sold ex-
ceedingly well towards the conclusion, and such was
the demand for calicoes, that every piece was sold.
The supply was not sufficient to meet the demand.

Madrid Papers to the 14th have arrived. They
contain no intelligence whatever.
The Three per Cents. were done at 33 for cash ;
the Five per Cents., at 20i-; the Debt without In-
terest, at G 4 ; the Shares of the Bank of San Fer-
nando, at 390; and those of Isabel, at 200.

We have received the Paris papers of Sunday. They
are filled with electioneering polemics, but these
polemics are merely personal ; neither party avows
any great principle, and the contest is almost avowedly
a mere squabble for place between the ins and the
outs.

On the 17th the miners cut on strike at Anzin and
St. Vaast, requested permission to resume their work,
and at four o'clock in the morning 1,500 of them re-
turned to the mines. The miners of Denain, who
were also out on strike, on hearing what had. taken
place at Anzin, also immediately resumed their
labours. These men have all returned to their work
without asking any conditions of their mas-
ters. This happy result is attributed mainly
to the very judicious measures adopted by the
authorities, more particularly to the spirit of
mingled conciliation and firmness displayed by M.
MAunrcE DUVAL, the Prefect of the department,
and M. PETIT DE LA. FOSSE, the Sub-Prefect of the
district.

The Journal des.Debats announces the death of M.
VINCENT CHELMICKI, formerly Nuncio of the Diet of
the kingdom of Poland. This illustrious Pole died
at Chantilly on the 3d of this month.
The Algiers journals of the 11th and 12th give
long accounts of the arrival and entry in state into
the city of M. PAY; the newly-appointed Bishop of
Algiers. M. DE SALVANDY continues his excursions
in the neighbourhood of Algiers, and was to leave on
the 16th for Oran and Constantina.
The advices from Oran are to the 12th.
Some troops had been dispatched on the 3d
towards the Morocco frontier, in consequence
cf the appearance in that neighbourhood of some hos-
tile Arab cavalry.
" M. LAVAUD," says the National, " who is to re-
place M. BEUAT in the government of Oceania, will
sail in the month of September, in the frigate Danae."
There has been a terrific storm of hail, rain, and
wind, which has, done immense damage in the neigh-
bourhood of Lyons. The hailstones were some of
them as large as eggs. The vintage has been en
tirely destroyed, and the grain crops have been
most severely injured. Several houses were blown
down by the wind.
The Moniteur publishes the returns of the manu-
facture and consumption of beet-root sugar in France
to the Ist of July inst., from which it appears that
there are 306 factories in activity, being twelve more
than at the corresponding period of 1845. The quan-
tity of sugar manufactured during the year amounted
to 29,403,754 kilogrammes (nearly 40,000 tons); the
amount sold for consumption, 35,690,608 ; and the
duties levied thereon, 9,187,615 f. (360,000/.) As
compared with the results of 1845, there was an in-
crease in the production of 3,86311504 kilogrammes
(3,863 tons) ; in the consumption, of 4,212,627;
and in the duties, of 3,142,457 f.

MArsEILLEs, JULY 15.—Marseilles and Avignon, 865 f. ;
Northern, 710 f. ; Paris and Lyons, 522 f. 50c.
LYONS, JULY 17.—Marseilles and Avignon, 876 f. 25c.;
Paris and Orleans, 1,268 f. 75c. ; Rouen, 095 f.; Lyons,
521 f. 25c. ; Vierzon, 635 f.; Great Northern, 713 f. 50c.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE

LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, JULY 20.

Boulogne and Amiens, 12%—Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cette
(Mackenzie), 11,, —Central of Spain, % —Dutch Rhenish, 7—Louvain
and Jemappe, I% Luxembourg, 1 % —Lyons and Avignon, 1%
Northern of France Constituted, 12% ex d.—Orleans and Bordeaux,
B—Over Tasel, dis.—Paris and Lyons Constituted, s'y--Rouen
and Havre, 27—West Flanders, 34.

