The Sun.
London, England, 1860-07-21 00:00:00

AMERICA.

QUEENSTOWN, JULY 21.
The Royal Mail steamship Europa, Capt. Leitch,
from Boston on the 11th, and Halifax on the 13th
of July, arrived here at 4.30 a.m. to-day.
She brings 160 passengers and 175,000 dole. in
specie.

She landed all mails, and proceeded at 5 a.m. for
Liverpool. All well.
The Arabian arrived at Boston on July 12. The
Etna, Fulton, and Palestine had also arrived out.

The steamer John Stephens left Aspinwall on
the 30th ult. with 1,400,000 dols. in gold for New
York.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, JULY 10, 1860.
New York Centrals, 84; Erie, 201 ; ditto first mortgage
bonds, 101; Illinois bonds, 90; do. Railroad 65k. Money
easier. Foreign exchange firm on London 1091 to 110.
Stocks active. Cotton limited, prices nominal. Flour
heavy and drooping. Corn has declined. Sugar and Coffee
in fair demand. Other articles restricted.

NEW ORLEANS, JULY 10.
Cotton quiet. Middling Upland, 101. Exchange on
London, 90 to 10 premium.

TEE EA CROACIIMENTS IN KENSING-
TON GAR DENS,

A public meeting of the inhabitants of Padding-
ton, Notting-hill, Bayswater, &C., was held last
evening at the Vestry Hall, Paddington-green,
to resist the encroachment on the quiet and
safety of Kensington-gardens, as contemplated
by the formation of an equestrian ride as an ex-
tension to that of Rotten-row. Mr. Churchwarden
Whitter was called to the chair. The platform
was crowded with a very numerous assemblage of
gentlemen of local influence, and the hall was com-
pletely thronged.
The CHAIRMAN briefly introduced the subject,
and then

Mr. DILLON, who commenced by saying it was
not a political question they had met to discuss.
That afternoon a meeting had been appointed to
wait upon Mr. Cowper, whose memory or manners
forsook him, for he never appeared, but he could
manage to meet four lords on the same subject the
previous night. The park was not the people's
property, but granted by the favour of the Queen.
(Cries of "No, no.") He hoped the Lords would
not make it a " Lord's" question, or the people
would be bound, in their own justification, to make
it their question. Much had been said about the
pedestrians having had their comfort attended to,
and that the equestrians were entitled to the same
consideration ; but what he asked was that they
should not have the same place and reduce the op-
portunity for exercise of their wives and families.
(Hear.) He thought there were many places s
little distance from Loudon, such as Blackheath,
Barnet, or other places ; but as the reply was that
such places were too far off, he feared they only
sought this new ride for display. (Loud cheers.)
They (the people) cared as much for the health
and exercise of their families, and could not
spare the beautiful garden they had. He
respected the aristocracy, but he admonished
them to respect the feelings, safety, and
privileges of the people. He then moved,
" That without notice to, or consultation with, the
parties interested, a ride has been formed connect-
ing Rotten-row with the most retired and beauti-
ful part of Kensington Gardens, cutting the gardens
into two parts, and rendering access from one part
to the other inconvenient and unsafe. That these
gardens, by the gracious permission of the Sove-
reign, have been hitherto open to pedestrians only,
affording a great and safe means of enjoyment to
all classes, without reference to rank or fortune."
Colonel DICKSON seconded, and had no doubt the
meeting then present would have the effect of set-
tling the question.
Mr. BENSON and Mr. NICHOLAY supported, amid
much cheering, and the resolution was carried, with
one dissentient.

