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London, England, 1850-09-21 00:00:00

N°. 18,095.] LONDON, SATURDAY E N G S --i SEPTEMBER 21, 1850.
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RAILWAY PASSENGERS' ASSURANCE
COMPANY ;
Emkowcred by Special Act of Parliament, 12 and 13 'Vic., cap. 40.
Offices, 3, Old Broad-street, London.
DIRECTORS.
Chairman—JOHN l) UL, Esti., 217, Strand.
Deputy-Chairman—GEOßGE BERKELEY HARRISON, Esq., 24.

Great Tower-street, City.
Humphrey Brown, Esq., M.P., Twining Park, Tewkesbury.
James Clay, Esq., M.P., 25, Montagu-square.
George (lire, Es 1., Sanderstead Court. Croydon.
Samuel Whitfield Daukes, Esq., 14, Wh!tehall-place, Westminster.
Irani,: Morton Farquhar, Esq , 16, St. James's-street.
Alexander Gre'g, Esq., 10, Lowndes-street, Belgrave-square.
The 11011. Arthur !amain], Pall-mall East.
Georcc Robert Paul, Esq., Portland Lodge, Worthing.
hankers—Ne=sre. Strahan, Paul, Paul, and Bates, 217, Strand
Messrs. Ransom and Co , Pall-mall East.
Stan ling Counsel—Henry Davison, Esq., Brick-court, Temple.
Solicitors —Messrs. Fry and Holt, Walbrook Il)use, City.
Surgeon—Barnard Wight Holt, Es•., F It.C.S., 5, Parliament-street
Westminster.
Secretary—Alexander Beattie, Esq.

