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LONDON, FRIDAY, JULY 25, 1345.

The Lords met at Five o'clock.

Earl BATHURST brought up the report of the Select
Committee on the Dublin and Galway Railway Bill.
They reported that the most systematic frauds had bean
had recourse to, to procure the requisite number of signa-
tures to the subscription contract, and they had decided
not to inquire further into the Bill, without directions
from the House.

The Earl of BESBOROCGII then gate notice that he
should, to-morrow (this day), move that the Bill bo no
further proceeded with.

Lord BROUGHAM then recurred to the question of pri-
vi!ege, to which he had adverted on Tuesday evening,
and said that after the explanation of Mr. FRENCH,
the preceding evening, he had no desire to trouble their
Lordships further in the matter, reserving to himself the
right of proceeding criminally, if he thought fit, against
the Times and Morning Chronicle, which last paper had
published the offensive speech, and had also offensively
commented on his conduct.

After a few words from the Earl of WICKLOW, the
matter dropped.
Lord CAraolcs brought up the report of the Committee
on the Runcorn Railway Bill, finding the preamble
not proved.
In answer to Lord MoNTEAGLB,
The Duke of WELLINGTON said that some measure
was in contemplation to alter the present mode of swear-
ing witnesses befure Railway Committees.
Lord CAMPBELL suggested that Committees of the
House of Commons ought to hare the power of examining
witnesses on oath.

Lord BROErGFIAM moved a resolution that an address
be presented to her MAJESTY, praying that she would
be gracieusly pleased to give directions that the new
Houses of Parliament might be ready by the beginning
of next session.

The 'notion, which was supported by Lord CARP-
BELL and the Earl of WlcaLow, and opposed by Lord
WHARNCLIFFE, the Duke of WELLINGTON, and Lord
SUDELEY, was lost, on a division, by a majority of 24,
there being—contents, 16—non-contents, 40.

Lord WHARNCLIFFE moved the second reading of the
Lunatic Asylum Bill.

The Duke of RICHMOND opposed the motion, and pro.
posed that the Bill should be referred to a Select Com
mittee.

The LORD CHANCELLOR said that a clause in the
Bill had passed through the House of Commons by mis-
take, and therefore it would be better not to proceed
further with the Bill.

A message from the Commons was here announced,
requesting their Lordships to expunge the clause in
question.

A long conversation followed as to the course to be
pursued in such a case, and it was ultimately arranged
that the second reading should not be proceeded with,
but that a new Bill, identical with the present one, with
the exception of the clause in question, should be in-
troduced and read a first time. This was accordingly
done, and the second reading was fixed to-morrow (this
day.)
On the motion of Lord STANLEY, the Commons En-
closure Bill was read a second time and ordered to be
committed on Monday.
The Colleges (Ireland) Bill was read a third time and-
passed.

Several other Bille were forwarded a stage, and their
Lordships adjourned.

The Commons met at twelve o'clock.
The Coal Duty Bill was read a third time. On the
motion that the Bill do pass,

Sir JAMES DuitE moved a clause authorizing the pay-
ment of a drawback on coal carried in barges to the

west of Staines.

The clause was opposed by the Government, and lost
on a division, the numbers being for the clause 24,
against it 37.

Mr. HUME proposed the omission of the clause im
posing the penny duty. This motion was likewise los
on a division, the numbers being, for the motion, 24
against it 41.

The Bill was then passed, after an energetic protest
on the part of Mr. HumE, against the consideration of
measures such as this Bill at the morning sittings.
The Small Debts Bill (No. 3) was reported.
The Church Building Acts Amendment Bill passed
through Committee.
Mr. B. DENISON moved that it be an instruction to
the Committee upon Group X of .14ailway Bills, that
they have power to divide the London and York Rail-
way Bill into two or more Bills, if they think fit.
Viscount COURTENAY explained the course which
had been adopted by the Committee, and which
had rendered this motion necessary.
Mr. P. M. STEWART remarked on the irregularity
of the proceedings of the Committee.
After a few words from the SPEAKER, also com-
menting on the irregularity of the proceedings of the
Committee, the motion was agreed to.
The Stock-in-Trade Bill was read a second time.
Upon the motion that the House should go into Com-
mittee on the Brazilian Slave Trade Bill,
Mr. M. GIBSON called upon the Government to hesi-
tate ere they passed a measure calculated to involve the
country in a war.
Sir R. PEEL defended the measure, and, after some
discussion, the House went into Committee on the Bill.

The whole of the clauses were agreed to, and the
House resumed.

Several Bills were then advanced a stage, and the
other orders of the day having been disposed of, the
House adjourned at Half-past One o'clock.

In the debate of Tuesday last, in the House of Com-
mons, on Mr. Eweives motion, there were some points
mooted of remarkable importance to the interests of the
general body of consumers in this country and to those
of the industrial community more especially. Mr.
EWART declared, on moving for the total repeal of the
duties on butter and cheese, that in the course of last
year only 20,000 cwt. of butter were destroyed, which
might have been previously disposed of with great ad-
vantage to the poor, but for the duties levied upon its
importation, which would not have allowed the im-
porters any adequate profit on the sale. We are to
imagine, from what transpired in the coarse of the dis-
cussion, that this enormous quantity of one of the most
indispensable articles of food was destroyed in bond.
Thus, no less than 2,240,000 lbs. of this commodity were,
so to speak, wilfully sacrificed, instead of being placed
within the reach of the poor, and the owners, the im-
porters, must have sustained a loss, assuming the value
at only 4d. per lb., of 37,3331. Imagine this value dis-
tributed among 1,000,000 poor families, for a fortnight's
supply of this nutritious article at the rate of upwards of
one pound each per week, and contrast that measure of
relief with this useless destruction of such a mass of it.
May we not be permitted to doubt whether the case is
not stronger for Mr. EWART'S motion to repeal the
duties whose mischievous operation is thus to contribute
to revenue a precarious, though, indeed, an extensile
contribution, at the cost of these wholesale sacrifices,
occasionally, of a chief article of our subsistence ?
Here is another signal evidence of the partial, oppres-
sive, cruel operation of our fiscal system on the hard-
working poor. Because, the wages of their labour are
necessarily scanty, you unnecessarily increase the cost
of those indispensable articles of food which they must
purchase for the support of themselves and their families.
There can be no doubt in the mind of any reasonable
man that the principle on which Mr. EWART'S motion
proceeded was based on the broadest and most simple
foundations. It was right in theory ; because the
theory of taxation spares necessaries, in order to fasten
on superfluities and luxuries. By an obvious analogy
the sound policy which withholds an impost on the food
of the subject, should withhold it also from the raw ma-
terial of a home manufacture. Mr. EWART'S motion
was justified, practically, by the irrefragable fact we
have just noticed of the destruction of 20,000 cwt. of
a commodity which, pending a state of the market that
would have enabled the importers to sell, after paying
the duty, at a profit, it had, from its perishable nature,
become necessary to destroy.
If one could separate the consideration of the dis-
tressing
consequences to the poorer classes of our
swarming, and, we fear, underfed population, that result
from the self-convicted absurdity of such imposts, there
would be something absolutely ludicrous in the official
solemnity of Mr. GOULBURN and the pompous compla-
cency of Sir R. PEEL, exhibited in their respective re-

