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arose ; and it was also a fact, that the members of the Free Church had invariably chosen for the sites of their churches grounds in juxta- position with that on whick the olden church bad been built for the purpose of drawing away the congrega ion. He called this a gross act of injustice to grant this pro position ; but he would go further, and say that no property of which possession had been taken, should then be interfered with. Under all circumstances he would say, he did think it would be consistent with the principles he had always ad vocated to vote for the motion, that the Bill be read a second time that day six months. Mr. BABE proposed the adjournment of the debate to that day week, which, After a few words from Mr. FOX MAULE, was agreed to. RAILWAY COMPANIES DISSOLUTION BILL. Sir GEORGE CLERK moved the second reading of this Bill, which he said was one which would be found of great utility, and which might in fact be called the winding up Act, in order to giv-3 to c:lrta'n c)oloanie3 in an inchoate state the power of di3olving, if they should deem such a course necessary. Mr. HUDSON said, he felt that he was taken a good deal by surprise by the manner in which this Bill had been brought forward, as he had certain clauses to propose to be inserted in it, which he looked upon of so much importance, that he would take the sense of the House upon them. He had submitted those clauses to the Solicitor-General, and he bad expressed his approval of them, and therefore he could not see why they should not be inserted. He then handed in the proposed amendments. Mr. HUME wished to know how they were to avoid liti gation in the ewes provided for in the Bill? He thought that the Government should introduce a clause appointing an auditor. Sir GEORGE CLERK sail. it bad been considered, and the only provision they could make was to have a fiat in bankruptcy. Sir G. CLERK moved that the clauses be brought up to morrow (Thursday), and that the Bill be then read a third _ . time. - Mr. HUDSON hoped that the third reading would be postponed to Friday, as he had to leave town to• morrow to open a railway. The third reading was then postponed till Friday. POOR REMOVAL BILL. Sir JAMES GRAHAM, at five minutes to six o'clock, wo wed that the House should go into Committee pro forma on the Poor Removal Bill. The House then went into Committee, and immediately after resumed, when the remaining private business was gone through, and the House adjourned at six o'clock. RAILWAY COMMITTEES, (YESTERDAY.) HOUSE OF LORDS. NORTH BRITISH AND SAWICZ BRANCH. The Select Co mm i ttee appo i nted to cons i der the mer i ts of the above Bills met this morning at eleven o'clock, in room B (New Houses of Parliament). The members are—Lord Abinger (chairman), the Dukes of Buckingham and Grafton, Earl Burlington, and Lerd Downes. Mr. TALBOT appeared for the promoters of the Bill. Their Lordships were occupied for more than an hour with a dis cussion as to the right of the trustees of the Kelso Union Roads to oppose the Bill, on the grounds that by the diversion of traffic their revenues would be greatly diminished. It was ultimately decided that the opposition could not be entertained. Mr. TALBOT then proceeded to address the Committee on the part of the promoters of tke Bill. He addressed the Committee very shortly, stating that the proposed were two branches of the existing North British Railway, to Selkirk and to Ha wick, and were proposed by the North British Railway Company. The total length was 24 miles, and the esti mate was 350,0004 The line would give great accommodation to a highly important district, namely, the neighbourhood of Kelso, Selkirk, Berwick, Hawick, &c. &c. The only opposition was on the part of the road trustees. Mr. J. Miller, the engineer to the line, was then called, and gave the usual engineering evidence at considerable length. The length of the line and the estimate were as stated by Mr. Talbot. The steepest gradient was 1 in 73, wbich occurred on the Hawick branch, and the steepest gradient on the Selkirk line was lin 200. The sharpest curve hail a radius of three tUrlongs. The question of the admissibility of the opposition on the part of ' the Kelso Union Trust was then revived. The matter was dis wasted at great length. Mr. PicXERING (on the part of the trustees) proposed the inser tion of a clause to the effect that the promoters should compensate the trustees for any injurythey should sustain, and that the amount of compensation should be settled by private agreement, or in case no such arrangement could be made, the matter should be referred to the Sheriff of Berwick. Mr. 'Luxor would not agree to the introduction of this clause. In the course of the desultory discussions to which this question gave rise, Mr. PICKERING urged that, although road trustees in England could not oppose railway Bills on account of the diminution of their revenues, yet trustees in Scotland ought to be admitted to oppose on that ground, as they were Individually and personally bound, by bonds, to produce the requisite funds for the construction of the roads, and were liable even to personal arrest if they failed to produce them—the Engli'sh trustees not being bound by any such bond, and not being personally liable. Mr. TALlso'r made an offer that the Railway Company should be come lia'aie for one half of the bond due on the west branch of the Kelso Union Roads, which he said was alone Influenced by this line, Mr. PICKERING refused to accede to this offer. Mr. TALBOT having referred to the case of the Berwick and Sel kirk Bill, which passed the nettle of Commons last session, and in which a clause similar to the present was proposed by the Kelso Union Road Trustees, and was rejected, Mr. PICKERING called a witness, Mr. Corry, to prove that in the case of the Berwick and Selkirk line the roads were actually benefited, and the traffic increased ; and that that was the reason why the opposition was not admitted ; but in this case a diminution of revenue would be sustained by the road trustees. The Committee ordered the room to be cleared, and on our re-ad mission, in about a quarter of an hour, The CHAIRMAN said, the sole questkin which the Committee have considered —and the sole question which they thought themselves bound to consider —was whetittr the Kelso Chtion Road Trustees were entitled to compensation from the North British Railway Company, and they have shine, to the determination that they are not so entitled. The Bills being now uner,posed, The Committee passto. both preambles, and having disposed of the clauses, rose and isisseaved at about a quarter past two o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS. GROUP 11. CO It NW. A RAILWAY. The Committee wet at the usual hour Viscount Morpeth in the Several witnesses were examined, who gave evidence in favour bf the central line ; among the rest Lieutenant Dunstan, K.N. During his crOSS•examitiatiOn, however, by Mr. AfEnivatr, on the feeling of the inhabitants of Cos k in favour of a communication with Padstow, he stated that he attended there as a deputation to point out the superiority of ft line communicating between Exeter and Padstow, and moved a rf.eolution to that effect; Major Beamish, however, moved the following amendment, which was carried unanimously (we give It verbatim, and we need not say that the reading of it in the Com mittee caused roars of laughter) :—Resolved, " That the people cf Ireland have long and painfully experienced the evils of strange in terfereace in our internal concerns, proceeding as well from the ignorance as the arrogance of those who have unjustly and fraudulently usurped the power of making laws for our Government, and irrespective of our laws. That our melancholy experience of the calamities inflicted on our Country by such interference "plainly suggests to us the in/policy of any attempt on our parts to, interfere in the conflicting local concerns of England, and that it does not become us as Irishmen to approach the Board of Tract:: with any expression of preference fur either line of railway professing to connect Exeter with Padstow, such connexion being exclusively an English Interest, and therefore to be determined by English opinion. That in thins practising towards England a spirit of forbearance with regard tv her separate Interests, we hope to receive at her hands a reciprotal observance, and we respectfully solicit Lieut. Dunstan, that on his return to his native land he will impress on his own Countrymen the justice of that principle for which we contend 11aMe13, the rights of her people to manage their own affairs. Several other witnesses were called, who gave general evidence in far)nr of the line. The CHAIRMAN stated that he hoped the parties would bear in inind that they had already heard a considerable quantity of evi dence of that nature. lie also stated that he had received a letter from the Lords of the Admiralty, stating that they had no objection to the construction of a bridge over the river Tamar of foer arches, of the 'aloe size, and of the greatest possible height consistent with the standing orders, provided that the Cornwall Railway Company Would provide a steam , tug at their own expense for the purpose of towing vessels through tho arches. The Committee, having heard the evidence of Mr. ;Hampton, engineer, of Plymouth, with reference to the expense of constructing a larger ferry to accommodate the railway traffic, and also to build the bridge at Saltash, adjourned till Friday next, at twelve o'clock. GROUP VIII. The Committee met to••day at twelve o'clock I Sir William Clay in the chair. AYRSHIRE AND GALLOWAY. The case on behalf of this line Was reiamed. Mr. William Sommerville., cattle dealer, and lessee of a coal work at Dalmellington, gave e7idence as to supplying con. iderable quan: titles of coal to the south of that town by carts, and that the railway would"be of great benefit in taking the minerals along it. He also deposed that the litte 'would be largely used for the conveyance of cattle. Mr. HP.3, It landowner, was examined to the effect that the line Would confer great benefit to the agriculture of Kirkcudbrightshire. It Wduld bring coal and lime in abundance into the county ; whereas at present there was a very deficient supply. 31r. Maxwell, of Monchies, corroborated the evidence of the pre vious witness. Mr. Holdwo rth, of Glasgow, was called and briefly examined in support of Mr. Hunter's evidence of yesterday, and said that he was preparing to erect furnaces for the manufacturing of iron in the 'neighbourhood of Dalmellington. The efficient working of it would much depend on the construction of the railway. Mr. Spalding, of Balmaciellan deposed that the hcemitile of iron Pervaded his estate to a great extent. From an investi -latoion of th e fi eld, the ore was supposed to extend through Njo9 acres of laud. In portions of the ore, the proportion of iron cast,..a_s much e.at as CO per cent., and was nearly as good as the produce (11,`'po"sqln.groif anyid. lie hail ex; ectations if the ore turned out well, of been found on quantlty of it in Staffordshire. Copper ore had also Shipping the its estate. vc , h,,,t,,1m„, ,at Rai T c h a e ry l u in a e y. would afford great facility for Mr. einem by bringihg tem Spoke as to the .;cleantages the line would confer and iime from Ayrshire into Galloway. lie valued the land tti tip taken ter the railway, and he furnished the estimate to the engineer. • CrOts-ex atnined -This NI 4+2, nie .t. line lie had ever estimated for. M.r. Knight, on his cross_ urination 'said this was the first line be ever estimated for. His eatimist:l( for 36 Allies, was 800/. The land to be taken{ervtlltue damage, which he set down at 19,1741. lane was 374 t. acres,those Several other witnesses were examined on cumin, points r.p..l4enet.:l referred to by the preceding witnesses. ii le - neer, was then examined at the engineering Char acter d sidings, and with • bridges Mr. 3f 'ealluni' 'lv ac e t i c - 7* i of the line. It was p and single line, with 'passings a " aTscheenrdeli wasig gradient another land for a double line. Th e severest Vii 5. erlee7t to the Dahnellington coal field w as l iii in 55, about boar mil es 75. There was no ascending gradient beyond the cant field waso f l long. Tue heaviest descending grad i ent tunnel on tile line. The sharpest curv e on lice tiie twenty-two chains. None of the w orks w throughout tis were te in An extraordinary character. • Hie estimate as of 520,0001., w hi c h he thought qu i te sufficient. The Pe rmanent Tor land a n d resldenttal damage was 35,000/. the whole ".lto value lewr The was way was U 74/. per mil e , or i n all 163,1641. earthwork 201,701/. • masonry, bridges, &c 44,7151. ; stock engines, 41,..)50 l . ; The earthwork w stations, 15,315/. ; contingencies,lB,7ls/. The working expenses he estimated at 16,032 f. The maintenance of the way was 4,0951. addi tional. His estimate of the gross receipt; was 48,8571. Mr. Sergeant ISELLests asked the witness if he could produce by to-morrow _morning the particulars of tile cuttings, value of land, &c., up to Dalniellington, by themselves ; 'and also the same perti- culare with regard to the portion of the line trona Dalmellington to IS alcory Bay. He asked for this, as the two parts of the case were essentially different. , Mr. PATTEN objected to that course as unusual. The witness del not think he would be able to give a detailed account by that time. Mr. Sergeant Bazests said he might as well ber ea.!) , with the detai's in writing, as he should certainly ask him for all these par ticulars, and he ought to be prepared. 