The Sun.
London, England, 1846-07-22 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 22, 1846.

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 7th 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 himself 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 WHYTE 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 mo.n'c 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
victim. 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, MArrxEwsozi, who had been but seven
weeks in the regiment when. be attracted
the attention of the humane ZolOnel WHYTE.
We give his own sworn evidence verbatim, it
requires neither note or 'comment on our
part; but we do say that if he hiss 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 WHYTE 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 MATTHEWSON,
viz. :

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. PAVY, 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
of the appearance in that neighbourhood of some hos-
tile Arab cavalry.
" M. LAVAUD," says the National, " who is to re-
place M. BRUAT 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 39,403,754 kilogrammes (nearly 40,000 tons); the
amount sold for consumption, 35,690,608 ; and the
duties levied thereon, 9,187,615 f (360,0001.) As
compared with the results of 1845, there was an in-
crease in the production of 3,863,504 kilogrammes
(3,863 tons) ; in the consumption, of 4,212,627;
and in the duties, of 3,142,457 f.

MARSEILLES, JULY s.—Marseilles and Avignon, 865 f. ;
Northern, 710 f. ; Parii and Lyons, 522 f. 50c.
LYONS, JULY 17.—Marseilles and Avignon, 876 f. 25c.;
Paris and Orleans, 1,268 f. 75c. ; Rouen, 995 f. ; Lyons,
521 f. 25c. ; Vierzon, 635 f. ; Great Northern, 7131. 50r.

isu:NLNESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE

LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, JULY 20.
Boulogne and Amiens, 12%—Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cette
(Mackenzie), I%—Central of Spain, 14—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 rase!, dis.—Parfs and Lyons Constituted, 51'--Rouen
and Havre, 27—West Flanders, 3%.

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. :—Jamaica, June 23d ; Demerara, 19th ; 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;
1,9221. in British coin; 244 serons 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 Vesta, standing N. 8., 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
Barbado4;ll4 64-6P-R''ingar shipPeir. fOr Erigliatt:itifkined
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, 11/i per cent. pm. ; 60 days, 1 cent. pm. Planters
Bank-30 days, 11/2 per cent pm. ;60 days, 1 per cent. pm. ;
90 days, % per cent. pm. Commissary's Bills-30 days, 3/4
per cult. pm.

The Hon. Major-General Sir Hercules Pakerham,
brother-in-law to the Duke of Wellington, will succeed, it is
said, the Hon. General Stuart in the Governorship of Malta.
REMARKABLY LOW, TIIW.—The tide was -o low OD
Sunday evening that several steamers got fast in the mud of
the river, and at the Chelsea pier three were aground at one
time. The steamer which left Battersea-bridge pier at eight
o'clock did not reach the Adelphi pier until after nine o'clock,
in consequence of the lowness of the tide. Tae river could
easily be walked across in many places.
OBSERVATORY AT HAVRE.—It is said that the Minis-
ter of Marine has decided on constructing an observatory at
Havre, on the site now occupied by various small buildings
on the north jetty.
MAILS TO RiTTERDAM.—CcIoneI Maberly has sig-
nified that the Postmaster-General has no objection to for-
ward ship-letter mails between Yarmouth and Rotterdam
by the vessel about to be put on that line by the Norfolk
Steam Navigation Company; but before coming to any de-
cision upon the subject, his Lordship proposes to communicate
with the Director of the Dutch Post-office, to ascertain if the
arrangement meets with his acquiescence.
GENERAL PICTON'S 34,,NUMENT.—Workmen have
been engaged during the week in removing the monument,
preparatory to its complete restoration. From what trans-
pired at the last meeting of the council, there seems to be
little doubt that when the re-building is completed, it will be
taken into the care of the council. It will thus be insured
from going into such a dilapidated state at any future time.—
Carmarthen Journal.
KIRKCUDBRIGHT.—The election took place on Friday.
Thomas Maitland, Esq., of Dundrennan, lately appointed
Solicitor-General of Scotland, was re- elected without oppo-
sition. Mr. P. M'Millan proposed Mr. Maitland. Provost
Martin, of Castle Douglas, seconded the nomination ; and
the sheriff, after calling for a show of hands, declared
Mr. Rlaitiand, who subsequently returned thanks, duly
elected.
OXFORD, JULY 18.—A vacancy in the representation
of this city being expected as a consequence of the lamented
indisposition, absence, and other circumstances of Mr.
Maclean, a candidate has appeared in the person of Mr. John
Ingrain Lockhart, F.R.A.S., nephew of the late Recorder of
that name, and many years Member for this city. Mr. Lock-
hart, who is a thorough liberal in politics, is also known as
the translator of the interesting "Memoirs of Casbitto," from
the Spanish, and of Grobefend and other works on " Attica
and Athens," from the German.

