The Sun. — London, England, 1846-04-09 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMOIVS, April 8. INDIAN CORN. (Continued from cur Afternoon Edition of yesterday.) Mr. P. SCROPE said he quite agreed in the sentiments of the Hon. Member who had just sat down. If this House had any chance of passing this Coercion Bill with the same expedition as that which marked its progress through the House of Lords, then there might be some reason for thus pressing it on ; but when the Government saw that the discussion which had been raised upon the first reading of e that Bill was, in fact, a discussion upon the Bill, and upon its merits, they must have seen a l so principle of th e they could not escape a protracted discussion upon it. Fro m _ the moment then that the Government had ascertained that fact all the responsibility of the delay of the Corn Bill r d trsted eon tirely upon them—(Hear, hear) —and if that iscn ssin should be followed up a ft er the recess, he did think the pub lic would be impressed with the idea that the Government had some unexplained and inconceivable reason for protracting the Corn Bill, and forcing on this Coercion Bill instead of it.--(Hear, hear.) Sir J. GRAHAM said he had explained that twice before. Mr. P. SCROPE said he had heard the explanation only the day before yesterday. Sir J. GRAHAM said he had given the explanation I e before. Captain HARRIS said he could very well understand the reason why the Coercion Bill had been brought on at that particular period, and he should protest against the two que.s • tions being mixed up as they had been. Mr. FORSTER would appeal to the farmers' friends them selves, and ask them why they persevered in delaying the Corn Bill ? He could assure them that their long speeches would not have the effect of changing a single vote in that House.—(Hear, hear.) Sir J. GRAHAM, in answer to some question from Mr. Christie, said that those questions were questions of which he had given no notice, and therefore he could not give them any answer, and he should here observe that it was extremely inconvenient that such a course should be adopted. In reference to the Wootton Basset union, he begged to say that it was not in the power of the Commis • sioners to censure the guardians, but they might point out to them the manner in which the law should be carried out. He communicated with the Poor-law Commissioners to know what steps they had taken, and on the sth of February they addressed the letter to the board of guardians from which he had read the extract. If it were required he would lay the letter itself on the table. Sir R. PRICE regretted that the Government should per sist in forcing the first reading of the Coercion Bill upon the House, and he equally regretted the opposition which was so pertinaciously given by the Irish Members. Neither of them appeared willing to give way, and the consequence was, that the business of the country stood still, and that a mea sure intended to benefit Ireland in no small degree was de layed. Mr. FITZGERALD begged to correct an expression which had been made by the Hon. Member for Eversham, and which was calculated to lead to misapprehension of the real state of Ireland. The Hoe. Member had alluded to the im portation of potatoes into Wales, and he inferred from that that there was a surplus over the quantity required. lie could assure the Hon. Member that in this he was perfectly mistaken. The fact was that the prevalent disease was on the increase, and they were glad to dispose of - their potatoes before they would be utterly ruined. He gave the Right lion. Baronet credit for the measures he had introduced for the purpose of giving relief to Ireland; and with regard to the Coercion Bill, he could assure the Right Hon. Baronet that the opposition given to it by Irish Members did not - arise from any desire to throw impediments in the way of the Corn Bill, but solely because they considered the Coercion Bill ill-timed and uncalled for. He found that, during the last melees in Tipperary there had been no capital cenviction, and that in the north crime had also diminished. Mr. WYSE thought the conduct of the Irish Members in offering every opposition to this measure could not be im pugned. They felt bound to do so in compliance with the wishes of their constituents, anti because they considered the Bill an odious and unjust one. The Government had it in their power to adjourn the measure, and thus they would secure the good wishes and hearty co-operation of the Irish Members in the future stages of the Corn Bill. Colonel SIB'FHORP said he fully agreed with the llon. Members who had just sat down., he gave the Irish Mem bers all credit for the open, manly, and straightforward, and be would also say the consistent manner in which they had opposed the Coercion Bill.—( Hear, hear.) He wished the present measure of her Majesty's Government was one calculated to conciliate the people of Ireland. He wished to see the people of that country prosperous, and he was compelled to say that the• measures brought for ward for the last twenty years in that House were not calculated to promote the welfare s f the country. —( ear, hear.) The Government should introduce a measure that by its beneficial results, would restore peace and plenty to the peasantry of Ireland. —(hear, hear.) Such a measure would always meet with his (Colonel Sib; eorp'e) concurrence and hearty support, for lie considered it would be more adapted to the condi tion of the country than the Coercion Act proposed by her Majesty's Ministers. The papers were then ordered to lie on the table. THE AnT-UNIONS BILL. Oa the creation of the orders of the day fur the House going into Committee on this Bill being put, Mr. WYSE said he wished to know from her Mejesty's Ministers the nanire of their opposition to the measure. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the op position to the Bill was greunded upon the fact of th power sought to be given to the Government, namely, that of being empowered to declare the Art-Unions legal. Now this was ire amount reviving the system of lotteries, for the Art-Uinoas were founded upon such principles, and to de clare diem legal would be most impolitic. Mr. WYSE would, after this explanation, postpone the consideration of the measure till that day fortnight. THE RAILWAY DEPOSITS BILL. The House then went into Committee on this Bill. The whole of the clauses were agreed to, and the House having resumed the Chairman reported accordingly. Report to be brenght up on the 24th of April. RAILWAY LEGISLATION. On the question being put fpr the House going into a Com mittee of Simply, Mr. LABOUCHEIZE rose, and said be wished to call the attention of the House , and t.e Right Honourable Baronet opposite to a most important subject. They were about to separate for the Easter recess, and yet no Bill or re solution had been introduced into either house of Parliament with respect to the railway measure the Right Hon. Baronet alluded to the other night. Now, it was important that something should be known with respect tai that Bill imme diately, or great loss would ensue to some of those parties who were engaged in promoting railway schemes, and he wished to ask the Right Hon. Baronet the First Lord of the Treasury whether he would put the railway world in posses sion of fee principle, if not of the details, of the measure? Sir R. PEEL was much obliged to the Hon. Member for calling attention is this important subject, and he could assure the Hon. Member and the House that no time had been lost by the Government in considering this measure. It however involved the nice details of the law of partnership, and it was, therefore, important that the meas ure s h ou ld be considered by the highest ,legal authorities before it was introduced to the Legislature. The highest authorities had accordingly their attention directed to the subject, and no time would be lost in bringing in the Bill when it was finally settled. He was strongly, however, in clined to think that it was desirable for the Board of Trade to issue a circular addressed to the different railway companies, informing them, without going into the details, of the general principles which the Government were dis posed to agree to in introducing this Bill. He shoal, there fore, advise his Noble Friend the President of the Board of Trade to give some public notification to that effect. METROPOLITAN BUILDINGS ACT. Mr. TUFNELL wished to ask the Right Honourable Baronet the Secretary for the Home Department when he intended to proceed with the Bill. Sir J. GRAHAM replied, that it was impossible for him, in the present state of public business, to give a positive answer to the question of the Hon. Member. In the first place, there was the important Bill relating to the law of settlement, which involved the whole question of removal, and then there was the Highway Act, and the Militia Act, all of which lead to be disposed of, as well as the third read ing of the Corn Bill, before this measure could be brought forward. He did not, however, despair of being able to pro ceed with the Bill in the course of the present session. Mr. M. GIBSON hoped that the third reading of the Corn Bill would be got through before they pro eeeded with the other measures sanctioned by the Right Honourable Baronet. Government might very easily have bad the Bill read a thi r d time before the Irish Coercion Bill came on, had they resisted the coercive policy of the protectionist party.—(Hear, hear.) He for one strongly objected te Honourable Members being placed under duresse in this way—compelled, as - they were, to dispose of one Bill before they could proceed with an other.—(Hear, hear.) Sir W. JOLLIFFE said; that as he had been alluded to in this discussion, he felt himself compelled to deny that he had offered any obstruction to the progress of public busi ness. He certainly had stated that he would offer his de cided opposition to the Turnpikes Bill, which he conceived would be highly detrimental to the public if it were allowed to pass in its present shape. Sir R. PEEL, in answer to what had fallen from the Hon. Member for Manchester (Mr. M. Gibson), denied that there had been any understanding whatever between the Govern ment and 'Hon. Members on his side of the House with regard to the Corn and Coercion Bills.—(Hear, hear.) He might state that it was the intention of leer Majesty's Government to proceed with the Corn Bill, and not to introduce any Government business of any kind whatever, until the sense of th e H ouse s h ould have been taken with respect to the passing of that measure.