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London, England, 1845-08-25 00:00:00

THE II UN, LON_DON, MONDAY MORNING, AUGUST 25, 11145.

process of' monetary disorganisation and ruin which he has
already ducceeded in applying to this. But all adequate
provision for " Harbours 'of Refuge" on our southern and
eastern_ coasts—all conservative measures of an enlightened
humanity, for the better protection of industrial labour—
all efforts towards the modification of admitted
deficiencies in the social systems of which he has assumed to
himself no small degree of credit, for being the great
orignator (let us instance particularly the Metropolitan
Police-courts and force, and the Courts of Petty Session in
their jurisdiction of summarily convicting) ;—all these the
Right Hon. Premier leaves either wholly uncommenced, or,
' if began, in the plight of-the "adventure of the bear
and fiddle,"—broken off "in the middle." He is content
to leave the several recommendations of the numerous
" Commissions' which he has granted or supported—as dead
letters; untouched or unimproved. No progress has been
made in enforcing the regulations reported to Parliament as
necessary to be adopted " for the better prevention of ship-
wrecks ;" and as little in carrying out the practical advice of
the first naval men in and out of Parliament, as to the best
means of keeping up a sufficient number of able seamen cn
service, and of reinforcing that number with any required
addition, through the grant of half-pay, or pensions, to such
men from the moment of their being first paid off out of
active service; their title thereto being the condition of re-
ceiving such provision, in the nature of a retaining fee
for their services, whenever these are called for by the
Government. Nothing more consolatory has yet been
effected to ensure the adoption of those principles of
ameliorated construction, improved efficiency, and increased
armament which have ever and again been pressed upon their
attention, and acknowledged by their reluctant admissions to
be absolutely indispensable to the maintenance and security
of our naval supremacy (especially as to the steam arm of
the force) in any future maritime war.
AU this is " true, 'tis pity—pity 'tis, 'tis true." But of
how much less moment to the community, these instances of
a graceful, well-bred neglect of the " bores" of official duty,
than would be the serious moral evil which must ensue from
a failure in the First Lord of the Treasury, the First Secre-
tary of State, and the First Commissioner of Woods and
Forests, to respond to those more exciting and interesting
appeals—the calls of the grouse at this time of year
What would be said if Right Honourable Minis-
ters of the Crown did not discharge that most
important of their functions which is identified with the
discharge of their double Masrroiss and PURDYS on the 12th
of August ? The " wastes" over which the Earl of LnscoLsr
sports were never meant to be " inclosed " by that lofty
genius which presides over the spluttering of flower-pot
fountains—the ornamental (I) decoration of mocksasphalte
pavements, that almost rival the magnificence of a pri-
son tennis-court—or the hopeless contrivances for re-
...deeming the anomalous cockneyisms of a "National
Gallery," into which the exquisite connoisseurship of
her MAJESTY'S principal servants has admitted
two or three of the most palpable forgeries, paid for by prices
that should have purchased the chef d'ceuVres of RAPHAEL
MICHAEL ANGELO, or TITIAN. The wastes to be shut up
were those from which, without these iniquitous Acts of
Parliament, the poor could not have been shut—nut
Some injury to the national service may still be
to be dreaded from discontent among the best and
bravest of our seamen, labouring under the im-
pression that their interests are neglected, their
just expectations thwarted by a niggardly economy, the only
attempted excuse for which is, that it enables the Chancellor
of the Exchequer to make a better array of balances in the
financial statements that he delivers, with so much
unction, every year to the House of Commons. But
what of all this ? Not to hurry down to ric-
,:omplish for the birds their illustrious destiny of
dying by Ministerial guns would, doubless, create a spirit of
the most dangerous disaffection and resentment among
the grouse and black game of the North. Let public busi-
ness, therefore, take care of itself ! Still, to speak seriously,
the interests of human life demand somewhat more of decent
attention, of external manifestations of consideration, if not of
active sympathy, than they receive at the hands of our rulers.
How often have we had occasion to refer, as each new recur-
ring casualty has been announced, to the scandalously neg-
lected resolutions and propositions of the Select Committee
on Accidents in Mines. The most urgent and the most simple
precautions by which vigilance and care may hope to guard
against the operation of powerful subterranean agents of
destruction, are still but partially adopted throughout
the kingdom ; and the sacrifice of all the hecatombs of
human victims which in a single year they sa eep
away, seem powerless to arouse either the First
Lord of the Treasury or the First Secretary of State, in the
closing period of a stssion, to the great duty of steadily and
strictly enforcing their general introduction in the localities
that must necessarily suffer from the absence of them. In
addition to the sad, the appalling catalogue of colliery
explosions we have had to record within the present year,
our paper of to-day gives an account of two more, which,
in our present deficiency of absolute evidence in these
cases, we will not undertake to say, have been caused by a
similar neglect of the similar precautions we allude to. But
they powerfully corroborate all the solicitude we have ex-
pressed on this painful subject. At the Tividale Coalworks,
near Dudley, no less than six unfortunate labourers
have been killed by fire-damp—many more wounded ; but
at Jarrow Colliery, near Newcastle-upon-Tyne, thirty-
live dead bodies have already been brought up, out of, pro-
bably, many more victims, exterminated by an explosion of
the fire- damp ; and of 14 others who were retrieved alive, but
severely wounded, three or four have since died. ..The fate of
others who still remain entombed were, at the last advices, un-
known, but may be too readily anticipated ! These terrible
accidents have signalized one short week ! Had the duty of
that supervision of such mines been adequately fulfilled
before Parliament separated for the holidays, which the '
reports of the Committee in question devolved on the Home 1
Department, and the head of the Government, we may
surely assume that it is very possible they might have been,
and would have been averted.