Dr. THORNE advocated the extension instead of
the contraction of healthful grounds. The poor in-
valid who could not afford to leave London had no
other place but the gardens for his walk. He hoped
the aristocracy would leave the rights of the people
alone, and their privileges would be respected. He
moved, " That the ride now made appears intended
to afford further means of recreation to those classes
of society whose means of enjoyment are already
comparatively without limit, particularly as to
horse exercise which they can enjoy in the parks
and on all the roads and places in the neigh-
bourhood of the metropolis, and that it is an in-
terference, as unwise as it is ungracious, with the
comfort and the safety of the people at large, maul
of whom have settled in the neighbourhood in the
expectation of being allowed for themselves and their
families, and for the young, the sick, and the more
studious of all classes the quiet and safe enjoyment
of these gardens, and this meeting hereby ex-
presses its unqualified condemnation of the forma-
tion of such ride."
Mr. L. SEWELL seconded.

Mr. MARTELLI moved, and Mr. HAGGARD se-
conded, the formation of a committee to take steps
to petition the Queen, or adopt other means to
further the object, and the business terminated iu
the usual way.

Yesterday evening a public meeting was held at
the Vestry, Kensington, to protest against the for-
mation of the horse road in Kensington-gardens.
Mr. J. White, M,P. for Brighton, presided, and
the room was crowded.
Letters were read from the following members
of Parliament :—Lord Fermoy, Mr. James, Baron
Rothschild, Sir M. Peto, Sir J. Shelley, Lori En-
field, and Mr. Hanbury.
The CHAIRMAN, in a short speech, stated the
business which they were met to consider.
Mr. SERLE, after a speech strongly condemnatorl
of the proposed alteration, which he denounced as
an abominable innovation on the rights of the
people, moved the following resolution : ""That the
parks and gardens open to the public in the metro-
polis, are not only indispensable to health and com-
fort of its inhabitants, but constitute its orn am ents ;
and that the integrity and rural beauty of these
delightful places of public resort, appreciated as
they are by the poor as well as the rich, ought tO
be preserved inviolate."
Captain SHUTTLEWORTH seconded the resolu-
tion, which was supported by Mr. Nieholay, and
carried, with only five dissentients._

Mr. ARCHBUTT moved—" That the intersection
of Kensington-gardens by a broad dusty horse road
is repugnant to the feelings of all classes in this
parish and neighbourhood, and is specially objec-
tionable as not only fraught with danger, but as de-
priving females, children, and invalids, who resort
in large numbers to the gardens for health and re-
creation, of the quiet, comfort, and security they
have hitherto enjoyed."
Mr. Churchwarden GREENWAY seconded the
motion.

Mr. TURNER having in vain endeavoured to op-
pose the resolution, it was passed unanimously.
Mr. FREEMAN moved—" That the obnoxious
measures, by which a small class is to be favoured
at the expense of the great body of the inhabitants,
has been adopted withous notice, and without there-
fore affording to the public the opportunity of re-
monstrating against it, and that consequently there
is no security that either here or elsewhere other
changes of an equally objectionable character may
not at any time be anticipated."
The resolution was seconded, and, like the others,
adopted with great enthusiasm.
A vote of thanks to the chairman closed the pro-
ceedings.

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EXTRAORDINARY BIRTH.— 5,°,11 EFFECTS °F
FRIGIIT.—On Saturday last Mrs. WAwards, of Millbroo/i',
had taken her seat in a waterman's. boat at Mutton Cover
Devonport, to cross Hamoaze to her residence, when a young'
lad, in endeavouring to step from the slip on the gunwale'
missed his footing and fell into f.,he water. Mrs. Edwardsv_
who was raven months advanced in pregnancy, was greatly
terrified at the accident. The boy was rescued with some
difficulty, but the shock she sustained was so great, thlit
on the boat arriving at Minhlook it was found necessary t°
carry her to her residence, The poor woman was taker-
with the pangs of premature labour and gave birth to three
children. Two of the infants have since died. The third
still survives but is very weakly, and the mother has sus-
tained a severe shock of the nervous system, from which it/
must be a long time before she will have completely re:
covered. Her gracious Majesty the Queen is in the habit
of making a present to mothers of three children at a birth,
and this is an occasion well entitled to gall forth the royal
bounty,—Plymouth Journal.