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RAILWAY SHARES BY PUBLIC SALE. 311 - ESSRS. 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 Mill of Commerce, Threadneedle-street, London, to which place all 4 avours, conttilling instructions, are respectfully requested is he addrsased. Ail Scrip and Share Certificates must be deposited for exa mination at least one day previously to their being offered ; and advices 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. To-Morrow Evening, TUESDAY, MARCH 17, will be performed (for the first time this Season), Verdi's celebrated Opera, entitled, ERNANI. Elvira, Madame Parini (her first appearance in this country) ; Buy Gomez, Signer Fornasari ; Don Carlos, Signor Bencieh (his first appearance in this country) ; Eruani, Signor Castigliano (his first appearance in this country). To conclude with the highly successful New Grand Ballet, by Perrot. In Five Tableaux. The music by Signor Pugni. The Scenery by Mr. C. Marshall, entitled, CATARINA ; on, LA FILLE DU BANDIT. The principal parts by Mdlle. Lucile Grahm Madame Petit Stephan, ➢ldllee. Moncelet, Cassan, Demelisse, and Madame Louise Taglionl ; Cosselin, Bertrand, Di Mattia, and Perrot. Verdi's highly successful Opera of 1. 4 1I1(0 will he repeated thrthwith. Madame Castellan is daily expected in town, and will shortly a➢pear. THEATRE ROYAL, DRLTItY-LAIiE. THIS EVENING Will be performed a New Opera, entitled THE CRUSADERS. The principal characters will be sustained, by Messrs. W. Har rison, Uurdini, Horncastle, S. Jones, Weiss, gtretton, D. \V. King, Miss Romer, and Miss Rainforth, To conclude with a new grand comic Pantomine, called HARLEQUIN GULLIVER ; or Giants and Dwarfs. Harlequin, Mr. 'Wieland ; Clown, Mr. T. INatthews ; Pantaloon, Mr. Howell ; Columbines, Miss Hicks and Miss Lonsdale. TI MAITRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. THIS EVENING Will be performed the Comedy, called LONDON ASSURANCE. 'Sir Harcourt Courtly, Air. W. Farren ; Charles Courtly, Mr. 11. Hod ; Mark Meddle, Mr. Webster ; Cool, Mr. Brindal ; Mr. Spanker, Mr. Buckstone ; Dazzle, Mr. Hudson ; Lady Gay Spanker, Mrs. Seymour ; Grace Harkaway, Miss Julia Bennett; Pert, Mrs. Humby. The Band will perform the Overture, " La Reine d'un Jour," •` Antoinette," Cellarius Waltz, and the Quadrille, " Le Roi 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- T,INGS. Mr. Golightly, Mr. Buckstone ; Capt. Pbobbs, Mr. Tilbury ; Capt. Spruce, Mr. Brindal ; Mrs. Major Phobbs, Miss P. Horton. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY. First 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 Tom Thumb, who is engaged expressly tor this occasion, will have the honour of makieg his appearance. To conclude with NEXT DOOR. Characters by Messrs. A. Wigan, Turner, Bellingham ; Misses Arden, Villars, and Howard. Stalls, ss. CBoxes, 48. ; Pit, 2s. i Gallery, 6d THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Great success of the New Drama of " The Cabin Roy." THIS EVENING Will be performed a New Petite Drama, in Two Acts, called, THE CABIN BOY. Mons. Vincent, Mr. 0. Smith; Largecetti, 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 Honeybun, Mr. Wright; Isaac Crank, Mr. 0. Smith ; Mrs.lioneybun, Miss Woolgar. To be followed by TAMING A TARTAR; or, Magic and Ma zourkaphobia. In which Messrs. Paul Bedford and Wright, Miss Woolgar, Madame Celeste, &c. will perform. To conclude with a New Farce, entitled THE PHANTOM BREAKFAST. Supported by Mr. Paul Bedford, Mr. Wright, Miss Woolgar, &c. PRINCESS'S TIIEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. THIS EVENING 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, Walton, Oxberry, and Miss E. Homier. To be followed by a New Comic Drama, entitled, A SPEAKING LiKENE!;.S. Baron de Raney, Mr. Granby; Alfred, Mr. James Vining; Coco, Mr. Compton ; Manette, Madame Yestris. To be succeeded by Mr. Charles Mathews's Farce of PATTER VERSUS CLATTER. Captain Patter, Mr. Charles Mathews. To conclude with a DIVERTISSEMENT. In which Messrs. Cilbert, Marshall, Adrien, Miss Bailin, Miss Marshall, awl Mdlle. Melanie Duval will appear. NEW STRAND THEATRE. M. PHILLIPPE'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 flo to Attend his Morning Performances, M. PHILLIPPE will give his ~;ranl Juvenile Entertainme:tt every Wednesday and Saturday Mornng, St Two o'clock. M. Phillippe's most Popular Deceptions and Peculiar Experiments will be repeated, every Evening, varied by the Amusing Per lormances of the Chiarini Family, and the astounding Feats of the American Brothers.—Doors open at a quarter pest Seven, to com mence at a quarter before Eight. Stalls, 35.; Boxes, 2a : ; Pit, is. ; Gallery, Gd. ; Pr . vate Boxes, 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 litrasELL 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 wait till you see what Lord Jolts 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 Joni( 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 effects 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 those 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. BANKES 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 do 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 fitting 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 gnus 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, 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 Prance, would have occupied the same number of men for four teen days 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 fishermen along the coasts, as prisoners and slaves, and be compelled thus to associate with men detained against their will, and as fully entitled to their liberty as the fir'st noblemen of the laud? Such, we blush to state, th e exception of a retreat in Greenwich Hospital, whea l maimed or worn out in the service, were the rewatl:; given to the brave defenders of their country, to 'th e men w h o guarded so faithfully the British coas!.d against all the hostile attacks of BONAPARTE, finally annihilated the fleets of France and Spain. Peace certainly has mitigated to a certain extent th:ae hardships—we should rather say cruelties, but stir. much is to be done ; and naval reform, if we wish 1:0 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 occasion 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. Only 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 sr.,taltra. The pay, and more especially the pensions, are, 'too small ; sufficient inducement is not held out ft 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 knowledge. 