The Sun.
London, England, 1845-08-09 00:00:00

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for Warwick, in the room of Sir C. DOUGLAS
appointed a Commissioner of Greenwich Hospital ; and
for Sunderland, in the room of Lord Howics, who has
been called up to the House of Peers.
The Silk Weavers' Bill was read a third time and
passed.
Lord PALMERSTON presented a petition against the
use of propelling engines on railways, and urged the
House to adopt some legislative enactment on the subject.
Lord COURTENAT brought up the report of the Com-
mittee on Group X, recommending the postponement of
the Hertford and Biggleswade, the Swinton and Lin-
coln, the Lincoln and Ely, and the York and North
Midland, and Doncaster Extension Railway Bills.
Mr. HOPE brought in a Bill for the improvement of
the waste lands in Australia.

the Five per Cents. at 122 f. 40e. ; Orleans Railroad Shares,
1,292 f. 50e. ; Rouen, 1,092 C 50c. ; Vierzon, 787 f. 50c. ;
Havre, 907 f. 50c. ; Avignon, I,OBOC ; Basle, 286 f. 25c. ;
Spanish Three per Cents, 38%; ditto Passives, 7.
The following are the quotations for the new lines
Orleans and Bordeaux, 190 f. premium ; Boulogne, 140 f.
ditto, Troyes and Montereau, 60f. ; Paris and Lyons,
(Laffitte), 30f. ; ditto (Calon), par ; ditto (Ganneron),
6f. 60e. ; Northrn Line (Laffitte), 42C 50c. ; ditto (Rosa-
mel), 17f. 50e. ; Tours and Nantes (Mackenzie), 12f. 50c. ;
ditto (Drouillard), par ; ditto (O'Neill), 5C ; ditto (Jacques
Lefevre), par ; Lyons and Avignon (Lecointe), 18f. 50e.;
ditto (1 alabot), 35f. ; ditto (Compagme Meridionale), sf. ;
Bordeaux and Toulouse (Mackenzie), par ; ditto and
Cette (Espeleta), 15f. ; Creil and St. Quentin, par •,
Paris and Strasbourg (Ganneron), 12f. 50c.; Dijon and
Mulhausen, par; Dieppe, 12t. 50e.
Licoss, AUG. 4.-Avignon and Marseilles, 1,042 f., end
of August ; Paris and Orleans, 1,247 f. ditto ; Paris and
Rouen, 1,062 f. ; Orleans at.d Vierzon, 785 f. ditto ; Orleans
and Bordeaux, 680 f. ; Montereau, 537 f. ditto.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Acs. 8. _

THE PROROGATION,
OF PARLIAMENT.

HER MAJESTY'S
SPEECG

MY LORDS AND GENTLE➢IEN,

I rejoice that the state of public business enables
me to release you from further attendance in Par

Lament.

Lord PALMERSTON thin rose and, in a speech of con-
siderable length, directed the attention of the House to
the affairs of Syria.
Sir H. PEEL commenced a reply to the Noble Lord,
but an Hon. Member moved that the House be counted,
and there being only 25 Members present, the Howie
adjourned.

In closing this laborious session, I must express
to you my warm acknowledgments for the zeal and
assiduity with which you have applied yourselves to
the consideration of many subjects deeply affecting
the public welfare.
I have given my cordial assent to the Bills
which you presented to me for remitting the Duties
on many articles of import, and for removing restric-
tions on the free application of capital and skill to
certain branches of our manufactures.
The reduction of taxation will necessarily cause
an immediate loss of revenue, but I trust that its
effect in stimulating Commercial enterprise, and en-
larging the means of consumption, will ultimately
provide an ample compensation for any temporary
sacrifice.

