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iffs u r IStittion :;UN OFFICE, &vett o' clock. SHERIFTS' COURT.-(TIIIS DAY.) (Before lir. Under- Sheriff BuRCBELL) WEBB v. CROEi. SZLLISG OF PUTRID MZAT FOR NEWCATE-MARKZT.— The plaintiff in this action is a butcher In Newgate-market, and the defendant is a horse slaughterer at Camden Town. The action was brought to recover the sum of V., for money had and received by defendant, under the following circum ttances;--7 T'hePrincipal witnesses were George Benton, assistant to pt a intlff, who proved that in April last plaintiff bargained with defendant for the carcase of a cow, which was said to be in the Ram Inn yard, Smithfield. Defendant said it was fresh, fat, and bright, like one he pointed out, and said it had been killed that morning by his son. Plaintiff said that if so he would give 8/. for it. the money was paid, but when the cow was seen it was found to be unfit even for cats' meat. Thomas Fairer, a slatighterman in the Ram Inn yard, proved that defetidant took the cow early in the morning, but after it was dressed rsitness found it so bad that he cut it in two and set it aside, as it was 'IA tit for human food. Witness told defendant it was not fit to am to market, and he would not send it, in have anything to do with it. Defendant stood by whilst it was dressed. Defendant afterwards said he had sold it to plaintiff for 8/. Witness would not have delivered it in the market, as he would have been liable to an action. Witness recommenied defendant to return the money, and take the tow away. Defendant said he would not ; he hid ,;t the' money, and he would " stick" to it. Ile had 1;1,0 him tell other cows. Witness had never bought any himself.ii ttot He sent for a policeman to see the meat , but he won take the defendant into custody, and th e meat was con demned. s t rongestmare Wm. (;ration, one of defendant's m en, t he it was . carried to evidence as to the bad state of the meat ; the Earn on the knacker's cart. D e fendant said be could make a better job of it than cutting it up into dogs' meat and he should try to get 9/. 1 o r 10/. .6n 2 1t. Defendant bought it of a person in Kentish-town or is. 6d. It had died a natural death. Other evidence was adduced to the same effect. For the defence it was contended that in law no bargain could be set aside where th ere was any consideration, and if a person made a bad bargain he must put up with the lose. It was contended that, however bad a "knackerman" might -be to sell an old diseased cow for human food, the butcher must be worse; and the jury ought not to assist him br 6 riving a verdict. • Witnesses were called to 'wove that defendant gave 6/. I 3;. for the cow, and that it had not died a natural death, but had been killed because it was very a weak on its legs" and " giddy." Mr. Cooper, a veterinary surgeon, deposed that the cow was not diseased in the flesh, but had what is called the cold phellaim, which only affected the spine. Robert Hale, a slaughterman, said that the animal had been offered to him, but when he began to cut it he found it "as a " , liwkor ;*. it was a dead one, and must have been dead some days. Mr. TimmAs, for the plaintiff, in reply, said that the abuse of his client wa.> unmerited, as he had been grossly imposed on, and the cow spoken of by Mr. Cooper could not be ttie one ctlered to be sold to Hale and the plaintiff. The UNDER-SHERIFF summed up, and said that if the jury were of opinion that both parties were culpable—that was, it they thought the plaintiff hail any notion that he was making a purchase of what was not exactly good, the de fendant would be entitled to the consideration. It would be seen that plaintiff had dealt with the defendant, knowing him to be a knackerman, and if he was only deceived as to the extent to which the meat hal become bad, but thought it would just do, tkat would not entitle him to a verdict ; but if, on the contrary, the plaintiff had been wholly deceived, and had not had what he had bargained for, then there was a failure of con sideration. . The jury retired, and on their return gave a verdict for the defendant, but expressed their opinion that the cue was dis graceful, particularly on the part of the defendant. CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) OLD COURT. John Gmhana was placed at the bar, indicted for feloniously killing and sluing ThomaS lileMtt,in the month of May last, in Drury-lane. (Cont!uued from our Afternoon Edition.) After ieveral witueßles were called to speak to the prisoner's character, Baron ItoUs went through the evidence, and addressed the jury at some length on the distluctiom which hold between .murder, manslaughter. and accident. The jury retired to consider their verdict at ten minutes past twelve ••• • tnocit, and had not returned their verdict at five o'clock, some ti-e of them having by that time cautioned their wives by letter not to look for them before to-morrow morning. Baron Rotre. however, sent fur them at six minutes after five o'clock, when the, Court • was Akita to rise, ,and said that he *as afraid that the manner of his putting the case to them had perp'exed them.- There was what ,he would call mere culpable negligence, and that involved manslaughter. There ”ras a more-hold bravado rashness, which was, however, still only manslaughter, though- ot , a deeper shade. But there was a venial negligence, against which ordinary foresight could not guard ; if it was that, the jury would acquit the ririaoner. The jury then consulted for a few minutes, without retiring, and returned a verdict of Not guilty. The prisoner was then ordered to be discharge-i. RAILWAY COMMIT FEES. (THIS DAY.) HOUSE OF LORDS. DIMICT LONDON AND PORTSMOUTH. 4 1VILDTORD, CIIXCHESTIGNI. AND PORTS- • MOUTH. • (t:ollnm:fed ti - em onr Afternoon Editien.) The ease for the promoter" of the Offildfora and Chichester being completed, that on the part of Mr. Dixon, a petition, optinst. the DZTLECT LONDON AND PORTSMOUTH. Mr. Dixon tinnrit - i - ave r%itiru , a. as Oa the nianner in winch his property would he affected, sod evidence as to 4 deviation by which he said the the rea idental drainage might he avoided. conversation here arose, which ended in an agreeinent between the promoter", that the deviation proposed by Mr. Jordan should he adopted, in case the Rill shon td • The ease on the part of Mr. Coles, another petitioner, was then opened, and several witnesses were examined. The case for Lord Egmont, also petitioning against the Bill, Wit then opened. Ms Lordship wan examined in support of tt ',own ease, and after examining a few more witnesses the tow m!ttee rose at about time minutes past tour, and adjourned till to morrow. GLASGOW, ICXLMANNOCX, AND ARDNOS- SAN. (Cull tinued rivet our Aft,rnoon tion.) fir. R. Cnntmitig. a inaglitrate at Kilmornock, was then called and gave general evidence in favour of the line. At the conclusion of this gentleman's evidence, Mr. Tttcor (who now appeared tar the petitione - , the Duke of Pottland,l said that in consequence of the decision of the Committee, hi, had to propose that the Committee should now adjourn, in order to ;ire time for the preparation of some clauses which ha intended to propose, and which W4lllld, he antleipated, meet the views of the promoters of tha Bill. In that case the oppositiou of the Duke of Portland would be withdrawn. - Alter nuteh disensAirm a% to what course 41.101 be taken, it WAR :Titintately agred that the pream4l. should be passel, and that the . - formitteeshonbl then adjourn till Monday. llter e'idence WH awn colitinite , toro fooma Air, Lock ;are - the engineering evidence.• -The steepest gradient was 1 In 75, which occurred at the commencement of the line, for nine 2 thrlongs, and also near Kilmarnock, for a somewhat smaller distance. There was also a gradient of I in 80 for about half a mile. These were the ruling gradients in many lines In that part of ,;eotland. With these three exceptions, the gradients were very light. indeed, being in tot almost level. . , The Earl of F4'4lington VV:I4 next called. He gave evidence very strongly in favour Of the line. ' " The Committee then declared the preamble proved, and adjourned Till Monday at twelve s',•;ok. GROUP 111. SinzrinELD AND LINCOLNSHIRE IVECTIOVI. The Committee met at eleven o'clock, when the Sheffield end Lincolnshire Junction line wAs taken. Mr.. HILMAR,. on behAf of the promoters. stated that, in - se luence of the passing of the London and York Bill, th e Company° c Rhad determined to restrict their line to the communication between Swinton and Doncaster, and called Mr. Yordon, who stated that through the facilities offered by this hoe, and the communication that mu.t be established between It and the Eastern Counties. the flarniley coal-field, which Is rich in its hedsosill be :rude available for the service of the counties of coinshire, the East Riding of Yorkshire, Norfolk. Suffolk, and Essex, which now can only obtain their coal through the agency of an ex pensive land carriage or of a long tea voyage. Mr. Sergeant WgANGReM, on behalf of the Doncaster and Wake tleld Company, was about to cross-examine the witness as to the fa cilities Which would he afforded by that line. Mr. lIILDViRD thought that his Learned Friend ought to be re stricted to the cross. examination on the evidence. To this Mr. Sergeant Wit aNntiatt demurred. Mr. /Hunan, had then no objection, provided he were allowed to continue the examination in chief to ascertain the respective meritAt , f the Swinton and Doncaster and the Doncaster and Wake geld lines. Mr. 'ergeant WRASGRAM objected to this, and the room scAs cleared to ascertain how the communication should be effected. . ..... _ - When the parties were re-admitted the chairman, Lord Songs', elated that the counsel tor the Sheffield and Lincolnshire line having , stated that they did not set up their line as a competing line _pi?ialt.,tnhe Doncaster and Wakefield line, the Committee were of ° 'that the farmer company could net be heard as competitors. mv *" ,, rr cress -examined Mr. Morton, and a model of tke country was shown, in _slob titeth ,, isuke. were the three piece* where the itarniley out rlsecar. It wa* Woreborough and its neighbourhood, and t , alieftield and Wakenert ee il d to tarry the Stlkestone coal down the through a branch to Berdocks, a die tante of a mile an t kranches projected hy half t a l :)d thence to Barnsley. There are gltellield and Wakefield, Doncaster and Walieuipid and the b are pAclui the Hone. of h l et which are identical, and by the 'Outfield th t , was theh proposed to get to Barn-ley m i les. They then get on the 'Midterm RAL4Cawn:; Aci ngabout five ahout four Wath tor ahont two miles. 'they muittee ; h ,;"' isi lt . ‘n upon it :it Irath-upon-ltear n , The ~..e.tvid Meer to the Swinton etation eoni ,i. l eav e the line is Swlnten, eistane M' shunt Point hero they n , .' miles .. Front thence the t to D ~v we they travelled York to Gains u ester, whe orotie From hirtmon to along the 1.011 ( . 0 i , • they hann,l t,, Poncager is about nine mite which I , c h m , Worshorough, but led from ffrmi .Stainhurollgh: dlsta► fee fruit) one place to the Inc latter place, the lie did not propose to ether being about Inc carry any coals from Eleeeer, mei he could not ... t e hia l t As o n l h -t a li t irt o i n e e f the .ceals carried came trom Ellecal; ng 2041,000 toup , ether third veal carried from Worsborough , nor cot i.t it ter etch. The Woreberotugh pits are the pru A ttu ' e ve r r t a y ;. of . .3 .. 