'Witn►ess was, thsit cross-examined, with the object of showing that he had but little experience in constrttcting rai:ways. Theeouunittee adjourned at four o'clock till one o'clock to-morrow. GROUP 2VZID T RIC T. The Committee met at eleven o'clock. Present, Mr. Protheroe (chairman), Lord Eualyn, Mr. John O'Connell, and Mr. Grogan. Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD replied on behalf of the Kent Atmo spheric R.tilway. He Said that the line he represented laboured Under considerable disadvauteges in coming before the Committee as a line competing with the lines for which the South-Eastern Company bad obtained Acts of Parliament. The object of each company, he must confess , was to shorten the distance between London and Tunbridge, London and Maidstone, London and Dover, and London and Has tings; Direct lines had attracted public attention, and the Leglsla tutu seemed determined at no very distant perio I of time to insist Amon those advantages which the Kent Atmospheric now Nell out to the ,public under the most favourable and economical circumstances. The distance to Dover through Maidstone, by their proposed atmos pheric line, would be 24% miles, whereas the distance by the South_ Eastern line is 32 miles. In addition their line would accommodate the town of Sevenoaks, a most important neighbourhood, which the South-Eastern had neglected, except by casting out a branch a mile and a half in length, with a gradient of 1 to 59. The South-Eastern making that effort, bad 88 it was, showed the importance of affording a traffic and a communication ac cornmodation to the town of Sevenoaks. The Earl of Stanhope, In his usual straightforward and intelligent manner, had given evidence of the value of the proposed atmospheric line as regards Sevenoaks dlalrict smug it, awl WA told the Committee that the amoral Tl-IL_ SUN, LONDON, Tn.U'RSDA.Y MORNING, jITNI_I' 11, 1 a cotton spinner and coal-owner, at Schawe, the object of wWch was to show the difference of distance by the tairo lints Of `railway, and to prove that the line of the promoters Was better than those of their opponents, whether by the Manchester or Huddot sflela, or the Man chester anti Leeds Railways. In reply to a question, the witness said he was not aware that a Bill had passed the Commons for a line to Barnsley which would give a direct communication with Manchester to Oldham. Mr. Nightingale, a manufacturer of lucifer matches and pill boxes at Newton Heath, stated that he used 600 tons of timber, and that he employed 300 persons on an average throughout the year; that he exported to all parts of Europe and North America and Australia, besides sending large quantities to every part of England, Scotland, and Ireland. The timber cost him 3s. a ton for carriage to Manchester, aed his goods the same for return carriage to that place. This line would be of great con• venience to him. To Mr. WADDINGTON the witness replied that the station of the Oldham districts line would be close to his works, and that at pre sent there was no railway accommodation whatever. The witness also spoke to the feeling of the inhabitants in favour of this line. Mr. Philip Lancashire, a land agent, at Newton, Mr. Harnip, of Saddleworth, Mr. HalliweL , and Mr. Frank Andrews, of Mossley, a cotton manufacturer, were respectively examined by Mr. Missal. in favour of the Oldham Districts line, all giving evidence of the same nature. To Mr. TINDAL ATKINSON the witness replied that the whole of the horse-power Is about 600, of which 150 will be accommodated by the Manchester and Huddersfield Railway. On re-examination the witness replied that the bulk of the popu lation of Mossley resided on the brow to which the Manchester and Huddersfield line would afford no accommodation whatever. To Mr. TINDAL ATKINSON, the Witness replied that the principal publie-house would be taken by the opposing line for a station. To the CHAIRMAN, tt reply - was made that the road from the bottom of the Liu it ruling gradier the top is on a gradient of one In six, and the t is one in ten. Mr. -r e3seph Kershawe, of the firm of Joseph Kershawe and Sons, :ified that the carriage of the articles of their business from Man chester was I Os. a ton, and that the proposed railway would save the firm 400 f. a year In that Item. Their concern was 400 feet above the teVe: of the canal, and the only line that could accommo date Mossley was that of the Oldham Districts Company. Mossley is Increasing rapidly in population—he should say that the numbers were doubled within the art ten years. To Mr. ATKINSON ' the witness replied that the inhabitants of Moseley got their goods from Liverpool by railway and canal, the dis tance being about 46 miles, but he was arguing on the supposition that the Huddersfield and Manchester line would never be made. He conceived that because the Act had been long obtained, and although they had broken ground, and had purchased ground, they hid never paid for It. Such, at least, was the case with him. To the Climate:l, the witness replied that the land had been purchased from him, but it was not his, and he could say nothing whatever cf the title of the property. To Mr. Russtm e the answer was, that if the Huddersfield line were made it would not serve his purpose so well. By permission of the CHAIRMAN, Mr. ATKINSON here called the !elicitor of the Huddersfield and Manchester Company, Who Stated that the works had been let for the whole line, and all the contracts entered into % that works up to Staley bridge were already in progi-ess, that the buildings bought in that town had been destroyed for the purpose of the railway, that all the land to the end of the line had been bought, and that the pur chests had not been completed, simply because there had not been time to investigate the titles, of which there are some hundreds, but the cash was now lodged in the bank, ready for expenditure. Captain Lewes, manager of the Manchester and Leeds Railway, stated that between Rochdale and Oldham, before the opening of their railway, there wits only one coach, which was kept up rather for accommodation than with a view to profit, while during last year the company had carried upwards of 50,000 passengers. Prone Haywood there was no conveyance at all, while last year they carried upwards of 211,000 passengers. From Middleton, a place scarcely khown beyond the district, they had carried more than 17,000 persons. Great convenience would sten tusue to the poor who were employed in Oldham, and when families live at a distance, and who obtained a ticket for their journey here on Saturday and their refill-la on Monday. As an in , stance of the benefit of railway tommunieation, he might stale the fact that tons of Water cresses are carried from London, and for con sumption M Lancashire, as much indeed as thirteen tons annually. A Variety of other instances might be adduced to prove the same fact. The other line, the Oldham and Manchester, was laid out with difficulty, and there was one gradient as steep as lin 27. By the formation,of the Oldham Districts line the company which the witness represented would reap a small dividend. To tilt Citafestes, Captain Lawes replied that the Manchester and Leeds Company now derived 6% per cent. dividend, and he might put one fact to prove the utility of his own railway—that was, the circumstance that the saving to the public since the line had been formed was equal to the whole expense paid by the public for transit before the line was formed, as shown before Lord Stanley. Last week they had carried as many as 40,000 passengers; during last year they had carried 469,000 third-class passengers and 41,000 first-class. To Mr. WADDINGTOtt, the witness replied that the Manchester and Letd3 Station at Oldham was as bad as possible, although the tliihenity of the rise was great, and had been well surmounted. After cross-examination on the same point, the Committee rose at dye o'clock, and adjourned till twelve o'clock on Monday. IREL AND. REPEAL ASSOCIATION. DUBLIN, Jens B.—The weekly meeting of the association was held this day, T. V. Meagher, Esq., in the chair. The SECRETARY read a letter from Mr_ Smith O'Brien, accepting the invitation to a public dinner and banquet, but suggesting that it would be better to postpone the affair till the return of the Irish Members from London. It was then moved and adopted that the letter of Mr. O'Brien be referred to the committee appointed to carry out tl:e arrangements. Mr. D. O'CoNNELL, jun., moved the expulsion of Mr. Archdeacon (a repeal warden of Liverpool) from the asso ciation, for recommending the adoption of physical force as a n - .eans of acquiring the repeal of the union. Mr. STEELE seconded the motion, and briefly explained the principle of the association, which deprecated anything bordering on the recommendations of Mr. Archdeacon. The SECRETARY read letters from several repeal Members of Parliament (in answer to a circular) announcing their in tention to attend in Parliament to assist in opposing the Coercion Bill. Mr. J. AL BARRY (barrister) addressed the meeting at considerable length. A letter was ah,o read from Mr. Smith O'Brien, in reference to the payment by the association of the fees to which he was liable on his discharge from custody. He accepted the offer of the association to refund the sum, which amounted to 41/. 6s. Bd. Captain BRODERICK, in addressing the meeting, announced that the Whigs have resolved on aiding the repeal party in opposing the Coercion Bill. _ The amount of rent up to post hour (three o'clock) is said to be 100/. THE LATE GOVERNMENT INQUIRY. The result of the inquiry into the conduct of Mr. French, resident magistrate in Westmeath, which bad been instituted by the Government at the instance of Sir Francis Hopkins, transpired to-day. The Lord-Lieutenant, with a view to mark his disapproval of the part taken by Mr. French (in regard to the depositions of Sir Francis against Brian Seery, who was lately executed), has directed that that gentleman should be removed from Westmeath to another district. ATTEMPT AT MURDER IN WEST3IEATIL The Evening Mail states that Brian Kenny, steward of Sir John Nugent, Bart., in the county of Westmeath, was filed at and seriously wounded on Saturday evening. UNIVERSITY OF DUBLIN. There was an examination to fill a vacat;t, fOlowship last week. There were nine competitor , . This day Mr. ingrain was declared the successful camlidAto. THE HYDROI'ATHIC SYSTEM. On Tucalay M. W. Payne resumed the inquiry at the King's Head, Eastcheap, as to the death of Mr. Richard Dresser, who was alleged to have died from improper treat ment at the Hydropathic Establishment of Dr. Ellis, Strad brooke Park, Petersham. Since then the case appears to have caused much addi tional interest, and Mr. Prendergast appeared for Dr. Ellis, and Mr. Jones, of Size-lane, for the friends of the deceased. The first witness examined was James Maynard, the bath man at the asylum, and from his testimony it appeared that the deceased was at Dr. Ellis's from Friday week to the 3d inst., having gone there at his own desire for rheumatism. He had baths every morning at a temperature of 85, in which he remained ninety seconds. Tapioca and bread and butter were supplied to him for breakfast, but he complained to his wife of being kept very humble, which he bad not been used to. The witness also took up occasionally a jug of warm, and