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THE SUN, LONDON,_ SATURDAY yIORNIN-G-, JULY 4,1 1846.

LONDON AND PARIS FA HIONS

FRIDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE.
DOWNING-STREET, Jt:LY 2, 1846.

GREAT MEETING of the LEAGUE.

FOR JULY.

:MORNING DRESSES, made in foulards, poll de chevre gris
de lin. ecru, or penissiere (dust colour), are the most
worn ; they are relieval with rich fancy gymp trim-
mings of green or blue. Venetian silks are also a
favourite material ; the frillings with which they are
trimmed being cut, and gradually separating from the
waist to the edge of the skirt.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint Lieutenant-Colonel
Henry I)espard, of the 99th Foot, and Lieutenant-Colonel
Robert Henry Wynyard, of the 58th Foot, to be Companions
of the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath.
WAR-OFFICE, JULY 3.
The following is a farther list of non-commissioned officers
and privates of the Queen's army, killed in the recent battles
on the Sutlej. or who have subsequently died of wounds re-
ceived in those actions :

A meeting of the General Council of the League was held
on Thursday, at the Town-hall, Manchester, " for
the purpose of considering what course the League shall
take, now that the Bill for the repeal of the corn-laws has
received Hie royal assent." Mr. George Wilson, Chairman
of the League, presided on the occasion. Among those pre-
sent were, Mr. Richard Cobden, M.P., Mr. John Bright,
M.P., Mr. W. Brown, of Liverpool, the new candidate for
South Lancashire, in the place of Lord Francis Egerton ;
Mr. W. Rawson, Treasurer of the League ; Mr. W. B. Wat-
kins, Mayor of Manchester; Mr. W. R. Callender, Mr. J.
Mellor, Liverpool ; Mr. W. Bickham, Mr. Henry Ashworth,
Turton ; Mr. W. R. Greg, Mr. Duffour Dubergier, the Mayor
of Bordeaux ; Mr. W. Hargreaves, Milnthorpe ; Mr. G. Thomas,
Bristol; Mr. C. Thomas, Bristol; Mr. W. Tottie, Bristol;
Mr. J. Molineux, Liverpool ; Mr. W. Evans, Manchester ;
Mr. T. Woolley, Mr. J. B. Smith, Mr. A. Prentice, Mr. P. A.
Taylor, Mr. J. Finch, Liverpool ; Mr. C. Rawdon ; Mr. J.
Harvey, Mr. R. Mather, Mr. John Mather, Mr. Thomas
Mather, Mr. Glynn Abbott, Holywell ; Mr. W. Rathbone,
Liverpool; Mr. John Cheetham, Staleybridge ; Mr. Douglas
Jerrold, Mr. Thomas Thomasson, Bolton ; Mr. W. A. Wil-
kinson, London, &c.
The CHAIRMAN said, Gentlemen, I have no doubt that all

EVENING DRESSES are composed of gauze lisse, pink
or blue, and trimmed with Pompadour fringes placed at
the edge of the flounces ; also those made of the tissu
diaphane, decorated with two broad lace flounces ; the
corsage a la grecque, without the epaulettes ; the short
sleeves being cut in such a form as to take th place of
them ; the flounces are caught up, or raised on each side,
with broad satin ribbon ascending up each side, and
m•-eting at the waist, the loner end being confined by a
tuft of roses. _ _

