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I.AVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY TAE NILE Enormous hit. Unparalleled attraction. yThe .*eta Grand Spectacle :and the Army of Women received with Thunders of Applause. The New Drama highly successful. THIS EVENT C; Hilt he performed THE S , A KING'S VOW; or, a Struggle for Liberty. Supported by Messrs. Hughes, Rogers, Cowell, May nard, Johnson, Lewis, IL-slop, Monson ; Mcsdms. Vining, Daly, Martin, Miss Glover, and One Hundred Female Warriors. After which the New Drama, entitled, THE PASTOR'S DA U ; 'ITER. To conclude with THE WARLOCK OF THE GLEN. RAILWAY SHARES BY PUBLIC SALE. MESSRS. LAMOND, SMALE, AND LAMOND, 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 Commeree, Threadneedle-street, London, to which place all favours, containing 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 advicea of results will be forwarded by the first post after the sale, and the proceeds immediately disposed of according to instructions. Offices, Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street, London. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Te-Monow Evening, TUESDAY, MAncli 17, will be performed (for the first time this Season), Verdi's celebrated Opera, entitled, ERNANI. Elvira, Madame Parini (her first appearance 1* this country) ; Buy Gomez, Signer Fornasari ; Don Carlos Signor Bencieh (his first appearance in this country) ; Enfant, Signor Castigliano (his first appearance in this country). TO conclude with the highly successful New Grand Ballet, by M. Perrot. In Five Tableaux. The music by Signor Pugni. The Scenery by Mr. C. Marshall, entitled, CATARINA ; ou, LA FILLE DU BANDIT. The principal parts by Mdile. Lucile Grahn, Madame Petit Stephan, Moncelet, Cassell, Demelisse, and Madame Louise Taglioni ; Gesselin, Bertrand, Di Ilattia, and Perrot. . _ — Verdi's highly successful Opera of NINO will be repeated forthwith. _ ............... Madame Castellan is daily expected in town, and will shortly appear. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING Will be performed a New Opera, entitled THE CRUSADERS. The principal characters will be sustained by Messrs. W. Har rison, 1 urdinl, Horncastle, S. Jones, Weiss, Stretton, D. W. King, Miss Romer, and Miss Rainforth. To conclude with a new grand comic Pantomime, called MARIA:QUIN GULLIVER ; or, Giants and Dwarfs. Harlequin, Mr. Wieland ; Clown, Mr. T. Matthews ; Pantaloon, Mr. Howell ; Columbines, Miss Hicks and Miss Lonsdale. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. THIS EVENING Will be performed the Comedy, called LONDON ASSURANCE. Sir Harcourt Courtly, Mr. W. Farrell Charles Courtly, Mr. 11. Holl ; Mark Meddle, Mr. Webster ; Cool, Mr. Brindal ; Mr. Spanker, Mr. Bnckstone ; Dazzle, Mr. Hudson ; Lady Gay Spanker, Mrs. Baymour ; Grace Harkaway, Miss Julia Bennett ; Pert, Mrs. Humby. The Band will perform the Overture, 11 La Heine d'un Jour," "Antoinette," Cellarius Waltz, and the Quadrille, " Le Rol d'Yvetot." After which a New Comic Drama, called THE IRISH POST. Characters by Messrs. J. Bland, Tilbury, Mrs. Humby, &c. To be followed by a New Farce, called LEND ME FIVE SHIL LINGS. Mr. Golightly, Mr. Buckstone ; Capt. Phobbs, Mr. Tilbury ; Capt. Spruce, Mr. Brindal ; Mrs. Major Phobbs, Miss P. Horton. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY. Fir3t Appearance in the Regular Drama of the celebrated GENERAL TOM THUMB ! THIS EVENING The performances will commence with WATCH AND WARD. After which, a New Extravaganza, entitled THE MARBLE MAIDEN. Characters by Mr. Keeley, Mr. A. Wigan, Mrs. Keeley, and Miss Laidlaw. To be followed by an entirely New and Original Burlesque, en titled HOP 0' MY THUMB ; or, The Ogre and his Seven League Boots. In which General Torn Thumb, who is engaged expressly for this occasion, will have the honour of making his appearance. To conclude with NEXT DOOR. Characters by Messrs. A. Wigan, Turner, Bellingham ; Misses Arden, Villars, and Howard. Stalls, ss. ; - Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, 6d. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Great success of the New Drama of " The Cabin Boy." TIIIS EVENING Will be performed a New Petite Drama, in Two Acts, called, THE CABIN BOY. Mons. Vincent, Mr. 0. Smith; Largecettl, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Julien, Madame Celeste; Mdlle. Laroche, Miss Woolgar. After which, a New Farce, entitled, DID YOU EVER SEND YOUR WIFE TO CAMBERWELL ? Chesterfield Moneybun, Mr. Wright ; Isaac Crank, Mr. 0. Smith ; Mrs.lloneybun, Miss Woolgar. To be followed by TAMING A TARTAR ; or, Magic and Ma •aourkaphobia. In which Messrs. Paul Bedford and Wright, Miss 'Woolgar, Madame Celeste, &c. will perform. To conclude with a New Farce, entitled THE PILANTOM BREAKFAST. Supported by Mr. Paul Bedford, Mr. Wright, Miss Woolgar, &c. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. THIS EVENIISTG Will be. performed a New Vaudeville Comedy, entitled, THE 'FOLLIES OF A NIGHT. Duke de Chartres, Mr. J. Vining; Count de Brissac, Mr. Harris ; Dr. Druggendraft, Mr. Compton ; Pierre Palliot, Mr. C. Mathews; Mdlle. Duval, Miss E. Honner; Duchess de Chartres, Madame Vestris. After which, a New Comic Drama, entitled MATHEWS AND CO. Characters by Messrs. Charles Mathews, Compton, Wstlton, Oxberry, and Miss E. Honner. To be followed by a New Comic Drama, entitled, A SPEAKING 'LIKENEXS. Baron de Raney, Mr. Granby; Alfred, Mr. James Vining; Coco, Mr. Compton; Manette, Madame Vestris. To be succeeded by Mr. Charles Mathews's Farce of PATTER VERSUS CLATTER. Captain Patter, Mr. Charles Mathews. To conclude with a PIVERTISSEMENT. In which Messrs. Gilbert, Marshall, Adriele, Miss Bailin, Miss Marshall, and Mdlle. Melanie Duval will appear. NEW STRAND THEATRE. M. PIIILLIPPE'S SOIREES and MAI INEES MYSTERIEUSES Two Morning Performances during the Week: At the urgent and reiterated solicitations of many distinguished families, and in order to accommodate the crowds who fie k to sttend his Morning Performances, M. PHILLIPPE will give his Grand Juvenile Entertainment every Wednesday and Saturday liorring, at Two o'clock. M. Phillippe's most Popular Deceptions and Peculiar Experiments 'rill be repeated every Evening, varied by the Amusing Per formances of the Chiarini Family, and the astounding Feats of the American Brothers.—Doors open at a quarter past Sea en, to com mence at a quarter before Eight. Stalls, 35.; Boxes, 2s. ; l'it, Is. ; Gallery, ed. ; Pevate Boxes, U. 1 s., .and IF. 11s. 6d HOYAI, AMPHITIII:. ole AH7S, Sixth Week of the MagnificeniElephantineproccuction,;hich is nightly hailed by brilliant audiences with the most trenterLdous applause. Second Week of the Elephantine Tight-rope Dancer. THIS EITEI..;.ING Will be performed a New Drama, entitled THE RAJA OF NAGPORE; or, the Sacred Elephants of the Pagoda. In which the whole of the extenf , lve resources of the Establishment will be brilliant Scenes of tIo (AMC, combining the unequalled Yeats or mcpulusa and Foreign Company. The whole to coni:lude with a Grand 'MILITARY BALLET. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, MARCH 15. I'HERMOMETER, Lowest, 47; Highest, 57 ; Noon, 54. BARnMETER, 30.10.—Wm) W.N.W. Morning, rainy ; Afln.noon, fine. MARCH 16. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 47; liightst, 59; Noon, 58. BAROMETER, 29.56. WIND S.W., strong gale mid heavy squalls. WATLII. AT I,ONI rON-1: ),(11-; TILLS DAY. M , rning 49 minutes after 3. 1 Evening .. 5 minutes after 4, ' , ..t IJ . --, -, : r . , :t ., • ' . -4 ` • .51- ,--- i - -.: 1 -c' 1 ),' , 7ir ''. , l' !- 7 0 • - • , ' ttl ~ -dui . 1 , . ~ -',.. . .. 4 6,4 ,_ ,i-6,1-- - '0 :-: ,: - , ~ A,O i" - ~*.---.-------- ‘N ',s , , - Obitmng LONDON, MONDAY, MARCH IG, 18P6. Lord ,ImiN itussuLt. gave notice, on 'Friday last, of a me on the 26th instant (next Thursday week), on the state of Ireland. The form of the motion is for the House to re solve itself into a Committee to consider of an address to leer MAJESTY on the state of Ireland. The first idea which occurs en hearing of this motion is, that it is likely to em barrass the Government, which embarrassment of the Go vernment may yet have an injurious effect on the pro gress of the pending commercial measures. Such, we have reason to believe, is the view taken of Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S unexpected: notice of motion by many in fluential Members of Parliament who are his supporters. But it vmuld be unwarrantably ignoring all the many proofs which Lord JOHN RUSSELL has given of a determination not to impele the progress of Sir ROBERT PEEL'S commercial measures—it would be not only refusing him the confidence due to a statesman of his experience and often-proved caution and forbearance, but supposing him capable of the grossest inconsistency, to imagine that after discouraging by every means in his power, and ultimately voting against, Mr. VILLIERS'S amendment for imme diate repeal, he was going himself to make a hostile motion, framed to catch the votes of the protectionists, and so place the Government in a minority on a leading political ques tion, while the fate of the Corn Bill is yet undecided in the Lords. What was Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S reason for voting against Mr. VlLLiEus's amendment, after Sir R. PEEL had declared that, should that amendment be carried against him by a combination of the Protectionists with the Liberal party, he would adopt it? Why, that, though Sir ROBERT PEEL Would make it his own, there might be many Peers who had coconsented to th e comprom i se o f t h ree years ' d e l ay i n the original measure, but would not agree to immediate repeal, and that so by grasping at more, we might lose all in the 'Upper House. Now, though L or d J OHN R USSELL were t o defer his intended motion on Ireland till after the Corn Bill had gone up from the Commons, and though his defeating the Government on that motion would not lead Sir ROBERT PEEL to resign till the Corn Bill had either become the law of the land, or had been rejected by the Lords (and Sir ROBERT PEEL said as much in the discussion about foreign books as that he had made up his mind to disregard all defeats and brave all difficulties till he carried his new Corn Bill and Tariff, or at least as long as he saw any chance of carrying them),--still a defeat of the Government in the Commons; by Lord J. RUSSELL, on Irish policy, c ou ld not but have its effect on wavering Peers, and might make all the difference between a majority and a minority for the Corn Bill. We take for granted, therefore, that Lord J. RUSSELL intends no embarrassment of the Government, and will avoid embarrassing them. His motion stands a t present for the 26tb, but that is probab l y a merel y nominal day. After all the Government may not oppose his mo tion ; the concord between Lord LINCOLN and Mr. DENISON, on the Nottinghamshire hustings, may pre figure concord between the two leaders on the great questions of Irish policy. Or if the Government oppose, the protectionists may not support Lord Joins% Lord Joux's views on the Irish Church will certainly not come nearer to Sir ROBERT INGLIS'S and Mr. CoLQunotmes, than will those of Sir ROBERT PEEL and Sir JAMES GRAHAM. That