another of cold water, with a bandage, but this was applied by Dr. Ellis, who sat up with him. He died oc Tuesday morning. By Mr. Prendergast—lie took all the food he wished. Never took cold water up without some warm. Dr. Ellis's diagnosis of the case was read, from which it seemed the deceased had first been treated for rheumatism, and subsequently, according to the document, for liver com plaint, and inflammation, and suppuration. Mr. Waterworth, of the New Kent-road, surgeon, the part ner of Mr. Hicks, who was examined on the first day, having jointly made the post mortem examination, said ilbat Dr. Ellis's paper did not agree with witness's examination in any one point. He had known the deceased for six or seven years. lie was generally in good health, but was not a strong man. He saw him last in April. The cause of death was congestion of the heart and lungs. There was no ap pearance of inflammation or. suppuration of the liver, and the application of cold or hot baths, even if he had been so attacked, would have been very improper except for a short time. He believed the congestion was the result of some cold application, or exposure to the atmosphere. The CORONER summed up at great length, and pointed out what the law was laid down to be in the case of St. John Long, and left it for them to decide whether Dr. Bilis was a man of competent skill, and had acted with due caution or in a spirit of rashness. The jury retired for some time, and the foreman said, " We find that the deceased lost his life through improper treatment at the asylum." The CORONER—Do you mean great rashness on the part of Dr. Ellis? The juryagain retired, and finally delivered this verdict:— " That the deceased died from the effects of the rash treat ment of Dr. Ellis, against whom we return a verdict of man slaughter." _ _ Di. Ellis then entered into his own recognizances of 5001., and two sureties of 2504 to appear at the next sessions of the Criminal Court. ARRIVAL OF THE KING AND QUEEN OF THE BEL GIANS IN PARIS.—The King and Queen of the Belgians arrived on Saturday by the northern road. Their Majesties left Brussels at ten hi the morning, and reached the Paris station at nine in the evening. Baron James de Rothschild, with two members of the Board of Di rectionfron- tiers to Amiens, and fr o m A m i ens to P ar i s , as we ll as th e eng i ne s o f and the engine e rs of the two sections from the Belgian the company, were in waiting at Valenciennes to receive the royal travellers, who came the whole way in their own royal railroad car riage, which was simply added to the other train, in which were M. Mazin, director of the Belgian railroads, the Sub-Prefect, and Mayor of Valenciennes. The directors of the company were assembled at the Paris station on the arrival of their Majesties, and received from them expressions of their satisfaction at the whole of their journey from Valenciennes. Immediately after arriving at the Paris station their Majesties proceeded to Nenllly. BATHING IN ME SERPENTINE.—The temperat ure in the metropolis during the last eight or ten days Ir;s ' , men nearly equal to that of the West Indies There has been x genera! preva lence of easterly winds, which has caused a considtnabie bl;ght, par ticularly among the rose trees. The heat of the we alter hat , ren dered battling very general, and vast num'aers have in consequence repaired for that purpose, each morning and evening, to the Serpen tine in Hyde-park. The following is the register of the tcrwerature in the shade, as taken at the Royal Humane Society's receiving house, with the number of bathers attending : Morn. Noon. Night. Morning. Evening. Deg. Deg. Deg. Bathers. Bathers. Sunday, May 31 •• 63 •• 73 .. 68 .. 7,000 .. 5,000 Monday, June 1 • • 64 • • 72 . • 63 • • 3,000 4,000 Wednesday, 2 • 3 76 • • .. 62 .. • 62 • • 71 .. 63 ..- 3,000 .. 2,500 72 • • 2,000 .. 3,000 Thursday, 4 •• 68 7 3 .. 71 .. 4,000 3,000 Friday, 5 • • •• 71 • • 7 3 73 • • 2,500 .. 4,000 Saturday, 6 0 2 • • b 0 • • 75 . • 3,000 .. 4 , 000 Sunday, 7 • • •• 72 • • 8 1 • 76 • • 8,000 .. 5,000 It will thus be seen that the heat has be en increasing during the last three days, and that Sunday was the hott es t d ay, and that the num ber of bathers during the eight days, in the Serpentine alone, has been no less than 65 , 000 ! COMMITTAL OF THE LATE TREASURER OF THE BIRMINGHAM WORKHOUSE.—The examination of Mr. J. V. Welch, late treasurer of the Birmingham Workhouse, was resumed at the public-office of that borough on 31onday, and adjourned to Tuesday, when the prisoner was committed to take his trial at the next War wick assizes on a charge of embezzling the money of the parish. Bail was offered, but the magistrates, in consideration of the serious character of the offence, did not feel themselves justified in ac cepting it. PRICE OF WHEAT.—A return has been issued by order of the House of Lords, showing the lowest and highest prices of wheat as sold in the markets of Uxbridge, Guildford, Wisbeach, and Ely, in each week, from the Ist of May, 1845, to the end of April, 1846. The highest price during the whole of that period, in Uxbridge market was 80s., in the week ending 29th of November last, and the lowest 40s , which was the price several times during the same period. In Guildford market the highest price was 755., in October, and at two or three other times, and the lowest 40s. in February. At Wisbeach, the highest price reached was 775., in the week ending 4th of October, and the lowest 225. [Query, 325. ? it is, however, printed 225. in the return], in the week ending 17th of May, 1845. At Ely market the highest price attained was 705., in the weeks ending Ist of November and 13th orDeeember, and the lowest was 235., in the week ending 15th of November. Monday last, being Trinity Monday, the Masters of the Trinity House, in accordance to ancient custom, assembled at ten o'clock. at their official residence, Tower-hill, for the purpose of visiting Deptford. Fro is their residence they pro ceeded to the Tower, where they were joined by his Grace the Duke of Wellington, who, in his capacity as one of the brothers and that Ports,Cinqu e Gre:ariverl at the Tower at el even accompanied the Masters on the acHiso'clock, and was received by a guard of h onour f ormed from the Coldstream Guards. The procession th en f ormed, and proceeded in of Lord a ‘ nn l'ar ai de v n is o it f . due order to the water over the moat-bridge, when the party erts• barked. After visiting the places required by the charter, the masters and brothers attended Divine Service at the Old Church, Deptford. The corporation, with the exception of the master, re turned to London in their state shallops. The banquet in the even lug, at the Trinity House, was prepared with great magnificence. Covers were laid for 82. The master presided. Besides his Grace, there were present the Marquis Camden, Marquis of Douro. Earl of Haddington, Earl of Dalhousie, Earl of Shaftes bury, Earl of Ellenborough, Lbrd G. Somerset, Viscount Melbourne, Viscount Melville, Viscount Canning, the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, Captain the Hon. S. T. Carnegie, Captain the Hon. J. H. Botts, It. N. ; Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, Sir J. Graham, Right Hon. Sir George Clerk, Right Hon. H. Goulburn, Right lion. H. T. Corry, Right Hon. S. R. Lushington, Right Hon. Dr. Lushing ton, Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, Right Hon. Sir T. Frelnantle,Hon. T. L. Melville, Hon. Henry Fitzroy, Sir Thomas Neave, Bart , Sir Jos. Barrow, Bart., Admiral Sir Byam Martin, Admiral Sir J. A. Gordon ' Admiral Bowles, Sir Charles Adam, Li eu t enan t - G eneral Sir H. Douglas, Lieutenant- Colonel Asteli, Lieut.-Colonel Mickle thwalt, Major Eirlngton, Captain Beaufort, R.N., Rev. Henry Mel. Ville, Mr. Anson, Mr. Baring, M.P., Mr. Cardwell, M.P., Mr. Chap man, Mr. Cripps, M.P., Mr. W. W. Cotton, Mr. Dean, Mr. Fara day, Mr. Hogg, M.P., Mr. King, Mr. Lefevre, Mr. M'Gregor, Mr. Neville, M.P., Mr. Pelly, Mr. R. Pelly, Mr. C. Pelly, Mr. Powell, Mr. W. R. Robinson, Mr. G. B. Robinson, Mr. Sampson, Mr. Symes, Mr. Tooke, Mr. Turner, Mr. Walker, Mr. Wigram, and Mr. J. Young, M.P. The following noblemen and gentlemen, who were also invited to the banquet, were prevented by other engagements from attending:—Marquis of Bute, Earl of Minto, Major-General Sir 11. Wheatley, Colonel Allan, C. 8., and Mr. Heath. A young English vocalist, Miss Katherine Noble (daughte' of ow well-known ballet master), has made a 'very suc cessful debut at Turin, in an opera called ..17 Sogno Punitore, com posed by:Gerli. Miss Noble has been studying in Italy for rive years, and possesses requisites likely to secure her future eminence. siMORE FINE WHEAT.—We have elsewhere twticed that some fine heads of Australian wheat, grown by Mr. H. Little dale, at Liscard, were last week exhibited in the Excl.ange Newe. room. To-day several heads of English wheat, equal, if not superior, in bulk and promise, may be seen at ties same place. They are from one of the fields of Mr. Robert Neil,on, of teas town and link wood, a gentleman whose skill and enterprise in practinsl and ecien- Mc agriculture are unsurpaseed.—Liverpooi ATTEMPT TO MURDER AT ToNBRIDGE WELLS At the Tonbridge Petty Sessions on Monday last, Thomas Cheesrnan, a waiter at the Camden Hotel, was charged with cutting the throat of a fellow servant named Frances Sam'crs, with intent to destroy life. It appeared that the prisoner was desirous of paying his ad dresses to the young woman, but as she rejected them, he frequently vowed that if she would not have him, he would cut her throat, or employ other means to kill her. On Sunday afternoon lie saw her walking with her favoured lover through some fields near the town, and he immediately followed her, and pulling out of his pocket a clasp knife, began to sharpen it upon a stone, saying, that if she did not leave the arm of the young man, and walk with him, he would cut her throat. She, however, as well as the young man she was walking with thought that the prisoner was merely holding out some idle threats which he never meant to put in execution, and therefore they walked on and took little or no notice of him. He, however, continued to follow them, and at length he made a rush at the female and cut her throat. Dr. R. 11. Powell, surgeon, who was immediately sent for to attend the female, stated that the wound was five inches in length, on the left side of the throat. It was a ragged heis?on, and extended from below upwards, and from behind forwards. It had nearly severed the jugular vein, but the carotid artery had very narrowly es,speel, in consequence of the edgeo f the would be ext remely knife not being s t ra i g h t. He added, that it dangerous for the young woman to be removed at present for the purpose of giving evidence. The prisoner was remanded fn• ft week. BRITISH AND FOREIGN INSTITUTE.—The third un l.actl meeting of this society was held on Tucs lay, at their rooms in t•eorge.street, Hanover-square. Th e Right Hon. the Earl of Devon, the President, in the chair, s u pp orted b y Lord James St uar t, Mr. Benjamin Bond Cabbell, and other vice-presidents and members. The resolutions were all adopted with unanity, and the financial statement presented by the auditors showed that the assets of the society amounted to 7,8001., and its liabilities to 1,8001., with a cast, balance In hand of about 1000/. for the services of the present year. It was resolved proprietary body, dividing to make the Institute a ProlL its property among the members, in shares, and of these m ore than taken up by the early associates o half were of the institute, includiag the Earl of Devon, Lord Metcalfe, Sir George I arpent, Mr. Benjamin Bond Cabbel l, Lord . Sandon, Admiral Ilawtayne, the Rev. Dr. Spranger, Mr. Matheson M.P. , the Bishop of St. David's , the H on . and Rev. 