The Sun.
London, England, 1850-07-24 00:00:00

THE SUN,

LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 24, 1850.

roan—be not charged as highly_as the dividends of the
fundholder or the ground-rents of the landed pro-
prietor, and until every crying grievance be redressed.
We need scarcely say that we are not opposed to
the principle of direct taxation, and that we consider
a judiciously and fairly assessed property-tax as the
most eligible impost that can be levied, being
at the same time more just and equitable,
more politic and expedient than any other
that could be adopted. Yet, while acknow-
ledging this much, we must remind Honourable Gen-
tlemen of what the proceedings on the Attorneys'
Certificate Bill has so forcibly illustrated—the great
difference between carrying a positive enactment and
resisting any alteration in the law. The vexatious
tactics adopted by the Government on the present
occasion may be exhibited towards themselves
when applying for the renewal of the income -tax, and
divisions may be taken at every stage of the Bill, and
whenever there is a chance of defeating it, unless a
full inquiry be instituted into all the public burdens.
Although sympathising with the attorneys in their
recent disappointment, we can scarcely regret that
the fiscal reformers will be ensured the zealous co-
operation of such efficient allies in the general con-
test that is rapidly approaching, and for which timely
preparation should be made. They are, perhaps,
more heavily taxed in proportion to their income than
almost any other class of the community ; they have
to pay heavy stamp duties before they can enter on
the practice of their profession, amounting to no less
than 1451., which, if invested in an annuity, would
produce say 14/. 103. per annum ; they hare
also, if admitted three years, and resident
in London, to pay 121. per annum for taking out their
certificate. These sums are in addition to the income-
tax and all the indirect imposts to which they are
subjected, in common with the other members of the
community. If then, we suppose, the average
earnings of London solicitors to be 2001.
per annum, and we believe that we are esti-
mating at the very highest figure, if due allow-
ance be made for ;the various expenses and draw-
backs to which they are subjected, it will be seen
that they have to pay direct taxation to the amount of
32/. 6s. Bd. per aunum ; that is to say, 14/. 10s. for in-
terest on 1454 sunk in payment of stamp duty, 12/. for
certificate, and Si. 16s. Bd. for income-tax, being as
much as is demanded from the proprietor of 38,0001.
Consolidated Three per Cents., and no less than
16 1-6th per cent. on their incomes. This is not as
it should be. It.cannot be defended on any principle
of equity, and yet it is but one of many similar in-
stances of injustice equally demanding redress. We
trust that another session will not be suffered to
elapse without suitable remedies being provided,
and we have pointed out the means by which a com-
plete victory may be achieved.

The Army Estimates are to be taken to-morrow
evening in Committee of Supply, and Mr. HENRY
BERKELEY has given notice of his intention to op.
pose the, vote for the Yeomanry Cavalry ; his op-
position to this vote, if successful, will be tantamount
to a disbandment of this most useless, and if not
useless, then most mischievous and most dangerous
corps, and we trust that every Free-trader, every
financial reformer, every lover of peace, every hater
of disorder, will be in his place to-morrow night to
support this motion. Their presence will be needed,
for among the representatives of " the agri-
cultural mind," there will be a large num•
ber of Yeomanry officers, who will, if they can,
make the country pay for this mischievous and ex-
pensive toy ; we shall find their names in the division
list on Friday morning, as having voted to a man in
favour of saddling the country with an expense of
81,000/. to enable them to play at soldiers for one
week during the year. An admirable paper by Lieu-
tenant-Colonel WILKIE, which appears in the number
fur July of Colburn's United Service Magazine, has
proved that for all military purposes the Yeomanry
Cavalry, as at present constituted, are worse than use-
less; that in the event of an invasion, or of their being
opposed to disciplined troops, they would be of in-
finitely greater harm to their friends than to their foes ;
that, in fact, considered in a military point of view, the
Yeomanry Cavalry, which has only one week's disci-
pline and training during the whole of the year, is
merely an expensive plaything ; and, as we cannot
afford just now to expend 81,0001. for the purchase of
a plaything fur the country gentlemen, it would be
but becoming in the ivlinister to at once accede to the
very reasonable proposition of the lion. Member
for Bristol, and to withdraw the vote. But
then we shall be told that, although they are utterly
inefficient as a military force, yet they are of great
assistance as a police force. This we entirely deny ;
their organization is so clumsy that it requires at
least 48 hours' notice to call them out, and when
called they are unamenable to discipline, and
either refuse to perform their duty at all
or perform it in such a partisan spirit
as to bring great discredit upon the
institutions of the country, and to excite that hatred
of class against class which, next to actual civil war,
is the greatest curse that can befal a nation. We re-
member the Manchester massacre, when persons
peacefully assembled for a legal object, and be-
having in a legal manner, were set on
by an undisciplined mob of armed yeomanry
headed by the squires, and hounded on by a clerical
magistrate, and were ruthlessly massacred ; the bitter
fruits of the cowardly onslaught of the JOWLERS of
1819 we are reaping to this very hour; it was at
1?eterloo that the foundation was laid of the class
hatred between the industrious classes and the squire-
archy, who, on that occasion, rode roughshod over
them, which has not even yet entirely disappeared.
While, however, at Manchester, they acted with that
cruelty and undue severity which invariably charac-
terises an undisciplined corps, there have not been
wanting occasions in which, as in the " Swing"
riots of 1830, they have refused to act at
all, alleging that if they did so their own
property would be in danger. As an aid, therefore,
to the civil power in case of disturbance, they are,
when not absolutely useless, positively mischievous,
and seeing the ardent desire which many of these
gentry have expressed at recent protectionist meet-
ings " to mount their oases, ride into the
towns, and carry the re-enactment of the
bread tax by force of the sabre," we think
that, as a matter of precaution, these gentle-
men should be at once disarmed and disbanded, not
because we apprehend they will attempt to carry
"their threats into execution, but because persons who
can be found so far " left to themselves," as to give
utterance to them, are in intellect mere children, who,
for their own safety's sake, and to prevent them from
doing themselves a mischief, should not be suffered to
play with edged tools or fire-arms,