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Boulogne and Atniens.. 111/2 OverYssel —3/ P
Bordeuax &Mediterran Parts& Lyons (Lafitte) 31/2
Bordeaux and Toulouse , Ditto ( Ganneron's).
Do. and Cette 2% Ditto (Calon's).... -
Dutch Rhenish ... - 493/
I)endre Valley ......
Dieppe & Paris Junct. Parts & Strsburg (Gan-
Dijon and Mulhouse ... 1 nerun's) 24
East Indian
Grt Northern of France Paris and St. Quentin.
(Laffitte's) - 31%
Ditto (Rosamel's)
Great Paris and Lyons — Sambre and Meusc .... 6
Jamaica Junction 63/ Strasbourg and Basle .
Do. South Mdlnd June — Tours &Nants(M'Ken-
i.ouvain and Jemeppe 4% tie's). —
Lyons and Avignon — , Do. (Lefebvre's) —
Namur and Liege 51,4 Verona and Ancona....
Orleans and Vierzon
Orleans and Bordeaux 11

In our Thursday's edition we remarked, in reference
to the late colliery explosion at Aberdare, on the
general neglect that appeared sail to pervade our
Mining Districts of th(A vt ry valuable recommendations

of the -House of Cominont' Committee on " Accidents in
Mines," (owing to the want of some duly constituted
Executive to give effect to suggestions of this kind,
when they regard only the protection of life, not the
rights of property.) Among these neglected recom-
mendations we especially instanced " the bricking up
the final apertures that have been left, marking the site
of exhausted works and demolished passages." To-day
we have to notice the singular confirmation which our
assumption has received by the actual verdict of the
coroner's inquest on the bodies of the sufferers rescued
from this very llyffrin Colliery :
,for the jury, among
other things, beg to enforce the necessity for adopting
"a s) stern that will prevent the gas oozing out from the
old or abandoned workings to tram-road airways" by
similar precautions. We cannot refrain from observing
that we have here another exemplification of the

We direct public attention to an excellent article
which we copy, in another column, from the Sentinel, on
the subject of rebuilding Quebec by the issue of paper
money. The suggestion, w•e understand, emanates from
that useful body, " the Society for the Emancipation of
the Wurking Classes."

I have witnessed with peculiar satisfaction the
unremitting attention which you have bestowed on
the measure s recommended by me to your considera-
tion, at the commencement of the Session, for im-
proving and extending the means of Academical
Education in Ireland.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
HORWICH RACES.—THURSDAY.
The Ladies Purse of 3 50,73. each, with 15 SON'S. added, for
horses that never won previous to the day of entry. Heats,
about oi.e mile and a half. The winner to be sold for 401.,
in the usual way.
Mr. S. Dawson's Son of a Saint...(Hon. S. Erskine) 1 dis.
Mr. Palmer's Donkey ... 2 1 2
Mr. Young's Catton 3 2 1
Mr. Hobson's Villebecque
Mr. Graham's Harlequin
Mr. Hornby's gr gby Stumps
Gr fby Stumps led off, was soon pursued by Son of a
Saint, who won easy. Second heat—Son of a Saint led off.
Villebecque second. Donkey headed him at blue post, and
raced with Son of a Saint in straight run. At distance Son
of a Saint crossed Donkey, and was disqualified in conse-
quence. Third heat—Catton took the lead, and was never
headed. Mr. Hobson withdrew from the fourth heat under
protest. Catton walked over.
A Cup, value 50 guineas, the gift of W. S. Standish, Esq., of
Duxbury-park, added to a sweepstakes of five sovs. each.
Mr. Collett's Coranna (Murphy) 1
Mr. A. Johnstone's Sir Henry 2
The following also started :—Susan, Lara, and Flamingo.
Lars went off at a rattling pace, kept it to the turn into
the straight run, where he was beaded by Coranna, who
came in an easy winner by at least eight lengths. A good
race for second place between Lara and Sir Henry.
The Selling Stakes of 5 sous. each, with 20 soya. added.
Heats, one mile and a half.
Mr. Palmer's Betsy Bird (W. Arthur) 3 1 1
Mr. S. Waring's Saul ...... .
8 started for the first heat, 6 for the second, and 5 for the
third.

You may rely upon my determination to carry
those measures into execution in the manner best cal
culated to inspire confidence in the Institutions which
have received your sanction, and to give effect to
your earnest desire to promote the welfare of that
part of my dominions.
From all Foreign Powers I continue to receive
assurances of their friendly disposition towards :this
country.