—(Hear.) If the arrangement to which the Hon. Member for Man chester had alluded had been entered into by the Govern ment, it would have been a most unworthy proceeding on their part.—(Hear, hear.) But there had been no such en gagement—(Hear)—and he believed that the Noble Lord, the Meneber for Lynn, (Lord G. Bentinck) had distinctly stated the other night, that there had not been any such arrangement entered into between the protectionists and the Government. Mr. M. GIBSON.—I did not say that there had been any arrengement.—(Hear.) I stated that I had seen in the public papers that there had been such arrangement. METROPOLITAN BUILDINGS BILL. Mr. B. lIAWES said he must complain of the delay which the Right Hon. Baronet the Secretary of State for the I tome Department had occasioned with respect to this mea sure. When the first Bill or this subject had passed this session, that Right Hon. Baronet stated that there was an other amended Bill which he should introduce at a very .early period during the present session, and it was with that understanding that he (Mr. Hawes) had voted for the former Sir JAMES GRAHAM begged to assure the Hon. Mem ber that every exertion was being made to mature the Bill in question, and he promised that it should be i ntroduxed on an at-iv day after the Easter recess. ;lir. JOHN O'CONNELL said that as he had been lip to engaged in a railway Committee, he was not a ware of the proceedings that h at taken place duringhis ab sence ; but he wished to take that opportunity before the House rose of once more repeating, on the part of hiinseif and those I r i s h M em b ers w ho eat on Lis side of tLe House, who were opp ose d to the passim: of the Irish Coercion Bill, t h a t w hil e t h ey were determined to wse :ere to the last, and the very uttermost, in their opposition to that measure, They were at the same time anxious Itch' , :rf,'2.l.liC any delay to the prog - reis of the public business et .1 . !lions-, and they were therefore willing to withdraw any e,e:eit of metilen which they had fo: such days ai might be _xed for the di- mission of the Corn Bill, to udlich as he and they had already , stated they acre prepared to give their cordial assent. 'They were prepared to support the repeal of the corn-laws, but they felt it to be their imperative duty to oppose, in every stage, the progress of the Irish Coercion Bill. that 1110111,21 it Mr. P. SC ROPE gave notice that lie would, on an early day after the recess, ask her Majesty's Government Whether if the tenants cf land in Ulster refused to q u it th e farms which they rented at the bidding of their landlords, under circum stances similar to those which occurred in the other pro vinces of Ireland, it would be lawful for the proprietors of the land to call in the aid of the military to compel a surrender LIST or scomrzsrs COMPANIES' PEICE.S -- - - - Dividend Amount — Name of Company. per of Paid. Price Annum. Share. .£ s. 0. £ s. 0 Bank of Scotland ..... Cl. per cent. 100 0 0 165 Royal Bank of Scotland 61. per cent. 100 0 0 158 British Linen Company Si. par cent. 100 0 0 224 Commercial Bank .• • • Gl. per cent. 100 0 0 161 National Bank. ..... .. CI. per cent. 10 0 0 14% Union Bank of Scotland 7%1. pr cent. 50 0 0 92 Western 8ank........ 61. per cent. 50 0 0 73 North of Scotland Bank Cl. per cent. 5 0 0 7% Clydesdale Bank.... • . 61. per cent. 10 0 0 137, Eastern 8ank........ 5/. per cent. 10 0 0 11 Caledonian Bank ••. • • 7%1. pr cent. 2 10 0 4% Edinb.&Glasge,w Bank 61. per cent. 5 0 0 6% City of Glasgow Bank . 51. per cent. .10 0 0 13 Scottish Union lns.Co. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 245. 11/mules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. 1100 0 0 10 0 0 14% !war. Co. of Scotind. • i_2l. d er cent. 10 0 0 All paid. 94,, North British Incur... a%l. pr cent. 200: 0 0 10 0 0 28 . Caledonian Fire Insur. 101. per cent.lloo 0 0 10 0 0 24 Edinburgh Life Insur. 61. per cant. 100 0 0 12 10 0 18% Edin. & Glasg. Railway 1/.los. pert. 50 0 0 50 0 0 72 Ditto, % Shares.... 7s. 6d. p. s. 12 10 0 All paid. 17)4 Edin., Leith, & Grantn 20 0 0 20 0 0 16% Glasgw & Ayrsliir Rail. 5/. per cen :. 50 0 D All paid. 70)4 (liaspv & Gretna Rail. 21. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 19 (;I,gv,•& Garukirk Rail. 51. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 40)4 Dundee& Arbroth Rail. 61. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 39 Standard LifeAssarnce. 51 per cent. 150 0 0 I 2 10 0 9 ` 7.6.TE1L,A2703Z,MS Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of , Paid. Price. Annum. Share. £ s, d. 1 East London. - 215 Grand Junction - 90 Kent ••••• • • • • • .... • • 2/. 10s. 100 0 0 - 65 Vauxhall • .... ..... - 57 West Middlesex .. .. • - 130 CANALS. 4 4 Dividend Names of a? IDividendl Names of '.., Price. ,••• per Price. Companies. A per Companies. 2 . _ 4,winm. CO Annum. Cn X r X 1 Ashtn& Oldh 97 51.55. p e 72 Monmouthsh 100 81. 160 Ashby-d-la-Z 113 41. 70 Mntgomrysh 100 51. 98 Barnsley.. • • 160 12/. 180 Macclesfield. 100 - 38 Basingstoke.. 100; - - Neath .... • • 100 17/. 340 Brknk&Abrg 150 5/. 85 Nottingham . 150 12/. - Croinford .. • . 100 141. 150 Peak Forest. 78 3/. GS Dudley , lOO 41. - Regent's ... • 33 1/. is. 25' Derby .. - - 100 6/. 73 Rochdale .... 85 41. 77 Ellsinre&Chs 133 41. 65 Shropshire .• 12.5 81. - Erewash Forth & Clyd 100 4/. - Do.Lkid St 12 6/. p. c. 11 GrandJunctn , 100 71. 95 Stffrd &Wore 140 28/. 200 Grand Union,loo 11. 10s. - Shrewsbury.. 125 151. 230 Glamorgnsh . 1 172 13%1. 210 Stourbridge .. 145 201. 280 Glstr &Brklyi •00 - - Strtfrdon Av 79 1/. 10s. - Grantham -1150 121. 100 Severn and 26 11. Se. 32 Huddersfield.' 571 - - Wye Rail. Kennt & Avu' an 391 7s. 6d. - Tnit &Mr- ' Mr- Lancaster - sey, IA sh. 1 - j 50 30/. Leeds& Livrp, 1001 341. 520 Thams &Med 19 - - Leicester .. i 140 1 10/. 105 Worcstr /k 7 Leicstr&NiLl 83 4/. 60 Binning. j7B 21. 44 Loughboreghil42 701. 850 Wilts & Brks 67 11. 11 DUTCH-RHENISH RAILWAY. (THIS DAY.) A general meeting of the shareholders in the Com pany for this line was held to-day, at one o'clock, at the London Tavern. W. J. Chaplin, Esq., Chairman of the South- Western Railway, in the chair. The CHAIRMAN opened the proceedings by stating that circumstances had occasioned the presence of several of the directors in Paris, and had put him into the posi tion of chairman. This could hardly be considered as an English meeting, because the head director being in Holland, they :could not therefore come to any de finite decision, but as the meeting had been called in de ference to the wishes of their proprietors, their sentiments might now be gathered, and be stated by the delegation at the meeting of the directors in Holland. He lamented that the meeting had not been deferred till the close of the financial year ; but still, although only ten months had elapsed, he thought the directors would be able to give some satisfactory intimation of the worth of the property at the end of the year. He would now call upon Mr. Janson to read the report of the directors in Holland. The report stated that the King of the Nether lands and the Secretary for the Home Department bad not hesitated to connect themselves with the line; that by the Concession of 16th M ay, 1845, the posses sion and working of all the railways granted to the Com. pany, and to be constructed, are fully secured till the end of the year 1898 : after that, they are not to re lapse to the Government, except on its refunding all the sums that have been expended, without any deduction on account either of dividends or of any repayments. If the Government intended to resume the lines, it must give at least one year 'b notice previous to the expiration of the grant ; and, in. failure of this notice, the grant will be extended for a new period of twenty-five years. The Government has, moreover, guaranteed to the Com pany the greatest freedom and inch pendence in its man agement and financial administration ; whilst no greater tax can be imposed upon it annually than three feur,;is per thousand, or Is. 6d. per 1,0001. on the capital. The difficulties which manifested them selves in the commencement have been already in part overcome. The regulations for the administration were approved of, with very few alterations, in the meetings of the general direction on the 18th and 19th July last, at which meetings his Excellency the Count Schim melpennick accepted the presidency of that direction. The chief engineer was Mr. N. J. van der Lee, who had previously been employed as engineer by the Government. 'The transfer of the existing railway was not effected till the ist of September last. Since then the company have had the entire management of the line ; and that the service had not only been c:)ndueted with great regu lrrity, but ihat not a single accident has happened on obis line. Meanwhile, so far from the sum stated as she peob.T.ble cost of the transfer having been ex..Teded, the curripany has actually realised a saving in that item of about 300,000 florins, c qual to 2.5,000/ On another position ted t of fa that h a e s company 0070aws florins,also m e p p g r o o u in c . :c t d t . ll°_ f li t: ll-n a e sl a s i tip ul. to Al 6661.shoulbdebine being a p l o l s o i l te ve d d a; o a r S it ec b u y rit u y o F ve u r n n d_, without any in terest mlieeuntt.herTewhiasiiebbee;iirlelbieevaerd,inotnerdeespto—sistoing, thatin florins, tb,e.e o e m qu p a a l n j t . o . of a l 7 66 a 6 n i nti ., al has pr t o h fl e t re o b f y up b w ee a n eds s o ec f capi tal bond s secured 3nt , and The materiel of the railway remains in the best state the condition of the wkole property of the COMP 3 ' e _ of the line, in its entire extent, leaves nothing to be desired, and it has obtained the approbation of all who have closely inspected it. In order to afford greater accommodation to the trains, they had laid down a double rail on some points of the line, and this alteration has already answered the designed end. They had also felt the necessity of improving the means of conveyance by water to the chief station in Amster dam; and, for the attainment of this object, to establish additional warehouses, as well as to erect wharfs for landing and shipping merchandise. By means of these comprehensive improvements, the merchants of Amster dam will be able to have goods conveyed by the accus tomed water carriage, without the expense of cartage, and immediately placed on the waggons of the railway, and to receive them in the same manner from the station. It is also in contemplation of the authorities to form a