A GOOD CHARACTER.—After enacting Haynau in
cruelty, and Schwartzenberg in policy, Sir Henry Ward is
unable to imitate even the clemency that Haynau at last
resorted to in Hungary. There Is not a potentate, from the
Adriatic to the. Indian Ocean, more despotic, more detested,
more extra-constitutional, more the foe of all reform. all
economy, and all liberal principle, than Sir Henry Ward.—
Daily News.

Tula WEATHER.—The mean reading of the baro-
meter for the past week at the Royal Observatory, Green-
wich, was 29.814 inches. The mean temperature was 65.6
degrees, which is four degrees above the average of the same
week in seven years. On Monday, Tuesday, and Wednes-
day it ranged between 8 degrees and 12 degrees higher than
the average of the same days. The temperature was highest
on Tuesday; and on that' cay the highest in the shade was
87 degrees, and the highest in the sun 105 degrees.
COLONEL SALWET, M.P.—We regret to learn that
the Hon. Member was taken with a fainting fit just before
the House came to a division on the Attorneys' Certificates
Bill yesterday morning, between two and three o'clock. He
remained in a state of insensibility until the arrival of Dr.
M'Cann, of Parliament-street, who was sent for by order of
Mr. Wakley, M.P., who happened to be near him at the
time. Dr. M'Cann was promptly in attendance. and gave
the Colonel a draught which had the• effect of rousing him,
and soon alter he was removed to Dr. M'Cann's, and was put
to bed. Several Members accompanied him, awl remained
the
morning greater
partat
o f nightmea n;
n,s v,e a
amongst, thtahtem the was
Icr.
on.
Se
field, Sir Joshua Walm3leY, and others. The LMember
Lad passed several hours in tranquil sleep
and reportfelt
yester-
daylnee""
much
better.
better.

The O'Gorman M :bon paired in favour of the
Attorneys' Certificate Bill with Mr. flornby against.
DEATH OF P. MAHONY, ESQ.—DUBLIN, MONDAY.
—Yesterday Pierce K. Maliony, EFq , Accountant-General
of the Curt of Exchequer, was killed by a full from his
horse. The office rendered vacant by this melancholy catat-
trophe is worth 6001. a year.

Advice that is given arrogan+ly or sharply can
scarcely be expected to be received with humility and grati-
tude.—Eliza Cook's Journal.
ERRATUM.—In our report of the officers re ceived
on Tuesday by the First Lord of the Admiralty, thtre was
an inaccuracy. It appears Charles T. Hill, Royal
Navy, bolds a commission as lieutenant and commander,
bearing date 20th July, 1835, and by an official let to-, dated
23d A; ay, 1850, signed by the Second Secretary (W. A. B.
Hamilton), is styled therein, and addressed on the utigelope,
" Commander Charles Th 91124,5 Ham,

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.

The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were esti-
mated at 5,000 bales, of which 500 American and 500
Surat were taken for expart, and 500 American on
speculation. The market was quiet, and closed steadily
at about 1-161. in favour of buyers. The sales com-
prised 4,000 American, 300 Pernam and Maranham, at
Bd. to Bid.; 200 Egyptian, at 80. to 91; and 400 Surat,
at 4id. to 6d. per lb.—Railway Shares slightly improved,
and the market closed with a better feeling.
Accounts from Hamburgh state that a large brewery
had been burnt down, together with a quantity of malt,
&c., valued at 50,000 mares banco. No lives were lost.