" selfish indifference to," we are loth to call it—but, at
least, the culpable carelessness of human life, which tuo
largely operates upon the relations of masters and work-
men in some of the largest speculations that private

capital is invested in. It was stated in the very first ac-
count we had of this catastrophe that the pit had
always been in bad repute " on account of its deficient
ventilation." We see nothing in the return of the in-
quest to disprove the justice of this received impression.
Now one is irresistibly tempted to repeat the question—
had the better ventilation been demanded for animal-
chattels, .or other such tangible property, instead of
mere human lives, over which our anomalous law,
all tenderness under some circumstances, permits under
others the most irresponsible custody and control to
private individuals. Had these pitmen been partridges
in a preserve, or pheasants in an aviary, or sheep in a
fold, does any one supp use that after the first represen-
tation to their owner, that they were exposed in the
fold, the aviary, or the preserve, to mephitic gases or
noxious exhalations, these birds or beasts would have
been left there for another day ? Why, it is not long
since we read of all the leaden water-pipes commu-
nicating between the river and a dog-kennel being taken
up and replaced, at a considerable expense, by wooden
or clay drain pipes, on a bare suspicion, that some of the
hounds had been from time to time affected with
symptoms that indicated the presence of seine arseniate
deposit from the metal in the water.
If the higher and wealthier orders thus manifest a

The Convention which I have recently con-
cluded with the King -of the French for the
more effectual suppression of the Slave Trade will, I
trust, by establishing a cordial and active co-operation
between the two Powers, afford a better prospect
than has hitherto existed of complete success in the
attainment of an object for which this country has
made so many sacrifices.
GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS,
I thank you for the liberality with which you
have voted tha Supplies for the service of the current
year.