29th Foot—Pierce Ambler, John Barry James Beaumont;
Richard Bentley, Charles Beresford, Michael Blackburn,
William Blazer, William Box, George Boyce, Wiliam
Boardman, Isaac Bobbin, Benjamin Broom head, Joseph Brown,
John Burrell (alias W. Holmes), Peter Callan, C. Challener,
Andrew Colquhoun (corporal), Edward Courtnay, John
Chapman, Charles Clee, Charles Copeman, James Corbett,
Bernard Dailey, George Day, Patrick Dormodv, William
Duckham, William Duncan, Patrick Dunphy, John Do-
naughey, James Drew, Jeffery Durston, Marma-
duke Davis, John Deeran, Daniel Denny, Charles
Elvin, Abraham Ellender, Thomas Evans (corporal),
Edward Fuller, Edmond Fitton, William Flood, Patrick
Frayne, Frederick Green, Richard Green, William Guire,
Thomas Goodier, William Gates, John Giles, George Green,
Francis Greenway, Thomas Hadkinson, John L. Harter, John
Ha3tewell, William Hahn, William Hearne, William Helum,
David Hodglcinson, Jas. Harrison, Wm. Harrison, Wm. Head,
Alexander Henry, Robert Hodder, John Hoolahan, James
Holmes (sergeant), John Howlett, William Hunt, William
Hill, Thomas Illingworth, Edward Johnson, John Jackson,
Robert Jones, George Jubb, Matthew Kelly, Patrick
Keelan, James Kehoe, Charles Kerle, Henry Lane,
James Lewis, William Lord, James Locock, Thomas
Langliarn, William Larner, Mathias Laugelin, John
Marshall (colour sergeant), Patrick M'Anley, Matthew
M•Kenny, John M'Crackin, John 11Plien, Thomas M'Manus,
James Manhinny, Thomas Mellon, William Mullholland,
Jeremiah Murphy, Patrick Nolan, John Neal, Michael
O'Connor, James O'Donnell, Robert Pitcher, John Parle
(drummer), John Robert, Wm. Reading, Jas. Rice, Daniel
Rice, Thomas Ryan, John Roebuck, Geo. Reed, Geo. Sands,
William Saunders, William Sheldon, William Shelton, John
Smith (sergeant), Charles Smith, John Smith, Michael
Smith, Daniel Sullivan, George Sutton, Robert Scott, William
Stanton, Hugh Stewart, Thomas Stewart, John Swaby
(colour sergeant). James Teasdale (corporal), Joseph Toole,
William Toms, Hugh Taggert, John Taylor.
29th Foot—James Warren, John Watts, Henry Webb,
Robert Whinyates, Charles White, James Wier, George
Wilkins (colour sergeant), Charles Withey (corporal),
Henry Wilson, Winniford Winn, James Woodcut, Henry
Watts, James Wason, James Weathers, John Webb, William
Willis, John Wilson, George Watton, Thomas White.
ADMIRALTY, JUNE 23.

ANTorNETTE.—This is another novelty for out-door
costume, and is made of silk of a French blue colour,
forming a pelerine rotonde at the back, and a scarf in
the front; the two ends are rather short, square, and
caught in three folds upon each side of the waist; it is
encircled with a broad lace, and the ends may be crossed
or left ht liberty, allowing of the graceful contour of the
shape being visible.
I'AILLE A LA DUCIIEsSE.—This truly elegant fancy
straw is generally lined with pink, and ornamented with
a bouquet or bunch of shaded coloured down feathers;
ribbons of the vert-saule colour are also much in use
for the trimming_ of these kind of bonnets, with a bou-
quet of reine-Marguerites at the side.

the members of the council who have received invitation to
attend here this day, are prepared to expect that the specia
business of this meeting will have reference to the course
which this great organisation shall adopt, now that the
chief purpose for which it was established is virtually accom-
plished.—(Bear, hear.) There will be submitted for your
consideration resolutions which have engaged the anxious
attention and consideration of the executive council. I would,
by no means, have it for one moment supposed, that because
they are so introduced and so recommended, it is' intended

Capotes are now entirely composed of crepe, and
covered with fulled tulle, decorated with choux of tulle
and ribbon; or in lace of a light transparent texture,
trimmed with a branch of leaves or roses; whilst others
are made of Italian silk, in every description of colour.
CAPS.—A very stylish and pretty little cap are those
made of Royal Mechlin lace, the sides of which are or-
namented with a touffe formed of tulle ruche, put on
straight, and having betwixt the plaiting small Queen's
daisies, called the des reines Marguerites, so fixed as
not to show any stem, and without foliage. For a
morning cap, they are principally trimmed with broad
Roy al Mechlin lace, and rather dark coloured gauze
ribbons ; the form petit and round, the lace being put
on nearly plain at the ears.
DES SUEDOISES.—This description of pardessus is in-
tended to be worn over very thin dresses, in order to
guard against the cool evening breezes, so frequent after
such very hot days, more especially felt in the country,
or sea-side places ; in form they do not reach below the
waist, and are made of some very thick material, such
as taffetas veloute, the damns Chine, or brocatelle ; the
sleeves, which are demilongues are trimmed with black
lace, and a broad black lace encircles the waist, falling
over the light coloured skirt.
SURTOUTS.—These are now principally composed of
embroidered muslin, lined with pink or sky-blue silk,
high in the back, and opn in the front, and a pelerine,
which forms facings to the front; rounded basques, trim-
med with lace; the sleeves large at the lower part, and
raised with bows of ribbon.