In the Amsterdam Stock Market on Monday prices
were steady._

Advices from Nicaragua state:—" The agents of
Howard and Son's, and Low and Co.'s line of Pacific
steamers, havo arranged for building wharfs in the
harbour ;of Realejo, which is henceforth to become
their principal coal and provision depet, at which
all their ateatners will stop both in their up-
ward and downward paysag s. This will be a
grand improvement upon the present arrangements, and
will lead to the ultimate abandonment of the Chagres
and Panama route. Indeed, some dozen or more
families have already lett Panama, to open establish-
ments here. An American hotel is now in operation in
Granada, and in a few days one will be opens d it, this city.
There are, probwily, not far from 100 Americans now
making permanent establishments in the country; among
these are the agents of several Californian houses, who
are opening a trade in coffee, sugar, rum, rice, and other
tropical productions. Central America must become, to
Oregon and California, what tee West ludies have
been and are, to the Eastern United States. There
are now twelve sail in the port of Realejo, chiefly from
San Francisco. This new impulse is everywhere per-
ceptiblp,, and has led t.) a marked revival of industry. The
amount of land this year put under cultivation in this
state tar exceeds that of any previous year since the in-
dependence. The crop of corn will be double that of
'49. The coffee and indigo crop, both of Nicaragua and
San Salvador, will probably show an advance of from 30
to 50 per cent."
From the 7th to the 23c1 • inst. the Hon. East India
Company have slrawn bills from London to the following
amount:—

Rate. Amount.
On Bengal
Madras ..... 23.

Total X150,640 6 9

On Bombay there were no bills taken.

Stocks are locking up this morning, and the purchases
for money have a favourable influence. Consuls have
been 96i to 97 for Transter, and 96i to 97ii fur Account.
The New Three-ano-a- Quarter per C.Aits. have been
quoted 98i to 99i, and the Three per Cents. 97i to
Bank Stock has been firm at 211 to 212. Exchequer-bills
are 675. to 70s. premium.
The Foreign Market is more animated. Mexican
Bonds have been steady at 291- to 30. Equador are
to 4. Grenada have been 18 ►u and Brazilian 92 to
Peruvian Stock is 82, being rather higher. Portuguese
Four per Cents. are 34 to 34i. Spanish Five per Cents.
are 17i to and:Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 57g.
Railway Shares are generally at fuller rates.

QUARTER TO THREE.
Consols 96j- 97
Ditto Account

PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS
BAIA btock

ONE CLOSING
O'CLOCK. PRICES.
211 212 212

pe, Cent. Reduced Anna ... 97 %% . 971
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities........ 96%3A 97 97
New 314 per Cent. Anna.... ...... 98% 99% .99
Gong Anus. to expire Jan. I 860 ...... 814 814
South Sea Stock
__ ..

Ditto Old Annuities
- -

97%

Ditto New Annuities ........ 961; 961/2
consols for Account ..... ... 97 971/6 971/8
,:ischequer Bills. Il4d. & 2d
1,000/. June 7O 67 p , 67 p
Small, June 67 70 p 70 p
ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
`:razinari Bongs 92L/ 92 924 92'
____

Ditto, New, 1843
Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent .. ••• 97:Y4
Equador Bonds
Grenada Bonds, 11/2 per Cent lB LA 18%
Ditto Deferred
Mexican, 5 per Cent. )846, with Coupons—
Ditto, Ex Jan. Coupons ........• 29% 30 30
Peruvian Bonds, 41A4 per Cent — . .....
Ditto, Account
Ditto, Deferred
Portuguese 5 per Cents.
_ .

Ditto,:4 per Cent. , 34 34
Ditto, Account 34% 34%
Russian Bonds
Ditto, 41 per Cent

',l-sttnuili Fi per Cant. 1840
Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent
Ditto Deferred
Dividends on the above payable in London.

Dutch 214 per Cent., 12 Guild. ... 57% --
57%
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates... E 9%
PRICES OF PAID. BUSINESS DONE CLOSIN
RAILWAY SHARES. AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRIcE •
Caledonian
Co. New in/. Pre—. 10
Chester and Holyhead... 50
tern Conmtio.s... ..... 90 .....
East Laneasthira
Ureat Northern
Do., rit A Deferred
Do.„ .....5 per Cent. Pref 1214...... 105,4
_ lO%

. ~
.3reat Weßtern lel ...... 551,3,4.„ bi
Ditto. New 171. .... 15 . . 7% 7%
Hull and Selby .. ...... 50 ......
Ditto, Half Shares —. 25
Do. Quarter Shares.— 12% 2l
...
Lancashire &Yorkshire 100
_ .