convenient wharf at Arnheim, which will establish the most ready connexion between the chief city of the kingdom and the Rhine, for goods destined to places beyond Prussia. Among the branches the construction of which has bean undertaken by the Company, that to the Entrepot dock at Amsterdam occupies the first place, regarded in a mercantile point of view ; because it not only in sures to the Company the conveyance of goods from the warehouses of private individuals, but also those which are warehoused in that large commercial depot. Two routes presented themselves—the one longer, over an objectionable tract of ground, and interfering with much private property ; the other, over better ground, and belonging exclusively to the Corporation of Amster dam. The former-route was originally projected and sanctioned by Government ; the latter was, after due examination, selected. The advantages connected with this new route were as great as they were obvious ; and, in the construction, it was calculated a saving of 400,000 florins (33,3331.) would be effected ; the keeping of it in repair, in consequence of the superiority 9f the ground, would be much less expensive ; and tedious and costly law-suits with private individuals, for the expropri a ti on of their properties, would thus be avoided for the future, as regards the keeping of it in repair, as would have been observed from the foregoing statement. With respect to the conveyance of passengers, we can also announce, that the results already obtained were of the most satisfactory nature. Notwithstanding the unfinished state of the railway, and although the mea sures adopted and projected can develop their full effects only at a future period, still we are able, in this first year of the opening of the line to Arnheim, to calculate with certainty on a return of more than 600,000f1. (50,000/.), which will thus, for that first year, yield an interest of nearly four per cent. on the expended capital, after deducting all expenses. Agreeably to the act of concession, the juncton of the Dutch Rhenish Railway with the Prussian was to be a matter of diplomatic arrangement between the two Governments, and that had just been brought to a successful conclusion. Meanwhile, the financial interests of the Company have not less occupied attention : and here, also, they had reason to be satisfied. In conformity with Art. 24 of the statute, the meeting of the general direction, on our proposal, authorised us to redeem a portion of the loan of 9,000,00011 (750,0001), and nearly a third of that loan has teen redeemed on reasonable terms, and the bonds have come into possession of the Company. The effect of this redemption has of course been a consider able saving of interest ; but as the time is approaching in which the works confided to our care will have to be commenced, we also intend to submit to that meeting the propriety of making a third call. We have laid it down as a principle, when speaking of the future, to keep within the bounds of probability ; and we, there fore, trust, that the anticipations which we have in dulged will'be surpassed by realities. If your expressed wish in this respect had not prevailed, we should have preferred delaying our report till the close of the finan cial year, because we flatter ourselves that we should then have been able to communicate the adjustment of still open questions, whereas we now often have to speak of pending negotiations. They proposed, however, on a fitting opportunity, to give another report, which will be satisfactory to the shareholders at large. The SECRETARY afterwards read the report from the English directors and the observations of Mr. Locke, the English engineer, the former confirming the Dutch report, and the latter showing the probability of good traffic, and that the earthworks to Arnheim had been completed fur a cloub'e line, although only a single line bad been laid down. The country was flat, and the cost per mile will be far below that of English railways. The gauge was to be the same as the German lines, with which it was intended to communicate. These several documents were received with much applause. The Cirainarate said that as confidence in our foreign line ought to be supported, he would s sy a lew woris, al. though not otherwise after such lengthy reports. He had last autumn been invited to visit Holland, and he found the population so great that there was a certainty of success. There was Amsterdam with 250,000, Rotter dam with 100,000, Utrecht GO,OOO, and Arnheim with 24,000, ell upon the line ; and he only wondered that the wealthy and numerous inhabitants of these places did not make the line for themselves. But a little reflection soon showed him the cause, and the snore so when he recollected three or four years since, when they were desirous of getting the concession of the Rouen line, it required 2,300 subscribers in France to take as many as 200 shareholders in this company had talc amongst them. He then went over a plan of the line showing its course anr). connexion with the German railway*. In 1845, the traffic on the Amsterdam line had reached 6,625,000 persons and upwards, and as the proposed line was seven miles nearer, it was natural to presume that this would be increased. There was a consideration as to wh.:ther the transfer of the traffic should be at Arnheim, on the frontier, or at E.undrick. This matter was, however, now satisfactorily settled. The line to the latter place would be all finished in the course of one year, and the remainder of the line, which was now being formed to Minden, a distance of 42 miles, would be completed early in 1847, and then the Dutch-Rhenish line would be in communication with one already formed, and which was made all the way to Berlin. By a comparison drawn up by Mr. Moss be tween their probable traffic on this line—by the books it appeared on the Birmingham line, between the Ist July and December 31, 1839, the first year of its opening, the number of passengers were on the whole 94 miles, which were at that time opened, 301,557, or on an aver age of 3,208 1 assengers per mile. On the Grand Junc tion line, during six months, the average on the 96 miles of its course was 233,501, er on an average 2,432 passengers per mile. On the Paris and Rouen line during six months of the first year of its opening, the numbers carried were 348,976, or on an average 4,150 passengers on the 84 miles of its course, while on the Arnheim line the number carried during the six months was 281,814, or an average of 4,857 passengers, or more than double that of the Grand Junction. On the line between Am sterdam and the Hague, the number carried was, in the six months after its opening, 626,316 on the 37 miles of its course, or an average of 16,927 passengers per mile ; while during last year the average of the number carried by the South-Western Com pany had been 11,412 passengers per mile, thus showing that the passenger traffic to be anticipated was in every way satisfactory. Then as to the proba bility of remuneration, lie would state that the prices the Company were entitled to charge were lid. per mile for the first class, lid. for the second class, and id. for the third class, against 1 3-sd. for the first class on the Rouen line, which was, perhaps, the best correlative that could be adduced, 1 1-sd. for the second class, and id. for the third class. This Rouen line was paying ten per cent. dividend. On the Western line the ave rage charge for the three classes was lid., so that there was little doubt of success. Then as to the cost of the line, the original estimate was for the whole 103 miles, which would be the whole length, including the branches, 1,824,6001.; but, in consequence of the nego tiations of the direction in Holland, the sum was 1,731,6001., making a cost of something more than 17,0001. a mile. On the Arnheim line the cost, including land, was 15,507/. -per mile, while, in England, the cost was 20,0001. to 30,0001., and in one instance, he believed, as much as 50,0001. a mile, so that the cost was far in favour of the Dutch line. Then again, as to the cost of working, be found that on the Arnheim line the whole number of miles traversed was, during the last six months, 120,568, at an expense of 3s. ld. per mile; while on the South-Western line the miles tra versed were somewhat above 400,000 miles, at an:expense of 3s. 6d. a mile. On the South-Western line the Company paid 12,829/. ss. for mileage to Government, and 12,576/. for poor-rates and taxes, while, according to agreement with the Government the Company were to pay is. 6d. a mile, so that the expense was 750 Z as against 12,9991. ss. In Holland there was no poor-rates to pay at all. The coke cost about 275. a ton, while in the south of England the price was 265. And as a proof of his belief for the goodness of the line he held 4,033 shares whieh he in tended to keep. The Chair Man was cheered throughout the whole of his address which seemed to give the meeting the utmost satisfaction. In reply to a Shareholder, Mr. CHAPLIN said the double line of rails was laid down part of the way to Arnheim, and that throughout the whole length the works were constructed for a double line and all that was wanted to complete the line was the laying of the rails. It would be seen that when the several avenues of traffic were opened, the amount of it would be very largely increased, for it had been found impossible to keep the passengers on the water, and great benefit would ensue from the convey ance of goods as soon as the line was completed. On the suggestion of Mr. CASH, it was agreed to pub lish the names of the directors at the next meeting, and to postpone the financial statement to the same oppor tunity. Ttianks were unanimously and enthusiastically voted to the Chairman, and the meeting separated. of the property. The Right Honourable Baronet the Secre tary of State for the Home Department had the other night stated that the sanguinary doings which took place in the southern parts of Ireland did not take place in the northern, although the law with regard to landlord and tenant was the same over the whole of Ire land, Now he (Mr. Scrope) believed that although the strict letter of the law was the same, there was still a custom or usage in the northern parts which did not thus sanction summary eviction of tenantry which occurred in those parts of that country, of the sanguinary doings of which the House had heard so much ; and he was of opinion that it was in consequence of that custom, or usage, that so much peace prevailed in Ulster.