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 assemlsled. And with the publication of these very remarkable papers, the last rags of hope to which the most visionary sceptics liad clung are fur ever scattered to tke winds ; the great, haggard truth stands out with hideous prominence before 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 pictures 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 I 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 persua.sives 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• titular light, namely, as an incentive to the sympathy, the generosity, and the justice of Government, that we are fain to believe ieve any further enforcement of this point to be super fluous,the more particularly as our legislators are giving every indication of their anxiety to administer comfort where it is so urgently requ i red, and are erf descending from the ex pression of sentime n t t o the an y which of acts. Looking, however, at the two documentspe before tions of anything that e part me i b ainistry_ may have us, as pallia oorverr-aptrheocripiatastiodnirect evonidtehneee of the integrity of thaeppe;red like their conduct has been guided—th ey importance and require a yet closer exami nat i on. The one presented by command of her MAJESTY is a full exposition of the rapid and gigantic strides already taken by disease, b y way of sequence to the taint ed esculents with which the )la bourers had been compelled to appease 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 nutritious or unnutritious provisions. The greatest caution, more over, has been observed by the Commission throughout their exertions—and this circumstance is conspicuous in the care with which the different medical statements have been selected. A. mere glance at these eight folio pages will suf fice, in all conscience, to penetrate the most obdurate with feelings of commisseration for the sufferers, and with a real anxiety to beheld their penury 1/. ls., and It. 1 ls. I ) VIM; E'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Elplrmous hit. Unparalleled attraction. The New Grand Spectacle And filo Army of Women received with Thunders of Applause. 'The New Drama highly successfhl. THIS EVEIsTINCI Will be performed THE SEA KING'S VOW; or, a Struggle for Liberty. Supported by Messrs. Hughes, ltogers, Cowell, May nard, Johnson, Lewis, Heslop, Monson ; Mesdms. Vining, Daly, Martin, Miss Glover, and One Hundred Female Warriors. After which the. New Drama, entitled, THE PASTOR'S DA CURTER. To conclude with THE WARLOCK OF THE GLEN. A-I'LEY'h ROYAL AIiVIIITIIb.ATRE )1 , A HTS. Sixth Week of the Magnificent Elephantine production, which is nightly bailed by brilliant audiences with the most tremendous applause. Second Week of the Elephantine Tight-rope Dancer. THIS' EYEING; Will be performed a mow Drama, entitled THE RAJA OF NAGPORE ; or, the Sacred Elephants of the Pagoda. In which the whole of the extensive resources of the Establishment will be ca , aight into requisition. . - Brilliant Scenes of ttle Circle, combining the unequalled Feats of the British and Fore'.gn Company. The whole to conclude with a Grand MILITARY BALLET. TII L wEATHER.—Surt OFFICE, MARCH `I - HERM:EXETER, Lowest, 47; Highest, 57 ; Noon, 54. BARoMETER, W.N.W. Morning, rainy ; Afternoon, fine. MAncit 16. THERMONIETEit, Lowest, 47; Highest. 59; Noon, 58. BAROMETER, 29.56. WINO S.W., a trnng gale and heavy squalls. 4", Ift h WATER AT I.ONDON-liiil l )(4E THIS 'PAY. ii .rning .. 49 minutes after 3. I Evening .. 5 initiates after 4 ?". „t•t-- -- I s'. 4r ,-,- .... ,5t? . .*L'g'..,, , 1. , ,,r :: .<4iS ( o' . •? - r.,,:k.. 4 9N.... ,- Nr ~ _ j , , Tty.,.: e ~..,,,, •:, . vif,__:„ •..p. , .„ . T-AC , S,;• t trßj s , / I 1; 11,X1111( LONDON, MONDAY, MARCH 16, 1846, Lord Jones tussE i.r. gave notice, on lir'.aay last, of a mes den on the 26th instant (next Thursoely week), on the stat e of Ireland. The form of the motion is for tle House to re solve itself into a Committee to consider of an address to her MAJESTY on the state of Ireland. 'file first idea which occurs on hearing of this motion is, ' . rat it is likely to em barrass the Governinee.'., swhich embarrassment of the Go vernment may yet have au injurious effect on the pro gress of the penil,;ng commercial measures. Such, we have reason to believe, is the view t3ken of Lord Jous Ruseer.L's weexpected; notice of motion by many in fluential Ye embers of Parliament who are his supporters. But it would be unwarrantalf.y ignoring all the many proofs, which Lord JOHN. RUSSELL has given of a de'.ermination not to iveipede the progress of Sir I:oneee P're.e.'s commercial Ines ores—it would be not only refusing Lim the confideeice lie to a statesman of his experience and eften - Provee't Caution, and forbearance, but supposing him capable, ef the grossest inconsistency, to imagine that after discouraging by every means in his power, and ultimately `Ming against, Mr. VILLIERS'S amendment for imme iliate 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. VieLteete's amendment, after Sir R. PEEL had declared that, should that amendment be carried against him by a cornbinae;mn of the Protectionists with the Liberal party, he would ae‘ept it? Why, that, though Sir ROBERT PEEL would meske it his own, there might be many Peers who had con. :etited to th e compromise of three years' delay in 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, th ough Lord JOHN RUSSELL were to defer his intended motion on Ireland till after the Cons 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 C'einmone, by Lord J. RUSSELL, on Irish policy, could not bist 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. Russets, intends no embarrassment of the Government, and will avoid embarrassing them. his motion stands a t present for the 26th, but that is probably a merely nominal day. After all the Government may not oppose hie , 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 JOHN. Lord Josiet's views on the Irish Church will certainly not come nearer to Sir ROBERT INGres's and Mr. COLQUEIOUN'S, 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 JOHN for going into Committee, to enunciate, when there, their own views, in distinct opposi tion to those respectively of Lord Jolts 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 Jolts; RusesELL 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 harm at Lo rd JOHN' S not i ce, " you peristed in an amendment for immediate repeal against the remonstrances of very many of your friends,—so me o f these who remonstrated with you nlet with severe rebukes at your hauds,—allow to °there a T 0:0_ :.'.i . : l . r - 4, i,o Nf 6 o /4: M O i.. 1 D A ir - hi?t i 4 ).,,f : 4-,, : .__ MAitc ti iii,,,,_.04,0, 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"— sad that county is CARLOW. That ailments of this acute and contagious character should lae 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 in 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 more 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 deerease 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 man 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 Jame 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 would not forget the duty imposed on them, not to compro- ' mise the hospitality they received. What would be the feelings of the Chamber, were it to learn that Abd.el- Kader 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.) 