The Sun. — London, England, 1846-08-06 00:00:00

P%q w ...N...,...,.. Ihir %int NM riPERIAL PARL TAMEN T. K OUSA' COMMO/VS, AtVtest 5 ' The t en , Sri eelien took'th e Chair at Twelve o'clock, but it was 'YlP:mutts after before a Rouse could be made. kr CORK AND WATERFORD RAILWAY. k r ' , w ,YSE moved the second reading of this Bill. th e ipnEENE wa d sorry to oppose the second reading of sad thteilt,ebut as the line was one not absolutely required, wee a g rea t pressure on the money market, h e Ou ght ‘4 it 'would be bett er p os t pone d. tete. `SSE did n o t conce i ve t h at any case h a d b een ee out fir the decision of th e S e l ec t C omm itt ee u p on it. f' LI,UNCOMBE said that as reference had been made I,lle Bill would state tat he had simply done his duty. 11 was Ultimately withdrawn. I tr. , p . BAKER'S PETITION. Meted Jeu NCOMBE moved that Bake r ' s petition be With the votes which was agrad to. eirto-PRDNANCE, SURVEY OF IRELAND. Sel ANTHAI4I NORREYS moved the appointment of the ler4otninittee for the 00.'eance Survey of Ireland,naming Vi se ; ), tr. Lab ouc h ere , Mr. Young, Sir Robert Ferguson, o,67net Mare, Mr. George Hamilton, Captain Jones, Mr. , Colonel Arson, Sir Henry Winston Barron, The 11. - e: Bellew, Mr. Morgan John O'Connell, 4 7 tt in in te ,„ if t " ee c ul ,, e,nd Mr. Smollett ; and moved that the said are leave to sit this day, notwithstanding the 6 (4' t'ae House. O. J OINT-STOCK COMPANIES BILL. I the orders of the day being read, to '43 e rri rd s NDON wished to ask the Vice-President of the by tii. of Trade .question respecting the Bill for winding )tlec:rairs of joint. stock companies, the second reading of 14 . 4 had moved some thne since. titte sh GIBSON replied that, at the request of the gen !ireeei,whs had the preparation of this Bile it had been iitte h tnie delayed, but he miglit say that it would be ready 1 e c ,,, 1 ., passed through Parliament this session. ''''''' - ' II) ENT ON THE EASTERN COUNTIES Ol t l er , RAILWAY. fteted;7: 1, 24. CY EVANS wished to kno w f rom th e Vi ce - Ache- the Board of Trade whether any investigation nature and the cause of the late accident on this ilk., had taken place, or whether any steps had been te provide against them for the future? 11(44' 41 . GIBSON said that: the GOvernment had no official t a i e v e to do more than send down an inspector to ewer ; tia; cause of the accident and the state of the railway a 1, 8 ,t 4 where it happened. That gentleman had made of e it ' e v full report, which was now in the hands toedny,,,ernMent. As it contained. several remarks o . n the ttee t Z, o l the driver through whole fault the m:schief the ,7„, , he thought it would not be right to prejudice 4 tte:""„tie by bringing it on the table of the House at pre ther,„. /le would only say that he was in custody on the ( ittli e T of manslaughter, and would take his trial in the hien course of kevr. With regard to the c ompany to thst thtnie line helonged, it was b ut j ust i ce to t h em to state retied signal s at the station where the acccident hap tePres " re amply suffici en t f or a ll purposes, and whenever iseariaentatioos had been m a d e by th e pu bli c , t h ey h a d b een li tteel d b kin lY attended to by the companje In his time . he happy to give all the information in possession. PUBLIC CEMETERIES BILL. 4 311t ....he motion for the second reading of this Bill, ,r:rytACKINNON said that, as this Bill was to be prese t ed e , b e Would state that its objects were—firstly, to in h Ple: in churches or chancels of churches . in populous thePee r ' bodies N at . Persons after death in the apartments of surviving_ h ec ,,'veB ; and thirdly, to provide for the preservation of .t h ad ‘u of the inhabitants of popular places. Sir J. G t r m ah ent, th at ,o o nfessed, when Secretary for the Hom . e Doper (Mr. tes„‘eere were great difficulties about the subject. H thl' n ° o ll) tut all that difficulty, and it appeared th t e t at th t e . P ricy t get rid of i t was to reer th ma o ie e t , e rit'.3 , Council, who would have f the e power er to It u a . Commission f o r the abatement of th e nu i sance. hi, , '" , te evident that such a Commission must be invested •e extra or di nary powers. How far they would be able to labiish officers for carrying out their commission he could net present see, but he conceived the proper plan would b~un that on any reprtsentations being made t o the Cora e of the Privy C ounc il , t h ey should interfere; that they shold authorise a local comm i ttee to act, which committee thellhl. c onsist of one-thi r d appointed by the bishop of leit L , th ' e ese, and the other t wo -thi r d s e l ecte d b y t h e tie' s , of the district. It was perfectly true that ser a I "ftio dissented from the Established Church C 0 4. ,,, %flitted to the direction of their own burials. ti'eensation should be made to the clergyman and others "Onl this Bill might affect. Provision was made in the Z l ,;_a for that purpose. It might be asked, how were they to ide the money for carrying out the provisions of. say Bill? In reply to such a ques ti on , h e wou ld that a rate should be levied upon the people. e ee ; t ese th an 7 4,000 individuals annually fell victims to the W as 1 1 , 4 system of interment, and for th a t th e G overnmen t ' i ctie Q 4 P °ll sible. In fact, a far greater number had fallen pie see ! to the epidemic diseases arising from l our te‘ sYstein of interment than had thisv. fallen ae zio e sword. Having so fez discussed point, he %atleusilY wished to call the attention of the Right Hon. d t i i 'dn the Secretary of State for the Home Department, 4 ,`0 ther e Xoble Lord at the head of the Government, Tee s important subject.—(Hear, hear.) He wished of ßa the consider what a frightful number of detikt7,bbally happened in the metropolis, Manchester, tie ‘ Ztete seet r . ge towns, in consequence of the present system Supposing the epidemic diseases arising in t t k i4 4 "ge townstrornsuch a cause, should sweep over the to la l oge, who ought to be held responsible? The tim e t rot, undoubtedly. It was far from his wish to re. tl e i! ee s `sm. and the smoke measure which he had some ti e ' Of „ In troduced, but he thought that it was the Lm le he "Ira Government to take up those measures. tiee re ad 4 that the: Government . would allow this Bill C, O nezzt s a second time. The Bill could then be postponed q2erh tne e 4ai . on, with the view of its being taken up by the -med in the ensuing session. The Hon. Member con ,he vying that the Bill be read a second time. ft,9:.!_cith.ge,.._;ab.toittl:hdaeving been seconded and Put , :he - "r said that the Hon. Gentleman was entitled of the House and the public at large kea sur tietepe which he had taken in this tondo s - •-Le (Sir George Grey) himself was directing his 4 i n -"'" 1,0 a Similar measure with the view of introducing 111 4 - tt the next session, and he therefore hoped *ith "Lie honourable Gentleman would consent to Sim Ctraw the Bill, as no great good cou e ld ßi lL Th. i plished by pressing on the second reading . of the the t4i etight Hon. Gentleman concluded by moying Is t ue read a second time that day three months.. th e INI ACKINNON said he was perfectly satisfied with 4, 3 .r e i l e h r° e r n tre. i t e o e re c:f pr t e h s e s h ß ie ig m h e t ti H en o . n. Gentleman, and he would day tle reia ll. Las then ordered to be read a second time that E4unth ai On th e eT ED TENANTS (IRELAND) BILL Irder of th 4l°t iCin of Mr. SHARMAN CRAWFORD, the di seharg sd. e (i n: , for the second reading of this Bill ' was 13 AI AItrPTCY AND INSOLVENCY BILL. de VERIE then moved that the House resolve itself adeettmil'anittee on this Bill. The present system was 4 6 .efeeti - : by t Commissioners themselves to be m . os Th e his Thepaudulent debtor had all means of escaping ehe 1„ Just debts afforded to him by the present laws. 'the ti 's laws had opened a wide door to all sorts of . frau t d h s e , koe s h e .3' would finally have the effect of corrupting He cler't o r , f , a glen portion of the people of this country. 1 3 , - "" 4 tiat the - Government intended to introduce a vteatt.° net session which would remove the evils of the , th 4 a , : stem. Sit question having been put, "Nei `it. GREY said the Government would introduce a f° 4re ° a b . ,tet subject in the ensuing session, and . he thefeis "'°'• Ped that his Hon. Friend would not persist in his 0f cVERIE accordingly consented to the withdrawal , f , WASTE LANDS (IRELAND) BILL. uti n 'ue order of the day for the second reading of this B 4re a d , Proa l i se l;• SCROPE said that, as the Government had to . introduce a measure on this subject in the fol taemaaession, he would consent t . o t e . postp j on . ement of the .t elatr.,,?* IA however, they failed in their promise, he should -tiuc e ,„' 4 11 .13r 0 d J OI - IN RUSSELL said the Honourable Gentleman th ev -orre e ti. .T represented the views of the Government, h,.. t klit ki „ - „u'd /five their earnest attention to th e subject of the iaf waste lands in Ireln during the recess, and ;_ Air - 1 , 1-9 introduce some measure ant he next session. Vlpo t '• FRENCH said this subject was one of the greatest ould r-a f t l,ce, and he sincerely hoped that the Government e ath o .4 ;t'afully perform their promise to introduce a mesaure s tiff er ; ' 4o .i,ect in the next session. The people of Ireland were ,„ ( ittipi,„, tl B Much in consequence of being deprived . of that -wrietairtint - which the measure introduced by his Hon. /Si r - ‘, 7 •qr. Scrope) would have afforded them. Nrae . 13 a&ItMAN CRAWFORD said that as his ka t , 'yeas on the back of this Bill, in con. with his Hon. Friend the Member for 1 40, p% ) .„ - ' 1 h e took that opportunity of earnestly praying the ti;"` - ittiartt to introduce some measure on this subject early folh - a s ession. ii n rl SS,o 3w P i A n E REVENUES AND DIOCESES BILL. the order of the day for the second reading of this Bill 111 1 . 1. VR "-I kWEN said that his only object in introducing ) l i % Bill WAS in consequence of . the Bangor and St. Asaph ' 4 . He now begged leave to withdraw the Bill. colonel SIBTIIORP was rejoiced to hear that the Bill sva; one of the most extraordinary he had ever seen) 14 4 about to be withdrawn. Nineteen new bishops tta r ,g h .) Surely, the Church must be in danger. The Church's ofi_ger, ho wever , now a ppeared to be owing to the conduct awn children. Ile believed, however, that the lion. 14 iit - P' was an honest supporter of the Church of England, re81"1'• ge certainly regretted his conduct on this oc- The motion was, that the Bill should I ' l 4 Z e ad a second time that day six months, tho tt r hoped that it would not be read a second time gill aY six months.—(llear, hear, and laughter.) The . be C s , a most objectionable one. If it had been carriedand , Xtved that it would bring ruin to the Church, In. q -- Xako the monarchy itself.—(Laughter.) He had - ge to the House for the express purpose of opposing /54 3'1, 1 , 1 '` , but a s it h a d b een w i t hd rawn , h e wou ld re f ra i n f rom Aft 4l taything more on the subject. at; It a few words from Mr. BORTHWICK, who said he TZLY. concurred with the lion. and Gallant Colonel, fre e 13 111 was ordered to be read a second time that day months. 1 16 b DRAINAGE OF LANDS BILL. `et) "All then went through Committee, and after a desul- M: unv ersation was ordered to be reported to-morrow. .: 38 ,.. ‘n e ,egers from the Lords then brought down several "ich were ordered to be laid on the table. le. 0/1 t G AUGE OF RAILWAYS BILL. le ad he motion of Mr. MILNER GIBSON, this Bill ov wa , ~s a 5500 0 d time, and ordered to be committed to-morr Sir DE RAILWAY ACCIDENTS. 