The Sun.
London, England, 1848-06-03 00:00:00

RAILWAY COMMITTEES.
(YESTERDAY.)
GROUP No. 3.— MANCHESTER, BUXTON, MATLOCK,
IND MIDLAND BRANCHES.—Case for the promoters Te-
umed, and evidence taken in its favour.
GROUP No. 4.—OXFORD, WORCESTER, AND WOL•
venzAmPToN.—The Bill of this company, for making
certain deviations and giving power to the Shrewsbury
and Birmingham and Birmingham, Wolverhampton,
and Dudley Railway Companies to contribute and snake
arrangements, was recommitted for the purpose of in-
troducing a clause relative to the raising and disposal of
the capital.
BIRMINGHAM AND OXFORD.—The Committee passed
the above company's Bills, but deferred the considera-
tion of the clauses.
GROUP No. 4.—ROYSTON AND firrcruN.—The op-
position of the Eastern Counties Company to this com-
pany's extension to Cambridge was opened by Mr. James.
GROUP No. 6.— WINDSOR, STAINES, AND SOUTH-
WESTERN AMENDMENT.—PreambIe passed and clauses
considered.
GREAT WESTERN.—The Committee passed the above
company's Bill for making a branch from Slough to
Windsor, and the clauses having been considered and
agreed to, the Chairman was instructed to report the
same to the House.
GROUP No. B.—LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN.—
The Committee were engaged the whole day with evi-
dence in favour of this company's Bill for purchasing
the Taw Vale Railway and Dock.
GROUP No. 10.--SCOTTISH CENTRAL.--The case
for the Bill to authorise the Caledonian, Lancaster, and
Carlisle and London and North- Western :Companies
jointly to lease the Scottish Central line was opened and
closed, but the Committee postponed their decision till
Monday.
GROUP No. 13.--WISIIAW AND COLTNESS.--The
Committee passed the above company's Bill for making
certain, deviations and connecting branches, and consi-
dered the clauses.

ELECTION COMMITTEE.
(YESTERDAY.)
DUBLIN.
The scrutiny case was resumed yesterday morning, and
an objection was taken against a number of voters, on the
ground that they had neglected to pay a certain muni-
eipal rate, which deprived them of the right of voting.
Mr. ROWE, on behalf of the sitting Member, insisted
that the objection could not be sustained, inasmuch as
the rate was not legally declared.
Mr. MURPHY,C2,C., on the other side, argued that the
municipal authorities had the power to make the rate.
After considerable argument, pro and con., the Com-
mittee adjourned to take time to consider the point.

MARKET INTELLIGENCE.
(From the London New Price Current of June 2.)
SUGAR. —To- day a further falling off was apparent in the
value of raw Sugar ; in prices little variation was observ-
able, as the supply at market was less plentiful. Of West
India Muscovado the purchases were small, and confined
to only 350 hhds, &c., including a public sale of 153
hhds Bar badoes, which went 6d cheaper. Fine yellow
sold at 435, good 41s 6d to 425, middling and good mid-
dling 40s to 41s. The total purchases for the week are
1,260 hhds, &c., and the decline in prices amounts to 6d,
and in some cases of is per cwt.
REPINED.—To-day the home trade operated with
caution in all sorts of refined goods, and easier rates
were taken—Standard Lumps selling at 565, and brown
55s to 55s 6d. For Crushed Sugar there are still few
orders, but prices are not lower.
EAST INDIA.—This afternoon there was only a
limited demand for Bengal Sugar, and 2,856 bags at
public sale were only in part sold, but full rates were
obtained. Of Madras 1,130 bags went at the full worth.
bIAURITIUS.—The supply has much increased this
week, and for both grocery and refining purposes the
demand is less active, still previous rates are sustained
for all qualities. Of 12,362 bags, 36- casks offered at
public sale, about half sold. The chief portion con-
sisted of the better qualities.