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." mate, and a carman iti Mr. M*bley's employ moved her goodsj 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 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 his character. The nrisoner 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, who arrested Turner, said that other charges might be brought against Trevitt, if time was given. the prisoners were remanded to next Thursday. The Government paper, the Journal des Debats, writes in a more sober strain : 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 mere 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 bad 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 Coloaies, 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 coin• 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 96%. India Stock is quoted at 260, and Exchequer gills 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 A, and the Three per Cents. at 36%. Brazilian Five per Cents. have been done at 83; Mexican at 31%; and Peruvian at 36 1 / 2 . 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 .. 961,4 95% 96 Bank Stock for Account .. - 211 Consols for Account . • • • 96% % % 9614 India Stock for Account .. .. 260 260 Exchequer Bills. 134 d. I%d. 1,0001. - .... 37 - - -- pm. 34 Ditto, Small - .... 34 37 - - pm. 37 ONE CLOSING FORE/ON FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES. Brazilian Bonds, fl per Cent •83 83 Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent .. 31% 31, 4 1, Ditto, for the Account .. 31 34 31 34 reruvian Bonds, 6 per Cent. .. - 36 Ditto, for the Account • • • • .. 3634 3634 Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent .. 78 75 Ditto, 4 per Cent .. • • .. • • 56% 57 57 Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent .. 2634 2634 Ditto, Coupons .. • • • • .. 21 Ditto, Three per Cent .. 36% 36% Dividends on the above payable in Landon. French Renter, 5 per Cent -f. -c. 119 f. -C. Exchange .. -f. -c. 25f. 70c. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cent • Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates 95 PRICES OF BUSINESS CLOS/NG RAILWAY SIIAREB. PAID. DONE AT PRICES. ONE O'CLOCK. Amber., Notting., Boston, and Eastern Junction .. 2% .... 13 . ..• 134 Birmingham and Oxford Junction 2 .... 2% ..... 2 34 Bristol and Exeter .. 70 .... 83 ........ . 83 Ditto New .. s 9% 10 Buckinghamshire 425. %% dis % dis Caledonian .. 10 .... 11%104 .. 11% Ditto, Half Shares .. .... 2% . • ........ 2 3 ,4 Ditto, Extetisi6ii 214 .... % ........ 1 34 Cambridge and Oxford.. .. 1% - .. •••• . • .. 3 4 Chester and Holyhead .. 20 , ..... 19% Churnet and Blythe .. .. 2 .. • • I% d‘ •••• • • • • I '4 Direct Manchester (Remington's) 23 4 .... 374 Direct Manchester (Rastrick's) - .......... 33i Direct Northern 234 .... 214 22 4 2 Dublin and Belfast Junction .. 5 .... 3 ..... 3 Dublin and Galway .. ~ 4 .... 2 • • ........ 2 Eastern Counties .. 141. 160. .... 21% 21 .. • • - 21 Ditto New ......Si. 16s. .... ... 6% p . Ditto, York Extension .. 10s. 1%14 •.. ..... 134 East Lincolnshire 1 1 4 - .......... % Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester .. 234.... 134 Glouc., Aberyst., &Cent. of Wales % . Goole, Doneast., and slietneld, &e. 425. % p ..... p Gt. Grimsby, Lotath, Horn:, Ste... 425..... % die Great Western .. ~ 85 •...145 .. • ... Ditto, Half Shares .. 50 - ..... 82 Ditto, Quarter Shares .. .. 5 ••. 16 ••••• • • • • 16 % Guildford, Fareham, & Portsmoth 5 .... 4 .. • Hull and Selby 50 101 • Ipswich, Norwich, and Yarmouth 2 .. • • 7s .... • • % Lancaster and Carlisle .. .. 35 .• .. 53 Ditto, New .. . 5 .... 1034 .• •• 1034 Leicester and Birmingham .. 220. dis Leicester, Tamworth, &c. Liverpool and Leeds Direct Liverp., Manch., & Newc. Junct. 234 - • • London ant Birmingham ... .100 ..219 210 Ditto Thirds .. .. 16 .... 49% Ditto Quarters .. .. 2 .... 2634 26 34 Ditto Fifths .. 2 .... 33 33 Loudon and Blackwell .. 161. 13s. 4d. 8% •, 833 Ditto New .. 2% •• • • - .• • . 4 London and Brighton .. .. 50 .... 64 63% 6414 . • 641% London and Croydon .. 131. lbs. 9d. 22 21% 22% London and Greenwich .. 12/. 15s. 4d. 93434 London and South-Western.. 41/. Gs. 10d. 77 it/1i .• •• • • 75% London and York .. 2 34 .... 3 1 A .•• • • • Ditto, Half Shares • • .. 234 . 2% .. •••• .. • • 2 1 4 London, Warwick, & Kiddermins. 2% - . Lynn and Ely .. 10 .... 9% •••• .. • • Manchester and Leeds .. 82 ....130 ..... • Ditto, Fifths .. .. 2 .... 1234 •. • • ..... • 1234 Ditto Extension .. 425..... 332 p 3 34 p Manchester and Birmingham .. 40 . - . Ditto, Quarter Shares (A) • • 4 ...• 1234 • . Ditto, Quarter Shares (B) • • 2 .... 10 .. •• . ..... 10 Ditto, Quarter Shares (C) 1 .• • • 8 .. •••• • • • • 734 Manchester, Buxton, & Matlock 425..... 134 % p...... 134 p Manchester and Southampton .. 2 .. 1% Midland .. -100 .. • • 146 145.. ••• • .. 145 Ditto, New .. 18 .... 3034 .. .. ••. • .. 31 Ditto, Birmingham and Derby 100 - ••.•• • • • • . 117 Newcastle and Darlington Junct. 25 - .... - Ditto, New .. 1 .... 934 3u . 9 Ditto, New, Brandling .. 20 .... 36 .......... 36 Newcastle and Berwick .. .. 10 .... 1934 % ...... 19% North British .. .. 20 .... 27 26% .... • • 2634 Ditto, Half Shares ......6 914 9% Ditto, Carlisle Extension .. IIA .... 2% % Ditto, Dalkeith .. • • • • 25 .. .. 30 Northern and Eastern .. .. 50 - Ditto, New • • • • • • • • 1 •• • • 18 ••••• • • • • • 18 North Kent and Direct Dover .. 2 1 / 21% 2.. .... 2 North Staffordshire .. .• • • 425. •• • • 33 / 4 % 1 1 • •• • • 334 p Northmpton,Banbury,&Chelthm. 2 .. - Oxfd.,Worcester,& Wolverhmptu. 1234 .... 123 n % Perth and Inverness • • .. 2% .... 1% . ...... Portsmouth 11irect I .. 3 1 ,4 •314 Preston and Wyre .. • • •• 25 .... 34% ... ••• • • 341% Scottish Central .. . 734 .... 143 4 14 .. .. • • 13% Shrewsbury and Birmingham .. 2% .... 3 • • South Devon .. .. 35 .... 33 •••• • • • • South Midland .. 425..... 1 1 4 p.... •• • • 134 p South Eastern and Dovor 33% ...... • • - Do., New (do. 331. 68.8 d.) No. 2. 10 .. 11 •• .. 11 lio., New (do. 30/.) .. No. 3. 15 . 15% South Wales .. 5 .... 436 4 Teen and Dove Valley.. 1%.... 3d %•••• • • • • Tcing, Reading, and Basingstoke.. 534 .... " We have just heard the questions addressed to the Go vernment by M. de la Rochejacquelin 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 on it by humanity and policy. What more is wished for ? Is it desired that Francs 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 Galicia 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 enterprises, 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, and 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 of interest : 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 Public°, "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, Loins PHI LIPPE has determined to promote the QUEEN'S marriage with the Count DE MONTXMOLIN." 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 29% at 40 days ; the Five per Cents. at 21 3 4 for the 30th of April. 