The assembling, on Thursday last, of a jury, or inquest, sum-
moned by the City of London Coroner, .‘ to inquire by what
means a certain house in Aldermanbury had been burned,"
is an event of sufficient interest to call for especial notice. In
modern practice it is quite a novelty to assemble the Coroner's
court after a fire, where there has been—as fortunately the
case was in the recent destruction of the Messrs. BRADBURY
and COMPANY'S enormous premises and stock—no sacrifice of
human life. Mr. PAYNE justly observed, however, that he
was only acting in strict conformity with the ancient usage
of his office ; and a most salutary usage we conceive it to be,
and we heartily trust that it will be generally revived by
coroners. On every ground of policy and protection, it is
desirable that, when serious accidents have happened in large
towns, their origin and history should be narrowly inquired
into. The result may be to prevent their recurrence in fu-
ture, or to bring to light important facts in relation to the
cases investigated. It is well that there should be some juris-
diction to make inquisition into affairs which, as really con-
cerning every body, would otherwise be affairs looked after by
nobody. There are a thousand conceivable, though generally
latent, causes to which the firing of dwelling-houses and
warehouses may be attributable, the knowledge of ,which
can only be arrived at by means of such inquiries. It is
highly probable (though we put the matter hypothetically,
of course,) that had there been an inquest on the last pre-
ceding fire which had occurred in the Cit3r, without loss of
life, the destruction of the Fenchurch Chambers, with loss
of life, might have been prevented. Unsuspected agents of
spontaneous combustion may be possibly detected, every
now and then, by inquiries of this kind, which will be thus
serviceable, not only to the protection of life and property,
but to the interests of science. Setting aside all considera-
tions of this latter nature, fire inquests (if we must so call
them) would undoubtedly demous.rate dangerous and de-
fective modes of lighting the interior of private dwellings,
and also of warehouses and store-rooms ; of constructing
flues and setting up fire-places; and running main timbers,
the indication of which would assuredly operate to produce
their removal, where convenient or practicable, from
existing houses, &c., and to prevent their intro-
duction into such tenements and premises in 'future.
It might be well if a public notice of the par-
ticulars of every such case, and the finding of the
jury in full, were affixed to the church doors, or other public
places, for the information aid guidance of the parochial or
district community. The inquest of Thursday was fur-
ther remarkable for the additional proofit has supplied of that
culpable, almost criminal, and altogether unintelligible neg
leet and apathy, with which the securities and resources
supposed to be provided, and very largely paid for, in fact,
by the community, are allowed in the most dense and wealth
sections of the city of London to fall into desuetude and
oblivion. One of the unfortunate partners in the house of
BRADBURY, GREATOREX, and BEALL, stated, in his evidehce,
that the fire-plug could not be found for a considerable time,
although the directing-board on the house-front clearly indi-
cated that the distance was 17 feet in a specified direction.
It turned out, on the information of a juror, that this plug
had long previously been removed from the position so indi-
cated at the request of another of the partners in the same
firm. Now, what the public at large is clearly interested in
ascertaining is—Was this alteration of the communication
with the fire-pipe or main duly reported ?to what quarter?
by whom ? and does there exist any registered evidence
-of the fact? If there be no officer charged by the Water-
works Company, or other authority, with the duty ofreportir g
such alterations, and no certain ascertained department en-
trusted with the care of noting such reports, the neglect of
such ordinary precautions in a matter of such signal import-
ance is a strange deficiency in the precautionary police or
municipal regulations of a great city. If there be such an
officer or department, how comes it that the old ditecting-
board has not long since been replaced by an amended one,
showing the altered position of the plug? It was
proved before the inquest in this case, that when, at length,
the true plug was found, considerable difficulty and delay
were experienced before any supply of water could be ob-
tained. This does appear to us to be a state of things per-
fectly unpardonable in such a city as London, and such a
portion of it as Aldermanbury, where there is nothing to pre-
vent the supply from being, at all times, mot abundant. It
is not too much to assume that, in all probability, a timely
and adequate supply of water might have caused, with corn•
paratively little injury to the stock, the extinction of a fire
which has probably consumed a more enormous amount of
property than any burning of private premises which
has happened in London for' -several years past. The
early hour at which the flames were first discovered,
and the fact that they were seen, by all the evidence
which was taken, to have originated in the basement or
&lan of the house, raise the very strongest presumption that

