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LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 5, 1845.

The Lords met at Five o'clock.
The Irish Banking Bill was read a third time and
passed.
The Earl of BESBOROUGEt stated, on the part of Lord
DACRE, that it was not his intention to proceed further
with the Game-laws Amendment Bill this session.
The LORD CHANCELLOR moved the second reading
of the Irish Jurors Acts Amendment Bill, and entered
into a lengthened explanation of the nature and objects
of the measure.

The Bill was then read a second time.
The Irish Bishops' Patronage Bill was read a third
time and passed.
A long conversation ensued respectin; the coasting
trade of Great Britain ; after which, the Bills on their
Lordships' table were forwarded a stage, and the House
&boomed.
The Commons met at Four o'clock.

A petition wai presented from Messrs. SCOTT, ship-
builders, praying that the officers of the House might be
permitted to attend the Court of Common Pleas, on the
trial of an action, brought by the petitioners against Mr.
CRAVEN BERKELEY, the Member for Cheltenham, for
the purpose of identifying the Hon. Member.
After a short discussion the petition was rejected.

In reference to the recent conflict between the police
and the people in the south of Ireland, Sir T. FRE-
MANTLE stated that if the investigation before the Coro-
ner should not be satisfactory, the Government would
institute an inquiry into the circumstances attending
that unfortunate affair.

On the order of the day being read fur the House
going into Committee on the Commons Inclosure Bill,
Mr. S. CRAWFORD moved as an amendment, that the
House should resolve itself into Committee on that mea-
sure that day three months.
Lord WORSLEY defended the principles of the Bill,
and a discussion ensued, during which the House was
addressed by Mr. HumE, Lord PALMERSTON, and the
Earl or LINCOLN. Upon a division, however, the motion
of Mr. CRAWFORD was negatived by a majority of 110 ;
the numbers being—for the amendment, 11 ; against
it, 121.

The House then went into Committee, and various
amendments were proposed on
.the various clauses, but
ultimately clauses 1 to 32 were agreed to, when the
Chairman reported progress, and obtained leave to sit
agaia on Monday.
The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and
the Meuse adjourned at Two o'clock.

No person who has instituted any careful inquiry
into the subject of confinement for lunacy, or the con-
dition and management of private lunatic asylums, can
doubt, that together they involve the most sacred rights
of personal freedom, and even freedom of opinion. It
is notoriously so difficnlt to define the line of demarka-
tion which separates insanity from eccentricity, that
there are many still at large whose exces-
sive eccentricity far surpasses, in its mischiev-
ous character, the worst extravagance that others
who have been confined for years as confirmed madmen
ever committed. Mere oddity of notions on certain
given subjects has subjected many a man of original
genius and cultivated intellect, to the intrusive visitation
of a commission de lunatic°, and the transfer of his estate
and its management consequent thereon. In the same
way the indulgence in some momentary caprice, shown by
an overt act of whimsicality, has been held of force
enough to subject the unfortunate party to personal re-
straint in one of those compulsory retirements which are
sarcastically called " asylums." That is to say,•asylums
vhich no man seeks, but all are driven into; a protec-
tion which its recipients shun and seek to flee from, as
if it were the persecution of a pestilence. We have be-
fore remarked, that individuals in all the relations of
3•_ vial life, especially in the higher classes, have largely
And most iniquitously availed themselves of these
private asylums, and the facilities and laxity
if the law which has hitherto regulated them,
to divest themselves of those social relations with
all the duties attaching to there ; or rather to per-
vert them to purposes of the most sordid avarice and the
most guilty purposes. Now, of all the kinds of human
sacrifices that the wickedness of man has ever devised,
there is none so terrible as that of handing over a
fellow-being, conscious of his own endowments and the
fact of his own sanity, to the degrading confinement.
the segregation, an I the coercion allAted by the
severe fiat of the law to hopeless fatuity. Within
these two weeks we have ourselves conversed
with two intelligent gentlemen who have undergone
this most cruel of inflictions, bting at the time in the
lull possession of all their mental faculties. That these
must have been strong. even in an unusual degree. may
Oe inferred from the fact, that their elasticity survived
so terrible an experiment upon them. But if we con-
sider how many wives have been confined in like man-
ner on the application of designing husbands, how many
husbands at the instigation of their wives, how
many rightful heirs have been handed over in
these legalised domiciles of broken hearts to hopeless
captivity and to death, by those who have yearned for
the possession of their estates and property : how
many wards have in these receptacles expiated the
trouble and solicitude they have occasioned to treacherous
guardians ; our only wonder must be, that any in-
dividuals who have once been inmates of these d. eary
tenements should ever have left them, under any cir-
cumstances, with minds not absolutely ruined and ex-
tinct.

