The Sun.
London, England, 1851-07-04 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON,

BROUGHAM, in the course of which the former declared
that the ri.cent alterations in the bankruptcy laws had
proved a faiiure,
The Patent•law Amendment Bill was read a third
time and passed, and their Lordships adjourned.
In the House of Commons,
Lord Joins RUSELL mated, that with regard to the
Ecclesiastical Titles Assumption Bill, be should not pro-
pose to make any alteration in the preamble, or in the
first clause of the Bili as it now stood; but he should
move to omit fom the second clause the words introduced
by Sir F. TRESIQER with regard to putting in use bulls
prom Rome, abed th,:se which empowered a common in-
former to sue for the penalties.
The Oath of Abjuration (Jews) Bill was read a third
time and passed, without a division, after a protest from
Sir R. H. Ixcus and a speech from Lord JOHN Rua-
SELL, who said he was glad to find that Alderman
SALOMoNS did not mean to come down to the House
to take the oaths before the other House or Parliament
had decided upon this Bill ; and he hoped that that
House, which had of late evinced a great sensibility re-
specting its own privileges, would consider, after the
House of Commons had for the third time declared its
opinion that Jews ought to sit there, and two bodies of
constituents had elected Jews, whether it was not due to
the representatives of England, and to the peat body of
the people, that they should be allowed to consult their
own wishes upon this subject.
The Court of Chancery and Judicial Committee Bill
went through Committee, after a discussion, of which
some observations from Sir J. GaAsAm were the princi-
pal feature.
The Committee on the Woods and Forests Bill occu-
pied the remainder of the evening.

Yesterday his Roy
al Highness Prince ALBERT
was received at Ipswich by the British Association.
A peculiar interest attaches itself to the proceedings
of the society upon the present occasion, seeing that
they are just now contemporaneous with the Great
Industrial Exhibition. Added to this, the PRINCE
CONSORT'S participation in these proceedings cannot
but invest them with an additional attraction, remem-
bering, as every one doev, the brilliant enterprise in
furtherance of the same cause which that illustrious
personage has recently originated. It is satisfactory
therefore, under the unprecedented circumstances of
the case, to observe the enthusiasm of the recep-
tion accorded to the Prince ALBERT throughout the
whole line of his progress down to the head-quarters
of the British Association. Tne cordiality displayed
by all parties towards himself personally has been
nobly deserved from the first year of his marrisge
with our beloved SOVEREIGN, but more especially so
in that year which is destined to be remembered in
our history as one rendered peculiarly remarkable
through his immediate instrumentality. Alluding to
these considerations, the Mayor, aldermen, and bur-
gesses of the borough of Ipswich remarked very
admirably in their official address to his Royal
Highness, "It is our pride to welcome
in your royal Highness not only the Consort of our
beloved QUEEN, but the supporter of every deserving
institution throughout her dominions; not only the
Chancellor of the great University, but the active
promoter of general eduction upon a broad and na-
tional basis ; not only the patron of all that is high
and noble in British art, but the originator of that
tnegeificent conception by which the results of the
world's industry and genius have been assembled in
our lsnd for the instruction of admiring nations."
Nothing could have been more gracefully or more
truthfully expressed than this ; and we rest assured
that the sentiments thus articulated, while they will
be echoed by all classes of her MAJESTY'S subjects
throughout the United Kingdom, will more than
compensate the PRINCE CONSORT for his prolonged
and arduous exertions in promoting the inte-
rests at once of Science, of Art, and of In-
dustry. Referring yet more explicitly to the
marvels of the Crystal Palace exposition, the
address already quoted goes on to express the
satisfaction with which the people of Ipswich
hasten to welcome amongst them " the master mind
which originated the great idea," and to the inde-
fatigable efforts of which, it might have been added,
the splendid success of the whole project was mainly,
if not entirely attributable. Having duly received
these warm expressions of regard and congratulation,
the PRINCE responded to them with a like earnest-
ness, and traversing shortly afterwards the various
sections of the association, proceeded to the spot
selected for his residence during his sojourn in the
vicinity, namely, to Shrublaud, the seat of Sir W.
MIDDLETON.