had the water-mains been duly supplied, a calamity that has
probably visited upon a hitherto . opulent and very ex-
tensive trading firm losses to an enormous amount, might
have been averted. We lament that the Coroner did not
call before him the turnkeys and others, who are bound to
explain why there was all this fatal " unreadiness" for such
an exigency as that of Monday night last. Again, we repeat
that had a similar species of inquest sat, and returned its
verdict, upon the last preceding fire, without loss of life, there
would, in all likelihood, have been a speedy and effective
check upon the conflagration in Aldermaubury. In
the next place, it was stated by Mr. BEALL that great diffi-
culty had been always experienced in turning off
the gas below, a difficulty which, where the supply
is so large, is evidently an element of constant
danger. It we mistake not, the Corporation of London,
in reply to the repeated applications that have been made
to it by other parties for a participation in the supply of gas
to the city, under the newest and most scientific improve-
ments for its safe and efficient regulation, have persistedin
upholding their Chartered Company, or a strict monopoly of
the gas contract. It would have been important to ascer-
tain, and we recommend the point to the next " fire inquest"
that may be impannelled in tbeCity,whether or not the diffi-
culty spoken to of turning off the gas is one which is ex-
perienced, in an equal or a less degree, by those who use the
fittings and apparatus of the more modern but excluded
companies,• with those who are compelled to adhere to the
supply and management of the chartered monopoly ? In
relation to these and other such points, interesting to a
conservative municipal policy, we are rejoiced to find Mr.
PAYNE coming forward to re-establish an ancient, and, as we
conceive, valuable employment of the functions of his impor-
tant office.

We have received accounts from Leipsic of the 17th. The
students had continued to do military duty up to that time,
but they are now relieved from it, and replaced at , all the
points they occupied by the Communal Guard. The troops
were still confined to their barracks. On the 15th the KING
and QUEEN arrived at Leipsic from Dresden. Their Majesties
went among the people, by whom they were received with en-
thusiasm. The KING promised that a rigid inquiry into the af-
fair of the 12th should take place, and that he would provide for
the children of the victims. He then went to the hospital to
console the wounded. On the same day about thirty persons,
who had assembled before the barracks hooting the soldiers,
were arrested. On the 17th the Municipal Council and the
officers of the Communal Guard, met at the Town-hall, to
receive the reply of the KUNG to the addresses that had been
presented to him. The KING'S Commissioner, M. DE LAN-
GEUN, read the following as the answer of his MAJESTY :
" I have received the Deputies of the city of Leipsic, who came
to express to me the pain that had been indicted upon them by the
eve►.ts of the 12th, and to give me the assurance of their fidelity
and devotedness. I think it right to communicate what follows to
the city of Leipsic, and I desire that the public may be made ac-
quainted with it. I was happy and- proud to reign over a faithful
people, respecting law and justice, and who have so often mani-
fested their attachment to the dynasty, under the most difficult cir-
CUlllsratiCt.S. Relying upon and respecting the constitution of the
country, I was jitstified in hoping that the Saxon people, penetrated
with its spirit, would remain faithful to it even in the most
stormy times, and that they would sever depart from the
constitution and the laws. I have been the more grieved that
the second city of the kingdom, in which I loved to reside,
and in which I have received so many proofs of fidelity and
devotedness, a city so happy and flourishing as Leipsic, should
have been the theatre of such an attack, inasmuch as the law
has been violated in the person of my beloved brother, who,
to perform a patriotic duty, had, full of kindness and cond.
deuce, presented himself in the midst of the citizens. lam
prefouwily afflicted to see that the public opinion has been
ehamet!liy excited by reports as ignoble as unfounded. I recom-
mend, paternal y and seriously, that no faith should be placed in
them. I pity deeply the victims, perhaps innocent, who have fallen
in consequence of the necessary intervention of the troops. A se.
vere and impartial investigation into the conduct of the authorities
will throw light on all this affair, and if well-thinking citizens unite
their efforts, order will be maintained, and more severe measures,
to have the laws respetted, will not be necessary. But I must de-
clare, with protound grief, that my previous confidence in et city
in which the idea of such acts could arise, and be put into execu-
ti gin, is shaken. Therefore is it that I address with kindness and
firmness rity royal word to the great number of the loyal citizens
of Leipsic, who have at heart the welfare of their country and of
the city, and the honour of the Saxon name. May they rally
round the £hrone and the Constitution, and resist with force and 111
dignity the efforts of those who are opposed to coustttuiional
order, so that the law may remain inviolable, and that my ancient
confidence, in a city which has always been dear to my heart, may
be restored."

