The Sun.
London, England, 1842-05-12 00:00:00

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NEW FOOR-LAW BILL.

The following are the principal clauses of the Bill in-
troduced by Sir James Graham, for the continuance of
the Poor-law Act : _

The Poor-law Commission is to be continue 1 for five
years, and it is proposed to reduce the number of As-
sistant Commissioners to nine. Gilbert's Act Unions
may be dissolved without the consent of Guardians, but
no parish, under a Local Act, containing a population of
more than 20,000, can be united with another parish
without the consent of two-thirds of the Guardians.
Parishes may be combined for the formation of district
schools for pauper children, the rules of the Commis-
sioners relating to such schools to be subject to the con-
sent of the Committee of Council for Education. A
chaplain is to be appointed by each District Board,
with the consent of the Bishop of the diocese ; and the
children of Dissenters, and others, who object to the
Liturgy and Catechism of the Church, spy be visited
by ministers of their respective religious persuasions.
Six clauses contain regulations respecting parish appren-
tices, which, if carried into effect, will abate the evils
of the present system. Persons taking children as ap-
prentices are to produce evidence of good character, and
the relieving officers are to inquire and report upon their
treatment. Relief for the casual poor, wayfarers, and
disorderly women in the metropolis, is provided for ;
and any parish or union relieving such persons, after
they had been improperly refused relief, may recover
the cost from the officers refusing. Clause 30 autho-
rises the payment of funeral expenses, and empowers
guardians to bury a pauper in the churchyard of the parish
where he dies. Persons becoming chargeable, through
sickness, are to be relieved where resident, and are not to
be removed till they have been chargeable for forty days
consecutively. The costs of apprehending and prosecut-
ing vagrants to be paid out of the poor-rates. The fol-
lowing is the remedy against the putative father of an il-
legitimate child
" If a putative father does not pay the money due from
him, under an order of application and maintenance, the
same may be recovered by distress and sale of his goods ;
and if sufficient distress cannot be had, he may be com-
mitted to gaol for any term not exceeding three months.
But no order is to be made upon any putative father for
any expenses in respect of the child other than its
maintenance within a workhouse, and in conformity with
the regulations of the Commissioners."
Clause 46 repeals the existing scales of voting for
election of guardians. Rate-payers under 2001. will
have one vote ; at 200 L, or under 400/, two votes ; and
at 4001., or more, three votes. If the amount of assess •
merit for property, belonging to an owner shall
not exceed 50/., he will have one vote; if the same shall
amount to 50/., and not exceed 75!., two votes ; and so
on, giving an additional vote for every 25/. up to 1504,
when he will have six votes. No person is to hold more
than four proxies, unless he be 4. steward or agent of
his principal. The remaining cilieses relate chiefly to
the appointment, resignation, and competing of Guar-
dians. Provision is also made for more extensive out-
door relief.

SUN OFFICE Three o'Clock.

At the annual meeting of the Protestant Association,
held yesterday, at Exeter Hall, Mr. PLUMPTRE, in
moving the adoption of the Report, expressed his grief
at the progress of Puseyism in the Church of
England. He contended that those who embraced
the opinions of Drs. PUSEY and NEWMAN had
virtually seceded from the Church of England ;
and he hoped that all true Protestants would feel shame
that such persons should parade their names as
belonging to that body of true Christians. The meet-
ing applauded the observations of Mr. PLUMPTRE, and,
though rarely agreeing with anything said by the Saints
at Exeter Hall, yet on this occasion, and to this extent,
we applaud them likewise. We agree with that gentle-
men that the Puseyites and Newmanites are not members
of the Church of England. They are virtually,
and to all spiritual intents and purposes, Roman
Catholics. That they do not openly enter her commu-
nion only shows that their attachment to the loaves
and fishes is stronger than their regard for consistency.
They retort upon the Establishment the dishonesty
which she was the first to teach them. The youth in our
Universities are accustomed to practice perjury from their
infancy at the command of the Church ; and therefore
there is nothing surprising if, in after life, they indulge in
it at the expense of her rich temporalities. A boy matricu-
lated at twelve years of age, must subscribe the Articles
of Faith—must virtually swear that he has examined and
believes all the sublime mysteries of religion, and yet he
must be sixteen before he is supposed capable of taking the
oath of simple allegiance to his Sovereign ! Need we
'wonderthen, that in after life, amidst every change of reli-
gious opinion, he should cleave, like a limpet to a rock, to
any preferment which the Church bestows upon him ?
What does he more than follow the bent of his University
'education ? 'Take away the Church livings of the
Puseyites, and they will soon declare themselves what
they are—Roman Catholics.

