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bESTITUTION in the HIGHLANDS and ISLANDS of SCOTLAND. Zll.tbscriptions for the Relief of the Destitution in the Highlands ` n ,_"lands of Scotland, continue to be received by the London t " , ; at Hatchard's, Piccadilly ; Nisbett and Co.'s, Demers * street ; Smith, Elder, and Co.'s, Cornhill ; and by the Seeretarios, It , Old Jewry. ' --..________ C /11 • • ".• 41,1,7 el , ' IL . - kr-- I t. VA . NMI 10 , . 4 . 44 4. _ ) =, ; 't j iZ . 441 L. .. • - • e it • al4 l -p • --4 S \Alik 1;0 • r - . ..0 •••,. - - 0 the j lole time the Committee sat, had voted for Sir Johlt inie's Line. As he was aware there were several TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, In Si x BY MR. ADAM M URRAY) Lots, at Garraway!'s Coffee Housc, Cornhill, on WEDNES DAY, the 7th of June next, HE very valuable FREEHOLD and RICH e'y MA RSH LAND at I 3 ROOMIIILL, situated close to the Sea, and within a few miles of the Sea-Wort and Market Town of L 'Ye, and on l y a short distance from Lyda containing, by aamea -ITnrernent lately ma d e, 186 A. 2x. 35r. of' rich Productive Grt - ss . sti e d, o f the soundest quality for Sheep !)f P:riv in Romney 'i , arsh. ll Land -tax is nearly all redeemed, anti the • Ratrs areNery low., ~,:'rinted Particulars may be had. bi Mr. Brownley, Soli'Llor, 8, '.'-'!?.oFeilitoorss:seßll3::o;uartt,tezyw.astri'::;et ; of Messrs. Larder and Dawes, Hastings and Hythe; the Saracen's ;%I,t!ratti Ashfrd; the clew Ship, Brighton; at Garraway's ; and of e Ada rn , Murray, Surveyor and Land Agent, 47, Parliament will !:* John Bignell, the Looker, who lives close to the property, 4itly it, on application being made. LONDON; ViiiIINESDAY I:ATM - Na l MAY 31, 1837. No.- 13,951, PRICE sd. Tat LEADING WEEKLY JOURNAL THE NEWS-THE OLDEST, LARGEST,. AND MOST RESPECTMALE WEEKLY PAPER PUBLISHED, will pit'rent it) Its Subscribers, on the 2d of July; a SPLENDID rtilkTilAlT of SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. • LONDON NECRiii v el.l.s4 On the motion ti Mt, TOOKE the London Necropolit Bill was read a third time and passed. LONDON AND GREENWICH RAILWAY. Ott the motion of the same Hon. Member the Lqr(ls' amendments to the London and Greenwich Railway Bill were agreed to. Sir HENRI' PARNELL brought op the Report of the Committee on the Dundee Police Bill. ifotigt OF Lai Mt 50. THE EARL OF 3IULGRAVE, In Attgitrt another of DANIEL O'CONNELL, And itt Septetn her one of LORD JOHN RUSSELL--all of lintun executed to correspond with the masterly production df LORD lIROUGHAM, presented. bn the 28th May, which may still be had at the News Otte., 28, Bridges-street, COVIII6 garden, and of the Principal Newsmen. Lord SHAFTESEU it , iii the rthseliet of the. Lotd Chan cellor, took his seat on the Woolsack ton thintitol before Five teCloek, :1"--'00TS and SHOES.—To be SOLD, 2,000 1-111111 PAIR of Elegant OXONIAN SHOES, and 2„i00 PAIR r • (f) DritneBLIJCHER BOOTS, at 6s. 6d. per pair, or three pair erlB3 . 6d., or 7 9 5. per dozen. W AP * at the National Shoe Magazine, 373 Strand, one Door N .estuf Ex e t er Hall. of , th e ''' an best M arkets in E d Country Dealers will find thi s t o b e one ngland. R ENCH WOOL MATTRESSES. In very frequent inquiries for MAT. • IRE SSEZ n'equence of the very f France , F HEAL • 4nd k, made on the principles of those o . pa-7"_", N have directed their attention to the production of an arti "leh should be quite equal to the best Mattresses made in ena bled to being exclusively Manufacturers of Bedding, they.are that e% to offer the very best French Mattresses at the same prices p . a re usua a lly charged for those generally mati.•:, in this country. - road. Son, Bedding Manufarzturers, 203, Tottenham "4,4 JUst Inthlished in crown Bvo, r..itti an elegant Illustrative Frontis- Piece ; itiee 7s. in cloth. THE BEAUTIFUL, t he PICTURESQUE, and the SUBLIME. Lond )3 ,Y Vne Rev. J. G. MAC VICAR, M.A. Beott, Webster, and Geary, Charter-house-s, mare. r" Nearly ready in Sro., handsomely boun S d, tIE BRIDE OP MESINA. • A TRAGEDY. Rendered from the German of Schiller. By GEORGE IRVINE, Esq. John Macrone, St. James's-square. J un read!, in demy & ro ., w ith P ortra i t, V ol. I. (to be completed THE in Two V o l umes ) o f LIFE OF JOHN THELWALL ; lop, with NOTICES o f hi s TIMES an d CONTEMPORA 1, • 61 of an1794.d Remarks on the St a t e o f S oc i e t y d ur i ng t h e State Ilals By HIS WIDOW. John Macrone, St. James's-square, MR. THEODORE HOOK'S NEW NOVEL. This day was published, in I vol s . p os t I vo ., !IA CK BR A G By THEODORE HOOK, Esq. Author of " Sayings aid Doings," " Maxwell," " The Parson's Daughter," &c. Running over with fun.".—Athenaeum. rAbounding in wit, originality, and ludicrous incident. We o 2l e fairly recommend a perusal of ' Jack Brag ' to every one who 3 a frolicksome, and laughable story."—Courier. Riektard Bentley, New B ur li ng t on - s t ree t. This MR. OVERS NEW . d ays in 3 vo l s . L post 8v ' ith 0., w fi ft een characteristic Illustra tions by the Author, it 0 R Y 0' M 0 R E. By SAMUEL LOVER, Esq., " Auth or o f " L egen d s and Stories of Ireland," &e. t ize i tt truly Irish, national, and characteristic story."—Literary. raZ t Al nuagst the wor k s o f fi ct i on t h at h ave l ate l y appeared, NV e " whic,in fairness g i ve th e pa l m to M r. Lover's Rory ()Wore,' is full of the broadest Irish humour, mixed with beautiful - g °l 7, and the rich fruits of a truly poetical mid." John Bull. Richard Be n tl e y, N ew Burlington-street. THE NEW COMIC PERIODICAL WORK, EITED BY " BOZ A ND ILLUSTRA TED BY GEORGE," CRUIKSHANK. Now ready, with two Illustrations by George Cruikshank, No. VI,. price Half.a-Crown, of ttENTLEY S MISCELLANY. Amon the Contents will be found— Sil „, t ig of the M onth, g by J. A. The Minister's Fate, from the wad t'e e. Recollections of H. T. ri Wical Literature of the North Mrs. Jennings. A. A merican I n di ans. Hints for an Historical Play. G ti ,eographical Epigram. By Thos. Ingoldsby. si _ a tuy the Swift, by J. A. Wade. John Pooledoune, the Victim of uakespeare Papers, No. 11. : Improvements. By William Jaques' By Dr. Maginn. Jerdan. Lor d Tommoddy. Anecdote. A Sporting The Legend of Mount Pilate. By G. Dance. The Hon. Mr. SuAlethumkin's Glorvina, the Maid of Meath. ~.. Story. By 'row. Ingoldsby. By Sheridan Knowles. ihe Romance of a Day. Byihe Ode on the Birth-day of the Author of ‘, The Bashful Irish- Princess Victoria. By J. A. man :" with an Illustration by Wade. George Cruickshank. Nights at Sea, No. 111. The T he , 'Alan with the Tuft. By Chase. By "he Old Sailor:" .. Ir4aynes Baylv - • with an Illustration by George 4 - , lve in the City. By the Au- Cruikshank. thor of " Stories of Waterloo." I Address of the Editor, &c. Richard Bentley, New Burlington -street. To be obtai ne d o f a ll B oo k sellers. ........_______ This day, price 2s. 6d., THE MAGAZINE of POPULAR SCIENCE No. XVII. (Continued C °NTENT S .—O n t h e Explosion Mont of hl Steam-Boilers—Dietetic pneraistry—On Fermentation—A Pop u l ar C ourse o f Astronotny— n :olusieal Glasses—A Popular Course of Chemistry ; Nitro --Instruments for making Meteorological Observations—A Py i,'elar Co urse of Geology—The Patent-Law Grievances—Mis v ° iane 1., (Foreign an. a (price 105.), d and Vol i . c I ) I., (price 155.), and the Num bers, at 2s. 6d. each, may lse had of all Booksellers. Londo n : John W. Parker, Publisher, West Strand. 