41 %1 ,- LACY EVAN'S wished to know from the Glize t rli l - e power W hether it was in consequence of any defect. kier its a of the Board of Trade, that the causes of th . e acei- Pre e en railways were not more fully inquired into and N wer ilted than at present? If the Board had not sufficient o a to do so, he should-feel it his duty to apply t ttrAarliarnent to confer on that body the necessary powers. to ar d M. GIBSON admitted that, at presen t, this laktin laboured under the disadvantage of not "ere Sufficient powers in reference to the subject tver e to• The Board, however, defective as its powers in . exer cised a gr ea t i n fl uence over ra il wa y s , a nd 1 ,,, r 13: ,eat measure prevented accidents on them. The Go hadces3`' Y phadrs. objection to invest the Board with the 'clrY powe no pEoDANDS ABOLITIONNo. 2) BILL. t .) s' then went tl 0 - 11 Committee, and was ordered e rePort , • ' r "' on I ridgy. Thrilti BY A CCIDENTS COMPENSATION BILL. ;ler E al6o paseii th roug h t h e same s t age , an d was •;)cp,•`d° ,0e " V E P rerrted on FTiday. RIVILEGE OF TRADING ABOLITION Tile • thml readin g (ol f ilL is :' B S il i t i w ) a ' s ' p li o ' s L iPoned till Thursday. 111 ^I4I:CTAI ENTS, &c. (IRELAND) BILL. e %,ouitnittee or; this Bill was postponed till Friday. , LEASES (IRELAND) BILL tiD Ulq chain §lizilar rotage, wati . atio Pot Med I am ~,.: ~4. • 7 THE ;SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY MORNING, AUG CST 6, 1846. FISHERIES (IRELAND) BILL. The House then went into Committee on this Bill, and after a brief discussion, in which Sir Robert Ferguson, Mr. Pigott, Lord Lincoln, Mr. Labouchere, and Captain Jones took part ) Sir G. GREY said, hat as there were several other orders of the day yet to be disposed of, and on which he believed there would be no discussion, lie hoped his Right Hon. Friend (Mr. Pigott) would consent to the postponement of this measure till some other day. Sir ROBERT FERGUSON—You should have finished the other orders of the day before you entered upon this. The discussion on the clauses was awn renewed, and the whole of them having been agreed to, The 11011F0 resumed, and the report was ordered to be brought up on Friday. DISTRICT LUNATIC ASYLUMS BILL. The Committee on this Bill was postponed until Friday. WRECK AND SALVAGE BILL. This Bill was read a third time and passed. SUPPLY. The Report of the Committee of Supply was brought up and agreed to. BATHS AND WASHHOUSES BILL (IRELAND). This Bill was read a third time. The dropped orders of yesterday were then taken. COURT OF COAMON PLEAS BILL: The report was brought up and received. COPY HOLD COMMISSION BILL. This Bill went through Committee, and the report was ordered to be received to- morrow. TUE:SPIKE ACTS CONTINUANCE BILL. This Bill went through Committee, and the report was watered to be received to-morrow. The Stock Exchange Bill, the Highway Rates Bill, and the Loan Societies Bill, went severally through Committee, and were ordered to be reported to-morrow. SUGAR DUTIES (No. 3) BILL. Sir GEORGE GREY moved the second reading of this Bill. Mr. P. M. STEWART expressed a hope that the measures for compensation, which were intended to be a complement to this Bill, which could only be considered as part of the great measure respecting sugar, and which "effected property in the colonies to a great extent, would be brought forward as soon as possible next session. Mr. HUME wished to know if there would be any objec t;.on to the production of the Orders in Council regulating the supply of labour for the West Indies? Sir G. GREY said there would not. The Bill was then read.a second time. - _ DWELLINGS FOR THE POOR. Viscount MORPETH moved for leave to bring in a Bill to empower the Commissioners of her Majesty's Woods, &c., to sell, on certain conditions, sites for dwellings for the Poor out of the hereditary estates of the Crown. The Earl of LINCOLN said he would not offer any opinion on the merits of the Bill till it was regularly before the , House, only he hoped full opportunity would be given him for an examination of their details prior to being called on for an opinion. He would not yield to the Noble Lord, in any degree, who sought leave to introduce the Bills in a sincere desire to improve the condition of the working classes, but he did not think the course proposed would realise the end sought. The Noble Lord (Lord Morpeth) was placed in his position as a trustee on behalf of the Crown, and if the Commissioners applied the property of the Woods and Forests in that way, it would not end there, but there would be numerous applications from other quarters for similar applications of the property in question. He thought they ought to adhere rigidly to the provi-_ siona of 10 George IV., as to the use of the property placed in the hands of the Commissioners of Woods and Forests. With these observations he would reserve himself till the time when the Bill was regularly before the House. Mr. HUME briefly supported the objects of the Bill. Sir ROBERT li. INGLIS was disposed to take a similar view of the Bill to that expressed by the Noble Lord the late Secretary for Ireland. He thought it might lead to considerable abuse. After a few words from Mr. HENLEY to the same effect, leave was given to bring in the Bill. Lord MORPETH obtained leave to introduce the following Bills :—A Bill to empower the Commissioners of her Majes ty's Woods, &c., to sell, on certain conditions, sites for dwel lings of the poor out of lands vested in them under Acts for the improvement of the metropolis; and a Bill to enable the Privy Council to make regulations for the prevention of con tagious disorders, and for the more speedy removal of nuisances. Mr. LABOUCHERE obtained leave to introduce the following Bills :—A Bill to continue an Act of the sixth and seventh years of her present Majesty, intituled, "An Act to amend and continue for two years, and to the end of the then next session of Parliament, the laws:in Ireland relating to the registering of arms, and the importation, manufacture, and sale of arms, gunpowder and ammunition ;" a Bill to continue certain Acts for regulating turnpike roads in Ireland; a Bill to continue an Act of the fifth and sixth years of her present Majesty, for amending the Law relating to private lunatic asylums in Ireland. The above Bills were brought in, severally read a first time, and ordered to be printed. The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at Six o'clock. RAILWAY COMMITTEES ( I ESTERDAY) HOUSE OF LORDS. Room A. HERTFORD AND HATFIELD RAILWAY. The Chairman (the Marquis of Winchester), and the other Mem bers of the Committee en this Bill, met to-day at ten o'clock, and the evidence in support of the Bill was resumed. Mr. Webb (farmer and butcher) was examined with respect to the price of coal at Hatfield, which he stated was at present 188. 6d. a ton. This witness was cross-examined by Mr. TALBoT on the part of the petitioners. Mr. Rigby stated that the price of the best coal at Hertford was 325. a ton. . Cross-examined by Mr. HILDTARD, Q.C.—The proposed railway had, in his opinion, the effect of reducing the price of coal at Hatfield. He made no allowance for detriment to the coal by transhipment, &c., which, he believed, could be effected without any injury to the coat. Mr. George Wedd, corn-factor, stated that 12,000 tons of barley went annually to London from Hertford, which would be conveyed by the proposed line if it should be established, and that he was satis fied with the correctness of the trade-tables of this line. He also stated that a large saving would be effected in the transit of barley, linseed-cake, &c., along the line. Cross-examined by Mr. TALBOT—The granaries were all along the river-side, but he considered the course of traffic would be diverted in the direction of that railway. One of the crushing-mills at Hert ford was on the river-side. 11,000 tons of corn would come from Luton and Dunstable, though the Bill for that railway had been thrown out. Had assumed in his calculation the traffic going to Ware. Re-examined—Had seen the inconvenience of the terminus at Shoreditch. There was not the least apprehension of the corn from London stopping short of Hatfield and not reaching Ware. It was very desirable to mix foreign corn with their own corn, and the millers along the line would consequently have no objection to closer proximity to the corn coming from the Baltic, which would be afforded by the proposed railway. Mr. Osbaldiston (Coroner for Hertfordshire) deposed as to the im portance of the town of Hertford, and the advantages that would re sult to the town and county of Hertford from the establishment of the line before the• Committee. _ Mr. Pitman, traffic-taker—The traffic calculation with respect to foot passengers and cattle was derived from observation on the road. The traffic would give 4 1 / 2 per cent. on the 130,0001. This witness was cross-examined by Mr. HILMARD, with the view of impugning the accuracy of his calculations. After hearing some further evidence, the Committee decided, with out hearing counsel for the opposition, that the preamble of the Bill was not proved. Room B. WEST ILIMI.NG UNION (No. IX.) 72.11ILWAY, Mr. Sergeant WEANGIIIM opened the case for the opposition to this Bill, and at con.iderable length urged upon the Committee the ne cessity of rejecting that portion of the system included in the Bills of the promoters for constructing the Elland and Brighouse branches, upon the grounds of their not affording the means of a sufficiently direct communication between Bradford and Manchester, via Hud dersfield, and also calculated to prevent any future extension of the Manchester and Huddersfield line, which would afford that necessary accommodation. ' Mr. Gee, the engineer to the Manchester and Huddersfield Railway, was then examined with reference to the engineering features of the line, and also to some alteration in the gradients which had been in. troduced in the present Bill since last session. Several other witnesses were examined, who stated that the ac commodation proposed by the present line would not be sufficient to supply the wants of those districts between Bradford and Man chester. Their Lordships then adjourned. PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS. From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons, TUESDAY, AUG 4. STANDING ORDERS' COMMITTEE. The following resolution was reported from the above Com mittee : That, in the case of the Cork and Waterford Railway Bill, the standing orders ought to be dispensed with: —That the parties be permitted to proceed with their Bill, on amending the section by re ferring the datum horizontal line to the soffite of the keystone of the centre arch of Patrick's Bridge, and on obtaining the consent of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to their crossing the ellanmire Channel ; and that the Committee on the Bill do examine, in the first place, how far such order has been complied with, and do report the same to the House on the report of the Bill." Resolution agreed to. DUBLIN AND SANDYMOUNT RAILWAY BILL. Sir George Clerk reported from the Select Committee on Group 70 of Railway Bills, to whom several petitions against the Bills com prised in the said group were referred, that, in the case of the Dublin and Sandymount Railway Bill, they had heard counsel in support of the petition, and had also heard counsel in favour of the Bill, and had examined the allegations contained in the preambel of the Bill, but the same had not been proved to their satisfaction. POSTAGE STAMPS, &c.