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T..... them, they are Permitt . d to accommodate their payments to their circumstances, or to discontinue them altogether; and even further, if needful to possess thetnselves &gain of the whole or any 'portion of the amount deposited during a series of years, together with the accumulation to which the po licy mtty have become entitled ; while to parents and those intere*:Led in the welfare of young persons, it offers such a beneficial mode of investment as cannot fail to be fully ap preciated. . 1r TILE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY MORNING, MAY 18, 1846. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS. (Froth the Votes and Proceedings of the Nouse of Commons.) FRIDAY, MAY 15. CORN IMPORTATION BILL. Motion made, and Question proposed, " That the Bill be now read the third time :"—Amenclinent proposed, to leave out • the word " now," and at the end of the Question to add the words " upon this day six months :"--Question put, " That the word ` now' stand part of the Question." The House divided : MAJORITY—AYES, 227. Acheson, Viscount Ferguson, Colonel Newry, Viscount Acland T. D. Ferguson, Sir R. Norreys, Sir D. A'Court, Captain Fitzroy, Henry Northland, Viscount Aglionby, H. A. Fitzroy, Lord C. O'Connell, Daniel Ainsworth, Peter Fitzwilliam, G. W. O'Connell, M. J. Aldam, William Fleetwood, Sir P. O'Connell, John Anson, Colonel Flower, Sir J. O'Conor, Don Armstrong, Sir R. Forster, Mathew Ogle, S. C. Arundel, Earl of Fox, C. R. Ord, William Baillie, Col. Gibson, Thomas M. Owen, Sir John Baine, Walter ' Gill, Thomas - Paget, Colonel Bannerman, A. Gisborne, ThomaS Paget, Lord W. Barclay, David Glynne, Sir S. Paget, Lord A. Barkly, Henry Godson, R. Palmerston, WSW= Baring, F. T. Gore, Montagne Parker, John Baring, W. E. Gore, Robert Patten, J. W. Barnard, E. G. Goulburn, Henry Pattison, James Barron, Sir H. Graham, Sir JameS Pechell, Captain Beckett, W. Granger, T. C. Pell, Sir R. Bellew, K. M. Greene, Thomas . Peel, Jonathan Benbow, John Gregory, W. H. Pendarves, Edward Berkeley, Craven Grey, Sir G. Pennant, Colonel Berkeley, Captain Grimsditch, T. Berkeley, H. F. Bernal, Ralph Blake, M. J. Blewitt, R. J. Bodkin, W. H. Bottleld, Beriah Philips, G. R. • Grosvenor, Lord R. Philippe, Sir R. Guest, Sir John Philpotts, John Hall, Sir Benjamin Pigot, David Hallyburton, Lord Plumridge, Captain Hamilton, W. J. Polhill, F. Hamilton, Lord C. Ponsonby, C. F. Bouverie, Edward P. Hanmer, Sir John P owell, Caleb Bowes, John Hoene, Archibald Protheroe, Edward Bowles, Admiral Batton, captain Palsford, Robert Bowring, Dr, Hawes, Benjamin Rawdon, Colonel Boyd, John: Hay, Sir A. L. Reid, Sir John Bridgernan, Hewitt Hayter, W. G. Reid, Colonel . Bright, John , Heathcoat, John Ricardo, J. L. Brocklehurst, J. Herbert, sydney nit ß ß : i i c ce me l b i i i iii ll E cyk :e , J n l j t i:l t. Brotherton, Joseph Heron, sir It. Browne, It. D. Hervey, Lord A. Hill, Lord Marcus Browne, W. Bruce, Lord E. Han dley, tf. , Buckley, Edmund H Rosa, D. Robhouse, Sir John Rurnbeld, C. E. Buikeley, Sir B. Hogg, J. W. Buller, Charles Holiond, Robert Russell, Lord John ßussell, Lo r d E. Busfeild, W. Hope, G. W. Russell, J. D . Butler, Colonel Horsman, Edward Rutherford, A. Butler, I'. S. oward, C. W. Bandon, Viscount Byng, George Howard, J. K. Scott, It. Byng, G. S. Howard, E. G.", Serope, G. P. Cardwell, E. Howard, P. H. Seymour, Lord Carew, R. S. Howard, Sir lt.- Seymour, Sir H. Carnegie, Captain Hughes, W. B. Smith, Benjamin Cavendish, C. C. Hume, Joseph Smith, J. A. Cavendish, G. H. Humphery, Aid. Smith, Vernon Chapman, B. Hutt, William Smythe, George Chichester, Lord J. James, William Smollett, Alexander Christie, W. D. James, Sir W. C. Somers, J.T. Clay, Sir W. Jennyn, Earl Somerset, Lord G. Clerk Sir George Jervis, John Somerton, Viscount Clive, B. H. Jocelyn, Viscount Somerville, Sir W. Cobden, Richard Johnson, General Stansfield, W. 8.. C Cockbura, Sir G. Johnstone, Sir J. Stanton, W. H. Colebrooke, Sir T. Johnstone, Hope Staunton, Sir G. Collett, John Kelly, Sir Fitzroy Stewart, P. M. Collins, William Labouchere, Henry Stewart, John Copeland, Ald. Lambton, H. Stuart, Lord J. Corry, H. Langston, J. H. Stuart, Henry Cowper, W. F. Lascelles, W. S. Strickland, Sir G. Craig, W. G. Layard. Captain Strutt, Edward Crawford, W. S. Leader, J. T. , Sutton, Henry Cripps, William Legh, G. C. Tancred, H. W. Carrie, R. Lemon, Sir C. Thesiger, Sir F. Curteis, H. B. Lineoln, Earl of Thornely, T. Dish:nevi Lord Lindsay, Captain Tollemache, F. J. Dalrymple, Captain Loch, James Towline, G. Darner, Colonel L oc kh art , A. E. Townely, John . Dashwood, G. H. Lyall, George Trail, George Denison, J. E. Macaulay, T. B. Trelawny, J. S. Dennistoun, John Mackinnon, W. A. . Trench, Sir F. W. D'Eyncourt, C. T. 1 1 I`Carthy, Alexander Troubridge, Sir B. Dickinson, F. F. ll`Donnell, J. M. fie' Sit Divett, E. Iff‘Geachy, F. A. Turner, Edmund Douglas, Sir C. B. IWideiil, Duncan Vane, Lord H. Douro, Marquis of 31 ` Taggart, Sir J. Vernon, G. Drummond, 11. Mahon, Vi scount Villiers, Charles Duff, James Mainwaring, T. Villiers, Viscount Dugdale, W. S. Maitland, T. Vivian, J. H. Duke, Sir J. M ang l es , R. D. Vivian, Capt a i n Duncan, Viscount Marjoribanks, S. Wakley,.Thomas Duncan, George . Marshall, William Walker, Richard Duncannon, Lord Marslan'l, Henry Wall, C. E. Duncombe, T. Martin, John Warburton, Henry Dundas, David Martin, C. W. Ward, H. CL Dundas, F. Masterman, John Watson, W. Dundas, J. C. Matheson, J. Wawn, J. T. Easthope, Sir john Meynell, Captain Wellesley, Lord C Eastnor, Viscount Milaes, R. M. Wilde, S. T. Ebrington, Viscount Milton, Viscount Williams, W. Egerton, W. T. Mitcalfe, H. Wilshere, W. Ellice Edward Mitchell, T. A. Wi l min g t on , Sir T Elphinstone, H. Moffatt, George Wood, Charles Escott, BickhaM Molesworth, Sir W. Wood, Colonel Esmonde, Sir T. Morpeth, Viscount Wood, Colonel T. Estcourt, T. G. Morris, David Wrightson, W. B. Etwall, Ralph Morison, General Wynn, C. W. Evans, William Morrison, James Vyse, R. Evans, Sir De Lacy Mostyn, E. M. L. Yorke, R.X. Ewart, William Muntz, G. I'. TELLERS. Feilden, William Napier, Sir Charlet) Young, John Fielden, John , _Neville, Ralph Baring, Henry MINORITY—NOES, 229. Ackers, James Duncombe, A. Manners, Lord C. Adore, Viscount Duncombe, 0. Manners, Lord J. Adderley, C. B. East, J. B. March, Earl of Alexander, N. Eaton, It. Maunsell, T. B. Alford, Viscount Egerton, Sir P. Maxwell, Hon. J. P. Allix, J. P. Emly-n, Viscount Mildmay, H. St. John Antrobus, E. Entwisle, W. Miles, P W. S. Arblithnott, IL Farnham, E. Miles, W. Archbold, Robert f Fellowes, E. Morgan, 0. Archdall, Captain Ferrand, W. B. Morgan, C. Arkwright, G. Milner, Sir E. Mundy, Edw, Miller Astell,"William Finch, George Neeld, Joseph Austen, Colonel Fitinsurice W. Neeld, John Bagge, William Floyer, John Newport, Viscount Bagot, William Forbes, W. Norreys, Lord Bailey, Joseph Forester, G. C. O'Brien, A. S. Bailey, J., jun. Forman, T. S. Ossulston, Lord Millie, William Fox, S. L. Packe, C. W. Balfour, J. M. Frewen, C. H. Pakington, J. S. Bankes, George Fuller, A. E. Palmer, Robert Barringtoa, Viscotult Gardner, J. D. Palmer, G. Baskerville, T. Gaskell, J. M. Pigot, Sir Robert Bell, Matthew Gladstone, Captain Plumptre, J. P. Bell, John Gooch, E. S. Pollingtownscount Benett, John Gordon, Hon. Capt. Powell, Col. Bennet, Philip Gore, W. R. 0. Rashleigh, William Bentinek, Lord G. Gore, W. 0. Rendlesham, Lord Bentinek, Lord H. Goring, Charles Repton, G. W. J. Blackburue, J. I. Granby, Marquis of Richards, Richard Blackstone, W. S. Grogan. Edward Boneston, Colonel Blakemoro, R. Male, R. JO. Round, C. Boldero, 11, G. llalford, Sir Henry Round, John Borthwick, Peter Hall, Colonel Russell, C. Bradshaw, J. Ilabey, T. P. Ryder, Granville D. Bramston, T. W. Hamilton, J. 11. Sanderson, R. Brisco, M. Hamilton, G. A. Scott, Francs Broadley, H. Harcourt, G. G. Seymer, Henry Keg liroadwood, H. Harris, Hon. Capt. Shaw, F. Brooke, Lord Heithcote, G. J. Sheppard, T. Bi ownrigge, J. S. Ileatheote, Sir W. Shirley, E. J. Bruen, Colonel Heneage, G. Shirley, E. P. Buck, Lewis W. Heneage, Edward Sibthorp, Colonel Buller, Sir J. Y. Henley, J. W. Smith, A. Burrell, Sir C. Hildyard, T. B. T. Smith, Sir H. Barronghes, H. N. Hill, Lord E. Sotheron, T. H. Campbell, &r H. Hinde, J. H. Spooner, Richard Carew, W. P. Hodgson, F. Spry, Sir S. Cayley, Edward 8. Holmes, W. A'Conrt Stanley, E. Chandos, Marquis of Hope, Sir J. Stuart, John Chapman, Aaron Hope, A. Taylor, E. Chelsea, Vise. otham, Lord Taylor, J. A. Choimondeley, H. Houldsworth, T. Thompson, Ald. Christopher, R. Hudson, G. Thornhill,:G. Churchill, Lord A. S. Hurst, R. H. ' Tollemache, John Chute, W. L. W. Hussey, T. Tower, C. Clayton, It. R. Ingestre, Visct. Trevor, G. Clifton, J. T. Inglis, Sir R. H. Trollope„ Sir J. Clive, Vise. Irton, S. Trotter, John Codrington, Sir W. Jollitfe, Sir WG. H. Tnrnor, C.: Cole, H. A. Jones, Captain Tyrrell, Sir J. Collett, W. R. Kemble, H. Verner, Colonel Colquhoun, J. C. Kerrison, Sir E. Vivian, J. E. Compton, H. C. Knight, F. W. Vyse, R. Connolly, Colonel Knightley, Sir C. Vyvyan, Sir R. B. Courtenay, Lord Lascclles, E. •Waddington, 11. N. Cresswell, B. Law, Hon. C. E. Walpole, S. 71. Davies, D. A. S. Lawson, Andrew Walsh, Sir J. H. Deedes, W. Lefroy, A. Williams, T. P. Denison, W. I. Lennox, Lord H. Wodehouse, E. Denison, E. B. Liddell, H. T. Worcester, Illarqtas Dick,,,Q. Lockhart, W. Worsley, Lord Disraeli, B. Long, W. Wyndham, J. 11. Dodd, George Lopes, liir R. Yorke, E. T. Douglas, Sir H. Lowther, Sir J. H. Douglas, J. D. S. Lowther, Colonel TELLERS. Dowdeswell, W. Lygon, Gen. Be7esford, Major Drax, J. S. W. K. Mackenzie, T. liewdegatc, C. N. Duckworth, Sir J. Mackenzie, W. F. THUUDAY, MAT 14. Question OULMIN SMITH. Motion made, and put, " That a Select Committee be ap pointed to consider the petitions of Mr. Toulmin Smith and the papers presented to the House relative to the case stated in those petitions." The House divided : BOSTON, STAMFOD, AND BIR MIN GiIAM (STAMFORD TO WISBECH) RAIL WAY. _ . The advantages thus developed the directors believed to be as many and great as can be derived through the medium of life assurance, and the accumulative plan may be consi dered as supplying all that was eficient in the ordinary sys tem. It exactly provides for the wants of those who desire that pecuniary provision in the event of death should ad vance with the increasing necessity for it; while to those who at any time wish to terminate their arrangements of this kind, it suggests a mode by which their object may be attained with the least possible loss or expense. As a pro vision for the young it must be considered invaluable, as at once guarding the parent from loss, while offering to the child an example of prudence and a stimulus to exertion. The directors of the City of London Lite Assurance Com pany, in concluding this short explanation of the accumu lative principle as applied to increase the usefulness of life assurance, venture to express their full confidence in the po pularity which it will acquire. They have resolved to carry it out in the way which will most conduce to its success, with caution and economy; and in endeavouring to secure the best scientific advice and assistance to golds them in the outset of their plan, they desire to give the strongest possible pledge that their subsequent course will be marked by a rigid regard to the security of the interests entrusted to their management. _ . As the system of Accumulative Assurance is peculiar to the City of London Life Assurance Society, the directors, in introducing it to the public, would only further state that the calculations respecting it have been made expressly for them by sir. J. M. Rainbow, their consulting actuary, whose talents and experience will be a sufficient guarantee for ac curacy and security. Extract from the Accumulative Assurance Table, adopted by the City of London Life Assurance Society, showing the amount assured at the respective ages mentioned for each 1001. deposited. Amount 0 I Amount Age ' 0 Amount Age. I Assured, A g — I Assured. I Assured. 