1 14 E COURT MAGAZINE AND MONTHLY CRITIC, For JUNE Price 2s. 6d., contains -4,I4,ORTRAIT OF 'VISCOUNTESS BERESFORD, 4 1 1 graved by Cochran, from a Painting by G. Sayer. AN . LITERA R Y CONTENTS. n alnation upo n th e G reatest The Dramas of Shakspeare. ,naaginness Principl e , an d ot h er A Fragment, by Charles d Lamb. s a . nd Historical Novels. ' A lt m B;a o m f b L e a r d C:f B the es P ° a r le ' Lady. V r th-day Od e t o t h e P r i ncess The Rector's Family in London. k ob l etori a . Ha. Ro. ' , l- my CRITICISM—COURT AND FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. P ublic Amusements—Births, Deaths, and Marriages. Edward Churton, Library, 26, Holles-street. HOI I DS, Edition, 55., &e. Practical Observations, or e with Additional Guns, illustrating the important discovery the d a - , " : and efficient mode of Cure in CaSes of Piles, gcc., avoiding Z er ous cperati'in by excision, or ligature. By A. PAUL, Surgeon, (Successor to the late Mr. Mackenzie) ‘ ,5, 3 1 4 44, Doughty-street. lork_ uy Jol,in Churchill, 16, Princes-street, Soho ; Kennet, str eeti Covent-garden; and by all Booksellers. -14 G'S WORM LOZENGES are Patronized b tii 6 „lvi n „ ohs First Noblemen in the Kingdom, as well as by the h o "tireT, nourable Ladies who have given this Medicine to their own 'lll )4 4llei n , a Pd also to the Poor of their respective neighbourhoods, with 1, 11 e eet ;:‘. eucces ! • th e 4tri,'" rir eels. Right Hon. Countess of Shaftesbury. It i 4ht •e's Rutland Right Hon. Countess of Mountnor- V•.t 1_4;1'1. Courness of Darnley. L ady Caroline * Capel. Ri ht Hon. Countess h ob ". ,t d ,"'„ l -ad Y Eliz Spencer Right H n Lady Lucy Bridgernan. "eston • S aY a • * Lady - Page Turner. It And and Selo. Lady Lovet. at th e et can 4 11 " try other ladies of the first rank and character. the frti;:nt!„,,t,abli,hed by the annual Bills of Mortali , v, that one half th e fut ~,s o orn are cut off before attaining :eyen . Years of age, .:nd th e m ialach ao ",,ret of this mortality is found to exist in that f tit state of ,or hs e , rest or :tt owels which produces the generation of WormQ. As pie Li) z en rof Infantine Heal - It, in this critical state, " Cif ng's Ite.,4edicio e R e f have long held a distinguished reputatio As an open. `Y > erc() n Spring and Summer, and for foulness of the stomach and Ofli, athough Worms may not exist, it is allowed to be trt,g,e Go Li Z o Y ether. 4.,i4Pa ti p s „e Iv 11 have on the Government Stamp, " Evan Edwards 4 14 by E c i , Packets, Is. 1 d ,and boxe, at 2s. 9d. each. ates%a,rds, Sanger,Panl's Church-vard •, Stradling, Royal Er. . C ornhill; Sa 150, and Chandler, 76, Oxvord-street. La 3 2 At°OW TILAT RUSSELL -STREET, BLOOMSBURY. ~.,.Elli F ASTENED, and LOSS OF TEETH SUPPLIED. " SIEUIt MALLAN and SONS, Surgeon 4 li ,,Liioo4stptletu!sts, W. 32, GREAT RUSSELL-STREET, INP,urkee twat I, 9 , HALF MOON-STREET, PICCADILLY, beg to th i, ...c/ k _ ti R I , 1 1 ~;;„F,y, have uiscovEß ED a NEW MATERIAL for AR -1 - 'lls-r , " ''''''''. H. A peculiar advantage attending Teeth made from tst. 4 i 1 ... l•i ti - ' AZCJ: is, they' are totally impervious to a ids. , ARTIE I ; N VI; 4 I hip, “ nave been hitherto Sound objectionable by INVALID. 1,410 i MCI NES that have a tendency to DISCOLOUR them, or 1 , 4; h o ° "'Pel their removal in the presence of an attendant. Messrs. M. 1." P.li. -‘ r7A' o ,l', been successful in removing these objections b their new (41 . 1 , 1 08 , 1'N, and can also fix the above without extracting . the hi G.,seri'l, s d even on GUMS of the most tender description. No Wrros 4 . ,..N of ~ ttES are used, and they MATCH the Al iJOI NI s : G teeth in etalcu",aPe and colour. GUARANTEED for MASTICATION and 4 - " , /tt -411 0 N. Tey • ,•' t to restore decayed teeth rt Rh their ~,,,44,1je,,d Mineral Su ccedan t e ° u ' in ' , " FASTEN LOOSE I' E ETH, SUN', Y '' tit ' , A I, T ect , and MIN ER AL TEETH, and perform all other operations . " and Gums as before. Charges strictly moderate, as in Paris. SOLOMON'S CORDIAL BALM OF A s d,, t ti t L ie virt GILEAD. ), ur y th asUeesinf this celebrated !Test9rative can only be justly appre.. o l Und er „' Wio have expei isncod its salutary effects ; to such as la_ tiq 'tadAental or Bodily Decay Nervous Weaknesses, &c. and have 4 e 4,1, trial of it this Cordial ' ' highly , recommended as the best ape triko'!eS,ZNY Sick I' languid is constitutions, debilitated from various y. . . a t o ttivitolle, rough it reanimated, and the biesslngs . of pristine health "Mfr.!. I,llbr ugh it restored in old age. No medicine ever yet offered •-, sal e ' e has experienced such an universally rapid and unprece- A 4 Alio 4,Which is in itself a sufficient testimony of its , i , orth. of „titc.,4, ,he ANTLI MPETIGINES, or SOLOMON'S DROPS, . r 4.110 h od. a , eUre for such, disorders as originate in a depraved habit 'f i lln, a 3 '• as Obstinate Eruptions, Undue Evacuations, Chronic Rheu tcr ne at , nd the c onsequences of Insidious Diseases. C t ,' Ito °Z.)e Medicines are sold by Mr. Johnston, 68, Cornhill ; Mr. San- It tc ' , eV 0 xford.street ; Mr. Mackrill, 3!t, Whitechap .. el ;. Hannay . and 16 n vv,invd-street corner of Wells-stri et ; J. W Stirling, 86, High j,••• each f ar ' and all other Medicine Venders, in bottles, price ttilavi,e,i,„!?r four in ono family bottle for :135., by which one I Is. bottle tql. te l i t ) ? the words ~ Sami. Solomon, Liverpool,' engraved on the ti. . . 4 innate which is felonv. trZAL'rill'r6w Edition is just * published, price 35., of A GUIDE TO It.r q `ett 0. ' I n a VARIETY of COMPLAINTS, some of which are a'1,1,-Ni "blinder the following heads, viz.—Advice to Nervous Patients, tc:lnts ~,4-mcreis Women Deficiency of Natural Strength, Female Corn -041 i i4 l l , a . tit v s - - Tasrns it's the Stomach Hypochondriac ...omplaints, Corn kilt 9f L.lng, Loss or Defect of Memory, Rheumatism, Scut vy, Scrofula, !lei Vcnereat Diseases, ss, Youth, &C. . 13y :3, SOLOMON, M.D, THE NEW NAVAL NOVEL Neer ready, in 3;0157, 48' r 0 GENTLEMAN JACK; By the AnthOr of " Cavendish," Ice. " All you who dellint in a cruize, now is your chance ; embark in the stoat barque commanded by Gentleman Jack,' and enjoy your trip. Here you may, in imagination, join the cutting out and storming parties along shore, the dangers of the tempests at sea, the boarding, and battles of 13ritannia s bulwarks, take an impar tial glance at the Mutiny at Spithead, and have a touch of the buc caneering practices of the privateers in the South Seas, you may partake in the privations of a French prison with our hero, and the hair-breadth chances of an escape therefrom, and all without quit ting your comfortable fireside."—Caledonian Mercury. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-strut. JAMES SMITH, ESQ. THE JUNE NUMBER OF CIOLBURN'S NEW MONTHLY N-../ • MAGAZINE AND HUMOURIST, EDITED BY THEODORE HOOK, Esq., Is embellished w ith a P ortra i t o f JAMES SMITH, Esq., and Contains, among other Articles : The Gurney Papers. By the Shakspeare in China. By Editor. Douglas Jerrold, Esq. Lunacy in France. No. 2. The Pilgrims. By Horace The Phantom Ship. By Captain Smith, Esq. Marryat. Lines. By „Leigh Hunt, Esq. Lines by the Hon. Mrs. Norton. Perplexities of a - Deaf Gentle- A Tiger Hunt in the Neilgherry man. By Laman Blanchard, Hills. Esq. A Cockney Country Gentleman. The Man in the Macintoch. By By the Author of " Paul J. B. Buckstone, Esq. Pry." Janetzeter Beeh. By Alfred Scenes in a Country Hope. By Crowquill. the Hon. E. Phipps. The Finished Picture : a Human Zoology, No. 1, Lions. tary Sketch. By Benson Hill, The Mother's Revenge. By J. Esq. C. Grattan, Esq. Conversazione on Literature, the Success in Life. Arts, tic. With a Memoir of James Smith, Esq., One of the Authors of " The Rejected Addresses." Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. F RA S E R'S MAGAZINE for JUNE contains : Roman Cathglic College of May- The Irish Tourist. nooth. Disraeli's " Venetia." The Whiteboy. Lord Carnarvon in Spain. A Radical Summons. Three Miscellaneous Sonnets. German Philosophy. I By Sir Egerton Brydges, Bt. Revolutionary Parallels between June Sonnets. By Sir Morgan 1685-9 and 1833-7. No. 111. O'Doherty, Bart. The Mysterious Bachelor. __ _ Index. Price Half: James Fraser, 213, Rel -a-crown. !gent-street, London. Lately published, in 2 vols. Bvo. with Map and Plates, price 1/. 4s. in extra cloth boards. TWELVE LECTURES on the CONNEXION BETWEEN SCIENCE AND REVEALED RELI GION; delivered in Rome by N. WISEMAN, D.D., Principal of the English College and Professor in the University of Rome. The following are the Heads of the Subjects treated : Vol. I.—Lectures I. 11. Comparative Study of Languages.— 111. IV. Natural History of the Human Race.—V. VI. Natural Sciences.—Medicine, Geology. Vol. 11. —Lectures VII. VIII. Early History—lndians, Egyp tians, &c.—IX. Archaeology, Medals, Inscriptions, and Monu ments.—X. XI. Oriental Literature—Sacred and Profane.—Xll. Conclusion. London : Booker and Dolman, 61, New Bond-street. THE MARKETS-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. The arrivals of this week are moderate, both of Grain and Flour. The continuation of favourable weather keeps the trade dull. Wheat scarcely supports the terms of Monday. Barley, Beans, and Peas remain as last reported. The demand for Oats continues, and good sweet parcels are rather higher than on Monday. The Flour trade remains dull at last quo tations. ARRIVALS. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Flour. Lugush 3,560 qrs. 540 qrs. 4,570 qrs. 1,950 sacks Irish Foreign 3OO UNTRY CORN AIARKETS. 1 Wheat. Per Quarter. a. to a. Boston 46 55 Gainaborough — 53 Grantham Grimsby — 58 Horntastie 42 60 Lincoln 46 55 Spalding Stamford 4B 56 York 5O 56 s. to a. a. to i. 26 32 23 26 29 26 28 33 2 t 28 35 211 32 37 20 24 26 31 20 27 35 21 28 33 21 25 26 34 24 26 IRISH MARKETS. .KET NOTE for the WEEK Barley. I Oats. I Beans. I Pease. a. to 11. a. a. 36 40 43 38 46 :36 42 - 40 49 49; 36 44 22 44 L- ,NDING MAY 26. DUBLIN MA From To 169 Wheat, per barrel 20 stone 3O 0 35 0 0 Bore l6 stone 0 0 0 0 If 6 Barley 317 Oats 27,470 Flour, per cwt.... 3 stone 6 0 21 0 600 Oatmeal .......—........ 8 stone l3 0 16 0 Sold to Bakers only. 25,456 Cwt. Flour l4 0 21 0117 10 Average price of Wheat and Flour 45, OA. per sack. Receipts of Flour, 11,871 1 Firsts from 17s. od. to 21s. 01 sale. of Do. 37,470 Seconds * **** • from 14s. 0.1. to 17s. 01 Tnirds Averng• 32 5 0 0 16 0 13 11 IS 1 PRICE OF BREAD. Quartern Loaf SYiel. I Half Quartern ......4Ud. CORK MARKETS.—May 27. Wheel (per 205t.)...22s ed. to26s. Od. f Oats (per 14st.) 108.64. tole., 6d. Barley (per 165 t.)... 9 6 13 9 Flour (per cwt,) 6 0 110 Oatmeal (per cwt.) los. Od. to 16s. Od. Ueef, 4d. to bd. • Mutton, 4d. to 6d. ; Veal, 4d. to 6d. ; Pork, 4d. to 4id. ; Fresh Butter, 10d. to 11d. per lb. PRICE OF BIrITER. To the Merchants. To tho Countr' flk. First Quality 103 s Second 93 Third Fourth 7B Fifth 6O Sixth CLONMELL Per k fl KETS.— May 27. Cwt. -• s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. New Butter — oto 105 0 Hides (raw) Qto 32 8 Oatmeal 12 6 ;3 6 Bacon Pigs 36 0 42 0 Rendered Lard 0 44 0 Heads 20 0 0 Per I3ag. 1 , hour, Second .......30 :31 0 1 Flour, Thirds V 28 0 Household.. 46 0 23 0; Fourths 11 0 13 0 Per Barrel. Rapeseed N 0 0 1 Barley .12 0 15 It [lore 8 4 10 0 1 Coals Per Stone. W heat OIS 024 Tallow (roug'A) 4 0 4 i Oats KILKENNY Wheat (per barrel) 20s. 3d, to 263. od. Barley 9 9 Il 9 Oats S 6 10 0 Flour (per bag) Butter (per cwt.) 9O 0 92 0 Bacon 1 Coals 1 0 1 I SCO HADDINGD Wikeat. I 65 , (ki 57s thl 53; Ocl 239 qrs. of First Second Third :nacre wer I 236 Od Wheat in 3 Unsold • verage MARKEN. Beef (per lb. Os. 3d. to Os. 51. Mutton 0 3 0 5 Pork Veal 0 4 0 5 Fresh Butter 0 10 1 0 Salt Ditto Potatoes (per st.) 0 2 3 TCI-1 MARKETS. 'ON CORN MARKET.—May 19. 1 Barley. Oats. I Pease. 33s Oct 31s 04 4*4s (14 31s Od rid 43s 01 [leans 48s Od I •'4s 3 - 4 I 39s oci - flatlet , 2 18 whereof wi .-0 Grey. 17:. 41. 11.12tts 41s Od I 36. Od !re sold. First Fecond Third A LKEIT. CORN MARKET. Wheat. Barley. Oats. 63s lid 323 6d 323 Fd 57s Od 30s Od 2Ss SI 46s 01 26s 631 ills 6,1 .May 25. 44u Od 041 35 , Oil Beans. 448 Od 40s Od :Ms Od MEETINGS OF CREDITORS TO-MORROW. W. S. Warwick and Co , merchants, Billiter-square 1 at 11 J. Saunders, butcher, Watford, Herts 1 1 A LITERARY LION.—Of course the keeper war there already. He had planted himself at precisely that dis tance from his charge which afforded him a decent pretext for raising his voice, when he addressed him, to so loud a key as could not fail to attract the attention of the whole company, and immediately began to apply himself seriously to the task of bringing the lion out, and putting him through the whole of his manoeuvres. Such flashes of wit as he elicited from the lion First of all they began to make puns upon a salt-cellar, and then upon the breast of a fowl, sad then upon the trifle; but the best jokes of all were decidedly on the lobster-salad, upon which latter subject the lion came out most vigorously, and, in the opinion of the most competent authorities, quite outshone himself. This is a very excellent mode of shining in society, and is founded, we humbly conceive, upon the classic model of the dialogues between Mr. Punch and his friend the proprietor, wherein the latter takes all the up-hill work, and is content to pioneer to the jokes and repartees of Mr. P. him self, who never fails to gain great credit and excite much laughter thereby. Whatever it be founded on, however, we recommend it to all lions, present and to come ; for in this instance it succeeded to admiration, and perfectly dazzled the whole body of hearers. When the salt-cellar, and the fowl's breast, and the trifle, and the lobster-salad were all exhausted, and could not afford standing-room for another solitary witti cism, the keeper performed that very dangerous feat which is still done with some of the caravan lions, although in one in stance it terminated fatally, of putting his head in the animal's mouth, and placing himself entirely at its mercy. Boswell frequently presents a melancholy instance of the lamentable results of this achievement, and other keepers and jackals have been terribly lacerated for their daring. It is due to our lion to state, that he condescended to be trifled with, in the most gentle manner, and finally went home with the showman in a hack cab : perfectly peaceable, but slightly fuddled.