—From a return just issued by order of Parliament, it appears that the total cost of producing post age stamped envelopes since 1841, has been as follows : —ln 1841, 4,2681.; 1842, 5,530/. ; 1843, 5,290/. ; 1844, 6,190/. ; 1845, 6,9481. ; and in the first quarter of 1846, 1,8461. Total, 30,0721. Re paid by the consumers, in addition to the retailers' profit, 31,0681., leaving a profit to Government during the above years of 9921. 18s. 7d. The number of stamps issued during the above period is 83,694,240, The cost per million of the envelopes is 3591. 6s. 11d. ; repaid by the consumers, per million, 3711. 4s. 26., leaving a profit of 111. 17s. 3d. per million upon the whole number issued, while the profit per million at the present time is 211. 16s. Id. The total cost per million of post age labels is 791. Os. 7d. THE MAILS.—SOUTHAMPTON, AUG. 4.—The Gibraltar mail-packet Paella, Captain Burney, arrived here at five o'clock P.M. this day, and landed the Peninsular and other mails, which will be forwarded to London by one o'clock A.m. to morrow train. Her dates are—Gibraltar, July 26 ; Cadiz, July 27 ; Lisbon, July 30 ; Oporto, July 31 ; 'Vigo and Coruna, Aug. 1 ; she has a full cargo and 30 passengers. ALLEGED MURDER AT AINTREE RACES.—On Tues day the adjourned investigation into the alleged murder of Eliza Bateson at the late Aintree Races, was resumed at the county-office, in Leigh-street, before Mr. Richard Edwards. The particulars of this melancholy case were briefly detailed in the Liverpool Times of this day week. The deceased was a dancer, singer, and semptress in the show-box of a man named Shaw. Her alleged murderer, Robert Farmer, was a flute-player in another show-box belonging to a man named Powell. Both these boxes were at Aintree; and on the last night of the races the prisoner, who was sober, was in com pany with the deceased, who was very drunk. They were seen to leave a tent together about ten o'clock, and on the following day her body was discovered in a pit not far from the course. His state ments, prior to the finding of the body, as to where he had left her, and what had become of her, were so strange and false, with also the discoloration of the body, that they caused him to be appre hended at Croxteth on the capital charge. Yesterday the following additional evidence was given by Mr. Thomas William Christie, surgeon, of Knotty Ash :—He stated, that in consequence of information he received, he went yesterday week to the Septon churchyard, and made a post-mortem examination of the body of the deceased, which had been exhumed for the purpose. Decomposition having set in, he felt himself satisfied with a superficial view. The head, face, chest, and shoulders, were swollen and livid, particularly the head and face. Oa the side of the neck and left side there were four or five marts, similar to the imprint of a thumb and fingers, and these parts were distinctly different from those surrounding them. The cuticle was rubbed off one of the marks. The abdomen was con siderably swollen, but not so much discoloured as the chest. It was raised in blisters in places whi , :.ll contained bloody water underneath the cuticle, but very different from the marks above, which were situated on the shin. The low er extremities were less decomposed than any other part. Ile was of opinion that there must have been a struggle before death, and that the marks were produced by pres sure before death. The investigation was here adjourned until Mon day next, when, we believe, the prisoner will be fully committed on capital charge to take his trial at the approaching assizes. Ile is an elderly man, apparently not less than 60 years of age ; and the only imaginable reason that he could have for committing the deed is, that lie wanted to accomplish an unlawful purpose, and that the woman, who is described as middle-aged and extremely welblookitig, resisted him. According to the medical evidence it would appear that a fierce struggle took place between ttarat but that win:dually 00 13 11 1 9 0 t 4 4 4 thr9ITII int 9 1219 PrWit CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAIL WAY COMPANY. The half-yearly meeting of this Company was held at the Company's offices, No. 61, Moor;ate-street, yesterday, at one o'e 0 W.,R. Collet, &q., M.P., to ,k the chair. The SECRETARY read the advertisement convening the meeting, and afterwards the minutes of the last half-yearly meeting, and two other special meetings of the shareholders, which were ordered to be confirmed by the votes of those present. The CITAIRMAN then said, before calling on the secretary to read the report, which detailed most fully and particu larly everything connected with the affairs of the Company, whether past, present, or future, he would claim the indul gence of the meeting for a very short time indeed. He said he never appeared before the shareholders with such satisfaction as he did on that occasion. The directors, indeed, had always expressed great confidence as to the prospects, and ultimate success of the Company ; still there. remained doubts on the minds of the public relative to their experiment, and more particularly in reference to the Menai bridge. It gratified him now, however, to state that, during the past six months, they had overcome every one of those difficulties whickseemed to be great obstacles in their way, as would appear by the directors' report and the report drawn up by Mr. Robert Stephenson. The directors had entered into engagements for the construction of the Menai and Conway bridge, which would very soon be in the course •of com pletion, and when he told the meeting that three-fifths of the entire line had been executed; that of 4,421,876 yards of earthwork, 2,627,188 yards had been done already, be thought be proved to the shareholders that they had not been idle during the six months past. At present there were 12,338 men and 861 horses employed on the line, and they were proceeding with the works with more speed, perhaps, than was displayed on any other line. The .two miles of the line out of Chester, forming a connecting link between the existing Chester lines and the North Wales Mineral Railway to Wrexham and Ruabon, would be completed and opened in October next, simultaneously with the latter line. He said the directors had entered into arrangements with the North Wales Mineral Railway Company, by which they had agreed to give them the use of this portion of the line for the following six months, in consideration of 2,0001., or 2,500 L, in case the combined traffic of the two companies amounted, during that period, to 31,206/. He was happy to inform the meeting that since the last half-yearly meeting the Government had agreed to expend 150,000/. on the works of the new .packet and refuge harbour at Holy head during the present year, of which sum the Company was to provide 37,0001. Mr. Rendell, the Government en gineer, had completed the plans and specifications for deep ening the old harbour, and the works would soon be advertised for contract ; and the resident engineer was proceeding with the necessary surveys and examinations preparatory to the works on the new harbour. The directors had also turned their attention to the means of connexion between Holyhead and Kingstown, and were in hope that the mails would he conveyed by the Company in August next. The Irish trade would thus be opened up to that part of the country by means of the Company's line. He said the Shropshire Union Railway and Canal Company, in which this Company had an interest, had obtained the sanction of the Legislature to three of their lines, the Cheater and Wol verhampton, the Shrewsbury and Stafford, and the Newton and Crewe. He was gratified to find that the directors had met with the ready and cordial support of the shareholders. He said that of the calls which had been made to the amount of 1,155,0001., only 49,0001. were due. During the past six months the Company's expen diture had been at the rate of 90,0001. a-month, and for the rest of the year would be about 100,000/. The Chair man concluded by calling on The SECRETARY, who read the report, the main details of which appear in the Chairman's speech. A report was also laid before the meeting from Mr. Robert Stephenson, on the Meuai-bridge, and the suc cess of the experiments made, with a view to testing the proposed tubular construction of the bridge, by Mr. Hodg kinson and Mr. Fairbairn, in conjunction with him self. In his report Mr. Stephenson says,—" Mr. Fair bairn has, with your sanction, constructed a model tube one-sixth; of the actual span, having all the dimensions in due proportion. In such a model we should of course expect to have a very accurate exhibition of the merits or demerits of the tubular system. It will be in your recollec tion, that the preliminary experiments led to the conclusion that great care would be required to, prevent the upper side of the tube from crushing, that, in short, the main object to be aimed at was to give the top of the tube the requisite stiffness. In this respect the results obtained from the model tube have been highly satisfactory, and being upon so large a scale, may be deemed perfectly conclusive upon several very important points. When progressively loaded, the mean deflection was about one-tenth of an inch per ton, and with a load of thirty-five tons suspended in the middle, it gave way on the under side ; the upper part not having ex hibited the least sign of failure up to the moment of fracture. Hence, therefore, we have arrived at a most in teresting result, viz. :—that the liability of the plates on the upper side to crush, has been completely removed by the construction in compartments." A statement of the accounts since the formation of the Company up to the 30th June last was also laid before the meeting, showing : Receipts from deposits, calls, and calls paid in advance Premium and interests and transfer fees 12,830 0 0 £944,007 0 0 Expenditure, attending formation of the Company, &c. - Parliamentary expenses, 1845 Parliamentary expenses and surveys of branch lines, 1846 Land, works, rails, and engineering 738,214 11 9 Law charges .... 3,10 13 1 Miscellaneous _ 9,291 17 3 Interest on Calls ... 