'Vernon Harcourt, a nd others. Votes of thanks were passed to the Earl of Devon and the Committee, for their valuable services ; to the musical members, for their agreeable contributions I to the pleas ure of the soirees; and to the resident d i rector and secre tary, for the ability and efficieney with which they had enlarged Moir recoctin aatiffortio s, na9ol IlePultvat MOSQUITIA. The King of Mosquitia (a territory better known ell the " Mosquito shore") has isstied a proclamation, for the purpose of regulating and registering grants of land made in that country to European settlers. As this brings the subject under our notice, it may not be uninteresting to give some account of the present state of this country, which is not a little singular, in reference to its connexion with British subjects, Its extent is about the same as England ; it posses , e3 several fine harbours, is watered by numerous rivers, enjoys a salubrious climate and a fer tile soil, and is in every way admirably adapted for colo 7 uisation, the more especially as it is in this immediate vicinity that the projected communication between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans will probably be made. The present King is a minor. The late King, his father, dying a few years ago, left a will, in which he appointed certain Englishmen to be guardians to his children and administrators of the affairs of the kingdom during the minority of his son. These gentle men were the Commandant at Belize, a neigh bouring British settlement ; the chaplain to the station, and two or three other gentlemen of that place, with power to fill up any vacancies, and to add to their number. It appears that these persons have entered upon the duties of their office, for the proclamation, although in the name of the King, is stated to he " with the advice of his guardians." It also appears from the terms of the proclamation that a new regulation is to be enforced with respect to grants of land, which we understand has become necessary in consequence of certain grants having been fraudulently obtained, and in some instances con flicting clsims made for the same land. The sovereignty of this valuable country has been re peatedly off, red to the British Crown, and the offer has as often been declined. We will not now stop to inquire into the , A i , tiom of such refusal ; but it is evident that the British Government is not disposed to suffer such a tertit. , ry to become a dependency of any other Power, frost► the tact that they have recently accredited an agent no that kingdom, and from their having deputed the superintendent of Belize to attend the coronation of the King as the representative of the British Sovereign. We must, therefore, consider Mosquitia as an indepen dent kingdom, and its Sovereign as an acknowledged ally of the British Crown. We have reason to believe that a German company are in treaty for a gralt of land in the vicinity of Cape Gracias a Dios, and that a large grant has been ob tained by an English company for the purpose of plant ing a colony on the Black River, a small number of set tlers being already established at Bluefields. Coloniza tion being once commenced, it is probable the tide of immigration will flow strongly towards these shores. Near the sea the climate resembles that of the West Indies ; near the mountains it resembles that of Europe; consequently, the soil produces the sugar-cane and the indigo plant in one district, while it grows wheat and turnips in another. With these natural advantages this country can only require proper manage ment to make it prosper ; we hope, there fore, that the system of colonization to be adopted for this country may be of such a character that the aborigines may derive solid advantages from it, instead of its proving, as elsewhere, the cause of their destruction. The attempt to civilise the Indian has too often ended in his extermination. We hope this may not be the case in the present instance, but that the persons in whose hands have been placed in so unusual a manner the destinies of this people, will not lose sight of the grand object of their trust—the prosperity of the King their ward, and of the people who are entrusted to their care ; but, by adopting wise and prudent measures they may have the proud satisfaction of exhibiting to the world the unwonted spectacle of a tribe of Indians benefited and civilized by their contact with Europeans, taking their place among enlightened nations. The following is the feeling of the inhabitants was decidedly in favour of that project, The line to Dover was shorter than the South-Eastern line to that place by four miles. The Kent Atmospheric proposed to use three miles and a half of the best railway in England, the Croydon, and would thus save themselves the construction of the most expensive part of the line that crossing the streets and over and through the masses of the houses of London. The South-Eastern proposed to avoid the Croydon altogether, and thus do that important railway the most serious injury, by diverting its traffic. The Learned Sergeant then reviewed the evidence on both sides, and entered into the details of the advan tages the Kent Atmospheric possessed over the lines of the South-Eastern Company, and contended at some length, and with considerable animation, that the Kent Atmospheric Railway was entitled to a preference over the schemes of the South-Eastern Company, as affording better accommodation to the public at a less amount of cap viltealover a of road of lesser gradients and better and He on o s t h n ole r nta len gt h ad dress by insisting upon the superiority of the atmospheric principleas laid down by Mr. Cubitt, who sanguinely anticipated its ultimate success, and even if the atmospheric traction should be laid aside, the line they projected was the best locomotive line, and for that reason, setting aside • lll others, they were, according to the general conduct of committees similarly circumstanced, entitled to a preference over • the South-Easteni schemes. But as respected the atmospheric traction, lie firmly believed it would supersede the loco motive principle. Sir Robert Peel, to mean prophet, some years ago told the locomotive advocates to pause, for it was his @pinion that it would in course of time be superseded by the atmospheric. He (the Learned Fergeant) thought that the time had now arrived, or..if it had not it was not far distant: therefore it behoved the L eg i s lature to pause before they sanctioned an outlay of money upon pu blic works, which would eventually be useless. The atmosph e ri c that could g reovercome man C a o l l l er o t b a s ,, t e obstacles, n i o n tl t i n h a ig t system might be beset and crowded w ith m i nor and insignificant ( ‘ l y i a le i t t ) l n t i l e 3o s aa n t o b lv e , to geniusbuts c e c : e ' brilliant and beautiful poem, the " Ancient Mariner," anticipated the atmospheric traction--it had dawned upon him happy hour of n an of inspiration : " 0 wherefore dr:ves that ship so fist, Without a tide or wind ? ' The air is cut away before, And closes in behind." The prineip/e, then, of the atmospheric was true and practicable. It bad been successfully tried, and he sincerely believed its adoption would be a boon to the.nation. Mr. COCKBURN, for the Soutli-Eastern, then proceeded to address the Committee. He contended that the line from London to Maidstone should be made by his clients, because they were a strong Unitei company ; whereas their opponents were divided Into tarn or three managements, and the Committee well knew that union was an essential ingredient in the success of any undertaking, both as respected the public and the undertakers. The Kent Atmoeplferic had not that elemmt, and, therefore, their chance, Compared with that of the South-Eastern, was proportionably decreased. It was quite evident that the aceommodation to Maidstone should be supplied by an established company, whose expenses bad hitherto been enormously great and their profits nothing. The superiority of the South-Eastern wan evideeced from the fact that their rivals where last year Lefore Parliament, with a project similar to their pre sent one, but bad been obliged to abandon a part of their scheme through a want offends, and the d:fficulties inseparable from the atmospheric system. Mr. Cubitt, no doubt, was influenced by a fear that he could not venture to propose an atmospheric line on a locennoilve one, with a gradient of I in 80, between London and athford ; therefore he would make the Toubridge branch their main line, and take advantage of the excellent levels and direct road of the South-Eastern Railway. It was but justice that now the angle by Red hill had been cut off (and the ad vantage of the opening of the continental lines about to be derived), that the South-Eastern Company should be ell Owed to remedy the defect, and provide the required accommedation. It bad been stated that there was a superiority, as respected gradients, distance, and expenses, over the South-Eastern Railway—that a saving of 4% miles between London and Dover would be Wetted by the proposed Kent Atmospheric. He contended that the advan tages thus trumpeted were all superficial—they had Po foundatio.e and that the only advantages offered to the public by the two companies worth accepting were those the South-Ettsterit, and the South-Eastern only, had the power of bilering. The gvadients of the Atmospheric were bed. SOMe of them verkviseron Whist gradient in the 1 in the Atmospheric were were as low as I 8 1 0 05 ; . wli m ile e South-Eastern was heavy, and would coat enormoes Sums of money. There were tarn tunnels, one 3,343 yards long, the other aeoee 2,000 yardi lohg. As to going to Sevenoals, they would never be able to get there ; and they did not intend, the Committee would observe, to have any stet' Oil there, in fact, the going to Sevenoaks was a lure throarh out to deceive, because the papules lion and the district around Sevenoaks did not demand any railway such as that the atmospheric said they were about to make. The mile and a half branch of the South-Eastern Would be quite suf ficient, and quite as acceptable to the neighbourhood of Seven oaks. Instead of a line running near the Seven Oaks the South-Eastern proposed to go through the Valley of Bapford, and open up a communication by a branch with 'Wester barn, and other populous localities. The line ttitotigh the Valley would command a large amount of water power, which would be used to a still ihrther extent—indeed to an incalculable extent. Ile then submitted to C.e Committee, that in point of gradients, and other engineering capabilities, the South-Eastern line to Maidstone was the one that Should be preferred. The Learned Counsel then went very minutely through the evidence, and concluded by urging the superior claims of the South-Eastern scheme upon the attention of the Committee. The room was then cleared, and on our re-admission, The CHAIRMAN intimated, that the preambla of the Bill of the South-Eastein Company was proved; and that the preamble of the Mil of the Kent Atmospheric was not proved. The Committee then adjourned until twelve o'clock on Friday nekt. GROUP XVII, riZANCILMaTER AND SetrraisraPTON, AND SOITTII-WESTIMN 'l.lt-Ci'MSZY AND Etat-. BIZAATCH). The Committee ma this morning at the hour. _ TitiI.NC2IESTER. AND SOUTHAIV/PTON. The promoters continued to call evidence in support of their line. The first witness callA was Mr. William Dennison, Government contractor. Portsmouth, who stated that for the last thirty years he had supplied the regiments stationed at Portsmouth, in Lancashire, Hampshire, Kent, and other counties, with meat, bread, flour, and forage. Killed about 160 beasts a-week, many of which he purchased at Salisbury and other fairs in Sotnersetshire and Dorseteure. Driving injared the beasts about 4/. per cent. Supposing the railway were Made, he Would get them direct from the dealers, which woutd effect a great saving of time and expense. He sent great quantities of meat, bread, and forage to Birmingham and Coventay, for the transit of which this line would be most advantageous. Frequently it is necessary to supply the ships with these articles at twelve hours' notice, so that he was ebligeo. i o keep h Dirge stock on hand, in the event of a supply being required, which of course entailed considerable expense upon him. The railway would go a great way to effect a saving. By the CHAT/MAN—The increased facilities which the line will iitIOP.I, would enable him to fulfil the tiovernment contracts without , 11?ticulty. The Government would likewise be benefited by it. Mr. Gue, a builder at Andover, deposed as to the delays which occurred In transmission of goods by the canal from Redbridge to Andover. The charge for conveying goeds per ton by the iSouth- Western to Andover was It. 10s. Gil. By the proposed linen saving would be effected of 12s. per ton. It would he of great benefit to the town of Andover. Meetings had been held in that town, at which strang feelings were expressed in favour of this undertaking. The same feelings were entertained by every person in Romsey. This witness was subjected to a cross-examination, but only