"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 be 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 me, 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
with pain. My back was dressed, but White's was not.
Three or four days afterwards the pain left the cheat and
came to the sides. It would sometimes leave for two or
three hours, and then come back again. Had no medicine
for it. Feel it still in the evenings, when I lie down and
draw breath; it feels as if something was running into •my
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, ana that the project for the new constitu-
tion hat 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.
'File Executive Council of Berne had dispatched an
officer to Hatwyl to ascertain the real state of affairs.

At Geneva, on the 15th, an act of fraud on the part
of the Jesuit conductors of the institute of Onex was
discovered. They had assumed the title of members
of the Academy of Geneva, a title to which they had
no right whatever, and the head of the academy has,
by a public protest, given a formal denial to their
assumption of it.

We perceive that Mr. C. H. Fountain, of the free list
office, and sub-treasurer, takes his annual benefit at the
Princess's Theatre, on Friday next, when the eminent artistes,
Madame Vestris, and Mr. Charles Mathews, lend their
valuable aid to the unrivalled company of that theatre. The
attractions put forth, and the well-known mention to the
visitors by that gentlernan, we trust will secure hitn, what
he deserves, the liberal patronage of the public.

Lieutenant Pearce, many years warden of Woolwich
dockyard, but who was superseded by the Metropolitan police
being ordered on duty there, died last Friday, at his residence
in the Kent-road. The deceased, who had seen great service
was the eldest son of William IV., and was with his Majesty
in the actions in America in 1788, where he was taken pri-
soner, but was subsequently released by a gallant sailor, who
shot the man that had charge of him.
BRITISH ORPHAN ASYLUM —On Monday, the half-
yearly meeting of the governors of this charity for the elec-
tion of eight children from a list of twenty-seven candidates,
was held at the London Tavern; J. B. Brooke, Eq., in the
chair. The report for the past year was favourable, both as
regarded the inmates and the financial accounts. Amongst
the Is gacies received was the bequest of the late George
Banbley, Esq., of St. John's-wood, of a share of residuary
property (minus duty), amounting to 9001. At the clove of
the election, the Chairman presented rewards, amounting to
various sums, to those children who have left the institution,
and attended with satisfactory testimonials • from theil'em-
ployers. The business' of the day bring concluded, thanks
were voted to the Chairman, and the meeting broke up.
MRS. MABERLY'S NEW NOVEL. " LEONTINE."—From
the sale of the publication of " The Love Match," Mrs. Ma-
berly has taken rank amongst the popular novelists of the
day, and every new work of hers is looked forward to with
interest. In " Leontir.e" she lays bare with unsparing pen
and strong purpose, the hollow elegance, the sensual cultiva-
tion, the abandoned and selfish refinement of the Richelieu's,
the De Chevreuses, the Bouffleurs, and the rest of the profli-
gate parasites who thronged Versailles during the reign of
Louis XV., the Heliogabalus of France. These she pourtrays
with a boll, unflinching spirit, yet so as never to offend,
whilst coming out from the mass of dark shade, in clear and
beautiful relief, stand the characters of Leontine and An,,elm
Quinot, the very perfection of artistic skill, and pictorial
effect. 'I he hero, Guesclinde Fontenelle, is not one of your
monstrosities, a model of perfection, but a true man, with
his failings and his virtues; and the interest attaching to his
fate, from the first moment of his introduction in the first
chapter of the book, never flags far an instant. Independent
ot the merits of the novel as a work of fiction, it has strong
claims on attention, from the historical accuracy with which
it lays bare the state of France previous to the revolution.—
Dublin Freeman's Journal.
PULMONARY CONSUMPTION.--:We are gratified to hear
that Dr. Cronin, of Leicester-place, already favourably known
to the profession and the public for his successful mode of
curing consumption by " Anaspasia," has been for some time
engaged in attempting to promote the absorption of pulmo-
nary tubercle by means of electro-magnetism, and, we un-
derstand, has completely succeeded in effecting their removal
from the lungs. Consumption, is the " plague spot of our
variable clime," and is acknowledged by every medical
writer to arise from the deposit of tubercle. The removal of
tubercle in its early stage is, therefore, of the utmost import-
ance, and hence the value of the new agent introduced by
Dr. Cronin, which, by producing absorption of the tuber-
culous deposit, prevents the formation, of tuberculo-pulmonery
abscess and its consequences—consumption.--- Globe.
IBRAHIM PACHA.—The establishment of looms for the
manufacture of Llama cloth in Egypt is, amongst other mat-
ters, talked of as one proposed by Ibrahim Pacha, and it
would appear that the Messrs. Nicoll, of Regent-street, who
have introduced the wool of the Alpaca into this country,
have been deputed to find efficient hands to carry out this
object.
RISE OF WAGES.—Mowers have been paid at the rate
of 4s. a day in this vicinity ; that is to say, 3s. for their day's
work, and IL allowed for beer.— Carmarthen Journal.