This Company has teen established for the purpose of affording
compensation in cas .5 of personal injury, and the payment of a cer-
tain sum in the event of death by railway accident.
During the year just closed the following are the particulars of the
claims that have been made on this Company by 37 persons who
have sustained injury in travelling by railway :-
No. 1. A holder of a periodical ticket, No. 5,091, met with an ac-
cident by falling oft the platform at Preston, on the night of the Ist
November. Adjusted by a payment of 71. 6s.
No. 2. A mail guard, insured by a periodical ticket, No. 5,584.
whilst travelling from Ccatbridge to Perth, on the 29th November,
having occasion to get out at the Stirling Station, he slipped between
the platform and post-office van. The injury he sustained prevented
him from attending to his duties till the 3d January. Awarded 201.
No. 3. The holder of a periodical ticket, No. 5,396, whilst travel-
ling from Macclesfield to Manchester, on the 31st December, was
thrown against a gentleman sitting opposite to him, and received a
blow on his face, which rendered him incapable of attending to his
business for a few days. His claim was settled by the Company pay-
ing at his request 5 guineas to the Manchester Infirmary, the
claimant being himself a medical man.
No. 4. A commercial traveller, and holder of a periodical ticket,
No. 16,880, met with an accident at the Thirsk Station of the York,
Newcastle, and Berwick Railway, whilst about to proceed to New-
castle on the 24th of January. The injury consisted of a severe
bruise of the thumb, caused by a porter shutting the door of the car-
riage, on his left hand, befo-e he could take his seat ; the accident
obliged him, after remaining a week at Newcastle, to return home
from his journey. which he was unable to resume until February 11.
Awarded 311. 105.
No. 5. The holder Of a first-class ticket,issued at Leicester,January
28, was a passenger ix the train that ran off the rails between Ells-
worth and Wolverton ; he was thrown with great violence against
another passenger, and the shock unfitted him from attending to
business for some days. Awarded 141. 14s.
No. 6. The party in this instance is a clerk in the Travelling Post-
office, and the holder of a periodical ticket, No. 5,474, and was se-
verely injured, especially in the face and eyes, by the collision of the
mail with the goods' train, that occurred on the 13th February, near
the Abingdon Station, on the Caledonian Railway. Awarded 2101.
The injury to the eyes appearing to be of a permanent character.
No. 7. The holder of a single journey ticket was also a passenger
in the same train. The claimant was about to proceed to New
York, by the Canada, but the injury he received prevented him from
doing so. Awarded 35/.
No. S. Tice holder of a periodical ticket, No. 7,343, was injured by
the collision between the passengers' and goods' train in the long
tunnel lu the Leeds and Bradford Railway, on the 18th February.
Awarded 401.
No. 9. A commercial traveller, holder of periodical ticket, No.
16,851, was travelling by the mail train that left
severe nod a Newcastle at 4
shock P.M.
on the 15th March for Manchester, and susta
by the engine running off the line near the Victoria-bridge.
Awarded 10/.
No. 10. A Government officer and his wife were passengers by the
mail train that left Durham at half-past four o'clock P.M. on 6th
May, which ran Into an engine in the siding from the points not
having been properly set, near the Belmont Station of
the
hu York, New-
the
castle, and Berwick Railway, They were both much rt by
collision. Awarded 35/.
No. 11. An engine-driver, whilst driving the engine of a goods'
train on the 25th of May, between Blisworth and Wolverton, was
thrown beneath the engine from the train coming in collision with a
bale of cloth that had just fallen on the line from a passing train; he
was much scalded and otherwise severely injured. Awarded 421.
Claims 12 to 17 were made by parties who were travelling by the
excurs on train on the 3d July from Leek and Macclesfield to
Liverpool, the weight of whieh overpowered the breaks on entering
the station.
No. 12. The claimant, withhis wife and mother-in-law, from Leek,
second-class passengers, were all bruised. Awarde.l 6/.
No. 13. A young woman from Leek, a third-class passenger, had
her face hurt. Awarded 2/.
No. 14. A man and his wife, employed in the manufacture of elk,
third-class passengers, were both sightly injured by the shock.
Awarded 21.
No. 15. A passenger from Macclesfield had insured himself and
family, six in number, thr. e of whom received some injuries from the
concussion. Awarded 5/. ss.
No. 16. A gentleman holding a periodical ticket. No. 8,751, left
Macclesfield in the above train, and was so shaken as to be inca-
pacitated from attending to Isis business for a few days. Awarded 6/.
No. 17. A second-class passenger from 'Macclesfield was severely
injured about the spine and neck, which still confines her to her
room.
No. 18 and 19. These claims were made by two gentlemen,
holders of periodical tickets, employed in the railway post-office,
and travelling by the mail train that left the Euston Station on the
evening of the 6th of July, and ran into some waggons of a goods'
train, proceeding on the same line, near Harrow. One of them
sprained the muscle of his back, and the other was thrown agailist
the corner of the post-office, breaking one of his ribs,` and being
otherwise injured.
Claims No. 17, 18, and 19. are in course of adjustment.
No. 20. he claimant and his wife were third.class passengers by
the same train ; ha escaped with a few bruises, bit. his wife was
much injured. Awarded 151.
From the accident that occurred to the excursinn train at Cow-
lairs, on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, oil the Ist August,
when six persons were deprived of their lives, and many others in-
jured, the following claims have arisen :-
No. 21. A farmer from Dubheads, near Crief, was hurt about the
head and face. Awarded hi.
No. 22. A carpenter from Auchterarder, received a b'ow in the
head. Awarded 4/.
No. 23. A farmer from Strathallen, was also hurt about the head.
Awarded 5/.
No. 24. A draper from Auchterarder, was injured about the thigh
and side. Awarded 31.3.3.
No. 25. A man. from Auchterarder, was severely bruised about the