1 .a r. t0. lrlenn T e im t e t 3railin, mud the I.lsecar pits below; to Earl Eitzwilli F , ltkeSl4: , fle CfAi supplied the major part of the domestic consum Pdon, f the List the wheels eenkt not say that only one-third of the whole o coal was hrought up trom the several pits. The price of carrhae Was to he a. penny per ten per mile for a dletance of Btly RIRI three farthings a ton for any greater distance. The towns tor bleb these rates bad been made were those eeeonamodated re- ther "by the Cambridge and Lincoln line, than b \ the London and Fort;. Tu Itavrtry they would get along the London and York, but the .witne s s had not .elapted the table to the aeceinniodatton adbrllecl by the London and York. The Silkestone coal mould have to hoi conveyed a distance of tweoly miles. and the carriage would therefore cost le. ad. per ten. tilt in this statement he hail taken his Awn experience or assumptions, and not the 11111Xithitlot charge afforded by the Cambridge and Lincoln Bill. Ile could not say whether the charge of the Sheffield and Wakefield CompanYWas -per ten for any dfstarce ellen of diteen unites; and they did nut KM , . ureat a distance al that upon the Sheffield end Wakefield Lite. He eould not e.sy that the cunt et a penny per ton per mile w as the maximem charge aliened by the Midland , ; but he did know that that was the highest sum charged igaiittet him tor that business. The mekloitim toll re the Swiittent and Lincoln Company was to that en übe Ntielaulde }shwa". Mr. walker n,e auvett to ree , -exemine en behalf et . the River Don Cempeny, when. • Mr: Mere 4ne 0 - 1 0,, tinned bin rh! to appear few the directors in deldually, tor tarty w ere members of a corperetion which had Petitione i In hishelf or the line. Mr.:IV/IA ER he was iiii”rined that the participation in this corpqyration' conferred a freehold riaht, and enabled the holders to vote for the elections ti , r the We.t it wAR - ilf , CifittA that as Mr. Diamond and Mr. Samuel Roberts had patitior,i only cnrporatora, they could not be heard is their inditritl al eapacit3 - . To' Mr. iltrnsaao, on re-examination, the witness stated that Barnaley l* In the centre of the most. Important coal-tield in that dis trict, whether considered as t,, quantity, quality, and cheapness. The tkelnhoritugh colleries are connected with the Sheffield and Wakefield Railway by tramways. The Slikestone coal is the best tbr all honte pnrposes, and for most purposes -equal to the Durham coal. Doncaster is one of the most important places thr the exit of this coal to other places. Many of the places on the Cambridge _and Lincoln line had been left out of the list, hut other places would be supplied by the London and York line. As for instance, although part of the Lin coln tine has been thrown out, Sleaford, the place apparently worst eft' thr .the Landon and York- would still be accommodated, for it. was now supplied by a nav!gation which turned off tom the river Witham that ran to Lincoln at Tattershall. srtleti to to the loop of the London and York. Whatever might be the righter the Midland Counties Company to charge I%cl. a ton for "1711 / 1 1 111 4 4 = Aar mike, it was prft . tic4ll7 tAepeTWlrt s f9c TH - E SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, EVENING, JUNE 18, 1846. Snow-hill as well as the New-street station under their coinideratiod? I believe so ; at least it was their duty to consider both. Cross-examined by Mr. WooLicrie—l do not know whether the Mayor of Birmingham is a shareholder in the Stour Valley line. Mr. Baker, assistant engineer to Mr. Stephenson, presented a detail of the estimates, the total cost being 2,200,0001., which would include the cost of the erection of the proposed station at New street. Cress-exam ined by Mr. WOOLTCHE, with the view of showing that this Company proposed to deal with the roads in the neighbourhood of Birmingham in a way that was not practicable, but he was not promoters' case, and the Committee then adjourned v a t th ' a i l su cc f-p lc i sgs ar i a lh r . lrYh three o'clock till twelve to-morrow. GROUP LX. GRAVESEND AND ROCHESTER. SALE TO THE SOUTH-EASTERN COMPANY. The Committee met at one o'clock, in Room No. 2, and after a short hearing, The CHAIRMAN declared that the preamble of the Rill for the sale of the Gravesend and Rochester Railway to the South •Eastern Cotn pany was proved. The clauses were then disposed of, and The Committee proceeded with the FARNHAM, PORTSMOUTH, AND CHIMES- TER EXTENSION. Mr. AMIN, Q.C., stated that some time since a Bill was obtained for the formation of a line from Brighton to Chichester. The powers for the formation were to be vested in the Brighton Railway Company. Last session a Bill was obtained to form au extension to Portsm. uth and Fareham from Chichester. It was thought advis able to vest the powers of the extension in the Brighton and South- Western Companies. An agreement was entered into between the companies to petition Parliament for leave to bring in a Bill for the purpose of vesting the right of extension in them jointly. The Brighton Company, however, had refused to perform their- agreement, and to come forward with the Bill. On the part of the Brighton Company it was urged that the understanding was that the South-Western Company were to have given certain fa:jiffies, whith they had not done, and therefore the Brighton Com pany declined to proceed. The Committee, after clearing the room, said that they were of opinion that under the circumstances the Bill should not be pro ceeded with. The Committee then proceeded with the LONDON AND BRIGHTON AND CROYDON CONSOLIDATION BILL. Af;er formal proof had been adduced of the benefit of the consoli dation, and an assurance given that the fares would not be increased, The Committee declared the preamble of the Bill to have been proved, and proceeded to the consideration of the clauses, which were all, without exception, agreed to. The Committee then adjourned. Railway, complaining of the conduct of the directors, whe held a meeting under the sessional orders, was attended by the petitioners, who objected to the line in conse quence of the amount of capital which it was proposed to raise. The petitioners obtained from the directors a promise that the capital should be diminished. SUNDAY TRADING. Lord MONTEAGLE presented a petition from the parochial authorities of the parish of St. Luke, Middle sex, against Sunday trading. The Bishop of LONDON wished to say a few words respecting the great good that had resulted from the operation of restrictive clauses in police Bills, repecting the sales of spirituous liquors on particular periods during Sunday. In Liverpool and London the benefits had been very great. In St. Giles's, since the clause of the Bill came into operation, respectable females that could not before walk to the parish church on a Sunday, now could do so withont interruption. The be neficial effects of the clause in the Liverpool had been such that some time after the Bill was passed a gentleman in that town, who had been opposed to the clause, called on him, and at witted his views were changed, and that the clause had been productive of great good. Thousands had been benefited in London and Liverpool, and he hoped, therefore, that the Noble Lord would receive that encouragement in his intended measure, to which he was so well entitled.• _ Lord WIIARNCLIFFE presented a petition from the parish of St John's, against Sunday trading. It was signed by the rectors, churchwardens, and parish officers, who prayed that some stop should be put to the pro ceedings complained of. The Bishop of LONDON supported the prayer of the petition, and said that if all the tradesmen s shops IN ere closed on Sunday, and the police empowered to give effect to such an arrangement, the workmen would compel their masters to pay them on Friday night. TESTS BILL. The Earl of HADDINGTON presented a petition from the Synod of Scotland, stating that they hear, with great regret, that it was proposed to abolish the Test Act, and calling their Lordships most serious attention to the subject. The House then adjourned at five minutes past six o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'clock. LONDON AND YORK RAILWAY. The Lords' amendments on this Bill were read and agreed to. • . SHEFFIELD, ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE, AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY. Mr. WARD moved, on the consideration of the report on the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Manchester Railway (Barnsley Branch) Bill, that the Bill be re committed to the former Committee : that the Commit tee have leave to sit and proceed on Monday, at twelve o'clock. The promoters of the Bill felt they bad been hardly dealt with, as they had not been permitted to proceed with evidence before the Committee. Mr. E. ELLICE, jun., thought if the House was to decide on re-committing Bills after they had already been disposed of in Committee, Hon. Gentlemen who served on those Committees had better at once refuse to attend. It would be useless to legislate at all if the re gular business of the House was to be interrupted by the suggestions of interested parties,anda system of canvass permitted Which was highly discrediable to the House. It was but two nights ago that a similar motion was made, and Hon. Members a ere actually dragged from the streets to vote in the House. Upon these grounds, he should most decidedly oppose the re committal of the Bill, as it would be impugning the decision of the Com mittee. An HON. MEMBER observed that the case had been I , fully investigated by the Committee, and he saw no reason that would justify the interference of the House. Lord SEYMOUR wished to state that, as chairman of the Committee, he felt satisfied that the merits of the Bill had been fairly decided on ; and he certainly thought there was no occasion whatever for the motion of the lion. Gentleman for the re-committal of the. Bill. It was cruel to refer back the Bill to the Com mittee in the present hot weather, with - nit the slightest prospect of the Committee coming at any other opinion than that to which they had already agreed. Lord G. SOMERSET opposed the motion. Mr. SPOGNER and M. CAVENDISH supported the motion. Mr. G. LEGH said that material injury would be done to his constituents by the decision which had been come to. Evidence which ought to have been received by the Committee had not been received, and under all the circumstances he thought the House would act per— fectly right in re-committing the Bill. Mr. ESTCOURT saw no reason whatever for re ferring back the Bill. The Committee had come to their decision after a most careful examination of the evidence brought before them, and he would therefore support them and vote against the re-committal. Mr. HUME said the Hon. Gentleman had stated that his constituents were disappointed ; but it would seem, from the statement of the Committee, the whole matters brought . before them were fully considered. Were they to consent to the course now proposed, they . might as well give up Committees altogether, and toss up which companies should have their Bills allowed. Mr. F. FRENCH affirmed, as a member of the Com mittee, that they had fairly and fully investigated the claims of the Bills before them, and come to the decision objected to after the most careful deliberation. Mr. ENTWISLE said a few