to restrict the opinions of any gentlemen, members of the
council, who may entertain different opinions, or who are
disposed to discuss the propriety of the course which we
propose for your consideration, but that on this, as on all
previous occasions, the fullest and freest discussion is invited
by the members of the executive council, from those of the
general governing body.—(Hear, hear.) I rejoice, as I am
confident all members of this association must do, that we
meet no longer to sharpen our weapons, or to prepare to
concentrate our forces for another attack upon that absurd
system of legislation which has for seven years in-
vited our especial opposition. The corn monopoly,
thanks to the last Bill which has passed the Legislature,
has now its days dated and numbered. Although, prhaps,
if the League had been invited to prepare that measure, or
if they had been consulted on its preparation, they would not
have allowed the prolongation of its existence for a single
day, yet, as provision has been made for its final extinc-
tion in 1849, as during the time intervening all its horrors
will be removed, we propose to take a common sense view of
the subject, and discuss it as if it was altogether done away
with.—( Hear, hear.) It is due, then, to ourselves and to the
public who have intrusted us with such unlimited authority
for the last seven years, that we should inquire whether, in
the administration of their affairs, we have ever violated a
single pledge, or departed, on one single occasion, from the
principles which it was our duty to support and lay before
them.—( Hear. ) We all know that the only restrictive
provisions of our organisation were these :—that we should
seek on all occasions the total and unconditional abolition of
the corn-laws, and that we. should seek it peacefully, legally,
and constitutionally ; that, on the one hand, all men who
joined this association should join it, knowing that they should
be privileged from being dragged into the consideration of
any other question, and that, in doing se, they should be free
from penal and legal responsibility. Now, perhaps, if we were
called upon to defend ourselves, we might say, What other
question has the League touched or interfered with? And I
might ask, What man has suffered penal or legal conse-
quences from becoming a member of this association ? But
as it will only take a few moments to show you, that from
the first we have adhered to our principles, I propose, in a few
words, to show you the means we have made use of, and
leave you to judge whether they have been such as are likely,
with-the least delay, to secure the accomplishment of our
object. We all know the origin of the League—we all know
that at a meeting in September, 1838, held in this town, at
which that accomplished gentleman, Dr. Bowring, was pre-
sent, a number of gentlemen resolved to form an Anti-Corn-
law Association—that that association grew larger and
larger, extending its influence. Shortly after its formation
the merchants, traders, and manufacturers of Manchester
held a meeting near this place, and there voted for the pur-
pose of supporting the Manchester Anti-Corn-law Associa-
tion 3,000/., which was afterwards increased to 6,0001. Thus
armed the Anti-Corn-law Association convened a meeting of
delegates from all parts of the kingdom ; they assembled in
Manchester, and resolved to form an Anti Corn law Asso-
ciation throughout the kingdom. The delegates returned
home, empowered by the meeting in Manchester to convene
a meeting in London in February, 1839. Those meetings
took place, and then it was resolved by the merchants,
traders, and delegates there assembled, to petition Par-
liament that thy might present evidencs at the bar
of the House of Commons. Mr. Villiers made a motion
to that effect. The petitioners were Mr. Greg, Mr. J.
13. Smith, and others ; the motion was negatived, and
the delegates separated. A month elapsed, when they were
again invited to meet at Palace-yard. They met. Mr. Villiers
brought forward a resolution, inviting the House to agree to
the formation of a committee for the consideration of the abo-
lition of the corn-laws. That motion was again negatived;
whereupon the delegates assembled, and there and then re-
solved, at the suggestion of Mr. Cobden, to form this asso-
ciation which we have now met to dissolve: They voted
that its head-quarters should be at Manchester, and that
for the sake of communicating with its members and intro-
ducing notices of all its proceeding to the public, an Anti-
Corn Law Circular should be established, the first number
of which was published in April, 1839. Thus armed, the
executive council at once proceeded to work. We engaged
lecturers, sent them throughout the country, they held
meetings and discussions ; they were interrupted, but they
always conquered. Thus the Anti-Corn-Law Association
was formed throughout the country, and at the end of 1839
upwards of 100 towns joi :ed the Anti-Corn-law Asso-
ciation. Our course of proceedings during that year was
simply confined to lectures, the distribution of the stamped
publications, and public meetings. In 1840, we commenced
those large assemblies fur which Manchester has been since
so famow. In January of that year there was erected on
the spot that is now occupied by the site of the Free Trade
Hall, a pavilion, where on the 13th a public dinner was
given, at which 4,000 of the members and friends of the
association were present ; and on the 14th, 5,000 operatives.
Delegates attended that meeting from all carts of the king-
dom. At the meeting on the 14th the delegates resolved
again to assemble in London, at the opening of the Parlia-
ment : they met in London, when Mr. Villiers again brought
forward his motion. The debate closed without a division.
The delegates separated and returned home, and made their
reports to those who had delegated them. In March of the
same year they again assembled at Brown's Hotel, Palace-