we may say safely. Still the protectionists, as a party, may side with Lord Joums for going into Committee, to i enunciate, when there, their own views, in distinct opposi tion to those respectively of Lord JOHN RUSSELL and Sir ROBERT PEEL; and the motion is so framed as to give them an opportunity of helping to place the Government in a minority, if they like. But we feel confident that if Lord Joirs RUSSELL sees danger in his motion, he will steer clear of it; and we would venture to say respect fully to the zealous free-traders - who have taken lame at Lord Joifs's notice, "y ou p er i s t e d i n anamendment i forimmediate repeal against the remonstrances of very many of your friends,—some of these who remonstrated with you met with severs rebukes at your hands,—allow to others a little of that freedom of action which you claim for your selves,—if your past services entitled you to some confidence in your sincerity when you took a course opposed by a large number of your friends, Lord JOHN RUSSELL also, by past forbearance, and by the zealous support which he has hitherto given to the Government, has established a claim to confidence also ; and you should at least wa t till you see what Lord JoHN RUSSELL does, and hear what he says, before you condemn the step which he has taken." It should be borne in mind, also, that Lord ' GREY has given a notice in the House of Lords, similar in terms to that of Lord JOHN RUSSELL in the Commons; and there is every appearance of the two Noble Lords acting in concert. The surprise excited by Lord Jonn RUSSELL'S notice on Friday last had hardly time to subside among the Members of the House of Commons, when Sir JAMES GRAHAM'S unex pected proposal of a Bill to mitigate the effeets of ad vancing disease in Ireland, excited more seriously startling reflections. While the protectionists have been consuming weeks and weeks with their holiday speeches, famine, whose existence some of them affected to doubt, has been proving itself by the sad consequence of wide-spreading disease. The details of disease in Ireland, furnished by the Parliamentary paper published on Satur day, are of a nature to excite the most painful and alarming apprehensions. Will they have any effect on protectionist politicians ? Will it induce them to abstain from further obstruction of measures which they cannot prevent, for en larging the supply of food for the famished people of Ire land? We are unwilling at this moment to say a harsh word against Sir ROBERT PEEL'S Government. and have no great pleasure in agreeing with an orator from the protection benches; but we must say with Mr. BANKES, that the advance of disease in Ireland shows how wrong were these members of the Cabinet who prevented Sir R. PEEL from taking immediate measures in November for opening the ports. Compared with what might have been done then, the best measures now will be too late. But what is offered us now let us have as soon as possible, and let Mr. BANK.EI use his eloquence and influence with his party to dissuade them from further factious delay. Sir R. PEEL has postponed the second reading of the Corn Bill from to-night, in order that the tariff may be proceeded with and, if possible, finished to-night. We trust that the reading of the sad accounts of disease in Ireland will induce the protectionists to de what in them lies to finish the tariff to-night, that the second reading of the Corn Bill may not be postponed beyond to-morrow. We recorded last week with national pride the activity and seaman-like work displayed by the officers and crews of the ships Rodney and Albion, in fittiag out the Bellerophon, at Portsmouth, and the Calcutta, at Devonport. At Portsmouth a rivalry seemed to exist between the different departments in the dockyard and the officers and seamen on board the Rodney, which should do their work quickest and best. On Saturday week the officers and crew were turned over to the Bellerophon, and on Monday, they went to work, and on that day the tops and caps were got over, the lower rigging put on together with the topmast, crosstrees, and caps, the mainyards got across—all heavy work, says our Correspondent; next day the rigging was set up, the bowsprit completed, the topgal lant-masts fidded and rigged, a number of the main and lower deck guns got on board, with many other operations which the common reader cannot understand, and which it is needless further to describe. It is enough to say, that ac cording to the usual calculations all the fittings could not be completed before Saturday, and even then it would be called quick work. What was the result? Had our gallant sea men or our brave officers become enervated by peace, or less active in their operations by having no enemy to rouse them to exertion ? Quite the contrary. At noon on Wednes day the Bellerophon ; 78, was anchored at Spithead, l i all ready for sea, completely rigged, royal yards across, sails all bent, three months' provisions on board, guns all in, in short, fitted for service, and in condition to go into immediate action with an enemy, powder being only wanting, and that the harbour regulations prevented her from taking in. The Calcutta, at Devonport, was fitted out with the same rapidity and spirit, for between the two crews there seemed also to have been a rivalry, and the officers of superior rank at these two sea-ports on the occasion, as well as the in habitants, were alike surprised and delighted to find that England can yet use so well that arm which has saved her in every hour of danger. But foreigners, on reading the accounts, will be more than surprised,—they will be struck with astonishment that opera tions, which in Russia, or Holland, or France, would have occupied the same number of men for four teen clays at least, were accomplished in England in less than a fourth part of the time. On looking at feats of which the country has such just reason to boast, it is natural to ask what reward and what treatment should sailors like these receive at the hands of Government. When they are not wanted should they be turned adrift, and handed over, much against their will, to our enemies? Should they be paid less than merchant seamen—be subjected to a severity of discipline, often needless and injurious to the service, and have mixed up with them the refuse of gaols and the offscourings of the people? Should they have forced into their ranks the best of our fisherman Amur the Coasts. as meves, and be compelled thus to associate with men detained against their will, and as fully entitled to their liberty as the first noblemen of the land ? Such, we blush to state, with the exception of a retreat in Greenwich Hospital, when maimed or worn out in the service, were the rewards given to the brave defenders of their country, to the men who guarded so faithfully the British coasts against all the hostile attacks of BONAPAaTF, and finally annihilated the fleets of France and Spain. Peace certainly has mitigated to a certain extent these hardships—we should father say cruelties, but still much is to be done ; and naval reform, if we wish to maintain our superiority, is absolutely ne cessary. Their pay must be increased as well as their pensions; they must be induced by rewards, not forced by violence, to engage in the service, and on every cceasiob when a ship is paid off, or the number in active service re duced, should provision be made that the experienced seaman shall find it his interest to remain in his native country, and still look to it as his home. Onl v a few hundred thousand pounds a-year would accom plish all this, yet that is refused, and economy seems always, in the most preposterous manner, to be allowed first to attack the defenders of their country—the sailors and soldiers. The pay, and more especially the pensions, are too small ; sufficient inducement is not held out to respectable men to engage in the services, and the consequences are becoming more and more felt every day. The artillery corps cannot be supplied with recruits from Scotland ; soldiers, who it appears are entitled by some over sight to their discharge, for the same reason decline to remain in the army, and when any large vessel is to be manned the greatest difficulty is found in getting able seamen. The remedy is perfectly simple, and occurs to every man of practical krewledge. Simultaneously with the progression of the Customs and Corn Importation Bill, two official documents of the utmost interest and importance, bearing, as they do, upon the pre valence of disease and the scarcity of provisions in Ireland. have been issued, one by our most gracious SOVEREIGN, and the other by order of the Commons in Parliament assembled. And with the publication of these very remarkable papers. the last rags of hope to which the moat visionary sceptics had clung are fur ever scattered to the winds ; the great. haggard truth stands out with hideous prominence befors them ; the miseries which have been mentioned as propa gating among , t the wretched populace of Ireland are not fictitious in one solitary tittle—not to the extent of a single diseased potato—not to the extent of a single case of dy sentery—not to the extent of a single empty pocket, or a stomach minus nourishment. On the contrary, the picture: which have been hitherto drawn of Irish destitution and Irish wretchedness prove to be anything but over-coloured : the oratorical allusions through which the English public acquired their first inklings of the moral hurricane brooding over our sister island are corroborated by the unanswerable logic of statistics; the visions which had been evoked by our statesmen as persuasives to a vast movement, are realised by these numerical figures, and that with a rhetoric more stirring and more solemn than could be enunciated by the most accomplished scholiast—the rhetoric of fact! Never within the limits of any appreciable record has Ireland been visited with a more dire accumulation of suffering during a period of confirmed tranquillity than that under which her children are now writhing, without solace and without hope. Committed, for some inscrutable reason, to the spoliation of a vegetable pestilence, without an opportunity of acquiring by additional toil wages enough to compensate for the de ficiency, their frames emaciated by hunger, or burnt up with contagious maladies, the Irish multitude are plunged into one of those woful plights from which extrication is impos sible, unless through the interference of the more fortunate and less embarrassed among their countrymen. We have, how ever, so repeatedly viewed the matter in this par• ticular light, namely, as an incentive to the sympathy, the generosity, and the justice of Government, that we are fain to believe any further enforcement of this point to be super fluous, the more particularly as our legislators are giving eve indication of their anxiety to administer comfort -where it is so urgently required, and are descending from the ex pression of sentiment to the performance of acts. Looking, however, at the two documents before tions of anything that may have appeared us, as Pal". of a i t t ea h i : l e t ; P :M ar by i e ni d s vi tr h l 3 i i - c — k h e over-precipitation on the part or rather as direct evidence