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s, New Burlingtoi-street. I the best season of the year will thus, in all pr o b a bilit y , b e MR. BENTLEY'S NEW PUBLICATIONS. lost before the opponents of the Government can make NOW READY. up their minds to let Parliamentary affairs take their usual course. No impartial observer can blame the Government for this delay. We believe Sir ROBERT THIRD and CONCLUDING VOLUME of MRS. THOMPSON'S MEMOIRS of the JACOBITES. Bvo., with Portraits. Vols. I. and 11. MAT NOW be HAD of ALL BOOKSELLERS. PEEL and his colleagues are most anxious to have the corn• law question settled, and could have adopted no other course. It is admitted on all hands that the state of certain Irish counties is frightful, that no man's life or property is secure, and that a general system of assassination prevails unheard-of in civilised countries. The Government would have been only abettors of these horrible and un-English crimes if they had delayed till after Easter measures for abating the evil, and would justly have incurred public indignation for such apathy. A Bill—whether exactly suited to the purpose or not we cannot say—was passed through the House of Lords, with very general consent from Whigs as well as Tories, and sent down in due form to the other House. According to universal custom And the recognised regulations of Parliament, a Bill of this character coming from the Upper House is read a first time without delay, the discussion being taken on the second reading, or some other stage of the Bill. Any other course by which delay could take place would be considered not only as an act of contempt to wards the Lords, but would cast great blame on the Go vernment, who might be justly accused of attending more to their own favourite measures than the peace of Ireland, or the protection of innocent men from the daily plots of assassins. But they have been thwarted, and may be utterly defeated in their views, at least as to any seasonable relief for such crying iniquities, by the advantage which some of the Irish Members have taken of privileges allowed to a minority in the House. The business of Parliament, and the very relief of the starving Irish, are stopped in their course, because Mr. O'CoNsIELL strongly objects to certain clauses of the Bill, and considers himself therefore justified in resisting it with unyielding hostility at the very thresh hold. Previous to the meeting of Parliament he an nounced his intention to depart from a course of policy which he had for some time adopted, and take his seat as usual, in order to assist the Government in carrying their great and benevolent scheme fur the abolition of the corn-laws. Whether he has fulfilled his promise we leave our readers to judge. In fact, he and Lord GEORGE BENTINCK. are working together, though, we trust, with different purposes, to defeat a measure so urgent and necessary, and so anxiously desired by many millions throughout the United Kingdom. And for what purpose? To mark his hatred of some clauses which could be modified or struck out in Committee. Even admitting that they are not justified except on extraordinary occa sions, and that the liberty of the subject ought always to be one main object in the view of every good legislator, we must bear in mind that this Bill is to be only temporary, and that it is not to be called into ope ration except in cases of great atrocity, and almost a total dissolution of the bonds of society ; and be sides, it is the bounden duty of the innocent to submit for a time to some curtailment of their rights and pri vileges for the good of the community at large. We cannot imagine any infringement of the law of the land half so insupportable as the state of society that prevails in some of the Catholic counties of Ireland. Is assassination, and an utter contempt of law, and justice, and religion, to be suffered to remain unchecked, because a severe remedy may be proposed? Is the main business of the session to be stopped ? 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LAMOND, SMALE, AND LA3IOND, Railway Share Auctioneers, beg to thank their Friends and the Public for their continued support and patronage, and to announce that their Public sales of Railway Shares, &c., take place every TUESDAY and FRIDAY. at One o'clock„ at the Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street, London, to which place all favours, cont lining instructions, are respectfully requested is be addressed. All Scrip and Share Certificates must be deposited for exa mination at least one day previously to their being offered ; and sdvices of results will be forwarded by the first post after the sale, and the proceeds immediately disposed of according to instructions. Offices, Mall of Commerce, Threadneedle -street, London. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. The Nobility, Subscribers, and the Public are respectfully informed that an EXTRA NIGHT will take place on THURSDAY, APRIL 16, When will be presented Mozart's chef d'cenvre, DON GIOVANNI. Donna Anna, Madame Grist; Donna Elvira, Madlle. Sanchioli ; Zerlina, Madame Castellan. Don Giovanni, Signor Fontasari ; Don Ottavio, Sigiar Mario; II Commandatore, Signor Botelli ; Masetto, Signor F. Macho ; Leporello, Signor Lablache. With various Entertainments in the BALLET. In which Madlle. L. Grahn, Madame Petit Stephan, Madile. Taglioni, M. Gosselin, M. Di Mattia, and M. Perrot will appear. Applications for boxes, stalls, and tickets, to be made at the Box office, Opera Colonnade. Doors open at Seven ; the Opera to com mence at half-past Seven o'clock. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. ON EASTER MONDAY, APRIL 13, Will be performed a New Opera, entitled THE CRUSADERS, The principal characters will be sustained by Messrs. W. liar- Aorrani, Horncastle, S. Jones, Weiss, Stretton, D. W. Ring, Miss Romer, and Miss Rainforth. After which, will be produced the Ballet d'Action, entitled PEROUSE ; or, The Desolate Island. Principal characters by 3fadlle. Louise, Madame Uiubilei, Mr. W. H. Payne, Mr. Howell, 31r. T. Matthews, Mr. Wieland, and Master F. Payne. All important discussion was raised last night by Lord SANDON, with respect to what course the Government was prepared to recommend for the purpose of checking the amount of railway legislation during the present session. Thelfember for Liverpool quoted the circulars of mercan tile bodies of high authority, expressive of their greatest apprehensions for the welfare of our trade and com merce, already considerably affected by the conse quences of the railway mania of last year, if steps be not speedily taken against converting the millions that may be required for the projected railways from float ing into fixed capital. Sir ROBERT PEEL at once recommended the following plan : To pass a Bill as speedily as possible limited to this ob ject—viz., that a majority holding more than half the stock of, a company should be entitled to represent to Parliament their desire of not proceeding with the Bill, and that thereupon Parliament should refuse their sanc tion to any further proceedings ; that those by whom the scheme was originally proposed should remain re sponsible for all liabilities. And he also thought that it might be desirable that a trustee or official assignee should be appointed to take possession of the pro perty and appropriate it to those who have claims upon it. The known caution of the Premier, and his unrivalled experience and skill, in all matters of finance, impart the greatest weight to any suggestions he may offer, or to any plans he may devise. In the early part of the ses sion he warned Parliament of the commercial derange ment that would be likely to ensue unless some power ful check was imposed in the way of diverting from the industrial and ordinary channels of trade so enormous an amount of capital. He did not at that time meet with the support necessary to carry his plan into exe cution. Having failed in inducing Parliament to put a direct check to the threatened evil, his proposition of last might, as an indirect means of compassing the same end, is, perhaps, taken altogether, the most reasonable, safe, and fair that could be made. The plan is to be more fully developed to-night in the House of Lords, the pressure of business in the Commons rendering it im possible to introduce or make any progress with the Bill there at present. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYM ARICF.T. ON EASTER MolifDAT Will be performed a New and Original Comedy'. called, A BEGGAR ON HORSEBACK. Cymon Foxall, Mr. Webster; More craft, Mr. W. Farren: Sir John Coverdale, Mr. Tilbury; Ernest Coverdale, Mr. H. Holl ; Horace Waldgrave, Mr. Hudson ; Schnei dermann, Mr. J Bland ; Thomas, Mr. Brindal ; Lady Coverdale, Mrs. Glover ; Selina Coverdale, Miss Julia Bennett ; Emmeline, Mrs. Seymour. The Band will perform the Overtures, " La Symphonie," and " L& Neige ;" a Fantasia, " Fra Diavolo ;" the " Post Horn Galop," and "Antoinette," Cellarius Waltz. After which (for the first time) an experiment will be tried upon THE BIRDS OF ARISTOPHANES : on which occasion they will be presented to the public with new Names, new Feathers, new Songs, and new Tales. Principal characters by Messrs. James Bland, Hudson, Tilbury, Bridal, Caulfield, T. F. athevrs, and Miss P. Hort**. To conclude with a New Comic Drama, called THE IRISH POST. Characters by Messrs. J. Bland, Tilbury, Mrs. diumby, &c. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Patronised by her most gracious Majesty the Queen, Prince Albert, and the Royal Family. Easter Entertainment extraordinary for the holiday visitors. The Public are most respectfully apprised that the Slimmer Season will commence on EASTER MONDAY, APRIL 13, With an entirely new Equestrian Oriental Spectacle, replete with gorgeous pageantry, intense incidents, splendid scenic effects, com bining the whole resources of the Dramatic and Equestrian Com panies, aided by the beautiful Stud. New Scenes in the Circle ; with other Entertainments, which will be fully expressed in the bills of the day. Box-omee *pen from eleven till five o'clock.—Tuition in the art of riding daily. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, APRIL 7. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 38; Highest, 55; Noon, 44, BAROMETER, 29.16.—Wm N.; rain. MIMI WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Slanting .. 3 agnates after 11. Evening .. 