words in support of the decision of the Committee. Mr. AGLIONBY thought the House ought to sup port, in the main, the decisions of their Committees ; but, he did not say that in all cases the House was bound to confirm them. He was afraid the House was too apt to release itself of all trouble of inquiry by leaving such matters entirely in the hands of the Committees. There were many cases in which the House was bound to interfere with the decisions, and the question before them was, whether the present decision was of such a character. Was there sufficient reason for interfering ? He considered that, on these grounds, they ought to refer back the case to the Committee, not because they had come to a dishonest opinion, but because they might be mistaken, as the judges often were, and then there was a new trial always granted. Mr. GREENE objected to the course proposed. It would be a very inconvenient thing if every Bill of which the promoters thought favourably should be re ferred back to the Committee, and he would therefore, if the House Came to a division, vote against the motion. Lord MORPETH said, that if the question came to a division he would vote for the re-committal the Bill, first because he believed the decision of the Committee to be wrong, and next because they cut short a great deal of evidence tendered to them. Mr. PARKER considered that the Committee had acted injudiciously in cutting short the evidence tendered to them, and he would therefore vote for the re-committal of the Bill. More than one-half of the in habitants of Lancashire were in favour of such a pro ceeding, and there was a very strong impression on the minds of the promoters of the Bill, that they had an irresistible case. MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE OF LORDS. The Usher of the Black Rod appeared at the table, and summoned the Speaker and the House to attend the House of Lords. The Speaker then left the House, attended by several Members. The SPEAKER informed the House that he had been to the Lords to hear the royal assent given to several Bills, for the names of which see Lords' report. SHEFFIELD AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY. The debate on the Sheffield and Manchester Railway was then resumed. Mr. PARKER, in continuation, remarked that he could only attribute the loss of the Bill to the multiplicity and complicated nature of the measure with which it was grouped. By means of the decision of the Committee, the people of Manchester and Sheffield would be cut off from all communication with that district, which in a great measure supplied them with coals. And he came to this conclusion, that the Members of the Committee who voted for the rejection of the Bill had not had sufficient local information to qualify them to sit on the Committee. And really such a defeat as that was a very serious charge against the Committee of the House. He be lieved the Noble Lord opposite was perfectly right in his decision, and that the conclusion to which this same group had come, with respect to another Bill (the South York shire Bill), which was before the House the cther day, was a most erroneous decision, and in that case, too, the members of the Committee were totally devoid of local information. The decision in the case of this Bill was not unanimous ; and he bad a right to say that as long as two of the five were in favour of the Bill, and those who voted against it were not acquainted with the varied wants of this populous district. the Bill should be recommitted for a full consideration by such Members as were acquainted with Yorkshire and Lancashire. He would repeat that the Committee had not had sufficient information laid before them ; and such facts as these, he thought, ought to justify the House in departing, in this instance from its usual course. He believed that if this decision of the House was confirmed, the important town of Barnsley would be cut oft' from the other towns to which its produce would otherwise be transmitted, and that 10,000 people would be entirely cut off from all connexion with the west. He was bound to say that he believed that if the decision in this case were sanctioned the House would come to a more er roneous conclusion than it ever had since it first sat. Mr. R. YORKE said he was most desirous to put an end to the very indecent scenes with which the House had m be i e b n for a t ffi un i e cte w d it d h ur e i v n e g ry th o e th l e a r st th w i e n e g k. to lt h h ea a r d a be s e e n co hi nd s speech from the Honourable Gentleman, the Member for Sheffield, on these subjects. That Honourable Gentleman insisted that in these matters that the Members should be locally interested, or having local knowledge in order that they might come to a proper conclusion with regard to these Bills. Now really it was vain at this time of dey to talk upon such a subject. For many years the House had tried that system, and it was a manifest failure. He admitted that in some instances, where Members had not local knowledge of the districts brought under their consideration, they had come to unjust decisions ; but ho believed that every one must admit that the business of the Committees during the lass two years had been conducted in the most just and im partial manner ; their decisions had given manifest sa tisfaction. This Bill was no new Bill before the House. It had already occupied its attention the last th ree years, and on each occasion the House decided that it ought not to pass. After giving the subject a fair and full consideration, he felt bound to say that he mast concur with the decision of the Committee. After a few words from Mr. S. WORTLEY, Mr. PROTHEROE said that, in his opinion, the Committee on Private Bills, a few months ago, were prolonged somewhat unnecessarily, and they had given rues i 6 h• wii i 1291104 19 thinks 'Mt had 011 rise to a disposition to cut short the proceedings. He bad sat on one of the longest Committees this session, and during its sitting he had heard many Members ex• press great surprise that they were still going on. He had been asked why they did not shorten the proceedings by Members who said that they had given the counsel due notice that they would cut them short in their proceedings. All this had given him reason to suspect that according to the present constitution of Committees just decisions could not be obtained. On the present occasion he suspected that there had been a little hastiness on the part of the Members of the Committee, and certainly some mis understanding on the subject before the House. He ' was, however, disposed to support the decision of the Committee, as the decision of the Committee to which he belonged had been kindly supported by the House the other night. Mr. HINDLEY said that the effect of this Bill would be to reduce the price of coal Is. 6d. per ton less than it cost as now brought from Barnsley. If there was a company ready to form a branch which would produce such an effect, he did not see why it should not receive the sanction of the House. He was told that the Committee to whom the Bill had been referred had careully examined into the evidence adduced in support of it, and he had every desire to bow to their decision, but he was at a loss to kno v the grounds on which they rejected it. Not one single reason had been given by any of the Members of the Committee to show why the Bill had not been passed. He considered they ought to give some reason why the cols of Barnsley should not be conveyed at a cheap rate to Ashton-under-Lyme and other districts. He was fully satisfied, if the facts were in quired into, that the House si ould reverse the decision of the Committee. Sir G. GREY should not support the motion, as he could see no valid reason why the Bill should be remitted to the Committee for reconsideration because if they had listened to all the evidence that had been adduced before them, there could be little doubt that they would arrive at a similar decision and reject the Bill. With respect to the ignorance of Committees with respect to the localities through which lines were projected, he ought to state that the practice of examin ing the Members representing such localities bad become very prevalent in the present session. Mr. WARD drew the attention of the House to the 118th standing order, which set forth that the report on every private Bill should be laid on the table of the House, and to the 123 d order, which was passed in order to afford an opportunity of discus• sing such reports every Tuesday and Thurs day. Now they ought nut to sail wider false co lours. Now, if this order was, till rendered nugatory, by preventing discussion it ought to be rescinded, for now the Pope was dead Committees of the House might be infallible—(Laughter)—as they might act on the principle that no Committee in this hot weather ought to sit a second time. But in this case he considered the House would do great injustice if they did not refer the Bill back to the Committee. Mr. LABOUCHERE wanted to know what was the benefit to be derived by sending Bills to the Committee, where the parties were put to enormous expenses in prosecuting the Bill, if the reports of these Committees were to be disre.. arded? He thought they would have every disappointed railway company coming before the House, praying it to revise the decision, if such a course was persisted in. He should, therefore, vote on the present occasion as he always had done, and always would eo, unless some special circumstance were brought forward against the motion. The House then divided, when there appeared— For the recommittal Against it Majority —44 FRELFORD (BERKS) INCLOSURE BILL. This Bill was read a third time, and passed. WAKEFIELD, PONTEFRACT, AND GOOLE RAILWAY. The Bill for making the Methley, Askern, and Oakenham branches of the Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole Railway, was read a third time, and passed. On the motion of Sir C. DOUGLAS, the Lords' amend ments of the Stafford new Gas Bill were agreed to. Mr. DUNCOZ,IBE said that no case whatever had been made out-for haste.