yard. Mr. Villiers again brought forward the resolution,
and it was negatived by a large majority. The delegates
again separated, resolving to adopt other means for insuring
the success of this great agitation. To the end of 1840 few
changes took place, our proceedings being confined to lectures
and the distribution of publications ; but in November, 1840,
the delegates again met, and voted confidence in the execu-
tive council, and recommended us further to proceed. In
1841, as you all know, Lord John Russell gave notice of his
resolution for wheat to be admitted at a duty of Bs., and
other things in proportion. A dissolution took place, and
our question went before the country. The monopolists
throughout the counties gained their elections. During that
election we were numerically worse than we were in the pre-
vious Parliament, but there was sent to Parliament one ally
to Mr. Villiers, whose return was worth a score of those we
had lost during the election.—(Hear, hear.) Previous to the
meeting of Parliament, and well knowing the great majority
against the League, we applied for aid to those who, in the
times of privation and distress, had shown it to be their special
duty to attend to the wants and privations of the poor, the
Dissenting ministers; and inJuly of that year there was held
for four days, an assembly of men which, I am prepared to
say, speaking the opinions of all who had the privilege of
listening to their discussions, has never yet been equalled on
any other subject in this country. Parliament met; the
Ministers were defeated; Sir R. Peel was restored to power;
they were proposing to separate without the slightest consi-
deration of the relaxation of the corn duties, when a meeting
was held in this hall in September, to protest against the
prorogation of Parliament until the subject of the corn-laws
had been again considered. A deputation was appointed by
that meeting to wait upon Sir R. Peel, and to him was con-
veyed the resolutions they had passed. Thus was finished
1841. Most in Parliament were hostile to us ; we had
only a few who sympathised with the principles of the
League. In the House of Commons we had two able men,
who were prepared on all occasions to discuss this question;
and it was discussed, and the benefits arising from the
discussion consequent upon the dissolution are such as will
form an era in the agitation of this question.—(Hear,
hear.) The winter of 1841 now exhibited an increasing
amount of distress, suffering, and privation, and then
for the first time the ladies of this and the principal towns
in England met together and agreed to canvass from
house to house and door to door, to promote a memorial
to her Majesty, humbly imploring her to instruct her
Ministers to bang in a Bill for the relief of the distressed
community. In the depth of winter, in this town, the
ladies who were not otherwise engaged in behalf of the
bazaar, canvassed and obtained upwards of 100,000 sig-
natures to their memorial. They did more in 1842 ; they
had a bazaar in the Theatre Royal, Manchester, from which
was netted, for the use of the League, during the succeeding
year, a sum greater than the revenue of the League for any
previous year, amounting to 100,0001. Thus armed, we com-
menced the year 1842. As before, our principal movements
were petitions, lectures, and publications; but in the com-
mencement of 1842, Sir R. Peel brought forward another
amended sliding-scale. The delegates were then met in
London, and they denounced this sliding-scale; a meeting
was convened in Manchester for the same purpose; it was
there denounced, and the principles of the League were
voted to be the only principles upon which a good Bill could
be framed, and in every town this principle of the repeal of the
Corn-laws was introduced without opposition. Mr. Villiers
then brought in a measure for the first time, proposing that all
duties upon the importation of foreign corn should then cease
and determine. It was rejected, 395 voting against it, and
92 for it, leaving 303 majority against total repeal. Follow-
ing this, came the disturbances, to which I will not refer be-
yond this, that every attempt was made in that critical time
by the monopolists to connect the League with
the promotion of that disturbance. It is due to the
League to say, that it suspended none of its ordinary meet-
ings in consequence; it is due to the League to say, that im-
mediately after that it commenced its weekly meetings—
those meetings which have since formed so important a move-
ment in the promotion of this object. In 1842 we closed,
having made little progress in Parliament, and under the
persuasion
that other measures must be used forthwith, in
the commencement of the new Parliament, to induce the
Legislature to adopt our principle. At the end of 1842 we
again met, and resolved to hold a weekly meeting. We re-
solved, on a review of the previous session. to distribute in-
formation much more freely, especially among the farmers
and farm labourers; and we resolved, for the purpose of the
coming agitation, that a sum of five times the amount of
the previous subscription should be asked for, namely,
50,0001. The weekly meetings became more important and
were removed to the Corn-Exchange, and then was erected
that building which now stands a monument of the energy
of the men who conduct the League—the Free Trade Hall.
—(Loud cheers.) 50,0001. was a large sum to collect in
those days, without the object for which it was asked being
especially explained to those who contributed. For that
purpose, and at the invitation of the principal merchants
and influential persons in almost every town in the country,
Mr. Cobden and Mr. Bright visited, assisted by Colonel
Thompson and Mr. Moore, all the large towns of Scotland,
and most of the large towns of England, and received con-
tributions, which flowed in, exceeding our expectation.—
(Loud cheers.) We opened the Free Trade Hall in January,
1843, announcin4 that 4440004 bad been collected. We then

