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Yew Reedy, cot:Opiate in oxe volume, with Portrait, 10s. 6d. bound , THE LITE OT WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR. BY THOMAS ROiCOE, ESQ. " This Life of the Conqueror is the trat attempt made to do full justice to Als character and talents."—Britannia. " From various sources Mr. Roscoe has drawn facts which have never yet appeared in relation to the Life of William the Conqueror." —Weekly Chronicle. Heary Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. GO V E RNMENT POLICY AND POSITION. THE T WEEKLY CHRONICLE will discuss this Important QuP.tion fully this SATURDAY NEXT en suing ; and will also contain LEADING ARTICLES on all the TOPICS of the DAY, with the EW fulle SU st details DUTIES of the , PROPOSED GAR the Monopolist and Philanthropic Coalition against them, and the probable result. FREE TRADERS should hold themselves prepared for the issue. Office, 337, Strand, and all Newsmen. Just puldished, for the first time in the Svc,. form, in 3 vols., with Portraits, price Ms. bound, printed uniformly with the " Me moirs of George III." MEMOIRS OF THE REIGN OF K ING GEORGE THE SECOND ; By HORACE WALPOLE, Earl of Orford. Edited, with a Preface and Notes, By THIS LATE LORD HOLLAND. Henry Colburu, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. INDIA AND LONDON LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, 17, CORNILILL, LONDON. Incorporated by Act of Parliament, 7 and 8 Vic., cap. 110. Richard Hartley Kennedy, Esq , Chairman George William Anderson, Esq., Deputy-Chairman. Invalid Lives assured ; Select Lives—including the Lives of Naval and Military Officers proceeding to or resident in India, or other parts of the world. Indian rates of premium much lower than in any existing Com pany. Table of rates adapted to every class of policy holders. Assurances affected daily, on application at the Office. Impaired stato of health admitted in policies on Invalid Lives Annual Premium for 1001. Half Premium Table. I First Seven i Remainder Years. of Life. First Seven A g e ' I Years. Remainder of Life. £ s. d. 5 9 10 9 2 0 g. d. I .S J. d. 20i10 2 2 0 4 30 1 5 10 2 11 8 40 115 9 , 311 6 X s. d. 50 2 14 i GO 4 11 0 GEORGE N. WRIGHT, M. A., Manager. Age. STEAM TO NEW YORK.I The GREAT WESTERN, steam ship, B. R. MATTIIEWS, Commander, will start for New Tork, from the Coburg Dock, Liverpool, at half-past Eleven o'clock, on the morning of SkTUIDAY, the 25th instant. Passengers are respectfully requested to be on board by Ten o'clock. Luggage should be sent on board the day previous. Fare, 30 Guineas ; Steward's Fee, 1 Guinea. For freight or passage apply, at London, to Mark Pinkerton, 65, Conah111; at Bristol, to W. M. Bennett, Secretary, Princes-street ; at Glasgow, H. B. Webb, Glassford-street ; or, at Liverpool, to Gibbs, Bright, and Co., g, North ,Tohn-street. MiILWAY SHARES BY PUBLIC SALE. MESSRS. LAMOND, SHALE, AND LA.MOND, Railway Share Auctioneers, beg to thank their Friends and the Public for their continued support and patronage, and to announce that their Public Sales of Railway Shares, &c., take place every TUESDAY and FRIDAY, at One o'clock, at the Hall of Commeree, Threadneedle-street, London, to which place, favours, containing instructions (with a reference), are respectfully requested to be addressed. All Scrip and Share Certificates must be deposited, the day previous to their being offered; and advices of results will be forwarded by the first post after the sale, ant the proceeds Imme diately disposed of according to instructions. omces, Mall of Commerce. Threadneedle-street. London. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. If. PERROT most respectfully informs the Nobility, Patrons to the Opera, his Friends, and the Public, that his BENEFIT will take place THIS EVENING. When will be performed (for the last time this season) Bellini's celebrated Opera, entitled I PURITANI. Moira, Madame Grisi ; Giorgio, Signor Lablacha ; Arturo, Signor Mario ; Riccardo, Signor Fornasari. In the course of the Evening will be produced (for the first time) an original Divertissement, entitled LE JUGEMENT DE PARIS. Comprising a new Grand Pas, composed expressly for this occasion by M. Perrot, entitled LE PAS DES DEESES. By Mdlle. Tag- Mdlle. Louise Taglioni, Mdlle. Cerito, Mdlle. Lucile Grahn, Mdlle. Demelisse, Mdlle. Cassan, and MM. St. Leon and rerrot. To conclude with a Selection from the admired Ballot, entitled LA GITANA. La Gitana, Mdllo. Taglioni; Ivan, M. St. Leon ; Duke de Medina, M. Gosselin Smourost, M. Delaval. Applications for boxes, stalls, and tickets to be made at the box office, Opera Colonnade. Doors open at Seven, the Opera to com mence at half-past Seven o'clock. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THE BRUSSELS OPERA COMPANY. In consequence of the overflow from all parts of the Theatre on TIIESDAT last, Meyerbeer's Opera of ROBERT LE DIABLE will be repeated THIS EVENING. The principal characters by Messrs. Laborde, Zelger, Boulo ; Madlle. Charton, 31dmes. Julien, and Glubilei. To-Moaaow, a favourite Opera. On SLTrRDAY, the celebrated Baritone, Mons. MASSOL, will make his first appearance in Rossini's Opera of " Guillaume Tell." Halevy's Comic Opera, " Les Niousquetaires de la Reine," is in preparation and will be immediately produced. Doors open at Seven, per:ormance to commence at half-past Seven. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. THIS EVE NING Will be performed THE WAY TO KEEP HIM. Sir Bashful Constant, Mr. W. Farren ; Slr Brilliant Fashion, Mr. Hudson ; Lady Constant, Miss Telbin ; the Widow Belmour, by a Lady (her second appearance in London) ; Mrs. Lovemore, Mrs. Seymour ; Muslin, Mrs. Hamby. The Band will perform the Overtures, " L'Ambassadrice," and " Edouard e Christina," the Quadrille, "Je Veu. Denser," the " Dublin Walzer," and " Czarina Mazourk." After which, a Yew and Original Drama, called BOROUGH PO LITICS. Principal characters by Messrs. Webster, Tilbury, Buck stone ; Mrs. (Never, and Mrs. E. Yarnold. To conclude with the Comic Drama, entitled THE IRISH POST, In which Messrs. Bland, Tilbury, Hudson, and Mrs. Caulfield, &c. will appear. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY. First Night of a New and Original Prologue. THIS EVENING Will be performed an original Prologue, entitled HOT WEATHER. Characters by Messrs. Keeley, Willmott, A. Wigan, F. Mathews ; Miss Villars, Miss Howard, and Mrs. Keeley. To be followed by a New Comic Drama, of a singularly novel cha racter, entitled ABOVE AND BELOW. Characters by Messrs. Diddear, Meadows, F. Matthews, A. Wigan, 11. Butler, Belling ham, Turner, Kinloch, and Keeley ; Miss E. Daly, Miss Forster, Miss Turner, and Miss Fairbrother. After which the new and original Farce, entitled LOAN OF A WIFE. Principal characters by Messrs. F. Mathews, A. Wigan, Meadows, Kinloch, and Yarnold ; Mrs. Woollidge and Miss Howard. To conclude with the Comic Drama, called THE DUSTMAN'S BELLE. Characters by Messrs. Diddear, F. Vining, Meadows, Keeley, Miss Villars, and Mrs. Keeley. THEATRE ROYAL, A-DELPHI. 17NDER TIIE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTE. THIS EVENING _ _ Will be performed a New Drama, fl'om the French, entitled THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER. In which Madame Celeste, Messrs. Wright, 0. Smith, Selby, Worrell, Ice., will perform. After which an entirely new and original Comic Sketch, called ABRAHAM PARKER. Abraham Parker, Mr. Wright. To be followed by Mr. Buckstones Comic Drama, called THE MAID WITH THE MILKING PAIL. Diccon, Mr. Wright ; Milly, Mrs. Fitzwilliam. To conclude with an Original Melodrama, called THE DEVIL OF MARSEILLES ; or, The Spirit of Avarice. In which Messrs. Paul Bedford, 0. Smith, Wright, Lambert, Munyard, Mitchinson ; Madame Celeste, and Miss Woolgar will perform. PRLNCESS'S THEATRE. OXFORD-STREET. THIS EVENING Will be performed the Comic Drama, entitled USED UP. In which Mr. Charles Mathews will perform. After which (for the third time), a Fairy Extravaganza, entitled THE SLEEPING BEAUTY IN THE WOOD. Lord Factotum, Mr. C. Mathews ; Princess Isabelle, Madame Vestris. To conclude with a Comic Drama, entitled BEFORE BREAK FAST. Nicholas Trefoil, Mr. C. Mathews ; John, Mr. Oxberry. ASTLEY'ai ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Under the especial patronage of her Most Gracious Mkjesty the Queen, Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales, and the Primus* Royal. Overflowing houses. Enthusiastic approbation still at tends the Representation of our Conquests in India. The First Week of an Equestrian Drama at half-price. THIS EVENING Will be performed the Grand M►litary Spectacle, called THE 514:115' INVASION ; or, Engl:lnd's Victories of 1846. Intro ducing the whole of the Stud and Company. After which, Grand and Novel SCENES of the CIRCLE. 'the whole concluding with a Splendid Hippodramatic Melodrama. liox-office open troin eleven tilt tive o'clock.—Doors open at six and ccmmence at seven o'clock. DAVIDOE'S ROYAL suRREY THEATRE. Positively the Last Week of the Operatic Company, and Third Week of Mr. Osbaldiston, Miss Vincent, and a Double Dramatic Company. THIS EVENING - Will be performed the Opera of GUY MANNERING. Colonel Mannering, Mr. Johnson ; Bertram, Mr. D. W. King ; Dandle Din merit, Mr. Neville ; Dornlnie Sampson, Mr. Forman ; Gabriel, Mr. Weiss ; Lucy Bertram. Madame Clara Ansell ; Julia, Miss Betts ; Meg Merrilies, Mrs. 11. Yining; Flora, Miss Pearce; 31rs. M'Can• dish, Mrs %Y. Daly. After which, THE QUEEN'S PIDDLE. Marquis de Santiago, Mr. Osbaidiston ; Sancho, Mr. Forman ; Olivia, Miss Vincent ; Florella, Miss Lydia Pearce. The Performances to conclude with THE LADYE OF LAMBETH. Characters by Messrs. Saville, Hughes, J.,hnson, Neville, Forman, Mrs. Vining, Mrs. Daly, Miss L. earce, Mrs. Hughes. &c. • Under the Patronage of her Most Gracious Majesty. ItoYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. EVERY MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, AND THURSDAY. VIEW of NAPLES, ERUPTION of VESUVIUS, DESTRUC TION' of HERCULANEUM and POMPEII, in the year 79. This magnificent spectacle is revived in an an Ih r : " the former, of grandeur, the picture being more than twig and represents, as accurately as can possibly be done, the Great Eruption of Vesuvius in the y place' when the Destruction of H er _ produced under the direction cuiaiteum and Pomp tcok of Mr. Denson. A richly ornamented GOTHIC BRIDGE of STATUES has been constructed, which will be brilliantly Illuminatedats to g Night. The PROMENADE CONjE II TS are again confided r. God frey. The Band is most complete in all its departments, and includes many eminent native and foreign musicians. In addition to the other attractions of the Gardens, will be exhi bited CALYPSO'S FAIRY GROTTO, approache d b y the Illumi nated Gothic Bridge, representing in the Interior Telemachus relating his adventures to Calypso. The PYROTECHNIC DISPLAYS, by Mr. Southby, are on the most complete and effective scale. Preceding the Volcanic Display, a novel exhibition will be intro duced, representing the Descent of Phoebus in the Chariot of the Sun. Mons. Fartnellt will descend from a Chinese Pagoda, seventy feet in height, to the surface of the lake, where a Naiad's Car will rise to receive lAm, and bear him to his enrystal home. The Glass Conservatory is splendidly ornamented with festoons of lamps, enabling the visitors to view the matchless collection of Carnivore by gas-light. Feeding of the Carnivore at half-past five; the Pelicans, &c.,at six ; Concert at half-past sla ; and the Eruption at dusk. On MONDAY, Aug. 10, will take place a GRAND NEAPOLITAN CARNIVAL anti FETE D'ETE ; combining all the novelties of the season. Admission. One Shilling. THE MURDER AT DAGF.NITAM.