---" Boz," in Bentley's Miscellany. TIII DtilßY4\l9 (A say 'rh Oettlifig fa these races took place yisterciay at Tatter. salt's, end, as usul, Was a very nervous affair. It would have been difficult, in, .bed, 18 ielbt th_l6 frem the losers, anklet; on one side and losses on the other having given a sombre expression to the countenance of all. As wepredicted at the time, the settling proved to be light ; two or three are considerable winners ; bet the balances generally are small. The principal losers are those who embodied, as " the public" have - backed " favourites ;" and, as this is a very large class, the amount lost, although large in the aggregratc, is scarcely felt. Our quotations during the five or six months preceding the races will show that " backing favourites" has not been a very profitable game. Jereed, Defender ; and -Achmet' were seldom at more than 8 or 9 to 1, and as they went out of the. market very abruptly, those who had backed them had no chance of retrieving themselves. The same. may be said of Benedict to a certain extent, upon whom a good deal of money was laid out at 10 and 11 to 1, from which point he progres sively declined to 25 to 1, till nearly all his friends disappeared. Most of the gentlemen interested in Caravan, Mango, Rat trap, Chapeau, and Egeria have saved themselves, their money having been got on at long prices, and edged on advanta geous terms ; two or three, however, " stood the hazard of the die," and suffered accordingly. The Phosphorous party did no good on the race, his lameness having induced them to lay off their money, no matter at what odds, and that they were justified in doing so, it is only necessary to state, that at twelve o'clock on the day (4... the race the horse was quite lame, and that the day after he could scarcely limp round the pad dock. The settling, on the whole, was quiet enough, but not without a drawback, a " gent. one, &c.," from the provinces having been returned " non est inventus," for three or four thousand peunds—he was quite dew-in-the vearketa 'dike was no other.defaulter ; but two or three accounts were suffered to remain open tall a future-day, not- inuch to the satisfaction of the creditors. Nothing was done in the St. Leger, nor is there much pro bability of its becoming a good betting race, the held having nothing very attractive in it. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. ENTERED INWARDS AT THE CUSTOM HOUSE, MAY 30. The Haffring, Hartman, from Brake; Mans, Blake, Rot terdam ; John Bull, Corbin, Hamburgh; Giraffe, Strannack, Rotterdam; Soho, Whitcomb, Antwerp; Virginia, Sullivan, Jersey ; St. Charles, Laing, Calais; Adair, Tanner, Guern sey; Mary Ann, Robson, Demerara; Transit, Wrightson, Gibraltar; Eclipse, Mander, Guernsey ; Albion, Butler, Guarnsey; Neriede, Faitlant, Calais ; Braganza, Symons, Lisbon. ENTERED OUTWARDS. The William Fawcett, Symons, for St. Sebastian ; Nep tune, De Jonge, Ostend ; Attwood, Major, Rotterdam ; Coun tess Lonsdale, Stranack, Hamburgh ; William Burton, Tem ple, Cadiz ; Ann and Jane, Simmonds, Jamaica. CLtARED OUTCVARDS WITH CARGO. The Countess Lonsdale, Strannack, for Hamburgh ; Att wood, Major, Rotterdam; Aurora, Farchingam, Bordeaux. CLEARED OUTWARDS IN BALLAST. The Brockwcll, Watson, for Archangel; Victorine, Lan guehard, Cherbourg ; St. Charles, Lamy, Calais; Helena, Obsen, Wyburg; Margaretha, Bloom, Sunderswall. EAST INDIA SHIPPING. Arrival.—May 30, the Oreka, Ager, from China, off Pen zanco, sailed Jan. 15. Arrivals at the Cape (Table Bay. )-The Roxburgh Castle, March -, from Calcutta, and sailed March 23, for London ; the Solus, Crickmay, March 17, from London; the Mary, Tuscan, March 18, from London ; the Scourfield, Evans, March 18, from London, for Bombay ; the Hindu (American), March 19, from Calcutta ; the Barcelo, March 20, from Ma nilla; the Layton, Wade, March 20, from Manilla and Singa pore; the Sussex, Roxby, March 20, from the Mauritius, and sailed March 23, to Cork (for orders); the Matilda, Comin, March 23, from London ; the Britannia, Ferris, March 23, from Bombay ; the Transit, Cockburn, March 24, from Lon don ; the Champion, March 24, from Boston ; the Delight, Jefferson, March 27, from London ; the General Kyd, March 27, from London, and sailed March 29, for India ; the Lord Hobart, March 27, from St. Helena, had spoken three days previous the Francis Smith, Edmonds, from London to Cal cutta; the Abberton, March 29, from London ; the Robert, Small, March 29, from Calcutta ; the Mary Ann, March 29, from Madras; the Viscount Melbourne, March 29, from China ; the Duke of Buccleuch, March 30, from Calcutta. In Algoa Bay, his Majesty's ship Conway, March 11, from Simon's Bay ; the Globe, March 13, from London ; the Wil liam Forster, March 17, and Cheerful, March 18, from Table Bay ; the Comet, March 18 ; the Apprentice, March 25, from the Mauritius; the Alciope, March 25, from China, and sailed for the Brazils ; his Majesty's ship Athol), March 25, from Table Bay. Departures from Table Bay.-The Meldon, March 17, for London ; the Jubilee, March 17, for Liverpool ; the Rapid, March 20, for Bombay; the Antelope, March 24, for Rio; the Integrity, Pearson, March 25, for the Mauritius and New South Wales ; the Elizabeth, March 23, for the Mauritius. Arrivals at St. Helena.-The Queen of the Isles, Lewis, April -, from London, and sailed April 11, for the Coast of Africa ; the Molson, April 7, from the Mauritius, and sailed April 7 for London. Arrivals at Calcutta.--The Orator, Jan. 22 ; the Juliana, Jan. 24, and Shepherdess, Jan. 26, from the Mauritius and London ; the noodles, Jan. 26, from Liverpool. Departure from Calcutta.-The Strathisla, Jan. 24, for Sydney. LAW INTELLIGENCE. HOUSE OF LORDS, Mir 30. THE EDINBURGH WATER COMPANY V. WAUGH. This was an appeal against the decision of the Court of Session, by which the Court had declared the appellants liable to furnish for ever a supply of water to the work house of Edinburgh. For about eighty years before 1819 the charity workhouse under a speeial grant from the Magis trates and Council of the town of Edinburgh enjoyed a gra tuitous supply of water from the reservoir and cisterns be longing to the town. In 1819 the Edinburgh Water Com pany obtained by contract a transfer of the whole of the town's reservoirs and cisterns, under the condition of con tinuing all the supplies previously made under the au thority of the Magistrates and Council. The Company for some years supplied the workhouse gratuitously, but in 1832 claimed to exercise the discretionary right of dis continuing the supply. The point raised in the argument before the Court of Session depended on the question whe- ther the Company possessed a right, at its discretion, to give or to refuse the supply of water, or was bound at all events, and for ever, to furnish it. The Court of Session had decreed that the Town-council had made a permanent grant of a supply of water, and against that decree the present appeal was brought. The case was argued some short time since, and time was taken to consider the judgment. Lord BROUGHAM now delivered the judgment.—Judg ment of the Court below reversed, without costs. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, MAT 30. THE ICING V. THE CORPORATION OF HERTFORD. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL applied, on behalf of a Mr. Thomas, for a rule to show cause why a mandamus should not issue, commanding the defendants to admit the applicant to take his seat as a member of the Town Council of the borough of Hertford. It would be in the recollection of their Lordships that he (the Attorney-General) had some time since obtained a rule for a quo warranto to be directed to a Mr. Lawrence calling on him to show by what autho rity he claimed to exercise the office of Town Councillor. That rule had been made absolute, and judgment of ouster had been given against Mr. Lawrence, he having withdrawn all opposition to the rule. The name of Mr. Thomas was the next on the list to that of Mr. Lawrence. He had been duly elected to the office, and Mr. Lawrence having been declared unqualified to hold his seat Mr. Thomas was en titled to admission in the council. He had applied to be ad mitted, and his application had been refused, and this ap plication, therefore, became necessary. The COURT granted the rule. THE ENGLISH IN FRANCE.—The following offi cial return of the number of resident English in this country, as presented by Monsieur le Prefet de Police at Paris to his Excellency the Minister of the Interior, up to the Ist instant, is rather interesting, as it is one third more than this time last year, viz. :—Paris, 24,000 to 25,000 ; Versailles, St. Cloud, St. Germain, &c. &c., 3,000 ; Havre de Grace, Caen, &c., 4,000; Dieppe, Rouen, and environs, 3,000; Tours, Orleans, Fountainbleau, &c., 2,000 ; Bordeaux, Toulouse, Bayonne, Barresses, Pau, Montpellier, Marseilles, Toulon, Hieres, Aix, Avignon, and Lyons, 6,000 ; St. Quenten, Cambrai, Valen ciennes, Douai, and Lille, 1,000 ; St. Omer, Mont Cassel, &c., 1,500 to 1,800 • Dunkerque, Bergues, Bourbourg, &c., 1,000 to 1,200 ; Calais , Basse Ville, St. Pierre, Coulogne, and Guines, 5,000 to 6,000 ; and in Boulogne and its environs there are from 6,000 to 7,000 actual residents, exclusive of the thousands who only pass through it, or remain but for a short time. Admitting that each person spends on an average five francs per diem, the annual sum expended in this country by the domiciled English alone would be, 109,500,000 francs, which, at the exchange of 25 fran s , amounts to a b out 4,380,000 1 . sterling. Yesterday evening an inquest was held at th e St. Andrew's work - house, Little Gray's Inn-lane, on the body of William Redrupt, aged 20, late porter at the True Sun even ing newspaper office, who was stabbed with a table knife by a lad named John Shugra, alias Mansfield. The Jury returned a verdict of " Manslaughter against John Mansfield," and the Coroner issued his warrant for his committal to Newete, and bound the witnesses over to prosecute, Several private tills &I the table were advanced a stage. The LORD CHANCELLOR then tot + his seat on the Woolsack. Mr. ToOkt, and other Members of the House of Com mons, then brought up the London Necropolis and National Cemetgry Bill, the London and Greenwich Railway Amend ments 13111, and several other private Bills ; also a request that their Lordships would communicate the Report of the Committee of their House, appointed to consider the expe diencyof substituting declarations for oaths in certain cases. The Duke of WELLINGTON then presented several petitions in favour of Church-rates. Lost SEFTON presented petitions from persons resid ing in Lancaster against the Birkenhead and Chester Rail way Bill. The Duke of RUTL AND presented a petition from the guardians of a union in Leicester, praying that a Bill should be passed, providing that all manufacturing and commercial pro perty should be rated, and the owners, not the occupiers of land, should be obliged to pay the rates. The Noble Lord also presented a petition from the inhabitant rate-payers of the county of Leicester against the mode of levying, receiv ing, and disbursing county rates as at present. He felt himself bound to present the petition, although he did not concur in the prayer of it. ...Lord BROUGHAM said that although the Noble Duke did not concur with the petitioners, yet the matter was well Vollthy attention ; and he regretted that a measure had been lately rejected in the other Houv which would have given to the rate-payers power over the mode of levying and expending the rates. POST OFFICE. Lord ASHBURTON presented a petition signed by the bankers, solicitors, and inhabitants of the metropolis, complaining of the large amount of postage charged in this country, which, in their opinion, with which he concurred, tended to disturb social relations, and '.o injure the com mercial interests, and those of science and literature. The complaint of the petitioners was not against the officers of the establishment, but against the system.—(Hear.) He would not enter into the subject at length, but would refer them to a pamphlet written very recently by Mr. Rowland Hill, which fully confirmed him in his opinion that the great evils of the system could be obviated without injuring the revenue. What that gentleman proposed was, that a great reduction should be made upon postages generally, and that an equal charge should be made upon all letters, whether they were carried 20 miles or 200 miles. And although this seemed at first sight to be inconsistent, yet it was shown by Mr. Hill that the amount of additional charge for the longer distance was scarcely more than for the shorter dis tance ; for the amount for conveying a letter to Edinburgh, which was four hundred miles distant from London, was only the 36th part of one penny, and it was not equitable to charge so much more for the postage of a letter sent to a distance, where the difference of charge was so little beyond that for one which was sent to a short distance. Another proposition of Mr. Hill was, that all letters should be paid for when they were put into the post-office, for it was shown that a great delay arose from the carrier having to stop at each place where he delivered letters, where he had to receive postage, which caused the employ necessarily of a larger number of persons. The Noble Lord then observed that a great decrease had taken place in the post•office revenue, which was the result of the large amount of charges ; whereas almost every branch of revenue increased, in conse quence of the decrease of the amount of taxation. He .would, as an instance of this, adduce the increase in the amount of the revenue derived from the tax on stage-coaches, which in 181.5, was 217,000/. and in 1835 amounted to nearly 500,000/.—(Hear.) Besides this the increase of cases of the fraudulent conveyance of letters was such as demanded the attention of Parliament. The Noble Lord concluded by presenting the petition, and moved that it be read by the Clerk. The Clerk then read the petition at length, which prayed for a uniform and decreased rate of postage. Lord DUNCANNON said that the pamphlet referred to had been under the consideration of the Post-office for some time, and although it was not thought advisable to adopt the plan generally, yet some of the propositions in it would be ad - oPted. The Duke of WELLINGTON hoped that in any plan uniformity would be observed. The Duke of RICHMOND said that according to the plan proposed by Mr. Hill, if a lower rate of postage were charged, a larger number of coaches should be employed in order to carry the increased number of letters calculated on ; he was glad, however, that a portion of the plan would be acted on ; he would beg of the House to recollect that when at a former period it was compulsory to pay postage in ad vance, a great outcy had been raised, and in reference to a portion of the petition which complained that no improve ment had taken place in the Post-office department, he would say that considerable reforms had taken place there. —( Hear.) He was glad the Chancellor of the Exchequer had consented to reduce the rate of postage. Lord AS H BUR 'FO N said that he did not intend to cast any blame on the officers employed in the Post-office ; and in reference to the increase of letters, a carrier could deliver a much larger number of letters in the same time if they had been paid in advance than if he had to collect the postage. The Duke of RICHMOND said that in respect to foreign letters a greater length of time was occupied in re ceiving a part of the postage than if no part of it had been paid. 