20 25 r 5 1 X s. d. 7 270 0 0 8 271 4 9 9 270 12 5 10 269 16 7 15 255 6 0 X s. d. 240 7 8 225 6 4 210 5 11 195 10 8 181 2 5 1 X s. d, 45 167 2 11 50 154 4 7 55 142 14 6 60 132 11 0 WARWICKSHIRE AND LONDON RAILWAY. A special general meeting of the scripholders in the Warwickshire and London Railway Company was held on Sa turday, in pursuance of Sir R. Peel's sessional orders, at the Euston-square Station of the London and Birmingham Rail way, for the purpose of approving or otherwise of the fol lowing Bills A Bill for making a Railway from or near the city of Worcester to the London and Birmingham Railway, in the, parish of Weedon, with a branch to Alcester. A Bill for making a Railway from the London and Bir mingham Railway, is the parish of Hampton -in-Arden, in the county of Warwick, to the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway, in the parish of Ashchurch, in the county of Gloucester. A B,i l for making a Railway from the London and Bir mingham Railway, in the parish of Hampton-in -Arden, in the county of -Warwick, to the town of Ba.tbury, in the county of 'Oxford. Mr. G. CARR GLYNN was voted to the chair, and in open ing the bu-iness of the meeting, he said he held in his hand a note from Lord Warwick, who was the provisional chair man of the Company, in which the Noble Lord expre , sed his regret at being unable to attend, in consequence of a pressing engagement. He need not go into the merits of the Bill, because they had already been fully detailed some four or five times. They had all passed through standing orders, and now stood for committal in the week commencing the Bth of June, when the tug of war would be again' re resumed.—(Cheers. ) The Bills were then formally approved of, and the meet ing, which did not last more than five minutes, terminated. LONDON AND WINDSOR RAIL WAY. SPECIAL MEETING. A. special meeting of the proprietors, shareholders, and B cripholders of this Company, took place on Saturday, in the Crown and Anchor Tavern, in complianco with the sessional Orders of both Houses of Parliament. The SECREZARY read the advertisement convening the Meeting, and the ch a ir wa s t a k en a t one o ' clock by Major Boileau. The CHAIRMAN, having briefly announced to the meeting that it was in compliance with toe sessional orders that they had been convened together, in order to decide whether they would proceed with their Bill in Parliament, adverted to the satisfactory prospects of the Company. Resolutions were then proposed in favour of proceeding With the line, which were carried unanimously. A special general meeting of the shareholders of this company was held on Saturday afternoon, at two o'clock, at their offi ces , 1 8, Abingdon-street, estminster, in pursuance of the resolutions of the House of Common; to ascertain the decision of the scripholders as to whether they assented or dissented to proceeding with the Bill. The meeting, a numerous and respectable one, in the absence of the Chairman, R. Snootier, Esq., M.P.. was presided over by Thomas Macauley, Esq., the Vice- Chairman. The CHAIRMAN rose and said, the duty of presiding over the meeting devolved on bim, on account of the una voidable absence of the Chairman, Mr. Spooner, arising from engagements of a Parliamentary nature. They were aware, that they had been called together in pursuance orthe resolutions of the House of Commons, proposed by Sir Robert Peel, to ascertain their assent to, or dis. sent from, proceeding with their present Bill ; and the first business necessary to be done was, the reading of the notice calling the meeting, so as to be satisfied that it was duly and legally constituted. The Secretary then read the advertisement convening the meeting, which he said had been inserted in the Gazette, and the principal London and provincial news paper. The CHAIRMAN, in opening the business of the meet ing, said his first duty on behalf of his co-directors and himself was, to - return their cordial thanks for the per fect confidence the shareholders had hitherto shown and reposed in them, and which, he trusted, would bo still continued. He could assure them, when he became a director of the prAent company —and he believed he could say the same of his brother directors—his only object was to do everything in his power to advance the general benefit of the concern.—(Hear, bear.) As many of those who were now scripholders in the company were not original subscribers to the undertaking, they would not, he was persuaded, object to his occupying their attention for a short time, while he gave a n out li ne of the schem e f rom t h e period of its announcement to the present time. It was right he should do so, that they might understand the present position and pros p cts of the company, and in order to ac count for the change which ha,l been made in the scheme, as compared with its original intention aid extent. It would be remembered that the present company was originally formed a little more than a twelvemonth ago, the object of it being to con struct an independent line of railway from Boston and Lynn, by way of Stamford, to unite with the Leicester and Birmingham Railway. This arrangement had it view the formation of a direct line of communication between the west of England, the great manufacturing and iron districts, and the eastern counties. It was pro posed that the line shopld start from the Leicester and Birmingham Railway, at a point between Leicester and Rugby, and proceed alon : !, the valley of the Welland, through Stamford, to the port of Wisbech, there form ing a connexion with the Lynn and Ely Railway ; thus constituting a oirect communication between the east and west of England. He need not dilate on the great ex citement that then prevailed in the public mind—he need not dwell on the strong public opinion that prevailed in favour of direct lines from one side of England to an other. These were matters with which they were all familiar. It was in agreement - with this feeling, and to open up in the best manner en important district of country, that the present scheme had been brought out. The original numbelr of shares was 50,000 at 20/. each, or a capital of one million. But though 50,000 was the number of shares announced, it was deemed prudent not to issue more than 30,000, representing a capital of 600,0004 Ste mentioned this as it required explanation. The intentions of the directors towards the shareholders were bona fide. The 30,000 shares were issued, con ceiving that 600,000/. of a capital would be sufficient, and deeming that it would be well to keep 'beck the 20,000 shares to satisfy-landowners along the line, or in case of amalgamation with some other company ; the directors at the same time determinin, that whatever shares remained over, or the whole, were they notrequired for the objects stated, should be distribu-ed pro rata to all those who had signed the Parliamentary deed.— (Hear, hear.) Such was the resolution of the directors, and he could inform the meeting that though the shares rose to 21. premium, not (isle of these shares were issued by the dii ecturs, or appropriated by them.—(Cheers.) This brought him to explain the intentions of the directors as to proceeding with the line now agreed on. Shortly after they had made their surveys for their original line, early last summer, they were threatened with various competing schemes. To show the advantage of the line, and that there was every rea son of its proving a successful concern, he need but state there were no less than six other companies early last summer, and at the very commencement of the railway excitement, seeking to occupy the same ground.—(Hear, hear.) The larger part of them] were exphemeral schemes ; two of them, however, were of a different class, being put forward by two of the most powerful compa nies in she empire —the Midland Counties and the Lan don and Birmingham Railways. The one company • proposing the South Midland from the Midland Counties Railway, through Market Harborough to Huntingdon, which ran for nine miles along the course of this com pany's line ; and the London and Birmingham proposing a scheme from Rugby, by Market Harberough to Stam ford, taking up the larger portion of the central part of this company's line—the junction from the Leicester and Birmingham line to Stamford. The directors of this company did all they could to effect an amalgamation on sach terms as to admit the capital of 600,000/. on equitable terms, but without success. They had also lodged plans and sections for the whole scheme; but being certain of the power ful opposition of the two great companies referred to, the dir ec t ors t h oug h t i t b est to contract the scheme, andi to do what they could to secure an unopposed, cheap. and profitable line.—(Hear, hear.)--They thought it better to retire from a long and expensive contest with companies, especially such as the London and Birming ham, whose powers had been so often successfully proved, and against whom, if a victory were obtained, it would be at a tearful sacrifice ; and to give up the por tion of country these companies sought to accommodate, and to content themselves with that which remained—a line cheap, unopposed, and likely to be most remunera tive to. the shareholders.—(Hear, hear.) The line as now proposed was. twenty-two miles in length. It started at Helpstone, near Stamford, from a point on the Syston and Peterborough Railway, passing in a through out line thr ugh Market De-ping, Crowlanel, Thornee, and Parson's • Drove, to Wisbech, where it fell into the sta tion of the Lynn and Ely line. Near Helpstone it crossed the main line of the London and York, and near to Pe akirk it also intersected what was called the loop of the same line, the effect of which would be to con nect Boston, Lynn, and Wisbech in the directest man mer with London and the North of England. With this, and the junction that would take place with the other lines to the east and west a complete and direct system of railway communication would be formed with sll the principal parts of England. —The result of this alteration of plan was, that instead of the ex tended scheme formed, embracing a large capital, they were placed within a small compass, and had within their reach a line of easy construction unopposed, competing -with no existing line, nor likely to be so, and promising a eandsome per tentage on the capital embarked. The directors estimated that the construction of the whole of the line, with several small extension branches contemplated, would be 300,000/. They were fortunately unopposed by any land owners. He had received a letter from Mr Tycho Wing, the agent of the Duke of Bedford, giving the consent of his Grace to the passing of the line, which went six miles through his property. They had also the support of the Marquis of Exeter. The expense of the stations would be very letle. They would require no terminal stations, as the line started from _out for Helpstone station of the Lyston and Peterborough Railway, and terminated in the Wisbech station of the Lynn and Ely Railway. There would only be required a few road stations, at a trifling cost. It would also be important to remember that they would be at no loss for plant, as it would, in a short line like theirs, be better and cheaper to hire engine power from one of the two companies with which they would be in con nection. . lie had not at present considered which com pany should be applied to, but he had no doubt that the present line would fall into the hands of a more power ful company; and if that were the case, of which he had no doubt, and an amalgamation was found to be desirable, he should take care and see that it went into the hands of such a company at a remunerating rate to the present share holders.