Corps of Royal Marines—Sergeant Major W. Ruston to be
Quartermaster.

ADMIRALTY, JUNE 25.

Corps of Royal Marines—Second Lieutenant G. Webb to
be First Lieutenant, vice Whiting, to half-pay ; Sergeant
Major N. Austin to be Quartermaster.
Commissions by the Queen.
Herefordshire Regiment of Militia—Captain J. E. M. Kyrie
to be Adjutant, April 27.
First Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's Own Militia—
Captain H. Townshend, late of the 88th Foot, to be Adjutant,
May 6.

Worcestershire Regiment of Militia—Captain E. Lavie to
be Adjutant, vice Smyth, who retires, June 12.
Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall.

LE CHALE-ECIIARPE.—This light and elegant style
of drapery is made of a light material, such as tulle, and
lined with silk; it is made very long, and round at the
back, closing a pans upon the front, and encircled with
two rows of lace and embroidered inlet.

The lion. John C. W. Vivian to be Deputy-Lieutenant,
June 25.

DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY.

George Hornsby, builder, late of Amble, now of Lesbury,
Northumberland.

FASHIONABLE COLOURS for the present month are
still of a light hue, both for morning and afternoon cos-
tume. For the former, we see the ecrue, Nankin, re-
lieved with patterns in red, green, or lilac; different
shades of green, lilac, blue, and rose colour, are also
greatly in favour for afternoon toilette; white predomi-
nating for evenirg dress.— if orld of Fashion.

BANKRUPTS.

Michael Goodale, builder, Middlesex, to surrender July 14,
at eleven, and August 14, at one, at the Court of Bankruptey.
Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Keighley,
Basinghall-street.
William Rouse, baker, Neptune-street, Rotherhithe, July
14 and August 15, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
green, official assignee, Aldermanbury ; Oliver, Old Jewry.
Alfred Samuel 1011, grocer, Norwich, July 14, at half-past
twelve, and August 22, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Groom, official assignee, Abchurch-lane, Lombard-street;
Abbott and Wheatley, Roll's. yard, Chancery-lane; Miller
and Son. Norwich.
Joseph Lord, tanner, Sheffield, July 17, and August 7, at
eleven, at the Sheffield District Court. Freeman, official
assignee, Leeds; Nixon, Clifford's Inn, London; Rinney,
Sheffield. _ _ _

THE MAYOR OF BORDEAUX.—Those who have
taken any interest in the progress of the free-trade move-
ment in France will know that that country does not possess
a more earnest and thorough free-trader than the present
Mayor of Bordeaux, M. Duflbur. Dubergier. This gentleman,
being in England, has been attracted to Manchester by the
present triumphant position of the principles of commercial
freedom ; and yesterday he spent some time in the offices
of the Anti-Corn-law League, where he had interviews with
several of the principal members of the council of the
League, amongst others with Mr. Cobden, Mr. J. B. Smith, Mr.
Henry Ashworth, &c. ; and by Mr. Cobden and Mr. Thomas
Bagley, the President of the Chamber of Commerce,
was introduced to his worship. The Mayor of Manchester
and the Mayor of Bordeaux were mutually introduced, and
the latter expressed the gratification he derived from a visit
to Manchester at so auspicious a moment. M. Duffour, we
believe, was educated in England, and speaks English with
considerable fluency. We see by the London papers, that
amongst 14 gentlemen named as intended to be promoted to
the dignity of Peers of France on the 6th July there are
two Mayors—those of Bordeaux and Lisle ; and by those
who are qualified to judge, it is said that the elevation of
M. Duffour to the Upper Chamber of France will give great
satisfaction to his fellow-citizens, and to the friends of free
trade throughout France.—Manchester Guardian.
BA.RBADOES.—A WHOLE FAMILY POISONED.—Three
children and their mother were poisoned on the 30th of
April by eating of cassava (jatropa manihos), not properly
prepared. The cassava had been sliced since the 6th of
March, and dried, but the whole of the watery poison would
not appear to have evaporated. On the 30th of Aprl
some was prepared in a farinaceous state, made into cakes,
and eaten by the family at breakfast. At three o'clock one
of the children died, and the other two in the course of the
evening. Hopes were entertained of the mother's recovery.
The roots of the cassava, if eaten raw or improperly treated,
are poisonous to man and animals ; but when properly pre-
pared by heat they yield a valuable article of food, forming
a principal article of subsistence to the Indian and European
. .