Under impressions of this kind we have been 1,-,d more
cirefully to consider, than upon its first publication we
were enabled to do, the several enactments of Lord
ASHLEY'S Bill for the regulation of th,, ca►e and treat-
ment of lunatics in England. And we are bound to
state that, in reference to some of its particular clauses,
especially clause 44, it does not appear to us to provide
any adequate securities against the recurrence of those
scandalous outrages on the personal liberties of indi-
viduals, of which we have spoken as being too fre-
quently set in motion for the most base and perfidious
of purposes. We shall endeavour, however, more par-
ticularly to illustrate these objections at an early oppor-
tunity, when we propose to examine in detail the pro-
visions and enactments we allude to. It is impossible to
devote too much attention to a Bill that is to recognise
and consolidate, in very many instances, powers that
already affect too extensively the liabilities (if we may
so call them) of the liberties of the subject.

Madrid journals, of the 26th ult. have been received. The
Clamor Publico states, that on the evening of that day,
several officers of the garrison had been put under arrest,
but no cause is assigned. Some excitement had been caused
in the capital by the acquittal of certain parties prosecuted
for a libel on the Government, contained in a pamphlet en-
titled " The Proscribed and the Imprisoned." The jury were
cheered as they left the Court, and the advocate for the de-
fendants was carried on the shoulders of the people to his
carriage. The Madrid populace, it would appear, are not
favourable to the proposed marriage of the QUEEN with the
Prince of ASTURIAS. A print-seller having exhibited a
portrait of that Prince in his shop, a crowd collected, broke
the windows, and tore it to pieces. Letters from Barcelona
of the 28th June state:that the QUEEN was to leave on the
2d for the baths of Pude, where she would remain ten days.
Another letter from Bayonne, dated June 29, contains the
following :
" The Spanish Consul here has had it officially intimated to him
that the visit of the Queen of Spain to the Basque provinces, which
was postponed after the abdication of Don Carlos, and the appear.
ance of his son's manifesto, is now definitively settled to take place.
Her Maje,ty will be at Tolosa, the capital of the province of Gui.
puscoa, towards the end of July. The Duke and Duchess de \e.
mourn will make their public entry into Bayonne on the 16th of
August."
On the Madrid Bourse the Three per Cents. were dune at
32 for cash, and 323/ at 60 days; the Five per Cents., at 21
for cash, and 213/ at 60 days; Passives at 7, at 60 days.

According to the Paris journal, the Unirers, the Papal
Government had refused to interfere in the disputes between
the Jesuists and the French Government. A correspondent
of that paper who writes from Rome on the 20th of June;
congregation on ecclesiastical
says :—" The extraordinary
affairs assembled on the 12th, to take into consideration the
statements made by M. TRIERS in the French Chamber of De-
puties on the subject of the Jesuists, and to determine upon
the answer to be given to the Envoy Extraordinary of his
Majesty the KING of the FRENCII, unanimously derided that
the Holy See could not take any part in measures which
concern the constitutional rights of the citizens of France."