The Frankfort Post Gazette has the following
under the date of Neisse (Prussian Silesia), July 9 :
" As the three protecting Powers have decided that
the free state of Cracow shall henceforth be occupied
by Austrian troops only; the Prussian troops will
leave on the 12th of this month, and the Russian
troops will retire into the interior of Poland.
That portion of the Great Central Hungarian Rail-
way which goes from Pesth to Waiger has been
recently opened.
The spring fair of Frankfort has turned out more
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 208 ; the Debt without In-
terest, at 64 ; the Shares of the Bank of San Per-
'Ando, 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 17ththe miners out 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.
MAURICE DUVAL, the Prefect of the department,
and M. PETIT DE LA FOSSE, the S
üb-Prefect of the
district.
The Journal des Debats announces the death of M.

• - -
MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS,

(From The Sun of of Last Night.)
There was a good demand for Cotton at Liverpool yester-
day. Sales about 7,000 bales, of which speculators took
1,600 bales and exporters 500 bales. There was no change
in prices. Shares were steady.
By electric telegraph intelligence reached the City this
morning of the arrival of the West India mail, but the letters
will only be delivered this afternoon ; and we cannot add
anything to the outline of the news inserted in another
column of The Sun.
"The advices from India are not very interesting politically
considered; but, in reference to the trade carried on between
India and Chins, and which hitherto, we fear, has been rather
too loosely conducted, the following particulars have come to
hand from Bombay respecting the movement to the close of
1844 at the three ports of Canton, Amoy, and Shanghai. The
Can ton trade of 1844 considerably exceeded the maximum of
any former year, and, in particular, exhibits alarge increase in
cotton manufactures and other st aple articles of British produce,
The whole import trade of the port for the year employed
306 vessels, tonnage 142,099. Of these 228 arrived under
British colours, including 22 from British India and the
colonies. Of the remaining 78 vessels, 57 were American
and 11 Dutch, leaving 10 of all other countries. This makes
the proportion of British to all other foreign trade in the
port rather more than three to one. The export trade em-
ployed 296 vessels, and of these 228 were British, making
our share of this branch a trifle larger than of the other. Of
the nature of the imports from the United Kingdom, some
idea may be formed from the statement that of their total
value, estimated at 7,860,676 dollars, 4,722,836 dollars are
put down for Cotton fabrics, including yarns, and 2,898,866
for woollens, leaving only 138,974 dollars as the value of all
other articles. The imports of raw Cotton and the other pro-
ducts of India, and the Eastern countries form an item of
7,645,564 dollars. The opium trade has also, it appears,
v, ry much increased, but being contraband, can only be
guessid at. The imports are supposed to have reached the
numerous quantity of 40,000 chests, representing a capital of
nearly 20,000,000. The British exports are thus distributed :
To the ports of the United Kingdom... 15,400,000 dollars
British India
Other places 400,000 „

17,900,000
Our imports consisted, as we have seen, almost entirely of
Cotton and Woollen manufactures from home, and raw Cot-
ton and other articles, with Opium (contraband) from India.
Our exports, as usual, consisted of Tea, raw Silk, and Cassia.
What we took, therefore, was chiefly manufactured, and
what we brought away was almost exclusively what may be
deemed raw produce."