John Senior, common brewer, Salford, Lancashire, July 15,
and August 7, at eleven, at the Manchester District Court.
Hobson, official assignee, George-street, Manchester; Gre-
gory, Faulkner, Gregory, and Skirrow, Bedford-row, London;
Claye, Thompson, and Welsh, Manchester.
John Davis, Miller, Broadway, Worcestershire, July 14, at
twelve, and Aug. 7. at eleven, at the Birminghom District
Court. Christie, official assignee, Birmingham ; Chetham,
Stockport ; Motteram and Knowles, Birmingham.
Wilton Wood. rope-manufacturer, July 15, and Aug. 11,
at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Bird, official
assignee, Liverpool; Norris and Co., Bartlett's-buildings,
London ; Bell, Liverpool.
James Irvine, ironmonger, Liverpool, July 9 and Aug. 11,
at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court. Turner, official
assignee, Liverpool Norris, Allen, and Simpson, London;
Thompson, Liverpool.
James Dent, cloth merchant, Huddersfield, July 14 and
Aug. 4, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Young, offi-
cial assignee, Leeds; Sudlow and Co., Chancery-lane, Lon-
don ; Floyd, Huddersfield. . _

PRICE OF SUGAR.
The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, the pro-
duce of the British possessions in America, computed from
the returns made in the week ending June 30, 1846, is
365. 9:3/4d. per cwt.
[Dividends, &c., in our Next].

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
BRISTOL, JULY 2.

inhabittints of South America. But, though the juice'is a
quick and mortal poison, the antidote is always at hand, being
nothing more than clay, or common earth and water.
ROYAL THANES YACHT CLUB —Thursday evening the
monthly meeting of the above club was held at the Piazza
Hotel, Covent-garden, Lord A. Paget (the commodore) pre-
siding. The treasurer read the financial report from April to
30th June, which showed a balance in the hands of the
treasurer of 574/. 13s. 4d. A motion was unanimously car-
ried that 3001. of the balance should be invested in the Three

STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—North Staffordshire, 44 p.—
South Devoa, 33,—York and North Midland, East and West lading
Extet.sion, 125 y.

LIVERPOOL, JULY 2

NEW STOCK EXCIIANOE.-Although the amount of business done
la the Share Market is still extremely limited, yet rather snore confi-
dence is manifested by holders; and hopes are entertained that the
long inactivity which has prevailed will be succeeded by a steady ex-
change at increasing values. The improvement in the Derby and
Crewe, the North Staffordshire, and the West Riding Union schemes
is considerable, and a good deal of scrip has changed hands at the
enhanced rates. The sales are-Birkenhead, Lancashire, and
Cheshire Junction, 1 p.-Bliningliam and Oxford, % p.-Boston,
Newark, and Sheffield, % dis.--Chester and Birkenhead, 201. Shares,
p.-Derby and Crewe, 3s. 9d. p.-Eastern Counties, 241,8-Ditto,
York Extension, 21s. p.-Grand Junction, 224-Ditto, Quarters,
New, 29' p.-Huddersfield and Sheffield, 5% p.-Huddersfield,
Bradford, and Halifax, 2t4 p.-Leeds and Thirsk, 6 dis.-Leicester
and Bedford, 7s. dis. -Liver pool and Bury, New, p. -Liverpool',
Ormskirk, and Preston, 18s. 6d. p.-Lonon and Birmingham, Fifth
Shares, 234 p.-Manchester and Birmingham, Quarter Shares (A),
10 p.-Ditto, ditto (B), 10 p.-Manchester and Leeds Extensions,
2% p.-Manchester, Matlock, and Midland, 12s. p.-North British.
Carlisle, p.-North Staffordshire, 78s. 9d. p.-North Western, S
p.-Sheffield and Manchester, No. 3 (late Barnsley), 1 p.-Shrop-
shire Union and Canal, 265. Gd. dis.-South-Eastern, New Hall
Shares, 1 p.-West Riding Union, 7s. 6d. p.-Caledonian, Hall
Shares, 1% dis.-Dundee and Perth, Gs. Gd. p.
MANCHESTER, JULY 2.
STOCK Excaarrax.-The sales are-Birkenhead, Lancashire, and
Cheshire Junction, 1 1-16 p.-Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham,
16s. dis.-Clitheroe Junction, 1 dis.--Derby and Crewe, ,N p.-
Huddersfield, Halifax, and Bradford, 214 p.-Lancashire and North
Yorkshire, 14 dis.-Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester, 2% p.-
Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 1-16 p.-Londonand Birmingham,
Quarters, 2634 p.-London and York, 1 dis.-Manchester, Buxtort„
Matlock, and Midland, % c. p.-Manchester and Birmingham).
Quarters (B), 9 15-16 p.-Ditto, ditto (C), 9 p.-Manchester find
Leeds Extension, 2% p.-North Eastern, 1% dis.-North Stafford-
shire, 3 15-16 p.- Oldham, Birkenhead, &e., 16s. dis.--Freston and
Wyre, 30 M -Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction, Is. dls.- Shrews-
bury and Birmingham, 1-16 c. p.-Shropshire Union Railway and
Canal, 1% dis.-South-Eastern and Dover, Halves,No. 4, 'A P•--WeltP•--Weltßiding Union, 2 7-16 p.-York and Carlisle, 1% dis.
LEEDS, JULY 2.
STOcit EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Eastern Counties, York Ex
tension, 235. 6d. p.-Huddersfield and Sheffield, 5% cash p.-Leeda
and Bradford, 37 p.-Leeds and Dewsbury, 2X, p.-Manchesteir
and Leeds Extensions, 21. Hs. p.-Midland, New, 14 p.-Newcastle
and Berwick, lb% p.-Newcastle and Darlington Extensions, 9 p.-
Boston, Newark, and Sheffield, 15s. dis.-Derby and Crewe, 4/. Is.
3d. p.-Leeds, Wakefield, and Midland, 10s. Gd. dia.-Leicester and
Bedford, ss. dis.- Liverpool, Crmskirk, and Preston, 17s. 6d. p.-
London and York, 245. dis.-Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, an''.
Midland, % p. -Northumberland and Lancashire Junction, N dis.-
North Staffordshire, 4 p.-North Western, 4s. p.-Oxford, Wane!".
and Cheltenham, 19s. dis.-WeLsh Midlands, 275. dis.-West Riding
Union, 41. 98.