- • His opinion was that none of the Bills should pass at all'; at any rate let them go be fore another Committe next year. Re objected to the Bill altogether, and the proceedings before the Com mittee, and he hoped the motion would be withdrawn. Mr. PROTHEROE was willing to withdraw the motion. The motion was accordingly withdrawn. Several Bills were brought down from the Lords, the titles of which were inaudible. BROAD AND NARROW GAUGE. On the order of the day being read, Mr. HUME rose to present a petition from the Cor poration of Glasgow praying for a uniform guage throughout the countfy. (LEFT SITTING.) HAMPTON RACES -- (THIS DAY-BY EXPRESS.) (Continued from our Afternoon Edition.) The Claremont Stakes. Redshank Out post . POLICE INTELLIGENCE. WORSHIP-STREET. Yesterday two young German women, named Mary and Elizabeth Kauffmai7, were placed at the bar before Mr. Broughton, charged with having absconded from their bail, under the following remarkable circumstances : On the preceding evening three Germans attended at the court, and, after drawing the magistrate's attention to a re port in a newspaper, detailing the particulars of a horrible outrage that had been perpetrated upon two women in York shire, about two months since, by six men, five of whom had subsequently been taken into custody and committed to York Castle to await their trial at the ensuing assizes for that county, and the facts of which outrage excited much public attention at the time, from their being attended with cir cumstances of peculiar atrocity, the applicants proceeded to state that the injured women, whose master had been bound over for their appearance to prosecute, had been since tam pered with by a relative of the prisoners, and brought up to London, where they bad been placed in temporary lodgings, and had places taken for them in a steam-packet, which was to sail the next morning for the continent ; and they there fore sought the magistrate's instant interposition to secure the young women's persons, or they would, in a few hours, be out of his jurisdiction, and the ends of justice be entirely defeated. Upon hearing this statement, Mr. Bingham placed the matter in the hands of Rowland, the warrant-officer, who forthwith accompanied the applicants to a lodging• house in Buckly-street, Whitechapel, where the two prisoners were pointed out to him as the persons in question, and he there fore took them into custody. In answer to questions from the magistrate, the elder of the young women, appaarently about twenty years of age, now stated, that she and her sister had been brought over to this country about two years since, under articles of indenture for three years, to serve a fellow-countryman of theirs, named Conrad Mauritz, as itinerant musi cians, and that while travelling together at the time above mentioned in a secluded part of the country in the neighbourhood of Sheffield, they were suddenly set upon by six men, who overcame their resistance by the most brutal violence, and ultimately in succession sub jected one of them (the eldest) to treatment of too shocking a nature to be further described, the youngest only escap ing the final act of atrocity to which her unfortunate sister had been exposed, by precipitate flight, while the eldest was struggling with her assailants. Five of the ruffians were ap prehended on the following morning and committed for trial by the local magistracy, who also bound over Mauritz to prosecute, and produce them (the young women) as wit nesses; but the sister of one of the men had since found means to communicate with them, and having frightened them by telling them that if they ventured to appear at the trial against their assailants their lives would certainly be sacrificed, made them engage to quit this country imme diately. The woman afterwards presented each of them with a sovereign and an outfit of clothing, and having brought them to town by the railway, purchased a passage for each of them in a Calais steam-boat, in which they were to have sailed that very morning for France, had they not been taken into custody on the night before. A Germaa woman, named Isabella Sorg, was then called, and stated, that at a late hour on Sunday evening last the two prisoners were brought into her house by a woman, who hired an apartment for them for a few days, and having seen them safely deposited there, went away. Soon after she had left, however, thinking the circumstance bore a very suspi cious appearance, she engaged the young women in conversa tion, and having ascertained from them the facts one of the girls had just stated, she immediately informed her husband, and the result was that the prisoners were placed in the care of the police, who conveyed them to the station. The two girls had only been removed a very short time by the con stable, when the same woman who had taken the lodging for them called at the witness's house, and demanded to know why they had not kept their appointment, and met her at the steam-packet wharf; but upon being apprised of the cause of their not doing so, she made a precipitate retreat, and had not been feund since. Mr. BROUGHTON said that it was manifest an infamous conspiracy had been resorted to to stop the course of ustice in one of the most monstrous outrages that had ever come under his notice, by procuring the abduction of the only per sons whose evidence to the fact could be of any value ; and he therefore felt it his duty to order the young women to be kept in safe custody until the police authorities of the county in which the offence, or rather offences, had been perpe trated, could be made acquainted with what had taken place, and could adopt the proper steps to insure the attendance of the young women at the York assizes, when the trial of the ruffians came on. The prisoners were afterwards removed in the van to the Westminister Bridewell. SOUTHWARK. John Roehe, a powerful-looking man, was charged with assaulting, with intent to rob, a Jr.S Tilley, and also with making a very determined resistance on being taken into custody. The complainant stated that on the preceding afternoon he had just quitted a shop in High street with a - Mr. Grant, who had just got outside the door, and was reckoning some money, when the prisoner came up and made a sudden snatch at it. The complainant, however, closed his hand at the moment, and thus prevented the attempt being carried into effect, when the prisoner, disappointed, rushed at him, and struck him a tremendous 's blow undfrier th nd, e ear Mr., which knocked him down. T he comp Grant, Grant, here interfered, and was also assaulted and knocked down ; and when he called out for assistance, the prisoner, with an oath, swore that he would rip up the first policeman that attempted to take him. Several policemen came to the spot, and after a most determined resistance the prisoner was at length secured and taken to the station house. In the course of the examination, it was staaotl, after stated a t f ha r t the prisoner had bee n recentl y liberated om gaol, undergoing two years imprisonment for a similar offence, and that in fact he had suffered incarceration on many other occasions. The prisoner was committed. On Thursday morning last, about eight o'clock, a man named Smith, from Belfast, was killed on the railway near Barring. ton, by a splinter from a stone which he and others were in the act of blasting. The misfortune was purely accidental and no blame can bo !WOW to 447 93e.—Qvqtter7an4 pawl ! , THE MARRIAGE OF THE Q OF SPAIN. UE EN (From the Constitutionnel.) The opinions expressed by M. Thiers and M. Guizot during a recent debate on the affairs of Spain, and more particularly on the alliances proposed for Queen Isabella, have excited great attention at Madrid. They have led to some very curious communications, the sources of which we cannot make known, but the authenticity of which we can guarantee. The explanations confirm all that was said by M. Thiers on the subject of the young Queen's marriage, with the exception of one point. It was nut from Queen Maria Christina that originated the idea of the candidateship of Count Trapani, which is now declared to be impossible—it is France that must bear the responsibility of this brilliant idea. The share taken by the French Government in the entangled politics in which unhappy Spain is involved is much greater than M. Thiers represented it to be in the Chamber. This question of marriage, so important to Spain, and to her relations with France and with Europe, has long been agitated between the Govern ments. With more or less wisdom, consistency cr propri ety, five candidates fur the Queen's hand have been thought of—the Duke de Montpen,ier, of the Royal house of France ; the Count de Montemolin, son of Don Carlos ; a German Prince of the house of Coburg ; the Neapo litan Prince, Count de Trapani ; and one of the sons of the PrinceSs Carlotta, Mario Christino's sister, have been successively discussed upon, and preferred or ex cluded in the councils of the different European Gov, ru• merits. The predilections of the Queen Mother have been from the first in favour of the Duke de Montpensier. This alliance would certainly have been popular in Spain; but our Government has uniformly declined it. For this refus..l there was a serious motive. In such a nation as Spain great caution must be taken not to make any foreign influence prominent. The marriage of the Duke de Montpensier to Queen Isabella would have been atten ded with this inconvenience, and have rendered it dis - tateful to Spain. This motive of refusal, founded on the suspicious character of the people of Spain, was a grave one, but at the same time was not that which decided the resolution of our Government. It is, in fact, well known that it has always wished to act in Spain without having the appearance of acting. The marriage of the Duke de Montpensier to Queen Isabella might, sooner or later, give cause for an open intervention ie the affairs of Spain, of which intervention our Cabinet has a horror. This candidate put aside, it would have wil lingly promoted the pretensions of the Count de Montemolin. If it had been possible to bring the par r ties together, and efface all the traces of the civil war by the marriage of the son of Don Carlos to the daughter of Queen Christina, thus confounding ail rival pretensions, nothing could be more reasonable than such a union. But, far from producing this desirable conciliation, . toe choice of the son of Don Carlos would, on the contrary, revive in Spain all those feelings of hatred which are but half extinguished. The Progressists, and nearly all the Moderados, would find in this alliance a counter-revolution, and events would soon justify their fears. The Carlists would gather round the consort of their Queen, and conceive a hope of restoring through him all of Old Spain that the re volution has destroyed. The strife between the restore- lion and the revolution would be recommenced. The Fueros, the clergy, and absolutism would make war upon a social state as yet but insufficiently consolidated, upon the national property acquired so lately, and upon the constitutional system scarcely yet com menced. Thus the Count de Montemolin, whose mar riago would be desirable if it were likely to accom plish the fusion of dynastic pretensions, cannot pos sibly be the successful candidate. As to a prince of the House of Coburg, our Government has interposed its veto. This is certainly not because the house of Coburg is German, and because there is a dread of re-establishing that antique European Power which was founded by Charles V., and which cost France so many wars and efforts to overthrow. Such a danger could not recur unless an archduke should be the successful candidate ; for the House of Coburg has no serious power in Germany. But this house has become . altogether. English, and on this account cannot be admitted to a hold in Spain without exciting great ap prehension. The French Cabinet., knowing that this would be thus judged of by the public, has not shown any favour to this project of alliance. Besides, the Houses of Orleans and Coburg, although united by more than one marriage, are not completely amalgamated. After having set aside the Duke de Monpensier, because he might give rise to the question of inter vention—the Count de Montemolin, because he is ab solutely rejected by Spain, even by the Moderados —a Prince of the House of Coburg, because he does not inspire much sympathy in France, there remained but one reasonably political course to take, that of turning towards one of the sons of Don Francisco de Paula, nephew of Maria Christina. These are neither too much nor too little Bourbonists—they are Spaniards, Liberals, and Princes. To them there is only one obstacle. Imprudent acts committed by the mother have