—(Cheers.) To this point the increasing energies of the directors would be directed. In regard to the amount of expense already incurred, he did not consider it would be prudent then to go into details, as it might be used in a prejudicial manner by their enemies. They must recollect that the past year had been a very expensive one in getting forward railway surveys, in comparison with former pe n t g h i e n y ee m rs ust ha ex d p r e e c; • yelled in champagne and turtle, riod. bentsE the expenses to have been considerable.—(A laugh.) s Still he must say, compared with many other companies, their expenses had been moderation itself. Further than this it would not be well at present to say. They had still a large sum of money in hand, and if the meeting gave their consent to proceeding, there would be no necessity for any further call till the Bill was passed into a law, as they would be enabled to meet the 10 per cent. without calling on the scripholders. S u pp os i ng the scheme went on, and no extensions were made. then the sharAelders need not expect the present capital to be called up, as no more than one-half of the 600,000/. would be required. On this account he- congratulated them on the keeping back of the 20,000 shares, and not having been led, away with the favourable state of things, when the shares were issued, to throw them into the market. He had now endeavoured to go through the history of the scheme to the present time, a duty wbeiethn shown their pr b e e s f e e which h e was aware he had but inadequately performed;and h e would now address himself briefly to proceeding present scheme stchbe Selectemebef Committee oreParlia of Parliament the li I t h al e: , of Commons, that the returns would yield ten per cent. on the capi ta l of the company ; and th at t h e li ne could be easily made for te il n a r i ) i n i e j, e . , stated. In proof of that, the Midland Company per mile. He had been over ofthiecil7:leaelxinteen'tat wheibetrtabeeteprr.esTenbtliinneepda countrylo,ooO/. did nut and it was of a most not interfere with a th r o u g favourableh single one of the drains, and it had received the support hear. That the Marquis of E xeter, most tavo Redf o ) rd and ' o i rt e h r e s.— D u l e ear f l a o s f se t d he t, D w r it a h ina t g hee C su o p nii 3o a rr i ; flow w ra e ble circum onclude, by were He would f circum stances in their f avour . intimating that the number of shares assenting to proceed with the Bill that had been placed in his hands by the secretary, and supplied to him by the share holders, was, 11.215; dissents 10. The SECRETARY intimated that there were, perhaps, more dissents in the room ; th e assents only ' had been received by him. A SIIAIMIOPPASI thought there must be some mis- take, as be had placed some shares in the secretary's hands, though not with the intention of assenting. The CHAIRMAN said the meeting had not yet voted, and he had merely stated the number of shares se cretary had assenting been place sih g and wit eo h f th th e e as proceeding the roceedin The number up to the opening of the proceedings was, as he had stated, 11 ; 215/. If any mistake had been made by any scripholder present in placing their votes in the hands of the secretary, it would be rectified. Whether they proceeded or not did not affect the directors more than as being shareholders to a considerable extent they had an interest in the success of the company. The directors considered the scheme a feasible and good one, and that they ought to go on with it, as it was sure to bring back their money with a good profit. The Bill had passed through the Select Committee of the House of Commons, and was now waiting the decision of this meeting before the third reading. A SHAREHOLDER called the attention of the Chairman to a return moved for by Mr. Labouchere, and printed by order of the House of Commons, setting forth the shares taken up by the provisional directors of railway com panies. From this it appeared that Mr. Spooner had not taken up any shares, and there were two other direc ens that had only taken up two shares each. The CHAIRMAN said that, with regard to Mr. Spooner, he had taken but little interest in their proceedings from the beginning, and his name had been put on the list at the time the line was brought forward, so as to give con fidence to the public in this undertaking. A SHAREHOLDER called the attention of the Chair man to a member of the Managing Committee, who was represented in the returns to hold only five shares. The DIRECTOR to whom allusion was made explained, that at the time this railway was projected there was another brought forward in connexion with it, which promised to be of c insiderable advantage. As it was considered advisable that the directors of the present company should hold a number of shares in the other company, it did so happen that he took a considerable number of that company's shares, and did not take up, at toe same time, those allotted him in the present com pany. He found out his mistake when too late, and since then he had bought a sufficient number of shares. He thought, therefore, he had acted, as far as he could, in the manner a director was bound to do. The shares he bad purchased he now possessed. Mr. LECHMERE did not think there was any ground of complaint against the directors. With regard to the scheme, he was satisfied that it was a good and honest one, and would prove remunerative to the shareholders. Referring to the Bill, he fouud the amount of capital stated at 252,0001, and the shares at 12,600, of 201. each. Now, if the capital stated was too low, and 300,0001 was fixed to be the amount, it would be a desirable arrange ment, as then that would make the 30,000 shares issued to be to/. each. If the Bill could be so altered as to make the capital 300,000/, to be raised in , 30,000 shares of 101., it would harmonise well with their past proceed ings. He. would also suggest that there should be fur ther tinse,given in the Bill for the execution of the line, and the raising of the capital. It would be a satis factory arrangement, if the period for finishing the . line were . extended, and a clause in serted that no call should be made 'till a year after the passsing of the Act. Many other com panies had done this. He had no doubt the line would be a good paying concern. It was a line, also, which he believed had received the unanimous support of the Select Committee that had sat on it. He hoped all in the room, like. himself, would decide to go on with the undertaking. The proceedings of the directors, he was satisfied, had not been like that of many (Ali r companies. He woes told, last week, of one that had only passed through tiie standing orders, yet had spent 36,0001. out of 46,000/. of deposits.—(Hear, hear.) He could not too highly commend the proceedings of the directors in regard to the 20,003 unissued shares, when they had every, inducement to issue them, and put_ the profit in their own pockets.—(Hear, hear.) So satisfied was he with theieconduct, that i , e would have great pleasure in proposing a rote of thanks to them at the end of the meeting. A SHAREHOLDER again recurred to the return of the House of Commons in respect to the shares taken up by several directors. The CHAIRMAN said the returns were, in several in stances, very inaccurate. With respect to the member of the Managing Committee that had been referred to, those who knew him could not for a moment believe he could do anything but what was strictly fair and re putable. Mr. PRITCHARD said his was a case in point, re had signed the deed for a considerable number more shares than appeared in the document. Mr. FRANKLIN thought the shareholders ought to be satisfied with the explanation. No one had been more strongly opposed to proceeding with the railway than himself, and he had acted with others who thought the scheme should be broken opt But, before that was done, they thought some investigation should take place. The result of that investigation had changed his opinions, and, instead of opposing the line, he would now support its—(Hear, hear.) He bad now good reason for thinking that the through traffic would yield 10 per cent., leaving out of calculation the local traffic. He also thought it would be impossible to go on without effecting an amalgamation, in which he had no doubt they would obtain satisfactory terms. With respect to the reduction of the amount of the shares, it was a incter. .of little moment. He was satisfied that not more than 5L or 61. per share of the present 30,000 shares would be required for the line, as the rest could be raised on loan. Supposing they got 150,0001. from the shareholders, there would be no difficulty in raising 100,000/. by loan. Whether the shares were called 101 or 20/. wa3 of little consequence, as the real question with them was, how much would they be required to pay up? If the gentlemen who referred to the pro ceedings of the directors, and complained of one or two of them not taking up shares, had investigated their proceedings as he had done, he was - sure all opposition on their part would be withdrawn. The CHAIRMAN said, witla regard to altering the shares, there would be great Parliamentary difficulty, as they would, in that event, have to recommit the Bill, and go through various expensive forms. Practically, the alte ration would be of no importance to the shareholders. In respect to a clause not to make any calls for a twelve aanth, to do so might operate injuriously to the pro gress of the Bill, and might favour the supposition that they were not in earnest in pushing the scheme forward. He did not think, however, that any call would have to be made till two-thirds of the year was gone. The great point with them was, to get the line carried out as soon as possible, in order to make satisfactory terms with other companies. A SHAREHOLDER wished to know if all the 30,000 had been paid on. Mr. BAXTER replied that 1/. 