of the their conduct bas been guided—theyn importance and require a yet closer examination. The one presented by command of her MAJESTY is a full ex position of the rapid and gigantic strides already taken by disea se way of sequence to the tai nted escu lents with which the lay bearers had been compelled t o a pp ease the cravings of nature,. in defiance alike of their poisonous qualities and the nausea produced by their odour and their flavour. From the re ports condensed into this abstract it appears that each of the four principalities partake, and in a great measure, of the infections arising exclusively from the murrain, or from the actual non-existence of either nutriti or unnutritious provisions. The greatest caution, -ow over, has been observed by the Commission t* more their exertions—and this circumstance is con. .areughout care with which the different medical scat- ~picuous in the selected. A mere glance at these eight meats have been fice, in all conscience, to penet• folio pages will suf with feelings of commisse , , tate the most obdurate and with a real anzietx. .ation for the sufferers, to behold thoir penury E STYN, LONDON. MONDAY EVEN! alleviated, and their pangs of body assuaged. Colic, typhus fever, intermittent and low fevers, dysentery of the most violent description, diarrhoea, and negative indisposition, such as debility and spasmodic seizures, are rife in almost every district throughout the length and breadth of that unhappy land. Only a single county, in fact, in this mournful catalogue, has attached to its name the brief, satisfactory and emphatic corollary— . Nil"— , and that county is CARLOW. That ailments of this acute and contagious character should be thus prevalent, is, however matter of little astonishment on turning to the other docu ment of which we have already made especial mention— being a return of the average price of potatoes ix the various market-towns in Ireland. Comparing the price of that es sential commodity during the January of the last five years —a contrast which testifies in many instances the extraordi nary fact, that potatoes are selling in 1846, in many towns, at snore than double the sum re quired during a corresponding date in 1840 ; that a yet greater number of markets average exactly double that amount; and that the majority show a vast increase of price with a correspondingly greater decrease of quality in pota toes at the present season as compared with the seven years preceding. After a perusal of these documents, it becomes incumbent upon every right-thinking max to strive individually, as well as in concert with his neighbours, to further the wishes of the Prime Minister as far as private co operation in his measures is concerned : this, in short, is not only incumbent upon us as members of a body politic, it is our solemn and bounden duty as men and as Christians. Hence it is, that we are filled with a more particular anxiety than ever to witness the proposition that the House form itself into a Committee for the purpose of taking the condition of Ireland into consideration, as promised by Lord Joint Rus- SELL, and the yet earlier movement of a similar character, as promised by Lord GREY. Sentiment will not suffice any longer—action, action, action is necessary I Madrid journals of the 7th and Bth have been received. We find no facts in them, but as usual plenty of rumours. Among others, says the Clamor ?üblico, " A personage be longing to the Government has received a letter from M. GUIZOT, in which that Minister signifies that, in the event of the Trapani match not being accomplished, LOUIS PHI LIPPE has determined to promote the QUEEN'S marriage with the Count DE MorrrxmoLlN." This royal marriage appears to have been the cause of the divisions in the Cabinet. It broke up the last, and will probably have the same effect on the present. All reports agree that the existing Ministry cannot hold long together, and that the QUEEN-MOTHER and NARVAEZ are resolved on another change. It was said that the QUEEN would, in the course of the summer, visit Andalusia. On the 7th the Three per Cents. closed at 29% cash, and 2974 at 40 days; the Five per Cents. at 21 3 4 for the 30th of April. would not forget the duty imposed on them, not to compro mise 1 the hospitality they received. What would be the feelings of the Chamber, were it to learn that Abd- el- Rader was receiving assistance from a foreign power? Was there any one in that assembly but would feel that the interests of France were thwarted by such a proceeding? He begged the Chamber not to lose sight of those facts, and of the posi tion in which they placed the Government. He was anxious that those who claimed and obtained the hospitality of France, should find so good a rule for their conduct. France wished to be a place of refuge for misfortune, but not a re sort for conspirators."—(Approbation from the Centres.) An interesting discussion took place in the French Cham ber of Deputies, on Friday, on the insurrection of Poland, but, as might have been expected, led to no result. The question was brought forward by the Marquis DE LA ROCIII JACQUELIN, belonging to a family that had displayed the utmost bravery, and made the greatest sacrifices in the cause of legitimacy. Often had the people of the West of France risen under their guidance against the Govern ments that had occupied the place of the Bourbon dynasty, and in several, if not nearly all instances, when success was as hopeless as the present unfortunate attempt in Poland. The Marquis, therefore, probably thought he had a right to take the lead on the occasion, but his principles amalga mated ill with those of MM. MAUGUIN, ODILON BAR ROT, and other Deputies of the Left; from this cause, as well, perhaps, as the conviction that nothing could be clone by the Government, they made but a faint at tempt to force on a discussion. The Marquis DE CAs- TELLAN, though agreeing in the policy of non-intervention, and admitting that Prussia sought to benefit the peasants under her rule, complained of the conduct of Austria, which was quite the reverse, for that power sought to keep up a spirit of division between the different classes of the people, the nobles and the clergy on the one hand, and the peasants on the other. He said nothing of the conduct of Russia; the remarks made by M. ODILON BARROT were extremely mild, and formed a strong contrast to the violent attacks made on iL GUIZOT by the Opposition journals. "He felt convinced beforehand of the answer that would be given. He would net make any remarks to the contradictions .(alluding to M. GUI ZOT'S speech, given below) given to acts which, for the honour of humanity, he would fain hope might prove un true, but he would ask what had been the result of the wish expressed every session, for the last fifteen years, on behalf of the Polish nation ? Was not, he would ask, tha conduct of the Government a reproach for that wish, so solemnly expressed ? It had been said that the spirit of conquest might lead them too far, but that theory was not at all applicable in the present case. They had suffered sufficiently from the consequences of the treaty of 1815, to be permitted now to claim its execution in favour of nationality without being taxed with being am bitious. It had been said that their protest would be vain, but it should however be made. He had faith in Polish na tionality, and he hoped for its ultimate triumph." M. MAU. ,T,TIII was the only miler epssiee r on that side of the ct....ther, and said that it wits the duty of the Chamber to express its opinion on the subject, and censured in the strongest terms the cruel policy adopted towards Poland. M. GUIZOT was the principal speaker on the occasion, and in order to under stand his remarks we give the following brief ques tions pat to him by the Marquis DE LA ROCIIEJACQUELIN " For the last fourteen years," said the Marquis, " the two Chambers bad expressed their wishes, had manifested their formal intention to maintain Polish nationality. He would ask whether those wishes were to be mothing more than an annual epitaph written on the tomb of the Polish nation? Had the Government been able to do what had been desired? lie thought not; and felt convinced that the wishes so often renewed by the two tribunes had been useless.—(Murmurs.) He considered there was some instruction to be gained from what was passing in Poland. Could it be believed that in a monarchical Government orders had been given by which a price of 251. had been offered for the head of every noble, priest, or landowner that might be brought in. He must protest against such horrors, and would now ask the Government what it had done towards the accomplishment of the wishes, fourteen times repeated by the Chambers? What can it do to fulfil them, now that the remnant of the Polish nation was suffering under a long and painful agony? What measures would it adopt ? Would it guarantee that the independence of Cracow shall be respected and maintained? Would it guarantee that the action of political vengeance shall not be substituted for that of regular justice? In a word, what has the Government done, what will it do, and what can it do ?" "M. Guizot in reply said, among the questions that had been put to him by the Honourable Deputy, that on which he most particularly insisted related to the policy and acts of a foreign Government, and not to those of the French Govern ment. For that reason he should confine himself to the line of conduct be had always adopted in that tribune—to speak of what he knew.—(llear, hear.) If the acts which bad been reported were true, he would not hesitate to designate them as deplorable and guilty. To provoke a social overthrow as a defence against a political danger would be a criminal act. Revolutionists were sometimes guilty of such acts—but regular Governments never.—(Approba tion from the Centres.) From the information which had, however, reached him, he had seen nothing to con firm the facts of which he spoke, and far from admitting them to be true on the faith of the journals and the cor respondence which had been quoted, he should be more in clined to deny them. In order to explain the part which the peasants of the Grand Duchy of I and of Gallicia had just been playing, there was no necessity to bring for ward guilty suppositions and hypotheses of prizes being placed on the heads of certain parties which the Hon. Deputy had alluded to. Since the Grand Duchy of Posen and Gallicia have been united, the one to Prussia, and the other to Austria, both those Governments have used their utmost exertions to ameliorate the con dition of the peasants. In the Grand Duchy of Posen, as in all the provinces of the monarchy, the Prus sian Government had constantly endeavoured to improve the condition of those people, and they had a right to hold land ; they had obtained special jurisdictions instead of those under which they had been formerly placed. When, there fore, an attempt was made to excite them to join in the revolt, they had refused, because their situation was no .v better than it had ever hitherto been, The same had taken place in Gallicia, where, since the laws of Maria Theresa and Joseph 11., the condition of the peasants had been much ameliorated. That was the true reason which had influenced the conduct of the peasants of Gallicia. There was not the slightest necessity to bring forward these odious suppositions of the setting a price on the heads of the nobles and the clergy; they had stronger motives for their con duct, in the improved condition in which they had been placed. At the very moment when these events were threat ening, before the results of the insurrction were know;,, the Austrian Government foresaw all that happened, and it had expressed its fears that a revolution among the peasants would break out simultaneously with anothet insurrection ; and it feared that fresh difficulties and fresh causes of ens barrassment might arrive. This is what was foreseen by Prince de Metternich, who communicated it to the French Government. The Chamber might form is opi nion on these assertions. He was not charged to defend from that tribune such or sueh a foreign Government; but he considered himsel( called upon to dissipate false ideas and erroneous op ; ,:alons. lie might refrain from entering into any furth.'er explanation on the subject; but he we,•„l a not quit the tribune without tkplaining the ideas of the Go vernment.