The Journal des Debats approves of this decision in these
words :-" We cannot ask for more. The answer of the con-
gregation of extraordinary ecclesiastical affairs, as reported
by the correspondent of the Univers, appears to us, there-
fore, to be satisfactory. It sets aside the religious question,
the only one that could warrant the interference of the
Holy See. It leaves nothing in litigation but the question
of public and constitutional right-a question purely tem-
poral-One with which the Court of Rome has nothing to do.
This is a grave lesson to those who in this country attempt
to confound the two questions."
A letter from Algiers of the 24th ult. furnishes accounts
of more razzias, and also of an expedition by General
MAREY against the tribe of the Oulad-el-Aziz, in order to
chastise them for having assisted BEN-SALEM in his attempt
to stir up a revolt among the tribe of the Arib-Cheraga. The
General is said to have burnt severalvillages, and made con-
siderable booty. About 2,400 Arabs, in close alliance with
the French, co-operated in this affair, and are said to have
realised an enormous booty, the tribe which was attacked
being very rich.
The statement of the accounts of the Bank of France. made
up to the 25th ult., shows the following results :-Actif-
the bank had then in hand in cash 260,535,069 f. ; in dis-
counts and loans, 124,061,025 f. ; in branch banks accounts,
74,236,974 f., credits and various items, 88,168 f. ; rentes,
public securities, and reserved fund, 64,240,974 f.-total,
523,161,297 f. Passif-the amount of bank notes circulated
259,141,652 f. ; accounts current, 17E,793,005f. ; capital and
reserve, 81,900,000 f. ; different items, 5,326,640 f. The dis-
counts, advances, and loans made during the quarter
amounted to the sum of 293,030,877 f. ; movement of ac-
counts current (private), 3,007,035,7851'. ; ditto (public),
228,259,071 f. ; general movement of the misses,
3,573,327,966 f.
On the Paris Bourse the market closed on Wednesday as
follows :-Three per Cents., for cash, 83f. 65c.; for account,
83f. 65c. ; Five per Cents., for cash. 121 f. 35c.; for account,
121 f. 65c. ; Bank of France Shares, 3,220 ; New Loan, 83f.
85c. Paris and Orleans closed at 1,165 f. ; Paris and Rouen,
1,040 f. ; Rouen and Havre, 845 f. ; Avignon, 970 f. ; Stras-
bourg and Basle, 251 f. 25c. ; Vierzon, 750 f.
The following are the quotations for the new lines :-
Bordeaux, 670 f. 675 f. 672 f. 50c. pet. 680 f. 685 f. 690 f. 685 f. ;
Boulogne, 615 f. ; Montereau, 525 f. ; Bordeaux and Cette,
503 f. 50c. ; Dieppe and Fecamp (Selliere), 550 f. 545 f. 543 f.
75c. 545 f. ; Lyons and Avignon (Lecointe and Desart's),
515 f. ; Ditto (Talabot), 537 f. 50c. ; Paris and Lyons
(Laffitte, Blount, and Co.), 520 f. ; Ditto (Ganneron), 505 f. ;
Ditto (Calon), 500 f. ; Northern of France (Laffitte, Blount,
and Co.), 535 f. ; Ditto (Rosamel), 590 f. ; Charleroy, 507 f.
50c. 510 f.

FUNERAL OF SIR WM. FOLLETT.
The mortal remains of this distinguished lawyer and ad-
vocate were yesterday consigned to their last resting-
place, in the vaults under the eastern portion of the Temple
Church. The whole of the Judges (with the exception of
Lord Denman, who was unable to attend), the Lord Chan-
, cellor, Lord Brougham, Sir Robert Peel, Sir James Graham,
the Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Vice-
Chancellor of England, Earl Caernarvon, Vice-Chan.
.cellors Wigram and Knight Bruce, Lord Camp-
bell, Mr. Greene, M.P., Chairman of the House ;
Wm. Brougham, Esq., Wm. Wingfield, Esq., the Attorney-
General, Lord Langdale, R. Kindersley, Esq., Mr. Baron
Parke, and upwards of 200 of the principal members cf the
common law and equity courts, being present to pay the last
token of respect to the lamented deceased, and assisted in the
funeral ceremony. The funeral cortege, which consisted of a
hearse, containing the body ;and thre, mourning coaches, each
drawn by four horses, in which were relatives of the deceased,
left Cumberland-terrace at eleven o'clock, and arrived at the
Temple exactly at half past-twelve, when the r•rocession we,
formed on the terrace in front of the gardens, and pro-
ceeded in the following order:—The Master, the beadles
and attendants of the Inner and Middle Temple; the
benchers of the Inner Temple, the benchers of the Middle
Temple, two by two, wearing black silk scarfs and bands; the
lid of feathers and porters. the choir, consisting of ten buys
and twelve male voices; the reader; Archdeacon Robinson,
the Master of the Temple; the coffin, on the right i f which,
Mr. Burge, Q C., as treasurer the Temple, Chief Justice
Tindal, Sir James Graham, the Chancellor of the Exchequer;
and on the left. Mr. Crowder, Q.C., Principal of the Temple ;
Lord Lyndhurst, Sir R. Peel, and the Vice-Chancellor of
England, acted as pall-bearers. The chief mourner, R. B.
Follett, Esq and the brothers and immediate relatives
of the deceased, followed by upwards of one hundred gentle-
men, forming nearly the whole of the Queen's Counsel in the
several Courts of Law, as also the Judges, two by two. They
proceeded round the terrace into King's Bench-walk, through
Tanfield-court, to the western entrance of the church, and
up the centre. The body being deposited on a bier, the per-
sons forming the procession filed off to the places allotted to
them. The body and gallery of the church being filled by
the various members of the profession, the Funeral Service
was chaunted by the whole choir; at the conclusion of which
the body was deposited in the catacombs, between the late
Mr. Joy and Mrs. Warre, and immediately beneath the re
mains of the late Lord Thurlow. The scene was altogether
one of the most impressive and solemn appearance, and
there could not have been less than 5,000 persons present on
the occasion.