According to a custom which has unluckily been
in vogue with some of our contemporaries of late
years, the members of the British Association for
the Advancement of Science have been subjected to
every imaginable impediment in the way of ridicule
and depreciation. This, it should be borne in recol-
lection, notwithstanding the fact that the promoters
of the society number amongst their most prominent
names those most illustrious in the various depart-
ments of the abstract and the physical sciences.
Fortunately the abuse directed against their humane
and elevated proceedings has hitherto been regarded
with that supreme contempt, or rather indifference,
to which it is alone entitled. The philosophers, who
annually assemble in some one or other of the princi-
pal places in the United Kingdom, still pursue the
course upon which they originally adventured, in spite
of all the funny things that could be said about
Geology, and all the "quips and cranks" that
could be indulged in by the punster anent the
profound researches in Mathematics. This, in fact,
was the only manner in which these ludicrous
vituperations upon the society could properly have
been received. The promoters of the cause of the as-
.sociatien cou'd not more effectually have set at defi-
ance the spite of their assailants, or have more tho-
roughly established, by their dignified silence upon
the matter, their own capacity to adventure upon
these serene, and in many instances sublime investiga-
tions. Doubtless it would be easy enough for a jocose
observer to raise a laugh by some quAnt allusion to
such an item, under Section 8.--Chemistry,
Sec., as " Dr. Tyndall--On Bubbles." But
that must be a shallow intellect indeed
which could not recognise the possibility of the
wisest deductions resulting from these apparent
puerilities. It would be such a narrow-brained
person as the one we have here supposed, who would
infallibly have jeered at FEANYLIN for flying a kite
with a key at the tail of it, have despised .NEWTON
for watching the apples fall in his orchard, and have
sneered at GALILEO because his eyes followed the
swaying of the lamp in the cathedral. Yet, scarcely
any one of the most moderate share of information
requires to be told that by these seemingly trivial
means were discovered the identity of lightning and
electricity, the law of gravitation, and the isochrunism
of the pendulum.

The report of the Commissioners respecting the
Transatlantic packet station has naturally excited a
storm of indignation in Ireland. Persons of all
classes in society, high and low, rich and poor, Radi-
cal and Conservative, for once agree in denouncing
the conclusion arrived at by the Commissioners, and
the public journals of every shade and variety of
political feeling exhibit, mirabile dictu, a similar
unanimity. We are by no means surprised at the
prevailing excitement. The claims of Ireland have
long been considered as of the most decisive charac-
ter, which only required examination to be
universally recognised. A fierce controversy was
waged as to the particular " port" that should be se-
lected, and many belligerents were ready and willing
to enter the lists on behalf of their respective dia
tricts. Blacksod Bay, Galway, Limerick, Valentia,,
Berehaven, and Cork, had each enthusiastic advo-
cates prepared to wage war a l'outrance in favour of
their different fancies. None, however, supposed
that the prize would be altogether withdrawn,
and none declared worthy to receive it.
The result has therefore been a com-
plete surprise, and all parties have joined
io attacking the Commissioners, just as opposing fac-
tions at an Irish fair used formerly unite their forces
in order to drive
away the constabulary, whose im
pertinent interference with their innocent amusements I
excited their ire to the utmost point.
liitubbelcres
rito the matter has not received, on the part of
s
the
public press, that calm
and unbiassed considera-
tion which its vastimportance so eminently
merits. It has
United Kingdom, which should
been treated as a party question,
as one between the
rival districts, rather
be decided on imperial ut
and not on local grounds.
The anti-Irish journals, of
as they would have done at u
country which has fallen under any
Y
their an, while our
themselvesb to be
Irish contemporaries have suffered
betrayed by their feelings into too
and have not examined the matter
than as affecting the ljeone, raised joyful
discomfiture to the
much warmth,
with the coolness,
essential to a wise and prudent decision.
The matter is not quite so clear as they seem to

think. There is much to be said on bath sides, and
although we do not agree with the Commissioners in
the decision at which they have arrived, we :iot
look upon it as an attempt to stifle the truth, or to
carry out a foregone conclusion. Their reasoning is
sufficiently plausible to account for their report on
other and more charitable grounds, and it must be fairly
met and answered by those who wish to set aside the
judgment and obtain a new investigation, which would
certainly be of a more satisfactory character if conducted
by a Committee of the House of Commons, in which
Ireland was fairly represented, rather than by a body
of officials all anxious to support the views of the
Minister for the time being, and to save any new de-
mands on the Exchequer.