per Cent. Consols. A letter was read from the British Con-
sul at Cadiz, intimatirg that from a communication received
from the director of customs at Madrid, that the Spanish

Government had consented to grant the same privilekes in

respect to all Spanish ports to the Royal Thames‘ Yacht
Club as were already enjoyed by the Royal Yacht Squadron.
MR. COBDEN.—Mr. Cobden will not engage in any
public business whatever for the next twelve months or
more. He remained in London to vote on the Corn Bill,
though advised, for the sake of his own health, by his per-
sonal friends, and the friends of the Corn Bill not to do so,
and has now left London entirely for the present year.
Writing to a gentleman in London from Manchester on the
28th of June, he says :—" I have left town for the session;
and for a year, at least, the claims of private duties, and the
necessary attention to my health, will prevent my taking
any part in public life." When it is borne in mind by those
who know, and told to those who do not know, that Mr.
Cobden has a very large printing establishment, which
hae been created by himself; by his close per-
sonal attention to it ; and that it is a busi-
ness requiring close attention. more than most
others in existence, it regulating, and being regulated
by, the fashions of the day—the female fashions—it being an
embodiment of the most complex elements in chemistry and
mechanics ever producing something new, ever in need of
new designs, always exploring in unknown nature for new
discoveries—when it is borne in mind, that the industrial
genius and personal superintendence of Mr. Cobden have
advanced his establishment to its present magnitude, it may
be easily perceived that the time he has devoted to the public
service has been a greater sacrifice than any other public
man has made. His private affairs may have not been ne-
glected, but one thing is sure, that had he always been a
public man, leaving the Chorley print works to the manage-
ment of a deputy, the Chorley print works never would have
been what they are. Mr. Cobden is not a politician by
profession. He is a calico printer, and has only been drawn
into political life by a great national necessity, and he returns
to his business the moment the necessity is over.—Ackeertiser.
A WOMAN FILLED BY HER HUSBAND, AT HER OWN
REQUEST.—The following curious case of murder occurred
lately in a small village in Wurtemberg :—Adam Gayring,
shepherd, a man sixty-tour years of age, of honest and up-
right dealings, loved and respected by all who knew him,
presented himself on the Bth instant, before the authorities
at Heidenheim, and stated calmly that he had just killed
his wife. His declaration was immediately taken, as fol-
lows:—" My wife," he said, " as every one knows, has been
suffering for a long time from illness, and at times the
pains she had to endure were such as to affect her reason ;
she latterly gave up all hopes of recovery, and continually
repeated, that not only was life a torment to her, but that
she feared that if I died before her, she would be reduced to
misery. This morning, after we had read together the 4th
chapter of the Book of Judges (they were devout people and
read the Bible every day), she requested me to drive
a nail into her temple, as Jael did to Sisera, as such
a death seemed to her bort and easy, and would put an
end to her sufferings; she said she forgave me beforehand
for the act, of which she absolved me before God and man.
A nail she said would not cause a great hemorrhage, and
would make but a slight wound. As soon as lam dead,'
she added, you can close the wound, put me on a clean
cap, and no one will know anything at all about it.' After
long resistance (continued Gayring) I gave way to the
wishes of my wife. I took a nail and began to drive it into
her left temple with a hammer, but the nail was too weak,
and the point, instead of entering, flattened itself on the
bone. I then took a small drill, but was equally unsuccess-
ful. My wife grew impatient, and requested me to kill her
at once with the hammer, which I did accordingly, by
knocking in the skull. The body of my wife is at my