statement that 20.000 dollars are offered in consideration of
the independence of the new republic being established.
The best sample of pines yet received—the season Lot
having been previously sufficiently advance&—has "c:lne to
hand by the Medway steamer, which brings a very fair quan-
tity. The quality and condition of these will be fully tested
on Monday. when, as the advertisement in another column
shows. 31, ssrs. Keeling and Hunt intend to hold their first
sale of the season.
The Funds are again rather firmer than they were earlier
in the week. Consuls have realised 99 to 1,4, for the opening.
Exchequer-bills are 555. to 575. premium, being fuller rates.
The New Three-and-a Quarter per Cents. have been 1021/$
to 1,4, and the Three per Cents. 99% to %. Bank Stock has
realised 2101/ to 211%.
The Foreign Investments are very quiet. Spanish continue
flat at 27 to 14 for the Five per Cents., while the Three per
Cents. are heavy at 39. Portuguese Old Bonds are worth
841/. Mexican Stock has been marked 36% to 37, and
Colombian 18.
.Dutch Two-and-a• Half per Cents. were
62% to 9.
The Share Market has been tolerably brisk, and there is
no material alteration in prices. South Wales have been
lower, Cambridge and Lincoln are fluctuating, and South-
Eastern are steady; Birmingham are up a little.

ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF BRITISII FUNDS. O'CLOCK. ruler>.
Bank Stock ...- .
_2lll/ 210i2

3 per Cent. Reduced - 99%
New 314 per Cents ..1021A1A 102 7-16
Long-Annuities to exeireJan.lB6o 11% 7-16 111/3
Ditto 30 years, Oct. 10,1859 ... IPA
India Bonds, 1,0001 69 67 67
Ditto under 1,000/. . ....... .- 69 69
Consols for Opening 9914 991 A

Exchequer Bills, 1,0001., I%d 56 55 57 pm. 57
Ditto 5001. .
Ditto Sinai!
ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Austrian, 5 per Cent ......116 116
Columbian Bonds, ex Venezuela. 18 18
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837 ...... ...
Ditto, Account
Ditto. Deferred ... 2114 21
Portuguese 5 per Cents.
Ditto, Converted — €614,
Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent .. 66
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
Ditto. Account .. ... .. . 271/8
Ditto 3 per Cent. ..
D' I Ace- ,t

271 A i
387 f i

.:tto Account
French, 5 per Cent
Exchange
Belgian 4% per Cent. .... 99 98% 98%
Dutch. 2% per Cent .
Ditto, 4 per Cent., Certific — 99
PRICES OF ci I, I CLOSINo
PAID. A uNE O'CLOCK. PRICES
RAILWAY SHARES
Iberdeen
_ . . i%

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY. MORNING, JULY 6, 1845.

DESTROCTIVE FIRE AT QUEBEC.

MEETING AT THE LONDON TAVERN.