36 minutes after IL We have received numerous communications calling our attention to the various devices adopted by the managers of several of the defunct railway schemes, who are attempting to take advantage of the supposed legal decision in the case of WOOLMER v. TOBY to extort from the allottees contributions varying in amount on the number of shares allotted to them. In our columns of the 23d and 28th of March we impunged the justice of the verdict, stating the reasons why we did not con ceive it could stand, and also showed that, in point of fact, no decision whatsoever had been arrived at, but that the very important questions of law involved therein were reserved for argument before, and the decision of, the full court. Circulars have since been sent, calling attention to that case, by which (as it is said) the legal liability of the several parties to whom shares have been allotted to pay the whole of the deposit on such shares is fully es tablished. They then, although having this power, in their disinterested affection for the allottees, express their readiness to accept a small sum, which they think parties may be induced to pay rather than go into a court of law to contest the claim, which they state that they are willing to accept in full for all demands if paid before a given day (always fixed before the final decision of WOOLMER v. ToBY can possibly be - obtained), by which time, if the sum claimed be not paid, immediate proceedings are to be instituted for the entire demand. Such is the usual course. Sometimes, however, the letter comes from an attorney, who demands a further suns of ss. for his printed or lithographed letter; but all these attempts have been far cast into the shade by one recently adopted in a circular, bearing date the 31st of March (and since also adopted by another company), which purports to contain a leading article of the Times of the 24th of March. They have therein printed all such portions of the above article as appear to be in favour of the demand, but they cautiously omit the part bearing the other way, wherein the case of NOCKELS V. CROSBY, aml the judgment of the Court of Queen's Bench thereon is cited, and the observation that, " Unless this can be distinguished from WOOLMER v. TOBY, the verdict in the latter is clearly wrong, so far as it went, upon the defendant's liability not being released by the abandonment of the scheme," what can bo thought of the conduct of those persons who thus attempt, by garbled quotations, to induce the public to believe that they have an authority in their favour, which, if the entire was given, must appear to bear the other way? Must they not be conscious of the weakness of their cause when they have recourse to such unworthy means? What ever may be the result of the question as to the liability of the allottees, we should consider ourselves unworthy of our position as public journalists, did we not discoun tenance by every means in our power such a proceeding, and expose the trickery by which it is characterised. ... Our friend s are proved--.... in the days of trouble, according to an ancient proverb ; and, acting upon this principle, Ireland may now discover those who sympathise with her sufferings, and those who are indifferent to her misfortunes. Fortunately for humanity, the number of the former infinitely preponderates over the number Of the latter. Those must be callous-hearted in deed—those must be impervious to every feeling of benevolence—those must richly merit our execra tion, who can behold the aggregation of cala mities now pressing upon our sister country without some sense of commiseration, without some wish to par ticipate in the development of ameliorative measures. Men who can witness, without a pang of pity, whole districts thrown into confusion by the visitations of, ..., - • • -v. 4 .•,:-,,,,,,,.....;...,. pf t -. ~„ ' ' , ) 5.7..' , . . . . . ,erfi •a, - ',el.'''. . . , ..;- \___ UVITTiII 1 Atilt LONDON, TUESDAY, APRIL 7, 1846. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Woolsack at Five o'clock. The Indemnity Bill was read a third time and passed. Various petitizna were presented. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE then rose, and, after passing a high eulogium on the officers and troops engaged in the late glorious war in India, asked if it was intended to lay before the House the proclamation issued by the Governor- General after the battle of Sobtaon, and also the preliminaries for a treaty of peace with the Seikhs on the 17th of February. lie thought the moderation of the Governor-General did honour to the country. Although he had hoped that some communication would have been made on the subject of the rewards to be conferred on the most meritorious servants her MAJESTY ever had for their services, he would not press that subject. The Earl of RIPON replied, that the substance of all the information received bad been published. The preliminaries with the Durbar of Lahore had not yet been reduced to the form of a treaty, and until it should be in possession of the Government in a regular form it would be i mposs ib le to lay them- before their Lordships. He was not authorised to state anything on the subject of rewards to the officers, but he could say that her MAJESTY had not had the dispatches in her possession half an hour before she gave directions that patents of nobility should be made out for Sir H. Goeort and Sir H. HARDING& Lord BitaumoNT, after a most vituperative speech against Austria, asked if it was true that the Austrian authorities had instigated a servile war against the landed aristocracy in Galicia, and had rewarded the peasantry for killing the nobles by paying a sum of money for the head of every noble, and if any means had been taken by the Government of this country to express its disapprobation of such conduct? The Earl of ABERDEEN replied that the subject was one not affecting Uritish interests, and that the statements on the subject were so contradictory that it was almost im possible to ascertain the truth. From his knowledge of Prins° MErrakusien, he felt that it was as impossible for him to adopt the course alluded to as it would be for any of their Lordships. Certainly since Gallicia had been under the Austrian Govern ment the condition of the peasantry had been much ame liorated, and it was therefore natural that they should be actuated by feelings of loyalty towards Austria. He did not think it his duty to interfere in the matter. , The accounts he had received from the British Charge d'Affaires in Austria gave a very different account of the . transaction, and represented that the nobility had failed in their attempt at coercing their peasantry to take part in th . ere , hellioix which they so strenuously and successfully resisted. Now, in all this he saw nothing but what was praiseworthy. But he had received no further information on the subject, and he could not state how much of the published accounts were true or false. After a few words from Lord KINNATAD, the subject dropped. Lord ?E RMAN presented a petition from Mr. Joseph Toni min Smith, compl a i n i ng of the conduct of Excise officers in breakinginto his house in search of an illicit still, they acting on anonymous information ; and praying for an alteration in the law on the subject. The Earl of DALHousiE rose and defended the superior officers of the , Excise for th e a tt ac k made upon them in the petition. The conduct of the officer who entered the house was blameable, and he had been punished for it. The petition was ordered to be laid on the table, and the House adjourned. Want of space compels us to omit our usual summary of the debate in the House of Commons. The House of Commons has only two nights for discussion previous to the Easter holidays, so that both the Corn-law Bill and the Bill for the better Protection of Life and Property in Ireland must be stopped in their course for at least a fortnight. Parliament has now been sitting for ten weeks, to a late hour every business night, with a very few exceptions. There has been more talk during that time than during any previous session for years ; the two questions have been fully debated; and though the great majority of the public have made up their minds on both, and are most anxious for a speedy decision, they are obliged to wait still longer, in the most intense anxiety, for a deliverance from their present doubts and difficulties. Trade is paralysed ; the labouring classes already begin to feel the effect, and Madrid journals of the 30th have been received. The capital was tranquil, and all the accounts from the pro vinces were favourable. It would appear that the country is resolved to wait patiently for the result of the late extraordinary Cabinet measures. The Council of State having drawn up a report on the new law relative to time bargains on the Bourse, had submitted it to the Cabinet, who are said to be divided on the subject. On the 30th the Three per Cents, closed at 32 for cash, and 321-16th for the 19th of April. The Fives were no quoted. 'n the French Chamber of Deputies, on Saturday, an animated discussion took place on the presentation of se veral petitions from Protestants, complaining of the religi • ous grievances to which they are subjected by the Govern ment and the Catholic Church. They complained that a Protestant congregation cannot assemble for religious purposes without a license from the minister or prefect, which to a certain extent placed them at the mercy of one of these functionaries ; that Protestant pastors are not allowed to visit military hospitals regularly, and in deed cannot enter them unless at the special request of the sick soldiers ; and, lastly, of the improper means used by the Catholic clergy to convert children of tender age, and even shut them up in convents. M. GASPARIN supported the prayer of the petitioners, and several leading Members spoke on the occasion—among others, M. ODILON BARROT, M. DUPIN, and M. MARTIN (du Nord) ; but a general feeling seemed to prevail that these religious discussions in the Chamber could lead to no satisfactory result, and the petitions were therefore re ferred to the Ministers of the Interior and of Justice. The Committee on the proposed establishment of trans atlantic packets had drawn up their report, in which they propose the following plan:—That th• Government be authorised to treat with one or more commercial companies, for the establishment of either sailing or steam-packets on four principal lines, namely, to New York, to the West Indies, to Rio Janeiro, and to the Havannah. The departures are to take place from Havre and Marseilles, and the packets to be adapted for sailing, or for steam on the principle of the screw. The rate of sailing to be at least nine miles an hour, and the vessels are not to be allowed to carry more than 200 tons of goods. The distance from Havre to the West Indies to be done in 20 days, and to Rio Janeiro and the Havannah in 27 days. The accounts from Algiers are more favourable than they have been for some time. The Moniteur Algerein states that the province of Constantine was perfectly quiet, that General Jusur displayed great activity in pursuing ABD-EL-KADER, and, after a march of three days, had reached the town of Zamina, only about a day after the departure of the EMIR, who had taken to the mountains, accompanied by 400 or 500 horsemen. On the 26th of March the Duke D'AIIMALE, accompanied by the Prince of SAXE-COBURG and a brilliant staff, entered Blidah towards five in the afternoon. A detachment of cavalry, with a body of spahis, commanded by General COMMAN, went to meet the Prince