Ater the reading of the reply, the President of the assem-
bly exclaimed, •• Long live the King!" and the whole k,f the
persons present repeated the cry. On the same day the
King's reply was posted up on all the walls of the town, and
the Municipal Council announced that an extraordinary corn
mission had been formed for receiving such claims as any
individuals may have to make. The Municipal Council also
announced that, according to the moAprecise information, the
perso:ls killed were Messrs. Nordmann, Prieur, Jelin, Frey-
gang, Muller, Kleeberg, and Arland, and that five persons
were wounded.

Prince JOHN, immediately on his arrival at Dfesden, went
:o the Castle of Pilnitz, but is about to have Germany for

I Laly.

The Leipsic Gaze,' te of the 15th contains a declaration by
Major DE JECHAN, adjutant of the staff of the communal
guards of that city, to the effect that Prince Joint did not
give the order to fire on the 12th.
General I:loci-low, the new Prussian Ambassador. at St.
Petersburgii, has arrived in that city. Before proceeding to
his post, he had been charged by the King of PRUSSIA with
a secret mission to the King of HANOVEM

It would appear from the following extract, from a letter
dated Athens, Aug. 8, that Cm.E.Trz still persists in carrying
out the designs of himself and his co-conspirators to swindle
the Greeks out of their Constitution :—" On the sth lust.
the KING yielded to the long-persisted-in solicitations of
CoLErn, and swamped the Senate by the creation of 16
new senators. Their names are CHIiISTIDES, MAIKsoLAs,
A. Dot:CAS, THEOTOKY, KARACATZANI, KARASIENO,
DELYLTI, CANELOPULO, DARIOTTIS, ELIOPOLIS, MELAIKIS,
HADGI PETRoS, 31Exis, D. BULGARLS, GLARAKIS, arid CON-
ToumAs. The two last named are KLNG'S men. The others
are all creatures of CoLET-rfs. Immediately on his MAJES-
TY'S signing their diplomas, METAXA, the Minister of Finance,
gave in his resignation, which was accepted. He stated that
his reason for resigning was, that he considered this act (the
nomination of the new Senators) as both prejudicial to the
throne and to the nation.

It is the general opinion of the best-informed persons here
that a violent crisis is approaching, and it is clear that a de-
termined conspiracy exists against the Constitution, which
conspiracy is most warmly supported, and almost openly, by
more than one of the Ministers of the European Powers.

Madrid Papers to the 16th have arrived. The Gazette
publishes a convention between the Governments of Spain
and Portugal, fixing the precise attributes of the consuls of
the two nations, and which was signed at Lisbon on June 26.
The Progressist and Moderado journals of all shades attack
with extreme violence the Ministry of NARVAEZ and theacti
of the Government. The Tiempo and Globo maintain that it
is impossible for NARVAEZ and his colleagues to continue in
power iu opposition to the unanimous manifestations of the
press and public opinion, and that it is their duty to retire or
immediately convoke the Cortes.

The Tit?lipo has a long article attacking the Government
fur having authorised the Duke of SoToasavoa to, offer a
building at the Havannah to the English Government as a
depot fqr freed negroes. The same journal states, that the
proprietors of houses were preparing a remonstrance against
the impost on house-rent.

According to El Espectador, a rumour, believed to be well
founded, is in very general circulation, of an approaching
modtication of the Cabinet.' It adds, that two additional
Mini,ters were to be named, one of Public Works, and the
other of the Colonies. Among the rumours afloat were those
of the Aliniter or Foreign Affairs having tendered his resigna •
Gt, and of a Carlist plot having been detected at Tolosa;
b.t neither report obtained much credence. The two
younger nuns of Urn CAuLos have, according to the Herald°,
eaten. his Sardinian Majesty's service, one as colonel of the
cavalry regiment of Savoy, with a pay of 6,000 francs; the
other as major in the regiment of Arqui, with a pay of
4,100 francs.

The Heraldo publishes the instructions issued by the Finance
Minister, according to which the unsold Church property is to
restored to the clergy. The same journal mentions the fact
of a priest in Avila having extorted from a man in his dying
moments a promise that he would cause to be restored to the
Church a large amount of property which he had bought.
The priest ordered a notary to be sent for, and the will was
made out according to his wish; and, to the astonishment of
the family of the deceased, for he died in a few hours after,
it was found that everythicg was left to the Church. De-
cA.ased's wife and children intend disputing the validity of the
will. His name was TARAVEM, and he had been deputy for
Avila.

