The Sun.
London, England, 1860-08-07 00:00:00

AMERICA.

SOUTHAMPTON, AUG. 7.

The United States mail steam-ship Vanderbilt,
Capt. Lefevre, with mails from New York to the
28th ultimo, has arrived off Cowes. She brings
235 passengers and 1,066,316 dols. in specie, of
Which 383,500 dols. are for England, the remainder
for France.
The New York papers give full particulars of the
entertainments given to the Prince of Wales at
Newfoundland. Great enthusiasm prevailed. A
ball given to the Prince on the 25th ult. was a,
Most brilliant affair ; upwards of 1,000 persons
were present.
The Prince embarked on board the Hero on the
26th ult. and sailed at 11 o'clock for Halifax on his
way to St. Peter's. The same ceremony was ob-
served as on his arrival ; the cheering was
tremendous.
A despatch from Toronto says—Various Indian
tribes will meet the Prince of Wales, at Queens-
town.
A telegram from St. John's of the 27th ult. says
--The Prince of Wales squadron passed Cape Race
at 5 o'clock. The Hero was boarded by the news
Yacht, and messages from the squadron were landed.
The City of Washington had arrived.
On the 27th ultimo the number of visitors to the
Great Eastern amouatel to 18,000. She was ex-
pected to visit Hampton-road on the 29th, and to
proceed to Annapolis the following day to coal.
The sugar market at Havanna was active. Vessels
in demand. _ _ -

Advices from Mexico state that Miramon had
succeeded in getting back to Guadalajara, where,
with 4,000 men, he was keeping at bay three times
that number under Odazon.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, JULY 28.

Money plentiful, offered to brokers at 5 per cent.
on call on Railway Stocks. Supply of paper fair.
Good short bills go readily at 5 per cent. Bankers
ask 109/ for 60 days' bills on London.
Rumours are current that a large amount of
cotton bills have been returned from Liverpool.
As much as £75,000 of bills were received back
by one house.
There was no check to business in the Stock
Exchange. Cotton firm. Flour easier. Corn
firm. Pork less active, new mess at 19 dols.
Coffee firm. Sugars steady. Freights firmer.
Wheat to Glasgow and London at 10d.
NEW ORLEANS, JULY 27.
Cotton quiet. Middling is quoted at 10c.

LONDONDERRY, AUG. 7.

The Montreal Ocean Company's steamer Nova
Scotian, Captain M'Master, from Quebec, on the
28th July, has arrived. She landed all the mails
The Vigo, from Liverpool, has arrived out.
On the 26th ult. a severe rain storm caused con-
siderable damage in New York and its vicinity
Several houses were inundated, and one was struck
by lightning.
On the 27th the New York stock market was
active, and prices higher. Money and exchange
were unaltered. The flour market was heavy, but
prices were not quotably lower; sales, 15,600
barrels ; Canadian dull. Wheat and corn were
unchanged. Barley nominal. Oats were dull but
steady. Lard firm. Whisky dull. _ _

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NEW ORLEANS, JULY 25.
The Cotton Market is unchanged. Sales, 1,000
bales.

BALTIMORE, JULY 25.
Flour is inactive. Wheat steady. Corn quiet.
BUFFALO, JULY 25.
Flour and wheat are dull. Corn closed higher,
MONTREAL, JULY 28.

The Prince of Wales left St. John's on Thurs-
day, and is expected at Halifax on Monday.
The town is thronged with strangers. The
'weather is cool, but the accounts of the crops are
favourable. The flour market is dull. Holders
are firm, and do not press sales.—Superfine 5 dols.
45 c. to 5 dols. 50 c. Wheat sales of Upper Canada
Spring have been made at 125 dols. Barley is
held at 70 c. per 50 lbs. Oats firm. Potashes 5
dole. 85 c. to 5 dols 95 c. Pearls unchanged.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—(This DAY.)