FOREIGN.—To-day there was no public sale of Fo-
reign Sugar: the private operations are a cargo of white
Havannah at 325, 1,800 boxes yellow, duty paid, 40s
to 41s, and 200 chests brown Bahia 38s Gd per cwt.
MOLASSES. —Holders are asking full rates for all sorts
of West India, but the demand has been limited this
week by private treaty. The deliveries are, however,
on the increase, and arrivals keep small. At public sale
189 puns of new Trinidad were taken in at 18s for
middling quality. In the value of Bengal Treacle there
is no variation.
COFFEE.—This afternoon there was no public sale of
Coffee, and the amount of business done in the private
market was small. The value of good ordinary native
Ceylon is 30s to 30s 6d.
COCOA .—lal porters of Trinidad continue to manifest
a desire to realise, and having abundantly supplied the
market this week produced a decline in prices of 2s to
3s per cwt. Of 1,416 bags offered at auction, a part
sold. A further reduction is expected to take place on
account of the large quantity to arrive. For Foreign
the market is in a dull state, and prices tend downwards.
At public sale 69 bags of African were taken in at 30s
for dull red, but rather wormy.
TEA.--To-day there was little passing in Tea by pri-
vate treaty, and of 780 packages offered at public sale,
570 found buyers at prices rather under those previously
current for Green—Gunpowder, Canton went at is lid
to is 6id, Imperial ditto 10d to 100. Canton, Young
Hyson bid to 11,1-d, and middling Congou, in half-chests
8d per lb. On luesday 4,000 packages of Tea will be
offered at public sale.
RlCE.—East India has been in excellent request for
exportation this week, and the home trade have been
purchasers to a fair extent. The rates obtained are
equal to those previously current, but any advance has
been prevented in consequence of the market having
been more liberally supplied. For the lower sorts the
demand has been the most active. At auction 3,792
bags, and 2,46 pockets of Bengal were all sold. Clean
Rice - sold with more readiness. On Tuesday 500 bags
of Bengal, and on Wednesday 2,300 bags of Batavia Rice
will be offered at public sale.
SPlCES.—Pimento finds a more ready sale, and full
terms. 554 bags at auction were all sold. Holders of
Black Pepper are unwilling to make any further conces-
sion in the value, and refrained from submitting any to
public sale this week. Privately, however, the pur-
chases mado have been limited in all sorts,
the export orders are unusually small. For
Cassia Lignea the market is very dull, and prices are
little better than nominal. At auction 54 chests
were taken in at 69s Gd to 70s for good thin quill. The
market will be better supplied shortly. Purchases to a
fair extent have been made in Cinnamon this week
upon the terms of the last quarterly sales; there is
also a less quantity on offer. Cassia Buds are dull of sale
at 75a to 80s. Ginger is little wanted by exporters, but
there is a good home demand. Of Jamaica 122 brls at auc-
tion went at 2/14s to 317 s forordinary to middling. Cloves
have been dealt in with caution, and prices tend down-
wards. For Mace the demand is on the increase, and
prices aro firm. Nutmegs are less freely brought to
market; the demand is on the increase, and prices are
firm. For public sale next week 880 cases of Cassia
Lignea, 70 bags Cloves, 150 bags white, 500 black
Pepper, 132 bags Pimento, 50 brls Ginger are declared.
SPlRlTS.—Although Leeward Island RuM can be pur-
chased at a further reduction, still buyers have operated
with caution, and is 7d to is 74-d is the value of proof.
For East India the market is in a dull state, and a
de-
cline in the value is apparent, is 5d to is 6d having been
taken. The demand for Demerara has been limited.
and 28 to 36 per cent over proof can be purchased at
2s 6d to 3s. For Jamaica the market has a dull appear-
ance, and the tendency of prices is to give way. The
market is well supplied with all sorts of Rum;
the. re are
also further arrivals, and the deliveries aro unsatisfac•
tory. The market for Brandy looks dull, and the stock
is getting larger: holr'ers are desirous to sell. Geneva
met with a dull sale. For British mado Spirit the
market is still firm at lOs 3d cash.