house, where you can examine it at your leisure "—The
magisti ate immediately proceeded to the house with a
medical man, and Gayring under a strong guard. They
found the body dressed upon the bed. On the left temple
there were two wounds, and the right side of the skull was
knocked in as low down as the temple. Beside the bed was
a table on which was a bible, the nail, drill, and hammer
alluded to. On the ground was a basin of water, in which
the murderer, according to his own declaration, washed his
hands before presenting himself to the authorities. Gayring
is now in prison ; he is perfectly calm, and convinced that he
acted well in fulfilling the wishes of his wife by putting an
end to her sufferings. Some Wurtemberg papers state that
the inhabitants of the village of Gussenstadt, where the mur-
der was committed, left their work as soon as they heard
of the murder, and spent the day in the church, fasting and
praying for the soul of the departed.
MOST REMARKABLE DISCOVERY.—Last June, says the
Kingston (Canada) Chronic/e, a man named Edmund Dou-
gan, residing on lot 17, in 4th concession of the township of
Nottawasaga, in the county of Simcoe, discovered on the lot
Ile occupies a sunken hole in the earth, having the resem-
blance of a small pond of water, or low fen. It was situated
on a rising ground in the forest which he was engaged in
clearing, preparatory to cultivation. The roots of the trees
had spread over the marsh, and many of considerable thick-
ness were cut away by the occupant of the lot and his assis-
tants. Dougan's son on stooping down to drink out of the
hole discovered some bones in it, which caused a further ex-
amination, which ultimately led to the discovery of a very
large Quantity of human bones, including between five
hundred and six hundred human sculls l They also found
about 401bs. of brass; several brass kettles, in a decayed
state, and several hatchets. In about a month after the
occurrence above narrated a similar hole was discovered by
Mr. William Thompson on the third lot in the same con •
cession and township, which, being examined by Mr. Thomp-
son and his neighbours, was found to contain eleven copper
kettles, each of which would hold about nine pails of water.
Eight of the kettles were found as perfect as when made,
and the other three were much ccrroded. In this hole was
also discovered ten or a dozen sea shells, and a large quantity
of pipeclay buttons. The holes are situate about one mile
and a half from each other, with the north branch of the
NQtawasafa River dividing them.

SHEFFIELD, JULY 2.
STOCK EXciIANGE.-The sales are-York and North Midland Ex-
tension, 34%- East Lancashire, 3% p.-Grimsby and Sheffield Ex-
tension, 275. 6d. dis.-Leeds, Wakefield, and Midland, 12s. 6d. dis -
Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 20s. p.-Northumberland and
Lancashire Junction, 14s. 6d. dis.-North Staffordshire, 31. 185. p.-
Sheffield and Lincolnshire, 75.6 d. dis.
HULL, JULY 2.
STocK Excrwmz.-The sales are-North British, Carlisle Branch,
335.-Bandon and Bantry,
N.-Chelmsford and Bury, II s.
East Coast, 165.-Hull and Lincoln, 19s. 6d.-Leicester and Bedford,
165.-Leicester and Tamworth, 245.-London and York, 295.-North
Western, 275.-North Staffordshire, 61. 33.-South Midland, 14s. dis.
-Welsh Midland, 235.-West Riding Union, 4/. 13s. 6d.
NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, JULY 2.
STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Eastern Counties, York Ex-
tension, 18s. p.-Great North of England, 151. Shares, 16s. p.-Lan-
cashire and North Yorkshire, 235. dis.-West Riding Union, 2% p.-
York and Carlisle, 1% dis.

YORK, JULY 2.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Eastern Counties, York Ex-
tension, 11. 12s. —London and York, 14—Manchester, Buxton,
Matlock, and Midland, 2/. 14s.—Newcastle and Berwick, 25—New
castle and Darlington, New, 97(9—North British, Carlisle Exten-
sion, 11. 13s.—North Staffordshire, 614—North Western, I w —Welsh
Midland. IL 3s.—West Riding Union, 41 I Is. 6d.—York and North
Midland Extension, 34—Ditto (East and West Riding Exension),
11/. 16s. 3d. . _ _