26,471 11 2 20,000 15 10 4,497 16 8 £805,724 8 10 Deposit on shares on the Shropshire Union Railway and Canal Compzny 31,500 0 0 Loan at interest, cash at the bankers, &c 106,783 5 3 £944,007 14 1 The CamßstAN said that since the accounts had been made up, on the 30th June, 218,238/. had been paid on calls. The C=AIRN moved that the report, the engineer's re port, and the accounts read should be adopted, printed, and circulated. . . Mr. G. C. GLYN seconded the motion, which was carried nem. con. _ _ _ The CHAIRMAN moved that the directors should be autho rised to make arrangements for borrowing 700,0001., in pur suance of the Company's Act. Mr. CROPPER seconded the motion, which passed nem. con. The CHAIRMAN then intimated that tenders for one-half the amount had already been received. Mr. FINLAYSON called the attention of the directors to the communication between Holyhead and Kingstown, and the importance of the Company opening it up with the largest facilities, by means of steamers of good size and horse power, for the Irish trade. He said he called their attention to the necessity of making large and efficient provision for that trade if they meddled with it at all, from his own experience, which extended over fourteen years, and he wished to know whether any preparation had yet been made? The CSAIRMAN said the meeting must be aware that during last year the directors were afraid of going too fast; and, besides, they were then uncertain what amount, if any at all, might be granted by the Government for the harbour at Holyhead; but now the board was favourable to establish ing their own line of steam-packets, and hoped to be able before long to call a meeting of the shareholders, with a view of obtaining their sanction on this point. Mr. SKILBECK wished to know whether the Company would not have to go to Parliament for power to establish steam-packets. The CHAIRMAN said they must go to Parliament next ses sion for ground for the new harbour, and for a station there, and the directors of course would be happy to be authorised to include this other point in their Bill. But there was time before them for a meeting to consider that spe cially. Mr. SKILBECK referred to the fate of the South-Western and the South Eastern Companies, in applying to Parliament for new powers, and added that it would require their great est care. A PROPRIETOR thought the Company ought to remain ex clusively a railway company, and have nothing to do with the steam-packets. Mr. FINLATSON said another company could be got up among the shareholders of this, and the two companies might be kept distinct ; but he assured them there was nothing to fear, and much to hope for, if the project was entered into. The CIAIRMALE said no more cans would be made during the present year. The thanks of the meeting were then accorded to the Chairman, and the meeting adjourned. YORKSHIRE AND GLASGOW UNION RAILWAY COMPANY. A meeting of this Company took place yesterday, for the purpose of determining whether the shareholders should take advantage of the powers of an Act lately passed, entitled, " The Railways Dissolution Act." Major Beresford in the chair. A very stormy and irregular discussion then took place, whether scrutineers should be appointed first, and whether they should proceed to ascertain the number of shares present be fore a resolution was put from the chair. Several shareholders objected to such a course as illegal ; others considered that it was the course required by the Act of Parliament. After some time it was moved that the Company should dissolve, and that such dissolution should not be taken as an act of bankruptcy. The votes were then taken. It was an nounced that the return made would be 1/. 2s. 6d. A large majority decided in favour of proceeding with the line. The CHAIRMAN said that, though he consented to preside that day, lie was of opinion that the meeting was wholly illegal. and that they had no power to dissolve the Com pany, even should they wish it. FATAL ACCIDENT AT WATERLOO-BRIDOE.—On Tue - day an inquest was held before Mr. Higgs, Coroner for the Duchy of Lancaster, at the Savoy Palace, Savoy-street, Strand, on the body of Charles Lanton, aged 12-years. On Friday evening last, the de ceased and some other boys were bathing in the river, at the bottom of the steps, on the western side of Waterloo-bridge; the deceased was very headstrong, and fancied he could swim, but he had not proceeded many yards when he was knocked backwards by the Swell of a passing steamer, and he sank immediately. Fleming, a water man at the adjoining stairs, hearing the alarm, ran to the spot, and by moans of a hitcher, recovered the body in a few minutes. It was removed to No. 1, Lancaster-place, where every means was adopted by a surgeon to restore life, but ineffectually, life behig quite extinct. Verdict—Accidental Death. • THE STORM OF SATURDAY LAST.—The cloisters and other portions of the new Douses of Parliament present a melancholy scene of broken window sashes and panes ; and it appears that from some defect in the joining of the iron roofing of the new Houses, the gildings and other ornamental work which had been commenced, is so injured that the damage is estimated at 2,000/. During the violence of the storm the .111111 and rain demolished the skylights of Mr. Walker's furniture warehouse, in the York-road, and caused serious loss to the proprietor, the wet having destroyed several pier-glasses, beds, &c. In this case there appeased to be mittgled with the hail, or rather encased in it, large lumps of a substance like sand, some of which was shown to our informant soon after the storm. MURDER OF A CHILD BY ITS FATHER.—On Satun day evening last, about six o'clock, an act of cold-blooded and deli- berate murder is alleged to have been committed in one of the most public parts of the city, the victim a child about two and a half years of age, and the person who deprived it of life his own father. The unnatural, and in this part of the country rare crime, was perpetrated under the blowing circumstances :—At the time men tioned, it appears, a man, named Francis Sweenie, in police phraseology, an " old offender," was observed walking along Glasgow -bridge, from south to north, wills two of his children, carrying the youngest, named ratrick Sweenie, in his arms, leading the other by the halal. When he reached the Glasgow side of the bridge, lie stoppcd and placed the child in his arms upon the parapet, at first appa:ustly wills the object of taking a rest, but after looking cautiatna; round as si to see that he was not observed, he pushed hint over Use wall, Winn to fell with all the force a descent from such a bright was capable of imparting, not into the river, but upon the stair betwe,as the brkle,e and the steam•boat quay. The child was imasealate.y lifted and went to the Royal Infirmary, where he expired at el veil o'elor.k the same night, and the father was taken into custody, and M—iwarls lu,lgett in the police-office. Sweenie has been for a long time a must incorrigible street beggar about Glasgow, and has been frequently sent to Ireland by the authorities, from which lie had only arrived for the lust tilde on Friday.— Cfigig9W RAILWAY SII/IE MARKETS. BRISTOL, AUGUST 4. STOCX E XCHANGE.—The sales are—Bristol and Exeter, NOW, 1014 —Bristol and South Wales Junction, Gs. 3d.—Bristol and Glouces tor, 52!2—Caledonian, 15%—Ditto, New, 1% —Manchester and Leeds Extension, 3% p.—North Staffordshire, 4►% p.- Taff Vale, New, 114. . . - - . MANCHESTER, AUGUST 4. STOCK ExerrAnnx.—The sales are—Ambergate, Nottingham, &c., 41 P.—Bideford and Tavistock, 1 dis. —Birmingham and Oxford Junction, 6% p.—Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, 1 p.—Ditto, New, par—Blackburn and Preston, 10% p. —Boston, Stamford, and Bir mingham, 10s. dis.—Buckingham and Bletclaley, % p.—Caledonian, 4 dis.—Clitheroe Junction, 34 ells.— Direct Northern, 4 dis.—Dublin and Drogheda, Thirds, % p.—Eastern Counties, York Extension, 2c. p.—East Lancashire, 11 p.—East Lincolnshire, dis.—Exete and Exmouth, 9s. 6d. dia.—Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester, 1U dis. —Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding, % dis.—Glasgow - and Dum fries, y, dis.—Grand Union, 3-16 dis.—Great Grimsby and Sheffield, par—Ditto, Quarter Shares, par—Great Grimsby and Dock Exten sion, par—Huddersfield, Halifax, and Bradford, 3% p. Hudders field and Manchester Railway and Canal, 4)¢ p.—Ditto, Extension, p.—Lancashire and North Yorkshire, % dis.—Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester, -11 p.—Ditto, New Branches, 43% p.—Leicester and Bedford, Y e dis.—Leicester and Birmingham, 19s. 6cl.lis.—Leicester, Bin - ningham, and Trent Valley Junction, % dis.—Liverpool and Bury, New, 2% p.— Liverpool, Manchester, rial Newcastle, % dis. Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 3 11-16' p.—London and Bir mingham, 235% London and York, % p. —Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, 1% p.—Manchester and Birmingham, Quarters (A), 11 3 p.—Manchester and Leeds, 39 p.—Ditto, Extension, 3 13-16 p.— Manchester and Southampton, 3-16 dis.—Borth British, Halves, S p.—Ditto, Carlisle Branch, 33¢ p. —North Eastern, 1 dis.—North Staffordshire, 4% p.—North Western, 1 p.—Oldham Districts, 15-16 dis.— Oldham, Birkenhead, &c., 1.16 dis.—Preston and Wyre, Halves (B), % p.—Sheffield an Lincolnshire Junction, 7.16 p.— Sheffield and Manchester, Quarters, No 3, 3 4 p.—Shrewsbury and Birmingham, % . p.—Shropshire Union, % dis_--South-Eastern and Dover, Halves, No. 4, 1 ifi p.—Sopth Midland, p.—South Stafford shire Junction, dis.—West Lancashire Coast, 17s. dis.—West Riding Union, 3 15-16 , LEEDS AUGUST 4, ... STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Eastern Counties, York Ex tensions, 425. p.—East Lancashire, 10 1 4 p.—Great Grimsby and Sheffield, ss. p.—llndderafield stud Manchester, 4 p.—Ditto, Exten sions, % p.—Huddersfield and Sheffield, 9 p.—Leeds and Dews bury, 7% p.—Ditto, Branches, 4 p.—Leeds and Thirsk, 1 dis. Ditto, New, I dis.—Manchester and Leeds, Fifth Shares, 10 p.— Ditto, Extensions, 3% p.—Newcastle and Berwick, 14% p.—New castle and Darlington Junction Extensions, 11 p.—North British, Carlisle Branch, 3% p.—Sheffield and Manchester, Quarter Shares, No. 3., 15s. p.—York arid North Midland, East and West Riding, 13 p.—Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston, 2s. 6d. dis.—Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham, I Is. 6d. dis.—Buckinghamshire, par.— Direct Northern, 7s. 6d. dis.—East Lincolnshire, 2s. 6d. dis.—Grand Union, ss. dis. —Great Eastern and Western, 30s. dis.—Lancashire and North Yorkshire, 16s. dis.—Lancashire, Yorkshire, and North Eastern, 345. dis.—Leeds, Wakefield, and Midland, 15s. dis.—Leices ter and Bedford, 10s. Ormskirk, and Preston, 3% p. —London and York, % p.—Ditto, Half Shares, ss. dis.—holidOn and Portsmouth, Ix, p.—London and Manchester (Rem.), 465. dis. —Mallon and Drift:od Junction, 74 p.—Manchester, Buxton, Mat lock, and Midland, 31s. 6d. p.—North Staffordshire, 41. 7s. p.— North Western, 74 p. —Sheffield, Rotherham, and Goole, % dis.— Shrewsbury and Birmingham, 1 p.— South Midland, 15s. p.—Welsh Midlands, 28s. dis.—West Riding Union, 51.9s.—York and ,Carlisle, dis, SHEFFIELD, AUGUST 4. STOCK Excustroz.—The sales are—Eastern Counties, York Ex :enslou, 2y,—London and Brighton, G 6 —Grimsby and She Meld, 1 4 p.—Ditto, Exension, par—Ditto, Railway and Dock, 4 dies.—North British, Carlisle Extension, 3U p.—East Lincolnshire, par—Man.. chester and Lincoln Union and Canal, 1 is. dis.—North Western, 30s. p.—Sheftleld and Lincolnshire. 10s. p.—Ditto, Extension, ss. dis. NEWCASTLE-UPON-TY/ , E, AUGUST 3. STOCK EXCHANGE.—TiIe sales are—Eastern Counties, York Ex tension, 31s. 9d. p.—Lancashire and North Yorkshire, 20s. dis.— London and York, 16s. dis.—Newcastle and Carlisle, 105—North umberland and Lancashire, 14% p. HULL, AUGUST 4. Swat EXCRANGE.—The sales are— Eastern Counties, York Ex tension, 254 —Hull and Selby, 1054—Ditto, half Shares, 39—North British, 4134—Ditto, Half Shares, 16—Ditto, Carlisle Branch, 4/. Os. —York and North Midland, East and West Riding, 14%—Black burn, Darwen, and Bolton, Si. 10s. 6d.—Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction, 2354—Leeds and Dewsbury, 2754—North Wales, 1 1 / 4 Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston, &c., 385..-Armagh, Cole raine, and Portrush, 15s.—Buckinghamshire, 41s —Direct Northern, 2%—Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding, 105.—Glasgow, Dum fries, and Carlisle, 2—Grand Union, 1 % —Leicester and Bedford, 1 ls. 6d.—Leicester and Tamworth, 355. Gd.—Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction, 2% —Liverpool, Ormakirk, and Preston, 6X' — London and York, 2%—Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, Si. 1 ls. 6d.—North Western, 21s. p.—North Staffordshire, 61. 12s.— South Midland, 17s. 6d. p.