2s. per share had been paid on the whole, making 33,0001. At the suggestion of several shareholders, the heads of the Bill before Parliament, as amended by the Com mittee, was read. After a few observations relating to the interest agreed to be paid on the deposits, but which was of no materia conseq ience, mr: C. lievcocx, mayor of Stamford, said he held 511 shares in the present company. A few - weeks ago he was opposed to proceeding, but he , had since changed his mind. He now thought it would be cne of the best little lines in the kingdom. It would be of great advan tage for carrying corn from Boston to Norfolk, ins .. ead of, as at present, by water. He had looked at the rate 4 tolls, and while the time would be so much reduced, the price of conveyance would be but one half it was as compared with the water. Owing to the uncertainty of the water conveyance, he had himself lost from 2001. to 3001., because he could not get the gr a i n b roug h t b y water delivered in time. He believed the transit Of vegetables along the line would also be enormous ; for while potatoes in the neighbour hood of Lynn and Boston were selling at 2s. 2d. per cwt., they were ss. Bd. in Birmingham, and they could be taken to Birmingham and Derby for 7s. 6d. a ton. There would likewise be a large traffic in stone and lime, and live and dead beasts. He could bear witness that the feeling in Stamford was all but universal in favour of the line. Mr. GALE inquired how the 12,600 shares of the Bill were to be allotted among the holders of the 30,000 shares Z. Mr. BAXTER—Upon a rateable arrangement, accord ing to their present stock. In answer to another Shareholder, Mr. BAXTER said the line crossed the river above Wisbech, and that the crossing had the sanction of the Bedford Level Commissioners. The CHAIRMAN, after a few preliminary observations, then moved the following resolution : " That this meeting of holders of scrip and bankers' receipts representing scrip in the proposed Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham Railway Company, con vened and constituted conformably to the sessional or ders of the Houses of Lords and Commons, having had m submitted n t o co t r h p e o m r a a t i c n o g p y t h o e f s the B C Bill m n p o a w n y, before do a l p ' pa rove 1 i a thereof, and do authorise the directors to prosecute the same in the present session of Parliament."—Carried unanimously. Mr. ARMS, of Lynn, seconded the motion, and re marked on the advantage s the eastern district would en joy by such a through c ommunication to Birmingham. The residents at Lynn at present received their hard ware goods from Birmingham in a most circuitous manner. They had to travel by railway from Birming ham to Hull, 150 miles, and then to be brought by sea to Lynn. Now, if this line were formed, they would come 28s. d ou i r w 6e h also a a a distance ton—very ofmiles,ataco r s a t s. He h h lonly underl portion the present rates. of the Birming ham export trade to the continent would be done through the port of Lynn. So strong was the feeling of the in but tyeryo fm considerable uoen 30 in habitants of Lynn in favour of this line that, though many rival schemes had been proposed, and though one Of them had called a public meeting of the inhabitants, and employed barristers and other agents from London t willing, for a resolution in favour of the present line was o advocate their cause, still their eloquence was una "carried unanimously by. the meeting in question: nimously agreed to. - - • The resolution was then put from the elixir, and una- The CHAIRMAN then proceeded to cast up the votes. The assents up till then were 11,215, being more than sufficient for compliance with the resolutions of the House of Commonl Still, in order that as many votes as possible might be recorded, the secretary would con tinue to take them till the close of the meeting. Mr. llArcocK then moved— " That the Chairman of this meeting, and the solicitor of the C om p any , b e author i zed and requested to affix their respective signatures to the said Bill, and to any certifie%t&of the holding of this meeting which the forms of Parliament may require." Mr. PRITCHARD seconded the resolution, which was also agreed to. Mr. LECHMEHE moved a vote of thanks to the Chair man and directors for their zeal, ability, honesty, lute , EAST INDIA HOUSE. The Court of Proprietors was specially summoned on Fri -4,R to confirm the annuities to Viscount Hardinge and LadGough, liough, as unanimously agreed to on the 13th instant. The Chairman (Mr. Hogg, M.P.), presided, and the proceedings of the last Court were confirmed. The CILAIRMAI•7 said, that after the feeling expressed at the last meeting he need not make any observations, except calling upon the clerk to read the resolutions now bro ug ht forward for the proprietor's consideration. “ At a general Court of the East India Company, held on Friday, the 15th of May, 1846, "Resolved unimously,—That this Court confirm the re solution of the 13th instant, approving the unanimous reso lution of the Court of Directors of the 29th ult., granting to Lieutenant-General the Right Hon. Viscount Hardinge, Knight Grand Cross of the most Honourable Military Order of the Bath, an annuity of five thousand pounds (5,0000, upon the grounds, and in the manner therein stated, subject to the approbation of the Right Hon. the Board of Com missioners for the affairs of India. " Resolv e d unan i mou sly—That this Court confi rm th e i r re solutio n of the 13th inst., approving unanimously the re solution of the Court of Directors of the 29th ult., granting to General Lerd Gough, Knight Grand Cross of the most Honourable Military Order of the Bath, Commander-in- Chief of the Forces in the East Indies. an annuity of two ' thousand pounds (2,0000, upon the grounds and in the Manner therein stated, subject to the approbation of the Right Honourable the Board of Commissioners for the affairs of India." The CHAIRMAN considered it would not be necessary to read the contents of the Bill to be passed. , In noticing the Bill, it will be sufficient to describe it as— ' The draft of a Bill to enable Lord Hardinge to receive the full benefit of the annuity now granted, without any diminu tion of his salary as Governor-General of India." The DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN seconded the motion.—(Cheers.) Sir P. LAURIE agreed with the resolution proposed, and be hoped to see statues placed in that room to the gallant 2rien who had so nobly supported the interests of their country. A AtOPRIETOR hoped that the great services of Sir H. Smith would not be pa,,,ed over. After a few remarks fr.,m Mr. Fielder, Major Randall, Mr. Weeding, and others, the resolutions were uuanimoesly con firmed. LLOYD'S SHIPPING. LONDON,,,_ MAY 16 - Wind N.E., light breeezeS and cloudy. Ifni" , MAY 'lb, A.M.-Wind - Wind E. N .E., fresh.-Arrd. Telegraph, , aniburgh ; rrecisfoonr, Cape of Good Hope ; Treflig, Ekstrom, Rio Janeiro, and kirand svea, Pernambuco, arid sailed fur Gothenburg; 4.1 ...,_ e a,,rArtis, Azores. Sid. John Cock, stenning, Monte Video. I.,,: t l y ts, n t, t .d oin the River and Sailed, Sea Queen, Word, Hobart Town; K . ar, , Nrigtipure Cork , n , Orator, Boman, Calcutta ; Aboukir, Scott, 4,,,, ~,Lo.:utta ; Syria, Sunda:m.ls, Bombay ; Universe, Ritchie, liend:,? o -ephertless, Simpson, 31auritius ; Premier, Cidly, Jamaica • c ain ," -E. litui, en , mere, New York ; Alert, Davidson, Quebec :, b - Obell, Jack, ii-tto. b,•_9l:lrautiTn, Max 15.-Wind S.-Arrd. 14th, Rob Roy, Dryburgh, -.t o o _d_ ailetrO. tort? PAItTAtOtYrn, MAY 14.-Acrd. Nimrod, Bembay; Queen Vic o"; -New °Heat s. sailed I 'ALSIOUTH, MAY 14. 2 -Arrd. the Experimental Squadron, and wesward. Clark, 31,ur 10.-Wind S.E. to N.E.-Arrd. 14th, Unity, , Aden ; h, ,--, Wal es , W i t h sa lis spat, chair plates started, litc., having b een r tact with the Good Intent, of Fuwey. Sid. Triton, Quebec. Oa EWP ° I IT. MAY 15.-Wind NA .-Std. Agnes, Tnompson onet, Nickol, Grenada ; Elizabeth, St. Thomas; 0110, Quebec. Sw t "SEA, MAY 15.-Wiud E..- A.tril. Appleton, Penhorwood, Cuba. s.w., lignt.-Arrd. 15, Duncan, Cal triZti,V'E. aPoOL, MAY 14.-Wind S. Richmond Mushart, Phil 4 , •,'L.,, Horatio, Zobaran, Hamm: sail ; di Pul a; Lady sale, Anderson, Staten island; Arabian, ilawkinas, ito. p L ea ,,, , , rhicess Charlotte, .Nickels, St. Andrew's, New Brunswick ~,,"_"er, Phelan, Quebec. Ai- _'"'' ' I ) ; Ni AY 14.- - .are Wind S.W.-Std. Isabella Cooper,. Guthrie, tPere and Whampoa ; Eleanore, Wakeharn, Jamaica , Jane t T n eo, Dodd, Quebec 11okr na xl , MAY 14 - . Wind E.N.E.-Sld. 13, Simeon Hardy, Rey ? ti. liarbadoes. . o rLE, MAT 1 3. - -Sld. Superb, Brown , ndland. Westman, St. Do king:. Poirriatin, MAT 12.-Acrd. Wilhelmine, Newfou Opp . 74 _ -A.r.c03 0 ,,, '." l / 1 h. J o rsTor., M AT bell, X. 8.; sld ----,,, Quebec. * CARDIFF MAY ' Coax, N ; ; - ", - , 10 . - -Sld. H. Rockwell, Bread, Savannah. Caleut - , PcictiersCow, ditto • be; ,- ".--- Wind, N.N.E.-sld. 13, Coromandel!, Fraser, ,reneral Palmer Forsyth, ditto; British Sovereign, Palmer, ditto; Lahroe, Bart, ditto; Edmundsburg, , Derin *tart ditto ; Duch Y Of Northumberland, Withers, ditto. 1 .,, 11Q TA, May 13. -Sid. Racer, St. Jolla's, New Brunswick. Sox ' F AT, MAT 14.-Std. Miltiades, Cowan, Quebec. The Linnet, twelve Of teat port, from Troon to Marseilles, Mturdered yesterday, foul Miles east of the Mull of Galloway ; crew saved. fotn s .;:`, STria, Cox, arrived at Liverpool from St. George's Bay, New- Of i,, --a nd, sailed ' on the 22d lilt., and passed through grea,. quantities ut e . . B , and icebergs, between the meridian of 59 and 54 West lon., **' 30 and 46 N. lat. The fl.-lds of ice app,ared to be getting thin M& 14.—Arrd. Lady Evans, New York; Rebecca, IL—Wind, E., freak.—Arrd. Dockfonr, Bache, St. Clard, Cook, Jamaica; sir Henry POttillger, Camp- OR A D ine Trum, MAY 15.—The h.iad-quarters of the 65th Zyticaynestearire under orders to embark, on Monday, the 18th Instant, board the ship Java, for New South Wales, and, "' I-I'l g to the measles 011 that the inarit.itieeres being in the regiment, the Horse Guards directs their fam are __Eileen, non - commissioned officers, and men, with kt an or child on board, will not bees,. womnot to proceed in that vessel, consequently there sistant- Colonel C. E Go tent child . By this order Lieutenant proceeding with the Surgeon Park are both prevented others, who are nait4 e a t i Tt, as also the sergeant-major and many orders for embarkati on coi isit;eu str ength of the regiment under present pittien:ii rank and jan,te sth, 6th, and light compa n i es ot the grenadier in tfihteewwmhPolenilthseerg2eda.n3tds, 16 corporals, 19 drummer s , an ' r s t .OPrising with the following calkers : —Major James Tessier, Captain St. Leger B a n ,.',, ‘ „Cantain Lreutettant C. A. Cuthbert., la e - n' i n captain W. Ttzherbert de tenant R. H. Macgregor, .E.,4". 