We have great pleasure in directing public attention
to the Report of the National Loan Fund in another
column. Our readers will recollect that some few years
ago we took an active interest in the formation of this
Institution, on the expectation that its principles would
work beneficially for the public generally, and we are
highly pleased to learn that its success has far out-
stripped our most sanguine hopes. The best argument,
or rather proof of the utility of such institutions, is to be
found in the fact that not less than forty have started
on the principles set forth by Mr. LAMIE MURRAY, the
able founder of this excellent Society.

The frightful accident on the Paris and Versailles
Railway has spread a gloom over the French metropolis.
As yet many families remain in a state of the most
painful uncertainty as to whether missing relatives of

theirs were among the passengers in the carriages which
were destroyed. The Journals are full of the subject ;
but as we have given in another part of The Sun all the
additional particulars in the shape of news, we shall
here merely quote from them such reflections upon
this sad catastrophe as appear in their leading columns.
The Journal des Debuts says :

Grief and consternation are incapable of reasoning, and
we are compelled to put a restraint upon ourselves, in order
to offer some observations on this event. The catastrophe
is the more frightful, as it appears to have been the re-
sult of a latality, against which human power and fore-
sight could in vain attempt to provide. The Company had
neglected nothing to procure good locomotives from the best
makers in England, and the management of the train was
not confided to novices. It was under the direction of a skit-
fat and experienced man, of the name of George, who had
aceuired great celebrity in the opinion of all our railway en-
gineers. This unfortunate man neglected nothing to prevent
disaster, and when he saw that an accident was inevitable he
died like a brave soldier on the field of battle. The road
was in good condition, and the rupture of the axle-tree of
a locomotive, which was the first cause of the event, is one--
of those circumstances which may happen on the best con-
ducted railroads as on common roads. On the other hand,
the authorities exercise an active surveillance over the mate-
rid of the companies or. the lines near Paris, in which
they are facilitated by the companies themselves, whose evi-
dent interest it is to be scrupulously on their guard against
anything that might diminish the passion of the Parisians
for railroad travelling The late dreadful event, then, was
a case of force ma ea ;it may be regarded as one of those
disasters against which man is powerless, and this it is that
augments the public emotion—this it. is that tenders the ca-
tastrophe more terrible. We do not, however, mean to say
that so long as there shall be railroads, such calamities are
to be expected. In the first place, the event in question is
without example in the history of railroads. It is a case of
exception, against the recurrence of which every thing possible
should he adopted, but which should not excite excessive alarm,
for. as such an event has not hitherto occurred, it will be diffi-
cult for it to occur again. Again, it shoult4 be considered that
much improvement may yet take place in the construction of
locoreetives. This invention is only twelve years old. During
the',; time many atrelieratons have taken place, and others may
be. fairly anticipated."
These observations are just and sensible. The powt r
sit steam, and the means of controlling and regulating it,
are yet in their infancy. The first river navigators who
constructed corricles and rafts to supply the place of
bridges had as just conceptions of the construction and
management of a ship of the line, as we have of the
future wpplication of steam power. The Courrier
Francais says :
What we deplore in this event, independently of tho number
of the victims, is, that it will again awaken prejudices which
have completely disappeared. Railroad cemmunica'ion has
not yet had time to become naturalised in France, and
it cannot increase and continue without the favour of
the public. In America and in England a railway acci-
dent turns to the advantago of the national foresight. It
causes means to be sought after for defending mankind from
the dangers necessarily attendant on every new invention.
With us the mischief which occurs, discredits, at the same
time, science and the inventor. Was it not necessary, on
Sunday evening to have a regiment of the line to prevent
the crowd from tearing to pieces the railroad station ? We
were fur a a.oment afraid that the Chamber of Deputies might
without examination yield to this untoward impression, and
it mu.t be confessed that such sad intelligence was well cal-
culated to derange the discussion on the flathead Bill. The
Chamber, however, was able to restrain its emotion. It con-
sidered, undoubtedly, that to it belonged the task of giving
an example of firmness on this mournful occasion' and it ac-
ieordingly continued to discuss the Bill. The Government
has, .-f course, instituted an inquiry into the causes of the
accident. It was its duty to do so. It could not remain a pas-
sive spectator of so horrible a catastrophe, and it is from it that
the world expects to learn if so frightful a disaster was caused by
the :mprodenee of man. or the imperfection of science. From
the information published by the evening papers, aswellfrom
what we have ourselves co leeted, it appears that the adminis-
tration of the railroad had taken all the care pos-
sible to prevent accidents. An accumulation of precautions,
unktionn even in England had attended the arrange-
ment, and the superintendence of the trains. The en-
s
gineer who constructed the railroad was in person at the
head of one of them, and on this, which was so unfortunately
overturned, the man who formed all the engineers of Paris was
placed on the first locomotive, assisted by an engineer and a
stoker ; the inspector of the line was on the second ; all the
employes were at their posts, and of eight, which was their
number, five have perished ! A measure, which is now much
blamed—the precaution of locking the waggons—had been
adopted at the demand of the Prefect of Police; so true is it
that the Government ought to dread meddling with regulations
in a matter %here unforeseen cases may so constantly occur !"
We yesterday deplored this accident for the very same
reason suggested ia the first sentence of the above ex-
tract. But the good sense of the French people will soon
get the better of their terrors. In the meantime, as the
French Government meddles with everything, it ought
to institute an official inquiry into all the circumstances
of the accident, and make them public, without any
attempt to extenuate so awful a calamity. Concealment
in such cases is most injurious. The following extract
from the National is so creditable to the kindness of the
inhabitants near the scene of this sad catastrophe, that
we have pleasure in publishing it
o Nothing is spoken of but the frightful catastrophe which
occurred on the Versailles Railroad. To the sentiments of
melancholy and awe which pervade every heart, are joined
bitter complaints.
It is now, however, either too soon or too
late to accuse. We shall wait until the facts are cleared up
to examine where blame is due. But in the midst of the
mournful accounts which reach us from all sides, it is at
least pleasing to us to render homage to the zeal and devoted-
ness which the inhabitants of Meudon. Bellevue, and the
t
other neighbouring villages exhibited. All the aid the could
be niven was lavished on the wounded ; he houses were
opened everywhere with eagerness, and a great number of
physicians came forward to offer their services. The troops
also did their duty; and when the sad news was known,
the Government did not fail to do what it could. This is the
only consolation that we can offer, an exceedingly weak and
inadequate compensation for the misfortune which has spread
universal consternation in the capital. The obligations im-
poses on Government by the death of so many victims are not
confined to the mere cares of medical attendance. The public
expects from the hands of justice an impartial and severe in-
quiry, which no consideration ought to prevent. Society
would be exposed to a perpetual inquietude, if so many persons
could thus disappear without the exact cause of the misfor-
tune being known, and without the negligence being punished
as it ought to be. We content ourselves with this reflection,
but we shall make it our duty to bring it forward, if it should
be forgotten."
BOURSE—Pam, TUESDAY, MAY 10.