—(Hear, hear.) It was not without a deep feeling of grief, and without a serious conviction that his friends and himself had, in 1831, adopted and supported, with regard to Poland, the line of policy which had been followed. The Chamber would permit him to remind it of tho motives of their conduct and of their policy--the non-intervention of France in the affairs of Poland. The interest of France called for this policy. They thought that after the revolu tion of July, France should establish her own government, and cover with her buckler not only her own independ' en 18 but that of those c oun t r i es w hi ch were closer- ' c with her—Belgium, S w it zer l and, and Pi." . 1 conected tional interest of France i mpose d th o- -"T.:Aunt The na other motive influenced them-jib • further that • accepted the state of Eurr`;p e - - ' 4 policy on them, An= right of nations. France maintain good relation. " ~ and it, was a inatter of faith to the motives which ' . vet en its Governments. Such were frombe adopted by l ' A l'a3t 'determined the line of Pe"; 1 . , refee, and they had betil too often discussed .sitlake to make it necessary for him to allude an d c el l i n g:i t t e y ell ab Sr ro el ad " -- aft, , 9S them on the present occasion,. and now when abandon it, on motives lets hthee:ylidwneorte consider it the h w e as frui a n.l ts o o m f en th t ei o r P dttc Y — ProllnetitY and security at h P m g , and consideratio t u the first, was not to hold out r ave and less imperio.,- those which led to its adop t i 'n 1 rid p "e(Sy Ilan posed on them two duties t:W I ...' 183 h ti r 4 n ' - ate Polesini hopes, and the second, to render the patible with the interests of F such it would continue to be; of nations. Such had always beenrailti them every relief cora and with the law to Chet I n he ariiilllso hil ry ate or false faithful to this line of duty, they , '. whilst they remained an ,: r Une of conduct, and mini Who Plated themselv es .- iiad a right to hope that alder the protection of France, The Opposition press, as we have stated, expresses indig nation at this reply. The Constitutionnel, more mild than the rest, thus characterises the Ministry : " They are Conservatives no longer, as they might be at London or in Paris, but as they are at St. Petersburgh and at Vienna. They are of the Holy Alliance and quite Absolutists. We shall soon see its effects at home. After this fine defence of the Austrian Government, M. Guizot replied to the second point, that he intended without any reserve to pursue the policy of non-intervention, and that he con sequently wished to remove all illusory hopes from the Poles by promising them nothing beyond hospitality. A deep and painful emotion penetrated the Chamber at this pitiless declaration." The Government paper, the Journal des Debate, writes in a more sober strain : G, IWA ft CI3 l6 , 1848. mate, and a carman in Mr. Mabley's employ mtrved her goods, but she could not identify the prisoner. When the goods had been removed she missed half a dozen spoons, which were the same produced. Mary Ann Appleton, living in the same house in Princes street that the prosecutrix formerly lived in, identified the prisoner Trevitt as being the man who removed the goods, and said that she saw a box with a drawer in it in his hands. He opened it several times, and she saw that it contained some silver articles. Policeman, F SS, spoke to a conversation between himself and Trevitt, which took place before the latter was taken in custody, in which he (Trevitt) asked him whether any thing had been found on Turner? and said that he had given him some silver spoons to take care of for him. Witness asked him why he gave them to Turner? and he said, because he was in a mess about a box which had been lost in moving some goods, and he did not wish the spoons to be found on him. He added, that he supposed it would be a Bow-street job, and he would lose his place and hischaracter. The prisoner Turner said that he had received the spoons from Trevitt, who asked him to take care of them for him. He denied that he attempted to throw the spoons away. As the policeman, whe arrested Turner, said that other charges might be brought against Trevitt, if time was given. the prisoners were remanded to next Thursday. " We have just heard the questions addressed to the Go vernment by M. de la RochejacqueLn on the subject of the deplorable events which are taking place in Poland. We shall not conceal the painful feeling which has been caused us by this discussion ; the whole Chamber seemed desirous to bring it to an end. To what have the interpolations of M. de Larochejacquelin led ? To what could they have led ? For our own part we did not require to hear the noble lan guage of M. Guizot to be assured that the French Govern ment would fulfil towards the unfortunate Poles all the duties imposed en it by humanity and policy. What more is wished for ? Is it desired that France should interfere in favour of the insurgents of Cracow, and that she should go, arms in hand, to act the part of the police and of pro pagandism in Gallicia and in the Duchy of Posen ? No—the only wise and generous conduct to be adopted is that pointed out by M. Guizot. You cannot, you will not interfere in favour of the Poles. Do not, then, hold out vain hopes; do not trifle with their heroic rashness. All illusions may be excused in them. They are proscribed and exiled ; they have lost their country. Nothing can be more natural than that at the slightest movement they should consider it ready to revive. If they deceive themselves, no one has a right to reproach them with an error for which they pay with their blood. But you—what do you desire ? To push them into dangers which you will not share with them ? To en courage them in esterprises, the success of which even in your own eyes is but chimerical? We beg pardon of M. Odilon Barrot, but that would be barbarous conduct, anti as contrary to the dignity of France as to the law of nations. We shall not dwell on the details of this discussion, which was, to say the least, inopportune. We shall not recur to the frightful massacres of Tarnow. We choose rather to refer our readers to the speeches of M. Guizot and M. de Castel lan. Discussions do not take place when events are scarcely known—when, perhaps, blood is still flowing. The misfor tune of the Poles is too great, and even in their illusions they deserve too much respect, for their cause to be given over to party dispute. Let it be sufficient for us to state that not a voice was raised, even on the Extreme Left, to call for an armed intervention. The moment will arrive to determine whether the best means to be adopted to pacify Poland will not be to restore to her the remnant of national existence guaranteed by treaties, of which force has deprived her, but to which she is entitled by right." The following are the only other extracts from the papers lof interest : " A letter from Vienna of the sth, in the German Journal of Frankfort, states that the French Ambassador there, the Count de Flahaut, had used his good offices with the Austrian Government to induce it to show clemency to the insurgents of Cracow, and had so far succeeded as to receive an assur ance that, if they submitted in proper time, an amnesty should be granted. "A Berlin letter of the Bth, in a Frankfort journal, states that the three protecting Powers will keep up the force which had been sent into the Polish provinces, until the revolt is entirely put down. Prussia, Austria, and Russia will, it adds, act with the greatest leniency towards the individuals who have been led to take part in the movement, but will adopt the severest measures against the leaders of the revolt. "The National says :--‘ \ire have received through a channel on which we can place confidence, news which is very favour able to the insurrection. A division that had advanced into the Carpathian mountains, entered into communication with Hungary ; and two important Comitats of that country have risen. The movement continues to penetrate into Lithuania, and presents to Austria a character so general, that the most extreme measures are taken to prevent the real state of things from being known.' " A letter from Coblentz of the 11th states that the reign ing Duke of Saxe Gotha will set out in the course of the month for Spain and Portugal. The King of Naples, it adds, has broken off all negotiation relative to the marriage of the Duke de Trapani with the Queen of Spain, in conse quence of the protests on the subject which have taken place in the Spanish Cortes. "We learn from Rome, 28th ult., that the Grand Duke Constantine of Russia visited the Pope on that day. The interview was exceedingly cordial, and after the usual cere monies of reception, the Pope and the Grand Duke were closeted for nearly half an hour. At the close of this con ference, to which only the Count de Boutenieff, the Russian Ambassador, was admitted, the Grand Duke presented the gentlemen of his suite to his Holiness." The Three per Conte. closed at $4l. sc. ; the rive per Cents., 1191. 95c.; the Orleans Railroad shares, 1,322 f. 50c ; Rouen, 1,065 f. ; Havre, 757 f. 50c. ; Great Northern, 787 f. 50c. ; Avignon, 9901.; Viertoa, 7651.; Bordeaux, 676 f. 25c. ; Boulogne, 5221. 511 c. ; Troyes and ISiontereau, 442 f. 20e. ; Bade, 2471. ioc. ; rampoux, 4601. ; Dieppe, 4801.; Paris and Sts•asbnrg, 546 f. 25c. ; Tours and Nantes, 575 f. • Paris and Lyons, definitive, 622 f. 50c.; Spanish Three per Cents., 37( ; Spanish Pas sives, 5%. The following are the quotations for other lines : Lyons and Avignon, definitive, 566 f. 25c. ; Bordeaux and Cette (Mackenzie), 503 f. ; ditto (Espeleta), 509 f. ; Charleroi, 496 f. 50c. Maitszti,Lgs, bream 10.—Marseilles and Avignon, 9951.; North ern, 785 n _ . i:Y.11;. MARCH 12. and kvignnn. 9G5r. Paris and Orkans, 1,224 f. 75c.; Ronan, 1,023 f. 75c.; Lyons, 616 f. 75c.; ti lemon, 740 f. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH 14. Dutch Rhenish, 6% —East Indian, %—Great Northern of France Constituted, 1614—Great Western Canada, 3%—Luxembourg, 1 —Orleans and Bordeaux, 12%—Goer Yeeel, 24 dia.