ribs.
No. 2G. A brother to the aboTe was sightly injured. Awarded

21. 23.
No. 27. A female was bruised, and otherwise internally hurt.
Awarded 6/.
No. 28. Another female was injured about the chest and side.
Awarded 21. 2s.
No. 29. A man, from Auchterarder, was slightly injured.
No. 30. A farmer, from Tulliebardine, was seriously bruised.
Claims 25, 29, and 30 are in course of adjustment.
In most of the above cases the sum awarded Is exclusive of the
medical ex,,enses incurred by the sufferers which have been defrayed
by this Company, in addition to that of their own medical officers,
who promptly visited the injured parties on hearing of the accident.
The utility of such a Company is demonstrated by these cases,
and the conviction that the premiums which the railway traveller
pays are but a small addition to the cost of his journeys, and create
a fund for the relief of those who from time to time suffer by rail Way
accidents, which no human f)resight can prevent, will it is hoped
secure the public support to this Company.
Table of Premiums.
Table for a Single Journey, irrespective of distancu e, to
of 3d Insure
1,0001. in a first-class carriage, at a premium .
500/. in a second ditto
ditto ld.
2001. in a third ditto
For the convenience of frequent travellers, the Company also
issues period cal tickets, to insure 1,0001. for
ix one month, at a;
pre-
for
mium of ss. ; for three months, 10s. ; for s months, 16s.
twelve months, 205., with the option of travelling in any class car-
riage, and in any railway in the kingdom.
These tickets may be obtained at the stations of most of the rail-
ways in England and Scotland, of the provincial agents of the om-
pany, and at the Company's office, 3, o.d Broad-street, London.o
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C ATHOLIC LAW AND GENERAL LIFE
dJ ASSURANCE COMPANY,
8, NEW COVENTRY-STREET, LEICESTER-SQUARE, LONDON.
The FOURTH ANNUAL
on GENERAL MSthEETING of thethe Proprie-
tors of this Company took place the 2 instant, at Head
Office, at One o'clock precisely. The following is extracted from the
report, which is too lengthy fn* publication :
During the past year no claims have arisen from deaths in England,
and but two in Ireland—one for 500/. and the other for 260/.—making
together 700/., which have been paid. This is far below the expected
mortality, and is especially favourable, when It is remembered how
severely the life offices generally suffered from the epidemic of last
year.
The number of lives assured between the Ist of June, 1849, and
the 31st of May, 1850, was more than double the number issued in
the twelve months preceding.
Prop ,sa,s were made for 138 Peficies, amounting to 52,963/.25. 6d.:
of these 121, comprising 106 lives, were accepted for 45,125/. 6s.
sixteen Policies lapsed, representing 6,0481., upon which 3201. 3s.
was received by the Company in the shape of premiums.
Since the coinmencement of the Company to the let of June last,
assurarres were effected to the extent of 110,972/. 12s 61,
in annual premiums 3,732/. I Is. Gd. Of these 54 lapsed,
pro-
amounting to 23,950/. 16s. 6c1., of which the annual premiums were
7411. Is., leaving the yearly income on the Ist of June last equal to
2,9911. 15s. I Id.
Since last meeting loans were applied for to the extent of 17,700/.,
but 1,1831. lls. 10d. only was advanced.
The Directors were also highly gratified to report that within the
last four months they had considerably extended their business on
the Continent, having appointed, as Head Agent in France, Monsieur
de l'Etang, a gentleman of highs standing in Paris, distinguished for
his integrity and ability in financial and in all assurance matters,
who, under the sanction and patronage of the Archbishop of Pasts,
the Cardinal Archbishop of Lyons, and Monseigneur Par;sis, Eveque
Fie Langres, has already within the last three months effected a eon-
sideraMe amount of business, not only in Life Assurances, but in An-
nuities both Immediate and Deferred.
After various resolutions, approving of the Report, and returning
thanks to the Right Reverend Chairman, Bishop Morris, the Vice-
Chairman, Actuary, Secretary, and Medical Officers of the establis
results
h-
ment, the meeting separated, highly gratified at its present
and future prosfects.