D. Fifths.— ...... 11%
Leedsand Bradford
London, Brighton, and

--- South C,0ac.t.... .... 100
London and N. Western 1(x1 10834 109 lO9
Ditto, New Quarters 17 ....., 175,4
.........
London tic S.WEstcrn ..ICO ..... , 5814 573/4
Midland .
Do., 501. Sharer
Dn., Birm. and Derby ICO ...... 15 ......—....... 15
North Brifi.h .. ..„.
.....
fx4
5%
Ditto Preference
North Stafforlishire ... 17%.
...... 61/1 VA
Reading, Guildford, and

Reigate lB .... um lB 4
S 11;
w ury and Birm... 1314...... 9% dis. ......
York, Newcastle, and
Berwick.
Do. Newcastle Eaten, 20 ...... 8% Bl/,
Do. G.N.E. Preference 9
...
14,A
7% x i
k
FOREIGN R.A.II,WAYb.
IroDrttamnaPNreoforrtehntid.llll.t.llsoo 4
........ 1741174.4'4 x.i
. x.i
Angt, Italian (late Ita-
lian and Austrian).... 55,..... _
13oplogne and A miens... 20 ...... 734 73/4
Central of France (Or-
leans and Vierzon)... 20 ...... 15 1514 x.i 1514 x.i
Rhenish -.....-- 8 .. 2
Fast Indian .......•••••••• 7 ...... x.i . 7% x.i
Luxembourg
..._.
Ditto ...... lO
... 2si 2%
Namur and Liege ...... 20 ...
.. _
......
Northern of France...... 16 ..... 1434% x.i. x.d 14%
Orleans and Bordeaux.. 7 ...... 234 3 x.i ...- 3 x.l
Paris and Rouen .- ...... 2n ...... 24 24% , 24%
Paris and Strasbourg ... 13 ...... 744
... 7%
Rouen and Havre .... 9n
•-- ..... 101 A 10
10
Tournay, Jurbise, Lan-

den, and Hassell ...... 20 ......
West Flanders ..... ... . .

N
Cobre Copper
....ES.
37%, 37%
United Mexican 28% ....•. 6114 6IA
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
Australasia , 4O ...... 26 .. ........,.. 273/4
Provincial of Ireland
.... x.d. .. ...... x.d
Ditto, New ..... lO ........ 16

LLOYD'S SHIPPIN G.--(THIS DAY.)

LONDON, JULY 24.—Wind at noon S.S.W. to S.W.,
moderate breeze and cloudy.

BRISTOL, JULY 23.—Wind NV.S.W.—Arrd. Schyryd,
Nargrate, Cape de Verd. Sld. Northumbria, Quebec.
Off port, Maria, Cants. Barbadoes.
GLOUCESTER, JULY 22.—Arrd. Nicaragua, Quebec.
WATERFORD, JULY 22.—Wind S.W. to S.S.W.—
Arrd. Sophia. Ballard, St. John's, New Brunswick.
QUEENSTOWN, JULY 21 AND 22.—Wind S., strong.—
Arrd. Launce4ton, Savery, Laguna; Kingston, Fortune,
St. John's, New Brunswick. Off port, Cape Breton,
Reid, Callao. _ _

LI3IERICK, JULY 22.—Wind E,—Arrd. Abby, Irvine.
S?. John's, Newfounoland, for Leith; Primrose, Fer-
guson, Quebec; Jessie, Gorman. ditto.
SUNDERLAND, JULY 22.—Wind S.E.--Acrd. Fairy.
Riches, Cape of Goad Hope. •
BULL. JULY 23. —Wind S.S.E.—Arrd. Quebec,
Renton, Quebec.
PLYMOUTH, JULY 23.—Arrd. Victory, Quebec. Off
port, Fortune, Lemarie, Porto Rico, from Havre; Chris-
tian, Hatterstrom, Samarany. from Gothenburg; Thos.
Cronholm, Bahia; John Ormerod, Harkey, Trinidad;
Arab, Dominica; ilermioue, Loner, Gambia, from Am-
sterdam. _ _

OFF THE LlZARD.—Amaranth, Walker, Grenada.
FALMOUTH. JULY 23. —Wind S. to W.—Arrd. Pike,
Francia, Pio Graude; Wo Skeoch, Queb,c. Sid.
Alchymist, Qu- bec; Countess of Mulgrave, Qutbec. Off
(mt. Gueliai. Cordeba4, for Havre; Friedbandel,
Steffi,,s, Aux Cayes, for Hamburgh.
lIELFORD, JULY 22. Arcd. C )rmoall, Charles,
Qiebec.
SCILLY, JULY 22.—Wind S.—Off port, Sirius, Neilti-
va ki,
A BERDEF.N, JULY 22.--Wind S.S.W.—SId. Sir. W.
Wallace, Quebec.
PETERHEAD, JULY 211.—Wind S.E. Sid. Far ib,
Quebec.
PORTSMOUTH, JULY 23.—W ini W.—Arrd, Pit
Glasgow, Wadham. Q.,013"•
COWES, JULY 23.—Wind variable.—Arrd. Potsdam,
Wolff, Batavia; Braziiiaii, Bahia; Daphne,
Neelsen, ditto; Sylphide, Lorrance, Havalmsh.
DARTMOUTEL—SI4. Calypvo. Quebec.
F"'EY, JULY 22.—Wind S.E.—Arid. Royal Ade-
laide, Smitb, Quebec.
PENZANCE, JULY 92.—Thick, with ralc.—Arld.
Pezzach, Belize.
PILL, JULY 23.—Wind S.E.—Sld. NA.thumbrie,
Quebec.