—LATEST PARTICU- Lass.—Daarsuan, TUESDAY EYENING.—Since the issuing of the reward by the Government for the apprehension of the murderers of the unfortunate man Clark, the utmost vigilance has been used in endeavouring to trace out the guilty parties ; but up to last evening no no one had been apprehended , nor ie it likely that ll any person will, u ntil after the inquest is re s umed. On Monday r. Superintendent Pearce, of the F division, with Inspector Richardson, of the K divi sion, and the active officers of the detectiv e p ol i ce, were busily enga ged in watching, the parties who are suspected of the crime, in hopes of obtaining some clue to the murderer, in consequence of the bills offering the reward being extensively placarded in and around rd, Dagenhem. Rointl Ilford. &c. &c. On the first assembling or ' the jury it will be recollected that 31r. Colin, the surgeon, of Rumford, in giving hi, e vidence, described the extensi ve wounds in the throat to have been indicted, with some sharp doulble edged i nstrum ent. After the adjo ur nment Inspector Colston pall a ,lilt to the residence of some of the persons suspected, and among other things they discovered a sword and a stiletto, or Spanish knife, the iatter having a sharp double edge, which they tsok possession of, telling the parties that they should produce them before the coroner. On the re -assembling of the jury Colston was not In attendance, and it will be remembered that when the inquest was over, an application was made by a man named Young to the coroner to have theca things given up to him, which was refused. Before the inquest was concluded, the coroner said that the body would be most likely exhumed for the purpose, as we learn, of allow ing Dr. Colin to examine the wounds, and to say whether the weapon in question could have caused such wounds. In conseqnence of the evidence given at the adjourned inquest, tending to throw suspicion on Sergeant Parsons, and also to the effect that he had been guilty of neglecting nis duty, a minute Investigation was gene into respecting his cenduct before Mr. Superintendent Pearce, and subsequently before the superintendent of the K division, Mr. Mac guard, and the result was, that he had performed his duty properly, and that not the slightest suspicion could Attach to him. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 23, 1846. CONFLAGRATION AT ST. JOHN'S.- The Committee appointed by the Public Meeting of the 15th inst., for receiving subscriptions for the relief of the sufferers by the fire at St. John's, beg to announce the following contributions, Viz Amount previously advertised - - - £2,686 IS 0 Addtlonal. Barclay, Bevan, & Co.XIOO 0 01J. Worthington, N., Leaf,Coles, Smith, &Co 100 0 01 at Willis and Co.'s - 10 0 0 W. and A. Atkinson -21 0 0 'Mr. Sergeant Belles's, Aylwiu Bevan, Cole, I at Smith and Co.'s - 10 0 0 and Harris - - - 5 5 0 Rev. Deacon Morrell, Captain Sir Henry Shit'. at Prescott and Co.'s 10 0 0 fener, Bart., R.N. (C. James Prevost, Esq., Gosling's) - - - - 5 0 0; 2d sub. - - 7 7 0 Rev. Sir John New- IC. H. and G. Enderby 5 5 0 port, Bart.,(Twining's) 3 0 o,George Laurence, Esq. S 5 0 Messrs. Overend. Gur- ;Moses, Levy, and Co. 5 5 0 ney, and Co. - - - 105 0 01. W. Higgins, Esq.. Sir C. Forbes, Bart., at ! Furnival's-inn 5 0 Messrs. Coutts - - 50 0 0 James Field, Esq. - . 5 5 0 Cavan, Brothers, and J. S. Kennard, Esq. - 5 5 0 Co. - 5 5 0 R. and R. Oliverson - 50 0 o,'Charles Ansted, Esq. - 5 5 Follett and Co., Top- ;George Mackay, Esq. 5 5 0 sham, Devon - - 25 0 01. and J. Adam - 5 5 Marshall, Mullins, and (James Hunt, Co. - - - - J. Nesbitt, Esq., at Rev. J. Crosby Clark, Messrs. Glyn & Co.'s 20 00' of Chertsey, at Willis Henry Kemble, Esq., i and Cos. . - - - 5 0 0 M.P., at Messrs. 'A. B. St. Ledger, Esq., at Price and Co.'s - 10 10 0 Messrs. Drummonds - Edward Kemble, Esq. 10 10 0 Dr. Ellerton, at Messrs John and Henry Beale 10 10 0 Coutts's Carter and Bonus - - 10 10 0 Matthew Hutchinson J. Drinkald, Esq. - - 10 10 Oi and Son - - - - 5 0 0 George Pearce, Esq. - 10 10 0 George Appleyard, Esq. 5 0 Conway, Phelps, and ;Thomas Wood, Esq., Hayward, at 3lesKs. Milk-street - - - 3 3 0 Barclay and Co's. - 10 10 0 The Chevalier de H aes - 2 2 0 Burdon and Gray - - 10 10 OH. Brooks, Esq. - 1 0 0 Jno. Christophers.Esq., Thomas Musscn, Esq. - 1 1 0 Heavitree, Devon - 10 10 OIL Chapman, Esq., at Gledstones and Co. - l 0 10 0 Messrs. Barclay and W. C. Drysdale, Esq. - 10 10 0 Co's. 1 0 0 R. S. Wadeson, Esq. - 10 10 OC. G. Esq , 5 5 0 5 0 0 Subscriptions will be received at the banking-house of Sir Charles Price, Bart., and Co. and by the other London bankers ; as also by the Committee, 11, Leadenhall-street. THE WEATHER.—SIIN OFFICE, JULY 23. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 60; Highest. 85 ; Noon, 72. BAROMETER, 29.92.—W1ND S.W., fine. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Horning • . 57 minutes after 1. I Evening .. 14 minutes after 2. .1. ' .." 't •,,,-,u,• - . I,* if ) — 4.-• s „. ,",- , i •. 7 ~,,,-..6 0 , ,411 . 116 . •= l,s A i l i i ir c. m 0, , . ) 1,,„,' .." A a ail 0 11 U u. Itil*t , SECOND EDITION. 11 ' LONDON, THURSDAY, JULY 23, 1846. Lord JOHN RUSSELL . having at length very ex plicitly pronounced sentence of death upon the dif ferential Sugar Duties, the redoubtable Protectionists have bethought themselves of their old tactics for obtaining some commutation of the sentence, or, at the least, some reprieve in its execution. The ban quet of home monopoly having been duly discussed and demolished, our free-trade legislators, like Sir HUGH EvANs, are now concentrating their energies upon the "pippins and cheese" of colonial monopoly. Such a consummation, however, of the recent Par liamentary proceedings, though " devoutly to be wished" by the multitude, is directly opposed to the political and commercial palate of the upholders of the protective system. They perceive the last fragment of their beloved Idol doomed to destruction by the Genius of Free-Trade ; and resolved, if possible, to avert that doom by every logical artifice or sophistical machination, they have assembled toge ther for the purpose of arranging their mode of operation. That momentous council has been held ; those chieftains have deliberated ; their cham pion has already thrown down his gauntlet upon the floor of Parliament. Viewing the " Amendment" of Lord GEORGE BEN TINCK, however, seriously and soberly, it is pre cisely the description of document which might have been anticipated. It betokens in the very feebleness of its verbs and adjectives the smallness of the faction from which it has proceeded. According to the language of their resolution, they opine—" That in the present state of the sugar cultivation in the Bri tish East and West Indian possessions, the proposed reduction of duty upon foreign slave-grown sugar is alike unjust and impolitic." In the present state, &c.! Why what a shallow apology is this for the introduction of such an amendment ! If after the period which has already elapsed since the Emancipation Act those colonial possessions have not recovered their indus trial vigour sufficiently to compete with other terri tories engaged in the cultivation of sugar—if, in addition to this, they afford no definite prospect of ar riving at that condition of prosperity, while their owners are, on the contrary, availing themselves of every opportunity to asperse the Govern ment for affording them but an inefficient compensation,—why not, in Heaven's name, erase that preposterous and superfluous " in the present state ?" But let us inquire into the origin of the opinion thus expressed by Lord G. BEsurisicm., in be half of himself and his coadjutors. They conceive that the proposed reduction would prove " alike unjust and impolitic," because forsooth of its " tending to check the advance of production by British labour, and to give a great additional stimulus to the slave trade !" giving thereby a most agricultural precedence to British labour, and introducing the humanity argument as a kind of tag. Of the validity of either of these very pompous and high-sounding reasons we at once proclaim our denial. If ever premises were fallacious, these are so; if ever a question of political economy were dis torted by sophisms, it is that of the differential sugar duties, and those sophisms are in the amendment of Lord GEORGE BENTINCK. Con sidering, for example, the notion of these proposed reductions tending to afford encouragement to the atrocious and diabolical system of slave traffic—we have already protested against the accuracy of this supposition. We have commented upon the circum stance of these sticklers for the emancipation of their fellow-creatures crying out against the patronage of slave-owners only when that patronage interfered with their own pockets—of their beholding with silent indifference the commerce in cotton, and cop per, and tobacco, and so forth, maintained between: this country and colonies cultivated by slaves—of their standing forth as the champions of humanity solely upon the proposed importation of slave-labour sugar, their own article of merchandize ! Besides this, we have declared this dread of patronising slavery to be altogether an illusion, because the planters of Cuba and Brazil are already patronised by us in defiance of all our re strictions against their admission into British ports ; and have shown likewise that this patronage is most expensive to ourselves without preserv ing any exclusive benefit to our colonial planters. So much for the vaunted humanity argu ment of the colonial protectionists. Although the pretended patriotism of the other reason against the proposed reduction of the differen tial duties is somewhat more speciously worded in the Amendment, it is, nevertheless, quite as chime rical as the one already answered. We allude to the supposed tendency of such a reduction "to check the advance of production by British labour." This position, we repeat it, is specious, it is adroitly conceived ; but we solemnly protest against it as a most illusory, and a most flagitious argument. To strip it of all its flimsy preten sions to patriotism, it amounts literally to this :—" Never mind the thousands of artisan, who are turned away incessantly from your factory doors through want of employment; never mind the