plies to Mr. EWART'S speech. The former gentleman,
as Chancellor of the Exchequer, resisted the motion for
going into Committee, on high and enlightened axioms of
sound policy, indeed! He could not allow such a reduc-
tion of the revenue as the affirmation of the motion
would lead to " at this late season of the year," for " to
do so would involve the country in considerable diffi-
culty." Why there was nothing in Mr. EWART'S pro-
position to prevent the Right Hon. Chancellor from ex-
actiag a pledge, if it was thought necessary, that any
recommendation of the Committee should be subject to
an instruotion that it was not to take effect until after a
specifio date to be named. And as to the possible " diffi-
culty" in which it might involve the country (that is, the
Treasury Chambers, No. 10, Downing-street), does the
Right Hon. Gentleman allow nothing on the other side
of the account for the millions of his fellow-subjects who
are already, and have long been, involved in almost hope-
less and übsoluto difficulties by these and other such
grinding imposts on articles of indispensable consump-
tion ? " When he considered that, in one year, the duty,
amounted to 347,300/., he could not accede. to the propo-
sition of the Hon. Gentleman." But if he will eseeend
this process of consideration to the fact that this annual
amount of 347,0001. is levied on the poor, the very poor,
at the rate of 20 per cent. on their butter, and 50 per cent
on their cheese, can ho satisfy his own mind as a finan-
cier, or his own feelings as a Christian, that he is justi-
fied in keeping up a duty so unfair, so onerous, and
(as we have seen) so destructive of property ? The
Right Hon. Gentleman may depend upon it that to re-
place the present rate by one of a very light nature,
would, in the first year of the experiment, pour into his
exchequer a larger revenue than any he now draws under
the existing duty, seeing that the pressure of this latter
compels the utter sacrifice of 20,000 cwt. of the commo-
dity taxed in a single year. We adhere, however, to
Mr. EWART'S as the better and wiser course, namely, the
absolute repeal of all duty on this important article.
It wa47 ith reason that Mr. GIBSON complained, when
offering himself to discuss the question as one of taxa-
tion simply, that the Government invariably argued it
as a fiscal one. This is strictly true. You cannot get
the members of a Government, whose first, and last, and
universal principle of action is identified with their tena-
city of office, to take up these subjects on large and com-
prehensive views. The present cIIANCELLOR of the EXCHE-
QUER is a person who cannot imagine revenue realised
through other channels, or otherwise directed, than accord-
ing to a scheme previously sanctioned by the Cabinet. He
is, withal, deeply imbued with the common-place love of
revenue for its own sake, irrespective of all considera-
tions attaching to the sources or the mode of its collec-
tion. He is the sort of Minister who, if Parliament had
determined to purchase the Holy Land with a view to
some great religious purpose, would mar the solemnity
of the transaction by ostentatiously parading the five
per cent. discount he would have taken care to realise
on the transaction from the SULTAUN, and the Pacha
of SYRIA. This item of 347,0001. is in his " Ways and
Means," no doubt, for next year ; and a deputation
of the Nine Muses, with the ghost of ADAM SMIIII at
their head, would vainly essay all the powers of elo-
quence and persuasion, harmony and political economy,
on the intractable Member for Cambridge University,
to withdraw this glittering item from his next financial
statement. Sir R. PEEL, we perceive, put a question to
Mr. EWART which we are impelled to repeat. "How
could Mr. EWART expect that her MAJESTY'S Govern-
ment could possibly accede to his proposition ?"
How, indeed 1 He had already had experience of the
strength and constancy of their prejudices ; their
inflexibility—in error. For the rest Sir ROBERT'S
speech was the most dull and prosing imaginable.
,For
the " one hundred and fiftieth night this season" (as
the play bills have it), he went through the tedious story
of what he calls his surplus of 3,000,0001. (as usual,
sinking all allusion to the Property-tax, which produces
it), and schooled Mr. EWART on the standing subjects of
"lateness of the session," "derangement of the revenue,"
and " inconsistency." As to the first, what choice had
the Ministers left Mr. EWART as to the timing of his
motion ? Between their reckless sacrifices of the public
time and business in the dogged defence of their petulant
colleague, Lord STANLEY, and Sir JAMES GRAHAM'S
abortive perseverance in attempting to force Bills through
the House of Commons which had been previously repu-
diated by the voice and feeling of the whole nation, they
had left no other open period for the raising of this
question. Mr. EWART considered the wants of a
vast section of the people quite as important to be looked
to as the Ministerial convenience ; and so the matter was
brought under the notice of the House. Then as to the "de-
rangement of the revenue," the Premier appears perfectly
oblivious of the many and grave objections that have
been taken to his appropriation of the surplus ever since
the introduction of his last Budget. It is no just ground
of complaint, therefore, against Mr. EWART, who stre-
nuously objected to that scheme, that his proposition of
last night, if affirmed and carried out into execution,
would derange its details. Of course it would. But,
had they not been open to the objection of not including
the repeal or modification he calls for of the duty on but-
ter, /tee he would not have proposed now to derange
them. The last charge of inconsistency, strange to say,
does come with a good grace from Sir R. PEEL. This
paradox is readily explained. lie might charge any Hon.
Member with inconsistency who is himself so devoted a
slave to consistency, that having for years past enor-
mously taxed the " bread" of the people, he stoutly per-
sists in taxing their butter also.

We have published a letter from several owners of
Spanish bonds, which we are unwilling should pass too
readily out of observation, simply on the ground of its
alluding to that which is matter of notorious and inces-
sant complaint. Our correspondents are desirous that
the intervention of the Legislature and the Government

should be exercised to compel the payment of their
coupons or dividends. It is unfortunately quite needless
to enter into any recapitulation of the long series of dis-
graceful violations of the public faith of Spain, and com-
promises of the personal honour, as well as moral
character of the Ministers composing her Governments,
which have followed in quick succession upon the ad-
vances of British capital made within the last twenty
years, with a view to the maintenance of her public
establishments, and upon her own incessantly-asserted
pretext of upholding her national credit. In modern
history it would be difficult to find a parallel to the
generous enthusiasm, the undoubting confidence with
which the monied community of Great Britain came
forward to assist Spain in the regeneration of her po-
litical institutions. They did so mainly on the imagined
guarantee they should realise in the grateful fidelity
to their engagements of a people for whom and
with whom our ewn soldiers and sailors had so often
fought and bled, in contending against th• common
enemy of the liberties of Europe. On her part, Spain
was not back ward in binding herself by the most solemn
obligations, and under public acts and conventions of
-the most stringent character, to the faithful discharge of
the pecuniary liabilities she had thus contracted Ly
reason of the confidence reposed in her by the monied
interest, as it is called, of that nation which had been her
faithful ally and her victorious champion. It seems as if
FERDINAND VII. on his death-bed had bequeathed to
the nation, together with a disputed succession to his
throne and a civil war, the infamous legacy of his own ,
utter faithlessness, his self-convicted and shameless
falsehood, his reckless ingratitude, and his open repudia-

tion of honesty and honour. A more profligate con-
spiracy to defraud and pillage foreign capitalists was
never concocted than the whole scheme under which the
various operations of the Spanish finance administration
were conducted in the greater part of the period we
have mentioned for raising money in London upon
Spanish bonds and " securities," as they were called,
surely in bitter mockery. Millions of English capital
have thus been abstracted, never to be returned. Mer-
chants, backers, brokers, traders, whose names stood
high upon every exchange in Europe, prior to their con-
nexion with the Spanish funds, have been driven from
station, influence, wealth, respectability, and over.
whelmed in hopeless ruin by the wholesale bankruptcy
of Spanish honour, wherever a contract was to be ful-
filled, or a promise to pay to be redeemed. What were
the pleas which Spain recorded in the face of Europe in
extenuation of this degeneracyof her faith— this abandon-
ment of her integrity—thiscontempt for truth? These:—
The derangement of her natural resources ; the poverty
of her people ; the decay of the trade, the stagnation of
her colonial commerce ; the political distractions by
which she was consumed ; the destruction of all con-
fidence between the various classes of her people ; and
the consequent unproductiveness of her revenue. But
all these pleas have been falsified by the abundant
supplies which her profligate Governments have succes-
sively obtained from taxation for all the multiplied pur-
poses of domestic intrigue—court factions—foreign
agencies secret service—the corruptions, the venality,
the vengeance of Camarillas—the personal luxury and
the private and official establishments of the royal widow
of "the worst of kings." Was an army to be debauched?
A " Regent" to be supplanted by the same blow that
was to upset a Constitution? Was a minion of royalty
' to be feled—a populace to be intoxicated with brutalising
shows and pageants—a Minister of principles too im-
practicable for the atmosphere of Madrid to be ousted?
When and where, in the last thirty years, was money
wanting to the authorities of Spain for any such pur-
poses? No service was starved in Spain—except that
of the public: no cause permitted to languish for want
of money—except that of the country: no petitions to
taw woo to repeal unredressed--but those of the

people. Now, when we look upon the immoderate
sum extracted annually by the Queen-Mother, CHRIS-
TINA, from the impoverished treasury of Spain; the costly
wages of treachery and cabal appropriated to such
creatures as NA RVANZ ; the sumptuous civil list
of the young Queen Regnant, ISABELLA ; and the
state and splendour maintaieed by the Spanish
Court, in melancholy contrast to the misery of the
Spanish people ; shall vre be told that the English
holders of Spanish Stock shall not be paid the interest
on their coupons? It is high time that our guilty for_
bearance on the subject of Spanish dishonesty should
cease. If the Finance Minister will not provide the
money to defray the interest on these coupons, or can-
not, let our Government insist on its being contributed
out of the appropriation to the enormously dispropor-
tionate Civil List of Spain, the " secret service money;'
the " Royal Pensions," and the Menus pktisir s fund—if
need be,—of the QUEEN-MOTHER and the Senor MuNo:,"
The Spanish bondholders have a claim which no British
Minister can safely resist, for the vigorous interference of
the British Cabinet on their behalf with that of Spain.