tirlll. Highest Lowest Last
".e. Price. Prig. Prier.
frt n eh 5 per Cents ll9 85 ... 119 00 ... 119 80 ... 119 80
4 per Cents. ........ 102 ... 102 ... 102 ... 102
3 per Cent 5............ 81 95 82 _ 81 00 .. 81 95
Rank of France
Laffittc lttank! 6,OL'Uf. Stiares MVO ..,5060
.. 5060
...5060
re,cnan Bank
pegian 5 per Cents.
6 per Cent:., 1840 lO5l ... 1064
... 105 .. 105.4
3 per Cents 7'!so '"73 ... 73 50 ... 73 50
Spanish Active s's, i ... ti:OA ... 24% ... 24%
Passive 4% ... 4% 47,_' ... 4v
Dutch tl)i, per Cents.
Portuguese 5 per Cents. 92 ... 22 ... 32 32
Neapolitan
... lin 60
RlTiala ................. .. .....
RAILWAY SHARES.
St. Germain .........
320 ... 225 ...220 ...323
Vetlidliiell. it. 1 •
L.B 17(1 ... 180 ... 170 ... 180 i
Rouen 5511 50 ... 552 50 ... 551 25 ... 551 25
Orleans
atraebtug to 8a1em,,,... ...... 232 50 ~, 2J3 75 ss. 232 50 m 233 75