Since these particulars by the writer at Bombay, the trade
has received a furthe► extension, though, we apprehend, not
altogether one of much profit to those concerned.
The Sugar Duties' plan has been an interesting topic of
remark hei e, but in some quarters there are doubts of Lord
John Russell's ability to carry it.
The Funds from this cause are rather flat again, and there
is not much business doing in them. Consols realise 951/. %
for present transfer, and 933/4 for the account. The premium
on Exchequer-bills remains at 10s. to 14s. The New Three-
and-a-Quarter per Cents. bring 97% %, and the Three per
Cents. 953/4 to 96. Nothing has been done in Bank Stock.
The Foreign Securities have been as inert as ever. Spanish
Five per Cents. have realised 24%, and the Three per Cents.
36 to Vs. Brazil Stock is worth 85. Danish Bonds have
been at 884. Dutch Two-and- a-Ilalf per Cents. have been
marked 591/2.
It cannot be expected that there should be much activity
in the Share ➢larket while stocks are so dull, and we ob-
serve scarcely any alteration in prices requiring special
notice.

BRITISH FUNDS.

ONE CLOSING
O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. .. 96 95% % 96
Three per Cent. Consols Annuities .. .. 92%% 95%
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anns. 97%% 97%
Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 .. 10 5-16 % 10%
Ditto, 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859 .. 10 3-16 10%
Ditto, 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 .. • • 10 1-16 10 1-16
South Sea Stock .. .. .. .. .. ..

Ditto, New Annuities . 94%
Consols for Account .. •.. 95 X X
Exchequer Bills. I%d. 114 d.
1,0001... .... 14 10 pm.
Ditto. Small .• .. 10 14 pm.
ONE
FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent .. 84
Ditto, New Bonds, 1829 and 1839 ..
Danish, 3 per Cent •. .. • • .• 88%
Portuguese Four per Cent ..
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent .. ..
Ditto, for the Account .. .. 24%
Ditto, Three per Cent ..
Ditto, for the Account 36% 36
Dividends on the above payable in Lendon.
Belgian Four-and-a-Half per Cent
Dutch Two-and-a-Halt per Cent
Ditto, for the Account ..
Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates

CLOSING
PRICES.

. 59% 59%
.. 94%% 94%
PRICES OF BUSINESS
CLOSING
RAILWAY SHARES. PAID. DONE AT
ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Aberdeen. . .. .. .. .. 15 .... 8% .. ..... •. , 8%
Amber., N. otting., Boston, and
Eastern Junction .. .. .. 2% • ... % ...*: ...... 3i
Birmingham and Gloucester.. ..100 .... ..........

Ditto, New (issed at 7% dis.).; ........
itraillighani and Oxford Junction 2 %
Bristol and Exeter .. 75 ........ _
„Ditto New .. .. 5
Bristol and Gloucester .. 30 52
Caledonian
Ditto, Half Shares .. ..........
Chester and Holyhead .. 22% 21%
Cornwall and Central Devon 2%
Direct Manchester (Remington's) % %........
Direct Northern .. •2% % ........
Eastern Counties .. 141. 165 24%% .... •• ..
Ditto New .. .. 10/. 166 8 8 p......
Do. Perpet., 5 per Cent. No. 1. 6/ 13s. 4d %% p• • ....
Ditto, York Extension 103 214% 2......
Grand Union (Nottingh. & Lynn) 1% • •
Great Southern & West. (Ireland) 25
.. • • 27%
Great Western .. •• 85 . ........ .
Ditto. half Shares .. .. 50
Ditto, Quarter Shares .. 10
.. „ „ 22
Ditto, Fifths .. .. • . .. 20
33%
Guildford, Fareham, & Portsmoth 5 „„ „ „ 55
Lancaster and Carlisle .. 40 „ „
Ditto, New .. .. • • .. 5
Leeds and Bradford .. • • .. 26
• 66
Leicester and Bedford 225. % di5..... • • % dis.
Liverp., Manch., & Newc. Junct.
London an . • • 100 229% 228...... 228
Ditto, Quarters . .. 2 32% .... • .... 32%
Ditto, Fifths .. 2
London and Black wall .. 16/. I3s. 4d. 83a 8%
London and Brighton .. 50 .. . 64% 65 ...... 65
London and Croydon .. • . 13/. 15s 9d.. •23 22% .. ... • 22%
Ditto, Guarant. Five per Cent. 9
London and Greenwich .. 12/. 15s. 4d 9 . 9
London and South. Western - 411. 6s. 10d 77% ........ • • 77%
Ditto, New Consol. Eighths .. 40
London and York .
Ditto, Half Shares • • %
London, Salisbury, and Yeovil . 2% „„ „ „
%
Londonderry and Coleraine .. 10 .•2
Manchester and Leeds .. .• • • 82 .....
Ditto, Fifths . . • • • 3
Manchester and Birmingham .. 40
Ditto, Quarter Shares (C) I .. • • 10% •• • • 10%
Mutchester, Buxton, & Matlock 42s p • •• P
Manchester and. Southampton .. 2
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Ditto, New 24
Newcastle and Darlington Junct. 25
Ditto, New . „ I 11N 12 .. 12