'Lord BRADFORD presented a petition from Birming ham in favour of Church -rates, and stated that the peti tioners referred to a petition which had been presented by a Noble Lord opposite against Chuch-rates, which they stated had been signed by women and children, and by per sons in a state of drunkenness, although it was said to be signed by 19,000 rate-payers. Lord BROUG H A M said that he could not have stated that the petition had been signed by nineteen thousand rate-payers, aware as he was that there was not so many rate-payers in Birmingham ; as to the charge that the petition was signed by women and children and drun ken persons, such charges were almost always made against petitions numerously and respectably signed. The Noble Lord then presented petitions against Church-rates, from 6,000 inhabitants of Southwark ; from Swansea ; Mile-end ; from Battle in Sussex ; and from Bath. The Archbishop of CANTERBURY presented peti tions in favour of Church-rates from the Archdeaconry of Bath and from Blackburn. SHROPSHIRE INSURANCE COMPANY. This Bill was read a second time on the motion of Lord KENYON. Lard RIPON then postponed his motion relative to Colonel Arthur until Thursday. lIUNICIPAL ACT AMENDMENT BILL. The LORD CHANCELLOR moved the third read ing of this Bill. Lord ABINGER moved a verbal amendment to the first clause, which was agreed to. The LORD CHANCELLOR moved, as an amend ment to the 12th clause, that the last two lines should be left out, and these words substituted—" and in case any borough shall be divided into wards, that person who is assessed to the greatest amount shall preside at the election of Councillors. After some discussion the House divided— Contents 49 Non. contents Majority for the clause —s The clause was then added. A number of verbal amendments were introduced, and the Bill was then passed. On the motion of Lord ABINGER, the Limitation of Actions Bill went through Committee. On the motion of Lord WHARNCLIFFE, the Re corder's Court Bill was reported. On the motion of Lord GODOLPHIN, the Sunday Notices Bill went through Committee. The Earl of LICHFIELD presented two petitions from Great Yarmouth, one in favour of the Irish Municipal Bill, and the other for the abolition of Church-rates. The other Bills on the table were adranced a stage. The Earl of S HAFTESBURY, on behalf of the Bishop of Exeter, postponed the Right Reverend Prelate's notice of motion for a copy of the resolutions (if any) of the Poor Law Commissioners, prohibiting inmates of poorhouses at tending Divine Service on Sundays out of the poorhouse, until Thursday next. The House then adjourned till Thursday. HOUSE OF COMMONS, MAY 30. The SPEAKER took the Chair at the usual hour. Mr. DENNisTouN, the new Member for Glasgow, in the room of Mr. Oswald, was introduced by Lord Wm. Ben tinck and another Hon. Member, and took the oaths and his seat, amidst loud cheering fro; the Ministerial benches. Mr. WASON brought tip the Report of the Committee on the Ipswich Improvement NIL On the motion of Mr. TOWNLEY the Over Inclosure Bill was read a third time and passed. BRIDLINGTON HARBOUR. Mr. BETHEL brought up the Report of the Commit• tee on the Bridlington Harbour Bill. Mr. PEASE gave notice he would take the sense of the House on the third reading of the Bill. Sir O. CLERK begged to ask whether the clause for imposing passing-toll had been omitted from the Bill ? Mr. BETHELL replied in the affirmative. DUBLIN AND KILKENNY RAILWAY. Mr. FINN presented a petition from.,Kilkenny in favour of the Dublin and Kilkenny Railway Bill. AGRICULTURAL BANK. Mr. MA HER presented petitions from Enniscorthy and other places, signed by a number of shareholders of the Agricultural Bank, against the Bill for dissolving the Com pany and vesting its funds in trustees. Mr. BRADY presented a petition from Newry against the Mersey Conservancy Bill. Mr. H. BRIDGMAN presented a petition from Coot hill, signed by a number of magistrates and landholders, against the Bill for dissolving the Agricultural Bank of Ireland. Mr. BROTHERTON brought up the Reptirt of the Committee on the Angerstein's Estate Bill. WISHAW AND COLTNESS RAILWAY. On the motion of Mr. J. MAXWELL, the Wishaw and Coltness Railway Bill was read a third time and passed. Lord G. LENNOX presented a petition from Rother hithe and the parish of St. George, Southwark, against the Collier Docks' Bill. Lord DARLINGTON moved the further considera tion of the Report on the Ellesmere and Chester Canal Bill. Mr. ROEBUCK presented a petition from the Corpo ration of Bath against certain clauses of the Bath Gas Bill. Mr. GREENE brought up the Report of the Com mittee on the Agricultural Bank of Ireland Bill. They re ported that the Standing Orders had not been complied with. On the motion of Lord J. STUART, the Ardrossan and Johnston Railway Bill was read a third time and passed. Mr. E. TENNENT moved the recommittal of the Bel fast Harbour Bill for the purpose of adding a clause. Sir C. BLUNT presented a petition from Lewes in favour of Rennie's Brighton Railway. Mr. POULTER, presented a petition from the Coroner of Dorset against the Coroners' Expenoles Bill. Mr. WILKS presented petitions from several parishes in the county of Leicester, in favour of the abolition of Church-rates. Sir J. TYRELL presented a petition from Saffron- Walden, praying that the law might be altered with respect to the payment of rates by persons inhabiting houses of the value of less than 10/. a-year. Lord SANDON presented petitions from different pa rishes in Liverpool and Rochdale, against the abolition of Church -rates, and for the better observance of the Sabbath. Mr. RUTHVEN presented a petition from Kildare, praying that the surplus property of the Church might be applied to the purposes of education. Mr. VESEY presented petitions from Kildare and Queen's County against the present system of national education in Ireland ; also petitions against the renewal of the grant to Maynooth College. Mr. HODGES presented petitions from different parts of Kent, in favour of the abolition of Church-rates. Mr. PLUMPTRE presented petitions from Sheerness, Stroud, and other places in Kent, in favour of Sir Andrew Agnew's Bill for the better observance of the Lord's Day. Mr. SANFORD presented petitions from two parishes in Somersetshire, in favour of the Ministerial plan for the abolition of Church-rates. Major MACNAMARA presented petitions from seve ral places in Clare, expressing great confidence in his Ma jesty's Ministers. Mr. MAHER presented two