We have accounts from Madrid of the lith instant. At
a meeting of the editors of the various Opposition papers,
both Absolutist and Progressista,;it had been agreed to re-
spectfully petition the Queen to abrogate the ordinance
against the press.
A new daily paper, entitled the Concileador, and represent-
lag the Absolutist-Moderado party, which acknowledges the
Marquis DE VILLU-MA as its leader, had appeared at Madrid
on the 16th.

At Tarragona, on the I.4th instant, a most alarming riot
took place in consequence of the pinta or conscription. The
troops were attacked by a furious mob, armed with clubs
and knives. The soldiers being ordered to fire, one of the
rioters was killed and another wounded, a great number being
made prisoners.
_

Some of the prisoners were embarked on board the brig
Cannibal. Tranquillity had been completely restored when
the last accounts left. Disturbances had also broken out at
Reuss on the 12th, but they bad been promptly quelled.
M. Gispr:ttz, the political chief of Barcelona, has been dis-
missed by N.titv.Asz for the weakness with which he acted
during the recent emeute. The real cause of offence is said to
have been M. GisrEßT's promise of pardon to those who
would lay down their arms within a certain time—an act of
enlightened humanity, and therefore most abhorrent to the
feelings of NARVAEZ. As M. GISPERT is brother-in-law to
General CONCHA, it was supposed the latter would resigns
in which case, either Baron Dr. MEER, or General 111.ANt;EL
Bum would succeed him. General FULGOSIO is to be the
successor of M. GISPIERT.

The arrival of the Duke FERDINAND of Saxe Coburg at
Lisbon had furnished matter for gossip to the gobe-mouches
of Madrid, as the Duke's son had been spoken of as one of the
candidates for the QUEEN'S hand. On the subject of her
MAJESTY'S marriage, the Castellano says :—" The QUEEN-
MOTHER has addressed a very affectionate letter to the
Infante Don FRANCISCO DE PAULA, on the occasion of the
fete of his son, Don EsrtiQuE. The QUEEN-MOTHER ex-
presses herself highly satisfied with the excellent qualities
she has discovered in the young Prince during his stay at
Barcelona. These, and other rumours, formally contradict
the discord which was alleged to exist in the royal family."
It would appear, however, that the Presse, which is the organ
of the Christina party, that all this is a mere ruse to prevent
the progressistas from'starting: Don 11E2...my as their candi-
date, and that CHRISTINA is still labouring assiduously to
procure for her daughter either aCarlist or a French alliance.
M. PEDRO MIRANDA and two other engineers had left
Madrid to explore the country through which the projected
railroad between that capital and the Basque Provinces is to
pass.

The Three per Cents. closed at 28% for cash and 2911.4 at
60 days, and the Debt without Interest at 6 15.16 for the
29th inst. The Herado ascribes the fall to the uncertainty
existing with regard to the journey of the QUEEN to the
northern provinces.

We have received the Paris papers of Wednesday. All
the political notabilities had quitted, or were quitting, Paris
for the provinces. Marshal SOULT left for his estate in the
south of France on Tuesday, and in a few days M. GUIzoT
was to leave for Normandy. M. SAUZIT had already set
out for Lyons, in which city Don CARLOS and the Princess
of BICIRA had arrived on the 22d. The Moniteur gives a long
account of the splendid reception of the Due DE MONT-
PENSIRR by MEHEMET ALI. It would appear, from the fol-
lowing extract from the Debats, that Asn•EL-KADER is
again in the field:—
" Letters from Algiers of the 11th state, in a positive manner,
that Abd-el.Kader has returned into Morocco. He has not re-
joined his deira, which is still encamped on the banks of the Mel-
lonia, but i■ at Like, in the Sahara, on the southern part of the
territory of the Hallafs, to the south of Ouchda. It may be re-
remembered that nue is the principal town of this important
tribe, and that towards the end of last year Muley Abderrhaman
sent positive orders to the Hallafs, forbidding them to
hold any communication with Abd.el-Kader. It is thought
that the Emir has with him at Lika about from 800
to 100 horsemen. Scarcely had our indefatigable enemy
re-entered the Moorish territory than he recommenced his intrigues
to keep the minds of the Arabs in a state of agitation and uneasi-
ness. He sent letters to all the tribes in the south, announcing
that in twenty days he should make a movement towards the east,
to return into Algeria. He declares that he has with him about
3,000 cavalry, and soon expects considerable reinforcements. The
greater number of the Marabouts, who were the instigators and
leaders in the recent insurrections in the Dahra and the Ouaren-
senis, having with great difficulty escaped the resentment of the
people who wished to place themselves under French authority,
have taken refuge in Morocco, and rejoined the Emir. These ac.
counts have, doubtless, been much exaggerated by the Arab
couriers; but, making due allowance for this, it will be necessary
to watch with attention the part of the country bordering on Mo-
rocco. Abd•el.Kader appears to have chosen Djebel Amour for
the centre of his fresh attempts against Algeria. This range
of mountains is situated under the meridian of the Miliana,
at about fifty leagues to the south, and is not less than fifteen
leagues in length, and between ten and eleven in breadth."
We give the following from La Presse

" In Turkish Croatia, as in several other Ottoman provinces
the people are in arms against the Government. On the flth of
July they violated the Austrian territory, and suddenly assailed the
military cordon guarding the frontiers. The Austrians, whose
numbers were very inferior, lost three officers and three hundred
soldiers. The insurgents had thus wished to avenge themselves on
the Austrians, who had too generously afforded a refuge to the ex-
pelled Turkish authorities. The Austrian Government has lost no
time in demanding satisfaction, and adopting energetic measures to
prevent the recurrence of such aggressions."

The Phare des Pyrenees of the 20th has the following :

" We learn that the Bey of Tripoli has declared war against the
Bey of Tunis. A letter from the latter place, dated the evening of
the eth inst., announces that the Bey had just received both the
declaration of war and th• news of hostilities having already corn..
meneed on the frontiers of the two states."

The Executive Council of Zurich has decided on suffering
Dr. STEIGER and the three gendarmes who assisted him in
his escape to enjoy the rights of hospitality, and on treating
them as political refugees.
The Paris Bourse was somewhat less buoyant on Wednes-
day than the preceding day ; prices remained nevertheless
pretty nearly as on Tuesday.
The Three per Cents. closed at 83f. 50c. ; the New Loan
at 83f. 90c. ; the Five per Cents. at 121 f. 85c. ; Orleans
Railroad Shares, 1,195 f. ; Rouen, 1,050 f. ; Vierzon, 755 f.
Harm, 870 f.; Avignon, 990 f. ; Basle, 270 f. ; Spanish Three
per Cent., 37%.
The following are the quotations for the new lines :-
Orleans and Bordeaux, 175 f. prem. ; Boulogne, 122 f. 50c.
ditto ; Troyes and Montereau, 15f. ; Paris and Lyons
(Laffitte), 26f. 25c.; ditto (Calon), par ; ditto (Ganneron), 6f.
50c. ; Northern Line (Laffitte), 46f. 25c. ; ditto (Rosamel),
11f. 50c. ; Tours and Nantes (Mackenzie), 10f. ; ditto
(Drouillard), par; ditto (O'Neill), 3f. 50c. ; ditto (Jacques
Lefevre), par ; Lyons and Avignon (Lecointe), 12f. 50c.;
ditto (Talabot), 31f. 25c. ; ditto (Compagnie Meridionalo),
5f.; Bordeaux and Toulouse (Mackenzie) par ; ditto and
Cette (Espeleta), 6f. ; Creil and St. Quentin, par ; Paris
and Strasbourg (Ganneron), 10f. ; Dijon and Mulhausen, par ;
Dieppe, 21f. 25c.