—Sambre and Meuse, 41/2. HOUSE OF LORD - S.-(THIS DAY.) The House sat to-day in a Committee for Privileges. The Peers present were the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Shaftes bury, Lord Brougham, Lord Hood, the Earl of Ranferly, Lord Byron, the Earl of Redesdale, the Earl of Falmouth, Lord Colchester, and the Earl of Selkirk. _ _ Idiateu 13.—Ths Mary Hudson has stopped her leak, and will proceed. SCARROROVOU, MARCH 14.—ths Britanffia, Brewis, of South Shields, &Ili i 4 Gironde, Moon, of SuadeflMisd, Were in contact this nadtiiihg tO the southward ; the former was abandatiod In a sinking state, and the latter subsequently foundered off Scarborough Castle ; both crews sated. JEasinr, Meatit 12.--Slcl. c: T. Sutton, j4e Beutelleir, Pernam buco. 13. Pallas, Langlers, Ne*fotiridland. 3laacn 15.—Wind "W., light.—Acrd. 14. George Can ning, Nay James Ray, Hanford, Valptifaito ; Leone, Redmond, Jamaica ; Unicorn, 'rouge% Jamaica ; Isabel, Griffiths, New Or leans ; Sardinia, Crocker, Mobile; Mary Havington, M'Fee, Charles ton; Wsterlily l phtin, Newfoundland ; Cambria steamer, Boston. GENERAL ANNUAL LICEI4BINO DAY FOR THE CITY.— , This morning a general annual licensing meeting for the City of London was held at Guildhall, before the Lerd Mayor and Aldermen. There Wad a ldng list of houses against 'which complaints had been made, but the nature Of Which did not transpire, the parties being told as they applied that titeY ittilat come up again on the adjourn !VlM dafv f Wt , el the petitions for tleW licenses will be heard. The actiournmeni C l ia s ;; Axed for Monday next, at ten o'clook. SACRED HARMONIC eQVIETt,—A selection of an - ^athedral music is to be Performed on Fr i day next. The themi arts .necimens of the Werke of the beat English programme comprise+. 1800. masters, from the Reformation . -The Right Honour- PRINTER/4 PENSION SOCIETY.— 'lnn made to him able Lofd t'udley Coutts Stuart has, upon applica.—. - ^onsent to by the Cothrnittee of this excellent society, intimated kin ' " , e take the chair at the approaching tuntiVeriary dinner in aid Ot funds of the institution, Which is announced td be held at the London ' Tavern on the 18th of May next. ROYAL ARTILLERY.—WOOLWICII GARRISON', MARCH ' 14.—Major-General Sir Robert Gardiner, K.C.8., will, it is rumoured, succeed Lord Bloomfield as commandant of this garrison. TIIE DRITRY.LANE MURDER.-,William Wicks, who was found guilty of murdei, and eentencad to suffer the extreme penalty of the law, was not executed this morning, w as generally expected. It is stated that a strong memorial , coupl e d w ith evidence, as has been presented to Sir James Graham relative to' the previous upon the state of the convict's mind, and that a searching twill,' 00400 t Ia i 0 Mina goialg OR. • MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The sales of Cotton at Liverpool on Saturday were 2,000 to 2,500 bales, including 350 American for export, and 700 on speculation. The market was steady. There was considerable activity in the Share market, and a good busi ness was done. The Scrips were advancing. The letters and papers delivered this morning from the United States, brought by the Cambria steam vessel, are, upon the whole, considered satisfactory. Great expectations, the mercantile writers say, are entertained that war would be avoided upon the Oregon question, the more so as the intel ligence received oat from England of the propositions of the Premier to reduce the tariff so materially, especially in favour of the produce of the republic, continues to be applauded to the echo. From Canada we learn that much interest was felt for the opening of the United Legislature. A change in the Council was fully anticipated. The weather had again become very mild. The ice on the St. Lawrence was just off in the vicinity of Quebec, but the channels opposite were clear—a most extraordinary circumstance—the season of the year being considered. In all the principal districts of Canada, and other British North American Coloiies, the pro jection of railways was a topic of most earnest consideration. In the year 1844 and 1845, it appears from official returns that the number of vessels built at Quebec was 17, of the aggregate tonnage of 11,770 tons. Contrary . to the expectation entertained at the commence ment of business in the English Stock Market this morning, Consols have receded in value. The first impression was that the news from the United States would have lifted up prices. The opening prices were similar to those which were paid on Saturday afternoon, but soon afterwards the Bear party com menced operations, and the result was that for the first transfer to-morrow the quotation of Consols fell to 95%, and for the Account from 96% to 964. India Stock is quoted at 260, and Exchequer Bills at 375. premium. There have not been any other prices noted this morning. In the Foreign Stocks there has not been any feature of importance this morning, if we except a rise in the value of Portuguese from 56 to 57. We have not heard of any infor mation from Lisbon to account for this change. Spanish Actives remain at 26 to 26 1 ,i, and the Three per Cents. at 36%. Brazilian Five per Cents. have been done at 83 ; Mexican at 31% •, and Peruvian at 364. The Railway Share Market is rather more firm this morn ing. The accurate list of prices are annexed. BRITISH FUNDS. ONE CLOSING O'CLOCK. PRICES. Three per Cent. Consols Annuities 96% 95% 96 Bank Stock for Account .. 211 Consols for Account • • • • .. 96% % % 96 1 India Stock for Account .. .. 260 260 Exchequer Bills. I%d. I%cl. 1,0001. .... 37 pm. 34 Ditto, Small .... 34 37 pm. 37 ONE CLOSING FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES. Brazilian Bonds, 5 pet Cent .. .. 83 83 Mexican Bonds, 1837, per Cent .. 31% 31 Ditto, for the Account .. • . 31% 31% Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cent. .. .. 36 Ditto, for the Account • • • • .. 36% 36% Portuguese Bonds, b per Cent .. 78 78 Ditto, 4 per Cent .. • • .. • • 56% 57 57 Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent .. 26% 26 1 ,E Ditto, Coupons .. • • • • .. 21 Ditte, Three per Cent .. 36% 36% Dividends on the above payable in London. French Rentee, 5 per Cent .. —f. —c. Il9f. —c. Exchange —f. —c. 25f, 70c. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cent .. Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certiticattli .• 95 PRICES OF BUSINESS PAID. DONE AT CLOSING RAILWAY SHARES. PRICES. ONE O'CLOCK. Amber., Notting., Boston, and Eastern Junction .. .. .. 2% .... 1% . Birmingham and Oxford Junction 2 .... 2% .......... 2 1 4 Bristol and Exeter .. .. .. 70 .... 83 ........ . 83 Ditto New .. .. .. . . 5 .... 9% 10 ...... 10 Buckinghamshire .. .. .. .. 425. .... % % db 1.... • • % die Caledonian .. .. .. .. .. 10 .... 11% 4N.. . . . . 11% Ditto, Half Shan .• .. .. 2%.... 2% • 2% Ditto, Extension .. .. .. 2% .... 1 li lli Cambridge and Oxford.. .. .. 1% .. .. .. • • ...... ii Chester and Holyhead .. .. .. 20 .... .. ........ 19% Churnet and Blythe .. .. .. 2 .. .. Ili ..... ..... 1M Direct Manchester (Remington's) 2% A 7's Direct Manchester (Rastrick's) .. 514( .. .. Direct Northern ~ ~ .. .. 2% .. . . 24 2 2%.... 2 Dublin and Belfast Junction .. 5 .. .. 3 .......... 3 Dublin and Galway ......4 .. .. 2 . . 2 Eastern Counties .. .. 141. 165. .... 21M 21 .... - 21 Ditto New .. .. .. 81 Ns. Ditto, York Extension .. .. 10s. .... 11 , E % East Lincolnshire .. .. _ 1m.... — , ... 1% Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester —2% .... Ili.. . . . Glouc., Aberyst., & Cent. of Wales 1% ;t ......... - % Goole, Doncast., and :•hefileld, Ace. 425 ..... p % p Gt. Grimsby, Louth, flora., &c... 42d. .. .. % dis ...... % die. Great Western .. .. .. .. 85 .... 145 .... .... 145 Ditto, Half Shares .. .. .. 40 .... _ ..... ... 82 Ditto, Quarter Shares .. .. 5 .... 16% ...•• • . . . 16% Guildfbrd, fareham, &Portemoth 5 .... 4% .......... 4% Hull and Selby .. _ .. $O ....101 . • 101 Ipswich, Norvvich, and Yarmouth 2 .. • • A Lancaster and Carlisle .. 4, 35 ... . .53 ... . 53 Ditto, New .. .. .. ~ 5 .... 9% io M .... t 0 4 Leicester and Birmingham .. 225. .. .. % die ...... N dis Leicester, Tamworth, &c. Liverpool and Leeds Direct .. 2% .... 2% lA • • ...... 2 1 ,4 Liverp.. Mauch., & Newc. Junct. 2% .... ••• • • . London an i Birmingham ... .100 .. .. 219 Ditto Thirds .. .. .. .. 16 .... 49% . 49% Ditto Quarters ........2 —.. 26% .... .... 261% Ditto Fifths 2 .. .. 33 33 London and Black wall .. 161. 13s. 4d. 8% • • . 8% London and Brighton .. 50 .... 64 63% 6414 .. 641 London and Croydon .. 131. 15s. 9d. 22 21% 22% 21% London and Greenwich 12/. 15s. 4d. 9%%. London and Solith-Weeern.. 411. 63. 10d. 77 75% ...... 75% London and York .. 4... 34% ........ 3% . Ditto, Half Shares • • .. 2% . I • 25 .•••• • • • • • 2% London, Warwick, & Kiddermins. 2 1 / 9 .4 ..., .. 1 Lynn and Ely .. .. 10 .... 9% • , Manchester and Leeds .. .. 82 ....130 ...... 180 Ditto, Fifths .. 2 .... 12% •• • • ...... 12% Ditto Extension 425..... 351 p... . Manchester and Birmingham 40 .... Ditto, Quarter Shares (A) .. 4 .... 12 4.•... • .. . • 12% Ditto, Quarter Shares (B) . • 2 .... 10 ~ Ditto, Quarter Shares (C) 1 •• • • S .. ••• • • • Manchester, Buxton, & Matlock 425. .. • • 1% % p• • Manchester and Southampton .. 2 .... Midland ..100 ....146 145 Ditto, New .. .. 18 .... 305/ 9 . 31 Ditto, Birmingham and Derby 108 .... 117 Newcastle and Darlington Junet. 25 .. •• • •• • . Ditto, New . 1 .... 9 1 ,{ % Ditto, New, Brandling .. 20 .... 30 Newcastle and Berwick .. 10 .... 19% %••• • .. North British . .• .. 20 .... 27 26% Ditto, Half Shares .. 6 _ Ditto, Carlisle Extension .. 114 2% %.. • Ditto, Dalkeith .. 25 .... 30 Northern and Eastern .. 50 Ditto, New • - • • • • .. 1 •• .. 13 ...... •• • • 18 North Kent and Direct Dover • • 2 1 ,1 ...• 2 1 4 2.. 2 North Staffordshire • • .. • • 425. • 3% % p.. • • 3% p Northinpton,Banbury,&Chelthm. 2 .... ... 1% Oxfd.,Worcester, & Wolverhmptn. 1231 12% % 12% Perth and Inverness • • .. 2% 1% Portsmouth Direct! .. • • .. 3% 314 • 3ki Preston and Wyre .. • • •• 25 .... 34% 4 ..... 34% Scottish Central .. . 7%.... 14% 14 .... 13% Shrewsbury and Birmingham .. 231 .. . • 3 ••.. • • • • 21 South Devon 35 .... 33 South Midland 425. .. • • 14P.•• • • • • • 114 p South Eastern and Dovor 33% ...... • • Do., New (do. 331. 65.8 d.) No. 2. 10 .... 11 ...... 11 Do., New (do. 30/.) .. No. 3. 15 15% South Wales 5 .... 45¢ 4• • Tean and Dove Valley— .. • • 1% •• • 34% •••• • • • • Teing, Reading, and Basingstoke.. 5% Vale of Neath 4, .4 , 2 .... 2 Waterfd., Wexfd., Wick., & Dttb. 154 , • • Welsh Midland .. 251 . . l5l West Riding Union • • • • .. 425. •• • • Bp. •.•• • • • • • 3 p York and North Midland .. .. 50 .... Ditto, Scarborough Branch .. 25 .... Do. E. and W. Riding Exten... 1 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Boulogne and Amiens .. 10 .......... 11 Bord., Toni., & Cette (Mackenzie) 2 .... 2 .. Ditto, ditto (Espelete) .. 2 .... 2% • • Dutch Rhenish .. .. 5 .... 634 6 East Indian .. . ss. % Grt. North. of France Constituted 5 .... 16%54 Great Indian Peninsular .. ss. • • 54 Great Western Canada .. .... 3% % ....... Jersey .. 