—(Hear, hear.) He would, after the re cess, ask the Government whether the law sanctioned such a custom, er whether it would enforce the arbitrary rights of the landlord in Ulster in the same manner as it did in the other more unfortuate parts of Ireland.—(Hear, hear.) LEGAL EDUCATION IN IRELAND. Mr. WYSE moved for a Select Committee to inquire into the state of legal education in Ireland. The motion was agreed to. COMMONS INCLOSURE. Sir J. GRAHAM obtained leave and brought in a Bill, which was read a first time, for the inclosure of commons. biONEY (IRELAND). Mr. WYSE gave notice that he should, after Easter, bring in a Bill to abolish ministers' money in Ireland. The House then adjourned until after Laster. et trti Ebition LATEST PRICES OF SHARES. IN BANKS, ASSURANCE, ANT) OTHER COM PANIES' STOCK. From tie Official List, PUBLISHED EVERT TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENING LONDON, THURSDAY, APRIL 9. JOINT-STOCX BANES. Amount Nome of Company. Wlare, ' Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price Annum. ihare. -- - -- - £ s. d. £ s. d. Australasia ••••- • • • • 61. per cent. 40 0 0 40 0 0 2634 Britsh North American 51. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 44% Commercial of London W. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 22 Colonial . Londn and Westminstr 61. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 :6% London Joint-Stock... 61. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 14 Metropolitan . - 25 0 0 710 0 Provincial of Ireland.. Si. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 481 Ditto, New......... SI. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 173 4 National of Ireland - 51. per cent. 50 0 0 20 0 0 18 Nat. Provncial of Eng. 51. per cent. 100 0 0 35 0 0 3534 Ditto, New...... • - 51. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 Union of Australia.. -6/. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 25 Union of London. •• • • 51. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 12 INSURANCE COMPANIES. Dividend I Amount Name of Company. per I of ' Paid. Price Annum. I Share. - - £ a. d. X s. il. Albion ••••••• • . • • • • • 31. 105 500 0 0 ' 50 0 0 . 74 (Mance Brit. and For. 6 per cent. 100 0 0 11 0 0 19 Ditto Marine....... 6/. per cent, 100 0 0 50 0 6% Atlas .. • • British Commercial .. 7s. per share 50 0 0 5 0 0 71 Clericl,3led.&Gen.Life 51. per cent. 100 0 0 210 0 61 County - - .... -- • • 31. 100 0 0 10 0 0 10s. 50 0 0 5 0 0 - Eagle • . Economic Life. • • /r 5 per et., } 1000 0 0 250 0 0 &30s.bs. Eng.& Scot. Law ••• • • • 51. pe,r cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 2% European Life ••• • • • 534 per cent. 20 0 0 All paid. 20 Freemasons' .... ••• • • • 51. per cent. 20 0 0 3 0 0 Globe - 138 Guardian •-•- • • • • 51. per cent. 100 0 0 36 10 0 49 Imperial Fire .. ••• • • • 6/. and bonus 500 0 0 50 0 0 240 Imperial Life •.•• • • • • 12s. 100 0 0 10 0 0 17 Indemnity Marine •• • • 1/. sh. & be. 100 0 0 513 1 29 Law Life.... •••• • • • . 11. ss. 100 0 0 10 0 0 50 Legal and General Life - 50 0 0 2 0, 0 GN London Fire .. -•. . . 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 15% London Ship ........ 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 15% , Marine ••-•• • . • . -5/. per cent. 100 0 0 15 0 0 10% Med. Invlid & Gen. Life 4%1. per et. 50 0 0 2 0 0 3 National Doan Fund- 51. per cent. 20 0 0 210 0 234 National Life. Palladium Life ..... Phoenix .. .. .. ..... . - - 205 Protector Life.. .• Provident Life - .....• 1/. ss. 100 0 0 10 0 0 23 Rock Life.... •••• - • . 4s. 5 0 0 010 0 4% Royal Exchange 5/. per cent. Stock. , - 180 Sun Fire ........... - - 210 Ditto Life .......• - - 49 Universal Life DOCKS. Dividend Annum. X s. d. j X s. d. Connarc!al East and We3t India I Gr. pr cent. I Stock. 140 East Country ... 11. per sh. 100 0 0 21 .- . ... Al. pr cent. , Stock. 115 ... 5 per cent. I Stock. 1C4% ... 41. per cent. 50 0 0, 50 0 0 30 St g athaxine • • • Southampton • • • LYNN AND ELY RAILWAY. (THIS DAY.) A special general ineetir.g of the proprietors of this company was held this afternoon, at the London Tavern. at which the drafts of the foll , ming bills were approve d of. Mr. Lacy, of Kenyon House, Manchester, was in the chair. A Bill to empower the Lynn and Ely Railway Com pany to construct a railway from the borough of Wis bech to Spalding, in the parts of Holland in the county of Lincoln, with a branch to Holbeach. A Bill to empower the Lynn and Ely Railway Com pany to construct a railway from the borough of Wis beets to March, in the parish of Doddington •; all in tilt' Isle of Ely, and county of Cambridge. - The meeting was of a for ma l nature, caned in pur suoice of a standing order of th e H ouse of Lords, and did not occupy much time. ELY AND HUNTINGDON RAILWAIt. Immediately afterwards a meeting of the p ropr i etors in this Company took place, at which the draft of a Bill to empower the Company to construct a railway from Brampton, in the county of Huntingdon, to the town of Ledford, was approved of. Like the previous meetins it was purely of a formal &vacua, THE FUNDS-(CLOSING PRICES) ONE CLOSING O'CLOCK. PRICES. Bank Stock .. .. - • • • • .. •.' 206% 206% Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities - .. 95% M % 95% Three per Cent. Consols Annuities .. .. 96 m% 56 96% New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anne. 97 96% 971 96% 97 Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5,1868 .. 10% 3-16 10 S-16 India Stock .. ... . • • •• • .. .. 260 261 v. II ella Bonds. 1,0001. .. .. .. .. .. 25 Collsols for Account • • • • • • • • • • 96 1 4 %;%' 9614 Exchequer Bills. I%cl. I%d. 1,0001... .. •• •• 29 24 22 -.. pm. 28 5001... .. -• • 29 24 28 pm. 23 Lltlo Small •• .. 29 24 28 pm, 28 BRITISH FUNDS. ONE CLOSING FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES. Brazilian Beuds,s per Cent .. „ 8114 80% Danish, 3 per Cent -• •• • • .• 1171, 57% Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent .. Ditto, for the Account .. .. .. 32 32 Ditto, Deferred .. .. . • .. 16% 1634 Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cent. .. ~ Ditto, for the Account .. . Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent .. .. 81 Ditto, 4 Der Cent .. • • .. .. Ditto, for the Account .. . • .. 58 Russian Bonds .. .. 109 Spanish Bonds, S per Cent .. 24% Ditto, for the Acceaut • • 24y. Ditto, Deferred .. .. Ditto, Three per Cent .. „ „ Ditto, for the Account ~ — Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cent .. 59% Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certifleates .. 92% 92 BUSINESS CLOSING PAID. DONE AT PRICES. ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES OF RAILWAY SIL&RES. 57M 109 Amber., Notting., Boston, and Eastern Junction .. • • • • 2% .... 1% .......... Bristol and Exeter .. .• •. 74 . Ditto New .. . • • • • . 5 .... 9 .......... Caledonian .. • • •. 10 ..., 6X 7%.... • • Ditto, Half Shares . • • • 2%.... % Ditto, Extension .. • • • • 2% .... 1% .......... Chelmsford and Bury .. • • • • 1% % 75 Chester and Holyhead .. • • •. 20 .... 17% ...... • • 17% Chester and Manchester • . • • 425. .......... 1% dis Cornwall and Central Devon .. 2% ..........154 Direct Manckester (Remington's) 2% 11 Direct Manchester (Rastrick's) 514 .... 8% Direct Northern .. .. • • • • 2% .... 1 % .......... Dublin and Belfast Junction 10 .... 4 .......... Dublin and Galway .. • • • • 4 .... 114 Eastern Counties .. 141. M 5..... 21% • • Ditto New .. .. • • 61. 165..... 5 % Do. Perpet., 5 per Cent. No. 1.61. Its. 4d. Ditto, ditto, _ .. No. 2. 61. 13s. 4d. n%l pex div pxd Ditto, York Extension . • .. les... _ I% 1 1 Edinburgh and Glasgow • • • • 50 .... 71 72 72 Goole, Doncast., and ...heffield, &c. 425. _ % dis. % dis. Grand Union (Nottingh. & Lynn) 1% ......... Great North of England . • • 100 .... 210 Great Western .. • • • . 85 Ditto, Quarter Shares . • • • 5 .... 1654 .... • • Ditto, Fit'ths .. • • •. 20 .... 34 Guildford, Fareham, & Portsmoth 5 4% % Hull and Selby .• SO ....101 Ditto, Halt Shares .. 7 _.. 24 ...... Leicester and Bedford 225..... % dis 94 do Liverpool and Leeds Direct .. 2% London an Birmingham . .100 ..•.220 222...... . 222 Ditto Thirds .. 24 .... 61% ..... . • Ditto Quarters .. 2 .... 27% 28 London and Brighton .. 50 .... 62% % Ditto ditto Fifths .. 20 .... 27% London and Croydon .. 131. 15s. 90. 21 London and South-Western.. 411. 6s. 10d. 76 Ditto, New . 12% •.. London and York .... 1 .. London, Warwick, & Kiddermins. .... London, Salisbury, and Yeovil .. 254.... .......... Londonderry and Coleraine .. 7% .... 4 .......... Lynn and Ely .. .. 10 .... 7 •• •• . . Manchester and Leeds .. 82 .. 120 Ditto, Half Shares .. 38 .... 54% .... Ditto, Quarters .. 2 .. • 9 •••-• • • • • • Manchester and Birmingham .. 40 . • • ••••• • • • • • Ditto, Quarter Shares (B) .. 2 .. • • 9 ••••• • • • • • Ditto, Quarter Shares (C) 1 •• • • 7 54 7 • • Manchester, Buxton, & Matlock 425. •••• par 34 dis.... ~100 ....144 143 % ••• • • • Ditto Fifths.. _ 2 .. • • •• .• Ditto, New 18 .... 29 Midland Great Western (Irish) .. 10 •• • • 21 4% •••• • • • • Newcastle and Darlington Juliet. 25 .... 42,4 43 Ditto, New . .... 7 3 4 ••• • • ..... Newcastle and Berwick .. .. 10 •• .. 16% 1730 .... Newark, Sheffield, and Boston .. • . 15 .. • ...... . North British .. _ 20 .. • • 24 54 •••• • • • • Ditto, Half Shares .. 6 • • 8 ;•••• • • • • • Ditto, Carlisle Extension .. 1 5 4 • • 1 5 ,414 •••• • • • • Northern and Eastern _ 50 .... 67 .......... Ditto Scrip (issued at 5 die.) .. 40 .. • • 55 ••••• • • • • • North Kent and Direct Dover .. 2% .. • • I% I A .. ..... North Staffordshire .. 425. •• .. 1% 2 p Norwich and Brandon .. 18 .. • • ••••• • • • • • Ditto. New .. .. 5 7 ••• • • • •• • Oxld.,Worcester, & Wolverlunptu. 12% •• • • 8 % 'At •••• • • • • Perth and Inverness .. 254 •• • • I ••••• • • • • • Portsmouth I greet .• • • 14 ••••• • • • • • Rugby and Huntingdon .. 2 •• • • %I••• • • • • • Scottish Central . 10 ...• 1 3 % •••• • • 7. Shrewsbau and Birmingham .. 2% •• • • 1 94 4•••• • • • • threwabury and Hereford .. 2% •• • • 1 34 ••••• • • • • • South Midland .. 428. ••••• • • • • • south Eastern and Dover • 33% .... 344 35 Ditto. New (iss. at 321.) No. 1. 16 1)0., New (do, 331. 65.8 d.) No. 2. 10 Staines and Richmond 1 •• • • • South Wales .. 5 .... 1% 1........ Welsh Midland •• • • 1 54 ••••• • • • • • West Riding Union .. _ 425. •• • • 1 54 %P. •• • • Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth 2, •• • • •••• • • • • Yarmouth and Norwich 20 .... 24% ..... York and Lancaster •• • • 1% ••• • • York and North Midland 50 Ditto, Scarborough Branch .. 25 •• • • Ditto. Extension .. 