The SPEAKER was in attendance at twelve o'clock, but
did not take the chair until 25 minutes past, the house not
having been formed before.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.
Lord De Freyne's Estate Bill was lead a third time and
Passed.
ROMAN CATHOLIC CHARITIES BILL.
The house went into committee on this bill, resuming at
clause 5.
Mr. SELWYN said that he was happy to say that the
differences in reference to the bill were reduced to a very
simple point. He defended himself from a charge made
against him by the hon. member for Dundalk (Sir G.
Bowyer) of having dealt unfairly in regard to his oppo-
sition to the bill, by stating that the measure was brought
an at a time when it could not be fully discussed. He
contended that the law had been strained by this
bill in favour of Roman Catholics, and in the first
place it was required by those who opposed the
bill, that Roman Catholic charities should be placed on the
same footing as any other charities. Having referred to
the law prohibiting bequests of money for saying masses
for deceased persons, or other superstitious purposes, he
said by this clause that law was evaded. For instance, he
would take the case of a bequest of £50,000 to a specific
charity, for which only £lO,OOO would be sufficient,
the trustees would be empowered to apply the
£lO,OOO remaining to those superstitious purposes
what had been introduced by the existing law. He sug-
gested for the sake of the charity itself, and with a view to
avoid it being subjected to expense, that an application in
such a case should be made to the charity commissioners
to deal with the remaining fund, as was provided for with
respect to Protesta At charities. His third objection was,
that under the provisions of this bill this measure would be
injurious to the public interests as regarded bequests, as
England should be free from any foreign influence.
He maintained that it would be most dangerous to the
public interest if in this matter any foreign jurisdiction or
interference would be permitted, and if the clauses were
not altered in the points to which he alluded he must op-
pose the present clause.
After a few words from Sir G. C. LEWIS, the clause
vas negatived without a division, with the understanding
that it would be brought up with the report in an amended
form. The remaining clauses were agreed to.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL moved, to substitute for
clause 1, the following :—No gift or disposition made or to
be made for any legal charitable purpose connected with the
Roman Catholic religion shall be, either as to the whole or
any part, unlawful or void by reason of any purpose, re-
quest, or direction, which may be deemed in law supersti-
tions or unlawful, being made part of or united with such
gift or disr osition, but the whole of the property comprised
in such gift or disposition shall be applied exclusively for
such legal charitable purpose.
Sir G. BO WYER moved the following addition—" Pro-
vided, that no such last mentioned trust, condition, or re-
quest shall in any other respect be rendered valid or legal.
or invalid or illegal, or be otherwise affected by this Act."
He took that opportunity of stating with respect to clause
5 that the object of the bill was not to make any difference
between the law as relates to Roman Catholic charities
and Protestant charities. B this measure Roman Ca-
tholics would be obliged to By
the provisions of what
was called Lord Hardwicke's Act, in the same way as Pro-
testants were compelled to do. Roman Catholic charitiesearits
were subject to disabilities from which Protests
were exempt, and as soon as these were removed,''t
as it wasle
proposed to do by the bill, and Roman Catholics placed in
the same position with reference to those charities- as Pro-
testants, that was all that would be required.
IP, reply to Mr. ADDEILLEY Mr.
and
0, BOWYER said that the result of this clause
would be quite different to what the hon. members opposite
apprehended. In the case of a Roman Catholic testator leav-
ing £lO,OOO for a school or the maintenance of a church, and
£20,000 for masses for his soul, the latter would be invalid
under this clause. No such case as that to which he al-
luded occurred, because bequests were not made simply
for the saying of masses for thesoulofofa thoheurelcohnoorr,
but were given for the maintenance
a school or some other similar object,
prayers for
and merely ehrieslysouia requestshould
was made by the testator h
be said. This clause had the full concurrence
Roman Catholic body, and if rejected considerable
difficul-
ties would be experienced.
[LEFT SITTING.]

A SNOW STORM IN THE DOG-DAYS.---On Satur-
day afternoon a very severe thunderstorm
passed over
Melton. and district, ending in a shower of snow and hail
of fully a quarter of an hour's duration. The ground in
the Derwent valley and to the coast was quite white, and
on the Wolds it is said the snow was fully two inches deep
in some places. In the neighbourhood of Sherburn, hail-
stones as large as nuts fell in vast quantities, and it is said
the pea and turnip crops are very greatly damaged. On
the Wolds several lambs were killed by lightning. A
second storm of snow and hail occurred on Sunday.—Dar-
iington Times.
THE CLAN CAMPBELL IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS.
--On Monday, when Lord Clyde, the pacificator of India,
who has served with distinction in every great battle in
which the British have been engaged since Coruna, was
installed as a Peer in the House of Lords, besides the hero
being a Campbell, the Lord Bishop of Bangor, who read
prayers, was a Campbell, the Lord Chancellor, who pre-
sided on the Woolsack, was a Campbell, and the new Peer
was introduced by the Duke of Argyle, now Lord Privy
Seal, and Chief of the Clan.—Scotsman.
THE LEIGH WOODS MURDER.-011 Saturday
morning, as a man named Henry Mackay was gathering
herbs in Leigh-woods, near Bristol, he found a large brooch,
which has been identified as belonging to the unfortunal e
Charlotte Pugsley, whose murder by John William Beale
some three years since created ao much sensation. The
brooch was lying in a hollow covered with weeds. The hair
was slightly discoloured by water, which had penetrated it.
The pin is missing, and the brooch has the appearance of
having been violently torn from the dress of its ill-fated
wearer.