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 ROCHX 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, ODILOX BAR ROT, and other Deputies of the Left; from this cause, as well, perhaps, as the conviction that nothing could be done by the Government, they made but a faint at tempt to force on a discussion. The Marquis DE CAS TELLAX, 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. ODILOX RA/MOT were extremely mild, and formed a strong contrast to the violent attacks made on M. Gomm by the Opposition journals. "He felt convinced beforehand of the answer that would be given. He would not 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 wi.311 expressed every session, for the last fifteen years, on behalf of the Polish nation ? Was not, he would ask, the 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. Ile had faith in Polish na tionality, and he hoped for its ultimate triumph." M. Mau. Gun.; - was the only other speaker on that side of the Chamber, a 7,1 said that it was 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 tht Occasion, and in order to under stand his re:narks we give the following brief ques tionz put to him by the Marquis DE LA ROCHEJACQUELIN : " For the last fourteen years," said the Marquis, " the two Chambers had expressed their wishes, had manifested their formal intention to maintain Polish nationality. He would ask whether those wishes were to be mottling more than an annual epitaph written on the tomb of the Polish nation ? Had the Government been able to do what had been desired? He thought not ; and felt convinced that the wishes so often renewed by the two tribunes had been useless.—(Murmurs.) lle considerei 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 25f.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?" " A letter from Vienna of the sth, in the German Journal of Frankfort, states that the French Ambassador there, the Count de Flabaut, 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 We 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, is 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 Cents, closed at 84f. sc. ; the Five per Cents., 119 f. 95c.; the Orleans Railroad shares, 1,3221'.50c ; Rouen, 1,065 f. ; Havre, 757 f. 50c. ; Great Northern, 787 f. 50c. ; Avignon, 990 f. ; Vierzon, 765 f. ; Bordeaux, 676 f. 25c. ; , Boulogne, 522 f. 50c. ; Troyes and Montereau, 442 f. 20c. ; Basle, 247 f. ioc. ; Fampoux, 460 f. ; Dieppe, 480 f.; Paris and Strasburg, 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. MARSEILLES, MARcu 10.—Marseilles and Avignon, 995 f.; North ern, 785 f. LYONS, MARCH 12.—Marseilles and Avignon, 965 f.; Paris and Orleans, 1,228 f. 75c.; Rouen, 1,023 f. 75c.; Lyons, 618 f. 75c. ; Vierzon, 740 f. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK E XCHANGE, lileacn 14. Dutch Rhenish, 6% —East Indian„u — G reat Northern of France Constituted, 16% —Great Western Canada, 3%—Luxembourg, 1% —Orleans and Bordeaux, 12% Oyer Yssel, dis.—Bambre and Meuse, 412. HOUSE OF LORDS.--(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 Ranfarly, Lord Byron, the Earl of Redesdale, the Earl of Falmouth, Lord Colchester, and the Earl of Selkirk. 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. VIOE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) (Before the VICE-CHANCELLOR Of ENGLAND.) DUNCOMBE V. LEVY. Th e proceedings in this case, which were appointed to be proceeded with to 7 day, were postponed till to-morrow. THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. PETERHOUSE. This ease came before the Court upon the petition of the 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 laud, it appeared, had been purchased by the Commercial Railway Company, at a sum of 6001., and it w as cons i dered for th e benefit of the Professorship that the other land should be sold and converted into stock. " 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 no t t o th ose o f th e F renc h Govern ment. For that reason he should confine himself to the line of conduct he had always adopted in that tribune—to speak of what ho knew.—(Hear, hear.) If the acts which had been reported were true, ha 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 den 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, lie should be more in clined to deny them. In order to explain the part which the peasants of the Grand Duchy of Posen 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 i n th e revolt, they had refused, because their situation was nom 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 insumtion were known, the Austrian Government foresaw all that happened, and it had expressed its fears that a revolution among the peasants would break out simultaneously with another insurrection; and it feared that fresh difficulties and fresh cau ses o f em 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 defe n d from that tribune such or such a foreignGovernmelat ; but he considered himself called upon to dissipate false ideas and erroneous opinions. He might refrain - f — .7iom entering into any further explanation on the . suoje7.t but he woulf , not quit the tribune without explamin e• .„ the ideas of the c io : vernment.—(Hear, hear.) It was r'o of grief, and without a serious conviction that.. la friends and himself had, in 1831, ad‘ supper 2,een t f e o d flo w w i t without a deer, f ee li ng .pted and to Poland, the oficyw e th d. rega m rd e Chamber liro,uPa permit him to renctirid it of th e mo ti ves o f their ce,naty:_t and of their policy—the non-intervention of Frar.ce iv, the affairs of Poland. The interest of Fr: wee eal..ied for this policy. They thought that after the, r ev - o l u _ don of July, France shothl establish her own government, and cover with her /buckler not only her own independenc but that of those ceuntries which , ;(ere closely connectec a l with her—Belgium, Switzerland, and Piedmont. The na tional interest of France imposed this policy on them. An other motive influenced them—the right of nations. France accepted thfi state of Europe ; and it was a matter of faith to maintain geied relations between its Governments. Such . were the motives. which in tell be adopted by France, and they had been too often discussed from that t ribune to , further to them On th make it necessary for him to allude after sixtee a years the present occasion ; and now when policy--pros parity and seyeuir were t reaping the fruits . of their and dignity abroad —he did yat home, and consideration nut consider it was a moment to and less i abandon it, on m o ti ves less grave those which led to it s adoption in 1831. mperiois than posed on them two d u ti es towards the This policy im the first, was, not to hold out to themah unf(ii i rtunate Poles: hopes, and the seco n d, t o render them e ' ive usorreT. relief f r false com patible with the intere s t s o f F rance and l rY iv th i the law of nations. Such had always been their line of conduct, and such it would continue to be ; an d w hil st they remained , faithful to this line of duty, th e y h a d a r i ght to hope that men, who placed themselved under the protection of Fraraccy Mr. BETIIELL appeared for the petition, and The Court made the order as prayed. THE ATTORNEY-GENERIL 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 Henrietta-street, Covent-garden, renounced the will, the consequence of which was that administration was applied for and granted to Miss Mary Flaherty (the lady, we believe, who sometime since by her will left to Lord Brougham about 20,0001.) 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. Vale of Neat .. 2 ._ 1 .. 