The fourteenth Anniversary of the Greville-street
Free Hospital, was held yesterday, and it is gratifying to
find that this very excellent Institution has been at-
tended with the best results. In the course of the year,
nearly fifteen thousand persons have received medical
relief, and the donations amounted to 4,0001., which we
trust will go on increasing. With the exception of one
or two bequests, it is supported by voluntary subscrip-
tions, and as it was instituted chiefly for the relief of
those who are unable to pay for medicine or advice, it is
the duty of all who have the means, to support it by li-
beral contributions. To its founder, Dr. Marsden, every
praise is due, and we see, therefore, with great pleasure,
that a well-merited tribute was conferred upon him, yes-
terday, by the Governors and Friends of the Hospital,
for his active benevolence, unwearied perseverance, and
high professional skill.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
Shortly after the commencement of business, the Bank brokers
having sold 30,0001. Consols, the market became heavy, but
since then some extensive purchases in the Three and-a-Halt
per Cents., supposed to be on account of the Scotch banks,
have improved prices; and Consols are now firm at 92 for
Money, and for the Account ' • Three per Cents. Reduced,
9th ; Three-and-a-Half per Cents. Reduced, 100; New
Three-a9d-a-Half per Cents., 101 ; Bank Stock, 168; India
Bonds, 19 21 ; and Exchequer Bills, 39 41 prem.
Foreign Securities are good, and the prices are Danish, 81 ;
Dutch Two- and-a-Half per Cents., 52k, and the Five per
Cents., 101 i.
The quotation of Mexican has fluctuated between 361 and
36i, the latter being the nearest rate.
—Shares have been in demand, and many for those in the
Northern Lines have changed hands. Edinburgh and Glas-
gow, 54154 i ; Great North of England, 85; Birmingham and
Gloucester, 54 ; Birmingham and Derby, 50 ; London and
Birmingham, 1801,-; Manchester and Birmingham, 29k; Man-
chester and Leeds, 851{2 ; South Western, 64 ; South Eastern,
30 ; the Scrip, 73/,1 ; and Eastern Counties, New, 51.45. 2d. ;
Debentures, 11/, 6s. tad.
The bonds of the insolvent. States are thus quoted—Colom-
bian, 261 ; Peruvian, ;. Portuguese Five per Cents. ;
Spanish Fives, 23, and the Threes, 221.
This is settling day in the new Spanish Stock, which it is to
be feared will prove of serious consequence to many speculators
' from the quantity of stock ready to deliver, and the inability to
pay for it.
Private letters by the Great Western represent a decided im-
provement to have taken place in commercial affairs. The
total absence of all speculation appears to have induced a more
healthy state of business; and although the demand for goods
is less than forrrerly, still the inquiry is legitimate and without
risk. The tariff question was under discussion, and likely to
meet with some opposition from the Southern States, which it
will naturally affect. This ought to be sufficient to cause the
rejection of any new loan for America, as far as this country
is concerned; the excess of duty received under this law, if it
be brought into operation, being applied to the payment of the
interest.
After the experience England has had of American finances,
no reliance can be placed on the stability of any act of Congress.
so, long as the Constitution is framed as at present. The
loan forms the nucleus of a national debt, and may probably be
much increased before many years shall have passed ; and when
the interest shall amount to more than the sum received at the
Custom House, then will the work of rerudiation commence.
This is only under the supposition that the tariff becomes the
law. Again, should any separation of the union occur, im-
mense difficulties will be experienced in the apportioning the
debt among the individual states ; so that either way the
fcreign capitalist will run great risk by mzkiug advances.
Accounts from Buenos Ayres to the 17th February have ar-
rived. Rivera, in consequence of the advantages gained by
Paz, had entered Entrerios with a body of troops for the pur-
pose of diverting the attention of General Urquiza, who was ef-
fectually opposing the advance of the Correntinos. '1 his officer
finding himself unable to cope o ith the forces thus combined,
had retired across the Parana, in order to wait the junction of
the reinforcements ti en on the march.
General Echague had assumed the command of the Federal
troops in Santa Fe, and was daily adding to the number of his
followers by the accession of the peasantry. Exchange on Eng-
land, 3d.
PRICES OF SHARES TIIIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. Paid. I'er Share.
Wrmingham and Derby
Birmingham and Gloucester 100
Cheltenlian and Great Western. 721 17i...... to
Eastern Counties
Ditto New .21. 6s. Bd.
Ditto Debentures 8/. 6s. Bd. IU. 6s. Bd.
Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O s4i ... to
Great North of England ..... 90
London and Birmingham 90 181i...... to 180 it
Landon and South Western '3Bl 64 to
Manchester and Leeds
Manchester and Birmingham ... 40
South Eastern and Dover ... 0
Ditto Scrip...
---- -