SAGO is more in request, and realises stiffer rates by
private treaty. At auction 165 boxes and 4 bags were
sold, middling quality at 19s, good 19s 6d. to 20s, and
fine at 20s 6d to 21s per lb. Sago Flour is in brisker
demand. Of Tapioca 110 brls at auction were sold at
6tl to bid for fine.
COCHINEAL.—To-day at public sale 10 serons Mexican
Cochineal were sold at 3s 6d to 3s 7d for silvers, and at
3s 10d to 3s lid for black, which is Id to 2d cheaper.
SALTPETRE.—To-day the market had a dull aspect for
Rough, and holders were desirous to realise. Two
parcels, amounting to 3,999 bags Calcutta were offered
at public sale, when the whole was bought in upon rather
lower terms.
TaLeow.—This afternoon 664 casks of Now South
Wales Tallow sold at 39s to 44s ed ; 29 casks of
P. Y. C. 44s 3d to 44s 6d ; 313 casks South American
40s to 43s for low to fine ; 37 casks African 34s 6d to
40s 6d.

OlLS.—This afternoon the public sales of 50 tuns of
Sperm Oil went at 791 10s to 831 for fair to fine; of
Southern 90 tuns were sold at 2215 s to 241; 20 tuns of
African Ground Nut 37s 6d to 38s.

SOUTHAMPTON, JUNE 2.—The Royal Mail steam-
packet Company's ship Forth, Captain E. Mail, sailed to-
day with the usual British and Foreign West India mails,
and the mails for Bermuda, New Orleans, and Mexico,'
in charge of Lieutenant Hay, U.N., Admiralty agent.
The Forth's route is via Bermuda, Nassau, Havannah
New Orleans, Vera Cruz, Tampico, Honduras, I;
Guayra and Porto Cabello. The Forth has twenty. three
passengers, and a valuable Largo, consisting of British
manunietured goods, also 2,250 bottles of quicksilver
for mining operations in Mexico, value 25,760/. and
specie value 8,8501. sterling. The Severn, Captain Vin-
cent, with the homeward West India mails, may be ex-
pected about Sunday or Monday, although her mails are
not due till the 7th instant. The Swedish ship Hilda,
Captain Hall, from Batavia, and the Oldenburg galliot
Alida, Captain Sondersfeldt, 44 days from Scala Nova,
with a cargo of barley, arrived in Cowes harbour yester-
day for protection. There are now about fifty sail of
Danish, Hamburgh, Bremen, Prussian, Swedish, and
Hanoverian ships from all parts of the world, taking re-
fuge in Cowes harbour, and waiting orders to proceed to
their destination up the North Sea, which are withheld
in consequence of hostilities between Denmark and Ger-
many. The American barque Abagun, Captain Dingley,
41 days from Matanzas, with 2,608 boxes of sugar, the
American barque Deanthe, Captain Brown, 48 days
from the Havannah, with 2,120 boxes of sugar, and the
ship Hamburgh, Captain Wyman, 44 days from Matan-
Zl5, with 1,848 boxes of sugar, arrived off Cowes yes-
terday for orders.
EMIGRATION.— Yesterday a specially-convened
meeting of the Board of Directors and Guardians of the
poor of St. Marylebone, took place in the board-room of
the workhouse, New-road, for the purpose of considering
the propriety of calling the attention of the Legislature
to the necessity of taking immediate steps to relieve this
country from pauperism by means of emigration. A
petition to the House of Commons was ultimately
adopted.

JUNE 3, 16:18

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
Rear Admiral Sir Charles Napier, K.C. 8., having been
in town on leave of absence for the last week, returns to
his flagship at Spithead-to-day.