— Shrewsbury and Birmingham, 3% — West Riding Union, 5 y a . YORK, AUGUST 4. Bvoca Exemiarcm.—The sales are—Ambergate, Nottingham, Bed Bostcn, 2%—Eastern Counties, 'fork Extension,—ran 3Gd Union - . . (Nottingham and Lynn), 1/. 2s.—lpswich and Bury (Cambridge and Ely), I%—Leicester and Bedford, 12s.—London and York, 2 Mahon and Driffield Junction, 2/. 13s.—Manchester, Buxton, Mat lock, and Midland, 3/. 17s.—Newcastle and Berwick, 29%—New castle and Darlington, New, 12%—North British, 41 1 ,x —Ditto, Half Shares, 15%—Ditto, Carlisle Extension, 4/. 12s.—Ditto, Dalkeith, B—North Staffordshire. 6X —North Western, 21. South Midland, 21. 16s.—York and Carlisle, 11,4—York and North Midland, East and West Riding Extension, 141. GLASGOW, AUGUST 3. STOCK Eamon:la.—The sales are—Caledonian, 14%—Ditto, New, 20s. 6d.—Direct Northern, 37s.—East Indian Railway, 14s. 6d. — Edinburgh and Glasgow, 74% —Edinburgh and Northern, 10 1 A — Ditto, Newport, 225. 6d.—Glasgow General Terminus, 7% —Glasgow and Belfast Union, 4bs.—Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr. New, 32% —Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 395. 6d.—Glasgow, Kilmar nock, and Ardrossan, 30s.—Great North of India, ss.—lnverness and Elgin, 2114—Kilmarnock and Ayr Direct, 35s.—Larne, Belfast, and Ballymena, 10s.—Manchester and Southampton, 295. 6d.—North British, Extension to Carlisle, 85s.—Perth and Inverness, 325. Scottish Central, 191.—Scottish Central and Caledonian Junction, 335. —South-Eastern and Dover, New (issued at 151.), No. 4, 75s.—South Midland, 575. 6d.—South and Midland Junction, 245. FORE EON LETTERS• The use of postage stamps of a higher denomination for foreign letters appears to be so generally advocated that, notwithstanding the objections made to their introduction, which seem to be chiefly of official origin, there are fair grounds for hoping that they will ultimately be made to give way to public convenience. These objections are—the very complicated and varying tariffs of charges for foreign letters, which few persons could understand, and consequent liability to employ a wrong stamp—the accounts kept with foreign countries under different postal treaties, leading to constant fractions, and scarcely to be represented by any variety of stamps—and, lastly, the great danger of forgery. We do not see much force in any of these objections. The employ ment of stamps will always be optional and chiefly for the convenience of men in business, who must be conversant with the charges made ; and as all postage is now regulated by weight, they , would seldom expose themselves to the risk of having a letter kept back by the use of a stamp too low in value. The second objection, resolving itself into a mere matter of account, must surely be susceptible of an easy remedy, if persons are in earnest about it ; and though the risk of forgery must be allowed to be a formidable one, it would be an affront to those who have to manage the business to pretend that it cannot be surmounted. To have an idea of the inconvenience produced under the present system, one mast be a spectator in Lombard-street, or at the chief Mice in St. Martin's-le-Grand, during the last half hour in which foreign letters are receivable. It is generally a scene of violent confusion and uproar; each striving to be first at the wicket, and many fearing to be too late, for one merchant's clerk who has a large number may occupy the receiver for some minutes in settling the amount he will have to pay. It is not unusual to have coats torn and hats lost in the struggle, and a more odious and harassing service to the mercantile " subs" who have to undergo it can hardly be conceived. The severest nights are Tuesdays and Fridays, as well as those on which is dispatched the Indian mail ; and something of the kind must un doubtedly occur in the large provincial towns, as well as in London. All the arguments so happily used for the in troduction of Rowland Hill's system, of preventing frauds, and robberies, and losses, apply still more strongly to the case of the foreign letters. Stamps are already used, in fact, for newspapers sent abroad, which seldom bear a higher rate than 3d., and a similar stamp, but of a dis tinct colour, would do for the sixpences and shillings. It would show a want of deference to the general wish of com mercial men not at least to make this experiment. Like all things of the kind, it would take time to come into general use. The clerks of the Post-office have almost an equal in terest with those of the merchants and tradersin the improve. ment of the present system, and their principals will, there fore, it is to be assumed, readily lend themselves to the de sired reform. An old correspondent, " Qui Hi," writing on the subject, justly ridicules the notion, stamps being once in troduced for letters, of confining ourselves to those for ld. and 2d., which he compares to that of having only one or two money coins in connexion wiih a metallic circulation. India and other foreign letters might have (he suggests) stamps of distinct colours to assist the clerks in sorting. Let the Post-office once manifest the disposition to adopt this re form, and grapple fairly with its difficulties, there would be no want of suggestions to assist them. To the trading inte rest, who want it most, it would be an immediate relief • and whether the rest of the community followed quickly or otherwise in their train would be of no moment whatever. — Timm. THE MAGAZINES. THE UNION. "A Transatlantic Editor" is the title of a most hu morous Yankee sketch in the present number of the Union. Mr. Washingtun Wolfe Lick is the publisher, proprietor, and editor of the " Citizen of the West " newspaper, published in an uncertain town in the uncer• tain territory between Louisiana and Texas. Mr Lick, in his journal, has libelled a certain Mr. Abel Wright and a Mr. Herman, who determine to inflict corporal punishment on their traducer, but who are personally unacquainted with him, and with each other. The re mainder of the story is so good that we must give it in the very . words of the narrator:— Mr. Lick was seated at his desk, engaged in skimming over the contents of a number of newspapers, or rather culling choice morceanx for the next Citizen. A loud knock was heard at the street door. Lick started at the sound and then listened attentively. The door was opened. He heard a gruff voice growling out something, but could not distin guish what ; and immediately heavy and hasty steps were heard ascending the stairs. " Aha 1 here comes the freeman !" exclaimed the editor, and darting to the fire-place, seized the poker and shovel (tongs there were none) which be deposited—oh sacrilege in the editorial desk; then seating himself on the high stool, he plied his pen intently. The steps grew louder; the stranger would be in the room in another instant. " He's coming," quoth Lick ; " and there's only one lucky thing, he don't know me. The heavy and hasty gentleman, who was no other than Mr. Abel Wright, put his foot upon the topmost stair, and without knocking, rushed into the room, armed with a beau tiful " cowhide,' and roared out, " Hullo here! is your name Lick?" _ _ _ _ The editor slowly raised his eyes from the paper, and sur veyed the enemy with a bland look. "If you wish to see Mr. Lick, sir,"—he deliberately commenced. " Slice me into sandwiches and smash me into sosengers ! if you don't answer plain and spry, I'll bring this here to bear upon you ;" and he flourished the cowhide before the wily Lick. " You wish to see the editor, sir 2" said Lick, coming down from his seat and going towards the door. " Yes, sir; call him up. Say a gentleman has called to pay a bill." " Yes, sir," answered Lick, "glad to escape in any manner from within range of the formidable weapon. He stood out side the door for an instant, hesitating whether he should turn the key upon Mr. Wright and lock him in, or seek safety in flight, when lo ! he was startled by another loud knock at the street-door. It was opened. Some one entered hastily, and again was Mr. Lick inquired after. The idea instantly flashed across his mind that this must be Mr. An drew Herman. Here was a dangerous situation. To go back was madness—to go forward was like rushing into the lion's jaws. It was, however, necessary to decide quickly, for the enemy was now as ending the stairs. In another moment they were face to face. Instead of a cowhide, this second as sailant rejoiced in the possession of an enormous cudgel. As the editor imagined, it was Mr. Herman; and if ever a man testified his intention by his look, it was plain that the said Mr. Herman was bent upon committing assault and battery upon some person or other. He seized the luckless Lick roughly by the collar, and, without uttering a word, had already raised his cudgel high up in the air, in order that it might descend with the utmost violence on the person of that worthy, when the latter, with a forgiving and good natured smile, said, I presume you wish to see the editor of the Citizen ; if so, please to go to the room above." "Oh ! beg pardon. Slight mistake of mine. Up stairs, I see." With a chuckle of infinite glee, Lick straightway pro ceeded to the coffee-room on the opposite side of the road, to wait the issue of his stratagem. Meanwhile, Mr. Abel Wright prepared himself for the re ception of the editor, and hearing some one ascending the stairs just after Lick's departure, he, naturally enough, sup posed it was that gentleman coming. Placing himself close behind the door, and twisting the thong tightly round his hand, he stood prepared to deal a " clencher ' the mo • ment his fancied libeller should enter. Mr. Herman presently bolted into the room, and was saluted, on the instant, with a tremendous whack across the shoul ders, and in the next Mr. Wright was favoured with a smart tap on the head from the other's cudgeL As may be imagined, a tremendous contest ensued, and the hide and cudgel were plied stoutly. No words passed for some time, but the epithets of " infernal scamp, rascal,scoun drel, villain," &c; presently, however Mr Wright beginning to get the upper, hand, exclaimed, " You blighted scoun drel, I'llteach you to abuse honest men ;" to which Mr. Her man replied, " Put anything in your humbugging paper abcut me, and skin me alive 1 if I don't break every bone in your body." On hearing this, the former gentleman began to think there must be some mistake in the matter, and prompted by a sudden thought, he exclaimed, "Is your name Lick 1" - Thinking this a fresh and most deliberate insult, Herman recommenced using his cudgel, and another desperate en counter ensued. Everything in the room was overturned — editor's desk, stool, fender, files ; ink spilled, bottle broken, &c. ; at last, having thoroughly exhausted themselves, the combatants stood panting, and glaring savagely at each other. " Hear me," gasped Herman; " you skin-flint lightning driver, every time you put my name in your paper, you shall fare like this.' As may be supposed, the extraordinary circumstance of each accusing the other of the same offence at last induced an explanation, and, when the mystery was cleared up, great was the wrath and mortification of these amiable gen tlemen, on finding that the object of their vengeance bad escaped scot•free, while they each had received a sound thrashing. Great, on the contrary, was the glee of Mr. Washington Wolfe Lick, as he saw, from the window of the coffee-room, his fiery visitors emerge from the house , flushed and heated ' by their exertions; their hats broken, necker chiefs untied, dresses disordered and countenances