DEPARTURE 07 THE KING OF HOLLAND FOR THE
ISLE OF WIGHT.—His Majesty the King of the Ne-
therlands, accompanied by his Excellency M. Dedel and
suite, left Mivart's Hotel this afternoon at twenty
minutes before two o'clock for the Vauxhall terminus of
the South-Western Railway where a special train was
in readiness to convey his Majesty to Gosport, from
whence the illustrious visitor will embark in one of the
royal yachts for the Isle of Wight, on a visit to her
Majesty. His Majesty was attended by Viscount
Hawarden, Lord in Waiting, and the Hon. Capt. Alex-
ander Hood, Groom in Waiting to her Majesty, M. Bond,
Minister of the Colonies, Colonel Baron Cochran, aide-
de-camp to his Majesty, and Count Bylandt, his Majesty's
Chamberlain. His Majesty and suite proceeded to:the
railway in two of the royal carriages.

SUNDERLAND ELECTION.—Mr. Bagshaw, anxious not
to divide the Liberal interest, has announced his inten-
tion not to go the poll. The contest, therefore, will be
between Colonel Thompson and Mr. Hudson. The lat-
ter gentleman, who had signified his intention to allow
himself to be proposed as a candidate, was expected in
Sunderland on Saturday.

SURREY HORTICULTURAL AND FLORAL SOCIETY.

--The third show of carnations and piccotees of this Society took
place yesterday afternoon, at the Swan Inn, Stockwell, and was
characterised by the profusion of blooms vieing with each other in
delicacy of tint and every attribute of a perfect flower. The judges
appointed were Messrs. John Holland, J. T. Neville, and John
Hughes, who, on account of the number and beauty of the speci.
wens, found no small difficulty in deciding upon the particular
merits of each. However, after several hours' consideration, they
at length came to a conclusion, when, on examination, it appeared
that the following gentlemen were the successful candidates:—W.
Trahar, Esq. ;
Mr. Bushell, Mr. Keynes, Mr. Dixon, Mr. Sandi.
land, Mr. Henbury, Mr. Embleton, and Mr. Ottey. Besides the
flowers above-mentioned, there were many other fine specimens ;
also a number of vegetables of a very superior quality, grown by
Mr. Randall, of Loughborough Grounds, Brixton, with the patent
manure of Charles Bird, Boast, and Co., which has lately, in many
instances, proved highly efficacious. There were also several
cucumbers of prodigious size, grown by Mr. Wardell, the pro-
prietor of the Swan Inn, the excellent flavour of which was well
tested at the dinner table, after the flower show was concluded.
PROPOSED NEW RAILWAY TO MAIDSTONE.—A
numerous meeting of the principal inhabitants of Maidstone was
held on Saturday last, to consider the best means of obtaining a di.
rest railway communication between London and thecoast, through
Maidstone. It appeared from a communication made to the meet-
ing that the Croydon Company, having their hands full with the
projects for which they have succeeded this session in obtaining Bills,
were no longer disposed to entertain their Ashford, Maidstone, and
Tunbridge project. It is, therefore, proposed that an indepen-
dent company should be formed, for the purpose of going to Par.
liament next session for a Bill to construct a railway from the
Croydon line at Sydenham, through the centre of the county, direct
to Maidstone, and thence to Ashford, there to join the South-
Eastern line to the coast. Considerable discussion took place
respecting the project, which, with one exception, was unanimously
considered to be one offering the most important advantages to
Canterbury, as well as affording a very fair premise of profitable
investment. A Committee was formed to carry out the project--
Jen:WA Observer.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.

At Liverpool, yesterday, the sales of Cotton were 8,000
bags, including 1,000 American, and 1,000 Surat, on spe-
culation. Prices were very steadily supported. Egyp-
tian, 800 bags, sold at 614 d. to 7d.; Pernam, 200, at
6%d. to 634 d. • Surat, 1,200, at 214 d. to 3d. ; and Ame-
rican, at 3%(1. to 6d. per lb. There was a good market
for London and York Shares, at advancing prices.
Midands were lower. Other Shares much the same,
Aberdeen Railway, 3% ; Birkenhead, Lancashire, and
Cheshire Junction, 5Y2 ; Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton,
514; British and Irish Union, 9s. %; Bolton, Wigan, and
Liverpool, 7% 7 ; Caledonian, 11 %; Cambridge and Lin-
coln, 3 %; Clitheroe Junction, 44 ; Derby and Crewe, 2%;
Edinburgh and Glasgow, S 0; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 19% ;
Ditto, New Quarter Shares, 9%; Edinburgh and Peebles,
; Ely and bedford, 2%; Glasgow and Dumfries, 245.
14; Glasgow and Ayr, 82 85; Grand Junction, 23734 ;
Ditto, Half Shares, 119; Ditto, New Quarter Shares, 5114 ;
Ditto, Eighth Shares, 22% 34 ; Grand Union, 345. 6d. 21. ;
Great Western, 216 ; Ditto, Half Shares, 119 ; Goole and
Doncaster, 1% 1 ; Huddersfield Canal and Railway, 13 14% ;
Huddersfield and Sheffield, 8 Y' • Lancaster and Carlisle,
49% ; Leicester and Bedford, 31.35. 6d. 3%; Leicester asd
Birmingham. 214 ; Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 4% % ;
London and Brighton, 77; London and Croydon, is: ew
Shares, 2 ; London and York, 7 ; Ditto ( Bairn-3), 61,E ;
Leeds and Dewsbury, 24 3%; Leeds and Thirsk, 7 81/2 ;
Leeds and West Riding Junction, 73% 113. 3d. ; Lynn and
Dereham, 2%; Manchester and Birmingham, Quarter
Shares, 9%; Manchester and Birmingham Continuation,
2% 3s. 6d ' • Manchester and Leeds, 180 184; Ditto, Quarter
Shares, 271; Matlock and Midland, 7 14; Midland Rail-
way, 183 ; Ditto, 401. Shares, 27 ; Newark and Sheffield, 2% ;
Newcastle and Berwick,2o ; North Staffordshire, 4% ; North
Western, 5 1% ' • Nottingham, Erewash, and Ambergate, 334
4; Oxford and Birmingham Junction, 5 %; Oxford, Wor-
cester, and Wolverhampton, 8 914; Sheffield and Lincoln,
425. 455.; Shrewsbury and Herefordshire, 1% 365. 6d.;
Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, and Birmingham, 414 ;
Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Cheshire, 4% 54; Shrewsbury
and Trent Union, 2M ; South-Eastern and Dover, New
Shares, No. 3,8% 7% ; South Midland, 81. 3/. 6s. ; Wakefield,
Pontefract, and Goole, 26 27 ; Welsh Midland, 3%; West
Lancashire, 134 ; West Yorkshire, 6% 7%; Worcester and
Tring, 235. 6d. 225. ; York and Carlisle, 765. 3d. 765. 9d. ;
Belfast and Ballymena, 714 %; Dublin and Belfast Junc-
tion, 9%; Newry, Armagh., and Londonderry Junction, 14;
Newry and Enniskillen, 665. 6d. ; Newry and Warrenpoint,
56s 6d. 585.; Waterford and Kilkenny, 535. 6d. ; Dutch
Rhenish, 9% ; Northern of France (Laffitte's), 5% ;
Ditto (French), 5%; Ditto (Rosamel's), 2%; Orleans,
Tours, and Bordeaux, 10% ; Paris and Lyons (Laffitte's),
595. 3/. ; Paris and Lyons (Ganneron's), 24h,
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JULY 24.-The sales are
-Blackburn, Burnley, and Accrington, 10 5-16 ; Blackburn,
Clitheroe, and North Western Junction, 1% prem.; Black-
burn, Darwen, and Bolton, 5% • Bolton, Wigan, and Liver-
pool, 28% 34 ; Caledonian, 11.14 ; Cambridge and Lincoln,
3 % ; Clitheroe Junction, 41A % ; Derby and Crewe, 2% ;
Edinburgh and Glasgow, Quarter Shares, 1934 %; Erewash
Valley, 31 ; Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding Junction,
375. 425. ; Glasgow and Dumfries, 1% ; Goole, Doncaster,
Sheffield, and Manchester, 1%; Grand Union,l% ; Hudders-
field and Manchester, Railway and Canal, 13 14; Lancaster
and Carlisle, 49 ; Leeds and Thirsk, 714 814 ; Leeds and
West Riding Junction, 7 %; Leicester and Bedford, 4%
Leicester and Birmingham, 2 1-16 ; Liverpool, Ormskirk,
and Preston, 414 1-16 ; London and Worcester, Oxford and
Rugby, 114 5.16 ; London and York, 9 714 ; Manchester,
Bury, and Rossendale, 231,£ ; Manchester, Buxton, Matlock,
and Midland, 63/ 7% ; Manchester and Birmingham, 63 ;
Ditto, New Quarters, 7% ; Manchester and Birmingham
Continuation and Welsh Junction, 2 1-16 ; Manchester and
Leeds, Quarter Shares, 2534 ; Newark and Sheffield, 2% 3 ;
Newcastle, Durham, and Lancashire, 11s. 6d. 12s. 6d. prem. ;
North Easterr, 1 13-16 ; North Staffordshire, 5 ; North
Western, 5% ; Nottingham, Erewash, Ambergate, and Man-
chester, 334 %; Preston and Wyre, Half Shares, 3%; Shef-
field and Lincolnshire Junction, 2M % ; Shrewsbury and
Herefordshire, 1% % ; Shrewsbury, Hereford, and North
Wales, 24; Shrewsbury and Trent Valley Union, 2%;5-16;
South-Eastern and Dover, No. 3, 814; South Midland, 314 ;
Trent Valley, 18% ; Ditto Continuation and Holyhead Junc-
tion, 1% ; Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole, 23 1 ; Welsh
Midland, 35 34 ; West Lancashire and Coast Line, 2% 3A
prem. ; West Yorkshire, 614 7 ; Worcester, Shrewsbury,
and Crewe Union, 214 %; Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cette, 2 ;
Dutch Rhenish, 9N, ; Great Northern of France, English,
534 15-16 ; Ditto (Rosamel's), 2% ; Paris and Lyons,
French, 2%.
The Funds are quiet again to-day, and there is very little
to notice of them. Consols are 99 to 14 for Money, and 99%
for Account. Exchequer-bills are 545. to 565. premium.
Bank Stock is worth 210%. New Three-and-a-Quarter per
Cents. are 102% to %.
Spanish Five per Cents. have been steady. at 2614, but they
are quite neglected. Peruvian are still in favour at 38%.
Colombian realise 17% to 18. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per
Cents. are 62% %.
There is a large business doing in Shares, and prices, as the
list subjoined will show, are fluctuating considerably. Lon-
don and York opened better, but prices have declined a trifle
since. Cambridge and Lincoln have fallen again to 1 prem. ;
Direct Northern are very heavy ; Leicester and Bedford are
rising; Great Western are supported at the advance of yes-
terday; Oxford and Worcester are good; Rugby and Tring,
and South-Eastern flat; and South Wales and North Kent
have improved, the following being extracts from the report
of the Provisional Committee just presented to the share-
holders :-