The Barcelona journals state that the Company for a rail-
road from Barcelona to Mataro has received the royal autho-
risation to commence the work, and to import whatever
materials, machines, &c., may be required, either for the
working or carrying on the railroad, provided they are not
to be had in Spain, or would come dearer by eight per cent.
than if imported from another country.
The Three per Cents. were rather firm to-day, for cash;
they were quoted at 31% ; 31% at 60days. 23,600,000 reals
done. Five per Cents., 22% at 60 days. 2,000,000 reals done.

We have received the Paris papers of Thursday. The
storm of Tuesday had blown down three factories at Rouen,
and buried several hundreds of unfortunate human brings in
the ruins. The particulars of this dreadful disaster will be
found in another column. The lowest estimate of the num-
ber who have suffered in this dreadful calamity is 40 killed
and 120 wounded, many of the latter so severely, that there
is but little probability of their recovery.
The Prince and Princess DE JOLNYILLE arrived at Paris on
Wednesday.

M. Tiiiius returned to Paris from Vichy on Wednesday.
The Prince and Princess DE SALERNO, father and mother
of her Royal Highness the Duchess D'AUMALE, have arrived
at the Chateau d'Eu.

The Journal des .Debats has the following on the subject
of the German Catholic Church :
" We are assured that the Prussian Government is about to
take severe measures for arresting the progress in Germany of the
new sect of Catholic Dissenters. A circular has seen sent by the
Minister of the Interior to all the censors of the kingdom, directing
them to strike out every article having the slightest tendency to
promote these religious movements, which may be proposed to be
inserted in any of the journals, or other periodicals, which are not
expressly authorised to treat upon these questions."
_ _

General GALBOIS has been ordered to proceed to Algiers to
organise the Spahis, or native cavalry, into three regiments—
those of Algiers, Oran, and Constantine; each regiment to

consist of six squadrons. One of the squadrons of the regi-
ment of Algiers is to go to Senegal.

We extract the following on tte subject of the concession of
the Great Northern Railroad from Getlignani's Messenger

" We mentioned yesterday that a deputation of the English
Committee of the Decan-Lebeuf Company for the Northern
Railroad had waited on the Minister of Public Works. This
course had been adopted by these gentlemen In consequence of
reports having been circulated that the company was not in
a condition to send in a tender for the line. The more immediate
object of the visit to the Hon. Minister was to convince him that
all the conditions required by law had beeu strictly complied with,
that the capital had been fully made up, and that the necessary
vouchers and documents, as well as the caution money, could be
deposited with him at any moment he pleased. Mr. F. Mowatt,
the president of the Committee, in order to convince the Hon.
Minister that the whole transactions of the Company were of a
bona Me character, exhibited, exhibited to M. Dumon the amount
of the English subscription in Bank of England notes. The
Minister received the deputation with great politeness, and listened
to their statement with marked attention."

The National comments warmly upon the coalition of
capitalists which has taken place for the purpose of securing
the adjudication, acd concludes in these words—

" The Minister of Public Works should not hesitate. Let him first
order an inquiry, and next the postponement of the adjudication. Ile is
called upon to do this by the interest of the treasury, of his own
honour, and of his ministerial existence."

The fall in our Stock Exchange on Tuesday, and the in-
creasing scarcity of money in Paris, induced a decline of
prices on the Bourse on Tharsday. Towaala the close of
business an actual panic prevailed, in consequence of a report
of the illness cf the KING. It was also said that an attempt
had been made against the life of the Duke de NEMOURS at
Mont de Marsan ; but the real cause of the fall was supposed
to have been occasioned by a further depression in Consols.on
Wednesday.
The Three per Cents. closed at 84f. sc. ; the Five per
Cents. at 121 f. 60e.-; Orleans Railroad shares, 1,280 f. ;
Rouen, I,oBof. ; Vierzon, 702 f. 50c. ; Havre, 900 f. ; Avignon,
1,0551. ; Basle, 281 f. 25c. ; Spanish Three per Cents., 38%.

The'following are the quotations of the new lines :-
Orleans and Bordeaux, 215 f. premium ; Boulogne, 1251.
premium ; Troyes and Mottereau, 552 f. 50c. ' • Paris and
Lyons (Laffitte), 36f. 25c.; ditto (Calon), 9f. •, ditto (Gan-
neron), 13f. 75c.; Northern Line (Laffitte), 60f.; ditto
(Rosamel), 29f. ; ditto (Pepin),lsf ; ditto (Decan), 16f. 25e. ;
Tours and Nantes (Mackenzie), 16f. 25c. ; ditto (Drouil-
lard), If. ; ditto (O'Neill) 7f. 50e.; ditto (Jacques Le-
fevre), 4f. ; Lyons and Avignon (Lecointe), 20f.; ditto
(Talabot), 40f. ; ditto (Compagnie Meridionale), 10f. ;
Bordeaux and Cette (Mackenzie), If. 50c. ; ditto (Espeleta),
15f. ; Creil and St. Quentin (Carette), 7f. ; ditto (Colbert),
If. ; Paris and ,Strasburg (Gannerori), 15f. ; ditto (Bechet),
2f. 50c. ; ditto (Hinguerlot), 12f. 50c, ; Dijon and Mulhau-
sen, par; Dieppe, 40f.
LYONS, AUG. 18.-Avignon and Marseilies, 1,0721., end
of August; Paris and Orleans, 1,293 f, ditto; Paris and
Rouen, 1,073 f., ditto; Orleans and Vierzon, 791 f., ditto;
o:leans and Bordeaux, 715 f., ditto; Nismes and Montpelier,
5871., cash.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS. AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, AUG. 21.
Boulogne and Amiens.. 11 Orleans and Bordeaux 121,E
Bordeaux &Mediterran - lOverYssel •••