13 .... 3131 .......... •-• •• .... FOREIGN RAILWAYS. 9 N 1% I!,‘ 1 4 21% 6 % P ib dis 143 Y, %_,( . lf; ......... - 31 Dutch Rhenish .. .. . .. 6 •• • • 5 % 1 4 I( ••• • • • 53 1 1 East Indian .. . .. .. .. bs• •• • • N -(.? •••• • • • • 1, G rt. North. of France Constituted 5 •• • • 14 .7 . i 76 ..... • • 15 Great Indian Peninsular .. .. Ss. .... • • ........ % Great Western Itengal .. .. So. •• • • '3ii ••••• • • • • • % Louvain and Junteppe .. .. 4 .. . .......... 1% Luxembourg .. .. .. .. 4 .... 1Vi..•••••• 1% Nanun and Liege .. .. .. 4 .... ........ •• I% Orleans and Vierzon .. .. .. 10 •• • • .16 • • ..... •• • 16 3 4 Orleans and Bordeaux .. .. 6 .... 10 ,f, ...... • . 10 1 <, Over Yssel .. .. .. .. 41. 3s. 4,1.... •• • ....... 3 Paris and Strasbourg Constituted 5 .... Itutien and Ilavre -. .. 20 .... 29 • • ........ JOINT-STOCK BANKS. National Provincial of England 35 .... 35%.......... 35% MINES. Real dcl Moute, 'Unregistered 234 At length the Place du Carrousel is about to be levelled and paved. The first operations were commenced two days ago, and those parts which are now in the worst condition will be maiediately repaired. By the end of May the pavement of this vast it is said, amount to o rt o ‘ o v o il f l .— ho p t a )e n g .s ul l t :ap T r h . e whole expans e w ill , The Earl of Kenmare has subscribed the sum of 2001 towards the Kerry relief fund. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD CIRCUIT._ Gloucester, April 8. The business commenced this morning at eight o'cloeh in both Courts—Mr. Baron Platt, on the Crown side of the hall, being engaged in the disposal of a number of cases of the most disgusting character, the particulars of which it is intiossible further to allude to. (Before the CHIEF BARON and a Special Jury.) LEWIS V. MEADOWS,. For the plaintiff were Mr. Sergeant Talfourd and Mr. Skinner; for the defendant, Mr. Godson, Q.C., and Mr. James. . _ Both parties in this case, which was an action of libel, are ministers of a religious sect entitled "Independ ents;" Mr. Lewis harif g for upwards of twenty-fire years presided over a chapel at Glastonbury, and Mr. Meadows having also for a considerable period had the care of another chapel in the same town. Some months since Mr. Lewis received an invitation to go to a new scene, and to tike charge of another congregation at Westbourne. After some negotiation, however, the proposition which had been made to Mr. Lewis fell to the ground from some cause which he was unable precisely to ascertain, until he found that a number of the most infamous and calumnious reports were afloat respecting him, to which he was in duced to attribute the circumstance above adverted to. Being naturally anxious to clear his character from the aspersions which it had received, and being, moreover, desirous to assertain the source whence the fabrications emanated, he at length discovered that some anonymous letters reflecting upon him in the vilest terms had been circulated through the neighbourhood in which hi lived. Having reason to suspect the defendant Meadows was the author of two of these, the present proceedings were instituted, the two letters being selected as con taining the libellous matter contained in ale declaration. The defendant, by his plea, altogether denied the au thorship of the first letter, and as regarded the second, he suffered judgment to go by default. The only question, therefore, weich remained, was the amount of damages to be assessed. By an arrangement between the parties before the trial, it was agreed that the defendant should pay 2001. to the plaintiff in full satisfaction fur the in pry which he had occasioned him, and that each party should defray his own costs, provided that a sufficient and ample apology were offered on the defendant's behalf. Mr. GODSON, on the part of his client, having fully complied with the latter stipulation, the above terms were acceded to, and the jury were discharged. LIABILITY OF PROVISIONAL COMMITTEEMEN.-DENNETT AND OTHERS V. NASI AND PICKERSGILL. (Special Jury.) For the plaintiff were Mr. Sergeant Talfourd and Mr. Valentine Lee ; for the defendants, Mr. Whately, Q.C., and Mr. Phipson. The Learned SERGEANT, in opening the case, stated that this was an action to recover the sum of 2,9441. 15s. 6d., alleged to be due to the plaintiffs (who are at and was torneys and solicitors), for work and labour, and for money expended to the use of the defendants, one of that class of cases which is daily getting more numerous, arising from the late general frequency of railway speculati o n. Th e com pany with which the plaintiffs became c onnecte d as attorne ys, and from which originated their p resent deman d , was projected in May, 1845, the intenti on o f the orig i na l sc h em ers bein g t o connect Worcester, Wolverhampton, Oxford, and London by a shorter line than any at present existing. It was first known as the Oxford and London Direct Railway, and afterwards as the Worcester, Wolver hampton, and Oxford Extension, under which it was Amongst others, Nash, registered. This change in the name was made on the 7th of October, 1845 • and a numerous meeting of those favourable to the undertaking was held on the 9th of the same month at the George and Vulture Tavern. be the solicitors, many resolutions one of the d-fendants, attended ; z a e I p i a r s . s D e di Dickson n a d t o h p e t e s d u , r a v n e d y , or. amongst si r . Pickersgill wa; other matters, it was settled that Messrs. Dennett should introduced on the 26th of ieptember, shortly after which time Messrs. Dannctt entered into very "live operat i ons f or t h e purpose o f forwarding all t h e preliminaries needful to comply with the standi ng orders of the House of Com mons. The incetiem convened for the 9 th of Oc tober was afterwar ds trijoinned till the 10th. eo or 70 letters were sent out to announce th e mee tings, both of which ackson a tt en d e d, and informed those preseet that it would be requisite for him to hire a con siderable ." staff "of surveyors, &c., because he had only .ci'imle .lien l s !t e six week s alli siv he beforere3V" th e "fated" 30th of Novembe r to s, and, from the great demand for labour at that time, it was necessary to pay in proper ion. On th e 14th o f O ctober another meet i ng was h e ld, Ivhich th e d e f en d an t s b oth attended— N as h pres idi n g in : , he chair, and a smaller committee of six was appointed to superi n t en d t h e a ff a i rs of the company, b ot h t h e de fendants b e i ng appo i nted to serve upon that comm itt ee ; meetings w ere a f terwards held from time to t i me , w hi c h they were repres ente d as hating atten d e d. P ros p e ctus es and adverti sements were issued ; the proposed capital was stated at 600 , 0 00 1 ., in 30 , 000 shares, and soon after the anhouncec aent was made public 6 0 , 0 Q9 elulPe* were actually paid for. Not very long after a change seemed to have occurred, difference of opinion arose between the committee and the plaintiffs ; but still Dickson, the sur veyor, went on actively with his operations, and the plaintiffs also worked day and night. On the 30th of November all was announced to be in readiness for Par liament. No less than 911 notices had been given along the projected line, which were charged for by the plain tiffs at an average of 15s. each. Messrs. Dennett, how ever, found that nothing further could be done, although they called upon the committee either to allot the shares at once or to dissolve the company. The committee, however, refused to do either, and the plaintiffs in due course presented their bill, which not being liquidated, they deemed it advisable to proceed against some of the committeemen, and finally determined upon selecting the defendants for that purpose, although Nash had pre viously withdrawn from the committee, an act which might possibly in some measure affect his liability ; for, though he seceded from the committee, yet he remained a member of the company. Mr. Sergeant Talfourd con cluded by observing that the plaintiffs had paid Dickson alone 7001. in cash, and had made other disbursements amounting to 2,100/. out of pocket, besides having devoted a considerable amount of their attention and skill to the subject. At the conclusion of the Learned Sergeant's speech, and before any witnesses were examined, a protracted discussion ensued between the counsel engaged in the case and their clients, which terminated in an arrange ment that a verdict should be entered for the sum of 2,4001. GARRETT v. ADAMS AND OTHERS. Special Jury.) For the plaintiff were Mr. S w ergeant Talfourd, Mr. Whately, Q.C., Mr. Alexander, Q.C., Mr. Greaves, and Mr. Dowdeswell ; for the defendant, Mr. Keating and Mr. Selfe. Mr. Sergeant TALFOD RD, rising on behalf of the plain tiff, said that his client was a Mr. Edmund Garbett, an attorney living at Wellington, Salop, and that the de fendants were gentlemen of the highest respectability, namely, Mr. Sergeant Adams, Mr. Blandford, Mr. Webster, and Mr. Holcombe, This case, like the pre ceding, arose out of railway transactions ; the defendant, Mr. Sergeant Adams, having been, in October last, the chairman, and the other defendants committeemen of the Shropshire Mineral Railway Company. Mr. Adams, the nephew of the Learned Sergeant, and a Mr. Yar borough, his partner, were the London solicitors, and the plaintiff was appointed the country solicitor, in which office he continued to act until about a week ago. Some little time since the company had fallen into disunion, and Garbett delivered in his bill amount ing to 1,8531. 7s. 10d., of which he had been paid 1,0101., leaving a balance claimed by him of 8431. 