weakened the recollection of the service rendered by her to her sister, Maria Christina. They have been made displeasing to our Government by their mother having placed them in the Progressist party. This, in stead of reconciling the nephews to the aunt, has caused their rejection. The family of the Infanta. already irri tated, became more and more violent, and suffered itself to be led to take inconsiderate steps—the division behave envenomed, and an alliance with this branch was rendered as impossible as all the others. Our Government, however, brought forward .the Count de Trapani, in spite of the objections raised by the Queen Mother, as we know, to ttis project, but to which she afterwards resigned herself. As long ago as 1843 our Government entered upon this subject with the Cabinets of Vienna and Berlin. At a later day, at the moment when M. Olozaga was about to quit Paris to become Minister in Spain, conferences, at which the King of the Belgians was present, were held in Paris, at which the name of the Count de Trapani was mentioned, as well as that of Count d'Aquila, who was not at that time married to a Brazilian Princess. But it was particularly at the period when M. Donoso Cortes came to Paris to recal the Queen Mother that the Neapolitan Prince was directly named as a candidate. M. Donoso Cortes did not leave unfil atter hav ing been much edified on the merits of the Count de Tra pani, put forth at the various conferences, and carried with him a portrait of the Count, destined for Gonzales Bravo, then Minister. Neither has it been forgotten that an Ambassador was sent to Spain by the Court of Naples, by the advice of France, to endeavour to bring about a reconciliation between the two Courts, and thus prepare the way for the marriage. At conferences at the Chateau d'Eu, between the King of the French, Queen Victoria, M. Guizot, and Lord Aberdeen, the merits of the several candidates were discussed, and an alliance between Queen Isabella and a Neapolitan Prince decided upon as the most eligible. Nothing, however, could be less politic—more impracticable. The endea vours of the Prince de Carini and M. Bres son to promote the fulfilment of this project, have only rendered the antipathy of Spain more deep and strong. The same feelings which in duced France to accept the Orleans dynasty, al though Bourbon, produces the effect - in Spain of making the monarchy popular, al:hough the House of Bourbon is not so, but the Neapolitan branch is still less so. It was, in fact, difficult for Spain to forget the manner in which the Court of Naples acted in the Spanish revolu tion, refusing to acknowledge it. This repulsion was common to all parties in Spain, Moderados as well as Progressists. The Moderados were unwilling to add to all the other grounds of its unpopularity, true or false, that of assenting to such a marriage, and therefore were almost unanimous in rejecting it. The power to act upon the impressionable mind of Narvaez, and to make him de cide in favour of the Count de Trapani. Then it was that the Moderados, impressed with the fear that the Narvaez Ministry might come to an unfavourable resolution, made those manifestions which, in the winter, em broiled Narvaez with his colleagues, and brought about the dissolution of the Moderado Ministry. In tine, the acceptance of the Count de Trapani has been unani mously pronounced impossible, and in fact he is given up by all parties. Such is the series of faults which have brought Spain to the position in which she stands, and from which no one can tell how she can relieve her self ; for alm >st all the marriages which have been suc cessively proposed have failed almost irrecoverably. The Cabinet of the Tuileries is afraid to persist in proposing for the royal hand the Duke de Montpensier ; the choice of the Count de Montemolin would raise all Spain in arms ; the Count de Trapani is acknowledged to be absolutely ineligible, and our Government will not ad mit of a Coburg. The causes of dissension which sepa rated the Queen-Mother from the sons of the Infanta Carlotta have been aggravated. Maria Christina anxious to have her daughter married, in order that she herself may be at liberty to leave Spain, says to our cabinet, give the Duke de Montpensier to my daughter for a husband, or suffer me to marry her to a Prince of Coburg. It is evident that our cabinet; after havi'ig committed the fault of not using its influence in bringing about a marriage between Isabella and one of the nephews of the Queen Mother, has deprived itself of the only chance it had of escaping the alternative of a Prince of Coburg, that is to say, an English alliance, or of the Duke do Montpensier, which would be a compromising marriage. Do not these facts, which are of undoubted authenticity, render evident to all eyes the want of judgment aud foresight in the policy of our Government? HOP INTELLIGEsCE. MAIDSTONE.—With the exception of I (From the Maidstone Jo ground and pit of one adjoining; our hop-g turned black, emitting a of ,_ T h i s ies co dy eg O e filthy condition, the lower leavesare in a most clear of vermin in the " is eta The "college ground 'lrnalardens rather over poled and -. the bine centre, which part seems by no means out of :clanger, as disgusting odour and co.veredllwivtheryvertnin of varioua sorts. weakly. It is, hovi v i s e r v y e , day. In our report last week a year 1823, when the' - growth was ; the e 24,817/. 03. 11k ~ mthiesrterianrteoferectr fly dea . being called 1826. Theta were thee about as many acres in plant a s now — say 46 , 7 18.) F.Antnzoo.—We have a decided decrease of fly, and .the bine has a better countenance. Notwithstanding, there is a l arge quantity of lice, particularly at the outside, when, at the same time, the middle grounds are almost clean. OTILAM.—The hops in this and neighbouring parishes continue growing vigorousl,y, and branching out well, not withstanding the fly and lice. remaining very numerous, the hot weather appearing not to diminish them. The "nigger" has within these few days come to their rescue. Mid summer is near at hand, when the sap will be checked for a few days, thereby giving some hopes of getting rid of the vermin before the midsummer shoots or branches make their appearance, in which case a good crop may yet be got. It, on the other hind, the fly should continue and attack the midsummer branches, it will prove fatal to a crop. MEREWORTH.—lmproving, blue growing fast, and vermin dying away, the fly golding and nigger making havoc with the lice. Pux - rat., WROTHAM, SIIIPBOURNE —The hop plant in this neighbourhood still continues to thrive luxuriantly, not withstanding the increase of vermin. The fly golding and nigger have increased greatly, and their increase has much allayed the alarm caused by the increase cf the fly ; upon the whole there is certainly not so much vermin gs there mia at the *juin at the Track. the last three years he had only paid a penny per ton, and he knew that Mr. Hodson had declared that he would beat the canals, and he had in several instances done so. Should, however, a higher charge be made the business would be abstracted, and the rail for the conveyance of coal of coarse uselss. Mr. G. 0. Brawn, a coal agent and proprietor at Sheffield, stated that 200,000 tons of coal had been carried by Doncaster in the year 1844, and now more is doubtless carried. A great damage is suffered by the transference of the coals into the boats and out again. The cost to him was 3Y 2 d."per ton for car riage by canal and 3d. additional for getting out of the boats, while he had himself paid last year only a Id. a ton per mile for 400 tons, which included every expense of the transit. The wit ness also spoke to the importance of Rotherham market as also to the quantity of iron which is brought by way of Doncaster to Sheffield. The passenger traffic between these two towns is also very great, there being at least 3 000 passengers; there are three coaches. There were also Ave coaches between Doncaster and Swinton. There are EISO extra coaches on market days. There .t a c te s also large quantities of corn brought from the ag ricultural districts to the east and north. On cross-examination by Mr. PAGET, the witness explaulnbelide difference of charge paid by Earl Eitzvrilllam and the p ,y stating that there was a particular branc h which no one was allowedtb to use but himself. a itl bo ed ut to a L o he extent N l r. a t Butterfield , be l, u,b e te l !r . k doneof theat tmarkets,elittegst Doncasterha that place , sheep and pigs, which are chieVl y sent towards Sheffield. Great head of horned cattle sold there annually, and upwards of 15,000 accommodation has l a t e ly been afforded by the Corporation rennin' , the corn market and other improvements; and it is further intended to spend 2.0,000 7 • now for that purpose. There are four fairs in the year, and the horses are in such repute, that foreigners fre quently attend tlzil.y. in there. wezteatr, when er en navigationthere s i sl found great d t e o la b y e , v a erL in convent, nt, espe ,i case of flood or frost, the corn is frequently sent by land carriage, and a t other seasons when the corn is wanted for immediate consump tion. The freight and dues to Raffield are sa. 10d. a quarter hi 17 miles. There is a large flax and spinning manuthetory at Doncaster, the produce of which goes to Barnsley. The freight and dues to Ro therham; a distance of twelve miles, are 3s. 9d. a quarter. that Ontli.reistr7elxeahnaiding2otribenwtbesetwna quenc!of the water communication. i r t d n e i s n s ste s a ta d te o d f t t h h e at n o h rt e i d i w id e n s t o t in believe that the trasie had gore westward instead of the northwest in conse- To Mr. WALKER the witness replied that the River Ouse Company leave also made mat improvements both above and below Don• caster, and that further improvements are also contemplated, but they had refused to complete some of their engagements. On re-examination by HILDTSIDS, the witness replied that there is now a continuous water communication between Doncaster and Wakefield, by way of Barnsley. The tolls on the road to She!Reid are heavy, and the proposed Lincoln line will give no relief in transit, as it goes too far away. The Committee here adjourned till to-morrow. WISBEACH, CAMBRIDGE, AND ST. IVES JVNCTIO N. The Committee (Earl Grey in the chair) resumed to-day, at half past two o'clock, when the engineer was called to explain the clause which took the power of crossing high roads at a level. The rest of the clauses were then gone through, and the report was ordered to be brought up. DRAINAGE OF THE BEDFORD LEVEL. The clauses of the Bill for protecting the drainage of the Bedford level were next gone through with some amendments. the chief f which was to allow the London and York Company to pass over a part of the line. The report was ordered to be brought up to-morrow. HOUSE OF COMMONS. GROUP WEST CORNWALL. The Cominittee met at the urual hour, when the business haring been proceeded with, The room was cleared, and after a short consultation, strangers were readmitted, when . The CAATIIMAN announced that the Committee had come to the resolution that the preamble of the Bill, for malting the St. Ives Branch of the West Cornwall Railway was not proved. The Committee then adjourned, the parties not been prepared to go on with their other Bills. GROUP XVI I MANCHESTER AND SOUTHAMPTON, AND ROMSEY AND REDBRIDGE BRANCE (SOUTH WESTERN). 