2 SVaterfd., Woad., Wick., lc 'Dub. Welsh Midland .. 2% • • ... • • • . • 1 % West Riding Union • • • • • • 425. • • .. 3 p. • • • . • • 3 p York sad North Midland .. 50 Ditto, Scarborough Branch .. 25 .......... 47% Do. E. and W. Riding Exten... 1 ... 9% FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Boulogne and Amiens .. 10 .......... 11 Bord., Toul., & Cette Mackenzie) 2 .... 2 ...... . 2 Ditto, ditto (Espelete) .. 2 .... 2% .......... 2% Dutch Rhenish .. .. 5 6% 6........ 6 East Indian .. . ss. % • • Grt. North. of France Constituted 5 .... 16% % .. • . 164 treat Indian Peninsular .. Ws. • • ... • .... Great Western Canada .. .. 3 ..... . 3% Luxembourg .. .. 4 .. . ..... Madrid and Valentia .. 2 .... .......... 1 Orleans and Bordeaux .. 6 .... 12% ........ 12% Sambre and Mouse 6 .... 4% • . ..... JOINT-STOCK BANKS. London and Westminster .. 20 .... 26% 27 x.d • • 27x.d Provincial of Ireland •. • • .. 25 .......... 48U MINES. Real del Monte, Unregistered .. • 3% United Mexican . . ; . 281. 2s. 8 d.. 4 % .. • • • • • • • • 41/s BANKRUPTCY.--(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Commissioner SHEPHERD.) IN RE ELSTON. This insolvent, wh o carr i e d on butiriess in Xew Church street, Lisson-grout, ea a china-dealer, came up for his in terim order, Mr. BticmorAlt opposed, first, that there - was an infonnality 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 lindted by the Act before the insolvency, and that point was at once credit or admitte-,1 by the Lear ne d C omm i ss i on er to be fatal to the ap plication, a lth oug h at the same t i me , he did not consider any fraud was i n t en d e d , Mr. Srvitc,tcoN said that the i ns OlVent had paid the oppo singnow been ' re (lugbt l'or 81., the plea had been put j/1 911 good ,gro und s t and had the case gone to trial no doubt a verdict ~ 00/. in less thali five Fears, and the action had u ,'"). have gone i n f avour o f th e insolvent, It appeared Lo 'oe a hard case, and should the Learned Commissioner de side on adjourning the case, he trusted protection would be given against Mr. L ev y a t allevents, or the remaining property would be absorbed under a judgment and order under the Small Debts Act, The insolvent had been paying off all his old debts. The Learned c%6 I M IONER sa id th a t the petition was evidently wrong, and he therefore could not grant the protec ' ti n; but he could come up in three mouths. 1 Mr. BucitANAN then put in a written examination of the insolvent for his signature. I Mr. STURGEON (to insolvent)—Do not sign it. Mr. BUCHANAN--Then I apply to your Honour to compel him to do so. o t f i o Ti n ti; i ea n nca l d v s n teh t sworn i,ir. to s ill his ß G s c E h o e lt d_u l I e . The Learned COMIISSIODTER—You may take an examine do not know what 040 al" l'f . 7i la d e we in rase g f , otr b he u el t no l abdi c j a ec n t n . ot compel him to sign it—he has . ..„, ourn-ea for three months. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) Lennon, Marten 16.—Wind S.S.W., fresh gale, and cloudy. DEAL, Masai 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, Pyscbe. Irving, Hobart Town; Lady Clarke, Lawrence, Madras; Trafalgar, Richardson, and Atnato,Carnich, Rlo Janeiro. 14. Put back, Druid, BarbadOeS ; Ellen, Deinerara. Coax, MARCH 12.—Arrd. Ohid, Ellis, New York ; Clenelg, Martin, Liverpool, Charleston, out 32 dayS, leaky, and rudder damaged. Sld. Williatn J. Romer; M'Guire, NeW York. Krnsar.a, Maacu 11.—Wind E.—Acrd. WiniplaC, Mitchell, New York, with cargo shifted, loss of bttlwarka, and with a list. DUMFRIES, MARCH 14.—The Belie, Knight, of Padstow, from Newport to Ardrossan, put into Carsethorn, yesteldar, after being qn glom near Southerness Lighthouse, and throwing :part of cargo overboard. +id Oniszns, gAzon 13.—The Mary Hudson has stopped her a— will prodead. Scaanclaquou, Attack 14.—The tritaimia, trewit, of south Welds; 11114. the Gironde ' Moon, or SUnderland, were in contact this Morning to toe southTivanl ; the fermer WaS abandoned in a sinking state, and the latter subsequently foundered off Scarborough Castle ; both crews saved. Maited T. Sutton, Le 134outelleir, Pernam buco. 13. Pallas, Langiers, Neatibiindland. Ltvz;rooa, Marten 15.—Wind W., light.—Aird. 14, George Can ning, Islay ; James Say; Hanford, Valparaiso ; Leone, Redmond, Jamaica ; Unicorn, Totigelli Jamaica; , Isabel, Griffiths, New Or leans ; Sardinia, Crocker, Mobile ; Mary HaVingtom M`Fee, Charles ton; Waterlily, Dunn, Newfoundland ; Cambria stea6et, Doston. GENERAL ANNUAL LICENSING DAY FOR THE CITY.— This morning a general annual licensing meeting City for the o f London was held at Guildhall, before th e Lerd May or and Aldermen. There was a long list pf houses against which complaints had been made, but the nature Of 14101 414 nOt transpire, the parties being told as they anullori •14... • t ey must come up again on the adjourn ment day, when the petitions for new licenses will be heard. The adjournment day was fixed for Monday next, at ten o'clock. tsAcitti) HAttltoisic SOCIETY.—A selection of an thems Mi t ', - , , ,,thedral music is to be performed on Friday next. The programme compric: specimens of the works of the best English masters, from . the Reforniatioi, .+.l) 1800, 7)- - iairernati L SOCIETY , — able Lord Dudley Cbutts Stuart has, upon by the committee Of this eacellent society, intimated tan the Chilli' tit tha apprOsehing anniversary dinner in atd of tm: ands of the Institution, which ia announced to be held at the London TanTll_9ll t4e 10qi 91May neat: ROYAL Aiviluttir.---Woomen GARRISON, MARCH 14 . — Major-General Sir Hobert Cardin!, R.C.8., will, it is rtunoured. succeed Lord Bloomfield as comnidndant Of this garrison. THE DRURY-LANE MURDER. William Wicks, who wag found guilty of murder, and stentouce to suffer the e .i x ,c tre2 l l . ; P e na* of le law, wc:s not executed tni, taorm:.‘, v , -A e expected. 11, is stated that a strong memorial, coupled w ith evi d ence, has been pri .rented to Sir James Graham relative to . 1 preothens state of the convict's mind, and tiitit A searciling upon 81114430 at i t reoput going 941 • - ..,..,A, I B OW - STREET.—(THis DAY.) Two men, na me d T revitt and Turner, were charged, 7 , „, former with stealing, and the lattti. with rectiVing, half a dozen silver spoons, the rte of Elizabeth liendrake. The prisoner Turner the' another man had been taken in charge by a policeman 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 were given tx, him by Trevitt, who was a carman in the employment of Mr. Mabley, of King -street, Covent-garden, and who was taken into custody immediately. The prosecutriz stated that in. the Course of last week she was removing from Princes -street, Soho, to the Fisher -street .Almshousee, to which alae had just been admitted an in. —The Right Honour "^n made to him - -nseut to MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE—MONDAY. Dyrring the last week the arrivals O'f English Wheat coastwise, 0,5 well rt;l.)