confirmatory of the evidence which has been already given. Mr. Thomas Ilia, shipping agent of the Oriental Steam Naviga tion Company. Southampton, was examined respecting the traffic carried by these vessels. They conveyed a great number of passen • gers mid also large quantities of packages from the manufacturing disiricts. Mr. Wm. PauHot, cattle dealer, at Cricklade, near Cirencester, deposed that the line would open up a communication to the north for the conveyance of agricultural produce. This witness was examined at some length with regard to the advantages which this railway possessed for the conveyance of cattle and sheep to and from the different cattle markets. Mr. P. Matthews, a farmer at Hicken, near Cirencester, said that the district between Cheltenham and Cirencester was much in want of a direct communication to Birmingham. The whole of the agri culturists in the district Pupported the undertaking, because they knew that it would open up a more ready market for their produce. The Committee adjourned till twelve o'clock to-morrow. GROUP XX. The Committee met to-day at twelve o'clock in room No. 31 (Grand Corridor) ; present Mr. Sotheron, Mr. Tancred, Mr. Ross, Lord W. Bentinck, and Sir A. Pigot. They proceeded with the consideration of the LONDON, HOUNSLOW', AND WESTEZN. Evidence at considerable length was taken in support of the Duke of Northumberland's opposition. The caw of the Duke of Northumberland having been concluded, the Committee adjourned at four o'clock to twelve on Friday. GROUP XXIV. NORWICH .IUTD BURY. The Committee assembled this morning shortly after twelve o'clock ; Mr. Granville Vernon in the chair, when a long conversa tion ensued as to the necessity :for flirther evidence of the traffic, which was followed by the testimony of Mr. Brat; the engineer, who stated the general features of the line, which is easy in its character, and light in its earthworks. The oliiect in making this line was not so much to accommodate the two towns of Cambridge and Bury, as to form a communication with distant parts of the country, Cambridge being the focus of a series of ramifications to Lincoln, Weedon, and all those and other places which the great trunk lines accommodated. Thu people of Bury had always been very desirous of a direct connexion Zvi h Landon, and this line in conse quence of the throwing out of the Direct Norwich, the east Suffolk, and other lines, would be the nearest. He had surveyed the line of the Ely and Bury Company about fifteen months ago, but had abandoned it for several reazons, but principally on ac count of the great expense of repair to the subsoil. He had sent his assistants to try the soil on both sides. It ran through the valley of the Lark, where, of course, there was the greatest deposit of vege table matter. This would occasion a much greater outlay than could be met by the estimates of the engineer of that line. By the reports of his assistants, as well as by his own observations, he found that the subsoil was loose and the surface shakey. The generality of the line was flooded in wet seasons. By the report of one of his assistants, he learned that the boring-bit had sunk, at the distance of 12 miles 7 furlongs, by a pressure of 5 pounds, 12 feet ; at 13 miles 3 furlongs, it sunk 23 feet by its own weight ; at 16 miles it sunk 18 feet by its own weight also, and in wet sea sons the land was all flooded. He had himselfmade an embankment in similar land, and he found that as fast as the stuff was put in it pushed out at the side, and he believed that some such accident had occurred to the opposing Company, and that it took them weeks, if not months, to repair It. The ruling gradient ok this line was, as on the Norwich, Ely, and other lines, 1 in 132. The estimate for the whole line Is 300,0001. ; for earth-works the sum allowed is 49,7291.175. 7d. ; for brickwork and bridges, 30,8071. ; permanent way, 185,750/. ; for stations, 25,9871. ; for land, 30,000/. ; for contingencies, 23,7001,; and for management, 18,4001. ; which, together, allowing for incidental differences, would make a total of 300,000/. A long examination then ensued, upon the way in which the line would affect the property of a gentleman named Webb, the object of it being to show that this was not the best line which the country could afford. On the cross-examination of Mr. Sergeant Waelvonam, it was shown that the gradients on the Ely and Bury line were so mach superior, that the power which on that line would draw sixteen carriages, would on this line serve as traction power only for nine. The access to llury also appeared to be bad, it requiring great in genuity to make a junction with the Eastern Union line. It was also sTiownthat the subsoil was not of so unstable a character as the engineer conceived it to be, or at least that the danger and difficulty which he apprehended in the formation of the embankment would not or might not arise. . _ Mr. CAINERT then entered upon a long examination of the mode in which the line affected the interests of the several landowners on the line, which had merely reference to private Interests. A discussion then ensued as to the course of practice to he pursued, after which the Committee adjourned till twelve to-morrow. thewas iilttixicjrto 311:177n:itt:e-- asserabled th. GROUP xxxr. , TEn livnicirribwr33owlltzlVlnloNuGsEHA.7urfac(G:loollNC. e further i behalf or the i l . .is morning at twelve o'clock,aSnd— till; e oe g e r e o d u e p a NWvhitligh li atl sbi,tatentents, that h ee e e r e Z i ll e4 iga t t o io t t e o m fthe schemes comprised in t ° e P ra n a d " S e t a o r n e eh - at sie t rended ristel and Birmingham t wouidpass, (G ll lo fr a . ce l s l the greatest poared front the Learned Gen J u n e n m et a lo n nd, and openedw?ttille:dttcthitaiisferen.goeinn:lsg:t;,;autilie..- oamntattunlcatlon on lion of the proposed branch woe twhortodudgh w e a ° r co t n l'c i :l l nU Public benefit to the various localities also materially advance the interests Comp/LIU, and be generally beneficial to present line wa3 proposed to form the narrow gauge principle, between Gloueester The Great Western Company had established a cocommunPet"thre• the janctiOn at Swindon on the broad gauge, sad supply the remaining portion of the district with railway ac This com mo _ elation oh the narrow gauge principle. was the object W hi ch ate promoters sought, and which he hoped the Committee would concede. Witnesses were about to be called to give evidence as to the pro posed junction, when Mr. AusTIN objected to the evidence being received as to the pro- Posed junction between Gloucester and Storehouse, as it would materially affect the interests of the Great Western Company, and would also be a contravention of the agreement at present subsisting between that company and the Gloucester and Bristol Company, with reference to the district between Gloucester and Storehouse. The room was ordered to be cleared. On our re-admission The CILAIRmAN stated that the. Committee were of opinion that the promoters of the proposed junction should be allowed to proceed with their evidence; but at the same time they entertained a strong feel ing with reference to the agreement of 1840 between the Great Western and the Bristol and Gloucester Companies, and recommend that its leading provisions should be made the foundation of an amicable arrangement between the parties. The Committee then adjourned. • GROUP XXXIII. The Committee met to-day at twelve o'clock, in room No. 24, (Grand Corridor), present, Sir Robert Ferguson, chairman, the ➢far quis of Worcester, Mr. Srnollett, Mr. Fellowes,and Viscount Norreys. They resumed the Inquiry respecting the RUGBY, LEAMINGTON, AND "OrAIrOTICE. The whole of the morning was occupied in the examination of witnesses as to the traffic._ After re•eiving the traffic and engineering evidence, the Com mittee heard witnesses against the line under those two heads of evidence, the speeches of counsel being postponed until after the OVi deuce shall have been concluded. A , Gliourned,Wf;t;:tilitwelve o'clock to-morrow. GROUP XXXLX. OLDHAM DISTRICT. The Committee re-assembled this morning at twelve o'clock ; Mr. Divett in the chair. Tla prmecling4 Go fenced by the rticiellto of Kr. holm MU* PROCLAMATION. " We, George, by the grace of God King of Mos quitia (otherwise called the Mosquitia territory) acting by the advice of the guardians appointed under the will of our late father Robert Frederick, King of Mosquitia, do ordain and it is herby ordained accordingly— " 1. All persons, not being our natural born subjects, who claim the right of holding land in perpetuity within our kingdom by virtue of grants from the Crown, shall without loss of time produce b f , re us, or before the guardians aforesaid, their several grants, or such other papers on which they found their claims, for the purpose of being registered. " 2. All grants of land that shall appear to us, or to the guardians aforesaid, to have been justly and properly obtained, or to which the parties shall be found to have otherwise an equitable title, shall be registered in the offices of Government at Bluefields. 3. The occupation of land by all person; not being natives of our kingdom, which shall not be duly regis tered as aforesaid, is illegal, and such land shall be in revert to the Crown. " 4. All our magistrates are directed to facilitate the registration of grants within their respective jurisdic tions, and to dispossess and expel from their usurped lands all occupiers (not being nwural-born subjects of our kingdom) whose claims have not been duly re gistered. "5. Claims for registration may be made, at the op tion of the claimants, either at the residence of Mr. David Kilpatrick, clerk of the courts at Bluefields ; or in England, at the office of Messrs. Barron and Smith, army ag( u:s, No. 4, Upper Charles•street, Westminster, London. " In the name of the King, "GEORGE HOI)GSON, " Court-house, Bluefields, Acting Commandant. 12th day of February, 1846." LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT QF QUEEN'S BENCH, June 10. (sittings in Banco.) mu QUEEN v. suArtr. This case which has arisen out of a church-rate contest was argued at great length this morning. It is an applica tion for a rule to grant a church-rate, made in the parish of Wakefield, tinder the following circumstances :—A meeting of the ratepayers lAtas called in the usual way, and after some discussion a division was taken, and subsequently a poll of the ratepayers, which resulted in a majority of four in favour of the rate. The opposing party contended that the vicar, who presided, had admitted many improper votes, and that instead of a majority being for the rate, there would be found, on a scrutiny, a majority of one hundred and fifty against it. Some altercation took place about the vicar not granting a scrutiny, and a committee was ap pointed, the result of whose labours did not give satifacticn, as the magistrates were appealed to against the rate. The magistrates dismissed the application, an the result was the present appeal to the Court of Queen's Bench to quash the rate, on the ground of the vicar refusing to allow a proper scrutiny into the votes, and that, therefore, the rate attempted to be raised was illegal. Mr. Baines, with whom was Mr. Hall, was heard in sup. port of the rule; and Mr. W. D. Hill and Mr. Atherton were heard against it. At the cl6se of the argument; the COURT, after reviewing the whole case , , agreed that it did not come within their jurisdiction, the vicar being an ecclesiastical officer, and in virtue of his office sole scrutator and pre.icling officer in all matters relating to the Church. He was, therefore, in that capacity not amenable to the jurisdiction of this Court. — Rule discharged accordingly. BAIL COURT, June 10 This Court was occupied the whole of the forenoon in hear ing a bill case, the particulars of which were of no interest, except to the parties concerned. SECONDARIES' COURT, June 10. (Before Mr. Secondary JAMES.) THE (MEN V. MA7.111. This was a writ of extent, and the jury were called upon to inquire of what goods, chattels, &c., the defendant was possessed within the hai , iwick of the Sheriffs of London. The case had been previously submitted to a jury, but the inquiry was abandoned for want of evidence, and the Secondary said that it could be renewed at any time before the return of the writ. The following are tic facts of the case :—The defendant is the widow of an officer of the East India Com pany, entitled to a pension of 2051. es 3d., from