at the village of Beni Mered. On the following day they left for Milianab, where the Duke D'AUMALE takes the command of the district. According to a letter in the Presse, fever pre vailed in some of the hospitals to a great extent. In the hospitals in the province of Oran alone 1,000 persons had died during the last three months. The Journal des Debats contains the following details relative to the Western Railroad—that from Paris to Brittany " The two companies candidates for the Western Railway, the one represented by Messrs. Laffitte and Blount, the other by Messrs. Emile, Pereire, Thurneyssen, and Tarbe de Sablons, have, according to the desire of the Government and of the Committee of the Chamber, come to an under standing. The Committee, it is said, proposes to the Cham ber the concession of the Western Railway to these two com panies, united with branches to both of the Versailles lines, and the concession of the line from Bounieres to Caen to the Company. De Bretenil joined with the companies Laffitte and Athalin. The Western Companies and that of Caen remain, like the railways which they work, completely in. dependent of each other. Of the social capital of the Wes tern Railway, 148,000 shares will be assigned to the share holders of both the Versailles lines ; the proportion to be settled by an arrangement between the directors of the com panies if the concession be voted by the Chambers. Each share of the right bank Versailles will be received into the Western line for 550 E, and exchanged against four Western shares 0f125f. each, with 50f. returned, representing the value of the shares of the Company. In the same way, each share of the left bank Versailles will be received for 375 E, and ex. changed for three shares of the west line of 125 f. each. Ac cording to this arrangement, both Versailles lines may be immediately incorporated with the Western Company. Questions of detail will be settled by the Minister, and the report presented on Monday or Tuesday." -The French Three per Cents. were done at TORTONI'S on Sunday at 83f. 50c. ITSINESS DONE IN FOREIIIIN RAILWAYS AT VIE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Aram 6. Bonlogne and Amiens, 12 —Dutch Rhenish, 11 %—East Indian, %—Great Northers of France Constituted, 14%—Great Western Canada, 4—Louvaix and Jernappe, I%—Laxernbourg, I%—Namnr and Liege, s—Orleans and Bordeaux, 11 %—gads and litrasbourg (Constituted), sN—Sambre and Meuse, 3%. His Royal Highness Prince Albert has subscribed 251. to the City of Westminster Literary S , lentitic and Mechanics' Institution as one of 30 donors to liquidate the balance of its building debt, the list of wham already includes tile names of the Earl of Radnor, Lord Robert Grosvenor, the Lorri Mayor, Charles Hindley, Esq., M.P. (who originated this subscript'ion), and 12 othergentleinen. CHAPEL ROYAL, WHITEHALL..--Thursday next being " Maunday Thursday," the annual and, instant ceremony connected with the distribution of her Majesty's. bounty will take place in her Majesty's chapel at Whitehall, where, It has been the custom for many centuries to distribute money, clothes, &c., to as many poor men and women as accords with ti,te age of the Seversign. This in teresting ceremony commences at three o'clock by a processien from the Queen's Almonry-office in Bootland-yard, to the Royal Chapel, where Divine service is perform, NI, during which the distribution takes plate. _ _ GREAT FOOT RACE FOR 20L—Yesterday the long pending e kez i cr ss i u c et t ot r w o e u e n n i 3fcr j ntjoy 'and E. Smith was decided at the - Walwortla. The men were matched to run over one mile of grr equal distances • And, and le:w one hundred hurdles, placed at large number , The men are first-rate pedestrians, and drew a joy d i , p . ..pf persons to the race. smith took the lead. Mount homic ineffectual struggle to Como up, but tell at the twelfth And !Smith ran in an Cao7 famine and disease, by the lamentable squalor and pri vations of their fellow-creatures, cast out into the hedges and ditches, houseless, hopeless, foodless, penny - less, would naturally be regarded with detesta tion. Some may imagine that no such individuals can be in existence—that the supposition of such tacit atrocity is but the exaggeration of a morbid fancy. Gladly would we think so ourselves. Hard facts, however, stare us in the face ; and we are reluctantly forced into the knowledge that there are such men amongst us, that they blush not to avow their own heartlessness, and that their cruel indifference to the woes of the human family spring from the basest of all motives —self-interest ! What are these facts ? Alas ! they are simple enough, and GOD knows they are painful and degrading enough to our common nature. It actually appears, from our Irish intelligence, that many of the farmers of that unhappy country, far from endeavouring to allay the woes consequent among their neighbours from the scarcity of provisions, have been rendering those woes more grievous and intolerable by keeping back their stores of potatoes and other food in order to extort from their starving countrymen famine prices! Surely there is much atrocity in this ! Surely these men de serve the abhorrence of mankind ! At a time when whole parishes are raging with fever, or stricken with other diseases, from the consumption of decayed vege tables, or from an absolute destitution, these persons could look on unmoved, with their premises stocked with provisions, rejoicing within themselves at the prospect of an extortionate payment. They could act thus with the spectacle of extreme want immediately before their eyes, while the Ministry are striving to afford sustenanct where it is required, and conjuring the more fortunate among the Irish to co-operate with them in their charitable and generous labours, or the official efforts to make up the deficiency would be utterly inefficient. To contrast the matter yet more strongly : while the gallant regiments of Irish, who are hazarding their lives upon the banks of the Sutlej, are subscribing somewhere about eight hundred pounds fur the poor of their native land, a woman in Blackrock, who is in pos. session of a large quantity of potatoes, announces her resolution not to sell until she can obtain a farthing a-piece for them! When such a villainous want of sympathy is evidenced by people situated in the midst of the calamity—people allied by ties of kindred and country to the victims of starvation—it becomes indeed a most difficult task to assuage the pangs of Ireland. Far from any gratitude being expressed towards the Ministers for endeavouring to diminish the scarcity by the importation of foreign provisions, no sooner is a cargo of Indian corn meal landed at Cork, than a panic seizes the holders of potatoes, and a cry is raised at a public meeting in that city, " that Sir ROBERT PEEL be hanged for bringing fresh food into the market." To say that this is ungenerous and ungrateful to the last degree, would be an inadequate expression of that thorough and heartfelt abhorrence with which we regard these ignoble Irish malcontents. Such conduct is repugnant to us as mem bers of a civilised community, as Christians, nay, as men. It is a most miserable exhibition of turpitude on the part of those Irish farmers, and will cause every right-think ing mind to rejoice at the disappointment of their avari cious intentions by the arrival of that food which the precautionary policy of the Premier has conveyed across the ocean. In the town of Ballyjamesduff, its wretched inhabitants are so completely without a crumb of nourishment, and so entirely without the means of obtaining any, that, according to a letter received from that neighbourhood, " they had shut themselves up in their dwellings for two days, with the apparent determi nation to conceal their state of want, and abide their dreadful fate !" Yet this is the very time a certain proportion of the farmers were reserving their stock until they could safely require a famine price. Like the gravediggers mentioned by DEFOE during the great plague of London, their trade was to thrive most at the height of the visitation. •• •• - PRICES OF RAILWAY SHARES. BUSINESS PAID. DONE AT CLOSING ONE O'CLOCK. PRICE% • Aberdeen .. .. 10 .. 1 2 • Birmingham and Gloucester.. .. 100 ....124 .. .. • • 124 Bristol and Exeter .. • • •• 74 $3 Ditto New .. .. • • • • . •• • • 9 ••""•• ' • • • 9 Buckinghamshire 425. .... 1 X die. [ Caledonian 10 •• • • 74 6% ••.. • • 6X Ditto, Half Shares .. • • • • !WI, / •• • • 1 , %,, ," •• • Ditto, Extension .. • • • • `.,79 .. . • 2 34 •• • • 2/ Chelmsford and Bury . • • • 1 n• • • • %••••• • • • • • 7a Chester and Holyhead .. 20 .... 1736 17 % 1734 Cheltenham and Oxford • • • • • „ 17 ° Cork and Waterford .. • • • • , " •• " • • ••• • • • Cornwall and Central Devon • • 2 111 ••• • ••• • • Direct Manchester (Remington's) 234 •• • • %••••• • • • • • Direct Manchester (Bestrides) • • 5 4 •• • • 3 34 • • Direct Northern .. • • • • 2 % •• • • 1 ••••• • • • • • E D Das u uD b btei l lt i itrnn n o a ftneN n o d deanw ß oti e a l .ea f w. as a t y.. J : nn . c . tion .. .. .. 1 4 0 4 1% . . . . . 2 6 0 % X ji p 21 Do. Perpet., 5 per Cent. No. 1.61. 13s. 4d. Ditto, ditto, .. No. 2. 61. 13s. 4d. 34 pex dlv..• 54 px d Edinburgh and Glasgow • • •• 59 •• • • 72 % .. Ditto % Shares .. .- • • 12% • •• • • 17% • 17% Essex and Suffolk .. • • • • 1 % •• • • % Great Southern & West. (Ireland) 15 .• • • 20 36 %• • •• • • 29% Great North of England . .. 100 .. 211 ......... 211 Ditto, New .. • • • • 5 ••• • 50 ••• • • 50 Ditto, New .. . .. • • ~ •• • • 13 36 ••••• • • • • • 133% Great Western .. •• • • 1, 5 •• • • 145 ,, ••••• • • • • '- Ditto Half Shares .. • • •• w. ••• • . •••7* • . Ditto, Fifths .. • • • • Guildford, Fareham, & Portsmoth S .... Huil Dit a to a , d Q Se ua l r b t Y er Shares .. Leicester and Bedford .... • 2 1 2 2 4 % . .... 29 1 1 L l oi e Dvn i c eid ee rptoton t o e octa r inuan l t a ßd m elLrrm w se irt dn.sg. h hba lt r.na c .e . c4 Ditto Thirds .. Ditto Fifths • • London and Brighton 50 •• • • 62 '4 3b %•• • • London and Croydon .. .. 131. 15s. 9d. 20% % London and Greenwich .. 121. 151. 4d. 936 .......... London and Soath-Western 411. 6s. 10d. 76 77 • • •• • • Dttto, New Consol. Eighths .. 28 .... 44 .......... Ditto, New . 1236 20% % • • ...... London and York .. 2 36 •• • • 1 % %•••• • • • • London, Warwick, & Kiddermins. 234 • •• • • Manchester and Leeds .. • • • • 82 ••• • •• • • •'• • • Ditto, Fifths 2 .... 11 ••••• • • • • • Manchester and Birmingham .. 40 . 7536 .. ••• • .. Ditto, Quarter Shares (B) .... 9 Ditto, Quarter Shares (C) 1 • • • Manchester, Buxton, & Matlock 42e. •• par.. •• • • .... Midland ..100 ....1443¢ 145 143.. Ditto, 1$ .. • • 2934 Newcastle and Darlington Juliet. 95 .... 43 4256 ...... Ditto, New . 1 .... 8 .......... Ditto, New, Brendling 25 .... 4134 Newcastle and Berwick 10 .... 17 3; 17 la.. Newark, Sheffield, and Boston .. 2%.... 1 34 % North British.. • • .. 24% • • Ditto, Half Shares .. ~ 6 7s North Staffordshire • . 