/ !'sod carriage, were somewhat on the increase, and of full average quality. t'f Parley the receipts were rather' limited ; but those of Malt, Oats, BeaEti, and Peas, were seasonably Ortensive. Very few arrivals of any Grain toa place from Ireland or Scotland s brit from abroad the fresh sui ply of Wheat sres large, yet the whole of it was rattled in bond. Fresh up, only a limited quantity of Wheat of home produce cattle 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 were very short of stock, was good, the demand for the finest qualities of be; h Red and White Wiss 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 snpported. The accounts which have reached tie 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 ; hut prices were very firm in every instance. In Wheat and most other articles of Grain under lock there was rather more doing, at late r ates. The show of Barley being trifling, the best malting parcels com manded a very steady demand, and tke 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 waa 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 full pacer. 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 651 Red, New.. • . 51s to 658 Oats—Yorkshire and Ditto,White, Old • • 57s 70s Lincolnsh., Feed. 22s • 26s Norfolk and Lin- Potatoe .•• . • • 30s 321 - coln, Red.. •• . 525 fiss Youghar and Cork, Ditto, White.. •• .• 55s 68s Black ... Irish, Red.. •• • . 51e b 45 Cork, White .• . • Ditto, White ••• • • . 53s li7s Scotch, Feed. .. tlye—Old . . New..... Barley—Grinding. •• • • 245 25s Pease—Grey. •••• • • .. 385 41s Malting • 3ls 34s Maple... ..... 41s 44s Chevalier 37s 385 White ..• •• • • .... 48s 53s Malt—Suffolk and Nor- Boilers f01k.... Brown 575 60s Suffolk ••••• • • • • • 48s 49s Kingston and Ware 63s 65s Stockta & Norfolk 46e 48s FOREIGN GRAIN AND FLOUR IN BOND. Wheat—Dantzie...... 57s to 635 'Beans .... 39s to 44s Ilamburgh .. 56s 62e Pease. •• • • .• • 41s 475 Barley .... 22s 28s Flour—American .•• •• —5 —s Oats—New .••• • • • 25s 27s Baltic .• • • .... —is —s eed ••• • • • 22s 23s switursELD. 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 Harlingm, and.3o Oxen and Cows, to gether with 24 Sheep, from Rotterdam. To-day very 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 advisee received from Holland, we learn that large num bers of both Beasts mid 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 fer the best Scots being 4s 4d per 81bs. From Norfolk, Suffolk. Essex, and Cambridgeshire, we received about 1,000 Sent., — homebred. 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 81bs. In Calves very little *as doing, yet last week's prices were supported. The Pork trade was inactive, at previous figures. Per 81bs. to sink the offal. s. d. s. d Inferior Beasts 2lO 3 2 Second quality ditto 3 4 3 6 Prime large Oxen 3 8 4 0 Prime Scots •• ••• • 4 2 4 2 Large coarse Calves 4 10 5 6 Prime small ditto 5 8 6 0 Suckling Calves lB 0 31 0 Inferior Sheep .. 3lO 4 4 s. d. to s. Second quality ditto 4 6 4 g Coarse-woolledditto 410 5 0 Southdown Wethers 5 2 5 6 Ditto out of the wool Large Bogs ......3•••• 8 4 6 Small Porkers ••.. 4 8 5 2 Quarter old Pigs • .16 0 20 0 Lambs .. •• • 5 8 7 0 Beasts. 2,529 I Pigs. 300 SUPPLY AT MARKET. I Sheep. 1 17,700 Calves. 60 NEWVATZ AND LEADENHALL. Since this day se'nnlght the arrivals of slaughtered Meat up to 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 difficulty supported. Several carcases of foreign Beasts have been again dis posed of. _ . At per stone, by the Carcase. 8. d. to s. d. s. d. to s. d. Beef, inferion• •••• 2 6 2 8 Mutton, inferior 3 8 310 - middling ••-• 2 10 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 Veal• ••••••• •• • • • • 4 8 510 - small ••••• • .• 4 8 5 2 • -- Lamb. Os od to Os Od. ARRIVALS DURING THE PAST WEEK. Beasts Sheep Calves Pies. dcotland... • • • • • • • • • ............ 40 400 380 Yorkshire ..... .............. 25 500 410 Lincolnshire •••.•• . • • • • • ........ 30 200 110 Norfolk 20 100 100 Suffolk Cambridgeshire . 27 150 200 Essex •. . ...... ................. 30 110 50 210 Surrey •.••••••••• • • • • • • . • • • • 40 230 80 300 Devonshire •••.•••••• • • • • • • . • • • 80 Wiltshire Other parts .. ••••.•••• • • . • • • • • • 50 304) 80 300 Total .• • . • . Previous week's arrival.. • ... 383 2,360 330 2,150 Difference since our last .. 71 210 80 165 BOROUGH AND SPITA.LFIELDS. Very limited supplies of Potatoes have arrived at the water-side during the past week, hence we have to report a steady demand for most descriptions, at, in some instances, enhanced currencies. York Reds, 80s. to 140 s. ; York Regents, 70s. to 1105. ; Scotch ,Reds, 90s. to 100 s. per ton. The above prices are for the selected parcels. BOROUGH SOP IVICARICET. The finest 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. TALLOW. 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 Jr. new Y. C. for the autumn, a fair quantity had been done during the past week at 425. per cwt. iu bend. Town Tallow is 43s net cash for good fresh fair melted. RAILWAY COMMITTEES (THIS DAY) GROUP, No. 9. This Group IZ , et for the first time to-day at twelve o'clock. Mem bers present, Loid Worsley, chairman, Mr. Spooner, Mr. 31ilnes Gaskell, Mr. Archbold, and Mr. Thomas Austen. Immediately on the as:9mbling of the Committee the room was cleared in order to arrange the order of the business. On our re-admission, Thd Cl/AMMAN said the Committee had decided to enter into the merits of opposed Bills only, and to re: er all unopposed Bills to the Chairman of Wayi gild Means. They wou:ft wish to ascertain what Bills were opposed and Whitgiwere not, and NN - ,ere also desirous that the Learned Gentlemen would arrange among t; .arrange the order in which the Bills should be taken, gthose who The following are the Bills in the Group, distingiti.!Nn 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- posed.. Glasgow Southern Terminal (opposed). West 01 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 Dund..s, near Glasgow, and 15 others. Messrs. Austin, Talbot, and M'Neile appeared for the Bill, and 2rlessis. Hope and Forsyth for the pe titioners. Mr lii`Neile 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 Mi. 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 ferinp 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 serve the traffic of the canal and railway. It went through a small portion of the distillery, and in front of seve ral of the works at l'ort Dundas. As the branch would he worked by horse power, he did rot think there would be much, if any, in convenience to these works in closing the line of rails. It has to be a single line of rail, and the horses, he believed, would not move beyond a walking pace. In cross-examination, the witness gave it as his deeided 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 tile 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 and ascertain the merits of the Bills comprised in Group 14 assembled for the first 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 Mr. E. Protheroe (chairman), Lord Emlyn, Mr. Grogan, General Lygon, and Mr. 