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FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE
OF FRIDAY.
NEW WRIT FOR HEREFORDSHIRE. _

In pursuance of the directions of an Act, passed in
the twenty-fourth year of the reign of his late Majesty
King George the Third, intitulecl " An Act to repeal
so much of two Acts, made in the tenth and fifteenth
years of the reign of his present Majesty, as autho-
rises the Speaker of the House of Commons to issue
his warrant to the Clerk of the Crown fir making out
writs for the election of Members to serve in Par-
liament, in the manner therein mentioned, and for sub-
stituting other provisions for the like purposes:" I do
hereby give notice, that the death of Joseph Bailey, jun.,
Esq., late a Member serving in this present Parliament
for the county of Hereford, bath been certified to me
in writing, under the hands of two Members serving in
this present Parliament, and that I shall issue my
warrant to the Clerk of the Crown to make out a new
writ for the electing of a Member to serve in this present
Parliament for the said county, at the end of fourteen
days after the insertion of this notice in the London
Gazette.
(liven under my hand the 18th day of September, 1850,
CHARLES SHAW LEFEVRE, Speaker.
Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Northumberland.
Northumberland and Newcastle Regiment of Yeomanry
Cavalry—Cornet Henry William Fenwick to be Lieu-
tenant, vice Atkinson, resigned ; Matthew Chas. Woods,
Gent., to be Cornet, vice Fenwick, promoted, Sept. 16.
Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Leicestershire.
Prince Albert's Own Leicestershire Yeomanry
Cavalry—Lieutenant Colin Campbell Macaulay, t. be
Captain, vice Hartopp, resigned; Lieutenant Viscount
Campden, to be Captain, vice Dixie, deceased; Cornet
the Honourable Edward Southwell Russell, to
133 Lieutenant, vice Campden, promoted, Aug. 12;
Cornet William Ward Tailby to be Lieutenant, vice
Woodcock, resigned; Cornet Robert Wigram Ark-
Wright to be Lieutenant, vice Macaulay, promoted,
Sept. 9.
The following places have been duly registered for
solemnizing marriages therein, pursuant to the Act of
6th and 7th Wm. IV., cap. 85:—
Wesleyan Chapel, Pontefract, Yorkshire,
Holy Cross Chapel, Whitwick, Leicestershire,
Eeeleafield Independent Chapel, Et:cleat-Idd, Yorkshire.

of a penny, on Tuesday, Oct. 15, or on any subsequent
Tuesday, between eleven and one, at the office of Mr.
Putt, Manchester.

J. Livsey, Bury, Lancashire, cotton spinner and manu-
facturer, Is. 4'11., on Tuesday, Oot. 15, or any t-übst-
quent Tuesday, between eleven and one, at tha office of
Mr. Pott, Manchest( r.
NOTICES OF CERTIFICATES.
At the Court, Basinghall street.
E. M.Leod. llaberdaAler-street, llfixton, Comm( n
brewer, Oct. 11, at eleven—G. F. Gird mood,
chemist and drugis`, and general practitiorar, Oct. 17,
at eleven.

In the Country.
J. C.,rbett, New Mills Lanallio Pertho'ey, Mon-
mou:h,,hire, miller, Ow. ;5, at twelve, at tie Court,
Bristol.

CERTIFICATES GRAN rED.
T. Garrett, Stovi market, Suffolk, coach maker, certifi-
cate of the second class—C. F. Burton, North Audley-
street, Grosvenor-square, auctioneer and upholsterer,
certificato of the second class—J. Woods, Conduit-
street, Bond-street, tailor, certificate of the second class
—W. F. Newton, Dover-street, Piccadilly, milliner and
dress-maker, certificate of the first class—W. Jackton,
Lichfield, wine merchant, certificate of the first class—
J. Stormont and W. Stormont, Pain's-lane, Shiffnall,
Shropshire, iron manufacturers, certificate of the first
class.

they recommended that the discharged officers be
I again talt..n into the service of the county as occasion
may require, their present period of service to be
calculated in their rate of pay when they may be
employed again. In the House of Detention the
daily average number of prisoners had been 120.
The number at the date of the report was 104 males
and 52 femsles. The general health of each prison
was favourable. The reports sere received, adopted,
and ordered to be printed, and resolutions founded
upon the various recommendations were carried.
Upon the motion of Mr. ANTROBUS, a gratuity
of 50/. was ordered to be presented to Mr. Lavies,
jun., for his services in the Westminster pri-
son, in assisting his father, the surgeon to that
establishment, during the prevalence to the cholPra
there last year. The motion was opposed by Mr.
Armstrong and Mr. It3tch. It was carried by 15
votes to 6.