42e. % p.... • • Oxfd.,Worcester, & Welverhrupta. 1234 .. 9 156 Perth and Inverness • • _ Richmond • • • • • • • • .. 10 .... 15 Scottish Central • • • • • .. 10 .... 13 % ...... • • Shrewsbury and Birmingham • % Shropshire Union .. • • • • . 425. .. ••..• • .. 1 dis. South Midland • • • • • • • . 425..... 4 % 411 s.•• • • % dis. South Eastern and Dover ~ 33 344% 34% Do., New:(do. 3010' • • N 0.3. 15 .... 13% 13% 54 West South oßr iv idN a i n l e e ga s ti,h, 1%14 p. 134 p Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth 2% m m n •••••• •: ••• : : :7 • 1 • •• • : ... ... ; York aid North Midland •60 •• ••_ g •• • • •• •• Do. E. and W. Riding Extol... ... . RI , . ..... •• FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Calais, Dunkirk, & West Flanders 2 . Dutch Rhenish • • • • • • .. ~ .. ... East Indian .. s e. Grt. North. of France Constituted .. 14 % ••• • • • • Great Western Canada ~ •au 4 Luxemb ourg4 Namur and Liege • . 4 % .......... Orleans and Yierzen 10 17 Paris and Strasbourg Constituted I .... 5% ..... Sambre and Meuse .. .. 6 _ a• • .... • • • • Tours and Nantes Constituted . • 1 .... ..•••• • • • • JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Australasia • • • • " • • •• 40 .... 26 ••••• • • • • • London Joint-Stock • • , 10 .... 14 •• • 29 %ds Real del Movie, Unregistered MINIM United Mexican . • • • • . 281.28.8%d. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, Aran. 7.—Wind N.W., f res h b reeze an d h a zy, with a drizzling rain. A jolly boat or gig, keel up, with green bottom, and black from bilge upwards, apparently freshly painted, was seen on the 3d instant, in Ist. 49 N., long. 9 W., by the Countess of Durham, arrived in the Downs. The wreck of a brig, with loss of masts and 30, by the British Isles , arrived off Folkeston e . was passed 22d ult. in lat. 42, long. bulwarks, and bowsprit standing, DEAL, Aran. 6.—Wind, a.m., S.W. ; W.S.W., fresh and squally. Arrd. Daniel Grant, Shaley, Shanghae; Countess of Durham, 3l'Laren, Penang; Thetis, Cass, Calcutta and Demerara ; Teeodosia, Irving, Mauritius. Arrd. from the river, 3largaretha, Baur, Batavia ; Lord John Russell, Betsey, Fugwash ; Gentoo, Lakeman, Quebec ; Ocean, Warren, Quebec s Prince of Wales, Russell, Constantinople ; Thomas Rowall, Robertson, St. John's. DARTMOUTH, Aran, 6.--Wind W.—Arrd. Helsingfors, Strom berg, Quebec. for Rio Janeiro, with loss of sails, boat, &c. ARBROATH.—Sid. David Grant, Laurence, Montreal. Quebec. m Herrings,a'g e Watson,d state. s. — The Snowdrop, Wright, from 'Yarmouth ttoft, and expected to be a total wreck ; to IsSGl,TH,orizoil:Kenro:siosz.N—i.:7,lll,ldbsjhtidri.RrielllLna.lnteg r i ty , tdpivah ST. HELENA, Fee. part of cargo saved 26.—This island has, during the last few days. been visited by heavy rollers, which have done considerable damage to the shipping. In seven hours thirteen vessels were total wrecks, eleven of which were slavers, and two lying as hulks (the Racket and Cornelia). The harbour is covered with masts, yards, casks, and every other description of wreck. The value of property de stroyed on shore is estimated at 10,0001. The whole of the passage boats are destroyed. The most extraordinary circumstance attend ing this destruction was, that several merchant vessels were at anchor, clear of the rollers, with scarcely a move. There was not a breath of wind ; the weather sultry, with occasional showers. NEWPORT, Iran. 6.—Wing W.S.W.—SId. Yorkshire Lass, Quebec. LIVERPOOL, APRIL 6.—Wind E.N.E.—SId. Luna, Redmond, Gre nada ; Francis Yates, Boase, La Guayra ; Hilsberough, Lamb, St. John's, New Brunswick ' • Spartan, Thompson, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Corsair, Daly, Halifax ; P. R. C., Ledwick, Cape Breton ; Grog, Briard, Cape Breton ; Renfrewshire, Burns, Quebec; John, Hesselton, Quebec; Safeguard, Smith, Montreal ; Baron of Bramber, Flinn, Montreal ; St. George, Poole, Newfoundland; Seabird, Lyall, Newfoundland; James Stewart, Laird, Newfoundland; Win. Duke, Pitts, Beyrout; D'Arcy, Garrick, Hamburgli and Valparaiso. Orr LIVERPOOL.—Arrd. Priscilla and Laurel. BELFAST.--Sld. Xenophon, Rochester, Quebec. YARMOUTH, APRIL .s.—Wind W.— On the 3d instant was picked up, off Sconce Point, the main-sheet-horse of a billy-buoy, with " Bri tannia, of Goole," on it. Swansea, Aram 3.—The Victoria and Albert, Gough, which sailed from Dungarvon on the Ist Instant, was struck by a heavy sea this morning en the west of the Smalls, was hove on her beam-ends, and compelled to cut away mainmast to get her upright ; she was after. wards brought into harbour to repair. MART Nilws.—(THlS DAY.) COLONIAL. for si low to Sc GAL — Scarcely any business has been done in British Planta tion, the attention of the trade being chiefly occupied with the ow and finest l 5 to 57s large public sales, and consequently only about 100 hogsheads have u m must s t t o i n ti s s e been sold at previous rates. The public sales have been g is e n s e 6 r d a ( li t y he a p bo r" ut ei very numerous, consisting principally of 10,411 bags 662 casks Mauritius , 2,253 bags Bengal, 975 bags Madras, and 158 baskets Java. Nearly all the Mauritius and Bengal sold, but went off very irregularly, the former at 40s 6d to 46s 6d good brown, 475 to 551 6d for low to very fine ye/low, and 6d for mid grey to fine yellow, chrystalized, being for the descriptions previous prices, but the good grocery sorts for re l i o n w sta t n o c g e oo s b d e b q r u e o wn ted . iiratheriithelojwavear.rounThde b ß o e y n e g rs al a b t r , ou u gh to t • pai ne d ar o l r y all al o l w th ed e ) M fo a r dr lo a w s w an a d s ro ta i k d e gr n e l y n is a h t former ra tes , of very duty to white strong qua'ity, being the previous value. The quantity landed_ last week at the East and West India Docks was 349 hhde 88 t ierces 141 barrels, and there were taken for home consumption 840 hhds 78 tierces 342 barrels. The stock in the Port of London on the let instant was 5,472 'Aids 727 tierces. COFFEE. -428 bags East India, and 2,576 bags of Rio, were offered by auction. All the Eset India was disposed of at 26s to 2ss for:ord to good ord mixed Batavia, and a few lots of P adan g at 255 . which are comparativ e l y low pric es . 'The sound Rio was taken in at 33s to 34e 6d f or good to fine ord, be ing above the value ; about 500 bags damaged sold at 29s 6d to 315 for first and second class. Rose. —The quantity landed last week at the East and West India Docks was 463 puns 169 hhds. There were taken for home con sumption 171 puns 9 hhds and exported 258 puns 41 hhds. The stock in the port of Lon don, the let gust.. was 13 , 579 on puns 2,513 hhds. RICE.-1,298 bags Beng al, 322 bags Foreign. and 100 casks Caro lina offered by auction was nearly all withdrawn, the Bengal at 135 for mid white, and the Carolina at 21s, being 6d to 15 lower, but at which there were not purchases. A. small portion of good white Bahia sold at 128 6d, good mid white Italian was taken in at 16s, be ing above the value. 6Piczn.-952 bags of Pepper (chiefly Sumatra) sold at 3%d for good heavy (shot kind) Malabar, and 2%d to 2%d for ordinary black Sumatra to good bright brown BMW, but dusty, which are rather lower rates. TALLow.---P.Y.C. fa 42e 6d per cwt on the spot, and Town 44e per cwt. Tae.—The bus loess dOng in DA 1201 toed to II agents titillt! ' MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were about 6,000 bales, including 1,000 American, on speculation, all at very full prices. Sh ares were dull, and without any change for the better. The statement made by Sir Robert Peel last night in tho House of Commons, relative to the intentions of Govern ment connected with railway p ro j ec t s , an d t h e means to b e adopted to wind up doubtful projects, has given the most unqualified' satisfaction in the City, not only on the ' Stock Exchange, but among the banking and com mercial interests. There is now a prospect that at no very distant period a vast amount of money now locked up, in the shape of railway deposit., will be returned into circulation, and that schemes which were brought into existence during the mania of the months of June, July, August, and September last, will be brought to a termination, and all expenses incurred paid off, and the managing and provisional committee men be eased from additional responsibilities, and affairs wound up with honour to all parties. Still the details to be fur nished by the Earl of Dalhousie, to be given in the House of Lords this ever.ing, are most eagerly looked for. All parties agree that, by instantly passing resolutions through Parlia ment upon the topic stated, is, the best course to be adopted, leaving the Bill to take its ordinary course, its principle being of course admitted. There is one great feature in the proposals of Sir Robert Peel which deserve especial notice, and that is, that all promoters of schemes, whether they have been enabled to go before Parliament or not, should be held liable to all engineering or other expenses necessarily incurred. There are not any late colonial arrivals announced in the City to-day. The British Securities have been rather fiat to-iay. Con sols for the account have fl uc t ua t e d on l y from 96 1 4 1 %; for Money from 96 1 ,E %; the Reduced Three per Cents. from 951 to 95%; New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. from 97.1* to 96% ; and Exchequer -bills have ranged from 235. to 265. premium. This evening's Gazette will intimate the amount of surplus revenue to be laid out in the redemption of the debt during the present quarter. The Foreign Stock Exchange list has a very meagre ap pearance to-day. The only bargains have been in the Brazilian Five per Cents., at 80%; in the Mexican Deferred, at 16 3 % ; in the Portuguese Four per Cents. for the Account, 58 ; and in the Belgic Four-and-a-Half per Cents., at 98. The Shares of lines of railway in operation, and what are considered good scrip, have been in rather better request. BRITISH FUNDS. ONE CLOSING O'CLOCK. PRICES. Bank Stock . • • • .. 207 206 ex div 206 Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. 96% %ex div 95% Three per Cent. Consols Annuities 96% % 9614 New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anne. 97% 96% ex div 96 Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 .. 10 3-16 %ex d 10% Ditto, 30 years, Oct. 10, 1849 .. 10 ex div 10 Ditto, 30 years, Jan. 6, 1860 10% 11% Consols for Account .. 96% 96% India Stock for Account 260% 2623{ 26234 Exchequer Bills. 134 d. i%d. .. .... 23 26 pm. 26 6001. .... 23 26 pm. 26 Ditto, Small •-•• .... 23 26 pm. 26 ONE CLOSING FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent 9034 803{, Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent .. Ditto, Deferred .. .. • • • • 16 91 Portuguese Four per Cents Ditto, for the Account Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent Ditto, Passive Bonds Ditto, Three per Cent ------ Ditto, for the Account .• • • Dividends on the above payable in London. Belgian T Four - r an - adnt if perah l a la perf c e C i e t n t . . 