thousands of labourers who are rendered vagrants, or are thrown upon your parishes periodically from an incapacity to obtain work ; never mind these people in England, let them shift for them selves. All we want is that you will cherish some units of planters, and some tens of Hill Coolies : let the thousands of industrious poor in the mother country go to the devil. Shut your ports against foreign slave-labour sugar, that our planters and Hill Coolies may obtain employment and flourish. Shut your ports against foreign slave-labour sugar, although by so doing you prevent these foreign countries from becoming customers for your manufactures, and by this means prevent your own starving population from gaining the e ploy mnent which would be necessary on such an accession of customers: Enable us to monopolise the traffic in sugar, and you will thereby enable yourself to throw a large portion of your insular community out of employment !" That in literal and honest truth is the substance of the requisition of these colonial protectionists ; that is the simple tendency of Lord GEORGE BENTINCK'S amendment ; and that, moreover, is the tendency—unconscious, we believe—of the clever and gentlemanly remon strance of the Hon. GRANTLEY F. BERKELEY. In protesting against the proposed reductions in the differential duties as " unjust and impo litic," the colonialists altogether overlook the broad groundwork of injustice and impolicy upon which those differential duties were originally modelled. They forget that by thus en deavouring to pamper a few cargoes of Hill Coolies, they are doing everything that can well be done to promote the starvation and destitution of whole generations of their fellow-countrymen i❑ the three kingdoms. Charity is hinted at by these lovers of protection and these worshippers of civil liberty. Charity, so be it. But rather let it be charity to the existent people of England, of Ire land, and of Scotland, than to these possible Hill Coolies! An interesting discussion took place last night in the House of Commons, previous to the reading of the order of the day for going into Committee on the "Death by Accidents Compensation Bill." The great necessity of an alteration in the law was ad mitted on all sides, and j the only question ap peared to be in what manner that altera tion might be most advantageously effected. From the ability and legal knowledge of the several parties who took part in the debate, and the anxiety they seemed to display for the re moval of the inconsistency of the law as it now stands, we entertain a sanguine hope that the prin ciple of the measure, considerably enlarged and ex tended, will soon receive the sanction of the Legis lature. We have already called the public attention to the provisions of the present Bill, and the state of the law which it is intended to remedy ; but where such an important change in the law of the land is contemplated, creating an extraordinary and new responsibility, it cannot be uninteresting again to explain things as they have been, and as it is pro posed they shall be. 1- At present, if any person should receive an injury consequent upon the carelessness, negligence, or wilful act of another, he may maintain an action and recover damage for the injury so sustained against the party by or through whose default it was inflicted, but if he died in consequence, the civil remedy became merged, and no compensation could be recovered. Originally a personal action died with the person, but now, and for some time past, the per sonal representatives of a party deceased might main tain actions for damages to his personal property, or, in some instances, to his real estate. It is difficult to assign any satisfactory reason for such a distinction, and the object of the present Bill is to extend the principle, and to enable the representa tives of a person who had sustained an injury which ended in his death to recover damages in the same way as he himself would have been entitled, had he survived. We cannot understand, however, why it was proposed to exclude from the operation of the Act cases of murder. Is it because the criminality of the delinquent is greater that the remedy should be taken away? It would ap pear as if it was intended to save duellists from the operation of the law, a class of persons to whom its provisions would be more applicable, and might more advantageously be extended, than to any other what soever, against whom a similar law has been most beneficially acted on in France, and which, if in force in this country, might go far to dimi nish the pernicious practice. We are happy to perceive that the late Attorney-General (Sir F. THESIQER) exposed this inconsistency in the Bill, and suggested its amendment in that particular. The Lord Advocate of Scotland explained the law in that country, and mentioned a case wherein he had, as counsel for a railway company, advised a compromise of an action brought against them, by which 1,0001. was given to each of the children of the deceased person, besides a large sum paid to the widow. We do not quite approve of the law as it is in Scotland, although we admit it to be far preferable to that which has hitherto existed in England : there the jury, by their verdict apportion the damages, as they think proper, amongst the sur viving relatives. Suits of this kind, however, eould not be brought by or for the benefit of the creditors of the deceased, nor could they receive any advantage from the amount of the verdicts. Now we cannot see the jus tice of this limitation. Surely the parties who have advanced their money to any man, with a moral cer tainty of being paid the amount from the exertions of the debtor, have sustained a serious] loss by his death, for which they should be entitled to obtain :a] recompense from the per son by whom that death was occasioned, by whose default they have been deprived of the means of obtaining payment of their demands. We think that in all cases the action should be brought by the executors or administrators of the deceased party, and by them only ; thus the evils consequent upon a multiplicity of actions would be avoided, and the amount recovered should be treated as assets of the deceased, and distributed in a due course of administration, precisely as if the party had re ceived the amount during his lifetime, and died immediately afterwards : this would be just to all par ties, the creditors would receive the amount of their demands, and the surplus would be applied according to the terms of his will, or if he died intestate, ac cording to the provisions of the statute of distribution. The further consideration of the Bill, as well as that of the Deodands Abolition Bill, with which it is intimately connected, was postponed until Monday next. It is probable that both Bills will then be referred to a Select Committee, on which there will be placed some of the gentlemen acquainted with the practical working of the Scotch law, by whom the details of the measure will be fully considered and revised. 'The Hon. Member for Kilmarnock, by whom the Bills were brought forward, has every reason to be satisfied with the manner in which they were received by the House. And, although some defects may exist in their present frame, it could scarcely be expected that matters of such consequence, effecting so great changes in the English law, could be brought forward in the first instance in a perfect state, under the auspices of a private Member. He has called the public attention to the evil, and it will be to his exertions that the improvements which may be effected will be in a great degree owing. Mr. WAKLEY mentioned a curious case respecting deodands, in the course of his speech : it was that of an accident on the London and,Birmingham Railway, where a deodand of 2,0001 was given against the Company. He took the precaution of laying the inqui • sition before an eminent barrister, whose very name would satisfy the public that every precaution which legal skill and ingenuity could suggest would be adopted to insure success. It was, however, immediately quashed, and set aside in the Court of Queen's Bench. No stronger case could possibly be adduced to prove the impossibility of carrying out the existing law relating to deodands. For some years past various plans have been pro posed fer turning the products of the metropolitan sewage to profitable account, and by so doing to save the Thames from the pollution of the filth of London, which (at least all of it that is soluble) is distributed by the various water companies to the inhabit ants of the metropolis, as pure water fitted for domestic purposes. Under the present system the inhabitants of London are poisoned, and manure of infinitely more value than all the guano that has ever been imported is wasted. Thanks, however, to the persevering efforts of the Metropolitan Sewage Company, both these evils will be remedied. The ce ipnoornt s o , f t o t h we h S i e c l h ec t t he Co ß m il m i i o t f te t e h o e f m th et e ro h p i o o l u it s a e n o s f e C w o a rn ge - Manure Company was referred, is a most valuable document. The Committee report that they have considered the scheme proposed by the Metropolitan Sewage Manure Company, for carrying away the re fuse of the Ranelegh and King's Scholars' Pond Sewers, and rendering it available for agricultural purposes, and that they recommend the House to con sent to the second reading of the proposed Bill. In all the plans for collecting sewage manure which have hitherto been propounded, it has been proposed to Erect tanks or reservoirs for the reception of the sewage. Tho erection of these reservoirs has always been strenuously opposed by the owners and occupiers of neighbouring lands and houses. The Metropolitan Sewage Company, however, although at first de sirous of having the power of erecting such reservoirs, have now relinquished it altogether. " No reservoir, tank, or catch-pond can be constructed by the company under the proposed Act. The sewage will be conveyed in a covered shaft from the main sewer into the well, from which an engine will pump it into iron pipes. This process will be carried on in a closed building, and any fcetid exhalations from the liquid during the short period it remains exposed to the atmosphere, will be conveyed into the furnace of the steam-engine. Any silt deposited in the well by the running water will likewise be removed froth the well within this covered building. The station-house will not, therefore, be a cause of nuisance, and the liquid will be removed in a far lees offensive state than that in which it is now found, when backed in the open sewer by the high tide, and stagnating for hours together in the immediate vicinity of an inhabited district, to be afterwards poured forth at low tide into the open bed of the river." Thus, therefore, will a great public benefit be secured without the infliction of any private evil. But, although the inhabitants of the metropolis will greatly benefit by the removal of this pollution, the advantage