A numerous meeting wag held y.sterlay of th- mer-
chants and banker,. of the city et Lord n, at the London
Tavern. Bishopsarite :41—.1. to oriein to sebscriptioes
for the relief et' the etifforers in gut?! e:; from the late ea!a-
nlitou. fire. The L .rd Mayor tabk the chair at two
o'clock. On the platrorm we noticed Mr. Maule,
Mr. Pattison, Mr. Baring, Sir J. Firie, Mr. R. C.
Glynn, and Mr. G. R. Robinson.
The LORD MAYOR said that he had been requested to
convene a meeting . this day, for the purpose of con-
sidering the propriety of relieving the sufferers from
this destruction at Quebec, whereby 12,000 human
beings had been driven from their homes without food
or clothing, and nearly a miliion of property was
destroyed, and several lives lost. He hoped that the
demands of these sufferers would be met by the gene-
rosity of the meeting.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. A. GILLESPIE moved the first resolution. He said
that there was very little necesssity fur his alluding;
to the fatality of this awful occurrence, as it had been
already before the public through the prints and other
sources. There had been a difficulty in aecertaining the
number of lives lost, but upwards of forty bodies had
already been found, and there was little doubt that a
great many others had perished. He then read
extracts from a letter from the corresponding
Committee, which has already been published, and
which set forth the deplorable losses occasioned by this
fire. Those who suffered were nearly all French
Canadians, with some Irish amongst them. He thought
there could not be a more powerful appeal to their
generosity than this calamity. The inhabitants of
Quebec came forward most nobly, and, in a very short
space of time, collected sub,- criptions of upwards of 7,000/.
to alleviate the existing distress. The Governor-General
immediately sent the sum of 2,0001. for the relief of the
sufferers. Messrs. James Gibb and Joseph Masson sub-
scribed the sum of 1,1001. They were both French
Canadians. The houses of all the neighbours were open
to those who escaped from the ruins. Mr. Gillespie
then read the resolution, expressive of the regret felt by
the meeting on hearing that nearly one, third of the
inhabitants were by this calamity deprived iu a few hours
of shelter and the means of subsistence. _ _

Mr. THOMAS BARING seconded the resolution, and it
was unanimously carried.
The Right Hoe. Fox MattLE moved the second reso-
lution. lie was sure that on this occasion the appeal
made to the generosity of the citizens and merchants
of London would not be made in vain. if ever
there was a time when the streams of benevolence
should flow unimpeded, it was on the present occasion, are]
if there was anything in this calamity for which they
ought to thank God, it was, that it had not visit( d them
in the midst of winter. Winter would come on in four
months, but that was a short time to house 12 0000
human beings. They were call: d upon at or ce to vindi
cote the majesty of the land in that country, and lei them
howstretch forth the hand of benevolence the more readily.
_ _

Subscriptions were proposed by Messrs. James Patt.;
son, It. Gillespie, G. R. Glynn, S. Gurney, jun., srd
.everal other gentlemen, who appropriately and briefly
addressed the meeting.
The SECRETARY then went through the list of sub-
scriptions already received, containing the names of
Lord Stanley, the Lord Mayor, the Right Hon. H. La-
bouchere ; Mesas. Glynn, Halifax, and- Co. ; Baring
and Brothers ; Gillespie, Moffatt, and Co. ; and all the
principal bankers of London.
Several of the subscriptions amounted to 2001. and
100/. each.
A vote of thanks to the Lord Mayor for having pre-
sided over the meeting having been proposed and re-
sponded to, the m-eting separated.

CANADA.

THE ONTARIO AND HURON JUNCTION RAIL-

WAY COMPANY.

This Company, formed for constructing a line of rail-
road from Toronto. on Lake Ontario, to Goderich, on
Lake Huron, has lately obtained an accession to its
strength in the co-operation of the wealthy and influen-
tial Persons forming. the Directory of the Canada Com-
pany, which will place the stock in this undertaking on a
basis of security not surpassed by any of a similar nature
in England.
'I he national importance of this work, ar•id the "air
promise of an ample return which it presents, entitle
it to the attention of thoio who ju,tly feel that in the
prosperity of our colonies the chief wealth and security
of the empire is to be found.
The province through which this communication is
about to be mad. has for some years looked with an
anxious eye for the completion of the work which will,
in a very important manner, del', lop its resources, and
place it in a position of successful competition with, in-
stead of dependence upon, the United States. We an-
ticipate, in the employment of British cal:atil in colonial
works of this patine the commencement of a new era,
when the people of Canada will he more united to Eng-
land by ties of interest and affe,tion, and, therefore,
learn with satisfaction, that British capitalists have been
successfully appealei to, and that the subject has been
taken up in n national spirit, and with a view to British
and Colonial inturests.
A glance at the map of Canada will show the vast
value and importance of connecting Lakes Ontario and
Huron at the termini prop,sed ; they present the only
true and natural points of communication between Lake
Ontario and the extensive territories west of Lake
Huron.