a fund, called the Royal Bengal Military Fund,i founded by Lord Clive, and of which the board at Calcutta are trustees. It was customary for the amount of the an nuities due to persons residing in Rngland to be transmitted to the East India Company, who paid it to them or to per sons holding their powers of attorney. In this ease the de fendant resided in Calais, and had been waived (or outlawed), and had given a palter of attorney to Messrs. Richards, Little, and Co., East India agents, iiishopsgate-etreet, who had received it up to January last. The question now' was, whether the Company held the money under the board and were bound to pay it within the City of London, or whether the parties entitled could claim it elsewhere. . The SECONDARY said it appeared to him that the pension at all events could not be touched, and that the Company were no more than agents for the payment of the dividends. It would be better, therefore, to get the secretary to the East India Company to attend and explain the precise nature of the fund and rights of all parties. Mr. WARREN now contended that the body in India were mere tervants of the East India Company, who sanctioned the pension end required their officers to subscribe. Mr. Thos. Keith, a clerk in the secretary's office, was called—He said the money was merely advanced by the Company as a matter of convenience. They never, in fact, had the money, but there was an account current kept, and sent over to the Government in India, who settled with the directors or managers of the fund. An application was made three or tour years ago to the Directors to advance the money for the pension on receipt of a certifi cate from the agent of the fund, and it was consented to, but they would not take any responsibility on themselves. They might pay or refuse; there was no obligation to pay. Lord Clive's fund itself was exhausted twenty years ago. A tedious discussion ensued in consequence of Mr. Warren claiming to tender what the Secondary deemed secondary evidence of the defendant's title to the pension and the liability of the East India Company to pay. Mr. WARREN then suggested that a special verdict should be given. The SECONDARY said the inquiry was as to what property the defendant was possessed of within the bailiwick of the Sheriffs of the City of London. In his charge to the jury, he said it appeared to him that the pension was due in India, and that the Company were not bound to pay. A new writ, however might be issued hereafter if other evidence could be brought forward. _ _ Tire jury found there were no goods, chattels, &c. COURT OF BAAPKRUPTCY, June 10. (Before Mr. Commissioner Evaxs.) IN RE W. 11. GREEN. CAUTION TO INSOLVENTS.—The insolvent, who had car ried on business in the country as a dyer, came up to obtain his interim order and protection. Mr. STURGEON appeared to oppose on the ground that the insolvent had paid several of his creditors in preference. The insolvent, in hie examination, admitted that during the last year he sold a small estate, on which he received a balance of about 350/., the greater part of which he had paid away to a few creditors after he knew that he was in a hopeless state of insolvency, as he bad offered 10s. in the pound, but had not made any statement of his affairs to his creditors. He had since sold off all his property. The Laarned Coors/sm., submitted that, on this showing, the insolvent had excluded himself from the benefit under the Act. The insolvent's attorney said that the insolvent had not kept back but a small sum, and considered he was bound to pay as far as he could. His Hosrouß said that some of the Commissioners had laid down a rule which he thought very just and proper, that when a person chose when in insurmountable difficulties to administer his own estate, that they would not afterwards in terfere. The insolvent ought to have come forward when he had the money; the petition must therefore be dismissed. The petition was dismissed accordingly. A FRIGHTFUL ILLUSTRATION OF SLAVERY. The following is the leading editorial article in the Last Essex Transcript (American paper) :—" Many of our readers have probably seen a paragraph stating that a young slave-girl was recently hanged at New Orleans, for the crime of striking and abusing her mistress. The religious press of the north has not, so far as we are aware, made any comments upon this execution. It is too busy pulling the mote out of the eye of the Heathen, to notice the beam in our nominal Christianity at home. Yet this case, viewed in all its aspects, is an atrocity, which has, God be thanked, no par Ael in hea then lands. It is a hideous offshoot of American Re publicanism and American Christianity. It seems that Pauline—a young and beautiful girl—at. tracted the admiration of her master, and being, to use the words of the law, his "chattel personal to all intents and purposes whatsoever," became the victim of his lust. So wretched is the condition of the slave woman, that even the brutal and licentious regard of her master is looked upon as the highest exaltation of which her lot is susceptible. The slave-girl in this instance, evidently so regarded it; and, as a natural consequence, in her new condition triumphed over and insulted her mistress—in other words, repaid in some degree the scorn and abuse with which her mistress bad made her painfully familiar. The laws of the Christian State of Alississippi inflict the punishment of death upon the slave who lifts his or her hand against a white person. Pauline was accused of beating her mistress, tried, and found guilty, and condemned to die. But it was dis covered en the trial that she was in a condition to be come a mother, and her execution was delayed until the birth of the child. She was conveyed to the prison cell. There for many weary months, uncheered by the voice of kindness, alone, hopeless, desolate, she waited for the advent of the new and quickening life within her, which was to be the signal of her own miserable death. And the bells there called to mass and prayer -meeting, and Methodists sang, and Baptists immersed, and Pres byterians sprinkled—and young mothers smiled through tears upon their new-born children; and maidens and matrons of that great city sat in their cool verandahs and talked of love and household joys and domestic happiness—while all that dreary time, the poor slave girl lay on the scanty straw of her dungeon, waiting with what agony the dear and pitying God of the white and the black only knows, for the birth of the child of her adulterous master. Horrible ! Was ever what George Sand justly terms " the great martyrdom of ma ternity"—that fearful trial which love alone converts into jay unspeakable endured under such condi tions? What was her substitute for the kind voices and gentle soothings of affection? The harsh grating of her prison lock —the mockinge and taunts of un feeling and brutal keepers What with the . poor Pauline took the pl ace o f th e h opes an d joyful antici pations which support and solace the white mother, and make her couch of torture happy with sweet dreams ? The prospect of seeing the child of her sorrow, of feeling its lips upon her bosom, of hearing its feeble cry—alone, unvisited of its unnatural father; and then in a few days. just when the mother's affec tions are strongest, and the first smile of her infant compensates for the pangs of the past—the ecaffhld and the hangman ! Think of that last terrible scene—the tearing of the infant from her arms, . the death-march to the gallows, the rope around her delicate neck, and her long and dreadful strueg'es—(for, attenuated and worn by physical suffer ing and mental sorrow, her slight frame had not sufficient a eight left to produce the dislocation of her neck, on the falling of the drop)—swinging there alive for nearly half an hour—a spectacle for fiends, in the shape of hu manity. Mothers of New England ! such are he fruits of slavery. 0, in the name of the blessed God, teach your children to hate it, an d to p i ty i ts victims. Petty politicians and empty-headed Congress debaters are vastly concerned lest the " honour of the country' should be compromised in the matter of the Oregon boundary. Fools !—one such horrible atrocity as this murder of poor Pauline, " compromises" us too deeply to warrant any further display of their patriotism. It would compromise Paradise itself. An intelligent and philanthropic European gentleman who was in New friendO rle a n i s n a t t hi t s b v e ici t n im i ty e o a f ft t e h r e ling the ea. curec.die ste j n s c n God of justice !—there must be a future 8 of the r e v o lti ng affair, exclaims, " Goa t, o f g oo t g ° , the wrongs of this. I am almost tempted to say, there j must be a future state, or no God I detailing in . a letter to a . ' , 3 redress r id in c i g t U y ea. wit l h ,l, Every avenuesen tsentence t e e n m d t. feo i d litary and police, that the ilebdyEotnhe::AEel: at E the place people were completely excluded frown all approach to the walked barefooted, and with a black veil o the prison across the garden of the Luxembour, on leavinp be . Grivel, fel whom he seemed to have formed a sort of affection, and it; which;c grls X ir hxol E sa? hiuc C eni omiv: U :kolaiuseitiisttpeoridi!aa..rneiß.caerarai, : .i i pa e i rt by conformity ,o b n, whose hands he was quite docile. 0 . n arriving at the place co execution, he was at once placed p, T py l in t) a N n was guillotined PIERRE upon the guillotine, and it a moment all was over. The King was, according to • public accounts, disposed to wards mercy, for he received M D - • ulerg:er with great Kind. ness when he presented L M. sent for the Chancellor ecorute's petition, and immediatels and Minister of Justice ; but the re.. cult shows that those advising his Majesty to pers9nages could not see any ground fen o b i I vh C g d :. s a ( ly face, 1 i m o r T i n r i o E n rig interfere with thl execution of tti gentence. GROUP X LVI. This Committee assembled to-day at one o'clock ; present, Mr. Bramstone (Chairman), and the other Members. NEWCASTLE AND DARLINGTON JUNG TION, AND TYNZ DOC-IE-: Mr..ANDBEws addressed the Committee at great length, on the part of the petitioners, against the Bill. - A question then arose as to whether a plan should be submitted to the Ctillinittee and the counsel for the petitioners against the Bill br not. The room was then cleared, and on our re-admission, The CHAIRMAN said that the Committee had sent for the plans and sections of these docks, which were deposited in the Private Bill-office, and they could not find there any appearance of the proposed alterations. They were therefore of opinion that a plan marked with the alterations ebould be laid before them, and that a Copy should be furnished also to the parties opposing the Bill. The further hearing of the Bill was then postponed till the next Bill had been concluded. NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE AND CARLISLE EXTENSION. The case for this Bill, which WAS opposed, was opened by Mr. Knowles. The Committee then adjourned. GROUPS XLIX AND LI. This Committee re-assembled this morning at the usual hour ; Mr, Charles Wood is the chair.; NORTH WALES MINERAL (DEVIATION AND BRANCH). Evidence was resumed against the Bill. Mr. Henry Jones, a clerk in the office of Messrs. Burke and Co., Parliamentary agents, was examined with the view of showing that the residence of Miss Thomas, a landowner on the line, would be materially injured by the construction of the line. _ _ Mr. Edward Roberts, a tenant of Miss Thomas's, gave evidence to the same effect. lie had been a tenant of hers for 30 years, and he believed the line would be injurious to Miss Thomas' residence, as well as to the cultivation of the land which he occupied. The severance would be very destructive to :the property. He could not say how many centuries the residence was in the family, but it was a very old family mansion. The crossing of the turnpike road would also be very dangerous at the Sun public•house. The line would have the effect of entirely destroying, the beauty of the valley, and there would be no traffic to warrant it. All the landowners were against it. Mr. John Jones, a farmer, was examined as to the traffic along the read. He did not think that the railway, if constructed, would take more elates than the canal at present; it would not in his opinion be generally used. The feeling of the farmers and ethers was entirely against it. This closed the case of the opposition. • Mr. Wm.say, on the part of the