MARLOW RACES.--THURSDAY.
The Quarry Stakes of 2 aovs. each, with 20 added (once
round) were won easily, in two heats, by Mr. Lamb's ch in
Lady Flora (Livesey), beating Mr. Hardy's Fair Play, Mr.
Wiltshire's Freystrop, Mr. Stuckey's The Lord Misrule, Mr.
Gibson's Concealment, Mr. Whittington 's Miss Robinson (late
Crocus), Mr. Wood's Sittenham, and Mr. Smith's Five times
Five.
The Ring Stakes of 2 sous. each, with 20 added (twice
round) were won, in two beats, by Mr. Whittington's _Miss
Robinson (Hardy), beating Mr. Wesley's Jessy Hammond, Mr.
Woedfield's St. Michael, Mr. Hobbs s Bavarian, and Mr.
Fane's The Mile. The first heat was won by two lengths.
The winner was objected to, and the stakes are withheld.
The Hurdle Stakes of 2 sovs. each, with 20 added (once
round, were won, in two heats, by Mr. Bladon's Palemon
(Livesey), beating Mr. Hornsby's Donald Caird, Mr. Hardy's
Little Dan, and Mr. Fowler's The Ranger, by a length.
BRIGHTON RACES.—FRIDAY.
Sweepstakes of 3 sou. each, with 30 added ; heats, 1 mile ;
the winner to be sold for 1501. if demanded, &c. ; any
horse entering to be sold for 1201. allowed 41b; for 1004,
71b ; SOL 121 b ; (8 Subs.)
Duke of Richmond's br c by Miss, out of Belvidere
(801.) 3 yrs, 6st 3
Mr. Beresford's Best Bower, 4 yrs, Bst 81b 1 4. 2
Mr. Mathews' Tub Thumper (501.) aged, Bst 31b
Mr. B. Smith's Beggar Girl (801. ), 5 yrs, 7st 81b 2 3 dr
Betting, 2to 1 agst colt by 31us ; 5 to 2 agst Tub Thum-
per: and 3to 1 agst Beggar Girl. The first and second
heats were each won by a length, and the third by three
lengths.
The South Down Stakes of 25 sovs. added to a sweepstake of
10 sous. each, sft for three years old and upwards. Heats,
New Course ; gentlemen riders. (7 Subs.)
Lord George Bentinck's Naworth, aged, 12st
Mr. Brook named Alice Grey, 6 yrs, lOst
Betting-10 to 1 agst Naworth.
The first heat was won by a neck. In the second heat Alice
'V,rev ran on the wrong sift,. of sh. post. and was ',alien up:
ile Hurdle stakes of 5 sore. each, for horses belonging to
officers of the 17th Lancers; list 71b each. Mile and a
quarter. (5 Sibs.)
Sir. Dodwell's eh in Chance ...
Mr. E. Haworth's Marengo
Captain Scobell'e b 111 Medora ....... ........
..
......
... .
Won easy by two lengths.
ST. LEGER. BETTING ON THE COURSE.
4to 1 agst Weatherbit—ta. 11 to 1 agst Old England—t.
7 to 1 agst Mentor—taken 30 to 1 agst The Pacha-
-10
to 1 agst M. Monarch—ta. 40 to 1 agst Idas—taken
DERBY.
10 to 1 agat Sting I 20 to 1 agst Arkwright
(RECEIVED THIS DAY.)
ABERYSTWITH RACES.—WEDNESDAY.
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comparative apathy about the tenderness for human life,
which it is not only one of the first objects of morality
to inculcate, but should be considered one of the first
duties of civilized society to enforce upon all its mem-
bers, it must be allowed that the orders below them have
not been slow to follow their pernicious example. We
gather, from a perusal of the daily reports of cases of
the police courts, some conclusions that creep out of
sight in the elaborate organization of our table of cri-
minal statistics. Whatever more favourable result these
latter may exhibit, we are compelled to infer the fact—
the painful and disgraceful fact—that among the in-
ferior classes (of the metropolitan population at any
rate), crimes of violence against the person are decidedly
on the increase. On many accounts (and for reasons
most of them too obvious to make it ' necessary hero to
enforce them) this result is as extraordinary as it is
deplorable. To what cause shall we attribute it-? We
have long since, in our own minds, arrived at the answer
to this query. We consider the result to be ascribable
to the gross anomalies of our criminal jurispruth nee.
These anomalies, however, determine in• one strangely
consistent demonstration—namely, that the genius of
our laws, in modern application, is far more vigilant for
security of property than for security of life. The con-
sequence seems to be that persons of interior condition
take up a notion that they may, with impunity, commit
any serious excesses of personal violence, seeing how in-
different those in superior ranks of society show them.
selves to be to the personal safety, and even existence, of
others. Property, indeed, as against poverty, seems to
enjoy an immunity from the ordinary liabilities to civil
action, which the latter would certainly occur, for mali-
cious, or even for mistaken, prosecution. Is there no
chance of inducing the Legislature, in the course of the
coming session, to look into these anomalies, and devise
some remedy for them ?
A very few days ago, we published the report of a
case tried at a country sessions, in which a young wo-
man, who had been accused of stealing some drapery in
the house or shop of a small trader, was, on the clearest
evidence, acquitted. During the trial the poor creature
exhibited all the emotions of terror, shame, and distress
which an innocent but timid female might be supposed
to experience in so trying a situation. Her acquittal
was greeted with the most enthusiastic, albeit indecorous
plaudits of the people in the Court. But she was again
arraigned and tried on further indictments, notwith-
standing a significant intimation to the prosecutor from
the Bench that he should not proceed with them. He
persisted. The woman was acquitted again ; but ever
since remains in a deplorable state, consequent on the
agony of her feelings under so protracted an ordeal.
The defeated tradesman retires to his shop, with no
other penalty but what it is just possible he may expe-
rience from some occasional accesses of remorse, or the
undissembled contempt and disgust of his fellow-towns-
men. At another country assizes, in a case in which
two fellow-servants had quarrelled, it appeared that the
male prisoner had inflicted a kick upon the person of the
prosecutrix, from the effects of which she had been
already confined to her bed for five and twenty weeks,—
w►as still painfully suffering—and, in ell human proba-
bility, never would recover. All the facts were proved
to the satisfaction of the jury ; and the whole punish-
ment to which the unmanly perpetrator of this outrage
was sentenced—•was six months' imprisonment with
hard labour. But might he not plead that even this
visitation was too severe, when in richer men the gross
carelessness that assigns nine and twenty men employed
upon and " in" their property to a violent and instan-
taneous death, is not visited by a deodand, even of as
many pence ?