Rear Admiral the Hon. H. D. Mackay, commander in
chief on the coast of Ireland, remained at Dublin on the
31st, his flag being hoisted on board the Dragon, steam-
frigate, Captain W. H. Hall.
IRREGULAR PUNISHMENTS IN THE NAVY.—We stated
a short time since that the Admiralty were determined
to put down all irregular punishments in the navy. It
will be seen by the following cautionary document that
their Lordships have practically followed up their ex-
pressed determination :
" May 31, 1848.—The Lords Commissioners of the
Admiralty regret to observe that with a view to avoid
corporal punishments, a system of secondary punish-
ments severe in their nature, and contrary to the usages
of the service, has been adopted in some of her Majes-
ty's ships.
"They cannot but consider that such a practice, how-
ever plausible, or even praiseworthy, the 'motives that
have led to it, is contrary to the rules established for the
good of the service and the due protection of all engaged;
and they consequently direct that in future a book shall
be kept in all her Majesty's ships, to be called the "De-
faulter's Book," in which the nature and degree of every
offence committed, with the punishment awarded in each
case, to every person onboard under the rank of quarter-
deck officer shall be entered. The captain, or other
officer in command of the ship, will be held responsible
for the proper keeping of this book, and the correctness
of the entries made in it, and he is to produce it when-
ever his ship is inspected by a senior officer, or whenever
he may be required to do so by superior authority.
"Their Lordships take this opportunity to impress
upon all commanding-officers the necessity of holding
themselves accountable for each and all of the minor
punishments inflicted upon those under their command,
and of confining themselves strictly within the limits
which the usage and the customs of the service prescribe.
They are part of the system by which discipline must be
maintained, and my Lords will always hold it to be the
imperative duty of an officer in command to make him-
self acquainted with the most trifling punishment in-
flicted on board his ship, and to satisfy himself as to their
justice and necessity.
(Signed) " C. OGLE, Admiral.
"To the respective captains, &c."
PRIZE MONEY FOR THE ESPOIR AND KINGFISHER.—
Messrs. Stilwell have given notice to the officers and
company late of the Espoir, Commander Hand, that they
will be paid, on Tuesday, June 20, at 22, Arundel-street,
Strand, their respective proportions of proceeds and
tonnage bounties for the Brazilian slave schooner
Ligiero, seized May 12, 1846, in company with the
Kingfisher.fi 101.ffifth,
,1511 s. Commander,,se:cond 271. 4s. 5d.; first-class,
Gd
ron THE ; sixth, h9s, 4E .
STAR.--
given third,tdA R;3
seventh,
neGt dh fourth,;7s. 2d . 2/. 3s , ;
g ven notice to the officers and co.
PRIZE MONEY
proportions arising from theerb—mpansysrls;teCohfahrder Imiavae-
Duislop, Esq., that the
jesty's ship Star, Command
nage of the slave brigs Descobridorounty money on the ton-
tuber 24, 1845, after-
-21, 1845, and name unknown, Dec captured October
wards lost, will be paid to those who
.were actually on
board at the time of capture, or to their representatives,
representatives,
on and after the 14th instant, at 3,
portions for the Descobridor :—Commandee4rrsd, IPOrdn.;
first-class, 304 6s. 10d.; second, 184
91. 25.; fourth, 6/. Is. 4d.; fifth, 31 ' Id.; third,
Os. Bd-; sixth,
2/. Os. 5d.; seventh, 1/. Os. 2d.
Prize, name unknown—Commander, 511. 45. 3d.; first
class, 201. 10s. 5d.; second, 12/. 65. 3d.; third, 61. 3. Id.
fourth, 4/. 2s. ld.; fifth, 2! Is.; sixth, 14 7s. 4d.; seventh,'
13s. Bd.
The Vulture, 6, steam-frigate, Captain bi'Dougall,
was paid off yesterday, at Sheerness.