NEWPORT, JULY 23.—Wild W.—Sid. Tore, 11.4-
ton t- Sceptre, Quebec.
CARDIFF, JULY 23.—W9n0 E.SE.---Arri. Harmony,
Jameson, Quebec; Hebe, Wood, ditto.
LONG ISLAND CHANNEL, JULY 22.—Acrd. Oraeos,
21ThersOn; Miramiohi, from Liverpool.

KILRUSH, JULY 21.---Wind -8.17-.—Arrd. Ariel
Stuart, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Governor Hugell,'
Quebec.

_
BELEasr, JULY 22 .—Wind S.--Arrd. Acadia, Mira-
michi; Sobraon, Hetherington, Barbadoes.
DEAL, JULY 23.—Wind E.S.E. A.M.; seven P.M. S.W.,
light.—Arrd. Candidate, Fowle, Barbadoes; Oregon,
Ford, New Orleans, from Gothenburg. Arrd. from the
River and sld. for Southampton, Calcutta, Jessica, Port-
au-Prince; Soldan, Boston; Maria Grace, Newfoundland.
LIVERPOOL, JULY 23.—Wiod S.E.—Arrd. Doresana,
Robinson, Calcutta ; Maxim, Lindsay, Valparaiso;
Hamlet, M.Laren, Cuba; Trybpona, Le Crane, La
Gus) ra; Forest, Jefferson, ; Ellen Maria, Whit-
more, Savannah ; Adelaide Metcalf, Scott, Quebec;
Thetis, Selby, ditto; Mountaineer, Williams, Savannah;
WW. Rathbone, Spencer, New York; Martin Luther,
Quebec; Reindeer, Lepron, ditto. Sld. Jane, Duffas,
Valpsraiso; Speed, Ceylon; Devoniar, Port Natal;
Gazelle, Tampico; Enterprize, New York; Wm. 1).
Sewell, ditto; Plym, nth, Rock, Boston; Eliza, Bell,
Halifix; Larne, Qthbec.
BATHUBbT, LIVER GAMBIA, JUNE B.—The Lady
Sale, or Bristol, hence to London, got aground on the
11,.:d Bank, in pulling to sea 2d May, was towed oft and
hack to this port on the 29th, by H.M.S. Dover, has been
surveyed, and is discharging to repair.

BOSIOUGEZ BOP ritaipLALNIT.
For all kinds of Hops the demand is wry inactive, at
last week's quotations. The duty is called 180,0001.

WIEUTECEAPZI.
Prime Beef and Mutton were in good request, at full
prices. In other kinds of Meat very little doing.
B •ef, from 2s 4d to
.3s 4d; Mutton, 2s 8d to 3s 10d;
Limb, 3s 8d to 4s 8c1; Veal, 2s 8d to 3s 6d; Pork, 3s
to 3s 10d per Bibs, by the carcase.

SECONDARIES'-(THIS DAY.)
(Before J. "OTTER, Ell.)
GALE V. GILLIESPIE.

This was an action to recover the sum of 31. 14s. for
rent. The defendant pleaded non-occupancy, but the
evidence was conclusive on the pat of the plaintiff.
Mr. YORSTON, of Clifford's Inn, appeared for the
defendant, and submitted that the plaintiff could not
recover judgment for more than the debt, as by the 128th
section cf the County Courts Act, persons not coming
within the exception of that clause, which enacted that
all suits formerly instituted in the superior courts for
less than 201. shall be brought in the county court of the
district where the debt or some material point arose;
and by the 29th section it was enacted, that in cases
where the plaintiff sued in the superior courts he should
only recover a verdict for the amount of the debt, and
no costs.

The Learned SECONDARY said that the case was sant
down from the court above on a writ, and he was bound
to make a return.

Mr. YORSTON said that this course compelled the
plaintiff to apply to a judge to enter a suggestion on the
record to deprive plaintiff of costs—this was a matter of
course, but entailed great expense ; but Mr. Justice
Coleridge, at chambers, bad, on the 20th March, 1850,
in a case " Bell v. Freemantle," set aside a judgment
fur delpndant and costs.
The Learned SECONDARY held that he must enter the
verdict for the full amount.

SHERIFF'S t-MALL DEBTS COURT.

(THIS DAY.)

IMPORTANT TO LICENSED VICTITALLERS.-LEWI3 V.

BERRY.

The plaintiff in this action—was lately landlord cf the
Catherine Wheel, in Catherine Wheel-square, Bishops-
gate, and the plaint was laid for 10s. 3d. tbr the balance
of an account for beer, &c., supplied on account of the
defendant.