'ontinued from our Afternoon Edition.) Mr. Robert Stephenson was then called and examined by Mr. GURNEY—He said he was joint engineer to the line with Mr. Bidder, and that it had been under their joint direction. The country which it traversed, and he was well acquainted with it, was of au impor tant character and much required direct communication. The station at Southampton was well adapted to meet the wants of the town, and to facilitate exportation and importation. The construction of the line along a portion of the Southampton water presented no difficulty. The Andover canal was well adap.ed for carrying a railway along its course, so many facilities did it afford, and so easy was this portion of the line be of construction, that the line from Southampton to Andover could be opened in twelve months. In addition to this it would not interfere with private property. It went on from Andover to Weyhill and Apple shaw, where large cattle and sheep fairs were held ; passing through Marlborough it proceeded to Swindon, where it crossed below the Great Western, which could be effected with out interfering with the traffic of that line. A junction was proposed to be formed at this point between the two lines, and if the companies were in unity the public convenience would be greatly promoted. The passage of the Coteswold hills involved no engineer ing difficulties of any moment. The local traffic- would he con sidered be sufficient to pay, and there could be doubt at all that it would amply remunerate the Shareholder for the outlay which it would involve. _ _ . . . Cross-examined by Mr. KEATlNG—Calculated that a great portion of the trek between Cheltenham and Swindon would come on the proposed line, because it would have better gradients. A separate terminus at Southampton would he required if this line were made. No line could be connected with the present station witheut crossing several pubic streets, and by the adoption of several objectionable curves. Mr. Forman, collector of the port, and Mr. Gowen, gave evidence with respect to the eligibility of the tramways and the general ad vantages of the line to the town. Mr. E. Jesus having handed in the assents and dissents, Intimated that this closed the case on the part of the promoter:. The Committee then adjourned until to-morrow at twelve o'clock, when the evidence in support of the opposition of the South Western will he considered. GROUP %XXI. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition.) BRISTOL AND BIRMINGHAM (ASH. , CHURCH, TEWKESBURY, AND MALVERN.) The engineering eNidenee was then gone into, and the Committee adjourned. IMS.OUP XXXII' W.A.R.WICX.SHM2II ILTJD LONDON (THREE BitII.3TCHMS.) (Continued from our Afternoon Edition.) other witnesses were examined to the same effect as the Hon. Baronet. Amongst others, the land agent of the Marquis of Hertford who said that the poor lands through which the lines would pass would be greatly benefitted because such was always the effect of railways. Persons of capital were by means of this mode of convey ance made acquainted with the extent to which poor lands were ne glected, and were induced to employ their capital upon them. . . . . The Committee adjourned tillWelve o'clock to•morrew. GROUP XXXVIII LEEDS, DEWSBURY, AND MANCHESTER. Mr. Adam!, chairman. Mr. Grainger, the engineer to the line, was examined at Consider able length. The total length of the line was seven miles five fur longs. The gradients were of a favourable nature. The estimated cast of the line was 280,0001. The line would be easily constructed, and the traffic would snake it a remuneration line to the shareholders. Alter hearing some further evidence, the Committee adjourned till twelve Ccloek to-morrow. Gicour xxxix. HUDDERSFIELD AND MANCHESTER ( &M DISTRICT). The Committee met at twelve o'clock. Evidence WAS adduced in support of the Bill, and the case on the part of the promoters baying been closed, The Committee adjourned until Monday. GROUP XLI. This committee re-a4sernbled to-day at twelie o'clock. MANCHESTER, BOLTON, AND BURT CA• NAL AND RAILWAY. The case for the opponents of this lAill was entered Into. Mr. HOPE (on the part of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway Company) said he trusted that the Committee would not sanction such a Bill as that before them—a Bill which interfered most mate rially with the rights of another company without affording any ade quate advantage to the public. The company be represented had hot only expended a large sum in the construction of their works, but also had paid 41,0001. for a free way, and it was now sought by the promoters of the p: esent Bill to cross their line and divert their traffic, and by, the establishment of a station at Manchester to reap the advantages of his clients' toil and money. So case ever came before Parliament involving such an interference with the rights of a public Company. Level crossings had been sanctioned in other parts of the country, but never without a necessity far greater than could be shown in the present case to exist, and never on a line crow;ted with traffic, like the Liverpool and Manchester. On Coat line there were uo less than ninety trains passing daily ; in addition to which, the prices of conveyance were the lowest that had ever been charged. In support of what he had advanced as to the amount of traffic, he would just advert to one item, namely, the pleasure traffic. •this was already very consider , able, and was daily Increasing in the ratio of the population, as would be shown by the evidence. Such was the traffic of his clients' line. What was the case with their opponents'. Why, they had only thirty trains. Was it, then, not preposterous that they should seek to pass through the very centre of the most thriving district in the country, when railway traffic was daily developing itself, and that at the disadvantage of delay, if not of danger? for there were instances where disasters had re• suited from these very level crossings. From these considerations, he trusted that the Committee would not sanction the present Bill on these grounds : first, that his clients had afforded the public great convenience, and in the next place that the line proposed was not only not required, but that it was not even a proper line. After hearing some evidence in support of the petitioners against the Bill the Committee adjourned. GROUP XLII LIVERPOOL, ORMSZTRIL, AND PRESTON. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition.) A slight disgussion of an unimportant nature ensued between the Committee and Counsel, which was put a stop to by the adjourn• inept of the Committee. GROUP XLVII. The Select Committee appointed to Inquire into the merits of the SWANSEA VALE undertaking re-assembled this morning at the usual hour. Evi. deice was again laid before them. They adjourned at four o'clock. GROUP LIII SIMEWSBUILY, BISLIVIINGUAP/K, and STOUR JUNCTION. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition.) Mr. Alderman Weston, cross-examined by Mr. HoBINSON—His place of business was close by New-street, and so were those of the Mei:rity of the people with whom he had conversed on the subject. t,.e:riia,,,ttoetc.,;:e.npirto it t i l a t h e am to . vi ,, - n .er e e oti ge ncil on the' subject of the New-street . „.,, _ota not condemn or even allude to the station proposed to be ''''' ' at strew-bin Goods matnhrda:tip3lcsiodsetargederisnfrtohme neighbourhood of lion, i lk -e ii i7 e . e ri .. l l , 3 m d iFalteni,dstlF.t),:enute,,:nt,to en n two station o th o e ther coin a p t a ß n i i r e n s l i i n ngh a title room it the Cortunit: Coasevr hay.iiniiong . woula in.otdooluabytthtaetaegldteinpcleabne:bouret h ruld shorten the anmo b t u hi s ie l a n ra e c s beo s me i l ti them. 4 e amittett The lioN. CflAillMAN said that represented before Mr. itOtllalsoN and Mr. their clients bad not had the opportunity of"gii:bi ected, inasmuch as the other Committee, and the evidence committee, i therefore mislead the The Hon. CHAISsiaN said that, as the p a rtletedid not consent to reading of the evidence, the counsel t w i ere r of c0ur ,,,,,,,..._ . _ the prevented from Mr. Stirlatu, carrier, this company's --- " k ' ''Y Acting in accordance witohrthßeirsmnrigeisia'onz owallr.acuzrinnZteaii ~ . show the superiority of stations a t Mr. RITICARDS, to pAlsellgrs and goods, over those of its rivals works in the neighbourhood of illowlng that there were extensivety Mr . P. ItostNsoN, for the purpose or ilini tle l ' il w ig ta b s a c m r;s l s )o- e th ea f m orinett stations), but he insisted bon to the people t Birmingham . by far the greatest accommodation that the t!it ti i l o e n 3 o it f e the tShlet rerlalittetr7llPiaidnißelrn' 1 ingh o at_il . li_newo ._ u_l_d_ . gi give Re-examined—The greatest of business in the Crescent, being I station. !I irbf of merchantsnptheneighbourh had oodiotrhethir places eNew e "street . Mr. John Lbril, general merchant, I.driniti,,ham, said that in of the erection or this company's !,tation, he had changed his pla hope ce of business slid residence to the neighbourhood of New-street. He con s sidered that the merchants and people at large of liirmingha.tn were ew . vitally interested in the erection of this comp an y 's station in is street. The batiks, the post-office, the town-hall, the news roo m, . were in contemplated exchange, sud all their buildings of an y note er e in the neighbourhood of New-street. Business was continually leaving the neighbourhood of Snow-bill. New-street was, in fact, " the ',Lice where merchants 'nest do congregate." Nothing posi lively could be more accommodating than the New-street station. New-street was the centre of Birmingham as regarded business. Cross-examined by Mr. IZORINSO_N—Some of the banks were equi distant between the Snow-hill and the New-street stations. Re-examined—The principal banks were In the neighbourhood of New-street. Mr. Lake, of the firm of Bolton, Watt, and Co. ' engineers, Bir mingham, gave evidence to the same eftect, and that he and his co partners had petitioned Parliament in favour of this scheme. Mr. John Evans, miller, Dudston, near Birmingham, said that he was a member of the Town Council of Birmingham, and was present at the meeting recently held on the subject of the stations proposed to be erected by the different schemes in that town. The council almost unanimously passed a resolution in favour of this company's station. Mr. Alderman Matthews proposed a resolution in favour of the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton, of which he was a director, and the discussion principally turned on the gauge question. communicationliisproposition, however, was rejected , only four voting for it. This schemewo wt uld th g s iv h e row th s e bu p ry. eop le of Birmingham the most direct The Earl of Aug - her. and ScrwitET—Had the Committee of the T9lna Ccatace, botbrkper propait4 WI; report, the igto QI tho ...._ . _ ~, ;::... GROUP LXIV. This Committeere-assembled to.day at twelve o'clock ; present 'Ain T. S. Duncombe (chairman), and the other members. _ _ IRISH GREAT WESTERN (PORTARLING- TON TO 0.A.1.V74 T). MIDLAND GREAT WESTERN or IRELAND (DIUMMINGAIL TO GALWAY). Mr.Fitzstephen French; M.P., chairman of the Irish Great West ern Company, deposed to having presided over a meeting which was held on the 29th of May, in accordance with the Sessional Order, and stated that there was only one party who was opposed to the carrying