The Styx, 4, steam-sloop, Commander Chads, will be
paid off at Woolwich, on the 7th inst.
The Sharpshooter, screw steam gun-vessel, Lieu-
tenant-Commander Bailey, has arrived at Devonport,
from Portsmouth, with marines and supernumeraries.
She, is to return to Portsmouth to embark forty seamen
riggers for Pembroke, to assist in rigging and navi-
gating the Colossus, 80, to Portsmouth.
The Pluto, 3, steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander
Richardson, left Devonport on Thursday morning, for
the coast of Africa.
The Trident steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander
Risk, sailed the previous day from Devonport for Cork.
APPOINTMENTS.
Lieutenant—George 0. Willes (1844), to command the
Spitfire steam-vessel, in the Mediterranean.
Assistant-Surgeons—George Moore, acting, to the
Victory flag-ship at Portsmouth; John W. Cleave,
acting, to the San Joseph flag-ship.
Second Master—Thomas Mansel to the Bellerophon at
Spithead.
Master's Assistant—John W. Reed, to the Spitfire
Steam-vessel, in the Mediterranean.
Naval Cadet—George S. Peard, to the Ocean flag
ship, at Sheerness.
Gunner—James Milton, acting, to the Excellent.
Boatswain—Thomas Whitlock, confirmed to the We
liugtou.

Carpenter—John Mitcher, acting, to the Belleisle.
PORTSMOUTH, FRIDAY.—The new 12-gun brig Ner-
budda, Commander Edward Peirse, arrived this morning
from the East Indies. She was launched on the sth of
February, commissioned on the 20th, and sailed on the
29th of the same mouth. She did not call at the Cape,
and has come in forty days from St Helena, and thirty-
6ve from Ascension. Both islands were very healthy;
there were no men of war at the former; at the latter
were the Penelope steam-frigate, Captain Jones, with
the Commodore, Sir Charles Hotham, K.C.8., on board;
the Amphitrite, 25, Captain H. Eden; the Tortoise store
and guard-ship, Captain Hutton; the Sealark, 10, Com-
mander Moneypenny; and the Bonetta brigantine, Lieut.-
Commander Forbes. A court-martial had been held
upon a Second Master, and resulted in the prisoner being
found guilty of the charges brought against him, and
dismissed his ship. The squadron on the coast was very
healthy. We regret to announce the death, three days
prior to the arrival of the Nerbudda at Ascension, of
Commander H. T. L. Levinge, of the Penelope, a cir-
cumstance most unlooked for, and which cast a gloom
over all at Ascension. He was a good officer, and, as
such, respected by his superiors and looked up to by his
juniors. Lieut. Gilbert B. Rutherford (1840), First
of the Penelope, has been promoted to the vacancy.
The Jumna, 16, tender to the Nerbudda, will follow her
to England in three weeks in charge of the First-Lieu-
tenant of the latter. The Meanee, 80, building at Bom-
bay, about which we have heard so much, and the
havoc made in her timbers by that destructive insect
the white aat, will be launched in October. Com-
mander Peirse was the senior officer of a Board of Sur •
vey held upon her to examine into and pronounce upon
her state after the discovery of the mischief. Messrs.
Lewin, Bojer, and Helby, midshipmen of the Vernon,
50, also all the late Admiral Englefield's domestics, in-
valids from the East India squadron, and supernume-
raries, and one prisoner (a marine deserter), have been
brought home by the Nerbudda, together with a mail
from Ascension, and dispatches from Sir Charles Ho-
tham. The Nerbudda sails swiftly, and is pronounced a
very superior sea-going vessel, as nearly all Symonds's
small vessels are.
The Sharpshooter screw-steamer, Lieutenant Com-
manding J. C. Bailey, returned this morning from Ply-
mouth with marines for the Mediterranean squadron to
be embarked in the Howe. She came into harbour this
afternoon.
The Netley tender, Mr. Drysdale, Second
commanding, arrived from Plymouth to-day with newly
Master,
entered men.