..Mr. Ro

The Cardiganshire Stakes of 15 Sovs. each, 10ft. Two miles.
Mr. Parr's Ninety-one, 4 yrs (Owner) 1
Mr. Prysa's Jack Cade, 4 yrs .
The Johnny Raw Stakes of 5 Sovs. each. Mile and a ,half.
Mr. Parr's b f Minna Trail, 4 yrs (Owner) 1
Mr. Pryse's Jack Cade, 4 yrs 2
Mr. Gough's The British Grenadier, 3 yrs 3
The Cresswood Stakes of 5 sous. each, with 15 added. Heats,

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mile and a half:
Mr. R. Southby's Waterloo, 6 yrs (Sadler) 3 1 1
Mr. J. B. Lloyd Phillips's The Monk, 6 yrs 1 dis.
Mr. C. Powell's b g The Bruiser, 6 yrs 2 dr
The Town Plate, added to a Sweepstakes of 3 sovs. each.
Heats, mile and a half.
Mr. Parr's Ninety-one, 4 yrs (Owner) 1 1
Mr. W. Sinunonds na Ulysses, 3 yrs
The Welter Handicap of 3 sovs. each. Two miles.

Mr. ii.-17.)..J0ne-s-'s b g lieibert walked over

THURSDAY.

The Goggerdan Stakes of 10 sons. each, with 20 added.
Four miles.

Mr. R. J. Sowerby's Waterloo, 6 yrs ......(Mr. Rowland) 1
Mr. C. Powell's The Bruiser, 6 yrs
The Member's Plate of 501. added to a Sweepstakes of 5
sm. each. Heats, two miles.
Mr. Parr's ch f Ninety One, 4 yrs (Owner) 1 1
Mr. W. Simmond's Ulysses, 3 yrs
The Tradesmen's Cup of 50 soya., added to a sweepstakes of
10 soya. each. Mile and a half.
Mr. Parr's ch f Ninety-one, 4 yrs
Mr. Southby's Waterloo, 6 yrs
The Ladies' Plate, added to a sweepstakes of 3 sous. each.

Heats, one mile.
Mr. Pry se's Jack Cade, 4 yrs (llodgson) 1 1
Mr. Siinmond's Ulysses, 3 yrs

CRICKET.

THE GENTLEMEN OF KENT V. THE GENTLEMEN OF ENGLAND.

This match was commenced at Canterbury on Thursday,
but the weather altogether spoilt the play. The preceding
night had been very wet, and although the morning opened
with much promise, yet, about eleven o'clock the rain came
down in torrents, and continued until nearly one, when the
ground became completely saturated. The sun then shone
forth in all his splendour—a circumstance which appeared to
summon all the beauty and fashion. of that part of the
country, for ere the gentlemen had taken their places in the
field, the ground was, three sides of it, encircled by carriages,
principally filled with elegantly-attired ladies. The Earl of
Winchilsea, with a large party, again honoured the pro-
ceedings with his presence; W. Deedes, Esq., M.P., was
likewise present, with a numerous company of riends ; the
Hon. F. Cavendish, the lion. F. Ponsonby, the Hon. S. Pon-
sonby, the Hon. R. Griraston, in addition to almost every
nobleman and gentleman of wealth and importance in the
county.
The score stood as below at the close of the day's play :

Swiss papers of a late date have been received. The
discussion of the Jesuit question in the Diet was fixed
for the 3d inst.

The Swiss journals state that General DE SONNEN-
BERG, who commanded the troops of Lucerne in the
late disturbances, has returned to his military duties at
Naples.