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POOR AiA N'S GUARDIAN
SOCIETY.
A public meeting of the friends of this society was held lasete
night in the Temperance Hall, Waterloo-road, in comPlitg of
with the requisition of 206 householders of the boreng"
Lambeth.
Mr. B. CARRELL having taken the chair, said he bad bee
requested by several to take the chair, and state to I,,her. the
ing the object of the society. Distinguished, he ssia"'s-i-ences
country was for voluntary societies for the objects °- -c
affecting it was strange that the administration of the law affecll--ss
the poor, and of the funds collected for their benefit, was con'
ducted in a way by no means creditable 0
t - any Governmeat;
and that no institution had risen to protect them, The P°ll
Man's Society had been instituted to amend this
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as speedily and as safely as possible, that
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wants of the poor may be attended to inimediate_i?,
He needed not to dilate on this subject before the meetit
Poverty, which was no crime, was yet treated in this cii)tie7%
try with an obloquy which seemed to insinuate soMeOl'ed
immoral in the want of the means of support. He referrer
to a case which had occurred, by way of illustrating 70
working of this society. The case, he said, was that °`,,
,
poor girl, destitute and neglected, who had applied to t
Marlborough workhouse in vain. Application was made o'a
a
her behalf to the Lord Mayor. He referred the al:o%a
to the City Guardians. The City Guardians, on being al11)'"d
tr, said they had made their report to the Lord Mayor ; e-0,
tie answer from his Lordship was, that the report had be
received. Application was made to the Poor-law:Coua
B:oilers. The report which was received from them, draws
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up by the Guardians of the City of London Ic°' house, the Chairman characterised as most disgrace'
o
ful and unwarranted. He read a paragraph fr°o
that repert which characterised the majority of tho
..
who applied at Marlborough workhouse as " lawless caltsb,
bonds" and " prostitutes." The chairman commented 1%
the deepest indignation on the terms of titis sweeping clatl,
ib
He thought it was to be regretted that
neer connected Irl 1..
the Government were so insensible to the claims of the Pn,
The Rev. Mr. BARBER, alter adverting to the good treat'
ment of the poor iu the parish of Lambeth, and to the 173-..
cessity at the same time of such society, even in Lambet ;
to protect those incidental cases where injustice was Often
done to the helpless, moved this first resolution.
" That, in consequence of the recent exposure of varlonaacts of cruelty and injustice to the helpless poor, this
~se
meet-
ing is of opinion that every possible assistance should
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given to the obtaining redress in all proved cases of.SIZ
nature, it being, as this meeting believes, very difficult '',..
His poor to succeed in doing so, unless by such aid as is "•
foi ded by the Poor Man's Guardian Society." the
Mr. COCHR to ANE in seconding the resolution, referred
report from the district asylums in which it was stated thato
-there were 50,000 in the metropolis who daily rose fr°
1,
their beds not knowing where to get their first In° f
From this he appealed against the Poor Law Gitardians°
London, that they ought not to have summarily 011;
demned the poor as they bad done. The same repo'
stated that they relieved 18,000 during the winter
months, and it gave their trades, designating them indus-
trious and willing to work if the opportunity had occurred.
Ile thought, then, considering the frightful amount of suf-
fering, the poor, instead of meriting their condemnationl
deserved their sympathy and their aid. His statements won'd
be found borne out by the police reports of the daily papers-
It was but the other day ibat he read of a man, verging. -
seventy years of age, having been put in prison for refuel'',
to work at the pump, the labour being too heavy for hilt'
Another case was that of a poor girl, destitute and stanr;:nal
in the street, who was taken up by the police. She '''
ordered to be taken to St. Luke's workhouse, and the
gistrate gave her an order for admission. The poli,
accompanied the girl to the house, but he had scarc-'
turned his back' when she was forcibly turned out
ag .in. It was but the other day that Mr. Wakley,
said he
inquiry being made on the subject of union.;:pte t...._
could produce the diet ( %Ir. Cochrane bellow a
oorem an four oancese
Brow-
ley Union, in Kent, which allowed the
of meal, not per day, but per weetkoz.,cPlie_
said the society had given its
esssaite, when brought up to
the Andover Union case.
hajtaammittee, was so emac!,ated ea
e at
(ttelrinCgocuirhyrairnseto)
give his evidence before t
members
who beheld him. Ile
the
and received only 79. a
said lie had eor,l, hot water, and a pinchof
to excite a shudder trisix
salt sprinkled
week, and thrt br.ea
of the
which have
week to the other.
over It, children,
ruodnetadnodtnoes end
ta te
thosed t( ,
that the case of Mar.'
Mr. Cochran already..,
till
Smith had been postponed the following sessions. These
. was
leisttdienetalfl
cases showed the nece -sky of such a society as the Poor /stan:e
GalPaeradrieadn in The
Sun,He said it was an evil connected with
the appointment of the guardians, that it was altogether --,;
the hands of the householders, notwithstanding that the PO"
in many cases paid more to the parish rates than those vr_l_r
had the vote. There was a strong obligation then on In: vate gentlemen to come forward and protect the poor lames
this grinding oppression. He concluded with seconding the
resolution.
Mr. SKELTON, a workman, was afraid that the se°l...eel;
might miss the best means of effecting their object. He "ess
understood to advise the society not to expend their In:
in particularising cases of cruelty, but pointing out themet
men who had been denounced by the agistrates, and °lout
drawing them from the labour-mark , and in pointing to,
the willing and the industrious who week the opportunq,A,
labour. In short, he advised th to provide labour ""
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their money. .
Dr. M‘Dowasa. addressed the meeting at considerap,s,lel:
length. He was glad to see the middle class men corne'ne
ward to help the poor, and he promised the society that
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working men of Lancashire and of Yorkshire, at least, vr°,l",
go with them to a man, and create a grander movement,
greater agitation than ever existed on any question.
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The following resolutions were then moved, and car."
unanimously :
" That this meeting is of opinion that the princiPles.irliel
objects of the Poor Man's Guardian Society are fully en"
to the support and co-operation of the public."
"That the thanks of the meeting be given to the Preis, for
its able advocacy of the rights of the poor."
" That the thanks of this meeting be given to 13-enjilinthi:
u
Bond Cabbell, Esq., for his able and impartial conduct 1
chair."
The meeting then adjourned.