The Medusa steam-packet, Lieutenant J. 0. Ba-
thurst, Commanding, was docked to-day, with orders tor
the workmen employed on her to work extra time for
her completion, which it is estimated will occupy three
weeks.

COMMISSIONED SIZIPS AND VESSELS IN PORT.
The Victory, flag-ship ; Illustrious, ordinary guard-
ship ; Excellent, gunnery-ship ; Victoria and Albert,
Royal yacht ; Blenheim, 56, steam-guard-ship ; and
Hastings, 72 , the Sharpshooter, Fire Queen, Fairy,
Lightning, Medusa, Merlin, Echo, and Bee, steamers ;
the Portsmouth (Admiral Superintendent's) yacht ; the
Fanny, Mercury, and Netlee, tenders.
At Spithead—The St. Vincent, 120 ; Rowe, 120 ;
Prince Regent, 92 ; Powerful, 84 ; Bellerephon, 78 ;
Nerbudda, 12 ; Rolla, 6 ; Blenheim, transport ; and
Tebarkeis, 30, Egyptian frigate steamer.
In Dock—The Ajax, Pembroke, Medusa, Fire Queen,
and Orestes.
In the Basin—The Malabar, Cormorant, and Growler.
Wind W.S.W.
In the Steam Basin—The Jackal and Merlin.
strong breeze and cloudy weather.
ROYAL MARINES.
jel.iapn.gseteovfednisv,isoifons has been sanctioncd between
Captain S. N. Lowder
Captain
the Woolwich Division.
of the
Portsmouth Division, and
Captain Fielding Campbell, of the Chatham Division,
has ordered a passage to the Mediterranean in the
Howe, 120, to relieve Lieutenant-Colonel M'Adam, in
command of the detachment on board the Queen, 110;
and Capt. W. Lee, of the same'division, to replace Capt.
Miller, lately invalided from the Vanguard, 80.
CIIATIGIM
dock , JUNE 2.—The Southampton, 50 guns, is it
; the painters have completed painting her, and are
fast progressing with her rigging; she is fitted with
Lieutenant James Rigmaiden's plates for setting up the
rigging, which supersedes the use of dead eyes.
The Ranger, 8 guns, goes out of dock to-morrow,
when she will be taken alongside the Tartar frigate, to
serve as a hulk, for the use of the officers and crew
whilst fitting for sea. She is to have a complement of
80 men, including one sergrieant one corral, and
beprivates of the Royal Manes., po
She is ordered to
ready to proceed to sea by the middle of this month, to
take the July Mail to the Coast of Africa, Commander
C. P. Newland commissions this ship to-morrow.
from
The Chatham yacht left this morning, with the clerks
the pay-office of the dock-yard, to pay off the
Vulture steam frigate, Captain John M`Dougall, which
arrived on Monday afternoon last from the East Indies.
This morning Colour-sergeant William Delaney, of'
the 24th Regiment, was presented by Major T. S. Con-
way, C. 8., with the gratuity medal for good conduct
his
under the warrant of the 19th December, 1845, and on
discharge he will receive 151. This non-commissioned
officer has been twenty-two years and six months in the
service, during which time he was never reported for
misconduct. He has also been presented with the an-
nuity medal and 151 for length of service.

RAILWAY.—BIRMINGRAM,
—CCIDRNT ON TUE BRISTOL AND Buti,tiNGlTAm
FRlDAT.—Between four and
five o'clock this morning, a fatal accident took
place on
this line of railway, near the Camp hill
station. It ap-
p
ears amain at some
line to goods waggons, were being shifted off
the a siding to allow a train to ass,
from some cause the trucks received a shock, which had
the effect of throwing the fireman, Rupert Cooke,
when
from the engine to the ground, when his legs became
entangled with the wheels, and after being dragged a
short distance, they passed over his head, killing him on
the spot.