1 5 54 LuxeniboUrg 4 .... .......... Madrid and Valenti& , 2 . 1 Orleans and Bordeattit .. 6 .... 12% ........ 12 31 Sambre and Meuse . 6 ,• .4 4% . JOINT-STOCK 11A.NK8. London and Westminster .. .. 20 .... 2651 27 x.d 27x.d Provincial of Ireland • • • • .. 25 .... 4814 ALINES. Real del Monte, Vnreglitered , . —3% ••• • • • •• • 3% United Mexican 281. 2s. 814 d.. 4% .. •••• • • • - '434 LLOYD'S SHIPPINti-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, MARCH 16.—Wind s.S.W., frets!' gale, and cloudy, DRAL, Melton 15.—Wind N.N.W. to W.S.W.—Arrd. Charles Kerr, Hart, Honduras; Cynthia, Goldsworthy, —; Concordia. Bahia ; Antwerp, New Orleans. Arrd. from the River, Pysche, Irving, Hobart Town • Lady Clarke, Lawrence, Madras; Trafalgar, Richardson, and Arnalo,Carnich, Rio Janeiro. 14. Put back, Druid, Barbadoes ; Ellen, Demerara. Conk, MARCH 12.—Arrd. Ohio, Ellis, New York ; Clenelg, Martin, Liverpool, Charleston, out 32 days, leaky, and rudder damaged. Sld. William J. Romer, M`Guire, New York. KINSALE, MARCH 11.—Wind E.—Arrd. Winipiac, Mitchell, New York, with cargo shifted, loss of bulwarks, and with a list. DUMFRIES ' MARCH 14.—The Belle, Knight, of Padstow, from Newport to Ardroonian, put into Carsethorn, yesterday, after being on shore near Soatherness Light-house, and throwing "part of cargo overboard. CRAWFORD AND LINDSAY PEERAGE. The further examination of witnesses on behalf of the claimant to this Peerage, took place this morning, and occu pied their Lordships the whole day. V 10E-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY. (Before the VICE-CHANCELLOR Of ENGLAND.) DUNCOMEE V. LEVY. The proceedings in this case, which were appointed to be proceeded with to-day, were postponed till to-morrow. THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL v. PETERHOHSE. This case came before the Court upo n th e pet i t i on o f t h e Professor of Casuistry in Peterhouse College, Cambridge, praying that certain scattered pieces of land belonging to the Professorship might be sold, and their produce converted into stock for the benefit of the Professor. Part of the land, it appeared, had been purchased by theCnnunercial Railway Company, at a sum of 6001., and it was considered for the benefit of the Professorship that the other land should be sold and converted into stock. Mr. BETHELL appeared for the petition, and The Court made the order as prayed. THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL v. HODGSON. This case came before the Court upon a general demurrer to an information filed by her Majesty's Attorney-General under the following circumstances. It appeared that as long ago as the year 1805 a hatter of Little Russell-street, named Christopher Flattery, by his will, after giving a few legacies, left the residue of his property to his executors in trust, to found a charitable receptacle for twenty-seven poor old men of England and the like number of Ireland, on which they were to be maintained during the remainder of their lives, the institution to be under the management of the Roman Ca tholic Bishop of Dublin; and the testator further provided that in case it should not be convenient to form such a receptacle, then the amount was to be given away in charitable donations. The executors, one of whom was the late Mr. Thomas Wright, the banker, of llenrietta-street, Covent-garden, renounced the will, the consequence of which was that administration was arplied for and granted to Miss Mary Flaherty (the lady, we believe, who sometime since by her will left to Lord Brougham about 20,000/.) The information alleged that this lady had never applied any part of the property she re ceived under the administration to the purposes of the charity, but continued in the enjoyment of it up to her death, in November, 1841. Upon application to the ex ecutors after her death they refused to apply any of the testator's property to the purposes of the charity, and the information was then filed to which the present demurrer was put in. The arguments Were proceeding when our Afternoon Edition went to press. BANKRUPTCY.--(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Commissioner SNEPHEED.) IN NE ELSTON. This insolvent, who carried on business in New Church street, Lisson-grove, as a china-dealer, came up for his in terim order. . . _ Mr. BUCHANAN eppOseti, first, that there"was an informality in the schedule; next, that he had unfairly parted with his property ; and thirdly, that he had vexatiously defended an action at the suit of the opposing creditor. It appeared that the insolvent had actually parted with his property within a day or two of the three months limited by the Act before the insolvency, and that point was at once admitted by the Learned Commissioner to be fatal to the ap plication, although at the same time, he did not consider any fraud was intended. Mn S ntikosr said that the intbivfint had paid the oppo sing creditor 5001. in less than five years; and the action had now been brought for Bt., the plea hid been put iii on good grotinds, and had the tithe gone to trial itti doubt it 'Verdict Would have gone in favour of the insolvent. It appeared to be a hard case, and should the learned Commissioner de side 911 acijOurning the ease, he trusted protection would be given against Mr. Levy at all eienti, or the remaining property would be absorbed under a judgment and order under the Small Debts Act. The insolvent bad been paying off all his old debts. The Learned 001.1Sttesto5 tit said that the petition was evidently wrong, and he therefore could not grant the protec tion ; but he could come up in three months, Mr. BticitAiiAlf theii put in a written examination of the insolvent for his signature. t‘....11% STURGEON (to insolvent) —.Do not sign it. Mr. BVCHANAN—Then I apply to your Honour to compel nitn to do so. The Learned COMinsittoVEß—You may take an examina tion in writing, but I canna compel him to sign it—he has aticin to his sehedults . M. STURGEON— I do not know what use may be MMUS of it, and therefore I obiect. The case ',se then adjourned for three months. dozen silver - BOW %STRET.::4 T HIS DAY,) . , Twomen,named Triviti and Varner; were charged; the forniet 'With Stealing, and th e l a tter with receiving; half a The n r riml.zr Turner and another man had b een taken in spoons* the p ro per t y of Elizabeth Hendr ake. charge by a pblicethan of the F division for fighting in the street, and on the way to the station Turner was observed to drop two silver spoons, and at the station-house four others were found upon him. He said that they v ere given to him by Trevitt, who was a carman inr the employment of Mr. Mabley, of King-street, Covent-garden, and who was taken into custody immediately. The prosecatrix stated that in the course of last week she was removing from Princes-street, Soho, to the Fisher-street Aluminum, to which she hgtl jut been mtraittotl as La- ' MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE-MONDAY. During the last week the arrivals of English Wheat coastwise, as well as by land carriage, were somewhat on the increase, and of full average quality. Of Barley the receipts were rather limited; but , those of Platt, Oats, Beans, and Peas, were seasonably extensive. Very few arrivals of any Grain took place from Ireland or Scotland ; but from abroad the fresh supply of Wheat was large, yet the whole of it was landed in bond. Fresh up, only a limited quantity of Wheat of home produce came to hand ; yet on the whole, the stands were fairly supplied with samples of both Red and White. Still, however, as the attendance of buyers, most of whom ware very short of stock, was good, the demand for the finest qualities of both Red and White was steady, at fully, but at nothing quotable beyond, the prices obtained on this day se'nnight, and at which a fair clearance of such qualities was effected by the factors. In the middling and inferior kinds a fair amount of business was doing, and their cur rencies were steadily supported. The accounts which have reached us to-day from our agricultural districts are very favourable as re spects the appearance of the winter wheats. The show of free fo reign Wheat (arising from the very small quantities which have lately passed the Customs at the prevailing duty) was extremely limited, consequently the transactions in it were unimportant ; but prices were very firm in every instance. In Wheat and most other articles of Grain under lock:there was rather more doing, at late rates. The show of Barley being trifling, the best malting parcels com manded a very steady demand, and the currencies had an upward tendency. The other kinds of Barley were tolerably steady at late rates, and at the close of the market very few parcels remained un sold. Having a good supply of Malt at market, that grain moved off slowly, yet the factors were firm, and ,would not submit to lower terms. On the whole, the supply of Oats was small, hence the Oat trade was very steady at prices about equal to those paid on Monday last. The best Old Beans were quite as dear; in other qualities ex ceedingly little was doing, though we cannot call them cheaper. For Peas we had a 'fair demand at previous figures. There was rather more doing in Flour, at lull prices. Red Clover Seed steady. In other kinds of Seeds very few sales were reported. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE Wheat—Essex & Kent, Malt—Chevalier .. 64s to 65s Red, New .. 51s to 65s Oats Yorkshire and Ditto,White, Old .. 47s 70s Lincolnsh., Feed. 226 26s Norfolk and Lin- Potatoe • • 308 32s coin, Red. • ... 52; 65s Youghar and Cork, Ditto, White ••• • .. 55s 68s Black .• • • 238 25s Irish, Red •• • • 51s b4s Cork, White .• • 24s 29s Ditto, White.. •• .. 530 575 Scotch, Feed. .... 26s 30s tlye—Old .• • • .... 36; 38s Beans—Tick .•• • • .... 34s 4ls New. ••• • • • 38s 40s Pigeons . . 43s 495 Barley—Grinding .•• .. 245 25s Pease—Grey. •• • • 38s 41s Malting .• • • ..... 31s Ms Maple .••••• • • • • • 41s 44s Chevalier •••• • • • • 373 36s White .•••• • • .. • 45s 53s Malt—Suffolk and Nor- Boilers ••••• • • • • 54s 56s folk .. Brown ... •• • • 575 60s Suffolk •• • • Kingston and Ware 63s 65s Stocktn & Norfolk 46s 485 FOREIGN GRAIN AND FLOUR IN BOND. Wheat—Dantzic •.• • • . 575 to 635 Beans ..... 395 to 443 Hamburgh ... •• .. 56s 62s Pease .•••• • • • .. 41s 47s Barley .. 22s 283 ' Flour—American .. •• . —s Oats--New ...... 25s 275 1 Baltic .. •.• • • .... - --1 ]geed .... • 228 23; Owing, we presume, to the near approach of that period when fo reign stock will be admitted for consumption free of duty, the imports from abroad during the past week have been small, viz., 10 Oxen, 46 Cows, and 190 Sheep from Harlingen, and 30 Oxen and Cows, to gether with 24 Sheep, from Rotterdam. To-day ♦ery few Beasts or Sheep imported from abroad were on sale, yet the demand fer them was in a sluggish state, and their prices were not supported. By advices received from Holland, we learn that large num bers of both Beasts and Sheep are ready for shipment hither. The supply of home-fed Beasts on offer this morning was very mo derate, but of full average quality. The dead market being dull, and the attendance of buyers limited, the Beef trade was in a very slug gish state, and, in some instances, the quotations were in favour of the buyers—the highest figure for the best Scots being 4s 4d per Blbs. From Norfolk, Suffolk. Essex, and Cambridgeshire, we received about 1,000 Scots, homebreds and short horns; from the northern districts, 200 short horns ; from the western and midland counties, 500 Hereford, Runts, Devons, &c. ; from other parts of England, 400 of various kinds ; and from Scotland, 140 Scots. The numbers of Sheep were again small, yet the Mutton trade was dull, at a decline in prices of 2d per Sibs. Lambs moved off steadily, at from 5s 8d to 7s per Bibs. In Calves very little was doing, yet last week's prices were supported. The Pork trade was inactive, at previous figures. Per albs. to sink the offal. s. d. s. d.l Inferior Beasts ••.. 