" The present meeting has been delayed to enable your
Committee to ascertain the amount of all outstanding de-
mands against the Company to this time, and they are ena-
bled to state, that the expenses from the 29th of January last
will not exceed fifteen shillings and sixpence per share.
This result, when compared with what is known to have
been expended in other contests, will, the Committee feel, be
regarded with entire satisfaction by the Shareholders.
"The complete and comprehensive scheme now brought
forward will require a capital of 3,300,0001., which it is pro•
posed to divide into 66,000 Shares of 50/. each, and it is in
tended that the same shall be issued on a deposit of 2/. 103.
per Share, upon the conditions of the forthcoming prospectus.
" In renewing their application to Parliament, your Com-
mittee will obviate the objections urged against their Bill in
the Committee, by bringing forward the entire of the scheme
originally contemplated. The undertaking now proposed
will be for the formation of a direct line of railway to Dover,
commencing near the Waterloo and Hungerford Bridges, and
proceeding by Blackheath, Woolwich, Gravesend, Rochester,
Chatham, Sittingbourne, and Canterbury, terminating at
Dover, and by branch also at Deal; with other branches to
Maidstone, Sheerness, Faversham Quays, and Chilham, and
also uniting, by its communications at Canterbury, with the
line already authorised to Ramsgate and Margate.
" With reference to the recent Parliamentary inquiry
arising out of the singular petition presented by the South-
Eastern Company to the House of Commons—we will only
observe that, whatever might have been the views of those
who originated that step, it has not left the slightest imputa-
tion either on this Committee as a body or any individual
connected with it."

ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. FRICES.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduccd
3 per Cent. Consels Annuities 99', 99 59
New 31% per Cents ..102%% 102%
Long Annuities toexpireJan.lB6o
Ditto 30 years, Oct. 10,1859 ..- 114 ___
1 l
Ditto 30 yearn, Jan. 5, 1860 ... 1114 114
fndia Bonds, 1,000/ —
Ditto under 1,0001...
72
Consols for Account .. ...... .....„. 99'
991A3
Exchequer Bills, 1,000/., I%d 54 56 pm. 56
Ditto 5001.
Ditto Small

ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Buenos Ayres Bonds 6 per Cent. -- 50
Columbian Bonds, ex Venezuela. 1734% 18 17%
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837 _
Ditto, Deferred
• 2i 34 7‘i 20%
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents 38%
... 38%
.
Ditto. Account
Ditto, Converted
Russian Bonds • ... 6514
11814
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
Ditto, Account — 26%
Ditto 3 per Cent. 37%
Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent...... 3512
Dutch, 2% per Cent .
Ditto, 4 per Cent., Certific 995,
.. 99%

PRICES OF
PAID. A ONE O'CLOCK. CLOSINGPRICES
RAILWAY SHARES
Birmingham and Ox-
ford Junction
Bri'ton, Lewes, & Hast. 20
Bristol and Exeter
Do. New .... . ......... 2 ...... 12'4
Caledonian
Cambridge and Lincoln 1%...... 3 2%
Chester and Holyhead... 15
Clydesdale Junctio- _
... 914

251/2
98
12%
10%
31s

,iydesdaleJUnction 5 9.14-
Cork and Waterford - 1%
Direct Northern
Dublin and Belfast June. 21/2 9 •
Dublin and Galway-- - 211 2l/. 1%
Eastern Counties 14/. 165...... 20%5 21
Ditto New 41. 16s.
Ditto Perpetual, 5 per
Cent, No. 1. —5/. 13s. 4d —
Eastern Union
Ditto Extension .
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50
Great South. and West.
(Ireland)
Ditto Extension
Great North of England-100 230
Great Western SO 222
Ditto % Shares
Leicester and Bedford... 225.
London and Birminghin (Stock) 243
Do. 14 Shares
London and Blackwall. 16/. 135.4 d. 10M %
London and Bright0n... 50
London and Croydon, 13/. 15s. 9d 251/2 fig 541 26M
Do. New l3s 4d l% p.
London and Greenwich 12/ 15s 4d... 12
Loud. &S. Western 411 6s 10d 7B ... ...... .... 781/2
Do. New
London and York . 21,(2 7141 63% 6%
Londonderry & Coleraine 2p.. 4
Londonderry and Ennis-
killen 21% 34 3
Lynn and Ely
Lynn and Derehani l% 2%
1802%
Manchester and Leeds... 76
Do. Quarters
Manchester and Birmin. 40
Do. New Quarters ... 2
8
Manchester, Bux ton, and
Matlock 225....... 61/4: 53/4 p,..... 53/4
Midland 100 lB5 187 lB6
Do. New
Midland, Birrn., Derby...loo 144
Newcastle and Darling-
ton J unction 25 ..... 57 56
Do. New Brandling... 10
Newcastle and herwick 11/2 19%1/2 204 ...
Newark and SLeffield .. 11/ 2l/2 ......,
North British
Do. New
North Kent
North Staffordshire 22s. ...... 3% p
Norwich and Brandon... 10
Do., New ... ..... ..... 1
Nottingm., Erewsh. Val-
ley, and Manchester ......
Oxford and Worcester... 21,( 7% 81Ai .........
Portsmouth Direct ...... 2% 5l/21
Richmond and West End

81

56
40
204
26 14
2y2
7%

8%;
53i3-
••• 4IA
1 0:!,/t ...... ( }-'B'

J u n et i on
Rugby, Worstr, & Trirg 1
Shrews., Wul verhamp ,
Dudley, and Bunn
Shrewsbury and Trent
Valley Union -
South Midland 224....,,. 2% 3 214%..•

4;,.2

4 1./a
11 P

South Eastern &Dover 3312 s 4d... 461/24 463/4
Do., No. 2.
D0., No. 3
South Wales 2% 53/4 64 5%••• 5%
Trent Valley and Holy-
head Junction
Waterford and Kilkenny 1 .. ... 23/4 •
Waterfd,Wxfrd,Wicklw,
and Dublin
Welch Midland
Yarmouth and Norwich. 20
York and North Midland 50 ......108 110
Do. Extension
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens... 6
Bordeaux,Toulouse, and
Cette ... ...... . ... ..... 2 ..... •
Dendre Valley ... ... .. 2 ...... 2%
Great North. of France
(Laffitte's)
Do. do. (Rosamel's) 2
Jamaica Junction_........ 11/2 714 7 ...... ....
Do. South Midlnd. June. 1
Lyons and Avignon
Namur and Liege
orleans and Vierzon ... ii ...... ......
O. leans an 1 Bord .aux... 4 ...... 11%.....
Over Yssel 4135 4cl I% % p
Paris 8z Lyons, Laffitte's .:
Paris ard Lyons, Gan-

2 -

neron's,
Paris and Strasbourg
(Ganneron's)
Verona and Anc0n3...... 1
West Flanders
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
Australasia
Union of London lO

% OIA

29
110
21%

11%

23/4'
5%
16
11%

3314
13

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)

CORN EXCHANGE-FRIDAY.