expressive of the direst exasperation and chagrin. Two days after this occurrence, Messrs. Wright and Her man were summoned to the Back-street police-office, at the instance of Washington Wolfe Lick, editor and proprietor of the Citizen of the West newspaper, charged with having en tered the house of the latter in his absence, and created an uproar and disturbance therein ; and also with having broken, damaged, and spoilt a desk, stool, and sundry other of the property of the said Lick. Fined twenty dollars each, and costs.. The illustration to this story, by Mason, is almost as good as the tale itself. The point of time chosen is that Just before the first meeting of Wright and Herman, when the latter is in the act of opening the door of the editor's room. The interesting adventures of the " Deal Boatman " are continued, as are " The Sketches of Bri tish Landladies," and " The History of the Jesuits." We have the commencement of the " Adventures of a British Serjeant in the Auxiliary Legion in Spain,from 1835 to 1840," which promise well ; and a variety of other amusing articles. This is a good number of the Union. that wonderful production is made the subject of a most severe, but, at the same time, just critique. The com position, however, of the commission, does not entitle its report to much authority, as the writer of this article justly observes. "A schoolmaster is a very bad man of business, and perhaps a soldier is a worse, though it is really impossible to institute an accurate comparison; but a combination of the two pro • fessions, in the masters of the engineering school at Chatham, might c't priori be conceived to constitute the height of unfit ness, if even experience had not proved it to us. We are satisfied no merchant, we know no banker, would entrust Major General Pasley or Lieut. Col. Sir Frederick Smith even with his ledger, much less with any matter of business; yet to these gentlemen is the whole subject of railway management from time to time handed over for experiment, in despite of their professional unfitness, and the confirmed experience they have afforded of it. They are thus placed in a difficult and invidious position, having a glimmering of their ignorance, and ashamed and afraid to confess it. Con fused with theoretical imaginations, and mystified occasionally by some of the more daring of the rival railway men, they are agitated by their theories, their prepossessions , their fears, and their desire of popularity; and bring forth these reports which are rejected by the contending parties, mat: by the public end then forgotten, and made the laughing !jock of railway men. The Government do not appoint majors general and colonels to be commissioners for the reductiG.Tl of the national debt, but they appoint merchants and bank ers ; and if they must appoint officers to look after railway traffic, the least they can do is to name men of business. who have some knowledge of their duties, and not parties who know nothing of business, never can know, and only do mischief by being allowed to meddle in what they do not understand." It is to be hoped that in the present instance, as has happened in so many others, the superior authorities will modify, if not altogether disregard, the recommendations of the Commissioners, and that the City of London will not be deprived of the Central Railway Terminus some where in the neighbourhood of Farringdon-atreet, with out which its commerce will eventually—slowly, perhaps, but most surely—leave it for the suburban towns now springing up in the vicinity of the differont nietropoli! an railway termini. Mr. Hyde Clarke, the editor, furnishes some valuable contributions to railway statistics, and we have a very able paper explaining the adoption of the barometrical system of atmospheric railway traction, in addition to an accurate register of all the railway events of the month, and a retrospective review of bygone rail way projects. CO,IIMEI:CIAL MAGAZINE. This is the first number of a new periodical, professing to furnish, " First, Original Articles and selected documents referring to commercial subjects. " Second, Papers on the varicus branches of commercial law, which should be familiar to all men of business. Third, Mercantile Statistics of every description ; and "Fourth, Commercial and Monetary Intelligence of the kind most required by merchants and bankers, as indicative of the prospects of trade and of the currency. _ _ The want of such a periodical has long been felt. The army, the navy, the professions of law, of medicine, of the church, have each their own special magazine. Every class of religionists has its organ—bankers, and builders, and engineers, and artists, and railway pro prietors, and mechanics, have each their one or more journals; but the great commercial hoc:y has as yet had no magazine specially engaged in their service, open at all times as a repository of commercial statistics ready to do battle in behalf of the commercial portion of the community, where necessity may require. This want it is the object of the projectors of the present pe riodical to supply; and, judging from the contents of the first number, the commercial body cannot desire a more talented instructor, a more efficient advocate, or a mere able organ than the Commercial Magazine. Its policy is in strict unison with the principles of free trade, and perhaps the most able article which has yet appeared on the sugar question is the opening paper of this magazine. We have also a most able article on the commercial law of stoppage in transits, besides the monetary and trade reports of the month, the new tariff complete, and an im mense mass of useful statistical information on matters relating to trade and commerce. THE NEW NAVY LIST and General Record of the Services of Officers of the Royal Navy and Royal Marines. Conducted by Joseph Allen, Esq., R.N., Greenwich Hospital. Mr. Alien's New Navy List is the most complete record of the services of our naval and marine officers extant. The improvements introdUced into the first number of the revised series have been perfected in the present, and the editor proposes to extend them in his January number, by introducing distinguishing marks against the names of those officers who have received medals from the Royal Humane Society, or other public bodies, for saving the lives of their fellow creatures. MILITARY FLOGGING. REASONS FOR THE ENTIRE ABOLITION OF FLOGGING AS A PUNISHMENT IN THE ARMY AND NAVY OF GREAT BRITAIN. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) 1. Because of its uncertainty ; arising from, first, the vastly varied bodily powers of executioners ; from, second. the humour of commanding officers acting on the power* of the same executioners ; from, third, the thickness or thinness of the culprit's skin ; from, fourth, the vast difference of nervous sensibility of the culprits ; from, fifth, the perpetual variation of the cat from any given standard, in despite of all precautions that can be taken to the contrary. So that, in fact, with all these things telling one way, you may be inflicting punishment equal to 1,000 lashes, by the sentence 100, and vice versa. 2. Becati , c it will henceforth, as long as it exists, tend to mutiny. For the soldiery now know that the whole nation is against their officers in this point, and for them. And they will surmise that if, at any time, they insist (which is mutiny) that the sentence of flog ging by a court-martial be not inflicted, the nation will stand betwixt them and the extreme of law. And where some favourite comrade is to be punished,at the instance of some "brutish" commanding officer, nothing is more likely than for them to do so. 3. Because of its effects on the innocent. When strong men faint in the " square," what must be going on among the women and children, listening to the yells in the barrack-room ? But suppose the culprit a husband and father. It is nature's protest given thunder-tongued. 4. Because military and naval people are public ser vants, and if they please to take the public money, it must be for doing the public will. From the fifer to the com-mander-in-chief, their choice of the profession was for the gratification of their own instincts, and their pay and promotion are their wages ; f r it boots not to call things by too fine names. They have served the public and the public has paid them If they wish to be continued in the public service, let them do the public work as the public desire it should be done, otherwise there are plenty who will. Indeed if this law were altered in 1846, the candidates for officership in 1847 would be a more elevated class of men. Hundreds of our bravest and highest spirited gentry are kept out of the army and navy by the flogging system. 5. Because there is no tenable ground for flogging men, in a mode illegal and held offensive to public rights in the case of brutes. For the only thing that can be said on the other part is this—that man being a moral, and therefore a more responsible being than the brute, his criminality is by so much more odious; and then by so much more deserving of this punishment. But if you say this, then inasmuch as the officer is a more enlight ened and responsible man than the private, his crimes are so much more odious, and therefore so much more deserving of this punishment than the private's crimes. His drunkenness, his brawls, his duels, should be treated with the same number of lashes, only it should be in the public forum instead of in " the square." Fiat justitia ruat cnlum. But if you will not apply your moral principle to implicate the officer, you must not to implicate the private man. 6. Because the worst men are least punished by it. This moral aspect of the matter is a profoundly important one. In fact, if the case for flogging be lost here, it is lost entirely and for ever. New nothing is more un deniable than that the sensitive, honourable-spirited man is crushed by it, whilst the cool and dogged vaga bond backs it off (as is the military phrase) with the most consummate effrontery. 7. Because of the very offensive character it superin duces upon the officers, commissioned and non-commis sioned. The feeling of the 7th Hussars towards their ser goants (for of their commissioned-officers THEY dare not speak) is to be very clearly gathered from the appeal made to the Coroner's Court by one of the military witnesses respecting a sergeant who was peeping in at the door to listen to his evidence. No man of common sense will say that the verdict of a whole regiment (for of course all the privates feel alike) on a moral point is likely to be an error. As to the effect on the commissioned officers—the buffoonery of Colonel Whyte in the inquest-room--the snarling reply of Edward Ireland, the adjutant, about " making the law"—and the denial by Dr. Warren of a conversation with his patient, that no powers under those of a first rate dramatist could so have feigned and fitted to the facts ; these three circumstances may suffice. To those who are not aware of the customs of the army, &c., and of their disparaging effects in certain particulars upon the characters of those who are otherwise gentlemen, there is a species of offensiveness about these incidents, that, brit for direct affirmative evidence, would go far to render them incredible. 