similar petitions. Sir GEORGE CLERK presented a petition from the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland against the Bill for the Registration of Births, Deaths, and Marriages in Scotland. RATES OF POSTAGE. Mr. GROTE presented a petition from the inhabitants of London, relative to the Post-office regulations, pray ing especially for the adoption of a reduced scale of postage, uniform for all distances, from the Metropolis. The Hon. Member stated that the petition was si g ned by Twenty two of the most eminent merchants of the City of London, and by Dr. Babbage, Dr. Arnot, Dr. Birkbeck, and other scientific and eminent men. Mr. HUME presented a petition from Union Chapel, Poplar, in favour of the Government plan for the abolition of Church-rates. Mr. MILES presented a petition from S o mersetshire, praying for a better remuneration for Coroners. Mr. CURTEIS presented a petition from Portsea, in favour of the Brighton direct line of railway. Sir C. BURRELL presented petitions from Worthing, Walsall, and three other places. Mr. HUTT presented a petition from a congregation in Kingston-upon-Hull, in favour of the Ministerial measure for the abolition of Church-rates. Lord ASHLEY presented a petition against the Church Rate Abolition Bill from a parish in Norfolk. A message from the Lords brought up several Bills which had been agreed to. BRIGHTON RAILWAY. Upon the motion for the further consideration of the re port of the Brighton Railway Committee, Captain AL SAGER rose for the purpose of moving that the report approving of Rennie's Line should be referred back to the Brighton Railway Committee. The Committee, after a careful deliberation of all the evidence before them, bad come to the decision that Rennie's Line was the proper one to be adopted for the convenience of the public, Such being the case, he should move that that Report be adopted, and that it should be referred back to the Com mittee on the Bill of Rennie's.direct line, in order that the necessary clauses might be inserted, and that the landhol ders on that line might have the opportunity of coming in before that Committee and have their rights protected. It was not his intention at the present moment to occupy the time of the House, as he felt no doubt that some consider able discussion would take place on the subject, and be should therefore wait till that discussion had taken place, in order that he might reply to the arguments used. The Noble Lord, the Chairman of the Committee, taking a different view to that which he (Captain Alsager) took upon the subject, intended, he believed, to move an amend ment to his motion ; he should, therefore, reserve any far ther observation until the Noble Lord had made his state ment. Lord GEORGE LENNOX rose for the purpose of opposing the motion. It was not his intention in doing so to trouble the House at any length. The House was aware that sometime since an instruction had been sent to the Committee on the Brighton Railway Bill to make a Special Report, in order to enable the House to decide upon which was, or was not the best line. If the Committee had done so, he should have had no ob jection whatever to the motion of the Honourable and Gallant Member ; but he must maintain that the Committee had given the House no information on the subject, but had taken upon themselves to form an opinion, instead of leaving it to the House to say'which was or which was not the best line. It was carried * by a large majority that the Committee would not report specially as to the cuttings and embankments. Now he would ask whe ther the cuttings and the e mbankments were not a most important feature in railways ? if the Committee thought it right not to report specially to the House on those subjects they ought at least to have done justice to the engineer, who in his evidence stated that the cuttings on Rennie's line would have caused an expenditure of money which would have been totally unjustifiable. Not one word of that statement appeared in the report. He did not ask the House to say that Stephenson's line was a preferable one to Rennie's. All he required was that the merits of every line should be well under stood. It might be asked, how was the Committee constituted ? He would tell the House in the course of the last Session the Committee sat for no less than 52 days, and in the present 35. There were generally not more than five or six Members only present, but after sitting twenty-eight days, upon the first division with respect to the question of engineering, no less than forty-five Members voted, not more than six of whom had been present one day during the sitting of the Committee. Could the House rely upon the Report of a Committee, several members of which bad not heard one word of the evidence that had been given before it ? o '2 members of that. Committee, who had only attended nine days during either Hon. Members who were desirous of addressing the House, he would not trouble them further except by moving s an amendment—" That an humble address be presented !o his Majesty, paying his Majesty to be graciously pleased t o Appoint some military engineer, to whom the several plans, SCrttenz, &c., of the different lines might be referred, in order that suite engineer might give his opinion on the merits of the respectiit 4 lines, and that his Majesty would be geseiounly pleased to ortL'r such opinion to be laid before the House."—(Hear, hear.) Mr. 'WARBURTON said that, as Rennie's line was one of these lines, the subscription list of which had been refused to the Committee of which he was Chairman (the Dever and Deptford), and, as the evidence had ,been completed on the subscription list of Rennies line, witlt the approbation of that Committee , he was enabled tostate some of the fending facts that had come out upon that subscription list. It appeared that the Com,lany, which was formed in February last year, for the purpose of pro moting this Bill, was conducted in the most unexceletion able manner. The parties who were allowed to sign the subscription list were those parties only to whom, after proper Investigation, shares had been. allotted, and to whom the shares had come by sale and purchase. Mr. WIGNEY rose to order, and submitted that the Hon. Member was not right in stail;ng to the House what had passed in the Committee.—(Cries of " Go on, go on.") Mr. WARBURTON said that if it had been possible for his Committee to have made its report previous to the House taking into consideration . the report on the Bill, he would not have addressed the House; but he had stated to the Committee this morning the lead ing facts of the case. The course he was now pursuing was entirely in conformity with the wish of that Committee. — (Hear, hear.) He was perfectly willing to sit down, but if the House was desirous that he should state the facts, he would proceed.—(" Hear, hear," and " Go on, go on.") The SPEAKER here made it few observations which were inaudible in the gallery. Mr. WARBURTON was about to proceed with his observations, bat was interrupted by Mr. WIGNEY, who said that the question before the House was upon the engineering evidence of the lines; and his humble opinion gas, that the Hon. Member for Brid port was out of order in going into details.