Since Monday, the receipts of English Wheat for our
market have been very limited, viz., 2,450 quarters, prtn•
cipally from Lincolnshire and Essex. The stands, to-day,
being poorly filled with samples, and the weather by no
means favourable to the growing crops, the demand for
Wheat of home produce was active, at an improvement on
Monday's quotations of from Is. to 2s. per quarter, and at
which nearly the whole of the parcels found buyers. The
show of free Foreign Wheat was small, while the inquiry
was brisk, at Is. to 2s. per quarter more money. In parcels
under lock more business was doing, at that atnount of
improvement. For Barley we had a slow inquiry, yet prices
—especially those of grinding qualities—were well supported
The late arrivals of Malt were taken at full prices. The
Oat trade was dull, yet the currencies were not lower. Beans,
Peas, and Flour were quite as dear.

Wheat.
2,450 qrs

English
Irish .
Foreign ......

ARRIVALS.
Barley.
70 firs.

Oats.
2,130
2,201
11,200

Flour.
4,470

4,010 I -
Malt, 9,730 qrs.

51.SXTEEPIELD.

Our market being rather scantily supplied with Beasts, the
demand for that description of stock was somewhat active
at, in some instances, an advance of 2d per Blbs, at which a
good clearance was effected. We had on sale 200 Beasts
from Scotland, and 140 Oxen and Cows from Rotterdam and
Hainburgh. The numbers of Sheep were good, yet the sale
for them was rather brisk, at fully Monday's quotations
In Lambs—the supply of which was moderate—a good
business was doing at late rates. The Veal trade was steady,
and prices were well supported. Pigs moved off slowly
atour quotations. Mulch Cows were held at from 161 to 19/
5s each, including their small Calf; Suckling Calves, 18s to
30s; and quarter old Store Pigs, 16s to 20s each.—Beasts,
614 ; Cows, 137 ; Sheep and Lambs, 10,060 ; Calves, 429 ;
Pigs, 329.

zirmewo.a.733 A.T.TM LEL".11120N11.5.7.7..
We had a steady demand here.
71301;LOUGH NOP IVIATLILET.

From nearly the whole of our hop districts, the accounts
which have reached us this week are favourable as respect:.
the progress of the bine ; hence very little inclination is now
manifested to speculate. The trade, therefore, is inactive,
and it is difficult to quote accurate prices. In the duty very
little is doing, at 180,0001.

PRIVY COUNCIL.-(THIS DAY.).
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat to-day at
the Council Chamber, Whitehall. The Lords present were
the Lord President, Lord Brougham, the Vice-Chancellor
Knight Bruce, and the Judge of the Admiralty Court. Their
Lordship, after disposing of the cases of " Casement v. Fulton,"
" Cowasjee v. Thompson," and the motion of " Sohst v. the
Queen," proceeded to hear the further arguments in the part-
heard case of " Cockcroft v, Bowles," which came before
their Lordships upon appeal from the Prerogative Court. The
case occupied their Lordships the whole morning.

CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.)
The Lord Chancellor sat in Lincoln's Inn-hall to-day, and
took cause petitions and unopposed lunatic petitions.
In the 'natter of the suitors, on the application of Mr. STUART,
the petition was ordered to stand over till Monday, for the con-
venience of Mr. Hominy.
His LORDSHIP, in the course of the:morning, stated his in-
tention to dispose of all the lunatic petitions and motions before
the lung vacation, if counsel would attend.

VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.)
His Honour the VICE-Ciret.rosu.oe. of ENGLAND heard
unopposed cause petitions, short causes, and petitions.
The Court will rise to-morrow, for the long vacation.
The Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce did not sit in his
Court at Lincoln's Ins, in consequence of having to sit at the
Privy Council.
In the Vice-Chancellor Wigram's Court, nothing particular
occurred.

SECONDARIES.-(THIS DAY.)
BUS/NESS OF visa COURT.—COMPLAINT OF JURYMEN.—
This morning, on the jury assembling, they were informed
that the cases had been withdrawn. As this was the second
day on which this occurred, the jury complained of the incon-
venience they experienced in being brought from their busi•
ness unnecessarily. The Usher sail that it was quite unavoid-
able, as he was himself in attendance, and every preparation was
made for hearing the cases, when notice was given. The jury
consulted, and suggested that they should come to an agreement
between themselves, so that twelve should attend alternately
and thus avoid part •f the inconvenience. The Usher said
there was no doubt if they made that arrangement, that
it would be satisfactory. It was then agreed to submit
the pruposstion to the rest of the jury. These disappointments
arise generally from the effect of the law of debtor and creditor.
The latter, in the first instance, commences the action in the
hope of intimidating the debtor, who, however, if he is dis-
honest, gets rid of his goods, and urges the plaintiff on to trial,
when at the last stage the unlucky creditor, finding his case
hopeless, and that he cannot even get the body of his debtor,
is glad to abandon the proceedings rather than pay the Court
fees, although he has to pay the costs of the defendant up to
that time. In other eases, where the record is not formalty
withdrawn, the plaintiff does not think it desirable to appear,
and the defendant, for the reason above stated, thinks it quite
unnecessary, as he cannot be touched in goods or person.

lIER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—Mr. Nugent, of the
Box.office of her Majesty's Theatre, has just published a little
bijou of a volume which may be very aptly denominated A Guide
to the Opera, although Mr. Nugent modestly entitles it '` A List
of Subscribers to her Majesty's Theatre." It contains a complete
list of the members of corps operatigue and of the orchestra, and
also a list of the subscribers, showing the boxes they occupy, and
as there is a plan of the interior of the theatre, pointing out the
number and the position of each box, given at the commencement
of the guide, a stranger, with this little volume in his possession,
will, in all probability, on his first visit, know more about the
subscribers to the opera than the oldest habitue there whe is not in
possession of such a guide.

YUCCA GLORIOSA.—A splendid specimen of thi:
superb plant may be seen in full flower, at the Royal Surrey Zoolo,
gical Gardens.

FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE RIVER.—On Thursday
afternoon an inquest was held before Mr. Carter, at the Red.house
tavern, Battersea-fields, on the body of Edward Lockyer, aged
forty-two, a shoemaker, who, with his wife was drowned by the
upsetting of a sailing-boat off the Battersea timber-docks. The
evidence given was very voluminous, but the facts are these :—.A
party, six In number, all working people, met together on Tuesday
afternoon last, and agreed to take an excursion up the river in a
sailing-boat belonging to a sawyer named Nott, one of the party.
They proceeded safely as far as Deuce's timber-dock, Battersea-
marsh, and were making for shore, when John Nott, junior,
climbed up the mast and commenced singing. His father
called out to him, telling him be had no business there, but
he took no notice of what was said, and in about half a
minute afterwards David Sanders also climbed up, when the boat
careened and fell with her mast towards the Middlesex shore. The
four persons in the body of the boat, including the wife of the de-
ceased, were immersed in the water. The woman clung to a man
named Chatwin for some time, but he at last got clear and swam
to shore. Sanders and Nott, jun., who clung to the mast, were
rescued by a boat, and Nott, sen., swam to shore, but the deceased
and his wife sank and were drowned. The body of the deceased
was recovered in about an hour afterwards, and taken to the Old.
house-at-Home beer shop. It was :clearly proved that the:young
men who ascended the mast did so merely out of bravado, and not
with the remotest intention of upsetting the boat, and the jury,
satisfied that the occurrence was purely accidental, returned a ver-
dict to that effect. It was stated in the inquest-room that the de-
ceased, who lived at No. 6, Holland.street, Westminster, had left
four children wholly unprovided for.