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-Rastern (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 intended 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 RENT RAILWAY. The first line called on was the North Kent. The counsel who appeared for the promoters were Mr. Talbot, Mr. Wrangham, Mr. Sergeant 3lurphy, Sir Walter Riddle, and Mr. COlestoe,.. - appeared for the South-Eastern Company, who The counsel wis - meting line, wets Mr. Austin, Mr. Cock are promoters of a cob., , sing. burn, Mr. Alexander, and Mr. —, ilway and Canal, the Mayer, The Gravesend and Rochester I,—. ' T,onclon, the Commissioners Corporation, and Citizens of the city el ^ r s lb r roads, thet h e of the Medway Navigation, the Commission.. surrey town of Maidstone, the Trustees for improving the... Feversham Governors of St. Thomas's Hospital, the Trustees of the _ -- Cross roads,- the Surrey Canal Company, the Trustees of the Ne', ~, roads; the Justices. &C., of East Kent, the Commissioner of t.._ Soutiii.::r4 Ccwt of Requests, and s.,veral other large and important =yes against the Bill. bodies put in appe . :! SOUTN•MASTMAN;g:ZREENNVICII TO TROT, NEAR ASHFORD, WITH ,REANCHES TO- BRIDGE AND RIVERHEAD. The next line Was the Greenwich Railway to Chart. CeTekhbeucoteu,n3sierl.w]shieoraewppeeathreerd, efonrdt3hter.promoters were Dir. Austin, ifi l . , t Murphy, W Walter Middle, The counsel who opposed it were Mr. Talbot,.dl%,ifire: Wrangham, Mr. Sergeant Colestone. and Mr. Sergeant C al Company, and Croydon Railway Company, the Grand Surrey an Appearances were also entered against the Bill for t and other large and important public bodies. ICH TO souTu.mAsirintie (GREENW lliNalgAng). l a st case. ggun sel appeared for and against this Bill as in the The sail:: sotrrii...zwirr z -Aor .(....C_ANTESL23I73Or TO 1120 .9 ..436). Counsel as before. ? ( SOUTUACII,STVIIIVLe.:.,DSTONZ Pr; OTILOOD). Counsel as before. It was also opposed by the Rout Atmospheric CoupauY• SOUTH-EASTERN (CHISLET TO Counsel as before. MARGATE). RENT ATMOSPHERIC. The next line called on was the Kent Atmospheric. The counsel who appeaed for the promoters were Mr. Talbot, O r • Willmore, and Mr. Mellor. The counsel of the South-Eastern Company opposed it. Appearances against the Bill were entered for several landoserea and occupiers on the line, as well as for the Ecclesiastical ConniS. Blotters of England.. DOVER AND DEAL. This line was not called on, because the parties had not given /oe ° clear days' notice of the intention to go into Committee. The CHAIRMAN then stated that, owing to the crowded and illee tt. venient state of the room, the Committee were not disposed to Pr e. ceed further in their labours to-day. eding Mr. Sergeant MURPHY presumed, then, that the first pry of the Committee to-morrow would be to hear his Learned Frit . Mr. sergeant Wrangliant's opening, on behalf of the North K ent r nt s - The CHAIRMAN asked if the parties had made arranifeln`:„ amongst themselves upon this point, in accordance with the 0" gestion of the Chairman of Committees. This question was replied to in the negative ; but it was altinisteeir agreed that the North Kent should be taken first to-morrow, tag% with the competing schemes of the Soath-Eastern CompanT , Greenwich to Chilham, from Chilham to Canterbury, and front terbury to Dover. Tke Committee then adjourned till twelve o'clock to-morrotr• GROUP, No. 15. Mr. O'Connell, Chairman. Mr. Mackinnon, Captain Hatton, Sr. Hindley, and Sir R. Price, came shortly after twelve o'clock. Ai Appearances were first taken on all the Dills to conie before '— Committee. The unopposed Bills, the South-Eastern, Ashford Station, end.,.. th. South-Eastern, Rye to Rye Harbour, were then referred to the .74, of Mr. Greene, the Chairman of the Committee of Ways and 31 01 : a BAST BRIGHTON AND LEWIS AND HABIT.-- DEVIATIONS AND BRANCHES. The counsel for the Company (.111r. Hill and Mr. Austin) call ed .„,ill Rastrick, the engineer of the line, who witnessed to tiles it expense of the branches, and the advantages they would conic' the.neighbouring towns. Others wore called to speak to the cost of executing the worl4llsl purchasing the land. As none appeared to oppose, the CHAIRMAN said he would 00;6 on the Bill. 0 a SOUTH•EASTER.N (TUNBRIDGE VIZI.IOP- • HASTINGS AND RYE). 00 . Mr. AUSTIN, for flu; Company, took an objection at once 16t Mr. Hill being heard for the Brighton Rail say Company again' 034 Bill. He said the one line came from Tonbridge to Ilastingt.,Actl the other, from Brighton, met - it at the same town , and he corlt. they were not competing lines. ha Mr. HILL contended that the coast line of the Brighton lisle *— been made the two lines were competing. The Committee decided they were not. tte l * The following is the group of Bills.to come before this Comma South-Eastern (Ashford Station Enlargement). London and Brighton (East Grinstead:Branch).: South Eastern (Godstone Station to East Grinstead). Brighton and Chichester (Bognor and Littlehanepton Brancheo)' South-Eastern (Rye to Rye Harbour).. South-Eastern (Tonbridge Wells to Hastings and Rye). Chichester and Bognor. . . Brighton and Chichester (Steyning Branch). Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings Deviations, and EastbOUrne, llBllllll* Seaford, and Newhaven Branches. Sub-Committee No. 4. The Committee mei at twelve o'clock ; present , Sir W. EreAt licrrn Chairman, Mr. H. Johnstone, and Mr. Acland. nmee-Drortn, WAXEFIELD, AND DIXDUa li b; The object of this line is to corm a direct line of communicadloe tween Bradtbrd and Wakefield, joining the Midland Counties. latter place. Several petitions were presented against. the /31 1 ; dig s* The first petition proceeded with was that of the Ear l of C Lord Dartmouth, and others. Mr. PRATT appeared in support of the petition. oti Mr. GREGORY (for the promoters) objected to the petition, A O. ground that there was no proof that either of the Noble Lora,' names appeared in the signatures, had agreed to it. ys fr The Committee decided on receiving the petition, except garded the property of the two Noble Lords. v• Mr. Dixon, Clerk of the Peace of the West Riding, an d ntb _mad eL, nessee, stated that on the let of December last the; exam ad Dr' li" plans deposited, and found that some material reference. "bert omitted. They examined them again on the 4th of DCee na found that the omission had been supplied. Sub-Committee No. 5. Por The Committee met at twelve o'clock ; present Mr. Mille mond, Chairman, Mr. Forbes 31`Kenzie, and Mr. Egerton. MIDLAND (SWINTON TO LINCOL N :It. The promoters of this line had a Bill before Parliame nt 101 with the same objects as the present Bill. On the capital estit n . s e e, the Bill of last year, a deposit of 51. per cent. had been pa id. OoL of a petition against the Bill, it was now contended that '; 80 standing order, requiring a deposit of 101. per cent., aPP, 3 t Bill. For the promoters, it was contended that as the P_, rc• — OP . before the Committee was really the same as thn 0 1% duce last year, which was introduced before the paoll.