There are several points on which we differ from
the Commissioners, each of which, if fairly argued,
would require more space than we could at this mo-
ment devote to the subject. We shall therefore for
the present content ourselves with merely enunciating
general views, which we shall be prepared to support
in detail when the proper occasion may arrive.
And first, the matter has been argued as if it was
merely a question of the transfer from Liverpool of
the entire traffic to some of the Irish ports. Now
this is not by any means the correct point of view in
which to regard it; Liverpool has considerable ad-
vantages, in many respects, which cannot be slighted
or despised, and which must always secure to it a
large proportion of the traffic. There would be great
inconvenience attending the repeated traeshippieg
of passengers and goods, which would prevent
many persons from the north of England, who
under any circumstances should pass Liverpool, from
encountering the annoyance. So far as Yorkshire
and Lancashire are concerned, Liverpool is probably
the best port that could be selected—although even
in those counties there are cases where the shorter sea
voyage and the more rapid communication might be
preferred, notwithstanding the additional expense.
But the interests of the south of England, and of all
Ireland, must not be disregarded, and there can be
no doubt that those interests would be promoted
by the establishment of a packet station in Ireland,
which should be as an adjunct to, and not as a sub-
stitute for, the station at Liverpool. The latter will
always have enough to keep the vessels now on the trade
fully occupied, while the more speedy postal communi-
cation, which it is desira,ble to improve at almost any
expense, and which might certainly be expedited by
at least 24 hours, and the traffic from the south
of England, Ireland, and the sou hern states of Europe
would be quite sufficient, after a short time, to
support vessels sailing from a judiciously selected
port in the south-west of Ireland.
Again, the Commissioners have given a preference
to Galway over any other of the Irish ports,
and they have then compared Galway with
Liverpool, and chosen the latter. Now, it seems to
us that Galway, in place of being the first, is one of
the least advantageous of the competing ports. In
order that Irish interests should be fairly attended
to, the very best and most eligible of
the rivals shoul I have been selected. it must not be
forgotten that all the places in the United States, and
almost all in British America with which we should
have direct communication, are in southern latitudes,
and that a good soothing is almost as essential
as a westing in the place of debarkation. This
point appears to have been altogether over-
looked by the Commissioners. Berehaven or
Valentia would certainly afford facilities in this
respect far beyond any that could be obtained
at Galway, and which, if duly taken into account,
would, we have no doubt, turn the scale in favour of
Ireland. Unfortunately the " improvements" that
would be required to carry out this view have not as
yet been effected. The Commissioners have, there-
fore, thrown the matter overboard without inquiring
whether the object to be achieved would not more
than justify the immediate execution of the necessary
works.

CABINET COUNCIL (TEIIS DAY).—The Ministers
assembled in Council this day at the Foreign-office. There
were present Lord John Russell, the Marquis of Lansdowne,
the Earl of Carlisle, the Earl of :Tinto, Viscount Palmer-
ston, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Clanricarde, Sir
Francis T. Baring, Earl Grey, Sir George Grey, and the
Right Hon. H. Labouchere. The Ministers were sitting
when we went to press. The Secretary-at-War (Mr. Fox
Maule) Is still indisposed, and has been recommended by his
medical advisers to proceed on a continental tour.

'lce paragraph which appeared in our paper of the
2d inst. respecting the rumoured marriage of Jenny Lind we
find has no foundation in fact, our correspondent having been
misinformed.