out of the Bill. ' . After some farther evidence, Mr. COCKBURN. Q.C., addressed the Committee on behalf of some of the shareholders of the Great Southern and Western Railway (Ireland). Mr. Sergeant WRANOHAM contended that the statement of the. merits of the line in the preside was not shown by the evidence. A discussion ensued. after which the Committee adjourned. STANDING ORDERS' COMMITTEES. HOUSE OF LORDS. Their Lordships met this afternoon at two o'clock, pursuant to adjournment, in Room No 1, (House of Lords.) Lord Shaftesbury took the Chair, and there were present—the Marquis of Winchester and Lord Kinnaird. They had on their list six Bills, besides two on second reference. The only one.callcd on was the MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND MIDLAND JUNCTIIN, The further consideration of which was postponed till to-morrow. Their Lordships then resolved themselves into a Select Committee on Merits, In order to proceed with a list of thirty-two Bills, of which all but nine were Railway Bills. THAMES HAVEN DOCK AND RAILWAY. This case was part heard, and postponed till Monday. DUNDEE AND ARBROATH (EXTENSION). This Bill was passed. DUNDEE AND PERTH AMENDMENT. The preamble of this Bill was declared proved. EASTERN UNION (ARDLEIGH TO COLCHESTER). Preamble proved. MANCHESTER AND BIRMINGHAM. The same decision was made in this case. GREAT 'NORTH OF SCOTLAND (EASTERN EXTENSION). The promoters of this Btll were equally succesful. ALFORD VALLEY. Preamble proved. MIDLAND (EREWASH VALLEY EXTENSION). The preamble of this Bill was also proved. YORK AND NORTH MIDLAND '(LEEDS" EXTENSION). The promoters of this •Bill also succeeded in proving their preamble. BIRKENHEAD, LANCASHIRE, AND CHESHIRE JUNCTION. This;Bill was also passed. NORTH-WESTERN. The Committee declared the preamble proved. GREAT GRIMSBY AND SHEFFIELD JUNCTION (HUMBER FERRIES). A similar decision was made in this case. WILSON TOWN, MORNINGSIDE, AND COLTNESS (BATIIGATE BRANCH). WILSONTOWN, MORN INGSIDE, AND COLTNESS (CALEDONIAN BRANCH). WILSONTOWN, MORNINGSIDE, AND COLTNESS (IMPROVE MENT AND BRANCHES). These three branches of the Wilsontown. 3lorningside, and Colt ness, and also the Slamannan (Itathgate, and Jawcraig Branches) were called on, but the promoters not being prepared to proceed, they stood over till Tuesday next. EDINBURGH AND NORTHERN (NEWPORT RAILWAY AND ST. ANDREW'S BRANCH). EDINBURGH AND NORTHERN (PETTYCUR BRANCH AND DYSART DEVIATION). These two branches of the Edinburgh and Northern Railway were both passed. ARBROATH AND FORFAR AMENDMENT. This case was adjourned till Tuesday. CHARD CANAL RAILWAY. The preaMble of this Bill was also proved. In each of the above cases clauses were inserted in accordance with the resolution an nounced by the Committee. on Saturday, as to placing lodges at level crossings on public roads. Five out of the nine Bills for local purposes above mentioned. were passed, the remaining four stand over. They were principally estate and improvement Bills. Their Lordships then resumed the form of a Standing Orders Com mittee, and proceeded with the consideration of the Bills remaining on the standing orders list. DEESIDE. The promoters of this laconically intitnied Bill had compiled a ith the standing orders. MANCHESTER, BUXTON, 3fATLOCK, AND MIDLAND JUNCTION. This Bill, which in the length of its title 'presents a remarkable contrast to the last, also passed through the Committee. BRISTOL AND EXETER (CREWKERNE BRANCH). The promoters of this Bill also proved compliance with their Lordships' standing orders. - - - EAST OF FIFE. Adjourned till to-morrow. The same is the case With the KILMARNOCK AND TROON The two remaining Bills had come before their Lordships on second reference. They were—the SHEFFIELD AND LINCOLNSHIRE EXTENSION, the promoters of which were declared to have complied with the standing orders ; and the GALWAY AND KILKENNY, the fursher consideration of which was adjourned till Tuesday. Their Lordships then rose at half-past Emir, and adjourned till to-morrow at twelve. PANORAMA ROYAL, LEICESTER -SQUARE. - The fol lowing distinguished visitors have recently honoured the Panorama with their presence:—The Duke of Wellington, the Duke of Devonshire, the Duke and Duchess of Marl borough, the Duke and Duchess of Argyle, the Marquis of Stafford and Captain Loch, R.N., the Marquis of Ely, Prince Dwarkanauth and suite, the Earl of Cardigan, the Earl of Ripon and family, Earl of Euston, Lady Eden, Lady Palmer and family, Viscount Canning, Lord and Lady Southampton, Lord Nugent, the Countess Poulett, Mr. and Lady Louisa Spencer, Sir E. Codrington, Hon. Miss Gough, Lord Sondes and Miss Wells Lady Murray, Lady Antrim, Lady Bruce, Lady' Poole and family, Dowager Lady Cooper and family, the Right Hon. John Elliott, the Right Hon. I. Carnagie, the Right Hon. Mr. Copley, Lady Macgregor, Sir G. Palmer, Lord Northwick, General Bouchier, Sir W. and Lady Welby, Lady Hulse and family, Lady Charlotte Dennison, Lady F. Bentinck, Lady Belhaven, General Ashmead and family, &c. &c. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS EVENING.) HOUSE OF LORDS Their Lordships met to-day at a quarter to Five o'clock. • ROYAL ASSENT. The royal assent was given to-day, shortly be fore five o'clock, to the following Bills :—Viscount Hardinge's Annuity Bill [This Bill enables the East India Company to grant to Viscount Hardinge a pension of 5,0001. a year independent of the income which he enjoys as Governor-General of India]—the Railway Deposits Bill—the Print Works' Bill—the City of London Coal Market and Improvement Bill —the Clyde Dock and Harbour Bill—the Sligo Harbour Improvement Bill—the Weston-super-Mare Pier Bill—the Southampton Port and Pier Bill— the Plymouth, Devo . nport, and Stonehouse Cemetery Bill—the Birkenhead Improvement Commissioners' Bill —the Leicester Improvements Bill—the Southport Im provement Bill—the Helensburgh Extension and Police Bill—the Airdrie Police Bill—the Gravesend and Milton Waterworks Bill—the Bury Waterworks Bill—the Bolton Waterworks Bill—the Liverpool and Harrington Water-works Bill—the Sunderland Water works Bill--the Sunderland Gas Bill—the Ro therham Gas Bill—the Dundee New Gas Bill—the Bilston Gas Bill—the Harrogate Gas Bill—the Glasgow Union Arcade Bill—the Sid nouth Market Bill—the Carshalton Rates Bill—the Royal Asylum of the St. Anne's Society's Bill—the Electric Telegraph Bill—the Caledonian Insurance Company's Bill—the Greenlaw Roads Bill—the Westruther Road Bill—Mourilyan (or Sollys) Estate Bill—the Earl of Charloville (Blesinton's Estate) Bill Sir James Dunbar's Estate Bill— the Marquis of Done gal's Estate Bill—Gollan's Estate Bill—and the following Railway Bills :—Midland Railway Syston to Peterborough—Maldon, Witham, and Branches Eastern Union and Hadleigh Junction—London and Brighton (East Grinstead Branch)—South-Eastern (Rye to Rye Harbour)—South-Eastern (Ashford StationEnlargement)—Edinburgh,Leith, and Granton— Newcastle and Darlington Junction (Thirsk and Malton Lewes, and o 'c u k th , Branches)—York and North Midland (Whitby and Rye)— York .a E n a d s t A e ryn'r (Amen dment (Tunbridge t r. deWells andel Hastings,ran h es) —a and Branches)—Brighton, gh ton , Pickering m Ex tension)— Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmar nock, (Eastbourne and Hailsbam)— oallyoNrkorihanndMiidland (East Riding Branches, Branches, No. 2)--Ru g b y North Midland (East Ridin g eStamford—Brigh ton and Chichester (Bognor at Hampton nth Branches)— Brighton and Chi c h ester (SteY burgh and Glasgow (Amendmenntailid b i r ra an nel h). ' CHURCH DISCIPLINE BILL . The Bishop of LONDON moved the first reading of this Bill. It was an act for amen di ng the laws relative to the correction of clerics, and he was enabled to sa y that it had undergone a careful e xam i nat i on, and had obtained the approbation of all his Right Rev. Brethren on the Bench. —The Bill was then read a first time . MESSAGE FRONI THE COMMONS. Messengers from the House of Commons brought up several Bills, which were ordered to lie on the table. Lord CLANBRASIL, as Chairman of the Glasgow and Androlsan Railway, presented a petition from the Committee, praying leave not to set again until Mon day next. He would also ta ke tha t opportunity of the Arc hbishop ' of Dub with reference to the conduct o f f stating, that the petition which he intended to present Dub lin in removing a certain clergyman ro a m_ his parish He would postpone, until Tuesday nex t ,to Lordship thought. i 4 orastup on that it would only be proper to write h is the subject. RAILWAY LEGISLATION. Lord MONTEAGLE presented a petition from some shareholder; of the Manc hester and bbeiftel4 J,tui.q9!l consequence of the favourable weatC l , e r during the last week, the hops have grown rapidly—t, 1e vermin have considerably decreased, but there is still m u . ' room fur improvement on this account. TUNBRIDG—The hops about here are looking, if peel. E sible, worse than last week. There is less fly, but the lice have multiplied by thousands. The bine still continues to. grow, though in many places completely covered with honey- - dew, and the vermin reach the top immediately. Semee, persons think there is still hope, if a change should take • place within a week; bat many are of opinion that the ire mense quantity of vermin will so reduce the strength of the biue that it will not be able to recover. • SEVENOAKS AND NEIGHBOURHOOD.—OUT HOIHICSdaie correspondents " say the hops below the hill are much worse. than they were. There has been an immense amount of . honey dew and fly produced during the last few days, and fhb bine is absolutely covered with these destructive little, animals; still it is perfectly astonishing to notice, despite' these attacks, the healthy tune the bine maintains. Upon the ". Ridge" it is the same, and we must candidly assure you that we cannot account for the continuance of these "griev ances." Despite our augury last week, and the very sunshiny days we have had, we now think nothing * hot, but a• thunder storm can do good. Will any of your talented con" respondents tell the people the why it does do good? CANTERBURY.—In consequence of the hot weather Buring the past week the hops have grown considerably, but v'l lo with the increase of fly and honey dew they have soinewNa ; declined in quality, which occasions the estimated duty .4.47 be set lower. On Sunday there were partial falls of rain it: the couaty, accompanied with a little thunder. The duty is laid as something below 100,0001. General accounts state that the fly and lice have increased. -Some grounds have much honey dew, and appear to be going off with a blight all of which lead some glowers to deepeir altogether or realising a crop. The bine is still growing fast. FARNHAM—Accounts from this district are pre'ttY much, the same as elsewhere. Since 1822 there never was e n muc h vermin as this year. Nothing,Sit is thought, call prevent total black blight. ATMOSPHERIC PHENOMENON, On Sunday afternoon last, a most remarkable pneu-.• made occurrence astonished and alarmed a portion of tke . inhabitants of Greenheys. About thirteen m i nu tes ise l, " fore six o'clock, a whirlwind of a violent character Can menced in some open ground opposite an unfinished street` named Brook-street, at the top of Carebridge-street , be een that and Boundary-lane. The shavings, dust{ 4 ,4 °. 