98 Dutch Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certlleates 7, 1846. RAILWAY COMMITTEES. (THIS DAY.) GROUP IX. The Committee met to-day at twelve o'clock, Lord Worsley is the chair. WEST OP SCOTLAND JUNCTION. The hearing of evidence in opposition to this scheme was resumed this morning. Mr. Atherton was called, and briefly re-examined In continuation from yesterday, as to the stability of the proposed viaduct. Mr. Walker, engineer of the Clyde HarlsourJunction, examined by Mr. Sergeant BELLLSIS —He advised the purchasing of the land at Stobins, and made plans for the Docks. The plans also included the plans for the river-quays. The proposed dock had relation to the mineral traffic which was expected to come upon it from the branch of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway. In laying down the docks, he also laid down rails to accommodate the mineral traffic, and that only. The size of the dock and basin he proposed was 17% acres. They had passed a Bill through a Committee of the House of Commons to effect this object. The bridge proposed last year was about forty feet from the Glasgow Bridge. He knew something of the foundations of the bridge and quays, and they were fine running sand. lie could speak per- sonally about the foundation of the quay walls, and respecting the bridge. He had the evidence of others. He had often found the walls fail through the sand running, and the foundations not being deep enough. He thoeght that in driving piles and forming coffer-dams, there would be great danger of the present bridge giving way. Ile did not think the work impossible, though it was one which no cau tious engineer careful of his professional character would undertake. He had no objection to a connexion between the two rails, but lie would propose it to be done by a circuitous route, commencing at Shiers-bridge, on the south side of the river, and crossing the Clyde above itutherglen-bridge, joining the Edinburgh and Glasgow above the inclined plane. It would be six miles in length, while the proposed junction was three and a half miles. The heaviest gradient of the line skirting the city was 1 in 80, and avoided the tunnel on the inclined plane of I in 42. GROUP XXI. MAIDENHEAD AND WYCOMBE, AND WEST DRAYTON AND UXBRIDGE (BRANCHES lißo M TEE GREAT WEST- ERN). The Committee met this morning at the usual hour, present Mr Finch (Chairman), Captain Layard, Mr. Wodehouse, Lord A. Her. vey, and Mr. Lawson. The assents and dissents having been handed in, and the clauses agreed to with some slight alterations, The CHAIRMAN intimated that be should report the favourable de cision of the Committee on both those branches to the House, and the Committee broke up. GROUP XXIX. This Committee re-assembled to-day in room 19. Present, Right Hon. H. Labouchere (chairman), Sir Wm. Molesworth, Sir John Duckworth, Mr. J. ♦. Smith, and Colonel Rawdon. ILITG7SIr AND HUNTINGDON. The evidence on the traffic anticipated by the line having closed yesterday, the engineering evidence was proceeded with this morn ing by Mr. IVaarteN, counsel for promoters, calling on Mr. Gibbs, one of the engineers of the line, who deposed as fol lows :—This railway commences at Rugby and terminates at Hun tingdon; its length is forty-eight miles four furlongs; its estimate of cost 1,000,0001. The chief object of the Rugby and Huntingdon line is to form the remaining link in the chain of communica tion between Norwich and Yarmouth, on the east coast, and Rugby and Birmingham on the west ; connecting Yarmouth and Norwich with Birmingham, and giving railway com munication with the midland, northern, and southern, as well as western parts of the kingdom. Railways are already formed from Yarmouth through Norwich to Ely, and a line is santioned by Parlia ment, and in course of formation, from Ely to Huntingdon ; from Huntingdon, however, no line is continued to the west, and this continuation the Rugby and Huntingdon will supply to Rugby, thus completing a direct chain of lines from Birmingham to Norwich. Huntingdon is at present the terminus, at which the three systems of lines which spread thence over the central, northern, and southern districts of the eastern counties concentrate. This line would thus accommodate the whole of the counties of Suffolk, l i Norfolk, Cambridge, and part of Huntingdon. Huntingdon, thus the focus of the eastern railways, is the eastern terminus of the projected line. Rugby, the western terminus of the pro jected line, is also equally a focus of the western railways, the con fluence of these various lines at the eastern and western termini of the Rugby and Huntingdon are conclusive of the necessity for such a a connexion as it will form between the eastern and western systems of railway accommodation to the kingdom. The population of the eastern counties thus to be connected with the western lines is 735,286, whilst the population of the districts accommodated by the western system of railways before enumerated comprises a large proportion of the whole kingdom. The eastern counties are peculiarly an agricultural district, producing more than they con sume. The western district, are much of them manufacturing, con Burning more food than they produce. The eastern will send its agricultural produce to the west, and receive in return mi nerals and manufactures. The interchange of products which is now made very circuitously would be made direct, and the salt trade, both for home consumption and for export, the fisheries at Yarmouth and Lowestoft, and the Norwich trade, would be all greatly encouraged. The other competing lines would not accommodate this traffic. On the ground, therefore, of its general and local advantages, it was much preferable to the rival railways. All the works were moderately light, and there were no great en gineering difficulties. There would be one tunnel 540 feet long. Did not think the estimate for the works too high. The gradients were of an average description. They had one gradient of 1 in 97, but with the power of changing it five feet it would be changed to lin 175. The steepest gradient might be taken as 1 in 100. The prevailing gradient was 1 In 131. The proposed flee would pour the northern and eastern traffic into the London and Bir mingham Railway at a point where the greatest relief would be afforded to the latter line ; and in this respect it was much superior to the South Midland rival line. The traffic of that portion of the London and Birmingham line to which he referred was very crowded. That over -crowded condition of the line attracted his 'observation and that of every one who travelled over it. Cross-examined—He believed that the London and Birmingham line was one where the least number of accidents occurred of any railway in the kingdom. Sub-Committee No. 1. The Committee met to-day at twelve o'clock, in Room No. 7, (Cloisters) ; present., Mr. Strutt, chairman ; Mr. Beckett, and Mr. Brothertoe, and resumed the consideration of the SOUTH DEVON (No. 2.) The formal evidence having been completed, the standing orders were declared to es complied with. The Committee resumed the consideration of the DIRECT NORTHERN, of which we gave the particulars yesterday, In the course of the reception of some formal evidence, which was postponed from yesterday, Mr. CoATJe (of the Orin of Parka, and Co.), on the part of a pe titioner, proposed to take that opportunity of entering into an alle gation, that the standing orders had not been complied with, in re spect to the amount of deposit paid into the Court of Chancery. Mr. WEBSTER submitted that it was not competent to the other side to enter upon that allegation at present, as it really did not affect the formal evidence, but would be proper matter of considera tion when the Committee came to inquire into the adverse petitions. The CHAIRMAN having consulted with the other lien. Members, said that the question could not be entertained in this stage of inquiry. The T forms.l evidence was then completed. Mr. CoATES then proceeded with the allegations of a petition from Mr. Parsons, a landowner within the line of deviation. Upon an allegation to the effect that the name of a parish through which a part of the line would pass was not named in the notices, The Committee decided that the standing orders were not com plied with, bit they would report that the parish alluded to (Morban, in Huntingdonshire) was named in the notices as to the main line, although not on those relating to tile branches. After some discussion on other items of the petition, Mr. COATES withdrew the other allegations. Mr. COATES begged permission to explain to the Committee how it was that he could not proceed with the allegations respecting the insufficiency of the deposits paid into the hands of the Accountant- General, because in truth he had been unable to ascertain what amount of deposit had been paid. He could not obtain the informa tion by any means in his power from the Court of Chancery. • Mr. STRUTT said that Mr. Coates had no right under the circum stances to come before the Committee. But if he could show that he had used all diligence and could not obtain the Information, the Committee would assist him if they could. But this would be a mat ter of indulgence, or else for their own information, as he had no locus standi. Mr. COATES said that he had endeavoured to ascertain the amount, but could find no means of arriving at the fact, as the Court of Chancery would give no information except to parties interested. Mr. WEBSTER said that it was a matter of course every day to apply for and obtain such inforination. He then examined Mr. Leash, salicitor, who stated that the certificate of the amount of deposit paid in was entered upon the records of the Court, and were accessible to any one. He had repeatedly, in the course of his practice, obtained access to the record of such certificates, althowili he had never had occasion to apply for the information in respect to a railway. The Committee then decided that Mr. Coates could not be heard upon the question. Mr. COATES withdrew all the other allegations of his petition, and begged leave to withdraw also that which had been decided in his favour, as he thought it hardly worth while to press an objection as to the omission to rentimerate one parish in the plans of a line ex tending over 263 miles. The Committee then decided that the standing orders were com plied wilh. It was stated that the prometers had served about 10,000 notices, and not one error had been proved in the service of any of them. Sub-Committee, No. 2. The Committe met to-day at twelve o'clock, in Room Aro. 6 ; present Sir J. Tarde Buller (chairman), Mr. Walker, and Mr. Yorke. They proceeded with the further consideration of the allegations against the STAINES AND HENLEY (No. IL) Engineering evidence of some length was adduced in support of the adverse petitions to show that the limits and the datum line were not laid down in accordance with the standing orders, in the plans and sections deposited. Sub-Committee No. 3. This Committee assembled