. -
FALL OF TWO HOUSES IN CLEMENT'S-LANE.—TiIiS
morning, between twelve and one o'clock, the utmost alarm WES
excited in the neighbourhood of Clement's.lane, Clare-market, by
the fall of two houses. These tenements have been for a consider-
able time condemned, and for the safety of foot passengers a strong
hoarding was put up in front of them. Adjoining these " con-
demned" buildings there still stand other buildings of considerable
height, tenanted by several families, the party walls of which arc ex.
ceedingly unsafe ; and it is extremely providential that no one was
killed or suffocated, as not the slightest warning was given of the
downfal of the premises. The houses, which it was stated were built
in the reign of Queen Anne, and were in a state of extreme dilapi.
dation, tell inwards with a tremendous crash. Upon the occur-
rence taking place the police instantly called Mr. Cadogan, the
surveyor of the parish, who, having inspected the ruins, remained
for a considerable time, and at length left, declaring that no further
danger of the falling of the contiguous premises need be appre-
hended, at two o'clock. The families were kindly taken In, in
their night dresses, by Mr. Voller, of the White Hart, Clement's.
lane, so that they might be safely lodged fir the remainder of the
night. It is understood that the houses will be taken down with-
out delay. It has long been contemplated to make a new street
through these premises, and it is to be regretted that they were not
taken down before, having jeopardised the lives of the inhabitants
of the neighbourhood.

On Wednesday a Court of Directors was }-,eld at
the East India House, when James William Colvile, Esq., was
appointed to the office of Advocate-General at Fort William, in
Bengal.

EXCISE PROSECUTIONS.—In the Court of Excise
yesterday, William Windsor, the proprietor of billiard. rooms in
the Strand, was convicted, on four informations, of retailing wines
and spirits, without a license, en the 16th and 19th of May last.
Two officers of Excise went to the billiard-rooms and saw spirits
brought, for which the customers had paid money previously; but
two witnesses watched outside, who stated that no Spirits or wine
had been taken in during the time the Excise officers were in the
house. The proprietor was fined 101. on each information. Two
billiard-room keepers in Picket-street, Strand, were also fined 201.
each for similar practices, and on similar evidence.
A FREAK OF roaTuNE.—James Seward, a poor
man, by trade a carpenter, residing in Somerstown, who has been
for some time in great distress from want of employment, jesterday
received the pleasing intelligence that he had become the pos.essor
of a large fortune by the death of d brother in India, who had there
amassed considerable wealth. His wife was actually on the way
to pledge an article for food, when the letter arrived, bearing the
welcome news that he was the owner of 15,000/.

41••••••••••
ARRIVAL' OF THE KING Or
HOLLAND.
At eight o'clock, a.m , two royal carriages arrived at wool
wich dockyard, to remain'
in Waiting to convey his blaja,s,,t4
and suite to ,
BritishAlivarts Lonor. M. Dedel, his fileieall f
Ambassador at the Court; M. Stratenu,, Secretary. 0_
Legation ; and General Fagel, arrived at ten o'clock to real".
the King of Holland Colonel Mercer and Licuteuant-Xiiir
lonel Powell, of the Royal Marines, with a guard of 1.;`),. the
and the band and colours of 'hat distinguished Corps! unue'
command of Captain Nolloth, with Lieutenant Marriot atone
Lieutenant Foote, arrived at twelve o'clock. and about the o„,a
time a field battery of the Royal Artillery, under the como—
of Captain Tu y
rner, to fire a roal sal.
The Earl of Morton, one of theute Lords in Waiting, wik,.•
Captain Nelson Hood, arrived at an earlyitour to retypes
Majesty. of
At twenty minutes past one o'clock a signal at the
top
the flag-staff of the parish church announced that the GYell;
Dutch Government steamer, was iu sight with his Mag:‘,
on board, and the Right Honourable the Earl of
_,,„
dington, First Lord of the Admiralty ; Admiral Sir Gee%
Cockburn!. G. C. 8., first naval Lord ; Vice-Admiral :
William Hall Gage, G. C. H. ; Commodore Sir Francis,Pof
Collier, Knt., C.B. and K.C. H., Captain Stiperintedee'iog
the Dockyard; Captain Brandreth, director of the engine". of
and architectural department ; Captain Dennison, officer of
Royal Engineers in charge of works l;
Commander Smith ot,
Lieutenant A. Parks, of the Cuckoo steam-vessel ; Lie
ender
Proctor, of the Dwarf steam .vessel ; Master-Coo°4nie
Dr.iver, of the Dee steam-vessel; Mr. Hicks, master of the
William and Mary yacht, and several other naval offieerteso,
the heads of the various departments of the Dockyard, aa'
bled at the landing-place to receive the King of Holland. ~;
Lieutenant-General Lord Bloomfield, G. C.B. and G. a et
Major Sandilands, Royal Artillery; and Captain and Adjil
to
Gilbert, Royal Horse Artillery, were also in attends's,'"
welcome his Majesty. •• tbs
On the Cycloop steamer being made fast to tnoori_ inge bit
river, Lord Bloomfield, Sir Francis Collier, and M. 1,0°.5:40,01
Majesty's Ambassador, proceeded in the barge of tbe v
and Mary 3 acht to the Cycloop, and went on board to welc.o;l
his Majesty, who in a few minutes afterwards was brave"'
shore, the uarge being steered by Sir F. Collier. hawk;
His Majesty, on stepping on shore, cordially shoo' Sit
with the Earl of Haddington, Sir George Cockburn,
t
William Hall Gage, and the Earl of Norton. Lieuto7lol
General Lord Bloomfield and Sir Francis Collier escorted gee
handed his Majesty into one of the royal carriage., at se'
minutes before two o'clock, and a royal sluts fired
flounced his departure for town. A royal salute was als°on
when the Cycloop was made fast to her moorings, to an° pOt
his Majesty s arrival. The royal standard of Holland waato
hoisted at the time the vessel in which his Majesty eat° toot
country neared the Dockyard, but a royal stacdardleaaLb°oo
in the barge of the William and Mary yacht daring ISA.
the King was on board, and another on the flagstaff in thishigidf
yard until after his Majesty's departure. A nurnbee bbd
respectable families witnessed the landing of his Mai°s.:
was dressed in a green coat with dark blue check trouse'7o
is
the Dockyard giving three hearty
he seemed greatly pleased with his reception, the soril,or the
royal carriage.
cheers on his enter""

COURT CIRCULAR.
The Queen and Prince Albert, walked yesterdel 13113rroivr
in the pleasure-grounds of Osborne House, and also P
naded on the beach. Viedner
There was no addition to the royal dinner party on
day evening.
Preparations have been made at Norris Castle, Or tb: the
ception of his Majesty the King of the Netherlandso otes
noblemen and gentlemen of his suite. The King esl.
to arrive at Norris Castle this afternoon from town. 001
His Majesty the King of the Netherlands lauded st tiott
with at two o'clock yesterday afternoon, from the C°:i of the
and was received by the Earl of Haddington, First 1..° 404
Admiralty, Baron Dedel, his Majesty's Minister Plenietiog t?
at the British Court, the Earl of Morton, Lord in wsipseee
the Queen, Lieutenant-General Lord Bloomfield, Sir SO'
Augustus Collier, and the Hon. Alexander Nelson
tyi
Groom in Waiting to the Queen. tod
•
The King, Baron Dedel, the Earl of Morton, ei, so
Hon. Captain Hood, entered one of the Queen's ear 6,g so*
four, which was in readiness in the dockyard, and lef
His Majesty's suite followed in several carriages and I°' ;tom
His Majesty arrived at Mivart's Hotel, Lower Brook'
soon after three o'clock. A iginhteft
His Majesty is attended by his Excellency Bou., cop,
of the Colonies • Colonel Baron Coehoorn, Aide-de-
and Count Bylandt, his Majesty's Chamberlain.
His Majesty will be attended during his staLh"; 00°'
count Hawarden, Lord in Waiting to the Queen, and
Captain Hood, Groom in Waiting to the Queen. Aerlsv,,
Yesterday evening his Majesty the King of the ritra-iler,,,/
attended by the gentlemen of his suite, honoured his .9,11-03 es
Baron Dedel with his company at dinner, at his re'''. Sonler
Wilton-crescent. The Duke of Beaufort, Lord Fitsee;ettii
~et, and General Fa el had the honour of meeting bis ' Grand
His Royal Highness Prince Louis, the HerediterYtaring'
Duke of Baden, having spent several weeks at the vrlbettlt
places of Hastings and Brighton, for the recovery of k's no
from the severe illness which he sustained at Antwl."o.,
way to England, left Brighton yesterday for the Cogit„„is
way of Dover and Ostend, to try the effect of the Gertz
advised by his physicians. f Est
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess Lip,
bridge honoured the Marquis and Marchioness of Wei"—
with their company at dinner on Wednesday evening, basis"-
M. Fortique, the Venezuelan Minister, transact'
yesterday at the Foreign-office. and
/
Mr. Gibson, M.P., the Town Clerk of Manches76fr
r
deputation, had an interview with the Earl of Dalhousie'
day at the office of the Board of Trade.
The Lord President of the Council and Mr. .t.,,,51tjt0002„,
worth, received a deputation from the Huila) .se'ilie„r"
Fund Committee yesterday, at the Council-office; mirfstif
putation consisted of Messrs. Headland, Waller, and 'coy'
Sir Charles Lemon and Mr. Pendarves had' an ,
with Sir R. Peel yesterday. pd Art
Dispatches for the Governor of Van Diemen f‘.l
sent off yesterday from the Colonial-office. f
Sir J. Macdonald had an interview with the Eel.' °
heusie yesterday. A fry
Canterbury arrived in town yester-t/
Continent. girrsticd.
Mr. Talbot, M.P., and Lady C. Talbot left '—
Hotel yesterday for their seat in Walls.