1 were hurled into the air, at first forming a c olunak about seventy feet high ; but afterwards, as th force') seemed more intense, the pillar became at least 200 feet: in height. The circle occupied by the whirlwind was not more than 40 yards in diameter, in its greatest ex tent. During its greatest fury, when pieces of wood, &e• were whirled into the air, the leaves of the trees within a distance of 20 yards were undisturbed. For a for minutes, its circle of action was stationary ; the whirl-- wind then took a stately march due north, the vanes of weather-cocks in the immediate neighbourhood (i- e/ within 100 y ards by n - ,easurement) pointing at the time due west. Passing over the houses, the tiles were torn off some ; window blinds from the windows of others . all received a storm of dust, shavings, paper, &c. ; and flowers in the gardens were broken or torn up by the roots!:; The pillar of dust and violence proceeded slowly wards over- the streets and houses till it carae Newcastle-street, the direction of which it took. ri.ue violence of the wind appeared gradually to abat e but was still of the same circumscribed character. It seemed to be lost at the north end ef lb ° street, the wind in the meantime having veered round to the south, in which direction it was blowing at half' past-six. At 17 minutes to seven, the direction of the wind was S.W. by W. when there was some thunder ; and at twelve minutes to seven, it was due west. The breeze then appeared to cease altogether, and som e large drops of rain fell. At nine minutes past seven, a breeze suddenly sprung up again, and the weather cocks indicated that it was due north ; in which direc tion it continued till after sunset, about which time, agtil! l noticing the vane, we were surprised to find another, change had taken place, asd the current of air wel:i N.E. by E. At half-past ten, the wind was blowing duff south again ! This is, perhaps, the most remarkable variation of the winds which has occurred for years in this country. The whirlwind itself from it* coeimencement in Greenheys to its cessation in New' castle-street, endured. about 25 minutes, and caused very great alarm in the neighbourhood through which it passed. During the evening the thermometer indi cated. some rapid and curious changes in the tem perature. We have beard of one incident connected with this whirlwind, that caused no small consternation to a family in the neighbourhood. After some consulta tion as to the coolest place about the premises in which to take tea, it was decided that a flagged back yard should be the spot, and thither the husband carried a small table, and afterwards the tea-tray, with cups, saucers. &c. Into the yard, suddenly descended the whirlwind, filling the cups and saucers with dust, and then in an instant down went the table, and there was a smash of crockery. Some boys who were playing in the open space of ground, across which the whirl wind took its course, were at first greatly diverted by their caps being suddenly snatched off their heads and carried upwards ; but their diversion was soon trans.- formed into alarm and consternation, for as the violence of' the whirlwind increased, they were themselves thrown doWn upon the ground by the force of the wind, to their great amazement. No one was seriously hurt,---111a" chester Guardian. RAILWAY SR RE MARKETS. 31ANCIIESTER, JUNE 17. STOCK Excnastua.-The sales are-Bideford and Tavistock, 218. 91-Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, New, 1% dis.-Chester and Manchester Direct, 1 1 4 dis.- Churnet and Blythe, die. -Derby and Crewe, N p.-Eastern Counties, 2 Di -Ditto, York Extension, Its. p.-Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding Junction, % dis:- Grand Union, % diS.-Hdddersfleld and Manchester Railway and Canal, 1 dis.- Lancashire and North Yorkshire, .74 dis.-Leeds , Dewsbury, and Manchester, 18 p. -Leicester and Bedford, I -16 dis.- Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, Ni p.-Liverpool, Presto?: Manchester, and Stockport, par c.-Manchester, Buxton, 314 0 c, and 31idia d, 14s. p.-Manchester and Birmingham, Quartert,4-/, 9 p.-Ditto, ditto (0), p.-3fanchester, Midland, and • GTO' Grimsby, dis. -Northuaihrrlaud and Lancashire , 15s. Gel::dlPL-: North Eastern, 345. dis.-North Staffordshire, 4- Ol dham, l r e, head, &c., 1 dis.- Preston and Wyre, 30ii -Ditto, Halve s ' p.-Shetlicld and Lincolnshire Junction, par-Sheffield -an gales cheater, Quarters, No. 3, 5-16 p.-South-Eastern and Dover, 1.4 r (NO 4). 3s. p. d.-West Riding stituted, 1 5-16 p. LEEDS, JUNE 17. • STOCK EXCIIANGE.-The sales are-East Lancashire, 214 Great Grimsla7 and Sheffield Extension, 19s. dis.--fludierslield and- Sheffield, 5 p. cash-Leeds and Bradford, 2694 p.-Leeds and Union, 2% p.-Paris and Lyo.lls, COcu -5 tii.dis.-311dland, New, 13 p.-North British, Carlisle Branch, 95 ;. i r i : - York and North Midland (East and West Riding). 9U theme Junction, 235. dis.-Leeds and York, 1% dia.-Leeds , n" field, and Midland, die -Leicester and Bedford, Is. 6d. dis cola, York, and Leeds, 235. 6d.dis. - Liverp ml , Or mskirk, and Pres ton, I Is. p. -London and Manchester (Rem.) , 39 5. dis.-31atieliestn Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 12s. 6d. p. -Northumberland and Laicashire Junction, 16s. dis.-North Staffordshire, 31. 17s. North Western. Is. p.-Oxford, Witney, and Cheltenham, 205. 6 d• dis.-South and Midland Junction, 17s. 6d. dis.- West Riding Union* 4/. 3s. HULL. JUNE 17. STOCK Excnaproz.—The sales are—North British, Carlisle, 335• 6(1. Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush, 12s. 6d.—East Lincolnshire, 15s. 'M.—Hull and Barnsl,y Junction. 295. 3d.— Leicester and Bed' ford, 21s.—Leicester and 'l'amworth, 255. —London and York. 395-- -- London and Manchester (Remington's), 14s. 6d.—Maiton and Dritilo 4 Junction, 525.--Manchester, Buxton. and Matlock, 21. 15s. 6d North Western, 235. 6d.—North Staffordshire, 5/. 18s. 3d.—South Midland, 295.. 6d.--West Riding Union, 4/. 3s. silk:map. JUNE 17. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Midland, Sheffield and Ro therham, South-Eastern, 39—Grimsby andShefteld Extef .sion, 21s. die.—Grand Union (Nottingham to Lynn), 16s. dis.— Leer . Wakefield, and Midland, 16s. dis.—Sheffield and Lincolnshire, 2s. —Ditto, Extension, 21s.dis.—Sheffield, Buxton, Leek, Potteries , Crewe. 13s. dis. YORK, JUNE 17. ten - STOCK Excamink.-The sales are-Eastern Comities, York Es , r sion, Pi-Grand Union (Nottingham and Lynn), 12s. 6d.-Leies'e„ and Bedford, 1/. ls.-Malton and Driffield Junction, ter, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 2/. 16s. 6d.-Newcastle ,11(1. Darlington, Brandling, 44-Ditto, Extensions, 9-North Britlsll, Carlisle Extension, 1/. 13s. 6d.-Ditto, Dalkeith, 31-York anc. North Midland, Scarborough Branch, 48-Ditto, Extension , 3 3 k - Ditto, New (East and West Riding), 104 i. EDINBURGH, JUNE 15. • Srocx EXCHANGE.- The sales are-Aberdeen, 3/. 55.- - Aberdeef: Banff, and Elgin, U. 6s. 6d.-Airdrie and Bathgate, 31. Bs° ' Arbroath and Forfar, 27/. 10s.-Ditto, Half Shares, 15L 1011• Ayr and Galloway, 11. 45.-Banffshire, 165.-British and Ida Union, 2/. 2s. 6d.-Caledonian, In.-Ditto, New, 1/. 195.- 01 4. 234 -Aland:lo, ratan Extension, U. Bs. M.-Caledonian and Dumbarton, 11. 8 5 :, °" ~ --Caledonian and Northern Direct, 11. 145.-Clydesdale Jtuiu.___ ' 131.--Direct Northern, 1/. 16s. 6d.-Dundee and Arbroath, 38 ' ,i . Ditto, New, 211. 55.-Dundee and Perth, 17/. 55.-Esisf of Fife, 1 " I Is.-East Lothian Central and Tyne Valley Junction, 11. 6 1:2, Edinburgh and Bathgate, 2/. 25.-Edinburgh and Glasgow, ,„" .., Ditto, Bali Shares, 17/. 105.- Ditto, Quarters, 181.- DitW, al,,_ New, 181.-Edinburgh and Leith Atmospheric, 18s. - Edinhurl,: Leith, and Granton, 15/. IN.-Ditto, Preference, 19 and Northern, 5/. 105.-Ditto, -Newport, 9s. 6d.-Ditto, LochgcOci 1/. 6s. 6(1,-Edinburgh and Peebles, It. 11s. 6d.-Edinburgh lid Perth, it. 195.-Forth and Clyde Junction, 1/. I'M-Glasgow, a_er Ayrshire, 731. 10s.-Ditto, New Stock, 32/. 10s. -Ditto, 0 a n ' Shares, 181. 10s.-Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 21. Is. Oct.:: Glasgow and Dundee Junction, U. 125.-Garnkirk and Glasgr 40/. 10s.-Glasgow and Greenock, 16/. 10s.-Ditto, New, 8/. 1 5 . - 7, Gran_ Ditto, Preference, 1/. 155.-Great r.rth of Scotland, IL 138.--Gram I it. -Ditto. ton Junction, 10s.-Inverness and Elgsd, 11. Is. 6d.-London and York, 2/. 4s. 6d.-North British, 29/.-Ditto, Have' , Extension to Carlisle, 1/. 13s. 6d.-Ditto, Extension to Da men 1, 61.-Perth and Inverness, 1/. 12s. Caiedonian Junction, 1/. Ditto, New, 71. 55.-Scottish Central and 7 6d , 11. 1 5. 6d.-Stirling Ios.-Scottisb Midland, 71.-Scottish Southern and Dunfermline, 11. 10s. 6d. • 16 GLASGOW, JUNE • - " C ies aled 6ad o re n i latt Scir a ci l dt id rith: Du ac m ned b n art ilrall o t: n g s ls h alt i . r e e :6:7 E B : :: SToca EXCHANGE. -The -.1%.3 r and Galloway, 245. 6d. Larne , Belfast, and Ballymena 555: 64,- East 1 11- tension, 245. 6d. Gl a sgow and Belfast Union, 403 6d CIO' dian Railway, 9s. 9t i Ardrossan, 295. 6c1.-Glai * *--►' ......calecionian Direct Northern, 34 gow and Dundee gow, Kilmarnock , a Junction, 305.,-- nin 375. -Scottish Central ' L I go ° .- esma la . 50,,-Scottish Sout c . i ' and BOrrow t and Caledonian Jane' 8 ounces, 653.--Stirlingshlre o ld Midland Junction,7 Con, 305.....-slatoann_l. Th e Marquis of Normsnby and suite embarked a t Blackwall Pier, on board the General Steam Navigation for Ostend. steam-ship, Sir E. Banks, y es t er d ay m orning. Company's On the 17th inst., in S'uttsex- ii g l ar ß d r e ll us 4 ,. Hyde Park, the lady o f Ll ' lr. White, Esq., of a son . On the 14th i nst., at Colet-place, Commercial-road, Mr,' " j a Hawkins, of a daughter. 0,1 the 15th list., at Hampton, the wife of T. H. Holberton, of a daught er. On the 14th i ns t ., at East Stoke, Dorset, the lady of the Bel' /t. Buller, of a son. On the 15th i ns t ., at N ewport, Isle of W i ght, the w if e of the 11 °' W. 11. Parker, of a daughter, still-born. 31". On the Pith inst., at Spencer Farm, Great Yell:1114n. Esser' Jolut E. Cooper, of a son. the On Co t I h d e st i r t e ;t a ti m G inst u . a , r a d, t s W of ir a ich so es i t . er, the lady of Captain Wigr.aro., o • MARRIED. hter On the 11th inst., at Nether Cerne, Elizabeth Grace, fifth datib, of J. B. Knight, Esq., to W. S Davis, Esq., Lieutenant of the Regiment oas f Madr Native Infantry. On the 16th inst., at St. Luke's, Chelsea, John Collingwoo d, 9sl.' of Brudinell-place, Boston, to Isabella, daughter of Thomasoißter, Esq., of Whltelio ad's-grove, Chelsea. DIED. On the 14th inst , in Park-road, Regent's-park, Lady Jane P- head, sister of the late Duke of Atho11: On the 22d of April last, at George Town, Demerara, Ai°"— Cruiksliank, Esq. On the 1 lth inst., at Pelham-place, Brompton, the Bo r . Wlilia° Thomas Clarke, late of Melton Mowbray, aged 42. a s 8 2 : On the 13th inst., at Thurlow-place, Hackney, Miss Bli es, rella On the 14th inst., at Shirley, Southampton, Dorothy Fryer, of the late J. C. Hyde, Erg., aged 79. On the 14th inst., Mrs. Elizabeth Henley, wife of Mr. D aniel Henley, of Durham-street, Vauxhall, aged 76. the On the 15th inst., at Oxford-terrace, H y de -park, Elizabeth, - wife a William Courtney, Esq., aged 62. O uthel a 6 g t e h d 2 8.iitst., George, the fourth son of Thomas S mart, Hackney, tj9, London: Printed and Published by 3,!IIIZDO YOUNG, of No. t rluo tic Strand, Printer, at The San Mice, No. 112, Strand, itt the r of the Sayoy, in the County of liiithilesex, Thureds,Y , lip le* - • I