promoters, replied, and after ad verting to the principal points of the evidence adduced by the opponents of the line, contended that no grounds of opposition had been shown, and hoped the Committee would give their sanction to the project, as every objection which had been made might be applied with equal justice to every railway that was ever constructed in the British isles, and were merely matters for compensation. The room was then cleared for the decision of the Committee, and on our re-admission, . The CHAIRMAN made the following announcement:—" We are of opinion that so much of the preamble as relates to the Llangollen branch is not proved." The clauses of the Bill were then gone through, and it was ordered :o be reported. WORCESTER. AND PORTHDYNLLAEN. At the request of Mr. TALBOT, counsel for the promoters of this line, the consideration of the Bill was postponed until Monday next, to enable the promoters to consider their future course of proceeding in regard to it, in consequence of the intentions of the Government just announced relative to the gauge question. The other Bill in this group being unopposed was referred to Mr. Greene, and the Cemmittee adjourned ti'l Monday. GROUP LIII. This Committee met this morning at the usual hour; the Hon. E Laseelles In the chair. SHROPSHIRE UNION AND CANAL (cnEa TER, TO WOLVERHAMPTON). Evidence against the Bill was received on behalf of the Stafford shire and Worcestershire Canal Company. Two witnesses were examined to show the injury which would re sult to the local traffic from the conversion of the canal. Mr. Mums, on behalf of Lord Hatherton, then addressed the Committee in opposition to the line. Mr. Maim:B, on behalf of Lord Hatherton, then addressed the Committee in opposition to the line. He contended that it was a project totally uncalled for, and would never give remuneration. There was no evidence brought forward to prove its necessity, and ashen it was proposed to lay out a capital of 800,0001., he thought it was incumbent on its promoters to bring forward strong and over whelming evidence in its favour. If they wished to prove that the Grand Junction Company had too much traffic at present on their line, witnesses ought to have deposed to that fact. They ought to have called some gentleman connected with that company in proof of this, if it were the case. But not a single witness stated any thing of the sort. He, therefore, contended, taking all the circum stances into account, that the Committee could not inflation the proposed undertaking, inasmuch as it was not required by the wants of the district. Mr, LAING, on the part cf the promoters, replied on the general case. The room was then cleared, and on the re-admission of parties, The CHAIRMAN said the Committee would not give any decision at present. The Committee then adjourned. GROUP LIT. LEICESTER AND XITAIKINGNAX, WITH A IBRANCH. The Committee met at the usual hour this morning, and were so copied the whole day in hearing the case of the opponents to this Bill. As the opposition was principally confined to the objections of the landed proprietors on the part of the competing lines and private individuals, no point of any peculiar public interest was elicited. Several Witnesses were examined, but their evidence was merely a recapitulation of the statements already made known in connexion with the fine. The Committee then adjourned, GROUP LXIV. This Committee re-assembled to-day at twelve o'clock, in Room 11'; prevent, Mr. T. S. Duncombe (chairman) and the other Mem bers. XRISH GREAT WESTERN (PORT.A.R.• LINGTON TO GALWAY). The Cnaisatax said that the other evening when they se parated the question which arose, namely, whether Mr. Cock burn, of the South Western Railway, had a locus etandi, was not decided. The Committee had since determined that Mr. Cockburn had not a locus standi against the preamble of the Bill, but should be heard against any clause relating to purchase that might be proposed. Mr. Sergeint WILANQRAP4 said that he appeared on the part of the 3fullingar Company, who opposed the Bill. Mr. TAyLoa, en the part o f th e promoters of the B i ll, contended that as the clients of his Learned Friend had not petitioned agai ns t the preamble of the Bill they could not be heard, and It was the uni versal practice of Committees not to entertain objections under these circumstances. the ee House circumstances of Lor Lords these two Sergeant refuted the assertion of his Learned Friend, and there was no neces sity for petitioning against the preambl e o f the Bill when they were Bills W having ßA c li te ' :n c c' l t 't t e A rr t ' l l e d before that competing lines, and grouped together. The CHAIRMAN said it was unnecessary to argue the point. The Committee, after hearing counsel pro and con., decided that the Grand Canal Company , under their seal, might be heard against the preamble of the Bill, and that the other petitioners might be Mr. Richard Lynch, ofgo(o43,..lwinayaa7z.as beard against particular clauses. The case for the Bill was then resumed. it,tantrltDofutbillien,waenydwfraecuthytheoaloaeltte,repnladeeththeYaetformaomined by Mr. TAYLOR, n tna l.o r nd o o f n, th L e iv r e o r a p d ool, and stated that they got the mode of transit for carts. lie further stated that the railway proposed weuld be of by greatest advantage not only in bringing goods to Galway, but also the in conveying, thence corn, 50,000 tons of which came annually into the town, and a greater portion of which was sent to Dublin. The Marquis of Clanrlcarde was examined, and bore testimony to the general advantages of the line. His Lordship considered that the railway which would afford to the inhabitants of Galway an op portunity of sending their corn to Cork and other parts of the south of Ireland where distilling was extensively carr i ed on, must de cidedly be of great national importance, and re munerative. Promised to be hi g hl y Mr. Denis Kirwan, of Galway, was examined, and stated that there was a considerable Assistant Atijutant-General of the Forces In Ire- Colonel Foster, traffic from Galway to the south. military point of view, as it would afford ~ „aminel, and expressed his opinion as to the benefits of ~ troops to Cork, Fermoy, and other parts of the facility in sending A t hlone, which was a matter of the greatest south of Ireland from importance. f Clare, stated that the population of that town Mr. Robinson, 0 there was a great quantity of corn sent from was 18,000 ; that w ould afford a communication with the that a railway Athlone, and re d ,w proposed a- - line in a markets alstatements as to traffic, th e Com. additional After hearing some addi mittee adjourned. of the south of Ireland. Sunnzy ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—These gardens were on Tuesday brilliantly illuminated in honour of her Majesty's natal day, a resplendent star, festoons of lamps, &c., being placed over the principal entrance ; there was, moreover, an extra display of fire works, and an additional band, which, in conjunction with the ordi nary baud, played the national anthem, accompanied by Salutes of 31 NW*. 6. CONVICT SYSTEM, NORFOLK ISLAND. The following are portions of the copies or extracts of correspondence respecting the convict system adminis tered in Norfolk Island, under the superintendence of Captain Maconochie, R.N., in continuation of papers ordered by the House of Lords to be printed the 23d of February, 1846, just issued by order of their Lordships' House:— COPY CF A LETTER FROM CAPTAIN MACONOCHIE, R.N., TO JAMES STEPHEN, ESQ. London, April 2, 1846. Sir,—The inclosed paper refers to certain economical statements contained in the corri spondence respecting the convict system administered in Norfolk Island, re cently laid before the House of Lords. I should be extremely obliged by your bringing it under the notice of Mr. Secretary Gladstone, with my earnest request that it may be added as a supplement to the other papers so printed. (Signed) A. MACONOCHIE. NOTE ON CORRESPONDENCE RESPECTING THE CONVICT SYSTEM ADMINISTERED ON NORFOLK ISLAND. On all points of system and discipline involved in these papers, my explanations are in themselves so full that I do not think it necessary to add a word more in regard to them ; but I now see, for the first time, a variety of economical statements on which some camment is ne- CCF sary. In his letter, Mr. D. C. G. Miller inveighs strongly against the experse of my ticket of leave establishment, and contends that faith was broken in regard to it, by its not being required to pay for supplies issued to it in "the produce of labour." But my instructions with respect to it were, that the men should pay for their sup plies "in money or labour "—not in " the produce of labour" at all. So far from the ticket of leave establishment having been expensive, it was directly economical ; and this, Sir George Gipps, in his report almost admits. Labour ing in Government employ, precisely us other prisoners did, they were, under the arrangements, entitled to at least the same rations ; yet my accounts, still in m posession, show that in eighteen months duri ng w hi c h the system was maintained M 2 ticket of leave men drew less than their rations to the extent of 666/. 13s. 4d. In his letter, MG D. C. G. Miller states, that in the eighteen months preceding August, 1840, he bad re ceived 25,000 bushels of maize from the Island, but that subsequerAly its crops were never equal to its own con sumption. I shall presently show some reasons for questioning even the accuracy of these statements ; hut, meanwhile, I observe that in March and April, 1840, 603 English prisoners arrived on the island, in addition to its previous bond population, and that the same sur plus production could not thus reasonably be looked for Mr. Miller states, that such was the decrease in the produce of the island in 1842 that in the item of provi sions alone there was an increase of 10,0001. in its ex. penditure. Yet Sir George Gipps gives a return, which must have come from the Commissariat, of the actual expenditure during six years, from 1337 to 1842 inclu sive ; and from this it appears, that while the expense for provisions in 1839 was 18,978/., and for 1840, 20,4654 it was in 1842 only 16,790/. ; showing, instead of an in crease of 10,000/., an actual decrease of from 3,0001. to 4,0001. In this return there is no notice taken of the quantity of fresh meat turned ,into store on the island, which within my bur years was more than doubled. No notice is here taken of the large return of w ool and sheep and ox hides, thus also caused. Of the first in particular the transmission became at last very great and by superior care taken in washing its pr ice was la terly nearly doubled. This was stated pr expresslyy written by the Colonial Secretary in a letter tary on the subject. notwithstanding With all there errors and o missions, the charge per head of pri my asserted extrqvagance little more by this table than But for the enormous credit scalers in ray time is , v a e r r s 3: in the preceding .3e winch I cannot help thinking a clerical given to 1838,. does not tally at all with the official returns error, for it of crops in my possesbion, it would it is nearly 51. per head (41. 