KENT.
E. Banks, Esq., b Commerell 3O
W. Banks, Esq:, b Denison 3
F. A. Fagge, Esq., c Taylor, b Denison
N. Felix, Esq., not out
A. Mynn, Esq., b Taylor ............ 6
E. Bayley, Esq., not out l3
Byes 6, wide (Randolph 10, Taylor 4, Corn -
merell 4) 18, no balls ( Denison) 3 27

Letters from Copenhagen of the 31st mention•the dis-
covery of a Republican plot in that city. One of the
leaders had fled, and taken refuge, it was supposed, in
London. Prince FREDERICK of IlEssE was expected
in Petersburgh, on the invitation of his father-in-law,
the EMPEROR, who is desirous that he should marry the
Princess WILHELMINA of ORANGE. It is not yet a
year since his late wife (the Grand Duchess ALEX.
ANDRIA) died.

WHITEHALL REGATTA.
The annual contest amongst the very respectable water-
men plying at Whitehall-stairs, for a puree of sovereigns
liberally subscribed by the Duke of Buccleuch, the Earl of
Liverpool, Sir Robert Peel, and others of the nubility and
gentry of the vicinity, took place yesterday. The race was in
two heats with five scullers.
H. Pener, pink
F. Jones, green
T. Pacer, red
'l'. Jones, blue
Pener, yellow 5
The start was from off the Earl of Liverpool's, up round a
boat off the New Houses, down round a boat near Hunger-
ford -stairs, up round a boat opposite the Duke of Buccleuch's,
and finish at Whitehall. It was a good and very close race.
They all went away at the same moment, and then, after a
few sharp strokes, H. Pener led. In rounding the upper
distance-boat, T. Jones was-second, but, overshooting it, his
opponents cut him off, and he became last, but went to work
I gain sharply, and overhauled S. Penes, off Brent's-road.
H. Pener held the lead, but a little skill displayed by his op-
ponent, Jones, left it doubtful at one time which would be
the winner; as, in passing some craft off the Houses of Par-
liainent, against the tide, H. Pester went outside, and Jones
taking the Inside' in the slack, came up scull and scull
with him. Won by half a length.

Accounts from Madrid have been received to the Ist
instant, and from San Sebastian to the 3d.
Several persons had been arrested en the Ist. The
QUEEN was at San Sebastian, and the physicians con-
sidered a long course of treatment necessary for the
restoration of her health. • Her sister, the Infanta LUISA
FERNANDA, was alio suffering from ill•health. All
Finks seem to consider that the marriage of the QUEEN
with the sun of Don CARLOS would be a dreadful
calamity for Spain. The marriage of the Infanta LUISA.
with the Duke of MONTPENSIER is spoken of as a matter
decided on.

We have received the Paris papers of Thursday.
The Moniteur publishes the official dispatch of the
Maritime Prefect of Toulon on the subject of the late
lire. Ile estimates the damage done at 2,400,000 francs.
It has been ascertained, according to some of these jour-
nal ;, that the fire originated in a plot among the convict,.
The Jesuit establishment in the Rue des routes bias
broken up on Tuesday.
The Duke and Duchess DE NEMOURS and the Due
D'AUMALE, arrived at Bordeaux on the sth.

GRAND HEAT.

H. Feuer ............ 1 I
T. J0na5...... ...... 3
F. Jones 2 I T. Feuer
The winner took the lead, and kept it, coming in first by
three or four lengths. In coming up from Hungerford, T.
Jones outrowed T. 'liner, and took the third place.

M. MARTIN DU' NORD, the Minister of Justice, set out
from Paris on Wednesday for Eu.

THE MURDER AT PENZANCE.—The execution of
Benjamin Ellison, for the murder of Mrs. Seaman, will take
place at Bodmin, on Monday next. It is understood that the
unhappy convict has made a full confession of his guilt. His
conduct since his condemnation has been very resigned, and he
engages much in prayer, in which he is assisted by the worthy
chaplain of the gaol.—Plymouth Journal.

Accounts from Posen, quoted in these papers, state
that tranquillity was perfectly restored in that city-on
the 30th.
The French Funds rose again on Thursday :
The Three per Cents. closed on that day at 841. 40c.;