to-day at twelve o'clock. Present, Mr. Aglionby (chairman), Mr. Buller, Mr. Stains!leld, Mr. Broadley, and Mr. Thornely. WORCESTER, HEREFORD, ROSS, IIND GLOUCESTER. The consideration of the petition against this Bill was resumed. It was alleged that there were various inaccuracies on the datum line between Worcester and Gloucester. Evidence which was of a purely technical character being heard. The;Committee found that at the road marked on the section fourteen miles and six furlongs there was an error of eight feet, the point in question being marked 116 feet, when it should have been 109 feet. It was then alleged that on the turnpike road, 15 miles and a half furlong, at the point marked 125 feet above the datum line, there was an error of 18 inches. Evidence having been heard pro and con, the Committee found that the allegation was sustained. The Committee then decided that hi the case of this Bill the stand. Lng orders had not been complied with. Sub• Committee No. 6. The members present on the meeting of this Committee, at twelve o'clock this day, were Captain Jones (chairman), the O'Cenor Don, Viscount Ebrington, and Mr. Deedes. They proceeded with the con sideration of the IPSWICH, NORWICH, AND YARMOUTH. On the part of the petitioners, a person appeared for Mr. Coates, and proceeded with the remaining allegations of the petition. All the allegations from that under consideration at the rising of the Committee yesterday (the 100th) were abandoned. This allegat:on (the 147th) was that the names of John Moseley and Arthur Bendell were not Inserted in the books of refereace as owner and occupier of certain property marked Nos. 19 and 20 on the plan, although Mr. Moseley was the owner and Mr. Beudell the occupier of that property. Mr. Betidell himself was called to prove that he occupied the pro perty, and that it belonged to Mr. Moseley In cross-examination isy Mr. ELLICOMBE, the witness said that he had not signed the petition, and that he had not consented previously to its presentation. Mr. ELLicomisa said that the objection could not be entertained as far as Mr. Bendell was concerned, he net having consented before the presentation of the petition. le admitted that there was error as to Mr. M ose l ey ( who was one of the petitioners ), but the mistake had been discovered, and a notice had been served on him. The CHAIRMAN said th a t th ere wa s an appare n t with the standing ord ers , b u t th a t the standing orders non-compliance rder r s wtneerepseutibtisotanteir tially complied with, and he would ask the agent for whether he would wish such a point to b e reported? The agent thought It ought to be the repo rted, ian a di nd ng the or C d o er m s in w i t e t r e e e naoct cerdingly determined to report th at complied with. The next allegation taken was that in cross ne s i e n c g ti o o n n N an o. i 7 n , ell a n r e o road 1 in 75, whereas it was i near 15 miles 7 furlongs in fact r epresented as fact a r l e ev t e n l a t the road was level, o A witness was called E p L o ic (man admitted that the road but fre n cross-exaraination . quen tly changed its level, being a sandstone road. The statem en t in the cross-section was that the average level was 1 in 75, but the witness said the average ought to have been stated as level. Dir. Emacostsz said that the late heavy rains had caused a c h ange since the sections were drawn. Allegation not sustained. The remaining allegations were withdrawn. This Bill being now disposed of, the Committee called the CALEDONIAN EXTENSION. This Bill had been re-committed from the Standing Orders Com mittee, but in consequence of an arrangement between the parties that it should not come on till two o'clock, it stood over, with the understanding that it should be called on at two o'clock if no other Bill was before the Committee at that hour. STANDING ORDERS' COMMITTEES. ROUSE OF COMMONS. Room No. 9. This Committee recommenced their sittings at the usual hour. Mr. Estcottrt (chairman), Mr. E. Strutt, Sir J. Y. Buller, Mr. H. Aglionby, Mr. Cumming Bruce, and Mr. Wilson Patten, were present. In the two following! cases the standing orders were declared not to be complied with : CHELMSFORD AND BURY, BRITISH AND IRISH UNION. THE DARTMOUTH, EXETER, AND BRIXHAM ib new under considerativp. BANKRUPTCY.-(THIS DAY) (Before Mr. Commissioner ForannisQuE.) IN RE LADD. This insolvent, who was a brewer at Dover, came up for his adjourned final order. An'objection was taken that there was an omission in the schedule fatal to the petition, one of the sheets not being signed by the insolvent's attorney, or an attesting witness. Mr. DUNCAN strongly contended that there was no cul pable negligence or fraud contemplated in this case, and that therefore the Learned Commissioner had the power to allow an amendment—it was clearly an omission by mistake. The Learned COMMISSIONER, after hearing the arguments and referring to the cases quoted, said it was an objection which ought not to be favoured after the case had been heard two or three times on the merits, and he was at first afraid that the term of the statute were so imperative that he could r.ot give leave to amend the schedule, but he was DOW satisfied that under the 7th and Bth Vic., c. 96, s. 30, he had a power to amend generally. He should, therefore, allow the insolvent to reswear the sheet in dispute that it might be duly attested. 1% 21 1 % P 2% 219 624 274 24 624 HAMBURGH MAIL. Hilarius Wieliezkaer set out yesterday evening for Warsaw ; this is the best proof of loyalty that he can give. ViaNNA, MARCH 28.—Prince Frederick Schwarzenburg, who is appointed to assist the Governor-General, Arch- Duke Ferdinand, is come to 'Vienna for some days. He is said to have brought a complete account of the melancholy state of things in Gallacia. While the French Chambers indulge in angry language re specting the causes of the murders of Polish nobles, and bitterly attack our whole syStem of Government, and while European journals are disputing pro and con whether the pretended distribution is true or not, the plain statement of a patriotic peasant, which is confirmed in all quarte,- s may perhaps throw the most light on this melancholy episode of the Polish history. A person of distinction, who is every where received with joy by the peasants, asked them wl.y they had not sooner given notice to the magistrates of the arms which were given them by the nobles in every possi ble way, by which they might have prevented the insurrec tion. They answered, if they had done so, the magistrates would not have believed there. The nobles and their officers would have protested their innocence, and declared the dis tribution of weapons to be a calumny ; and we should have been punished and only have delayed the rebellion. We, however, informed the magistrates in the month of January that the nobles were arming; but we were not listened to, and we therefore waited, for our own safety, to tee which course things would take. PosEN, MARCH 27.—A private letter from the kingdom of Poland lies before us, which affirms that numerous arrests of nobles have taken place there for some days past. TRIESTE.—The convention between the Austrian Lloyd and the English Government for forwarding the Indian mails, for the space of six months, has lately been altered on account a the uncertainty of the weather in spring, and it is now agreed that the Austrian English mail between Trieste and. Alexandria shall not comnience on the Ist of April, as was at first determined, but on the let of May.-- Hamburgh Papers, April 5. IRELAND. THE PROVISION SCARCITY. DUBLIN, APRIL 4. —The following instructive conversa tion is reported as having taken place at a meeting on Tues day of the Cork Poor Relief Committee. That the farmers have in many instances contributed to the prevailing scarcity by holding back their stocks with a view of extorting famine prices there is no reason whatever to doubt, and if, from the precautions taken by Government, they have discovered that they have overshot the mark, few will be found to sympa thize with their disappointment. Why " Peel ought to be hanged" for checkmating these forestallers is a riddle the solution of which must be left to the two enthusiastic gen tlemen who suggested this ignoble termination to the Pre mier's existence : _ _ " Mr. MURPHY said that when it was found that the meal (Indian corn meal, of course) was selling in Cork, a panic struck the farmers, and he was informed that last Sunday a number of them waited upon a gentleman to know whether they should send their produce at once to market. " Mr. G. C. FEATIS was told the previous evening that the selling of Indian meal had struck terror into the hearts of the country people, and they were asking advice as to 'whe ther they should send their produce to market, as they had previously kept it up for high prices. " Mr. Crreit—Then Peel ought to be hanged for bring ing it here.—(Laughter.) " Mr. Coma—He ought to be hanged, whether he did it cr let it alone.—(Loud laughter.)" EVICTION OF TENANTRY. Fr'4 The Tipperary Vindicator contains the following :—" A reporter from this establishment proceeded yesterday (Fri day) morning to Gorthore, between Nenagh and Limerick, to witness the eviction of tenantry—or what is technically called the execution of a "habere' —on the property of Mr. Tuthill, where 120 men of the 72d Highlanders, under Captain Pollard, 41 police, under the Sub•lnspector Lewis, of Newport, and several bailiffs, went at an ea r l y h our. Our reporter returned at five o'clock, P.M. H e i n f orms us that nine poor families were evicted from their tenements. The day was particularly wet, cold, and inclem en t, more in fact like a mid-winter than a spring day. No re sistance was offered to the executioners of the law. The people in the neighbourhood, be says, did not expect the visit. Those who were present showed every courtesy and kindness to the military officers and soldiers, who well merited the hospitality manifested ley the poor cottiers, who boiled eggs and gave what refreshment they had to them. The men of the 72d seemed ashamed of this distressing duty. " The names of the persons evicted were :—Patsick Mara, 4 in family; Patrick Clancy, 9 in family (who showed his receipt to our reporter for his rent up to November); John Fennell, 5 in family ; Denis B r i en , 5 i n family ; Pat O'Brien, 5 i n family; Patrick Clancy, 7 in family; William Merbert, the amount of whose family our reporter was un able to ascertain, but supposes it to be at least 5. In all 39 persons. " Our reporter says that it was generally stated that the tenants had paid the rent up to May, 1845—but of this he had no accurate knowledge. The fact, however, was that Fennell, above-mentioned, had bank-notes for rent in his hands, which were refused —and the day ended by the tenants being put out, the doors of their cabins closed and locked. Our reporter was informed that Mr. Tuthill has fourteen evictions against fourteen other tenants. Our re porter heard it stated from Mara, above mentioned, that Mr. Tuthill promised them possession again ; but this he does not know of his own knowledge." RE THE APPROACHING CHANGE IN THE CORN -LAWN. —We have, in our journal of this evening, the opinion of a gentleman, that necessarily will carry great weight with it, in respect to the contemplated change in the corn-laws. 