The committee appointed to consider what should
be the scale of wag's of the officers of the prisons,
reported that they had adopted the following scale for
officers engaged in future :—Male warders' wages to
commence at 20s. per week, and progressively increase
to 30s. per week. Female warders to commence at
16s. per week, and increase to 244. per week.
This report was adopted, and a resolution passed to
secure to those officers who may be discharged in
consequence of the classification of prisoners, and
again employed at a future period, their present rate
of pay.

TUB OFFICE OF CORONER.

Mr. ARMSTRONG had a motion upon the paper with
reference to the substitution of a fixed salary in lieu
of fees, for the office of coroner, and the appointment
of a salaried medical officer to the coroner's court, but
he asked permission to postpone it until the next court
day. _ _ _

Some routine matters were disposed of, and the
court resumed the criminal business.

CITY COURT OF SEWERS.

Yesterday a very numerous meeting of tie
men connected with the above-named Court wasd
at their office in the Guildhall. Mr. Deputy Pollock
presided.
There were present tipon the occasion a large num-
ber of commissioners, and the questiop before the
Court, the " gas movement in the City,' appeared to
excite attention, inasmuch as a large body of the
citizens were present to watch the proceedings.
The minutes of the former Court having been read
by Mr. Tickner, the assistant clerk, the same were
allowed to have been correctly entered.
Before the matter with reference to the gas ques•

_
tion was introduced, V
Mr. MORRIS said, he requested the Chairman to
say, as one of the representatives of the city of Lon-
don in the Metropolitan Court of Sewers, whether he
(the Chairman) knew anything about the way in
which it was proposed to drain the city ? Could he
(the Chairman) inform the Court what plan was to be
pursued ? He (Mr. Morris) had seen a plan pro-
pounded by a gentleman of the name of Beardmore,
a civil engineer, upon the subject, which appeared to
be of much importance.
The CHAIRMAN said that at the present time he had
no answer to give to the question.
Mr. MORRIS replied that he should introduce the
subject, in consequence, at some future day.

TUE GAS QUESTION.

Mr. DAW, the chief clerk to the Commissioners,
then read a communication from Mr. Meggison, of
16, Cannon-street, City, complaining of the injury he
had received in consequence of the breakage of the
pavement in that locality, and the general disturbance
of the street by the Great Central Gas Consumers
Company.
Before the whole of the communication had been
read,
Mr. BLAKE said that he considered it was not right
to permit such communications to be read in that
court. The object of the parties who sent them was
simply publicity.—(Hear.)
Mr. L. H. TAYLOR and Mr. T. HALL spoke upon
the question ; but the decision of the Court being in
favour of the letter being read, the same was done
accordingly.
Mr. ELLIOTT, as one of the members for the ward
of Candlewick, in which the property is situated to
which the injury alleged was done, stated that it was
the fact that the whole of the pavement in that loca-
lity had been for many days in a most sadly neglected
state.