8. Because it is equally known, and may be judged, to be one of the prime promoters of crime in the army. Flog a man, and he invariably flies to drunkenness to drown his shame and wretchedness. And this very drunk en ness again l e ads him into the crime he is consti tutione2ly prone to. But not so only ; one drunkard makes hlf-a-dozen. This time he invites this comrade to join him--another time, another; and the very sympathy for him which his flogging has created leads his comrade to consent, for it is thought unkind to refuse anything that can be done for a man so situated. Thus, not only the man himself is driven to desperation, but ho becomes a fountain of infection to others. 9. Because it actually is done without in other armies; no ill effects - to the discipline and operative faculty of those armies following. It is a great problem for a per eon of common sense and direct natural motive—How thy flogging General can have the impudence to ask his meu to fight tile General who does not flog ? Really, it is tivee for men to begin to judge the good and evil, and be no longer led blindly on by others ; or hounded against sections of their kind more advanced than themselves. 10. Because of its direct tendency to produce fatal disea.Se in the physical system. It is very true that a number of army (paid) surgeons pronounce it innocu ous t o 3 fatal extent. On the other, just as great a num ber of arn:Y surgeons give the directly opposite opinion. So that if ice matter end here, a case is made out of the doubtfulnCss of its effects ; and so of its unjustifi ableness. But looking further, we find the opinion of almost the whole body of the medical and surgical pro. fessions among civit':an.s against it. And then what a Tory sorry spectacle Of a minority does the section of COLBURN'S UNITED SERVICE, The present number contains an admirable assort ment of professional and amusing articles. No one understands better the art of mixing tho duke with the utile than the editor of the United Service Magazine. THE ALMANACK FOB THE MONTH. Edited by G. A. A'Becketi. A condensation of fun, frolic, whim, and wit of the ast four weeks. THE COMIC HISTORY OF ENGLAND. By G. A. A'Bechett. No. 11. Merrily does Mr. A'Beckett, in the present number, rattle through the History of England, from the days of Ethelred to those of William the Conqueror ; but, albeit merrily, not the less truthfully. Take the follow ing account of " King Canute reproving his Courtiers" as a specimen:— " One day,' when in the plenitude of his power, he caused the throne to be removed from the throne-room and erected, during low tide, on the sea-shore. Having taken his seat, surrounded by his courtiers, he issued a proclamation to the ocean, forbidding it to rise, and commanding it not, on any account, to leave its bed until his permission for it to get up was graciously awarded. The courtiers backed the royal edict, and encouraged with the grossest adulation this first great practical attempt to prove that Britannia rules the waves. Such a rule, however, was soon proved to be nothing better than a rule nisi, which it is impossible to make ab solute when opposed by Neptune's irresistible motion of course. Every wave of Canute's sceptre was answered by a wave from the sea, and the courtiers, who were already up to their ankles in salt-water, began to fear that they should soon be pickled in the foaming brine. " At length the monarch himself found his footstool dis posed to go on swimmingly of its own accord, and there was every prospect that the whole party would undergo the ceremony of an immediate investiture of the bath. The sovereign, who was very lightly shod, soon found that his pumps were not capable of getting rid of the water, which was now rising very rapidly. Having sat with his feet in the sea for a ‘ few miutes, and not relishing the slight spe cimen of hydropatbic treatment he had endured, he jumped suddenly up, and began to abuse bis courtiers for the mess into which he had been betrayed by their outrageous flattery." The illustrative woodcuts are laughter-moving ex , ceedingly. THE MIRROR. Edited by Percy B. St. John. This, the oldest and the best of the cheap weekly periodicals, is now, under the able editorship of Mr. Percy St. John, raised to the dignity of a monthly magazine; and, considering the immense quantity of matter contained in it, the Mirror is by far the cheapest magazine published ; and, with regard to matter, the name of the edieor is alone a sufficient guarantee that none but the productions of first-rate literary talent wit. find admission to its pages. The present number is in a great measure devoted to the conclusion of a French talc, which the editor is obliged to finish to keep faith with former subscribers, but we are glad to find, that, in his address to his readers, he declares that henceforth "it will be his rule never to have more than one con tinued article; nem will he ever resort to translations of French romances to fill his columns, believing ample literary talent, and to spare, to exist in this country." In addition to this French talc we have the opening chapters of a Texan romance by the editor, which are full of striking incident, and promise well. THE PATRICIAN: The Patrician for this month opens with the family history and genealogy of the gentlemen who have been created Peers or Baronets by the Administration of fir Robert Peel: Under the head " Curious Trials connected with the Aristocracy" we have the history of the celebrated ejectment case between James Annersley and the Earl of Anglesey, and under that of " Celebrated Peerage Cases," we have the remarkable cases of the Earldom of Banbury and the Earldom of Huntingdon ; three of the most interesting and romantic histories ever recorded, and which prove that " Truth is strange, stranger than fiction." We doubt not but that the genealogical studies of Mr. Burke must have made him acquainted with many such interesting family . histories, and we hope that from time to time he will, in the pages of The Patrician, give the public the benefit of his researches. We would, how ever, suggest to him the propriety of not confining him self to the British aristocracy. The family histories of the aristocracies of France, Spain, and Germany would furnish him with many a " true" romance not less in teresting than those he has already placed on record. This is the best number of :Tke Patrician that has yet appeared. RAIL WAY REGISTER. The Railway Register of this month opens with an admirably written article on the "Report of the Com izissionere QA gotropolitwa A§ilway Ternahai," in which THE ARMY. As some inaccurate statements have gained circulation on the subject of the probable movements of the regi ments intended for the Cape, we are requested to state that the precise arrangement is as follows :—The 2d battalion of the Rifle Brigade will more from the Island of Corfu to Gibraltar, there to await the arrival of the 6th Foot from Cork. Both regiments will proceed together from the Ruck to the Cape, and will be con veyed, as stated some time since, by steamers. The 2d (the Queen's Bays) and the 13th (Prince Albert's Light Infantry) are mentioned as likely to have new colours presented to them very shortly. We have reason to believe that in both cases the cere mony will be performed by Lady Pakenham, although it is reported that his Royal Highness Prince Albert will officiate in the latter. . The army in Ireland for the present month consists of the 2d Dragoon Guards, Dublin ; Ist Dragoons, Balin colig ; 2d Dragoons, Dublin ; 6th Light Dragoons, Long ford ; Bth Hussars, Caber; 10th Light Dragoons, Dublin ; 17th Lancers, Dundalk ; depot of Ist battalion Ist Foot, Dublin ; ditto 15th Foot, at Water ford ; ditto 16th Foot, at Athlone ; ditto 19th Foot, at Bo) le ; 26th Foot, Enniskillen ; 30th Foot, Dublin ; depot of 33d Foot, at Birr in the King's County ; ditto of 34th Foot, at Clonmel ; ditto of 38th Foot, at Londonderry ; 41st Foot, Mullingar ; 44th, Nenagh ; 47th, Dublin ; depot of 48th, at Newbridge; 49th, Castlebar; depot of 54th, at I? , ermoy; 59th, Dub lin ; 64th, Dublin; depot of 66th, remplentore 1 67th, Cork; 70th, Dublin; d itto of 72d, Nena g h ; 75 th , Ath lone; depot of 77th, V e rmoy; ditto of 79th, B e lt ur b e t ; 13 average force in ditto of 82d, Spike Islan d ; 83d, Limeri c k ; depot of 88 th, Ballinasloei 92c1 Belfast ; d e p o t o f 9 3 d , Ireland year is about.l'h 22,000 men, wh ose expenditure is always very considerable. Tilt CotteitLct OF THE let Foote-=-As otir readers arlow throughout dtto o 95tthile are already aware, the Colonelcy of this, the most lucrative and the highest regiment of the line, is vacant by the demise of Sir George_ . Murray, who su ccee d e d Lord tynedocb, fotrnefly LAI. Thomas Graham, in 1843. The profits of the corps will, agteeably to usage, be available to the representatives of the de deasod for upwards of twelve months. The precise arrangement as to the future Colonel is not therefor, likely to transpire for some weeks, but nevertheless it is generally expected that t he appointment will be con ferred on Sir John Macdonald, Colonel of the 42d High landers and Adjutant of the Army ; and th a t h e w ill be succeeded in the latte r regiment by Sir James Mac donnell of the 79th. The latter officer was at Waterloo. Major-General D'Oyly from the Grenadier Guards, an old Waterloo officer, who has already been passed over, it is thought will be gazstted to the 79th. The Governorship ofJamaica, another lucrative mili tary appointment, also vacant by the demise of Sir George, will no doubt have many candidates, but as the i Duke's antipathy to pluralism s well known, no fear of its improper disposal need be entertained. he 1 The lioness at the Surrey Zoological Gardens, which whelped one cub during the storm of Saturday, is doing well. The cub is a very fine one, and appears healthy. The lioness having as yet no milk, the cub has been fed by means of as" baby's bottle." and a Newfoundland bitch is appointed as wet-nue. RIBBONISM.—We are happy to state that, through the exertions of the Roman Catholic clergy, the ribbon system is on the decline in Sligo, and We hope to tee it ultimately eradieated.-7 , §O9 Vtatni*lf• -- the military medical class supporting it present. ,7: ..ir _t, 7 -- f''''‘ ‘ it observed, moreover, that this objection is more to /2, -* A '' ,7 4.0 • L'...; • 7' ',, z, , A0 lashes than to 500. For the destruction of the m ~...i F t. ., , ..y-g4f, 1, 4 1 cul tr organiiation, to which Professor Wilson (the otQfp , , :z .', ; ; ,. r . , ,,r, : -.s, 1 , - disinterested referee in the case) attributes death in t.l,'.: \ \ ..c `..4\,,... : , ''' , .;- s _,lt:-, , late affair, is more likely to have taken place during t ?4`,.:; (; :.,, pi ?. first 50 lashes than subsequently, because it was affecte . 1_,....