7s. 10d., be sides which he demanded 3041. commission on 4,000 shares disposed of by him for the company, independ ently of this other claim. Application was made to the Master of the Rolls to tax the bill, and he made an order to that effect, directing further proceedings in the meantime to be stayed. In addition, however, to the other debt, the plaintiff made a further demand for 1841., alleged to have been incurred for services per formed subsequently to those particularised in the pre vious bill, and also for advertisements and other ex penses, whereupon the order of the Master of the Rolls was amended, to allow the action to proceed in respect of these latter items. The present cause was confined to the claim accruing since the 7th of January, and 304/. for commission on shares, which it was maintained the company had agreed to pay, independently of all remuneration for professional services. The first plea upon the record alleged that no signed bill had been de livered; in reply to which it was urged that, as regarded the sum claimed for commission, no signed bill was re quired, as that constituted a debt due to the plaintiff, irrespective of his character of attorney. The defend ants, however, denied the existence of any such agree ment as that to which the plaintiff referred. The first witness, Henry Pooley, was then called and examined by Mr. WILATELY—He stated : Last August I became secretary to the Shropshire Mineral Railway, and continued in that capacity till February last. I attended the meetings of the committee during the in tervening period. Mr. Sergeant Adams, Mr. Blandfbrd, lEr. Webster, and Mr. Holcombe alto attended those meetings. All the resolutions of the committee wero reduced to writing. There were several discussions about the commissions payable to the country agents. I was at a meeting at Newport, at which Mr. Webster was present, upon an occasion when Mr. Brown had claimed commission for disposing of some shares. The members present agreed that he should be paid, and he was paid. At the next meeting, a week after, Sergeant Adams was in the chair. Cheques, I believe, were signed at that meeting► in order to make the above payment. Direc tions were given to me to write to the local agents that they should have commissions on the shares disposed of by them. This was about two months before the meet ing at Newport. Mr. Garbett was a local agent. All the local agents were solicitors. 1,000 or 2,000 shares were allotted on Garbett's recommendation. Cross examined by Mr. KEATING—AII the time that I was secretary Mr. Garbett was the country solicitor. I do not know that the duties of the country solicitor and local agent were dissimilar. lie attended the board meetings, they did not. The meeting at New port was about the sth of December. Mr. Webster was present on that occasion. The resolutions re ipecting the local agents were then agreed upon. I only attended one meeting at Newport. The claim by Brown for commission was discussed. I - Ie sought about 3001. or over; he accepted 301. odd. That was not the first meeting at which the claims of local agents had been discussed. The country agents and solicitors ful filled the same kind of duties. Re-examined by Mr. WHATELY—Yarborough and Adams mere the London solicitors to the Company. Here a suggestion was offered by the Learned Chief Baron, to the effect that, in his opinion, the point at issue would be more fairly dealt with by submitting it to the Master, as he (the Learned Judge) was of opinion that the items particularised by the plaintiff were taxable by that officer. Mr. KEATING, on the part of his clients, observed that this was exactly what they had desired all along. They meant not to deny their liability, but they were solicitous that the amount to be liquidated by them should be spe cified by a competent party. _ _ After a lengthened deliberation it was finally agreed that the plaintiff should be nonsuited, liberty being re serve•l to him to enter a verdict for such sum (if any) as the Master should find to be due to the plaintiff. WESTERN ClRCUlT.—Taunton, April 7. John Hill and Thomas Quick were indicted for as. saulting Martin How, and robbing him of some silver. Mr. Phinn and Mr. Thring were counsel for the pro. secution, and Mr. Stone for the prisoner. There was no doubt the prosecutor, who is a butcher, had been knocked off his horse and robbed of 31. 10s. The only question was one of identity. The prosecutor stated that he knew Hill by his voice, having known him for fifteen years. . . Three witnesses said they had seen the prisoners to gether near the spot about six o'clock, which was the time of the robbery. For the prisoners a vast number of witnesses were called, who most clearly proved an alibi ; and Mr. Baron RoLFE stopped the case and directed an acquittal, at the same time telling the prisoners that he believed them to be perfectly innocent. Henry Harris and .Robert Tippaney were indicted for assaulting and robbing James Charlton, at Keynsham. Mr Phinn was counsel for the prosecution, sad Mr. Stone for the prisoners. This was a case very similar to the preceding. Three persons swore to the identity of Harris, who, however, called the person at whose house he lodged, and who was the postmaster, and he clearly proved that Harris was in bed at the time of the robbery. Verdict—Not Guilty. 1V ORTHERN ClRCUlT.—Liverpool, April 7. (Before Mr. Justice PATTESON.) OLDHAM V. PUGH. This was an action of assault. Mr. Sergeant Wilkins and Mr. Hoskins were for the plaintiff, Mr. Atherton for the defence. The defendant is an attendant at the ?:a runswick Chapel in this town ; the plaintiff a member of a family who for some time have had a pew there. On Sunday evening, the 11th of January, the plaintiff, in company with another person, went to the chapel. The service had commenced some time before, and they had some doubt whether they should go in. They were standing in a lobby at the back entrance, leading to the passage by which they would descend to the pew occupied by the plaintiff's mother and family, the chapel being built in the form of an amphitheatre. While they were there the defendant came up the stairs, and collared the plain tiff, accusing him of having put some dirt in his hat at the front entrance of the chapel about half an hour before. The plaintiff and his companion assured him he was mis taken, but he persisted in the charge, and dragged the plaintiff down the stairs and out of the chapel. The plaintiff subsequently applied to him for a retractation and apology, which was refused. An action was threatened, and the plaintiff again offered, if the defendant would pay two guineas to a charitable institution and one guinea for the attorney's costs, to allow the matter to drop, but this proposal was also rejected. It seemed now clearly established by the evidence of persons who were in the company of the plaintiff pre vious to his attendance at the chaps', that the defendant must have been mistaken in the party by whom the affront had been offered him,. Verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 10/. (Before Mr. Justice COLERIDGE.) HINDSON v. WARD. This was an action of trespass and false imprison ment. Mr. Knowles and Mr. James appeared for the plain ; Mr. Martin and Mr. Crompton for the defence. The defendant, in November, 1843t,wasinwas a h command of a ship called the Bounty Hall, and mariner on board that ship , thenlyinge plaintiff in the river Bonny, on the coast of Africa. The trespass and false imprisonment complain complained of consisted in flogging the nlaintiff and keeping him in irons fur a period of ninety days. toe statements of the witnesses were exceedingly con tradictary. According to the evidence of two of the crew, the plaintiff had been engaged in coopering up some bar rels on deck, and had in his hands a hammer and driver, with which he was employed in fastening the hoops. Some angry words took piece betw( en him and some of the other coopers, and the mate, a person named Whitting ton, came upon deck to settle the disturbance. The wit nesses stated that the mate coming up to Ilindson, took hold of the sleeve of his shirt, when the hammer with which Ilindson was working came into contact with the mate's car, and inflicted a slight wound. The mate sent for the captain, who was then on share, and on his coming on deck he called Ilindson aft. Ilindsoa went towards him with the hammer and driver in his hand. The de fendant asked him what he was doing with them, and he said he was working. On this the captain struck him over the eye with a gun-barrel plugged with wood, which he used an a walking-_tick, and directed him to be imme diately tied up. The captain gave him eleven lashes, and the §lOll and third mates th en wok the, atond save him very severe punishment. He was then ehained down to the tiller in such a position that he could neither stand up nor lie down. He remained there all night, and the following day a court-martial, as it was named, was called, consisting of all the captains then in the river. The plaintiff was tied up, and while he was in that position, with his back to the parties, a discus. sion took place as to his punishment, when they all, with one exception, agreed he should be flogged again. The captain called the crew aft, and told them it was at his option to flog the plaintiff, that he would not do so, but would put him in irons. He bad accordingly the hand cuffs again put on him, and he was chained with the bight of a topsail close to a small locker about seven feet long and five fe et high, which had been used for paints, which were cleared out for the occasion. This was for him to go into when it rained, but he could move back wards and forwards about six yards on the deck. lie remained in this custody for ninety days, and was finally sent home by another ship. It was stated that his back was in a frightful state, and the smell was so offensive that the man whose duty it was to wash him once a week was scarcely able to endure it. For the defence it was stated by the testimony of the mate and some of the captains of the other vessels that the plaintiff, on the mate coming on deck, felled him by a blow of the hammer, which inflicted a severe wound on his ear, and had produced symptoms of lockjaw. On the captain coming on board with two other captains, and calling the plaintiff aft, he refused to lay down the hammer and driver, and on the captain attempting to take them from him, he attempted to strike him. The captain then struck him with his fist, and they struggled together until the captains present took the hammer out of his hands. It was for this he was flogged and put in irons ; and it was alleged that his condition, as detailed by the witnesses, was very much exaggerated. The case occupied the Court the greater part of the day, and the jury were still shut up in consultation when our report came away. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. SENTENCES AND SESSIONAL RESULTS. Subjoined is a list of all the sentences passed on the prisoners in the three Courts during the past session:— Transportation for Fifteen Years —Wm. Kidd, T. Smith, Ann Sykes, and Mary Turner. For Ten Years —W. Chaffy, J. Lawlor, E. L. Dwyer, J. Wilson, J. Maloney, J. Jones, J. Gwyett, Mary Ann Smith, Elizabeth Nicholson, Eliza Russell, Margar e t Donnegan, Francis Leonard, Sarah Greenwood, Hen rietta White, T. Payne, J. Hollywood, T. Wallis, J. Stone, W. Calle. For Seven Years—J. Lewis alias Druce, J. Richards, J. Connolly, C. H. Cross, R. Moore, J. Freeman, 0. Suffolk, H. Braby, R. Meatyard, Thomas Fidler, Ellen Bird, J. Braharn, J. Hobburn alias Currier, T. Davis. IMPRISONMENT AND HARD LABOUR. For Two Years—Henry Wilson, W Allen. For Eighteen Months—J. Brazier, W. Burdett, W. Allen, jun., W. Brecknell, J. Nicholls. For Twelve Months—W. Roper, H. Frazer, J. Callo way, J. Bridget, C. Franklin, J. Bridger, W. Weston, J. Hyde. J. Trevitt, William Turner, Thomas Nye, J. Starke, Thomas Ower, J. Oakam, J. Greening, Wil liam Challis, Ernest Fillen, J. Coffee, J. Bishop, J. Thomas, Georg. Wood. For Nine months—J. Olney, J. Clarke, Charlotte Duffin, Jane Chappell, G. Moody, J. Williams. For Six Months—E. Cornwall, 11. Smith, Thomas Knapp, Ann Knapp, Margaret Riley, J. Mapton, W. Sullivan, J, Beufield, R. Thorpe, C. Cushion, Mary Ann Miles, Bridget Smith, 'William Bairnes, M. Jennings, Ann White, Eliza Voules, Ann Driscoll, Martha Berry, E. Ogden, J. Stamford, J. Bruckworth, F. Johnson, 11. Brown, Letty Copeland, Ann Eliza Putnam. For Four Months—J. Pearson, J. Smart, J. Hardy, S. Newsom, D. Carter, Mary Ann Rogers, J. Snooks, Thomas Green. For Three Months—Louisa HeHier, Sarah Brown, Jane Edmonds. Mary Ann Gibbs, J. King, T. Kent, j. Brown, J. Leonard, M. Crawley, H. Horsted, W. Alsop, T. Connor, C. Smith, J. Dunbar, W. Briggs, J. Hetherill, W. Harley, 11. Jackson, H. Farrell, H. Larter, J. Bruning. For Two Months—D. M. Cox, J. Williams, T. Edwards, J. Myers, J. Lewis, George Anderson, C. M'Carty. For One Month—F. Smith, J. Bidwell, Ann Jones, Ann Duffin, D. Evans, J. Niel, and H. Blackwell. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANMION-HOUSE. A young man, who stated that his name was Thomas TVinch, was brought before the Lord Mayor, charged with having robbed the captain of a collier, trading to London, of ten sovereigns. Captain John Lymes, of Middleburgh, near Stockton upon-Tees, stated that, on the 14th of Vebruary, lie came from his ship, which lay in the Regent's Canal, to St. Mary-axe, with a cheque for 101., which he got cashed ; and on leaving that place he met a gentleman, with whom he entered casually into conversation. They repaired from the street to a tavern in Thames-street, to enjoy a glass of ale together ; and they had not been long together when the prisoner entered the room, and perceiving that the witness was a seafaring man, asked him if he was ever in New York ? his reply was in the affirmative. The prisoner said he had been sixteen years servant to an old gentleman in the United States, who had bequeathed to him part of his property near Dover, and money in the bank, which he (the prisoner) was de sirous to lend out at a per tentage, and that if eith er witness or the other gentlem a n w i s h e d to take any, he was ready to lend it. The LORD MAYOR asked whether the other gentle man and the prisoner appeared to be acquainted with each other?—The witness replied that they were quite strangers to each other as well as to him. He said, in reply, that a small amount of money would be of no service to him, but if the prisoner had made such quantity of money as could be of use to lay out in shipping, he did not mind. The other gentleman said that he could take a hundred pounds or two if it would suit the prisoner, and that he would go out and get a stamp receipt for the money, and he would return back and the receipt should be signed. The other gentleman then went towards the door and beckoned to witness, who followed him, and the prisoner hoped they would both return. The other gentleman, evidently nettled at the expression of a doubt, turned back, and, to show that he was serious, threw his purse, which appeared to contain a quantity of cash, into the prisoner's hat, which lay upon the table, as a security for his return. The prisoner, having expressed a similar hope as to witness's return, witness, not to be outdone in the respectability of the dealing, flung his ten sovereigns into the sma hat, to answer for his punctuality. Down stairs the witness and the other gentleman then walked, but the latter got out of the house first, and, as witness lin gered a little at the bar, he observed th e pr i soner, as he thought, slip out at the back door, which led to the wharfs. Upon going up stairs immediately afterwards witness " found all gone." The LORD MAYOR—What became of the gentleman who went to buy the stamp? Witness—The other gen tleman never came back from buying the stamp receipt. The prisoner—l declare, my Lord, I never saw the prosecutor before yesterday, when he stopped me and charged me with the robbery. The LORD MAYOR—WeII, witness, where and when did you sse the prisoner again ? Witness—As I was going along Threadneedle-street yesterday, I met him pith an umbrella in his hand in front of him, and the moment he saw me he crossed over to the other side of the way, and I followed him. The moment he came to the corner of th• next street, he began to move very quickly, and finding that I was following him, he ran as fast as he could. I ran too, and as he turned up a court, that had no thoroughfare, I beckoned to a policeman, who followed immediately, and we took him into custody. A policeman, who apprehended the prisoner, described the hunt up the court, and the capture. The prosecutor accused the prisoner of having robbed him of 10 sovereigns, and the prisoner said he was ready to pay, The prisoner was taken to the station-house, in a pas sage of which he contrived to deposit the umbrella he carried. In that umbr e ll a we f ound twenty-six imita tion sovereigns, and nine imitation h alf - sovereigns, a purse, and a bundle of tissue paper cut into the size of bank notes, and on the prisoner's person was found a woollen purse containing two bills of exchange, pur porting to be Quebec Bills a long time due, &c. The prisoner declared that he had no umbrella at all with him. That he knew nothing of any robbery, and could prove an alibi with the greatest ease if he had I time. The Captain said he was to sail next day, and did not know when he should be able to return to London. The LORD MAYOR said it was quite impossible ; that he could not think of allowing such a. criminal, who was so well known to the police as a most ingenious thief, to escape for want o f p rosecut i on ; and, to the gratification of all present, bound over the captain to prosecute at the next sessions. The prisoner was then committed to Newgate. WORSHIP-STREET the coach proprietor of Finsbury, _Richard Minor, ostler, in the d withservice was placed having o f M at r. th W e r b a a g ; violently before Mr. Broughton, ch H ar a g d that as the complainant yenes.lss G. on duty in h between 2 and 3 o'clock in ass l a t u a l p te p d ea p r e a lir-constable - about in a state of drunkenness, and Horseshoe-alley, Shoreditc , the morning of the Ist . instant, he met the prisoner, who was staggering shouting and creating such an uproar that the di stur b ed thewhole neighbourhood. The officer succeeded with great difficulty in removing him to the door of the house in which he lived, where he was about t o l eave him, when he suddenly turned round, and exclaiming " Take that," kicked him with such savage violence in the lower part of his person, that he instantly fell to the ground in a state of insensibility. Two of his brother constables, who had been drawn to the spot by the prisoner's riotous conduct and witnessed the attack he had made upon Haynes, immediately seiaed the prisoner and en. deavoured to take him into custody; but the 4ccused made such a strenuous resistance, that both these officers were also knocked down, and it required the combined efforts of all three constables to take him to the police station. The officer Haynes, who appeared to he eons pletely crippled from the effects of the violeuza that had been exerciecd upon him, handed to the magistrate a certificate from Mr. Mather, the divisional surgeon, which stated that the subject of if, had been ever since sufferieg severely from a very dangerous kick, and was still in such a state as to be incapable of resuming his duty, The pri , or:er, in answer to the charge, sable that the officers would swear his life away if they could ; that ha hail no recollection of kicking the constable at ail; and that, if he had done so, it must be purely accidental. Mr. 131IotecnToel said, ;hat az tile utmost punishment lie had it in his power to inflict was scarcely adequate to meet the aggravated nature of an assault of this description, he considered the only proper course to pursue would be to send the case before a jury at the I cessions ; but the complainant having requested the ' Magistrate to adjudicate upon the matter, es it would 1 cum bins the greatest ineonveoieuee to carry the case 1317 further, hie, rot at vigs tetircately acceded to, sad , the prisoner was sentenced to one month's imprisonment and hard labour in the House of Correction, without the option of the payment of any pecuniary penalty. THAMES. Mr. BRODEMP gave his decision in a case of con siderable importance, arising out of the parcchial feuds and differences existing in the palish of St. Dunstan, Stepney. It will be recollected that a church-rate for the repair of the ancient parish church and the new district church of St. Philip was defeated after a severe contest a few weeks since by a majority of 110. The leading Dis senters followed up their success by establishing a So ciety, called " The Stepney Anti-Church-rate and Pa-` rochial Reform Association," and nominated four persons named Deering, Spooner, Bird, and Horton, at a recent vestry, to be returned to the magistrate to fill the office of overseers of the hamlet of Mile-end Old-town, which comprises a great portion of the large parish of Stepney The Church party nominated Messrs. Cocks and Cott, who filled the office of overseers last year, and Messrs. Bromley and Walmesley. The rector decided on the show of hands that the persons nominated by the anti church-rate party had the majority. The four persons nominated by the church -rate party were, however, re turned with their opponents, and the magistrate was called upon to select four of them to be overseers for the ensuing year. The church-rate party claimed the ma jority on the show of hands, and objected to the appoint ment of Messrs. Deering, Spooner, Bird, and Horton. on ♦arious grounds. The principal objection, however, was that they were members of an illegal association to resist the payment of church-rates, and, if they were elected by the magistrate, the parish would be kept in a' continual agitation. The Dissenters maintained that the majority, on the day of nomination, was on their side, and the rector had so declared it. Mr. Parker, the vestry- clerk of the hamlet of Mike. end Old-town, attended to hear the magistrate'sdecision, which he delivered as follows :—" The nomination in this instance appears to have resulted in a show of hands, an unusual and a very unsatisfactory method-- unsatisfactory, because it is easy for these who have no right to intermeddle to hold up their hands ; and be cause, when it is adopted, each party generally, as in this case, claims the majority. The rev. chairman, in deed, records, that the first four names on the list in the parish-book had the majority on the show of hands but the objectors declare that t 1 e majority was with them, and that the chairman acted as be did from want of experience in the conduct of such meetings ; the party calling itself the Anti-Church -rate Association, on the other hand, delta.