Among the nobility and gentry who bye visited
and dined at Soyer's Universal Symposium, Gere souse, Ken-
sington, lately, wee the t.uchess of Buckingham, the Earl
and Countess of Devon, the Earl of Verulam, Lord Edward
Thynne, Lord Leigh, Lord Clilden, Lord and Lady Courtenay,
Lord French, Hon. Reginald Courtenay, Lady Seymour, Sir
W. W. Wynne, Bart., H. Pierrepont, Sir P. Trench, Sir H.
Strachery, Hon. and Rev. Fitzroy Stanhope, Sir Fitzroy and
Lady Kelly, Sir Edward and Lady E. Baker, Sir Edward and
Lady Blount, Sir George and Lady Smythe, Captain and Mrs.
J. Gladstone, Colonel and Mrs. Wildman, Sir Peregrine
land, Joseph Paxton, Esq., Captain Bailieley, Mr. Grenville
Berkeley, Mr. Grenville igott, Baron Rothschild, &C.

CREMORNB GARDENS.--An aquatic representation
on a large scale of the attack of a fortress, described in the
bills as "St. Jean d'Acre," took place last evening on the
river and on the river esplanade at Cremorne-gardeus. The
at acking squadron consisted of fourteen steamers of the
Citizen Company, together with the hull of a steamer laden
with combustibles, the whole of which opened a vigorous
attack upon a land battery, represen:ing one of the defences
of the onlebrated city above-mentioned. The bombardment,
as set forth in the bills or placards, was under the direction
of Mr. Mortram, who certainly spared no gunpowder or
pyrotechnic combustibles and combinations to produce
smoke, fire, and noise The batteries on sla,re and the vessels
afloat, all did their duty, and astonished the immense host
of spectators assembled to behold the mimic warfare. The
hull was eventually blown to pieces amidst the cheers of the
company. As an imitative reprentation of an actual attack
this is the best of its class exhibited for many years, and
great praise is due to Mr. Bernie and those who have been
concerned in producing it. It has the advantage of novelty,
and is highly descriptive of the horrors of the scene it
pourtrays.

A Box's HEAL, CUT orr.—A little boy named
Thomas (son of David Thomas, otherwise ‘, Dai Calchwr,"
of Neath Abbey), met with a shocking death at Aberdulais
tin wor •s on Thursday morning. The lad was at work as
usual, when he inadvertently came within reach of the mer-
ciltss clip of the immense shears used for cutting tin, and
worked by steam power. In a i instant the poor boy's head
wac severed from his body, and rolled like a ball along the
floor: North Wales Chronicle.

A JUVENILE WIT.—" Father," said a roguish boy,
" I hope you won't buy any more gunpowder tea for mother."
" Why nut?"—" Because every time she drinks it she blows
us up."—" Go to bed, sir, immediately."

Mr. Mansfield, the new stipendiary magistrate of
Liverpool, took his seat yesterday morning, at eleven o'clock,
being introduced by Mr. Crossthwaite.
THE GREAT CHESS TOURNAMENT.—For some days
there was a pause in the contest. The first three series of
games being ended, the players rested awhile from their ex-
ertions. This week, however, the fourth and concluding
series of games began. In the first game between Herr
Anderson and Mr. Wyvill, the former was victorious, having
obtained an advantage at an early period of the game, which
he maintained till the close, winning in fine style. In the
second game Mr. Wyvill had the advantage in a slight de-
gree, but not sufficient to decide the victory, and after an
animated contest the game was drawn. The players con-
tinue the straggle to-day. Mr. Staunton commenced his
match with Mr. Williams yesterday morning, and after a
very fine and well contested game, fortune or superior skill
decided in favour of Mr. Williams. He has thus won the
first game, but with a veteran player like his antagonist he
will need all his skill and coolness to obtain the victory.
THE EXHIBITION A WINTER GARDEN.—Yester-
day a meeting of the Marylebone Committee was held at the
Courthouse, Marylebone-lane, when it was resolved that
it would be most desirable that the great building in the park
for the Exhibition of the Works of Industry for all Nations
should not be removed, and it that should be kept up for the
permanent enjoyment and benefit of the public, and in ac-
cordance with the resolution a petition to the House of Com-
mons was drawn up, which lies for signature, praying the
Hon. House to take the necessary measures to prevent the
removal of the building and secure the object which the pe-
titioners seek for.