1 t Thomas BarCitld,Young, ralsign Cnarles J. Ewen, .Ensign R . ~,,rtneis Percival rD Lieu- Marshall, Ensign J. J. Eudgeoa, Surgeon siegg, Ensign w rotrt, ~ W. Marshall, and Adjutant C. Ithatiga n . Prendergait, Pa mF. T. teArcey is on leave, and Captain George F. AVrain OliverYßassrltteerr , °llll Calvin, convict -ship, in charge of a convic r tS Y is ott boarct the , -Aptain St. Leger Barry. On Saturday, the 16th in uard in n en of thent from the provisional battalion, consistin ef tant, a detach drummer, and 42 rank and file, under command of Ca 2t ser geants. i Wood, 31st Regiment; with Lieutenant Warren ahn, htn P ut ain J. Green arch from this garrisoa en route for duty at Harwich 571h ' will at taat station a similar detactiment ot the 6oth, underc,o. to relieve C aptain Peter Wolf and Lieutenant J. Hervey Elton raw n e unaud of ret urns to this garrison to j oin their re g im ent. The two r' Which f ornied companies of the Chatham di v ision or Chelsea Pen• loeneenfly e ent ered to assemble at Chatha m nest week to r drill, and thefvshaorles °t the four companies, each comprising one sergeant major, 4 s e , teatits, 4 corporals, 2 driunmers, /tad 60 rank and tile, will after that til es for a few days exercise. Tile two receptly f ormed cotn a es are incorporate+l with. the 2 P ensioners. of the Royal Marines. ~'" a bta.n E. J. Vaughan, staff-oflicer of the district, takes command vl these veterans of citv,dry, artillery, and line regiments. Iff E, F tf.UIT CaoPB IN IiENT. I tit, • 1 . ..1,ards around this ~ garden of En;land" e pow luxuriantly in bloom, ad, t , 411 d the weather remain favo are itow lLsurlanhly in bloom, and, the weather renlalti utvr,trabic, there is every prospect of a nlidant crops.— Maids:one Journal 4 ,,, t.,kIJTION TO I'IIADE.SMEN. — A man of gentlemanly olfraranee has defrauded several tradesmen in the metropolis by an c i rl ,, n g forged cheques' bove the amount of the goods he has ordered Att A i e ceivaig the surplus in cash. It may be useful to inform the Upholster the has thus obtained money under false pretences of an dayfst, a coal-merelistit, linendraper, and a . pastry . cook, in one Itolte e :___.lveek. Information should be given immediately to the Ab ou t " . ..Ino have received the tollowing description of the offender : real e , tni rty Years of a+ s e, five feet seven inches high, pale corn .rense,..! arid small whiskers ; had on a black dress coat, gray tweed ia 4 ' 5, and 11,1 d, Waistcoat. H e • called at two of the shove places c oat, ebni e• Tile ,, and i ., le same description of man, dressed in a black frock " n ° ltbo y 4 resell Lug hint elf as a sheemaker, obtained money under 0 eirCutestAii• ,- tw.A u.orn a tvatbenteller. gri ty,an d perseverance in.forwarding the interests of the shareholders. On this being seconded, a short discussion ensued, in the progress of which the Chairman, in answer to a shareholder, intimated that the directors had taken up 4,000 shares, and paid on them. The motion was then put and agreed to, amidst considerable applause. A considerable number of additional assents were given in and recorded, after the numbers announced by the Chairman, but the total was not intimated when the meeting closed. DINNER TO LORD DUDLEY ,on STUART. o A s dinner he cause Saturdaywasgiven evening, by Stuart,S a t dal r i t re a r t sofhis exertions on behalf o f t h e ex il e d P o l es an d Willis's Rom of Poland; and also for the purpose of presenting to his Lordship a piece of tapestry worked by the ladies of that country. Nearly 200 were present. Lord Morpeth, M.P., presided. The guest of the evening sat on his right, and Earl Fortescue on his left. Amongst the assemblage we observed the Marquis of Lorn, Lord Wharncliffe, Lord James Stuart, Lord &teflon, M.P., Lord Worsley, M.P., Lord Ebrington, M.P., Lord Cranstoun, Count Zamoyski, Lord Charles Fitzroy, Lord Oranmore, Hon. W. Couper, Hon. R. Boyle, Hon. Stewart Wortley, Hon. B. L. Moseley, W. Hutt, Esq., M.P., Col. Ferguson, M.P., M. J. O'Connell, E sq ., M.P., G. 11 Craig, For, Esq., •a . T M.lll.,.,LCaanpgtasitnonT, oEsciwns., hemnd.p., M.P., Col. n, Esq. Eq., M AI .I P ~ I). Barclay, E sq ., M.Y., W. D. Ch r i st i e, Esq., M.P., F. H. Vivian, Esq., M.P., Sir W. Stirling, General Caulfield, W. Wilbraham, Esq., Charles Dickens, Esq., J. F. Stuart, Esq., Dr. Worthington, the High Bailiffs of Southwark and Westminster, Rev. E. Cooksly, &c. &c. Among the ladies in the gallery were the Marchioness of Lorn and Lady Caroline Gower, Lady Mary Howard, Countess Dowager of Morley, Lady Frances Sandon, and Hon. Miss Ryder, Lady Charles Fitzroy and Miss Fitzroy, Lady James Stuart and Miss Stuart, Countess Fortescue and Miss Geale, Hon. Mrs. Sevmour Bathurst, Lady Caroline Darner, and Lady Louisa Darner, Hon. Mrs. Singleton, Lady George Stuart, and Miss Towns bend son. Mrs. Abbott, Mrs. John Abel Smith, Mrs. J. H. Vivian and Miss Vivian, Mrs. Gibson Craig, Mrs. Thomion Hankey and Miss Hankey, Hon. Mrs. Wynd ham and Miss 'Wyndham, Countess Grabowski. The usual loyal and national toasts having been dis posed of, and warmly responded to, Count VALERIAN KRASINSIU, in rising to present the tapestry, said—My Lord, it is with a feeling of the highest gratification that we come to deliver to you the message with which we have been entrusted by our countrywomen. The long and unwearied exertions which you have been making in behalf of our injured country, and yourfaithful adherence, through good and bad report, to her cause, have rendered your name an object of veneration and gratitude to all true Poles, of every condition, creed, age, and sex, and before a grate ful posterity will award the just and well deserved meed of praise to your merits, you may, even now, according to the expression o f a great poet, "read your hist or y in a nation's eyes." Yes, it is not only the history of Poland which will have to record the services rendered by you to that country, but I think that it is a subject upon which the future historians of Great Britain will dwell with satisfaction, because it is a fact, perhaps, without its parallel in the annals of the world, that the citizens of one country should embrace the cause of a foreign and distant nation, with whom they previously had but little contact, from no other motives except , that injustice had been done to that nation. Such is, however, precisely the case of yeti, my Lord, and of the Nigh-minded individuals who, regardless of the religious and political differences by which they may be divided, have all united in the name of right, justice, and humanity, in order to vindicate by (heir joint efforts the cause of injured Poland. It may be therefore' affirmed, without any presumption, that as long as the principles of right, justice, and humanity shall remain sacred to mankind, their vindication in the case of Poland, by British citizens, will constitute not the least bright page in the history of this great and free country. However melancholy and depressed is now the condition of Poland, the spirit and the hopes of her children remain unabated. It is, indeed, an extraordinary and novel feature in history, that the severe reverses with which all the efforts that had been made by our nation to recover her indepen dence have hitherto been attended, have, instead of damping her hopes and spirit, only served to increase the intensity of these feelings. It is, therefore, our firm belief; that the unconquerable feeling of nationality, which may be said to prosper by storm and to grow under oppression, and which has hitherto been the cause of so Much suffering to our nation, would not be implanted into our hearts by the hand of an all-wise Providence, which does nothing in vain, without some .rent and good object. We therefore h um bl y h ope that le severe trials to which the Almighty has, in His in scrutable ways, subjected our nation, through the in tensity of the feeling to which I have alluded, were ne cessary, in order to prepare us to resume, free from the errors of our ancestors, but preserving their virtues, that station which we have occupied for centuries ceasingamon gs t a s t he our c o ef to Europe. S theen e mi t e r s e Strenuous ou ou s and r u countryn has ever been, and, we trust, will continue to be, our gratitude to her friends is no less strong; and although our best' friends could give to our country only their sympathies, the moral support which our cause derives from this sympathy of the noble hearts amongst other nations, is no less val ue d b y us t h an would be any material assistance they could afford to the same cause. This feeling of gratitude is particularly manifested by the women of Poland, ,who never fail to take a prominent part in all that is national. It becomei not us to expatiate on the merits of our own country women, but it may be said without any exaggeration, that they have behaved, under all the trying circumstances m t o nawhicher worthy h country has a t s iae been d au s g o h frequently l b s i u o b n j , e subject, p , in r ea eminent in all that most adorns their sex. It is now in the name of these countrywomen of ours, that we are offering to you, my Lord, a testimonial of national gra titude. It is a . piece of tapestry, worked by Polish la dies, and representing the arms of the ancient provinces of our country, grouped round those of Poland and Li thuania, with an inscription in our national language, which signifies in English, " The sisters of the exiles to their protector." These now dissevered and discon solate parts of a once mighty kingdom, which are repre sented by this testimonial, are still looked to as their ideal fatherland ,by those whose hearts cannot rest until they have brought back their ideal to the world of reality ; and this we hope will be 'accomplished, by the help of God, at no distant date. Then our country will testify her gratitude to her friends in adversity, in a manner worthy of th e cause they have embrace d The fabric consists of dark blue cloth, and beautifully embroidered. It is about twelve feet long, and ten feet broad. At the top are these words :—"Siostry WO nancow ich Opiekunowi" (the sisters of the exiles to their protector.) 7 In the centre are the arms of the kingdom quartered with those of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, surmounted by the White Eagle and Crown of Poland, and wreathed with the civc oak and the military laurel. The Order of the White Eagle is suspended from the arms. The twenty-seven ancient provinces of Poland and Lithuania are each represented by their respective escutcheons. The CHAIRMAN said, the interest in the transaction of which they had just been attentive and sympathising spectators would form a proper prelude to the toast which they would expect him to give, in order to comple and crown the whole.—(Cheers.) That audience must now be properly wound up to receive the name, and to drink the health of Lord Dudley Stuart.—(Hear.) Next to the touching token of regard which had just been con ferred upon him, and which must possess a double source of interest to him, in being both natural and feminine —(Cheers)—worked by the fair daughters of the land which he had made half his own—(Loud applause)— worked by them with all the assiduity without any of the misgivings of Penelope.—(Hear.) And the next striking tribute to his deserts was the attendance of such an assembly.—Hear, hear.) But beyond those two toasts he begged the company to bear with him for a few short moments, and his lordship, who, perforce, must listen to the brief estimate which he should venture to submit of the reasons which had brought them there that night.—(Cheers.) He consi dered it as a necessary part of his functions to tell him, even in his own presence, what he thought of him, and as that was the reason which had induced him to come there, he hoped he should not prove altogether an un faithful, though, he feared, an imperfect interpreter of the reasons which h a d i n d uce d th em all to co me t oo .