LITERATURE. tau 164_,1'
EDINBURGH REVIEW. No. CLX •
Besides the article on "Luther's Correspondence thiP
Character," which we have already . alluded t°' 011
numbere contains some other interesting PaPerlihitgr,..-
view of the hook entitled " Vestiges of the nieeb„-,
History of Creation" is one of these. But, illals—itss,-
to ive extracts from it would only be to propitg-010"
crude and unphilosephical speculations of a works 01141'
has had the inexplicable good fortune, a, it seeln- t
, t e
.if attaining a fourth edition, we prefer quoting that r°
lowing summary by the Reviewer, premising t/' tberl
entirly concur in its judgment :—" We conell'Aueitipet.
that our author's work is nat merely shallow tul„-ciPfric
icial, but utterly false, throughout, to all the Pr—d
of sound philosophy. Of all the books we ever restjlo'
puts before us the largest congeries of positive 10°,40'
meets and pozitively false conclusione. But its ig bi 4
iuntly written." Alrs. Norton's " Child of the l'ss‘ll,
a well-merited culogium on a very pretty Po'l ffif
sifted lady. The " Bukhara Victim "CaP" Goir;"111
,s a pleasant paper on the little whin' ie by
the
nit somewhat excitable friend .4" t lie unfortunete Of,
Stoddart and Capt. Conoiy,—and tho indefetigabe, of
of Dr. Wolff. Ile is very hard on all the auth°l.'tleelitil
the Foreign-office, and their diplomatic and °tiler ferfijust
abroad. " Moliere" is an admirable essay on the:, goiti,6
writings, and times of the greatest of French Ur.- toy,
writers ; but we could net cpicee detached passage3greol
so able a piece of dramatic criticism e iihout doilltaetely
injustice to the author. '• Ma •gregor's C°ll;jeagttl'e
Statistics" we have our,elve:s F.-viewed grte" tit°
g The Edinburgh rives to the indefatigable author al
gore
valuable collections a weli-merited and
oro f p unstinted
orl clue.
of praise. The concluding article on the
tion is one that we regret to see in the pages
riodical generally so justly renowned for the 1:011143;
and good spirit of its political speculations. tri"'
$ Sti
is really a failure—and a perverse one, too----
of much national interest.

FLANDERS MAIL— pcio°_,,il
BRUSSKL4, JULY 22.—The Antwerpen steamer, CaPtatly
arrived at Antwerp yesterday morning from London, *iv.- sate
number of passengers, among whom were Messrs. di WOO;
Edward Sherman, J. Cappar, and Dance, the Prefidelli,olces
ter, and Secretary of the English company which ball o°_.„de bre
execute the railroad from Louvain to Jemappe.sur-S'- ?MU
eel° Jei
also Mr. S. Tarte, civil engineer. These gentlemen are 04'
Brussels to carry into effect the measures that have been
on fur the prompt execution of the railroad and its brancliposimi
Besides the millions of franca deposited before the bsl
vse
of the law on the subject, the English Company Pe
nd '
into the public treasury one million five hundred thotifs-forple",
to complete the security required. Mr. E. Sherman, Wit°.„itiefS '-
year has carried on for his own account an extensive 1)1"-i:0A
proprietor of stage coaches on roads to the north of PliollteS
going to reside in Belgium, as managing director of be
from Louvain to Jemappe. Awe°.
The Courricr d'Aneers of the 22d says that the "1- il
th, te;
on
our navy concluded at London, on the 14th of this
bargain which was the object of his mission. He log goand rebo
(Or 280,000 francs an iron steam-packet,equlPPo Odi
niched, according to the latest models. This steamier ols e.O
to put sea on the Ist of January next. It will be rot
ato de the
London. The contractors have besides *
'nonlife „opt:, 4p,
the Belgian Government, for the sum of I,OOOL Aotig`
models of two other packet boats, which will be built a' 'ijoel"
by the house of Cockerel!. This house will have an eSt4b
here (at Antwerp) exclusively for building iron boats,
for
[Jai
fully be

lirosruj
___yesterat Pet
OHFaIVi. AUXHALL GARDENS. at vita
leaves town on Sllll- - a
o'clock, Vauxhall Gardens, comprising ;bout eleven set —ft OP
together with the extensive properties attached, Were Soden' 1;1
public competition at the Auction Mart, by 141.' Clintetotec2;
room being fully attended by capitalists and other" 11 eqU'af"
theatrical amusements. The property, which was nelarf her '-apy
freehold, being copyhold of inheritance, of the 108n0rf-ber
jesty, as Lady of the manor of Kennington, in right the
brougham
Brougham
of Cornwall, subject to a small quit-rent of about l"•,sted of Di
year, was divided into three lots. The first lot enntnperted,t.,
pavilion, of 66 feet long, with the portico in front, 'rrof stiPrig
seven columns, forming the ante-chamber to the slutetemi_cirnieft
room ; the range of covered walks, surrounded by ~gepotaM
pavilions, calculated for decoratedtleote."--tor 1
the
has been remodelled and by the present Pre'ProrCbelet-01
splendid organ ; the spacious rotunda, with the stag,e;./ fee
and arena, arc.; the picture.room; the Turkish saloon, l'reonsfr-0,
and 48 wide; the ballet theatre, erected for moving of Accole,
drope.dancing, &c., with the fire-work gallery, callable - resl'e OC,
prica,te a
ating nearly two thousand persons also, of the 'lll`,Ase
hotel and offices, with the business appurtenances.' firo 10.000
tloneer stated, that the property enumerated in °tett hsd
purchased by Messrs. Gye and Hughes, for 28,0001• t, st "cot
lately lease for a term of six months from Lady.day Ittg e fsigentot
of 850/. to Mr. It. Wardell, who had entered into an_ ef edest ;;tor
to expend 1,2001. in improvements; but who bad rhse pr 00.1704
sum by 8001. Under the spirited management of treatioro ors
tblemenalnteiarkateiofnosr haaldeabseee
onfstoheextpernospievietyth;at nlanY "Pass 4°tber
and there flitoot
from the talent of the present It ssee, that it would be,,,,ay ob
improved. From ground.rent alone, where would
—ight uch
without injuring the gardens, an income of 5001 'lt dterntrice
taintel. The first offer for this lot was 10,0001., Whetthoich Pop%
competition, it was knocked down for 17,7001., but conitigad $
the auctioneer said it was not sold. The other twn Jots, rots, ttofts
of a plot of building ground at the wtst end of the g2_
family residence at the south-east corner, let at 10°1' ro'
also withdrawn. be
r arc
1 !to ensuing
ductivt of abundant sport, especially as to partridecoolatioeviog
exceedingly numerous in this part of the coutitrY, the 1
of so vve hear fins
!via of ,-
shoutinu" settort prelnises
many birds remaining last year.
ones arc already strong, and that sportsmen will find IR
ployment when the time arrives..—Brighton