Bordeaux and Toulouse iParis& Lyons (Latitte) 3%
.
Do. and Cette 2% Ditto (Ganneron's). 2p
Central of Spain ..
: Ditto (Calon's)....
Dutch Rhenish
Dendre Valley
Dieppe & _Paris Junct — Paris and Strasburg
Dijon and Mulhouse
East Indian
Grt Northern of France Paris and St. Quentin.

—..._............... _
(Latlitte',)
Ditto (Rosamel's) ... 3 ;Rouen and Havre 3l
Great Paris and Lyons. ißoyal North of Spain 23%
Jamaica Junction 4% Sambre and Meuse .... 81/2
. Do. North i'lidland l% :Strasbourg and Basle .
Louvain and Jemeppe — Tours and Nantes
l.eons and Avignon 23A (I‘l‘lienzie's) 3
Luxembourgh.. 2% , Do. (Lefebvre's)
Namur and Liege 55, :Verona and Ancona....
Orleans and Vierzon

HEEL IVIAJr.,ST VISIT TO
GERMANY.

MATECNCE, Ana. 18.—Her Majesty left this morning for
Wurriurg, at seven o'clock, in a carriage and four,
followed by her suite in two other carriages, and escorted
by a party of Prussian Lancers. The royal party expect
to arrive at Wurzburg at about eight o'clock this evening,
but it is probable that they have not sufficiently calculated
on the slowness of German postilions. Salutes were fired as the
Queen left, and there was a slight additional bustle in the streets.
Her Majesty and suite dined yesterday at the Government-
house with Prince. Wiliam of Prussia. They left at nine o'clock,
and returned to their hotel. In the afternoon, at three o'clock,
the royal party attended Divine servi. e In •the Protestant Church.
The Rev. Mr. Dunnage performed the service. A day or two may
elapse after the publication of this communication before any
further account of her Majesty's progress can be received in
London.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
(From The Sun of Saturday Evening.)
The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday, was firmer.
Sales 5,000 to 6,000 bales, at previous rates.—Shares were
also better.

By accounts of April 2d from Melbourne, per William
Wise, we infer that matters must be tolerably prosperous
there; fur the squatters' balls, cricket matches, races, and
regattas, telt a tale of light hearts, but, may we hope, not of
light pockets. There had been a great many robberies in
the town.

Referring to last night's Gazette, we find again that there
is a lessened circulation, the total amount of notes cancelled
in both departments being 253,960/. The private deposits have
been withdrawn, so as to occasion a diminution front
10,187,780/. to 8,973,401/., a larger reduction than fur a
long time past, and which is perhaps the more to be re-
marked because money continws comparatively cheap,
from the temporary placing in the different metro: olitan banks
of the amount of deposits returned to the new Railway Com-
panies by the Accountant-General in Chancery. The public
deposits are again larger, by 935.1961. The seven day and
other bills have hien used by 324,126/., amounting to
1,374,3461. The Bank, therefore, has increased its discount
business. The other Securities have been augmizted by
45,2001. .

The Public Securities have been very steady, but there is
not much doing. Consols realise 99 to Vs-. Exchequer-Lilly
have been 495. to 51s. premium. New 't Mee-and-a-Quarter
per Cents. are 102% 34, and Bank Stock is worth 211 to
21114.
In the South American investments there is more dispo-
sition to speculate, and prices ate tending upwards for
Equador and Grenada stocks. The former has been 3:jft
to 4, and the latter 23% for the Active, and 51/2 for the De-
ferred. Portuguese 4 per Cents. have realised 64. Mexican
Bonds are 3434 to 35. Dutch 21,2 per Cents. have been at
63, and Russian Stock ex-dividend is quoted 11614.
The Share Market is very good again, and prices generally
are on the advance.