• standin3 order requiring the increased deposit, that or der co poi in fairness be extended to it. The Committee ultimately decided that the standing order t i to th.s Bill, and was not complied with. n 1 10) MIDLAND (NEWARK TO GAINSBOS— co" The usual formal ev dence having been gone throngh t mittee proceeded to the consideration of several petitions 1.67...tir ' Bill. The promoters, not being prepared to rebut the Al"' withdrew the Bill. SHREWSBURY AND BIRDIINGIta"S‘ Xe 4 c° C The Committee having heard the usual evidence as to noti decided that the standing orders had been-complied with, 0 00 BIRMINGHAM, WOLVERHADIPTO PIP DUDLEY. a t 01414 In respect to this Bill also the Committee ruled that 'l , ' - orders had been complied with. S i° MIDLAND (EREWASH VALLEY r' S SION). the CSir After hearing the formal evidence In respect to this Blll!..ritii, mittee agreed that the standing orders had been comply NAVAL INTELLIGENCE* PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 15.—The Fairy Royal Ye ch sin tl eLs! ‘ ter-Commander R. W. Roberts, left yesterday I° of daylight for the river to refit, which will occult,' a ba weeks. The Snake, 16, Commander Brown, sailed this m°rn b half-past twelve, for the Cape of Good Hope, to plectder ssa t e under the orders of Rear-Admiral Dacres, Comm, Chief on that station, for whom she carries dispatches' 1,0 also takes out a mail for the Cape. Cetsn , or is The Scourge, steam bomb-vessel, Command Spithead this morning and came into harbour defects. Dee The Palmella, transport, arrived this morning from ford to embark troops for foreign service. iete The Constance, 50 gun frigate, on the design °c the _ r i ll op-- veyor of the navy, was launched at Pembroke no The following are the principal dimensions : Lergth Breadth Depth Tonnage 1,288 tons ssrs „aelrj The Harlequin, 16, Commander Curry, the ss„ s ts"oee - oi F l e rl e 62 t. 101 Commander Sommerville, and the Childers, 16, Pittman, are all progressing most rapidly towards for sea. The two former, we are informed, will net eo , alterations made in their armaments which wa s cont ot, on their commission. The Alfred and Java, 50-gun frigates, in doelt being expedited for the pendant with all dispatc'" dsj be ready in a few days. for The Rifleman steam gun-boat, is nearly rea d)? out of dock. e, The Retribution steam-frigate, Captain Lusbinff e ers r si ther with the Cyclops, Captain Lapidge, and al e l ater I V, Commander Maitland, remain at Spithead, the 7, 0 0 u ee handed. When Captain Smith's paddle-bo% lits„sd taken off the Retribution on the plea of their lel o ic i r the inability of the vessel to carry them, s set e l eo s that the woodwork with which the paddle-wheels' btue o', sequently enclosed would have been very much '. 16 11 10 0 it the paddle. box boats of Captain Smith's invenilf 101 find the wooden framework actually within lle so fel l aste, being as heavy as the boats! Their removal, t u e sol, oen a manifest injustice to the inventor, as w ell freeaste: gersSig the lives of all who go in the 8 11 0. 0 010" having' at hand the proper means of saving life, 1 , 4 1, of aec id ot. Added to which, the removal lif e, Se tion's boat: , (certainly the most abominably nt us fo r i di twat: ever In s ilt in modern times) has given a an dsi' 11° 0° 1 removal of the Terrible's, which has been Claiffled -AO e bin" notwithstanding the Terrible is of 200 tons 1 11 ° r the Retribution ! PROMOTIONS. Of C ° l Lieutenant W. E. Triscott (1837) to the rank 02 r rv, it .0 der. This otlicer entered the service in lan",:iaiv 0 0. 74 has served from that time, twenty-one yeas's tt a sliel t s sr, for which and other services, including being ' 1 ' 4 ; 0 0 `j u ir to Admiral Sir C. Ogle, Bart., during the first tnortingdostr officer's command-in-chief at Portsmouth, and-,, b m ee pr se sae capacity to the late Sir Charles Rowley, the less received at the hands of Lord Ellenboroligl' tion he has tie justly merited. Lieutenant S. Hunt (1835), of the Basilisk, commander. of 3'tlitaetAererEt . 91 1 0 V op as , e ( y )n ( t 1 h 8 e 322 0 , a w it h , o )f hAasfrbiceali je.etc.iii:Stoibe4ol4 the Collingwood, who has served nearly five.Ye l l i „dstee, o A. H. Douglas (1840), of the Superb, who has of several prizeg *hen on the coast of Africa; .". F , (1840), of the Pluto, on the coast of Ireland; e o r . (1810), of the Vindictive; W. Perrier (1842)s _ T oo G. H Wale (1842), of the Cyclops, who was In goo ke at Alexandria, subsequently in China; and F_; Cain , so r who served in the operations on the coast o f end of the war, as midshipman of the Pylaele e rank of lieutenants. 5 ig45%; 4 1 0 Acting Assistant-Surgeon—W. W. Wildey, of Plymouth Hospital, confirmed to t he rang Surgeon. 1 Mr. C. Nowell, to the rank of beat/Wain. APPOINTMENTS. 4 , ,1. Lieutenants—J. H. Bridges, to the Bsillia nn 's'essee e sse burn, to the Harlequin ; W. , Walters, to the be ret,'" u s, H. D'Aeth, to the Brilliant ; G. H. Wale, to t Isrooae - Masters.—J. Saunders, to the Electra, vl i , u t, jured while on duty • F. Edington , to the $t ill Surgeon—T. B. H. Thompson, to the B riniest Midshipman—H. Hawkes, to the RodneY• eerie , Cb" Masters' Assistant—W. H. Short, to the Ca . 11 20; Naval Cadets—G. E. L. Bissett, to the ChiPs7„,,, 400 field, to the Scout; H. C. Wigan, to the Gianni"- pen' COAST GUARD• iv tO Appointments—Lieutenant C. F. Campbe ll , station, vice J. Campbell, resigned. Removals—J. Stirling, chief officer of to Larne station, vice Slade, R.N., previousii st on e WOOLWICH, MARCH 15.—The Monkey y Master-Commander W. Bryant, left Woolsvil' oro or the °"'" ri e % afternoon for Cork, to be placed under n thi;joie • Admiral Pigot, in command at that static) w _ nt o p • Her Majesty's Royal steam-yacbt Fair i ota oi e to-day, to Messrs. Penn's establishment, we"' the pi tions made in her works. betivD tt d 11 0 A trial of speed was recently made _ T,orrreloneneti.:lo". t, steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander Dinnen„.,ithettsae Afa cess Alice steam-vessel, Master Comma ffE o . 3l n o the former with iron floats beat the lattara 011.;„a01_,1!", three-quarters per hour. The iron flo being 70;:00% heavy, or about four tons more than wool en fsesi o : r brought round to Woolwich to have ic°.`,' es u n h or so f tis tuted, which increased her speed to two mu a l ltehses,spaeneddreonf dtehreedPhrienremesosrAle effective taivned inhtspar2l.,,euubsoboxe_liat'orial - -vx performed the voyage to Calais in ri br ee-gr 7,5 -4 the Princess Alice in one hour en t u sr boars' 0° ha", 4 " - slier the voyage to Ostend in fun= and the to._ . pnyx has been found to be e tabveerpriencoefoothNews 12 knots per hour. 10 6 " ar 21, • - .' ff.IWORANDITM. y o b. „ e t Ad ra iriati , to di _ ar s , " Het Majesty has been cpraciouosfluisrleds.celLlneortrrEc-: the sea pay and harbour pet b th o e ar 2 d st h h e rini‘sit.ajesty'e ship sh:crbe ib.nee_rr_filecidoest`y--senlopiciPe r ates :"" Pel i tt mo ,, n T th h a e n p d ay. 41. 0 flOein.gpinereehes:osnis brae:lea:7 therefore be according to the fol (hang o¢ 1)y) P :t r io 'u n of b °7l4 ontb• fis u . tut mo " n i th et ; as compensation for the instruction pay) Tier ) r 000 ed 0 (sea pay) and 41. 18s. e ppad)s y ' when die A eavi i :;- lig ara o il• C calnasds,lll.2lB.s(.sea pay) and_ ....rolnste.6, ceiclopt our p e silo • wil i .hi it e taruodpitis.,hle°nrs`s.ri(nileae.rrabs " commend t 6 .1 1 : :17: 1 e(s:eaki " To all Captains and Commanders of hor biajosty'o ehipo aid vessels." ~.,___._ LA,TEs_