A long and noisy discussion followed, during
which it was contended that such a letter ought not
to have been entertained by the Commission.
Mr. H. L. TAYLOR at length proposed that the let-
ter should be entered upon the minutes, which propo-
sition was seconded by Deputy EAGLETON.
Mr. BLAKE moved as an amendment that the com-
munication be ordered to lie on the table.—(Hear.)
In doing so he wished to be perfectly understood.
With regard to this gas question, he found that there
was not less than 10,000 of his fellow-citizens who had
signed petitions in favour of cheap gas, and that, not-
withstanding all their attempts to obtain a reduction
of the price from the hands of the old companies they
had failed.—(Hear, hear.) He would scorn any-
thing like an advocacy of that principle which he
knew to he wrong, but he felt that that Court, under
the existing circumstances, were bound to act most
decidedly, while the public expected them to act
faithfully and honestly.—(Hear, hear.) If they did
not do so the public would suffer ; the old companies,
who had been solicited to reduce their prices, had ob-
tained both property and profit; but in the face of
all this they had said, when they were first appealed
to, that any reduction was impossible, and that the
requirements of the people as consumers could not
bo mot.—(Hear, hear.) At this crisis men came for-
ward who, had even perilled their own good names,
and irrespective of future prospects they had given the
public to understand that gas might, and should be
furnished at a much cheaper rate than before. These
men had justified the high character they previously
held ; they had entered into the speculation, and
now defied anything like factious opposition.—
(Hpar, hear.) It had been said that the inhabitants
had suffered much inconvenience from the breakage
of the streets. This he readily admitted, as every-
body else would, he was sure ; but the public had
borne this apparent evil with the most exemplary
patience, as it was clear they had looked at the many
advantages which were likely to result from an ob-
ject of such considerable magnitude, and having in
view such large benefits to all classes of citizens.—
(Hear, hear.) He regarded the letter they had as
Commissioners of Sewers received that day as being
a most deliberate and flagrant insult upon the whole
body of the Commissioners—(Hear) —and he there-
fore felt glad of the opportunity which then presented
itself of proposing his motion.---(Hear.)
Deputy PEWTKESS seconded the proposition.
Several Commissioners expressed their sorrow at
the inconvenience which the public had been sub-
jected to, after wbich the motion of Mr. Taylor was
rejected by a majority of 19 to 5.
The CHAIRMAN then stated that a deputation from
the Chartered Company was present, who were desi-
rous of explaining to the Court some of the circum-
stances relating to the report read on Tuesday last at
the Court of Sewers. In this communication it was
urged by parties connected with the Chartered Com-
pany that much injury had been done to their property
by the Great Central, and that they bad, therefore,
taken legal steps accordingly.—(Hear, hear.) Per-
haps they would hear the Chartered Company's repre-
sentatives.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. HOPPER, one of the directors connected with
the company, then stated, in extenso, the peculiar
injuries inflicted upon the Chartered Company by
the manner in which the men in the employ of the
Great Central Gas Consumers Company had laid
their pipes ; and in answer to several questions put
to him, he stated that he believed much injury had
occurred to the Chartered Company, inasmuch as in
84 instances their pipes had been disturbed or other-
wise injured.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. Hopper stated,
also, that in many parts of the city the Great Cen-
tral Company bad not laid down their pipes, although
they had said they had done so ; for it was the fact,
that 174 places within the area of the city were at
present unprovided with the Great Central Company's
pipes.—(Bear, hear.) Then they had to complain
that, and they felt it, that the new company, notwith-
standing all their entreaties, had laid down their pipes
over those of the chartered company, so that it was
impossible for them, in fact, even to repair any inju-
ries. In consequence, therefore, of this, they had
sought the protection of the Court of Chancery, and
hence it was that the application for the injunction
had been made.
Mr. it. TAYLOR—Have you got your injunction?
Mr. HOPPER—No, Sir, the matter stands over till
Tuesday next for further inquiry.
After a long conversation as to the merits of the
case, in the course of which several members ex-
pressed their opinion that the matter had nothing to
do with the Commissioners of Sewers, it was even-
tually decided to dismiss the question by proceeding
to the "order of the day."
The reports of the inspectors were then read, and
a motion by Mr. li. BLAKE, on the necessity for giving
notice to Parliament for increased powers to the Com-
missioners under the renewed Act of Parliament was
referred for the future consideration of the Commis-
sioners, when the Court adjourned.

AMERICAN NEWS.

[1 summary of the following appeared in our paper
of yesterday.]
ARRIVAL OF THE ATLANTIC.

LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY.
The United States' mail steam-ship Atlantic, Cap-
tain West, arrived in the Mersey about nine o'clock
this morning, with mails from New York, to the 7th
inst., 70 passengers, and .5,675/. in gold on freight.
Her run, which has occupied about 12k days, was
prolonged by heavy weather.
The Royal mail steam-ship Hibernia, Captain
Lang, arrived out at Boston at six A.M. on the 6:h
inst.
The United States' mail steam-ship Washington,
Captain Floyd, arrived out at New York from South-
ampton at four o'clock r.ss. on the 4.11 inst.; and on
the same day the screw steam-ship Helena Sloinan,
Captain Paulsen, which left Hamburgh en the 11th
ult. On the 18th ult. the Helena met with a hurri-
cane from the S.W. to N.W., which carried away her
bowsprit and all the sails attached to it.
The Clyde screw steam-ship City of Glasgow,
Captain Mathews, left New York on the 7th inst. for
Glasgow.
The American steam ship Panama arrived at Pa-
nama on the 21st ult., with mails
,from San Fran-
cisco of the Ist of August, 460,0001. of gold dust on
freight, and 240 passengers. Oa her passage the
cholera broke out, and 50 deaths occurred.
The British steam-ship Ecuador, from Panama,
for San Francisco, was spoken by the Panama off
Acapulco.
The American steam-ship Empire City, Captain
West, arrived at New York on the sth inst., with
Chagres mails of the 26th ult., and Kingston, Ja-
maica, of the 30th alt. • She had on freight about
100,0001. of gold dust. On the same day the Ame-
rican steam-ship Cherokee, Captain Windle, arrived
from Cbttgre,, having touched at Havannah on the
Ist inst. en route. She brought specie to the value of
about 322,0001:• sterling.
Her Majesty's brig-of-war Swift was at Honolulu,
Sandwich Islands, on the 21st of June, but we have
no tidings of the Arctic ships.
Our accounts from the United States now received
are not unimportant, containing as they do the pass-
ing of the Texan Boundary and New Mexican Ter-
ritorial Bills by the House of Representatives on
the 6th instant, after a severe struggle. General
exclamations of pleasure welcomed the intelligence of
this satisfactory solution of the dangers threatened
by these questions, and hopes were entertained that
Congress would shortly separate. Meanwhile the
Cabinet appear to progress quietly and to the satis-
faction of the citizens ; and the President seems to
obtain a degree of support worthy of remark when
the manner of his election is borne in mind. All
overtures for the acceptance of office bad been rejected
by Mr. M`liennan. Vermont State election was
pending, but it was expected that the victory would
be to the Whig party.
Dumestic and miscellaneous affairs present, beyond
these details, no novel points. Pennsylvania had been
severely devastated by floods.
From the New York journals it appears that
severe weather had been experienced in the southern
sections. "On the 28th ult.," says the Courier and
ETlqUirer

"-South Carolina seems to have been swept by a
violent storm of rain and wind. In the neighbour-
hood of Chester it seems to have amounted to a hurri•
cane, and was very destructive. A letter from Ches-
ter says—
"' The chief loss occasioned by the storm is in the
injury done to the growing crops. This extends to
every portion of the district from which we have as
yet heard. On some plantations the corn and cotton
lie prostrate, as though borne to the earth by some
heavy weight; whilst elsewhere the stalks of corn
stand erect, but literally stripped of every ear and
blade. We would fain hope that the injury is not so
great as has been represented to us ; but we may fear
that the half is not yet told.'
" Similar accounts from North Carolina and Ala-
bama. A letter from Enfaula (Alabama) says—
"' Its effects upon the growing crop, so far as we
have heard of its ravages, have been most disastrous
—particularly to the cotton, prostrating the weed,
destroying all the ripe bolls, and beating and blowirg
off a large portion of the fruit which had not ma-
tured. We doubt not but the cotton crop over
which it passed has been injured at least sixteen per
cent.' "

From. Canada we are also without any news of
interest. Our Jamaica accounts, which are some
days later than those by the (Vest India mails, are
unimportant. Several articles on the culture of cot-
ton appeared in the journals of Kingston, and on the
27th ult. a large meeting was held in the directors'
room of the Bank of Jamaica, to establish a small
company, with a limited number of shares, to test the
practicanility of rendering the cotton plant a staple
production of the island. Resolutions in accordance
with this view were passed, and every symptom of
vigour manifested.