Ditto, New, Branding 25 .• 46'45% •
Newcastle and Berwick .. .. 13 .... 26% 27
Norfolk .. .. 20 ....
Ditto, Extension. • • • • •
North British
Ditto, Half Shares .. .. • • 8%..••
Ditto, Carlisle Extension .. .... %
Ditto, Dalkeith • • .. .. 25
Ditto, ditto .. • • • • • • 5 •• • • 6%
Northern and Eastern .. .. 50 .... _
Ditto, New .. .. • • .. 1 ••.. 21 •• • • •• • • 22
North Kent and Direct Dover • • 2% .... 1% 1%
North Staffordshire .. . • • • 425. •.. 34 3 p p
Oxford,Worcest.,& Wolverhmptn. 12% ... •••• • • • 7%
Portsmouth Direct . • • • .- 3% •• .• 4% ......•• 4%
Reading, Guildford, and Reigate 425..... dis dis
Richmond .. •• .. 10 .... 18 .
Shrewsbury and Birmingham .. 2%.... 2 I% 2%.. •
Shropshire Union .. 425..... 1% dis... 1% dis.
South Midland 425..... % dis par % dis % die
South Eastern and Dovor .. • • 33% .. •• 44
Do., New (do. 33/. 69.8 d.) No. 2. 10
.... .
1;o., New (do. 151.) .. No. 4. 2% „ 3%
Vale of Neath 1%
West Riding Union •. • • .. 425. .... % p...... 2% !,
Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth 10 ....
..
York and North Midland .. 50
Ditto, Scarborough Branch .. 25 50 . ......
Ditto. Extension .. 20 .... 41% •• •
Do. E. and W. Riding Eaten... I ... 13% 14%