Defendant's wife appeared and challenged the accu-
racy of the account, and admitted that she had run up
the score for herself and companions, without the know-
ledge of her husband.

The Learned JUDGE said that it was a very hard thing
for a man to be caned upon to pay these secret scores
for gin and beer; publicans ought not to allow it.
Plaintiff ,aid that their business could not ba carried
on if they did not occasionally give credit.
Tne Learned JUDGE—WeII, I thick you acted very
improperly, for you had no authority from the husband,
and as wf at she had were not necessaries, according to
her station in life, you ere not legally entitled to recover.
Judgment for the defendant.

BOW-STREET.—(THIS DAY.)
John Morgan, late waiter at the Somerset Coffee-
house, Strand, was charged with having stolen a 51.
note, and a cash-box containing a 101. note, some sove-
reigns, and several valuable documents, the property of
his master.

Alexander Stewart, the proprietor of the Somerset
Coffee-house, deposed that the prisoner had been in his
employ for some months past, and that lately he had
given him warning. On the night before last the priso-
ner stopped out all night, and on the following morning
a 5/. note, which had been kept for some time in a chif-
fonier, was missing. He returned the next morning
about eight o'clock, quite intoxicated. Nothing was said
to him, and during the day he went through his work.
About a quarter-past seven o'clock he was seen to go
through the bar with his box on his shoulder, and not
returning for the remainder of his wages, suspicion was
aroused. The placo was st arched and the cash. box
found missing, which contained, in addition to the money,
several very valuable documents.
Several of the documents abstracted from the cash.,
box were found on the prisoner.
He was remanded for a week.

THAMES.—(THIS DAY.)
ROBBERY OF 3,0001. WORTH OF GOLD DUST.—Peter
Vanderhost, a Dutchman, formerly steward of the Ba-
tavia, Rotterdam steamer, aged 40, Fitzbonness, a Ger•
man touter, 28, Margaret Hermann, a German, 41, and
Conrad Hermann, 48, were brought before Mr. Yardley,
charged with stealing gold dust and lumps of gold, lately
brought from California, to the amount of 3,000/., in a
Get man lodging house, kept by a Mrs. Wernech, in
Little Alie•street, Whitechapel, on Monday night last.
Mr. Pelham appeared for Hermann and his wife;
M. Strauss, a respectable German linguist, acted as
interprets r.

It appeared that two foreigners, named Giacomo
Tuetta, an Italian, described in the police-sheet as a
landholder, and Nicola Prosper Calliaux, a Frenchman,
arrived trom California a few days ago with gold worth
3,000/, and hired apartments in Mrs. Wernech's house,
where all the prisoners were engaged as servants. The
owners of the gold went to Vauxhall on Monday night,
and during their absence their rooms were broken into,
and the gold abstracted. On Tuesday night, at a late
hour, in consequence of information to police-sergeants
Foay and Macintosh, 3 H, with Gifford 89 H, repaired to a
German lodging. house, No. 45, Bear-street, at the back
of the St. Katherine's Dock, where they found Vander-
host concealed, and took him into custody, when he
dropped on the floor a few lumps of gold, part of the
stolen property, and equal in weight to one hundred
sovereigns, which Macintosh seized.

Tuetta and Calliaux bad no doubt it was their gold.
Vandcrhost made a statement to Sergeant Foay,
implicating the other prisoners, who were ap-
prehended, and also implicating Christian. A great
many witnesses were examined, who made oat a strong
case against the prisoners who broke into the rooms
rented by Tuetta and Calliaux, and plundered their boxes
of the precious treasure. It was a!No proved that Fitz-
bonness took Christian and Vanderhost to the
house of a man named Lyons, in Cooper's-row,
Tower-hill, shortly after the rubbery, and said
ttiey were emigrants proceeding to New York
yid London, and had just arrived, and induced Mr. and
Mrs. Lyons to receive them as lodgers. Lyons heard
of theirobbery in the course of Tuesday, and, suspecting
his lodgers, turned them out of the house.
Foay and Macintosh had no doubt Christian was in
possesAion of the rest of the gold, and believed he could
not escape.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

(THIS DAY.)

MOUSE OF COMMONS.

The SPEAKER took the Chair shc.rtiv after Twelve.
THIRD READINGS.

The following Bills were read a third time and
passed:—

Mat,chester Bonding.
St. Thomas's ll.)spital Estate.

SECOND READINGS.

Cavendish's (or Harcourt's) Estate Bill was read a
second time, and ordered to be committed.
STANDING ORDERS.

On the motion of Mr. ILSON PA fTEN, it was
ordered that the following Committee should be appointed
to revise the standing orders of the House relative t.
private Bills :—Mr. Wilson Patten, Mr. Bernal, Mr.
Greene. Mr. Henley, Sir Hobart Ferguson, Mr. Wright-
son, Mr. Evelyn D,-.n6on, Mr. Tatton Egerton, Mr.
Sotberon, Captain Jones, Sir Henry Willoughby, Mr.
Brotherton, and Mr. Thornely.
A great number of petitions were presented fur and
agaiu.t the recent alterations in the Post-office.