Df3ATH OF COLONEL STORY.—This officer expired
on the 3d inst., in the 67th year of his age. He entered the
army in 1803, but had been on the attached list since 1838.
Colonel Story served in the Peninsula with the 3d Dragoon
Guards, from August, 1809, to the end of the war in 1814,
and was present at the battles of Bu nco, Reolinha, Campo
Mayor, Los Santos, and Albuera ; also, the ac'iou of UAtgre
and the sieges of Ciudad Rodrigo and Badajoz. The de-
ceased also took part in the battles of Salamanca, Vittoria,
Toulouse, and siege of Pampeluna. He was the holder of
an old war medal.

CONTRIBUTIONS OF LADIES.—In a speech at a Bible
meeting at Cheltenham last week, the Rev. Francis Close
said :—" There were some very smart ladies who went to
his church—ladies with beautiful pink bonnets and very
fine ribbons—( Laughti r)—and dressed in all sorts of finery ;
and some of these ladies were in the habit of ciiming out of
his church and dropping into the plate little neatly folded
packets, done up in brown paper.- (La,ighter.) Now, he
might mention it as a statistical fact, there never was found
in any one of these little packets any of the current coin of
the realm more valuable than copper."—.Derby Mercury.
TIIE CENSUS ENUMERATORS.—In the Whitechapel
County Court yesterday, Mr. Sergeant Manning gave judg-
ment in the ' case of " Cohen v. Sir G. Grey," for the de-
fendant, holding that the enumerators were not to be paid
for every fractional part of sixty names taken by them.
The Eindoo Inteltigencer announces the death of
one of the seventeen wives of Dinnoonauth Mokerjee, which
melancholy event consequently leaves the said Mokerjee
the seventeenth part of a desolate widower.—Calcuttu Star.
We understand that Madlle. Fanny Cerrito, who
has so often delighted London audiences, by the perfection
of her dancing, is about to pay a visit to England, for the
purpose of witnessing the wonders of the Exhibition;
whether, however, she will exhibit her own wonders 1/1 not
yet known.