JOINT STOCK BANKS.
Australasia (New ) lO .. . . 14; to .-
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MAY I L-1 he sales to-day
amounted to about 4,000 bales at former prices, and were wholly
confined to the trade.
LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, MAY Il.—South Eastern
were the only shares in request, and prices were rather lower.
A few sales were made in Eastern Counties New, 51. Is. Bd. ;
Edinburgh and Glasgow, 54%; Brighton Quarters, 8; and
South Eastern New, 2/1.
/I.l.atictiEstEa. STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 11.—We have had
little doing to-day ; the very unfavourable news from Ham•
burgh affects our Market :—Edinburgh and Glasgow, 55 544 ;
Manchester and Birmingham, 284 29 ; Leeds, 86% 87%;
South Western, 63 64 ; Manchester Assurance, 94.
CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank St ock l6B 'lndia Stock. ... 2491-
,
3 per Cent Red 9li Ditto Bonds l9 plc
3 per Cent Cens 92i Ditto Old Annuities ...
3)-i per Cent Red..
New 31- per Cent
New 5 per Cent.
Long Annuities co expire I Ditto . 5ma11...... 39 pre
Jan. 1860 ..... ..... 12i Bank Stock for Acct
Oct. 1859. ......... 12 7-16 India Stock for Acct —
Jan. 1860. - Consols for Acct 94
FOREIGN FUNDS.
Austrian, 5 pek eent.... ;Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Belgian, 5 per cent lDitto, New Ditto —
Brazilian 80nd5.... Prussian, 5 per cent.
Buenos Ayres 6 per ceat Russian, 5 per cent —
Chilian, b per cent__ Ditto, Metallic ..... ..
Colombian, 6 per cent.. 25'4 Spanish, 5 per cent 23
Ditto, 1824.......... ..... 'Sato, Deferred....
-..
Danish, 3 per cent Bl French, 5 per cent. —l. —e.
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Exchange f -c,
.Mexican, 5 per cent. ... 361- French, 3 percent B2 . 50c.
Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 Attch, 21- per cent. . 54-
Peruvian, 1825, 6 per et. i Ditto, 5 per cent. .. . 101,1
SHARES.
Birmingham and Derby Railway (loom) 50
Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (ton p) 54
Cheltenham and Great Western (72i, paid) 17,
Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid) ...
Ditto New Shares ( paid)
Ditto Debentures .. ••.. •
Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid)
••• 55
Great North of England Railway (100 pd) 83
Great Western Railway (65 paid)
Ditto N Shares (50 paid)

.ew
London and Brighton (50 paid).. ........ •• • .566
Fitt() Loan Notes (7i paid) 8
London and 131ack wall (25 paid) ............ 111
London and Birmingham (90) ••• ••• 180 i
Lnndon and South Western 64i
Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) ...... 83
Manchester and Birmingham (40 paid) •••,.. 29*
Midland Counties Railway (100 paid) ..,••• 76i
North Midland Railway (100)
Ditto New Shares (40 paid) , ........ 32i
Paris and Rouen (16 paid)
South Eastern and Dover 150 paid) .....•
Ditto Scrip. ( 5 paid)

rnE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY IL 184

SUMMARY OF NEWS

AND
PtillUr 0/ittitan.

" Who runs may read."

FOILEIGN.
We announce with great satisfaction the extinction of the
fire which destroyed the greater part of the city of Hamburgh.
In the course of yesterday afternoon the cheering intellige' ce
was received by the Insurance-offices, by means of a Hull
steamer, which left Cuxhaven late on Sunday evening, that
the fire had been mastered, and in the course of the afternoon
several surveyors were sent to make a survey of the property
destroyed.
From a recent statistical account of the industry and com-
merce of France, it appears that there are 84,954 looms in the
country, producing annually a quantity of silk, equal in value
to 250 millions of francs. These looms employ 170,000 work-
men, and work up 140 millions of francs' worth of silk. The
hand-labour amounts to 70,923,9c5f., or about 411 f. each
workman. The manufactories at Lyons alone, in ordinary
times. employ 40 to 50,000 looms, 90,000 workmen, and nearly
100 millions of silk. The home consumption of French silk
amounts to 75 millions, and the exports, on an average, to
about 140 millions. _ _