-Mr. DU.NCAN presented a petition from Edinburgh
egainit certivn clauses in the Friendly Societies Bill.
Lord DUDLEY STUART presented a petition from
an individual in the metropolis against the erection of the
proposed building in Hyde-park.
Mr. WAWN gave norice that on the bringing up of
the rep,rt on the Mercantile Marine Bill he would
move that the Bill should be recommitted.
POOR RELIEF BILL.

The Poor Relief Bill vtas read a third time and
passed.

POOR RELIEF (CITIES AND TOWNS).
Mr. SHAFTO ADAIR moved the second reading of
the Poor Relief (Cities and Towns) Bill.
Mr. T. EGERTON submitted to the Hon. Member
whether it would not be a more prudent course for him
to withdraw the Bill at once, as he considered there
would be
.no chance of its passing during the present
session.

Mr. S. ADAIR felt bound to call the attention
of the House and the Government to the
object and provisions of the Bill. It did not
apply to the agricultural district.), but simply to cities
and towns. As a❑ instance of,the inequality of rating
in cities in towns, he might state that in one parish
in Cambridge the rates were 4d. in the pound, in
another 2d., in a third Is. 2d., and in a fourth is.
3d., and it was his firm belief that in Lon-
don and the larger cities similar inequalities existed.
Ile believed also that the principle of the Bill ought
to be extended to more unions than he proposed to
eiTend it, and he hoped that the House, by reading the
Biil a second time, would approve of the principle.
Mr. E. ELLIS seconded the motion.
Mr. T. EGERTON moved that the Bill be read a
second time that day six months.
Mr. BAINES opposed the Bill. He hoped that the Hon.
Member would not think it necessary to press forward with
the Bill at this late period. He thought that the whole
question was bound up with the question of settlement,
and they could not expect to see either of them settled
separately. It was for this reason that he hoped
the Hon. Member would not press forward this Bill.
Mr. Alderman SIDNEY, though he regretted that
the Bill had not been brought in before this period of
the session, was unwilling that the principle should be
negatived. He believed that the Bill was well calcu•
lated to remedy many of the evils which existed in con-
sequence of the present system both in cities and towns
and also in country districts.

Mr. V. SMITH-complained that the Right Hon. Gen-
tleman the President of the Poor-law Board, when he
begged the Lion. Mover of this Bill to withdraw his Bill
because it was bound up with the large question of rating
and settlement, had not pledged himself to bring some
measure of his own forward un this subject.
Sir G. GREY said, with regard to what had fallen
from the Hon. Alderman, nothing had been said upon
the principle of the Bill by any 'Wernher who had
spoken. He could say that the valuable reports which
had been alluded to had been under the consideration
of Government for some time, and they hoped to be
able to bring forward tome measure on the subject early
in the next session. Beyond this he would nut wish to
pledge himself.

Mr. SHAFTO ADAIR consented to withdraw the
Bill. After what had fullen from the Right Ilunuurable
Baronet who last addressed them he could not persevere
with the Bill.