ONE
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock 211% 211
per Cent. Reduced
3 per Cent. Consels Annuities 99% 99
New 314 per Cents 102%3A lA
Long Annuities to eknireJan.lB6o

CLOSINU
PRICES

Ditto 30 years, Oct. 10,1859 ll%
India Stock 272
India Bonds, 1,0001
Ditto under 1,000/.
Bank Stock for Account 211
Consols for Account
India Stock for. Account... 272 272
Exchequer Bills, 1,0001., I%d 5l 49 pm. 49
Ditto 5001.
Ditto Small

ONE CLOSIN''
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES
Columbian Bonds, ex Venezuela. 17% 173 i
Danish Bonds, 1825, 3 per Cent 90 90
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837 343/4 35 35
Ditto, Deferred l9 19
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents 39
Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent
Ditto, Annuities, 1855.4.. _ 1/2

Russian Bonds ll6l/1
Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent 45% 45/.
Ditto. Deferred
Granda
Ditto Deferred 5% 6
French, 5 per Cent. l2lf. —c. 121 f. —c.
Exchange
Dutch, 2% par Cent
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certific IOOX% 1001%
PRICES OF PAID. BUSINESS DONE CLOSING
RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Armagh, Coleraine, and
Portrush l% 2
Birmin. and Gloucester. 100 1321/1 ... 132%
Birmingham and Ox-
ford Junction
Bristol and Exeter 7O
Ditto New
Bri 4 tol and Gloucesiter... 30

Caledonian
Ditto Extension
Chester and Holyhead... 15
Coventry, Nuneaton, Bir.
and Leicester 1
Cornwall
Direct Northern
Dublin and Galway... 9% 275
Eastern Counties 141. 165......
Ditto New 41. 16s. —
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50
Ditto New 14 Shares... 5
Great South. and West.
(Ireland)
Ditto Extension
Great North of England..loo ...... 220
..ireat Western
Ditto Half Shares 5O llli 11/ k' -k'
- i 2 1171 A
Ditto Fifths
Guildford, Fareln, Ports. 2 % ... -
Hull and Selby 5O -
Do, Half Shares
:,,nicaster and Carlisle... 25
Leicester and Bedford... 225.
London and Birmingtun otock) 225'4 225 227... 227
Do. New Thirds
oa 0
.Do. 14 Shares
London and Blackwall. 16/. 13s. 44. 1014%34 lO%
Do. New
London and Brighton
London and Croydon, 131. 15s. Ad 25%% 2614 . .
Do. New l3s 44 1 %
Lond. &S. Western 411 6s 10d 7B --

191
6% p
89

Do. New
London and York
Manchester and Leeds... 76 2091/2 2081,4

101'-
3774
13
638 i
714 74 p

771%
26
p
78

5%
208%

Do. 14 Shares
Do. Quarters
Do Sixteenths ...
Manchester and Birmin. 40
Do. New Quarters ... 2
Alcnchester,Buxton,and
Matlock 225.......

it iriland 100

Do. New
e weastle and lierwick 1
Newcastle, Durham, and

Lancashire Junction... 1%...... .........
Newark and SLetheld ...
North British
Do. New
Northern and Eastern... 45
North Staffordshire 225....... 41/a p
Norwich and Brandon l4

3%
31%
%
72
4%

Do., New ... ..... ..... 1
Oxford and Worcester... 21,4 7%1/2
Portsmouth Direct 214 61/2 6
Preston and Wyre 5O
Richmond 1
Rugby, Worstr, & Tring 1
Shrewsbury and Trent
Vatley Union
Shrewsbury, Hereford,
and North Wales 23/i 4%
South Midland 22s.
outh Eastern & Dover 33/ 2s 4d —B 71/21/41%3/4 P 8
461
Do., No. 2.
Do., No. 3
Staines and Richmond 1 2 ...... ......... 2
South Wales .... ... 214 51%
Welch Midland
York and North Midland 50 108
Do. Extension

73/4
6
40 IA
7
2%

FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and A miens— 6
Central of Spain ... .... 2
Dendre Valley .... ..... .. 2 ...... 21/8
Dutch Rhenish
Lireat North. of France
(Laffitte's)
Do. do. (Rosamel's) 2 ...... 2% 3 3
Lyons and Avignon
Luxembourgh
Namur and Liege - 53/4
f )deans and Bordeaux... 4
Paris & Lyons, Laffitte's 4
Paris and Lyons, Gan-
neron's, ... ..
l 'anis & Lyons, (Calon's) 2 ..... 21% • 2
Paris and Rouen
Paris and Strasbourg
(Ganneron's) 2 ... .. 2',4
Royal North of Spain ... '2
MINE
__ _

Real del Monte, Unregis. 33/4 4

EAST INDIA HOUSE.

The adjourned debate in the cue of the Raja of Sattara, was
resumed on Saturday morning at ten, at which hour Sir Henry
Willock, the Chairman, accompanied by the Directors, entered
the Court, when he found his place already occupied by a Mr.
Peter Gordon. and that Mr. George Thompson had taken his seat
within the bar. Both gentlemen refused to quit their respective
position:, upon which Sir Henry Willock said that if Mr. Peter
Geirdon did not vacate his seat he would send for the officers and
have him turned out.