which will accrue to them is small indeed in comparison with that which the agricultural in terest will derive. "It is true (as is observed by the Committee) that this measure has lost something of its efficiency, in consequence of the abandonment of the reservoirs. The result of this concession is, that no more sewage can be drawn at any time from the drains than can be disposed of at the moment to the agriculturist ; but even this comparatively imperfect measure will try a great experiment, and if the confident expectations of your committee are accomplished, it will not fail ultimately to realise all the advantages which were originally contem plated. DlrlDickenson has proved the efficiency of liquid manures. The meadows of Edinburgh and of Mansfield have shown the power of sewage water. Mr. Thompson, of Clitheroe, and Mr. Harvey, of Glasgow, have established the fact that liquid manure may be applied at a cheap rate, by means of the mechanical contrivance of service-pipes and hoses, to crops in every stage of their growth." It is in the application of the liquid manures of great cities, supplied at a cheap rate, that the agri cultural interest will find a compensation, and more than a compensation, for any loss they may sustain by a repeal of the corn-laws ; indeed, there is every reason to hope that by the judicious application of the sewage manure, which has hitherto been suffered to run to waste, the fertility of the soil will be so in- England will n o t on l y pro d uce a suf ficiency for the consumptio n o f h er popu l a ti on , cre a sed, o t f h c a o t but that she may become, as she was a century since, a corn exporting country. The sewage of great cities is a mine of unexplored wealth, the value of which no man can calculate. Wisely, therefore, have the Committee acted in introducing into the Bill the following provision : " 2. That the state should reserve to itself the power of resuming its entire property in the sewage, after a certain period, upon conditions to be specified in the Bill." The King of PRUSSIA has issued an ordonnance, confirming, definitively, M. DE BoDELscuwiNou, in the office of the Minister of the Interior, the duties of which he has performed for the last two years. This ordonnance proves that the rumours that were in circulation, that M. D'ARMIN was about to resume the portfolio of the Interior are without foundation. The new Minister is much more liberal in his ideas than M. D'ARNIIN. The Augsburg Gazette has the following from Vienna, 12th inst. :—" Mr. WAGIIORN has addressed to the Ambassadors of Prussia, Bavaria, and Wurtem burg, a circular, stating that Germany should lose no time in establishing, as soon as possible, a railroad between the Adriatic and the North Seas, if she wishes to prevent the superiority of France, which proposes to form a line from Marseilles to Boulogne. Mr. WAGHORN requests the Ambassadors to transmit his circular to their respective Governments." The St Petersburgh Gazette publishes the following account of an engagement which took place in the Caucasus on the 24th May:— " Lieut.-Colonel Sousloff, commanding the regiment of Cos sacks of Grebensk, having received intelligence that a large body of Circassian cavalry had made their appearance at Akboulat Yourt, a village situate on the right bank of the Teneck, immediately marched on the threatened point, and, reckoning on the co-operation of the moveable column o Colonel Baron Meller Zakomelsky, crossed the river. Im patient to fall in with the enemy, Lieut. Colonel Sousloff ad vanced with seven officers and 82 Cossacks, without waiting for the remainder of his regiment. After proceeding about eight versts this handful of heroes discovered the vedettes of the rebels, and were immediately surrounded on all sides. The only choice for them was a disgraceful flight or an ho nourable death. The Cossacks did not hesitate a moment, but, dismounting, stabbed their horses and made a rampart of their bodies. In vain did more than 1,500 mountaineers led on by the fanatic Naibs, make repeated charges on them ; the Cossacks remained firm, and repulsed every attack by a murderous fire. This unequal combat lasted more than two hours. The Cossacks had five men killed and forty-nine wounded, as well as all their officers except Lieutenant- Colonel Sousloff and Major Kamboff, the latter of whom re ceived some severe contusions. By this time the Cossacks had expended all their ammunition, and were, by the orders of their valiant chief, preparing their poignards to resist a last attack which the enemy were preparing to make, when some bodies of Russian infantry advanced from different points to their rescue, and the rebels, fearing to be in their turn surrounded, fled for refuge to the mountains." The Grand Duchess OLGA of Russia was married on the 7th instant at the Palace of Peterhoff to the Prince Royal of Wirtemburg. Intelligence has been received from Rome to the 11th instant. The Government Commissioners have negatived the proposition for disbanding the Swiss troops by a ma. jority of two. There is to be a railway communica tion established between the Adriatic and the Medi terranean, by means of a Rome and Ancona and a Rome and Civita Vecchia Railway. The POPE has given his consent to the construction of these railways, and it is said that his HOLINESS will likewise sanction a line to the Legations. There is some delay in the appointment of Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs. Austria protests against the ap pointment of Cardinal Gizzi, and recommends Prince ALTIEEI, formerly Nuncio at Vienna, fur that post• This recommendation is protested against by Count Rossi, the French Ambassador, who supports the pre tensions of Cardinal Gizzi. Don MiGuEL, who is living at Rome, in a state of great distress, had a pri vate audience of his HOLINESS a short time since, for the purpose of soliciting a continuance of the pension of 3,000 scudi, which had been allowed to him by the late POPE. A concordat has been agreed on between Spain and Rome, dependent, however, on the adoption by the Spanish Cortes of a measure for the dotation of the clergy. Madrid papers to the 16th have arrived. The star of Don ENRIQUE seems at present in the ascendant, and the friends of Don FRANCISCO de PAULA are about to establish a journal, conducted on moderate Progressista principles, for the purpose of advocating his claims. There were rumours in Madrid of dis turbances having broke out in the Basque provinces, but they were not generally credited. The following from Lisbon, of the date of July 11, is given in the Ileraldo.:— " The Portuguese emigrants this day made their entry into the capital, on which occasion the Septembrist party made a great display of their forces. Some seditious cries were even heard. The Patrieta, a journal opposed to the present idinistry, says that the country is in a deplorable state, and that a fresh revolution is inevitable, unless the Government changes its course of proceeding. M. Fonseca Magalhaes, who has succeeded in escaping from Coimbra, arrived at Lisbon on the 9th. The movement at Coimbra has, it is said, been succeeded by another at Santarem, the junta of which would not dissolve itself. At Coimbra the inhabitants of the country round had armed themselves for the defence of the town, in case the Government should act against them. While the Radical party triumphs at Coimbra the Miguelist party every day acquires fresh strength in Oporto and in the Algarves, and a serious colli sion between the people and the troops is anticipated. At Elvas the corps in garrison do not seek to conceal their dis content, and the Government, fearing a fresh pronunciamiento, had ordered General Celestine to that place. , 1 _MADRID BOLSA, JULY 16.—The TihrteheopesrhaCreenatnsf. were done at ail for cash ; the Five 6nd t p h e o r se Ce n n f ts.at the Bank a t n h k e Debt without San }wi,tehronuatnldo Interest at stat i ; a Isa bel at 208. We have received the Paris papers of Tuesday, the leading articles of the whole of which are devoted exclusively to the approaching elections. The Prince DE JOINVILLE and his squadron were, on the 12th, at Lampedosa, steering towards Tripoli. It is expected that his Royal Highness will visit Alexandria before he returns to Toulon. A fatality seems at present to attend the French railways. We find the following in the Journal de la Somme "About four o'clock on Saturday evening, at the moment of a heavy shower, a portion of the tunnel of the Amiens and Boulogne Railway, situate in front of the convent of the Sisters of Mercy, suddenly fell in. The accident was attri buted to various causes, which, however, we shall not men tion, as they will most certainly be strictly inquired into by pie chief engin eer c harged with t he direction of the work;. The storm had most fortunately caused the workmen to quit the tunnel, otherwise a great loss of life would have most pro bably ensued." These repeated accidents have caused quite a panic among the railway speculators on the Bourse. The Three per Cents. closed at 83f. 10c. ; the Five per Cents., 121 f. 65c. ; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1 8 , 8 2 f 6 . 2 76 . e 5. 0 ; c. Ag ; Avignon, 855 f. ; Havre, 660 E ; Great North ern, 855 f. ; Vierzon, 595 f. ; Bordeaux , 522 f. 5 6 oc. ; Boulogne, 450 f. ; Troves and Montereau, 367 f. 50c. ; Basle, 215 f. ; Fampeux, 407 t 50c. ; Paris and Strasburg , 480 f. ; Tours and Nantes, 482 f. 50f.; Paris and Lyons, 493 f. 75c. ; Spanish Domestic Debt, 32. The following are the quotations for the new lines Lyons and Avignon Detinitives, 470 E ; Bordeaux and Cette ditto, 460 f. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN . RAILWAYS AT TUE LONDON. STOOK EXCHANGE, I uLIC 22. BOalogn9 and Amiens, 12—Lyon an 4 Avignon, —Namur ad Liege, 3—Northern of France Constituted, 12 ex d.—Orleans and Bordeaux, 7—Paris and Lyons Constituted, s—Rouen and Havre, 26 --Sambre and Meuse, 4—West Flanders, 3%, MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The Cotton market at Liverpool yesterday was firm. Sales 5,000 to 6,000 bales. Shares were steady. The following report on the state of the weather, &c., is from Ceylon :—" While on the continent of India our neigh bours are complaining that the few partial showers which had occurred are insufficient to allay the apprehensions r f dearth raised by a previous drought of six months' duration, the S.W. monsoon has burst with more than ordinary force on the southern portion of Ceylon. At Colombo more rain has fallen within the last fortnight than fell in the same period for very many years; and the results have been several land slips, and the tumbling down of sundry houses and walls. The wind has blown down a few trees in the neighbourhood of Colombo, and a great many valuable bread-fruit, cocoanut, and other fruit trees have been de stroyed at Galle, and on the southern coast generally. We hope the eastern and northern provinces have not been passed over in the late down-peurings. " We regret to learn that some coffee estates in the interior are infested by a species of insects well known in the West India Islands as being not a little injurious to the plants. They have already extended their ravages from Kandy up to Puselava. We hope soon to learn that the creatures are not destructive enough to be of any consequence, or that means have been discovered of arresting their progress." There is no particular alteration in the Money Market, and the rate of interest continues steady, without the probability of its being acted upon in any other way than by the mere force of demand,— that is to say, the Bank of England will no doubt act as a free competitor with the other moneyed establishments in the City. The Stock Market is very flat again, and there is a de cline of % per cent. in the quotations, money bargains having been effected at 95 1 4 )6, and time transactions at 95% %. Exchequer-bills have realised lit. to 15s. pre mium. The New Three-and-a-Quarter r Cents• have been 97 1 % to %, and the Three per Cents. 