2 10 3 2 Second quality ditto. 3 4 3 6 Prime large Oxen.. 3 8 4 0 Prime 5c0t5c , ....... 4 2 4 2 Large coarse Calves 410 5 6 Prime small ditto .. 5 8 6 0 Suckling Calves ..18 S 31 0 Inferior Sheep . • •3 10 4 4 s. d. to s. (1. Second quality ditto 4 6 4 8 Coarse-woolled ditto 410 5 0 Southdown Wethers 5 2 5 6 Ditte out of the wool Large Hogs .. • ... 3 8 4 6 Small Porkers ••.. 4 8 5 2 Quarter old Pigs ..16 0 20 0 Lambs • • .....• •• 5 8 7 0 SUPPLY AT MARKET. Beasts. 2,529 Sheep. I 17,700 Calves. 60 I Ms. 300 NIMMATE AND Since this day se'nnight the arrivals of slaughtered Meat up td these markets, from Scotland and most parts of England, have been on a moderate scale, but of very superior quality, compared with those of many former seasons. The supplies killed in the metro polis have been by no means extensive, yet the general demand to day was inactive, and last week's quotations were with difflculty supported. Several carcases of foreign Beasts have been again dis posed of. _ _ At per stone, by the Carcase. s. d. to s. d. P. d. to s. d. Beef, inferior. •.•.. 2 6 2 8 Mutton, inferior 3 8 310 middling • • 210 3 0 middling.. 4 0 4 4 • prime large •• 3 2 3 4 prime .... 4 6 4 8 -.•-- prime small .. 3 6 3 8 Pork, large. •••• ; • • 3 6 4 6 Lamb. Os Od to Os Od. ARRIVALS DURING TILE PAST WEEK. Beasts Sheep Calves Pigs. .• 40 400 380 .. 25 500 410 • 30 200 110 ▪ 20 100 100 20 90 110 27 150 200 30 110 50 210 40 230 80 300 Scotland • • • • Yorkshire •••••.• • • • • .• Lincolnshire • • • • • • • • • • • • Norfolk • • . • • • .. Cambridgeshire •••••••• • • • • • • • • Essex .. Surrey• • • • • • • • • • • • • Devonshire ••••••• • • • • • • • Wiltshire .• • • .• • • Other parts .. 30 100 40 115 .. 50 300 80 300 Total . • .... •• • • Previous week's arrival .• • • Diference since our last •• • • 71 210 80 165 SOROUGH AND SPITALFIV4DS. Very limited supplies of Potatoes have arrived at Ole water-side during the past week, hence we have to report a steady asinand for most descriptions, at, in some Instances, enhanced currencies. York Reds, 80s. to 1400.; York Regents, 70s. to 110 s. ; Scotch Reds, 90s. to 100 s. per ton. The above prices are for the selected parcels. ZIOROUGIi HOP 11M.A.ALICET, The flnest parcels of Kent Hops are in steady demand, at very full Prices, otherwise the demand is in a sluggish state. WOOL. The imports of Wool during the past week have been very tri fling, they having amounted to only 360 bales, chiefly from New South Wales. Privately a fair business is doing In English Wools, at full prices. Otherwise the demand is heavy. TALLOIAT. This market is firm, notwithstanding the falling off in the deli very ; on the spot, there is no fine Yellow Candle Tallow to be had under 435.; and in new Y. C. for the autumn, a fair quantity had been done during the past week at 425. per cwt. iu bond. Town Tallow is 43s net cash for good trash fair Melted. RAILWAY COMMITTEES. (THIS DAY) GROUP, No. 9. This Group met for the first time to-day at twelve o'clock. Mem bers present, Lord Worsley, chairman, Mr. Spooner, Mr. MiMes Gaskell, Mr. Archbold, and Mr. Thomas Austen. 11/mediately on the assembling of the Committee the room was cleated in order to arrange the order of the business. On our re-admission, The Ciimabiart said the Committee had decided to enter into the merits of opposed Bills only, and to refer all unopposed Bills to the Chairman of Ways and Means. They would wish to ascertain what Bills were opposed and what'were not, and were also desirous that the Learned Gentlemen would arrange among themselves the order in which the Bills should be taken. The following are the Bills in the Group, distinguishing those who are opposed from the unopposed:— Caledonian (Glasgow Termini and Branches—opposed). Edinburgh and Glasgow Amendment and Branches (opposed). Glasgow Terminus and Glasgow Harbour (opposed). Glasgow Harbour Mineral (opposed). Glasgow, Garnkirk, and Coatbridge (unapposed). Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock (Polloc and Govan branches)—op.. poied.. Glasgow Southern Terminal (opposed). Nest of Scotland Junction, After some conversation, it was agreed that the Committee should take the Edinburgh and Glasgow Amendment and Branches first in order, as being the least opposed,there being only one petition against it, signed by by Mr. Denny, a gentleman, residing at Port Dundas, near Glasgow, and 15 others. Messrs. Austin, Talbot, and 3P.Neile appeared for the Bill, and Messrs. Hope and Forsyth for the pe titioners. Mr 3PlCeile briefly opened the case for the Bill, stating that there were three objects to be sought, first, a branch to connect the main line with the Queensferry on the Frith of Forth, six miles and a half in length. Second, a deviation to avoid two sharp curves in a branch for which a Bill was obtained last session to connect the main line with the south side of the Clyde ; and third, a branch line from Port Dundas at the Forth and Clyde Canal Basin, down to the river Clyde. The latter was the only opposed portion. It was opposed by Mr, Denny, a distiller, and fifteen or sixteen others, who had signed the petition on the allegation that the branch would run along the towing path of the canal, between the distillery and their several works and the basin of the canal, thereby inter fering with the communication between the works of the petitioners and the navigation. Mr. Miller, civil engineer, was first examined, and having briefly given evidence on the unopposed portions of the Bill, deposed as to the opposed branch, It was in his opinion the best that could be devised to scree the traffic of the canal and railway. It went through a email portion of the distillery, al,ld in front of seve ral of the works at Port DundaS. As the branch w puld be worked by horse power, he did not think there would be much, if any, in convenience to these works in closing the line of rails. It Las to be a single line of rail, and the horses, he believed, would lot ;neve beyond a walking pace. In cross-examination, the witness gave it as his decided opinion, that the north side of the canal, on which the branch was proposed to be constructed, was the one best adapted for all the purposes sought; and that very little, if any, inconvenience would accrue to the petitioners from its construction. The branch would be of the greatest service in bringing goods from the canal down to the Broomielaw harbour, and in taking minerals from off the railway on to the canal. GROUP, No. 14. The Committee nominated by the Committee of Selection to con sider dnd aScertahl the merits of the Rills comprised in Group 14 assembled for the drat time this morning in room No. 16, a small apartment about the size of an attic or a back parlour. The Com mittee consisted of jr.l E. Protheroe (chairman), Lord Emlyn, 111 r. Grogan, General Lygon, and :Ir. John O'Connell. The Bills com prised in the group were— Kent Atmospheric Railway. North Kent Railway. South-Eastern (Canterbury to Dover). South-Eastern (Chislet to Margate). South-Eastern (Greenwich to Chart, near Ashford, with branches to Tonbridge and Riverhead). South-Eastern (Greenwich to Chilham, near Canterbury, with branches to Sheerness and Faversham-creek). South-Eastern (Maidstone to Strood, near Rochester). Dover and Deal. _ The CHAIRMAN intimated before the business of the day was entered upon, that Mr. Gossett intenied to apply for the use of one of the Vice-Chancellor's Courts for this Committee, and the parties would therefore only have to put up with the inconvenience of the present room for a single day. NORTH KENT RAILWAY. The first line called on was the North Kent. _ The counsel who appeared for the promoters were Mr. Talbot, Mr. sergeant Wrangharn, Mr. Sergeant Murphy, Sir Walter Riddle, and Mr. Colestone. -- • The counsel who appeared for the South-Eastern Company, who are promoters of a competing line, were Mr. Austin, Mr. Cock burn, Mr. Alexander, and Mr. Laing. The Gravesend and Rochester Railway and Canal, the Mayor, Corporation, and Citizens of the city of London, the Commissioners D : the Medway Navigation, the Commissioners for improving the town o. Maidstone, the Trustees for improving the Surrey roads, the Governors t ,: St. Thomas's Hospital, the Trustees of the Feversham roads,- the Surre;" Canal Company, the Trustees of the New-Cross roads,' the Justiced, ac., of East Kent, the Commissioner of the Southwark Court of Requests, and seve ral other large and important bodies put in appearances against the Bill. SOUTH-EASTERN (GREENWICH TO CHART, NEAR ASHFORD, WITH BRANCHES TO IRON BRIDGE AND RIVERHEAD. The next line was the Greenwich Railway to Chart. The counsel who appeared for the promoters were Mr. Austin, Mr. Cockburn, Mr. Merewether, and Mr. Laing. W r The ang heallun, V fr. wh s o erg o e p an po t se m d uritphwye,rewMrlv. aTltacirboßt,id3.dilre: Saenrdgelainrt. Colestone. CroydonA Company, the Grand Surr were also entered against the eyic Bilatiair CompanyLond l and ind ppear ß an a C ii e w s ,, other large and fm;sertant ( GREENWICH TO pu blic bodies. SOUTH—EASZ ErtIi 1 0X.11.1 1 •IVZ) . - and against this Bill as in the - ^me counsel appeared fo. The b— last case. 'TIMM= TO -TE XI SLN OVEC C IrY ... 