Railways. I rail. Imolasl Prim. Business due
to-day.
Aberdeen •• • • • • all 1 —34 dim dia.
Caledonian 101. .• •• 10 6% —6% 634
Chester and Holyhead all 15% 15% 1534
Dund. Per. & Aber. June, all %
East Anglian (31. 101.)
Pa
Eastern6spPeerrt
cent.
e nn Counties
tE
Do. No. 2 • • • • • • all le die % p
Do. New 6p. cent. Stock 10 1534 10%
Eastern Union, Scrip
guaran. 6 per cent. .. all 18% —143 C
Do, 101. Deben. Shares . all
East Lancashire, 6 per
cent. quarter shares .. all ••
E. &W. York. June. sths all
Edin. Per. &Dun. 51 p. ct. all 34 dis. par
Glasgow & S.-W. Consol. 100 ..
Gt. Northern, 5 per cent. all 184 13% 1334
Great South. & Western
(Ireland) eighths .. 234 134 p.
Lancashire and York-
shire, F. 201. .. 6 ..
Do. 6 per et. Stock .. 100 ..
Leeds and Thirsk, 6 per
cent., No. I •• 11 P
Do. quarters, 184$ .. 9 p
London, Brighton, and
South Coast guar. 5 per
et., late Croydon thirds 100 ..
Do. pref., e p ct. Stock,
1851, from 501. share. E 100 .. —.•
De. new guar., 6 per at. 100 137 140
London &S.-W., new • • 5 234 10.
Londonderry and Ennis-
killen, half shares 10 .. ••
Manch., Sheffield, and
Line., guar. shrs., No. 1 all 12 -- 13
Do. new, 101. .. .• all 11% 12
Do., 61. . 3 —• Vp
Midland Con. 6p. 0. stock 100 -. „.
Do. Consol. Bristol &
Binning., 6 per cent... 100 18234 13334
Do. Bristol & Glouces. 48
Norfolk Extension .. all 18 —l6
t'o. guar. 834 Per cent all 43( 4313
Do. Waveney Valley .. 2 • ••
North British 5 6
Oaf. Wor. & W 01. 151.6 p.c 4 —1 P
Shrewsbury and mi.=
New Guaranteed .. all 1034 15%
Shrews, and Ches. (Nor.
W. Min.) 8 per cent, all lb 1514
South Devon .. all 13 —le
South-Eastern, 434 p. et. 10 • • —• •
Waterford & Kilkenny, 51. 1 • • —••
West London,lst Cl. (101.) all • • —• •
Do. 2d Class de, (par) all •• "
York, Newc., and Berw.,
Gt. N .of E. Pur.
D0.„1634
all 16
4 —4%
York and North Midland
IL and S. Ptath. .. 10 134 % 934 9
Boulogne and Amiens .. 111 103( 1036 % %
Central of France (Or-
leans and Vierzon) .. all 1836 16% 193(
Demerara •all •• —• •
Dutch Rhenish 5% —5 die. 32%
East Indian 16 2% —2% p. 11%
Do. do. do. 20
Great Indian Peninsula— all % % P.
Ditto ditto 336 3% 4
Louvain ala Sambre 734 . —••
Luxembourg .. 8
Ditto • • .. 10 236
Madrid and Valentitl
Maria Antonia .. 1716 s 81 •9
11
Ditto, New .. 734 2 _ 3
Namur and Liege au 6% —6%
Northern of France .. 16 15% 15% 1554
Orleans and Bordeaux .. 4 —6% es. 4
Paris and Orleans ss —ss 35
Paris and Itollolll • • • . all 35% 2634
Paris and Strasbourg 16 b% b die. 11 34
Rouen and Havre .. all 991 10
Sambre and Meuse .. all 334
Tours and Nantes 16 9 3 % els. xd to
Tournay, Jurbise, Lan-
den, and fission .. au
West Plooolorr sk 2 236 XII

Afines--Cobra Copper, 31
can, 2%. Unluo of A.U3U
stearn, 70 69) z.d.

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I9N 4034

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; Tin Croft, 7

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siniTursEin.

The supply of Beasts in to-day's market being small, and
the weather more favourable for slatghtering, the Beef trade
ruled steady, and, in some instances, the quotations had an
upward tendency. Amongst the icreign stock we noticed
150 Sheep from Spain and 40 Oxen 'min Oporto. Although
the numbers of Sheep were on the iicrease, the demand for
that description of stock was firm, an advance of 2(1 per
81b?, the primest old Downs selling at 4s per 81bs, and a
good clearance was effected. Calved though in good supply,
moved off steadily, at extreme currocies. In Pigs so little
was doing that prices were almost nominal. Milch Cows
were dull in sale, at from 141 to 1815% each, including their
small Calf.

a. d. to s.d
ttlerlor Sbeep .. . 2 8 2IS
Second quat. Sheep 3 0 3 2
Clarsa-weolled ditto 3 4 8 8
•iouthdown Nether 810 4 0
Ditto tut of the wool 0 0 0 0
Largelloge •••• •• 2 4 3 2
Small Porkers • • It 4 3
Quarter old Pigs —l6 0 11 0
AT 31ARKLT

Per sibs. to sink this offal.
s. d. to s. d.
Inferior Beasts..... 2 6 2 8
Second quality •• .. 210 3 0
Prime large Oxen.. 3 2 3 4
Prime Scots •••• . • 3 6 3 8
Large coarse Calves 2 8 3 4
Prime small ditto .. 8 6 3 8
inckllng Calves 18 0 26 0
Lambs •••••. • • • • 4 0 b 0
TOTAL SUPPLY
I Sheep,
18,200

Beasts.
$lO

Calves.
264
Calves.

Pin
300
PJ I

Beasts.
10

Sheep.
40