—(Loud cries of " Hear, hear.") Mr. WARBURTON said, that if there would be ano ther opportunity for him to make the observations he intended when the whole Report came to be considered, he would not trouble the House farther on the present occa sion. Mr. CURTEIS was not one of those who had interrupted the Hononrable Member for Bridport. He considered the proposition most unfair upon the ma jority of the C o mmittee. He (Mr. Curteis) was one of that majority, and he thought the decision they had come to was perfectly fair and justifiable. If that decision was now reverted to, the House would be establishing a most dangerous and unjust precedent. If the majority of the Mem bers composing the Committee were, as was asserted, favour able to it, why had they not come to the rescue of the line ? In adopting Rennie's line, the House would be sanctioning one, which by its junction with the Dover and South Eastern lines would hereafter afford the best and most advanta tageous course of Railway communication to the large dis trict of country connected with them. He hop ed the House would, under these circumstances, pause before it set aside the deliberate decision of an impartial majority. Mr. C. BARCLAY felt his duty to his constituents equally binding with that of the Hon. Member opposite, and he should best discharge that duty by supporting the proposition of the Noble Lord (G. Lennox). The Hon. Member here went into some of the details of the engineering difficulties of Rennie's line, and contended that it was by no means the most eligible from the nature and amount of those difficulties. Be would cordially sup port the proposition of the Noble Lord. Mr. CRAWFORD hoped the House would not de cide upon the question of a Brighton line , without more minute enquiry than any which had yet taken taken place. It was in evidence before the Committee that the ground was to be purchased for 170/. an acre upon the average. He believed that 1,000/. an acre would be more near the truth. He knew that from Wandsworth Common to Horsham the proprietors were all against the railroad ; but had been in duced to give their assent by the promise of large grants of money for their land. In many cases 1,000/. an acre had been promised, and, in one case within his own knowledge, the great sum of 2,000/. an acre had been promised. Mr. GORING supported Stephenson's line, and depre cated the conduct of the Committee with respect to their Report in favour of Rennie's line. Captain PECHEL defended the Committee—a more fair one had never sat, and it had been much more fully attended this year than what it was the last. He wished Members to understand that the instruction to the Committee to make a special report was given after the Committee had conic to the conclusion in favour of the direct line. He thought. that the House would stultify its own proceedings if it acceded to the amendment of the Noble Lord. Mr. TOOKE, amid loud cries of divide, supported the amendment, as he felt perfectly sat;efled that justice could not be done without. Lord EASTNOR. would support the on;einal motion. He had no doubt that there were a great many difficulties with respect to all the lines of railway ; but upon looking over the different lines be should say that the direct one had its advantages. Mr. P. T HOMSON said it appeared to him the question they were called upon to decide was, whether or no there appeared upon the engineering report that had been made, according to the instructions given by the House tothe Committee, shilicient to enable the House to determine that that line was the one they would send hack to the Com mittee. He did not say he had sufficient information to enable him to conic to that decision, and for that reason lie should certainly be very glad himself to support, with very little alteration, the amendment suggested by the Noble Lord.—(Hear, hear.) In the present stage of the proceedings, looking at the instructions of the Committee, all they had to do was to consider the case in an engineering point of view. It was the duty of the house, as the deinier resort, without any disrespect to the Committee, on their recommendation to have all the information before it which would enable the House to determine on the case generally. There was not enough in the report to enable the House to come to that decision, and therefore he would recom mend the House to seek for that information which was not to be found in the report, and call for another report. He would propose that the Committee should be directed to apply for an engineer who would make a report on the three different lines and that the Committee should also give their opinion to the House. The case of no one line would be prejudiced by that ; and looking at the difficulties of the case it was his humble opinion that what he had ven tured to suggest would be the better course to adopt.— (Cries of " Divide, divide.") Lord A. LENNOX said that six Members had voted in the Committee on the last occasion who had not attended it before, and they talked of whipping in. The Noble Lord, the Member for Hytlie, who had not been a Member forty eight hours, was brought down to vote upon an engineering question.—(Laughter.) Sir SAMUEL WHALLEY made a few observations, amidst loud cries of " Question, question," aria " Divide, divide." Mr. HUME complained of the manner in which the Government had interfered in the present instance, to pre vent the House exercising its deliberate judgment upon the report of the Committee. lie was bound to place confi dence in the report of the Committee, and therefore should support the motion. Mr. P. THOMPSON rose amid loud cries of " Spoke, spoke." Mr. CURTEIS contended the Right Hon. Gentleman had no right to address the House again, unless by way of explanation. The SPEAKER said, unquestionably that was the rule, but if the Right Hon. Gentleman supposed that motives had been attributed to him, he bad a right to explain. Mr. HUME—I attributed no motives to him. Mr. P. THOMSON denied that he had used the influ-' ence of the Government in any way on the present occasion. He bad merely given his opinion as an individual Member of that House. Lord GRANVILLE SOMERSET maintained that the Committee had not fairly laid the case before the House, and he should therefore feel it his duty to vote in favour of the amendment. Mr. WAK LEY observed that on ordinary occasions the Members of the Government might be seen trotting up the stairs as fast as they could into the library to avoid voting, but upon the present occasion they had most un fairly used their influence to interfere with the legitimate expression of the opinion of the House. After a few words from Sir C. Burrell, Mr. Goulburn, Colonel Wood, Mr. Freshfield, and Captain Alsager, in reply, the gallery was cleared for a division. The House divided, when there a ppeared— For the motion For the amendment Majority in favour of the amendment 7 On our return to the gallery we found Mr. HUME on his legs. lie said he rose to ask a ques tion of his Majesty's Government, namely, whether, after this most extraordinary course of proceeding—( Loud cheers)—in which, for the first time during two or three years, the whole of the Treasury Benches had voted on a private Bill, it was their intention on to-morrow, or some early day, to introduce some general rule by which the peo ple of this country might be aware of what was their in tention