'We allude to Mr. George Robins, who has taken an early oppor tunity to place his opinion upon record, in his announcement of the Willenhall Hamlet, Manor, and Estate (near 800 acres) of first-rate land, near to the city of Coventry. This, it will be perceived, shows in uNmistakeable terms not only his opinion, but the reason that guides him to such a con clusion. In alluding to the safety of landed investments, he enforces his feeling in the following strong and uNanswerable terms :—" Hear it all those who incline to be dissatisfied with landed investments, that there is not, nor has there been, an arrear of one guinea during the last ten years;" and as it re gards the general prejudice that has too long existed in re spect of reduced rents, he pointedly rebukes this feeling by the following quaint observation. He says, by way of con clusion, that it affords the writer very great satisfaction to join in, and express a very concurrent opinion (and one that has become an every day assertion now-a-days), that " THE AGRICULTURAL COMMUNITY HAVE BEEN MUCH MORE FRIGHTENED THAN HURT; a fact which will be demonstrated past misapprehension in a few weeks." We shall watch Mr. Robins's sales, and give to our readers the benefit of the results. POST -OFFICE NOTICE.—DETENTION OF MAILS. — This morning the following notice was posted at the General Post office, St. Martin's.le-Grand :—" April 7, 1846.—The mails for deira, Brazils, and Buen os Ay res , f or t hi s even i ng , will be detained. Letters will be in time to-morrow evening." MISS KELLY'S THEATRE..—Mr. llenryliaßr American vocalist), whose name has becone d f e a d mi de served popularity of his compositions, cif:n.l;l. The house was very enter tainments at the above theatre last his the ( tle of the negro elicited a just mee of full, and his truly excellent delineationd y e tZ p i r n o u b s ,t i t c io a n nd peculiarities e i av A rte' Nusce.lPTS. &C., OF J. SALE OF THE LlBRARerday the sale of the fourth portion of BRITTON, Emit., F.S.A.— t whichc antiquities,m p r t i o s p e o s g a ra g p r h e 3 a , t , s commenced at Mr. Fletcher's the wellAnownantiq uarian. the extensive and valttleeslibwraary of John Britton, everal rare Bibles and Prayer-books, is divided y lt . tab T le his bo p o o k rt s io o n n , theology including s of 2,000 lots, comprising many thousand volumes. Auction-rooms, curious into upwards inPiacnedad.ilal some of the lots are extremely curious. There are several beauti fully illuminated manuscripts and autographs ; among the latter is one by Nell Gwynne, to a receipt for 2501., being for a quarter's pension; one by Prince Rupert, Sir Isaac Newton, &c. The sale consisted principally of books on architecture and architectural an tiquities, which sold for large sums. Lord Frederick, Lady Augusta, and the lion. Miss Fitzclarence, have left Etal House for the season. His Lordship has for several months been suffering from a violent attack of gout, so much so, that it was deemed advisable by his medical attendant to remove him. Sir David Davies, together with an easy travel'ing carriage belonging to the Queen, were sent express to Etal last week to convey the Noble Lord, by easy journeys, to town, whence lie proceeds direct to Winbourne, Dorsetshire. MUSICAL NEws.—A letter from Vienna informs us that M. Liszt has given six concerts in that capital since the Ist of March, and tkat the pianiste has likewise played before the Court, and been presented by the Emperor with a rich diamond ring, with his Imperial Majesty's cipher. The anniversary festival of the Berlin Philharmonic Society took place in that capital on the 22d nit., after a fine concert, at which Vieuxtemps and Mendelssohn were in attendance. The Earl of Westmoreland honoured the festival with his presence. A letter from Aix-la-Chapelle of the 28th tilt. states that the 23d grand annual festival of the Rhenish districts will be celebrated this year in that city. The programme of the festival, at which 2,600 performers will as sist, will solely consist of ancient works of ecclesiastical music. It will last four days. The King and Queen of Prussia have promised to be present at this festival, which will commence on Wednesday - , the 29th of April. Paris letters inform us that it appears certain that the engagement of Madame Eugenie Garcia with the director of the opera is broken off, and she will be replaced by Rossi Cassia, who has lately sung with so much success in Lisbon and Londo n . Madame Rossi Cassia will make her debut in the part of La Juive. An opera in two acts, called L' Ame en Peine, will be prod uce d i n Paris in a few days. Felicien David's new oratorio, Hoses on Mount Sinai, has disappointad the expectations to which his ode -symphony of The Desert had given rise, and has called some very unfavourable criticism from the Parisian feuilletonaistes, . Ihe lately-discovered manuscript of a lost poem, by Ariosto, has been sold by the finder to the Library at Ferrara, reserving to himself the right of publishing it within iiva yeall. PoSEN, MARCH 25.—The measures of precaution in this cite, have been relaxed fir some time past. The number of piquets reduced, and as we hear, orders given entirely to suppress them, though without exposing the city to the danger of an excess, which is still possible, but would cer tainly be soon suppressed. It is now also determined gra dually to withdraw the regiments that have been marched into the Grand Duchy. Thus, then, the history of the con spiracy may be considered as so far terminated, yet we can not hope, after the experience of late years, that a satisfac tory state of things will be permanent, since the late events, and the necessary arrests of nobles and clergy have excited the hatred of the Poles to the Government and to the Ger mans, such as never was since the province belonged to Russia. It is generally beiieved here that the King will lit mercy take the place of justice, and will mitigate the penal ties incurred by the insurgents as much as possible. MAKcit 27.—The Warsaw Gazette, received here to-day, announces that the landowner Pantaleon Patoski was con demned to death, and that thesentence was executed, on the 17th cf this month, at Siedlee. BRESLAW, MARCH 27.—0 n the 26th of this month the sentence pronounced in the Criminal Court on Dr Thenier's pamphlet, " The Reformirtorischen Bestrebungen in du Kalolischen Kirclis ;" the sentence is that Dr. Theider is not liable to punishment for the contents of this work-- that he shall be free from the costs, and that the sequestra tion of the work by the police shall be taken off. ST. PETERSBUROH, MAucti 21.—His Majesty the Em peror set out late on Wednesday evening from St. Peters burgh for Moscow. His Majesty is accompanied by his Aids-de-camp General Count Orloff and Van Adlerburg. CnAcow, MARCH 27.—The Russian camp of 10,000 men is near Miechow, in the kingdom of Poland, and a body of 10,000 men is posted in the frontiers of Gallacia, and another of 10,000 men is to be stationed on the frontiers of Podolia, in the district of Cracow, and in Cracow itself the Russians are forming large magazines. The Russians are daily ex pected in Cracow. LOSS OF THE SHIP BELFA OF LIVERPOOL. TWENTY PERSONS DROWNED. A distressing shipwreck occurred during the lat gales, on the extreme north-east portion of the Scotland, namely, in the total loss of the barque belonging to the port of Liverpool, and most part crew drowned, on the rocks in the Pentland Frit unfortunate vessel was nearly 300 tone burden, 6 , heavily laden with a cargo of coals, fire-arrne, an goods, on a voyage from Leith to Monte Video. ticulars of the melancholy occurrence, as stated by 1 vivors are these:— • It appears the Belfast, which was commanded Clerk, left Leith on the afternoon of Saturday, the last month, and passed Wi c k on th e Monday fo with favourable weather. On the following day, 11 a gale of wind came on from the north-east, which day advanced, gained in strength, and by eight o't night it had reached to a most violent storm, the sea tremendously. The captain, it should be said, had to precaution of taking a pilot on board at Duncansl for better security in the navigation of the 1" , At about twelve o'clock (when it was thought she or twelve miles off the rock) the vessel struck heavil rock, where she remained, notwithstanding the means that were taken to get her off. All hands the to the rigging, where they lashed themselves, trust weather might moderate and enable them to lain boats, which was out of the question at that period night on account of the fearful seas sweeping over he storm, however, never slacked in the least for severs after daybreak, the crew in the meantime suffering I At about three o'clock (three hours after the vessel the mainmast broke sharp off by the deck, and fell o ve There was lashed to it Mr. Clerk, the captain, and d' all of whom perished. In an hour after this several were washed out of the rigging of the foremast, and a similar fate, at least it is supposed they perist they were never afterwards seen. The remainder of tt suffered severely, they continued on the rigging till next day, the tide then had ebbed out and had left till high and dry on the rocks, enabling them to walk They then discovered that thirteen of their fellow - i hai been lost ; namely, Captain Clerk, the master, Ceoper, the first mate, George Ferguson, David Math John Connell, James Wilson, George Philpots, Clarkson, George Age, three boys, apprentices, not known, and the pilot, Robertson, who was taken on b' Duncansby Bay. The survivors' names are Robert 13. ton, the second mate, James Roper, the carpenter, Allen, the cook, James Heron, Alexander Baker, an( Jamieson, seamen. None of the bodies have as ) 1 found. The vessel lies on her beam ends, and every breaking her rep. Considering the formidable char? the rocks, and the fearful weather at the moment, it ter of astonishment that the ship was not dashed to and every soul belonging to her lest. The rocks are a short distance of the town of Armadale. On the same night, within a short distance of vith' Belfast was lost, another heartrending affair took nig total wreck of the brig Admiral, of Sunderland, hands. She was bound to Sligo with coals, and was ii pang with the Belfast the whole of the Tuesday. r r h co me e r orne n,awearing twelve in num b er, i n addition to whom it is 5° there were apparel and aonn infant's rd, a cr l a a d r i g e e h q a u v e io n washed ashore from the wreck, which lies off PortskerJ SHIP WRECK IN TORBAY' A great number of vessels bound out of Channel 1 31 Tot bay durini, last week, owing to contrary winds. As as ninety sail of ships were at anchor in the bay o ,s day. About 11 P .M. t h e wind sprang up