— (Cheers.) One thing they might depend upon—that h e would not say one ,w.zd more than he fully thought th e occasion warranted. The exertions of their noble gue s t, then, would not have been misplaced in the days of clas s i c heroism, if he had stood on the prow of argoses; or, in later days of chivalry, if he had entered the lists as a knight of Palestine. He said this becau se b e t h ought s his mind was cast in someort of harm ony with that h a d carried they were embodied • but his noble friend of benevol classic and chivalrous age, and in the mode in w hi ch his high talents into that work ence.--(Cl ieers.) His charity, indeed, like that of all the tr u l y eha citable, was so finely and so sensitively tuned as to answer only to one "chord —to one strain of suffering—to the miserjt of any one country; but though it found a range abroad, it did not forget it s daily work at home.—Hear, hear.) But the field i n which his exertions had been most signalized, and i n re ference to which mainly they had met there that night, was Poland.—(Loud cheers.) In his plac e i n Parliament, —h e (L or d Morpeth) w i s h e d h e h a d it still —in the advocatedsnlblies the o t cause audience rooms of Ministers, inthepubl e public as his countrymen, in the course of p r i vate intimacy, he haddi o sc f re th et e ly rols discreetly, resolutely, and untiringly_which w as the cause of the brave, the gifted, and th e u nf or t unate—Meae, hear) —the cause of exiles w ith ou t a home — o f a people with out a country.—(Loud cheers.) Nay, more, his N)ble Friend, in prosecuting this great work, had shown a courage which he (Lord Morpeth) believed in his con science would- not be shown in very many cases, excep t by men prepared to stand unmoved. bet* a volley of the enemies' artillery, or to walk unmoved to the scaffold or the stake.—(Hear, hear.) He had shown this courage, and had pursued this great work without heeding failtire or being set down as a bore—not minding it being said by persons less 'Warmly impressed with the real sacred. ness of the object which he had in view, .4 H ere con i es Dudley Stuart with his eternal Poles." But over and above all this—even the jeers of the frivolous and the obstructions of the interested, and the fears of the timid, and the scruples of the mean—(Hear)—his Noble glow of her former glories in her Friend had persevered and prevailed, and still lived to persevere and prevail while there was suffering• to feel for—while there was work to do—while Poland had a )d the glow in whatever degree they ight obtain sympathy in her perilous n whatever degree they wished Eng awtb e noi a ssd r ho dm i e in 4 h kr e o r hcl o e ahu y ne r a sr a n ; land while she was great also to be generous, he was sure th e y would give ittoppers, cheers, and hearts to the , , health of Lord Dudley Stuart.—(Loud and long con tinued cheering.) Lord DUDLEY STUART then rose, and was received with great applause. He said it was impossible for him to find words to express his feelings. He begged them to accept his thanks, which, if clothed in the most elo quent language of the most finished orator would be science--of of 'writers, and had o nif more worthy, but they would not b e more sincere.— (Cheers.) Wh en he looked round, and saw how large members the assemblage was, and o f w h om i t was composed—of the . ers, whose legislature, works had s served their country i n hi gh offices of men distinguished in th e various branches of leaiming and c a m de en w their h n o am European, and which would make the writers them selves immortal—(Cheers)—of gentlemen filling the highest posts in the world of commerce —when he saw that to that assembly had not been denied the , pr esence of p esence of the ministers of religion—that it was illuminated by ladies of beauty and of fashion— overwhose a (Rear, hear)—presided by one pproval alone was e noug h to make one glad—(Hear) —one whose talents and high h and the manne r i n w hi ch he had so worthil borne c aractr the part assigned t o hi m i n the government of fi is country, had try, had made his name known throughout the civilisedn world—who, by his countrymen of all parties was uni versally respected. Wh en he knew this, and that it was congregated for the purpose of presenting hhis with a token of the regard with which the ladies of Poland were pleased to look upon his endeavours on behalf of their country, was it, he asked, any wonder that he was at a loss to find words to express his gratitude —was it any wonder that he considered that the proudest moment of his life?—(Cheers) But he saw something more in that assembly than a mere compliment to him self ; he could not but regard it then as a recognition, to a certain degree, of the justice of the great cause to which 'he had allied himself.—(Cheers.) He would not attempt to commit any one to opinions he did not hold ; he would not suffer himself to be deceived by any wishes of his own, but he was. proud to say that in that room he met men of different parties, of different faith, and of different feelings on all subjects. He knew that many of them differed from him in their appreciation of the cause of Poland, and still more as to the practicability and mode of promoting the regeneration of that country; but he believed, if their attention had been directed to the subject with the same intensity as his, that their conclusions and his would not fall short.—(Cheers.) If their thoughts had been so directed, they would see, as it had been described by an eminent Conservative Mem ber of the House of Commons, " that the cause of Poland is not only the cause of humanity and Christian civiliza tion, but that in it are involved the interests of religion, the improvement and extension of commerce, the faith of treaties, and the honour and well-being of Europe."— (Loud cheers.) But he felt that there were others, not in that assembly, who also deserved his thanks, and he was anxious to seize the only opportunity afforded him of assuring the ladies who had presented him with the token of their regard, of his deepest gratitude for the gift. His thanks directly given would be to them a source of sorrow, captivity, and exile—(Hear)—but that glorious engine for the diffusion of information, burst ing through police and prohibition as the light of the sun bursts through the clouded horizon, .the press, would carry to them his thanks—(Cheers)—and by its aid they would learn that the precious gift on which they had been pleased to employ their time and exercise their skill, and which they had been pleased to confer upon him as an appreciation of such poor services as he had been able to render to the cause of their country-- they would hear of the interest attached to it, the ad miration it excited in that assembly, and of his sym pathy, of his interest, and gratitude, and pride. The history of Poland testified to the high qualities of the women of that country in all time past. A queen of Poland, betrothed to William of Austria, but who sacri ficed her love, and married the Duke of Lithuania, who was half a savage, for the purpose of converting _millions of her countrymen to her religion, formed a splendid example of heroism rarely equalled; and the patriotism evinced in 1831 by the women of Poland, and particularly by the Countess Claudia Potocka, who de voted her time to attend on the sick in the hospitals of her country. Every hour of her time, and every farthing of her money, were devoted to relieving the misery of those who had defended their country. There was also another example of patriotism—the wives and sisters of Poland, so far from wishing to keep their dearest rela tions from rushing into danger, when their country was concerned, had even been the first to incite them to do so ; thus the influence which a mother possessed, ren dered essential service to a nation. It was not long since, that a lady of fashion paid the following compli ment to a Polish lady of noble blood, of extreme beauty, and great accomplishments, now dead, one of whose sons was the present Count Zamoyski. She said she was " mad about her country, pc rfectly mad," for all her seven sons, on all of whom she doted, she would have sacrificed in the chance of establishing th e i n d epen d ence of Poland.—(Hear.) Oh, noble madness, that made a mother forfeit her sons for her country ! Oh, noble lunacy, that made the tenderest feelings of our nature subservient to our country ! Where mothers were ac tuated by such feelings, their sons would not belie them. The Noble Lord concluded by proposing the health of the Ladies of Poland.—(Loud cheers.) Col. LACH SZYRNA returned thanks, in a neat and ap propriate speech. Lord MORFETR said he had one more toast to pro pose. After a few introductory observations, he said it had happened to him to be one of 'the confidential ser vants of the crown ; and he did not know that he should feel at_y scruple in'adding, without any mock delicacy, especially as he had ascertained from experience that his own preference would point another way, and the same thing might not happen again, but whether this was the case or not he should be very reluctant to say anything while out of office that he might think, if in office, un suited to the foreign relations of the State, or the de corum to be observed towards foreign nations in amity with our own. He and his family had received attention and courtesy while in the dominions of the Emperor of Russia, but he considered there was nothing in the page of past history, or in the letter of present treaties— (Cheers)—which should restrain him from expressing the deepest and * warmest sympathy in the destinies of unhappy Poland.—(Cheers.) It was unnecessary in such an assembly as that to attempt to recal the days of her past freedom—the glorious days of her nationality— when she occupied the most exposed frontier on the outposts 9f civilisation, and when she bore the brunt of the battles of the cross.—(Cheers.) Neither need he recall that crisis when the cry of " God and Poland" burst through the Moslem and Europe, and christendom owed its relief to Poland and Kosciusko—(Cheers)— still less was he tempted to recal those days of dark decline, illuminated as they were by the most de voted and desperate valour which irresistibly brought to one's mind that memorable passage in the works of their lost Campbell, who was entitled to some thanks on a day like that—(Cheers)—for it was impossible to find anything equal to it in spirit or in rich feeling. The season of hopes and fears had not yet expired, freedom was not yet mute, and the very object for which those aroun him assembled testified this to be the case. The brief reference he had made to Polish his tory was directed to ages long gone by, but if he were to refer at greater length to the later history of that country, no doubt he would find many failings and many faults—that the people were hemmed in and trod den down, and that foreign foes were not amongst their last enemies. But if they had any faults they had made ample amends for them by patience, humility, and long suffering. He exhorted the - people of Poland to persevere in that self-denial and truly noble course. He would not counsel them to any precipitate efforts which might only aggravate the evils they sought to redress. The friends of Poland could counsel no in centive to human vengeance or to the shedding of human blood—(Hear, hear)—but they could not bid them banish or efface the hope that, in the pro vidence of God, the day might come, when, reared in the school of affliction, and chastened with the long vigil of her suffering, Poland would yet enjoy better times, and see the dawn of a brighter morn than she ever be held in her stormy though, bright career—(Cheers) — that she might yet, in a greater degree than during the days of her civilisation, when she promoted the moral conquests of their faith, spring up among the nations of the earth, and rank with them in commerce and inde pendence.