.....
The Bank of Belgium has just reduced the rate of interest on
advances upon Belgian Stock to 4 per cent.
A letter from Constantinople, April 21, in the Augsbnrgk
Gazette, states that the British Ambassador has just dismissed
M. de Pisani, the head dragoman of the Embassy. The cause
of this is said to be as follows :-..-After a conference with the
Reis Effendi, on the question of the Lebanon, M. de Pisani
had stated to the Ambassador that the Porte was willing to ap-
point a member of the family Schachali to be Emir of the Le-
banon. The Ambassador having demanded the accomplish-
ment of this promise, the Reis Effendi replied, that he had sub-
jected the promise to certain eventualities. M. de Pisani was
thus compromised and was dismissed.
The Augsburg Gazette gives the following from Palermo,
April 23 :—" The Government has just announced officially
to the Chamber of Commerce and to ship-owners that certain
difficulties have arisen between Holland and the Cabinet of the
Two Sicilies, which may lead to hostilities, and that they are
therefore to be on their guard, in their operations, against the
possibility of such an event."—We have heard nothing of this
notice from any other source.
A letter from Cairo, in the Augsburg Gazette, states that
the Pacha of Egypt, with a view of putting down the slave-
trade, has laid a heavy tax upon the sale of slaves in his do-
minions, this being the only way in which he can attack the
traffic, as it is tolerated by the Mahometan religion, and vindi-
cated by the Ulemas.
PARLIAMENTARY.

The House of Lords 1,1;Tot meet yesterday.
Mr. Roebuck presented a petition from certain inhabitants
of Brighten to disfranchise that town, because of the drunken-
ness and the immorality produeed by the late election.
The Newcastle-nnder-Lyne Election Committee reported
that Mr. Harris and his agents had been guilty of bribery, and
was not duly elected; corrupt practices, according to the Com-
mittee, prevail in that borough.
Mr. T. Duncombe wished to obtain an explanation from
Mr. Roebuck as to the " reptile" who drew up the National Pe.
tition, but the Speaker would not allow the Hon. Member to
ask the question.
It was stated that Mr. Roebuck would nominate his Com-
mittee on Friday, and Mr. T. Duncombe gave notice of motion
to call on each Member of that Committee to subscribe a de-
claration that he was himself innocent of all bribery.
Sir James Graham moved for leave to bring in a Bill to con-
tinue the Poor-law Commission for five years. The Right Hon.
Gentleman announced that he meant to repeal Gilbert's Aet,
but did not mean to interfere with the law as to Local Acts.
The Bill was brought in and read a first time. The House
transacted no other business of importance, and adjourned at
Eight o'Clock.
MONEY—TRADE—COMMERCE.

The annual meeting of the National Loan Fund Society took
place yesterday, at the London Tavern, when it appeared from
the Report that the policies issued by this Society h4d been
augmented from 1,230 in the year 1840, to 1,890 at the present
period. The income of the Society is about 25,000/. per ann.
At a Court of Common Council, held yesterday, the Report
of the Royal Exchange Committee stated that the Bank of
England had consented to advance 40,0001. for the new Royal
Exchange. A further sum of 25,0001. for the great City im-
provements about Farringdon-street, in addition to the above
sum, was also recommended by the Court to, be applied for
from the Government.
Contracts have been entered into with Government by
several of the Dundee houses, to furnish 27,000 bolts of canvass
for the use of the navy.
NAVAL AND MILITARY.

Prince Albert, yam was gazetted a short time since as
Colonel-in-Chief of the Scotch Fusilier Guards, in room of
the late Earl of Ludlow, reviewed that body of troops ,n the
parade of the Wellington Barracks, Birdcage-walk, yesterday.
LAW AND PO LICE.

At Guildhall, yesterday, Mr. Peters Snow, of Queen's
College, Cambridge, charged with having driven his gig over
a boy, who lies in St. Bartholomew's Hospital in a dangerous
state, has been remanded to Friday.
TINE ARTS.

Mr. Weckes, the sculptor, has been selected by the com-
mittee to execute the Goodal memorial.
Benvenuto Cellini's celebrated silver bell was bought for 240
guineas, by Mr. Forster, at yesterday's sale, at Strawberry-hill.
The Sheik of the Druses arrived last night at Mivart's hotel
from Malta.