0 0UT11.511.2; Counsel as before. SOUTIZ• MAS TSILN (IVIIIIDSTOZ7b: 9[® STROOD). Counsel as before. A was also opposed by the Kent Atsaospho)2 c company. SOUTII-EASTERN (CHISTArr TO MARGATE). Counsel as teore. RENT ATMOSPHERIC. The next line called on was the Kent Atmospheric. yr, The counsel who appe,ted for the promOters were Mr. TalbNf Willmore, and Mr. Mellor. The counsel of the South-Eastern Company opposed it. w olf Appearances against the Bill were entered for several undo and occupiers on the line, as well as for the EA clesiastleal C0 13,1'" stoners of iingland. DOVER AND DEAL. en PO This line was not called on, because the parties had not OT-- clear days' notice of the intention to go ante Committee. c or The Citatamax then stated that, owing to the crowded Oa lll pro. venient state of the room, the Committee were not euto ceed further in their labours to-day. r 00844 Mr. Sergeant MURPHY presumed, then, that the first I), M Friend' of the Committee to-morrow would be to hear h is Leann '„t r. Sergeant Wrangham's opening, on behalf of the North l'„, e atS The CHAIRMAN asked if the parties had Is arrai e" r o r amongst themselves upon this point, in accordance with gestion of the Chairman of Committees to . altir loll This question was replied in the negative ; but it wa s agreed that the North Kent should be taken first to-morrow'inrats with the competing schemes of the Soath-Eastern CoiriPaa' esa' Greenwich to Chilham, from Chilham to Canterbury, and fro m terbury to Dover. The Committee.then adjourned till twelve o'clock to-Wog°. GROUP, No. 15. Mr. O'Connell, Chairman. Mr. Mackinnon, Captain BattC6 Hindley, and Sir R. Price, came shortly after twelve o'clock the Appearances were first taken on all the Bills to coins OP P- Committee. Sad,s ti° The unopposed Bills, the South-Eastern, Ashford' Station'," South-Eastern, Rye to Rye Harbour, were then referred to;joatb of Mr. Greene, the Chairman of the Committee of Ways and BRIGHTON AND LEWIS AND ItAir r ' w DEVIATIONS AND BRANCIttEO' • ° ll/ The counsel for the Company tMr. Hill and Mr. Austin) to Ntr. Rastrick, the engineer of the line, who witnessed W cot or expense of the branches, and the advantages they /Wa d . „1 the neighbouring towns. Wert' Others were called to speak to the cost of executing the purchasing the land. Wald fer As none appeared to oppose, the CrtariimAie said he - on the Bill. SOUTH-EASTERN (TUNBRIDGE V HASTINGS AND RYE). u~e igol Mr. AUSTIN, for the Company, took an objection at •:0111:1 Mr. Hill being heard for the Brighton Rail., ay ComPao/..7inga Bill. He said the one line came from Tonbridge to ~. the other, from Brighton, met it at the same town, and ha tht.y were not competing lines. lia Mr. HILL contended that the coast line of the Bright on been made the two lines were competing. ..• The Committee decided they were net. OO P* The following is the group of Bills to come before this CO South-Eastern (Ashford Station Enlargement). London and Brighton (East Grhisteakßranch).: §outh Eastern (Godstone Station to East Grinstead)• 40). Brio ton and Chichester (Bognor and Little.h amp t o n Brea' South-I;;lstern (Rye to Rye Harbour). Seuth-Easi.ern (Tonbridge Wella to Hastings and Rye). Chichester anti Bognor. Brighton and Chichester (Steyning Branch). 0 011°. Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings Deviations, and Eastbourne , Seaford, and Newhaven Branches. Sub-Committee lie. 4. geli)ci Sir W th The Committee met at twelve o'clock; present , ' Chairman, Mr. H. Johnstone, and Mr. -Leland. 3311AIFORD, vrazzrzELD, AND rtrr nl cara a The object of this line is to form a direct line o f com inunl Ae i 1 tweeze Bradford and Wakefield, joining the Illdla nd Coup latter place. Several petitions were presen t e d against 01. 1 : , The first petition proceeded with was that of the El i. ' - Lord Dartmouth, and others. d i Mr. PRATT appeared in support of the petition. ,titie9,;7oll Mr. Gitecoai (for the promoters) objected to the Pe t :;.„.a, , ground that there was no proof that either of the Noble names appeared in the signatures, had agreed to it. e pt 0 1- The Committee decided on receiving the petition, el.g garded the property of the two Noble Lords. d o old Mr. Dixon, Clerk of the Peaee of the West Riding, nesses, stated that on the let of December last they eAsVoi plans deposited, and found that some material referenne;oef, omitted. They examined them again on the 4th of D found that the omission had been supplied. Sub-Committee No. 5. - 'OlO The Committee met at twelve o'clock ; present Yr. mond, Chairman, Mr. Forbes M`Kenzie, and Mr. Eger t44l. o), MIDLAND (SWINTON TO LING O „O r o The promoters of this line had a Bill before Parliana ..00#0.04 with the same objects as the present Bill. On the capitroil l iV, the Bill of last year, a deposit of Si. par cent. had been Intb,, A t of a petition against the Bill, it was now contended no t? 01 standing order, requiring a deposit of 10/. per cent., 4 P„P r eel d er 13ill. For the promoters, it was contended that as the siot di) / before the Committee was really the same n$ _.,00 1 duced last year, which was introduced before the Pf standing order requiring the increased deposit, that order 4001 in fairness be extended to it. ord.% The Committee ultimately decided that the standing I to th , s Bill, and was not complied with. 00 °171 7 1, IVIIDI.AN2 (NEW.B.RIC TO GAINS- -01- to di The usual formal evidence having been gone througshigaie, mittee proceeded to the consideration of several petitke! Idler Bill. The promoters, not being prepared to rebut the withdrew the Bill. 0 10 14. SHREWSBURY AND BIRIVIIMI o ttb o The Committee having heard the usual evidenc e as to II decided that the standing orders had been complied wiu'' TOO' BIRMINGHAM, WOLVERHAMP— DUDLEY.' t to O r In respect to this Bill also the Committee ruled 04 li e orders had been complied with. „, SION). 00 7 30 1 ‘ MIDLAND (EREWASH VALLE.. this .° After hearing the formal evidence in respect to - „„d Ai d mutes agreed that the standing orders had been conlPl'w- iE• . NAVAL IN TE.LLIGEN CD ' t, ri v a yic ij o ja.f , PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 15.—The Fairy Roi- -.,0 , r ter-Commander R. W. Roberts, left vesterdaY '-ibos' daylight for the river to refit, which Will occuPi _ mg # weeks. , n iolv" The Snake, 16, Commander Brown, sailed Oi l i s cs a b er 4 half-past twelve, for the Cape of Good Hope, to _, I P 0 0 1 under the orders of Rear-Admiral Dacres,,COS l# C,iief on that station, for whom she carries d is P s g l en takes out a mail for the Cape. d tie" Th e r _..courge, steam bomb-vessel, Coalman- 0 Spithead this morning and came into harbcor defects. f r oto' The Palmella, transport, arrived this Nwrning ford to embark troops Or foreign service. f t tl Y The Constance, 50 gun frigate, on the desig n ° 0 veyor of the navy, was launched ' at Pembroke on The following are the principal dimensions:-- 100 410 et. Ler gth Breadth 52 0 A. Depth 46 1' . , Tonnage 1,288 tons. 0 sotl e ie The Harlequin, 16, Commander Curry, the coils, Commander Sommerville, and the Childers, 1 6, 0 re lls g, isro Pittman, are all progressing most rapidly n et for sea. The two former, we are informed, will I 'oo alterations made in their armaments which ~ cc' 1 on their commission. - - !- docijol4or The Alfred and Java, 50-gun frigates, in ,/ being expedited for the pendant with all disl39- aor be ready in a few days.f P The Rifleman steam gun-boat, is nearly re ady out of dock. 0 :1° The Retribution steam-frigate, Captain L ush ther with the Cyclops, Captain Lapidge, and to let itso; Commander Maitland, remain at Spithead , tbe handed. When Captain Smith's p a ddle-b O , taken off the Retribution on the plea of the",, i„dr, the inability of the vessel to carry then , ' that the woodwork with whieh the paddle-wil e ligno sequently enclosed would have been very eaa. n e- t ioa , "Ad the paddle- box boats of Captain Smith's in c l is d t o g* find the wooden framework actually within ther ef/ s being as heavy as the boats! Their retro:No. ll ,4l fe jd been a manifest injustice to the inventor, as v i ',„ . frr a r d gering the lives of all who go in the sin% tiZitis having at hand the proper means of saving iii e ;:boor of accident. Added to which, the remove ,°' o glif o ts, tion's boats (certainly the most abonlinabi pleo4 boats ever built in modern times) has given removal of the Terrible's, which has been claimeu -boa notwithstanding the Terrible is of 200 tons mo re the Retribution ! eel! - PROMOTIONS. k of sib Lieutenant W. E. Triscott (1837) to the • td der. This officer entered the service in Jatiniisi l l,toSa has served from that time, twenty-one years for which and other services, including being m . ; ‘ ,4 11 _, to Admiral Sir C. Ogle, Bart., during the firstratinl o r o so officer's command-in-chief at Portsmouth, an - 0 PP same capacity to the late Sir Charles Rowley , 00 less received at the hands of Lord Ellenbor°ugh _,01; tion he has so justly merited. to the v. 40 Lieutenant S. Hunt (1835), of the Basilisk , commander. ~i g Mates—E. Wasey (1832), who has been se 1 r 1 " 0 0 111 ,W of the Alert sloop, on the coast of Africa; J..."• 0 10:0 0 1, the Collingwood, who has served nearly fiveY7, - 0 41 13 A. H. Douglas (1840), of the Superb, who has a SV of several prizes when on the coast of Africa; s'" y..l;itieo (1840), of the Pluto, on the coast of Irelaodho (1840), of the Vindictive; W. Perrier (184 2 ) , ; (2 the Voil G. H. Wale (1842), of the Cyclops, who vieV ri goo o 100 at Alexandria, subsequently in China; ar1d 1. 4 .• csie", Tt - jio served in the operations on the coast Si. t , loop' end ,of the war, as midshipman of the Plis" — rank o...lieutenants. (11/ Acting , t ;ssistant-Surgeon—W. W. WildeY o f of Plymouth ,Hospital, confirmed to the rank Surgeon. Mr. C. Nowell, to the rank of boatswain. 1 11 1. Aim OINTMENTS. ere' Lieutenants—J. H. Bridges; to the Brilliatits;oo4„. iot burn, to the Harlequin ; W. Waiters, to die m fry! H. D'Aeth, to the Brilliant ; G. IL N; r ale , t e . t %Ve° Masters—J. Saunders, to the Electra, vice t, while on duty • F. ' Edington, to the 1- 511 Surgeon—T. R. Thompson, to the Brillloll Midshipman—H. Hawkes, to the Rodne9,.; ~s f ot Masters' Assistant—W. H. Shat, to the klfoes; Naval Cadets—G. E. L. Bissett, to the Clv_„tator• field, to the Scout ; H. C. Wigan , to the Glee' COAST GUARD. oe"' to 001 00 A ppo i n t me nts —Lieutenant C. F. Ca m p a station, vice J. Campbell, resigned. T rr Removals—J. Stirling, chief officer of ro w to Larne station, vice Slade, R.N. , previeue'Y stesdatrir WoorAvicn, MAncii 15.—The blonk e r w ich . 7 ,;( r Master-Cowman:ler W. Bryant, left W e° afternoon for Cork, to be placed under the y Admiral Pigot, in command at that station; taps 01 Her Majesty's Royal steam - ya cht Fairy o 00 $ to-day, to Messrs. Penn's establishment, too'. t tb e tions made in her works. bet Vji d A trial of speed was recently made e 0 11 steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander Muag 40: 1 01,1 0 cess Alice steam-vessel, Master (anderP). tO O AO the former with iron floats beat the latter ablilog htheraeve3-,,quoarratebrsoutpefrourbotuorn..9 mTloireeirtohnanfiwoaoots_A(Qhooo,7topfdlt?o m iles be Y tburtoeUdg,hwthircohunindateoasNeVdoohlewri:eetdo tohatsw•eoweo":lls,l::ers.to44o the speed of the Princess Alice, and lise u,', y est,,,; 4 / 01 less, and rendered her more effective in baa opo 1107 j U - Onyx performed the voyage to Calais in A t bre, half, and tbe Princess Alice in one hour ati fout . on; t 0, and the former the voyage to Ostend .4 1 ' 1 44 1 ° average of the Onyx has been found to b e the Princess Alice 12 knots per hour. "ME3IORANDUM• 0;0 AdrairsltPd te 1, es ‘, Her Majesty has been graciously pleas l as s 0 0 1 111 1 0 , the sea pay and harbour pay of third-cii so G o board her Majesty's ship shall be increaset,,o3ol2 month and 41. 10s. per month respectively, c " oca the 25th inst. ..„...; e sty 5 1 e l " The pay of engineers on board her .0. 1 % : „. ► therefore, be according to the following rii7 . 3o bo °ll tt r r i O , ro l ' Ist class, 12/. (sea pay) and 7/• 175 k w heli sil k/1 4 1 j month ; and 1/. Bs. (sea pay) per month! as compensation for the instruction of D r ui po otb oo o lo oo (sea pay) and 41. 18s. (harbour pay) P e ,„, pet I d , ss 1 0 ,11 0. Ci. los. (sea pay) and 4/. 10s. (harbouTlM when within the tropics, engineers will half the sea pay when the steam is up B.r er dshiVZOV "By command of their, ji. " To all Captains and Commanders of her Diajosty'm ahips and Yeenle ,„ LA;, eaßiv.Ar