—(Cheers.) He would give them a name which would awaken the chords of sympathy and inte rest in the bosom of those present, but which, in those of some, would thrill to their heart of hearts—that name was " Poland." The toast was responded to with loud cheers. Count ZAMOYSILI replied to the toast. He thanked Lot d Dudley Stuart for his great exertions on behalf of the Poles, and skew - attention' to the partitioning of Poland, which he characterised as cunning and despoti cal. One of the Kings of Prussia stated that his father would not have sanctioned the partitionment of that country if he had known what would have' been the re sult. The Emperor Alexander of Russia, during a great part of his reign, acknowledged the sufferings of the Poles, and admitted that they ought to have another sovereign than himself. The treaty of Vienna had net given satisfaction to their just claims, and he must state to an English audience, that if that treaty had not been successful, it had been the fault of the Governments who had had to watch its execution.—.(Cheers.) Among those who had rendered repeated services to the Poles were Cutler Ferguson, Patrick Stewart, Stratford Can nits., and others. - The health of the chairman was then proposed by Lord SANDON, and Lord MORI'S= briefly returned thanks. Lord WIIARNCLIFFE gave the "Literary Association of Poland;" to which Mr. CHARLES DICKENS replied in a brief but eloquent address. The " Committee of Management" and the " Ladies" were then drunk, and the assemblage separated at a late hour. PRINTING MACHINE INDEX. —It gives us pleasure to notice a very simple yet ingenious piece of mechanism, the invention of Mr. Edward Strong, machine manage lat Messrs. Coxts, p r i n t ers, Queen. street, Lin co l n ' s Inn. tis generally known that machines are used principally on account, of the large quantities of printed sheets now re quired for the enorrtions and increasing number of rea ders which of late years sprung up. It need not be won dered at, therefore, that mistakes do occur with those who have the duty of giving out the paper, or those who put them into quires after corning from the machine. The in tention of Strong's Printing Machine Index is, therefore, to register the number of sheets printed, and this it does accu rately and with facility up to 100,000. When it is consi dered that 100 copies can be printed in ten minutes at a slow machine, the utility, especially - i n th e case o f news papers, will be immediately perceived. It is gratifying to see the work man th us turn i ng his attention to the means of simplifying his labours; and this small addition to the f printing mac hi ne i s all the more creditable to Mr. Strong from its simplicity. DEATH OF THE - HON. D'ARcT GODOLPum Os- tl BORNE.—We have to rec or d th e d em i se of the a b ove Hon. Gentleman at his residence i n D evonsh i re. He was younges t sonohfe Earl L n ordan a l .rn Lady Godolphin, and w as b orn O cto b er 20th.. 1814. T Auckland, the Duke of Leed s , and eevera l ~.....enieSef rank are placed iu meundlig by WA demise. MINORITY—AYES, 125. ' Acheson, Viscount Escott, Bickhaxa Alexander, N. Esmonde, Si r T. O'C o e ll, D aniel Archdall, Captain Farnham, E. B. Armstrong, Sir A. Fi e ld en , J o h n Astell, WlWilliamFeßowes, E. Phillpotts, John tile, W. Finch, George Plumptre, J. P.. Fitzaurice, C. Plumridge, Captain Barnard, Edward G. Fitzroy, Lord C. O'Brien, A. Staff or d nn O'Connell, John Peellell, Captain 7:U Bankes, George tu Polhill, Frederic& l asker t ,ll , le, T. B. r , orste en r, tral i th . ew I ta oz i t o l ;,, Cg o e l b onel Bentinck, Lord G. Fuller, A. E. Bentinck, Lord H. G ran b y , m arqu i s o f "Lepton, G. W. J. Berestorel, Major Grogan, E. Rolleston, Colonel Berkeley, Captain Harris, Captain Soot Blackburne, J. Z. natt Hawes, , B. aptal Blackstone, W. S. R Henley, J. W. R en dlesha In, Lord t F. Soinurville, Sir W. Blake, M. J. sm , Sir,S. o w c aV. she4ard, T. Borthwick, Peter Bill, Lord E. Stuart, J. Bouverie, E. P. Hill, Lord Mareua Tancred, H.;Vir. Bowring, Dr. Hindley Charles Taylor, J. A. Bradshaw, James Hudson, George Thompson, .Alderrnao Bridgwan, H. Ingestre, Viscount Theruely, T. l En ng i l g is h , t S ie ir y, R. T T r u o tn ti e b u ri , d ß ge e , ary Sir B. Bright, John Tollemache, J. Brisco, M. KerrisonASir E. Browne, R. D. Sir C. Buck, L. W. Law, C. E. Tumor, C. Bulkeley, Sir R. B. Lawson, A. Buller, Edward. Long, W. Tyrrell, Sir J. T. Cayley, E. S. Verner,:Col. Chandos, Marg. of Wraggart, Kr J. Vyse, K. H•tii• 11. hl Waddington, H. S. Christopher, It. A. Churchill Manners, Lord J. W a kl ey , T . , Lord A. M. March, Earl of Watson, Henry Clifton, J. T. Marsland, Henry Warm, JT. Colquhoun, Johrt Miles, William Wilde, Sir Thomas Crawford, W. S. Moffatt, George Williams, W. Denison, W. J. Morison, General Wodehouse, E. Dick, Q. Mostyn, E. M. Worcester, ] Marquis Disraeli, B. Muntz, 0. F. Wyss, Thomann Duncan, George Neeld. Joseph 'Yorke, E. T. Duncnmbe, T. Neeld, John buncombe, A. Newport, Viset. Duucombe, 0. Norreys, Lord Eiphiustone, 11. NmeYs, Sir D. TELLERS. Spooner, Richard Newdegate, N. _ _ MAJORITY— NOES, 134. Ainsworth, Peter Anson, Colonel Flower, Sir James Manners, Lo r d C . Antrobus, Edmund Fox . (• 'RI.' T . 8. Martin,c in J. W. Baillie Austen, Colonel Gill, Thomas M eyne ll , Capta i n , Colonel Godson, Richard Milt on , Vi scount Baine, Walter Gordon, Captain Mitchell, T. A. Barclay, David Gore, Montague Morpeth, Viscount Baring, F. T. Goulburn, Henry Morris, David Baring, W. B. Graham, Sir J. Neville, Ralph Bell, Matthew Grimsditch, Thomas Ogle, S. C. Bellew, R. M. Hale, R. B. Patten, J. W. Benbow;John Hamilton, W. J. Peel, Sir Robert Bodkin, Williant H. Hamilton, Lord C. Peel, Jonathan Boldero, H. G. Hanmer, Sir J. Philips, G. R. Botfield, Berish Hayes, Sir E. Reid, Colonel Bowes, John Heneage, G. H. W. Roebuck, J. A. Bowles, Admiral Herbert, Sidney RomillY, John Boyd, John Heron, Sir R Round, C.G. Brotherton, J. Hervey, Lord A. Round, John Bruce, Lord E. Hinde, J. H. Rtaberfurd. A. Buckley, Edmund Holmes, W. A'C. Seymour, Sir H. Bailer, Ckarles Hope, Sir I.T. Smith, Abel Busfeild, William Hope, G. W. Smith, J. A. Cardwell. Edward Hornby, John Smyth, Sir H. Carew, W. H." Pole Horsman, E. Smythe, George Carnegie, Captain Ilotham, Lord Somerset, Lord G. Cavendish, G. 11. Howard, L i p. Stansficid, W. it. Chichester, Lord J. Jermyn, Earl Strati, Edward Clay, Sir W. Jervis, John Sutton, H. M. Clerk Sir G. Jocelyn, Viscornt Thestger, Sir F. Cockburn, Sir G. Johnstone, Hope Tomline, George Colebrooke, Sir T. Jones, Captain Trench, Sir F. Corry, Henry Kelly, Sir Fitzroy Vernon, G. H. Cripps, W. Langston, J. H. Vivian, J. E. Darner, Colonel Lascelles, E. Walker, Richard Dennistonn, J. Lascelles, W. S. Walpole, S. H. Dickinson, F. H. Lincoln, Earl of Warburton, H. Divett,;Edward Lindsay, Captain Wellesley, Lord C, Douglas, Sir C. Lockhart, A. E. Winnington, Sir T. Drummond. H. H. Lockhart , W. , Wood, Charles Dugdale, W. S. Lygon, General Wood, Colonel T. Dundas, F. Mackenzie, W. F. Wrightson, W. B. m lit a Uc ho o n ill , , N D ,is n w nc ua an LEIIB. Viscount airy Dundas, J. C. Baring TZL H Esteourt, T. G. Fitzroy, L 1 9 17 ) 11 4 1 . 1 1r 4 r.4,;,1 . Il* 04 PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS. (From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.) THURSDAY, MAY 14. Birkenhead and Llangollen. Select Co RAILWAYS. mmittee on Group No. 54. the Committee. Mr. Fitzgeralddischarged-; Mr. Waddington selected. And added to Select Committee on Group No. bb. Mr. Hughes discharged ; Viscount Ingestre selected, and added to the Committee. Select Coramittee on Group No. 56. Mr. Maher discharged; Mr. Irton selected, and added to the Committee. The Committee of Selection have nominated the following Select Committees on Railway Groups : A Committee consisting of—Hon. E. Yorke (Chairman); Hon. F. Tollemache, Mr. Brocklehurst, Mr. D. B. Ker, and Sir W. James, to whom they have referred the Bills comprised in Group No. 17 of Rail way Bills, viz. : Manchester:and Poole, • Manchester and Southampton, London and South-Western (Romney and Redbridge), Tring, and Basingstoke. The Select Committee to meet on Monday, May 25, at one. A Committee consisting of-31r. Vernon (Chairman), Mr. Traill, Mr. F. W. Kni g ht, M r. Borthwick, and Mr. Ackers, to whom they have referred the Bills comprised in Group No. 24 of Railway Bills, viz. : Ipswich and Bury St. Edmund's (Cambridge and Ely Extension), Ely and Bury, Newmarket and Chesterford. Thetford, Bnry St. Edmund's, and Newmarket. The Select Committee to meet on Thursday, May 28, at one. A Committee consisting of—Lord Dalmeny (Chairman), Mr. St. John Mlldmay, Mr. Marton, Mr. Matheson, and Viscount .3.1 Mon, to whom they have referred the Bills comprised in Group No. 2$ pf Railway Bills, viz.:— London and Birmingham (Newport Pagnell Branch), Hertford and Hatfield, London and Birmingham (St. Alban's and Luton Branch), London and York (St. Alban's, Litton, and Damnable Branch), Extra Northern and Southern. The Select Committee to meet on Monday, May 25, at one. A Committee consisting of—the Hon. A. Liddell (Chairman), Mr. T. D. Acland, Sir A. Armstrong, Mr. Antrobus, and Mr. Du Pre, to whom they have referred the Bills comprised in Group No. 39 Of Ball. way Bills, viz.:— Manchester and Leeds (Railway Extension, &c.), ' Huddersfield and Manchester (Oldham Branch), Oldham District, Oldham, Liverpool, Manchester, and Birkenhead Jtmction, Huddersfield and Manchester (Cooper Bridge Branch). The Select Committee to meet on Thursday, May 28, at one. nfrinivhnogmb talzywhoaivv. E A Committee consisting of—Mr. Parker ( Chairman), Dr. Bowfin& to of Arundel and Surrey, Sir A. Brooke, and Captain Dalrymple. Railway Bills, viz • e.e—rill'eaferarrpedtonth, aenßdill3Dudlcoemy,priBed in Group No. b 3 Of Birmingham Iv Lines), , olverharopton. and Stour Valley (Birmingham, &c., Birmingham, Wolverhampton. South Staffordshire Junction, and Stour Valley (Stour Valley Line), South Staffordshire Junction (riiisto South stairorashire junction n and Prestfleld Branch), (Willenhall - arta Bloxwich Branch), Trent Valley, Midlands, and Grand Junction, Birmingham, Lichfield, and Manchester. Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcester Junction, Shropshire Union Railway and Canal (Shrewsbury to Stafford), Shropshire Union Railway and Canal (Chester and Wolverharaptozi Line), Shrewsbury and Birmingham, Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, & South Staffordshirejunction (Ro. I), Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, & South Staffordshire Junction (No. 2). The Select Committee to meet on Monday, May 25, at one. The Committee of Selection have appointed the Select Committees on the Groups /cos. 33, 38, 41, 46, 49, and 57, to meet in the Week commenchq Monday, Juno 8. , • FRIDAY, MAY 13. The following Petitions for a Railway Bill were withdrawn : Boston, Newark, and Sheffield, and Nottingham and Grant/MI Junction. Great Grimsby,,Louth, Horncastle, Lincoln, and Midland auction, Grand Trunk or Stafford and Peterborough Union. STANDING ORDERS' COMMITTEE ? The following resolutions were reported from this Committee:— That, in the case of the Edinburgh and Peebles Railway BM, clauses proposed on the further consideration of the report, clause (A) is of such a nature as may be adopted without the re -commitment of the Bill, if the House shall think flt:—That clause (B) is of such a nature as not to be entertained without the re -commitment *1 the • That, in the case of the London and Birmingham Extension, Northampton, Daventry, Leamington, and Warwick Railway peti tion, the standing orders ought not to be dispensed with. That, in the case of the Northampton and Banbury Railway peti tion, the standing orders ought not to be dispensed with. That, in the case of the Colchester, Stour Valley, Sudbury, and Halstead Railway petition to read the Bill a third time the sessional order ought to be dispensed with : — That the parties be permitted VI read Bill a third time accordingly —Report to lie on the table. RAILWAY RE T URNS. RAILWAY Taarric.—The following are the Total Receipts of Rail ways for the past week—that is to say, up to ihe date to which the respective returns are made, together with the receipts of the same week in the previous year : Week ending Last Week. 'gm . . g. :'4 ..)..) t 0 bo— u.A, 771 1,001 NAME OF RAILWAY. May 9 Arbroath and Forfar ... Bristol and Birmingham . •• •• ••••• • • • • Chester and Birke n h ea d . • • •• •• • •• • • Dublin and Drogheda.... • • Dublin and Kingstown • • • • ' • Dundee and Arbroath . Durham and Sunderland Edinburgh and Glasgow . Eastern Counties and North Eastern • • Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr ...... Glasgow and Greenock.• •• ..... <•• •• Grand. Junction —•• •• .• .• •••••••• Gravesend and Rochester.... • • • • • • ...... Great Western. • • • • Hartlepool .• • • • • .. ••• London and Birmiughana, London and Blackwall• • • • • • • • .. London and Brighton. •• • • ••• • • • •• • London and Croydon • . •• . London and Greenwich ••• • • • • London and South Western... Manchester, Bolton, and Bury ... . Manchester and Birmingham Manchester, Leeds, and Hull Assoc Midland Counties ..... Newcastle and DarlingMn Newcastle and Carlisle. Newcastle and :forth Shields•• .• Norfolk.. •• . .... ..... ...... North Union and Bolto n and Preston Paris, Corbeil, and Orleans Paris and Itouen...•• •• •• .......... Preston and Wyre•••• •• •....... Sheffield and lianchester...... ...... South Eastern .... Taff Vale •••••••••••••—• .. Ulster Yarmouth and Norwich •••• • . ..... . York and North Midland .• 2,476 751 973 278 683 3,178 8,363 2,054 915 225 19,568 1,183 39,626 1,118 4,572 7,745 1,074 4,849 6,304 16,824 2,618 510 1,206 7,280 6,011 618 1,660 7,139 1,30,5 043 1,948 - 27i1 589 2,842 5,147 1,785 912 18,369 55,216 1,100 4,220 1,477 7,27! 957 4,702 6,303 15,244 2,471 1,651 I '...- f 5,120 6,102 5,808 401 708 5,166 1,067 686 BISHOPRIC OF Junuasum.—Tne Rev. Samuel Gobat, who has been appointed by his M ri P . - aty the Ring of Prussia to the Bishopric of Jerusalem, vice Dr. Alexander, deceased, if expected tll arrive in town in the course of heat Week, in order to receive con- Secretion from his Grace tie Arabishep of Canterbury. BRITISH AND FOREIGN INSTITUTE. There was a very numerous a !.:(endance of members and their families at the ninth soiree of the British and Foreign Institute, which was held on Thurs;lay, and a large lumber of foreign visitors gave great va riety to the brilliant assemblage. Among the musical guests of the evening were Madame de Belleville Oury, Madame Pacini, Miss Lacombe, Madame Heunelle, Mr. Charles Horn, Madame Macfarreu Miss Orger, Mademoiselle Speyen, and Messrs. Sideman, Kiallmark; Mahlenfeldt, Eirlunann, Grattan Cook, Bodda, Macfarren, Lavigne, and others. The proceedings of the evening were wound up by a vivid description of the colossal ruins of the Temple of Jupiter Am mon, at Thebes, and the crowded assembly did not separate till near midnight. ME PARKER SocrEry.—On Thursday the annual I meeting of this Society, instituted in 1840, for the publication of the works of the fathers and early writers of the Reformed English Church, was held at Freamascus' Ball. Lord Ashley, the president of the society, occupied the chair. Mr. George Stokes read the fifth annual report. It stated that the delivery of books for the year had been completed; the amount received was 6,9661. 10s. lid., and the expenditure 6,8521. 15s. 9d., leaving a balance of 1131. 15s. 2d. to be carried to the next account. The volumes issued last year were five in number, containing the remaining portion of Bishop Latimer's works,' Letters from the Archives of Zurich, select Devotional Poetry of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and a portion of the works of Bishop Jewel. Fourteen authors were at present in preparation, and' various other standard books, which from their scarcity are be. gond the reach of a large number of persons who would otherwise make themselves acquainted with their contents. The report having been adopted, a vote of thanks was passed to Lord Ashley, who, in acknowledgment, remarked that he had become possessed of two copies of all the works the Parker Society had published. One set he had reserved for himsel4 and the ether he had presented to th o library of the new Protestant College at Malta. Ills Lordship . was . re-elected presideet, and a cou nc il for the ensuing year was sPP°""°"' The meeting then separated. qince the warn ASSOCIATION FOR CLEANLINESS. weather has set in the demands eixm t h e increased . The daily institution in Glasshouse-yard hav• ar 80,e and of those who wash number of those who bathe averages h re were no fewer than 52 en-, On Saturday last , a clothes about 140. time. One of the great advantages of the benefits of this that, after haring Institution to destituto team,. suppliedlParticular with a temporary dress whilst bathed themselves..tbeayal al.. with materials for mending, the soap : " • furnished free. Nearly aoo persons in -rooms have availea themselves of thg n is t , u'itr()" i gratuitous supply of whitewash given by the association. On Thins Jay morning about a d-izen of our mask. wb eh realised capital prices. The greatex portion was bought up h at :i nh l a be: t h ey : ow n t g i asinehrtlt smallmaterialsh e ii: e t o 1 i r 11: I t lb fe males • I erel boats returned with a quantity of 111 h, from 100 to 800 In a boat. b y a SALE uet auction n ' 3 ofF aANClENTvaluable collection 'w iN 01 9 a s n .—O ejera rt dr T aw h in ur g s s, an the London mar k ets.—Brighton Gazetts. a b y ;th a e most a o l s 4 t eminent masters of the German , • Italia,, Dutch, and Flemish schools, the property of B. Kertz, -%gii,, formerly in the Arundel col lection, and the collections of Sir J. Reynolds, Sir P. Lely, the Prince de Ligne, the Count de Fries, &c., took place in Mr. Phillips' auction: rooms, in New Bond-street. In this collection there are 230 draw.. Inge, divided into 205 lots, of which number 118 were disposed of yesterday, the remaining portion, the most choice, being for sale thit day (Friday). The sale yesterday consisted of works by the early German and Italian masters. Among the tbrtner there were sla drawings by Albert Durer, one by Hans Holbein, one by Heinskirk. one by Lucas V an Leyden, two by Lucas Cranach, &c. These were` Principally pen and Ink drawings from the Fries collection, and sold , for good prices. In the Italian school the drawings ware more nu merous, comprising three by Michael Angelo, four by Annibale Car.: , races, twelve by Agostino Carucci, nine by Cignani , two by eor-. ratio in red chalk, nine by Guide, principally In red chalk and pen and ink; three by Claude, pen drawings, washed with tibiae ; nee by Gacreino, one by Murillo, pen, washed with black Ink; eight by ' ramagenio, seven by Nicholas Powell, and one by Gaspar Pasant, &c. &e. The subjects were principally of a rano/Ma dalataMin gone ante best were pure/mod Asir ate 'Plash Museins. Mr. Smith O'Brien on Thursday received the deputation from the 'B2 Club appointed to deliver to him the address of that Society. The Hon. Member returned 10 appropriate answer. which berequested She deputation to deliver to his brethren, sit the dome . Salton reared. DEATH OF SIR WILLIAM MILLER, BART.—We have to record the death of Sir William Miller, Bart., better known as Lord Glenlee, who expired, on S a t ur d ay morning last, at Barskining. Ayrshire. The deceased Baronet had arrived at an advanced axe. for he MIS in his 90th year. Ile was son of the first Baronet, the. Lord President of the College of Justice In Scotland, and married his cousin, Miss Chalmers, daughter of Mr. George Chalmers. In 1759 • he succeeded his father in the baronetcy, and in 1795 was appointed one of the Lords of Session, when he assumed, by courtesy, the title. of Lord Glenlee. In 1840, from his increasing years and consequent infirmity, he retired from the judicial bench, after a strict attendanca of above 45 years to the arduous duties attached to that high legal office. The late Baronet is succeeded by his eldest son, now sa. Thomas Miller, Bart. morning much amusement w as caused in, RINE'S Doca.—Thursday VISIT or GENERAL ToM THUMB TO THE ST. RATITE. the St. Katherine's Dock by the visit of General Tom Thumb. Ri ft ence d t til e .eg t rt h i t a sail t of r 5 li , i h e 0 p w e e r hv i o i em r m r , g a n i na v c t e e ; s much t o P t o h c e ; gr ea t ttirt the gatekeepers, by his conductor, who, in the first inetatiCe, con.; vexed him on b oar d the large New York packet ship Prince Alb ' was driven to the dock In a cab, and was smuggled in, unknown tct General by taking him up and putting went thr ough o o u f g the viklted the packet ship Westminster. It soon became * lie next the " General" was in the dock, and people flocked known that of j the n crew. e w e to catch a glimpse of him. His conductor at last from all gnarterst put him under hie cloak, and proceeded to the principal entrance where be wa, stoppeol by a Custom-house officer, who ordered li Tom Thumb's conductor did so, and x. im ed to throw his f cloak asi . t. 1160 alli"" 4 to **dab free, aun on e g g nibit the 11 3„ 1 : 1 ., b ,, n 0w. d 1 ', u ,.. 3 ' Wee not ilea fib ar• new wit" nlJ a THE CROPS IN GEORGIA.--The Macon Advocate oh the 20th instant says :—We learn from a gentleman rho hail just returned from a tour through Baker, Lee, Sumter;D9Or ,v—ri and other counties in Sout-Western Georgia, that the 'Crop' Of small grain, particularly wheat, were never more pro. . . thing than at present. The corn looks well, but cotton, in consequence of the wet and cool weather experienced in. that section for some time past, appeared rather backward. and in some places fears were entertained that it wouhtdie, and the land have to be re-planted. The weather havin w become clear and pleant, however, with a prospect o g f continuant so, the pl44te may revive,:ancl, prove thrifty 4 the end. 1