* that the majority was with them. Eight names were on the list handed to me for appoint ment ; but at the same time the parish-book was also handed -to me, and the four names which are first on the list are last in the book. Under these circumstances. and taking the whole case into ray consideration, I think it right to choose the four names which stand first in the original entry in the town-clerk's book, and appoint John Cocks, James Cott, John Ebenezer Bromley, and Henry Benjamin Walmesley to be overseers of the p o or of the hamlet of Mile-end Old-town for the year en suing." BOW-STREET. CHARGE OF FURIOUS:RIDING.—George Ellis, a youth in the service of the proprietor of The Sun newspaper, appeared upon a summons before Mr. Henry, t o answ er a complaint preferred against him for riding a horse over two persons in the Strand. Mr. Catchpole, a jeweller, residing at 120, Regent street, stated, that on Tuesday, the 31st of March, about half-past six o'clock in the evening, he was crossing the Strand from King William-street to the opposite side, accompanied by his wife, when he suddenly felt a horse come against him, which he did not see appro ac h, the wood pavement being a short way off. They were thrown on the stone pavement with great violence, the cause of which lie could not see, from the confusion which ensued. His wife had been extremely ill ever since, and it was on l y on Wednesday last that she was. pronounced by her medical attendant to be out of d a nger . , and witness r ece i ve d several bruises in different parts or his person. Mr. Griffiths, a clerk in the Admiralty-office, Somer• set-house, said that he was in the Strand at the tirie, when his attention was attracted by a horse gallc,ping towards the City at a very rapid rate, perhaps rAxtetto or seventeen miles an hour, he believed by' the d fendant, and when opposite an optician's sharp, he sao the complainant and his wife knocked down e s they wei crossing the street in an oblique direction s the lady 'nein. t next to the horse. .Witness turned round, there, being an involuntary cry of horror, and the horse ha ,- ,in g been pulled up, the rider seemed anxious that they should not suffer further injury, as he was riding hi; horse away quietly. lie then raised the lady, who s'..,emed stunned, and suffering from pain, which was atm) the case with the complainant. Witness expostutlitted with the boy for riding at such a rate, and he seemed very s orry, saying that he had done the best he could to prevent all accident. Mr. Edward Clarke, optician, 428, Strand, stated that he was in his shop and saw a horse coming in full gallop, which was increased on getting on the stone pavement , the rider urging the horse with the bridle and with his heels. In answer to the defendant, the witness said that he was no judge of speed, and could not say how fast the horse was going at the time. A constable of the F division said, that on questioning the defendant, he said that he was obliged to hurry front the House of Lords with the reporters' copy, and that b,* would be found at his employer's office. In answer to the charge, the detendant said the 3 the complainant and the lady popped from behind ti.n 011:P. nibus, which causal him to pull up instantly. Mr. lIENav said that the case being clear Ay proved, 11e had power t o i n fli ct a fine of 405., or our, month's inpr'" sonment. The complainant said, that whatever course was pur sued, he was determined to proceee, by action against the defendant' s master. Mr. HENRY replied, that he Lad also power to awa rd remuneration to the amount of 101., but that would Pre' vent other proceedings being resorted to at any futur e period. Mr. Catchpole said thut he entertained no vindictive feeling towards the defendant; but in accordance with the advice of his friends, he would take every leggy means against hi s employer, on public grounds, to chees• such a nuisance, Mr. HENRX then said, that as Mrs. Catchpole was not entirely out of danger, the defendant might be indicted for manslaughter, and possibly murder, should the case,. prove fatal. He should call upon the defendant to pug in bail, himself in 201., and two sureties in 101. each, I 'Y appear in a week and answer the charge. The sureties were entered into, and the defendant W 4gs discharged. THE WziTHEn.—The months of spring that have' elapsed have been as remarkable as the preceding winter' February and the earlier part of March were unusually aid vegetation presented a cheerful aspect, e.aly to be blac k sued and checked by the severe frost that followed. It is rather a remarkable circumstance that till the middle ° March, there had not been twenty-four hours' continuo us frost for months. The few days' frost of that month, how: ever, did much to forward agricultural operations by Pu i : • A verising stiff soils. The greater p ar t of the oat-seed bo" been put into the ground in this vicinity in favourable cir cumstances, and barley sowing has commenced. An tl usually large breadth of b eans has been laid (I,,wn, fro ®; hesitation of farmers to incar the risk of planting the s ates ; of potatoes that, but f or the dread of " the d;,sease," they would have been inclined to have done. t r ieed potet°"i sound and of good qua li ty, are plenty, and freely offered 0 A 165. and 18s. per b o ll . A bulky crop if grass is anticipet_, e ' . Clover has, inde e d , b een browned by fro ;t, but it is every where thickly pla n t e d , and a few 'lay', of warmth w l speedily restore its healthy appearance. We have heard l/ several grass park s b e i ng let at a considerable rise en I°t year's prices.--,Scotsman. GENERAL AVITABILE.—Emtract; of a letter from Naples :—" Gene ra l A v i ta bil e , who was for a long time in the se r a iu vice of the Shah et' Persia, aml with General 'Ventura was eraPwl g iu disciplining large numbtis of the Seikh troops, is now residin_ here, and we went yesterday to his house, near Portici, to call him. It Is very intere:ting to hear him talk over the late affair' , 0 if he had been a spectator of it all, so entirely at horns is he in , A, concerning it. llnd he been there, he Weald now have been bead the army agahtst us, and he t a k es no little credit to himself at having been 'o difficult to repulse them. He describes them as WI Para the bravest , and most fighting race in all I nd i a, but fearfully ferocious in their de of warfare ; and lie foretells th e l ees of many mo re our brave and gallant fellows before they are subdued." of ASSOCIATION FOR. CLRANLINESS.—The committee the Free Baths and Wash-house establishment in Glass' house-yard, East Smithfield, have just ma d e an addition 4 their operations in the gratuitous supp l y of whitewash to neighbouring poor, and even in w hit ewash i ng their r 0.% where the infirmity of the inmates prevents their doing o ° operation themselves. 2IRTHS. lifOn the 3d ult., at Poreheater-garden,, Bayswater, llrs. Georg e Seldon, of a daughter. On the 24th ult., at Geerge-square, Edi n b urgh, the lady of CAP oils Henry Drummond, 3d Bengal Cavalry, of a daughter. ~..i ss On the Ist inst., at blalpas, M onmouthshire, the lady of T/Iv• --- E. Mulles Marsh, Esq., of a daughter. WillOn the 3d Inst., at Tring-park, Herta, the lad y of the Rev. . r .oi — es iams, of a daught er . On the 3d inst., at Stamford-hill, the lady of Charles ~F .rb r e : Esq., of a son. On the 3d inst., i n B edford-row, the lady of Thomas Whini— yell, Esq., of a daughter. On the 4th inst., at Highbury-park, the lady of Edward Sas -I°4 Esq., of a daughter. On the 4th i ns t ., at Sussex-place, Regent's -park, Mrs. Isaac 31°Se of a daughter. On the 2Gth u lt ., at St. Germans-place, Blackheath, the lady cIJ; A. Durham, Esq., of a daughter. On the 4th inst., at Upper Clapton, Mrs. C. G. Rennell, of 4 1 .9- 1 , 1 0 . On the 4th i nst., at Little Stamnore, Middlesex, the wife of o J° Sladen, jun., Esq., of a daught er. the cdc On the 4th last., the wife o f M r. James Sutton, Jun., 01. stO E xchange, of a so n . On the 4th I nst., at Wilton place, Belgrave-sq uare, th e lady of IP C. Hastings, Esq., of a daughter. On the 4th l ost., at Croom's-hill, the wif e o f Ed ward John Lloyd Esq., of t daughter. y erl. „ Oil the 4th lust., M rs. Thomas Shepherd, of Newbegin. „P -.-'" _ of a son. On the sth i ns t ., at Whiteheart-lane, Tottenham, Mrs. Joseph Dodson, of a da ug ht er. Olt the sth inst., a t th e H ermitage, near Uxbridge, Mrs. John Li' Fed, of a daught er . On the sth inst., a t A lexander-square, Brompton, the r ife of 0-• _......., Hance, Esq., barrister-at-law, of a son. MARRIED. cl. f 0 On the 3d inst., at St. Mi c h ae l' s, Bath, R. W. Carpenter. r;oer Sugan, youngest surviving daughter of the late Cenjandu house, Esq., of Kin gs t on , J amaica. .a, On the 7th lust., at t. Paul's, Isli ng t on, Ed war d Ball...—rd '' ' ode tp.t M.D., of cower -street, Bedford-square, to Julia Hannah , daughter of Charles Ilu ggons , l isq., of Islington. ___---- DIE). Oa the Gth init., at Charmouth, Dorset, John Channon aged 82. • On the 31st nit , John Flint, Eso i ., of Western Cottages, BrlSr:r. Ott tits 2d inst., Eliza heth, wife t,f Mr. Thomas Woodward , o f uttil, hit. Alban's, aged 88. t On the 3d inst., Emma, wife of Mr. F. Japp, Gems-Woe., mond, aged 39. On the 4th inst., Mr. J o h n Sk e lt on, of B u ll- s t ree t,Blrtnlnlh al" EyC Ott the bth inst., Frederick ; the third son of James Wat n. '" of Wandsworth, aged 9. 00. On the bth inst., at Clifton, Louisa, the I n f a nt daughter Dalbiaq, Esq., lth Light D . tagoons. On the sth inst., at Wormley House, Herts, W. BOlnd , On the iith inst., Elisabeth, wife of F. 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