THE WEST INDIA MAIL.
(From the Herald.)
SOUTHAMPTON, TUESDAY MORNING.—The Trent, Royal
mail steam-ship, Captain Rivett, arrived this morning, at
seven o'clock, from the West Indies, after a very fair passage.
She brings the usual mails.
The Trent brings advices down to the following dates,
viz. :—.Tamaica, June 23d ; Demerara, 10th ; Trinidad, 20th ;
St. Jago de Cuba, 18th; Barbadoes, 24th; Grenada, 26th;
Porto Rico, 28th; St. Thomas, 30th; and Fayal, July 14th.
She has on freight 2,270 dollars, on merchants' account;
1,922/. in British coin ; 244 ecrons of sarsaparilla ; 86 tierces
of coffee; a valuable box of pearls; 52 packages of succades,
arrow root, &c., &c. There are 91 passengers.
Her Majesty's schooner Pickle was'at Jamaica when the
Trent left.

The Company's steamer Avon, sailed from Jamaica for the
Spanish Main on the 15th of June; the Dee, from Grenada,
on the 25th of June, for Jamaica ; the Severn, on the 26th,
for Trinidad; the Eagle, from Barbadoes, on the 24th, for
Demerara. The Reindeer was in the harbour: of St. Thomas
on the 30th of June; the City of Glasgow was on the patent
slip at St. Thomas, preparatory to her departure for Eng-
land (via Madeira) on the 4th of July.
I learn by a private source that her Majesty's ship Endy-
mon, 44 guns; the Alarm, 26 ; Vesuvius steam sloop, 6 ;
Daring, 12 ; and Rose, 16 ; were in the Gulf of Mexico.
The Trent spoke H.M. steamer Avenger, with the Pacha
on board, on the 19th. In lat. 20.36, long. 62.14, signalised
the brig Appleton, on the 2nd of July. On the 9th, spoke
the brig Yesta, standing N.E., lat. 30.51, long. 44.19. All
well. _ _

The Trent brings no news of importance from the West
India Islands. It is, however, cheering to report that a
favourable change had taken place in the weather, and
that the long drought had been succeeded by copious and
seasonable rains in almost every island; it had, as a matter
of course, put the inhabitants in good spirits, and the pros-
pects of the crops are more encouraging.
At Trinidad, 19,000 hogsheads of sugar had been shipped
for England; the crop will be about 22,000 hogsheads. At
Barbadoes, the crop of sugar shipped for England amounted
to 15,000 hogsheads, and 10 or 12 vessels were still loading.
In Demerara the crops will be about a quarter short of last
year, on account of the long dry weather.

(From the Jamaica Dispatch of June 23.)
EXPORTS.

Sugar--Hogsheads and tierces were sold at from 235. 6d.
to 30s. per 100 lbs.
Rum commands 3s. 9d. per gallon.

Exchanges on London.—:Jamaica and Colonial Banks-30
days, PA per cent. pm. ; 60 days, 1 cent. pm. Planters'
Bank-30 days, I% per cent pm. ; 60 days, 1 per cent. pm. ;
90 days, IA per cent. pm. Commissary's Bills-30 daye,
per cent. pm.

RAILWAY COMMITTEES.

(THIS DAY.)

HOUSE 01? LORDS.
Room C.

LONDON AND ELACIEWILLI. (WIDENING).
The Committee re-assembled this morning, Lord Hatherton in the
chair.