The line possesses all the advantages which, in a
young colony, should be rezarded as essential in the
choice of a route of railroad communication.
Ist. It is the short, st and most direct route between
L eke Ontario and the Western States, and will, conse-
ntly, be constructed at the least outlay of capital.
and will form the cheapest and most expeditious route
for the current of the vast tide of emigration annually
in'oceeding westward, and for the transit of all the pro-
Alice of the west to the eastern markets.
2nd. It will form the only available trunk line, from
which ruture extensions to important places ma) be con-
structed by the shortest new lines of road, which exten-
sions will a Lso eansequently be made at the least outlay of
capital.
3d. It is the only line which can effectually open
to emigration And settlement that extensive portion
of fertile country lying between Lakes Ontario, Erie,
and Huron ; and
4:11. It is a line which, by continuation at a future
period through Canada, will secure to the greatest
possible extent the continuous transit of goads and pas-
senger: entering upon the road at either extremity
!hroughout the extent to the other extremity of the
colon c.
Such a continuation, it may confidently he anticipated,
will be male at no very distant day, whereby a direct
communication through Canada between Lake Huron and
the Atlantic will be opened.
In a pecuniary point of view it is important to observe.
that of late veers the rapid strides made by the cvizens
of °sweat) and Rochester, on the southern shore of Lake
Ontario. have attracted. in a great measure, the western
trade passing through the State of New York, from the
Erie canal and Buffalo, to the route by Lake Ontario.
On the completien of the proposed line, goods pro-
ceeding eastward aed westward will reach the markets
on the Atlantic and Lake Huron in less than half the
time at present occupied. and at less than half the cost
incurred upon the present circuitous route by Lake
Erie. We hev he assurance of parties well acquainted
with Canada, that a field for the profitable investment o'
British caati!al can be found in it inferior to none in the
world, and infinitely superior in point of profit and se
curity to those investments in which our capitalists are
ever so ready to embark in foreign countries: but parties
in cases of thi,. kind must inlge or thetnse'v. s.

ABINGDON ELECTION.—GeneraI Caulfield, on Wed
nesday, published an address to the electors, announcing his in.
tention of proceeding to the poll on Tuesday. The Attorney.
General has followed the example, and states that he has perfect
confidence in the result.

The Governownt of the Grand Duchy of Luxem-
burgh is about to make a great alteration in the rate of postage.
A Bill has been presented to the States for reducing the postage of
single letters throughout the Grand Duchy to the universal charge
4 'iabout three halfpence.

TROTTING SIATCII AGAINST TlME,—Yesterflav
watch to trot in harness four miles in fourteen minutes, for 101.
as►de, came off on the Barnet-road, near Whetstone. Mr. Ccx
was the owner of the horse, and Mr. Surridge was the backer of
time. The horse trotted in admirable style, and won the match
by twenty seconds.
BY LIGHTNING.—On Tuesday after-
noon the Perth Company's sehooner Sovereign, Mann, master, was
struck by lightning off Cromer, and an apprentice named Little-
john, was killed by the electric fluid, and the master was consi-
derably injured, The vessel's topmast was carried away, but she
was not otherwise seriously injured.
__

MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.— On Thursday was so-
lemnised, at the church of St. George, Hanover-square, the mar-
riage of Captain the Hon. Percy Barrington with the rich heiress
Miss Higgins, daughter of Mrs. Staniforth, of Connaught place.
The service was performed by the Hon. and Rev. Lowther John
Barrington. The bridemaids in attendance were the beautiful
sisters of the happy bridegroom, the Hon. Miss arid the Hon. Miss
Mary Barrington, the Hon. Miss Georgiana Liddell, Miss Black-
weed, Miss Liddell, and Miss Ridout. After the ceremony Mrs.
Staniforth gave a dejeuner, at her residence in Connaught.terrace,
which was attended by the Earl of Mulgrave, Viscount and Vis.
countess Barrington, Lord Ravensworth, Sir Edmund Antrobus,
and a select faintly circle. In the afternoon the happy pair left
town for Becket House, Herts, the seat of Viscount and Viscountess
Barrington, where they have arranged to pass the honeymoon.
TH. MAILS.—SOUTIIAMI'TON, ,JULY 3.—The Ori-
ental Company's steam-ship the Duke of Cornwall left the docks
at three P.M. this day for Alexandria, with the East India and
China mails; also a full cargo of bale and other goods, and twelve
passengers. The Royal West India mail packet the Thames,
Captain Haste, left her moorings yesterday at three P.M. upon her
outward voyage, carrying the West India and South American
wails ; also twenty-six passengers, 677 bottles of quicksilver,
twenty boxes of silver (value 10,0001.), fur ditto of gold (value
4,0001.), and general cargo, The next Portugal mail will be due
on Sunday next, and the East India and China one by the Tagus is
expected at the Motherbank on the Tuesday following.
THE TEMPLE GARDEN.—This garden, which has
heretofore always been closed to the public, is now thrown open,
and numbers avail themselves every evening, of the opportunity
thus afforded of a pleasant promenade on the banks of the Thames.
THE IVEATHER.—THE THUNDER STORM.—The
temperature in the metropolis, during the last few days, has been
somewhat low for the season ; on Tuesday it averaged sixty de-
grees, but after the high wind of that night, the mercury slightly
rose, and on Wednesday, at noon, was sixty-five degrees, the wind
blowing rather briskly from W. S. W.; at sunset that peculiar hue
presented itself which foreboded an approaching storm, and as the
succeeding morning advanced, the heat became rather oppressive,
and at a quarter before eight o'clock, thunder ww. heard at a dis.
twice, wh ch gradualy approached nearer, and a heavy storm of
hail and rain followed, deluging the streets and roads. During the
storm there were several loud peals of thunder. The storm was
not perceptible at Graydon, though in Brighton, Hastqlgs, South-
ampton, and other places on the southern coast, it raged with great
fury, the wind blowing violently from the S.W. The heat was
considerable throughout the day, the thermometer from eleven
o'clock till five indicating seventy-six degrees, being full tell de-
grees higher than the preceding day. As the sun declined the
wind somewhat abated, though still blowing briskly.
1 tie DtrVSA.fhtf:f Orrz,fle th.i, the health of
he Empress of Russia has become alarming, and that the Emperor
again suffering from a disease of the liver,

THE STEAM SHIP « GREAT BRI-
TAIN."

This splendid vessel, which sailed from Dublin yes-
terday morning. at ten o'cl,,clt, arrived in the Mersey last
niv lit at nine, amtdst the cheers and enthusiasm of assem
bled thous„,nds. As a proof of the ,xeiternent which her
appearance produced, we may staV, that several fine steam
vessel* left Liverpool for the pu,-pose of accompanying
this leviathan of the deep to our harbour. As the
steamers, freighted with their 'dying cargoes. came
alongside the mammoth ship, cheers, loud and
prolonged, rent the air, and the cordial greeting, thus
gen, rously g:ven, was enthusiastically responded to by
the crew and passengers on board the Great Britain
She is unquestionably a splendid vessel—so elegant—so
frigate-like,—and her immense proportions, great as
they are, strike the eye with less surprise than their
symmetry and elegant buoyancy. To her may be ap-
plied, without t xnggeration, and with a vast improve-
ment on the beauty and power of the craft in Byron's
Corsair, eulogised by the poet—
She alks the waters like a thing of lire,
And seems to dare the elements to strife !

As a proof of the interest whieli her 94enearance in
the capital of Leland excited, it may ha stated that the
Directors of the Dublin and Kirgst-Avn Rciilway, an-
ticipating a rich harvest in the number of pass,mgers,
whom curiosity would bring to Kingstown, gave a bonus
of 500/. to the proprietors of the Great Britten as an in-
ducement for her to call there and be exhibited.

She sails from Liverpool for New York on the 26th
instant, and, in the interim, the proprietors will reap a
rich harvest by exhibiting her in Liverpool, where she
will be an object of the most intense interest. We had
an opportunity of seeing her in Bristol, and still more
recently in London, but on neither occasions, as a steam
ship, or a work of art, did she convey to us an impres-
sion so vivid, or so pleasing, as she did last night in her
run of some dozen miles into the port of Liverpool.—
'Verner and &litres European Tmes of Friday.