95% %. Bank Stock has been less firm at 207% to 200%. The Foreign Investments are heavy. Spanish Five per Cents. realise 24 1 /i, Portuguse Four per Cents. 46, and Mexican, 26. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. have realised 5914.. Shares are in most instances again flat, both the old lines and scrips being affected. Foreign scrip is in some respects not quite so flat as yesterday. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Bank Stock .. • . 207% 208% Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. 95% %% Three per Cent. Consols Annuities .. 95% New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anna. 9 734 % % Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 .. 10% 5-16 Ditto, 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859 .. 10 3-16 India Bonds, 1,000/. .. . Ditto, under 1,000/. . . 25 South Sea Stock .. • • .. . 1053 Ditto, Old Annuities • . • • . 944 Consols for Account . 95% % % Exchequer Bills. I%d. I 1,000/. .. •• 11 15 11 pm. 500/. .. .. • • 11 15 11 pm. Ditto, Small .. 11 15 11 pm. PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS IT ONE O'CLOCK. Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent • • Ditto, for the Account • • .. 26 Portuguese Four per Cent • . 46 Ditto, for the Account .. 45 Russian Bonds, 5 per Cent .. 112 Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent. 24% Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 59% Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 94% 34 BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SIiABE. Amber., Notting.,Boston, & Eastrn Jn. 2%.... 3 , 4 to Birmingham and Oxford Junction. .. 2 .... 4%.... to 5 Bristol and Exeter .. .• • • .. 75 ••• • .... to Ditto, New .. .. 5 .... 9 .... to Bristol and Gloucester • • .. .. 30 .... 52% . to Buckinghamshire .• .. • . 425. •• • • % dis. to Caledonian .. .. 20 .... 12% 13 to 12% Ditto Half Shares .. • . 2% •• • • % .. to Ditto Extension .• • .. .. 2% •. • • 1%.. • . to Direct Manchester (Remington's) • • 2% •• • • %••.. to Direct Northern • • • • • • .. • • 2 3Y •• • • 1 •• • • to % Eastern Counties • • • • .. 14/. 16s. 0d..... 24% .... to 24 Ditto, New • . .. • . 10/. 16s. 0d... • • 7% p• • to Do., Perpetual, 5 per Ct. No. 1, 61 13s. 4d. • • p.. to Ditto, York Extension . • • • • • 10s. •• • • 2 .• • . to 1% Eastern Union .• • . .. • • • • 30 ••• • to Ditto, Cambridge and Ely • • .. 23, % to Exeter, Yeovil and Dorcnester ~ 5% • . 3% •• • to Great North of England • • .. • • 100 232 .... to Ditto, New •• • • •• •• 10 .• 45% .... to Great Western .. • • .. 85 •• • • 150 • • to Ditto Half Shares • 50 .... 84 .... to Ditto, Quarter Shares • • .. 10 22% .... to 21% Guildford, Fareham, and Portsmouth 5 •• • • 5% to Hull and Selby • • • • .• 50 —106% •. • • to Leeds and Bradford .. • • .. • • 26 67 .. • • to 69 Leicester and Bedford 225. % dis. to Leicst., Tam., Bin, & Trent Val. June. 425. 1% dis. to 1 dis. Liverpool, Mauch, and Newc. Junct. •• • • 1% %.. to London and Birmingham ..100 ....229 .... to Ifitto. Quarter Shares .• .. 2 .... 32 • • to London and Blackwell .• 161. 13s. 4d. • 814% .. to Lowdon and Brighton • • • • .. 50 - • - • - •: -. 65 -...: to 64% London and Croydon .. .. 13/. 15s. 9d. .... 23 .. to London and South-Western 411. 60. 10d. • • .. 78% .... to 79 London and York . .• .. 236 .... 1 ••• • to % London, Salisbury, and Yeovil • • • • 2% •• • 1 ...• to Lynn and Dereham .. • • .. .. 15 . • • 11 .... to Manchester and Leeds • • • • • 82 .. • • .... to Ditto, Fifths • • .. .• .• .. 3 .... 11% •• .. to Manchester and Birmingham .. .. 40 .... 84 .... to 85 Ditto, Quarter Shares (C) • • .. 1 ... • 11 •• .. to 10% Manehester, Buxton, and Matloek - • 425..... %p• • to % p Manchester and Southampton .. 2 .. • • 1% %• • to Midland ..100 ... to 148 Ditto, New • • • • • • • • • • 24 .... 383. .... to 38 Ditto, Birmingham and Derby ..100 ....121 •••• to Newcastle and Darlington Junction .. 25 .... 46 •• • to 45 Ditto, New .. .• 1 12% 11% 12% to 11% Ditto, New, Brandling .. • • •• 25 .. • . 44% to Newcastle and Berwick .• • • •• 15 .... 26%.... to Norfolk • • .. .• • • .. • • .. 20 . •- .• to Ditto, Tenths .. 2 .... '2%.... to Ditto, Extension .. • • .. .. 2 .... 2 .... to North British .. • . 22% .... 35% %.. to Ditto, Half Shares • • .. 8% 13%%, to Ditto, Carlisle: Extension • • 1% .. • . 2 %%% to North Kent and Direct Dover • • .. 2y e .. • .• .. to North Staffordshire •• • • • • .. 425. •• 3% p•• to 3 p Northampton, Banbury, & Cheltnam. 2 1% •• • • to Oxiord, Worcester, & Wolverhampton 1234 •• .. 73434.. to Portsmouth Direct • • • • • • • • 3% •• • • 34 3434 Preston and Wyre • • • • • • 25 .... . .. to Ditto, Half Shares .. • • •• - • • 2% .... 7 •• .. to Reading, Guildford, and Reigate • . 425..... 1% die. to Richmond .• • • • • • • • • • • 10 •• • • 18 •• .• to Shrewsbury and Birmingham •• . • 2 34 •• • • 2 •• .. to Shropshire Union . 425... • • 1% Vie. to South Midland • .. 425. %%%p to South Eastern and Dover •. •• 33 34 .... 44 1 .... to Ditto, New. No. 1 .• • • • • • 16 . 22 .... to Ditto, New, No. 2 • • .. .• .. 10 15 ... to Ditto, New, No. 4 • • • • .. .. 234 .. • . 334 .... to South Wales .. • • • • • . .. 5 .... 1%.... to West Riding Union .. . 425... • . 2 1 4 % p to Wisbeach and St. Ives .• • • .. 2 •• • • 2%3. • • to York and North Midland •• 50 •• .. .... to Ditto, Extension .. • • .. .. 15 .• • . 41% • • • to Ditto East and West Riding Extension 1 .... 149..., to 14 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Boulogne and Amiens • • • • .. 14 •• • • 11%% .. to Luxembourg • • • • • . •• .. 4 •• • 1h • ... to Northern of France Constituted • • 5 •• • • 12% 34% to Orleans and Bordeaux • • • • • • 6 •• • • 6% .• • • to 7% Paris and Lyons Constituted • • .. 5 .• .• s % to 8% MINES Real del Monte, Unregistered .. 3%. •• to LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.)• LONDON, JULY 23.—Wind south, moderate breeze, and tine. DEAL, JULY 23, A.M. Wind N.W., P.M. W.S.W.—Arrd. Mary, Quebec ; Somerset, Forster, Teneriffe. Arrd. from the River, Hope, Underhill, New Zealand ; Rattler, Goldsmith, Hobart Town ; Sumatra, Duncan, Ceylon; Camillus, Sprague, Demerara; Omega, Radians, St. John's, New Brunswick; John Clark, Disbrow, ditto Glasgow, Somerville, Quebec. Arrd. from the River, and W.. Southampton, Bowen, Calcutta ; Malabar, Parr, Bombay, PORTSMOUTH, JULY 22.—Wind W. to W.N.W.—Arrd. Wellington, Chadwick, New York, and sailed for London ; Cumberland, Bruce, Quebec. Cowes, JULY 22.—Arrd. Malrona, Jargenson, Matanzas. Cumming, Rio SOUTHAMPTON, JOLT 21.—Arrd. Florence, Bromage, Prince Ed ward's Island ; 22, Princess Victoria, Mainland, Pugwash. Sierra Leone, aJiuidLysaj2l2eHolmes, Grande. Sid. J s u an LY dw 2 i 2 th — , 31 W a in ii d n, t. t 1 . 1r i — uc A. ia rr ; d. Qu J e a e t l i z e l, , ,i C et u o m ri m a, LIVERPOOL, JULY 22. Wind N.W.—Arrtl. Mary Hannah, Bexley, d Africa ; Bombay Packet, Cornish, Old Calabar, sld. May 9 ; Reis 22.--Wind u f d o r SIV Liverpool A r r ; d hope,King Effendi, Fatherland, Nassau; Hope, Soule, New Orleans; John Wickliffe, Daly, ditto ; Zanoire, Sims, ditto ; Emblem, Smith, ditto ; Georgians, Bchm, ditto ; Brewster, Linco.n, :Mobile • Salem, Milford, ditto ; Michigan, Mason , ditto ; Palmyra, Barslow;ditto ; Reliance, Swinton, ditto ; Dunbarton, Pendleton, Apalachicola ; Elizabeth, Barclay, New York ; Amity, Pugwash ; Choice, Robertson, Montreal; Aberdeen, M'Grath, Quebec ; Harriet, Williams, Newfoundland. Coquette, Wittington, Africa ; Ranger, Bahia ; Huron , Sebbeson, Montreal. Off port, John M'Lellan. CLYDE, JULY 21.—Arrd. Herald, Ream , St. J ohn's, Newfound land. Sld. 20th, Highlander, M'Muilan, Antigua; reside , Quebec. MILFORD, JULY 21.—The Fidelity, Rowlands , fr om Fishguard to this pert, missed stays, drove on the rocks outside St. Ann's Bead, and is expected to become a total wreck. OFF Doves., JULY 22.—Martha, Lynn, St. John's, New Bruns wick, for Yarmouth. DARTMOUTH, JULY 22.—Wind W.—Arrd. Emerald, Miramichi. BIDEFORD, JULY 22.—Arrd. British Lady, Prince Edward's Island. BRISTOL, JULY 22.—Wind W.N.W., fresh.—Arrd. Falcon, Hutchins, Buctouche ; Thetis, Robinson, liuctouche. AYE, JULY 20.—Sid. Princess Victoria, Walker, Itichebugto ; Sam son, 3lurdoch, Miramichi. Conn, JULY 20.—Wind B.W.—Arrd. 19, Bridgetown, Betty, Quebec ; 20, Ellen and Margaret, Jones, St. John's, New Bruns wick ; Joseph Porter, Reid, ditto ; Laurel, Potter, Pugwash ; May flower, Cochrane, Cumberland, Nova Scotia. LIMERICK, JULY 20.—Arrd. Roberts, Duncan, Miramichi. CLARE, JULY 21.—Harriet, Rose, Miramichi ; Oberon, Quebec. POOLE, JULY 21.—Arrd. George, Kiftin, Newfoundland. Sld. 20, Albion, Green, Newfoundland. OFF SaLcostne, JULY 20.—Baros, Borchers, Java; Therese, New Orleans for Antwerp. FALMOOTH, JOLT 21.—Arrd. Princess Victoria, Quebec for South ampton. MostaLns, JULY 20.—Arrd. Matthew Harrison, Quebec. PWLLHELI, JULY 20.—Arrd. Royal William, Francis, Quebec. KiLausu, JULY 20.—Wind S.S.E.—Arrd. Ariel, Steward, Mira michi ; llarriet, Rose, Miramichi ; Governor, Gorman, Quebec. HULL, JULY 22.—Wind W.S.W.—SId. Byzautian, Thurtell, Syra. Ilaswicu, JULY 22.—The Ninus, of Scarborough, bound to London, got on shore on the Cork Sand this morning, but was afterwards assisted off, and proceeded without damage. MARKET NE WS. -(THIS DAY.) UHT 111/I.l2oCairra. SMITHFIELD —Meaclow Ilay, 3/ Os to 41; Clover ditto, 4/ to 51 15s ; Oat Straw, 11 120 to 11 14s ; Wheat Straw, 11 14s to 11 16s per load. Both Hay and Straw moved off slowly, at our quotations. CUMBERLAND.—Meadow Hay, 31 to 4/ ; Clover ditto, 41 to 5/ 14s ; Oat Straw, 1/ 12s to 11 145 ; Wheat Straw, 11 14s to 11 16s per load. Supply good, and trade rather dull. WRITECHAPEL.—Meadow Hay, 3/ to 41; Clover ditto, 41 to Si 183 ; Oat Straw, 11 12s to 1/ 14s ; Wheat Straw, 11 Ibs to 11 16s per load. A full average supply, and a sluggish demand. Now Meadow Hay was selling at from 21 lOs to 31 12s, and New Clover, 315 s to 4/ 15s per load. MEAT MAREET. on offer this morning ; yet the tra de was firm, as follows : SouTtIALL, JULY 22.