Mr. THOMPSON thereupon declared that the Court of Directors
had a right to elect their own chairman, and the present course
had been adopted in order to maintain that right ; but to show
that he did not wish to offer any factious opposition to Sir Henry
Willock taking his usual place in the court, he would now move
that Sir Henry Willnck do take the chair.

Mr. PETER GORDON seconded the motion, upon which
Mr. Ilona rose and said that he trusted the court would repu-
diate the motion altogether. Sir Henry Willock had a right
to take the chair in that Court ; he being the legally appointed
chairman not of the Court alone, but of the Hon. mast Inuia Com-
pany, he trusted that no further obstacles or impediments would be
thrown in the way. If there should, he should at once move
that the Court do now adjourn.
Sir H. WILLOCK then said, pointing to the Chair—By virtue of
the right which I legally possess, I now call upon the officers of
the Company to expel that gentleman, Mr. Gordon, from the chair.
Two officers approached and put their hands upon Mr. Gordon
for that purpose,
Mr. Gordon hereupon left the chair amidst a scene of confusion
such as was never before witnessed In this Court, and which lasted
for a considerable time after, ieveral Directors and Proprietors
speaking at the same time, Mr. G. Thompson's voice being heard
above all the rest.

The CHAIRMAN at length took his seat, and said that as the ex-
traordinary occurrences of the day must firm the subject of legal
proceedings elsewhere, he trusted that the debate would now be
allowed to gu on without further interruption.
The debate then proceeded.—After a debate that lasted several
hours, the resolutions in favour of a further inquiry into the case
of the Rajah of Sattara, which had been proposed by Mr. George
Thompson, and seconded by Mr. Sullivan, were negatived by a
large majority. The amendment proposed by Mr. Lewis met with
a similar fate, and the resolution of the Directors net to interfere
further in the matter having been carried, the Court adjourned at
five o'clock.

We have been informe.i by the friends of Mr.
Mordaunt (the gentleman who was seriously injured on Wednesday
last by the coming off of a wheel of one of the Notting-hill omnibuses)
that he is going on most favourably. His injury is confined to a
severe compound fracture of his leg.

CONSECRATION OF HOLY TRINITY CHURCH AT
MILTON.—This beautiful structure having been completed, was, on
Thursday last, consecrated by the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Ro-
chester, assisted by the Rev. Mr. Joynes (the incumbent), son of
Dr. Joynes, Vicar of .iravesend, in the presence of a vast assemblage
of the inhabitants and visitors of the town of Gravesend.
THE ORGAN GRINDING Nu ISANC E.—At the Queen-
square Polic-court, on Friday, [Vincent Jaspereni, an Italian, was
charged with disturbing a sick lady, by playing an organ near her
residence in Chester-square, and.was fined the full penalty of 405., or
fourteen days' imprisonment.

SUDDEN DEATH OF A CHILD IN THE STREET.-
On Friday Mr. W. Carter held an inquest at the Rising Sun,
York-road, Lambetb, on the body of George Myers Whiles,
aged seven years, whose parents reside at No. 16, Haddon-
street, Waterloo-road. The deceased left home on Tuesday
evening between five and six o'clock with his hoop, and whilst
trundling it along the pavement near Waterloo-bridge, he suddenly
fell down in a fit. He was picked up and carried into the surgery of
Mr. Cooke, but he died soon alter from some affection of the brain.
The jury returned a Terdict of "Natural death."

COWES, ISLE OF 'WIGHT.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
ROYAL Y.V..:HT SQUADRON INTELLIGENCE.

The sailing matches here, which have been kept up with great
spirit, have closed tor the present; that between the Heroine and
the Secret is put off till next week. The one that surprised very
one was the handicap, when the Alarm, supposed to be the fa,test
yacht in England, was beaten, fairly beaten, in her own town
breeze, a good stiff one too, by a small yacht of little more than 30
tons—the Heroine. All nautical men are perfectly astonished at
it—it has caused quite a revolution in their Ideas : weight for
inches, time for tons, is at an end; not a word more about supe-
rior size must have it. It is said this vessel is on a new principle;
that the foot of her sternpoat plumbs with her running tackle, and
that though so small she draws 12 feet water 1

The town is thinning fast; the Marquis of Anglesey and family
leave this ttay anti to.merrow. Mr. Hallifai left Egypt House
yesterday, and within a kw drys many otheis will be off ; there is
generally a change at this season of the year, when numbers resort
here for the bathing months (September and October).
The royal children are still at Osborne House—that is, we sup-
pose so, as we have not heard of their departure ; but they are as
little spoken of or heard of as if they were not in the island: we
may almost say, Oh, no, we never mention them—ti.eir names
are never heard."

Her Majesty is expected to return to Cowes on the 10th of
September. A great numbur of workmen are employed ; those
who knew Osborne six months ago would not know it know.