to the nor , and blew very strongly. There being a lee shore in the west part of the bay, the fleet began to move off. the number was the Nehant, of Boston, Captain Fun ship of about 400 tons burden register, from Ghent, hal Texas, having on board 150 passengers as emigrants, I whom were fifty children, and the remaining part women, many of them aged persons. The gale Mae° about 2 A.M., and was accompanied by a snow-storra , the Nehant being pretty far under the high land' Berryhead, missed stays in coming about, and in $ time was driven on shore among the rocks. Th e pre . ' men boarded her, and took from the deck several 114 On their return for a like benevolent purpose, the el came to the side of the ship, and ordered the men 0 1 ; Glaring that, if any one attempted to come on h e t' would shoot him. The sight was one of the most swill can be imagined —the wind howling, and the waves 11 , and lashing on th e s h ores, w hil st t h e w i ld shrieks ; poor creatures, with their helpless children, were het ploring aid, the - vessel rocking to and fro, her bides P , been forced in, and the hold filled with water. The of a vessel being on shore having reached the tot dreds of the inhabitants crowded to the scene of ‘", and, unde r th e super i ntendence of Mr. R. L. 01 jun., agent for Lloyd's, the vessel was boarded. baskets were s l ung upon ropes, which were laSte ne d shore, and the passengers one by one put in and g landed. As so on as tne women and children We' „ ;' 1 the poor emigrant s b egan to take out their packa g e goods, and in a very short time the ground near tb, was covered with boxes, bedding, and clothes, with c o other things, whi c h were i mmed i ately put in charge coastguard. The part of th e b ay on which the vole, on shore is near Berry House, the residence of the - 1 1 1 F. Lyte, the Vicar of L ower B r i g h am. The reveres j tleman is now on a tour for the benefit of his health its and his kind-hearted l a dy no sooner h ear d o f t h e ca lls . t , than she ordered fires to b e l ig ht e d ari d prov i s i on mal e many as her house could accommodate. Mrs. Lyte , managed and directed eve r ythi ng f or th e i r comfort. 111.0, Mesrs. Hagg and Yarringt o n im me di a t e l y corn m making a subscription for the re lief o f th e su ff erer s lo out the town. It is not expect e d th at t h e vessel c.st,'" 0 „ together much longer. Her sid es are b eaten i n, and 710, employed in stripping h er r i gg i ng, f or the pur2ose 0 „0 it. There has be en no l oss of li te. It appears that or.l' men, besides the captain, mate, and steward, were on_d to work the ve sse l, not a b ove one fourth the proper 11$' —West of England Conservative. , nig SOCIETY FOR PROMoTING FEMALE EDIJCa. nix EAsT.--On Monday eveni ng th e annual general meeWlsisl supporters of the North London Auxiliary to the above pf formed for the purpose of improving the character of tb e pel females in British India, and other parts of the East, W": 0 11 the Music Hall, Store-street, Bedford-square ; John Lar d / Esq., in the chair. A large number of the neighbouring gentry were on the platform, including the Hon. and F e 'lle Noel, the Rev. W. Cadmon, the Rev. Dr. Cumming, and W o o Cotton Mather. The Chairman, after addressing the thee der, nounced that the S oc i ety had just received from a donor. , 11 ',,f signature of " A St eward of Christ," the munificent stup; From the repo r t read by the secretary, it appeardd that tb amount raised by the Society since its formation in 1834 waso sca It had trained up and sent forth 54 teachers, bestowed help ° t! a lready established t o t h e amount of 4,2681., and at the press or had 24 agents in the field, having under their instruction aPc„sie 1,400 child ren. Accounts received from the scene of the y ;4S operations in India an d e l sewhere, stated that the na y them selves manifested a great desire for i ns t r uction ; .1:41 standing prejudices had been broken through, and that t 0 wherever established, were exceedingly well attencled. , . no i, ceipts of the au x ili ary during the past year amounted to !fovea report having been adopted, a n d th e c l a i ms of the Soc i e ty by several gentlemen, lay and clerical, the meeting separa t ' n eel The Lords of the Admiralty are shortly e ' ; on an official visit to this port.—Devonport Telegraph. 0 01 0 LAMENTABLE ACCIDENT.—A fatal acc id e nt 0 youl, a few days ago, to Mr. I . L ow i s, a respectable farmer " jir Blundertield Farm, near Kirkoswald, in Cumberland. I f o r• ti Cl , was on his road home from Penrith market with a horse ld at; and when near the village of Lazonby the animal took ' 4 s, W., ran away. Mr. Lowis was sitting on the fore part of the e. v sfa: which he was thrown and became entangled amongst til o s Pi, In this state he was dragged a considerable distance, and 0 1 1 dead on the road, presenting a heartrending spectacle, u i; o slfg., legs being found som e di stance from the other parts of dfr A In ad was all but cu t o ff , and various parts of his body 1/7,t, fully cut and bruised. Deceased, at the time of the acrid k p o considerable sum in sovereigns i n hi s possess i on, with•tvh`, ) fo tended to have paid his rent on Saturday last : them 0— scattered on the road at several places. Cv WELsli FISHERIES.—The trolling smacks ba Ye L A 00/ i menced operations for the seas on . D ur i ng the week a g.O--0114 of fish has been on sale at moderate prices. The scarcity travagant prices of butcher's meat place it out of the ref t he poor classes. Now that the fishing season has commence. 000 bitants of the town will not b e w h o l ly dependent on the bud,s Al their weekly supply; at th e same time we would rec.ooloV trolling company to preser ve a greater uniformity of price tncghauogferth3 the case last season.—Carmanhan Journal. Of tb eti CUSTOMS.—The annual change of stationL o .deA iiii i i a u n emi d u i b n eo g rf - t w bbe v isu t gb e r r a s , e ai r t e d ve o n t u h e er to o o ffi k ce p r l s ace of ye T t e .r l d a a rt : al ua :.to .o l ? , specially appointed to each of the dock estiLb . 4 oo7o according to their extent and the amount of business tr en- ca these several places throughout the year, for the perforni ss to 0 various duties required on the part of the revenue, and eye quays quays and Wharfs near to and adjoining the Custom Hon 4e 'ol 1, 0 lions and departments requiring more than ordinarily the , 1 0 0 . ,011 of superior talent and knowledge, being supplied with ott e t t i e knowledged capacity and experience, both for the sake 0 . 0 ps y r service and the security of the revenue, a certain number; tae t, 01 being retained at the he a d- quar t ers, i n Thames-street, es a pose of furnishing the officers required at uncertain t.l ;; w0 a i d wharfs and places on the banks of the river, extending orif v ,so as Deptford, and also above bridge, which are allowed tba,L so !,"10 of the bonding system to extent varying in preporn. ..:;01170 license and security, and also for the purpose of being (V S Y re iil: 6 o 4 the several docks and other regular establishments, as a 000 ment of the proper complement, in case of emergency anu, or p , of business at those places, arisin g f rem an influx of vesSx . ', A causes, connected with the shippi ng an d mercantile trafiliCoixsar's SCAFFOLD ACClDENT.—yesterday afternoon , „o lio, three and four o'clock, a serious acc id ent occurred to 31r* master bricklayer, residing i n S tacey-street, Solio•sco6fe,,lieisil Avery was standing on a scaffoldi ng erected in the fron t 01 yep when he suddenly slipped on th e en d of a scaffold i ng hoe tl, e"' 701 e was not properly affixed on the p ost l oc k , and fell throu glt pavement, a height of twenty fe e t. Th e i n j ur i es he has "ot _s are most extensive and serious. fl icer° o l AN ALARM.—On Sunday afternoon the o .f A ship Shepherdess, lying arms, which proceeded from the the use' to the vessel to inquire ca basin, and on proceeding ; duty in the St. Katherine Dock were alarmed by the repay 1 0 itj ascertained that two apprentices had loaded an old blursderb . ! in the cabin. The windows of the ca wetoe'dor blown out by the explosion, and considerabl e damage - f jcO fired it at a target The foolish lads had closed the doors and s t opped up every ere t o the cabin to prevent the noise being h ear d , and the conseque n i ~e the windows were blown out by th e concussion. On searelp%s is apprentice's chest, the officers found upwards of two pou.n o e s/ 0 0 powder, which they seized. Th e lads have subjected them:o6lo a penalty of 51. each f or t a ki ng gunpowder into the dock, v oila believed they will be prosecuted by the Dock Company as a pi to others. Se' CANINE FEROCITY. —On Monday dog, of the Blenheim breed, was chased by the Carmar w r ipitsf hounds near rontearreg. The poor little animal sought 'el& de little avail, as the hounds quickly were upon him, and tote h ip ' , A A last a sraa- I „ s i P, O; creature to pieces betbre the huntsman could come up to ic d ' of ial, off. Should not the huntsman have been in front of his c a rtf , not a long way behind Wens, as on the present occasion then Journal. ra te t MARRIED. vjcbs,D On the 2d inst., at Hove Church, Bright on , the ncl'• di,°' Blaker, 8.A., of St. John's College, Cambridge, to Letltisl, o w, of John King, Esq., of Brunswick-squar e , Brighton. god' On the 2d inst., at Petersteld, Mr. J o h n E arwa k e r, o f ''" to Louisa, second daughter of Mr. Parsons. 0 DIED. Co1 )195t• On the 24th 'alt., Catherine, wife of the Rev. I. fP lir Ofiwell, Leven. +. of On the 26th nit., at C r i c kl ewoo d, M r. I saac E nn oS, +B ,0/01 lod;e, Kingwood, aged 76. Oa the 31st ult., Eli za b e th, w id ow o f th e l a t e Josiah " ero pet Esq., of Maer, Staffordshire. On the Ist inst., George Bernard Corfe, Esq., surgeen , and for the borough of Southampton. ft. foltic i° ' S cot On the 30th ult., in Earl-street, Blackf r i ar s, Mr. J. --- rot' Su s On the Ist inst., Miss Jane Hodson, of .North oro" Sli sex. On the let., Alice, wife of William Maslin, o f wign i d 6' Cavendish-sqare. On the 2d in u st., in Great Portland-street, Mr. Masson,; xet 9 etoo On the 2d inst., Mr. Moses Gilbert, of Beadonwell, On the 2d inst., in Green-street, Grosvenor-square , Smith. of On the 5d Inst., the infant son of C. J. VenableS , tester-road, Hyde-park-gardens. ,ondon Priuted and Published by 3(171D0 t TO 11/4 . n o, :;freegil Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strand, 'uo, of the Savoy, in the County of MlcklloBoX, T ile° 7, 1846. ....------ fir " .A. • BIRTHS. On the 29th ult., at Shorthatt Tower, North um berland, 3fll. ,ts, ley On the Dent, of a daughter. PC' 30th silt., the lady of William Philips, Eorl.:°l 11 °P ' i Somerset, of a son and heir. JOU On the Ist inst., at Wilton-street, Bel grave - sq uare, t il° Api Captain Henry George Hamilton, R N., of a daughter. of &Pr On the 2(1 inst., the lady of W. S. Hitch man , Esq., o f 11 Norn, of a son. On the 2d inst., at York-place, Walworth, Dirs. E. - T - Col l°.' daughter. _.