—We had a full aver a g e supply of fat stock Beef, from 2s 6d to 4s Od ; Mutton, 3s Gd to 40 4d ; Lamb, 4s 8d to 58 gd ; Veal, 3s 8d to 4s 4d ; and York, 3s 45 to 4s 6d per Sibs, to sink the offal. ROMFORD, JULY 22.—Prime beasts and sheep commanded a steady sale, at full prices. Otherwise the demand was in a very sluggish state. Beef from 2s Gd to 4s ; Mutton, 35 42 to 40 4d ; Lamb, 45 8d to 58 10,1 ; Veal, 3s 8d to 4s 4d ; and Pork, 3s 10d to 4s Gd per Sibs. Suckling Calves, 185 to 29s ; Quarter-old Store Pi g s, 16s to 195 ; and Mitch C ows, with their small Calf, 16/ to 191 each. Iliftsuard, JULY 22 . — Bee f, from 3s to 4s 2d ; Mutton, 3s to 4s 4d; average i,ad s uapsptley,, steady and demand ast trade.eady fo r most kinds of stock to-clay, on the following terms : —B ee f, fr o m 3 s to 4 s ; Mutton, Lamb, 4s 8d to 5 s 8d ; Veal, 3s Gd to 4s 4d ; and Pork, 3s lid to 4s A G ß d u p s e n r 3s to 4s 4d ; Lamb , 5 s t o 5s 8d ; and Veal, 3s Gd to 43 4d per 81 bs. CutcuasTee, JULY 22.—Prime Beasts and Sheep were in steady EL, request, at full prices. In other k i nds of stock , very little was . s J . UL A Y fair2l . r,re doing. Beef from 2s 8,1 to 4s ; Mutton, 3s to 48 4d ; Lamb, 53 bs 8d ; Veal , 23 8 d to 4 s 4 d ; and Pork, 3s 4d to 4s 6d per t° Bibs S uc kling Calves, 18s to 29s ; Quarter-old Store Pigs, 16 * to 19s Mitch Cows, with their small Calf , 16 / to 18 / each. ; and - Laatm fullb, 4s pr ii i d ce t s o . 58 33 8 et tl f ; 3s Gd to NEWGATE AND LEADENBALL. We had a full average supply of each kind of meat on s a l e ; yet the •, from 2s 4(1 to 4s ; and Pork, 3s 4 d to 4 s 8 d per 81 bs, by the car case. 2s wa B s d t s o te 4 a s d3 ; ', ea6edr;alMduetmtoann,d CORN AVERAGES. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN For the Week ended July n 18, 1846, made up f rom the Returns of the Inspectors in the different Cities and Tofts in Eicgland and Walea per Imperial Quarter. I WHEAT] BARLEY] OATS , RYE. I BEANS. I PEAS. PRICE •• 505 10d 275 10d 23i Od 365• 53 389 2d 365 4d DUTY 65 04 46 Od 13 64 43 Od 43 Od Od HOUSE OF LORDS.-(THIS DAY.) Their Lordships sat in a Committee for Privileges to-day. The Peers in attendance were the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Shaftesbury, Lord Lyndhurst, Lord Campbell, the Earl of Effingham, the Earl of Kinnoul, and Lord Vaux of Harrowden. THE PERTH PEERAGE. This case came before their Lordships upon the petition to the Queen of George Drummond, now Duke of Melfort, in France, claiming the title of Earl of Perth, in Scotland, as the heir male general of James, the first Earl of Perth, who was created in the year 1605. The title was limited to him and his heirs male. He had issue an only daughter, Lady Jane Drummond, who was afterwards mar ried to John Earl of Sutherland. On the death of the first Earl, the title descended to his brother, who sat in Parlia ment in the reigns of James the Sixth and Charles the First. The fourth Earl of Perth filled the office of Lord Chancellor of Scotland in the reigns of Charles and James the Second ; he was imprisoned in Stirling Castle after the Revolution, but by a warrant of the Lords of the Privy Council in June, 1693, he was released, upon giving security to de part the realm by the 15th of August following, and not to return 'without the license of their Majesties or the Privy Council. He left Scotland in obedience to this undertaking, and subsequently joined the Court which James the Second held at St. Germains. Shortly afterwards King James issued letters patent by which he purported to create , the Earl Duke of Perth and Marquis of D rummon d, an d I those titles were at all times afterwards borne by the Earl and his heirs male of his body until the ex tinction of his male issue in 1760. The Earl and his male heirs were received and accepted as Duke of Perth, at the Court of France. James Earl of Perth, styled Duke ot Perth, died at St. Germ. ins on the 11th of May, 1716, and in consequence of the attainder of his son, Lord Drum mond, in 1715, the dignity of Earl of Perth, on his decease, became dormant. On the death of John, stfled Duke of Perth, the male issue of James, the attainted Lord Drum mond, failed, and it was contended for the claimant that on that occasion the earldom of Perth, vested in John Drummond (his brother), as the heir male general of the grantee. John Drummond, the second son of James third Earl of Perth, and next brother of James, the fourth Earl, was created, in 1685, Viscount Melfort, and, in 1686, Earl of Melfort and Lord Forth. A decree of for faultuye was passed against him in the Parliament of Scot land, in July 1695, in consequence of his remaining in France contrary to the provisions of the Act of Parliament in that respect; then recently passed in Scotland ; but that for feiture was not to prejudice the Earl's issue by his first wife. Lord Melfort accompanied James the Second to France, and that King, by letters patent, signed by his own hand, purported to create the Earl Duke of Melfort. On the death of King James, Louis XIV. accepted the Earl of Melfort as Duke of the kingdom of France, and under that he and his issue have ever since been Dukes of France. The present claimant succeeded to that title upon the death of his uncle, Charles Edward Drummond Duke De Melfort, who was a priest and prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, and principally resided at. Rome, where he died in April, 1840. Mr. Fleming appeared for the claimant, and the Attorney- General and the Lord Advocate on behalf of the Crown. After the examination of several witnesses, and the putting in in evidence of several documents, among which was the original letter written by King James IL, granting the dignity of Duke of Melfort, the further consideration of the case was adjourned. This being the last seal, the Equity Courts were occupied the whole day with motions, but nothing of interest came before them. SHERIFFS' COURT.—(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Under-Sheriff BURCIIELL.) MOUNIA V. CAVALLIO. The plaintiff in this action is an hotel-keeper, and the de fendant was described as a vine-grower and wine-merchant at Bordeaux. The demand was for the sum of Si. 17s. for dinner and wine supplied to defendant and his friends. A waiter was called, who proved that on the sth of June last, a person named Paoli called at plaintiff's and ordered a dinner for defendant, and a party of not more than six. The next day defendant and Paoli went at the appointed time, and afterwards some other gentlemen. Defendant left at half-past nine, but the others remained till twelve. The plain tiff took the head of the table, which was, however, said to be customary in French hotels where the master was invited. It was, however, argued for the defendant that he was only to supply the wine, and it was not till he charged for the wine that he was charged with the dinners. Mr. Lewis, an attorney, was called, and proved that Paoli said that he was requested to invite him and other gentlemen to dine, and taste defendant's wines, in the hope that they would prove satisfactory, and lead to a purchase. Witness accordingly dined at plaintiff's; he (witness) having named his house in preference to the South American Coffee House, although Mr. Simmons, the proprietor was to be a guest. Defendant gave the orders whilst in the room. The defendant's attorney said, that after this evidence, which took him by surprise, as it was contrary to his in structions, he must let the case go to the jury. The jury gave a verdict for the amount claimed. BOLT V. STOCK. - _ This was an action to recover the sum of 171. 10& on a bill of exchange. The defence was that it had been ob tained from the defendant by fraud. The defendant was tenant to a Mrs. Myers, against whom a bill in Chancery was files, and in January last a receiver was appointed. The bill was given to Myers on the Ist of March, as it was alleged for rent in anticipation. Notice was subsequently given from the receiver not to pay, and defen dant refused to pay again, and was distrained on in March. The bill was sent to the plaintiff, who is a clerk to Myers' solicitor, and he got it discounted, and it was now contended that there was fraud on the part of Mrs. Myers in getting the bill, and that plaintiff must have been aware of it. The ap pointment of the receiver, and of the distraint by him was not made out, although an order of the court was produced, and the Under-Sheriff, therefore, held that the plea was not made out, and directed a verdict for the plaintiff. RAILWAY COMMITTEES. (THIS DAY). HOUSE 01? LORDS. Room C. LONDON AND GRAVESEND. The Committee on the South-Eastern group of projects assem bled this morning. The Earl of Devon in the chair, with the Duke of Cleveland, the Earl of Craven, Lord Kinnaird, and the Duke of Leeds. Mr. AusTIN opened for the promoters, and stated that this was a line from London to Gravesend, using the line of the Greenwich Railway for about two miles, as far as the Grand Surrey Canal, thence by a detour to Lewisham, skirting Greenwich Park, passing thence to Woolwich, thence to Dartford, and so on, outside I\ orth• fleet to Gravesend. In the contests in the Commons, allusions had been made to the traffic, and although he would not enter into that • subject, thus much . he ought • to observe, that although the fare by the railway was Bd. and 6d. for the respective classes during last year, and the fare by the steam boats was 4d. to Greenwich, the number of passengers by the railway was more than 234 millions, while that by the steam-boats were only 134 millions The time required the boats was half an hour, while by the to get to Greenwich by railway they got in half that time. The time occupied in the passage by the river to Graves end is two hours and a halt', while by the line it would be only three quarters of an hour. The anticipated traffic to Gravesend by the new line would be 3,500,0e0, which, at a fare of Is. each, would give 175,0001. of gross return, and deducting working expenses, at the usual rate of 40 per cent, there would be a net profit of a hundred thousand or a dividend of ten or twelve per cent. He mi g ht furtherguineas, observe, that along the 20 miles which this line ran to Graves end, or the 2834 miles to Rochester, there was a more dense population than on any other line after leaving London for the same distance. For the same distance on the South-Western line the population i s 40,000, on the Great Western line it is 55,000, on the Eastern Counties 41,000, on the Northern and Eastern 55,000, and on the London and Birmingham it is 43,000; while on the Graves end line it is 100,000, or nearly double that of the beat of the other lines. The Learned Gentleman then entered into an explanation of the proposed lines of railway, which, without the plans submitted to their Lordship, would be quite intelligible. It may be sufficient, therefore, to say that the object of the explanation was to assure the Committee that no accident could happen at the junctions of the numerous lines which leave the South-Eastern terminus at