Mr, HILL, Q.C., Who appeared for the promoters, after describing
the character and constraction of the Blackwall line, stated that the
proposed improvement WOtfid bring Upon this railway a great part of
the traffic now existing on the Eastern Counties and Northern and
Eastern Counties lines. It was proposed to widen the Blackwall
Railway limn the City terminus to Stepney, the expense of which
would he about 240,000/. ; the works would only take about 50,0001.
or 60,000/. ; the property to be purchased was valued at 178,5601., and
the land to be taken vvotild afford sufficient space for a double line of
rails, although it was intehded to Jay down only a single line until
the increase of the traffic should Justify the expense.
The only opponents who appeared in the other House were the East
and West India Dock Company, and they were satisfied.
Mr. MEREWETIIER here stated that the City authorities, however,
were very much dissatisfied.
Mr. Ilim. continued by saying, that although the City authorities
were not satisfied, they were riot in a condition to appear against the
Bill. The Cominissioners of Sewers, theEeastallanmd
sAcVnestiteulttisd,ta..Dtohcakt
Companies, and the Woods and Forcsil,t wereßill.
in fact there was no legal opposition to h,
Mr. 'Ne-. Tite, architect of the Royal Exchange, and surveyor
London t
twoa lillsackowiallraßilsailwfraoym, sttiaietedF,entlethatti
rcthh-street
liostfaadtthioanetto Stepney, and that there VIM an Act sought for last session
for making a communication with the Eastern Counties line between
Stratford and Stepney, which had been then dropped, but which was
obtained this session. The quantity of land sought for, Which was 22
feet in width, was one mile, five furlongs, and eight chains in length,
the value of which was as stated by Mr. Bill, including 13,0001. for
contingencies. it would be a great convenience to the East and
West India Dock Company, who already accommodated the ptiblic
largely by the transmission of samples from the docks. (Here a plan
was put in which the witness explained to the committee, by which
it appeared that 7,000 feet of warehottse room was taken
from the West India Docks, which, In lasi, Was at
present lost to that company, and the Blacitivall Com-
pany proposed to build warehouses here at their owie,invtinemexedpe,tnthisaie(t),
so that this was an entire gain to the Dock Company, and wt,aki
besides offer greater convenience.) There was certainly a great want
,asdoitwair
aetttimheessll
wowhenf taioturariono,mvaastctolintei,C,gitl
n terminus,
earmn and ngielmg
platform, which was in the middle of the station, had as many as 700
people on it at one time.

To Mr. MEBEWETHER'S cross-examination, Mr. Tite stated that
this line had the greatest carrying trade for the steam-boats in
London, and that the line which had its terminus in a street belong-
ing to the company had access to Fenehureh•street, which is now
narrow, but which is about to be widened by the Corporation of
London. The Richmond Railway, which is to be opened next week,
is the only line lately opened in the neighbourhood of London, so
that there was at present but little experience on that point. He is
architect for the Eastern Counties and the South-Western Company,
and the valuations which he had made in the intended prolongation
cf the South-Western line to Waterloo-bridge had all been confirmed
in the result. The prososed arrangement of the station would coat
about 45,0001. There was a regular arrangement with the Eastern
CeititieSs by which that company undertook to give the passengers
a choice of goitig either to Shoreditch or to Fenchurch-street, the
she two plates in distance from the Bank being
"k. It was not proposed to bring
"glories, but a great ad-
^ shopkeeper,

about it fitiattir Of an hears ...
differ/nee bevwc..
avnadntagtieloUld he obtained
----- goods beyond the ofightal edition at the
The Frankfort Post Gazette has the following in bringing the farmer, %
under the date of Neisse (Prussian Silesia),
,symiaythlfiveld . The original
squire ito the centre of the markets for tea ...
Jul 9._
" As the three protecting Powers have decidedY that corn. The butcher Would of course go by Shoreditclaitlo.
be occupied. of taking, estimate for the Bia"wali was
as 410,000/, but the n,:tual purchase of the property
the free state of Cracow shall henceforth put down at 379,000/. ; and when they came to Parliament, instead
by Austrian troops only ; the Prussian troons as they hart intended, four lines of rails, they had only
leave on the 12th of this month, and the R
1— will bill had been 22 0001 and the various expenses 43,000 . The line
. taken two lines, and the actual cost was 260,000/. The solicitor's
, to the communication with the Eastern Counties Railway was about
troops will retire into the interior of poi,nd. ussi"
three itlieg, affil this was only a mile and a half;, but the former ran
That portion of the Great Ci-,ntral li i llirattgl open fielj,. a 1,.; the latti,r wert. th,:on„git„,n. a.,,,3
.11,,,,p;rty.
,i• ,•x.,,,riiiia,tioil it,ts tetat, to
~,to ~ ~ ..t.,,,_, t. .t t . por-
Way which goes from l'esth to Waiter wyra";,..... , ~ 7 (Here o: C,./I.lni,`
1",, -Lai!• i tile. Collll,l,ny proi.usett to
Lon of the
Wesl. ludh' —euhenswiolirteeif'w'lih plan was put in from
recently opcinqd. company proposed to take about one-
or rather mere.) The
. Izer ha.s 110—,.en
twiwtech, foirtitniLenec,trocrer,s6, laiTruitheey
ego:l_,,e
as
much.
Pao *nog fair of Frokfort has turned .
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