COURT CIRCULAR.
Lord John Russell had an audience of the Queen
yesterday, at Buckingham Palace.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her
Majesty yesterday.
Her Majesty and her Royal Consort took their usual
early walk yesterday.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince
Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice took
their accustomed exercise yesterday, in the garden of
the Palace.
Their Royal Highnesses the Hereditary Grand Duke
and Grand Duchess of Mecklenburgh StrelitE visited
the Queen yesterday.
The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the
Prince of Leiningen, honoured the Italian Opera House
with their presence yesterday evening. The royal suite
included the Countess of Desart, Lady Caroline Cocks:
Lord Byron, Colonel Arbuthnot, and Lieut.-Colonel
Seymour. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent
also honoured the performance of the Opera with her
presence. Lady Anna Maria Dawson was in attendance
on the Royal Duchess.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Gloucester,
the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince George;
and the Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand Duchess 01
Mecklenburgh Strelits honoured Sir Thomas and Lady
Wilde with their company yesterday at the breakfast
given by her Ladyship at Bowes Manor, near Southgate.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited ham'
Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday,,
Gloucester House.
Lady Anna Maria Dawson has succeeded Lady_kl.
gusta Bruce as the Lady in Waiting on her Royal nig"-
ness the Duchess of Kent.
His Excellency Semi Paella, alter accompanying his
Highness Ibrahim ?ache, to Portsmouth, has returned to
town, and taken up his residence at the Turkish SM.
bassy, Bryanstone square, where he intends remaining
for the rest of the season.
A Cabinet Council was held at three o'clock, yester-
day afternoon, at the Foreign-office. Lord John Rus-
sell,
the Lo rd Chancellor, the Marqu's of Lansdowne'
the Earl of Minto, Sir George Grey, Viscount Palmer.:
ton, Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sl',
John Hobhouse, the Earl of Clarendon, the Marquis!'
Clanricarde, Viscount Morpeth, the Right Hon. T. 0.
Macaulay, and the Right Hon. H. Labouchere, were
present.

The Council sat an hour and a half.
The Governor of the Bank of England, and the De'
puty-Governor had an interview with the Chancellor of
the Exchequer yesterday, at hii official residence in
Downing-street.

SPOI

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The Earl of Besborough had an interview with Lora
John Rus-ell yesterday.
Captain Denison had an interview with Earl Grey
yesterday, at the Colonial-office.
Mr. Tootal had an interview with the Right Hoo•
T. Milner Gibson yesterday at the office of the Board
of Trade.

Lord Ingestre had an interview with Lord Jobn
Russell yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-
street.

Lord Henley arrived at Farranee's Hotel, Upper Bel'
grave-street, yesterday, from Brighton.

HAYMARKET THEATRE.
Murphy's admirable comedy The Way to Keep Ili°
was revived here last night, far the purpose of intre;
ducing to a metropolitan audience " a lady, her first
appearance in London," in the character of the
Widow Belmour. For once the playbills have told theAg
truth. The debutante is a lady, and evidently a
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used to the best society. She was nervous, as might bait'
been expected, and did not, therefore, give herself It'
play ; but it was evident that she had been used to the
best society ; there was a ton about her imPer
sonation of the Widow Belmour that nothing
but the. frequently mixing in good society can gives:
In person she is rather above the middle height ; Pe".
features are expre:eive, and her figure faultless. From her
manner of giving the more serious portions of the part'
we should be inclined to augur favourably of her in triv
gedy. She was not, however, wanting in the vis vontica•
In the scene with Lovemore, in which she describes the
fur niente, but fur from dolce style of modern converse'
tion, albs it from nervousness her manner was scarcely
sufficiently prononce, yet was she admirable. The germ
of great talent was evident, and when she has become'
used to her audience, she will rattle through the de-
scription like a female Mathews. We have long
wanted a lady on the stage to represent the
principle characters of La haute Comedie, a lady With
that haut ton, that innate good breeding, which cannot b,
taught—which no mere actress can ever hope to se;
quire; and if we mistake not the Widow Belmour of lae
evening is that lady. Whether she is so or no
ciamot at present decide. We wait until we shall ha"
seen her Lady Tousle. Her debut, however, has W'a
successful, and most deservedly so. She was applauded
throughout, and was called for at the conclusion an
received the floral tributes which are now the usw
tokens of success. The comedy was announced for re
petition on Thursday amidst loud applause.