&__L_,-:---. by the power of the nervous system, and that was morqrci t i v r r s m ,-- , . . forcible during the first 50, than at any time subse- " quently. A WORKING HAND. WAR IN CIRCASSIA. The following interesting particulars of some recent military operations of the Circa,ssians under Shamil have been communicated to the Dublin Erening Mail from a correspondent on the Rhine, whose informant is an officer just returned from the Russian frontier : " After the retreat of the Russians last year from Itchkeri, Shamil removed the seat of his government from Dargo to Vedea, on a small stream called Hal Rulso, about twelve miles further westward. The posi tion is a strong one, though too near the Russian posts at Grosnaya and Vozdinjania. It is eighteen miles from Telialdeeri, which is about eighteen miles south-east. .Shamil's authority throughout the mountains was much steengthened by the events of last year's campaign, so disastrous to the Russian arms. He established a more regular system of administration, and during the winter exercised his power in various acts of hostility against too Russiten frontier and depencies. " At an early period he made an inroad across the Sulakinto ',radii; he then crossed over the Corras into Ahuska and Haramalki, and at one time he threatened to break into the province of Kahetie. But these de monstrations socined principally intended to keep up the confidence of the disaffected among the tribes which have submitted to Russia, or to harass the Russian troops, by compelling them to move during the incle mency of the winte r.. But he has lately accomplished an enterprise more dating than any which he ever before attempted. "In the early part of April, Lieutenant-General Freytag, who commands (en the left flank of the Russian line of the Caucasu', receiv:ng notice that Shamil was assembling a large force at Sbalii in Great Tchetchnaya, six miles distant from Tchakkeri, messengers were in stantly sent in consequence to every part of the Russian line, and four battalions were detached by Lieutenant- General liarford, from Mondala, as a reinforcement to Grosnaya. " On the evening of the 25th April, Shamil moved from Shalii, and crossing the Russian line of communi cation. between Grosnaya and Tschakkeri, he came on the 27th upon the river Sundja , bet ween the Russian forts Kara::: Kitcha and Zahanyourt. The force he had with him i.: stated to have consisted of from 6,000 to 8,000 infanti:v, 12,000 cavalry, and six guns. After crossing the rivi`r he reached, on the 29th, Constanti•- nofsky, the chief p. l aee of the Little Kabards, whence he rapidly advanced to ,the river Tcherek. He crossed that river at a point opposite to the St 1, InitzE of Uricb, where 2,000 Russians, under ColonelSifkovick, were posted. This small body maintainertheir ground with great bra very, but were at last overwheNed by the superior number of their assailants.Shamil having' by this movement placed himself on the great military row:: leading from Georgia to Russia, moved along that road t Minaret, where it was thought he would entrench hims'qlf, but probably seeing that the position was open to attack in the rear from Wladikowhas, as well as in front, e remained there only a day, and then pushed forward into :he great Kabarda, as far as the Tcherek, between the soueces of which stream and at the foot of the central chain of the Caucasus he established himself. In the meanwhile his cavalry scoured the country, and the inhabitants rose and joined him in considerable numbers ; and, having collected their cattle and flocks, hastened away from the country, and under escort of his detachments many of them succeeded in reaching the strong country of Tche hikuaya. On the 8:11 of May, Shamil broke up his en campment on the Tcherek, and retired rapidly within his , own territory, which he reached without any l oss, and with little opposition. He was, indeed, met at the con fluence of the Tcherek and Zeneisa by three Russian battalions under Colonel Baron Miller Zacomelsky, but they were compelled to give way before his superior force. " The Russian troops were not idle during all these operations, but they were out-manoeuvred by the ra pidity of Shamil's movements. On the first intelligence of Shamil's invasion, General Freytag, iiith six batta lions of infantry and 1,000 cavalry hasts'ned up the river Soudja, and arrived at Fort Mazak-Kitcha on the 2.7 th April—the day on which Shamil cros,3ed that • river lower down—and General Freytag followed Sha mil all through the Little Kabore, without ever . being able to come up with him. But having afterward.; formed a junction with Major-General Prince Gallitoin, who commands in the Great liabore, the two generals posted themselves in front of Kilehik, opposite t Shamil's position on the Tcherek, but did not deems themselves strong enough to attack him ; and Sha mil having began his retreat at night, or in a fog,. the two generals were unable to molest him in. that operation. General Nestoiroff attempted to co operate with them by a movement from Whadihowkas, but he was prevented by a diversion made 1 y a body of mountaineers, who at the same time that Shamil was moving from Shelli, penetrated through the Tugoush country, and came down upon the Georgian road, to the. south of the Russian fort of Wadihowkas. General Nestorrff was able afterwards to reach the Tcherek , but too late to be of any use. Other detachments were or dered to advance from the Kuban and from Modka, under Lieutenant-Generals Zavadowsky, Lobintzow, and Kavalifsky, but they did not arrive in time. " The whole line was, in fact, put on the alert, and the troops of the sth corps, who were marching west ward, were ordered back; and a brigade of artillery, which bad already crossed the Don to Rostoft, was or dered to return. Prince Woronzow came post from Shemaki, near the Caspian, to take on the spot such measures as these events might render necessary." STATE OF TRADE. MANCHESTER, TUESDAY, AUGUST 4. -- The yarn market continues in nearly the same state as during the last week. For water twist, and some of the better descriptions of mule yarn, there is a moderate de mand at steady prices ; but yarns suitable for the eastern markets are not quite so firm. In the goods market there is a pretty good demand, at slightly improved rates, for the better qualities of printing cloth ; but most other fabrics are quiet. The very unexpected failure of an agency house, which has transpired since our last publication, has caused a con siderable sensation in the town, and no small share of commiseration for the parties, who are highly respected by all who knew them. We understand that the engage ments of the firm amount to 42,0001., and that the assets are likely to prove very small. Another failure in the East India trade has taken place at Liverpool ; but we understand that it is not likely to be felt here. ROCHDALE, MONDAY, AUG. 3.—There has been a slack market to-day, and a slender attendance of buyers. The old prices have scarcely been maintained. The Wool market is also quiet, and prices tend downwards. LEEDS, TUESDAY, AUG. 4.—Our market presents no new features to-day ; such of the manufacturers as are not making to order readily dispose of their goods at last week's rates.—Manchester Guardian. ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH ON THE MIDLAND COMPANY'S LiNE.—The telegraph between Birmingham and Derby has just been completed. The distance is 41 miles, and the whole of the wires have been erected under the superinten dence of Mr. Joseph. This completes the telegraph on the entire of the Midland line from Leeds to Birmingham, and from Derby to Nottingham and Rugby—with the exception of the want of a few instruments on the road stations be tween Birmingham and Derby. The communication is per• feet, and constitutes another wonder in this wonder-working age. The estimated cost of the whole telegraph is about 40,0001. Sheffield Independent. PRICE OF BREAD IN GLASGOW.—Since the repeal of the corn-laws, and even previous ther eto, the bakers :in different parts of the country, as well as those of them in tio t n hin city, who do not belong to what . is termed the t cf e rp a or g op f s or . more fall in the had lowered the price of bread in proportionn I thanpr ce of a wheat.moin and nt h in almost,l The 41b. b if fine e t all, loa f has provisionbee selling n h about town, for 7cl.—household do. Od. Mark, then, the modesty of the following annou ncement which appears this week in most of the Glasgow papers At a meeting of the Incorporation of Bakers of Glasgow, held on Friday, in the Trades' llall, it was agreed to reduce the price of the 41b. loaf, first quality to 7d.; and the second quality to 6d." This is like putting the cart before the horse, seeing that this body of incorporate bakers had, for some time previously, been selling their bread to shopkeepers at such a rate as enabled the latter to retail it again at 6d. and 7d. per 41b. loaf, with a remunerating profit; while, strange to add, the price at the bakers' own shops was 7d. and Bd. for the very saint kind of bread The "protectionist " Corporation of our good city would do well to follow the example set them by the better bred bakers of Galashiels. The Border Watch states that " the bakers of Galashiels have reduced the price of the fine four-pound loaf to sixpence, and that of the second ditto to fivepence. At one establishment in the town the tine loaf is sold at fivepence-halfpenny, being, we believe, the cheapest in the United Kingdom."— Glasgow Citizen. BALLYFINN, Auc. I.—Extract of a letter : " Sir Charles IL Coote's house was found to be on fire this morning, about three o'clock. A great deal of damage has been done, and very valuable furniture destroyed." FIRE AT DUNTOCHER.—The conflagration at Under wood mill has been very closely followed by a greater calamity. both in a pecuniary and industrial sense. It is grieveus to know that the result of the devastation is not only a loss of 40,0001. but the distressing suspension of employment to no less than 700 persons. There does not appear to have been a single fire , engine at the place. When the fire broke out the country people endeavoured to stay its ravages by throwing water on the flames, a futile attempt indeed in the case of matter so combustible: as what is usually found in a mill. Not only should such establishments be provided with first-rate ap paratus for extinguishing fires, but also with a large supply of leather fire-buckets, such as may be found in the lobbies of great houses in London and in some of the public offices. Nor is this all ; a portion of the male workers, especially those belonging to country mills, should be regularly trained as firemen, and get some advantage in this capa city. They would acquire a knowledge of their superadded profes sion, and when unfortunately it was necessary to carry it into exe cution, labour the more strenuously, knowing that the destructive element with which they were called to contend, would, if it gained the mastery, throw themselves, their families, their friends, and neighbours out of employ. This hint is worthy, we think, of attri tion from all concerned—the insurance-offices, the millowners, and the operatives themselves, so deeply interested in the regularity of their employment.—Edinburgh Erening Post. THE. LATE FIRE IN ST. KATHERINE'S DOCK.—Mr. Braidwood, the superintendent of the London Fire Engine Esta blishment, returned the following to the insurance offices in London as the official report of the extent of damage done at the fire that eocurred at St. Katherine's Dock, reported in this journal of Tees day :—" Half-past Ten, p.m.—A fire occurred in the cooperage of St. Katherine's Dock, the property of the Dock Company. The cause unknown. The premises were insured in the London Fire office. The roof of the cooperage is entirely burnt off, and the second floor is burnt out. The first floor is likewise con siderably damaged by fire and water, and the contents of the crashing shed are damaged by water, &c. The fire was extinguished by firemen. The engines that attended were three land ones belonging to the Dock Company, and one floating engine ; six land engines of the London Establishment con nected with the A district, three from the B section, and two from the D district, as well as the float of the same division;•, the parish. West of England, and County engines also . attended. had the vrin rr street, in the occupation of Mrs. Ann Morris (private), attic, luld the dow curtains burnt, and the sills scorched in _ water, wand. whole of the remainder of the house is damaged in the Sun Fire-vince." MI;In 1