Our llavannah advices of the Ist instant, published
in the New York Express, are as follow :
" Since our report, of the 17th instant, there has
been a good inquiry for sugar, and prices have be-
come still more stiff, as planters in general are un-
willing to part with the small stock they yet hold
unless at higher rates. They feel encouraged in their
pretensions by the more favourable news from Europe,
and the greater facilities for shipping to the United
States, in consequence of there being more ships
available for that purpose. In the transactions that
have occurred, the lower classes of sugar have been
most sought after and are proportionately high. We
quote as follow :—Whites, 9 to 10 rials ; fine and
choice whites, 101 to 11 rials; yellows, 6i to 7i rials ;
superior yellows, 7i to 8 rials; browns, .5i to 6 rials ;
cucuruchos, oi to .54 rials. A parcel of cucuruchos
of very fine quality was taken at 6 finis.
" There are no Muscovadoes remaining either here
or in any other ports of the island.
" The last sales of molasses were at 2 rials ; there
is not much left, and the dealers are asking higher
prices.

"The prices of coffee are nominal.
"We had a strong gale on the night of the 21st,
almost approaching a hurricane. The damage among
the shipping was inconsiderable, but a great deal of
injury was sustained in the country by the destruc-
tion of corn-fields and plaintain trees, which are im-
portantin connexion with the food of labourers on the
estates. The coffee plants have also suffered to a
considerable extent, and, what is still more serious,
the sugar cane haibeen injured. So far as the accounts
received allow an opinion to be formed, the effects of
the storm on the growing crop may be severe, unless
a propitious state of the atmosphere during the ensuing
months should enable the cane to recover from the in-
jury, sustained. The gale extended to the south side
as tar as St. Jago de Cuba.
" There are but few cases of cholera in the city,
but it still continues in the country, proceeding
slowly from district to district, and carrying off many
victims. It has recently re-appeared in several
places where it was hoped the visitation had ceased.
"Freights—The last transaction was at 25 fur a
Spanish vessel to Antwerp ; 20 and 30 were paid for
partial shipments to the North Sea.
"Exchange on London 12} to 13f per cent. pre-
mium. Large amounts were sold on the United
States at 1 per cent. discount, but higher rates are
now asked."
Advices from San Juan de Nicaragua supply,
from the columns of the Gaceta del Salvador, a letter
from Viscount Palmerston, dated Pcb. 17 gaidreSsed
to the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Nicaragua,
containing the following passage :
" I have to say, in reply, that the Government of
her Britannic Majesty is desirous of cultivating
the
most.friendly relations with the State of Nicaragua ;
but that her Majesty's Government is incapable of
doing anything which shall be interpreted as ad-
mitting a doubt that Greytown belongs exclusively
to the Mosquito territory.
" I have the honour to be, Ecc.,
" PALMERSTON."
Under date of the 14th of May, the Nicaragua Mi-
nister addresses Lord Palmerston as follows :
" At the moment when this Government has accre-
dited near her Britannic Majesty a Charge d'Affaires,
with the view of vindicating its rights to the Port of
San Juan and the Mosquito Coast, now illegally
re-
tained by British agents, it is informed that Mr. John
Foster, English Vice-Consul for the Port of Realejo
di Nicaragua, has arranged with the Prussian Baron
Bulow, under powers from your office, fur the estab-
lishment of a colony of Germans in the port of San
Juan. My Government cannot permit its rights of
property and sivereignty in that territory and port to
be put in question, and it is obliged to hold, and will
always hold, as unjust an invasion in all lights, what-
ever act shall tend to its dismemberment and unjust
possession. And it has ordered me to say to you, to
be laid before the Government of Great Britain, that
it protests before the whole world, and in
.the. most
solemn manner, against the meditated.colo.nizatio n, or
whatever other act of usurpation, as a violation of
.inter-
national. rights—a violence which its duties forbid it
from assenting to ; nor will it hold itself responsible
.
for the evils which may result to the proposed colonies
in consequence of their unsuthorised intrusion in the