After some further discussion the Bill was withdrawn.
COMPOUND HOUSEHOLDERS' BILL.
Sir WM. CLAY moved the second reading of this
Bill, which was intended to confer the franchise upon
parties who weep entitled to, but did not enjoy it. The
House was aware that in London and other large towns
the landlords of a certain class of houses, with a rental
Of 101. and upwardi' compounded for the payment of
the rates, with advantage to the parish as well
as to the tenant; and the consequence was,
that the occupiers of those houses were not re-
turned as rata -payers, and they were consequently
deprived of the privilege of the franchise. At present
the occupier had to make an annual claim to be placed
on the register of voters, and the object of this Bill was
to render all subsequent applications unnecessary after
the first cLim had been made and allowed. As the law
now stood, very many thousand persons were excluded
from the franchise who were el. arty entitled to it, and
while he was ready to make any change in the details of
the Bill, which the House might, upon consideration,
think necessary, he hoped there would be no objection to
readily, it a second time, and affirming its principle.
Mr. :NEWDEGATE said this very same Bid stood
for a second reading on the 26th of July last, and now
that stage w:-,s prepared to be taken three days earlier
this s, ssion. List year tie Government thought the
Bill was too important to be real a second time at so
late a period of the session, and for the same reason he
should oppose the motion now. Lord Denman, in his
time, warned the Legislature not to triflq with this sub-
ject. That Learned Lord ar.id, if this practice were to
prevail it would open the door to enormous frauds. He
(Mr. Newdegate) did not see that the necessity for this
Bill was pressing, for the returns presented to this House
showed the number of borough electors throughout
the country were greatly on.the increase. He therefore
felt it his duty t. move that this Bill be read a second
time this day three months.
Sir GEORGE GREY did not feel any hesitation in
supporting the second reading of this Bill.—(Hear,
hear.) The objects of the Bill came entirely within the
spirit of the Reform Act, and was far from identical
with the Bill of last session, as had been stated by the
Hon. Member (Mr. Newdegate).
Sir E. N. BUXTON said he had no hesitation in giving
his assent to the Bill. There were thousands of persons
quite as fit to vote as those who did vote, but who were
at present disfranchised for want of such a Bill as this.
It enabled persons who actually lived in a 10/. house,
though they were not in point of law chargeable with the
payment of rates, to vote as well as those who actually
paid the rates. He would not say the machinery of this
Bill was exactly what he could wish.—(" Hear," from the
Opposition.) But that was not the question. The question
was, whether the House would allow a great number of
persons, who really were qualified to vote in point of
the value of their houses, to be disfranchised simply
because the landlord and not they paid the rates.
Mr. TRELAWNY rose to advocate the principle
of the extension of the suffrage, and to claim the vote
of the Right Hun. Baronet opposite, in consequence of
his late speech on the Irish franchise, and he could not
see how he could refuse it. It had been said by the lion.
Member for Warwickshire that the voters were diminish-
ing in counties and in towns. He could not see, then, bow
that Honourable Member could refuse his support to
this Bill. He must say, however, that if there were
anything proposed in that House bearing the character
of progress, they wet e sure to find one of the Members
for Warwickshire opposing it, and generally the other
Member supporting his colleague.--(Laughter.)
After a few words from Sir E. WILLOUGHBY and
Sir G. PECRELL,

Sir W. CLAY replied, and the House divided, when
there appeared—

For the second reading
Against it

... ... 80
II" ••• sm., ... 24
Majority ... ... —56
The Bill was then rear; a second time.
(LEFT SITTING.)

THE FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT ON THE SOUTH-
WESTER It RAILWAY BASINGSTOKE, TUESDAY.—Last night
an inquest, which did not terminate until a very late hour,
was held at the Railway Tavern, Basingstoke, before J. C.
Shebbeare, Esq., the coroner for North Hants, and a jury of
13 •of the principal inhabitants, on the body of William
Samuel Junes, aged 27, who was frightfully mutilated and
killed—four other persons being thrown out and slightly
injured—on Sunday morning last, near Old Basing, a short
distance from Basingstoke, owing to one of the down excur-
sion-trains to Southampton suddenly going into another.
In the course of the evidence it was stated by more than one
witness who had travelled by the same train as the deceased,
that some of the passengers persisted, notwithstanding the
remonstrances of the guards, in mounting upon the seats to
watch the progress of the other train ; and that, in their
opinion, had it not been for this indiscretion, no accident
would have occurred. Having heard some additional
evidence, the Jury consid,red that there was no blame and
returned a verdict of " Accidental Death." ,

ANOTHER INCENDIARY FIRE AT YIENDON.--Yel3-
terday morning, at a few minutes before six o'clock, the pa-
rish of Hendon was thrown into a state of considerable con-
fusion in consequence of another fire breaking out, makin g
the third that has oceurred in the same district within a
week. The flames originated in the rick-yard of the pre-
mises belonging to Mr. Samuel Nicoll, known as Hyde-
farm, and when discovered were raging furiously in a stack
of hay containing fifty or sixty loads. The farm servants
and labourers of the district, to the number of nearly sixty,
set to work and eventually succeeded in extinguishing the
flames, but not until one-third of the rick was destroyed.
From the part in which the fire commenced, not the least
doubt is entertained but that it was the work of some vile
incendiary. Mr. Nicoll was insured in the Royal Exchange
Fire-office.

RUYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—The ex-
hibition of the Royal South London Floricultural Society
was .ield in these gardens yesterday. Several large mar-
quees were erected, under the shelter of which the various
specimens of plants and flowers were arranged. The collec-
tion was highly creditable to the society. Among th', smaller
flowers the piccotees attracted most notice. Our limits do
not permit us to publish the very long list of prizes awarded.
The usual entertainments followed, and the pyrotechnic die.
play was extremely good, notwithstanding the then unfa-
vourable state of the weather, and the company was more
numerous than could reasonably have been expected. The
musical performances in the orchestra were admirably good.
Vice Juilien ! It has been suggested that amid-day exhibi-
tion of the passage of the French troops over the Alps might
be given with good effect. We once saw it partially ex-
ecuted in day tune, and assuredly the progress of the French
army and the appearance of the distant columns had a better
effect in some respects than by night.
DoVER, DEAL, AND CINQUE PORTS RAILWAY.
The Master in Chancery Brougham has appointed the 29th
inst. for the settlement of the list of shareholders, liable in
connexion with this company, and will g 4 for that purpose
IA vice-Chancellor Wigrurre. Court,