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FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens .. 14 .... 12% ...... 12i
Narms► and Liege .. .. 6 .... 3% 3.. •••. • • 34
Northern of France Constituted.. 5 12%% ad .... 12% xel
Orlean4 and Vierzen .. 10 .... 14% ...... 1414
Orleans and Bordeaux .. 6 .... 7% 7.. • • .... 7
Paris and Lyons Constituted .. 5 .... 514 5 5
Paris and Rouen .. .. • . • • 20 .. • • 38 ••..•• • • • • 38
Paris and Strasbourg Constituted 5 .... 4 . ........ 4
Union of Madrid .. • • .. •• 40 .... 6 r ...... •• • • 69

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Amsterdam ...... C.F. 12 81/4 Gibraltar ..
I>i tto, at sight 12 51/4 Leghorn .
Rotterdam .... ••2 U. 12 9 Genoa •• • 26 15
An. werp .... 25 15 Milan .. .......
11.,Inburgh .... • . M.B. 13 151 Venice..
••• •• • Naples ....... • ...... 39N
Pal is. da vs' sight .. • • 25 60 Palermo, per oz . 119.34
Ditto, months...—. 26 10 Lisbon.. ..... ......... 53
Marseilles • • •• •• .. 26 IA Oporto .... 53
Bourileauz: ......... 26 15 Rio Janeiro • • 24
Frankfort on Maine.... 122% Bahia .
Petersburgh, 3 U 5.... Buenos Ayres ...... • •
Berlin . New York. 21 days' sight
Vienna, effee. tio ••• • •• 10 12 Philadelphia ......
Trieste, ditto.... ••• • • • 10 12 PRICKS OF BULLION, PER OZ.
.........; .... • 3554 Foreign Gold in bars.. x 3 17 9
Cr 36Li PNoervit-uig)aolubGlOoldn(s'j.o 14.. 03 107 06
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Barcelona • • •••• • • • • 0 4 9%
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TO TIE EDITOR OF THE .s'illV.
Stn,—The Whigs are again in power. literlo n g they
will remain so depends on whether they will alterthethe Tories.
fran-
chise or suffer the freemen to sell their votes ostoeo
Thanks to Mr. Cobden, the counties will
boroughs do. In fact,.
Reformers, quite as much as the n
hrsetlUikrne
nothing remains for the Tories
' The householders here, w but the the old
vbeotrtwueg
Reformers, have ohnagv et °a
there-
gular
this.
between 300 and 400, and .
who are Reforstnn
freemen, and ever will be. Mr. Hutt,
;_ths where there are
majority of . .
two Conserva.ives. This is the case with most of the bo-
trre-best Member we ever had, was obliged to leave us with
his lame majority of householders, and so Was that excellent
man, Colonel Tnomp,on. Indeed, the Colonel was actually
defeated by the Chartist freemen selling their votes to the
Tories. The freemen, and not the tenants at will, deprived
the Whigs of place, and will do it again if Lord John Russell
do not look to them. The question, I admit, is difficult, but
it must be grappled with. I believe the simplest qualifica-
tion will be household suffrage. Thin only the worst of the
freemen would be deprived of the rights which tleey abuse to
their own detriment and that cf the rest of their country-
men, for the better and least corrupt sort are rate-payers.—l
am, Sir, &e.
A REFORMER.
Hull, July 18th, 1846.

IHE WEATHER.—The weather continues most fa-
voui able for the growing crops, and the fields of wheat and
barley, in some places, are beginning to assume the tint of
harvest. Such corn are now full;' in the ear; anti we saw the
other day a field of barley belonging to Captain Munro,
Coul Cottage, which will be ready for the sickle
in ten days. In general, all the crops are luxuri-
ant, except in some very arid districts, where the oats and
barley are short and irregular. In moist and good land the
return will be ample. At Arcan and other places, we ob-
servod some fine barley and oats, of great height, and
with large ear. The potato crop has every appear-
ance of being unusually prolific ; and we have heard of no
failure in this country, where, we believe, a larger breadth
than usual has been planted. The turnips are looking well,
and, so far as we have heard, have escaped the worm. St.
Swithin's day, the 15th, was warm and dry; and if the usual
prediction be verified, dry weather will prevail during the
autumn.—Ross-shire Advertiser.

- ,
COLLEGE OF ENGINEERS, EUTNEY.—The idea
pres
and council, in order to meet the requirements of this ra-
pidly advancing institution, have resolved to build an eitnets,
sive range of studies and priv,te rooms for the stude
fronting on the river. The designs, prepared by Mr. Thamrs"
being
Burton, are now being carried into execution by Afeslng
Burton, the contractors. Additional buildings are also under
erected for the use of the Government Commisson' • s ,
fl or
itie_w
Dr. Lyon Playfair, fur the purpose of testing the qual
the different mines of coals throughout the kingdom'
Builder. ,

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