London bridge. They reached Woolwich by rounding Greenwich-park. It was preferred to do this to going through the park, because the instruments in the Observatory might have been affected by the passing of the trains. They thence passed at the back of Blackheath, and entered a tunnel of considerable length, reached Woolwich about 165 yards from the Dockyard gates, 65 from the Arsenal ; and from the lowness of the level, by it very ingenious piece of engineer ing, they were enabled to give accommodation by a subv ay both to the Arsenal and Dockyard, with ample opportunity for putting the stores upon the line. From Woolwich they passed over Plumstead Marshes,.within half a mile of the pier at Erith, a level station at •Craytord and another at 'Dartford; they then passed within fifty yards of Erith, where they entered a tunnel of about 160 yards long, and so on to Gravesend. -The steepest gradient would be one In about 120, and the smallest •radius or. a curve 616 yards. The length of the line would be 20 miles one furlong. The estimates for the whole line were 800,0001., and the capital asked fbr is 1,000,0001. The line is devised by Mr. Robert Stephenson and Mr. Bidder, and it was not too much to say that it was most judiciously laid out. In fact, the project was merely to form a connexion be tween London and Gravesend, for at both termini the stations were made. After noticing the intended opposition of the North Rent Company, who lost their Bill in the Commons, he said that he should object to any opposition than that which had reference to the parti cular part of the country which they had desired to obtain. In this petition there was an allegation of the fares being too low, but this was both unfair and ungracious, because though they were low they were quite sufficient for paying a handsome dividend. The only petition of landowners was that of Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid, who was Chairman of the defunct line, and who possessed two small plots of land in the parish of Plumstead, just sufficient, and that was all, to give him a locus standi before the Committee, and for his land there would be a check ready at the bankers the moment it was asked for. The North Kent line had been debated before the Committee nine-and-twenty days during last session, and thirty-four days this session, so that it could not be said that it had not been sufficiently deliberated upon, and it had been thrown out on both occasions. He had said that he objected to any opposition being allowed, or any allusion to the country below Rochester, which he had described as being the ultimate of the present Bill, but he wished particularly and expressly to prevent any supposition that the pro moters of this line were not ready to continue their line all the way to Dover, for that was decidedly their intention as soon as the Par liamentary powers could be obtained for that purpose. Mr. Charles Jones, formerly a civil engineer, and now chairman of the Woolwich Gas Company, testified generally as to the conve nience of the line to that town, stating that there were as many as twenty-seven steam-boats on the river, but those did not run later than nine o'clock at this time of the year, and four o'clock in winter. He also stated the feeling of the inhabitants of the place, all of whom were exceedingly anxious for its formation, and the more es pecially as the lines runni,g along a lower level, gave access to the Arsenal and Dockyard, while on the Other band the North Kent not only would not afford those advantages, but by running on a viaduct would act as a screen. Meetings had been held in favour of the Gravesend line, at which it was resolved to support that project. On cross-examination by Mr. Gounesin, it appeared that there had been a change this year in the North Kent project, which made it less objectionable than formerly to the inhabitants of Woolwich. . . On re-examination by Mr. MERBEWETHER,the witness stated that the North Kent Company had not resolved to go to Woolwich till the project of the South-Eastern Company bad been published. Mr. dough, clerk of the Arsenal at Woolwich, and one of the town commissioners of Woolwich, stated that both the proposed hues had been submitted to that body, and that of the South-Eastern had been unanimously approved. In his opinion, this line would be very con venient for putting stores on the line, both from the Arsenal and the Dockyard. Room D. This Committee met to-day at a quarter to twelve o'clock, the Committee not being constituted till that hour, when the further consideration of the GLASGOW, EumrarEs, AND CARLISLE was resumed. On the admission of the parties and counsel, The CHAIMAN said he had received a letter from Mr. Hope John stone, the Chairman of the Caledonian Railway Company, which 1 e had already submitted to the Committee, and which he would ucw read. It was to the following effect : (Copy.) " Caledonian Railway-office. 28, Parliament-street, " London, 22d July, 1846. " My LOrds,—As Chairman of the Caledonian Railway Company, I feel it to be my duty to state to your Lordship, that the decision of the Committee over which you preside has so greatly surprised the parties interested in the Caledonian Itailway, and has rendered our position as opponents of the Dumfries Bill so difficult, that 1 venture to solicit, through your Lordship, the permission to state the gennds on which we would ask a reconsideration of that decision. I would beg at the same time to avail myselfof the opportunity of endeavouring to re move a mistaken impression which appears to have been made on your Lordship and the other members of the Committee on the Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle Railway Bill, that we are desirous of interfer ing with the local accommodation of the country between Cumnock and Dumfries. My object in now addressing your Lordship is to show that we have not any intention or wish to do so. " It is true that we are in possession of evidence which we believe will satisfy the Committee that the estimates of the cost of the line in question are quite inadequate for the construction of it, and that the local traffic is not such as to maintain the railway independently of through traffic. That evidence we propose to adduce to-morrow and next day ; but our sole object in continuing the opposition is to secure to the Caledonian Railway that protection against competition In through traffic, to Whitt NY! MI Atrogly Wm we , at iu.d. To MO r efer, show your Lordship that this is not m e rely our view, T - w_ Board the marked passages in the :ac com p an ying report of Trade on these schemes last year. " In evidence of this, I may refer to prop osa l s repeatedly ma ngl our part, both before and since th e commenc ement of the Pr° c ' e ro. in the present session, that we wou ld w ithd ra w our oppositionio the vided the promoters of the und er t a ki ng wou ld limit their ia; te tbo town of Dumfries, leaving the C a l e d on i an Company to cola' d di e communication between that town and Carlisle. the " I am now about to afford to your Lordship and greater mittee a further proof of our sincerity by a st ill resete a concession on our part. The port of Annan has been re u l; „ f their by the promoters as one important and essential termini line; and although we have heretofore considered ours W ool " lo ald to the measure of protection which a branch to Dualfr_ te ! rep osed afford us, we are willing to withdraw our opposition to the Le from line between Cumnock and Annan, if the remainder of the •l":,„ the Annan to Gretna be conceded to the Caledonian, together with to Canobie branch. It is clear that the side branches from tn e thia line of the Caledonian Railway to Annan and to Canobie are_ .e d to the Caledonian Company's peculiar district, and we are Pr 11 00 give any pledge the Committee may think proper, that We 9 s o eor session apply to Parliament for the requisite powers, an d „ te at tb struct these lines, in case a n y f orma l diffi cu lty should Pr; ie degillh transfer of those portions of the proposed line to the C Company by clauses in the pre.ent Bill. f t h e 5111. We think that this proposition will afford a fair test of verity of the promoters of the Bill, in professing that they d 22,, 0 af• late upon abstracting the through traffic of the Caledonian c 'ja eilr If not agreed to by them, they cannot complain of our Puisde, spay opposition to their whole line, possessing, as we believe w e h or evidence as will satisfy the Committee that the grounds on o " tr efF4 Bill is promoted are, in all the important points of cost an d perfectly untenable. dOP t On e other hand, if the p romo t ers o f th e Bill should 1 , I „, e , oar proposition of a division at Ann an , we un d er take to vritl i f t lat the evidence upon the main line from Cumnock to Annan, '" Bill to that extent may he held as unopposed. ha 0 O b ic "I have, however, to state to your Lordship that we -Lack, tions of a peculiar character to what is called the Crawlelt . ",; e ot, the Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle line, which, in anY4 desire to lay before the Committee, but the evidence on w ! ", he Co,r; comparatively short; and, having explained that matter to::" e ubr rnittee, we shall willingly acquiesce in their decision on t '" of the Crawick branch. ear t*B4 " I have the honou r to be, my Lord, your obedient humbl e ONE (Signed) "J. J. HOPE JOUN S ' t "To the Right Hon. th e E ar l o f St . G ermans, & c. &e." sages°. The CHAIRMAN, having read th e l e tt er , h an d e d it to )f i r' Bellasis. Mtn te tilt Mr. Sergeant BRLLAsis said it was quite impossible for in any answer to it, as he knew nothing whatever of the letter moment, and had not consulted the parties for whom he e_P as at The CHAIRMAN—Then you had better withdraw to cons clients. Mr. Sergeant BELLAms—AII I can say is that I have at In ° "" witnesses whatever. Counsel and parties, at the request of the Chairman, t hen drew, to consider the proposition contained in the letter. , wbot t o After being absent about half an hour th e p a rties returtiv",itth Mr. Sergeant BELLAsts stated that after consulting, et i 111; clients he could not accede to the proposition central, to L e " letter of Mr. Hope Johnstone. In the first A,1 0 %. moters of the Bill had made an arrangement with thatLt, Company for the leasing of the line, on the faith whole of the main scheme would be carried out. I th this was the essence of th e sc h eme. If any part of the '125 was given up, it would be q u it e i mposs i ble to carry out that . ;Js 1 " - ment. In the second place, hi s Grace the Duke of Btle c T,r;ta t e given his consent to the whol e sc h eme, on the distinct un"`o ing that the Canobie branch should be constructed in eonnnerfd the main line. They were, therefore, bound to abide by ment. In the third place, the Canobie branch, And. Of? from Annan to Gretna, were the most profitable portion whole scheme, and were necessary for the paying of ' 1 ;300; northern part. The Ayrshire and Dumfries people