1,55. sa) l ower i n 1842, the y ea r of my severe drought, than in 1839, the year b e f ore I arrived. I am very far from indifferent to economical results; on the contrary, apart from their own val e I ars persuaded that, un d er a good system, 'in a good locality, they will aff )rd generally an almost exact measure of moral results also ; for the virtues of order, method, punctuality, energy, and good judgment, whi c h rea li se good returns, will, on a persuasive principle, also make good servants while ob taining them. No school of training can be better for previously idle and dissolute men than one of successful industrial exertion in which they have been induced to take a voluntary part. But on Norfolk Island I was most pecularly circumstanced. I had to organise a new system, and endeavour to revive long forgotten feelings in the minds of all around. In all my operations I was jealously watched, harshly judged and reported on, and perpetually hampered by limitations on my proposed measures. If my system could have failed in any cir cumstance, it would have failed in these ; yet it did not fail, and Sir George Gipps himself bears testimony to this. In 1839, the year before I landed on Norfolk Island, the proportion of cases tried at the police court was, to the bond population, as .604 to 1 ; during my, four In 1844, after I left, it was .623 ; and in the first 6404 months of 1845, the latest period to which I have re . s turns, it was as .543. Again, in 1839, while the old severity was yet unabated, 512 men were sent to Sydney on commuted sentences, of whom 20 were re-conv icted within the year. During the four years I sent up 6 89 men unrer the circumstances, of whom only 17 were re convicted in the whole time ; and of 240 who were sent un about the period of my departure (Feb. 1844). in th e 'ran. following none had been re-convicted, though three were in gaol for trial, and have since been found guilty Of 538 first-convicted men whom I took with me to Val Diemen's Land, on the Ist of July last, after a laps e sixteen months, not one had been re• transported; onu five out ef 330 ticket fleave men had lost their tickets (the remaining 325, amid all the social there, respectably maintaining themselves) ; including these five, only fifteen were under any punishment.; and of 209 pass-holders 132 were in private punish a greAter, proportion by a tenth than of pass-holder' locally trained. Yet these are the men who were e 15 0; derously said on Norfolk Island to have been spoilt an rendered unfit for labour. %When these results, then, are compared with , th e means at my disposal, I think that it will be imPoss" o : to doubt the sound practical character of the prineiP' — to of management, tbat, after much experience, I see k I `, - 8 introduce. And amidst the difficulties now besetting tP ci difficulties management and disposal of transported criminals; an the doubts entertained by many of the wisdom et t - be whole system of secondary punishments, they 111 i 4 g t " be " c o considered worthy of a little extra charge, had A 1 ) _e. incurred. Yet, practically, they cost nothing yond all doubt, had my proceedings been ullre t ";, 0 0 they would have been combined with even signs,' •- twiny. A. MACONOCam' THE ECLAIR STEAM-VESSBL• ee , The following extract from the official corresponde4ch on the subject of the Eclair, and the epideruY P er . broke out in the said vessel, recently presented to liament, will serve to throw some further light on w subject. Mr; The dispatch of Sir W. Pym and Mr. Arnott to Greville (No. 5), dated "Whitehall, October 32 1 ' 00 shows that four days after sailing from Sieves , Len t he man died with fever and black vomit, the first ease % e go kind which had occurred ; and that during the IDA ~It 18 were attacked by the same malady (fever and osi"', vomit), of whom 13 died. At Bona Vista the disc! : : continued to spread rapidly amongst the crew, Vibes it was determined to land all the crew (sick a l e well), and to purity the vessel. For this pan s , ' every means was adopted to extirpate the infection ; washing and whitewashing, fumigation, s &c. ; all t e Kroomea remaining on board except six. The dis s a i n i however, continued to prevail amongst the officers :gi men on shore, thirty-one having died between Augli e co r and September 13. Under these circumstances,- of saltation was held by three naval surgeons, when; c res' recommended and resolved that the steamer and should proceed to England. rte 4 The crew were consequently re-embarked, and P ar on the 13th of September. Captain Estcourt Was "'the ill the day before leaving Bona Vista, and died o n the 16th. At Bona Vista, Assistant-Surgeon Hertel "L to Eclair, died ; and Dr. M'Clure died on tile y 0902 Madeira. On the arrival of the ste ame r at ffi l w ith the authorities refused permission to communiest e rinr es. the shore, as had been d one by the French 110 '0)2 From the date of h er sa ili ng f rom M a d e i ra (Se f t • 1 , 0 0 up to the 30th of that mon th, seven d ea ths toog from the fever, -and eight fresh cases occurred. f dees The report of M r . C onsu l B en d e l t o L o rd 10° 1 840 (dated San Antonio, C a p e V er d, D ece mber 22, ;i e tf sets forth, amon gs t a var i e ty o f d e t a il s , that the bila which the stay o f th e E c l a i r a t B ona Vi s ta cause d m ei' (the Consul), was of th e mos t painful descrip to though the medical men persisted in their belief tbabool disease was merely the common African coast fel Er i the that there was no danger of its spreading ato e __„ e eiieatif people. This " non-infection" theory was ob. cant e refuted by facts. On the 20th September, S e 'ree days after the departure of the steamer, a white : l oth, guese soldier, who had been housed on the isisl4„joß the crew of the Eclair, died in the fort. The fol te 4 0. 4 day another died, and two or three were repo t bes° sick. Up to the 9th of October an extraordinsr,loced. and an immense quantity of rain h a d been eiPer l a e ich, The fever then showed itself m os t a l arm ingly sod succeeding day to the end of the month gave sometimes three cases, all occurring within w s e t I , tools vicinity of the house where the first de place. the The Portuguese practitioners maintained th il w t os fever arose from the presence of the stagnant „,h, wh— and held the same opinion till November t:-'O3 20th, tie they openly delarod it to be a fever of th ow -ate scription, and of a most contagious charade' rye the first week in December the fever continued ,Lw i s as and at that period it had found its way into alra;lf, the villages—the deaths averaging seven or eig ht Up to the 21st of December 250 had died at Bees v..1;14, but it was stated in the report that for 1 4 days Prilte ously there had been no deaths in the port, and in 1"_1 of the country villages, although the fever still ex l° ;.. in two of them. The English suffered dreadfully, ing lost one-third of their number. The leading srm:A, torus of the disease wer e black vomit, p a i ns in the h e ,4 back, and thighs, with a suppression o f u rine, 6 "f frequently the rupture of a blood-v e ssel. Thfe l ib e e proved contagious to those who nted as nurses to sick, with scarcely one exception. The Consul O% that had the authorities of the place iwagined that's; fever on board had exhibited a dangerous type, til t never would have granted pratique. Mr. Macaulspst, a letter transmitted to Lord Aberdeen (date a , B4 s), Nicholas, Cape Verd Islands, 24th of December', f o yer states his opinion that had the building used as a . or to hospital been properly fumigated and its re-occupation, and had the two patients therft., I t ' he with fever been kept from all in wi t h baa cordir densely-populated and closely-built town, t from a quences would have been experienced at Bona the visit of the Eclair. the These facts seem completely to overthrow " b f r og's the so decidedly expresssd by Sir W. Burnett— " frog° purified prio,4, fever in question arose from causes totally distinct f e ltet infection ; that it was, in fact, the usual reraittsli„„ e ts, of the coast, produced by the influence of marsh will e ri heightened by other causes, such as the exposure " 0 .0 men, and the excesses committed by them." In the gu ir of his dispatch to the Secretary of the AdrniraltY , ° b oll Burnett says,—'•lf it can be fully and satisfactorily s bete that any person who bad visited the ship or tents Wore the sick were placed contracted the f eve r and tio' municated it to others, and they to oth e r p erso ns r„ ,6iieti„ cession, who had never visited the ships or th e sicl",: e of there can be no reason to doubt the inf ec ti ous nate'i - e eel the decease, but if nothing of this kind has taken I ) fee' then the conclusion must be, that the disease is not I : te clf tious, and is therefore incapable of being comunol e dou in either case settli ng thi s long-contested cloe'ti-etis' The opinion of Sir William appears to have been d rtes factorily set aside by the facts already adduced, !L e ong' seen that the fever was contagious as well as infer LLOYD'S SHIPPING. di . LONDON, JUNE 10,—Wind S.S.W., light breeze and Cloo.oos, Cat' DEAL, JUNE 9.—Wind W. to W.S.W.—Arrd. Vernon , norP s y, cutta; Northumberland, Pollock, Madras ; Carnatic, Berl e ' Arrd. from the Ricer, John Ring, westward. Sid. Maltl34oGroct, Tan Dieman's Land ; Ganges, Walker, Bombay; Lord co' Renardson, Quebec. van , OFF PORTsmOUTH, JUNE 9.—Derwent, APPherson, Ow man's Land; Wellington, lienrick, Madras; Gladiator*, New York. ez• PLYMOUTH, JUNE 9.—Arrd. 8. Nunez, Flight, Rio Mull 0w 4116' BRISTOL, JUNE 9.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrd. Feliza, Pomona, Smith, Trinidad ; Eleanor, Bees. Barbadoes Nevis ; Bowyer, Smith, St. John's, New Brunswick. ,nool to OFF TUsICAR, JUNE 6.—lnglewood, PLYmOUTII, JUNE 9.—The Mastery, of Jersey, frorn 1 1§t 01 .; r is Rio Munez, was wrecked on Sand Island, on April 13; ere'er p ar* LIVERPOOL, Jura 9. The Holywood is aground in the A 1 • MARKET NEWS—(I 7 I:STERD'" corazr-Ezczus.mr E. 11 1 11 The arrival of English Wheat for our market has be- art icle r y limited scale this week, consequently the samples of that in A N e ,,g small. Still, however, the demand for all descriptions l'iolheat inactive state, at about Monday's quotations. Foreign y - A 4 0 . a dull inquiry, yet previous rates were steadily supPor e i c s . to gt parcels of bonded found buyers, on certificates, at Aviv i but_ ti , per quarter. Barley and Malt moved off slowly at bar, e , - being nothing quotable beneath, late rates. The supply of cos. raw' usually short, the oat trade was steady, at very full Pric es Peas, and Flour as last advised. ARRIVALS. Vote' 1 Barley. Oats 150 ctn. tirs. / 20 -.oo° Wheat. I English ••• • • • 1 -- qrs. Irish .... .. .. - Foreign .... .. -- Malt, -- qrs. warrEciLarmz. We had a fair average supply of Meat on sale, while the deor c i e ; M pe u r t k t , o n 3 s , 83ds to o d 4 t s o l ts d ; Lamb, ' 55 to ruled tolerably steady at ourc,uo tenons. Beef from 2s 6d to 3 8 $ O4 65 2d ; Veal, 4s to 4s 10d ; per gibs by Mae carcase. n Tu es MAnThrisONE CLUB v. CANBILL ... .IOO some admirable play. On the first innings, 10 CRICXET.---TUE I.77lvcchr:ityshraedsumthede advantageo UNIVERSITY. — T it! : s to-day the whole score was 68, therefore P aybyat 7 L o or ra d' n o , s ; e : The University, however, W 4 ' o 0. this innings, run tits match, for the score of the Club was 94 in the N. C. C. for 138 to tie. thereani reiarlicvsoailietgdoa'ni o g to On the 4th inst., at the Deanery, lady it tiO Dean of Hereford, of a daughter, still-born. of the Very —el' v f . p Ic-P l ‘ c On the sth inst., the wife of Richard Trimen Esti., °- - ar villas, Maida-hill, of a daughter. P lady Of Car On the 4th inst., at Ballechin House, Perthshire, the -- tain R Scott, of a sop. rOe t? 1 son e On the sth inst., Mrs. W. Franck Elliot, Bishop's Hui , t of a son. On the sth i nst., at Stanmore Villa, Weybridge, Hits' Wee tbe Flockton, of a s on . 41 , wire o f On the 6th i ns t., a t the School-house, Shrewsbury, .."6 Rev. Dr. K 01.1 ennedy, of a son. ADdit On the 6th i ns t., i n Sussex-place, the wife of Nevill e of a daught er . Ril . P On the 7th inst., at Highgate, the wife of T. H. R o ' of of a son. On the 7th inst., the lady of th e R ev . Stephen Brown. Rec to r iu. go East Shefford, Berks, of a son. 011 the Bth inst., in Dorset terrace, Clapham-roa d, 31.11' ord s ham, of a daught., ter. X. Ric On the sth ins at Merrow, Surrey, the wife of Georgeof • Es n O q., of a daughte. the sth inst., r °4l at Esher, the lady of J. Maclean L ee, Z.' sc.n, still-born. On the 6th inst., at Daiston, Mrs. F. Price, of a daughter. MARRIED. of Brood On the Rth inst., at St. Pancras, Mr. Charles Eaton, c lam Or. green, Hammersmith, to Mary Anne, only daughter of th John Woodyatt, of Great Portland-street. On the sth inst., at Shrewsbury, John Hamer, Esq., of Glar* O r t i g e' Salop, to Maria, third daughter of C. B. Allnatt, Esq., Crescent, Shrewsbury, DIED. vote ° On the 15th of April, at Mangalore, in; the East Indic , H. Hickman, 34th Madras Light Infantry. rlq 3 ' On the 23d ult., at Gibraltar, Captain Thomas Mostyn, of jesty's 54th Regiment. l Ems " On the 2d inst., Margaret Anne, wife of Daniel Cabane . Somerset-place, Bath, aged 79. . O f dir . . Toscr h On the 6th inst., Frances Elizabeth, eldest daughter be Cubitt, of Fouuders'-hall-court, Lothbury. tighter of t On the 6th inst.. at Cheltenham Julia Maria, sixth da late Rev. Francis Baker, Rector of Wylye, Wilts. ~.. On the 7th inst., in Watling-street, Mrs. Shutt, aged2ii.............! __--- of lie So• London: Printed an 7 Published by 11/411:7RD0 YOtTlia. rrecine Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, N 0.112, &Tana' to t' June J°24 ?t: pu L SaVoy, in the County of Aljtja ese s, ThUrpaQ