were an,,, r iot an efficient communication with the south, and that coag e ier; properly done, unless by full connexion with Carlisle. Ay" however, willing to make this arrangement. He was pOifeo by clauses to give the Caledonian Company aPeett'sed to to run over the Annan portion of their scheme i rl .. .o Canobie, if they in return allowed the present o°_,/ tw 011'0 run on similar terms over the portion of the Caledonian 11 ": 0 : 0 1 0 ' Gretna and Carlisle. If they could not settl e the terms .4 this mutual use of the respective lines was t o b e use d , he W '- 0 that it should be referred to the Board of Trade. yea! Ce 014 a r Dir. TALBOT, on behalf of the Duke of Buccleueh, - protest against the arrangement proposed by the Caledonian Do pang, when Genien° gr Mr. COCKBURN interfered. He said the Learnedhed no right to be heard. He was only entitled to be bass' hg 01 " peered against the line, but being a petitioner in its rave a r ty not. He had at present no right to interfere. ifed The CHAIRMAN said, if the pr o mot ers o f th e Bill had list, ri 1 1 70 proposition, then the Learned Gentl e ma n m i g ht have Botlie." As it was he could have no object to serve in speaking. lit Mr. Cockburn had better go on with his case. pa l Mr. COCRBURN then proceeded to address the 0,— .010 - „ I pg doing so, he said lie would proceed on th e proposition .Moir been submitted to the Com m itt ee , and while doing so h e ''.."OiriT t o was sure, succeed in sho w i ng th a t t h e estimates of the oi;e0 ISithsdale line were totally inadequate to the constrnet w olliTe whole line ; that, in fact, the capital was not more tha rt .4lo:t i a for the making of the line as f ar as A nnan, an d th a t it vO c Toffit' possible for them to construct th e w h o l e o f it, s h o uld the 00 02 to concede it to them. The Learned Gentleman Was Pr gon). enter on the points he was about to p rove i n ev idence, and ell 0 0 0 ,„ show that it would be advantageous to the public, a 501,40 11 parties interested, that the portion of the li n e south of 'or with the Canobie branch, should be given to the Caledoweoeflae Mr. Sergeant BELLASIB interfered. He d es ired the Leele deC roan to confine himself to the demerits of th e Bill as Per t , J tt ° ot the Committee, and not to g o i n t o th e ques ti on of the „ t e two lines, or the question whi c h h a d b een ra i se d in the left.6otSo A discussion arose on the point whether or not gr• t epti should be allowed to go into this matter, which ended la "4" being requested to withdraw, to allow the Committee to ‘0 on it. Room E. EXETER AND DORCRESTSS' Their Lordships met this morning at the usual hour. 0014 Mr. T. Matcham, coach propriet o r, of Andover, who /f ee se, o o, by Mr. MXXXxwETREB, gave e vid ence o f th e n umber °L i pH o il the amount of traffic upon the old coach road, which eZ s ter° o ol very considerably since the formation of the Great ID the fr way ; but in his opinion this traffic would again flow oe care direction if the present railway were sanctioned. brought him into communication with a considerable Ill s ow o r Sons, all of whom were anxious for the construction of ed th o ", In his cross-examination by Mr. SLADE, he adrol. • weal were only two coaches, exclusive of the mails, will° 0 0 11 whole distance to Exeter, via Andover. lid oe Mr. T. Mortimer, tanner, of Andover, examine. -0 arty'je- Int :ea id . efr. hrseh iieev inispd shillings lic o soerr n n j :t u fo3o n nofeo s ia t e to 6 w gooepp i otr,ouhotfhpoeehtonlhisdawsie this in of lather witness bad r 0 1r business of a tanner for a period of between thirty as everf 4c e acrd' e e ta xt o e f ns L iv on el d y on in seeds. markets ra if: hides alltnirwcmlaey f v owwf emvuaribedLo mad .e 6 de n e 0.. :1 the habit of A-- - „,a 4 0 , Nci'uenntaegeeofinthceohinsgehqu,enStetelisobfutryhe, w A a n n d t ov o e f r ra N aw ew . ryy,,,ecoßeZeo;,;.:7oo4oo, places. The market of Andover laboured under co"'„, - , : - etie'„ o Or distance between Wallop and Salisbury was eleven nau.'* to cs London for the purpose prkesg at SouthaniP 0.9901, gouda he the steamers , to sen d his fbr the conveyance of destination at Exeter. he was oblige_ , . ved by water London lie!! facilities for the transtnissf en ?rbletaving them 0t),..;, wou ld f shee p to e ther iwer Propoted one of the largest in EnglandO; There were oa.- ths t fairs in that neighbourhood whieiivoula be aZenD l93°dsS° : Amgs - f railway. 0 9 :0 ° 0 0 The CHAIRMAN intimated, at tnis stage of the Pre e 'till there was no necessity fcr multiplying evidence upon the t traffic. The Committee had heard evidence from dil t r ne 0070, of various trades and occupations connected with d i es ° 01 1 j ra7ndover fair. traffic, and it was reasonable to suppose that other bran d t ae oo t were of the same nature. By a glance at the map e, h o s 0 0 ' the line proposed to take, it was self-evident that to , traffic must be very large. tent VP Mr. Hu.DvAar , said that he was quite ee°,„, 0 1 ,0 no further evidence on the subject, he only wished P: 40 0 0 ; clients from any injurious effects which might arise fro n d sr. 00 Friend, Mr. Talbot, bringing forward a large quantitY, - 00" is and using against them the statement that they had no'' case for the necessity of tl.e line before the Committee „ pro"' Mr. TALBOT Intimated that it was his intention to lol , r i l 'et considerable amount of evidence bearing upon the dis -- Exeter and Yeovil. 0 °, „ in o , The CHAIRMAN said that he had expressed the 0 , 1 , , ." t „ Committee upon the subject. The parties must, therra,'l; s uSP own discretion, and adopt that course which the ' elf M adapted to promote the interests of the public. s ucl fe r r4 ) r. Avery, of Honiton, grocer and wine merchant, of -, $ coach proprietor, said that the feeling of the inhabitalw_iceo i tp was unanimous in favour of the proposed line. lie ,„ 140 tons of goods annually from London and other P e li e tl would be conveyed by this railway at a less cost than"' 0 10. at present. . ho ori§: 0 101 Mr. Divett, M.P. for Exeter, one of the directors of `-.41 Exeter Railway, which was a broad gauge line, said he it 7ilf° if in favour of the broad gauge, but he thought I/ 0 "000;44 tremely desirable in a public point of view that there 10 44 A continuous line. connecting the South-Western and Sf fi wator Railway on the narrow gauge ; he thought such a r 1 ,11 " not only afford great p u bli c accommodation, but it W"' e 00 0 '; the effect of exercising a w h olesome competition . ser o Cross-examined by Mr. TALBOT—It would be a most my lamity if Exeter were to be d e p r i ve d o f i ts presen t broad e t t s , UJ mttnication with London. He believed th a t his constituo%i eter were almost entirely unanimous in favour of the fa‘y: and several public meetings had been held in that oitY iri dV e ep e s pew 0 0 this line. He thought it very important that ther 9 connecting Exeter with Plymouth and the other porte_, A be ; 0 4. 0 : He did not think it probable that any negotiations into by the directors of the Bristol and Exeter line with "" t iell'" without his cognizance. He thought there was no founds report of such a negotiation having been entered into. 1 01# tbe • L i' LITERATURE.— Mr. Bentley has just publishe d , s 0 o r lowing interesting New orks 10_,/6 11 moirs of King Georgethe Third," edited by Sir chant,Bart., second edition; 4vols. Bvo., with Portraw r oti o f —2". The two concludingfrolumes of Sir H enr y Ellis's tr eitO t o Letters illustrative of English History, w ith Ps i. e stiibi King Henry the Eighth, King Charles the First', cir o o Duke of Gloucester, from original pictures, bounareiP i p 215.-3. 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Mrs. Thomson's Memoirs of 01 o '4, ; t o bites ; or, the Adherents of the Stuarts, 3 vols. 41 a Portraits, 21.25.-13. Jesse's Anecdotss of Dogs, so,' o r/ with numerous Plates, 21s. bound.-14. Mrs. Gore's P' f lo,i of E mE ng L li A sh NC C H h o ar L a ir cter, o 2ccvou l itßENCE NEAR WO , 0 s., 21s. 71' 0 ne p ar ilo e t THREE LIVES LOST.--On Saturday, as a i the Charlotte, belonging to WiVelloe, returning from Harwich regatta to that port, with M p g 0 , 1 0 E :— as T tn h e e s day a w s a h s o r rt ath d e r o w7c l e gied fr° l blesdale, and another nobleman on board, the follet.tster°,o andlane h o o n I y the accident craft happenednearing Walton, the owner, Mr. H slipped over; and by the sudadrevnejl'urvrchash ° TA t e e o r t s rid - , rope round the tiller-head to secure it, when it " - , - r 141° 14/ 1 board. - The vessel was instantly brough ea t bwo r as o u il t : :: ,, 111 : 1111PP:1 0 11e:1 ; effort made to save him, but to no purpose, for th " a 0 0 went down. A son of the uufortunate ni ,tl;eing i (o, not more than 13 years of age, was on board, 811,7, it e, only person that could take charge of the c n- c ittoijoil' Placed in much danger in consequence of his e.l t and youth. The crew of a smack perceiving their cutter cis bore down upon them, and safely brought the_ the P-tbe The body of the unfortunate owner was washed oli o As" in the course of the day.—At about the same U r e iot e t , above lamentable occurrence took place anothe,lo ais, t eti tressing accident occurred in the Swinn, a few r ni c o lcil P iist , A boat belonging to the Good Agreement, of pith o ‘ 1 ) . the was being towed by a foreign vessel to take °,_ when it upset, and the two men that were in opt boat, were lost. bili j 17_ 0 1 THE FISTULA INFIRMARY.—The third fe o ~estritsi auxiliary society of the above institution was held at the Ilighbury Barn Tavern, Mr. H. F. Richa rds bo 10 5 0 it chair, in the absence of Alderman Copeland, fi' m oef o vented from attending by the illness of one ( „ t ial About 200 persons sat down to a good and subst a ",ifesf t riu at four o'clock. The usual loyal toasts being ';ve g It • Chairman, in proposing the toast of the even-n, et y. r aje g sketch of the objects and operations of the enc l founded by Mr. Salmon in 1836, for the purl" se e of pecuniary assistance to the Infirmary for the "' r oot er c,' o l/1 0 s and diseases of the lower intestines among the, P to l e rah' se rs and since that time had been supported with t he 11 0 1 cess, the expenses being generally balanced by b io eo tions. Mr. W. H. Martin returned thanks ?L ep which was proposed as that of one who had her o f tos' and the chairman of the last festival. A ow n ' Ocol l ' e r connexion with the founder, patrons, frier d ls a , nd oar . or t visitors of the society having been proP? s t a i al ort," t tg b to in speeches of feeling and ability by Mr" '_'„ ar ated s 6 d,, e of dan, the Rev. G. Taylor, &c., the company scr. l. 13s. , f o parea hor o'clock. The subscriptions amounted to It IP - f o 'o4 whichfrom Alderman Copeland.. , 4 5, o the report that 543 patients were admitted In 6 eoas'_; i y, 259 were discharged, 146 materially irregularity of attet"..„ as incurable, 40 discharged for and 92 were still on the books, the total R um since the foundation in 1836 being 3, 233 . relievea, „_.,43